Today I had the pleasure of meeting with 3 beautiful and inspiring business women who have so much motivation and determination to light this world on fire that just being in their presence makes you feel like you can take on anything.
I get this feeling often when I am surrounded by powerful women (and men). The energy that flows through the group ignites the creative mind and sets you on a new course of action.
I listened to each of them share some of their personal struggles since their last gathering and what they have on the horizon with their businesses. I could have listened to them all day long.
Jess Webb. The Digital Design gal. There is so much potential in this amazing young woman, I can't wait to see where she goes (and I hope I get to tag along on some of those adventures ;) I tell many people, if they are looking for creative direction for their web presence and social media projects, Jess is the girl you want to hire!
Floydilou Kerr. This business Savvy woman will take your business to the next level with her 'on the fly' approach to making changes from an intuitive point of view, she'll have your head spinning and your pocketbook overflowing in no time at all!
Lora Colautti. Lora is an absolute hoot to be around! She's a talented life coach that specializes in helping overwhelmed, overbooked, overexhausted women find their passion and in doing so helping them to find balance and calm even in the busiest of schedules!
Their inspiration was exactly what I needed today. I have so many ideas floating around in my head that I recruited my son to jot them down for me as I drove to his orthodontist appointment today!
There are power in numbers people. Extreme, raw, over the top power!
If you are feeling stuck, need some creative energy to jolt you back to life you need to call a meeting of the minds, gather up the girls (or boys) get the latte's flowing and have at it!
Believe me you won't soon regret it!
Showing posts with label overcoming negative thoughts and beliefs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label overcoming negative thoughts and beliefs. Show all posts
Thursday, July 14, 2011
Saturday, January 1, 2011
Don't believe everything your mind tells you...
When I was a young girl, I remember being able to stay up late to watch a movie, all the lights were off in the house and as I sat watching television something under a cabinet caught my eye and I stared at it from my position on the couch. The longer I looked at it, the more it looked like a glowing eye. The more I thought about it being a glowing eye, the more I convinced myself that there was a snake with a glowing eye under the cabinet. I was frozen in my spot. I wanted to run up to my room, I wanted to turn my attention back to the movie, yet I couldn’t. My mind was beginning to create a story about a snake in my house, that had a glowing eye, that if I moved out of my spot it would spring towards me and bite me. I was terrified.
In the morning I went back to the cabinet, got down on my hands and knees and discovered that the very thing that I was terrified of was in fact a piece of foil from a candy.
Not much has changed in my mind over the years.
Countless times on road trips my mind would turn uprooted tree trunks into bears or moose. Reflectors on the side of the road into glowing eyes in the night.
I spend lots of time unravelling the stories in my mind, desolving them into nothing more than an overactive imagination and the ego‘s need for attention.
The stories in our mind can paralyze us if we aren’t aware of what is happening.
Our minds are powerful tools of creation. We’ve all heard the term “what you think about you bring about”.
This statement is absolutely true.
Our minds can create stories of triumph or of tragedy, of courage or victimization.
How many times have we had a non sense thought about ourselves, an event or a relationship, allowed that thought to trigger a wound in our emotional body and then further allowed it to go about having a life of it’s own all the while we suffer through it.
The suffering can stop if you wish it to stop.
And all that needs to happen for the suffering to stop is to become aware that what you are reacting to isn’t the truth. It isn’t reality. What you are reacting to is a fabrication of the mind. A thought that has been allowed to run rampant. A fish tale if you will.
Invite yourself into your mind. Dismantle the story that is being played over and over again in your mind. Take a really good look at whether that story you are playing in your head is making you feel better or worse about yourself. Is it bringing you peace or pain? Is it assisting or hindering your forward movement in life?
When I question my thoughts and stories, they magically transform. They sometimes become nothing, they lose their “power” over me. And sometimes taking a closer look at these thoughts helps me to gain more awareness about my world, about how I process information and how I unnecessarily react to situations.
It’s absolutely marvellous!
In the morning I went back to the cabinet, got down on my hands and knees and discovered that the very thing that I was terrified of was in fact a piece of foil from a candy.
Not much has changed in my mind over the years.
Countless times on road trips my mind would turn uprooted tree trunks into bears or moose. Reflectors on the side of the road into glowing eyes in the night.
I spend lots of time unravelling the stories in my mind, desolving them into nothing more than an overactive imagination and the ego‘s need for attention.
The stories in our mind can paralyze us if we aren’t aware of what is happening.
