Priorities.
Is what you are doing, BEING and choosing in your life congruent with
what you want (body, mind, spirit)? If not, then y do it? Choose
different. So you REALLY want it? If you did, you would get it and nothing would stop you. So, I ask you again, do you REALLY want it?
I know so many people who say they want something, from changing their body to changing their life to getting a new sofa. The SAY they want it, but they use some excuse to not have it. People say they want to have stronger, leaner and healthier bodies, and they won't get up and productively move their bodies with intention to change them OR make smarter food choices. Hmmmmm, from what we know about how bodies function, is anything going to change? People say they are in terrible pain in some way, and they won't actively and passionately seek out how to change it; when they DO find the solution for themselves, they use some excuse, usually time and/or money, to not have it for themselves. Hmmmmm, does that make any logical sense if you REALLY want to be out of pain? The same is true for everything in a person's life. If you want it, truly in your bones want it, you will make it a priority: energetically align yourself with your focused desire, schedule in the time, find the money, find a way to trade services to get our of pain, do a layaway plan on the sofa, endless possibilities. It is simply a matter of choosing that you want something and directing your intention and actions towards having it, no questions.
Priorities. What are you making the most important thing in your life? What is in your life reflects what your priorities are. Empower yourself. Choose what you really want. Go after it. Be TRULY TRULY OPEN to how it is going to show up. Very often times it will not look like you think it is going to look, be open to and OK with that. One choice lead to the next choice, which leads to the next one and you eventually end up at the end of your yellow brick road of the changed body, the Out-of Pain back, the awesome new car that you didn't think you could EVER afford!
You get the idea. It all boils down to choice. It all boils down to how bad a person REALLY wants something. I am in NO way shape or form saying it's going to show up tomorrow, I am saying that if you really decide and go after it, really aligning yourself energetically with what it is, not having these old limiting beliefs around WHATEVER you are telling yourself is stopping you. It's really not, you and what you are making a priority are.
Sunday, May 18, 2014
Sunday, May 11, 2014
My Mommy
My
mommy. If you get my newsletter, you saw her picture before reading this. The resemblance is remarkable. I look like her, I move like her, I
have her mannerisms, I have her fabulousness she wasn't allowed to be.
Kathryn Elaine Hagan Revell. She died when I was almost 10. I don't remember her very clearly. I remember small things. I remember us riding bikes around the neighborhood together. I remember her sorting laundry and letting me help. I remember that she LOVED Willie Nelson's Red-Headed Stranger (maybe that's why I absolutely adore him) and The soundtrack from "The Star is Born" (it's actually a phenomenal album!). Everyone, Everyone, Everyone that knew her said she was the sweetest, most tender, loving, soft, faith-full and feminine woman they had ever known. I was also told that she died because she was too sweet for this world, she didn't understand how people could be like that...I've also always known that she was very unhappy in her marriage and back then, women just didn't leave their marriages, no matter what, especially in Houston, Texas! I also know that she was big and fabulous (I have added a picture to this blog
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I went to a Movement Arts Festival with my 2 shaman practitioner friends Melanie Leithauser and Daniel Donovan (The magical duo. They do their work together and it is beyond so powerful. I want that with my man.) yesterday. I originally thought it was because I wanted to do a presentation to do my work. It wasn't. It was to do a Shamanic Breathwork Journey with them. Right before we began, the women next to me in circle, whom had recently lost her mother, thanked me for being there because I reminded her of her mother, who was vibrant and full of life and amazing and just who she was, always. Wow. What a gift to me. Then My mother was with me in my journey
yesterday. Melanie and Daniel do their work connected to a "soundtrack" of music and sounds specifically engineered to take everyBody on a journey through the Chakras. I was totally aware the entire time that no matter which Chakra we were on (and I sensed each one, it was wild), my first chakra wanted to be connected to the earth the entire time. Rooted, Grounded, Embodied.
At one point, I had this absolute understanding that I was doing the work that I am doing in this life for myself for her as well. I've been told this many times, but yesterday, I KNEW it within myself, wasn't told it from outside of me. "I miss you" came up in me, which my mind always thinks is
ridiculous because I never really had her, but
my heart and soul know it isn't ridiculous. I let myself just be in the knowing, the feeling, not going into the pushing it away with the thinking at all. She's been with me a lot
lately. A lot. Came to me loud and CLEAR yesterday that everything I am
healing in this life is healing for her also. The irony that today is Mother's Day dawned on me last night. Energetics of life are interesting sometimes.
