Be U: Emotions and Thoughts

Coming for the Real You.

I'm hoping to share thoughts, fun and insightful information and aha moments with all to better serve ourselves and the universe.

My background is that of Executive Secretary for the local Electric company (11 years).

Certified Personal Trainer (since 1991) and Fitness Consultant for my own company, Beachin Bodies (6 years) and certified in Reiki and Nutrition with training in Cranial Sacral work, Tai Chi, and Meditation. Certified as a Professional Life Coach (2015); Minister at Universal Life Church (2016);

and, possibly, most important,

my own journey through illness and avenues, roads and roadblocks that I have taken to find the real me. (35 plus years).

The me that I was born as. The me that is the all-knowing. I believe the search is endless and we are here to learn and to love and to share it all.

Wednesday, June 29, 2016

Emotions and Thoughts

How many different emotions do you feel each day... Do you feel the same ones each day... Do you feel some more than others... Do you wish you would feel one or more differently than your 'normal' feelings now...

How many thoughts do you think each day... Do you know that out of the thoughts we think each day - close to 75% of them we rethink again and again...day after day.

Awareness. 'They' say awareness comes first.

Awareness of your emotions; awareness of your thoughts. With this awareness, perhaps, comes a chance to change things up.

If there is just one thought; one sentence, that you want to stop thinking today, which would it be... Perhaps, you can catch yourself thinking it and say 'no more'. Perhaps, you can replace it with a different; another thought.

If I hear myself saying, "Man, I'm a nervous wreck", I am training myself to be a nervous wreck. When I hear myself thinking this, I can say "no more". I can choose "I am calm, cool and collected." over a nervous wreck. This feels way better to me and 'in' me than my first, original thought.

I can do this as often and whenever I catch myself. Eventually, I win. The one who thinks the thoughts.

Perhaps, when you feel yourself feeling an emotion that you'd rather not feel, may you ask yourself "Am I feeling this for real reasons or just because I am used to this feeling?" I can breathe deep. I can replace it with noticing my breath. I can replace it with a more preferred emotion. I can do this again and again and again until I, the one who feels the emotions, change.

May you allow your own awareness. May you think the thought you prefer. May you feel the emotion you enjoy.

I'm not saying to not feel what you truly feel. I am saying be sure there is a current, in your face, reason to feel same.

Hey, YOU are worth it. YOU are in charge of your own thoughts and feelings. Make YOU happy. Make YOU happen... from the inside out.

Have fun with it. No judgment. No demanding. Only ease because you are wanting to change. Only awareness and processing through to the YOU that you fully are and that you want to be.

Happy, Fulfilled YOU.

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My Past Story

The first thing I would always tell a new doctor was 'my dad left me when I was 10'. He just disappeared, ran away. It was pretty awful for me. I thought it was my fault as most kids sometimes do. I thought I was unlovable. Years later, 20 maybe, I realized it wasn't just that my dad left me that affected my life, but also that my mom stayed. She stayed and I'll be forever grateful. However, her staying wasn't all peaches and creme. She was so hurt, so distraught, so frightened to raise three kids on her own and find a job that it was very hard for her to be there for me and my needs. I chose to shutdown, be quiet and try not to make it any harder on her as to not ask for much, or voice much, or need much.

Years later, in 11/12th grade, I noticed my fingers being really cold and hurting all the time. I noticed them turning purple and the pain was very 'loud'. Humorously enough, I had chosen to be a secretary and typing was a big part of my everyday. I loved it even. Fingers flying across the keyboard with as little mistakes as possible was the goal. I was pretty good at it. While in typing class, I remember putting my hands on my neck to try to warm them and make them feel better. I was naive enough then to think this must be happening to everyone.

Anyway, years went by and nobody was able to tell me why this was happening or what to do to make it better. Then, approximately 4 years later, I remember (what I felt) was little me sitting across from a really big doctor at his really big desk and him telling me I was allergic to myself. Of course, this was him describing to me what auto-immune meant. I had a disease called scleroderma and it could kill me (sometimes in as little as five years) and I would most likely be on medicine and have it for the rest of my life and there was nothing to change it.

Anyway, almost 30 years later, I've had my share of pain and I'm alive. I've had ulcerations on my fingers and I have lost most of my nails on both hands from lack of circulation and producing too much collagen. My hands are somewhat not a pretty sight and to hit something with one of my fingers by accident (well, I refer to the feeling as 'going to the moon).

When I was about 30, I started looking at alternative medicine and I tried anything that came across my path to try to stop the pain. I have tried many normal and not so normal 'ideas'. I sometimes do not believe at what lengths I went to try to ease my pain and suffering!

This is what has brought me here to this point in my life.

I'm grateful to be able to learn so much about myself and life and I wouldn't take it back (well, some days I might want to).

Something was telling me to blog. I really didn't know much about blogging - I am still a novice at best. Approximately 5 weeks ago, I sat at my computer and started typing.

I am surprised at where my blogs have led me. I thought I was trying to help others and that still is a big goal of mine. However, what I am finding out is that this is a great outlet for me.

A way to feel like I'm doing something. I told a friend this morning about my blog and I said that it's draining because I put everything out there and do not hold back as I post each individual blog; its fun because it does give me an outlet and I feel a little purpose in my life; and it's scary because I don't want anyone laughing at me or telling me that I am completely 'off my rocker'!