What Next?

As you release old ways of thinking and behaving, you may start to wonder: what do I do now?  If I am no longer gossiping, complaining, and nagging, what do I do with my time?

You get CREATIVE!

As the old stuff is released, there is more room for creativity and fun and joy.

At dinner last night, rather than nagging my son about eating his carrots, we made shapes out of a pile of quarters.  Rather than complaining about a difficult co-worker, we played a silly game he had invented.  Rather than gossiping about our neighbors, we took the dog for a walk and howled at the moon.

Life is much more fun without the negative stuff.  Trust me, you'll find this to be true.

Oh, and he did eat his carrots.  He followed the rule of no desert until veggies are eaten.  But he did it with out me nagging.

Namaste

Body Memories

Our bodies store memories of past events.  There are points on our bodies, often muscular, that retain strong emotions.

As a massage therapist, I have 'seen' numerous past events in people's lives when pressing on the body.   For example, while doing deep tissue massage on a client's back, near his scapula, I saw him being physically abused by his father as a teenager. Later discussion let me know that this had indeed occurred.

These body memories often cause physical pain, stiff muscles, and disease.

Three suggestions for working through these body memories is stretching, massage, and yoga.

If you feel an emotional release using the above suggestions, be sure to acknowledge the emotion.  Accept it.  Often we are told to just let it go, but I have found that people often develop shoulder pain from attempting to 'throw away' the emotion.

Again, when you feel the release, stay with it, accept it, and love it.  The memory will release on it's own.

P.S. This is not an overnight process.  Be gentle with yourself as you slowly allow your body to release it's 'stuff' at it's own pace.

God Bless