I love you Mommy. I'm grateful I got to tell you that one last time. I miss you. Thank you for downloading your sweet sweet Queen heart and soul into me. It and You have served me well to have that core underneath everything else that has happened in my life along the way. Thank you. I miss you.
Sunday, May 4, 2014
My Angel Girl Bella
It was a year ago 5/2 when my Angel Girl Soulmate, Love of My Life Bella girl was diagnosed with her tumor reappearing. I had no idea how I could ever live without my Bella, much less function and have a life. I literally didn't know who I was without my B. Literally. Literally.
I had come home 2 days before and she was limping. "Oh, Angel, what did you do?" I thought nothing of it, Bella was often having a little glitch, then she was fine. She was a f-ing rockstar. Period. Everyone who knew her knew she was a f-ing rockstar. (The previous July, she had had a large tumor and much of her chest superficial muscle and skin removed. 5 minutes after being under a general and having major surgery, the 14 and 1/2 year old amazingness in a beautiful blonde dog body was up and walking around, talking to and loving on everybody around, which is just who she was and what she did, period. The surgeon even told me what a RockStar she was!) I came home the next day and she could barely put weight on it. "Oh Angel." I figured she jumped off of her favorite perch in front of the window and hurt her arm. Rocco needed to go to the vet too, so I called and made an appointment. Our doctor looked at her and told me she thought her tumor was back. "WHAT?!" She's just limping!!!!!!!!!! It was incomprehensible.
I called my good friend Dana, who is a beyond dog lover person and who I knew would get it, while I was in the room waiting for our doctor to come back in with Bella. There was no way. We had beat it a year before. How could she possibly have her cancer back? It wasn't possible. I called my friend Rich. I text my brother and my father. I waited, numb. Terrified and not believing it. No absolute way possible I would ever lose my Bella. It wasn't even an option in my reality. Not even an option. Dr. Monika came back in with my Girl, smiling and loving, no idea what we were in for over the next 3 months...either of us. I listened, absolutely not believing or fathoming what she was telling me. We would beat this, absolutely no question. No question. There was nothing Bella and I couldn't do. Nothing. I called my bestie Sabra on the way home. Just to tell her, not that I might lose her, just to tell her. Sabra always grounds me...I just wanted to tell her....
So I went into motion. Life moves as you move and I am really good at moving. We did a healing with my friend Tamlyn. Tamlyn fell in love with her. She told me that Bella wanted me to see and know how amazing I am and that I was and would continue to be with or without her. It was time for me to own it and to be it, without her. Bella was her amazing, cute, sweet self throughout the meeting. The magical thing was, I got her to sit on my lap for probably 45 minutes. Bella NEVER sat on my lap for that long-there were things to do and people to love around, why would I sit here?! But she did, and every time Tam would hit on something Bella really wanted me to hear, she would close her mouth and look right at Tam, in the eyes, silently telling her thank you for communicating with me. Seriously magical.
Next we did a healing with an animal energy healer. We went to my vet to find out about Chemo. We got a second opinion. I knew I didn't want to give her chemo, no way I wanted this happy, amazing being sick. No way I would do that to her and she didn't want it either. We went to another vet who offered an alternative chemo he had had great results with and dogs not getting sick with. I tried it. It made her sick. We got off. I tried an alternative vet. We did an amazing, beautiful, sweet and forever memorable photo shoot with the Incomparable Tamara Murphy-Webb. Tamara fell in love with her. We did a reading with an animal communicator. My favorite things from that reading, "she wants it to be you and her, just as it was before she was diagnosed with this." "she loves that no matter what, it was you and her, no matter who was in your life, what was going on, etc. it was always made clear it was me and her, period, no matter what." "why do humans think because we leave out bodies we are gone? we are never gone." she said our commitment to eachother and our agreements were too strong, that she would never leave me. Ever. and my ABSOLUTE favorite comment..."my human is amazing and she doesn't even know how amazing she is. she does all of these amazing things for all of these people and she is amazing and she has no idea how amazing she is." That was so my B.
