Your Unique Gifts - HD

Upon entering the room, he saw an old woman weaving at a loom. As he drew close, his eyes were caught by the cloth itself. The colors were infinitely varied, ranging from inky blacks to jewel blues and glittering golds. Textures were fine and silky, coarse and thick, sandpaper rough, and soft as a kitten's fur. Each pass of the weaver's shuttle laid in a thread, adding to the richness and depth of the tapestry.
     "Dear woman, what is it that you weave?"
     "Why, this is the fabric of life. As each living creature travels through its life, it is represented by a thread."
     Looking closely at the weaving, he could trace individual threads. He observed how they gathered together, creating the picture of the whole. Lifting his gaze from the loom, he saw bolts of fabric surrounding the loom, propped against the walls, and piled on shelves.

As a weaver myself, I will always remember this image from a novel by Orson Scott Card. When thinking about how to describe the unique and special contributions that each of us makes to the overall picture of life, I recalled this scene.

What quality, color and texture of thread are you contributing to the fabric of life?

What are You Here to Do?

That's THE question, isn't it? Each of us is on the planet to make a difference. We are designed with abilities, skills, and qualities that lead us to contribute in ways that are uniquely our own.

If you have participated in personal growth and success programs, you may have gone through exercises focused on identifying 1) your skills, 2) what you are an expert at, 3) the activities that cause you to lose track of time, and 4) what you love doing so much that you enjoy do it even when you are not receiving monetary compensation. You have probably sought to identify 1) your values, 2) your purpose, and 3) your mission statement.

In my opinion, these exercises theoretically point you in the direction of what you 'should' be doing to be successful. Personal growth programs then tell you to Just Go Do It.

Human Design & Your Gifts

Human Design takes a different approach. I do readings for many people who are seeking their perfect 'work'. Frequently, what we see in their Human Design charts coincides with what would show up on these people's numbered lists in the above-described exercises.

Human Design is not predictive. They tell you neither what you will do, nor what you 'should' do.

Human Design charts include all of the energies that are possible to experience during life as a human being.

The Centers, Gates, and Channels that are colored in your chart represent energies that you have, and/or themes that you are likely to experience in the course of your life. In Human Design, we say that these Centers, Gates, and Channels are Defined.

For more details about the energies within the Human Design Body Graph, I blogged several times about Human Design in November, 2012. There is also information about Human Design on my website,

Planets

What determines which energies are Defined in your Human Design chart? Each Defined Gate in your chart represents the position of a planet in the sky at the time of your birth. (Defined Gates are represented by colored 'lines' in the chart. It's more complex than this, but for today's discussion, this explanation will suffice.)

Before learning Human Design, astrology was the only system I had experienced that interprets planetary positions. My personal experience of astrology was that it had essentially no impact on my conscious life. Basically, I didn't believe interpretation of planetary positions could provide me with practically useful information.

Human Design has completely transformed my faith in planetary influences. As I do readings for family, friends, and clients, I am repeatedly surprised and amazed at how accurately Human Design describes people's lives and experiences of themselves. Planetary positions DO matter! It's been a stunning revelation for an astrology skeptic.

Your Time of Birth

I have found Human Design charts to be consistently accurate. Even when someone was born prematurely, by cesarean. Because one of my friends was born one minute after midnight, I figured that she purposely chose that time. Investigation indicated that had she been born an hour earlier, a significant energy in her chart would have been absent. She knew when she needed to be born.

I believe that each individual chooses their time of birth. 

Each soul has a plan for what they want or need to experience. They know which energies need to be represented by the planets in the sky. And the soul orchestrates the circumstances to ensure that birth occurs at that time.

Living By Design

Your soul KNOWS how you are here to contribute. It was part of your plan.

Human Design can't really tell you WHAT you will do. It can help you discover various aspects of what your expression of contribution is likely to look and feel like. A reading can describe a range of scenarios that could be possible.

The energies in your chart describe THEMES that you are likely to consistently experience throughout life. Some people think a lot, others tend to be creative. Some people have a lot of ideas, others like experimenting. Some people are nurturers, others are drawn to nature. Some people are leaders, others prefer solo pursuits.

All of the energies in your chart combine within your experiences. When you engage in activities that draw out your natural expression of these energies, you are living according to your design. 

You Attract Opportunities

On an energetic, auric level, you attract opportunities to fulfill your plan. Understanding your Human Design chart helps you recognize the opportunities when they appear. Your chart is like the blueprint for your life. It's up to you to follow the plan, . . . or not. You get to choose. But it's easier to follow the plan when you are aware that there IS a plan.

