My two words for 2012

Posted on January 19, 2012 by kerry

Do you set goals for the new year?

I do tend to write goals, not just for the new year, but in general. I also like to choose a couple of overarching words for my year. In 2010 I chose trust and joy and last year chose purpose and fun (I didn’t write about them last year though!)

This year, I went to Nadine’s Two Words workshop for some guidance in choosing my two words. It was so interesting. I went along with some idea of what my two words might be – containment and connection – but as the afternoon progressed, I realised they didn’t sit quite right. A little too closed, or restrictive or something.

As we explored further, I ended up choosing a couple of words from Nadine’s YogAttitudes deck – and realised they were actually my two words for the year.

What did I choose?

Love

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

and wisdom

Which definitely encompass, for me, the idea of containment and connection.

We explored what our two words actually meant for us …

Love

  • showing love and care for myself in my thoughts, words and actions
  • prioritising my relationship first
  • being open to new friendships and connections
  • creating an environment of love at home and in my work
  • exploring the different ways I can express my love

Wisdom

  • checking in with myself and trusting that I know what I need
  • nourishing my body with the healthiest food (not skipping meals because I’m busy, or taking short cuts) 
  • working in a sustainable way that allows me to maintain my energy levels across the year
  • being ok with what I’m capable of
  • having a sense of perspective

Nadine wrote about her two words here, and Svasti about her two words here.

Such a wonderful, nurturing day and opportunity to tune in and get focused on the qualities I most want to explore in 2012.

What about you, what are your two words for 2012? You can play along with Nadine’s free two words facebook group if you want!

And if you want help integrating your two words, or other goals you have and clearing any blocks, a Kinesiology session is a great way to do that :)

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What can you expect from a Kinesiology session?

Posted on January 9, 2012 by kerry

Join me for a casual chat about what you might be able to expect from having Kinesiology sessions. My first video!

Any questions, feel free to email me at kerry@awakenkinesiology.com or call me on 0403257431. You can book a session online here.

You can also learn a process for aligning yourself to your goals with my Self Alignment Kit.

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What does loving yourself really mean?

Posted on November 21, 2011 by kerry

How do you show yourself love?

Many of us have a pattern of putting ourselves down or being hard on ourselves and when the topic of self love and acceptance comes up (which it does all the time for clients) – it can sometimes feel like “a nice idea” but how do we actually do it?

This is exactly what I want to explore as part of the e-course series I’m putting together to run early next year which will be all about connecting to yourself and integrating passion, purpose and creativity into your life. I’ve already announced that Kate James of Total Balance will be one of the amazing speakers, talking about connecting to your purpose.

Drum roll please …

And now I can let you know that Michelle McGrath creator of the Sacred Self oils, is going to share her take on what it really means to love yourself. As Michelle says:

There is a saying that you teach what you most need to learn. Learning to love myself, moment by moment, is a journey of colourful twists and turns. What we all have in common is a deep desire to love and be loved.

Yet how often do we make ourselves the recipient of our own love? Too often the meaning of self-love is misunderstood, but really how can you relate in a healthy way to anyone if you can’t make yourself happy?

Michelle created her first oil, “Self Love” in 2003 and I’m going to be really digging deep in my interview with Michelle to find out what she’s learnt about self love as she’s continued her journey. Her oils will be complete in January 2012 with 33 blends in total. They are so powerful and I love using them in clinic with clients.

We’ll be talking about:

  • What does self love really mean?
  • What can I do to connect back to myself when I’m really feeling lost, anxious or unhappy?
  • Where do I even start?

What does self love mean to Michelle?

My definition of self-love is 100% self-responsibility – taking ownership for all that is occurring, instead of projecting needs onto others, playing the victim and refusing to step into empowerment.

Sacred Self Alchemical oils are gifts from and to the most challenging aspects of myself – providing pathways to self-love. The more I embrace these aspects, rather than deny or ignore them, the more inner peace I experience.

I am passionate about falling in love with all parts of myself and celebrating all I am. This lifelong journey is also about creating tools that gently remind others to do the same.  The more you love yourself the more love you are able to extend to others. My dream is that everyone remembers this truth.

Why don’t you try her free self love meditation now?

What about you – what do you want to know about loving yourself more? What have you already learnt about self love? How do you show love for yourself?

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When it all gets a bit much

Posted on November 16, 2011 by kerry

Feeling overwhelmed about overwhelm.

