FALLING IN LOVE WITH SLEEP

Consider yourself blessed if you are able to fall asleep easily and get a good night’s rest! For the majority of people, however, this is just a pipe dream, and sleep (or the lack thereof) has become their worst nightmare.

Why is the lack of sleep such an issue? First, the body requires rest in order to heal and process the energy of the day. Lack of sleep has now been scientifically proven to be connected to heart disease, post traumatic stress syndrome, obesity, ADHD and autism, among other health issues. At a minimum, your body needs seven hours of sleep every night.

What are some things that disrupt your sleep cycle? A full bladder is one of the major complaints that wake people up at night and disturb their rest. But did you know that light can do this too? Especially the light emitted by the LEDs on digital clocks. In fact, these lights also put out frequencies that can impact your circadian rhythm, and not in a good way. While not scientifically proven, it is also thought that electric devices that have an A/C adapter can also emit EMF that disrupts your sleep.

What can you do to improve your rest and support your body? First, remove anything in the bedroom that can potentially alter your circadian rhythm - your smart phone, television sets, PC, digital clocks are all good examples. Your bedroom should be a temple for sleep, not a place to work, watch TV or be distracted. Next, allow your evening to be a path to sleep. You can do this by reducing stimulation after the dinner hour. Be discriminating with what you watch on TV and eliminate shows that evoke strong response in your nervous system. Cut out caffeine after lunch. Some of us need to cut it out after our morning coffee actually! Don’t forget—chocolate is LOADED with caffeine. Empty your bladder before bed.

This one may sound counter-intuitive, but before you go to bed, drink a glass of room temperature (or even warm) water. If your kidneys are working properly, this shouldn’t cause your bladder to be over stimulated. On the other side, cut back on heavy intake of liquids in the evening—moderation is the key here.

The nutritional supplement melatonin has been proven to be a God-send for those with sleep issues. It’s a hormone produced by the pineal gland. As we age our pineal glands produce less of it, and some chemicals such as fluoride had been shown to slow the production of it even in children. It regulates the sleep cycle, and it doesn’t take much. It’s an inexpensive, natural solution. The recommended dosage is 1 - 3 mg taken an hour before bedtime. Melatonin has other positive effects including potential anti-aging abilities.

If, after all these are tried and you still have trouble either falling asleep or getting back to sleep in the night, be sure not to lay in bed and fret. Get up, go to another room and read or work on a project (not watch TV) until sleep comes naturally for you. Best not to allow sleep issues to become associated with your bed!

Finally, fall in love with sleep. What we resist persists, so when you fight sleep, you just prolong the problem. Sweet Dreams!

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JOURNALING - ! A GREAT TOOL FOR CONSCIOUS GROWTH AND CREATION!

One of the most powerful tools we can use for personal growth and conscious creation is absolutely free—it only requires a pen and a notebook! Journaling is a great way to clear your mind, focus your thoughts and manifest what you desire. Here are some pointers to get you started, or if you are already journaling, to hone your skills and improve your technique.!

First, let’s examine the how’s and why’s of journaling. I suggest that you will achieve your best and most satisfying results if you do it longhand (hence the reference to pen and notebook), although many use the computer or free blog sites. Writing your  thoughts in a notebook with a pen or pencil engages both hemispheres of your brain in a more complete way than typing on a computer. I find it easier to journal in the morning, when my mind is fresh. Try making a commitment to yourself to do it every day. Julia Cameron, in her book The Artist’s Way, says to write three pages every day.That’s a great initial commitment.

When I first began journaling, I bought the smallest notebook I could find, because I was sure I wouldn’t be able to come up with enough words to even fill a page. Within a week I graduated to a college-ruled version so that I would have more room to chronicle my thoughts!

Why is journaling an effective tool? Where we put our attention is where our energy flows, and where our energy flows is what we create on the physical plane. Journaling focuses your thoughts and gives you a channel for your energy. One important note here is to make sure that you don’t allow your writing to become a ‘bitch session’ however. Why? For the exact reason that journaling is such a great tool for manifesting! If you focus on what you DON’T like about your reality, you will just create more of that. Keep if positive. Even in the suggested topics that follow, you can explore seemingly negative areas of your reality in healthy ways allowing for inner healing.!

Here are some suggestions for topics you can use to get you started:!

1. Who Am I Really?!
2. What Are My Core Negative or Limiting Beliefs?!
3. If I Had 5 Imaginary Lives to Lead Now - What Would They Be?!
4. Who Are My Poisonous Playmates? (Friends who squander your time and energy) and why have I allowed them to stay in my life?!
5. Who Are The Crazymakers In My Life? (People who a.) control you; b.) break deals & destroy schedules, c.) discount your reality; d.) create blame and drama; e.) hate schedules and order except their own) and why haven’t I fired them?!
6. List 20 Things I Enjoy Doing. Next to each one put a date that reflects the last time you did each one.!
7. What Am I Angry About?
8. What Am I Ashamed Of?

