Author name: Genevieve Gerard

Another World Is Possible

Another World is Possible

new possibilities with light rising over energy grid covered earth

This morning as I looked at the videos on YouTube that were highlighted on Facebook I was moved by the slogan “Another World is Possible.”

The truth and power of those words moved me to hope and a sense of promise.

Another World is Possible and as we look around our world, the emergence of the spirit of the urge to bring about a positive change cannot be denied.

It emerges from a wellspring of a deep understanding that we have strayed off of the path of right action and right relationships, but that as a group collective of consciousness we have within us the power to transform the world to a better world for all.

The evil of greed that has wormed its way into our world, disguising itself as business and commerce, will not continue to be accepted by the people. The abuses of power that have become all to commonplace are being unveiled.

The ancient wisdom speaks of humanity “renting” the veil of materialism. This is an important step in the evolution of the planet as we move forward into the new world, the new age of man.

This clarion call “Another World is Possible” is a first step to the manifesting of a better world. As I write, often of the concept “energy follows thought,” it is important that we focus our thoughts on using this powerful upswell of the unified human spirit to see that “A Better World is Possible.” A world guided by principles of Right Action, Right Speech, Right Human Relationships, and Right Management of our Earths Resources.

Deep within us all we have a sense of what those principles are, a moral sense that comes from our inner guidance of knowing right from wrong. Evil can hide from view and disguise itself for a while, but it eventually is revealed as what it is. We can all, within ten minutes, list a litany of the injustices that have seeped into our world through the evil of greed disguising itself as business.

As the light of our consciousness turns to the imbalance that has occurred, the 99% – 1% dynamic that has created this very powerful tipping point, we are compelled to respond to the need to change the world and make the world a better place as our forefathers did when they penned the immortal words “We hold these truths to be self-evident”.

The United States was founded on deep principles of self-evident truths. These truths resonate deeply with many all around the world. Many movements have called this into our consciousness by the call “Another World is Possible” and by logical conclusion “A Better World is Possible.”

Over 100 years ago U.S. President Teddy Roosevelt in his Second Annual Message to the Senate and House of Representatives stated:

Our aim is not to do away with corporations; on the contrary, these big aggregations are an inevitable development of modern industrialism, and the effort to destroy them would be futile unless accomplished in ways that would work the utmost mischief to the entire body politic.

 

We can do nothing of good in the way of regulating and supervising these corporations until we fix clearly in our minds that we are not attacking the corporations, but endeavoring to do away with any evil in them. We are not hostile to them; we are merely determined that they shall be so handled as to subserve the public good. We draw the line against misconduct, not against wealth.”

Many of the principles of the United States Constitution and Bill of Rights speak out against and warn against the abuses of power that have slowly invaded our world until the imbalance is so obvious that we must as a people re-evaluate and restore the principles that guided the creation of the United States of America.

These ideas are not new. The internet overflows with warnings from the U.S. founding fathers from Jefferson, Franklin, Madison, and Adams that are all relevant to this time.

Another World is Possible. A Better World is Possible and the time to create it is right here and right now. We have that ability, you have that ability.

We need prosperity to blossom for everyone with the seeds of commerce pollinating success and innovation (see my prior article Blossoming Prosperity) and as we face these troubled times we need hope and promise to bring about a new way and a new day (see my prior article Light a Candle For Hope.)

 

Namaste,

   Genevieve

The Blessing of Love on All That You Do!

 

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About the author:
Genevieve Gerard teaches Transformational Consciousness – from first awakening to enlightened Soul awareness. She helps you experience the joy that results from the spontaneous “touch of your soul.”

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Genevieve has a Bachelor’s Degree in Philosophy and Theology and a Master of Arts Degree in Counseling and for over thirty years has worked one-on-one with people who were recovering from devastating disabilities and chronic pain. Teaching the mastery of the mind-body relationship she was one of the early professionals trained in biofeedback, visualization, imagery, and meditation as essential techniques to help people heal their bodies, heal their emotions, heal their minds, and heal their lives.

Genevieve’s work demonstrates what she knows so well, “It is spiritual connectedness that triggers physical healing and emotional and mental well-being.”  Helping people, like you, tap into your higher-self is the power she wields to guide you to heal and transform your life.

Now, with this understanding, she combines the effective techniques she developed over decades teaching mind-body mastery along with her extensive experience in meditation and spiritual development to create a synthesis of mind-body-spirit that delivers complete healing and opens the door to unlimited personal growth and an encounter with your Soul.

In addition to her current life guidance coaching sessions, and workshops performed around the world, Genevieve has produced more than 20+ guided meditations in the last eight years that are available on iTunes, Amazon, CDBaby, and her website.

It is her vision that through your experience with the techniques of awareness, visualization, and meditation, the love of your Soul will touch and transform your life through her writings and products. It is her sincere desire that the potential of a life of joy and celebration that seems to elude so many people can become a reality for you, now and forever.