Human Design Readings

Would you like to understand the energies and themes in your Human Design chart? Would you like to explore the ways in which you express your gifts in the world?

Once you have had a basic chart reading, other types of readings can help you comprehend your design more deeply. Relationship readings help you understand the dynamics that you experience with other people. Of particular relevance to families are readings focusing on children's charts, and on family issues and dynamics.

Return readings help you recognize life themes that change over time. Solar returns describe annual themes. Then Saturn, Uranus, and Chiron readings show you the themes that come up as you age and mature. The time periods correlating with these planetary 'events' have the potential to be quite significant: late 20's, around 40, and around 50.

For more details about Human Design readings, go to my website.

Human Design charts are free!

Request Your Free Chart

Please send the following information to me at sandra@MiracleInspirations.com. I will send your chart by e-mail, along with a basic interpretation document.

Name, Birth date, Birth time (as accurately as you know it), Birth location, e-mail address

(Your information remains confidential, and I do not keep it on the Internet. Requesting a free chart places you under no obligation to have a reading.)

You may also request charts for other people. This can help you understand why people behave as they do, and your relationships with them.

Make a Difference With Your Unique Contribution!

Breathe

Sandra

Sandra Lynn Lee
Licensed Massage Practitioner, Washington
Human Design Specialist
Certified Practitioner - The Emotion Code/The Body Code
Certified Healing Codes Practitioner
Miracle Inspirations
www.MiracleInspirations.com
sandra@MiracleInspirations.com

Everything in this newsletter is the opinion of the author and is provided for informational and educational purposes only. When information is drawn from outside sources, both credit and access to the source are given, when available.
Copyright 2013 Miracle Inspirations. All rights reserved.

Hope & Love for Humanity - HD

With all of the not-so-great things that have been going on in the world, sometimes it can be difficult to have a hopeful outlook on the future of humanity. In addition to the financial crises and the natural disasters, we have the occasional person going wild with guns in public places. The insistence on the part of some governments that war is a necessity has never made sense to me.

Of course, we are in the last days prior to the long awaited December 2012 end of the Mayan Calendar. Noone really knows what will transpire, but many people believe the 21st will pass without major drama. We are already well into the transition period, and ultimately everyone and everything is evolving positively.

My conscious intention has been to Choose to look at life through a hopeful lens. To believe in a hopeful picture of the future. One where the world and all of its peoples experience love, and are loving towards each other.

This morning I realized that I quite actively hold this as an intention. At the same time, I've got conscious conflict going on. Because on some level, I haven't really believed in this existence as a true possibility. Deep inside, I remained pessimistic about humanity's ability to care for its members. Each time I consciously chose a positive perspective, I was spreading a fresh layer of icing onto a long rotten cake.

Then into my life came Human Design . . .

The Design of Humanity

This morning I realized that learning Human Design has profoundly altered my belief about what is possible for humanity. Let's talk a bit about the Human Design body graph. To give you something to look at while I explain, here is my Body Graph. It's small, because you don't really need to see the details for this discussion.

Each of the shapes, colored or white, is a Center which represents an aspect of who we are as individuals. Each of the lines connecting the Centers is called a Channel. Each Channel is made up of two Gates. Each Gate represents an aspect of who we are as individuals. Which Gates, Channels, and Centers are colored in the Body Graph is determined by the positions of the Planets at the time that the individual is born. The areas that are colored are called Defined.

There you go. The basics of Human Design in a few sentences. Comprehending more than this is not necessary for the purposes of the current discussion. (If you want more depth of understanding, I encourage you to finish reading this blog posting, then go to my website.)

An infinite range of possibilities is available for each of us as human beings, all of which can be displayed in the Body Graph. I continue to be astounded by how much can be drawn from these seemingly simple 'triangles'.

Dualities

Each of these aspects of humanity are experienced as Dualities. We either ARE that way, or we ARE NOT that way. It may be an issue in our lives, or it may be completely NOT an issue for us. Our expression of that energy may also change a) over time, b) with our circumstances, and c) depending on the people with whom we interact. We all experience all of the energies. And the aspects that are Defined (colored) in our personal charts are likely to be significant in our experience.

Let's use as examples some of the Defined energies from my own chart.

Struggle. We may experience struggle in some areas of life and not in others. Health, relationships, $$$. Some people truly do not have much experience of Struggle during the course of their lives. It is likely that they do not have the gate for Struggle defined. This energy is also about knowing what is worth struggling for.
 
