What is the Vision for my Health?

This week we are revisiting one of my favoritest meditation practices – Visioning.  Just as I’ve felt guided to blend the tapping (emotional freedom techniques) with meditation, I’ve found that tapping fits perfectly into the Releasing phase of Visioning.

 If you are new to Visioning, you are in for a treat.  Visioning is a practice which allows us to access our inner wisdom and come into alignment with universal intelligence.  It is one of the best ways I’ve found to gain clarity and connect with our body wisdom.

Release thinking and trying to figure out what to DO!  Open, open, open…

  When you have health challenges, which we all do at one time or another, we are often overwhelmed with diagnoses, recommendations from various health practitioners and choices about treatment.  One way to connect with your inner wisdom and intuition is to ask these four simple questions:

1.  What is the highest vision for my health and wellbeing?

2.  What am I releasing to fulfill this vision – what am I releasing that no longer serves me?

Note:  This is where it may be helpful to do a few rounds of tapping to release worry, concern, pain, discomfort – whatever you are guided to release to feel better.

3.  What am I embracing or welcoming into my experience?

4.  What must I BE for this vision to be fulfilled – what qualities will support me as I learn and grow?

You might want to set aside extra time following your meditation to write about your experience.  Often more information and clarity is gained as we are writing. 

You might also ask for guidance about inspired action to take – staying in touch with the feelings that are being revealed.  There is almost always an emotional connection to illness, so paying attention to your feelings can be very helpful.

Give thanks for the vision, for the healing and for guidance and clarity.

Remember that listening and trusting your own body wisdom is powerful!  May you find peace within, clarity in your decisions and be blessed with vibrant good health.

A few spaces remain for the wonderful Women’s Retreat Weekend on November 4-6 at Land of Medicine Buddha in Soquel.  Go right now to www.beccapronchick.com/retreats to reserve your space – $397 inclusive – and invite a friend to join you - registration is due by July 31st – more info below.

“If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it’s not your path.
Your own path you make with every step you take.  That’s why it’s your path.” 
Joseph Campbell

Forgiveness & Letting Go of the Past

I did something last week that really caused me a lot of pain.  I’m sensitive to gluten and dairy, which I’ve known for over twenty years.  I’ve done quite well staying clear and still stuff happens.  For a party I decided to make strawberry tarts.  I used a gluten free baking mix I hadn’t used before.  The tarts turned out very well and my friends enjoyed them.  I had one as well and went to bed happy.  Next morning when I woke up I felt awful!

Turns out there was buttermilk in the baking mix and I did it to myself!!  Ahhhh…  So for two days I had the opportunity to practice forgiving myself and letting it go.  I used tapping to encourage my body to clear the reaction to the food and forgive myself for not reading the darn ingredients in the baking mix.

As you move through your day today, notice how much of your attention is focused in the past.  Who has hurt you?  Where are you holding a grudge?  What have you done that you keep holding as unforgivable?  Gently take what you are noticing into your meditation and tapping practice.  Tell the truth about your feelings and ask for the willingness to release and begin to let go.

A few spaces remain for the wonderful Women’s Retreat Weekend on November 4-6 at Land of Medicine Buddha in Soquel.  Go right now to www.beccapronchick.com/retreats to reserve your space – $397 inclusive – and invite a friend to join you - registration is due by July 31st – more info below.

“If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step,
you know it’s not your path.
Your own path you make with every step you take.
That’s why it’s your path.”
Joseph Campbell

Celebrate Your Freedom!

I’ve just returned from a few glorious days at the ocean in Pacific Grove with my sweetie.  We walked by the ocean every day between the Monterey Bay Aquarium and Lover’s Point, took naps, visited our favorite galleries in Carmel and had some wonderful meals at small, casual eateries.

One day we drove up the coast to Soquel to visit the Land of Medicine Buddha retreat center where we will be gathering for the annual Women’s Retreat Weekend on November 4-6.  I’m really excited now to have visited and seen how beautiful and serene the place is.  If we can post the photos here we will, otherwise you can see a slide show (so exciting!) from my visit on the web site at www.beccapronchick.com/retreats.  The minimum will be 12 participants to have a go.  $397 inclusive – registration is due by July 31st.

“If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it’s not your path.
Your own path you make with every step you take.
That’s why it’s your path.”
Joseph Campbell

Happy Independence Day!

Do You Feel Antsy When You Slow Down?

I’m preparing to take a few vacation days and I always notice a bit of anxiety as I’m recording my “out of office message” on my email and voice mail.

Since I work from home, I don’t really relax unless I get out of the house.  I’m so much better than I used to be, when I worked seven days a week and never took time off.  Good grief – when I was a professional photographer I eventually learned that Fridays were very quiet days and I could take off and be rested to work on Saturday – and then it didn’t take me three days to recover!

Do you work beyond the point of exhaustion?  Do you keep saying “I need to get some rest”?  How long has it been since you had a real vacation?

As we move into the warmer months, I encourage you to pull out your calendar right now – come on – and schedule at least a few days off.  And I do mean true days away – no taking work with you, no checking email, no “Oh, I’ll just check my voice mail to see if anyone needs me.”

The way I finally learned to take time off and rest was to schedule a retreat every September where I went to the woods with a bunch of wonderful women friends.  We sang, danced, practiced yoga, meditated and sat next to the river and gazed up into the huge redwood trees.  The first couple of years it was the second day of the retreat before I burst into tears and really landed in my body – I was so wound up and exhausted.  I really didn’t realize how out of alignment I was – until I let myself relax and just be.

Those retreats were my inspiration to begin to offer retreats as part of my business once I became a coach and yoga instructor.  They taught me how to unplug from business and working my butt off and get back in touch with my spirit, my soul and my true self.

Join me in Napa on Saturday, June 25th for a lovely day of yoga, meditation and meridian tapping with my inspiring teacher Zoe Walton, who will be joining us to share her expertise on integrating tapping into your daily spiritual practice.

Daily Tapping for Inner Peace

I’m having quite a reaction to all of the dramatic news in the world this week.  I burst out crying when I opened the San Francisco Chronicle on Monday and saw the headlines and photos.  I was surprised by my strong response.  The rest of the day I was chanting “may we be filled with loving kindness” and bringing myself back from worry that more violence will follow.

Monday evening I was grateful to find that Brad Yates’ interview from the 2010 Tapping World Summit has a wonderful tapping session on clearing the conflict within ourselves when we feel upset about the conflict in the world.  I found this comforting, encouraging and very practical.

Brad’s perspective reminds us that we are all connected and encourages us to calm our own upset and fear (with tapping) so that we can make a difference in our own hearts, our own communities and contribute to solutions globally.

May you find comfort in your daily practice of meditation and tapping and clarity about how you can be the difference you would like to see in the world.