Soul Coaching Day 28 (Earth)

Alas, today my Soul Coaching journey comes to an end. It's been fun, emotional, and sometimes tiring, but it's been a good journey and has manifested insights, as was the purpose. Perhaps I will repeat it someday.

Affirmation

"I give love deeply and fully.
I receive love deeply and fully.
My essence is love."

As you can gather from the above affirmation, today is about love... loving myself, loving life, and loving each experience that comes my way, for everything happens for a reason and for my highest good, even the hard times and the ones that hurt. The trick is to accept the experiences and know deep within, that everything will be okay, that I will remain safe and cared for, and that I am not alone in my journey; the Universe and the Divine are always with me guiding me through each step, no matter how scary or painful it may be. I need to remember to just breathe and focus on peace, knowing I am safe.

I began this day with a brief meditation exercise prior to leaving for another day of work. It was a visualization exercise which began with a clear Spring morning and a bright blue sky. I visualized being outside looking into the that beautiful clear blue sky and breathing in the fresh Spring air. From there I visualized myself inside a stone circle which vibrated and glowed with love and healing. The stone circle was surrounded by beings of pure Light who sent their Light to illuminate me until I too was glowing with Light, and had a glowing ball emanating from the region of my heart, like a mini sun. The Light surrounded my being as well as filled my entire body.

Today I was to imagine myself sending my Light to others throughout the day, but honestly, it was extremely busy most the day; at some points I felt like a chicken running around with its head cut off. I did however get a few quite minutes in the afternoon to visualize myself doing just that. Whew! I thought I wasn't going to get a chance to practice this one today, and I had some problems concentrating and holding the visualization for very long, but but mission accomplished, although brief.  

Earth has been my favorite week of this program, although I also enjoyed the creativity of Fire...hmm maybe it's more of a tie LOL . Air week was too much cleaning for this girl, and Water was much too emotional. 

Setting up an altar for each Element was also a fun activity. I'm not sure which of the altars was my favorite, perhaps my abundance altar, as it incorporated a little bit of everything that I hold dear.

Well, for those of you that followed my journey, I hope you you enjoyed it, or at the very least were inspired to try some similar exercises, and maybe it even compelled you to purchase the book yourself?  It's a great read, as well as experience; I highly recommend it.

Soul Coaching Day 27 (Earth)

Affirmation
"My future is filled with joy, love, and peace."

I find it amazing that the Earth segment of this program falls on Earth Day. How cool is that?

We are nearing the end of Soul Coaching; tomorrow is the last day. How fast these 28 days are passing!

Today I was to focus on creating my future and (1) visualize it (2) write a letter from my future self to my current self and (3) carry myself in a confident, peaceful manner, in such a way that I KNOW I am safe and at peace, my future is safe and I will be at peace and secure, etc etc.

After I was all ready for work this morning, I had a few extra minutes, so I spent them visualizing my future, and what a great way to start the day! The rest of my day followed suit... I was happy and confident all day!

The letter to myself from my future self had to wait until after work, but what a great (and fun)  idea!

I still struggled with remembering to hold/carry myself in a confident peaceful manner. Posture is hard for me, as I've had poor posture all my life and I'm now paying for it. My back and shoulders naturally curve forward now. It's a strain to force them straight and back, but my positive mood stuck with me for the remainder of the day and evening.

Today was an awesome day, and now that I've slowed down, I'm getting tired really fast. Tonight just might be an early night!

Before signing off, I thought I'd share more of my beautiful purple Irises for Earth Day...

Soul Coaching Days 24-26

Friday was my errand and chore day. I was suppose to be aware of my body and what messages my body may be putting out about me, a well as act out how I wanted to feel this day, but as I rushed through my chores and errands, these exercises were not included in my day. Afterwards it was time for relaxation, which happened to be Step 3, so this at least, was accomplished.

Saturday was a lazy day; I slept in late and didn't accomplish anything, including reading Soul Coaching. If I had managed to read it, I might have found some enjoyable nature focused things to do, but my laziness was all I was focused on. This day was suppose to be about awakening nature within myself.

Sunday was another lazy day as well as a low energy day, and a doozy of a headache. I felt blah... perhaps the result of entertaining too much sleep and a whole lot of nothing. This day was about ways to bring nature inside my home as well as completing a Soul Altar.

Although I did not collect anything new of nature to bring inside, my house already has many items of nature: stones and crystals, feathers, pieces of wood, petrified wood, a lava rock, a rock from my yard that I painted, dried flowers and petals, etc.

My Soul Altar includes the following: a photo of my parents, my Mom's fairy lamps, various crystals and stones a clamshell, the abundance collage I created featuring my family, a watercolor of the ocean I painted, a postcard of a wolf, a pine cone, a glass container holding feathers, a glass cat, Kwan Yin (goddess) and a happy Budha (god), a candle and a bottle of my Mom's ambergis oil perfume that you can smell just standing next to it.

