self care

How To Overcome Fear and Uncertainty Using the Body

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It's time to let go of fear and boost inner strength, calm and gentleness.

When fear takes over, it impacts our happiness, and influences our decisions.

IT'S TIME TO LET IT GO.

Fear can deplete us of our energy so here I'll teach you 2 techniques that can help to boost the flow of that energy.

Chinese medicine teaches that when we have strong kidney energy we have a strong life force, or chi, energy. Fear is the emotion associated with the BLADDER and KIDNEY.

These two, water element organs, are all about flow.

While feeling fear is perfectly normal, and human, we don't want get stuck in fearful thoughts, especially when we're afraid that we're 'not enough' or 'worthy' of a fabulous life.

In this video Glenda Britton helps me to teach you how to use the body overcome fear and uncertainty by tapping on the K27 (Kidney meridian end point), and how to use the Taoist Healing Sound "Choo" to stimulate and support your kidney energy and to release fear. (It may look odd but it feels great).

→Here's the AFFIRMATION I used while tapping the K27 point: "I love and accept myself, even with my fears. I let them go now and choose trust, courage and calm."

Disclaimer: The content of this video is for information purposes and is in no way a substitute for professional medical care.

Further Reference: Donna Eden https://edenenergymedicine.com/ Mantak Chia https://www.mantakchia.com/treat-your-kidneys-well/ The Chopra Centre https://chopra.com/articles/qi-gongs-healing-sounds-practice

Lighten Up-Drop Insecurity and Doubt

"A rainbow is the product of physics working for your appreciation of beauty."  Kyle Hill

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I want each and every one of you to recognize that you have awesome talents. Now don't you deny it, or make excuses, because you've definitely got them.

Appreciation of your own talents and gifts might just require an attitude shakedown. Maybe you know they're inside you and yet you keep quiet about it.  Insecurity and doubt are two friends you don't want to have. I should know, I've been on that yo-yo ride for a long time but I'd like to say each day I feel stronger about kicking them to the curb. 

How do I do it?  Probably the same way you do, I find my community, my tribe, and within the safety and laughter, I LIGHTEN UP and let go of the need for perfection or fear of failure. 

Take your imaginary binoculars and zoom in on your talents; ZOOM IN closely and you'll see that you have many talents. Now find a way to appreciate them. Laugh about them, celebrate them, nurture and allow them to grow.

If you're reading this and a little voice is saying "I can't think of a single talent, and we've all had many of those days, then I say to you, that you're looking TOO BIG. 'Cast the net' closer to home so you can step into APPRECIATION.  Maybe instead of feeling disappointment about not having a record deal or earning a living with your music, maybe appreciate that you play really well, or that you support other musicians or that your fingers move faster on the keyboard than before.

Somewhere we get caught in the COMPARISON TRAP and it can feel pretty stifling. Facebook, and social media in general, can really send you deep into that place of 'I'm not good enough'.

The secret sauce is to look at what you DO have going for yourself, not what's MISSING, because if there's one thing I know for sure is that if you focus on what's missing you'll just get more of the same. You've got this!