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I’m evaluating a multi-media course on blogging from the folks at Simpleology. For a while, they’re letting you snag it for free if you post about it on your blog.

It covers:

• The best blogging techniques.
• How to get traffic to your blog.
• How to turn your blog into money.

I’ll let you know what I think once I’ve had a chance to check it out. Meanwhile, go grab yours while it’s still free.

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I am discovering a place where cleaning house is becoming less of a frustration. Cleaning is not my favorite activity to put it mildly, and I have discovered only lately that if I do it by small bits it is less painful. I also do it with loud dancing music on.

The inspiration came from Anne Carol Rowland’s blog. The Zensight woman, had a post about it couple of months ago; she came to the conclusion that she resented cleaning so much because there was some kind of abuse going on from her mum while she was a kid. I very much relate to that.

My mother was very fussy about everything being clean and in its place. I don’t like dirty, but I don’t like cleaning either; so my budget permitting I have a cleaning lady coming in.

 Unfortunately I couldn’t find the link to Anne’s blog anymore but I had it in the email a friend forwarded; it is well worth reading as she brings a Zensight protocol on the subject as well. So here it is…

How to Finally Enjoy Housework

Laundry, vacuuming, taking out the garbage, dusting, tidying, cooking, grocery shopping, washing, and repairing….the list of household chores is never-ending. Most of us - if not all of us - have negative associations with doing housework.

And, certainly, it makes sense that given the choice between cleaning and going for a nice walk outside, reading a book, or surfing the internet, most of us find more enjoyment and stimulation in doing anything but housework.

I myself have, my entire adult life, struggled with housework. I am not, by nature, an organized person.  Laundry always got done out of necessity - sometimes dire necessity -  while most other tasks tended to pile up. 

I tried many different ways of approaching this dilemma.  Sometimes I would devote an entire day (or, more likely days) to cleaning my house, determined that once it was clean, I would keep it clean. Surely that could not be so hard, right? Wrong.  In spite of my best intentions, I would find that mess inevitably would pile up again, often sooner rather than later.

(…)I tried a 15 minute per day cleaning regimen, where I would set a timer for 15 minutes and clean just until the timer went off.  This is a system advocated by “Flylady” (for more information, see my blog). Flylady tells us “you can do anything for 15 minutes!”

This system was truly a lifesaver for me at first - I accomplished so much more than I did before!  It was easier to face cleaning for just 15 minutes at a time.  However, after the first couple of weeks, even though I wrote 15 minute cleaning intervals into my schedule religiously, I still found I could not get myself started.

Finally, I realized something bigger was at play with this issue.  I believe this is true for many of us who struggle with keeping up with household tasks.

I grew up in a fastidiously clean home. This has, as an adult, been a source of confusion for me.  After all, if I grew up in a clean home, shouldn’t I have learned good habits while in it?

Looking back, I realized I had a great deal of unresolved trauma in relation to cleaning and housework.  How many of us grew up getting yelled at to go clean our rooms?

In my situation, there was a constant feeling of pressure and often intense fear or terror, in relation to keeping things clean.  Indeed as I got older, it was my job to do all or most of the cooking and cleaning.  While I was paid a small amount for this, the amount of work was enormous for an older child and young teen, and there was an atmosphere of rage and abuse should the work done not be completed according to my mother’s stringent standards.

In making this connection, finally the realization has sunk in that processing this trauma may make all the difference for me in my current day to day life and home cleanliness. 

So how does one resolve this issue so that the day to day upkeep of one’s home is not quite so overwhelming?

(…)You can then take a moment to think back to some of the most upsetting experiences you experienced when growing up, in relation to housework or similar tasks.  Apply the Zensight trauma healing protocol (as outlined in Discover Zensight:  Easy Energy Healing & Personal Transformation, and/or in the Healing Trauma with Zensight audio healing session).

I have also included some of the healing statements I used myself:

I heal all of the decisions that any parts of me made while growing up, about cooking, cleaning, and other housework, that don’t serve my highest good now.

I now heal, transform and release any and all internalized messages, core beliefs, and psychological programming about cooking, cleaning and housework that don’t serve my highest good now.

I heal the original decisions that any parts of me made when growing up, that I hate housework or that housework is something that I have to be forced to do.

I heal any beliefs that any parts of me have, that I have no control when it comes to creating or maintaining a clean and organized home.

I now heal, transform and release any and all emotion that any parts of me are holding onto in connection with doing housework, that doesn’t serve my highest good now.

I now heal, transform and release any and all identities that any parts of me have taken on, as being someone who hates housework.

I let all the different parts of me know, deeply and completely, that whether I do - or don’t do - housework is now entirely up to me.

I now create and install new ways of finding joy and freedom in getting done all of the household tasks that I need or want to do.

Add in any additional healing statements that you feel you would most benefit from, and most apply to your own individual situation.  I find that work with parts of self has been especially beneficial for me in resolving this issue (for more information please see Discover Zensight:  Easy Energy Healing & Personal Transformation).

Lately, I have been waking up in the morning and cleaning and actually feeling happy doing so.  The satisfaction, for the first time in my life, is coming not just from the results but even from the process.

I would never have believed that this could be possible.  I also know that, if I can do this, anyone can.

