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Growing Consciousness of Humanity

Written by: Laurie Martin

Article Overview: We are in a big earth awakening, as many of you already have heard, they’re calling it a quantum jump. It's being called a heart connection on a universal level.

Growing Consciousness of Humanity

We are in a big earth awakening, as many of you already have heard, they’re calling it a quantum jump. It's being called a vibrational frequency of love, cooperation, unity, compassion, and a heart connection on a universal level.
We contribute to peace every time we decide to take an approach from love and understanding, when we choose peace versus ‘being right’.
I had a client who was presenting himself in a challenging defensive manner. He wouldn’t sign or fill out my coaching paperwork. He challenged me on my religious views and my background. He challenged me on my education and training.

If I had the same defensive energy back, it wouldn’t have helped my client. For me to
help him feel more comfortable so he could relax and allow his defensive walls to melt away, I needed to have compassion for him, I needed to answer his questions in a confident relaxed manner so he could relax. When I responded back to him with a soft confident manner, he softened. He realized I was not out to get him. He felt I was honest and sincere which allowed him to be open with me and communicate his life troubles and express his true nature.

I didn’t need to point out to him his behavior. He saw it himself. After the session he sent me an email thanking me for going with his flow and being flexible. He apologized for his behavior and told me he would contact me for future coaching sessions.
Keep in mind, we have all parts to us, and what we see in another person, we also have inside us. There are times when I’m sure I’m defensive too. I understood him, so I was able to smile and respond in a helpful way, which allowed him to relax.

Albert Einstein said, “We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."
Think more about creating a higher vibrational frequency than making someone wrong.
Recently, while I was teaching a yoga class and we were sitting quiet breathing, grounding our energy, and all of a sudden I heard a loud cracking noise. I looked in the direction of the noise, and there was a new student whom I never saw before chewing and cracking her gum. I have never experienced this before in a yoga class.
My first thought was, “how annoying”, but I continued on, and then crack, crack. “Wow, how could she not know?”
I realized I had options. I could choose to continue to get annoyed and build up a big case on how rude she is (but that wouldn’t of made the situation better) or I could find a space of compassion. I decided to try a more loving approach. I asked God to help me detach from the situation. I told myself maybe she has a medical condition and she had to chew gum or maybe she has no idea the gum is cracking that loud. I decided to get to know her.
When the opportunity presented itself, I asked her what her name was and where she was from. She was on a trip visiting for a few days and this was her very first yoga class. She was very nice! After our little exchange, I noticed the energy changed, I was not annoyed anymore nor did she crack her gum anymore! She said she was going to try to take one more class before she flies back home. Who knows, maybe she wanted to be noticed?
That experience allowed me to grow to another level of love and compassion. In the past, I may have wanted to judge her behavior as rude. I chose to create peace versus holding my ground and being right. It feels better.


Laurie Martin

Author, Certified Life Coach, Yoga Teacher
www.SmileAcrossYourHeart.com
239 – 398 – 5979
Laurie Martin is an author, inspiring coach and yoga teacher of spiritual growth, and self-love principals. Her passion is to help others feel their own love inside their hearts and live in full expression of their joyful and genuine self.

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