Let’s Start With My Number 1 Piece Of Meditation Advice:
Don’t make a big deal out of meditating! Don’t stress about it. Just do it. That makes the whole process much easier.
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I’m so happy to have you join us for “How To Meditate – Made Easy”!
I really hope that you find the next seven days have a beautiful impact on your life.
Students tell me that they feel calmer, less stressed, happier and more connected, even after just a week of playing with this stuff – and I hope you’ll feel that, too!
The great news is that meditating for 10 minutes a day can help you to feel great, even after just a week. And it doesn’t matter where you’re starting from.
Whether you’re a newbie to meditation, or an old hand, wanting to rekindle the habit, “How To Meditate – Made Easy” is a great place to start.
We’ll be covering the basics of how to meditate, how to make it comfortable, how to overcome the common hurdles and how to avoid the problems and mistakes that often cause people to give up. Some of it may be familiar to you; some of it may be new.
And I don’t ask you to believe everything I say! I’ll be sharing with you the techniques and strategies that I teach my face-to-face students and my online students for my premium meditation courses and – as with them – all I ask is for you to ‘try things on for size’. If it works for you, great. If not, how about tweaking it, so it does?
It is my deepest wish for you to experience that the next 7 days really make a difference to your life.
People who have made a commitment to regular meditation say that it helps them feel more calm; it helps them create a little sanctuary in their day, no matter how stressful life is. And whatever it is you want from the next 7 days (and beyond!) I really, really hope you achieve it.
I really hope you enjoy your journey – thank you for allowing me to share it with you.
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What Is Meditation?
I’d like to start answering this question by sharing with you a slightly embarrassing confession:
It was only when I started formally training to become a meditation teacher that I realised that in 20 years of studying and practising meditation, I had never actually meditated!
Whether it was twisting my legs into a pretzel or having to take on new beliefs, it was all about doing what I was told in the classes and retreats – and every one of the teachers had their own prescription for what was necessary. An each CD I bought or online course I took was full of tinkly music and soft voices guiding me to relax and visualise things, but most of them weren’t actually teaching meditation.
It seemed to be all about drifting off to ‘somewhere lovely’ ~ but this wasn’t really meditation. It was a form of very relaxing and fairly enjoyable escapism, instead.
There’s nothing wrong with that, but that kind of ‘meditating’ wasn’t getting me to that happier, calmer inner-peace-type place I wanted to be living. Instead, it was allowing me to temporarily escape the stress and worry, but it wasn’t changing me, at any deep level. It wasn’t helping me to feel less stressed or calmer, outside of the meditation time.
It’s a pattern I have seen with my meditation students, over the past years, if they have done lots of meditation before coming to my workshops or taking my online courses. Most of them had been taught that meditating is about ‘escaping’ and ‘disconnecting’ and ‘going to a special place’ – anywhere but here and now.
Meditation is about smiling and accepting life, not trying to avoid life! As I studied how to teach it, I realised that meditation isn’t about escaping from what’s ‘here’ and disconnecting from your physical experience.
Meditation is about opening your heart to living in this present moment – with full acceptance and awareness – so you can set yourself free from the stories your Monkey Mind has been telling you and reconnect with the essense of who you really are, with a big fat grin on your face. 🙂
That sense of stillness and peace that carries you through your day… Mmmmm! Delicious! 🙂
That’s when meditation can help you to feel calmer, happier, less stressed, less anxious, more at peace, more in flow, more connected, less worried, less negative, more confident and to generally fall in love with life – during your meditation and beyond.
And it’s much easier than you might think ~ when you know what works for you.
And that’s what we’ll be starting to explore, over the next 7 days.
The answer to the question of ‘exactly’ what meditation is will depend on your culture, your religious and spiritual beliefs and even the influence of the media, wherever you live.
In some places, it is called meditation. In others it is called mindfulness. In many situations these two terms are inter-changeable, though there are some key differences, which we will be covering in a moment.