Browse her life story and read the Touch of the Soul that changed her world. To contact Genevieve, visit her keep in touch page.

 

Copyright © 2011-2019 Genevieve Gerard and Touch of the Soul LLC. All Rights Reserved.

 

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Life Guidance Coaching

It’s Time To Stop Trying To Figure It Out On Your Own…

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Expert Insight and Advice
You Are Craving to
Take Your Life to the Next Level

Life Guidance Coaching Program insights into physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual personal development

After years of working with hundreds of individuals, I have realized one essential truth.

If you’re trying to transcend challenges in your life & gain real momentum fulfilling your life purpose, you need 1:1 mentorship and guidance to unveil your blind spots, keep you moving forward, to allow you to quickly learn from the wisdom of others who have figured it out and save you time and effort by teaching you techniques that will help you transform your life.

Otherwise, you waste too much time and energy on the wrong things, get emotionally derailed on a regular basis, and can stay stuck for way longer than necessary.

Overcoming issues such as anger and fear or establishing more satisfying and successful interpersonal relationships are all life issues for which my Life Guidance coaching is effective.”
     – Genevieve Gerard

What is Life Guidance Coaching. Clearly identifying what is not working well in your life and focusing on the techniques of integration of body-mind-spirit and emotions to help bring yourself into greater alignment with your life purpose in order to achieve harmony and success in the world around you is critical to your well-being.

Inherent in this challenge is mastering the integration of the physical desires and appetite, mastering the emotional influences that can impact your perspective, possibilities and your joy; bringing your mind into consciousness and alignment with your Higher Self and your Higher Purpose in life and ultimately fostering your ability to live as a new evolution of humanity who demonstrates the life and love of the Soul.

With my help you will incorporate skills and abilities to heal the wounds of the past in your mind, your emotions and your physical body.

One of the techniques that I offer to accelerate this process is incorporating the power and perspective of your Soul consciousness. This enables you to grow and thrive as you move to ever increasing integration and wholeness of your being. This will guide you along the pathway to becoming a Soul-Integrated and Soul-Infused personality that can tap into your higher source at will to become the powerful being that you are meant to be.

 

What you’ll accomplish:

 

1.  Experience Peace of Mind
     Free From Your Chattering Self-Talk

Experience how it feels to have a completely Peaceful Mind that doesn’t get anxious, fearful or critical about your circumstances.

 

2.  Feel Perfectly Centered

Experience how you are going to feel to be perfectly centered so that people feel the depth of your presence.

 

3.  Enjoy Clarity and A Focused Mind

Experience the clarity in your life and business when you really have a mind that focuses on what’s important.

 

4.  Bust Through Your Fears

Experience releasing all of your fears and anxieties and move forward with confidence.

 

5.  Learn How To Recharge and Invigorate Yourself

Experience taping into an unlimited source of energy.

 

6.  Touch Your Soul

Experience the true joy, bliss and wisdom that result from the spontaneous "Touch of Your Soul."

 

Integral to my coaching are meditation and guided visualization techniques. These are used to help you gain dominion over the challenges with which you are faced in your life experience.

 

You are perfect just as you are… and you can use a little improvement.”
   – Shunryu Suzuki, the author of Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind

 

Why Do I Need A Coach?

The most successful people in life have personal coaches. You deserve the opportunity to harness within you the power to transform you life. You owe it to yourself to move forward in your life and act now.

 

 

Life Guidance Coaching Empowerment

My coaching is designed to empower you to live your life more fully with greater joy and appreciation for life. As a bonus the techniques you will be given are prescriptively created just for you as tools to bring you into greater awareness and fulfillment so you can be all that you are meant to be, and all that you truly are.

Part of a session involves instruction in specific self-empowering techniques that you can use on your own between sessions. As your life begins to change, these techniques will be modified for greater and greater effectiveness. As you progress you will have the perspective and experience to handle life’s new challenges in the future.

 

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Genevieve Gerard Life Guidance Coaching

 

Video Testimonial about Genevieve’s Coaching

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Hi All, a quick note to tell you about a magnificent healer, teacher, meditation leader, and all round special person, Genevieve Gerard”
    -Dr. Steve Hinkey in Virginia

 

Thank you for sharing your knowledge, humour, healing and
insight with me.”
    -Artistic Director in the United Kingdom

 

When you speak about the work it seems to click clearer, its like a simpler version or easier to follow, but still profoundly powerful.”
    -Yoga Studio Owner in Phoenix

 

Thank you again for your time, talents and mentoring. It has been priceless and I am grateful for the gift of your presence in my life.”
    -Licensed Clinical Social Worker in California

 

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One of the greatest values of mentors is the ability to see ahead what others cannot see and to help them navigate a course to their destination.
       — John C. Maxwell

Let me be your Guide on the Quest for Enlightened Awareness

 

Life Guidance Coaching Details

Coaching sessions are setup at mutually convenient times in person, by telephone or via the internet by Skype.

