 Last night I read these words:
"I touched my chapped and peeling lips carefully with my fingers and winced… “Your body is trying to tell you something,” Ani said as she held up the mirror to so I could see my face. I was shocked to notice that my lips were swollen bright red. They were even cracked and bleeding from when I had tried to widen them into a smile. “Oh, Ani, they are so sore.” “Why have you not tended to them?” Ani asked. “I was busy with other things, I guess.” I looked at her sheepishly. “When you refuse to learn a lesson in this life, because you’re too busy, or because you’re afraid, or because you don’t know how to stop doing a certain activity, the body takes over and begins to teach you.” “What does that have to do with chapped lips?” ”Chapped lips, colds, fevers, accidents – whatever you ask for, your body gives you"." Abridged except from Chapter 8, Windhorse Woman by Lynn V. Andrews I was touched by the wisdom of these words. How often have I not listened to my own inner voice (don’t eat bread today), not tended to my own needs (staying up too late), let myself get too busy (pushing myself too hard), and obstinately continuing on with habits that were not good for me. It really is like going against my inner guidance and the natural flow of life. I wonder how much of that impacts on the greater picture of life. For example: If I want something but my focus (emotional energy) is on something else then I am probably not going to get what I want. So a question popped into my mind: am I affirming life (my natural wisdom) and what I really want or am I going against it? It’s an interesting thought, isn’t it? Let us say you wake up in the morning with 10 units of energy to spend through the day. You decide you want to use the energy to make up a website. Here’s how you spend your units:
Now here is a different scenario….
It’s the same with good health and vitality, isn’t it? Elayne Lane is a life coach and can give sessions on motivation and how to clear those blocks that get in the way! Click here to book a session. Massage special offer $55 for one hour! Book here New treatment: Essence of Light Touch Treatment find out more
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 There are times in our lives when we get either very busy or stressed. Our whole system seems to get revved up, and we spend most of our days in our head. We can feel
I have noticed that how I feel depends a lot on where I place my attention. If I keep focusing on the bad/stressful things, then I tend to become more emotional and stressed. If I focus on what feels good, over time, I get more good going!  A quick way to to unwind is to notice that there are moments of okayness. Not every moment is bad or hectic. One of my practices was to take a deep breath and say to myself: “in this moment I’m okay”. Or “in this moment I feel alright”. By noticing when I feel lighter, okay, awake, calm, peaceful and DRAWING MY ATTENTION to it, I realised that things weren’t bad all the time. It gives me a sense of relief! The more I appreciate the periods of okayness, the longer they get! Elayne is a trained Aromatherapist and Bodyworker. This blog is written from her personal experience - she is a layperson and not a medical practitioner. If you have on-going stress and anxiety it is recommended that you seek professional assistance.
To book a session click here. For additional blogs, resources and information on stress and anxiety click here.  Do you ever wake up in the morning feeling low?
