Fight the Funk!

I realized today that I am in a February funk...blah winter days deplete my energy and creative flow. I have been struggling with how to flick that creative light back on in my mind. I feel trapped in a plexi-glass box!

Moping didn't help, so I decided to do something about it.  

Today, as I aimlessly and listlessly clicked my mouse around cyberspace, I clicked on twitter from a post that caught my eye in my email.  I read the article, posted by @TheDailyLove and I instantly remembered how I get myself out of these funks:

• I practice Gratitude. It is always the first and most powerful mood-shifting activity that I go to when I feel like a saggy wet deflated balloon flopping around on the floor trailing balloon drool. I begin to count all the good things in my life, (chocolate being at the top of the list), and my mood begins to spike upward. 

•  I smile. Did you know that you can’t feel miserable when you have a smile on your face? Smiling is hard-wired to the “happy” producing chemicals in your brain.

• I read inspiring books. I pick a book off my shelf, open it randomly and read the message that is there. I always get some message that fits what I am going through. It is a great thought-shifter.

• I browse my social media posts. This is new one to the list.  I just reconnected myself to twitter in the last few days. (I have been ignoring it for almost a year.) I forgot about how many inspirational and motivating people I am following, and just opening twitter and quickly reading that tweeted article this morning was a burst of sunshine and a return to hope, faith and love for me.  

(I do the same thing on Facebook. I follow inspirational like-minded people who post uplifting, love-filled posts, but actually connecting to people through their words is the most rewarding and inspiring way for me to get back on track.)

So, next time you are feeling down in the dumps, start with that Gratitude list and watch your perspective shift from a dark closet of misery to a bright, sparkling, faith filled heart. Feel that joy! Embrace the good! Enjoy your life!  -S M I L E -You have meaning, you have value.  Reset your thought meter today and practice feeling great!

Love Lisa 

Here is the link to that article: The Daily Love  Read it and be Inspired too. 

Morning Pages Therapy

Morning Pages Therapy. The above scribble represents some of the mash of pent up stuff in my head when I wake up in the morning. 

This is what I continued to write today: 

[Writing] Morning Pages is the practice of emptying your mind of everything that bombards it upon awakening. I learned this from Julia Cameron in her book The Artist's Way years ago. The process of emptying all the stuff by writing it all down clears the slate of your mind and allows more creative energy to flow in (as well as deflating the stress meter).  The key is to write it all down, but not read it again. If you read it, you are just filling your mind up again. 

It was one of those activity I did in the past and it did work but I stopped. Why can I never be consistent with the stuff that works? I get sidetracked because there are so many things I want to try BUT I want to practice the morning pages once more. The chore here is actually getting up early enough - and on a regular basis to do this. Basically being more disciplined. 

The challenge is, my dear friends, during the winter I`m the bear who doesn't get to hibernate. I am more tired, I sleep deeply and each morning I am awakened from this heavy slumber grumpy and groggy, and always feeling that my rest wasn't over. Sometimes it takes me about an hour to actually wake up fully. I don't know...maybe I was a bear, or even a tree in my last life.

Winter means hibernation for me and in the spring I begin to wake up like nature does on this side of the planet.

I will begin again tomorrow, writing it all out of me, clearing my mind and starting my day fresh and full of opportunity to be who I see in my mind's eye: A morning person, motivated, passionate, productive and alive with creative ideas on how to continue empowering Women and fill their hearts with joy. 

Free the Mind

http://danishdocumentary.com/site/freethemind/

Let Your Heart be Warmed by Love Today

The Charter of Compassion

Watching this video gave me goosebumps. I have always felt wonderful when unity was present in society. Having compassion is your heart opening to full capacity with love for everyone and everything--including yourself.  This video has a powerful message that covers  many forms compassion can take. I would like you to create a charter of compassion for yourself, while you are also being compassionate to the world! :) 

Love of yourself may be a challenge, but if you can feel it for others, you have the power to direct it inward, and the more you do send love your way, the more love goes out to blanket your circle of life experiences. 