To those in a coaching relationship with me I offer support and availability with regularly scheduled appointments, but also on an as-needed basis, understanding that life’s challenges can happen at any time and sometimes require additional support and guidance.

A single session is 90 minutes in length. The investment is $200 an hour so a single session is $300. By purchasing more blocks of sessions you will receive a discount, the more sessions you invest in at one time, the greater the discount.

 

Investment: $200 an hour USD
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Still Trying To Decide?

Your decision to move forward with this coaching can be answered using
one simple question:

  • Are you ready to stop trying to do this alone?

If your answer is yes, trust yourself and move forward. Because I believe deeply you deserve this level of support, and that we will accomplish incredible things together when you make your commitment to getting coached by me.

If this is right for you, the decision to move forward might feel a little scary. It’s like a sensation of stepping into the unknown. I understand. And you can be safe in my commitment to you, knowing this is the best next step you can take.

Show me a successful individual, and I’ll show you someone who had real positive influences in his or her life. I don’t care what you do for a living—if you do it well, I’m sure there was someone cheering you on or showing the way. A mentor.
       — Denzel Washington

I am deeply committed to…

  • Providing you with the best and most effective strategies to
    get the maximum personal results
  • Giving you tools so you can cope and manage any stress in your life
  • Helping you tap into your higher source and realizing your potential
  • Always helping you find what’s really true & alive for you
  • Helping you become the person you most desire to be

I’m here for you. Now let us begin…

Fulfill your destiny now

 

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Coaching and mentoring is a deeply personal relationship where you can thrive and be supported in a loving non-judgmental environment that exists just to help you.”
     – Genevieve Gerard

I look forward to connecting with you to resolve any challenges in your life and harness the power of your full potential to manifest the life you aspire to and desire.

 

Last updated 5-8-2020

 

Copyright © 2011-2020 Genevieve Gerard and Touch of the Soul LLC. All rights reserved.

 

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THAT WAS YESTERDAY

Reflections on Life

That Was Yesterday: No Regrets

Yesterday has passed. It shall not come again.  Whatever you have done, or left undone can be released into the moment, the nowForgive yourself and any others who may need forgivenessFlow into today open to the promise of becoming with No Regrets.  Every moment brings you to the NOW.  Celebrate!

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Releasing Pain

Releasing Pain Meditation

Releasing Pain Visualization by Genevieve

 

Proven Techniques
For Releasing Pain

 

 

FREE YOURSELF TO ENJOY
A LIFE WITHOUT PAIN

 

For 30 years I worked one-on-one with people who were recovering from catastrophic injury, devastating disabilities, and chronic pain.

 

In teaching them mastery of the mind-body relationship, I used simple but effective proven techniques to facilitate physical, mental and emotional healing and restored individuals to lives of purpose and productivity.

 

In my quest to help out a close friend with PTSD I created this Releasing Pain guided visualization meditation which I am now making available to you.
         – Genevieve Gerard

As you listen to the Releasing Pain Visualization you will learn powerful techniques to free your body from pain.

Using breath, will, intention and visualization, Genevieve Gerard takes you on a journey within that creates actual transformation in your body and in the way that you feel. This process occurs naturally. As you allow yourself to be guided into the visualization, little by little you become more relaxed and more comfortable in your body and you notice that it is happening spontaneously, effortlessly and without thought.

Releasing Pain Visualization delivers to you the benefit of Genevieve’s decades of experience helping people gain control of their lives through mastery of the mind-body relationship. The visualization works with your body’s natural physiology and empowers you to create new neural pathways to relaxation and feelings of comfort that you can access again and again.

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You can use this visualization as often as you like to release pain and get back to enjoying life. Download this at any time of the day, even at 1 am in the morning.

 

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FREEDOMS

Gratitude on Veterans Day

Today we celebrate Veterans Day 2011.  Today let us take the time to express our gratitude to all who have served our country to protect and maintain our freedom

Feeling Free
In this spirit of gratitude, and to honor all Veterans, and to celebrate our Freedom, I am offering for 4 days only a very special 90% off the $9.99 download price (only $1.00) of my “Feeling Free” meditation/visualization through my website:  www.GenevieveGerard.com.

This has consistently been one of my most popular meditation/visualizations on my 5 star ratedMeditations For Daily Joy” 4-CD Set. 

Using this Feeling Free meditation visualization gives you the power to transmute and transform the impact of your emotions on your life and the world around you.

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If you or anyone you know are dealing with a lot of emotional issues, or are struggling with fear, or whose life is limited by outbursts of anger, please do yourself a favor, invest the $1 and get this now.

This step-by-step simple meditation/visualization will change your life and the lives of those you love.