Are you always struggling with your mind to get into a positive state? Our minds can be pretty funky places at times.... And it if occurs often enough (we feel flat every day), it can become a habit. When we feel low, everything feels bad. Our body tends to have more pain and tension, our diet deteriorates, the day at work seems harder, the verbal dialogue goes around and round, we beat ourselves up and stop being fun to be around. The trick to changing this is to change our thinking. (After all it is the one thing we do have control over). We all get a bit flat at times, and I am no exception. One morning I got the idea to rev up through using affirmations (this has always worked for me in the past), so I took a look on internet to find some fresh ideas. I came across a talk by Abraham Hicks on called "The Easiest Way to Start Positive Momentum". It was a great talk, and I want to summarise it for you in this blog. Esther Hicks and Louise Hay both say that using affirmations help shift our mental state and reality, but unless we get into a positive feeling state, affirmations do not work. Let me give you an example. You own a heater. You know it gives you warmth. But it only works when you turn the power on. Likewise with affirmations, they only work when we have a strong positive emotional feeling behind them. The emotional power literally turns the affirmations on. So if you wake up and invest emotional energy into self talk about how flat you feel, that is what you will get - a bad day. If you wake up and invest your energy is a "rev up" pep talk with positive emotional energy behind it, then your day will be much better. The easiest way to do this is to make yourself a recording of your affirmations when you are in a good mood and play it to yourself first thing in the morning. Leave enough space between each affirmation to repeat it, and remember to get into the feeling - like you already have it. BE excited! I have one below which you can download. Abraham Hicks says best way to start your 'rev up talk" is with something general. What do you appreciate right now? Think of all the things that are easy to appreciate. Think generally: your body, your home, your comfy warm bed, food in your cupboards, a hot shower... Then go out into the community: people at the bank, your friends, the library service, the supermarket... Then globally: the electricity to your house, the roads... Take a moment to appreciate the wellbeing of the people around you. People who inspire you. You could compare yourself with all the people who live in other places, and appreciate where you live and what you are accomplishing right now GOOD VIBES ATTRACT GOOD VIBES When you can put a good, excited, happy, uplifting feeling into your words/appreciation, this puts power into them. Often we let our good feeling go, and slump back down to apathy. So set an alarm in your phone a couple of times a day to remind you to lift your vibe again. Abraham Hicks says the next step is to receive what comes your way. Allow yourself to go with the flow. Let your positive vibes carry you along throughout your day. We all know how good it is to be around someone who has these vibes. You can be like that too. People sense this - they will want to help and support you. It takes commitment to keep picking yourself up and getting into a positive vibe. But ask yourself: which mouth do you want to feed? The happy one or the sad one? One day is not enough to break a habit, but one week can start showing you some positive results. It takes about 28 days to change a habit, and probably 3 months to have it embedded into your system Practice pays off! If you would like a recording to use to rev up your day: click here and download it to your ipod/mp3 player.  Take a moment to listen to your thoughts about yourself.
How you feel about your body? Your state of health? Do you like the way you look? Many people would say: I am too fat, too thin, too short, dumpy, stupid.... and so it goes on. This week I saw a three minute video about a woman who hated her body. It struck a chord with me... I realised that I quite often verbally beat myself up! I want to share this video with you - it's about a woman who chose to look differently about her body. Click here to look at this video (it is a promotional video but the message is well worth hearing). So often when I work with people, I get a sense that they don't like their body, or the part that is hurting them. For some it is their hormonal system because they can't conceive a baby, or it makes them moody, or menopausal. For others it is their "pain in the neck" or "pain in their butt". I have noticed there is a kind of tension that sits in the body, and it appears when we go on a negative self talk rampage. Many a client will tell you that during a session I have asked them to breathe deeply and SMILE into their body. To appreciate it - after all the body still keeps working, even if we have a poor diet, bad posture, don't move enough, laugh enough, play enough. This is the analogy I give to my clients about our self talk: Let us pretend you work in a factory. You have been there a long time and some of the machinery is a bit unpredictable, which affects your output. Boss A comes in. This person is always grumpy with you, telling you what is wrong, making you feel useless, picking holes in you, yelling sometimes. How do you feel? Do you shrink down? Do you dread Boss A? Would you grumble and complain outside of work? Would you even want to go to work? And if you had a good idea about how to make things