Aloneness. We may feel lonely and want to be with people. Yet when we are with people, we may still feel alone, or we may wish we were alone. There can be a real push-me-pull-you dynamic with this energy.

Communication. Depending on whether or not this Center is Defined, and what else is defined in a person's chart, they may feel like they are not heard. Sometimes it may be easy for them to communicate, at other times it may be difficult.

Joy of Life. Some people consciously experience this, and for other people the experience of joy in life is mostly absent.

Truth and Integrity. One thing I have learned about myself through Human Design is that truth and integrity are central to my life. Understanding this has profoundly altered my experience of myself, and my sense of direction in life. On a general level, when an individual has this energy defined, it can be expressed either as truth and integrity, or as lying and the absence of integrity. As with all of the energies in the chart, the expression of this may fluctuate.

According to Human Design, the Body Graph is the blueprint for humanity. It has are nine Centers, 64 Gates, and 35 or 36 Channels.  That's a lot of energies, with infinite possibilities for combinations.

Which Energies are Present & Which are Absent?

The energy for hatred and suffering are absent from the Body Graph. So they are not inherent aspects of being human.

The possibility for the experience of Love is in each and every place in the Body Graph.

That says something significant about who we are, doesn't it?

War, Violence, & Power  

What about war and violence? These energies are present associated with the protection, feeding, and survival of the family and of the tribal community. So going to war in order to obtain food (or to protect your food supplies) is in the chart. Fighting to protect your women and children is in the chart.

Power is in the chart, as in the power to get things done, and to bring people together to cooperatively get things done.

These energies are very important to our survival as a species. Which makes sense.

However, power, war, and violence as we have come to experience them in our wider 'modern' culture . . . these are absent from the chart. Power, war, and violence for money and for the sake of power itself, these are not in the chart. This is what the Human Design teachings that I follow have to say about the extraordinarily distorted expressions of these energies that have overcome our culture in recent decades.

The distorted expressions of power, war, and violence

that our society is experiencing are OFF THE CHART

In other words, these expressions are not consistent with the design of humanity. They are distortions of the natural expressions of these energies that are part of our design.

We are not designed to express power, war, and violence in these distorted ways.

Hope for Humanity

This is what has altered my manner of looking at our future. The fact that the aspects of our social and world experience that I find so objectionable are actually NOT part of the truth of who we are. Whew. There is hope for us after all. We've just been Off The Chart. So all we have to do is get back onto the Chart, get back on track as a tribe.

Recall our discussion of the aspects of the chart as dualities. Each of us on the planet can live out each of these energies in ways that are difficult, or in ways where we experience their gifts. We can resist who we are, or we can live fully into the expression of who we are as a contribution to the world.

Evolution of the Body Graph 

According to my Human Design teacher, many of the struggle- and survival-based energies are gradually disappearing. Our decision making processes are evolving away from fear and survival as determining forces. How we FEEL is becoming more important in our decisions. The teachings of many of today's popular cultural and spiritual role models reflect these evolutionary shifts.

What's the 'Truth'?

Noone can say what is actually 'True' when it comes to who we are. I certainly cannot. So perhaps none of this means anything. Personally, I have found Human Design to be extraordinarily accurate in describing people and their ways of being. I know that many people agree. 

Looking at myself and at others in this way is certainly much more empowering to me than the alternative.

What Empowers You?

Ultimately, you get to decide for yourself. What works for you? What empowers you to move forward in life and make a contribution? Coincidentally, . . . That's the topic for my next short post, which you will find immediately below this one.

Human Design charts are free!

Visit my website for details. You can also go to my first posting about Human Design. There are others as well, if you want to explore. I designate them with HD at the end of the posting name, if it's not written out.


Hope & Love for Humanity!

Breathe

Sandra

Sandra Lynn Lee
Licensed Massage Practitioner, Washington
Human Design Specialist
Certified Practitioner - The Emotion Code/The Body Code
Certified Healing Codes Practitioner
Miracle Inspirations
www.MiracleInspirations.com
sandra@MiracleInspirations.com

Everything in this newsletter is the opinion of the author and is provided for informational and educational purposes only. When information is drawn from outside sources, both credit and access to the source are given, when available.
Copyright 2012 Miracle Inspirations. All rights reserved.

How Can I Contribute? - HD

We all want to make a difference in the world. Today's thoughts on this are an addendum to the Hope & Love for Humanity post.