I am working my way through my house a bit at a time, targeting each room - and even a portion of each room - each day and within a week the transformation is quite dramatic.   Not only are the basics done but all of the “extras” that I would only rarely get to before - clearing off cobwebs, washing down baseboards, clearing out unwanted clutter, washing walls, etc… - are also getting done, a bit at a time, and with a feeling of joy and freedom in my heart because for the first time I can actually do these things without it feeling like drudgery.

(…)

http://blog.zensightprocess.com/

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Those who work from home and those who own their business will probably resonate with Mark Silver’s article on  discipline versus flow.

 I did, because I am one of them. There are times when procrastination kicks in, especially when the sun is shinning and we would much prefer to be digging in our garden (provided we have one) then answering emails, creating products or writing bills.

Doing business from our heart is what Mark is all about.  I quite enjoy his articles; they are in line with my vision of business, the one that appeals to my heart.

Discipline Versus Flow in Your Business

It’s Wednesday morning, and a stack of to-do’s in your business await you. You need to get on your marketing, you need to deal with the bookkeeping, and those pesky clients keep needing things from you.

And you don’t feel like doing any of it. Instead, you want to just read a book.

So, what do you do? Is it better to apply discipline and push through, or do you ‘go with the flow’ and go settle in with that book and a hot cuppa?

For clarity’s sake, I think I need to dig a little deeper into what we’re actually talking about.

What is ‘discipline’?

Well, the Oxford American Dictionary says, among other things, that discipline comes from the Latin root meaning “instruction, knowledge.” And, our modern meaning states “an activity or experience that provides mental or physical training.”

Think of the word ‘disciple.’ Broadly speaking, it’s an attempt to follow what’s true, through learning.

Okay, so what is ‘Flow.’

One definition of flow is to ‘circulate continuously within a particular system.’ When we say “go with the flow” we general mean: “accept the situation as is, rather than trying to alter or control it.”

The state of flow is often flung about as an ideal place to be in business. That you should feel an continuous feeling of ease and movement from one thing to the next.

That’s nothing to complain about. However, it does require a certain level of discernment.

Professional Wrestling: Novel and Tea versus the To-Do Army.

You’ve still got that bunch of stuff to do, and you still want to just flop out on the couch. And after reading a buncha word origins from the Latin you’re no closer to choosing. The couch feels snuggly, but a cop-out, and the tasks feel oppressive.

Sounds like it’s time for a little discipline.

The Sufi Teaching on Discipline

The spiritual path is hard work. It just is. But, not in the way you might think.

The hard work comes in being vigilant about the ego. The ego is crafty sucker, always trying to get control, impersonating God, and a variety of other slippery things.

Discipline is required, but not blind, unthinking discipline. It’s the discipline related to learning, to being a disciple. And this learning is about being able to discern between the voice of the ego and the voice of your heart.

Because, you see, there are no hard-and-fast-rules. The ego could be telling you to push through your to-do’s, and your heart could be guiding to relax with a novel and tea. Or vice-versa.

The outer circumstances will give you absolutely zero clues on which way to go. It’s unfortunate, but true.

And, the inner landscape can be a little tricky. As a client asked in the Opening the Money flow course: “Whenever I ask in my heart, I hear something like: ‘that’s a lesson for you.’ Is that really a message of the Divine?”

After I asked I few more questions, nope, it sure wasn’t. So how do you discern? And, you don’t have all day to do this- the minutes are ticking by alarmingly fast, and you still haven’t decided: tea or tasks?

Well, quick! Let’s take a look.

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When we are comming from the heart and not the mind the communication has a completly different quality. The reclusive founder of HeartMath, Doc Childre, opens his new website with Heart-Based Living, a paper showing how we can transform the earth by the awakening of heart-based intelligence.

Heart-basedliving.org - By Doc Childre

an excerpt

In the last few years, more people than ever - from different backgrounds and walks of life - are talking about the heart. More company mission statements make a point to mention the importance of the heart in leadership and customer care.

More speakers, articles and books, both spiritual and non-spiritual, are referring to the heart. Whether people mention speaking from the heart, listening to the heart, connecting with the heart, or following the heart, it is a clear sign that there is increased energetic awareness of the importance of the heart in all of life’s decisions.

This desire for more heart is a growing momentum, one that people seem to be drawn to by the nudge of their own intuition or conscience. It’s being experienced by millions who are coming into more global awareness and feel an internal need for the deeper connection and nurturing of spirit that comes from heart-based interactions.

This interaction can be within a person’s own mind and heart or between people who are trying to build community to facilitate personal growth and planetary peace through cooperative interaction. To read more or download Heart-basedliving.org

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The iShift e-zine for conscious culture from the Institute for Noetic Sciences has chosen to write this month about the beautiful Top Ten Fundamentals for Changing the World derived from study of Gandhi. The list of the ten principles is here, but you can follow this link to a longer article with full explanation:

1. Change yourself

2. You are in control

3. Forgive and let it go

4. Without action, you aren’t going anywhere

5. Take care of this moment

6. Everyone is human

7. Persist

8. See the good in people and help them

9. Be congruent, be authentic, and be your true self

10. Continue to grow and evolve

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