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A Coaching Idea-Completing Yourself-Get Spiritual

 

I believe that we are spiritual beings having a human experience.

Some people feel comfortable with religious rituals, some people do not.

 

Whatever form of spiritual activity you prefer I suggest you start doing. 

Suggestion 1) Attend a religious service every week for at least one full month. Don’t let excuses stop you, commit to doing it and do it. You can go to different services at different times. Do what makes you feel good.

 

Suggestion 2) If you do not feel comfortable going to a religious service. Find a quiet place in nature where you can go to every week for at least a full month. Bring with you comfort food and water. Sit and read something that you consider to be scriptures, as you read meditate or pray on the words you have read. Being these words into your life and commit to taking action. 

 

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Finding the Good in Things Reduces your Stress

Strive to find something good in everything. Remember that a beautiful rose often grows at the end of a thorny stem.

 

Reducing stress in our lives calls for adjusting the way we think.

 

By adjusting or changing ourselves we change the way we see or perceive others, they appear to change as well.

 

By looking for the good in everything no matter how small that good is we develop more confidence and increase our courage. We give away our anxiety and criticisms.

 

We become calm, and develop emotional strength.

 

I found that a great way to adjust our thinking is though meditation.

 

I use a very easy and effective 21^st century method.

I recommend the “holothink” method www.calmingself.com

 

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Your Stress Relief -Can be Just a Breeze Away Using Wind Chimes

 

Hang some wind chimes in a location where you can hear them every time a breeze blows by.

 

There are as many kinds of wind chimes as there are unique human beings.

 

Use your imagination and creativity when choosing yours. I have several. I have a large wooden one that has hollow wooden tubes of different lengths hanging from a chain and leather bindings. This chime gives a low mellow tone when moved. I also have several made of metal tubes, again with various lengths and size tubes or pipes.

 

I found that these pipes have the same sound quality as the pipe organ. This is defiantly music to my ears.

 

Depending on your mood or your outdoor environment you can have a well orchestrated wind music almost all the time.

 

By the way you can put small wind chimes near your air conditioning vents or heating vents in the wall and hear lovely tones every time the inside air comes on. You will have subtle inside music.

 

These chimes have long been used through antiquity for stress relief and a means of bringing the body and mind back to center.

 

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Look to the Sky for Calming Inspiration

Lie down in a field or park on a lazy summer day and spend some time simply watching the clouds roll by.

 

Even on a very hot summer day here in Arizona, you can find a tree to sit under and enjoy the clouds. I have often spent meditation time watching the clouds. You tend to loose yourself in thought as you are drawn to the slow ever-changing forms of the clouds. Some times, you can identify these forms as earthly items, an animal or a flower or a familiar shape.

The ability to detach from your stress, and attach to the calm relaxing presence of nature, brings nature closer to you.

Nature itself is centered on calmness. Remember with in the word nurture is nature.

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Stress Exercise- What you can do first thing to reduce stress all day

 

How you get up in the morning, the very first things you do and think about can and will effect your whole day.

These thoughts and activities set the tone for your day as well as the day for those very close to you.

 

Take a minute and think about how you get up every morning. Is your alarm clock a jolting buzz and do you hit the floor in a 100-yard dash like run? Or do you hit the snooze button and turn over grudgingly, for five move minutes? Or do you turn off the alarm buzz, sit on the side of the bed in a total daze, then do you stagger in a sleepy haze to the bathroom, thinking only of your need for coffee?

 

You see you have already started your day on stress overload! You are going to carry that stress to your family or those around you.

 

Try this experiment for twenty-one days (the length of time it takes to establish a new habit). Get a different alarm clock, one with nature sounds as an alternative to the buzz. Select a sound that is pleasing yet unusual enough to wake you up. (I live in Arizona, so the sound of an ocean wave crashing on the rocky shoreline is very unusual.)

Start each morning with ten of the deepest and slowest breaths you can take. Perform this exercise before anything else. You will find that you will clear the sleepy haze from your head quickly, your attitude will be more relaxed and positive and you will have oxygen-filled energy to start your day. This counting to ten and breathing is a quick form of mediation, which will allow you to collect positive intentional thoughts on how to manage your morning and the whole day.

   

Having a candle or aromatherapy item in your bedroom is an added plus, to make this stress exercise more effective! Check out the candle offer at the right!!

 

What is Real Knowledge? It is Making Mistakes!

 

Real knowledge is to know the extent of your ignorance and humble yourself to learn from the experiences you call mistakes.

 

I am the first to tell you that I make lots of mistakes. In the past, I had some huge Pity Parties that would last of days. I finally learned this eternal truth: DOING THE SAME THINGS OVER AND OVER AGAIN, BUT EXPECTING DIFFERENT RESULTS = INSANITY!!!

 

This was the wake up call I needed! No more pity parties or beating up myself hangovers.

 

I took response- ability for my mistakes and converted them into positive learning experiences. Guess what? Those mistakes happened less frequently and most cases never again. Why? Because they were not thought of as negative thoughts or actions any more. They did not attract the negative back to me! My mind expanded to think of alternatives and options that were to my benefit.