Each energy in your Human Design chart carries with it possibilities for gifts to you and to others, depending on how you express them. There are no aspects of the design of humanity that are purely negative in nature. Human beings are inherently loving and good.

Each day, you live out these energetic qualities, mixing them all together in your experience in infinite potential ways. Therefore you have endless opportunities for offering your gifts to the people and to the world around you. 

Gregg Braden offers a wonderful question that I find empowering. It helps establish a mindset for making a difference.

Speaking of Gregg Braden, he's got a fabulous new book Deep Truth. In it, he discusses ways in which our understanding of humanity's history has been incomplete. Recent scientific discoveries indicate that war is NOT an inherent element of human civilization. Entire civilizations existed with no weapons, no dividing walls to keep people out, and no mass burials. All prior to what scientists used to believe were the earliest civilizations. Over the years, I have read or listened to many of Gregg Braden's books, and I recommend them.

What Can I Give to the World That is Emerging?

Today this is the 'catchy phrase' for making a difference in your life.

We tend to think that making a contribution means doing 'big' things, that small actions don't matter. On the contrary, every action contributes in some way to the entirety of existence. The impact of your contribution will be positive, negative, or neutral.

If you were to gather together all of your actions over the course of a day, from your waking moment to your sleeping moment, would the cumulative impact be positive?

A smile to the person walking by on the sidewalk is a gift. Picking up garbage on the street. Helping a person who is struggling with moving an unwieldy object. Making a meal for a family who is dealing with a major health challenge. Each action makes a difference.

Voting in elections contributes to the operation of your society. Serving in government yourself can be a gift, if that is right for you. (It absolutely would not be for me.)

There are countless ways to contribute to efforts to conserve our planet's resources and remaining wild ecosystems. Reducing your fossil fuel usage, and reducing the amount of packaging material that you cause to go to landfills are actions of conservation that you can take today.

Feeding hungry families, doing volunteer work, and planting flowers are actions of contribution. Educating people about health and about food is a contribution. As is making healthy food choices for yourself, and for your family. And so on.

So, what can you give to the world that is emerging?

I would love your feedback on the 'catchy phrase' idea, and the video as a means of conveying it to you. Do you actually bring the phrases to mind at times when you can benefit from them? Or is this experiment of mine just annoying.

If you find the catchy phrases useful, I invite you to share your experience of them. sandra@MiracleInspirations.com

As always, you are so very much appreciated. Thank you for being there.

Human Design charts are free!

Visit my website for details. You can also go to my first posting about Human Design. There are others as well, if you want to explore. I designate them with HD at the end of the posting name, if it's not written out.


What Can I Give to the World That is Emerging?

Breathe

Sandra

Sandra Lynn Lee
Licensed Massage Practitioner, Washington
Human Design Specialist
Certified Practitioner - The Emotion Code/The Body Code
Certified Healing Codes Practitioner
Miracle Inspirations
www.MiracleInspirations.com
sandra@MiracleInspirations.com

Everything in this newsletter is the opinion of the author and is provided for informational and educational purposes only. When information is drawn from outside sources, both credit and access to the source are given, when available.
Copyright 2012 Miracle Inspirations. All rights reserved.

Always DO What Feels GOOD to YOU! - HD

Have you ever done something that ended up turning out all wrong? 
Have you ever done a project or had a job that made you miserable every step of the way?
Have you ever agreed to do something then regretted making the commitment?
Have you ever backed out of a commitment, then proceeded to feel terrible or guilty?
 
Would you like a new way to look at this whole set of circumstances? A way of being with yourself around your decisions and actions?

Always DO What Feels GOOD to YOU!

Human Design provides a whole new perspective on the decision making process. Here are the basics in two sentences. Each individual is one of five Types. Each Type has a unique Strategy for making decisions and taking actions. There is so much more to it than that, but that is sufficient for now. If you want more details, go to my my website and my blog post from last week.

Here's what I have to say.

We'll talk more about that in a bit. First let's look at . . .

How Society Conditions Us to Make Decisions

Marketing campaigns are designed around compelling us to buy on impulse. Obvious examples are commercials for foods, drugs, fashion, . . . ad nauseum. Personal growth and development programs are infamous for the hype that is used to push us into the Big Buy.

We are also told to "Figure it out". Like the correct place for making decisions is in our heads. Because the logical thought process is the ultimate determining force for decision making.