There is no one-lined answer to explain what meditation or mindfulness is, because it is such a personal experience.
However, in general, meditation is about finding inner stillness – about letting go of the drama and stresses of everyday life and re-connecting with the part of us that contains our deeper wisdom. It is about being fully aware in the present moment – truly living life, rather than just living a ‘version of life’, as narrated by our unconscious mind.
In classes and retreats, meditation is often confused with deep relaxtion. But they’re actually very different beasts:
What is the difference between meditation and deep relaxation?
Deep relaxation is about relaxing the body and mind – and re-energising. You are aiming to fully engage the body’s parasympathetic nervous system, to be able to fully let go and relax, physically, mentally and emotionally.
Meditation is about being relaxed (or you can’t do it!) but also alert – focusing and concentrating, in order to reach a sense of stillness and wellbeing. It is about getting the parasympathetic (relaxation) and sympathetic (‘fight or flight’) nervous systems into balance. It’s hard to concentrate (vital for meditation), if you’re too deeply relaxed.
And tinkly background music, whilst it can be beautifully relaxing, is simply a distraction. It is hard to concentrate when you have music playing in the background. So I don’t use it with my meditations. You’ll find periods of silence, in between the prompts. And that’s completely intentional! 🙂
Sitting in silence is something many of us find challenging. That’s why we tend to drown out the silence with TV and radio on in the background all day.
My invitation to you is just to suspend how you would normally react to this quiet time, for ten minutes a day. You never know, it could make a huge difference for you.
And finally, for today…
It’s time to bust the #1 meditation myth (aka ‘excuse’!) that I hear from my students:
“But I can’t shut up my mind!”
It’s an excuse we often use, to get out of ‘having to’ meditate. But:
You don’t have to shut up your mind and stop thinking to be able to meditate.
Many expert meditators can’t do that yet. Some people find it easy. But the fact is that most of us have got Monkey Minds or grasshopper minds, leaping from one thing to the next. And there’s more to meditation than an empty mind.
You don’t have to make your mind go silent to be able to benefit from meditation.
If that’s what you’re aiming for, you’re likely to be disappointed. Just think about how many decades your mind has been taught to chatter. Yes, you can quieten your thoughts and slow things down using the simple techniques that we’ll be covering during the next four weeks. But if you’re aiming for total ‘mind-silence’, then you’re setting yourself an extremely high standard to reach.
One of the keys to meditating well – or enjoying mindfulness practice – is to accept your mind. It’s about setting yourself free from being attached to your thoughts, letting go of fighting them, so you are better placed to choose thoughts that create inner peace and happiness, rather than stress and anger. You don’t need to shut up your mind, to be able to meditate.
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In fact:
Meditation is a process that helps you to quieten your mind, so it is really the other way round!
Myth busted?
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Right! Are you ready to get started?
It’s time to download your 10 minute meditation MP3. It works best if you download it, to listen to offline because:
Sitting in front of you computer to meditate isn’t exactly ideal 😉
Internet connections often pause during playback of MP3 files, giving you gaps you weren’t expecting, which gets annoying
It means you can load it onto your phone, iPod or other MP3 player and you can listen to it, whenever you want to – your meditation is always there with you
To download it, RIGHT CLICK on this link and choose ‘save as’ or similar from the menu.
Or, if you can’t download it (please try first! 😉) here’s link you can click to play it online:
Then all you need to do is to sit and listen. Couldn’t be much easier, could it? ;-)[/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″]I’d love to hear how you get on today.
I’ll be back tomorrow when we’ll be talking about the many benefits of meditation (a great round-up of what to look forward to) and some insider secrets to help with your posture.
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Insider Secret #1:
Mind and body are linked: change your posture and you’ll change your thoughts and feelings.
To read the first insider secret, click on the image (or on the link) to open it in your web browser. To download it to read offline, right click on the link and choose ‘save as’ or similar: Insider Secret #1
Affirmation
“I know that, even if my mind feels ‘stuck’, moving my body can shift my mood.”
