Resistance is futile…
What’s been happening in your week?
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Has it been crazy busy and frustrating? Or at times empty and depressing? Or has it been busy, but peaceful and fulfilling?
My week has been mega-busy (client calls, two corporate workshops/cooking demos and a habit-changing ‘Releasing Time’ seminar) but this week, it’s actually peaceful and fulfilling!
Being more, doing less, but achieving more
Self-discovery within a supportive group is a pow-er-ful process! I was inspired, surprised, encouraged, and in turn humbled, provoked, challenged and educated – by the facilitators and fellow participants at a retreat weekend.
There truly are some utterly amazing people in the world and it was so enlightening to see that, no matter what age, gender or nationality – we all have the capacity for empathy and for helping and supporting each other.
In a thought provoking, emotional, liberating and invigorating 60 hours’ process, I was supported to experience my thoughts, feelings and emotions on the cognitive, the intuitive, and the tactile (wow, this was mind-blowing!) level. And we literally, got to get out of our minds… to begin experiencing our lives.
These are just some of our ‘light-bulb’ moments that I want to share with you:
- The most important thing in our life is us right here, right now…
- Are we living fully live… or dying slowly?
- The right moment will never come – there is only this moment…
- Everything that happens starts in us…
- Holding on to negative emotions keeps us living ‘below-the-line’…
- When we say “I can’t”, we often mean “I won’t”…
- Resistance born of fear is crippling…
- What we resist, persists…
- Resistance is futile; to gain control, we must first lose control…
- To experience ‘having’, we need to release the ‘wanting’…
- We need to hold down the ‘release’ button, while pushing on the door…
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The last wisdom was actually an instructional sign for the security doors at the retreat venue! Call it co-incidence? Maybe, but it absolutely summed up the weekend!
Take responsibility for your feelings – they speak louder than your words
My mantra is food is our best medicine, but it’s not the only medicine – to find true health we must nurture a whole life. So ladies, hold some space for yourselves over this weekend for simple exercise:
- Ponder the wisdoms above.
- Examine any feelings that they may bring up for you.
- Ask yourself the question: “What is it in me that is creating my reality.” Be honest.
- Take respons-ibility to let go.
- … and see what happens?!
I’d love you to share with us your thoughts, feelings and experiences.
So what are you waiting for?
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