True to our life together, out last 3 months were quite the ride. When she had the tumor removed, it was a wake up call for me...I took her with me everywhere I could for the last year of her life. For the last 3 months, ALL I did was Bella 24/7. She was absolutely my life. Period. During that time, I absolutely learned the true balance of Surrender and Mama Bear. I accepted that she might leave me but I'd be damned if I wasn't going to fight for and protect her out of love with every bone and cell in my body and all of my soul. I talked to her all of the time. I asked her not to make me make the decision. I told her how much I loved her. I thanked her. She died 8/4. Her kidneys failed. She orchestrated her last day so that she got to stay home with me, love on me all day and have me love on her all day long, creating what she wanted in her life and protecting me up until her last breath. I was communicating with 2 psychic friends (ultimate gratitude Alexis and Pam) all day long and she told both of them she was fine all day, up until she died (orchestrating for me to go back to the store a SECOND time and she died while I was gone because she knew I could not handle watching her leave her body), then she talked to one of them...telling me to sit with her, to get out of my hysteria and sit with her, hold her, love her, one last time...so I did. I held my B in my grandmother's homemade antique quilt. I kissed her sweet spot between her eyes, right on her forehead. I kissed her paws, which I loved to do. I kissed her cheek. I looked at her, not fathoming that I would never see her again. I held her. I felt her. I loved her. No words to explain how thankful I am for that time.
My wonderful friend Joel came and took me to the vet at 11pm on a Sunday night. He had to take her from me to give the vet tech. I literally couldn't let her go. He literally had to take her from me. I just sat there. I can still feel it. I just sat there. We went home. I called my BF Christiane on the east coast, she was sound asleep and she answered because she just knew. I text my dad and my brother. I tried to sleep.
I woke up and I started on my life after Bella, an absolute lost and numb wreck of a human being. So I put one foot in front of the other. I woke up every day and I moved. I lived. I leaned on all of the awesome people who love me in my life. I started in on an entirely new direction in my life in so many ways. Eventually, in around 6 months, I stopped crying every time I saw her picture or talked about her. I got stronger. I created an entirely new business and life path for myself. I kept having all of these people love and support me and tell me how amazing I am, to just BE it, to know it, own it and live it without hesitation. I had no idea what that looked or felt like for me...I eventually grew into it absolutely and I am grateful. Beyond grateful.
So, my body of work, Embodied Confidence, grew out of this experience and out of my entire life with this amazing, beautiful, blonde, me in a dog body, loving and if you cross her you will know it, being. You see, every time someone would tell me to just live and be amazing, all I did for a very long time was see her in my mind's eye and feel her in my heart. To grow into the amazing, confident and integrated woman I have grown into...I had to have this amazing being show me the way...and give me the best example and the greatest, perfect life lesson to know what amazing is. Bella, this is for you. Thank you for giving me this ultimate greatest gift. Mama loves you. Mama Loves you more than Life itself. Do you love your Mama? Oh yes...I know you do. Thank you Angel. Eternally grateful for you.
I had come home 2 days before and she was limping. "Oh, Angel, what did you do?" I thought nothing of it, Bella was often having a little glitch, then she was fine. She was a f-ing rockstar. Period. Everyone who knew her knew she was a f-ing rockstar. (The previous July, she had had a large tumor and much of her chest superficial muscle and skin removed. 5 minutes after being under a general and having major surgery, the 14 and 1/2 year old amazingness in a beautiful blonde dog body was up and walking around, talking to and loving on everybody around, which is just who she was and what she did, period. The surgeon even told me what a RockStar she was!) I came home the next day and she could barely put weight on it. "Oh Angel." I figured she jumped off of her favorite perch in front of the window and hurt her arm. Rocco needed to go to the vet too, so I called and made an appointment. Our doctor looked at her and told me she thought her tumor was back. "WHAT?!" She's just limping!!!!!!!!!! It was incomprehensible.