Download a printable version of this – click on the image to see a larger version. Then right click on that image and choose ‘save as’ (or similar) to download it to your computer or smartphone.
Bonus Video
Want to go the extra mile with Happiness Insider Secret #1? Here’s a link to a video of a 5 minute ‘body activations’ sequence that we always do to help students loosen up, before a yoga class. It’s fun and you‘ll feel fabulous afterwards!
Tweetables
“The most powerful way to set yourself free from negative thoughts has nothing to do with your head.” Tweet this
“We get what we tell ourselves – mind and body are linked. Say you’re tired and that’s how you’ll feel.” Tweet this
What you feed yourself can make you feel miserable.
To read the second insider secret, click on the image (or on the link) to open it in your web browser. To download it to read offline, right click on the link and choose ‘save as’ or similar: Insider Secret #2
Affirmation
“I know that, even if my mind feels ‘stuck’, moving my body can shift my mood.”
Download a printable version of this – click on the image to see a larger version. Then right click on that image and choose ‘save as’ (or similar) to download it to your computer or smartphone.
Bonus Video
Here’s a bonus video, all about how to break a habit – and sharing some surprising strategies that mean it will actually work for you, this time!
Tweetables
“Just like money, we ‘spend’ our time. But unlike money, we can’t earn more of it.Is it time to choose more wisely?” Tweet this
“Whether you imagine a stressful experience or actually live through it, your body’s stress responses are the same.” Tweet this
To read the second insider secret, click on the image (or on the link) to open it in your web browser. To download it to read offline, right click on the link and choose ‘save as’ or similar: Insider Secret #3
Affirmation
“The only thing I have to do today is breathe; everything else I get to choose.”
Download a printable version of this – click on the image to see a larger version. Then right click on that image and choose ‘save as’ (or similar) to download it to your computer or smartphone.
Bonus MP3s
Belly Breathing Meditation
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Letting Go Of ‘Should’ ~ Guided Meditation
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Tweetables
“Most of us have forgotten how to breathe. And it’s not as obvious as you might think.” Tweet this
“Are your ‘have tos’ real? Or are you just telling yourself they are? How would it feel if you just let them go?” Tweet this
Your choice to feel happy lies here, in this moment.
To read the second insider secret, click on the image (or on the link) to open it in your web browser. To download it to read offline, right click on the link and choose ‘save as’ or similar: Insider Secret #4
Affirmation
“I choose to live in this moment. It’s where I can create the future I have been dreaming of.”
Download a printable version of this – click on the image to see a larger version. Then right click on that image and choose ‘save as’ (or similar) to download it to your computer or smartphone.
Bonus Videos
Tweetables
“Beliefs, like clothes, were never meant to be worn forever. If they no longer fit, it’s time to say goodbye!.” Tweet this
“The future isn’t something you wait for. It’s something you create, here and now!” Tweet this
Thinking about what’s wrong keeps you stuck there.
To read the fifth insider secret, click on the image (or on the link) to open it in your web browser. To download it to read offline, right click on the link and choose ‘save as’ or similar: Insider Secret #5
Affirmation
“Whenever I have a choice, I choose happiness. P.S. I always have a choice.”
Here’s a printable version of this affirmation – right click on the image to download it to your computer and print.
What you feed yourself can make you feel miserable.
Mind and body are linked: change your posture and you’ll change your thoughts and feelings.
To read the second insider secret, click on the image (or on the link) to open it in your web browser. To download it to read offline, right click on the link and choose ‘save as’ or similar: Insider Secret #2
Affirmation
“I know that, even if my mind feels ‘stuck’, moving my body can shift my mood.”
Download a printable version of this – click on the image to see a larger version. Then right click on that image and choose ‘save as’ (or similar) to download it to your computer or smartphone.
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Each week brings you a quick-to-read, easy-to-apply, yet life-changing workbook, a specially-designed affirmation, a bonus video and dive-in-deeper resources, as well as .