It really is so common at this time of year to start to feel overwhelmed.

I was thinking about this today and remembered this post I wrote last year – exactly 12 months ago as I sat writing this, I discovered!

So often, as we start to feel more overwhelmed, we can forget to do the very things that can help us to feel calmer and more in control.

We mightn’t eat as well, our exercise routine changes (or stops!), we might drink more alcohol, we worry, we forget to do the usual things that nourish us.

We don’t feel grounded, we might be more sensitive than usual, we may become anxious, cut off from our feelings or go into a pattern of doing things the hard way.

Breaking the pattern.

One of the best things I’ve found to do in this situation is to try to break that pattern of going into anxiety and overwhelm and get out of my head and back into my body – go for a walk, do some high energy exercise if possible, do some yoga, meditate or listen to a relaxation recording.

Of course, if none of those things seem to be working as well as they might, remember that booking a Kinesiology session can be a great way to break the overwhelm pattern.

Even the simple act of making the booking can start to send yourself a message that you’re back in control and taking positive steps towards supporting yourself (rather than allowing things to spiral downwards).

People often tell me they were feeling really overwhelmed or stressed and started to feel better once they’d booked and knew they were coming in for a session!

Re-set.

Sometimes clients describe their Kinesiology session as being like pressing a re-set button.

The extra clutter and noise that is ultimately draining our energy and making things worse can be gently slowed, we can access our heart and our own wisdom again and feel more peaceful.

Once we’re feeling like that? Making better choices for ourselves becomes so much easier.

If you’re naturally curious and creative, you might take a look at my Self Alignment Kit and start aligning yourself to the goals you do want to achieve, gently shifting your energy from where you currently feel stuck.

The other thing that really works?

Focusing on what you do have, and feeling grateful. You might start with this lovely five minute video “A Good Day” I found via Kate James at Total Balance and The Wellbeing Corner.

What about you, what do you do when you feel overwhelmed?

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What my knee taught me about alignment

Posted on November 14, 2011 by kerry

Irony? You’re hilarious.

Right before I started creating the Self Alignment Kit, I had some – ahem – rather interesting issues of my own with alignment.

It started with my knee.

Now, I can’t recall ever having any injuries, not really. I have been super lucky with that part of my life. But in August, I hurt my knee at the gym; strained it in a pump class. I didn’t even realise til later when my knees hurt for days.

Anyway, my knee took several months to heal. For some reason, I started to see all the parallels with alignment. So here we are. Also: there is colour coding. Otherwise this could have gotten complicated ;)

Let’s begin.

The misalignment already exists, we just can’t see it.

My knee was misaligned already – I think it’s do do with the alignment of my foot, knee and hip; I don’t track quite right. I just hadn’t yet put my knee under sufficient, specific stress in a repeated way to show that up – I hadn’t had the right trigger. 

Same thing with misalignments in relation to our goals. We don’t realise the misalignment is there because we haven’t set a specific goal that will challenge us, or we haven’t had a trigger to throw us off balance so we feel ok.

Trigger! 

For my knee the trigger was too many lunge reps with high weights in a pump class to create strain and then subsequent mis-step in a jumping around aerobics class the following week to create injury and yep – suddenly the misalignment was obvious.

With our goals, we might actually create a goal that stretches us beyond our comfort zone, or we might be thrown off balance by external triggers – such as illness, work stress, relationship issues or whatever else – and all of a sudden our confidence that we can achieve our goals is shaken. We might doubt ourselves and whether we can do it. We realise we’re misaligned.

Pushing through.

This step is – by the way – optional.

With my knee, I could have rested, yes? But my main mode of transport is riding my bike so I didn’t perceive I had an option. So day after day I continued pushing into my injury.

Obviously when you have an issue with tracking, repetitive movements such as cycling are not necessarily going to – ahem – help. But I kind of hoped if I just kept going it would sort itself out.

With our goals we can do the same – even though the goal isn’t feeling comfortable, we push into it. If things aren’t working we decide we just need to “try harder”, that we’re “not motivated enough” or we might criticise and feel badly about ourselves.

We’re exacerbating the misalignment by pushing into it and not acknowledging that something might need to change before we can achieve our goal.

Stop! What do I actually need?

Hopefully, if we’ve gone with the “pushing” approach, we eventually realise it isn’t working.

I realised (bless me) that I needed to actually rest my knee, properly. I also recognised I needed to reflect on what else was going on – what the emotional connections might also be.

