stress – Coach Elle

How to survive during this time…

On the precipice of a new way of life. Peace, love, and happiness.

I received an email from Oprah today to promote a free online meditation program. In it they mention:

Research shows that just 20 minutes of meditation a day protects immunity, reduces anxiety, improves sleep and supports feelings of calm even amidst stressful situations. It is one of the best tools we have to protect our wellbeing as we navigate this challenging time.

I’m so grateful that I’ve gotten to a place in my life where I feel I am in no need of meditation. My immunity is protected, I have relatively no anxiety, I sleep like a baby, and I am calm, peaceful and centered in the midst of the current unprecedented stressful situation.

I aligned myself to these goals by using PSYCH-K.

Anyone can do the same. Just install these beliefs (my immunity is protected, I have relatively no anxiety, I sleep like a baby, and I am calm, peaceful and centered in the midst of any stressful situation) into your subconscious and remove any thoughts, beliefs, and/or habits that block the manifestation of what you want.

I also still use, my Light Codes from Mission Success.

If you’re looking to get the same results but are limited with time or resources, I encourage you to at least use the Light Codes from Mission Success.

If you want to add another layer of effectiveness, then I would suggest meditation. I say meditation as a second because although it’s a great tool that I’ve used in the past, personally, I wanted a permanent change where I didn’t have to practice this type of exercise on a daily basis in order to achieve what I wanted to achieved (that’s why I recommended the Light Codes first).

Finally, if you have more time and resources, the best tool by far is PSYCH-K. If you really want to shift your life, permanently, then either learn to use PSYCH-K and/or (what I did) work with a Life Coach that is trained to facilitate using PSYCH-K.

Peace, love, and happiness.

Don’t believe everything you read

I recently read an article about doubling your productivity and there was so much miss-information in it that it made me ill.

Whenever you read something, please do not take it on face value, not even mine. I would do a search on it to see what other people think, and then I would take the opposite view. I jest of course but only a little bit.

Remember the stories about Christopher Columbus and that he believed the world was round and everyone else believed it was flat. This is not just relegated to centuries ago. Until recently, the big deal on losing weight was low-fat. Now we “know” that in order to be healthy, you need to eat fat!

Just a little to keep in mind on your journey.

Peace, love and happiness.

3 Ways To Avoid Stress Eating

You’re stressed out and all you can think of doing is having a chocolate bar or *insert you favorite comfort food*.

But you know that if you give in to your comfort food, you’ll feel relief for now but when you come off of your high, you’ll feel more tire, more down or more stressed out. It’s a momentary fix but it doesn’t help you overall. Sound like something else out there?

Instead of reaching for comfort food, try the following:

1 – Drink Water

Stress may cause you to be dehydrated. Often, having a glass of water will not only rehydrate you but will rejuvenate you.

2 – Do Some Breathing Excercises

You can yawn or do 10 rounds of mindful breathing (in for a count of 5, hold your breath for a count of 2 and release your breath for a count of 10). Another great breathing exercise is to hum. Humming is known to have a healing effect as well. Alternatively, you can go for a walk. Walking naturally causes you to breath effectively without even thinking about it. It’s also know to help you clear your mind. Ever heard the expression “walk it off”?

3 – Take A Nap

Because we lead very busy lives, we don’t always get the sleep we need and lack of sleep can cause stress all on it’s own. Take time for yourself and take a nap. It’s known to have therapeutic effects.

Bonus

Ultimately, the best way to deal with stress is to figure out the subconscious beliefs that cause you to feel stressed about your situation, rid yourself of them and create supportive subconscious beliefs so that the next time your in the same situation, you’ll feel no stress. No stress, no comfort food needed. A couple of ways you can do that is to use PSYCH-K or EFT (Tapping).

Here’s to your stress free living!

Peace, love and happiness.

Stressing Out!

One of my clients, Lynda (not her real name), had a total stressed-out meltdown last week.

It was the first time she was covering for a colleague, doing work that she had inadequate training for and was expected to do it in a timely manner. Not only that, but the woman she was covering for had just inherited a load of work due to cutbacks. So, Lynda was in fact doing the job of three people.

