 Heads up: This weekend may feel a little odd. Because usually there’s a different pace for the weekend. Kids are off school after a busy week, many parents are off work, but now, for the moment, that’s everyday. ( I know, you are working through schoolwork with the kids during the week, but finding a different pace and energy of connection with them during the weekend is more important than ever.) So, I wanted to pop in with a couple of suggestions to shift things up a bit over the next couple of days. So you can create flow and light within the texture of your week:
Yes, sometimes there will be screentime and sometimes there will be dry cereal for dinner moments to give yourself a moment to sit in the bathroom and listen to a 5 minute meditation. That's ok. You are showing your kids that balance comes from within. That you turn to within and your spiritual source when the going gets tough. In order to serve you to the best that I can, and support you with all my heart, I am going to be off Facebook for Saturday and part of Sunday. I am putting more consistent, foundational tools in place next week so you will feel the stability of that. Just know that the steps are being put in place as we navigate this together. In the meantime, breathe deep, take a pause from this head traffic and give yourself permission to be within this Weekend. Leave your worries in a worry jar, whisper them to the Universe and let things unfold on their own until you open that jar up again on Monday. (You’ll be surprised what the universe can deliver when we aren’t looking.)
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 My To-do list, that sits on my desk and gets written each weekend, has been pretty much disregarded over the last few days. I've felt called to something, but finding the words to share have been a little static-y. So far... my calling has shown up as - Doing lives with calming meditations. - As well as offered tools to release fear. - I'm also encouraging my community to see sick people as whole, to support their healing. (Where attention goes, energy flows, so if you see someone cough, please see their healing, not their sickness!) At the same time, I'm not going to be yet another "how to deal with the Corona Virus" post on your newsfeed. Rather, I want to ask you if you have felt the shift to balance yet? While many people are feeling confined to home and restlessly (and worriedly) looking at what the coming weeks and months look like, I want to ask you to go heart center consider something; What if this is the time for your inner most desires? What if it's time for that project you've always wanted to do? What if it's time to read that stack of books or explore some new course of action? What if its time to just play with your kids, because "quality time" is something you always think you don't have time for? I know how stressed many of you are right now. You have work to think about and bills that might mount up. You are worried for your loved ones and community. There can be so much to worry about. But stress and fear is showing to create more of the problem as it weakens immunity and puts you physically on red alert. I believe going within, and seeing this all from the Inside Out, may just create an opportunity for change. Look, it will never be the perfect time to create change. It can't be. When you have a pattern of work and stress and busyness in place, then momentum builds from there and your desires will always be second place. (or third or forth). You know me. I'm an optimist. In fact, positive outcomes have become second nature. (I wasn't born with that gift. Honest. It took some serious re-programming). So, what if, it's just time. It doesn't have to be "perfect". Time to explore your passions, your interests, your curiosities. What if, while there's rumbling panic outside, you create a sanctuary within, even for just an hour a day? Or 30 minutes. Wouldn't that make your heart feel lighter? Would it bring some joy or relief? Wouldn't it feel more open? I want you to consider something: What have you been talking about lately that you want to see changed in your life and how can you create that change RIGHT NOW? In your home, your routine and your habits? I can't think of a better time to create the change you want to see in your world. While so many of the world are quarantined or unable to go out to events and such, there's a choice. Hang around, watching Netflix, complaining on Facebook and focused on the fear. Or... Decide. Activate the inner desires you've been feeling pulled to and let this period of time enhance your life. Where attention goes, energy flows. Do you want your energy flowing to worry, stress or fear? Or do you want to look back at this time in a few years and be proud of yourself, for claiming the moment and becoming the Change you want to See in YOURSELF! I can't wait to see how you transform this world over the next few weeks. PS- and don't forget, if Self Development, Spirituality and Inner work are on your curiosity list or something you haven't felt you had "time" for... on Monday I'll be leading a study group of the STEP INTO YOUR LIGHT Course material. There's still space and still time to join us. I hope to see you there. PS- Neat fact... Did you know that in 1665, Isaac Newton had to work from home due to the Plague? That was when he developed calculus and gravity... So while everyone talks about quarantines, elderberry and wide-eyed fears, I wanted to offer my simple perspectives on feeling grounded, present and whole while the buzz of scary things is whirling around you. I recently put this graphic together after having a conversation with a good friend of mine regarding the current panic of the coronavirus. The reason is simple. No matter what, everything in this world can be either focused in love or in fear and when the world is building momentum on fear, then you have to do what it takes to find your way back to LOVE. What’s ironic is that FEAR itself is scientifically proven to weaken a human's