Posted by Amy Hale on October 31, 2011 at 7:22 am
Remember going to the carnival as a child? You were in such awe as you watched and maybe even participated in the spectacular shows and rides that were offered. The clowns and actors made spectacles of themselves to entertain you and the rest of the audience. If you had a sore toe or were feeling a little blue, having fun helped you refocus on something that made you feel good.
Letting your imagination take you to new places within yourself can also alter your perception and state of being. Even though the world seems like it’s becoming less stable and other people are struggling to pay their bills, you can evolve to a higher state by using your wonderful imagination.
When you are feeling down or negative, do you scold or even belittle yourself for having an attitude that feels bad? Have you ever thought about letting yourself have the negative without attaching yourself to them? Rather, let the come up, however, let them float away just the same. Instead of scolding yourself or judging the emotion as bad, could you just let it be for a moment?
When going through the feelings of sadness, anxiety, or resentment, people tend to forget to allow themselves to be human. Humans are emotional beings. When people stuff their emotions down or tell themselves that they are bad, they learn to distrust themselves and he value of of all of their emotions.
If you beat yourself up for having a negative emotion, this often activates a justification of unworthiness of better things. Our self-worth lowers as a result and guilt sets in for not being in control. It’s a big cycle. However, when you allow yourself to feel and metabolize your feelings and all self-forgiveness to take place, we see things in a different light plus we move from that space instead of resentment.
This week’s experiment:
Recognize your feelings for what they really are. Thoughts about people, events and things generate feelings. Do you best to acknowledge all of your feelings, including the ones that feel bad – like fear or sadness. Allow these feelings to be. Don’t judge them. Imagine them moving through your body and out your feet.
Then work at noticing how that affects your life. You’ll find that you’re more at peace, centered in the present moment, and your get more done with less effort.
Let me know your thoughts and how you do.
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Posted by Amy Hale on October 3, 2011 at 8:30 pm
If you’re looking to change your life or change even a part of it, give yourself some space. Change doesn’t happen overnight, nor should it. Many people that I know think making even small changes should be easy. But what really happens when you make a change? Usually we become uncomfortable in some way. If you’re changing a habit then the discomfort discourages a person and that person goes back to the habit he or she is wanting to replace. So what is the best way to create a better life, habit or reality?
Slow down. Clear a space for yourself. It’s imperative that you have a place to do the work that needs to be done. If you don’t, you’ll just be throwing chaos on an old wound or sabotaging your efforts right from the start.
Be aware of your surroundings. Are you living in clutter? Can you see the surface of your desk? Are the kid’s toys everywhere? Tremendous energy can surface from de-cluttering your surroundings. Inspiration can be found when you can see your desk and it’s organized. Take a moment and look around. Where are you residing? In a clean, organized environment or are you looking around at piles of magazines, toys, clothing, and dirty dishes, or whatever else might be cluttering your area?
Right now, get up and do something. Take 10 minutes to just dig in and put something in its place or make a place for it. That’s all it takes to start. Take 10 minutes per day to de-clutter your space.
Here are some tips to help you keep going…
If you haven’t used it in the past 90 days, can you get rid of it? Are you keeping things in case you need them in the future? The universe reads this as you don’t trust your future if you hang on to things you don’t currently use. This adds to an unconscious awareness that the future holds lack. No one wants to lack money, health or anything else.
If you would like to read more about Space Clearing, a great book to start with is Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui by Karen Kingston. She has so many valuable tips including why to make sure certain spaces are clean and also stories of how people transformed their lives by just living in an organized home.
If your task looks overwhelming, just start with a corner. Get bags or boxes together to place items in. Make separate bags/boxes for things to move to another area of the home, throw away, and think about because you’re not quite sure whether or not to keep it. This will help you keep from cluttering another area.
Once you have a nice space cleared, set up a peaceful relaxing atmosphere. Make a place for yourself, even if it’s just the corner of a room, to really become tranquil and peaceful. A place where you can meditate, journal, or read a novel.
If after you have cleared your space, you still don’t have a place to call your own, think about where you could go. Be creative. I used to have to use my car to find a peaceful place. I would come home after a long day at work and notice the silence as I turned off the engine of my car in the driveway. It was amazing. I treasured every second that it lasted.
It really is important. An organized home means an organized mind. The benefits can be truly life altering. One of my clients told me that she her husband was having a hard time finding a new job so cleaned the closets, drawers, junk room (where all those things are that you never use), and within two weeks he found a new job. There can definitely be a connection to clutter and negative energy.
If you really want to transform your life, let’s get going. Pick a room or a corner and start organizing your space. Next time I’ll be helping you de-clutter your mind. I’ll be coaching you to become aware of how you really speak to yourself and hypnotize yourself into believing things that just aren’t true.
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Posted by Amy Hale on January 25, 2011 at 10:45 pm
If your favorite team is playing this season, do you want a tense, stressed-out person shooting a free throw, or kicking a long field goal in the last moments of the game? Or would you rather see a confident, calm, rested player step up to the challenge?
Most people stress themselves out believing it’s as a form of caring. But it’s not caring, it’s just stressing out. Stressing out makes one do worse. True caring makes one do better. That’s why it’s vital to know the difference. The two couldn’t be more different.
Caring is relaxing, focusing and calling on all of my resources, all of that relaxed magic, that “lazy dynamite” that I bring to bear when I pay full attention with peace of mind. No one performs better than when they are relaxed and focused.
“Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth,” says the great creativity teacher Natalie Goldberg. “It’s a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.”
A successful person knows when to lie down. And when to stand up.
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Posted by Amy Hale on March 29, 2010 at 6:00 am
Orr’s Law (by Dr. Leonard Orr) builds upon the theory that within every one of us, there are two people -one is a thinker; the other a prover.
The thinker, who roughly corresponds to your conscious mind, is that part of you that thinks up ideas and generates possibilities.
The prover, who roughly corresponds with your subconscious mind, has the job of collecting just the right facts to support whatever it is that the thinker thinks.
“Orr’s Law” is as follows: Whatever the thinker thinks, the prover proves.
This Week’s Experiment:
1. Choose two completely opposite statements about something (e.g. life, people, situations)
Examples:
Life is hard/Life is easy
People are naturally bad/People are naturally good
2. Write at least one paragraph to “prove” each statement.
Share and let us know what you learned.
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Posted by Amy Hale on March 4, 2010 at 2:10 pm
Excerpt from Steve Chandler, Club Fearless:
This habit of reacting can go on all day, every day. We become like goalies in the hockey game of life, with pucks flying at us incessantly. It is time to play another position. It is time to fly across the ice with the puck on your own stick ready to shoot at another goal.
Robert Fritz, who has written some of the most profound and useful books on the differences between creating and reacting, says, “When your life itself becomes the subject matter of the creative process, a very different experience of life opens to you–one in which you are involved with life at its very essence.
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