Congratulate yourself for how far you have come
I thought I'd take the opportunity today to use this post to congratulate everyone on how far they have come so far. Obviously by the law of attraction, I have been very fortunate to know a lot of people who have taken big steps towards what they want to really do with their lives. Whether it's to completely focus their efforts on pro-bono work, to taking steps to building a creative and arty business, to becoming a personal trainer, or like me, to become a massage therapist and energy healer - all of this meant that we all had to take positive steps towards our real desires.
In relation to those particular people, I have noticed such a big shift in their attitude and how they now perceive obstacles, stress and difficulties - the shift has been incredibly positive and beautiful! I think it's true to say that once you view the world a bit differently and figure out what you want to do and where you want to be, making decisions about what you need to focus on becomes very very easy.
For me, I've always been the type of person who brushes off other people's compliments... but there were a few things this week that really made me step back and think - hey, I HAVE come a really long way, and I should bloody congratulate myself for it!
This week, I had a chat with a new work colleague about what he was expecting from work and how we could work together to make work a better place to be. Somehow (as it always happens), the conversation turned to spirituality, and I was telling him a number of things and the good thing for me was that he completely understood where I was coming from. During our conversation, there was one moment when he leaned back in the chair, looked at me and said "How is it that someone as young as you seems to have so much wisdom and sees the world so differently than others?". That kind of took me a bit by surprise because, well, I am me right, so I'm kind of used to the way I think, and for me, I just think my thinking is "logical". When he said that it made me think of how far I had come in terms of my spiritual path - I still have a lot of things to learn, but the what I have learnt so far has definitely made me be able to ease up on the control issues a bit and also handle my stresses a lot more.
The other thing that made me sit back and congratulate myself for how far I had come happened today. My parents decided to drop by to visit after visiting a car dealership in Sydney. Dad told me to give my mum a massage so I was planning to do the generic Swedish sequence but realised pretty quickly that my mum needed more than that because of the pain in her heel and when I was working on her calves she was in quite a bit of pain too. So I remembered what MM had taught me in all those sessions of me observing him - I focused on the origin and insertion of the calf muscles, but when that proved to be quite painful again for my mum, I decided to move up to the glutes. I managed to release a lot of the tension around her glutes and then when I went back to try the heel and the origin points of the calves, my mum told me that the pain had pretty much gone. Score! Same with my mum's shoulders - they were so goddamn tight and I remembered that MM worked on this area deep to the scapula and was moving my mum's arm around and then lo and behold, the shoulder muscles released quite nicely! Yay! I ended up telling MM about it and he was super happy with me too so that made me even more happier.
If I was took look back 3 months, at that time, I had very limited knowledge of the anatomy and had no idea how to massage someone. Now, I can do a bit of remedial massage (with no formal training), basically have the Swedish massage sequence down pat (with still another trimester to finish) and I'm dabbling in cranio sacral therapy too. Not bad for 3 months!
Anyway, enough of that. What I wanted to say is that you now was not the you yesterday, a week ago, a month ago or a year ago. You all have made really positive changes to your lives, and whilst you might not think it's anything big, trust me, it definitely will benefit you in the long term. Now give yourself a big hug because you are awesome!
In relation to those particular people, I have noticed such a big shift in their attitude and how they now perceive obstacles, stress and difficulties - the shift has been incredibly positive and beautiful! I think it's true to say that once you view the world a bit differently and figure out what you want to do and where you want to be, making decisions about what you need to focus on becomes very very easy.
For me, I've always been the type of person who brushes off other people's compliments... but there were a few things this week that really made me step back and think - hey, I HAVE come a really long way, and I should bloody congratulate myself for it!
This week, I had a chat with a new work colleague about what he was expecting from work and how we could work together to make work a better place to be. Somehow (as it always happens), the conversation turned to spirituality, and I was telling him a number of things and the good thing for me was that he completely understood where I was coming from. During our conversation, there was one moment when he leaned back in the chair, looked at me and said "How is it that someone as young as you seems to have so much wisdom and sees the world so differently than others?". That kind of took me a bit by surprise because, well, I am me right, so I'm kind of used to the way I think, and for me, I just think my thinking is "logical". When he said that it made me think of how far I had come in terms of my spiritual path - I still have a lot of things to learn, but the what I have learnt so far has definitely made me be able to ease up on the control issues a bit and also handle my stresses a lot more.
The other thing that made me sit back and congratulate myself for how far I had come happened today. My parents decided to drop by to visit after visiting a car dealership in Sydney. Dad told me to give my mum a massage so I was planning to do the generic Swedish sequence but realised pretty quickly that my mum needed more than that because of the pain in her heel and when I was working on her calves she was in quite a bit of pain too. So I remembered what MM had taught me in all those sessions of me observing him - I focused on the origin and insertion of the calf muscles, but when that proved to be quite painful again for my mum, I decided to move up to the glutes. I managed to release a lot of the tension around her glutes and then when I went back to try the heel and the origin points of the calves, my mum told me that the pain had pretty much gone. Score! Same with my mum's shoulders - they were so goddamn tight and I remembered that MM worked on this area deep to the scapula and was moving my mum's arm around and then lo and behold, the shoulder muscles released quite nicely! Yay! I ended up telling MM about it and he was super happy with me too so that made me even more happier.
If I was took look back 3 months, at that time, I had very limited knowledge of the anatomy and had no idea how to massage someone. Now, I can do a bit of remedial massage (with no formal training), basically have the Swedish massage sequence down pat (with still another trimester to finish) and I'm dabbling in cranio sacral therapy too. Not bad for 3 months!
Anyway, enough of that. What I wanted to say is that you now was not the you yesterday, a week ago, a month ago or a year ago. You all have made really positive changes to your lives, and whilst you might not think it's anything big, trust me, it definitely will benefit you in the long term. Now give yourself a big hug because you are awesome!