Trade Secrets

“The only difference between a good day and a bad
day is your attitude.
The choice is always yours.”
-Dennis Brown
Taking inventory is the first step in noticing the choices
you are making in your life. We are not victims to
our circumstances, we are responsible for handling our
stuff in a way that matches what we truly long for in
life. Meaning, it is not as much about what is happening
to you as it is HOW you are responding to what is
happening to you. This is where your choice comes in
and where you can begin to change your life to create
what you want. Take a moment to allow that in.
If you’ve actually found time to read this article in the
midst of this season, BRAVO, you are already making
choices to create peace in your life that lifts the spirit
and guides the heart.
Now let’s try something here, a little mindfulness
practice, right between the pages of fashion and fun.
You’ve got nothing to lose except maybe some stress,
aggravation and resistance. AND nothing to gain as
peace tranquility and happiness only lightens our load,
eliminates the burdens in our life and lifts us to freedom
from negative thoughts and chatter.
Guided Holiday Practice:
• Sink in to your body, noticing where you may be
holding any tightness or constriction and just breathe.
• Taking long, deep belly breaths and letting out all
that is not serving you, taking in another deep breath
allowing yourself a huge exhale noticing how that
simple breath and connecting with you, makes you
feel.
• You are doing wonderfully and now along with your
breath, pay attention to how you are sitting.
• Getting yourself comfortable where you can allow
the air in easily and with flow.
• And with each deep inhalation and exhalation you
are letting go and lightening the load of all that you
have been carrying.
• Giving yourself permission to sink into all that you
are, a beautiful being, full of many different intricacies
that make you special. Continuing with your breath as
you read.
• Pausing between the in and out breaths, knowing you
are taking this time for you because you matter more
than anything, your health, happiness and life is priority
here.
• Let’s create this space for you to put aside your
concerns and time constraints and just be without the
chatter of the outside world, meeting yourself again,
whatever that means to you.
• There is no right or wrong here, only you, showing
up exactly as you are. GOOD now I’d like you to
imagine this holiday season different for you, imagine
this time filled with peace and serenity.
• You are moving through the holidays with grace and
ease, doing and being all that you know you are. In
and out with the breath, breathing and reading.
• Who are you when you have peace? Breathing and
being. How do you handle the outside world? Taking
deep breaths and feeling calm and serene as you move
through this imagery.
• Excellent. Allowing yourself to receive this gift of
peace and tranquility knowing that you can create this
for yourself whenever you so choose. AND NOW continuing
with conscious breath, knowing that you are
about to close this exercise, take this relaxation you
have created for yourself into your body.
• Realizing you can access this whenever you want.
Pausing for a moment to soak in all that has shifted for
you, whether big or small. As small shifts create big
changes!
And now dear one, you are ready to go back out there,
into the holiday season choosing who you want to be,
deciding what you want to say and how you want to
treat yourself and others. And what if you lose that
alignment? You go back to your breath again, remembering
who it is that you want to say yes to, continuing
this every day until that practice becomes habit and
before you know it, you are living the life you have so
chosen.