Our minds are powerful tools of creation. We’ve all heard the term “what you think about you bring about”.
This statement is absolutely true.
Our minds can create stories of triumph or of tragedy, of courage or victimization.
How many times have we had a non sense thought about ourselves, an event or a relationship, allowed that thought to trigger a wound in our emotional body and then further allowed it to go about having a life of it’s own all the while we suffer through it.
The suffering can stop if you wish it to stop.
And all that needs to happen for the suffering to stop is to become aware that what you are reacting to isn’t the truth. It isn’t reality. What you are reacting to is a fabrication of the mind. A thought that has been allowed to run rampant. A fish tale if you will.
Invite yourself into your mind. Dismantle the story that is being played over and over again in your mind. Take a really good look at whether that story you are playing in your head is making you feel better or worse about yourself. Is it bringing you peace or pain? Is it assisting or hindering your forward movement in life?
When I question my thoughts and stories, they magically transform. They sometimes become nothing, they lose their “power” over me. And sometimes taking a closer look at these thoughts helps me to gain more awareness about my world, about how I process information and how I unnecessarily react to situations.
It’s absolutely marvellous!
Friday, March 12, 2010
Simple & Consistent
So lately I have been mesmerized by something called "The Work"
I have been feverishly watching all of the YouTube videos of Byron Katie and her technique of turning around all the negative thoughts and beliefs that we have running through our minds.
It is absolutely fascinating.
I have begun to apply The Work to my every day life as well as using it with my coaching clients. The feedback that I am receiving tells me that this is far more effective than the techniques I have been using thus far. And the progress that I am making in my own awareness is more rapid than anything I have used in the past.
It's simple and it's consistent.
There is a deep need within me to live a life of simple abundance and peacefulness. It really and truly is all that I want in life.
I want to wake up in the morning and be content with whatever it is I am doing (or not doing) that day. I want to not attach an emotion to anything and make it something it is not. I want to be in total connectedness with the nothingness and the silence that lives within me. I want to embrace wholeheartedly the concept of whatever is, is and nothing else (I embrace this concept only when it suits me at the moment).
Can any of this be possible if we are constantly allowing our inner thoughts to control our exterior reality? If we constantly place a "value" upon all that we experience how can we connect with the perfection of life?
I don't think it's possible. I don't think that simplicity is a possibility when our thoughts are always making things so complex, distorted and frustrating.
This is why the path to enlightenment is paved with bald headed monks and silent retreats!
I believe that this technique is the way to enlightenment/complete awareness that all of us are looking for. The thing that can help us deal with our everyday circumstances and guide us towards a space of complete contentedness. Not a space where we vie for control over the people in our lives, not a space where we step on everyone in our path to reach the top of the ladder of success, not a space where everything that we encounter becomes a personal vendetta against us. But a space of completeness, understanding and ultimately bliss.
Amen!
I have been feverishly watching all of the YouTube videos of Byron Katie and her technique of turning around all the negative thoughts and beliefs that we have running through our minds.
It is absolutely fascinating.
I have begun to apply The Work to my every day life as well as using it with my coaching clients. The feedback that I am receiving tells me that this is far more effective than the techniques I have been using thus far. And the progress that I am making in my own awareness is more rapid than anything I have used in the past.
It's simple and it's consistent.
There is a deep need within me to live a life of simple abundance and peacefulness. It really and truly is all that I want in life.
I want to wake up in the morning and be content with whatever it is I am doing (or not doing) that day. I want to not attach an emotion to anything and make it something it is not. I want to be in total connectedness with the nothingness and the silence that lives within me. I want to embrace wholeheartedly the concept of whatever is, is and nothing else (I embrace this concept only when it suits me at the moment).
Can any of this be possible if we are constantly allowing our inner thoughts to control our exterior reality? If we constantly place a "value" upon all that we experience how can we connect with the perfection of life?
I don't think it's possible. I don't think that simplicity is a possibility when our thoughts are always making things so complex, distorted and frustrating.
This is why the path to enlightenment is paved with bald headed monks and silent retreats!
I believe that this technique is the way to enlightenment/complete awareness that all of us are looking for. The thing that can help us deal with our everyday circumstances and guide us towards a space of complete contentedness. Not a space where we vie for control over the people in our lives, not a space where we step on everyone in our path to reach the top of the ladder of success, not a space where everything that we encounter becomes a personal vendetta against us. But a space of completeness, understanding and ultimately bliss.
Amen!
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