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Dec
13
2017

Tasting vs. Talking

 

“All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth.” ~ A Christmas Carol

Have you ever tried to taste a word? A very wise monk in Japan said that at this time of year we hear and say so many beautiful words… joy, love, appreciation, and more. His message to me was “don’t talk them, but instead taste them”. I have always remembered this sage advice. If you taste them, your whole being reverberates with the true essence of these words. When we taste them, rather than say them, our vitality, health and happiness reflects the true depth and power of these words. This is good!!

This is my experience. Let’s take the word joy. As I say “joy”, I focus on the sensation of it rolling off my tongue, and visualize myself actually tasting the word as it comes out of my mouth. I found as I focus on tasting it rather than saying it, I can feel sensations go through my entire body. It’s like my heart pops open and I feel really good!

I feel we can bring a whole different meaning and sensation inside of us when we taste words that hold a lot of power and love. It really helps with our creativity and wisdom quotient! Give it a try.

This is such a powerful season. I know there are many of us who are missing loved ones. It is a very sentimental season. For all of us, this season is a heart opener as we all hold those we love close to our hearts.

Remember that when our hearts are open, we have the opportunity to grow inside and retrain our monkey minds. This is everywhere in literature. We don’t grow from negativity or worry, we grow from imprinting the good thoughts and feelings we want inside of us.

How do we imprint? By having an open heart, and coming from a feeling of openness to love and appreciation.

This is a great season to imprint more openness and loving ways of being in life. Taste the lights, music, and spirit of this season. The more lightness we imprint, the more our creativity and smartness increases. We build beautiful sense memories inside of us. We want to bump out any old sense memories that don’t support us.

Great loving memories strengthen our immune system and our health and happiness quotient! I truly believe our health quotient goes up the happier we are.

So let’s all strengthen our immune system through “tasting” and “feeling” the depth of words that open our hearts.
Happy Holidays Everyone!

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Sep
11
2017

Emotional Baggage

“You have the perfect mother. I am responsible for all your problems, and you’re responsible for the solutions.” ~ Byron Katie

Byron Katie is well known for her quotes. For those of you who haven’t read her books, I would recommend them. This is how I see the meaning of this quote. Like you, I was profoundly influenced by my parents and family while growing up. As most of us do, I took on their beliefs and also made conclusions about life at an early age. These were not consciously chosen beliefs. They were conclusions a young child would make from the mind of a child.

Now as a mature adult (who is still evolving), it is my responsibility to reassess all my beliefs and the stories I have around them. Hanging on to these stories would leave me in a stuck place in many ways.

In my practice I have heard the word freedom so often. Probably it’s the most frequently articulated word.

From my perspective, freedom is found in our own relationship with ourselves. Or it certainly starts there. The freedom to challenge and let go of old patterns that clearly don’t serve us. As adults we are all in this place of freedom. Freedom is about all of us reflecting what we really want, then looking inside ourselves and housecleaning. It’s our responsibility.

Usually we are externally focused… waiting for an outside change. It’s called “blaming” or “finger pointing”. That is not how freedom is created. Freedom starts with us facing us. You facing you. Me facing me. We are the solution, as Bryon Katie said in her quote.

Use your knowledge wisely about your upbringing. It can be valuable to go back and understand the beliefs of your parents. It is our job as adults to sort through and let go of what doesn’t serve us anymore. Learn new habits and build muscle around those new habits, so you can hold them consistently.

We are the solution. We have been given free will to become part of the solution. Pass this on to your children!

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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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Using Pictures Rather Than Words

It is true that a picture in our mind is very powerful. It is more powerful than a paragraph of self-talk. Both the subconscious and the conscious mind respond to a picture, especially if it is encoded with emotions. If you want to increase the part of you that has a desire to live differently, then I encourage you to find images that you can hold in your mind or imagination as a way of reprogramming.

For me, there is power associated with this picture: I see a stick shift gear in my mind (encoded with love for my Dad). It tells me to navigate with alertness and self care both for myself, and those around me. A picture really does say a thousand words.

Reflect on your experiences in life. Find a memory that holds the power of alertness and self-accountability; one of successfully navigating or being engaged in self-care. Allow that picture to be embedded in your mind by imagining it, and feeling the emotion that goes with it. For me it is power and self-accountability. When you feel the feeling that goes with the picture, you embed it in your subconscious and conscious mind. Now you are reprogramming!

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Thankfully, there is Beverley Pugh! Bev takes a curious and calm approach to supporting children and parents with this journey. She is passionately invested in teaching parents and children ways to reduce anxiety and approach life positively and confidently. Bev is a master of her craft - she draws on years of her own experience as a parent and counsellor to work effectively and respectfully with children and their parents. I have thoroughly enjoyed Bev's recent workshops for parents and children and recommend them to anyone willing to explore specific strategies to help their children thrive at home, at school and in their community.

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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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