Knees are often said to be to do with moving forwards and choosing direction, and I got the injury taking what felt like a strong decisive step. “What’s going on?” I wondered, “I’m more than happy to take strong decisive steps forwards in my life?”

Straight away I realised: yes I’m happy to move forwards decisively and fast – but what about moving forwards at a comfortable pace and accepting the fact I needed to slow down and get clear on where I wanted to go next? The answer to that one was a definite: NO! I did NOT like the sound of that. Much happier with speed! Interesting.

But now I could see part of what was going on, I could start to make some different choices.

Same with our goals – if we’re working towards something in particular and it’s not happening, we can spend some time unpacking what’s really going on. What might be blocking us? Do we need to break it down into smaller steps? Is the goal clear enough? Does it really inspire us?

If you need help with this step, you might try the Self Alignment Kit. That’s why I created it – to help you get clarity on where you’re misaligned when you can’t figure things out yourself AND to help you shift the misalignment.            

Getting outside help.

So, yes. Even when we get some insight, it’s not always enough to properly clear an issue and it’s not necessarily helpful to get stuck in the analysis phase. This was the case for me with my knee. I had gotten as far as I could by myself and I needed some help. I thought about physio and went as far as doing some searching. I knew I’d probably need to have a few months of sessions.

But first I had a Kinesiology session booked – so naturally I included my sore knee in the list of things I wanted to focus on in my one hour session. It was related to moving forwards, as I’d suspected, and more specifically, moving forwards with love rather than reacting to fear. Of course there was more to it, and there was some energy work as well, as there always is in a Kinesiology session.

Guess what? My knee started to feel better almost immediately and all the muscles that were compensating began to relax by the following day. Within a few days the pain was almost completely gone. Is it any wonder I decided to practice Kinesiology myself?? It works.  

Oh, and of course, I’ve slowed down. And actually had several months off going to the gym too. 

Same thing for you – if you need help getting clarity on why you’re not achieving particular goals and want to move forwards and feel more aligned – a Kinesiology session will no doubt help. Oh and I do have a 3 session special until Friday too – 3 session for $290. You can book online now if you like. :)

Any thoughts? Have you ever had a physical injury or illness that has taught you something emotional?

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Review: Self Alignment Kit

Posted on November 8, 2011 by kerry

I saw Svasti (@svasti108) for quite a few Kinesiology sessions over a period of six or eight months during 2010 and the start of 2011, which she wrote about on her blog and I really admire her commitment to her own healing and growth.

And now she’s written a review of the Self Alignment Kit!

I love Svasti’s down to earth and thoughtful writing style and like everything she writes, her review is honest and insightful.

In part one of her review, she describes the kit:

So what does the kit actually do?

Think of it as a tune-up tool for your life’s plans and goals.

Doesn’t it bug you when you want your life to go in a certain direction but you feel like stuff keeps dragging you down and/or backwards?

It sure bugs me. Sometimes I’ve felt like I’m walking on the spot on a treadmill, but don’t even know it. There I am, looking towards where I want to be but finding those things just out of reach.

That’s misalignment in action.

Getting aligned with where you want to be is seeing and getting off the treadmill, and really and truly being able to move forwards.

Some pretty cool stuff about the Self-Alignment Kit

Just a few observations:

  • Part self-coaching, part kinesiology session, it helps you to focus on your goals and ferret out any little self-sabotages you’ve got going on. Stuff that unbeknownst to you, is getting in the way of your own happiness.
  • The process is simple and it works.
  • Not that I had any doubts about something Kerry has produced, but even for this first attempt it worked better than I expected.
  • It’s empowering. Something that most of us need to learn is that anyone you go to for healing is the facilitator of your own natural healing capability. Using this kit really helps to see that for yourself, in case you didn’t really get it beforehand.
  • Kerry’s chakra cards are cool.
    They are no-nonsense, colourful and to the point. For someone like me whose never been into much of the really New Age “woo woo” stuff, this is my kind of tool (along with the yogAttitude cards!).
  • Make it quick or take your time. If something is playing on your mind, you can get in there with a quick, intuition-driven self-analysis. That’s what I did on Sunday night (see part II of this review).
    Or, you can plan a more in-depth goal setting and alignment session. Maybe over a glass of wine, with some music and incense. A night just for you to get real with your own life.
  • It’s a completely digital product, so there’s no delay once you’ve purchased it. You can download everything you need from Kerry’s website and get going straight away!
  • Eco-preferences: You can choose to print the e-books or not: it’s up to you. However, the chakra cards do need to be printed. I intend to get a set laminated so they’ll last for as long as possible.

