Archive for Mood Management
And Now, The Dawn!
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Thank heavens for The GrooveTool ( see yesterday’s blog). I experienced a serious Inner Critter take out yesterday, but thanks to this blogging process, I remembered to use that very powerful tool. And viola! Today, I have moved forward at the speed of light. Everything is popping up roses of every kind.
In BoldMoves Country, we see again and again with our clients and program participants how the darkest hour ––that time when the Critters really have ya’–– can actually be seen as an indication of a potentially huge breakthrough just around the corner.
When I witness the pervasive fear and doubt that has people at dead stop right now, I can almost get excited. Whatever could be coming as we find, each of us, our own way through that dark night and into a new dawn?
Pea Soup
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Honestly, my head feels like pea soup just now, a side effect of having let the Critters get me up in the night. Embarrassing, really, as I pride myself on being able to silence them, but the combination of deep change in my life and too many carbs in my dinner created a situation that even the GrooveTool couldn’t remedy. At least not for a few hours.
The good news is that I didn’t fall completely down the rabbit hole. Picture me just at the entrance, pressing with all fours against the sides to keep myself from plummeting belly down into the abyss. Well, you know that place, right? Everyone knows that place.
So while my operating state isn’t optimal, I’m staying away from business planning, but I look forward to tomorrow morning when I meet with Tim and Roger regarding next steps. I cannot adequately say how wonderful it feels to have the support of two brilliant guys. Despite my head feeling like pea soup, life is good – actually, life is great!!
Just the Facts Ma’am
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Sergeant Friday would be a worthy ally to me as I take on my next task for the business plan, creating a simple flow chart of the primary components of our Jump To Action training series––how we take people through BoldMoves Country.
I was always fascinated by Friday’s ability to stick to the basics. What color? What texture? What size? How did it smell? Taste? My mind just doesn’t want to work that way without coaxing.
Ask me to describe an ice cream cone, and I’ll effuse about the way it reminds of pleasurable childhood moments, or the frustration it creates in a three year old who can’t stay ahead of the drips. I’ll describe how the scoop glides through the stuff in its carton, curling it into a surprising ball and then balancing atop the cone like a golf ball on a tee. Never mind that it is cold, pink, strawberry in flavor and smell, round and smooth at the top, and coned and crisp at the bottom.
So, once again, I am a bit out of my element, but this is a challenge I can relish because it will help others to understand what we’re doing. At the same time, I’m so glad that I know about my penchant for abstraction because when the Inner Critters try to bother me, I will know exactly how to stave them off. That’s one of the primary take aways from BoldMoves Country, knowing who I am well enough to see those pesky Critters coming.
Stretching, stretching – just stick to the facts, Shayla.
Critter Dream
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So now they’re coming after me in my dreams, those Inner Critters!
In the dream, I am setting up to play music, plugging in my electronic keyboard, but the extension cords and electrical outlets I am to use are a big mess and they look unsafe. A man, not so subtly dressed as a cat burglar, comes in with a jumble of tools and offers to help.
He dumps his tools at my feet and runs away. I realize that the tools are components of a bomb that will soon blow up the place. I throw them safely away and then pick up odds and ends left over, dirty, grimy parts of some contraption. I discard those as well.
Interpretation: there is a not so well disguised Inner Critter who would like to blow up my Bold Move toward a new iteration of our Pond Productions business, to prevent me from performing as it were. I gotcha fella! You’re just a pussy cat!
My husband thinks the cat burglar represents the pervasive forces in our culture who would like people to stay stuck instead of learning to make Bold Moves. If so, I like the fact that he didn’t have much finesse or staying power . . . meow.
My Favorite Part!
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Today, outlining the biz plan section on Community Involvement, what a joy!
As Allan said recently, we could both effuse on this for hours, so the big challenge here is to keep it short and to the business points. Indulge me, then, while I effuse a bit here before having to thus constrain myself!
Bottom line, I just love helping people get it––that they can experience life as a well cell in our human biological system. Well cells know who they are and how to live life from passion and purpose in a state of ease and grace.
Rub up against a well cell, and you are likely to feel better yourself. They create a positive viral effect that has every cell around them dancing to a new tune! In this way, well cells actually create well communities. So, in a way, the BoldMoves work is itself, community involvement.
Optimal Operations
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Today, I’m completing the business plan section called Operations and noticing my own internal operations, or in BoldMoves language, my Optimal Operating State.
If you’ve been following along here for the past few days, you’ve seen my operating state go bi-polar! Not a good thing.
So today, I’m happy to report that I’ve returned to optimal status which means I can actually breathe, and that my yoga was deep and luscious instead of hurried and jerky, and that my walk in the desert this morning included grace and ease, and that the world around me looks more like the colorful buildings in this picture than the steep cliff-to-ocean drop.
