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Swift Changes

September 23, 2015 By Kat

Some of you may have noticed the pace pick up the second half of this year? It’s seems like time is flying by & we’ll be at the end of 2015 in a flash. The planet is accelerating & as it does we as light beings expand too. This expansion is high speed. It’s nothing to be afraid of it’s actually a fantastic period to become empowered & live a life of excellence.

The energy is electric this month. Today marks Spring Equinox in the Southern Hemisphere. New cosmic doors are opening. I’ve been feeling the build up for a while. A slower pace was required of me for the past ten days that’s for sure. I pulled away, retreated & looked after myself first. Shying away from too many commitments & honouring the commitment to myself rather than putting others needs before mine. It was a challenging week energetically but I’m reaping the benefits this week I can tell you!

We are also a week into Mercury Retrograde in Libra that started on 17th September & will conclude on the 8^th/9^th October. Mercury assists us to recognize the magic within us all. It pushes us out of our comfort zone to become the best we can be. Mercury (& our other divine guides) supports us by holding our hand through what can be a challenging time. We come out the other end wiser & in our power so anything is possible.

Clear communication is the theme of Mercury Retro. I spoke about this in yesterday’s FB post. For many years I held back speaking my truth as often when I did it wasn’t always welcomed. Annual sore throats, stiff neck & shoulders were all signs I just needed to keep going rather than holding back. Look out for these signs especially if you feel you are suppressing your truth.

Clear Communications kit

The energy is fast right now as I’ve mentioned. Things can change in an instant. During Mercury Retro nothing is set in stone so it’s a good idea not to be making long-term plans at this time. If you do, be open to them changing.

This is why communicating needs to be on task & from the heart. Rapid & sudden changes can raise emotions, especially if people who aren’t so conscious surround you. People may lash out unexpectedly. Don’t take it personally; it’s more than likely not your fault. It’s easier to blame others than take responsibility?

Try your best to stay in your centre. I find being still, smiling & simply holding the space whilst others let off steam works well. It’s hard! You may feel the pull to snap back in reflection to the other person’s emotions. Giving them room to express will be less draining on you than fighting back.

I’m really liking the quick pace of rapid change we are experiencing. It’s exciting I never know what’s around the corner.

Have you observed how ‘short notice’ life is at the moment?

I look at my diary & see gaps. ‘Ahh that’s nice an easy day.’ Then *bam* something (or two even three things) comes up last minute. Planning ahead just isn’t serving me lately. On the fly is the way forward. When I’ve felt the pull to do something right then & there I’m all over it. The universe is being very supportive of this. Smooth planning backs up my quick decisions to show it’s the right way for me to be going.

It’s all about staying open.

Trust life is unfolding just the way it should be. Even if it’s at a crazy quick pace.

I’m definitely manifesting what I’ve asked for over the past few months. Now it is showing up in my outer world it’s time to take charge. It has been scary, as I wasn’t expecting it to show up so soon. “Am I ready for these major changes I so desired?” A little positive resistance is the perfect nudge to fly forward again. No time like the now. It’s all very exciting.

However amongst this speed there must be calm & slowness. The equal & opposite. My best advice is to find this ‘within.’ Take time to meditate, do some gentle exercise, read a book, be outdoors, anything that requires less speed on all levels. That way when the acceleration takes hold you are nice & relaxed to deal with it. Step off the merry-go-round & stop spinning, be still, observe & reflect.

Find some stillness in your day – reading, meditating & doing something that makes you happy.

This is the perfect time to take notes. Get journaling. Especially in high vibration periods it’s easy to forget what has happened. Logging our daily experiences allows us to then look back & see what we can learn. Notice the patterns, reoccurring messages & synchronicities. These all form our magical journey & help guide us on our way.

How are you fairing with this quickened pace? Riding the waves or getting pulled under?

I’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments below, please feel free to share.

Big love,

Learning to Love Challenges

September 2, 2015 By Kat

It’s a great gift to see & seek out the joy in every situation. Even within the dark, messy stuff there is light to be had. There has to be, it’s the law of nature that there is an equal & opposite of everything. Good/bad, black/white, up/down & so on. The challenge is to find the good stuff within what often is a challenge within it’s self.

Following? Let me explain a little further….

A major observation I’ve found by living a consciously aware life is that challenges or tests show up often. More than often actually, it’s kind of constant.

“But why” I sigh, “not again” I cry.

It’s like riding a freaking roller coaster at times. Just as life is sweet, flowing along nicely whoosh down it goes.

Of course it does.

