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The Seasons of Life | self-care

Many years ago, a wise woman said to the two of us, “Take your cues from nature.”

Seasons of Life

By taking our cues from nature, we acknowledge and recognize the flow of life that exists in all of Life, which includes each of us.

Every living thing experiences a cycle of change. There are periods of expansion and periods of contraction. There is no exception to this rule: it is Universal Law.

The four seasons are nature’s way of mirroring back to each of us the flow of Life and how it operates effortlessly.

In Autumn, we give thanks and express gratitude and appreciation for abundance. By taking our cues from nature, we can also acknowledge and recognize our own personal flow and expansion.

We each expand and grow; not only physically, but intellectually and spiritually. The results we receive in life are our own personal harvest. What we reap is determined by what we sow. As humans, we have the great capacity to create different harvests if we do not like the one we previously reaped.

The smaller cycles of our individual lifetimes are broken down into smaller denominations or time periods: decades, years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes, seconds. Within these cycles are periods of expansion and periods of contraction too. Expansion is growth, creativity, and productivity. Contraction is slowing down, looking inward and rest.

As the nights of October grow longer, it is a cue from nature that we, too, are part of nature and want to respond to the changes in the cycle of Life.

As winter approaches and it appears that all is silent and still, know that nurturing is going on throughout the natural world in preparation for the next cycle of expansion that will occur in the Spring.

Our lifetimes are our Summertime when we each create and manifest countless experiences, situations, and relationships. It is the time of growth. It is the time for your personal growth!

Autumn begins a period of contraction. Much of life appears to be going to sleep; it is now entering a period of apparent dormancy. However, beneath the surface of the seemingly quiet: life continues, resting and replenishing itself for the next cycle of expansion.

Like all of Life, we also require rest. We each experience this daily with a good night’s sleep. On a larger scale, the calendar indicates we may require more rest to replenish ourselves so we can produce a variety of abundant outcomes in our own lives.

Some of the most beneficial and efficient ways to rest, replenish and re-vitalize is through the process of self-care. Self-care is not something you practice seasonally; it is an avocation you want to master on a regular basis to keep your energy levels at peak performance year-round.

Self-care is about nurturing ourselves. How you demonstrate it is up to you. The “how” is unimportant. What IS important, is that you do it.

Here are some suggestions on how to nurture yourself more and provide re-vitalization to yourself at all levels of your Being:

1. Schedule “me” time. You might have to “pencil yourself in” to your daily schedule. This is essential year-round and particularly so during the upcoming holiday season when we tend to sacrifice our own well-being and desires to please everyone else. “Me” time can be anything from exercising, reading, meditating, or enjoying a hobby. Do not confuse self-care for selfishness. They are not the same thing!

2. Consider focusing on “doing” less. When we put too much on our plates, we usually ignore ourselves, deplete our energy and make ourselves sick in a variety of ways: physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually.

3. Learn to say “No” and perhaps delegate more. Focus on the important, not the trivial. This is called: prioritizing.

4. Sleep more. Longer nights provide an opportunity for more sleep. The animal kingdom hibernates and for a very good reason: it knows it is time to rest in preparation for the next cycle of growth and expansion.

By adopting a “taking my cues from nature” approach for living your life, you will witness tremendous benefits. The four seasons are the perfect reminder that all of Life, be it as infinite as the Universe or as minute as an insect, experiences expansion, creativity, and growth, as well as contraction, rest, and dormancy.

By learning to personalize this process you will experience more flow in your life. This will place you in a higher, more vibrant level of Being thus resulting in a more fulfilling and enjoyable life experience.

Light a candle and nurture yourself. Take a deep breath in and blow it out. By doing so you have demonstrated how you are taking your cues from nature. The breath is the greatest demonstration of expansion and contraction. Now, be open to this same process in all the other areas of your life.

One way of providing yourself with the ultimate self-care regimen is to contact us for your complementary coaching session.

Another way is to join our monthly Zoom Book Club called Infinite Possibilities? You can join any time. It is held the second Thursday of each month. You are invited to join in on the conversation whether you’ve read the book of not! Learn more here.

Jon Satin and Chris Pattay – The Possibility Coaches™
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Being Your Best is Being Empowered

Being your best is truly about living life fully, with a sense of worthiness, direction and empowerment. Being your best is totally different than ‘doing your best.’ Doing implies action and ‘doing your best’ is based on a variety of contingencies rooted in day to day activities. ‘Doing’ also means there are external causes (action steps and results) that directly measure and determine whether you are ‘doing your best,’ and are worthy of recognition.

Being Your Best
Being Your Best
The idea that ‘doing your best’ will get you to the ‘Promised Land’ of achieving your goals, getting what you want and looking good to the rest of the world, is a flawed belief and a huge assumption at best. And why is that?

Ask yourself this question: ‘How would I define my version of ‘doing my best?’ Can you define it in real measurable terms? Have you ever achieved your perceived level of ‘doing my best?’ Or is it some unattainable goal far off in the future and even out of reach?

Does your ‘best’ even seem impossible because you believe you are unworthy of succeeding and shining?

When another person says to you ‘Do your best!’ do you know what they want from you? More important, ask yourself, ‘Do they know what they want from me?’

They know exactly what they want from you when they say ‘Do your best!’ They are really saying, ‘Make me happy and don’t disappoint me!’

The world has taken the term ‘do your best’ and turned it in to a form of manipulation resulting in never feeling good enough, smart enough or even loveable. Just hearing the words ‘do your best’ engulfs us in feeling guilty, worried and anxious and sets us up for on-going disappointment. It is the reason why we procrastinate, suffer from paralysis of analysis, and unwarranted perfection.

