Breathe Joy

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think.
When the mind is pure, a joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.
Buddha



Release the joy inside another and you realease the joy that is inside you.
Neale Donald Walsh



We need joy as we need air. We need love as we need water. We need each other as we need to earth we share
Maya Angelou

This morning, first thing- it was very early. I felt my sweet dog jump on to the bed right next to me. He put his face next to mine as if to gently awaken me. I remained lying there for a moment - allowing myself to feel the amazing joy that was coursing through my body, tingling, sparkling, oscillating and renewing me. All from a short moment of bonding with Bo.

These moments are priceless. Joy is priceless. Whatever we can do to generate a sense of joy is priceless. "We need joy as we need air" We need to breathe joy.

All positive emotions create more positive emotions. That is the law of attraction in action. As I am writing this have put my ipod on shuffle and decided to see what it wants me know..... "I will sing your praises, I will sing your freedom song" - a song celebrating life, "we are eternal". The title of the song is "Inner Flight". I could take this as conincidence- and I know better. The world is constantly reflecting back to us, mirroring us- in every moment. So right now the Ipod is the world reflecting back my own emotions. I am the one who is receiving the information- and creating within myself the overflowing pot of JOY.

It is so easy for us all to forget what it is that brings us Joy. A client recently said to me- that she had not reallized how 'dry' her life had become. What she meant was that in her attempts to "get things under control- take action and not procrastinate" she has totally stifled the joy out of her life. She was not allowing herself to feel joy. There is the key- she was NOT ALLOWING. When we deny ourselves the life force in our beings- when we shut it down in an attempt to "get a handle on things" we also shut down our creativity- we stop breathing. "We need joy as we need air". This is not living!

How do we allow Joy? How do we even realize when we are not allowing Joy? (please note the song now playing - The Miracle of Love!)

Practice #1 - Do you have time for Joy?
Take a deep breath- allow yourself to find a space inside to take a moment. Now take a moment to look at your day. Ask yourself how many times have you missed the chance to feel joy? Perhaps your kid or dog invited you into a playful moment - but you were too 'busy'. Perhaps there was something funny on the radio- but rather than listen you had to 'do" something else. or maybe it was that your friend called to tell you something sweet, but you let it go to voicemail. Busy-ness and the attemtpts to control our lives kills the joy. We have to make time to feel the positive emotions. We have to notice them...and notice the opportunity for them.

Practice #2- Breathe the Joy
Now take a deep breath- let go of whatever it is that you need to do right this moment. All the 100's of things that could pull at your attention. That want you to deal with them. Now take a prescious moment- and bring light to yourself. Allow yourself to feel the energy inj your body, take a moment and look around the room you are in- even if it si your office- look and find something that gives you joy- it could be the way the light is coming through the window, it could be your co-worker who is sweet, silly, annoying- whatever it is find the JOY for a moment. Become an expert at finding the Joy...become a joy receiver- tune yourself to Joy!!! Turn up the light on your Joy....allow it to be radiant. For this moment. And notice what happens inside your body. Joy heals......Joy creates more Joy- this is no mistake- and the positive emotions are regenerative......

Now.....
Notice the Joy card- the kids who are on the front of the card are a profound reminder of the tenacity and prevailing nature of JOY. These kids are living in the most terrfying country in the world- in the midst of war and terror, and yet even they can allow Joy.

I invite you to be JOY to day- to breathe it into your being at every opportunity. To take the time to unlock in another Joy- for the in the act of giving we so deeply receive.

Breathe Joy today.......

Breathe Potential

We are the potential of greatness in every breath.





We all have the extraorinary coded with in us waiting to be released - Jean Houston


Each one of us is truly unique. Like an acorn seed contains within it a blueprint of all the information for the oak tree it will become. Each one of us also contains all the information needed to become ourselves. We are potential unfolding...Anything is possilbe.



Today Hilary Clinton went to visit one of the most dangerous places on the planet Goma in the DRC Congo. I celebrate her courage in doing this. What is the potential for this tortured and ravaged country to heal. Whatever the criticsim of her maybe I do stand up and acknowledge her for actually going to face the situation. she cant fix it - that is for sure- but i do believe that each one of us does have a hand in changing the story.......


The only way forward is for the world to join together in changing the realilty - and create a new story for Congo. This a grand vision- and yet I know from my own experience of being in the DRC that the potential for healing is there- In each child-in each woman. We need to Breathe the Potential of healing into our world. We need to be agents who are willing to release into the world our own potential in service of - Global Wellness....



In every moment we are unfolding- each thought that we have, word that we speak, action that we take, is in essence an opportunity for us to release our innate potential. We choose this. We create this.


Potential is in each one of us- We may all have certain family histoires, genetic histories- and yet science, and intuition show us that we are not bound by our culture, our family, or our biology. We are not fixed beings- we are not closed systems. We are open, fluid and ever changing. We are in every breath filled with possiblity for something magnificent and unprecedented to take shape.



How many times do you catch yourself telling yourself a story based on the past? Based on who you were? Today I worked with a client who is still living out the story of beinig a kid who had to fight his Dad because it was the only way he could survive in a hostile abusive childhood home. This story happened 20 years ago. But it might as well still be happening now- it is still his story. In re-creating this story over and over agian- my client is remaining trapped inside of it- and can only live according to this truth. At this point he is struggling to overcome this and to step into the reality of who he is today- His true potential as a fine, loving and compasionate human being.




Practice #1 - Hear the Story's you are telling yourself....
Right now take a BREATH and slow down- allow yourself to stop and to find a place inside yourself which is like a viewing platform where you can just take in the landscape- as if you are about to take a photo.

Now allow there to be a picture, a memory, a story to come into your view- its one of the most popular stories you retell yourself about yourslef. It is an archive of a point in history. Start to see this story playing out- and notice what happens to you- are you attached to this story- what does the story give you?


One client told me of seeing herself as a kid in a home where her mum was sick and where there was chaos and no structure- everything felt crazy. As an adult she retold this story often to herself, she made this mean that she could not tolerate stress. She used the story to justify this in herself. To back it up! It was the reason that even today she would start to feel anxious and out of control if her world got disordered. What she did to stop this feeling? She held her breath and tried to control everything. The result was - that she did not allow herslef to do things that she wanted becasue they were "too scary".


Notice your favorite oldies----look at them with affection like old movies- and now with a BREATH decide which one is actually limiting you now in your potential- in the person that you are inside.


Breathe Potential now- you contain all the information to be yourself- it is simply that you are needing to release this. Letting go of an old story about who you used to be is like clearing out the closet. You can try on the old clothing- remember when you wore it- even feel sentimental about it- but if it doesnt fit who you are today then you dont need to keep trying it on.....Its ok to let it go and start to tell a new story about yourself.


I invite you to clear out the closet today- find one old story and try it - notice who you in the story and then find anew story to tell- its a style make over at the soul level.....

For more Breathe Potential Practices please look out for the BREATHE HARMONY 90 DAY PROGRAM.......it will be available very soon as an ebook!

Blessings to you all.....

Breathe Emptiness Presence

Breathe Empty Presence

If a cup is already full then there is no room for any more to poured into it- Only through emptying the cup can we be open to receiving more.

If all you did was breath in eventually you would explode!!!!!