As we celebrate our freedoms, take the time to celebrate learning to master your emotions by taking advantage of this opportunity to Feel Free and share it with all of your friends and family.  ACT NOW.  TAKE CONTROL OF YOUR LIFE for $1.  Limited time only.

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If you like the idea of taking control of your life and think it would be helpful to you or someone you know (veteran or civilian), please show your appreciation by clicking on the Google +1 or Facebook Like buttons at the bottom of this post. (If you don’t see them just click on the FREEDOMS headline to be taken to the actual post page. Thank you for allowing me to be of service.

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To Forgive

To Forgive

Forgiveness seems to come in layers.  Too truly focus upon forgiveness requires looking at events from different perspectives and each of those individual lenses benefits from the act of forgiveness.  I use the words act of forgiveness because forgiveness is not passive.  It involves both will and intention.

The power and significance of forgiveness in our lives is a source of endless blessing. – Genevieve Gerard

To forgive has so many levels and layers to it that it is an issue to which we can return to over and over again.  Moreover, each time we release ourselves from the toxic poison of holding a grudge, or anger or hate we move more toward wholeness and health and open the space for more healing and joy to come into our life.

To forgive completely you need to look at the whole circumstance around the event or incident that requires forgiveness.  This is best done from the perspective of the dispassionate observer.  The dispassionate observer is a vision of your life when you free your awareness of the emotions and judgments you have held previously, invite, and invoke the perspective of your Higher Self or Soul.

When you observe the act or event that requires forgiveness from an outside perspective, you can become aware of factors that influenced the behavior of the other person that have not been clear to you in previous memories of the event.  Your perspective widens, as you can begin to understand factors about the other person that had previously been shielded from your sight by the anger you carried about the event or circumstance.

As you become more aware of the factors regarding one who wronged you, it becomes easier to forgive them.  Likewise, when evaluating a past wrong from the insight of the dispassionate observer you usually become aware of how your own behavior, needs or desires, played into the event where you were wronged and you can see the areas in which you need to forgive yourself.

It is often in this step of self-forgiveness that we receive the greatest healing.  The greatest release and freedom often comes from the actual act of self-forgiveness.  The bonds that have held you to this sorrow are finally severed and you are open to new understanding and new joy as you look forward to new opportunities and experiences.

Often this is felt as a sense of lightness or openness and the spontaneous openness of your heart to more love and more joy than you were able to experience.

To forgive the act of the wrong that was committed, and forgive the one who committed the act, and then to forgive yourself for whatever ways in which you allowed the wrong to be done to you is a powerful tool of transformation in your life.  It frees you of the past and enables you to enter into the joy of present time, unencumbered.

Open yourself then to the Grace that abides and the presence of Love in your life.  This grace and this love are available from your Soul to aid your personality to live your life more fully and completely.  This grace and love is available from your Soul to help in your healing and to help you to live life more abundantly.


About the author: Genevieve Gerard teaches Transformational Consciousness – from first awakening to enlightened awareness.  She helps you experience the joy that results from the spontaneous “touch of the soul.”   Browse her body of work at www.GenevieveGerard.com.  Copyright © 2011 by Genevieve Gerard. All rights reserved.

 

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Meditation for Inner Peace

Meditation | Inner Peace

To quite the mind of meaningless chatter, to calm the emotions to peaceful repose and then to receive the Transcendent Love of the Soul is the joy of meditation that is available any time, any where you are, once you learn how to meditate daily.

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One Day At A Time

Reflections on Life

One Day at a Time

In spite of our attempts to plan and control our lives, all that we can ever do is live our lives one day at a time.  In fact, even that is a misnomer, for truly all that we can do is live in the moment, in the now.  No matter how much we plan or try to bring our wishes or will into the future, we have only this moment of time, this now.  Refusing to accept this essential fact or trying to change it is a significant factor in denying us the peace and joy that is our birthright.

Ironically, it is in understanding this fact that we are freed from our fears and the tyranny of our worries.  In the moment, we know that we will never be tried beyond our ability to cope with the challenges that life puts in our path.  Fear becomes both meaningless and useless as we acknowledge the deep truth that what we most fear may never happen.

Forgiveness too becomes more powerfully possible as what we need to forgive is in the past, and thus looses much of its pain in the transition to the moment.

You can remember the pain, but the pain has passed.  You can worry about the future, but the future has not yet happened.

In the moment, in the now we are granted a grace that gives us the strength to bear what we had feared would be unbearable and forgive what we thought would be unforgivable.” – Genevieve Gerard

To help us bring our awareness to this moment and let go of the fears and illusions our mind and emotions create we can meditate, and through meditation be blessed with a life free of fear.  Our sorrows and losses are diminished by the realization that they are in the past and you have survived and thrived; your have transcended and conquered all.