How about when it comes to jobs and making money? Frequently we take jobs because we feel like we HAVE to. "There are no other jobs available." "It's better than what I have now." "I need the money."And even if we are unhappy with our jobs, we feel compelled to stay in them, again because we HAVE to. "I'm lucky to have this job."

When it comes to coming up with ideas and making them happen, we're told, "Just do it!"

A New Perspective - Waiting & Feeling

According to Human Design, most of this is flat out incorrect for most people. Only 8% of people are designed to ever be able to "Just do it." The rest of the population, like 92% are designed to Wait to Make Decisions and designed to Wait to Take Action.

Additionally everyone, each and every one of us is designed to Only Take Action When We Feel Right about what we are undertaking.What 'Feeling Right' about a decision means differs, depending on the individual.

Changing Your Mind - Communication

According to Human Design, timing is a critically important aspect of the decision making process. This is too large a topic to take on looking at in depth today. What will be simplest is looking at how this shows up in the real world.

Have you ever agreed to do something, then decided later that you didn't want to do it after all? This occurs because how you feel about things may change. If you feel this way, taking that action is probably not correct for you. According to Human Design, the timing is not right for you.

So what do you do? Would you like my recommendation? Renegotiate your agreement. This may be as simple as communicating to whomever is involved that you have changed your mind.

There is absolutely no fault here.

Would you like to see how I look at this when it happens in my life? When I have made an agreement and am therefore committed to something that is not correct for me, I am out of integrity. With myself and with whomever else is involved in my agreement. In my experience, when this happens, everyone involved feels weird and uncomfortable. The lack of integrity is palpable.

By communicating and renegotiating the agreement, I return integrity to both myself and to my relationship with the individual(s) involved.

Always DO What Feels GOOD to YOU!

When you have a decision to make, remember to Always DO What Feels GOOD to YOU. I'm trying something new, and giving you a catchy phrase. So when this situation comes up in your life, you'll remember. Here's the video again.

I would love your feedback on my 'catchy phrase' idea, and the video as a means of conveying it to you.
If you find this useful, please let me know how it goes. sandra@MiracleInspirations.com


Human Design charts are free!

Visit my website for details. You can also go to my first posting about Human Design. There are others as well, if you want to explore. I designate them with HD at the end of the posting name, if it's not written out.


Here's to You Living an Awesome Life!

Breathe

Sandra

Sandra Lynn Lee
Licensed Massage Practitioner, Washington
Human Design Specialist
Certified Practitioner - The Emotion Code/The Body Code
Certified Healing Codes Practitioner
Miracle Inspirations
www.MiracleInspirations.com
sandra@MiracleInspirations.com

Everything in this newsletter is the opinion of the author and is provided for informational and educational purposes only. When information is drawn from outside sources, both credit and access to the source are given, when available.
Copyright 2012 Miracle Inspirations. All rights reserved.

Understanding Your Human Design

Recently, I was introduced to Human Design through a teleseminar. Ever since then, I've been OBSESSED. I jumped with both feet off my personal teetering cliff of normalcy into the training to be a Human Design Specialist. It's been a little over two months since I first learned about the existence of Human Design. I tell friends that I inhaled the Level 1 training in two days, then Level 2 in two weeks. Now I'm with the group class where we're on the verge of completing Level 3.

But then, . . . my learning in this crazed manner actually shows up in my Human Design chart. Well, perhaps I'm taking even this to an extreme. Hey that's my style.

Note: If after reading this posting, you want to know more, check out the more recent postings. There are several, just in November.

What is Human Design?

It's a system that helps you understand your true or authentic self. I'm not going to go into the details about that here, because I do that on my website. As I gather them, I will also post testimonials from individuals whose lives have been impacted by having me interpret their charts.

Your birth information is used to generate your personal Human Design chart, which can then be 'read' to help you understand the truth of who you are.

Human Design provides practical, relevant information

about how you make decisions and take actions in your day-to-day life.

For a very long time, astrologers have been using this same birth information to produce charts for astrology readings. Personally, I have never experienced astrology as being particularly helpful. None of the astrology readings that I have had over the years has had any noticeable impact on either my behavior or my life.

When I learned about Human Design, even before I had a reading or any training, I had learned significant things about myself that were immediately relevant and practical to apply to my daily life. As I have learned about the depths of information that can be drawn from Human Design charts, the understanding that I've gained about myself and about other people has been profoundly impactful.

Human Design charts are free! Visit my website for details, or go to Request Your Free Chart later in this blog post.

