So before I get into the lesson, I just want to say Thank you to those of you who are participating with me… please share your experiences… I love it when I’m not alone on this blog island, speaking to just the waves. ( Tracy rules) And secondly, that my ego or the aspect of me that is honoring the self-sabotaging traits is VERY powerful. I signed up on Monday and knowing I want to do this course, still procrastinated. Not only did I procrastinate, but I had an overwhelming and quite uncontrollable urge to eat tons of pierogies yesterday. For those of you that are non-polish, they are delicious dumplings filled with meat, potatoes or sauerkraut -my mother in law makes them fresh. The bizarre part is that I never really defy myself and eat out emotion, mostly just to fuel the body or have an occasional treat. But since this “issue” for me appears to be about food, it was like my subconscious was screaming for help with every pierogi bite. My point: YOU are powerful and clearly, I’m about to create a new way of being that will threaten this aspect of myself, which clearly I’m excited about. But it just proves that point that we are not always in control of ourselves, yet we think we are and then when I ate those pierogies I had major guilt and judgment about it, until I stopped the flow of emotion that started to flood. Confirming this is just one day of my life and I chose to have those because I wanted them. Sometimes that it what it takes - the awareness and then preventing the damaging behavior, in my case Judgment. Because Judgment will only lock you down and keep you in a place where you are creating from a negative space, we call it “sticking yourself.” Judgment doesn’t do any good for anyone, especially you. That being said, let the lessons begin!

For starters Debbie says: As we come to understand the mechanisms and patterns that underlie self-sabotage, we begin to free ourselves… we begin to allow ourselves to interact with ourselves and the world with greater success, joy and fulfillment.

The instructions for this work sounds pretty simple. Debbie asks us to get a journal and identify what we’re about to do, in my case end self sabotage in the area of food! She asks us to find a picture of ourselves before the age of 10 when were innocent and happy, she tells us to mark our calendars for meditation and lesson work for the next 8 weeks. She suggests carving out time away from everything, cell phone, family, etc… and my favorite part, she writes…

“We also understand that resistance and doubt naturally come up when you’re taking the steps to release the past and step into a new level of consciousness.”

Hmmmmm. My example above clearly shows exactly that. Debbie asks us to trust the process. Lucky for me I’ve dove into processes like these several times, over the last 15 years and know that each time I do trust the process and move into the awareness that in the end this will help me, it always does. It’s like getting your homework done and getting a passing grade, you get to move on to the next level and this is your life people! You don’t get to stay in the same place all the time you are designed to evolve and grow and the way I look at it, you might as well be proactive with your life… so you can achieve more and receive more. Life is rewarding and if we don’t sift through the gouk then how will we ever know, exactly how rewarding it can be!

I’m about to go into the meditation and lesson. I want to share that Debbie has a whole page of Free Gifts for when you start this course too… The usual support list, educating yourself about others in the field who can offer support. I found a download of piece of music and a .pdf on writing a book that might help, so that’s always fun getting free gifts for confronting your issues!

Off to change my ways. If you haven’t signed up, I say go for it! What do you have to lose? LOTS! Only valuable days of your life. Its only $10 if you want. And for the record, I have no affiliation with Debbie Ford. I’m merely doing this for myself and using myself as an example, hoping to open the hearts and eyes of people to assist them in finding their true joy. My experience sharing is my contribution.

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Peace and Blessings,
Alexandra drinking I AM LOVED water today!