She didn’t get much support either. In fact, when she went to see her manager to get clarity and help, she just got yelled at. Without going into the intimate details, I think we can all agree that she had reason for a stressed-out meltdown.

During our coaching call, we talked about the situation, but more importantly, how she was feeling throughout the experience. We dug to find out what beliefs were causing her to feel the way she was feeling.

As we were exploring, Lynda had an Aha! moment. She realize that she was at the source of her misery. She subconsciously believed that she didn’t understand, that she wouldn’t be able to do a good job, that she didn’t have enough time and much more.

The great thing is that she will never feel that kind of stress again because now that she knew what was causing it, it was just a matter of re-programming what was getting in her way. In other words, getting rid of the non-supportive beliefs that were causing the stress and installing some new ones that would allow her to thrive.

So, for the next few sessions we’ll be doing some subconscious re-programming because it’s not enough to have an epiphany and deciding to make some changes. She’s been there before and she know that it’s not enough. She has to go into her subconscious mind and make the changes because her reactions and experiences are based on subconscious beliefs and they happen in a slit second so there’s no time or amount of conscious efforting that can overcome it.

So, here’s your take-away. If you experience, or have experienced, a really a stressful situation, explore the subconscious beliefs that you would need to have in order to react the way you do/did. Sometimes, it’s difficult to figure it out on your own so make sure you enlist a trusted friend or coach. And when you’re ready to do some reprogramming, I would suggest either PSYCH-K or EFT/Tapping.

When you do all of that, you can experience what Lynda experienced today: peace and confidence in the face or a previously stressful situation.

Peace, love and happiness.

Dealing with anxiety

Dealing with anxiety is not always easy. Some experts believe you can successfully calm your anxiety by making healthier mental and physical changes in your life such as meditating, eating right, being active and so on. What they fail to realize is that anxiety is a result of mindset. Anxiety is a symptom; not the root cause.

For example, if you’re the kind of person who loves to be active, then when someone tells you that you need to be more active, it doesn’t register as anxiety because you love it and probably are already active, but if you currently aren’t, you’re grateful to be reminded to make time for something you love. It’s a win-win situation and you’re happy.

However, if you’re the kind of person who doesn’t like to workout or if you’re more of a couch-potato, then being told to be more active is a bone of contention. You’re stressed because you’re not doing what you’re “supposed” to be doing. This creates anxiety and the anxiety will probably grow because you keep putting off what you “should” be doing. You may even think you’re bad, or lazy or… name your self-judgement.

So then, when experts tell us that in order to deal with anxiety, we need to meditate and/or eat healthier, stay active, avoid too much alone time and so on, they are now adding on even more stress because, what happens if you feel you don’t have time to meditate, or you don’t have time to socialize, or you don’t like being active and so on? Can you see how this can in fact create more anxiety?!!

But, if you do take the time to meditate, eat healthier, stay active and so on, you are simply putting a band-aid on the symptom, the anxiety. The “experts” are totally missing the point!

There is a root cause for your anxiety. In the example above, not wanting to or liking to workout is the root cause. That is the mindset that is creating the anxiety in this particular example, and if you don’t deal with the cause, eventually, the cause of the anxiety is going to express itself as a physical ailment, sickness, disease, cancer, a heart attack and so on. That’s why our society is sicker than it’s ever been in history.

The only solution is to change your mindset. And it’s not an easy thing to do, that’s for sure, but if you want to truly deal with or “cure” your anxiety, then you must change your mindset.

There are many modalities for changing your mindset this but the most successful one I’ve experienced is PSYCH-K in combination with tapping or using Light Codes.

I’m a PSYCH-K practitioner and the one person I practice most on is myself. Practicing PSYCH-K on myself has freed me from so much anxiety and stress. I’m much more at peace and calm and loving. It’s the only permanent way to deal with anxiety. From the root cause.

Free your mind!

Peace, love and happiness,

Coach Elle