Discount for Readings. My fee for readings is going up, because I've completed Level 3 of the Human Design Specialist training. Going into January update - Since the reduced rate has enabled many people to benefit from readings, I'm extending the discount for a while. I'm keeping it at the Level 2 rate of $97.


For Adults

Readings can help adults understand themselves, their decision making processes, their relationships, and their successes and challenges. In my experience, it often helps them be more peaceful about who they are. By the time they reach their 30's, 40's, and 50's, many people have pretty much figured out what works and what doesn't work. So they may already be living according to their Human Design Type and Strategy. Readings can help them fine tune how they express their truth, leading to their openness to fully experiencing their gifts and the highest potentials in their charts.

When people have not been living according to their truth, life can be a real struggle. For them, understanding the truth of their Design can help them become more in alignment, freeing themselves from struggle.

For Children

Human Design can be really helpful for children. Imagine being a child who learns about the most correct ways for herself or himself to make decisions and take actions. Then as they grow up, they can make choices consistent with who they are. If you had learned that as a child, would your life have been easier, less frustrating, and more satisfying? Imagine that!

Understanding Others, Relationships, and Family Dynamics

Human Design can also help you understand other people, the relationships you have with them, and the dynamics that occur within families or groups. Charts are free, so you can get them for your loved ones. Learn why people behave as they do. Learn how to support them, and how they can support you.

Human Design Readings

In readings, I interpret the information in your chart. Every time I do a reading, I am absolutely amazed at how accurate the chart is. During a reading, based on what I see in the chart, I ask my client questions. Over and over again people respond with "That's me" and "I do that."

Numerous times, I've done readings for people whom I really don't know at all. So the information that I am getting about them isn't coming from my knowledge about their history. I'm astonished when they repeatedly affirm that what I'm seeing in the chart accurately describes their experience of life. Perhaps someday I will become accustomed to this and my surprise will fade. But I'm not there yet.

I will digitally record your reading and send it to you.


Human Design charts are free!

Request Your Free Chart

Please send the following information to me at sandra@MiracleInspirations.com. I will send your chart by e-mail, along with a basic interpretation document.

Name, Birth date, Birth time (as accurately as you know it), Birth location, e-mail address

(Your information remains confidential, and I do not keep it on the Internet. Requesting a free chart places you under no obligation to have a reading.)

You may also request charts for other people. This can help you understand why people behave as they do, and your relationships with them.

If You Want to Learn Human Design Yourself

I highly recommend my teacher's training for Human Design Specialists. She makes a complex body of information practical and easy to understand.

Here is a link to Karen Curry's website.


Appointments -- Penticton, Olympia, Telephone, . . .

I offer Human Design readings, The Body Code/The Emotion Code, and Spiritual Response Therapy by telephone and in person. In Penticton, B.C., and in Olympia, Washington, I offer in-person bodywork and energy work appointments, which may incorporate use of the Zero Point Global products.

Please feel free to contact me if you have questions, or if you would like to schedule an appointment. sandra@MiracleInspirations.com


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Sandra Lynn Lee
Licensed Massage Practitioner, Washington
Human Design Specialist
Certified Practitioner - The Emotion Code/The Body Code
Certified Healing Codes Practitioner
Miracle Inspirations
www.MiracleInspirations.com
sandra@MiracleInspirations.com

Everything in this newsletter is the opinion of the author and is provided for informational and educational purposes only. When information is drawn from outside sources, both credit and access to the source are given, when available.
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Appreciating How You Have Grown

We approach the completion of another year. Beginnings and endings are natural times to evaluate where you are and the progress that you have made.


Why Measure Your Progress?

Acknowledging yourself for your healing is important! When you consciously recognize your progress, the improvements are integrated into your body and into your life in a deeper way. Recognizing your successes also encourages you to do even more.

In my work with clients, frequently people don't realize that things have changed until I ask questions focusing on identifying the improvements. Here is a dramatic example. This client had suffered from headaches every single day for many years. We had been doing bodywork for several months, when I asked how she was doing with headaches. She realized that she hadn't had a headache in two weeks! In fact, she had completely forgotten about having them. Had I not asked, she would not have recognized that she had experienced significant healing.

Here is another example. I have been encouraging a client to do stretches and exercises focused on improving flexibility and decreasing discomfort. A couple of days each week, he does some of the stretches and exercises. But he scolds himself for not doing all of the exercises and for not doing them every day. I help him recognize that he does more now than he was before, and I have him consciously experience how his symptoms have improved. When all he focuses on is his failure, he feels negatively about himself and tends to skip the stretches altogether. Expecting perfection is unreasonable. Appreciating his positive changes encourages him to do more.


