Love, Joy and Imagination Reduce Stress in Problem Solving

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Nov 082011
 
Love, Joy and Imagination Reduce Stress in Problem Solving

Reading Time: 6 minutes Learn how love, joy and imagination reduce the stress in problem solving. When you get scared, your logical mind wants to take over in order to make sense of chaos. You stress yourself in an attempt to control life. There is an easier path. Love, joy and imagination allow you to respond to difficult challenges with the tools to thrive and the alchemy to transmute limitations into mastery. So life has dealt you an unexpected bad hand of cards. You are diagnosed with a serious disease. Your elder parent shows signs of dementia. Your daughter is pregnant out of wedlock. Your son drops out of high school. This is not what you had planned. Your mind immediately labels these unexpected events as bad. Now you are scared. Bad things are scary. The unknown is scary. When we are scared, our logical mind wants to take over in order to make sense of chaos. We have been trained to use logic in order to solve problems. Having diagnosed the event as a problem, you summon your logical mind to solve this [Read more.]

Tips for Peace: Mantra during chaos

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May 262011
 

Reading Time: < 1 minute Thursdays for peace: Chaos is what happens. Harmony is what I am. (To use this affirmation as a mantra, read more.) Mantras have great power because: 1. They re-structure your emotional vibration. 2. They reinforce your Free-choice thoughts vs. learned or habitual unconscious thoughts that may intercept your intent To do mantra or affirmation follow these steps. 1. Inhale deeply as you think this. You can place your hand in your heart to “receive” the meaning into your body and soul. 2. Exhale as you speak it out loud. The volume is not as important as the strength of the vibration, and this depends on your focus and your ability to bring your body and emotions into it. 3. Repeat three times. 4.  You can sing it for the extra power of vibrations. Create a jingle with a good beat. Jingles operate powerfully in the subconscious. Hear the structural beat. Cha-os-is-what-happens- Har-mo-ny’is-what-I-am. 5. Elongate the “M” at the end.When using chanting and sound for healing and transformation, the “m” sound brings the meaning and vibration back into your body, so [Read more.]

Kali’s blessings: chaos, destruction and crisis

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May 252011
 
Kali's blessings: chaos, destruction and crisis

Reading Time: 3 minutes Tuesday Tip: Chaos, disaster and crisis are the territory of Kali. This includes the chaos of divorce, moving, all types of break-ups, infestations and environmental disasters, home disaster and things that are breaking all over the place. Think of those moments as painful birthing experiences. Read Extended Tip to find out what to do. What to do? Talk with Kali. L-I-S-T-E-N. Let her show you what needs to die and why. Surrender and discover what is being birthed from the chaos. Consider the following: What needs to die? What do I need to let go? What garbage must be thrown out, including the garbage in my mind, house, habits and relationships? What clarity needs to enter to dispel chaos? What is essential to me now? What has changed in my life without me realizing it that demands a new order? How have I created this situation and how, in transforming it, do I grow? When there are incidents of home infestation, clutter, moving or things breaking up, track down two aspects of these manifestations: How these are metaphors of what [Read more.]