Push the Pause button

Hello---yesterday I coached someone who wanted to figure out how to get his needs met. As we talked, it turns out that he really likes being helpful and pretty much never says NO to anything asked of him. I asked him questions about how he feels about this, where he feels it in his body (shoulders feel burdened), whose voice does he hear when he feels compelled to say yes(parents and others), what does he get from always helping (some folks call him Superman), what happens when he says no (he feels mean and selfish).

I asked him what he would like to get out of the session and said he would like to get some kind of list that would help him to decide if he should say yes or no. As he was telling me this all I could see in my head was a HUGE pause button. I asked him if something like this would help him. He laughed and thought it was a good idea. He will pause before he says Yes!

We also came up with a plan to have a day for himself. We talked through a script to talk to his family and gain their help. I asked him how he was feeling with this. He said that he was feeling respect for himself and some relief.

Do you take care of yourself? Are you feeling that you need to be Superhuman in your life and take care of everyone but yourself? Ponder the idea that you can push the Pause button when someone asks you to do something. Give yourself a chance to ponder what is best for you. Remember the concept that you must put the oxygen mask on yourself first before you can help others.

Love yourself first with your whole heart. Love ALL parts of you! The pouchy tummy, the flabby thighs, the acne complexion, the wispy hair, the funny toenails. Know that you are perfectly perfect perfection in the eyes of the ones who love you and in the eyes of the Universe. We all serve a purpose. We are all here for a reason.

The more you love yourself, the more you take care of yourself, the more you love all the parts of you, the more you love others and all of their perfections, the more you draw love to you, the more people love you, the more love you give, the more peace in the world.

Try it one hour at a time. Take it easy.......when you look in the mirror, say "I love you!" Keep practicing.......Go for it!

It's Lifting

Hello--I see that my last post was over a month ago! WOW! I have been feeling utterly exhausted over the last month. Barely dragging myself around and doing the things I needed to do. BUT I can feel that it is lifting. yeah! So much healing and love happening this last year or so. I am in awe of it all. On the physical side, I still weigh more than I would feel is optimal for me but I really and truly just love myself NO MATTER WHAT. I am a really neat person. AND if I have a few extra pounds, that doesn't make me bad. The weight is there for a reason and it is all good. I have had skin issues for over a year now and at times I have felt despairing. We do so much dancing and when we dance we look into the partner's eyes. So, am I a bad person because I have skin problems? NO! Make that even more resounding....NO NO NO!!!

I had an amazing experience a few weeks ago around these physical issues I mentioned. I was doing some errands and walking downtown and all of a sudden I had the most beautiful feeling of peace and absolute gratitude wash over me and envelope me in a big warm blanket. I realized that I may not understand why I am going through all these physical challenges but I am so so so grateful to God-Goddess-Universe-Home Office to giving it to me. BECAUSE I LOVE MYSELF absolutely and in all shapes and forms. (And for those folks who are thinking that perhaps I should have eaten less and exercised more, it never seemed to matter what I did there.) I know that my essence is not my human form. My essence is divine, pure love and that is why I am here. FINALLY I get the love of myself and I am here to share that with others.

I truly am wallowing in love, gratitude and hope and I will share with all who seek this. Many many blessings to you/us all!

Still learning at 52 and a half

Have you ever thought that you knew something and then you realized that you only partially knew it and it was another BIG learning for your life????? This is great, right? Yes, but sometimes painful as I navigate some emotional path that I didn't really want to go down. Okay, I know that I have been into inner growth and inner work and understanding myself completely and thoroughly and that is not even getting into the passionate self love path that I am on. I chose this path for a reason. To be free to be myself totally, to share my joy with the world, to share my gifts with the world. All good and THEN one of those emotional things come up! Sheesh! So, part of this path is feeling the pain, the emotions, all of it!

I embrace and celebrate and invite into me the pain and what feels like separation from Source Energy-Universe-God-Goddess-Inner Self. I am learning that this works so so so well to embrace the pain and emotions and they can become my ally. I see myself inviting XXX over for dinner. I love to cook for people! This image really helps me. I am also lucky because my most wonderful hubby, Jim, also gets me and is so supportive of me and caring and sweet! He never ever ever backs away from my emotions! Thank you, my honey bunny.

What triggered me last night was a feeling of being rushed......It is interesting because I have been one big rushing person my whole life but I have never liked it. That is why I get up at 4 or 5 in order to have plenty of time to ease into my day. BUT because I have worked all my life out in the world, I have had to rush A LOT! I am DONE with that.

