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Trust and Knowingness

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

Here’s a thought (one of many) which I took away from Dr. Michael Beckwith’s talk at a conference I was at recently. He said, “Belief is a placeholder for what you know.” This of course made sense to me. But it’s been lurking in my mind these past few days.

Here’s my thought process. We have a belief, which we practice. We may even have an affirmation to affirm that belief over and over. We practice it enough and we get an “a-ha” moment—insight. Then, we have knowingness.

What has held me in this inner discussion is trust. In order for us to know something, we must first trust it to be so. I can certainly have a belief without fully trusting it…hmmm maybe. Maybe I’m kidding myself there. But somewhere in between practice and insight comes trust.

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Tips to Working with Resistance: Creating Change Even When Your Unconscious Mind Isn’t So Sure!

Monday, June 8th, 2009

We all face change day in and day out. Sometimes the change is small and we glide right on through it, and other times…well not so much! But even when change is good and we are seemingly on board, resistance can rear its ugly little head; and then we are often in for a bumpy ride.

Working with people, like I do, who are focused on change, I see resistance pop up in many forms. Sometimes it can be plain as day and other times it is so well disguised that it can trick you into believing its really got your back.  Sometimes it can be evident in what people say, and other times it is held in the body’s energy—as if a wall has been put up that nobody will ever cross.

But what is this thing we call resistance?

I think of resistance as an internal emotional and energetic process, which acts as a holding pattern. Its roots however, are from patterns and processes we learned which initially served us. Our unconscious mind is great at creating those patterns as a way to “survive” our experiences, and then equally great at holding onto them for dear life when it’s time to change. It can feel overwhelming at times. Our emotional resistance can hold us back if we don’t learn to recognize it and work with it successfully.

How do we do that?  Here are the tips I share with my clients for working with, and moving through, resistance.

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How Will You Change Today?

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

I saw this video quite a while ago of Marianne Williamson talking about how change can come from a small group of people…ENOUGH people. It’s entitled,“Are You Part of the 11%?” Here, she is saying 11% of the population can make great change. Now I’m not sure if that’s an exact figure, but I get the idea.

It’s hard not to notice that we are going through a shift. And whether you look at it as a shift in consciousness, social change or even economic transformation—or all of the above—all of us, including the planet herself, are going through something phenomenal. And what happens globally affects us personally…and vice versa.

In fact, the change really does begin with us. We may not have been noticing, but this global shift has been coming on for many years, and is a result of our personal change. Perhaps we have come close to that quorum to allow greater change. But, when I watched this video again the other day, I started to think about what is it within us—as individuals—which flips the coin or makes that shift that we need to move along our individual paths to personal evolution? I played with the question for a moment of,“Does it take 11% of ME to create my personal change in order for me to make my next big step in consciousness?”

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Trust and Knowingness

Here’s a thought (one of many) which I took away from Dr. Michael Beckwith’s talk at a conference I was at recently. He said, “Belief is a placeholder for what you know.” This of course made sense to me. But it’s been lurking in my mind these past few days.

Here’s my thought process. We have a belief, which we practice. We may even have an affirmation to affirm that belief over and over. We practice it enough and we get an “a-ha” moment—insight. Then, we have knowingness.

What has held me in this inner discussion is trust. In order for us to know something, we must first trust it to be so. I can certainly have a belief without fully trusting it…hmmm maybe. Maybe I’m kidding myself there. But somewhere in between practice and insight comes trust.

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Tips to Working with Resistance: Creating Change Even When Your Unconscious Mind Isn’t So Sure!

We all face change day in and day out. Sometimes the change is small and we glide right on through it, and other times…well not so much! But even when change is good and we are seemingly on board, resistance can rear its ugly little head; and then we are often in for a bumpy ride.

Working with people, like I do, who are focused on change, I see resistance pop up in many forms. Sometimes it can be plain as day and other times it is so well disguised that it can trick you into believing its really got your back.  Sometimes it can be evident in what people say, and other times it is held in the body’s energy—as if a wall has been put up that nobody will ever cross.

But what is this thing we call resistance?

I think of resistance as an internal emotional and energetic process, which acts as a holding pattern. Its roots however, are from patterns and processes we learned which initially served us. Our unconscious mind is great at creating those patterns as a way to “survive” our experiences, and then equally great at holding onto them for dear life when it’s time to change. It can feel overwhelming at times. Our emotional resistance can hold us back if we don’t learn to recognize it and work with it successfully.

How do we do that?  Here are the tips I share with my clients for working with, and moving through, resistance.

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How Will You Change Today?

I saw this video quite a while ago of Marianne Williamson talking about how change can come from a small group of people…ENOUGH people. It’s entitled,“Are You Part of the 11%?” Here, she is saying 11% of the population can make great change. Now I’m not sure if that’s an exact figure, but I get the idea.

It’s hard not to notice that we are going through a shift. And whether you look at it as a shift in consciousness, social change or even economic transformation—or all of the above—all of us, including the planet herself, are going through something phenomenal. And what happens globally affects us personally…and vice versa.

In fact, the change really does begin with us. We may not have been noticing, but this global shift has been coming on for many years, and is a result of our personal change. Perhaps we have come close to that quorum to allow greater change. But, when I watched this video again the other day, I started to think about what is it within us—as individuals—which flips the coin or makes that shift that we need to move along our individual paths to personal evolution? I played with the question for a moment of,“Does it take 11% of ME to create my personal change in order for me to make my next big step in consciousness?”

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