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Feeling stressed could be called a modern epidemic. Dealing with stress is something that most of us have to face, on a daily basis.
The causes of stress are many and varied, but the great news is that there are plenty of simple, practical and even inspirational stress relief techniques that you can apply today, which will make a difference, fast.
Over the past decade or so, I have written plenty of articles and created loads of resources to help you feel less stressed. But rather than asking you to trawl through my website to find them, here’s a handy round-up. In this section I have included 3 main areas, to help you to combat stress and feel happier. They are:
2. Meditation & Mindfulness
One of the most painful aspects of being stuck in a stress-cycle is the chatter that goes on in your mind. Discover some practical meditation & mindfulness techniques that can help you turn things around – in under sixty seconds.
3. The ‘G’ Word…
One of the major causes of stress is focussing on what is going wrong in your life – but I didn’t need to tell you that, did I? 😉 Luckily there’s a one-word solution that can have a massive impact: Is it time to talk about the ‘g’ word?
I really hope you find these stress relief resources useful. I’d love to hear how you get on – either via the comments for each of the articles or in our Soul-Sized Living invitation-only online community (joining is free!).
I’m adding new stress busting resources all the time – make sure you’re getting Soul-Sized Living weekly updates if you want to make sure you hear about them.
Helpful Articles With Stress Management Techniques
Quick Fix: Feeling Stressed? De-Stress Grounding Breath Works In Under A Minute
Here’s a super-easy quick fix for whenever you’re feeling stressed or worried, for whatever reason. You can do it any time, any place – even when you’re surrounded by people. And once you know how to do it, it will become second nature, helping you gently let go of whatever is bothering you in a matter of seconds. Sounds good? Here’s how to do it!
Is Your Monkey Mind Telling You The Truth About Stress?
Have you noticed how your Monkey Mind likes to tell stories about stress? Even when you’re not feeling particularly stressed, if it spots a stress trigger, it uses it as an excuse to start up the story machine again. And it likes labels. It likes to put things in boxes: “That’s a stressful thing. That’s a difficult thing. That’s a happy thing.” When the stuff is in boxes, it makes life easier for your Monkey Mind, because then it knows which auto-pilot scripts and old habitual behaviours to run.
But there’s a problem with all of this: we believe the stories our Monkey Mind tells us. Find out why it’s such a big issue – and what you can do about it, today!
Are You Eating Yourself Miserable? 5 Food Traps That Could Be Wrecking Your Mood
One of the most common reactions when we’re feeling stressed is to reach for something to eat. Our research showed that up to 75% of people instinctively reach for comfort food, when they’re feel down, stressed or angry. BUT what you’re eating (or drinking) could be making you feel worse! Discover the 5 most common food traps that could be wrecking your mood.
How To Magically Find More Time
How often do we spend our time fretting about not having enough time? It seems to fly by. And the more stressed we are, the faster it goes. In our fast-paced society, there’s a common theme in most of our lives – we feel we don’t have enough time.
Most of us would love to find more time – for the things we have to do – and for the things we’d rather do.
So I’d like to share with you a near-magic-wand for creating more time in your day. How To Magically Find More Time
The Little Book Of Daily Sunshine
If you enjoy reading inspirational aticles that can help you to de-stress and change your life in just a few minutes, then you might want to discover why readers love the Little Book Of Daily Sunshine. It brings you bite-sized inspiration to light up your day. Short & sweet. Practical & inspirational. It can really help you to feel less stressed. Readers tell me they carry it around in their bags, keep it in theirs desks at work or leave it on the bedside table, to dip into, whenever they need inspiration. Get your copy of the Little Book Of Daily Sunshine today.
Meditation & Mindfulness
Fluff-free zone – trust me, I’m an engineer 😉
Is It Time To Stop ‘Pretending’ To Breathe? Turn Things Around With A 3 Minute Belly-Breathing Meditation
When we’re stressed, our breathing moves from the belly area to the upper chest. This triggers hormones that create more stress, creating a viscious cycle.