Only through emptying out can we truly find the peace......the pause after the out breath has been let go - before we breath in again- this is the empty space..........and inside the empty space we can find presence.

More more more more more more more more more more more more more more more more more more more more more more more more.................................this is the scream of our world...we all want, desire and demand....MORE.

Every where we look there is still more- more stuff to buy, more things to experience, more foods to taste more experience to have, more information to know. There is nothing wrong with more- only when it gets the point of making us sick. We all have had the experience of eating too much cake, drinking too much wine, (taking too many drugs) - there comes a point where even the most enjoyable experience can become too much.

We are adverse to being Empty- we are always seeing to fill ourselves with something- On a recent trip to South Korea I was wondering around Seoul- taking in the delights of the city. It is an exemplary Asian city- full of well oiled consumerism everywhere- you are being enticed to buy buy buy. Huge bill boards with fast moving videos mesmerize you as you walk down the streets. here you can buy everything - 24 hours a day....In the midst of my walking I stumbled into an oasis- it was a central office of the Korean Zen Buddhist temple stay program. This is a program that gives Westerners a chance to go and stay in Korean temples to receive the Dharma (teachings). Imagine being in a techno charged city and suddenly being enveloped with quiet. Space.

Despite all the busy-nessand non stop-ness there is also SPACE. in fact it is something that I have noticed many times in the days that i travelled in japan and Korea- they know how to leave space- big big expansive areas of open space. Where there is nothing to clutter they eye- the mind- where there is SPACE to breathe......

Back at the zen center I am greeted calmly, gently , kindly by Sally the information worker- and we take tea together. In the midst of our connection we find ourselves talking about depression- the merits of western and eastern medicine practices. She told me that the only answer for her has been to empty out her heart and to allow it to fill with joy. "i can only do this from a place of emptiness.. other wise there is no room for the joy to come in- i have to make space for it first"

As we were talking we were both performing the ritual of tea drinking. If there is one thing that can give me the greatest pleasure it is tea...drinking it, preparing it, looking for it- i am die hard tea lover.....so bear with me( I even once did a stint working as a tea tasting assistant back in the day...seriously!) First you pour hot water into the tea pot- allow the tea to steep. Then pour a certain amount into your cup. then pour the rest into a bowl. Put more hot water into the tea pot. Sip from the cup - empty it out- our tea from the bowl into the cup. And repeat. Are you getting the picture and significance of this ritual??? Its the constantly filling up and emptying out- I am taken by this symbol of one the great teachings. In this moment i am so deeply in tune with the apparent contradiction and paradox of emptiness being fullness....... in order to be full you have to empty-

When we are in discomfort, when we are feeling bored, in pain, distressed the first thing most of us do is to reach for something to take the "bad' experience away. Most of us stop Breathing - that much is for sure- this is one way of avoiding having to feel anything at all.....

For years I have specialized in working with addictions (to everything). I have been fascinated by our apparent need to crave, desire and yearn for good feelings and to abhor, reject, and go into aversion for "bad" feelings. what most of avoid is simply being with the feeling- or sitting and allowing ourselves to become empty. As Sally said it is only through getting quiet and letting go of my mind and opening my heart that i can empty out all the sadness and be ready to have there be joy instead.

Practice #1: The Experience of Breathing Fullness

I know- its sounds strange- but I have found in my work with clients that it is easier to start with the full feeling- So in whatever way you want let yourself feel yourself as full- So take a moment to imagine a time when you felt so satiated and full - could have been a good meal, a beautiful view, a great talk with a friend, a wonderful love making session with your partner- whatever it was that had you feel full- and alive. Let yourself recall this experience fully- feel your body and notice what happens in your fullness.

Now as you breathe let your attention go to your out breath- as you breath out imagine being able to empty out. Place your hand on your belly and let the breath move out from your belly, then release it from your diaphragm, and then your chest. As you do this hold the image in your mind of emptying out- like water pouring out of a cup.... let your self feel the emptying out. repeat this for the next few breaths. allowing your mind to become still.

Breathing Empty presence is an invitation to make space for not knowing- in the space where we are empty we are able to to not know. The gift of not knowing is that it opens up the possibility of the unexpected to happen.

Practice Breathing Empty Presence today- allow there to be a few moments of emptying out......

The top secret to Beauty from the inside out....

Breathe Beauty......

"Beauty is not in the face, it is a light in the heart." Kahil Gibran

"Beauty is in the heart of the beholder" Al Bernstein

We are as a culture obsessed with beauty- we are constantly seeking to make ourselves more beautiful. Beauty is a multi billion dollar industry. I am not impervious, I am a happy consumer of beauty- I am happy to play in the realm of make-up, clothing. style, image- but that is not all there is.....I love to play with as an expression of an inner beauty, as an expression of beauty not as a way to hide what other wise I might deem to be unattractive or ugly.

I have worked for many years with women and men on issues of attractiveness, body image, eating disorders, and other compulsive addictions aimed at trying to manipulate their bodies to be more "beautiful". More often than not- the procedures, the excessive weight loss, attempts to mask that which we don't like, results not in more happiness- but in more dis-ease. We are plagued with the compulsion and desire to change yet another aspect of our bodies to comply with the "idea" of what is deemed beautiful. And yet my experience, over the years, is that the obsession with the external 'beauty" or "perfection" is more truthfully connected to feeling ugly,unlovable , self loathing or self hatred on the inside. The obsession with trying to focus attention on making the outside look a certain way is simply a mask for the inside that does not feel well.... Not feeling beauty inside is the issue.......and being beauty is an inside job!

I had a young woman client, Stella,who was obsessed with the size of her breasts- so much so that she hated her body- would not date, let alone have sex, her "happiness' revolved around not feeling beautiful. Stella ended up, after much thought, having a breast implant surgery. After an incredibly painful recovery- she still was not happy. They were not big enough- they did not change how she really felt about herself....Stella still didn't feel beautiful.....

Real beauty is indeed a quest...and one that we are told is something that we can acquire- Certainly the right hair, make-up, clothing can all add to the visual image of beauty. I am all for a make-over and do not shun the fashion world-In fact i love it for its inventiveness, art and expression...However, I would much rather work with clients from the inside out. Beauty starts on the inside- breathing beauty means cultivating a place of beauty within.

So how do we really "feel beautiful"? For when we feel the beauty, we exude the beauty, we see beauty, we breathe beauty, WE BECOME BEAUTY.....

Whats the Biggest Beauty Secret of ALL?

One thing has become so very clear to me- the biggest beauty secret that any of us could ever wish to practice is the nurturing and cultivation of a peaceful, open heart. if most of use puts as much focus on the beauty of inner world as we do on appearing beautiful to the outer world the balance would shine from us. You know when you see the beautiful glow of a pregnant woman- as she walks around growing new life in her body- this glow certainly comes from the hormones that are being released in her body- but more than that it is also often times her inner state of loving her baby who is growing inside her that is creating an inner sense of beauty that is radiating out through her body. Thankfully this is not the exclusive right of only pregnant women- we can all choose to feel beauty inside...and to create the optimal inner universe which can be a fertile place for beauty to grow.....