As a wise man once said: 

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. ~Buddha

 

Ten Common Misconceptions about Hypnosis

1. A person can be hypnotized against his or her own will

2. Only those with a weak mind can be hypnotized

3. An individual looses the control of the body while on hypnosis

4. Through hypnosis one can achieve super-normal physical abilities

5. Hypnosis can be used to retrieve secrets

6. The subject does not remember anything when woken up from hypnosis

7.  Your will is lost to the whim of the hypnotist. 

8. Hypnosis can be harmful if awakened in the middle of the session

9. Hypnosis makes an individual incapable of facing a physical threat occurring in the middle of a session
 10. You lose consciousnesss

  These are all FALSE

The TRUTH is: 

1.  You must be willing and receptive to be put into a state of hypnosis. Any resistance or fear  you have will impede the process of hypnosis.

2.  The strength of the mind is only measured in terms of resistance. Another point is that the higher the intelligence level you have, the easier it is to go into hypnosis. 

3.  You have full control of your body..can scratch an itch or even get up to go to the bathroom. You can control your own level of hypnosis, and even bring yourself out of it without guidance from the hypnotist.

4.  Hypnosis is not brain washing. You cannot be told to lift something that you consciously know you will not be able to lift.  

5.  In hypnosis you have full control about what you want to talk about and you will choose to skip over things you don't want to discuss.

6.  You will remember everything and upon the hypnotist saying.."do you remember..." everything will come back in a wave of recall. 

7.  Touching on answer number 3, you will not do anything that is against your own morals or ethics, nor will the hypnotist ask you to. Stage hypnotists choose people who are receptive to hypnotism and ask them to do funny things, and if you see enough displays you will see that some of the chosen ones will not perform something that he suggests because it goes against their moral code or belief system. 

8. It is not harmful. It is the same as awaking from your sleep or meditation. 

9. During hypnosis you are MORE alert than when fully conscious. Since your conscious mind  is taking a break from all of its incessant chatter, you are fully tuned in to everything around you. 

10.  You do not lose consciousness. You can walk and talk and move and so forth. Your conscious mind however, is taking a siesta and your subconscious mind is tuned in. One is very noisy and the other is quietly storing all of your emotional memories. 

You Are...

Need I say more? 

Resetting to the NOW~A Place of Possibilities

Good Morning to January Two!    Welcome to the NOW!

Hold on, don't deflate now, it's time to put your goals into action! The work begins today. But first- If the new year yesterday wasn't what you expected, or even the Christmas holiday, it is time to let that GO. Are you holding on to yesterday in your mind? Have you carried the emotions from the days before to today?

If so, it is time to reset. This is a challenging act; to let go of the past in your mind alone. This includes all of your emotional baggage from days previous. Let it go. Today is the only day there is, the past is a memory in your mind only. The future is a fantasy, again, is only alive in your mind alone.

Right now is the moment that matters. Right now in- this moment- your life is full of possibilities. Take a long deep breath in, then out. Imagine a big RED "RESET' button in your mind. This button will erase the past you are carrying in your mind, and project your future into only positive possibilities, but most importantly, it will place you in the here and now, living in the moment, full of gratitude for this amazing power of renewal.

When you press this button, all of your disappointments, frustrations,  past arguments will disappear from your mind. You will be totally focused in the NOW with whatever you are doing. Your future is a blank page  for you to imagine and create as you desire. Try it out, you won't be disappointed!

Press the button. NOW is waiting for you!

The NOW is the place to be...everyday.

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2012 was a year of change, and a year of lessons. Reflecting on the past year I have so much to be grateful for. I have wonderful loving supportive family; even if we fight the love is still there waiting when the fight is over, a wonderful cherished son, loyal friends, and so many new friends I've met this year that have enriched my life. Through negative (contrasting) experiences I have learned what I don't want in my life and will be turning those into positive intentions for the new year. I am grateful for my journey and am blessed to have the life that I do. I am excited to begin the new year and continue to guide Women to empower their lives and shine as they are meant to do. This is my passion and my path in this life and I would have it no other way. I thank everyone for being in my life, for lessons big and small, and for the opportunity to be a part of another's healing. So, to everyone, go out there and shine in this new year which is overflowing with wonderful new energy and life. Whatever you are looking for is possible and whatever you want can happen. Open your heart to the wonder and magic that is there, waiting for you to see it. Happy New Year Everyone, Love Lisa