When we do this, we’re also denying our bodies the oxygen-rich fuel they crave, which has implications for our health – physically, mentally and emotionally.
Fortunately all you need to do, to turn things around, is to take 10 deep breaths. Here’s how: 3 Minute Belly Breathing Meditation
Do You Need To PAUSE Today? It’s A 60 Second De-Stressing Mindfulness Technique You Won’t Want To Miss
I was talking to some students recently about how you can work with mindfulness techniques to let go of stresses and icky emotions in under a minute. It’s funny how people rarely believe such a claim – until they have tried it. Of course, it takes practice to get the most out of it – just as with any skill – but this mindfulness exercise is one you won’t want to miss. Is it time for you to PAUSE today? Here’s a 60 second mindfulness-based de-stressing technique you won’t want to miss.
Six Secrets For Training Your Family To Help You Meditate
When you’re feeling stressed, meditation can really help. But starting the habit can feel hard. Moral support is essential.
But have you ever noticed that, sometimes, the hardest place to ask for help is at home?
Training your family (or house-mates) to help you meditate is vital, if you want to create a sustainable, on-going meditation practice. This is one of the most popular bonus articles from the 28 Day Meditation Challenge course, which I’m sharing with you here, as my gift. 🙂 Here are some top tips, to get your family ‘meditation-fit’
Why Are We So Scared Of Silence?
You get home from work and almost before your coat is off and the keys are hung up, the radio is on. You go to a friend’s for coffee and the TV is on in the background. You sit in your car and give in to an almost physical need to tune in to your favourite station or listen to some music. But did you know that all of this will be adding to your stress levels? Discover why we’re so scared of silence – and an insider secret that can turn things around.
3 Secrets Your Heart Wants You To Hear About Meditation
We’ve all heard that high, persistent levels of stress can lead to heart disease. But did you know that meditation not only helps to cut your stress levels, but can help to improve your heart health and reduce your risk of heart disease?
Here are 3 compelling reasons why meditation should be top of your list of strategies. These are the secrets your heart really wants you to hear about how meditation can help you. 3 Secrets Your Heart Wants You To Hear About Meditation
Want To Learn How To Meditate? Join Us For The 28 Day Meditation Challenge Online Course
The 28 day meditation challenge’s approach is unique. It’s about much more than just meditation!
Of course, it guides, step by step, through the essentials of how to meditate, just as you would expect from a course created by a formally-trained, experienced meditation teacher.
But I’m going to help you go further than that – sharing my decades of psychology & NLP expertise (I’m a certified NLP Trainer).
In this inspirational, down-to-earth programme, the 28 Day Meditation Challenge takes you on a powerful journey to free yourself from old excuses, negative thought patterns and limiting beliefs, to enjoy the many scientifically-proven benefits of meditation, no matter how busy your life is.
Drawing from various ancient spiritual traditions, as well as powerful life-changing techniques and practical wisdom, this interactive online course has the potential to transform your experience of life – all served up with an upbeat tone, plenty of encouragement and a dollop of humour! Join us for the 28 Day Meditation Challenge
How To Rope In Your Monkey Mind To Help You Feel Less Stressed
Feeling stressed often comes from giving all of our attention to what is going wrong – and losing our perspective on what is going right. Psychologists and researchers have now proven what common sense already told us: that focussing on the good bits in life helps us to feel happier and less stressed.
Here’s one of the top solutions they recommend, to help you combat stress – and they have discovered it can produce dramatic results in under 3 weeks. In fact, my readers and students have found that it’s much faster than that. 🙂
Are you ready?
Is It Time For The ‘G’ Word?
We’re talking Gratitude here.
Ok – let’s deal with the #1 tomato-throwing objection first: focusing on gratitude doesn’t mean turning into Pollyanna and pretending that everything in life is ok! Instead it’s about retraining your Monkey Mind to think about things that make you feel great, more often than it tells you stories of things that make you feel bad.