Hello it’s called evolution, moving forward & all part of this wonderful spiritual life we lead. It’s part of the journey or process.

Choosing to live at one with the universe (aka consciously) I need to walk my talk. No good just preaching how good meditation & yoga is for all the Soul if I’m not actually doing these things myself. That is not authentic, it’s just bullsh*tting.

To keep me on my toes & make sure I’m walking this talk of mine the universe sends me wee tests or challenges. You know just to make sure I’m on track. If I’m doing my work & floating around in that Zen zone 24/7 the universe will pitch a curve ball to see if hit a home run or strike out.

Home run: I stay calm, centered & breathing when faced with a challenge exhaling love & rainbows.

Strike out: I fall off kilter, have a melt down, throw my toys out the pram & generally loose my shiz.

The result depends on how big a test I receive & how many times it has shown up before. Challenges will repeat till you get them, again & again & again. What fun!

Can I just say here it’s okay to have meltdowns. I find a minor meltie here & there is actually healthy for me. Again it’s part of the learning curve. It’s good for me to express my emotions this way, as it’s the ‘black’ or ‘dark’ side coming out. Instead of hiding it away, buried deep inside. This is not good as trapped emotions fester & grown into unwanted physical manifestations.

Acknowledging the reaction is important. Okay I reacted wildly but in a controlled & expressive manner that didn’t hurt or offend anyone. That’s that out the way now I can see clearly what blessings the challenge that fueled said reaction has.

Even better when the melt down doesn’t happen at all (home run). The challenge presents, I step back calmly, take a look around from all angles, breathe & look for the gold. This is where I meet the universe half way & say ‘yes I got this, I’m walking my talk.’ Next!

For example there has been lot’s of shifts & changes over the past year with my yoga-teaching roster. I’ve grown to expect this now as the businesses I work for evolve, teachers come & go, things change etc.

If one of my classes changes I’m very cool about it now. Staying calm, not panicking about money or scrambling around looking for other classes that fit my logistics better. If a door shuts it means I now have space to invite something new & fresh in. Opportunities always will present & more often than not they are for the better. How awesome is that?

I’ve done the freaking out bit in this area, now I only react with love & excitement about what new things will step into my life now. Far more easier.

It’s the same with my Reiki training workshops. If I don’t have anyone booked in I don’t go on the big pushy marketing mission to fill the spaces. I keep putting it out there softly till a few days before. (Sometimes people book in literally the day before & I’m ready to receive them) Then trust if no one presents it means I need the weekend off for some well-deserved self-love time. What a treat, a free weekend, totally unexpected, embrace & enjoy. Not worry I should have kept my yoga class or allow ‘I’m not good enough’ self-doubt or ‘but why’s’ to step in.

Be in the flow with the natural ebbs & waves of life. Ride along, not against the current & even with the odd river rock to send you off course, sail on around. Look for the joy to be had in everything around you.

Next time you are faced with a challenge that shakes your boat. Take a look at the bigger picture. Within the perceived doom & gloom there will be some light. Turn bad on it’s head to find the good. See the test the universe has sent you to see how blooming awesome you are doing. Conquer & receive! What an achievement.

Let me know how you’re getting on in the comments below dear one’s. I always love to hear from you.

Big Love, K xx

Rewrite Your Story

August 26, 2015 By Kat

What’s your story?

When I first arrived in Australia partaking in a spot of solo gal travelling I observed everyone had a story. Each was individual giving the owner a reason or purpose to be doing what they were doing. Some stories I encountered were people travelling the world to heal from a breakup, finding space to discover themselves, taking a gap year from school, the last hurrah before marriage & children or celebrating a milestone birthday.

We should be careful not to fall into the trap of our ‘story’ defining us. It reminds me of the movie ‘The Breakfast Club.’ Each character had a label or story. The geek, the jock, the weirdo, the princess & the criminal. Each character played up to these roles at the start, as the movie progressed the ‘real person’ inside started to show through. New stories & friendships formed that were more aligned with each persons true being.

Last week I had a wake up call that I needed to rewrite one of my chapters in my story of life as I was being defined in a way that wasn’t serving me.

Here is why…

Every week I teach one or two early morning yoga classes. My alarm either goes off at 3:45am or 4:20pm. Pretty early hey? Especially when my natural body clock wakes me on a non-teaching morning at around 7:30am without fail. I often get alarm anxiety for these mornings & don’t sleep as well. Checking the clock to see how long I have left to sleep. A yoga teacher’s nightmare is to sleep through & miss the class leaving students locked out.

