Live Your Life with Meaning and Wholeness
Is your life what you want it to be? What are you doing about it?
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
Our thoughts are powerful — all of them
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
Guatemala trips
Our trips to Guatemala are always thought-provoking to say the least. I am putting together some information about some good opportunites to contribute to some organizations that are functioning well and making a difference. Watch for this next week.
Those who have travelled to developing countries know that it is only an experience where you get to know some of the people and their life circumstances that one can realize how little our life resembles what most of the people on the planet experience.
Even when we reflect on the current possibilities of a swine flu pandemic, I think to myself that those of us who live in countries with knowledge, education, public health care have no idea of the possibilities of disease spread in other countries.
I welcome comments.
The spring edition of It’s Your Life will be distributed next week. I know you will enjoy reading it. I have written an article related to an experience in Guatemala city and Camino seguro. I will put it on this blog once the newsletter is released.
Marie
Wendy Roman
Blue Belt Nia Instructor
Wendy spent the early years of her life studying modern dance, jazz, acrobatics and gymnastics. It was throughout this time that her passion for movement and dance was developed. After training in various healing modalities, Wendy became interested in the healing opportunities that arise through movement. This lead her to the discovery of Nia where she was immediately attracted to the combination of different types of movement.
Susan Crutcher
Sutopia Holistic Wellness – Integrative Health Care, Spa Services and Retreat
Sutopia Holistic Wellness Integrative Health Care is founded on the concept of helping each individual achieve their personal wellness goals. It is our desire and intent to listen closely, offer suggestions and to provide a path for achieving those desires.
We offer a wide selection of modalities, healing techniques, consultation, guidance and referrals. Your initial session includes a free consultation and health assessment. Each subsequent visit references these notes as, together, we chart your wellness journey.
It is an honour and a pleasure to be of service to you.
Susan Crutcher, RRPr, CPTN-CPT
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Sharon Evans
Kinexions Holistic Health Studio, Pilates Instructor
Riejanne Van Dijk
Yoga Instructor, Reiki
www.dallacor.com/riejanne-van-dijk”
Riejanne is a gentle caring person who creates and offers a wonderful space for calmness and healing. She was born in the Netherlands and came to Canada with a her husband and a young family in 1968. She enjoys the outdoors through cross country skiing, hiking, biking and any other similar opportunity that does not require motors and comes her way. Riejanne teaches Jack Rabbit to young children in the winter. She fully enjoys her beautiful and growing grandchildren who live in the area.
Jackie Hofmann
Hypnotherapist and EFT expert
About 5 years ago, Jackie Hofmann began her personal quest for health which resulted in her training as an internationally certified Touch for Health Practitioner, then Neuro-Linguistic Programmer, Emotional Freedom Technique Practitioner and Certified Hypnotist. She was curious, bound and determined that it wasn’t necessary for her to accept the doom and gloom verdict of her Medical Specialists; simple. It is her own personal journey of healing after many years of suffering the agony of rheumatoid arthritis, and surviving cancer that has made her more sensitive to her client’s needs.
David Rankine
Artist and musician, David Rankine Art
David Rankine was born in Willowdale, Ontario ( a suburb of Toronto) to Scottish parents and developed an early appreciation of Celtic culture and history. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts at York University and it was there that David began to explore Celtic art and saw how closely it was connected to Celtic music and dance.
Since art school, David has sought to contemporize Celtic art and has been at the forefront of the Celtic art explosion in Ontario and North America. He has participated in numerous group and solo shows across Canada (including his own, ongoing A Rustle of Wings and Carpet Pages series).
Angela Wright
Registered Nutritional Consulting Practitioner, Align Nutrition
My name is Angela Wright, and I am the founder of Align Holistic Health and Nutritional Services. In 2003 my father passed away from a secondary occurrence of colorectal cancer; this time it came back in his spine. The six months before he died I was fortunate enough to be able to be at his side; he was bedridden and in a lot of pain. I saw that the allopathic treatments (chemo, drugs) were not helping him improve, and started exploring the world of alternative healing. As I researched into foods that would help build his strength, I realized this may be the career path I was looking for. I moved to Toronto to attend the Institute of Holistic Nutrition (IHN) and obtained a diploma in Applied Holistic Nutrition. I then qualified for my CNP (Certified Nutritional Practitioner) and RNCP (Registered Nutritional Consulting Practitioner) designations. My father passed away before I could truly get into holistic nutrition, but now I am armed and educated to help others with my knowledge. I know this would make him very proud.
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