One of the first lessons I had to learn along my healing journey was how to cope with stress.
Stress is any reaction to a physical, emotional or mental stimulus that upsets the body’s natural balance. It can be a positive or a negative change but, we still feel it as stress. Positive changes like getting a new job or buying a house feels different from personal crisis or loss, but they all elicit a stress response in the body. Learning skills to cope or not cope with change happens at a young age. Continue reading “Get Off The Merry Go Round”
In order to build a healthy relationship with someone, we have to build a healthy relationship with ourselves. As I said in my last post, breathing and relaxing will allow you the space to get to know yourself. These moments are an opportunity to simply reflect, (or journal if you have expanded your quiet time) about present thoughts and feelings, perhaps coming to some conclusions about the direction life is going. Have you ever looked at your life and wondered why it’s not turning out as planned? 
Spiritual Teacher Eckhart Tolle wrote, “When instead of reacting against a situation, you merge with it. The solution arises out of the situation itself”. We have heard what you resists persists, meaning, if we keep running from our reality and do not turn to face it, no matter how fearful we are, the same reality continues. Insanity: to keep doing the same thing over and over expecting different results is how we perpetuate the circumstances of our life. 
I recently watched a movie again entitled, “What the Bleep do we know?” (2004), described as “science and spirituality come together in this mind bending trip down the rabbit hole.” When I saw it the first time, I was fascinated and inspired by the scientific proof (Quantum Physics) that we truly do affect our reality by the power of our thoughts. At that time in my life, I had been living in Arizona for four years, sold my home in NH, left my family and friends with the intention of expanding my vision of myself in the world. 
During the Hold On phase, which comes after we have decided to change or let go of something in our life that has been a “thorn in our side”. We are in a state of transition. It is a time when your resiliency and resolve are tested. Therefore, hold on, don’t let the False Self sneak back in and spew the old messages that created those conditioned patterns of behavior. Don’t go back to being part of the walking dead, which is, living an unconscious life. 
Linda Champagne, M.Ed 