You are here, right now and whatever life brings you can handle it and cope with it in the blessed awareness and wisdom of the now. 

 

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Promise of A New Day

Reflections on Life

The Hope and Promise of a New Day

Each morning comes with the hope and promise of a new day.  What was is dissolved and what is now opens into being and manifests.  This quality of opportunity seems to be held in the light of the moments before the dawn.  We are in the moment held within the embrace of possibility.  All being and all becoming are available to us.

In the magic of this moment we can release and forgive mistakes of the past and enter with joy into the creative potential of the present, the now.  Grace is ours for the taking.  All of our dreams are available as the energy from which we can sculpt the expression of our work and our purpose in the world.

In this moment of time, in the poignant pause between yesterday and today we are granted the sorcerers’ power to transform our life to reflect our Soul purpose and bring into manifestation what we have always known are the gifts we have for life.

What has been in the past has already passed away.  What we bring to this moment is the full power of our creative self to express the love and the service to life that is uniquely ours to give.

Take advantage of these pregnant moments of power and promise to open yourself to the wisdom, insight and intuition of your Higher Self to guide you in this day that opens before you.  Use the power of attraction and invocation to strengthen and support each step that you take, each word that you speak and each though that you release into the world to be a clear reflection of love you have to share with the world. 

Recognize that what has been before is not a limitation to what will be, but a preparation to bring you to right here, right now. – Genevieve Gerard

Let go of any self-criticism or self-judgment and let yourself receive and accept the forgiveness and grace that the new day offers to you.

Know to the depth of your being that in the twinkling of an eye, in the mystery of the moment all that you have known and understood is available to you.

There are no limits other than the limitations you place upon yourself.  You have the ability to transform your world today.  Everything that you need is here for you, available to you in the clear promise of the unfettered potential of the pre-dawn light…  Now!

To change the world, you need only to change your mind. – Genevieve Gerard

This is the promise.  This is the power and this is the potential promised in the Light.

 

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Relax and Release

Relax and Release
Guided Meditation

 

Cutting Edge Techniques For
Releasing Stress

 

 

HOW YOU CAN REDUCE STRESS IN YOUR LIFE

Through my counseling and coaching work, I have seen the devastation on health and wellbeing that stress has created in people’s lives. 

Everyone can agree that our lives can be very stressful; stress can have a variety of causes such as job challenges, family problems, financial difficulties, poor health, false expectations or even the death of someone close to you.  Because of this, the accumulation of stress can create illness and dis-ease. 

During my years of biofeedback practice and teaching pain management techniques I have seen that releasing and relieving stress is possible through the transformative power of the mind-body-spirit relationship.

As you listen to this Relax and Release visualization you will be guided to experience a deep relaxation process that allows your mind and your body to relax in a way that releases the stress of your day. As you experience this deep relaxation you will discover that your mind is freed to see new solutions to problems and you will experience an increase in effectiveness, productivity, and creativity.

Relax and Release delivers to you the benefit of my decades of experience applying my mastery of the mind-body relationship to teach thousands of individuals the secret to release stress and achieve deep relaxation, even in the middle of an intense work day. These proven techniques guide you to reduce irritability, improve memory and concentration, lower blood pressure, reduce the pain and frequency of headaches, and give you a greater sense of well-being.

 

WHY AM I STRESSED OUT?

Quotes about Stress in the 1980’s:

  • Time magazine cover article called stress “The Epidemic of the Eighties” and referred to it as our leading health problem
  • A 1983 Prevention magazine survey found that only 55% feel they have “great stress” one day a week.
  • In the same survey in 1996 almost 75% said they felt under great stress on a weekly basis with one out of three indicating they feel this way more than twice a week.

According to the 1990’s NIOSH National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health report:

  • 40% of workers reported their job was very or extremely stressful;
  • Three fourths of employees believe that workers have more on-the-job stress than a generation ago;
  • 26% of workers said they were “often or very often burned out or stressed by their work”;

More recently, quotes about stress in the 2000 annual “Attitudes In The American Workplace VI” Gallup Poll sponsored by the Marlin Company found that:

  • 80% of workers feel stress on the job, nearly half say they need help in learning how to manage stress and 42% say their coworkers need such help;

A subsequent 2000 Integra Survey similarly reported that:

  • 62% routinely find that they end the day with work-related neck pain, 44% reported stressed-out eyes, 38% complained of hurting hands and 34% reported difficulty in sleeping because they were too stressed-out;

These findings are supported by other studies that put their significance in perspective.

