Always push yourself out of your comfort zone....

Have I spent my whole life pushing myself out of my comfort zone?  No I haven't.  But have I more than occasionally pushed outside of my comfort zone?  ABSOLUTELY!  As I get older I keep pushing and pushing and pushing or may be its because I am in search of answers to my many questions that makes my keep pushing and pushing and pushing.

I think by pushing out of my nice safe place within my body and mind I am becoming a better person (some of you may disagree!!) - I have become more patient, more tolerant, more willing to listen, more willing to learn and more willing to allow myself to breathe.

There is a book called 'Feel The Fear and Do It Anyway' by Susan Jeffers http://www.susanjeffers.com/home/detailtemplate.cfm?catID=2234 (cut and paste the link if it doesn't work).

The book is available second hand on Amazon for 49p so no excuse not to have read it for those of you on a journey of self development!

It is a brilliant book where she states there are no right and wrong answers just the opportunity to grow.

By pushing our own boundaries we open ourselves up to so much the World and Universe has to offer.

If we go way back to when I was 17 years old, if I had stayed within my comfort zone I would have taken a full time job at the local supermarket that was offered and never dreamt of leaving my home town and jumping on the London Bus on my own  to go and find work in the city where the streets are paved in Gold (hmmm that bit is a myth!).  So taking a modern twist on this some 26 years later, if I had stayed within my comfort zone I would NEVER have gone to South America on my own.  Everyone I talk to about it is usually either shocked that I did this amazing trip as a lone female who wasn't able to speak Spanish or they are in total admiration with a tinge of jealousy as they would love to do something similar but would feel fearful to travel on their own because 'something might happen to them'.

Was I worried about my trip and what might happen to me - yes, occasionally in moments of doubt about my own mortality of course I worried about 'what might happen if...' but I have become a great believer in Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway.

My Ayahuasca Ceremony is probably proof that I pushed my comfort zone a bit too far - I still haven't written in my blog my full feelings on what happened during the 5 hours of the ceremony and the days, weeks and months after this but I am getting closer to being able to, you will all be pleased to hear!!  I really struggled to cope for the first half of this ceremony - having pushed my body, soul and conciousness beyond what they were ready to accept but fortunately they all caught up with me so I had 2 and a half hours of beautiful resolution.

When I tell others the tale of my Ayahuasca Ceremony I again see the disbelief that I did this on my own just with a Shaman in the middle of the Amazon jungle and again some people have total admiration at my madness.  People look agast and say to me "But you could have died!"  Yes that is true but if you are not fearful of death (my Buddhist beliefs take over here and that is definitely a different longer blog!) then why would that stop you from doing anything?

I see in some of these people that they would LOVE to do something like this - seeing my act as completely Courageous and that there was NO WAY they could do anything like that because they are not Courageous - I tell these people to FEEL THE FEAR AND DO IT ANYWAY!!  Its not about Courage, its about pushing your own boundaries which help to make yourself a better person who will then be able to deal with the life we feel we have been dealt in a better/different way.

Another book that has been instrumental in my self development is Who Moved My Cheese by Spencer Johnson http://www.spencerjohnson.com/Book-WhoMovedMyCheese.html (cut and paste if the link doesn't work).

I am 43 years old and there are many times in this Life (and many of my other lives - but thats going back to my Buddhist believes!) that my Cheese has been moved - sometimes by myself but usually by other people.  I like to think I have become a very adaptable person who, when change happens, goes with the flow, although there has definitely been a few FUCK YOU within my adaptations!  Definitely in the last 4 years since I started my "journey" I have been hugely adaptable when my Cheese has been moved.  Do I moan that yet again my Cheese has been moved - FUCK YEAH! But I have, over the years, spent less time moaning and more time adapting and getting on with it.

So my advice to you is Feel the Fear - the best bit of all of this is when you Feel the Fear but say Fuck It and do it anyway!  Oh that brings me to the Fuck It Guides - a brilliant trio of books - could not have got to where I am in life today without this trio of brilliant books by John Parkin - go to the website and do the Fuck It Test http://www.thefuckitlife.com (again cut and paste if the link doesn't work).  John is brilliant, amazing and so perceptive.  I aspire to making The Trainee Healer book as funny, as interesting and as huge a learning experience as John's books are.

suzxxx

Playing catch up and need some help from the Universe...

Okay huge apologies to my regular readers who have missed my blogging ramblings!!! Its been a busy time and also I have to have something happen for me to want to update my blog and I am not sure I have had anything interesting to say.

I wanted to share that I have asked the Universe for help in getting all the shite done that I need to do before December!  I have 3 Bach flower remedy human case studies which are done but i need to type up and send in but 2 of them are brain busters and need a lot of thought as I type them up so have been putting them off.

Along with that I have my EFT Case studies to do - one was on myself and my work on getting my confidence back with riding horses and anyone who has read my blog when I was travelling in South America knows that EFT certainly worked to help me but need to type that up and have 2 other case studies, one nearly ready to type up and the other I just had my first session with the client on Sunday so still a bit of work to do there.

My Animal Bach flower remedies course I need to type up 10 consultation meetings into some kind of coherent professional field study along with a personal assessment.

I now have 6 case studies and 5 assignments to finish in the next 5 months for my Equine Healing.

I will now have a huge amount of books to get through for my Equine Behaviour qualification which I am doing and also a huge field study that lasts 6 months.

I also have my colour therapy case studies which are sitting completely untouched as everything else has taken priority.

Wholly fuck when you write it down it is a lot of work to do and along with all my real work that pays the bills I am going to be more than busy for the next few months.

So I am asking the Universe to help me - I need focus, energy and some kind of spark to get me pushed on and get me finishing up everything - my flower remedy work is so important to me that that will come first then EFT and then Equine Healing and then my Equine Behaviour but it really is all a little over whelming.

Have I taken too much on - probably!!! Do I wish I hadn't done so many courses - NO!  I have learnt so much and grown so much as a person because each course has helped me on my own self development journey but its time to get the head down and get on with it all!

I attended an EFT mentoring group on Saturday in Edinburgh which was brilliant and has got me all excited about EFT again (Emotional Freedom Technique)  its so simple and it really works!  so pushing on with those case studies which have to be in by December otherwise I will have to do the whole course again.

Although in saying that my Bach Flower Remedies for humans is so over due and is due in at christmas too and if I don't get that in I have to sit the exam again - no F*cking way I want to have to do that again.

So as you can see I took too much on but with the help of the universe creating time and motivation for me i will get it all done and pass everything and get all my certificates before Christmas!

Watch this space.....

suzxxx