Tidbits of Wisdom to inspire your unique life journey – Jeanne Loehnis, Songs For Your Spirit, LLC
Today’s tidbit is short and sweet. Bring to mind some recent – or perhaps less recent but still relevant – commitments you’ve made to yourself. Maybe you’ve made them in the context of coaching, maybe not. For each one, consider:
What is its purpose?
What greater vision or goal does it serve?
What level of commitment is there now?
Where are you selling yourself short?
What part of you wants to quit?
What part of you wants more intensity?
Now what?
I am yet in my “morning space” which, delightfully today, is outside. I selected a coaching card to guide me. This isn’t something I do often, but today it felt right. Oh boy! Do you have times when your own words come back to haunt you? I do! The card I chose is this one:
I was thinking a bit about its question (click on the card for the questions), Continue reading “The “Goal””
Life is a Full Body Sport. No, I didn’t say full contact sport! I DID say that to live fully is to invite the talking head to rest often and encourage the heart, gut, energy system and emotionally body into the game. The wisdom of the body, the awareness of our energy field, the knowing in our gut – each of these is a source of deep intuitive wisdom that we all too often ignore when we allow our intellect, our talking head, to run our lives.
This week, practice full body living. Pause often between tasks, before decisions, between thoughts to breathe deeply into the entire body and then listen for the wisdom:
What tension exists?
What is my gut instinct?
What do I really feel?
What is my energy level now?
What do I know?
One intention for each coaching session is to find a place of resonance within, touch a “chord” or deep truth, discover passion or a strong desire for shift. The action steps which emerge from this place will ground and deepen this awareness – and move you forward in life. Yet, despite your strong commitment in the moment to taking action, sometimes you don’t! The beauty is: there is tremendous learning from actions completed – and not! Take a moment. Call to mind a commitment you’ve recently made to yourself where you’ve dropped the ball or you are hanging out in avoidance.
What do you notice?
What self-judgment exists?
What part of the action scares you?
What was the action in service of?
What is the deeper truth?
From this place, soak in the learning and draw closure. Let it go or consider a rewrite.
What action is called for now?
Are you an input junky? Do you immerse yourself in books, webinars, quotes of the day, ideas from your friends? Do you find “the next great idea” to be “too much” sometimes?
If yes, I invite you into an input pause. (Okay, I’m laughing since this tidbit is one of those INPUTS!) Consider a 21-day fast from input. When you would normally read, watch or listen, STOP. In its place, breathe and let some ideas flow FROM you. Consider a bit of journaling around questions like:
What is in me now?
What wisdom is mine to share?
What do I know?