better, would you tell this Boss? Probably not. Boss B comes in. This person really likes you. They praise you for your work, despite the difficult circumstances you are working in. They tell you what they appreciate about you, admire you. How do you feel now? Stand up tall? Feel proud and appreciated? Do you look forward to showing up at work? Would you be willing to share with this Boss any of your good ideas for improvement? Yes, because they are likely to be well received. I believe it is like this with our body. When we berate it, it shrinks, constricts and gets tense. When we love and appreciate it, it softens, relaxes, gives us feedback, and tells us what it wants. Every cell in the body is connected. If I were to stamp hard on your toe, every part of your body would know about it, right? So it only stands to reason that when we are internally beating ourselves up, the body responds. I have noticed that when I really care and speak highly about my body to my body, a type of new wiring happens. I get ideas how to look after it, I make different choices about my health and activities. How do we love our bodies?: 1. Talk to it in a loving/caring manner (even if it hurts) 2. Ask it to tell you what it needs and imagine getting wired up - painful body part to the brain - so that the information/inspiration can come to you on how to help it 3. To consciously do caring things for your body... have a bath, do a relaxation exercise, take a walk, have a nourishing meal. To download a FREE audio on the Inner Smile Visualisation click here. Click here for my Women's Rejuvenation Chi Kung Class this Saturday.  LEARN THE ANCIENT TRADITION OF PLANT MEDICINE: Amy is a medical herbalist who has worked in the ancient tradition of plant medicine. She has a science degree in indigenous healing and botany and also worked with Susan Weed. She is offering an apprenticeship in Auckland over 4 long weekends up until the end of the year. This is a rare chance to work with a gifted medicine woman! For further details go to http://plantrhythms.co.nz/
The course runs over four long weekends in Auckland 3rd Oct, 21st Oct, 7 Nov, 5 Dec. Cost $2900 Contact Amy plantrhythms@gmail.com Here is what one of her students has to say: "I heard about Plant Rhythyms through a friend of mine. I really wanted to learn more about plants but in a different way than I had been previously taught, getting to know plants on a energetic level was something I was very curious about so I decided to travel to Auckland from Wellington once a month and experience something new. I really enjoyed Amy as our teacher she has such a gift working with plants and I feel so blessed she is able to share it with us. It was magic to experience going on a shamanic journey into the plant world I have learnt so much and I am now using the skills I have learnt in my own natural products. I would recommend this course to anyone with a interest in learning about the different things you can do with plants it has really opened my eyes."  Do you ever wonder where to go in your life?
How do you know when you are ready to take on a new direction? Are you waiting for the right time? I recently had some tuition with Christian Pankurst on this very topic. As we are at the start of a New Year I thought this was the right time to share it with you. I will summarise what he said: Everyone has an inner GPS. It is our guidance system. Just like a vehicle, we have to turn on the GPS to get it started – this means being prepared to listen to your inner self and act. Then we have to type in a destination of some sort. At this point the GPS doesn’t know exactly in which direction our vehicle is pointing, so it cannot give directions until we actually start to move forward. This is where many people get stuck. They don’t move, so no directions are issued. Once the vehicle starts to move, the GPS tells you where to go. This often comes with a good feeling/insight/hunch. It is usually followed by a confirmation of some sort which links back to your desired direction. It may even ask you the turn around, to face the correct direction! It gives you directions one turn at a time. You don’t need to know the whole route. If you get off track, the GPS corrects you until you get back on track. If you feel you have typed in the wrong destination part way through (as you now have new information) you can change your destination on the GPS. A personal story.... Every year I go away for two weeks on holiday. It’s a relaxing time where I really switch off from work. I always read a lot and spend time on my own reflecting upon my direction for the forthcoming year. This year I read about some prophecies about the future. I thought long and hard about what difference I can make in my part of the world. I had two choices, learn more about plant medicine, or learn more about relationships and real love. Both looked viable - I knew I would have to study more and that I would also enjoy either option. When I got home I talked to a friend about the prophecies. It was a very frank discussion about probabilities: what could happen, what to prepare for, and how would I live my life irrespective of what actually occurs. When I told my friend about my two choices I was surprised to find that I felt heavy and “closed down” when I talked about plant medicine, and I felt deeply moved (tears were in my eyes!) when I spoke about relationships and real love. Right there and then, the decision was made. Now I am on the move again, my GPS is ON!  If you are a woman, dealing with moods are part of your life.