And, unsurprisingly, it can be an amazing antidote (and even long-term solution) for feeling stressed.
Are you up for playing with this idea? Here are some of the most popular gratitude resources from my website, for you to enjoy.
Feel Less Stressed: Change Your Life Now With Gratitude Minutes
Want to know one of my favourite gratitude techniques? Even if this were the only one you chose to do, it will still have a massively positive impact on your life.
It takes a minute or two – and it’s worth every second of your time.
Interested? Here it is! Change your life now with gratitude minutes.
Finding It Hard To Get To Sleep? Bedtime De-Stress With The Gratitude Spiral
Sometimes in life, especially when we’re stressed, it can be difficult to fall asleep. It’s as though the worries of daily life just keep going round and round in our mind. But stress doesn’t have to be something that keeps you awake at night.
Rather than fighting your thoughts, which just feeds them and keeps them at the centre of your attention, there are many simple techniques that cost nothing, but make a huge difference! Here’s one of my favourites.
Forget About New Year Resolutions! Is It Time To Change Your Life With A Gratitude Jar, Instead?
Forget about the whole gym / giving up chocolate / never swearing again stuff. Sure, it’s helpful, but it’s really only twiddling with the outside.
If you want to make real, life-long shifts in your life this year, go for Gratitude instead. Just imagine training your brain to think of happy thoughts and things you are grateful for, instead of pointing out everything that’s going wrong!
Just imagine saying goodbye to feeling glum and fed up, when things don’t go the way you had wanted! It only takes five minutes a day to train your mind to look for the positives and to feel gratitude for what is good in your life. Here’s a fun technique you can use with the whole family – and it’s incredibly useful, when you’re feeling stressed. Is it time to start a gratidue jar?
Want To Dive In? Is It Time For A Gratitude Journal?
Want to be inspired? Want to discover how to make the miracle of gratitude an easy and life-changing part of your daily routine? Gratitude: A Daily Journal is more than ‘just’ a journal. It brings you the ‘how to’ of gratitude, in bite-sized, light-hearted, practical chunks – as well as a Readers’ Club, with reader-only bonuses and a supportive online readers’ forum, to share your journey with other like-minded gratitude-fans.
Can you imagine how all of this will fast-track your experience of gratitude changing your life?!
Of course, other gratitude journals are available, but – in true Blue Peter style, here’s one I prepared earlier 😉 Gratitude – A Daily Journal
Give Your Gratitude A Kick Start
We have all heard of the power of gratitude to change your life.
We’re just supposed to ‘think grateful thoughts’ and ‘cultivate an attitude of gratitude’ and suddenly it all falls into place? Hmmmm….
Perhaps there’s a teeny bit more to it than that? 😉
But, actually, gratitude doesn’t have to be as difficult as it might seem – when you know how.
And it doesn’t need to take longer than a week, for you to notice real shifts in your experience of life. Interested? Then the 7 Day Gratitude Kick-Start online course could be just what you’re looking for. Use coupon code soulsizedliving to get a 50% discount. 🙂 Get started with your Gratitude Kick Start today!
I hope you find the above stress relief resources helpful! I publish new articles and videos each week, many of which can help you to set yourself free from the cycle of feeling stress. If you’d like to know when they’re published (and get your hands on lots of gorgeous goodies as my gift), then please make sure you have joined Soul-Sized Living – it’s free!
Next Retreat: How To Set Yourself Free From Overwhelm
11 Inspirational strategies to help you let go of struggling and trying too hard ~ and love living in flow!
Saturday, May 10
8 PM UK . 3 PM Eastern . 10 AM Pacific
Are you drowning in your ‘to do’ list?
Do you wake up at night, thinking about all the things you’ve got to do?
Can’t remember the last time you took ‘time out’ and just relaxed?
Are you living a 90 mile an hour, wondering where each day went?