  • 75-90% of visits to Primary Care doctors are due to stress
  • 1/3 of women and 1/4 of men take no vacation each year

 

Effects of stress …
… On your body … On your mood … On your behavior
  • Headache
  • Muscle tension or pain
  • Chest pain
  • Fatigue
  • Change in sex drive
  • Stomach upset
  • Sleep problems
  • Anxiety
  • Restlessness
  • Lack of motivation or focus
  • Irritability or anger
  • Sadness or depression
  • Overeating or undereating
  • Angry outbursts
  • Drug or alcohol abuse
  • Tobacco use
  • Social withdrawal

Source: American Psychological Association’s “Stress in America” report, 2010

Long-term stress can increase the risk of diseases like depression, heart disease and a variety of other problems. A stress-related illness called post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can develop after a peak emotional traumatic experience like war, physical or sexual assault, or a natural disaster.
 

YOU ARE NOT ALONE – BUT YOU CAN DO SOMETHING TO HELP REDUCE THE STRESS IN YOUR LIFE

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According to a 2011 Mayo Clinic article:
Relaxation techniques can reduce stress symptoms and
help you enjoy a better quality of life…

Relaxation techniques are a great way to help with stress management. Relaxation isn’t just about peace of mind or enjoying a hobby. Relaxation is a process that decreases the effects of stress on your mind and body. Relaxation techniques can help you cope with everyday stress and with stress related to various health problems, such as cancer and pain.

 

Whether your stress is spiraling out of control or you’ve already got it tamed, you can benefit from learning relaxation techniques. Learning relaxation techniques is easy. Relaxation techniques also are often free or low cost, pose little risk and can be done just about anywhere.

 

Practicing relaxation techniques can reduce stress symptoms by:

  • Slowing your heart rate
  • Lowering blood pressure
  • Slowing your breathing rate
  • Increasing blood flow to major muscles
  • Reducing muscle tension and chronic pain
  • Improving concentration
  • Reducing anger and frustration
  • Boosting confidence to handle problems

To get the most benefit, use relaxation techniques along with other positive coping methods, such as exercising, getting enough sleep, and reaching out to supportive family and friends.

The Relax and Release guided visualization works with your body’s natural physiology to create a relaxation response, free body and mind, and enhance your enjoyment of life. Use these techniques anytime, anywhere to transform your day, and in minutes you’ll return to life relaxed, refreshed and restored.

 

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Keeping A Journal

Keeping A Journal
Can Be A Pathway To Spiritual Insight

Read Keeping A Journal Can Be A Pathway To Spiritual Insight by Genevieve Gerard

The very process of writing in a journal can help you find more joy and spiritual insight in your life.

This may sound strange, but after many years of keeping a life journal, I began to discover a benefit that I would not have been able to imagine when I began. That is the benefit of keeping a journal that naturally emerges in your emotions and perspective by the process of journaling.

To help you achieve the maximum benefits of how to write in a journal and take advantage of the wisdom gained over the many years of my experience I have prepared some tips on how to journal.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you,
pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
        – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Keeping a journal can be a pathway to spiritual insight and awareness. It is a discipline much like meditation. It is a technique to help you get in touch with your Higher Self (what is also called the Soul) and gain mastery over life’s everyday emotions. The very act of writing in your journal can become a gateway to help you calm your mind and gain a perspective of deeper understanding. Journaling can become a way to open your awareness to your inner wisdom.

 

10 Tips on How To Write In A Journal

1.) I have found that having a special book for your journal is important. This helps you develop a mindset (trigger) that when you sit down to write in your journal you are engaging in a special and important activity.

How to write a journal
2.) I have also found that having a special pen is helpful. Personally, I prefer a fountain pen for journaling. I also like the look and feel that using a consistent ink color brings. These little rituals are not important but have a subtle impact on the experience of writing.

When I look back over old journals, I realize that even the color of ink I choose during a particular period in my life can be significant. The color often followed a theme of the issues I was dealing with at a particular time of my life. It is symbolic of a mood or tone with which I faced my growth and challenges.

3.) Making a daily entry seems essential. We all live busy lives, but for me, it seems the discipline of making an entry in my journal on a daily basis is important. Even if all that I write on a given day is “too tired to write today” or “too busy to write today,” those little entries keep the continuity in a way that helps maintain the discipline of keeping a journal. It is all too easy to drop away from the practice of maintaining a journal, especially in times of stress when the writing is often of the greatest benefit. This little technique helps show you are in control of your life and supports the process.

4.) Do not be concerned about ending the journal entry because of interruptions. Keeping a life journal can be an integral part of your being. Interruptions happen, and it may not always be easy to return to your journal. Depending upon the nature and scope of the disruption you may well be in an entirely different mindset when you do return. A series of three dots can symbolize that the thought needs further exploration. It demonstrates that your process was not finished.

5.) As you write, suspend judgment. Let your thoughts flow free of your internal censorship. It is more important to record your thoughts and feelings than you spell things correctly or don’t leave a participle dangling. If you choose to use what you have written for another purpose, give yourself permission to edit it later. While journaling, you are looking for a stream of consciousness that is an energetic flow.