If you have spent much of your life focused on ‘doing your best’ in the name of making others happy and getting their approval, then consider stopping now! Stop focusing on ‘doing your best’ and shift to ‘being your best.’

Here is how you make this shift and know that you are ‘being my best.’ Get in-touch with how you really feel about yourself and your life in general. Review how you feel about your career, your business and your personal life. Write these feelings down.

Do these feelings bring up positive or negative emotions? Are they empowering or exhausting?

“Understand that being empowered is a feeling and a state of being. It has nothing to do with what you do or ‘doing your best’ or not. Being empowered, and feeling it, means you are being your best. Why? Because when you feel good about yourself everything you do exudes that sense of empowerment from within.”

‘Being your best’ results in taking inspired action. Inspired action is a demonstration of who you authentically are. It feels easy and effortless, and gives you a true sense of aliveness and purpose. It also means that you choose not to live your life for the sole purpose of making other people happy. Continuing to buy in to ‘doing your best’ means you will continue to define yourself and how you live your life based on how others see you and what they want from you.

Moving away from ‘doing my best’ to ‘being my best’ is a paradigm shift that results in true self-empowerment. Being your best requires you to become more inner-focused. This is not being selfish! It is actually about becoming quite generous!

Being inner-focused, so you can be your best, is about taking care of yourself first. Recall the quote “Be the change you want to see.” This is about living the life you choose! Not your parents’ vision for your life, not your spouse’s vision, and not your boss.’ This is about living life on and with purpose. Selfishness is when someone attempts to get you to live the life they choose for you. This is unhealthy and sets us up for a lot of suffering and disappointment.

Being your best means you love and appreciate yourself. It does not mean you don’t care about other people. When you really understand that being your best is the same as being empowered, you will actually give more and have more.

Let’s face it, if you don’t become your best you are withholding your greatness from the world. To be your best, begin to nurture yourself and all your gifts and talents. Allow yourself to explore your innate creativity. Be open and willing to shine simply for the sake of the experience! Author and publisher Robert Collier said it best when he wrote, “All power is from within and therefore under our control.” Look within, be your best, and watch your life transform!

To learn how to ‘be your best’ contact The Possibility Coaches™. They offer a 30 minute complementary coaching session by phone or Skype. Inquire about your session here.

being your best

being your best

Secrets to Finding True Love!

We’re going to talk about true love, but not necessarily in a way you may think! Visualize a horse with a carrot dangling about a foot in front of it. That’s how we get the horse to move in a forward direction.

Now imagine that you are that horse (no insult intended) and the carrot represents love in all its various forms. Like the horse in pursuit of the carrot, this is how most of us pursue love. We convince ourselves that once we are given love by another person our life is complete. We believe that the emotional void will disappear and be filled by a proclamation of love from someone else.

Secrets to finding true love
Secrets to finding true love
This belief, that another person can make us happy, is central to the mythology of romantic love. Romantic love, for the most part is simply a composite of sexual attraction. The balance of it tends to be made up of neediness: the need to be wanted, accepted and appreciated. The problem here is that when we do not have our own ‘needs’ met, romantic love quickly fizzles out.

Now don’t get us wrong, we’re all for romantic love and great sex! This modern notion of true love is a result of us being conditioned to find true love to be happy. However, this idea about romantic love is flawed simply because most of us do not understand what true love is all about. True love is changeless and absolute. On the other hand, romantic love can literally blow with the wind. Just look at the terms “falling in love” and “falling out of love.” The implication here is that there is something temporary about love and ‘fall’ becomes the operative word. If we can finally understand and dispel this myth, we would all begin to experience stronger, more loving relationships.

“Falling in love” does not exist because it implies there are varying degrees of love. Love cannot be measured, although most people spend a lifetime in pursuit of it with a measuring stick. Again, love is absolute. Either it is present in your relationships or it isn’t.

Experiencing stronger and truly loving relationships has one requirement: to love yourself. We are not referring to being narcissistic or egotistical here. We are talking about treating yourself in the only way you were intended to be treated: divinely, without conditions, rules or regulations. When you experience self-love you ultimately treat others the same way.

Think about it: if you do not love yourself, how could you truly love another person? You simply cannot give away what you do not have!

What we are suggesting may seem ridiculous, far-fetched and impossible to achieve. To this we respond: you can experience true love for yourself and everyone else in your life when you are open and willing to release and remove all the emotional blocks and barriers to love (which are all fears).

This requires you to go through a process of looking within. Scary at first, perhaps, but rest assured, you will be happy with the end result! We have a 4-step process to get you there. They occur in no particular order, and in fact are more likely to occur simultaneously and ongoing as you begin to unveil the secret to experiencing strong and loving relationships.

These 4 steps are:
1. self-awareness of love or its absence in your life.
2. self-acceptance so you can move to loving unconditionally.
3. self-forgiveness for all that you have done to deny loving yourself and others.
4. self-love: also known as ‘the real deal.’

Follow this process. Stop chasing the carrot. Come alive by experiencing self-love. It’s the only way to truly experience loving relationships, because after all, there is only one real relationship.

Begin to experience real love in your life by downloading your free copy of our Special Report: Breaking The Chain of Emotional Pain – Healing The Emotional Wounds From Your Past.

If you are you ready to improve all of your relationships including the one you have with yourself? Contact us for a complimentary, no obligation coaching session.

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true love

true love

true love