Business Success - Listen to Your Body
Business Success - Listen to Your Body
Like everyone else, I have a fairly hectic lifestyle. I am juggling work, family, and friends, time for myself, exercise, healthy eating, and just having time for fun. I don’t always spend the time equally on the different areas of my life, and sometimes I feel like there isn’t enough time to get everything done.
But I give thanks everyday for the blessings I have in my life and I keep going and going and going.
I make to do lists, I try and prioritise them, I try and get a good night rest, try and get up early to give myself time for tasks.
But as I have just written, I am ‘Trying’.
Lately I noticed I was writing to do lists, and not completing them, I was giving myself Reiki before I went to sleep (which usually helped me drift off to a lovely sleep) but lately my mind was still racing and I couldn’t seem to switch off at night. I found I was waking up early with my to-do lists swirling around my head.
A few times I even started a sentence and I would loose my train of thought, mid sentence, and I realised that that hadn’t happened in years, not since I trained in Life Coaching and Reiki.
I went to a healing workshop, and a lady there whom I’d never met before, was very brave and said to me that I was disconnected from my emotions. That I was so much in my head that I wasn’t tuning into my body, and my feelings.
As soon as she said it I realised she was right.
When a person is constantly thinking, thinking, thinking, worrying, worrying, worrying, trying to plan and get on with their hectic lifestyle, emotions, thoughts and feelings are pushed away, out of sight, out of mind so to speak.
What is interesting, is the following sequence which applies to every human being on this planet –
Emotions/feelings - create Thoughts - create behaviour.
So have you ever wondered why when you are stressed, or busy, or overloaded you do some things that you are unsure of why you did them, and you don’t do things that you think you should?
If our emotions are the basis of our thoughts and emotions, then in order to empower and nurture ourselves it is important to explore that base.
If we don’t tune into our body, our feelings, then we are missing part of the sequence.
We are functioning at the level of thought, while not giving attention to the basis of that thought.
Our behaviour then reflects this (anger over small things, feeling frustration and not knowing the cause, jumpy or erratic movements, for example) and our body starts giving us signs in the form of ill health or minor ailments in order to try and grab our attention to bring our attention back into our body.
(My eyes and teeth started causing me hassle, and my energy levels were low.)
So how can we fully explore this sequence in order to allow ourselves have optimum health and life vitality, which will overflow into our business?
• When you are going to sleep, place your hands one beside the other over your stomach area (this will cover your solar plexus and sacral chakras)
• Think over your day and allow yourself to release any negative thoughts, feelings, experience or people from your body, feel, see or hear the negativity leave your body and aura.
• When you have done that, scan your body with your minds eye and feel how your body is feeling.
• What emotions are you feeling?
• Where are you holding these emotions in your body?
• Focus in on that body part where you are feeling/holding the emotion.
• Imagine a beautiful white light coming into that area, and slowly dissolving that feeling, that emotion that you are holding in your body.
• Feel it leaving your body as the white healing light floods the area, bringing with it feelings of peace, calm and relaxation.
When you get up in the morning and while you are having your shower cleanse your body of any negativity, as the water from the shower washes down your body, feel any dense energy that we collect while we sleep flowing from your body and your aura down the plug hole and away…….
In the shower is a great time to think of your day ahead.
Tune into your body. How does your body feel? Are there areas of tension, nervousness, sadness, fear?
How are you feeling? Ask yourself that question? How am I feeling?
You constantly evaluate your business performance. Remember, you are your business, evaluate yourself now.
……well I feel tired, bit grumpy, actually I feel pissed off because I’ve that errand to do and it’s gonna take ages…….
Once you acknowledge to yourself how you might be feeling, in some instances it can help that feeling to release then and there. Acknowledging how we are feeling is very powerful, because as I have mentioned, we often don’t think about how we are feeling, we are too busy thinking of our tasks etc.
Other times once you know how you are feeling you can take steps to help resolve it.
In the case above you can think of a treat to give yourself once the errand is done.
Or you might realise that the next time some one asks you to do a favour first you will check your diary to see if you’ve the time.
If we start to incorporate small simple techniques into our daily lives, the benefits are effortless but powerful and allow us to make huge changes in our lives with very little effort.
Any time you feel a negative emotion, sit with it, tune into where it is in your body. Ask yourself what is this feeling trying to tell you?
Then imagine a beautiful beam of healing light come into that area of your body, dissolving the negative feeling, but leaving you with knowledge of actions you need to take. Or simply just releasing the emotion to leave you free to experience more positive emotions.
Positive emotions create empowering thoughts which results in behaviour that allows you to honour yourself, your body and your life.
I hope you have enjoyed this article. Feel free to email me at
Sharon@vitalityireland.com
To Your Success
Sharon
Business Success Listen to Your Body - To learn more about this author, visit Sharon Swords's Website.
