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Apr
14
2015

Humility Changed My Life

Humility changed my lifeI am a client of Bev’s and I have never written in the newsletter. I am glad it’s anonymous because I am embarrassed to write this. I am a big show off. I hog the stage and never stop talking. I drive my partner batty, and probably my friends too.

I lost my job a while back, and I am embarrassed to be unemployed. I brag about everything I know so that people will think I am powerful, even when I don’t feel it. It was a huge mind-opening experience to work on humility with Bev. My homework was to research the word humility, and report back in the next session. Mind blowing! It never even occurred to me what a pain I was being to others and to myself.

I lost myself.

I am now accepting my situation and talking to others about it honestly, rather than presenting this front.

I have many gifts, and I am a good person. There is no need for me to be coming from pride all the time.

I am getting my relationship back on track. It has been a huge turn around for me.

Tags: acceptance, honest, humility, powerful, pride, relationship
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Oct
08
2013

A Rampage of Appreciation

Happy Thanksgiving

Gratitude is one of the most powerful feeling states we have the gift of experiencing.

Why is it so powerful? For many, many reasons. First, it brings us into our hearts. Gratitude is not found in the head. It is solely a feeling of the heart. For those of you who want to get out of your head, move your focus to gratitude and you will stop the incessant chatter of the mind and move towards just being with a moment of acknowledgement of what is good. Most importantly, that acknowledgement is felt, not thought. It is felt with a breath, a sigh, a smile, an opening of the heart. It’s a moment of stopping and smelling the roses, so to speak.

And there is more to the power of gratitude. It brings us into the Now! For those of you who are practicing mindfulness as a way of being more present, gratitude is a wonderful doorway into the Now. I personally love it for that reason alone!

Another powerful aspect of gratitude is that it brings in wisdom. I have experienced that over and over and over again. I am my smartest when I am in my heart, away from the thought patterns of my mind. Gratitude is a doorway to wisdom….to our heart intelligence.

Gratitude for me also connects me to my spirit. For any of you who feel alone or disconnected, gratitude is a powerful way of reconnecting.

There was one woman in my practice who decided to go on a “rampage of appreciation”. She was glowing when I saw her next. Yes, it is possible to glow.

Now there can be a trap with gratitude and that’s the “I’m grateful, but” trap. So many of us dilute what we’re grateful for by using it as an introduction to one of our problem areas. It’s like we want to soften the impact of the problem area. I often hear this in my practice. “I know I have a lot to be grateful for, but I really don’t like my life or an aspect of my life.” I have heard that in many variations over the years.  We all have a right to the truth of our emotions. My recommendation to you is to keep the truth of your emotions separate from the authenticity of gratitude. That way, you can stay with the depth of what is real for you in the moment. That’s how we grow. We can unknowingly diminish either gratitude or our emotions.

Feel each in its totality. If you are grateful, let it wash through you – all the pores and cells of your body. Bathe in it. If you are angry or grieving or disappointed, then feel the totality of that emotion. It may sound gracious to lace our emotions with gratitude, but I really do suggest you feel the purity of what is real for you in the moment. Feeling the purity of what “is” allows us to move on to what is next.

For those of you who attended the talks I gave a few years back, I still do my 5 minutes gratitude meditation at night. This is a very powerful way to keep the momentum moving forward.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Tags: appreciation, Bev Pugh, emotions, grateful, gratitude, heart, heart intelligence, meditation, mindfulness, powerful, reconnecting, wisdom
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Beverley Pugh

Beverley Pugh

Beverley Pugh has international experience in Individual, Marital and Family Therapist services. Areas of practice include counselling in: individual, couples, family, anxiety, addictions, grief, depression, pain management, multicultural, workplace and others.

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If I feel funky, I know that I have closed down in some way. I probably reacted to one of my thoughts, or to what someone was saying. I actually ask or direct my heart energy to open again by saying this out loud: "My heart is open in the front and the back, and my mind in one with my heart. My heart is connected to the highest part of me." I imagine something I love - often swimming in the ocean - and I savour the love of it so I can feel my heart open again. I have turned my focus to it, and directed my heart energy to open. I do this before I begin an activity, or see anyone that for some reason feel I may be reactive towards. A tip: I have been known to do it in the bathroom when I am taking a break from dynamics, and I come out feeling more open and wiser. This works! The bathroom is a great place to bring yourself back into balance!!

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Beverley Pugh has international experience in Individual, Marital and Family Therapist services. Areas of practice include counselling in: individual, couples, family, anxiety, addictions, grief, depression, pain management, multicultural, workplace and others.

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