I called my good friend Dana, who is a beyond dog lover person and who I knew would get it, while I was in the room waiting for our doctor to come back in with Bella. There was no way. We had beat it a year before. How could she possibly have her cancer back? It wasn't possible. I called my friend Rich. I text my brother and my father. I waited, numb. Terrified and not believing it. No absolute way possible I would ever lose my Bella. It wasn't even an option in my reality. Not even an option. Dr. Monika came back in with my Girl, smiling and loving, no idea what we were in for over the next 3 months...either of us. I listened, absolutely not believing or fathoming what she was telling me. We would beat this, absolutely no question. No question. There was nothing Bella and I couldn't do. Nothing. I called my bestie Sabra on the way home. Just to tell her, not that I might lose her, just to tell her. Sabra always grounds me...I just wanted to tell her....
So I went into motion. Life moves as you move and I am really good at moving. We did a healing with my friend Tamlyn. Tamlyn fell in love with her. She told me that Bella wanted me to see and know how amazing I am and that I was and would continue to be with or without her. It was time for me to own it and to be it, without her. Bella was her amazing, cute, sweet self throughout the meeting. The magical thing was, I got her to sit on my lap for probably 45 minutes. Bella NEVER sat on my lap for that long-there were things to do and people to love around, why would I sit here?! But she did, and every time Tam would hit on something Bella really wanted me to hear, she would close her mouth and look right at Tam, in the eyes, silently telling her thank you for communicating with me. Seriously magical.
Next we did a healing with an animal energy healer. We went to my vet to find out about Chemo. We got a second opinion. I knew I didn't want to give her chemo, no way I wanted this happy, amazing being sick. No way I would do that to her and she didn't want it either. We went to another vet who offered an alternative chemo he had had great results with and dogs not getting sick with. I tried it. It made her sick. We got off. I tried an alternative vet. We did an amazing, beautiful, sweet and forever memorable photo shoot with the Incomparable Tamara Murphy-Webb. Tamara fell in love with her. We did a reading with an animal communicator. My favorite things from that reading, "she wants it to be you and her, just as it was before she was diagnosed with this." "she loves that no matter what, it was you and her, no matter who was in your life, what was going on, etc. it was always made clear it was me and her, period, no matter what." "why do humans think because we leave out bodies we are gone? we are never gone." she said our commitment to eachother and our agreements were too strong, that she would never leave me. Ever. and my ABSOLUTE favorite comment..."my human is amazing and she doesn't even know how amazing she is. she does all of these amazing things for all of these people and she is amazing and she has no idea how amazing she is." That was so my B.
True to our life together, out last 3 months were quite the ride. When she had the tumor removed, it was a wake up call for me...I took her with me everywhere I could for the last year of her life. For the last 3 months, ALL I did was Bella 24/7. She was absolutely my life. Period. During that time, I absolutely learned the true balance of Surrender and Mama Bear. I accepted that she might leave me but I'd be damned if I wasn't going to fight for and protect her out of love with every bone and cell in my body and all of my soul. I talked to her all of the time. I asked her not to make me make the decision. I told her how much I loved her. I thanked her. She died 8/4. Her kidneys failed. She orchestrated her last day so that she got to stay home with me, love on me all day and have me love on her all day long, creating what she wanted in her life and protecting me up until her last breath. I was communicating with 2 psychic friends (ultimate gratitude Alexis and Pam) all day long and she told both of them she was fine all day, up until she died (orchestrating for me to go back to the store a SECOND time and she died while I was gone because she knew I could not handle watching her leave her body), then she talked to one of them...telling me to sit with her, to get out of my hysteria and sit with her, hold her, love her, one last time...so I did. I held my B in my grandmother's homemade antique quilt. I kissed her sweet spot between her eyes, right on her forehead. I kissed her paws, which I loved to do. I kissed her cheek. I looked at her, not fathoming that I would never see her again. I held her. I felt her. I loved her. No words to explain how thankful I am for that time.
My wonderful friend Joel came and took me to the vet at 11pm on a Sunday night. He had to take her from me to give the vet tech. I literally couldn't let her go. He literally had to take her from me. I just sat there. I can still feel it. I just sat there. We went home. I called my BF Christiane on the east coast, she was sound asleep and she answered because she just knew. I text my dad and my brother. I tried to sleep.