I'm happy with my Soul Altar...this weekend wasn't a total waste  :-)

Soul Coaching Day 23 (Earth)

Affirmation

"My mind, body, and spirit are clear channels for love."

Dry Brushing

Well, I was suppose to dry brush my skin before showering this morning during my pre-work routine, but I totally forgot (sigh). The author said that dry brushing your skin is a detoxifying technique, who knew! Not only does it slough off dead skin cells and unclogs pores, but it also stimulates the lymphatic system. Wow, I need to go by a brush and add this to my daily routine!

Cleansing or Clog

Today I was suppose to be very conscious of what I ate, eat cleaner healthier. So instead of my usual canned soup or Ramen Noodle soup for lunch break, I went home and fixed a large salad with lettuce, carrots, cucumber slices, tomato, onion... and salad dressing. I can't go without dressing, and unfortunately all I had was Hidden Valley Bacon Ranch, but I limited it to only two Tablespoons: 1 Tablespoon = 70 calories, Total fat 7g, Saturated Fat 1.25g, Total Carb .5g, Sugars .5g, Cholesterol 5mg, Sodium 115mg... still too much sodium though. Oh well, better than Campbells' Tomato Soup at 960mg plus saltine crackers or Cup O Noodles Soup which is... 1191mg!!! Eeek! 

Dinner was fresh veggies, sliced, plain, and Velveeta Hamburger Mac Cheesy Skillet, (not including the Hamburger)= 440 calories, Total fat 18g, saturated Fat 6g, trans Fat 1g, Cholesterol 30mg, Sodium 1770mg (yikes!), Total Carbs 54g, Sugars 12g, Dietary Fiber 2g, Protein 16g. Hamburger, appx. 170 calories. I could have had a healthier dinner but my pantry and frig were not stocked for healthy/clean eating.

This meal was probably in the Clog category.

I may not have eaten the healthiest or cleanest meals, but I did eat healthier, and read labels to educate myself as to the nutritional value of what I was eating. 

Elimination

The author recommends investing in colonics for a deep internal cleansing, eating more fresh veggies and fruits, but since she recognizes that colonics may not available or appropriate for everyone, she assigned a meditation exercise: to meditate and ask my Higher Self what I could do today that would best eliminate toxins from my body. Considering that this was another of my normal  10 hour work days at the office, I did not complete this exercise.

Soul Coaching Day 22 (Earth)

Affirmation

"I am one with the Earth. I am one with my body."

(image found on the internet)

Body Assessment
Today us the first day of Earth and it's all about connecting with my physical body, and I have to say... the Body Assessment questions made me grumpy. It just re-emphasized what I am already very conscious of and struggling with daily, and answering the questions was like getting my nose rubbed into it.

Commitment
To continue eating at least semi-healthy and try to cut back more on the sugar. I have been craving chocolate and indulging too often.

Talking with My Body
Starting from your toes, visualize and talk to each body part and ask each I fit has a message for me. Honestly.. I did not complete this activity.

My Earth Altar

My wolf figurine is currently decorating my desk at work, so I substituted with a stuffed wolf beany baby. Other items include a piece of branch, a painted rock that I painted for the element Earth, turquoise and hematite, a woodsy candle holder, and my contract.

Soul Coaching Day 21(Fire)

Affirmation

"Incredible life force flows through my being "

Today is the last day of Fire and activities are based on one of my favorite things... getting creative!


Feelings in Color
Today I have a combination of feelings:

• Bored, because it's a slow day at the office  
• Sadness for Boston
• Happy and feeling creative. 

So, I got the highlighters and markers out and created something to represent Earth, Air, Fire, and Water, and this is the result...

Spiritual Flow
Using 3 pieces of paper, music to set the energy, make three doodles: 1 drawing with my right hand; 1 drawing with my left hand, and 1 drawing with both hands. Luckily I can listen to iheartradio at my desk while working.

Coloring with my left hand was a bit challenging, but using both hands at the same time was really tricky!!  I like how the two-handed one came out; turned at an angle, it reminds me of the goddess!

The other part of this activity, is to hold my hand over each piece, close my eyes and ask what message my souls has for me. When I did this, I received one worded answers that popped into my head.

Right Hand= Thrive

Left Hand= Peace

Both Hands= Spirituality

Stoking the Fire

Create a collage that makes you feel abundant every time you look at it.

I absolutely LOVED this creative day!!!

My collage...

Soul Coaching Day 20 (Fire)

Affirmation

"I am a loving spiritual being."

Today is about finding ways to be a silent ray of sunshine in someone's life by spreading Light via visualization, and good deeds.

Wings of Light

Visualize yourself with wings of Light, and wrap them around someone in need.

Wings of Kindness

Commit a random act of kindness.

Wings of Impact

Empower, support, inspire, or contribute to someone.

Well, being as it was a 10 hour work day for me, I wasn't able to do any of these things. By the time I got home, cooked, ate, and cleaned up... I was done out for the day, but that's ok. The author says not to be hard on myself if I can't/don't do all the steps, so I'm not going to put myself on a guilt trip for skipping a day.