Since I have been building my inner life coaching practice, I have not had to rush. Oh.....my.....gosh......it feels so good! As I sit in meditation in the morning, I listen (and ask) for next steps and I have been consistently hearing, "let it go, it is all coming." I have heard to relax and rest more. That it is time for me to enjoy life more and that I have worked HARD my whole life and I don't have to do that anymore. Do you realize what a hard thing it is to let that sense of having to accomplish something go?

So, Jim and I are in the market to purchase a car. We went from 2 to 0 in about 2 months (another story). We are looking for a most perfect car for us. It is not about what it looks like or grooviness. It is all about gas mileage. We want at least 40 MPG. AND I want a little space. AND this cannot be rushed.....last night, however, got me into a rushing state and I stressed and even cried a little. EVEN though I know (and have heard) that our perfect car is coming to us and it is not quite ready yet. I have also set an intention and energized it towards the perfect car coming to us. I am done with rushing! Yeah!

What a great lesson that was. Isn't it funny how we learn SO WELL from pain-emotions-tough times? Thank you to the Universe, Source Energy, Inner Voice, God, Goddess for my beautiful connection and for the lovely lessons and reminders.

If anyone is interested in hearing more about setting an intention and energizing it, I am using a daily practice called C.H.I. Practice: A Daily Guidance System for Enjoying Life. I will be teaching this in the Eugene area with my mentors and the co-creators of this system, Will & Tashina Wilkinson (They are so awesome!). Our first level course is June 18-19. More information on C.H.I. Practice Facebook Event page.

Much love to all of us and may we feel the perfection in connection to our beautiful inner guidance................

Love and Excitement

Hello everyone---I am nearing the completion of my life coach training and so excited about this career path for me! The ideas for workshops, teleconferences, healing opportunities are flying around my head fast and happy! Can you see the images with little wings on them?

One of the things that I will be embarking on is to share my chanting with the world. It is time! I have been chanting for the last almost 40 years! This is one of my passions. But, like a human, I did not realize how powerful it was until I attended a workshop and "heard" to share in a session. The group was blown away by the power and healing of the chant. I was so excited and happy that I had a gift to share with the world. Or at least I was happy that I could share in this instance. The excitement and committment and belief about sharing with the world came later.

Over the course of time in this months long workshop, I shared different chants with the group. I was starting to get that I would be doing this more globally at some point. The group really wanted me to teach a class in chanting. I knew that I would be using this chanting gift of mine for healing.

I also know that I will be using it in my inner life coaching. Every session may be a little different depending on what I hear to chant for my client. I know that I will be sharing it in my workshops, classes, teleconferences, etc. Yeah! I will have sound bites of me chanting on my up and coming website www.elizabethsadhu.com. Stay tuned for that.

If anyone wants to get a taste of my chanting, please feel free to contact me and I will tune in to what chant you need at that exact moment and let it rip.

Now is the time to share your gifts with the world. Now is not the time to hold back because you don't think you are worthy or smart or absolutely fabulous. You are! Know it, live it, be it. Remember Marianne Williamson.......

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

Let your light shine, beloveds. You have greatness in you. Much love and light to you on this day and everyday,

Elizabeth

Remember---call or write and I will chant for YOU!

What a day I had!!

I had such a day yesterday.

I went to Portland yesterday to have lunch with, and finally meet in person, my mentor coach teacher, Jennifer Powers. I was excited but nervous. Having some of those fun human thoughts like, "what should I wear?" and "maybe I should wait to meet her until I lose the weight". Such silliness.

We had a most marvelous lunch. Sat for close to 3 hours talking and talking. Laughing loudly and often. It was lovely. She really helped me to realize that I am on my path and that my coaching practice is perfectly aligned with me. My specialty is "Helping men and women fall in love with themselves!" She really helped me get that this is my passion, my obsession. I knew it before; she helped me see it in a way that supported me to continue. I was thinking that I had to change it for "marketing purposes".

What I do know about myself is that I see everything in terms of self love. I think that EVERY issue-problem that any human has is because they don't have enough self love or because they love parts but not all of themselves. I realized yesterday that not everyone thinks like this. :-)This is my obsession and I will be coaching around this.

So, if someone is wanting to lose weight, I can help them to understand why they are holding weight and help them to lose it by LOVING THEMSELVES more and more and more. If someone is working in a career that they don't like, I can help them to bust out of that and find their passion and work their passion and how I do that is by helping them to LOVE THEMSELVES more fully, profoundly and unconditionally. If you are a teen or know a teen that is having a hard time in school or in life, I can then help that person to succeed and be happier by giving them tools to LOVE THEMSELVES more deeply and towards being themselves fully and completely.