We can create inner beauty- through choosing to Breathe Beauty- as we consciously choose to feel beauty inside by creating a state of peace and harmony, we quite literally are in the active process of renewing, revitalizing, relaxing and rejuvenating our energetic systems. The inner spa is one that of course comes shining through in our hair, nails, skin, eyes, and general health- Beauty is holistic- it is a state of being not a state of doing......

So how do we walk the beauty way?

There is a Navajo prayer:

Always walk in Beauty

ahead of me....

Always walk in Beauty

behind me....

Always walk in Beauty

above me....

Always walk in Beauty

below me...

And All around me...

Always walk in Beauty

I have added one stanza to this.....

Always walk in Beauty

within me.......

Practice #1 Feel the Beauty

Part of accessing a sense of beauty is to utilize all of our sense- Our five sense are what relay to us all the information about the world around us- they are what give us our experience of the world. Part of experiencing internal beauty is to be able to drink in beauty- This act of nourishing ourselves with the beauty of the world around us is one way to activate and cultivate a feeling sense of beauty. Once we have this sense we can start to practice looking through the heart of beauty at the world....

So......

Find a flower- could be your favorite flower - even if you think you don't much care for flowers find one anyway...and be open to the experience....

Take the flower- and first really look at it- the color, the shading, the way the petals curl or lay, the stem, the inside of the flower, see everything about this flower and let yourself really be moved by the vision of beauty..let yourself become intimate ( yes i did say that!) as Rumi would say allow yourself to be loved by the flower.....

Now- touch the flower, feel the texture of the petals on your fingers, go ahead and let your hands really feel the sensuality of the flower, the delicacy, the smoothness..whatever the sensation is enjoy it..revel in it and notice how you feel......

Move the flower close to your face--allow yourself to begin to notice the fragrance...how does it make you feel, what do you notice inside your body. Breathe in the beauty of this flower in its scent no matter how delicate or strong..allow it to inform you of beauty..it is telling you a secret of beauty that it wants you to have.....remember we are practicing the beauty way here....

You could also do this with the other two sense of taste and hearing- have you ever listen to a flower- may sound bizarre - but once again i invite you to really allow for the incredible to happen the unexpected.....many composers have written music about flowers, trees, clouds, beaches, oceans, stars , planets the list goes on- the natural world is resplendent and abundant with ways for us to feel beauty....inside out.....

This is but one of many practices that we can do in order to become beauty....For more please go to http://www.planetbreathe.com/

"Beauty is in the heart of the beholder". That which we see with the eyes of beauty becomes beautiful....and that starts with ourselves. Breathe Beauty from the inside out today and notice how this can change how you feel....

I am available for "Beauty-Inside-Out Make Overs" Where we focus on matching the outside with the inside...and dressing for an expression of authentic true beauty within...- please feel free to contact me with your interest:

elayne_doughty@hotmail.com

Breathe Vision

A vision is a vision because it feels signifcantly beyond our reach- that's the point...visions are the guiding lights of our inspired imaginations.......they invite us to stretch beyond that which we have previously believed possible....

Every day I meet poeple in person and on the web who are living what could be called extra-ordinary ordinary lives- they are like you or me...simply going about life.....and yet inside they hold a vision for a better world, a more peaceful world, a more loving world. They hold visions for the cure to cancer, for healing from brain injury, for recvoring from addiciton. they hold true to their beliefs that no kid should go hungry, that violence agianst women needs to end... and each day they take actions in their own lives to make this so. These people are like you and me everyday visionaries. Here I am thinking of a wonderful woman that I know who is a true and compelling athlete- her unserving focus and visions for her own excellence are always inspiring others to have their own visions...and to reach for the greater than imagined in their own lives....

Being a visionary is not something that is limited to the chosen few- just as being an artist isn't either. The ability to vision new ideas and possiblities is within each and every one of us. Like everything else it is something that can be practiced! Breathing Vision into your life allows for the out of the ordinary to happen in very ordinary ways. Breathing vision creates the space for that which you would never have thought of, to become something that instills itself as a guiding light in your heart...

Last night I had a conversation with an amazing woman visoinary that I know who is a humnitarian aid worker serving the women of the Congo as a Gender-based violence advisor. Her vision is a strong and courageous one- to be an advocate to end sexual violence. See thats a big vison right? She was sharing with me how hard it is to keep her vision alive in a place where there is so much terror, darkness and corruption. She talked about how hard it is to keep the energy and feeling that she could hold a vision for anything to change. I could feel her lonliness with this tremendous task that she has commited herself to. As we talked it occured to me that it is one thing for us to be courageous to have a vision in our lives- whatever it may be- and quite another to be able to follow through with the vision in the face of adversity and challenge.

I was compelled to reach out to her and ask her if i could be a holder of her vision- so that she did not need to be so alone with this... I share her vision here in the knowing that a vision shared is a vision that becomes more focussed and more easily manifested...

Brandi's Vision: "My vision to be serving the women of the Congo in an organization where I am appreciated, and compensated and challenged. To grow in my field, as a gender based violence advisor andproject co-ordinator. To be sadfe and protected."

Now we may not all be living in such extreme circumstances as war torn Congo-facing these kinds of challnges in our visions.. .. yet for all of us there is a challenge in holding true to our visions. Once we have connected with a vision and start to lilve our life in alignment with it we inevitably discover that we can't do it alone....we need to not only hold our visons but be held in our visions. Whatever they are.

Practice #1 Getting out of your own way....embracing the visonary that you are...

Take a moment to call in a vision that you have- it could be anything-anything that has ever boethered you- that you have felt compelled towards wanting to change? It could be a cause, it could be an invention, it could be a service of somekind, it could be just about anything that in some way adds heart value, practical help, deeper meaning, joy ....to your life and the lives of others.When asked to focus on a vison that you have for yourself, family friends, or world..what hapens? Are you flooded with thoughts of the improbablity of the vision? Now notice what happens- do you stop breathing? Do you feel like you dont know what your visionis? Do you feel you dont have vision.. or is it easy for you. No matter what response you have - be with it. Breathe into the possiblity that you are the receptor of your own visions- and that each one of us is uniquely important in our contribuition. Are you wondering what vision you could possibly hold?

Pracitce #2- Sharing the Vision

Once you are out of your way- you can actually find the way to name what some of your visions are....You need to be supported by others in these wonderful visons. Remember we are not alone with what we vision. It is in the process of sharing them that the can become energized and you just never know who you are talking to....or what they might add of such great value to your vision.....

So the incitation today is to find someone - and to share with them your vision and to ask them what thier vison is. Invite this conversation and Breathe life and energy into your visons no matter how large or small... Invite the privelege of being a vision holder for another- this is an extremely important and wonderful way to create connections...

So in the spirit of sharing here is one of my visons: I see a way to to actively co-create with as many poeple as possible through the internet- to create communites of empowerment so that we can all share the incredible resources that we have. Another is to connect amazing women all over the world in a web of support and empowerment...yet another is see world peace.....Now these are my guiding lights. They give me the purpose to become inspired in my imagination of the ways that I may be able to create this vision....And invite me to risk being in relaitonship with a world where many manhy others share my vision....

I invite you to breathe vision today andto know that thoughts become reality through our visions, andinspired imaginations.....

Breathe Equanimity

Equanimity-

The quality of being calm, balanced, having composure..