Finally, close each day’s entry with something I call Attitude of Gratitude. List at least five things you are grateful for at the moment. This is probably the most important thing you will do. Focusing on your blessings creates even more of them!

Jean Adrienne is and intuitive coach and inspirational speaker, and the developer of InnerSpeak, a process to assist in easily releasing the blocks which keep you from manifesting the reality you desire and deserve.

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The True Holiday spirit

How often we tend to lose the spirit of the holiday and get caught up in the energies of mass consciousness, the spending frenzy, fear, panic and depression. This doesn’t have to be the case, but we have been trained over the years to allow our energies to get outside ourselves. When this happens, we get sucked in to lower vibrations.

Holidays can be difficult times for many. This year is no exception. Third dimensional reality displays rampant unemployment, sickness, and governmental upheaval. On top of this we have major weather disruptions and the threat of terrorism. If we aren't careful, we can easily get pulled into the drama. In fact, many of us on our path to higher consciousness unconsciously allow the thoughts of the masses to influence our emotions. How many times to you find yourself sad or depressed for no obvious reason?

All of these manifestations are reflections of our own inner landscapes. During this time of year the veils are very thin between dimensions as well, so not only are we seeing and feeling our issues in the outer world, but we are also dredging up old memories, wounds and such from other dimensional aspects of our realities—other lifetimes even. The consciousness on Earth right now is one of change, of growing into higher vibrations and frequencies and shedding everything from our past that no longer serves or supports our energy. Everything that is not love that we perceive around us is simply a reminder, a marker that we have more work to do to release our lower energies so that we can become our best and highest good.

This time of year should be a time of joy and a time of renewal. Almost every spiritual tradition supports this, but where is this joy? Are you having difficulty decorating your house or buying holiday gifts this year? There seems to be a pervasive sense of lethargy hanging in the air. Part of this is due to the immense amount of change we are going through. Many of us know we are on the verge of a breakthrough or a new direction, but we can’t seem to see clearly enough to know where to step. Partly this is due to the flux itself. Reality is like Jello right now! It’s trying to set up, but it hasn’t quite made it. If you ever watched your grandmother make a gelatin salad for the holiday table, you can get a sense of what this means. First she created the colored Jello. Then, before it was fully set, she added fruit, cream cheese, maybe some coconut, and stirred it all up. One moment it looked like a completed dessert, but in the blink of an eye it was turned into something else altogether—something even more delicious than you would have imagined!

Let's use our thoughts to become the change! If everyone who reads this blog participates, this could be a truly great experiment. Set aside a moment to go within to that place where love resides inside you. Look in that safe place where you store your treasures, right behind your heart. This is where you find the joy that can light up this holiday season for you, and when you flip that switch, you send your Light out into the world so that others can see it and remember the truth about why we are here. It can become a domino effect.

The real purpose behind this holiday season isn't the giving of gifts or the fancy parties. It is the remembering and rebirthing of your own personal TRUTH. You are both unique and powerful as the creator of your reality, and this season offers you the time to use your personal gifts to do just that - to create JOY. As you remember the feelings of joy, they become contagious, and you are able to share them with other. As you share joy, it grows within you. So take a moment each day to become joy.

Jean Adrienne is the developer of the InnerSpeak Breakthrough Coaching Method. She’s an author, teacher and talk radio host. www.jeanadrienne.com

Somewhere Over The Rainbow

Did you ever think you would be flying over the rainbow like the bluebird in the song? It never occurred to me that it was possible except perhaps in the realm of fairy tales. I never gave credence to the pot of gold at the end of it either. Every time I searched for it, the rainbow just moved farther away, out of my reach. At some point I just quit looking. I packed up the fairy tales and childhood notions andbegan to live in a 3D world, one that was ripe with disillusion, disappointment and danger.

Things have changed, however. In the last few years, I have begun to move back into the idealism I had as a child. The more I moved in this direction, the more possibilities began to show up in my world.What if…I could fly? What if…I could have everything I wanted as if by magic? What if…wishing upon a star would bring me love? What if…?

The more I asked these questions and looked for the answers like a child would with eyes wide and filled with innocence the more I began to create what I wanted! And along with this, guess what? All those “what if’s” became “why not’s”!

Within each of us lies the ability to change our thoughts to a place where the reflection we find in our outer world shifts into a more positive place. When we get caught up in our stories, in the drama of the past, this ability becomes dormant and before long we get pulled into believing that we have to settle for dull or less or worse. The key to change is to stay conscious of your thoughts. Because they DO create your reality, if what is showing up in your world isn’t to your liking, then it’s time to drill down into those thoughts and find the ones that are keeping you from manifesting joy in your life.

