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Hurricanes in life are good
This Blog was written last year at this time…..thought it was appropriate to re-post this Blog. I’m confident that everyone has weathered the storm!
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Back blogging…..just recently returned from an annual family vacation in Bermuda. I have been in Bermuda the last week in August for over twenty-five years. It’s hurricane season and in all my years there, it never happened during our vacation. On our arrival, the island was buzzing that hurricane Danielle was heading straight towards Bermuda. I watched many friends & acquaintances in Bermuda track it on line and I asked them all why? I also received numerous emails from concerned friends hoping that my family and I were safe. I really appreciated the concern, but it got me thinking how a part of us are feeding into fear and negativity. Why not focus on what we want? I enjoyed my vacation …sunning, swimming, eating and sipping my Dark ‘n’ Stormy’s – a famous island drink. The night before the predicated doomsday Danielle, the waves crashed on the beach with an extra powerful rage.
The storm never arrived and as we headed towards the airport my husband asked the cab driver about the stalled storm. The cabbie, in his laid back Bermuda mode, smiled and proceeded to tell all of us how wonderful hurricanes are. The powerful winds of a hurricane take the sands and bring it out into the depths of the ocean and wash, spin, detoxify the sand. After the storm is over the beaches and everything is pristine again. Nature knows how to heal and restore naturally. Hurricanes are good.
In our personal lives there are times that hurricanes are all around us, whether in our relationships, health, finances or other areas of our life. Storms can be our greatest healers and teachers. The winds of a storm enable us to explore aspects of ourselves that we ignore on sunny days. If we stop holding on so tight and let go who knows where we might land; but just in case…… I’m putting on my ruby slippers!
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Face your fears head on….
As we walk through our life journey, most of us are filled with anxiety and stress; ourthoughts are loaded with fear.We mask our pain by pretending to be positive when underneath the facade is intense emotional pain. Inside of most of us is a small child who developed misperceptions and distortions about life based on fear.
You must face your fears head on and with an open heart, if you want to be truly empowered. It is an easier process if you face fears consciously, rather than have your unconscious mind create a difficult situation for you to experience suppressed emotions. Here are some suggestions.
- Take total responsibility for your healing transformation.
- Sit in a meditative state and then bring in something you fear the most. Create a negative fantasy of this fear and then resolve it.
- Be an observer of yourself….when you find yourself experiencing emotional pain, find the truth inside of you that you have been resisting. Dig it out to the open.
- Take a look at your own dark side honestly without judgment. We are all both darkness and light and pretending that darkness is outside of you will only bring in unwanted problems because of these suppressed feelings.
- Teach yourself how to live life without fear.
Release your fears today!Confront them and you will start to experience a freedom, peace and joy that you never thought was possible. Make your healing process the number one priority in your life. As you heal, this passes on to family and friends and ultimately the whole planet.
“ the only thing to fear is fear itself”Franklin Roosevelt
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Why do we Crave?…..
Why did I eat that box of chocolates, drink too much or overeat again?
Craving comes in many disguises. Most of us associate this craving with food, alcohol, shopping, drugs or sex, but it is present in many other areas of our life if we just take the time to place a magnifying glass on an area of our life and really see. Food, shopping, gambling, money, working, exercising, abusive relationships, illness and even spirituality can become extreme.Did you ever have a moment when you ate a pint of ice cream or drank a whole bottle of wine and the gratification lasted only seconds? You vow to yourself to never do this again. Next what happens is that the craving starts tip toeing in from behind us and tapping us on the shoulder wanting some MORE.
Our sense of self is through some form of gratification which ultimately leaves us unsatisfied and the feelings of “Not Enough.” Now you’re trapped into a vicious self loathing and waiting for the day that you are fixed and no longer need a fix.How do we get off this treadmill?Here are some suggestions:
1.Stop compulsive thinking.
2.Accept who you are now.
3.Stop identifying yourself with things.
4.Use a crisis or challenge as an opportunity for growth.
5.Everything that you have experienced has benefited you.
6.Forgive yourself for things you have done.
7.Supply your consciousness with new and positive information.
8.Stop waiting and live in the NOW.
9.You can do it!