Everything that is created on the outside is first created by a thought on the inside. "Time for silence and stillness is not time wasted! Surrender to this silent. empty canvas on which you can consciously create" (Spillsbury - 13 Mooon Oracle)

How did your day start? What was the first thought you had this morning when you got up? What was the feeling tone of your first breath? Do you remember? Our first thoughts and feelings create the tone for the movie of our day....

This morning I awoke feeling peaceful - I was singing, cleaning the kitchen, making fresh orange juice- all was well with my world. I was breathing equanimity- feeling the internal sense of all is right with my world: calm, peaceful, centered...

Then...I saw the post on the side- I took the envelopes and opened them- not really paying attention I took a look at the first one...it was from the police...a notification that I owed about 250.00 for a speeding ticket I had gotten months ago... Immediately I felt heat start to rise in my body- my heart rate increasing, I felt victimized, angry, put upon and worst of all angry with myself.

Suddenly out of nowhere came the old old voices: "You are so stupid, why didn't you pay more attention, now look what you have done, now you need to be punished for this" .....such was the familarity of these old patterns that for about 30 minutes I was stuck in a reactionary loop - pretty much ruining my day....Where had my previous positive, feel good mood gone? I was now living in my own hell- a loop of bad feeling cruising through my system.... Now where was that elusive equanimity?

I know that I am not the only one who has these experiences- I work with clients everyday who have similar struggles when faced with experiences that are stressful- what we would call unpleasant. we get readily attached to having these experience not only define us but also imapct how we see our day. In the law of attraction we are setting ourselves up for more of the same......So what to do..we need to find ways to re-balance...to hit the reset button!

Practice #1 On the out breath!

Well first things first- If you find yourself in this kind of loop....unable to stop the downward spiral...on the train to your own personal hell realm....this could be a practice for you!

Take a breath, and begin to imagine releasing the toxins of these thoughts right out of your body. On each exhale conscisouly choose to let go of your thinking, you can imagine these thoughts actually dissolving in front of your eyes. Imagine that these thoughts are in in fact toxins and that each breath is a way to clean out your insides.

Practice #2: Take a Shower!!

Ok maybe not practical - but if it is you can go and literally take a shower- and focus your awareness on the sensation of the water hitting your body. Then with your mind actually imagine that you can let the thoughts be washed right out of you- as the water is able to refresh and clean your mind, body and spirit......In every culture there are rituals of cleansing and bathing- these are not simply for the cleanliness of the body- but also of the energetic system, the auric field. Feel the way that the water can conduct negativity out of you system. Similar to being with a waterfall where you can feel the energy being ionized by the water- A shower does the same thing....

Practice #3: Invite Stillness and Balance

Breathe Equanimity- as you breath in imagine your focus on a blue pool of water- It is very still and mirror like, deep sapphire blue in colour- Imagine that this is where you are sitting and allow yourself to begin to calm. In this space allow your mind to become empty - apart from this cooling, calming, blue poolof inward quiet....

No matter what your environment is, no matter what outside stressors come your way (speeding tickets included!) you can choose to Breathe Equanimity- you can choose to find the way back to a place quiet, relaxation and awareness....It is a practice for sure!

An invitation to you today is to notice stress, upset and the heat of irritatin aan to bring the cool breathe of equanimity to yourself. Allowing your body, mind and spirit to de-stress is the best gift you can give yourself....practice this each time you get off balance!

Breathe Strength

Breathe Strength

Strength is to generosity what compassion is to love. Strength..just feel what happens when you let this word roll of your tongue. As you say it out loud how does your body, mind and spirit respond? What is its vibrancy in your being? What does this tell you about the quality of strength? Feel it in your spine, in your heart. I am finding myself sitting upright, finding the gravity of my own back bone...feeling my center. There is a steadfast quailty, a grounding in, a sense of noble knowing. Notice what happens to your own body.- When does strength become fixed and rigid and more like arrogance and "rightness". When is strength in service of the higher good, when it is tamed- when does brute strength become noble strength?

Breathing strength is an invitation to feel your center- your core, your ability to take the raw vital life force of protection, tenacity, perserverance, convition and be able to focalize its amazing fire inside your loving heart. Strength without heart becomes dagnerous at best and domination at worst. Strength with out generosity or compassion runs the risk of being untamed, unfocussed and in its ferocity may burn all who step close.

Have you ever felt yourself in the heat of your anger wishing to be of service to the higher good- of wanting to say something important- but found your self communicating in a way that simply burnt all those around you? Often times when we are feeling our strength it can be connected also to our anger- this is when the harsh light of our "truth" may in its ferocity damage somone. Breathing strength gives us the chance for us to take responsibility for our amazing life force energy to focalize it through the lens of our hearts before we choose to communicate in the world.

Finding our strength is an internal 'blissipline" (thank you Kat for passing this on to me!) it is commitment to feeling the deep power inside of ourselves and offering this power in service of the higher good. Strength is physcial, emotional and spiritual in nature..exploring our ability to live in our strength in a loving and compssionate way is a core spiritual practice. Breathing strength is the pracitce of staying heart connected as we move into our power.

The shadow side of strength can have many faces- control, domination, violence, negation of feelings. fixity, arrogance, or alternatively it can look like collpase, victimhood, lack of internal center, inability to say no, fear of staying the course,lack of responsibility in managing emotions. In our culture strength has been extremely genderized- how we understand strength is colored by our cutural obsession with the need to be the 'best'. To be somehow superior. To be strong implies that others are weak- indeed survival of the fittest is a core value of our cutural belief system. As we move in our evolution, strength becomes a virtue, a quality that is an alchemical distillation of complex emotions into a noble feeling state where there is a conviction based in humility and kindness.

Fierce compassion is a form of strength that we all need in our lives and in our world. Breathing strength is an invitaiton to look at all the ways that you may have misued or abandoned or negated your own strength. What are the beliefs that you have about being strong? And what happens when you hear the word weakness- how does your body respond? Do you collpase a littel or do you feel yourself rally? In noticing how we hold these different energies we are able to bring the focus of our awareness and the light of our heart so that Breathing Strength becomes a practice of subtle ferocity.

An invitaiton for today: think of someone you admire- who is the epitome of this kind of loving strength. How do they hold themselves in the world? I look to the Dalia lama- whose strength is loving kindness - Breathing strength is a practice of feeling and taking responsibility for our thoughts, words and actions...it is finding the way to communicate with conviction and love. Intend today to breathe strength in all your thoughts, words and actions..........

Breathe Generosity

Breathing Generosity!

Generosity- is such a lovely word I like how it feels when I say it- it warm and round and rich and abundant like expensive velvet or the color deep red, or the frangrance of deep roses. The roots of the word generosity lie in nobility and high birth- I am using it to denote a nobility of spirit- that knows it is in the giving that life's true treasures lie.

What does a generosity based life look like? I imagine it to be the only real way to harvest the true treasures of living abundantly. I have been writing extensively about the practice of abundance, in what some would call a great recession. This practice I am invite you into is- to make generosity part of your every day life. Breathe Generosity now!

Breathing generosity means seeing the opportunity to have not just "win win experiences", but experiences where you think of others first. This may seem like an odd invitation- and yet in thinking about a great opportunity for another, you put out into the world an energy of generosity that is bound to be reflected back to you. The treasures of a generous life are rooted in the act of giving- as we give we find we have more to give- when that giving is from a noble place with in us.

