A Year to clear what is holding you back by Stephanie Bennett Vogt
It is all about slowing down, taking time for yourself and establishing new habits that will last a lifetime.
Thoughts and stories spun that no longer serve and support us.
What deep yearning do you have - what ways are you holding yourself back from realizing it?
Do you feel differently today than you did a week ago? How so?
There was a lot this week about your own story being personal and therefore you should be in control of your own destiny. Now whilst I agree that my story is unique (just like everyone else) I am not my whole story, only the centre of my own life. Like with the writing of any story it is not set in stone until committed to print and even then, it can be amended. However, even your own story written from your perspective is still subjective as others may have a very different, distinctive perspective.
The Simple Clearing Process exercise.
Close your eyes and imagine this worry that you want to release is as a ball of sticky, sluggish energy swirling in your personal energy field [that invisible part of you that radiates out from your physical body].
I could not do this. As hard as I tried the thing I wanted to let go just fractured and reformed.
However, I have started using the technique of consigning things to the floor not just when I am going to sleep. Bedtime Habit (Lesson 18) When undressing, imagine that all your worries coming off as well, so you do not take them, stress, or negativity to bed with you.
I am doing it more and more throughout the day whenever negative thoughts come into my head or things that it is just not the right time to be thinking about … I simple, metaphorically throw them on the floor. It works for me. They stay there until I am either ready to address them or, which is mostly what happens they are forgotten, which just shows that they were not that important in the first place.
Complete this statement:
- One thing about me that I love and want to cultivate more of in my life is______
Okay, this turned out to be harder than it seemed. There are a lot of things I like about me that I want to cultivate … my sense of humour, always striving to see the good in everything and everyone, patience, love of animals, being practical and adaptable, and always having compassion. However, if I had to pick one thing that I try to do but would like to do more it is … encourage others to be what they want to be, and sometimes even to be what I can see in them that they cannot.
So, do I feel differently than I did a week ago?
I’m not sure that I do but I am more positive about getting some of the things ticked off the ToDo List and that I think on the whole I am okay with just who I am and writing not only being the right choice as it is something I love, but also the right path to be on. All I need to do is to knock procrastination into touch and I might even stand a chance of making a career out of it.
A lot of the humans that inhabit our beautiful world can tend to not be nice people. Hopefully by never stooping down to their level or succumbing to the bandwagon that drives them that way I can make my little snippet of existence a good thing.
This was a quote posted on my social media page which I really like …
You can never wipe away you fingerprints from the good things you do in life.