Once I’m up & had my cup of tea I’m ready for action it’s no problem at all. Teaching two classes with a break in between for Sadhana & breakfast. I’m on form, ready to work & deliver my best. Teaching the morning classes are fun, especially the Friday’s when we get a good crowd of regulars.

It’s just afterwards.

When it hits me.

Hello tired, wiped out feelings of exhaustion. Not even a fresh green juice can save me.

Usually on the drive home, especially if I stop off for grocery shopping or errands, the wave of tired swims in. I’m always telling myself:

“These early mornings kill me, I’m always so drained for the rest of the day.”

I’m actually quite excepting that by 12pm I’ve done my eight hours so it’s normal to want to hit the couch for a nap. However that nap usually fills the entire afternoon, till maybe 5pm. I wake feeling groggy & drag myself up to start making dinner & other things I wanted to do with my afternoon at home. It always feels like such a waste to be sleeping that long. If I don’t nap I walk around in a fog till bedtime.

Time to change!

Manifesting our true desires & creating a life we love from the inside out is something I very much believe in. It can work both ways. Just as we manifest what we want, if we are not careful we can easily attract what we don’t.

That is what was happening for me. Telling myself each week that the early classes drain me just attracted even more of that draining energy to the situation. No wonder I was in a cycle of constant flatness.

I didn’t want to stop teaching at this time as it added variety to my schedule. It would mean I’d never be home at night if I only taught in the afternoon. That would not be a good solution either.

Looking at the situation as a whole everything else I was doing: food, hydration, meditation, exercise & fresh air wise was spot on. The rest of the week I had heaps of energy.

The solution was I needed to rewrite my story by changing my thought pattern about the early morning starts.

Time to focus on the positive aspects of the early shift & pull more of that it. Turn around drained into energized.

I made a list of why I love teaching the early classes:

Teaching class whilst the sun is rising brings in a positive, fresh energy to the day.
The morning students are fun, happy & social.
Big energy classes with focus & lightness.
I have quite time for Sadhana between classes.
After class socializing & lunches.
The rest of the day free for myself, no need to rush off.
Being home at night with The Man.
No traffic drama’s, clear & easy runs.

Lot’s of reasons that teaching in the morning is a positive thing.

Time to rewrite & refocus my attention to these positives. Instead of saying:

“The early classes drain me”

I needed to flip it around to:

“The early morning classes lift me up & give me energy.”

Ahh what a difference this made! Putting positive energy into the situation really worked. Reminding myself how good the morning classes are & instead of hooking into the perceived lows of the aftermath.

Friday was testament to this new way of thinking. I kept saying to myself “I am energised!” I was home by 1pm, ate lunch & took up my usual position in the couch for a rest. Yes I was feeling a little tired but not the usual level of drained. I watched an old episode of Grey’s Anatomy & didn’t fall asleep like I usually would. My 90-minute couch time reviver picked me up even more. I was able to get on with some ‘office work’ for the afternoon. In fact I ended up being awake till well past 10pm without an afternoon nap.

One last step I needed to make was releasing the guilt I had associated with napping all afternoon. Instead of seeing it as a ‘waste of time’ I accepted that the extra sleep would in fact be beneficial to my well-being. If I slept that long my body obviously needed to play catch up. As I said above I’d done my days work just not in the nine to five sense so it was more than okay to have a snooze. My acceptance of napping & releasing the guilt mean I didn’t need to nap after all.

Is there a story in your life that needs rewriting? If something brings you joy but small negative aspects are over shadowing these it’s time to shift focus. Look for the positives in your situation & put your energy there. Above all drop the negative self-talk. Be mindful of your words & thoughts as what you project into the world you will create more of. Here’s to pulling in more of the good stuff.

I’d love to hear your experiences, feel free to leave a comment below.

Big love, K xx

Dropping the Protection

July 8, 2015 By Kat

Travel offers a change of space & invites fresh energy into one’s life. Everything appears exciting & different which can be very uplifting. There are opportunities to explore & new things to discover. Being away from home is like one big adventure every day.

This is just what I’ve been doing for the past eight weeks by travelling to the East coast of Australia. Stepping out of my normal day-to-day routine allowed space for a spiritual adventure to present.

Sea change, new adventures & a Soul cup refill

We are all constantly evolving & expanding. This can get quite uncomfortable at times. Simply trust the periods of discomfort are leading to a growth spurt. This is how I felt for most of April leading into May. When I arrived east I knew this was the time for reflection & retreat.