There is a shadow of giving and generosity-- All too often coercive acts can be disguised as generosity- How do we know the difference in ourselves and others? I was on a website the other day- about to buy something that told me it was free- then I scrolled down and it said - please note if you sign up for this free download you will be also signing up for our newsletter priced at 14.95 per month. My body reacted- i felt a contraction and a "yuk' feeling like i had almost been duped. The reason for this- was that i was offered something generously for free- and then just about as i was to get my so called 'gift' i was told it came with a price. It was not actually a free generous gift. Needless to say they lost my trust and my $.

So this brings up another question right? Is anything ever really selfless? I mean even if i do something for you- i still have an agenda right? Even if that agenda is to feel good about myself? It is important that we have the ability to feel into our generous acts- because if they are motivated by emotions other than generosity- like for example, power, greed, fear, scarcity - then what we will actually attract back to ourselves will be those experiences.

Practice #1- Noble or Not? Think about a time when you have given with the express desire of getting back - maybe it was a gift that you gave so that you could get a gift back, maybe it was because you felt like you had to give other wise others would think badly of you. What ever it is - we all have examples of the shadow of generosity in our lives. Take a moment to really bring the memory into your mind- and let yourself feel in your body how you know you were not really being generous- but rather you were self serving.....do you notice your belly tighten? your throat? Let yourself pay attention to this internal guidance system that just knows something is off...this is your golden opportunity - to get yourself back into alignment.

Practice #2 - How to recognize generosity! When you give freely you not only feel better, but that giving is returned to you. There is research to suggest that we actually gain more in terms of happiness and fulfillment by giving than by receiving- now isn't that interesting that we are wired that way? Take a moment to think about it- why would supreme intelligence have desgined us so? So that we ultimately feel more rewarded on a brain chemical level when we see the happiness of another- this is a purely relational experience. When we give to another we experience a flood of good feeling hormones into our system that promote bonding, positive thoughts and happiness. So we can surmise that the more often we give, the more we will be rewarded with good feelings and the more we will be motivated to give!

Think about a time when you KNOW that gave just for the pure joy of the giving- bring this memory into your mind- now feel your body- what happening- i wonder if you are smiling- its almost automatic- one of the treasures of true generosity of spirit is a genuine smile.

Practice # 3 Breathe Generosity today in your business, your family, with your friends, with a stranger- allow your self to think about what you might give totally freely- its time to practice that bumper sticker "practice random acts of senseless kindness" only these acts are far from senseless they actuallly create powerful way for us to change our world both inside and out. Find your opportunity today to pracitce breathing generosity towards another and notice how you feel-

One comment I got from this practice!

"I had been struggling with feeling fearful and waking up in the morning worried about my business- its been shrinking and all i can think is that things are not getting any better- I have been feeling depressed - not like me. I don't normally read this kind of stuff- but I got this forwarded to me and I read it- So I tried it- I normally feel a little burdened about giving my kids rides places - its never ending. Today I decided to let it go and be free and generous- not a big thing I know- but the difference it made! I got to enjoy being with my kids and their friends, I got to feel better, like I was doing something, I actually felt good. And they thanked me--they never thank me! I mean never!!!"

Have a blessed and generous day. I truly wish for you success, fullfillment and joy!

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Dont panic- Just breathe- We are all in this Together!

Last night I was attending a teleseminar course with Peggy Mccoll - a truly generous and gifted woman. I had hummed and hawed about signing up for the course- aferall what was i doing spending money when the economy is in such dire straits- could i really afford to do this..As I quieted myself I heard the following words "Dont panic about it- just take a breath!" So i got up and made a cup of tea ( i am english afteerall- and some habits are worth holding onto!!) Hot mug of tea in hand another question came to me- Can I really afford not to....Take a deep breath and take the plunge!

As I sat listening to her lightening struck in my own being. I heard her say that no one ever gets to where they are alone- no one ever becomes successful without the help of others. Sounds pretty basic right, i know, but in truth i am not sure that many of us actually realize that we are in this world, this current situation together.

In the current consensual reality where we are all told on a daily basis that we "struggling', every where we look there is signifcant evidence that there is not enough..that business are going under, that we are in a state of emergency and survival.... its hard to imgaine that there can be anything different...
As you read this.....
Take a moment to - feel it in your own body- Do you feel yourself start to tighten, yor chest, your jaw, your lower back or belly? Do you start to hold your breath? Do you feel your body contract- or close down a little? When we are told that there is danger, or that there is not enough- we all naturally start to contract into a state of FEAR. When we are in a state of fear we separate out- we start to see ourselves in a world where

I am making a direct invitation to you- What if there is enough? What if we see that this current contraction we are in is simply an invitation to Not panic and Just BREATHE and live into other possiblities-

What if the greatest challenge we have right now is to realize that "We are all in this together!" That we are all connected- that the thoughts we are collectively thinking are ones that we can also collectively change- Imagine - what would happen if we all right this moment decided, that despite the numbers and figures that we are being given - we choose to know that there is enough for all of us. How would you change the way that you are moving through your day? Would you breathe more easily? Would you be a nicer person to yourself? Would you be a happier, Would you enjoy more...would be more creative and successful? Would you take more risks? Would you say yes more often? Probably you would right?

You know how when you start to think about something- the universe (collective field!) has this way of just reflecting it back to us from everywhere? Well this last week as i have been serioulsy considering how we can all "Help One Another" I have been listening and working with clients on the very same isseus:

Sounds really basic right- we all have to ask for help, support, guidance, direction, feedback, advice- Well it is basic only for many of us asking for help is not somethng that we think we can do, belive that we will receive, or in some cases think we are worthy of.


Right now i think that we are collectively in a massive growth cycle- we are being asked to deal with the changing economy- a changing world- as the internet grows in its capacity- technology is changing our lives at a faster and faster rate- we are literally being catapaulted into a planetary collecitve relationship- This is the age of information- But really isee it as the Age of Interelatedness- We are getting to see the immense power of relationship- and it is in recognizing this that we will learn how best to embrace this new world we are living in.
So in the spirit of this i invite all of you to take a moment to recognize that we are all connected and that our decesions be based on what is in the highest good for us all- I know that supporting you is the way that i will gain support....!

Breathe Awareness

The Healing Matrix- we are all part of it.

Check out this wonderful link at the end of the blog...to hear some of the most inspiring and grounded Doctors talk about the future of health care-

What does it mean to be well or healthy and how do we create this inside oursleves. Over the years what has been proven is that in 30% of cases a placebo works just as effectivley as the actual medecine prescribed. A placebo is a pill that is given thatis simply a sugar pill with no added medicatin in it... . The medicatin is simply in the prescription..It is simply the suggestion that this will help you - that indeed helps you.

So here we see that the process of healing is in the power of your mind and body together. The way you think about something is crucial to how you will experience it. The invitation for the future of our collective well being is to ask the question: "What is it that creates the optimal healing system" in other words what are the ways that i can create a system of healing within myself- with my daily practices- A system that automatically tunes me to a moe healthy, ewmpowered and vibrant way of living- where i have more energy, more vitality, and more bliss..