I woke up and I started on my life after Bella, an absolute lost and numb wreck of a human being. So I put one foot in front of the other. I woke up every day and I moved. I lived. I leaned on all of the awesome people who love me in my life. I started in on an entirely new direction in my life in so many ways. Eventually, in around 6 months, I stopped crying every time I saw her picture or talked about her. I got stronger. I created an entirely new business and life path for myself. I kept having all of these people love and support me and tell me how amazing I am, to just BE it, to know it, own it and live it without hesitation. I had no idea what that looked or felt like for me...I eventually grew into it absolutely and I am grateful. Beyond grateful.
So, my body of work, Embodied Confidence, grew out of this experience and out of my entire life with this amazing, beautiful, blonde, me in a dog body, loving and if you cross her you will know it, being. You see, every time someone would tell me to just live and be amazing, all I did for a very long time was see her in my mind's eye and feel her in my heart. To grow into the amazing, confident and integrated woman I have grown into...I had to have this amazing being show me the way...and give me the best example and the greatest, perfect life lesson to know what amazing is. Bella, this is for you. Thank you for giving me this ultimate greatest gift. Mama loves you. Mama Loves you more than Life itself. Do you love your Mama? Oh yes...I know you do. Thank you Angel. Eternally grateful for you.
Sunday, April 20, 2014
Spring: In every Tradition in the world...Rebirth and Transformation
My
church message from Joel Osteen this morning, "The only way to tap into
the powers of resurrection within you is to believe. There is a power
within you that is unstoppable. Don't go thru life intimidated when you
are so powerful."
Today is Easter. Easter...the day that Christ rose from the dead. He rolled the stone away from the entrance of the tomb where they had laid his lifeless body and he was resurrected from the dead. In the Spring, nature resurrects herself and rises from the dead. People come out from out hunkering down for the winter feeling and want to thrive, live and be outside in the beautiful sun!
It is also the time we shake away the relative darkness of winter and step into the light of Spring: Inspired, hopeful, planning a fun and amazing year!
I just spent the weekend at an experiential event called "Adventures in Transformation". This weekend was huge for me in so many ways. It was huge for all of us who attended in so many ways, and we believe the work we did there ripples out and effects the world, period, because everything and everyone in the world is connected, whether we like it, believe it or not. It is a scienticifally proven fact that we are all in this system together and energy never gets destroyed, it simply gets recycled. We all left inspired, with new hope, new possibilities birthed within us...resurrected and reborn from the constricted and hopeless space we had been functioning from and born again into a big and loving space within us.
My presentation there was very much a rebirth: of me, from me, for me and for my work in this world. As many of you know, I was heavily involved with Nia form many, many, many years. While I still love her very, very much and I have great respect for my background...this weekend physically marked me stepping into my own body of work, "Embodied Confidence" that is a reflection of everything I have done, learned, gone through and been in my life. It has been many years and lots of blood, sweat and tears coming to be birthed into this world.
I have many offerings that will fit for many different people within EC. I hope that you will be inspired and moving to move out into your own light and join me sometime!
Today is Easter. Easter...the day that Christ rose from the dead. He rolled the stone away from the entrance of the tomb where they had laid his lifeless body and he was resurrected from the dead. In the Spring, nature resurrects herself and rises from the dead. People come out from out hunkering down for the winter feeling and want to thrive, live and be outside in the beautiful sun!
It is also the time we shake away the relative darkness of winter and step into the light of Spring: Inspired, hopeful, planning a fun and amazing year!
I just spent the weekend at an experiential event called "Adventures in Transformation". This weekend was huge for me in so many ways. It was huge for all of us who attended in so many ways, and we believe the work we did there ripples out and effects the world, period, because everything and everyone in the world is connected, whether we like it, believe it or not. It is a scienticifally proven fact that we are all in this system together and energy never gets destroyed, it simply gets recycled. We all left inspired, with new hope, new possibilities birthed within us...resurrected and reborn from the constricted and hopeless space we had been functioning from and born again into a big and loving space within us.
My presentation there was very much a rebirth: of me, from me, for me and for my work in this world. As many of you know, I was heavily involved with Nia form many, many, many years. While I still love her very, very much and I have great respect for my background...this weekend physically marked me stepping into my own body of work, "Embodied Confidence" that is a reflection of everything I have done, learned, gone through and been in my life. It has been many years and lots of blood, sweat and tears coming to be birthed into this world.
I have many offerings that will fit for many different people within EC. I hope that you will be inspired and moving to move out into your own light and join me sometime!