immunity anyway, it creates stress which jumps your mind and heart into fight or flight mode. You can start fighting mere ideas of fear rather than using this emotional tool for when you intuitively know there’s something to defend against. In order to find your way back to your heart center, to find the comfort of love focus and the knowingness of aware living, there’s a few steps that will help you climb down from the panic fence and reclaim your heart and mind to feel calm. Here's my 5 steps to calm a fearful mind. Also known as THE FEAR TOOLBOX  You can't put a happy face sticker on feeling scared. Rather, it takes acknowledging it and moving through it. I want to encourage you now to turn off anything that is trying to make you scared. Rather, go within your heart and ask it what it knows. This is merely one element I work through in my course STEP INTO YOUR LIGHT. It's important to listen to your heart, your own inner guidance. But so often it's buried under layers of shoulds, past stories or implied guilt. If you are struggling with finding your intuitive guidance, feeling centered and remembering how to spark your own inner voice and connection to love, than I want to take this opportunity to invite you to join me for my upcoming study group of this course material. Throughout this course I offer you simple tools and processes, where you can release what scares you and chart a course for your life based on connection and love. In our private Facebook group, starting March 16th, 2020, I'll be offering you space, support and accountability, so you feel safe and prepared as you dive in heart center. There is no better time to build up a strong foundation of love, light and inner, spiritual connection than when fear is pounding at your mind. I truly hope you will consider joining me on this empowering, magical experience.   Winter is fast approaching and with it I can feel myself craving some "cave-time". A friend of mine mentioned the term to me a couple of weeks ago and since then I've been stewing with it, stiring it around in a pot of thoughts. Cave-time. Hibernation. Rest. Be-ingness. Coziness. Same too when I discovered the Danish word Hygge which describes the glorious feeling of comfort and coziness. The sitting in a fleece blanket with a fire on and a cup of tea with a good book kind of day. Did you know I have Danish blood? My maiden name is Jensen and when I heard this concept (that supposedly many, many people are talking about and I just didn't know), suddenly it was like a whisper from my ancestors.... Cave-time. But let's face it, there's life to live. Kids to feed and school, business to run, amazing clients to support and a holiday season to plan. But to me, in this busy season, finding the inner frequency of Hygge or cave-time is the ultimate Self Care. Self care isn't the big action steps or To-Dos. Self care is the acknowledgement that you are your SELF, your inner being, magical Self... and your heart and your mind need caring for. Drop into a 5 minute moment of Cave-time and you have more self care than a 2 hour trip to Target in Holiday Season. (In fact, if you are headed to any shop in holiday season I recommend at least 10 minutes of inner cave time before hand to prepare yourself!) So, what does that care time look like?
Spiritual Awareness flows as an inner warmth and flame that comforts your from within. Taking the Cave-time as actual inner work means you can be standing in line somewhere and refocus to your inner cave, your inner cozy blanket and allow the universe to take over the clutter outside for a bit. Please note that, starting Nov. 29th, 2021, I’ll be offering you access to a free video series event called Self Off the Shelf. Each week I’ll be emailing a video lesson, with simple refocusing tools and tips to show up whole even in this stressful time of year. You'll be held and guided through some processes you can do, even while in traffic or standing in line, all created to help you tune into your heart and feel present in yourself. You can sign up to have these delivered to your inbox here.   Within my focus to help you clear what's been holding you back so you can feel light, ease and in flow before the end of this decade... there's something I need to talk with you about. It's big... are you ready? Forgiveness. Gulp. Yup. Well actually, I don't necessarily call it the F-word, because I find that, like so many words, forgiveness can have different feelings and intentions for everyone. The word Forgiveness can sometimes trigger a sense of blame or a sense of self loathing, it can sometimes spark defense within one person or the sanctimonious "I forgive you!" which can carry a new weight within. And yet... within the deep sense of forgiveness is the pure, unwavering, blissful sense of RELEASE. I always encourage my clients to focus on RELEASING... releasing themselves, releasing others, releasing situations, releasing energetic response, releasing the stories of what is.... the inward releasing which creates Presence and WHOLENESS from the inside out. I truly believe the focus of Forgiveness is actually based in loving releasing. Imagine that with every negative experience you have with someone, energetic cords link you together. Each time you are with the person or in a similar situation, these cords get reactivated and practiced, sparking away. When you practice forgiveness... or releasing, you shift the energy, release the cords and allow new life to flow through your experience. This has magical results, transforming relationships, creating light conversation where before there was only tension, or even simply letting the energy fade away, so that you don't seem to even "bump" into each other anymore. A traditional process to "forgive" that is mentioned on social media is the Ho'oponopono prayer. The idea being that you hold someone or something in your mind within these phrases: I'm Sorry. Please Forgive Me. I Thank you. I love you. I have heard incredible stories of transformation with these simple