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My idea for this article has come from a very important lesson I learned just a few days ago. I am going to share it with you and so while I will be talking about myself for the first section, I hope you find elements that may apply to yourself.
Like everyone else, I have a fairly hectic lifestyle. I am juggling work, family, and friends, time for myself, exercise, healthy eating, and just having time for fun. I don’t always spend the time equally on the different areas of my life, and sometimes I feel like there isn’t enough time to get everything done.
But I give thanks everyday for the blessings I have in my life and I keep going and going and going.
I make to do lists, I try and prioritise them, I try and get a good night rest, try and get up early to give myself time for tasks.
But as I have just written, I am ‘Trying’.
Lately I noticed I was writing to do lists, and not completing them, I was giving myself Reiki before I went to sleep (which usually helped me drift off to a lovely sleep) but lately my mind was still racing and I couldn’t seem to switch off at night. I found I was waking up early with my to-do lists swirling around my head.
A few times I even started a sentence and I would loose my train of thought, mid sentence, and I realised that that hadn’t happened in years, not since I trained in Life Coaching and Reiki.
I went to a healing workshop, and a lady there whom I’d never met before, was very brave and said to me that I was disconnected from my emotions. That I was so much in my head that I wasn’t tuning into my body, and my feelings.
As soon as she said it I realised she was right.
When a person is constantly thinking, thinking, thinking, worrying, worrying, worrying, trying to plan and get on with their hectic lifestyle, emotions, thoughts and feelings are pushed away, out of sight, out of mind so to speak.
What is interesting, is the following sequence which applies to every human being on this planet –
Emotions/feelings - create Thoughts - create behaviour.
So have you ever wondered why when you are stressed, or busy, or overloaded you do some things that you are unsure of why you did them, and you don’t do things that you think you should?
If our emotions are the basis of our thoughts and emotions, then in order to empower and nurture ourselves it is important to explore that base.
If we don’t tune into our body, our feelings, then we are missing part of the sequence.
We are functioning at the level of thought, while not giving attention to the basis of that thought.
Our behaviour then reflects this (anger over small things, feeling frustration and not knowing the cause, jumpy or erratic movements, for example) and our body starts giving us signs in the form of ill health or minor ailments in order to try and grab our attention to bring our attention back into our body.
(My eyes and teeth started causing me hassle, and my energy levels were low.)
So how can we fully explore this sequence in order to allow ourselves have optimum health and life vitality, which will overflow into our business?
• When you are going to sleep, place your hands one beside the other over your stomach area (this will cover your solar plexus and sacral chakras)
• Think over your day and allow yourself to release any negative thoughts, feelings, experience or people from your body, feel, see or hear the negativity leave your body and aura.
• When you have done that, scan your body with your minds eye and feel how your body is feeling.
• What emotions are you feeling?
• Where are you holding these emotions in your body?
• Focus in on that body part where you are feeling/holding the emotion.
• Imagine a beautiful white light coming into that area, and slowly dissolving that feeling, that emotion that you are holding in your body.
• Feel it leaving your body as the white healing light floods the area, bringing with it feelings of peace, calm and relaxation.
When you get up in the morning and while you are having your shower cleanse your body of any negativity, as the water from the shower washes down your body, feel any dense energy that we collect while we sleep flowing from your body and your aura down the plug hole and away…….
In the shower is a great time to think of your day ahead.
Tune into your body. How does your body feel? Are there areas of tension, nervousness, sadness, fear?
How are you feeling? Ask yourself that question? How am I feeling?
You constantly evaluate your business performance. Remember, you are your business, evaluate yourself now.
……well I feel tired, bit grumpy, actually I feel pissed off because I’ve that errand to do and it’s gonna take ages…….
Once you acknowledge to yourself how you might be feeling, in some instances it can help that feeling to release then and there. Acknowledging how we are feeling is very powerful, because as I have mentioned, we often don’t think about how we are feeling, we are too busy thinking of our tasks etc.
Other times once you know how you are feeling you can take steps to help resolve it.
In the case above you can think of a treat to give yourself once the errand is done.
Or you might realise that the next time some one asks you to do a favour first you will check your diary to see if you’ve the time.
If we start to incorporate small simple techniques into our daily lives, the benefits are effortless but powerful and allow us to make huge changes in our lives with very little effort.
Any time you feel a negative emotion, sit with it, tune into where it is in your body. Ask yourself what is this feeling trying to tell you?
Then imagine a beautiful beam of healing light come into that area of your body, dissolving the negative feeling, but leaving you with knowledge of actions you need to take. Or simply just releasing the emotion to leave you free to experience more positive emotions.
Positive emotions create empowering thoughts which results in behaviour that allows you to honour yourself, your body and your life.
I hope you have enjoyed this article. Feel free to email me at
Sharon@vitalityireland.com
To Your Success
Sharon
Business Success Listen to Your Body - To learn more about this author, visit Sharon Swords's Website.
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