Archive for December, 2009

So yesterday I ran the last leg of the White Rock Marathon relay race…6.2 miles!  I must say I’m very proud of myself.  I trained a bit, but not as much as I would have liked to.  Yesterday was only the 2nd time that I’ve ever ran that far and the first time was on a treadmill!  So yes, I’m very proud of myself, but I’m also proud of ALL the runners, especially the marathoners…26.2 miles.  Wow.

Running is such a mental game.  For me, it’s goes something like this:

When I take my first several strides I wonder how the hell I’m even going to make it a half of a mile.  My body is trying to find a rhythm.  My breath is too.  And my mind?  haha “Let’s do this another day.  You’ve really got a lot to do.  You don’t need to run this race.  Please stop.  Please.”.  BUT I DON’T.  I keep moving.  I bring my awareness to my breath.  Ahhh, there it is.  I’m starting to hear a rhythm.  2 inhales through the nose, 1 exhale through the mouth.  (I don’t know if this is how I’m “suppose” to breath while I’m running, but this is what I do).  I keep moving.  Then I find the rhythm in my body, and I get a good pace going (I run a 10 minute mile).  Everything is going good, but then my mind wanders in…or maybe I should say my mind wonders what the hell I’m doing!  You mean I’ve only gone a mile?  What?  Ok, back to the breath.  I’ll enjoy my scenery.  But wait, my knee is starting to hurt.  I ignore it the best I can.  I tell myself to keep running, just don’t think about it.  Don’t think about anything, or wait, maybe I should think about something to get my mind off the running.  Okay, so what I am going to buy everyone on my Christmas list?  Okay, enough of that because my toe is numb.  Yep, I can’t feel my big toe.  That’s okay, just keep running.  You can do this.  Breathe.  2 miles.  That wasn’t so bad.  I can keep going.  I’m fine.  Just breath.  Enjoy the now.  Take this moment in completely (this is where I go into my yoga training), but damn this knee and toe (this is where I go out of my yoga training).  Should I stop?  Yes, I think I should.  No, nope.  I’m fine.  I can do this.

And then, out of nowhere I realize that I’m absolutely okay.  My body is amazing.  It’s almost like my legs and arms are just moving on their own.  You get to point (for me it’s about mile 3 or so) where it’s like you don’t even realize they’re moving.  They’ve been moving in that same motion for so long now, that it just happens.  You don’t have to make your legs move, they just are.  And I can feel that my heart rate is high, but I can hold a conversation.  My breath is great if I just keep my “2-1″ rhythm going.

AND THEN, it’s all mental!  Once your body and breath have acclimated the mind is the only thing left you have to deal with!  Now this is probably where wearing ear buds and listening to music would come in and be a great help, but I, 99% of the time, don’t listen to music while I run.  I know!  Crazy, right?  I just figure I’ll be thinking my crazy thoughts while the music is playing, so why not try to not think at all.  A moving meditation.  So this is what I do.  I meditate why running (at least I try…most of the time I run while pushing my 2 kids, so if they’re not talking to me, need a snack, want my iPhone, and not fighting with each other, I’m meditating!).

I go in and out of boredom a bit too, but I know that’s just my mind playing tricks on me.  I make it 6.2 miles, and I’m feeling good.  But ya know, I don’t think I have a desire to run anymore than that.  I’m good.

I’m in awe of the marathon runners.  Not only the physical strength, but the mental strength it takes to run 26.2 miles just blows my mind!

(Now if I can just get up from this chair with my sore thighs!)

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Perception & You

Have you ever noticed or gotten frustrated with, what seems like, things changing?

In other words, have you ever gone down the same road to get to the same place and felt like the turn off wasn’t there? Or, hopefully you have had a better experience: We headed down to San Miguel de Allende.  Last time the trip took 26 hours. You’d think that the same trip would take the same amount of time, but things changed. All of a sudden there was another highway that we could take, which was a smoother ride – and shorter. Once we crossed the boarder the same highway we had taken last time also went quicker and seemed different. More beautiful and with less toll booths.

How could this be? How can the same highway on the same road give us such a different experience? Sure, a new highway may give a different result, but how does the same highway do this?

The answer is easy – we are bending physicality. While the rules of physicality, or form, are constant one thing is not. That one thing is energy.

When you are in your flow, your energy is different and the energy you attract is different. When you are out of your flow your energy is vibrating lower than when you are in the flow and what you attract vibrates lower as well. Another way of saying this is that in a higher energy, or your flow (what is often called the vortex) even the same highway provides a different experience all together.

This difference is accounted for by the shift in perception we experience from the energy we hold. But, for now this is not relevant.

What is relevant is that when we get into our flow of well-being, we shift our energy and our whole experience. If you don’t like something you are experiencing or if you want to change what you experience in the future, the place to focus is on yourself. Get yourself into your Source Flow and your life will change, improve.

Too often our egos, or the parts of us that are out of the flow and justify being here, tell us that we don’t deserve to be in a better place. Or there is some other reason or excuse for our not being in a better place. Do you buy this?

If you are not in a better place, you have believed that you belong where you do. After all, that is why you are experiencing what you are experiencing. No worries though, you can change this.

Even if you are in your flow you can change this and improve it! Do so, decide for yourself that I am right and that you can improve your life, you can attract what you prefer. After all, I’m doing it so why can’t you?

Welcome your experience and let it flow. Take a few minutes out of your busy day to talk to your Source and tell it/you that you are ready for a change. You are ready to be the You that is in a better place. And then allow that better place to come to you.

Use the amazing resources that are available in our day and age – use the free Golden Flow(TM) process we offer at http:golden-flow-system.com – use what ever it takes, because you are worth it! You are meant to have the experience you prefer, even if you are going down the same road.

Love & Light,

Kalyn

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