words, so I want to encourage you to simply try them on. See how they feel and if they resonate. However, I will also make space for the fact that when I first tried them on, they didn't resonate. I felt like the please forgive me phrase kept me in a feeling bad space and actually made the focus on releasing only myself. Each exchange we have with other people is a co-creation... so I like to offer these phrases instead. I'm Sorry. I Release you. I Thank you. I love you. I appreciate the transformations the traditional version has brought to many, but between translation and past triggers I find that this can hold back that deeper shift that is so magical for some people. Here's the intention behind the statements; Holding someone or a situation in your mind surround it in... I'm Sorry. (By saying Sorry you are noting that everything is a co-creation. You were there in the room so your energy was part of the combined energy. Like chemistry, two compounds create a reaction.) I Release You. (Imagine the cords unhooking from your field and being released back to the person. See them fade. This doesn't necessarily mean they will be out of your life forever, rather it is simply claiming your energy as your own... and returning their energy to them.) I Thank You. (Each engagement, even a negative one, creates growth and new insight. We learn so much through contrast, we learn what we want through what we don't want. We GROW. So giving thanks for the experience acknowledges the growth.) I Love You. (Imagine surrounding the situation or person in love and light, allowing them to be whole and released from you, see the love flowing around them... and the love flowing around yourself. ) Have you ever practiced a Forgiveness/Releasing Process? How have you found it? Did it create shifts for you? I have been working through this process with clients and members for the last couple of years, but I really started hearing about the impact it was having when I included it into my course Step Into Your Light. I included this within the Releasing Your Shadows section, which is the second part of the course and designed to let go of what's not serving you and open up the doors to feeling present and aware as the person you want to be. I always love the deep sigh of sweet relief that follows truly releasing someone or something that you have energetic ties to. Forgiveness is actually the ultimate act of Self Care. This is a true and deep reset, which creates new space for life to flow effortlessly into the direction of your desires.   Last year, just before New Years 2019, I offered a workshop on setting Intention for the New Year.
I was passionate about helping parents dive deep into their desires, tune into how they want to feel, and set that as a goal and anchor for their year. And I still am. Some of the desired feelings and intentions participants set were: Calm. Focused. Joy. Presence Healed Whole, Self Confidence Fun. Throughout the experience I then encouraged participants to imagine how that feeling felt, and what that looked like in December. From the position of January, that felt so light, easy and fun.... it was hopeful and intentional. And here we are headed into September. While some parents are dancing with their intended feelings, others have come to me saying they lost the plot. That they lost sight of where they wanted to go and got stuck in running the hamster wheel of where they are. No harm done, I always say. You can always line up. You've just been getting a clearer idea of what you want, based on what you don't want. You can always line up with intention. It's waiting for you. It's September. There's just enough time to put some things in practice, release some resistance and open up to the person you want to be... before the holiday season.  With the last full moon and it's partial eclipse over I have had a lot of moms come to me and say...
“Christina, I released what's no longer serving me. I let it go. Why does it keep showing up?” I hear you. One of the energies I released was stress regarding a tooth that keeps playing me up and I found myself calling a new dentist. (releasing comes in various forms, I was hoping it would just go away.) When I sat to write this post I held the topic of Releasing and Healing to my heartspace and got back: “Releasing takes releasing, not revisiting to see if you've let it go yet.” And, like my tooth, sometimes the releasing takes the discomfort of having something showing up again and again so you can release it once and for all. So often we look at what doesn't serve us... beliefs, situations, habits... and tell ourselves that they truly must go. But what we forget is that in order to release them we have to create a new story where they don't exist at all. Spirit releases them the moment we decide they must be released. Our spiritual greater part moves quickly to the relief and newness of living without it. But then... our humanness gets in the way sometimes: We think about what we released, we remind ourselves on how it was, we talk about it, we consider it, we revisit and revisit... we can even be “glad it's gone.” But where attention goes, energy flows. So by putting the spotlight on what was released, you draw it back to you. Have you ever noticed that when you tell yourself you aren't going to do something, the opportunity to do it again shows up really quickly. (Like when you tell yourself you'll stop yelling or losing your temper, just before your children start to argue.) That's just how it works. So, how do you truly release things? How do you create that shift?  I saw an amazing post from a friend of mine which showed a phone battery icon drained and reading;