Where Did You Start?

I encourage you to make a written record of how you used to feel. Write down what you recall about symptoms and issues from the past. This gives you something to compare with later.

Here are some things that you could put into your personal "Before" record. The options are infinite. This record is exclusively for your use. What would it be helpful for YOU to include?

- Photographs of your body, and of symptomatic areas, if this is relevant
- Lists of issues and symptoms. Include their intensity, frequency, what triggers them, etc.
- How you feel about your life and about yourself as a person. Are you satisfied or dissatisfied? Are you doing what you want to be doing? Do you have what you need?
- How do you feel about your health and about your body?
- Your weight and other numerical measures that are relevant. How do you feel about these issues?
- Do you diet? What sorts of foods do you eat? How do you feel about food?
- Do you exercise? What is significant to include about this?
- How well do you sleep? Number of hours per night.
- How do you feel about your relationships and friendships?
- What is relevant to record about your work? How do you feel about work?
- What is relevant to record about your financial status? How do you feel about money?
- How is your spiritual life?
- Are you learning and growing?
- How are you doing with your goals and dreams? Do you have action plans for accomplishing them?
- What are you doing to help yourself?
- Is there anything else?


Celebrate Your Successes!

Whether or not you have made a Before record, take time to evaluate your progress. Celebrate every success, large and small. Even if you have not accomplished as much as you think you should, acknowledge yourself for what you HAVE accomplished. A little celebration and a pat-on-the-back goes a long way towards encouraging future success.

Celebrate any time that you are successful in achieving something. Celebration is worth doing year-round.

Have a Wonderful Year of Growth and Success!
Remember to Breathe!
Sandra
Sandra Lynn Lee
Certified Healing Codes Practitioner
Miracle Inspirations
www.MiracleInspirations.com
sandra@MiracleInspirations.com

Everything in this newsletter is the opinion of the author and is provided for informational and educational purposes only. When information is drawn from outside sources, both credit and access to the source are given, when available.
Copyright 2010 Miracle Inspirations. All rights reserved.

Stuck in the Past vs. Living Now!

Have you ever felt upset about some event and been unable to stop thinking about it? Is there anyone who has NOT experienced this?? With all of the crises escalating in the world, increasing numbers of people are spending more time than ever before stuck in obsessive mind loops.

When you cycle repeatedly through thoughts and fears, you continually keep your mind and your emotions on the PAST. What went wrong, what could happen, what you did or didn't do, what he said or she said, what you should do or say next, . . . there is no end in sight. What a miserable place to be!

From that place, can you ever progress to feeling better? Can you take positive action? Actually, all you will attract into your life while stuck in negativity is more of the same. I challenge you to recall a time when you were successful in making significant progress while remaining stuck in obsessively negative thoughts.

Nobody wants to stay there. But sometimes, exiting this vicious cycle may be easier said than done. Most of us are familiar with The Secret, the Law of Attraction, affirmations, and positive thinking. Which are all ultimately about pulling your attention out of the negativity of the past and focusing on the positive experiences that you want to have. Has having this 'enlightened' knowledge made a difference in your life? Or do you continue to rehash the same old negative garbage from the past? Lots of people give themselves a hard time because they know all this stuff, yet remain stuck.

This single blog entry is insufficient for comprehensively discussing the topic of accomplishing the miracle of releasing the past. What I can do is give you a couple of simple and concrete things that you can do when you are stuck.

Simple & Concrete Things To Do

Become Aware

This is the very most important thing that you can do. All of the other steps described are dependent on your success in accomplishing this.

Until you are consciously aware of the nature of your thoughts and feelings, you will be absolutely unable to redirect them in positive directions. Only when you know that you are stuck in a morass of misery are you able to do anything to pull yourself out of it.

Intend to Change

Once you are aware that you are stuck, the next step is 1) to realize that it is possible to shift to a different perspective, 2) to want to shift, and 3) to intend to shift. This is actually several steps, which it could take you quite a lot of practice to get through. Keep at it.

Power & Freedom of Choice

More times than I could guess, I have been aware that I'm rehashing an old situation, and I even consciously think that I could just choose to stop being upset. But in that moment, I don't want to give it up. Part of me is invested in being pissed off, in being right, and in having what I want. I am consciously choosing to remain upset. Then when I'm tired of it, I choose to let it go and return to feeling good.