Daily practices build upon one another creating circuitary in the brain that in the end results in new beliefs, expereinces and realities being created. We choose what we think. We choose how to feel- we can change how we feel about something - and in doing so alter how our central nervous system reacts- This is incredibly powerful information- STRESS is the number one killer- it is the main cuase of debilitaintg diseases of mind, body and spirit...

The invitation today is to breathe awareness- when we breathe into our own awarenss of what is true for us we can open new doorways - for understanding new ways to live....

Right now truly allow yourself to consider the idea that you create your own health- and that you need to be an active participant in creating an internal sense of well being that automatically deepens your own happiness and bliss.......

Breathe Awareness-

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Do you ever get overwhelmed?

Dont panic just take three deep breaths..and then put the kettle on!

I remember my Grandma telling me this when I got cut as a kid- it was quickly followed by lets put the kettle on...( I am after all English!)

Little did I know that as adult I would find my self as a psychotherapist building a whole practice around just that. Every day i listen to my clients tell me about how much stress life is- just trying to fit it all in- whatever it is that they are all doing-

The topic de jour is of course the terrible state of the economy. I know... I know my last two posts have been all about abundance...breathing into the possiblity that we can change our thoughts and our world....hum

Well today.... I have been given a challenge by a client who said ok...

"Great Elayne but what if i cant even get anywhere close to that place you are talking about - you know the one where everything feels hunky dory? In fact what if all i feel like doing is reaching for my familiar way to numb to and just not think about all this any more..."

Well in this case the person talking is a recovering addict and the way of numbing that they were talking about was crack. However, my bet is that when any of us feel overwhelmed we want to reach for the drink, tv, potatoe chips, ice cream what ever our particular drug of choice is! to ease the panic - the "I cant cope" feeling inside.....

So here is where Grandma steps in- and she says - "now now don't panic take a breath- lets see what else we can do here! "

So lets do it- really...no point talking about it

I invite you take a couple deep breaths and as you do to simply see yourslef letting go- letting go of trying to solve anything....

When we take a breath it literally slows things down- it signals to our central nervous system that things are ok- Stress on the other hand signals the opposite- In essence what I see is that many, if not most of my clients whatever their issues, all have one thing in common they are STRESSED.

In a state of stress your body is told "run for your life!" Literally all systems are firing and we are operating in a state of emergency..... I have to smile everytime i am in the airport in the USA and I hear we are operating on a code yellow security imperative......

thats right we are all edging between code yellow and red....Phew..

Heres something to try- next time you watch the news...notice what happens to your body- do you feel it tightening, a frown on your face, your jaw locking, your breathing getting more shallow or even holding your breath? As you are bombarded with the woes of the world do you feel how this affects you? This is the kind of stress that we all take for granted...its part of being alive...

So lets see what else- oh keeping up with phone calls, emails, my sapce, linkedin, facebook and now there's twitter, uploading, downloading, (imploding) keeping well and fit, eating healthy, making money, taking care of kids, having fun, praying, driving in traffic, the list goes on and on and on.....

I read something the other day where the author spoke about his idea that as we make the shift into this informtaion age we are bombarded with so much information that our brains can not handle- infact our "donkey" of a brain is moving way too slow to assimilate and manage all this...

So right now notice are you breathing- i am not...

so lets take a Breath and literally start to be wise managers of our own internal system....

I invite you to make it a practice every 30 mins to an hour to take a two minute breather.....

to stop...and do nothing..allow there to be a pause - like rebooting the comptuer- coz you all know if we run too many programs no matter how much RAM we have eventually the damn thing will freeze (yet another response to overload!!)

have a beautiful breathing day!

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Breathe Appreciation

Breathe Appreciation - Abundantly!

Abundance- it is everywhere-notice what happens when you read these words- do they pass you by? What do you think? What does your body feel? Do you resist the idea, embrace it or simply deeply agree? Whatever your reaction is don't judge it simply see it.

It is easier today to think thoughts about the lack of abundance- Every time I switch on the news there it is-the stark reality- GM going bankrupt- British Airways to lay off 1500, on and on...

When we are being saturated with all this so called reality how can we think any different....isn't it madness to suggest that there is abundance in this world at this point? I like so many others am being called into a new and more truthful relationship with understanding the enrgy of money.

How we think about money affects everything. How we think about what we have or dont have affects how we see our world. - Remember here- our beliefs are simply thoughts that we keep thinking over and over again until they become reality for us. They are like a recording- we are recording all day long every since we have been born here. Do you realize though that you are the master recorder and that you can choose what to record, edit, delete, or even re-record. This a simple outline for changing how you think and when you change this you can see the results in how your life changes.

You are what you think you are....

So if we continue to think and record thoughts like: i dont have enough, there is not enough, i am not going to make it, where will the money come from, i have not money i dont have enough--

these thoughts enjoy company and so other thoughts that match these come up and pretty soon we are in a downward spiral all the way to a place where we feel like there is no hope...This place simply attracts more of the same- misery loves the company. Then we see the world as a bleak place full of lack, empty of prosperity. Its compelling- Especially when every one else is doing it- How can we refute the figures?

Good so we can agree-

that thinking and recording these thoughts leads us to feel bad- lacking in energy and hope- so at some point we have to arrive at a place where we can see that there is a turn around- Follow the downward spiral of despration and at some point you will run into a thought that feels slightly better, that can bring a smile to our lips:

"I dont have enough, i never have enough, especially now how can i, its not going to work, i am scared , this is making me anxious, i dont knwo what to do, i fell afraid, and stuck, everyone is stuck what can i do....all i can do is laugh.....ok good....now feel the laugh that comes.....its absurd, this is not the way i want to be, laughing feels better, i cant control or change anyone else, i can only do something about the way i think, i feel a bit better,, there is some hope, i can do something, ok now this is better, lets see what do i have...ok yes thats it.....now lets see what can i appreciate in this moment...what can i find that makes me feel even better what ever it is...."

Ok so we see that we can follow the feelings and thoughts until we hit on one that can make us feel slightly better and then we build on this- we nurture that genuine feeling of being slightly better. Finding ways to deepen it increase it....feel it...thats the commitment - the willingness to stay with what feels better.

We have to be willing to move towards that which feels better...

Breathing Appreciation: Yesterday I wrote about a gratitude practice- this next practice builds upon the feeling good factor. Appreciation is the deep alignment of you with you- When you are in appreciation there is an absence of struggle, resistance, fear, doubt, hatred, self denial- all those things that make you feel bad. There is the presence of all the things that make you feel good. We become what we practice- lets go back to the idea that we are constantly recording...so how does it feel to record appreciation:

Breathe.......

think about someone who you love- deeply- a child is helpful here or even an animal. Allow yourself to see them in your minds eye. Imagine them here with you. Start to notice what happens inside when you do this. When you call them into your vision. Notice your breathing (i just took a deep breath) notice how you feel, what comes to you- are you feeling more relaxed, more warmth- do you feel a certain softening- ok

good

you are moving into the state of love and appreciation- this state is magnetic, and infectious....living within this state is simply going to create more of it- this is the most basic law of our universe - the law of attraction.

Now

back to Abundance-

this starts with deeply appreciating what we already are- and by virtue of that what we have....

intention of the day- to Breathe Appreciation .....

I am deeply appreciating the opportunity to write this and be another resonant voice of prosperity and healing on the planet...Planet Breathe here at your service....