“You wouldn't let this happen to your phone. Don't let it happen to you either. Self Care is a priority not a luxury.” So many moms get a wave of guilt when they think of Self Care. It's become that “item” on the To-Do list that just never gets done. There can be such a strong emphasis on physical self care... not just caring for our bodies but the physical life we are living... such as get out of the house, go shopping for yourself... have a coffee alone... The Self care that triggers guilt and a feeling of failing is when we see self care as taking care of ourselves, as if we don't have enough to “take care of”. I think it's time to start looking at true self care... taking care of the REAL YOU, the inner workings that make up your view and perspective. Making sure that the thoughts we think, the focus of our hearts and minds are resonating with the person we really want to be. (It takes focus, not time.) The quote in my Danielle Laporte planner this week was “We are Big Spirits with Human Shortcomings..” And, honestly, in talks about self care, it just feels like we put so much attention and energy into smoothing out those shortcomings, rather than just giving more energy to being the Big Spirits we really are. When we can practice showing up as our Big Selves... oh the rest just seems to smooth out on it's own. Oh don't get me wrong. I know the stress and chaos surrounding being a mom very well. Currently my house is a knex workshop, there's clatter and creation everywhere, and I'm writing this sentence a few times over. But I think that the discussion of self care needs to be a far more subtler thing than hair cuts, manicures and girlfriend outings. I just finished a live video on Spiritual bypassing, Shadow work and healing our pasts and I thought I'd just write you and share a few thoughts. Over the past week or so I've had a lot of conversations about “healing” and working through “what's been”, releasing the shadows and past to be able to move forward. This has led to how often “spiritual” focused people can fall into “spiritual bypassing” and covering up the pain and trauma to just move forward, rather than processing it and taking it with you. I often surprise new clients when I tell them we won't be diving into their pasts right away to make room for their future. Rather, I tell them, we'll practice on the NOW. When I start with my clients or in any classes and workshops I run, my first go to is creating that beautiful present space, that deep connection between you and YOU, your spiritual centre, your truest self, your divinity. We can be so focused on our day to day life in front of us, our energy gets scattered to the winds and we need to reclaim them... so you can feel whole. Reclaim them, and find centre. This comes with the understanding that, energetically, where attention goes, energy flows, and until you have a solid foundation in knowing your inner connection NOW, being true to yourself NOW, seeing through your heart perspective NOW, then when you give your attention to the past... woosh... you will bring that space, that perspective, that energy right here to the moment. It's a bit like when you go to a high school reunion and you can't help feeling like the same when you were there... the same insecurities, the same hangups. The past will follow you, and repeat itself if we give it too much power. BUT, the past has happened, it has shaped you, often hurt you, often empowered you and fueled you so let's give it some attention once you have your feet firmly in the present. Over in the Breathing Space membership space we're working through the Chakra Class material, and we just covered the Solar Plexus. This is your inner fire, your Spark of YOU, your unique imprint on life, right at your upper stomach. But what many people don't talk about is how it fuels you by “digesting” and “consuming” your experiences, your perspectives, opinions, preferences, observations and dislikes. Imagine this like an inner furnace, which burns and is fueled by your life experience, and then, empowers you like a great phoenix rising. We often talk about “following your gut instinct.” Well, here she is. This is the seat of your inner voice, which uses the energy formed from your heart chakra above and the Sacral Chakra, (your energy center for balance between spirit and physical, inspiration and action, creativity and pro-creation.) This is where your guidance lies. So, go within and listen... in your here and now. Give your attention to your inner self, fuel that inner fire, know the universe has your back and you are consuming, digesting and processing what's gone before. And then, sometimes you will be called to go back and re-digest and process a little bit more. You might need to acknowledge. You might need to forgive (others or yourself) You might need to release You might need to consume and digest more You might need to revisit yourself and surround yourself in love But when you've done that, do yourself a favor and give yourself permission to ask yourself... What does HEALED look like for you? You won't see it back in the past, when you give your attention to what hurt you in the first place. That's like pealing a scab off a wound and asking it to heal over and over again. Tiptoe back, revisit briefly, surround it with love, heal it with light... I know. Bad things happen. Trauma is real and there are things that have to be worked through. I've worked through a lot of difficult times, traumatic experiences as well. But that doesn't mean you have to let it dim your light in your now. Practice your footing here in this present moment Know where you are... know where YOU are and chart the course of where you are going, using what you know, what you've learnt, what you've consumed in that inner fire... be your own phoenix rising and redefine YOU. Because that's what this journey of life is ALL ABOUT! Use your energy to cast your attention forward, play with your dreams and hopes, visualize the best outcome... and when something gets in your way... Find center and then revisit the past to see if there's anything you can heal and release to get you on your way again. And if you need any help, reach out. Reach out to where you feel called to, where your gut tells you to. Also, tune within, the solutions are often there, all along. |
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