Why It is So Important to Take the Time to Just Be
My friend practices Vipassana meditation and is off to a meditation retreat this weekend. He invited me to go, but I still have a lot of unpacking to do, and I don’t feel like I can get away for a whole weekend.
This conflict remind me of the conflict between being vs. doing.
I used to be hyper focused on doing. My list of things to do has always been longer than I have had time to complete. But because I didn’t take the time to renew, I wasn’t enjoying life, and I wasn’t very productive while working.
Read MoreThe Unbelievable Effects of Developing Resilience
So far, 2018 has dealt me with one punch in the gut after another. It began with the end of my relationship with my boyfriend who I was crazy about. It has been full of problems with housemates, stress from a law from the EU that could destroy my business, friendships falling apart, stress from more work that I could handle, loneliness, and despair about having to move out of my beloved home.
I was feeling beaten up, run down, hopeless and quite depressed. I was feeling like a victim to life. In the midst of all this happening, I developed a giant and painful cyst on my back that needed regular attending to, but was extremely hard to reach. The recommendations from my naturopath were helping, but the progress was far too slow, and I was having to consider surgical removal.
In trying to address the cyst, I discovered the metaphysical underpinnings. The questions I got were, “What will it take to stop feeling sorry for myself? And “What will it take to accept my life as a learning experience and look forward with hope?”
“Wow! “ I thought.. “how timely!”
In pondering these questions, I realized that I need to do a better job of bouncing back! I needed to release barriers to building resilience.
Read MoreHow to Feel Beautiful From the Inside Out
I had a client who was by most standards so beautiful that she probably could have been a professional model if she had wanted to. And yet, she was constantly criticizing her looks! She couldn’t be persuaded by other people’s positive feedback. All she could see were the things that she didn’t like. And her criticisms were things that I would have never noticed if she hadn’t pointed them out, nor did I agreed that they made her unattractive!
After clearing her addictive negative thoughts belief systems and emotions about her looks,
Read More17 Questions To Determine If You Truly Love Yourself
I thought I loved myself
After decades of self-loathing, the constant self-criticism had stopped. Every once in awhile, I’d hear a voice in my head telling me, “You are beautiful”.
Then one day, my boyfriend told me he no longer loved me. I had tolerated his lack of initiative far longer than I should have, and I had given more to the relationship than I was receiving.
When you don’t love yourself enough
This break up shook me to the core. I had a to clear a lot of pain. Suddenly, those old feelings of not being lovable came back in full force.
In releasing my pain, I began to ask myself these questions:
Read MoreSeven Tips for a New Year’s Mood Makeover
2017 has been a rough year for so many reasons. I was and still am terrified by the outcomes of the last election, and regularly grieve for everyone whose lives are made more difficult as a result. For me personally, it has also been a difficult year with my relationships. This admittedly has put me in a very negative and pessimistic frame of mind. After hours of release work, I’m feeling more grateful for the lessons learned, and am accepting the changes, but feeling happy feels like a stretch at this point.
Happy is not my natural state of mind. I grew up with a very negative and pessimistic father, and that was my default state for decades. Recent research shows that there is a genetic tendency to depression, and well-being. I suspect given my family and personal history that I did not fair well these genes. Never-the-less, a gene can be expressed in 3000 different ways, so our environment, and what we do matters a lot.
I have had to work at being happy. When our environment spirals negatively downward, being happy requires more work.
Here are some simple tips that you can do to give your mood a makeover for 2018:
Read MoreThe Dangers of Vitamin D Deficiency
Most people are deficient in vitamin D.
The current recommended dose of vitamin D is 600IU daily for adults, but many experts in nutrition and functional and natural medicine say that the optimal dose ranges between 1000-4000 IU per day.
Depending on the study, Vitamin D deficiency has shown to range between 30 -75% in the general US population!
Why are so many people vitamin D deficient?
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