| I read in the Good Vibe University recently that | | | | To experience this as knowledge in your every cell |
| when you pray for courage, what the Universe gives | | | | brings great peace. It means that anything can |
| you is a situation where you get the opportunity to | | | | happen - bankruptcy, disease, miscarriage, and even |
| be courageous. Likewise if you pray for strength, | | | | death - and that at the end of it, you will be |
| you'll be thrust into situations that require strength. | | | | completely, and utterly ok. You can handle it. This |
| It's better to skip all that and go for the good stuff: | | | | knowledge comes from the awareness of your true |
| pray peace, love and harmony. Not pray for, but | | | | essence as energy - when you break down all your |
| pray it. That means be it, feel it, do it, embody it. | | | | atoms you are just energy. And energy is not |
| You don't need circumstances to give you that | | | | created or destroyed it simply changes form and |
| experience - you choose it, and then you feel the | | | | vibration. |
| heck out of it. | | | | Knowing this gives you the freedom to dream and |
| It's a handy little tip anytime we get hung up on | | | | anticipate what you desire. You can let go of worry. |
| needing circumstances to give us what we crave. | | | | When I was going through chemo the closest I got |
| Circumstances don't give us anything - we do that. | | | | to this sense of peace (because I admit it was |
| We get to make up the meaning of whatever | | | | extremely challenging to get there) was to focus in |
| happens. I think it was good ole Bill Shakespeare who | | | | the here and now, to appreciate every little last |
| said, "There is nothing either good or bad that | | | | element of beauty and gorgeousness around me - |
| thinking makes it so." | | | | because this was evidence to me that I was ok - I |
| So there. | | | | was completely fine, right here, right now. |
| Except when we are confronted by things that feel | | | | So last week when I swung to imagining 'what if' the |
| BIG. Like, really BIG. | | | | IVF process didn't work and what that meant - to |
| Like the wine dudes whose businesses face | | | | live a life without kids - I dropped the worry and |
| bankruptcy if something doesn't shift. That feels | | | | anxiety and came back to where I was. In the |
| pretty big. The consequences are pretty yucky. | | | | Barossa, with fabulous people, gorgeous food, in a |
| Aren't they? | | | | stunning location. Life is good. Right here, right now, |
| It turns out we can castrophise about anything - big | | | | just as it is. And I felt some peace. |
| and small - and it all ends up in the same pile of | | | | Your can never really predict how things are going to |
| useless emotions that don't deliver anyway. | | | | turn out - often they turn out much better than you |
| When has worry ever delivered a better result? | | | | imagined, if you let them. Disappointment doesn't |
| Nope - never. It just gave you a bad night's sleep. | | | | figure in this world if you believe that everything that |
| So how the heck do you ditch worry? | | | | happens is serving your highest good; even the stuff |
| Here's how I do it. Or rather, did it last week. | | | | that feels soul bitingly painful at the time. |
| Rob and I have been in Melbourne doing our latest - | | | | As it turns out, it looks like our IVF attempt was |
| and last - round of IVF. We're both fairly emotionally | | | | unsuccessful. And through the gut-wrenching grief |
| engaged in the outcome. We would like the | | | | that has had me sobbing so hard that I ached all |
| opportunity to be parents. | | | | over, I can sense the peace too. I know I'll be ok, |
| But between the procedures and waiting for the test | | | | that we'll be ok, that a life so spectacular is |
| results there is plenty of time for 'what ifs' to sneak | | | | happening right here for us right now, and I can really |
| up and strangle you with worry, doubt, and all sorts | | | | feel that. When I'm done being sad, then I'll be asking |
| of nasties. | | | | questions with my coach as to how to make some |
| Hanging in the never-never land of waiting, I turned | | | | good-feeling sense of this experience. How to learn |
| to the only technique I knew to let go of the worry | | | | and grow from it, how to invite miracles into my life |
| - one that I learned when I was going through cancer | | | | once again. |
| treatment. | | | | Right now, I'm not worrying, I'm feeling my feelings |
| Faced with chemo and surgery with no prognosis to | | | | fully, and I know that whatever is happening is for |
| really give any comfort, I was left with two options: | | | | my highest good. |
| live in fear or live in faith. | | | | And that feels so much better than worry. |
| Living in fear seems to be the default setting for | | | | Coach's challenge: |
| most. Living in faith however requires one critical | | | | What do you worry about? Could you let go of that |
| acknowledgment: | | | | worry and focus on the present? and do you have |
| This is to know that no matter what happens, even | | | | any advice for me on this particular manifestation? I |
| death, that you are truly ok. | | | | invite you to share your wisdom, insight, and advice. |