Journaling is by its very nature a work in process,
not a final product.
        – Genevieve Gerard
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6.) As you write in your journal, you often find that your understanding of the events about which you are writing begin to shift you into a greater wisdom, a greater understanding. Expand into this greater awareness. Let this insight guide you.

7.) The process of taking up your pen and writing helps you be the detached observer of your life, inviting the insight and perspective of your Higher Self. As you write, you naturally begin to resolve any uneasy feelings you may be having now as the very act of writing shifts you into a state of greater awareness and understanding.

8.) Keep your journal in a private place and make sure that those around you understand that your journal is for you, not to be shared with even the most intimate other.

9.) Allow your journal to become your closest confidant and advisor. The freedom from criticism and judgment it can offer will open you to a greater insight and understanding of yourself that reveals more clearly than a conversation with another, the deeper issues behind your thoughts and feelings.

10.) Over time be sure to return to your journal and read past entries to get a profound confirmation of your growth. When I began to journal, I resolved to keep a journal so that when I was old, I could look back on my life and smile. Re-reading old journal entries often showed me how I had developed and evolved over time. Recognize you have the capacity to grow and develop and rejoice in it.

With the wisdom of hindsight realize you will now be able to see that much of what concerned you in the past just did not matter in the long run. This is a lesson that helps when you think about the issues you face now. This is a way to encourage you to trust in yourself to weather life’s challenges.

Learning how to write in a journal will become a pathway to letting you experience the joy inherent in all the little pleasures and adventures of life.

 

Namaste,

   Genevieve

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The Autumn Equinox

The Autumn Equinox and the Seasons of Our Life

Ancient Druids, magic and mystery, all seem to accompany thoughts of the equinox or its sister times, the solstice.  Perhaps it is archetypal or an ancient memory of times when our lives were more attuned with nature.  There always seems to be something significant about these passages into the seasons. 

Various groups around the world use these ancient demarcations of time to call for people to come together and celebrate through ritual or in some cases meditation.  Any time that groups draw together with the intention of helping others or healing the planet has a positive impact on the world around us. 

Since energy follows thought, the conscious intention of men and women of Goodwill throughout the planet unite to focus upon and celebrate our unity in the human family and help us realize how we are more alike than we are different. Realizing our oneness as a part of the human family and our bond as we observe the common changes that manifest in the world around us with the changing of the light helps bring us together.

The changes in the light from the Sun and the changes in the weather demonstrate wisdom about life that influences us on a subtle, preconscious level.  As the leaves begin to change, we can reflect upon the changes in our life and the changes in our self as we journey through life.  Autumn often seems a melancholy time to me as we loose length to our days and find ourselves moving forward into winter.  It is often a bittersweet time of reflection.

To take the time of this ancient ritual to monitor the movement of the Light through our lives by a special focus on the seasons of our life, whether through meditation, writing in our journal or sitting by the fire with a cup of tea or a special friend, the autumnal equinox provides us the opportunity to observe and evaluate our lives in harmony with the movement of the Sun and our Planet.

Enjoy this day and celebrate all that you are becoming and all the ways you are growing as you journey through the adventure of life.

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Using Meditation to Transform Your Life

Using Meditation to Transform Your Life

In the vast literature of meditation techniques, there are literally hundreds and possibly thousands of techniques that have been developed over thousands of years to help students of meditation resolve a myriad of life issues and life problems. From this rich storehouse of ancient wisdom, we can draw forth solutions to many of the challenges we face in our modern life.

Some of these techniques may require different words to be easily understood in our modern times, but the wisdom and the power transfers easily into our world to help the student of meditation grow and become all that they can be.

By opening ourselves to the knowledge of those who have preceded us on the pathway to enlightened awareness, we are able to benefit from truth when it is revealed to us without the limitations of dogma or doctrine. The whole evolution of human consciousness is ours to explore, to bring to today what we need to create a better tomorrow.

One of the simple techniques that is taught through Mindfulness meditation is to focus your awareness on your breath with a repetitive phrase such as “I am breathing in” followed by the thought “I am aware I am breathing in”.  This could also be followed by the thought “I am breathing in and out” concluded with the thought “I am aware I am breathing in and out.”  For further information about this simple technique look for more information about Mindfulness on the Plum Village website at: http://www.plumvillage.org/art-of-mindful-living.html .

Mindfulness is the energy of being aware and awake to the present moment. It is the continuous practice of touching life deeply in every moment of daily life. To be mindful is to be truly alive, present and at one with those around you and with what you are doing. We bring our body and mind into harmony while we wash the dishes, drive the car or take our morning shower.
-Thich Nhat Hanh

Ultimately, the wisdom of all that you have ever been and all that you are becoming is available to you from your higher self (Soul.) To connect to this source of wisdom you can let your mind calm by sitting quietly observing your breath, making no attempt to control your breathing, letting the natural rise and fall of the breath bring you to a centered relaxed place. Then visualize or imagine your Soul as a radiant point of Light above the tip of where your arms can stretch as you reach above your head. As you bring you mind to the calm and quiet that comes from observing the natural rise and fall of your breath consciously with intention open your mind to be receptive to your Soul through your intuition and insight. Then maintain receptivity keeping the chatter of your mind as quiet as possible for as long as possible.