Breathe Abundance

Intention of the day: to Breathe Abundance - allow for the possibility that everything you need is right here right now....

Are you crazy?? All around the contraction is tightening- the so called trickle down effect is well in place. We are all being squeezed by the economic recession- the global slow down. Somehow in the last few days i have been feeling this reality nipping at my heels- its a strong consensus. Its hard not to believe this- not to become yet another victim to this thinking.

In this consensual reality How can we possibly believe that there is abundance? How can we possibly believe anything different? Well this is exactly the point - this very simple thought came to me- if there was money before and money is simply energy then there is money now- energy does not disappear it simply changes form- nothing in this universe simply disappears it can transform. to go along with this- we also know that we create our reality through our belief systems- our thoughts are the most powerful medium of creation.

So the challenge is to change our thinking- really - how many times a day are you worrying about not having enough- about the world that is running out of resources- about the idea that there is not enough money - or jobs, or health care- it leaves us feeling exhausted, depleted and at an all time low. From this place of course there is not enough- how can there be? if i am depleted by my own fear then i cant not create anything different.

It may seem mad to wander around telling yourself that you are prosperous and abundant when you seem to have nothing- however, the art is to find the truth within the statement no matter where you are. Our imagination is the strongest most valuable asset that we have- we can only create that which we imagine- So try this:

Take a deep breath, make that three deep breaths. Allow yourself to let go of your thinking mind for one moment...

Let yourself first feel grateful- for whatever it is that you have right now in your life- maybe your home, a warm bed, a bath, a good meal, a friend, a cool breeze- it really doesn't matter what it is - the important thing it to truly feel it. Feel yourself immersed inside this gratitude.

Great...

now feel a soft smile on your lips- and feel this smile radiating through your being- really the smile can enter into you and change the way you feel inside out.

Good...keep breathing...even if thoughts of not having enough come up let them pass...

Now allow yourself to be truly thankful for what you already have- focus only on what you already have- this creates inside you an emotional state of contentment, happiness..of having rather than not having. This state in the law of attraction will create more of this abundance-

Practice this daily- hourly....when ever you feel yourself stopping to breathe - i invite you to breathe abundance- gratitude- Breathe knowing everything you need is right here...

Breathing Peace- Cultures of Peace

Peace is something WE create or not. We have the power to choose peace and experience it.



Today as i sit to write i have just returned from the silken beach shores of Mauritius- an island of Peace. this tiny island is a place where there is an unbelievable blending of cultural richness- all living together with deep respect.

No its not a lie- here in the middle of the Indian Ocean, between India and Africa lies an island that has embraced a cultural diversity in the most peaceful way i have ever seen. In fact i am now imbued with a renewed sense of trust that Hindu, Muslim, catholic, can all co-exist not in tolerance but actual respect.



The Mauritians are a culture of warmth, generosity, grace and charm- Since gaining independence in 1968 - they have a Democratic elected government which represents fairly the interests of all different denominations on the island. most impressive is the education system- one where all faiths and languages are taught- where every kid learns of all the cultures on the island.



In my conversations with Mauritians i was surprised to learn of this peaceful life- where the quality of life is measured in relaxation- in kindness- and in a sense of well being- of course it helps that it is tropical paradise- that the immense physical beauty of the land holds each person with a breath of beauty- But it is not just that - there are many beautiful places on the planet - the Congo is one of them- but certainly not inherently home to a culture of peace.



After talking to Kavi our taxi driver about his thoughts he said- "its quiet here- we have a culture of being open and warm of talking with one another- of opening up our houses- we like to see happiness- its just the way we are" he went on to say " we are taught very early to be able to understand our differences and to make space for all beliefs. When the white South Africans first came here- they bought with them the mentality of Apartheid- but now it has been all but eradicated because of our education system and the way the island is governed-"



Peace is something we create- it is something we choose each one of us - with in ourselves. After just one week on this magical island i saw more peace in peoples hearts and souls- i saw more genuine kindness and concern-not our of obligation- but out of walking a path of peace and respect for the other. My intention- is to embrace this peace from within- if my cells are at peace then so is my energy- i then can create waves of peace around me as i move through the world- this is the way one peaceful step at a time.....this week i practice breathing peace-

Breathe Unity

We are all connected- knowing that every breath we take has at some time been breathed by all other human being, plants, animals..and the planet herself (yes i know the planet is basically genderless -or maybe accurately encompasses all but in this moment - she is SHE).

Knowing that every thought that we have affects every other thinker is a big thought! And it is one that i have known about for sometime- and right now it is a thought that i am consciously thinking- So basically inside all this mayhem what i am saying is that once we become aware that we are our thoughts- then we can start to accept that we have a responsibility to be mindful of them.

Thoughts can and do hurt, can and do become actions- regularly- and absolutely do attract to us that which we are thinking about. So in the spirit of thought hygiene - I invite you to listen to all your negative thoughts - what ever they are - and to instead replace them with a positive thoughts.....

really it is that simple---It does take practice- we become what we practice......

The soft heart

Before you speak, ask yourself, is it kind, is it necessary, is it true, does it improve on the silence? Sai Baba


I heard this today: "The heart is soft it can stretch enough to hold the whole universe in a single heart beat"

This morning the temple of my own heart is beating in rhythm with the earth- i find myself reaching out to all those who are in this moment suffering. This is the heart meditation that i learn many many moons ago. To bring inside my own heart all those who i would judge, find wrong, revile and am repulsed by- to sit with them as simply aspects of myself. And in the breath find the forgiveness...it is a courageous practice.

Today it has more significance- the reason- because something happened in the night time dreaming that revealed to me - we really are ONE- Yes yes i know- we are one we all "know it". But what of your heart knowing- does your heart know? Is there really a moment of experience where you can deeply be with this heart knowing- not as a concept -not as a cliche? But as lived in the moment experience. With this awareenss comes another moment of divinity, another deep knowing- that everything we think really does create this universe we are co-creating....

If this is so- then all of communications...ALL of them become very important- for these are the bids we are making to the universe for how it IS.

I heard last night David Lynch on an interview and he was talking about peace- he said something like: "Peace is one of those concepts that we think is nice- it would be nice, but its not a reality- its kind nice in a sweet old lady kind of a way- what if peace was something that is so possible- Peace is not a concept it is a lived experience of the absence of negativity- "

Peace then like we are One is not simply a nice idea- it IS.

inside all of this I am back to the softness of the one heart that is the heat beat of the universe and in this field of unity..we are all beautiful harmonic resonances of the same oneness....

we are now/here and no/body......

My invitation Breathe Heart today- the softness of your heart-

this mediation will change you inside and and out....it will also change the world.....how can it not?

bright blessings to you...

Artistic Activism in the Congo

I returned from the Bukavu and the DRC in April this year. I spent only two weeks there working with kids and women survivors of the terrifying war that is still raging there.

Whilst i was there - I met with Christine DeSchryver Schuler the head of V-Day Congo. As we were talking she told me about Eve Ensler's plan to have a version of the Vagina Monologues be performed in Kinshasa in front of government officials.