Excessive craving arises from pain. Look at your own pain in whatever form it shows itself and feel it. Let go of your attachment to pain. Love it free! Dissolve everything from the past and create a still space.
“He who has once known contentment, that comes simply through being content,will never again be otherwise than contented.”
- Tao Te Ching
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Healthy is wealthy!
Do you know that over forty million Americans are on anti-depressants and another 80 million are unable to sleep at night? America the beautiful has become a place of sad and depressed people, who feel that the only solution is a pill. Medication certainly does have its place, but when something doesn’t go our way in our daily life we resort, far too often, to a pill, food or alcohol to numb the negative feelings.
Einstein stated that “we can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” If something is troubling us whether it’s a health, mental or emotional issue, we have to be willing to make a change within ourselves. If you don’t make an inner change it will never materialize in your daily reality. If we want radiant health, we must choose to make that a priority and change the attitude that taking a pill, eating or drinking to excess or going to the doctor is the answer.
Here are some steps to begin the process of achieving optimum health:
- Improve your diet, nutrition and learn how to detoxify the body.
- Learn to forgive others and be more tolerant when they don’t live up to your expectations.
- Overcome lingering health issues by breaking the habitual pattern. Feelings such as blame, bitterness, hate, anger, fear, self-pity, resentment and depression decrease the vital life force flowing through our bodies. All illnesses are based on unresolved emotional issues.
- Cleanse yourself of all negative emotions and detrimental patterns. Love and embrace those aspects of yourself….that is how we let them go by ‘Loving them away.’
- Stop waiting for everything in your life to be perfect – happiness will always elude you. Life is never perfect, but perfect for our soul growth if we pay attention with awareness and take the time to search within ourselves to make a positive shift.
- Be responsible for all things that happen to you (that’s a tough one to accept, but true)…..remember, there is something positive in everything that happens to us!
- Be happy…it’s all how we deal with things and not the event or circumstance that has happiness or unhappiness attached to it.
As the Nike logo states……….JUST DO IT!
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Lady in Red…..STOP forcing pain in your life!
The real question is why are we creating so much pain in our life? Our whole society is addicted to pain and the only way out for most of us is drugs and alcohol. We want a quick fix. What can we do differently? First a quick story…..
Saturdays in the afternoon you can find me dressing women in my daughter’s boutique “Twilight.” I have always had a passion for fashion since childhood and it really balances out the inner work I do with clients Monday thru Friday. Saturday is for feeling good on the outside. A couple of weeks ago I was assisting a young woman in purchasing a dress when I noticed another woman scurry into the dressing room with a bright red dress. The bright red dress was like a traffic signal to me. Stop. I wanted to screech out. Don’t try on that dress. In my opinion the dress was all wrong for her body type and she was setting herself up for a disaster. I suggested before she went into the dressing room to get a size up for the dress tended to run small. Moments later she was calling to me to help zip the dress up, the zipper would not budge. I saw all her disappointment, frustration and going through her body. I kindly suggested that there were lots of other dresses and I could find one for her. “I want this one,” she replied. I left the dressing room but the rescuer in me wanted her to feel good. I quickly went to the dress rack and found another bright red dress, but I knew from my styling experience would flatter and fit her curvy shape. I showed her the dress and she exploded ” Don’t you get it? I want this one and only this one.” ” I get it now.” I answered. I put the dress back on the rack and watched her storm out of the store like it was my fault that the dress she wanted didn’t fit.
The situation got me thinking about how many of us set our sights on something that isn’t quite right for us… like a job or relationship. But we stay there even though it doesn’t feel good. We want this one. We are then hurt, frustrated and suffering. We keep persisting at the expense of not feeling good. As a healer, here is what I recommend:
1. Look within and ask yourself where there is pain in your life?
2. Ask the pain what it is trying to show you, that you need to change.
3. Know that you can make different choices that make you happy.
4. Stop forcing things to work when you know they cannot. Let go.
5. If there is a desire that you want and are not getting, trust that the universe is going to bring you something or someone even better than you imagined.
I challenge you to expand your wardrobe a/k/a your life! Be daring and bold and deserve the best. The next time your try on a pair of shoes that don’t fit maybe you’ll toss them aside and find a great pair that feel good and look great. Walk in those shoes into a wonderful, pain free life!
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