Can you guess what animal this is? Discovered on ILoveTypography.com while looking for something using Bembo typeface, have you heard of the book Bembo Zoo? Well this is a site that is animated and fun to play with. Check it out. Bembo Zoo.
I’m in a mood where distractions are a sweet solace to the overwhelming amount of studying going on. Wrapping up, finishing assignments and studying for finals. Bleh.
You are not what happened to you.
I focus on being positive and for the most part, it works…but for some reason there’s this little window of time…right after waking up, that my mind starts to think about betrayals, deep hurts or recent things that bothered me and it feels awful. Places I don’t want to go!
Things that happened in the past will be on my mind and I’ll feel angry as if it’s still fresh. It’s not healthy and not worth holding on to. I don’t intend to think those thoughts but they pop up and my body reacts. I can feel it around my heart and sometimes my back will spasm between my shoulders. Not only am I feeling the negative emotions, it physically hurts my body. Sometimes I wake up with a pounding headache that goes away once I realize I was only dreaming. The subconscious mind holds onto memories that seep into the present and it’s like reliving the trauma, again and again. Who wants to go though that?
There IS a way to make it stop.
A friend of mine, who is a hypnotherapist, introduced me to tapping, otherwise referred to as Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT). She’s not the first one to recommend it. Many therapists, counselors and physicians also use it in their practice. Jack Canfield, author of Chicken Soup for the Soul, talks about using EFT to release negative emotions and events from the past so you can make the law of attraction work for you.
What happens when we don’t address something is that it remains incomplete. We may shut it down for the moment, but that energy remains within us. We can get stuck with resentment, blame, anger. Nobody wants to admit that they are secretly wallowing in their own stinky thinking. By denying or being ashamed for feeling this, it only gets bigger and makes us more anxious and less accepting of ourselves. On the outside we may appear happy, healthy and confident but on the inside there is a war being battled between who we want to (or think we should) be and who we think (in our own mind) we really are. “Don’t compare your inside to somebody else’s outside.” We never know what’s going on with another person on the inside.
We’re taught to put on a smile and carry on. Move forward. It’s how most of us survive. There are times when we truly do feel connected, happy, healthy, and confident. It’s in us too. Our physical body responds to our emotions. EFT is used to reset the automatic nervous system so that it doesn’t go into crisis mode when we’re triggered by our negative thoughts. It helps us get back to the essences of who we truly are as divine, creative, and beautiful.
Whenever we experience trauma or are scared, hurt, betrayed or deeply saddened our body records the experience on an energetic and a cellular level – trauma specialist Bessel Van der Kolk says – “Your body keeps the score.” Even common day language picks up on this mind/body connection – for example if I were to say “I have butterflies in my tummy about having to give this presentation – what would you think I mean?” Of course you would understand me to be nervous.
Here is a good example of EFT that I have used. I use it often to lift myself and it works for me.
Photo credit: Sara
This is an assortment of songs by India Arie. My blog is my very own hub spot to collect the things I like and I find it so much easier to come here to find to my favorite things.
Feel the soft white light around you. This one is good for relaxing and focusing on your intent.
We’re programmed to fit in. Be part of the herd. You can learn to radiate a false personae so that people will gravitate to you but you know you aren’t being true to who you really are. So many are focused on achievements. When is it enough?
Don’t compare yourself. It’s toxic.
Be true you your heart.
Be your best.
Be of service.
Don’t try to control the outcome.
Just show up, do your best and let things happen naturally.
Be weird. Be random. Be who you are. Because you never know who would love the person you hide.
Life is messy and funny and real. Nobody is perfect, nobody. When I meet someone who is funny and opinionated and not afraid to be who they really are in front of everybody, I admire them for having the courage.
Don’t hide behind the facade. It’s easy to be authentic with my friends, of course I can do that. It’s when I sit down to write lately that I clam up. It’s getting to be a real issue and I’m tired of it. Wouldn’t you rather read something you can relate to? I know I would.
I get in my own way. How many of us do that? In my categories section I have one called “Doers.” That’s because there are people who just get out there and do it. Whatever it is, they do it even before they learn everything there is to know about what they’re doing. They make mistakes and learn in front of an audience and they get better. They don’t wait until they are perfect, they just get out there and do! Yet some of us, “perfectionists” spend all of our time perfecting something, waiting to get better at it so that we don’t stumble and fall and we work really hard “learning” and we never really get to the “do” part because we are never good enough to “do.” It’s got to STOP! We get in our own way when we do this. So be random, be weird, be who you are and “do” it now.
We have to get out of our own head because that is where our biggest critic lives.
The person who sent this to me told me it was best to close my eyes while the sound was playing and then open them when the music began. I couldn’t help but peek a few times and there were photos of the chakras and other nice things to focus on. It kind of sounded like a vacume cleaner but it did relax me, and I think it’s something that I’d like to come back to so it’s going on my blog.
Check the website out! : http://www.xphirience.com
Everything I needed to know about facebook pages and the new timeline feature, I learned from facebook. Go figure.
Here’s the link to the most concise info about what you need to know: http://www.learnfacebookpages.com/ui.html
Facebook pages pdf. http://ads.ak.facebook.com/ads/FacebookAds/Pages_Product_Guide_022812.pdf
This is just breathtaking beautiful. I especially loved the sky and water scenes. It’s probably better viewed from the Vimeo site. I hope they never take it down because I know I will be coming back to look at it when I’m in the mood for nature but can’t get away.
Timelapse Croatia – showreel / teaser from Romulic & Stojcic on Vimeo.
Oh type, how I love thee. I would do this if I had the nails for it.