Then you’re suffering from overwhelm…
… But you didn’t need me to tell you that, did you? 😉
I know (because I have been there, done it and got a wardrobe-full of the proverbial t-shirts 🙂 ) that it’s nearly impossible to create the changes you want in your life, while you’re drowning in overwhelm.
The great news is that awareness is the first key to change ~ and in May’s online retreat, the time has come to do something about it!
I’m sharing with you 11 inspirational, practical strategies ~ which you can do right there and then, during the live training ~ that will help you to:
feel less stressed
magically find more time
stop trying so hard ~ and get even better results
smile more often and feel more relaxed
find more space to do what you love ~ and spend more time with the people who matter
How much is it worth to you, to be able to let go of the oars, find more time to do what you really want to do, feel happier, have more time for those you love and to really enjoy life?
How about getting started today?
(Hint: The pre-event workbook and video give you a great head start!)
In this virtual retreat, which includes a 90 minute live online seminar, you will discover…
3 Things you can do – right away…
… to break free from overhwelm.
Why you shouldn’t believe every story you tell yourself…
… How your Monkey Mind has been making things worse… 🙂
A simple mindset shift that can set you free from obligation and overwhelm – instantly.
You’ll wish you had learned this one years ago!
How to avoid the top 10 time-stealers…
… that catch most of us unawares.
A simple, free, use-it-anywhere technique for times of stress…
… that can shift you back towards smiling and serenity, in under sixty seconds.
Why multi-tasking could be your worst enemy…
… and how to easily break the habit.
How to ‘magically’ find more time?
There’s one simple thing you can do each day that can help you break free from “I don’t have enough time” forever. 🙂
Think it’s hard to change your life?
We’ll go through a beautiful visualisation process that will blow you away with how easy it makes it for you to shift your life, over the coming year.
A common-sense, spritiual truth…
… that can help you to press ‘reset’ on your old overwhelm addiction.
How a seemingly straight-forward question (which will put your head in a spin!)…
… could be the key to letting go of what had been keeping you stuck in ‘overwhelm’ for years.
Why having a good clear-out can help…
… and how your environment and emotions and mental clarity are all intricately connected.
Set Yourself Free From Overwhelm
Discover 11 Inspirational strategies to help you let go of struggling and trying too hard ~ and love living in flow!
Clare is a dedicated Happiness Experimenter, whose passion is inspiring you to live a life you love. She is a best-selling author, an NLP Trainer, a Meditation Teacher and co-founder of the Gayatri Healing Centre in Sussex, UK, as well as mum to 3 young boys.
Join Clare Josa for this life-changing virtual retreat for just £47 (approx $69 USD)
If you attended this virtual retreat as a 2-day face-to-face workshop, it would cost you £297, plus travel, accommodation, food and childcare. If you did it as one-to-one mentoring with Clare, it would cost upwards of £3,000 (even if she had availability, which she currently doesn’t…).
By joining us for the online virtual retreat, you get everything that you would get from the 2-day workshop, but in bite-sized chunks to suit your schedule.
Just imagine… how life will feel when you have set yourself free from overwhelm!
Book Your Place Now
Join Clare Josa for this life-changing virtual retreat for just £47 (approx $69 USD)
How Does A ‘Virtual Retreat’ Work?
This virtual retreat brings you:
A pre-event assignment, so you get to ‘hit the ground running’ on the day
A gorgeous online community, so you can connect with others, from the moment you book your place
Live group mentoring, with a chance to get your question answered, during or after the event.
An MP3 recording of the ‘virtual workshop’, so you can listen again, whenever, wherever, forever
Techniques to tap into the power of your unconscious mind, with sepcially-designed NLP and mindfulness-based exercises
Life-changing affirmations and inspirational quotes posters, to make change even easier
Revisit the workshop materials, whenever you need them, with a post-event PDF download
A post-retreat workbook and exclusive videos to help you easily integrate the core learnings and techniques
A specially-designed meditation MP3 to help you experience deep-acting shifts
Your ‘Tribe’, so you can connect and share the journey, with moral support, Big Love and fun in our online community ~ before, during and after the retreat.