Our hormonal cycle, health of our organs, stress levels, past experiences and state of mind all have an impact upon our moods. Being able to experience the highs and lows of life can be quite a ride. Emotions are part of being human and make up the tapestry of life. There are times when it is appropriate to be angry, it moves us towards making positive change in our lives. Other times its okay to be sad - grief is a natural process of letting go. But sometimes we get stuck, and this "stuckness" can stay with us for years. Unresolved issues of the past takes away our enjoyment of the present moment. Prolonged moods, such as depression, anxiety, fear or anger can affect the chemistry of our body. Once our chemistry is out of balance it then feeds into accentuating our moods. Likewise, if our chemistry is out of balance through poor diet, alcohol and drug use, then our emotions will be affected. What helps our moods:- Firstly we need to balance the chemistry in our bodies. A healthy diet (avoid alcohol), along with herbs which calm our emotions, tone the organs and balance the hormones. Very often if we experience prolonged stress our adrenal glands become exhausted. Licorice tea acts as an adrenal gland tonic (not to be used with high blood pressure).Calm the mind. This could be through meditating, using visualisations, deep breathing practice, or doing an ascetic activity that requires your concentration i.e. gardening, painting, sewing or dancing. Deal with the issues. If you have problems or work, suffer from long term grief or anxiety, feel constant fear - get help. Sometimes all we need is a trained listening ear to unravel how we feel and some new skills for dealing with feelings when they arise. Learn Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT). We are always going to have issues and feelings coming up. So why not learn a tool which you can use whenever you want to deal with them? This is a marvellous skill which can shift negative feelings very quickly. Love yourself. Often our health and well-being is out of balance just because we beat ourselves up with our words and thoughts! Imagine if you were an employee doing the best job you could and your employer said you were no good. How would you feel? Crushed...Deflated....Discouraged. Now imagine if that employer said you were "awesome". Would you feel Excited...Enthusiastic...Keen....Proud? In chi kung we use a practice called The Inner Smile where we send loving thoughts to our inner self and develop self love. Its simple and easy to do. Learn how to breathe. Put a hand on your chest and one on your tummy and take a breath. How do you breathe? In the upper chest or tummy? Do you breathe shallow or deep? Rapid shallow upper chest breathing causes anxiety. Slow deep tummy breathing causes relaxation. Our breath is related to our nervous system. Transform your emotions. There is an ancient practice I use called The Six Healing Sounds. It uses movement, sound and colour to transform negative emotions into positive ones. Let us say our body is like a garden in which plants grow. The weeds are like negative emotions and the vegetables are like the positive ones (virtues). Like weeds, negative emotions contain energy and nutrients, and if we compost them in the garden, then the energy and nutrients from the weeds can be used to enable the vegetables to grow. Likewise when we use the Six Healing Sounds, a composting of emotions happens and good feelings/virtues are able to develop. If you want to transform your moods, why not try my Women's Chi Kung class starting this Thursday?  I want to extend a very big Thank You to all the Women who attended the Women's Chi Kung Introductory night at Fairfield House with my teacher Gabrielle Euteneuer recently. Many women asked if they could join weekly my class and I am pleased to say that I have now booked a venue large enough to hold a group this size.
Briefly these classes are designed for Women's Health. I run them weekly on Thursday nights at the Tahunanui Primary School Assembly Hall, Muritai Street, Tahunanui, Nelson, starting at 6.45 p.m. starting on the 1st August. The cost is $50 for ten weeks or $7.00 casual. The first class is FREE! The benefits of these classes are:
 Introduction to Chi Kung class for Women Thursday 4th July 6.45 - 8.45 p.m. Fairfield House, Nelson My chi kung teacher, Gabrielle Euteneuer is coming to Nelson to teach 4-7 July. She has more than years experience in Chi Kung and has learnt directly from Mantak Chia - a Taoist Master living in Thailand. She now teaches all over the world. This class is designed especially for women and their health. If you have been experiencing stress, are recovering from an illness, want more energy and vitaility, or to balance your emotions then this class is for you! For further details and testimonials click here  Care for your Back Course Mondays 7.15-8.45 Term 3 - start date to be advised Nayland College, Stoke, Nelson $70 - to be confirmed Do you sit at a computer all day? Have tight shoulders? Experience lower back pain? Feel stressed? Do your hips ache? Then this is the course for you. I use gentle exercises specifically designed to release tension, stretch the spine, improve flexibility, reduce pain and relax the back. Note: this course still has to be approved by Community Education at Nayland College. If you are interested in coming please register here.  Tribal Dream Dance with Delphia AnRa Sunday 7th July 1 - 4 p.m. Fairfield Hosue, Nelson For further information click here  Liam Phillips workshops and courses Nelson Are sick and tired of feeling black and white? Are you ready for something different? Liam is offering the following classes and workshops
