August 18, 2009

#6

Remember last week? Practice catch and release? There's a third step: celebrate.

Practice catch and release. Then celebrate. Every time you catch yourself blocking your expansion, don't be mad at yourself, be glad. Exclaim "Good Catch!" or dance a little jig, or pat yourself on the back, or just smile knowingly to yourself. You can't release what you don't catch, and every release removes a blockage to your expansion. Acknowledge every catch and release with a moment of happy celebration.

Catch, release, celebrate. Remember, expansion is your natural state.

P.S. Next week I'll send a Breath and Water newsletter but not a Tenacity Notes.

August 11, 2009

#5

Expansion is your natural state. One way to allow your expansion is to notice the ways you block it. Catch yourself blocking your expansion, and release the block. Catch and release.

Take our example from last week -- expectation, particularly subconscious expectation. Catch your expectation, then release it. Release expectation and see what happens.

Perhaps you will replace expectation with curiosity.

Practice catch and release.

August 3, 2009

#4

Expansion is your natural state. Flow happens. Joy and passion are essential qualities.

But what about when flow isn't happening, when joy and passion have gone missing? What then? Then, look to ways you block the flow, ways you limit your expansion.

One superb blocking agent is expectation. Are you frustrated, unhappy, confused, anxious? Search for expectations, especially covert or automatic ones, that you have about yourself, about others, about situations.

When you relinquish expectation, you may well find that you have restored flow.

Remember, expansion is your natural state.