I think you get the idea. I can help anyone who is open to the Self Love Journey. It is a lovely and challenging and amazing and hard and beautiful and oh my gosh, I am giving up and profound journey!

I have been saying for years "we are asked to love our neighbors as ourselves. BUT the problem is that we don't love ourselves."

If interested or want to hear more about this, my passion, write to me here.

Much love and light on your self love journey.

I am so excited!

As I come into the homestretch of my official training to be a Certified Life Coach, only a few weeks left, lots of things are starting to happen! I love this! I have worked hard and diligently to build my Inner Life Coaching practice, but I have also very much enjoyed quiet moments. I feel that this is necessary for my life, which includes my business. In fact, I feel that more businesses could have more quiet and they would only gain from that introspection! (more on that later) I have been pushing for years to get the heart (love) back into business and I am so glad that I am seeing some of that happen!

I have been "hearing" that "it will all come". That I need to relax and know that the foundation is being laid and that the pieces will fall into place. As humans we think we know what is best. I have found that I can have some idea about what I want and can put it out there but including "this or something better" is a good message to Universe-God-Goddess-Home Office-Inner Voice to show that I am open to MORE.

Story about that: I have been laid off many many times in my career and after some initial shock it was FABULOUS! One time I was laid off at the same time as my dear hubby, Jim. We worked in different cities, he was in the public and I was in the private sector. We found out the SAME DAY! But during that 7+ months of not working, we found out that we could be retired together. We lived in 800 SF and so much enjoyed being together. We found ourselves always hanging out in the same room. We coined the phrase "Living the High Life Parsimoniously". We liked it so much that we have continued to this day.

Would we have asked to be laid off at the same time? NO! BIG NO! Are we grateful that it happened? OH YES!! This was an excellent learning for me to let go and let God-Goddess. Faith. Trust. Believe. Breathe.

So, now that I am almost officially certified as a life coach, what is happening with the building of my practice?

I am connecting with folks more all the time. I have even been called to coach and thinking it was just a freebie practice, was then sent a check! Wow, I am a paid life coach! I had a lovely realization that I am going to be teaching meditation and how it can be incorporated people's lives in an easy and everyday way. I have heard that I am going to be out in the community, also.

Well, stay tuned for this June in Eugene. Out of a serendipitous situation where, again, the Universe put me somewhere in an unexpected and (and unplanned on my part) way. Someday I will tell you the story of the Big Rock. I connected with some folks in Ashland who teach something they call CHI Practice (Creating, Healing, Integrating). I took their course and it has changed my life. Even after meditating for close to 40 years, this course shows some new ways to look at my life and daily spiritual practice.

"The CHI Practice introduces tools for consciously moving your life energy to create the life you want - with meaning, ease, enjoyment, and contribution. The C.H.I. Practice utilizes self inquiry, asking and answering three simple but many layered questions:
1. What do I want?
2. What do I feel?
3. What’s next?"

I am on my way to becoming a teacher of this Practice. Will and Tashina Wilkinson will be coming to Eugene in June to facilitate Level 1 of this training. They along with Rod and Brooks Newton developed this and are ready to take it to the world. I get to be part of this!! This is part of my bigger calling and passion! I am so lucky!

I am excited because I am using these techniques in my coaching practice and this is exciting because I had "heard" that I would be teaching something but I did not quite know yet what it was. I had to trust. I love it. I am on fire. Yeah!

So, listen, listen, listen. Put it out the the Universe-Inner Voice and let it go. KNOW that it is all working. See your beautiful vision of you as happy, peaceful, satisfied, and filled with love. THAT is what is important!!

Much love and light to you all and have a blessed day,

Elizabeth

no internet---oh my!

Hello---It felt really frustrating at first and then challenging and then relaxing. WOW! No internet for about 10 days. I went to an internet cafe one day and that was fun. I borrowed a friend's computer briefly a couple of times. BUT mostly I rested from this obsession. I do know about myself that I love to be CONNECTED! So, the internet for me, including email, Facebook and Twitter, is a way to connect. So, while I did not have that, I practiced connecting and thinking about my connections-friends-loved ones in my heart.

What a lovely time. What a peaceful time. And at times frustrating since sending a quick email early in my morning does not disturb someone's sleep like a phone call might!

I enjoyed it. Thanks to the Universe for this lovely respite and reminder to just BE.