We're going to have some fun as we de-bunk some of the most popular myths about meditation and then figure out how to build it into our lives in a way that works.
Meditation can help you improve your health, reduce your stress, and even help you make more money...but it can't do ANY of that if you don't do it.
...we have to be VERY careful about the way we use our words in hypnotherapy and NLP and Coaching - and parenting, relationships, business, and everywhere else - to make sure we avoid creating strong pictures of what we don't want our clients and children and spouses to be thinking about.
I hope you've had a wonderful holiday season and that no matter how you celebrate you found peace and joy amidst the flurry of busy-ness that occupies so many of us at this time of year.
I'll be quick. I just wanted to let you know that on January 1st at 3 pm I'm hosting a tele-training.
Many of us spend our lives popping in and out of our bodies. Whenever there is an uncomfortable feeling we 'POP!' out and watch our body being uncomfortable. This has the benefit of consciously removing us from the discomfort - even if we aren't aware of doing it consciously.
It also has the very big disadvantage of abandoning our unconscious mind and body. This means we lose our access to what is actually happening inside of ourselves and in the world around us.
But, right now, I'm heading into Day 6 of the NLP Coach Training and the joy and gratitude and courage and strength and passion of the women I am working with has left me speechless.
The 8-day training is designed to be an intensive. You get 4 Board Designations (coaching, NLP, hypnotherapy and Time Line Therapy®) and that is a gruelling schedule. It's equivalent to 2 years of college... in just over a week.
This season is sacred to me. I suppose they all are but Fall has always been my favourite. Now that I understand more about the energetics of the seasons - and the graceful way in which they cycle - I find that Fall moves me in quiet and deeply, profoundly, transformational ways.
This is my favourite time of the day...
sitting quietly in the living room before everyone else wakes up - I am in 'my' spot and only the cats have noticed; I have soaking music playing quietly in the background - it's a new cd I bought yesterday and I love it... and I'm with you...
I know you want it... everyone does.
At least, pretty much everyone who comes to me for a Strategy Session says that they want it.
I think that this image below captures what we want. Peace. Quiet. Beauty. Tranquility.
She has it all. This is clearly Inner Peace.
Or is it? Is this really what peace looks like?
I keep them in my toolkit for whenever my unconscious mind needs to do a purge and I begin to feel that feeling of over-arching, overwhelming anxiety...