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How Must I Grow For My Vision To Be Real?

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008

I’ve been thinking a lot about this idea: how must I grow for my vision to be real; my vision for myself, my work and for the planet.

My first impulse with this is to move into action. And today when I sat in the quiet of my morning all I wanted was to get answers, get a clear direction and get going! Yet, it felt like there was a brick wall in front of me. When I could finally get clear on what was going on, I heard the voice of wisdom say, sit tight and get a clear plan. There was a message of patience–hang on and get it together before you jump into the deep end!

What I came to realize was I was being instructed to spend some time “fine-tuning” what I’m trying to do. I need to revisit things and get a clear, grounded understanding of what I really want–in vivid Technicolor! And as much as I want to jump in with both feet this week…right now…it became really clear as I looked at the energy “out there”, that this election week is not the time for me (or anyone else really) to go out and kick off the new deal! It’s a mess out there to be honest. With the election and all the energy around it, my sense is that now (especially the next few days) is the perfect time to sit still, do our inner work, plan, and envision our change. In other words get our houses in order. And once the energy settles a bit to where it can hold the next step, then go out and make it real. This was my personal message this morning, but it feels like it holds true for many of us.

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Stress Management–10 Tips for Survival

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008

Stress is really hard to define because what stresses us out is different for everyone. With this in mind, here’s a definition of stress that I like: Stress is a condition or feeling experienced when a person perceives that demands exceed the personal and social resources the individual is able to mobilize.

In other words, people feel little stress when they have the time, experience and resources to manage a situation. They feel great stress when they think they can’t handle the demands. Stress is an experience. It is not an inevitable consequence of an event: it depends on people’s perceptions of a situation and their ability to cope with it.

Although there’s an innate stress response to unexpected events, most of the stress that we are faced with is a response, in part, to the way we think. Stress reactions from our thoughts generate the same stress response as if you were in physical danger.

The interesting thing is that it doesn’t take a major fear to stress us.  All it takes is a situation where we believe ourselves to not have the resources to manage the event at hand, big or small. Some times those “little things” that throw us over the edge are big stressors because we no longer feel we have the resources to cope.

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Energetic Integrity

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008

In my office there are Angel Cards, cards that you can pick with inspirational words. One of those cards reads “Integrity.” I love this card and what it reminds me of. It reminds me to be in integrity not only with how I chose to act, but even more importantly with the energy that I hold.

I equate integrity with self love, and the loss of integrity with betrayal. That may seem like a bit of a stretch, but when we honor our true self (self love) we are in integrity with ourselves. And, when we’re not in integrity, we are betraying ourselves in some way.

The word betrayal can have a real sting to it. But if we sit with this and really begin to look at the energy of our betrayals (to self and others), integrity is at the core. If we begin to let go of all the betrayal energy, be it guilt or resentment that we hold from when we have betrayed others, we usually find an incident of not acting from a place of integrity. And, when we ask to let go of the hurt or anger that we hold from others betraying us, we gather back our own energy to hold within. It brings us back to our true self where we have the opportunity to operate from a place of energetic integrity.

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How Must I Grow For My Vision To Be Real?

I’ve been thinking a lot about this idea: how must I grow for my vision to be real; my vision for myself, my work and for the planet.

My first impulse with this is to move into action. And today when I sat in the quiet of my morning all I wanted was to get answers, get a clear direction and get going! Yet, it felt like there was a brick wall in front of me. When I could finally get clear on what was going on, I heard the voice of wisdom say, sit tight and get a clear plan. There was a message of patience–hang on and get it together before you jump into the deep end!

What I came to realize was I was being instructed to spend some time “fine-tuning” what I’m trying to do. I need to revisit things and get a clear, grounded understanding of what I really want–in vivid Technicolor! And as much as I want to jump in with both feet this week…right now…it became really clear as I looked at the energy “out there”, that this election week is not the time for me (or anyone else really) to go out and kick off the new deal! It’s a mess out there to be honest. With the election and all the energy around it, my sense is that now (especially the next few days) is the perfect time to sit still, do our inner work, plan, and envision our change. In other words get our houses in order. And once the energy settles a bit to where it can hold the next step, then go out and make it real. This was my personal message this morning, but it feels like it holds true for many of us.

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Stress Management–10 Tips for Survival

Stress is really hard to define because what stresses us out is different for everyone. With this in mind, here’s a definition of stress that I like: Stress is a condition or feeling experienced when a person perceives that demands exceed the personal and social resources the individual is able to mobilize.

In other words, people feel little stress when they have the time, experience and resources to manage a situation. They feel great stress when they think they can’t handle the demands. Stress is an experience. It is not an inevitable consequence of an event: it depends on people’s perceptions of a situation and their ability to cope with it.

Although there’s an innate stress response to unexpected events, most of the stress that we are faced with is a response, in part, to the way we think. Stress reactions from our thoughts generate the same stress response as if you were in physical danger.

The interesting thing is that it doesn’t take a major fear to stress us.  All it takes is a situation where we believe ourselves to not have the resources to manage the event at hand, big or small. Some times those “little things” that throw us over the edge are big stressors because we no longer feel we have the resources to cope.

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This entry was posted on Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008 at 4:22 pm and is filed under Stress Management. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Energetic Integrity

In my office there are Angel Cards, cards that you can pick with inspirational words. One of those cards reads “Integrity.” I love this card and what it reminds me of. It reminds me to be in integrity not only with how I chose to act, but even more importantly with the energy that I hold.

I equate integrity with self love, and the loss of integrity with betrayal. That may seem like a bit of a stretch, but when we honor our true self (self love) we are in integrity with ourselves. And, when we’re not in integrity, we are betraying ourselves in some way.

The word betrayal can have a real sting to it. But if we sit with this and really begin to look at the energy of our betrayals (to self and others), integrity is at the core. If we begin to let go of all the betrayal energy, be it guilt or resentment that we hold from when we have betrayed others, we usually find an incident of not acting from a place of integrity. And, when we ask to let go of the hurt or anger that we hold from others betraying us, we gather back our own energy to hold within. It brings us back to our true self where we have the opportunity to operate from a place of energetic integrity.

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This entry was posted on Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008 at 3:33 pm and is filed under Expanding the Spirit. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.