What I Learned at the Provincial Weightlifting Championships …and Why You Should Care | Gault Family Chiropractic

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What I Learned at the Provincial Weightlifting Championships …and Why You Should Care | Gault Family Chiropractic.

A great article by my colleague, and friend, Dr Thorin Gault, about the value of commitment, taking action, and stretching beyond our comfort zones.

When we commit to taking action, and the price of not taking action is painful enough, we liftingwill stretch ourselves well beyond our usual comfort zone in order to make it happen.

Where in your life can you make some new commitments? Take action? Stretch beyond your comfort zone? Find new resources? Discover new depths of skills and determination?

Ponder these questions and your life will definitely start leading you to move in a new direction; you will be able to create lasting transformation in your life.

 

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Who’s got your back…?

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When I first saw this picture show up on my fb newsfeed, I had a good laugh; I like this kind of humour.  Then, as I began to reflect on it a little, I realised there was more here than might be apparent.

got your backWho’s got your back? What does it really mean to have someone’s back? On one level, it can mean that we are covering for each other, protecting each others’s blind spot. If this is the case, do you trust others to have your back? Do you trust yourself to have your own back? Do you feel like you can support yourself (physically, including financially, emotionally, mentally, spiritually)?

Recently, we were in the Bahamas at the Sivananda Ashram, and we participated in a yoga headstand workshop.  The teacher, Arjuna, was relating his experiences with his guru, Swami Vishnu, and the headstand.  Arjuna shared that Swami Vishnu said that we should practice our headstands with our eyes open, as it was important to become comfortable with our world being upside down.  Brilliant!

When we practice headstand, our world does turn upside down; it can take some practice forheadstand us to re-orient and re-organise our nervous system so that we can determine which way is up or down, left or right. The more we practice the headstand, the more comfortable we can be in re-organising our lives when they get turned upside down, (and our lives do get turned upside down more frequently than most of us are comfortable with!).

There is also another perspective we can take with this picture/discussion; ‘who’s got your back?’ Basically, this is a metaphor for where we have given away our own power.  Who/what have you given away your power to? Where have you dis-empowered yourself in your life by blaming your life experiences on outside circumstances? Where can you reclaim your life by taking responsibility for your self?

When we are able to reclaim our selves, we are then able to tap into the determination and resolve to never disempower ourselves again. This resolve, (sankalpa, in yoga), has tremendous power through uniting our conscious awareness with our unconscious mind. In tapping into this resolve and determination to move forward in our lives, we are able to more easily see, hear, feel, and experience those ‘things,’ (habits, thoughts, patterns, feelings, beliefs, stories, illusions, etc), that no longer work. We can merge with and through these illusions, and create something different in our life. One of the most powerful ways of doing this, for me, has been through Somato (Body) Respiratory (Breathing) Integration™ (SRI). SRI is one of the techniques we use in our office to assist people in reclaiming the responsibility and power in their life; we assist them in being the cause of their life, rather than at effect, or at the mercy of external circumstances.

So, who’s got your back…?

 

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What are you telling yourself…?

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What do you want to break through in your life? What stories do you tell yourself that keep you limited and playing small? What games do you play with yourself and others that are not congruent with who you really are?

BREAK THROUGH!

Often in our lives, we have old stories, habits, patterns of thought, behaviours, emotional responses, etc. When we are able to become aware of these illusions, we can then begin to acknowledge and accept that we have created these things in our lives.

When we are able to finally see these illusions and stories for the ‘untruths’ they are, we can re-merge, and re-member, with these disconnected parts, and become more whole, and retain the wisdom of having lived these illusions and stories in our lives. Now we have more free energy in our system to heal ourselves in body, mind, and spirit. All of the energy that we were investing in keeping things as they always were, so that what we saw in the world was consistent with the way we see the world, is now free for other purposes; better nutrient absorption, digestion, and elimination; improved immune function; more physical energy; more emotional balance; clearer thinking, etc.

So, what stories, illusions, habits, games, or patterns would you like to merge through?

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What’s Inside? aka What’s Outside?

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http://wellbeingcenter.com/are-you-more-internal-or-external/

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Photo Credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/hubmedia/

The above link is a great post by Dr John Amaral, a fellow Network Care practitioner.  The question he asks is: “Are you more internal or external?”

The answer he gives might surprise you!  The main point of the article is to give you another tool to change the game you are playing; or, at the very least change the rules of the game you are playing!

The question I ask you is this: ‘What would life be like if you were better able to be and express YOU?’  The tool that Dr John gives us here will help you do just this!

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A Microcosm of Life…July 2012

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Wow, what a month July 2012 was!  So much going on; Discovering, Transforming, Awakening, and Integrating, generally, all at the same time (just like life ;) )!

We hosted a couple of different workshops, and also attended a couple of very big happenings in Toronto.

First, on July 7th, we hosted Jane Bell, of Presence of Heart.  Jane created an amazing workshop entitled ‘The Alchemy of Manifestation.’  The depth, quantity, and quality of Discoveries during this workshop started some amazing Transformations and Awakening in my life (as well as those of the other participants).

These new resources were not yet even close to being consciously, fully Integrated, when the next evening, I attended Prem Rawat’s, (a.k.a. Maharaji), Toronto visit to Roy Thomson Hall.  The message of inner connection to love, peace, ease, and joy, was a magnificent continuation of the themes that had surfaced the night before at Jane’s workshop.

After Maharaji’s visit, we had about a week to begin to Integrate these two experiences, before our next guest arrived (more on Mana in our next post), and we attended Amma’s visit to Toronto as well (also in the next post).

So, how is all of this a microcosm of life?

I had been feeling in my life that I needed to Discover more inside of me, rather than looking for the answers outside of myself.  I know that looking for love, peace, joy, etc, outside of myself has not really worked for me in the past.  I was looking for ways to re-member these aspects of myself, from the inside-out (just like the chiropractic philosophy!).

This was truly the Laws of Attraction (there are many sources of info on LOA; this is my preferred source) in practice!  I committed to attending these events, thought and felt more connected in myself with peace, ease, joy, and love, and the structure of my life started to change: my relationship with myself became easier (way more positive thoughts and self-talk), my relationship with my family began to change (way more ease), my relationship with my girlfriend became more loving, caring, and full of ease, and my relationship with my practice has become more ‘effortless;’ it feels like the actions I’m taking are in the flow and have more inherent power, rather than force.

The cool part is, people around me are noticing the differences too; I’m more relaxed, at ease, less forceful, etc.  So again, it changes the structure of my life and relationships, as others are now able to interact with me in ways I wasn’t able to before.  How cool is that?  This is what “[being the change you wish to see in the world]” is all about.

So, what can you see differently in yourself?  What can you hear that you haven’t heard before?  What can you feel more fully?  What can you perceive and understand differently?  I invite you to play with these themes in your life…

 

Check in with us next week and I’ll tell you all about a journey to the centre of me and a hug that has taken me from an open mind to an open heart…

 

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