Archive for The GrooveTool
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?
Restart!
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Okay, I’ve finally arrived back at my desk for real––body, mind, spirit and all––and am rededicating myself to this blogging thing. More than a few Inner Critters have made it clear to me that I should feel very remiss in having been absent so long, but I’m Grooving them right outta there!
Current subject: getting the Pond Productions LLC business plan completed, and boy does that feel like herding cats right now. Maybe with my own focus realigned, things will come together in the next few days. Watch for developments, and of course, new and fresh versions of Critter chatter in my head!
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!!
Horrors!
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I missed a day of blogging!!!
Oh, you bad, bad person. You so blew it. . . you promised to blog every single day. . . you promised!!! And now you’ve missed a day. You forgot, you dim wit! How could you.
No gold star for you today. No warm feeling of having fulfilled on your commitments. No welcomed comments from your readers. No deep sense of accomplishment. And what about that one special reader who told you just yesterday that your daily blogs were helping him in some strange way to navigate profound change in his life? Now you’ve let him down. Bad, bad, bad! Bad person.
Ya, ya, ya . . . I know you, you pesky Critter. I hear you, but I’m not letting you guilt trip me. No! I’m going to Groove you right out of here.
Critter Reality says: I have messed up totally and let everyone down. I feel guilty and ashamed.
My Whisperer Visions is: It’s okay that I missed one day of blogging. I always keep my commitments to the best of my ability, I’m a responsible, caring, good person.
And oh, now I get to share this real life example of the GrooveTool with my readers. Life is good!
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!!
Groove It!
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For the past twenty five years, I’ve been working with a mind management process that has literally saved my life more than once by shifting immobilizing fear into possibility thinking.
In one instance, I was forty feet underwater in the middle of the Pacific Ocean lobster hunting––which, of course, can only happen at night. Yes, I had a diving buddy, but there were two unfortunate things about that: 1. he had the only real underwater light (mine was a water-proof flashlight with a beam of about 3 feet) and 2. he was far more intent on chasing a lobster illuminated bright red on the white ocean floor–– than on paying attention to what was happening for me.
It was a rush at first, swimming after him in full pursuit, but coming through an undersea forest I was suddenly stopped short when tough, rubbery kelp grabbed my tanks. My buddy’s light faded into the distant water and I was left immobilized and alone in the pitch black sea.
At times like this your Inner Critters really take you out and mine were screaming at me, panic Shayla panic! And I did for a few seconds, but almost immediately, the mind management tool I had practiced many times in less dire circumstances came to me and I said to myself, Critter Reality says I’m going to die right here on the bottom of the ocean. My Whisperer Vision is I am calm and absolutely safe.
Immediately, I remembered to breath and with my first breath, came the confidence to start ripping that gnarly kelp off the tanks by reaching blindly over my shoulder with great force. In just seconds, I could feel it give up its hold on me. Then, perfectly free once more, I swam as fast as I could toward the hazy pin prick of brightness in the distance that was the fading vestige of my buddy’s dive light. It wasn’t until we bagged the lobster and returned to the boat that he even knew I had been gone.
In BoldMoves Country, we call the mind management process I used The GrooveTool because we have learned in recent years that it actually helps to fill in unwanted grooves of fear and doubt in the brain and create new grooves of possibility thinking. It is an amazing creating tool that can be used not only in dire moments of panic, but in everyday life when you feel just a bit off and you want to regain your center.
If we can agree that we create what we give attention to, then we can see how powerful it is to have a tool for shifting our attention immediately from fear and doubt to possibility thinking.
Learn more about The GrooveTool here.
Learn more about BoldMoves Country here.
Learn more about Inner Critters here.
Frappuccino Lift
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I don’t like to admit it, but for the past several days, I’ve been fending off a mild attack by my Inner Critters, those pesky voices of negative self-talk that sometimes grab the microphone in my head. I say mild attack, because at times my Inner Critters really take me out with internal messages of fear and doubt.
There is an up-side to a full-blown Inner Critter take-out, because when the lights fade completely on my mood, I can’t help but notice. Then, I am presented with a clear choice. I can either wallow for a while in gloom or consciously choose to lighten my mood.
The nasty thing about a mild Critter attack, is that it can have me in a subtle funk for several days before I become aware that I feel weary and bored. I think this most recent attack came from the fact that I didn’t take enough of a three-day holiday. Instead, I pushed on with work and didn’t get the renewal I needed.
Oh well, one Frappuccino and one pumpkin muffin later, my mood is begining to lift. So I’m hearing my Whisperer voice again. That’s the tiny little voice of possibility which––when I give it my attention––can wrest the mic away from you-know-who.
Here’s how this conversation looks through the eyes of The GrooveTool®:
Critter Reality says: Shayla, you should never have that much sugar. You’ll get the sugar blues. My Whisperer Vision is: a little sugar in my veins puts me in the pink––at least for a while.
So, was my Starbucks extravagance a Bold Move? Or was it a Brash Move?