For further information click here  Tribal Belly Dance with Tania MarsdenInspire Yoga Studio, 1 Kinzett Terrace
Thursday July 11th, 7:15pm $10 I invite you to join me in a delicious evening of Tribal Style Belly Dance! Tribal Belly Dance is about connecting with each other as women, honouring the sacred feminine, and movement that's good for body and soul. You do not need to have any dance experience to come along, join in and have some fun. Please RSVP to reserve your place at this or the next evening Phone Tania 0272566748 or email tania@taniamarsden.com My chi kung teacher, Gabrielle is coming to Nelson to teach 4-7 July. She has many years experience and has learnt directly from Mantak Chia - a Taoist Master living in Thailand. I want to invite you to two different events:
1. An Introductory night on Thursday 4th July (donation only) where Gabrielle will lead our Women's Chi Kung class. This is a unique opportunity to experience Chi Kung. For further details and testimonials click here 2. The Tao of Healing Love weekend course 5-7 July in Marahau. For further information click here Here is Gabrielle’s experience of these ancient practices: “More than 30 years ago I attended my first Healing Tao workshop. I was on a spiritual path, but had so many health issues. I practiced Yoga for years, but it didn’t improve my immune system. I was looking for answers - how to move in my life - and I didn’t expect working with my sexual energy will be the key! I learnt the sexual energy massage as a preparation for a meditation and was amazed by the outcome. Massaging the breasts (on top of my clothing) and the lower abdomen whilst connecting with an inner smile, changed the chemistry of my body. After the sexual energy massage came a healing meditation. My mind was quiet effortlessly! It was easy to sit in silence and just observe what the massage had created. 15 minutes practice per day already can shift our vitality. I am not someone who does an exercise, because it is good for me. I do need a motivation, and this Tao practice holds this promise. Before I started the practice, I had premenstrual symptoms and pain during the menstruation. When I learnt the practice, I continued to do it once a day for 10 - 30 minutes. When the next cycle came, the symptoms were already much less. I was amazed from the outcome and within 3 months they disappeared completely. Minimum effort made a great result”. This is Elayne's personal experience of the Tao of Healing Love: “This is a system designed to cultivate my energy (chi), good health, foster self-love, and grow spiritually. It has had a huge impact upon my life, and I love to teach it! The Tao of Healing Love teaches us how to awaken and combine our sexual energy with our heart energy, and use it for health and longevity. I liked it because it was practical and I could actually experience the benefits of doing the practice. It helped me immensely in my private practice as a healer/masseuse, as well as in my personal/intimate life. The course sets out a way of working with our sexuality on our own, and then how to use the practices with another person. The self cultivation helps balance hormones, balance the sex drive (too little or too much), increases vitality, helps process emotions which come up when you fall in love and brings about deeper connection when you are with a partner. What I personally have observed since doing these practices are as follows: 1. I am more steady emotionally and less affected by other people’s emotions. The Inner Smile has helped me to love myself and puts me in touch with my body 2. My sex drive balanced out 3. I have a sexual/heart practice to use during periods of celibacy which gives me health and vitality 4. My breasts are healthier, with less pre-menstrual breast lumps. They are also more sensitive and responsive to touch. 5. It has helped me grow spiritually by loosening blockages and teaching me through the wisdom which arises from my inner knowing 6. When I have a deep connection with a client in a massage session, I stay centered through the practice of circulating my energy in the Microcosmic Orbit 7. It has helped me open up as a healer: I am able to send more chi/energy to assist my client’s healing process 8. I am more sensitive to my clients’ emotions because I am more aware of my own through the Six Healing Sounds 9. I have more vitality and stay well 10. I have techniques which I can use to sleep better, to quiet my mind, to release stress, to balance my hormones and clear my energy field. |
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Elayne Lane is a qualified Clinical Hypnotherapist. She is also qualified in Massage, Aromatherapy, Reiki, Kinesiology and Chi Nei Tsang
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