If you dont know what this play is about - let me tell you that it is basically an amazing piece of theatre- a collection of monolgues that eve collected as she interviewed women about their vagina's. This play has become a world event being performed all over the world- a loud cry from the collective VAGINA to end the violence against women. i remember seeing Christine's face as she shared about this plan- how would it happen- this is a very conservative country.....well

This morning I am sitting with the warmth and depth of the people I met in the Congo in my heart- as Iopen my email box i receive an update from the V-day organization- it says; Vagina Monolgues in Kinshasa... They DID IT.

I am proud, I am full of spirit- i am full of the believing and possibility that this world is changing- that women are moving in the face of the violence that exists. I am laughing because this is the sheer audacity that gives me reason to keep hope alive inside of me. The thought of the government officials chanting "Vagine" is one that fills me complete joy....

From the bottom of my very full heart i invite you to check this out by visiting the page :

http://www.vday.org/node/1708

My intention: to open my heart to to forgive all those who violate- and walk forwards to end violence against women and kids on this planet.So be it. Will you join me in setting an intention of forgiveness and action...?

How to Go with the Flow

So this is the current situaiton......I keep working and working on my new webiste and computer keeps crashing and crashing......so what do i understand from this?

BREATHE

Step away from the computer and go and be with something else instead....with grace and ease...

today is not the day....

and love to you all...I am off line.......The only thing i have managed to do its this picture....

Planet Breathe...take a breather......

The Spirit of Co-creativity



There are two ways of spreading light.. To be the candle, or the mirror that reflects it. ~ Edith Wharton


I am inviting you into co-creativity with me- What does that mean? In my world what I have seen is that the more interest and the more psychic support you can get for your projects in the world - the more energy coming towards you - the more likely you are to find the ways to make manifest those things you dream of.

This is not some new age mumbo jumbo-- energy follows thought. In the past few months I have had many experiences of my own to show me that when I really set a clear intention- and then tell others about it - the more likely it is to manifest.

In short I am the candle to your mirror and you are the mirror to my candle....we can reflect each other back- and in that way we simply produce more light, and more possibility for energy to support our projects. Of course where there is lots of light there is also a shadow!! That is where it gets interesting!

When we sit with clients we are often times the mirror reflecting, and shining back their brilliant essence to them. Sometimes we become the light of a gentle candle that shines into the darkness and illuminates something hidden there.

At times this becomes a two way process where we are both she who sees, and she who is seen. In my work with clients I have come to see the true and amazing value of being in the co-creative process. This is a way of creating therapy that really works for them..of being in dialogue in session as a real woman whose job it is to be the mirror- and whose job it also to be candle that accepts reflection- and feel the warmth of that. This is of course not always easy for sometimes clients will shine their light onto something that I have been doing in my humanness that is unconscious....and then yes the spirit of co-creativity really steps in for I am no different to you.

Today I invite you to Breathe in the spirit of Co-creativity in your life - with your clients- with anyone who you meet. For in every moment there is a potential for something unexpected to happen.

Breathe Vision- The awesome power of Tweeting...The spirit of co-creativity.

I awoke this morning full of energy. Maybe the pull of the full moon? Maybe the awesome pull of collective creative energy??

I feel like I am on the edge of a massive wave- and that I am only just beginning to learn to surf. My life has changed...has yours? I know there are so many articles out there about the social, spiritual impact of Tweeting...and in the last week as i have been slowly developing neural pathways to understanding and participating in the tweet world i have started to feel my brain literally expand- its like an itch that i have been trying to scratch.

A few years ago I said to many people in my world that I felt the Internet to be sentient life force- that it was a paradigm of consciousness unto itself- that it held incredible potential- and now i am sitting in the midst of a very personal experience with this world grid that is being uploaded, downloaded, installed and run in my own being!

As i sit here my typing is being punctuated by the sounds of the tweets that i am receiving- at firs ti found this to be annoying- i actually had the thought-- damn who is bothering me with their thoughts now....what are they trying to tell me- why are they interrupting me....i am smiling as i write this. mainly because now when i hear the tweets after two weeks i feel - "wow i wonder what amazing thing i will learn next" What inspirational quote...what Jewel of a web page i will get offered..."

In essence who will get to co-create with now?

How did this shift take place? It is truly magical and quite the miracle and still i feel that i am only barely understanding where this will all lead- all i know is that in the last two weeks my own state has SHIFTED. And in my system of thinking, healing and being on the planet this is where the most important shifts happen- in each one of us.....

What shifted?

Well I have in the last two weeks been inspired and felt an amazing amount of support as if i have a huge foundation of supporters who are wishing me well on my contributions to the world. Yes having people following you - even if they don't read what i write- even if they do not reply to me that often- i feel them all- I feel the live sentient energy force that is giving me the the YES the green light- which is literally inviting me to step forward and welcoming me to part of the team.

My own brain circuitry has been updated, and is stretching - yoga for the mind. My own level of aliveness is sparkling- i am inspired and most of all i can see that it is all possible - because suddenly i have the amazing unstoppable collective power of potentially millions of other beings all doing the same thing- seeing themselves reflected, accepted, validated, inspired, moved and ultimately deeply invite dot participate.

So this is it for me- i am riding the crest of he wave..visioning and creating and wishing to participate fully- to collaborate in ways that i never before could dream of - and most of to appreciate the divine beauty of a medium that we have collectively created so that we can harness the power of our collective consciousness to make very real changes across all dimensions of our being.

So here is my thank you to all of you who follow, are following are investing energy so that we might as a collective really make manifest our truest intentions....

Bright blessings to you all!!

Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it." ~Ernest Holmes

Elayne

About Global Wellness

Greetings..and welcome to Create Global Wellness- this page is the home to the collective projects that have been born in the last few months and that continue with your support to grow and become flourishing vibrant examples of how change can really happen in our collective world.

I am Psychotherapist, Innovator, Social Artist, Inspirator, Author, Speaker, Trainer and Performer. Global Wellness is my way in the world. Put simply I am deeply moved to create Global Wellness- in each one of us, in our relationships, in our communites, and in our world. Through creative collaboration, accessing collective intelligence, and partnering with those who are also realizing the immense potential we all have to make a shift- to be the change........

Global Wellness sees that as each one of us wakes up to our own inherent creative ability- we can start to make dynamic changes in our own worlds that affect each and everyone of us. Global Wellness truly starts with you.....it is in the choices that you make every day about seemingly unimportant details that affect you and every other person on the planet.

Most recently I have been collaborating and co-creating with other truly gifted and inspiring people who are also manifesting a major shift in levels of consciousness and awareness on all levels: These poeple are politicians, mothers, authors, scientists, fathers, spiritual leaders, kids, orphans, women surviors of rape, soldiers, visionaries, recovering drug addicts, artists, softeware designers, those with spirit, those with distress, those with no hope and those with inexhaustable hope, and otherwise all extra-ordinary people - they all have one thing in common- the deep commitment and yearning to shift consiousness so that we all see that we co-create this world together- and that we all have the opportunity to make changes on a global level.

Make no mistake our thoughts - become actions and every action impacts all of the co-created world we live in.

My invitaiton to you today is to BREATHE POTENTIAL with me- to see that in each one of us following that which has most heart, meaning and vital importance - then we are shifting and changing the way that our world is.....

To learn more about the BREATHE program for living well please click the side panel

have a blessed day!

Thanks for reading....

“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.” Alan Watts