Embodied Confidence™
It is impossible to
change or heal your body and life simply working in the Emotional,
Psychological or Energetic realms.
It is impossible to change or heal
your body and life simply by moving and/or beating up your body in the
Physical realm.
How we relate to the Body and Mind is how we relate to life itself. The degree to which we can touch pain with mercy as well as embrace joy completely...that is the degree to which we can go beyond the old and enter into life wholeHEARTEDLY...We have to work with ALL of us to change and heal!
----Movement is the way of moving who you be out into the world. You take the energy you discover within and use Movement to bring it into the greater space around you like a ripple manifestation. When you discover your Personal Power, it effects Everything and Everyone around you.
----Everything that is up for us in our lives (mind, heart, spirit...), Shows up in our bodies. We develop injuries, compensations, have accidents and weaknesses, etc. that reflect what is going on in our chakra and energetic system. Our bodies are simply and eloquently our vehicles for how we show up, experience and do our lives, period
Accept and love your biggest Gifts and your biggest Challenges. They make us who we are...BODY, MIND AND SOUL! Embodied Confidence. Own it.
How we relate to the Body and Mind is how we relate to life itself. The degree to which we can touch pain with mercy as well as embrace joy completely...that is the degree to which we can go beyond the old and enter into life wholeHEARTEDLY...We have to work with ALL of us to change and heal!
----Movement is the way of moving who you be out into the world. You take the energy you discover within and use Movement to bring it into the greater space around you like a ripple manifestation. When you discover your Personal Power, it effects Everything and Everyone around you.
----Everything that is up for us in our lives (mind, heart, spirit...), Shows up in our bodies. We develop injuries, compensations, have accidents and weaknesses, etc. that reflect what is going on in our chakra and energetic system. Our bodies are simply and eloquently our vehicles for how we show up, experience and do our lives, period
Accept and love your biggest Gifts and your biggest Challenges. They make us who we are...BODY, MIND AND SOUL! Embodied Confidence. Own it.
Sunday, April 6, 2014
The Internal See-Saw Balance of our GIfts and Challenges
The aim in life is to share our gifts, learn from our challenges and to do this as consciously as possible. Your purpose is unique to you, because it is shaped by:
Your soul's qualities
Your personality characteristics
Your life situation
There are no 'hard and fast' explanations for physical imbalances and certainly no one meaning that applies to all people. It is ultimately up to you as an individual to discover how the mind-body connection applies to your unique experience.
With a desire to heal, everyone will be guided on their own path to healing one way or another.
Gifts and challenges
Your greatest gift is also your greatest challenge, because you have come here to master it. Every gift has to be mastered, like a wild animal that needs to be tamed.
Your gifts and challenges are like a see-saw that needs to be balanced and find its center. Finding this balance means that you understand your gift, what it feels like to use it well and what it feels like to misuse it. Once you find this balance you allow your gifts to flow freely, and you create a positive impact on the world around you. (journal on gifts, challenges)
Since we are here to share our gifts and learn from our challenges, becoming closer and more familiar with your soul's gifts and challenges starts to give you a very clear sense of purpose and direction.
Soul... The soul is ultimately responsible for giving the body its life force. In subtle ways, it guides and directs our behavior and actions in the physical form. When the soul chooses to leave the physical body, the body perishes. The soul is driven by wisdom, love and universal service.
Mind... The next level is the mind, the interactive mechanism between the body and soul. The mind registers and filters emotion (the language of the soul) and registers nerve impulses generated by the body. The degree of communication between the body and mind, and soul and mind depends on your ability to work with your mind to have her work for you and connect them all. When the mind is functioning as intended, it is self-aware, focused and quiet as required. So the mind has two choices: to block out sensation or to listen to it. If the mind is smart, it listens.
Body... And finally, the body, our outer shell, is a product of both the mind and soul and how it is cared for on a daily basis. The body's magic formula for survival - sleep, diet, environment and exercise - can be used to prolong life or shorten it. You can learn and apply ways to sustain and energize your body - it's your choice.
Just starting, just choosing you, just choosing creating more for yourself is the first step in anything, and gaining confidence in your body is no different! Dealing with the mental, emotional and spiritual pieces that invariably come up for all of us is the key and the hard work that EveryBody has to deal with when we make the choice for us.