Alignment in action, in a real freak-out scenario.

In part two, Svasti describes how she used the kit when working through her current job change scenario.

As she says:

Personally right now I’ve been pretty stressed about my impending potential unemployment.

You know… right before Christmas (spendy and not a great time to be looking for work!). Right before my fully paid for holiday (yikes!). No partner or anyone else I might be able to lean on for support (physically, emotionally, financially etc etc).

Freaking scary, let me tell you! But also, I’ve been in this place before. For months, actually. And the thought of going through that again scares me silly.

Svasti goes on to explain how she used the Self Alignment Kit and the Alignment process to align to her goal: Securing a stable and well-paying job in the immediate future. She shares the misalignment that came up for her and how she explored what it meant for her.

Reading it is kind of like peering over her shoulder and looking into the inner workings over her brain. I love this stuff!

At the end of the process?

By the end of the process (which can be as short or long as you like!), I found myself writing the following:

  • I don’t have to take just any job.
  • The job I am offered will meet my physical, financial AND spiritual needs (somehow!)
  • I can find people and lessons in this work I don’t want to be doing forever – these people or learnings will be of benefit to me in the future, even if I don’t know it now.

Which left me feeling… a little less panicked and overwhelmed.

Which created a little more space and calmness – as opposed to the FREAKING THE FRACK OUT that I had been doing.

A day later, I’m still feeling positive and calm.

I have an interview lined up for tomorrow at lunchtime, and I feel confident that I’m coming from the right place in assessing whether or not it will be the right job for me.

All in all I’m in a much happier place than I was last week, even though I’m closer than ever to potential unemployment.

Pretty exciting stuff.

This is exactly why I wanted to create the Self Alignment Kit.

When we move out of overwhelm and fear and into a more resourceful, calmer place, we’re in a MUCH better position to make choices, decisions and take actions that will support us to create what we want in our lives.

Using the kit, you can do this for yourself, any time you want or need it.

Svasti’s full Self Alignment Kit review: part one and part two.

Even though Svasti had said she planned to buy a Self Alignment Kit, knowing of the potential impending unemployment scenario, I decided I wanted to offer her a free kit and said she could share her thoughts, if she felt to.

But I’m blown away by how incredibly generous and descriptive she has been in her sharing. Thanks Svasti :)

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What are you afraid of?

Posted on November 7, 2011 by kerry

Apparently, there are three universal fears.

These are fears we all struggle with, that we all experience to a greater or lesser extent.

Here are the core fears:

  • Not being good enough (or getting found out)
  • Not belonging 
  • Not being loved

What about you, are these fears familiar?

They are certainly common themes in Kinesiology sessions. We’re often very uncomfortable admitting to having fears or “weaknesses”.

Sometimes clients feel like they need reassurance they’re not the only one who feels the way they do. We all do at times, of course.

They’ll ask me questions like:

  • Is this kind of common?
  • Do other people say things like this?
  • I hope I don’t sound like a mess?
  • Does that sound weird?

You can hear in these questions evidence of those core fears. Sometimes, it’s like we want to almost apologise for our “issues” as we feel like others probably have it so much more together.

Trust me, I’ve worked with hundreds of people: everyone has their stuff.

So, let’s think about these core fears some more.

You might choose to ask yourself some questions about them:

  • How do these fears play out for me?
  • How does it feel to know that other people have these fears too?
  • And not just some of us, apparently everyone?
  • Does that change anything for me?

Fear and the unknown.

I often find people feel a little anxious and worried in their first Kinesiology session – what is going to happen? What will come up?

The unknown can feel scary.

And then, pretty soon, you realise that the stuff that comes up in a Kinesiology session is just Your Stuff and in any case, there is nothing to feel bad or worry about – it’s just a matter of curiosity and exploration.

Same with the Self Alignment Kit. You’re finding out where you’re misaligned in relation to your goal.

In both instances, instead of feeling fearful of the unknown, you become curious and start asking yourself different questions like:

  • What is coming up?
  • Where does this come from?
  • What does this mean for me?
  • What connections can I make?
  • What might I choose to do differently now I have this awareness?

How you might apply this.

Knowing that we apparently all have these fears, what might it be like to let go of the fear of them being there? The fear that someone might find out we have these fears?