Even those of us who have consciously chosen to take a more spiritual path, leading from within, have challenges. Probably more so than ever. Nowadays the challenges show up thick & fast. Working knowingly with the universe is fascinating. I wish to accelerate, learn & grow in this lifetime so embrace challenges head on in order to achieve this. It’s the best life education I feel I can receive. That is why I share this story with you today to let you know we are all ONE going through the same things.

A big check in with myself was long overdue. One major change I’d noticed about myself was physical. I wasn’t feeling comfortable in my skin. This was showing up on my face with pimple breakouts, congestion & redness. My clothes were feeling tight & I didn’t like what I was seeing in the yoga room mirror. So much so I’d started to wear long tops to practice in. This I haven’t done for four & a half years. I was picking the skin on my fingers & at my nails especially when I feeling challenged.

This behaviour wasn’t authentic, hiding away instead of addressing why there I was feeling discomfort. The extra physical layers appearing (It wasn’t a huge amount but enough to get my attention) were for protection – from myself.

Why did I need protecting?

Everything was going really well, and still is for me, both in business & personally. Even better than ever actually, I’m on a real upswing this year. With every pull forward there is always an equal & opposite pull back. My positive resistance showed up as…

Self-sabotage.

Hence the need for protection, I was attacking myself. The self-sabotage came in the form of falling into victim mode (This was part of my Mercury Retrograde theme for May). There are a few people who challenge me greatly & I just can’t escape them (& shouldn’t have to). I feel they are here to help me honor my truth. My buttons were being pushed & I was rising to the bait. I felt attacked, put down, trampled on & left feeling unworthy.

It wasn’t the other people making me feel like this. I was creating the drama in my own mind! Instead of smiling, gracefully accepting the situation & moving on instantly I was creating a huge story out of it that I carried around for weeks (if not longer). This was making me rather unhappy.

The drama was then manifesting physically around my middle, right over my Solar Plexus Chakra our major energy store hub of self-worth & self-esteem. I was draining my own energy & forming a protective layer in an attempt to create a barrier.

Anxiety was rearing its ugly head too, which just fed the story more. I dreaded bumping into my perceived attackers & constantly worried about ‘what they would say next.’ I bet these people were totally clueless to the crazy that was going on in my head. It was my mind creating the fuss then attracting more of it in reality. Totally bonkers behaviour – looking back now.

Yoga is a great way to ground, harmonise & shift stale energy. (Photography by Ben Marden)

How did I figure all this out?

Having the space to connect in with myself properly without distraction showed me the way. (I should have been doing this from the start but again I was too caught up in it) Spending lot’s of time out doors connecting with nature cleared away the cobwebs got me grounded. Being away from the usual triggers, having a solid regular yoga practice, eating nourishing seasonal food, new projects to get stuck into & friends to catch up with helped disconnect from ‘the story.’ It no longer mattered & I could see I had just been attacking myself with my thoughts.

Focusing on things that I love filled up my Soul cup & gave me so much happiness. Instead of wasting energy on perceived drama & put my powers into creating a life I love everyday. Just how it should be, not just 90% of the time with 10% drama creation. 100% love all the time.

Self-love & healing

Metaphysically I used deep meditation to shift the victim consciousness, speak my truth & stop being a people pleaser (this is a big reason I was reacting so badly as I want everyone to be happy. When I perceived people weren’t happy with my actions I attached to that & felt like a failure. I am only responsible for my own happiness, no one else’s). Meditating with three of the healing releasers from New Energy Awakening assisted in the shift.

Releasers from New Energy Awakening

Attending a brilliant day retreat for healers showed me other ways to release & just be. Using a combination of breath work, ecstatic dance, moving meditation & sound healing. Being around people with the same passions for wellness & healing was healing in itself too.

Finally I had an extremely beneficial kinesiology session that really helped me get to the bottom of this deep-seated emotional hook. It’s amazing what you unearth by stripping by the layers.

Once I relaxed, regained my centre & personal power my body responded. Without even trying the layers of protection melted away. My stressed out skin cleared up & I haven’t had a break out in weeks. The long yoga top I brought to practice in (the cloak) hasn’t been worn in the yoga room. I now look in the mirror with eyes full of gratitude & love. I’ve called back my power.

The result is I feel lighter, brighter & my jaw isn’t aching. (We can hold a lot of tension here) I’m standing taller again so my shoulders are less tight & my spine is nice & straight. (Hunching over is another form of protective behavior) All signs to take note of in the future.

Over to you…

Have you had a similar experience?
Has feeling stressed & anxious has caused a noticeable effect on your physical body?
Do you look externally to blame others instead of checking in with what’s going on inside of you?

Feel free to share in the comments below.

BIG love, till next time,

Kat xx

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