Your soul's qualities
Your personality characteristics
Your life situation
There are no 'hard and fast' explanations for physical imbalances and certainly no one meaning that applies to all people. It is ultimately up to you as an individual to discover how the mind-body connection applies to your unique experience.
With a desire to heal, everyone will be guided on their own path to healing one way or another.
Gifts and challenges
Your greatest gift is also your greatest challenge, because you have come here to master it. Every gift has to be mastered, like a wild animal that needs to be tamed.
Your gifts and challenges are like a see-saw that needs to be balanced and find its center. Finding this balance means that you understand your gift, what it feels like to use it well and what it feels like to misuse it. Once you find this balance you allow your gifts to flow freely, and you create a positive impact on the world around you. (journal on gifts, challenges)
Since we are here to share our gifts and learn from our challenges, becoming closer and more familiar with your soul's gifts and challenges starts to give you a very clear sense of purpose and direction.
Soul... The soul is ultimately responsible for giving the body its life force. In subtle ways, it guides and directs our behavior and actions in the physical form. When the soul chooses to leave the physical body, the body perishes. The soul is driven by wisdom, love and universal service.
Mind... The next level is the mind, the interactive mechanism between the body and soul. The mind registers and filters emotion (the language of the soul) and registers nerve impulses generated by the body. The degree of communication between the body and mind, and soul and mind depends on your ability to work with your mind to have her work for you and connect them all. When the mind is functioning as intended, it is self-aware, focused and quiet as required. So the mind has two choices: to block out sensation or to listen to it. If the mind is smart, it listens.
Body... And finally, the body, our outer shell, is a product of both the mind and soul and how it is cared for on a daily basis. The body's magic formula for survival - sleep, diet, environment and exercise - can be used to prolong life or shorten it. You can learn and apply ways to sustain and energize your body - it's your choice.
Just starting, just choosing you, just choosing creating more for yourself is the first step in anything, and gaining confidence in your body is no different! Dealing with the mental, emotional and spiritual pieces that invariably come up for all of us is the key and the hard work that EveryBody has to deal with when we make the choice for us.
Saturday, March 29, 2014
Embodied Confidence: Personal Power Through Movement!
I have created an Amazing, Powerful body of work called Embodied Confidence: Personal Power Through Movement. It is the culmination of everything that has happened in my life...my journey, my learning, my Greatest Gift and my Greatest Challenge...and she has been gifted to me in a very powerful way and I am passionate about sharing everything I have learned, incorporated...Embodied...
I have just completed the task of putting it into so many words, whew! Let me know what you think, how this makes you feel, what questions/comments/feedback you have! I welcome any and all:
It is impossible to change or heal your body and life simply working in the Emotional, Psychological or Energetic realms. It is impossible to change or heal your body and life simply by moving and/or beating up your body in the Physical realm.
How we relate to the Body and Mind is how we relate to life itself. The degree to which we can touch pain with mercy as well as embrace joy completely...that is the degree to which we can go beyond the old and enter into life wholeHEARTEDLY...We have to work with ALL of us to change and heal!
----Movement is the way of moving who you be out into the world. You take the energy you discover within and use Movement to bring it into the greater space around you like a ripple manifestation. When you discover your Personal Power, it effects Everything and Everyone around you.
----Everything that is up for us in our lives (mind, heart, spirit...), Shows up in our bodies. We develop injuries, compensations, have accidents and weaknesses, etc. that reflect what is going on in our chakra and energetic system. Our bodies are simply and eloquently our vehicles for how we show up, experience and do our lives, period
Accept and love your biggest Gifts and your biggest Challenges. They make us who we are...BODY, MIND AND SOUL! Embodied Confidence. Own it.
I have just completed the task of putting it into so many words, whew! Let me know what you think, how this makes you feel, what questions/comments/feedback you have! I welcome any and all:
It is impossible to change or heal your body and life simply working in the Emotional, Psychological or Energetic realms. It is impossible to change or heal your body and life simply by moving and/or beating up your body in the Physical realm.
How we relate to the Body and Mind is how we relate to life itself. The degree to which we can touch pain with mercy as well as embrace joy completely...that is the degree to which we can go beyond the old and enter into life wholeHEARTEDLY...We have to work with ALL of us to change and heal!
