Where your focus goes energy grows.

There is certainly a lot in this world pulling at us for our attention. Biologically we are wired to be in a state of flight, flight or freeze or rest and digest. This design is meant to help us flood our body with energy so we can run away, freeze or fight a danger and when the danger passes rest and digest. Unfortunately, for a lot of us the ‘danger’ that we face appears constant and our bodies get stuck in a fight, flight or freeze state where our bodies get flooded with the stress hormones cortisol and adrenaline. Stress is super common and many of us are stuck in a go, go, go state that never lets us fully relax. What does relaxation mean to you? How do you relax? How do you care for yourself?

This month I invite you to find time to do things you enjoy. Or simply enjoy doing nothing. I would like to suggest you do your best to carve out 15 minutes a day to cultivate a joy of being. Flick the switch from doing to being. How? One way of cultivate an ability to stop doing and start being is to awaken the observer within you. 

For some of you relaxing may be easy. You may be able to simple be. For others it may be a muscle you have not exercised for a long time or there may be things you find hard to face when you stop. Intense, frightening thoughts and feelings might rise to the surface. Two simple exercises you can use to build your relaxation muscles and increase your spiritual fitness are:

• Put it in a box
  • Before you begin your relaxation or beingness, imagine a box and putting everything that is causing you anxiety, stress, depression or dis-ease in that box.
  • Then put the box anywhere in the universe.
  • Set a 15 minute timer and just be.
  • After the 15 minutes you can pick the box back up and sort through the emotions using EFT or any other emotional processing tools or you can send the box to the sun.
    
    Ultimately emotions are e + motion = energy in motion they want to be processed and released not stuck in the body. Sometimes processing and releasing them can be easy sometime it can be a challenge.
    
    Healing is a journey not an event, a marathon not a sprint. Where ever you are at on this journey I wish you peace, love and acceptance.  

• Watch your thoughts
  • For ten minutes a day (set a timer so you won’t be concerned with how much time has passed) sit in a quiet place where you will not be distracted and allow your thoughts to float through your mind.
  • Set the intention for you to be a passive watcher being in a neutral state of mind. As you do this you will become aware of how you judge, criticise, analyse, rationalise, intellectualise and justify your thoughts but do it being neutral.
  • Just be in a state equivalent to watching TV late a night and an advert comes on you have seen many times, you are aware of the advert although you are not engaging in it or associating with it in any way and at the same time aware being neutral.
    
    This is the first step to go beyond the conditioned mind and awaken your higher intelligence.