Instead of focusing on, trying to avoid or fearing your fears, what might it be like to just be curious?

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Balancing certainty and uncertainty

Posted on November 3, 2011 by kerry

Our core needs.

According to one model (thank you, Tony Robbins) we have six core needs: certainty, uncertainty, significance, love, contribution and growth.

Let’s just focus on those first two.

Wait, certainty AND uncertainty?

How can we need both? Aren’t they opposites?

They are in fact a balance. If we have too much certainty, that leads to boredom and we crave uncertainty and variety. If we have too much uncertainty that can lead to overwhelm.

A new situation may start out unfamiliar and uncertain which might be experienced in a positive sense as exciting or a negative sense as overwhelming. Then over time it becomes familiar and more certain which may be experienced in a positive sense as comfortable and secure or in a negative sense as boring.

We’ll tend to prioritise our need for certainty, comfort or safety more or less highly than we do our need for uncertainty, variety and excitement.

Which is more important to you?

Let’s look at this a bit deeper.

We can meet any of our core needs in ways that are either resourceful or unresourceful.

Resourceful ways of meeting our needs tend to be healthy and sustainable and make us feel happier, whereas unresourceful ways can’t be sustained, make us less happy and may actually be destructive.

Let’s start with how we might meet our need for certainty.

We all have a need for a degree of certainty – our feelings of safety, security and comfort.

To meet our need for certainty in a sustainable way, we might have unshakeable confidence in ourselves, back ourselves to handle any situation, trust we can find solutions and get help if we need it and have healthy, sustainable routines and behaviours that support us.

You can see that these ways of meeting our need for certainty are purely dependent on us and our attitudes, responses and decisions.

If we’re not feeling as certain, safe or comfortable as we’d like we can also meet this need in unresourceful ways – controlling others, overeating, procrastination, wasting time online or watching tv, getting into a rut or forming very rigid routines and habits. Are any of these familiar to you?

Recognise your choice here: knowing that I need certainty, am I going to rely on external factors to provide me with certainty, meet this need in unhealthy and unresourceful ways or am I going to provide it for myself?

What MIGHT it be like to really back yourself? Why not try it and see?

And how might we meet our need for uncertainty?

To meet our need for excitement, variety and uncertainty in resourceful ways we might plan holidays or trips, go to concerts, theatre, movies or gigs, sing, dance, create art, take new classes, learn new skills or take on challenges such as races or competitions.

If we’re not getting our need for uncertainty met in sustainable, healthy ways, we’re likely to meet this need in other ways that don’t help us. Sabotage, anyone? We might drink too much, create constant dramas in our lives, always have problems to solve, shop or socialise excessively, take drugs or go into overwhelm and confusion.

If any of these are familiar to you, take another look at the list of sustainable ways to meet your need for uncertainty – what appeals to you?

What could you add to your life that will help you meet this need in a way that will make you happy?

Becoming aware of our choices.

We can use this knowledge that we have a need for both certainty and uncertainty to empower us to make decisions about meeting these needs in ways which support us, rather than sabotage us.

There’s no need to judge yourself if you notice you’re meeting either or both of these needs in ways that – ahem! – clearly don’t work or can’t be sustained, simply use this awareness to now consider how you might make a better choice, if you want to :)

What about you, any comments? How does this play out for you?

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Do you ever get good ideas on planes?

Posted on November 1, 2011 by kerry

On my way back from Broome a few months ago I had a massive wave of inspiration.

I sat and wrote for hours; in fact, I was so absorbed in what I was doing that a man sitting two seats over became interested too and kept trying to lean across my husband to see what I was writing.

Yes, it was a little odd.

My idea was a program that I want to run next year and I could see the whole thing – it’s about integrating passion, purpose and creativity into your life over a period of weeks/months.

I got home and soon after, set to work on the Self Alignment Kit. Now that’s complete, I’m ready to integrate!

Align, then integrate.

We often know many of the “right things” we could be doing to support ourselves in our every day lives but doing them can be another matter.

Self love and self acceptance come up all the time for clients in Kinesiology sessions and clients can sometimes get a little stuck, especially if it continues to come up.

  • Self love is obviously a choice and an ongoing attitude – but how can we show ourselves this love on a day to day basis?
  • How do we include healthy, supportive, self nurturing practices in our every day lives without getting overwhelmed with too much to do?
  • How can we create stability for ourselves so we can be more creative and purposeful?