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Freedom, Fear and Forgiveness

Reflections on the
15th Anniversary of 9-11

Liberty

When Franklin Delano Roosevelt announced the attack on Pearl Harbor, a shocked nation listened to his resonant voice on the radio with the words “a day that will live in infamy”.  Americans were horrified that without a formal declaration of war, Japan would attack a US Military base in Hawaii.  As most of us remember from our history class, if not from our own lives, the surprise nature of the attack without the prior declaration of war was a part of the horror.  War had in that event, become different.  The old rules no longer applied.  It marked a change in how the world worked and required an adjustment in the thinking of not just Americans, but the whole world. 

This was also true, on 9-11 as the world watched domestic airplanes filled with peaceful passengers crash into the World Trade Center.  Not only was the sudden assault an act of war, but it was an act of war without a clear opponent in a war.  Victims were not citizens of a country, but symbols of a society against which a group of people, not a government had created a war, with no declaration or even clear purpose that we could understand.

The fact that this event was watched through the day and night courtesy of 24-hour news coverage made this unique in the history of civilization.  An act of war, an act of unspeakable terror was right there with us in our homes.  Where we were and what we were doing when the planes hit the towers and then even more unthinkable when the towers collapsed became a part of our ordinary life.  The terror, the horror, and the fear this engendered affected everyone in the country and indeed most people in the world.  In addition, due to the media, as we relived the experience repeatedly we became a society suffering from Post Traumatic Stress.

That the fear has lingered is not surprising.  That the blame has extended to an entire religious group instead of a group of fanatic individuals is potentially one of the most dangerous aspects of the after effects of 9-11 as it is this factor that most threatens our freedom.  This fear now threatens to destroy what has made America a people unique in the history of civilization.

This threat to our freedom comes not from the outside world but from our response to our own fears.  We must as a people now learn to transcend our fear without offering up our liberty.  We must with vigilance and the distance of the passing years look at the effects that terrorism has had on our life and our society and re-evaluate how much power we wish to give our attackers to destroy our values.

As one of our Founding Father’s Benjamin Franklin once commented, “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”

If we allow our fear to erode our liberties we have surrendered what is most valued and the terrorists would have won a victory that the Nazis and the Communists failed to win.  See article “Did Osama Win” by Andrew Sullivan in Newsweek September 4, 2011.

Freedom of religion is a key principle upon which our country was founded.  If that principle were reinterpreted to only grant that freedom to popular regions, what it means to be an American and to live in America would be lost.  As High School Civics teachers have taught for generations we must preserve freedom for everyone, because the logical consequence of loss of anyone’s liberty is the loss of everyone’s liberty.

Therefore, as we face this milestone of unspeakable horror it is necessary that we begin to focus our efforts upon releasing the fear that terrorism generates in us.  Releasing Fear and learning to transcend and transmute our fears is one of the most profound, powerful and life changing aspects of transforming our consciousness.

Downloadable on my website is a visualization (called “Feeling Free“) to help you transmute fear and other negative emotions. This crucial time when our fear is being refreshed with all of the media coverage about 9-11 is a perfect time to begin releasing the fear that this event may have engendered.

Finally, to free your country from the residuals of terrorism you must begin a process of healing.  Healing ultimately is enhanced by forgiveness.  We have seen the failure of revenge.  As Mohandas Gandhi once stated,

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

It is time to let the past be in the past.

It is time as a people to put the fears and the horrors of terrorism behind us and as we begin the rebuilding of our lands and lives remember to rebuild our faith and confidence in our world. It is time to renew in our hearts and minds the freedoms that we have worked so hard to achieve. We can conquer our fears, honor our liberties and our values, and learn to forgive.  Yes, even the unforgiveable.

If it were not unforgivable, true forgiveness would not be required.
      — Genevieve Gerard

When my friend Alan Scherr was killed, along with his 13-year-old daughter Naomi, in the Mumbai Massacres at the Oberio Hotel his wife Kia formed an organization to honor the sacredness of life. Her leadership in response to her loss is a powerful force in the world to bring peace and transformation out of sorrow and loss.  For more information on forgiveness visit her site “One Life Alliance” here.

As our thoughts go to the families who have lost loved ones, let us pray for the healing of the families, the healing of our nation and the healing of the world, that today marks the moment when we as a people move forward to greater understanding of those who live life differently from us with the realization that we are more alike than different and we are ultimately one people, in one world.  Peace best serves us all.

Blessings,

Genevieve

 

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