Have you developed a tolerance for having “less than”? For pain, sadness, wounding? If you have, then somewhere in your inner thoughts, you are holding on to a belief that is limiting you. In order toshift this, first the belief has to be identified, then it must be modified to remove the “glass ceiling” that blocks you from getting everything you want. It will be different for each of us. Maybe we are settling for financial security rather than financial independence. Perhaps we are holding on to a belief that we have to work hard and suffer in order to earn what we are paid. Many times we settle for unhappy relationships or low income because our parents did—and sometimes they did because their parents did. It’s time to break out of these cycles—no matter where they came from.

This has been my goal and I’ve done the work and let go of the beliefs.Today I live in a land where all my dreams DO come true. If I can, anyone can!

Make a WISH…

Jean Adrienne is the developer of the InnerSpeak Breakthrough Coaching Method. She’s an author, teacher and talk radio host.

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Attitude of Gratitude

Gratitude is a major factor in bringing you what you want. It only makes sense, if you are a student of the Law of Attraction, that if you are grateful for something, you will attract more of it to your reality.

It doesn’t really matter what you are grateful for. It’s the action and the energy that does the work. I suggest keeping a gratitude journal. Buy yourself a little notebook and use a page every day to list the things you are grateful for in that moment of time. As you write them down, send love to the person, place or thing you mentioned. SMILE while you are doing this—you would be amazed at the energy that a simple smile produces!

The next step is to pay attention to what happens in your life. Attention is the second factor in bringing you what you want. When you pay attention, you begin to notice the synchronicities, and as you do that, you will find more and more things to be grateful for.  It’s a beautiful completed circle. You ask. The Universe provides. You notice. You give thanks. The Universe keeps giving you more and more!

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The Nature of Time

The concept of time is a creation of the linear mind, the ego. Not only is it an illusion, but it’s one that misleads us and makes it more difficult for is to release limitations about who we are and how powerful we are as well. At best,time is circular, but that’s probably more difficult to understand than saying that we exist in many dimensions simultaneously.

What this means is that everything is happening at once—the ‘past’, the NOW,and what we imagine to be the future. Is your head beginning to hurt from trying to figure out how this can possibly be?

Perhaps a better way to explore this is to consider you as the center of concentric circles, each a finger breadth away from the one before. As the  center point, you exist in all of the circles, but each of the circles is distinct.You just ARE.

This is how ‘past lives’ play out. They are happening concurrently with the life you believe you are living in the now moment, and for this reason, you can slip into that realm and make corrections as need be to heal aspects of your soul.

The same goes for the future—you are creating that aspect of reality with your thoughts as they radiate out from your mind in the center of all the circles. When you can look at the big picture in this way, it makes it easier to understand not only why things happen, but what you can do to make them happen the way you want, rather than the way you don’t.

Every thought creates a thing. The old axiom that there are no idle thoughts is very accurate, same with ‘be careful what you think’. When we get an idea or concept in our head, it actually begins to create a form in one of those other circle of reality! The more passion or emotional energy you feed to the thought, the more rapidly the form moves from circle to circle and finally into your space on the earth plane! It’s just that simple. Everything is energy. Your thoughts are energy as well, so get excited about the things you really desire.

In the past, you might have allowed your energy to flow in the direction of what you didn’t want, pulling those things to you and not understanding why. Now that you have the truth of how things manifest, you won’t make that mistake again, right?

All that is, and was ever, needed to allow this to happen is the awareness that it is possible. With that awareness, you simply use your attention and intention and just replay the scenario to the highest end. This is a life-changing tool, and with this activation it’s now at your disposal. There isn’t anything you can’t do, if you are willing to release any thoughts of impossibility and just go for it!

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Jean Adrienne is the developer of the InnerSpeak Breakthrough Coaching Method. She’s an author, teacher and talk radio host.

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Fix You / Fix Me

A big problem that crops up in relationships has to do with the need to ‘fix’. It’s so easy to spot less-than-perfect aspects in another, and generally we have a pretty good idea of how the other people can improve themselves and their quality of life.

That’s all fine and good except  the other person a) doesn’t think there’s anything wrong or lacking in their reality and b) hasn’t asked for our opinion!

At an energetic level when we try to fix someone else, several things happen. First, we have gone into judgment, which lowers our own vibration. Second, our energy follows our attention, so without realizing it, we have created an energetic drain for ourself. On top of this, when we push our desire for the betterment of another in their direction, generally they will push back to us subconsciously and energetically as well. Ouch.

All we ever really want from another (beside love and acceptance, the obvious) is information. This information is best exchanged at the level of the higher self, not by our ego minds. When we can become conscious enough to realize that everything we want to ‘fix’ in another is a reflection of something we think is broken in ourself, then we can ask that the appropriate information being held at the level of our Higher Self to correct this mistake be reflected down to us, where we can model that right energy to the outer world.

Makes for happier relationships all around!

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