Archive for April, 2014
AHA Moments and Ideas
Monday, April 14th, 2014
Where Good Ideas Come From:
Meditation of the Heart
Wednesday, April 9th, 2014
Let’s take a few moments to sit in and meditate on the heart center. Place one hand on your heart. Soft gaze or close your eyes. Breathe in gently and exhale slowly. Feel your palm melt in your heart and your heart melt into your hand. Feel whatever feelings arise. As you breathe, feel your heart.
This is a direct way to meditate on your heart. You can feel and just allow the feelings to show you your heart. You can be in your heart center. Relate your mind and heart. Notice your rhythm and thoughts. Feel your mind and body connection. This is your refuge. Your heart center is where peace resides. Go for refuge in the peace that is always available.
When you are ready, take another breath and ease into your day ─ with a peaceful mind.
Do One Thing Afraid ─ Every Day
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2014
As I work with coaching (and healing) clients, I am often asked how to create powerful visions for work and life. Over the years, I have used the following steps to help me move from vision to action. I have put a lot of my work out into the world. Some of it has landed with success and some of it has flopped. I always learn from each experience.
Isn’t it better to look back years from now and not have regret for what we didn’t do? There will always be an excuse of why we didn’t start something. There will always be an excuse: the lack of time, the lack of experience, and the lack of money. Even if we had all of these, there is still no guarantee that our idea/dream will work. How liberating to just go ahead and live out our idea.
Here is how I move from imagining, to designing, into living my dreams:
1. Visualize the dream as already happening (i.e. creating your business, making art, writing a book, having a loving partner or whatever the goal is)
2. Name any thoughts or beliefs that might be getting in the way (These are the old stories/tapes we carry around with us)
3. Reframe any thoughts or beliefs by writing your intention in the positive with a timeline (i.e. I see myself having my paintings in 2-3 galleries by July, drafting my book in 2014, and being with a loving kind person this month)
4. Ask for support. Seek out people for ideas. Bounce your thoughts with those you trust and ask for any specific support to help keep you focused
5. Take 1 action daily towards your goal. Do one thing every day. As I like to say, “Do it afraid. Make change despite yourself.”
6. And finally, celebrate yourself! Treat yourself to a cup of tea, buy flowers, or something sweet. And celebrations can happen at every step along the way.
Now, go do one thing afraid today!