Parents Need Coaching Too – Find Your Balance
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Feel It – Bless It
How often in life do you stuff down negative emotions or feelings about something going on in your present life or about something that has happened in the past?
It’s a common human pattern to stuff things down. We do it to protect ourselves. You’ve done it, I’ve done it, people do it on a daily basis.
The challenge is…
As we continue to stuff things down in our lives, it accumulates and causes more and more problems for us.
I received the above in an email from Nick Ortner, The Tapping Solution, and it got me to thinking …
Eventually this accumulation of stuff has no other choice but to come out. When it does come out, it can manifest in many forms. For some people, their outward form manifests as physical clutter.
Clutter as we know represents disorder. Therefore, our physical clutter is an outward manifestation, a demonstration if you will, of what we may be feeling inwardly, i.e., confusion, turmoil, overwhelm. So it makes perfect sense when someone says, “I don’t know where to begin or how to start” when attempting to combat their clutter.
The truth is 99.9% of the time, people can get organized. Organization is a skill set that one can learn. It is the emotional aspect that prevents one from doing so, commonly referred to as an emotional block.
For this very reason, it’s important to take note that in order to deal with your physical clutter it is also necessary to work on your emotional clutter. Otherwise, it has been my experience, that no matter how many times you attempt to get things back in order, if you do not deal with the emotional aspect, the clutter will come back.
It is also important to point out, that the clutter will usually come back with a vengeance. It’s as if the clutter is saying, “Hey you, I’m not done here…look at me…we have things to settle and I’m not going away until we do.”
This is the time when I suggest you look at your clutter with a fresh perspective. In other words, don’t fear the clutter, Bless it. Approach the clutter with gratitude and thankfulness.
Think of it this way…
Your outward manifestation is like looking through your very own Looking Glass – it’s mirroring back to help you. Look at it as an opportunity to begin the process of healing so you can begin to move forward in your life.
Are You Caught Up In A Paper Maze?
I was speaking with one of my students the other day. We were discussing the recent success she was experiencing with her paper challenges. She expressed that she finally felt things were falling into place and that she was feeling excited and motivated like never before.I asked her to please explain to me in more detail what that “looks like.” She then said something to me that made me pause for a moment. She said…
“Patricia, up until I took your workshop I felt like I was caught up in a paper maze.”
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“It’s interesting, she said, I didn’t realize how much I was hiding under my piles of papers. Through your encouragement, I was able to make a list and confront everything that at one point felt so terrifying to me. Seeing it through, step by step, I was able to take charge of my papers and deal with the more difficult aspects of my life. I feel like I have a different aura about me and now carry around positive energy.”
Finding Your Way Out Of The Maze
If you feel like you are overwhelmed and caught up in a maze of papers, you may want to consider taking my upcoming workshop. The workshop will focus on your paper clutter, what it represents, how it was manifested, and what you can do to resolve it.
I’m going to be talking about my “upcoming workshop” in a invitation only tel-class on Wednesday, November 19th at 8:00 pm, eastern time.
If you are interested in attending Wednesday’s class, please email me directly and tell me why you want to resolve your paper challenges and why you think you would be a candidate for my upcoming workshop. I will then provide you with the access information to the tel-class, along with a questionnaire to fill out.
Please note, this is for the serious student who truly wants to learn and advance. If you feel this is you, then go ahead and email me now! I will only be taking a small group of people, so I recommend that you act fast if you are truly serious.
I look forward to hearing from you!
How Organized Do You Really Want To Get?
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Baggage Draggers – Are You One Of Them?
It’s not unusual to find beneath the manifestation of clutter there is the presence of emotional baggage from life experiences. Years of pain packed in suitcases that are dragged around with a collection of burdens and life disappointments.
Sometimes we hold onto our baggage for extended periods of time until we decide to unpack it for a while just to make sure that it’s still all there – reliving all the hurt and pain. Then when it gets too unbearable, we pack it all up and drag it somewhere else.
Holding onto past experiences doesn’t foster growth or allow for new opportunities to enter our lives that can bring joy, peace or love for that matter. Unfortunately when we cling to these memories, we invite the pain to stay even longer along with the bitterness, depression and discouragement.
In order to break free from our excess baggage we need to learn how to “let go” of it. By making a decision that you no longer wish to be held a captive prisoner of your past, you can tell yourself you finally have had enough of focusing on all the negatives and you want to concentrate on moving forward with your life. It is then, new beginnings are possible and your life will begin to improve.
Cleaning up the physical clutter is an important aspect to functioning in a healthy environment, but it is only part of the process of living clutter free. Today, decide to unpack your baggage, take a good look at it and then let it go!