All of this because I didn’t push myself to some imaginary deadline for completing Operations. I stayed in flow – not an easy task when both internal and external messages say push, push, push – just get it done.
So, haleluja! I’m in the grace of self-mastery once more! And now, on to the Technology Plan. Yah, that’s right in my corner pocket of genius. Not!!
The Bolder the Move, The Louder the Critters!
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I can take some solace in the fact that my Inner Critters have me up in the middle of the night again. It means that I’m really up to something big – a truly Bold Move. That’s how it works. I must say that several times a day talking with coaching clients who are up to big achievements. Just hang in there, I say. Do your perfect practice of activities to keep body, mind and emotions in good shape. And, hey, that really works, and still those sneaky Critters wake me up promoting their insidious doubts and fears.
In so many ways, I protect myself from our pervasive fear culture. Stay away from the constantly disastrous daily news. Touch into nature every day. Force field myself from negative people. Read inspiring poetry. Sing every day. And still they come to grab me in the night sometimes.
Well, I won’t let them stop me. I refuse to succumb to those Crittery messages. I remember that just a week ago I was feeling so supported by the world around me and I know that in just another day or two, when the business plan is done, I’ll be able to look back on these few scary times and see that I’ve come through to the other side.
Yup, The Bolder the Move, the Louder the Critters. Bottom line, this current move is boldness in the making over thirty years. Thirty years it has taken me to build my skills, self-confidence, and courage to dare to believe I could truly contribute to the world at the level I am now contemplating. What is it that they say in the marines? Hoo Rah? H-o-o R-a-ah!!
Critter Crunching
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The thing about my Inner Critters is that they are every bit as smart as I am, and because they live in my subconscious rather than my conscious mind, far more sneaky and seductive. They are also reactive in nature, so the slightest little emotional noise in my conscious awareness can awaken them and juice their creativity which is unbounded.
They got going last evening because of a mild feeling of sadness I had due to the fact that a dear friend and playmate of seven years will soon be moving away. Oh, my Critters got out their fertilizer and watering cans, delighting in the intention to grow that little, very respectful, very authentic, very understandable seed of a feeling into a great big gnarly jungle of . . see, everyone abandons you in the end, you’re not worthy of such a great friend, every good feeling you’ve had from that friendship was just a trick, etc., etc., yada, yada.
How is this whole friendship discussion germane to my making the BoldMove of writing a killer business plan? Simple, once I let my Inner Critters take me out in one area of my life, they get sticky traction for bringing me down around whatever is most important to me in the moment. That’s just how it works in BoldMoves Country. In fact, a BoldMove in process keeps Inner Critter on alert because if they can trash my efforts, they win big!
Ha, ha! I didn’t let them, by golly. I didn’t let them dismantle my good memories, or make me feel unlovable. I didn’t let them diminish the great times and projects that my friend and I experienced during our years of regular, in-person contact. I didn’t let them shove their nasty script into my face. I showed them! I used the GrooveTool, and within seconds, I was feeling excitement about the new creation our friendship will become as we learn to work and play at a distance. Yes! And whew!!
Uh Oh, Another Bold Move!
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People who have even a modest propensity for looking through the lenses of fear and doubt would have a nay-saying hay day with the BoldMoves process I find myself in at present. I know this, and it is why I’m not getting anywhere near anybody like that.
Okay, so I’m squirreled away writing what might seem like an outlandish business plan to launch our (Allan’s and my) currently modest business Pond Productions, into the world in a big way. I’m wrestling every day, with an amazingly creative variety of Inner Critters who would just love to take me out with their limiting jabber.
I’m thinking that I’m not the only person in the world right now who is fending off Inner Critter messages. Ha! In fact I believe that we have an entire society of people in the US in exactly that condition, so I’ve decided to go public with my personal process in this blog.
I can hear Allan’s gasping thoughts as he reads this, “What is she up to now?” The answer is, I’m not sure, but it seems to me that if I (we) are looking to invite millions of people into BoldMoves journeys of their own, it might help if they have a model, and right now the size of my own gasp at what I’m up to is enough to qualify me to be that model. Stay tuned.
Get Moving!
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It probably sounds like an oxymoron to say Get Moving this week when everyone is rushing around performing on all of the expectations that come with the season, so I want to explain. My “Get Moving” is an invitation to move deeper into yourself and simply ask the question, “If I could move any way I wanted to this week, what would I be doing?”
If your answer is something very different from what you are actually doing this week ask this question: “Why aren’t I following my heart?” Isn’t this season supposed to be about heart centeredness?
What do you think would happen if you did follow your heart – just for today? Or just for one hour? Isn’t it possible that you would embody the gifts of love and caring that we so venerate this season? I know it’s a radical idea, but hey, give yourself the gift of just checking it out. You have our full permission!
Celebrate, for real––even for just one hour––the true meaning of Christmas, regardless of your spiritual orientation. Open your heart and share the gift of the real open-hearted you!