These were the questions inspiring me as I started approaching speakers who I knew had valuable ideas to share about nurturing yourself, protecting your energy and integrating practices like yoga into your daily life.

How does that sound to you, something you’d be interested in?

One of the people I contacted was Kate James, a coach at Total Balance - I wanted to see if she could talk about finding your purpose, a passion of hers.

She was immediately enthusiastic about the idea. And she’s keen to be a part of my program!

I’ll continue to share more over the next few months, the program will start early next year and run as an e-course.

Not familiar with Kate James? Here she is, talking about Meditation on the “The Circle” a few weeks ago:

Kate James speaking about meditation on The Circle from Kate James | Total Balance on Vimeo.

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Knowing it versus doing it

Posted on October 26, 2011 by kerry

Nice words, huh.

Courage.

What does it actually mean to have courage? For me, courage is that ability to back yourself whatever the circumstances. To feel vulnerable and yet keep showing up. Checking in with yourself (I’m so not a fan of pushing through) but continuing to take steps forwards and trusting yourself, even when you’re afraid.

Like most things, it’s not until we’re actually tested that we find out whether we’re courageous in theory, or whether it’s something that we’re able to put into practice when things are tough and we feel uncertain.

There is a big difference between knowing something and actually doing it.

There are so many things we say we “know”.

For example, we might say we know:

  • how to eat properly
  • we “should” accept ourselves
  • regular exercise/yoga/meditation helps us
  • our positive or negative thoughts impact on our outcomes
  • putting ourselves first is a high priority
  • that we need to take responsibility for changing our lives

Knowing it in theory? Not enough.

We might attend a workshop, read a book, listen to a talk or recording, hear some advice and our immediate reaction to certain information is: Oh yes, I know that.

Only, if we’re not doing it?

We don’t actually know it.

We might be aware of it, certainly.

But if we actually knew it? We’d be doing it.

Some theory about … knowing things in theory.

As I was thinking about this, I found this graphic which illustrates the knowing – doing gap. Kind of helpful I think, what about you?

I found it on this change management site and you can read a whole bunch of theory on it there if you’re interested.

Where are you at?

Think of something specific that you “know” but don’t yet necessarily “do”.

Where are you really at, on this continuum?

  • Are you simply aware of it as a theory or concept?
  • Are you actively interested in it and thinking, learning and talking about it?
  • Are you at the trialling/experimenting phase?
  • Or have you actually adopted it?

What are you going to do with this?

You have a choice: you can accept this as a somewhat interesting piece of – ahem – theory, or you can action it in a way that is meaningful, to you.

There is no judgement either way of course, it’s just being aware of the choices we have.

Taking responsibility for taking the steps to actually action these awarenesses and live them can be an act of courage.

If you feel to, why not choose a piece of insight you understand in theory: just one, as a start.

Accepting yourself, as an example.

You might ask yourself some questions.

  • What do I need to do to actually make this true in my life?
  • What evidence will I have that this is moving beyond a theory and becoming true for me?
  • What is the next step?

And now, I get honest with me.

Let me give you a specific, simple example from my personal experience since I’ve just busted myself right now: I know if I eat healthy nutritious food and take regular breaks when I’m working I will stay healthier and function better. Logical, right?

And yet, when I’m in the middle of a project, particularly if I’m writing, as I am today, time slips past and I forget to eat or break at all.

Right now as I’m writing this, it’s 2pm and I’ve been writing various pieces for the past five hours without stopping at all. I enjoy writing and love that feeling of flow so I somehow justify working through to myself. It’s not just today, lately I’ve been doing this once or twice a week when I work from home getting the Self Alignment Kit. Fair enough on one hand but – I’m forgetting my key priorities.

So I don’t really know that I need to break and eat nutritious food, it’s just a nice idea at this point, something I’m interested in, at best something I’m trialling – since I do eat perfectly well on days I work with clients.

To action this – I need to start actually committing to taking a lunch break – even when I’m immersed in writing.

But I don’t want this just to be an action I might take in the future, I need to take the next steps now.

I actually had to make myself stop writing this and go and eat my lunch and have a break away from my computer, and then come back and finish this last bit and then go through and edit. It was quite difficult to resist my desire to just finish writing first.

Jeepers!

Next time, I’ll find it easier. And then, soon, if I stick with it, maybe this will become something I do actually know.

What about you, any insights to share?

Thanks to Joe from the Coaching Institute for the reminder about knowing it vs doing it.

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