11 Inspirational strategies to help you let go of struggling and trying too hard ~ and love living in flow! Find out more and book your place
People were telling me how much they wanted to work face-to-face with me, but they couldn’t make it to my live events – hey, not everyone is lucky enough to live near Sussex, UK 😉 But they still wanted to get their hands (and hearts!) on what I was teaching.
I don’t want anyone to miss out. So I created the monthly Soul-Sized Living Live Online Training Events.
It’s a virtual workshop, run with the heart and soul of a face-to-face retreat.
These seminars last for 90 minutes – including time for Q&A, just like you would have at a ‘real-world’ retreat.
And there’s more…!
You get to ‘hit the ground running’ on the day…
Your pre-event assignment (takes about an hour), with worksheets and a video, means you’re warmed up and raring to go, when the event starts.
You can connect with others, before the seminar
Get to know others who will be attending, before the event, so you can share your challenges and top tips on the topic, supporting each other with the pre-event assignment and beyond…
Be part of the event’s group mentoring
You get to submit questions for the Q&A part of the seminar both before the event and during it ~ and we’ll cover as many as possible during the Q&A group mentoring section.
Listen again, whenever, wherever, forever
You’ll get an MP3 recording of the ‘virtual workshop’, for you to listen to whenever you want – forever. And if you can’t join us live, it means you’re not missing out.
NLP and mindfulness-based exercises, to help you tap into the power of your unconscious mind
You can join in with specially-designed exercises during the event, to help you change your life, there and then.
Life-changing affirmations and inspirational quotes posters
You can download printable mini-posters with the affirmations and inspirational quotes from the seminar, so you can stick them up around your home and office ~ or use them as the wallpaper on your phone.
Revisit the workshop materials, whenever you need them
You will get a PDF file with the key slides from the event, to trigger your memory of the most important techniques.
Easily integrate the core learnings and techniques
There are unique post-workshop resources, videos and worksheets, to help you integrate the learnings and apply them in every area of your life.
Experience deep-acting shifts by enjoying a special deep relaxation or meditation, after the workshop
Most of my face-to-face workshops include specially-created deep relaxations or meditations, because the deepest shifts happen at an unconscious level, when we’re fully relaxed ~ and I don’t want you to miss out on that!
Really allow the techniques to work at the deepest levels (with practically zero effort!) by listening to the specially-designed deep relaxation or meditation MP3 you’ll get after the event.
Connect with your Tribe and share the journey
There’s moral support, Big Love and fun waiting for you, with our gorgeous online community members ~ before, during and after your ‘retreat’. We’d love to have you join us!
Put it all together and you have the equivalent of a 1-day life-changing retreat, but at a time and place that suits you ~ and at a fraction of the cost, with no travel or overnight accommodation or restaurant bills. 🙂 Woo hoo!
Of course, it looks like a lot – and it is – but it’s up to you how deeply you dive in. Whether you’re dipping your toe in the water or diving in for a full immersion experience, that’s cool. The resources, bonuses, worksheets, videos, audios, affirmations, inspirational quotes, exercises, techniques, insider secrets, short cuts and online community will be there for you, whenever you’re ready. 🙂
Book Your Place Now
Join Clare Josa for this life-changing virtual retreat for just £47 (approx $69 USD)
There’s nothing wrong with that, but that kind of ‘meditating’ wasn’t getting me to that happier, calmer inner-peace-type place I wanted to be living. Instead, it was allowing me to temporarily escape the stress and worry, but it wasn’t changing me, at any deep level. It wasn’t helping me to feel less stressed or calmer, outside of the meditation time.
Deep relaxation is about relaxing the body and mind – and re-energising. You are aiming to fully engage the body’s parasympathetic nervous system, to be able to fully let go and relax, physically, mentally and emotionally.
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