 

I learned this after several sections of meditation. I am not the type of person to take things at face value; I have to reason things out, before I can wrap my head around the idea or concept.

 

The reason I am sharing this with you is that as a Life Coach, I can say I have empathy and understand were you are coming from. I have been conquering stress and I’m happy to say it can be done! You can do this too!!

 

Stressful Decisions- It is Time to Clear Your Thoughts and Get Productive.

 

Every day you are trying to make decisions. You have all sorts of responsibilities. From family to work to personal to financial to community, the stress we incur on our selves is huge. We are aware of the causes and effects in our lives as well so this increases out stress levels too.

Have you ever commented that you cannot think straight? On the other hand, perhaps that your mind is running so fast you cannot sleep at night!

 

Calming you mind without drugs or alcohol is very important and much more effective. Sitting quietly is hard work for some people, yes; you cannot be watching TV that does not count! Sit quietly and calming focus on your breathing. Think about nothing else but your breathing for a few seconds. This focusing will be difficult at first, but soon you can do this for a full minute before getting distracted. You see when you get distracted; go back to focusing on your breathing. By doing this type of meditation your brain will have a chance to relax and reboot. This is a mind clearing method used in most meditation.

 

You will find that the right answers will came. Just like the phrase, “try sleeping on it, for the answers”.

This mind/brain clearing reduces stress and creates an environment for productive decision-making.

 

I find these methods  very effective for myself and my clients. 

 

The Power of a Calm and Relaxed Person

He/She who knows him/her self is enlightened and aware of their life’s purpose. When your mind is clear because your stress levels are very low you sense your personal intuitions.

 

You go inside of yourself. By being comfortable with the solitude, you create during meditation. Your personal emotional energy is extremely strong and healthy. Your self-confidence is present.

 

You know that the only person that can take care of you is you. In addition, you know too that you can control only you and that is empowering. You will find your own unique operators manual.

 

A great way to meditate is while you are walking. Check out the pedometer at the right. You can keep track of your exercise session for your journal as well.

When you are want to set a calm mood in any room use one of those lighting ideas at your right. I use them and they work well.

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Meditation- Different Effective Types of Stress Reducing Meditations

 

Meditation brings you back to your calmer center.

There are many different types of meditation, which you can adapt to where you are or how you feel.

There is self talk meditation- During this focused time you need to engage in quiet meaningful self talk. This is not a time to beat yourself up verbally by going over all the imagined mistakes you made during a given day. I said imagined mistakes because a situation that you may think was a mistake is a learning experience, a stretching of your comfort zone that did not turn out as well as you wanted it to.

Meaningful self talk is quiet reminders of how ell you did during the day. How well you handled an uncomfortable situation for instance. This self –talk meditation is similar to uplifting affirmations. This is a time to nourish you mind.

Try walking Meditation-This is accomplished by slow walking while deeply focusing on your breathing with a purpose of thinking over a problem or asking for inspiration. You can walk any where, but try to walk among nature. Walking and paying attention to the plants and trees will give you a quiet sense of calm. If you enjoy walking in a mall, then think about the pleasant sights and sounds of the different stores. Think about how grateful you are for the store keepers and their loyal services. Try to detach yourself from the buying emotions and relax with the flow of the walk.

  Also sitting reflecting meditation- Sitting quietly for five minutes several times in a day, will reduce your stress levels  greatly. Realize that these five minutes are the most productive and energizing times in your whole day. You are reenergizing your emotional and physical batteries by the deep breathing and clearing of you mind of negative thoughts.

Meditation is not hard, it does take a little imagination but you can do it!

 

Meditation- A No Cost Solution to Your Health Care.

Meditation has been found to be one of the most successful ways to relax, get calm and clear your mind and thinking. There are different ways to meditate, from sitting still and focusing on your breathing, to walking around your neighborhood and enjoying  nature.

Meditation is specifically, purposefully focusing and clearing or emptying your mind of all thoughts. This may seem very difficult at first but once you realize you can control your thoughts not your thoughts controlling you, you understand how powerful and empowering this technique really is. This is extremely easy as well.

This technique has been around for over 3000 plus years.But only until recently has it been perceived as being difficult or unusual because we tend to disregard ideas that were once used as spiritual in nature, and our lifestyles seem to suggest being spiritual as not cool or sophisticated.

Over the last 40 years or so it has become more widely accepted and used because of the fact that mediation has been associated with illness relief, pain control and it has extensive relaxation benefits. The results of meditation have brought it into recognition besides its use by any age or health condition and of course it is free.

One very good way to accelerate relaxation through meditation is with the use of listening to music.

Choosing mostly classical music, instrumental pieces, or soft jazz quiets the thoughts. You can listen to music on a CD or a nature scene on a DVD with music. A lot of the recording studios are sending out CD's and DVD's labeled as relaxation or calming, this makes finding music very easy. The benefit is of course increased and enhanced relaxation with focused mediation. Perfect multitasking activity.

Along with the listening to music while you are meditating, you can visualize emptying your mind. The conscious focusing and clearing puts the whole body in a calm state.

Being in a calm state, healing, health and well being is recreated.