Quote for the Week

 

“…our most significant life is our deep inner life. This is where we connect with our unique human endowments of self-awareness, conscience, independent will, and creative imagination. Without these endowments, it’s impossible to create the kind of empowering vision that will create quality–of-life results.”

– From First Things First, by corporate leadership experts Stephen R. Covey, A.Roger Merrill and Rebecca R. Merrill of the Covey Leadership Centre ( The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, etc)

 

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Hi, it’s Deb Here…

 

 

Thankyou so much for your messages after enJOYing last week’s Playbook for Thriving through Stress in last week’s Breathe Newsletter.

 

I am so pleased to hear it connected with so many of you and so many received it’s benefits.

 

This week we focus on creating a Vision for your Future using the transformational energy of the Solstice at this time to make the process easier and more successful.

 

Afterall, you could surf on low tide but it’s a whole lot easier when the tide is higher and moving toward the shore..

 

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Welcome to the Winter Solstice

 

 

The Winter Solstice begins tomorrow June 18 in the Southern Hemisphere until June 22. The winter solstice occurs on the longest night and shortest day of the year….What does this mean?

 

The Winter Solstice carries a HUGE energy to help your foresight – that’s the vision and the strategies needed – for the year ahead…helping you move from where you are to where you want to be.

 

It’s time to re-write your life story. Often we identify, explain or excuse ourselves on the basis of the painful experiences in the past. The winter solstice is a perfect time to let go of the pain of the past, the unfinished business, to move toward the life you are meant to be living.

 

 

Winter Solstice Exercise

 

Allow yourself 30 minutes for the following exercise or break it into 3 x 10 minute time slots.

 

Imagine you are describing your life to a new friend. What is it you normally start with? How do you further explain your life? What are the excuses you use to avoid situations with current friends/ family/ colleagues? Write them all down. When you stop, take a breathe and continue again. Repeat this process 3 times. Only you will read this. Dump it all on the page.

 

When you are done, rip it all up. Destroy it.

 

Headhold and breathe. Imagine a box in front of you. Pour all these experiences, explanations, excuses and all the stress into the box, all the feelings and people involved into the box. Then blow up the box.

 

Shake your arms out.

 

Now, head hold and breathe again. Imagine yourself living the life you are meant to. Who is there with you, how have things changed, where is the money coming from, where are you spending your time?  Now ask your brain what date it is, or what season, what year? What are you wearing? Where are you? Now notice the sense this gives you…is it joy, peace, excitement, contentment? Where do you find it in your body? Your heart, head, stomach, somewhere else? Place your hands there, feel it moving beneath your hands and growing on every breath…does it have a colour or sound? Another sense?

 

Take a big breath and fill your entire body with this sense and the life you are meant to live.

 

Now write it out , eg. “It is June 20, 2017 and I am/ Have…” then describe the exact scene you are in ( so you know you’ve accomplished your goal) and how it feels to be there (having accomplished your goal), where you feel it in your body and the colour, sound etc that comes with it.

 

And breathe… now rip it up! And repeat the process 3 times… what? The vision was REALLY good? Repeat the process 3 times and you’ll be amazed at the results!

 

I look forward to hearing from anyone who would like to share their experience with me.

 

On the final vision….place a candle on top of your list for the remainder of the Winter Solstice  – from June 18 – June 22 ( and being responsible candle-safe users I know you’ll blow it out as you go to bed or leave the house 😉

 

The idea is this: you are setting your brain’s Inner GPS to the life you are meant to be living, and making it quite clear for the Universal energy to pick it up and run with it!

 

As a goal getting exercise it is helping your brain to focus on where you want to be and what you want to be doing. Goals are 80% more successful if they are written down.

 

As an energetic exercise it is harnessing the energies of the Winter Solstice to assist you to get there!

 

In the Northern Hemisphere traditionally this is the time to celebrate the Harvest, enjoying the fruits of your labour since last Winter.

 

And I know that many of you have created HUGE results since the Winter Solstice last year.

 

Make way for the new, better ways of doing life and Live the Life you are meant to!