Are you going through life in a blurr with a long list of To-Do’s and no sense of how this is going to change or get shorter?  Remembering that every moment is an opportunity for new possibilities, consider that you can make a difference in your own life.

 1. In order to make a shift, it is important to stop rushing and take a few moments to be calm and reflect.

2. In you calmness, follow your breath and allow yourself to feel connected to who you are. Bring that awareness through your body right down to you feet and connect with the earth. Breathe in the earth energy. It is strengthening and grounding.

3. From this place, examine your to-do list. On a separate piece of paper make 3 columns and head each one as follows:

•  Really necessary to do today (for example this column may be such things as buy milk, or pay VISA bill, or exercise for 1 hour.

 

•  “shoulds”. These are the things you take on because sometime a long time ago you learned that you are supposed to do this. You really don’t enjoy it. This could be such things as: bake cookies for the neighbourhood kids (you could just buy some watermelon if you really need to do something) or make 6 pies for the freezer (freeze the rhubarb instead and bake the pies another time, or make rhubarb crumble instead). Consider “Do I really need to do this? Could I make it much simpler?”

 

•  Love to do: Chances are the greater the entries in the first two, the fewer there are here and for some people they don’t even know what they love to do because they never thought that that was important (another old belief from long ago).
•  Move your items to the column where they belong

 

Now that you have had a good look at how you manage to fill your day, just let it be and take it into account whenever you make your to-do lists.   Major changes are difficult.  But every moment is an opportunity for new possibilities.  What little thing can you do differently in this moment?

Identifying what is meaningful to you gives you a measure by which you can decide on the activities you wish to do more of.  It also gives you a sense of how you want to be in the activities that don’t seem to be currently giving you a sense of meaning and purpose.

Marie Knapp is offering intensive one-day workshops to guide people in just this.  For more information contact Marie at 519 371 1255  or marieknapp@rogers.com  

It’s Your Life – live it well

Marie Knapp

Marie Knapp

August 2009

Do you know what your mind is?  What are your thoughts?  Can you take charge of your thoughts?  When do your thoughts take charge of you?

I remember a discussion in one of my graduate school classes.  It was based on the following: ”I have a body, but I am not my body; I have feelings, but I am not my feelings; I have a mind, but I am not my mind.”  Those of you who have been paying attention to the Law of Attraction will be especially interested in this.

This statement was an effort on the part of Psychosynthesis to help us realize we can observe our own thoughts, feelings and body.  At the same time we are whole, inseparable.   You have the ability to take charge of your thoughts.  It is being aware of what your subconscious thoughts are that is key. 

The mind can be discussed as having two components: the conscious and the sub-conscious (meaning everything that is not so conscious).  We could certainly go into that in far more depth but for now this works.

Your conscious mind is what you are aware of right now.  It is a very small portion of what is actually going on in your mind.  It is also much slower in operating than the subconscious.  Your conscious mind is the thought that you are focusing on now. 

Your subconscious contains all that keeps your body operating.  A child consciously learns to walk and then it becomes part of the subconscious.  Unless you have a disability, you do not have to think each move through before moving. 

Your subconscious also contains stored information that your child mind took in (with child interpretations) maybe even before the age of seven.  The child’s mind often misinterpreted situations and comments.  After all, it was only a child with minimal life experience.

Learning what is stored in your subconscious takes work.  It is not something that some magical formula can fix.  Working on those beliefs that came from our early years is an important part of using the Law of Attraction. 

This information is important to keep in mind when reading, listening to speakers, choosing someone to guide your process and ultimately using intentions and affirmations to attract what you want in your life.

Who you are is just perfect.  You are loved, lovable and loving,

Enjoy the beauty of your day

Marie

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