Maintaining Your Center During the Holidays
Everything about the holiday season is alluring…the commercials entice you to buy the newest bright, shiny objects, friends and family are begging for attention, your FaceBook Friends are throwing snowballs and sending one “gift” after another…even your dog wants his ReinDog Antlers! Plus, many of us who struggle with sweet-lust are presented with one tasty morsel after another and the refrain in our minds is, “Eat it, it’s the Holidays, you deserve it.” How does that same bag of M & M’s that you would not be tempted by during the year become calorie-free and perfectly rationalizable during the months of November and December? Wrong, I say, wrong!
Even I would not suggest you START the 28 Day Soul Coaching program during the height of the holiday season. There is just too much distraction going on for most of us to get the optimum benefit from it during this time of uber-distractions. But we CAN maintain our center and stay focused on our own form of self-care during this time.
Here are a few tips and hints to help you keep your Soul’s Center during the Holidays
• It does not matter if you are religious or not, the energy of our planet is immersed in that of the Spiritual at this time of year. Tap into the collective unconscious of all things spiritual and enjoy being one with your fellow mankind.
• Set limits and stick to them. This means spending limits, eating/drinking limits, number of events to attend limits and limit the time spent on anything that does not bring you joy (some is unavoidable, so limit).
• Give to the charity of your choice. I love Kiva.org.
• Have realistic expectations. You know that Norman Rockwell Christmas portrait in your mind? Throw it out and think Christmas Story! That is closer to most of our realities.
• Get enough sleep, take your vitamins and oh yeah, get enough sleep.
• Spend some time outside everyday, even if it is NW Minnesota cold. Make yourself. I pretend I am in an old 40s movie, gracefully meandering in the snow…looking glamorous. Yes, I said I pretend.
• Treat yourself; get a massage, a fun intuitive reading, have your hands read, whatever would give you a lift.
• Maintain your meditation practice. Period. Just do it…everyday!
• If you do not meditate, start now. This is one practice that will be worth beginning during the holidays. Even five minutes a day will help keep you centered (even if just for a moment at a time).
• Most of all…Have fun! Treat yourself. This is a time of JOY…maintain YOUR JOYFULNESS!
Radiant Retreats with Kathy & Micara
Soul Coaching Retreat with Kathy and MIcara!
It is October 1st and before you know it….our It’s Your Karma Retreat will be upon us. Micara and I have had an amazing response to our upcoming It’s Your Karma Radiant Retreat. We are working on this being an amazing event, one that will absolutely change your life. I know, I know, you have probably heard that many times before and you may have actually experienced some life changing events.
Friday night we will meet and greet and experience an evening of setting of our intentions. Dinner will be provided and, weather permitting, we will enjoy a blazing bonfire down on the beach. Hey, we are Upper Midwesterners and can handle a bit of cold! Previous Past Life experiences will be shared and expectations can be discussed. Plus, Micara and I will share some of the foundations of Denise Linn’s work with you.
Saturday will be packed full of workshops, experiential meditations and Past Life Soul Journeys. We will also create Past Life Vision Boards and/or Prayer Flags…this is so much fun and amazingly eye opening! We will also be working with my new It’s Your Karma past Lives Oracle Deck…exciting stuff! Saturday night will also be spent on the beach by the fire, check the weather for Bemidji.
Sunday will be finishing up our vision boards/prayer flags and then working with them. Now, I will let you know, Micara and I are working together on the schedule and will be sharing a more complete schedule soon. But I wanted you to get an idea of what we are offering.
Breakfast, lunch and dinner are provided, if you have special dietary requirements…please bring your own food, as my husband Steve is cooking. If you are vegetarian let me know those parameters, as I am also, but I eat fish and eggs…
AND all of this is only $197 if you sign up and pay a $50 deposit by October 15th. I know, what a great price, but we want to kick off the first of what we hope will be many retreats in a BIG way. yes, that includes room, board, meals and all the workshops!