----Movement is the way of moving who you be out into the world. You take the energy you discover within and use Movement to bring it into the greater space around you like a ripple manifestation. When you discover your Personal Power, it effects Everything and Everyone around you.
----Everything that is up for us in our lives (mind, heart, spirit...), Shows up in our bodies. We develop injuries, compensations, have accidents and weaknesses, etc. that reflect what is going on in our chakra and energetic system. Our bodies are simply and eloquently our vehicles for how we show up, experience and do our lives, period
Accept and love your biggest Gifts and your biggest Challenges. They make us who we are...BODY, MIND AND SOUL! Embodied Confidence. Own it.
Sunday, January 12, 2014
The letting go and cleaning up in order to move forward
Whew, what a day! I'm finally sitting down after a day full of taking down Christmas for 4-5 hours, vacuuming up ALL of the pine needles (which still smelled SO good), running to the store, making myself food for dinner tonight and some for this week, cleaning up the kitchen and unloading the dishwasher. Whew! All of that little bitty stuff that takes so long!
I kept my Christmas decorations up for as long as I possibly could without annoying myself because I LOVE Christmas. The entire holiday season, from before Thanksgiving until New Year's day just makes me happy. I love the Hope and the Energy of the Season. I love getting little things for all of my clients and people in my life whom I love. I love all of the lights up in town squares and downtowns. I love all of the colors everywhere. I love the decorations up in my home, stores, everywhere...
So, I prolonged it as long as I could, but now, onward into 2014, which will be a completely different year for me, for many of us, for so many reasons and thank goodness! 2013 was beyond brutal for me in so many ways.
So, I am sitting down to work on the first pieces that I am creating and unrolling in what I am coming to think of as my own body of work, "Embodied Confidence (TM)". I have a couple of one day playshops (with very different focuses) that will be happening in February (Intro to Embodied Confidence) and May (Moving Your Inner Goddess: Love your Body. Love yourSelf. Love your Life.). I have a 5 week series starting in March (Moving Your Inner Goddess: Feel Strong. Be Strong. Live Your Strength) that is focused on empowering women to get themselves and their bodies moving in Many different ways. We will be exploring within a safe and nurturing group environment to start the create the knowing within themselves that they, and their bodies, CAN do it! Then I will be doing a 2 day retreat tying everything together this summer! How amazing is that?
I'm also going to be working with a large fortune 500 company and a couple of office complexes to create fitness programs for employees. I'm incredibly excited about it!
SO, I had to let go of Christmas to move into this year and I am SO happy to be moving into this year. What about you? What are you excited about this year? What magic are you creating in your life?
I kept my Christmas decorations up for as long as I possibly could without annoying myself because I LOVE Christmas. The entire holiday season, from before Thanksgiving until New Year's day just makes me happy. I love the Hope and the Energy of the Season. I love getting little things for all of my clients and people in my life whom I love. I love all of the lights up in town squares and downtowns. I love all of the colors everywhere. I love the decorations up in my home, stores, everywhere...
So, I prolonged it as long as I could, but now, onward into 2014, which will be a completely different year for me, for many of us, for so many reasons and thank goodness! 2013 was beyond brutal for me in so many ways.
So, I am sitting down to work on the first pieces that I am creating and unrolling in what I am coming to think of as my own body of work, "Embodied Confidence (TM)". I have a couple of one day playshops (with very different focuses) that will be happening in February (Intro to Embodied Confidence) and May (Moving Your Inner Goddess: Love your Body. Love yourSelf. Love your Life.). I have a 5 week series starting in March (Moving Your Inner Goddess: Feel Strong. Be Strong. Live Your Strength) that is focused on empowering women to get themselves and their bodies moving in Many different ways. We will be exploring within a safe and nurturing group environment to start the create the knowing within themselves that they, and their bodies, CAN do it! Then I will be doing a 2 day retreat tying everything together this summer! How amazing is that?
I'm also going to be working with a large fortune 500 company and a couple of office complexes to create fitness programs for employees. I'm incredibly excited about it!
SO, I had to let go of Christmas to move into this year and I am SO happy to be moving into this year. What about you? What are you excited about this year? What magic are you creating in your life?
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