There is a huge difference between having awareness and consciously choosing to be upset, and reacting automatically and without awareness. Before I learned about this, I used to get really angry and frustrated, and I'd stay upset for weeks. Now, the relatively infrequent upsets I have are brief and mild. Because I am much more consciously aware of how I feel, and I always give myself the freedom to choose how to feel. I am ever so much happier.

The Power of Now

Eckhart Tolle's best selling book by that title discusses the value of keeping your attention on the present moment. It is really only from within the present moment that we can live truly consciously and intentionally.

It is impossible to have your attention on the present moment 100% of the time. Other thoughts will come. However, you can repeatedly bring your mind back to the present moment, so that over time, you are living in the present for a larger portion of the day.

Here are some simple ways to bring yourself into the Now. (I recommend Tolle's book, which covers far more than what I describe below.)

Awareness of Your Physical Body

The simplest and most basic way to bring yourself into the present is to focus your conscious attention on your physical body and its sensations. You can be ONLY in the present moment while you are focusing on these sensations. You cannot think about the past or the future, and you cannot remain angry, worried, or upset.

Here are a few of the countless methods for doing this. I encourage you to experiment and bring yourself into the present. Right Now.

1. Grasp one of your hands with the other. Put all of your attention into feeling the texture of your skin, its temperature.
2. Touch your face, your hair, your leg, etc. Put all of your attention into the experience, feeling every aspect of it.
3. Feel the weight of your body in the chair. Focus your attention on the meeting of your body and the chair's surface.
4. Take a deep breath. Feel the movement of air into your nostrils. Feel the air filling your lungs.
5. Feel the pulsation of your blood. Put your attention into feeling the pulse at your wrist. You may also be able to feel the movement of blood throughout your body, just by focusing your awareness on it.

Awareness of Objects & Other Beings

Bring yourself present while interacting with objects outside of your body.

1. Hold a pen (or any object) and put all of your attention into feeling its texture, shape, density.
2. Place your hand into running water. Feel the water and its movement.
3. Look at an object. Your hand, a book, anything. Bring yourself fully into the seeing, noticing everything. Texture, color, shape, size.
4. With all of your attention, feel the warm or coolness of the air around you.
5. Be fully in the hearing of a sound.

Here is a really amazing experience for you.
6. Hug another person or a pet. With your full attention, thoroughly experience the sensations and the emotions of this experience.

Have fun exploring the infinite ways of bringing yourself into the present moment.

How was That?

How did you feel when experimenting with these techniques? Had you been distracted or bothered before starting? Do you feel better now? Is your mind more clear? Are you more focused?

Doing this, what I am most aware of is Aliveness. I feel alive, aware, awake. I feel love, gratitude, happiness, peace, calm, . . .

Beyond Being in the Present

Are you ready for another step? Combine bringing yourself into the present with actively releasing stuck emotions and energy.

Breathe It Out

Are you able to identify the emotions that you are feeling? Do you know what is bothering you?
Now, are you ready to let it go?

Imagine that the emotion, the upset, the negative energy of the situation is stuck inside your body. Take a nice deep breath. As you breathe out, release the emotion and the negativity with the air. Maybe you can imagine, see, or feel that the energy being released is dark, heavy, sticky, . . . Breathe in nice clean, clear, light air. Breathe out heaviness and stuckness.

Wash It Away

This is similar to breathing it out. Wash your hands or take a shower. Release the stuckness and let it go down the drain.

Infinite Possibilities

There are widely varied techniques for healing, clearing, and/or reprogramming the past. I encourage you to explore and discover some that attract you. Skills you develop through practicing the basic techniques above will serve you well with whatever healing methodologies you choose. (Some of the healing methods that I use personally and have discussed in blogs include The Emotion Code and The Healing Codes. Feel free to contact me, if you have questions. sandra@MiracleInspirations.com)

Practice, Practice, Practice

Give yourself plenty of time to practice. Incorporating healing practices into your life takes commitment to yourself. Eventually, you will notice negative thoughts and feelings as they appear. They will come up less frequently, and you will release them quickly and easily.

Breathe! Live Now!

Sandra

Sandra Lynn Lee
Certified Healing Codes Practitioner
Miracle Inspirations
www.MiracleInspirations.com
sandra@MiracleInspirations.com

Everything in this newsletter is the opinion of the author and is provided for informational and educational purposes only. When information is drawn from outside sources, both credit and access to the source are given, when available.

Copyright 2009 Miracle Inspirations. All rights reserved.