Healthy, Wealthy & Wise Gifts Giveaway Offers 675+ FREE Health and Wellness Related Products, Services & Memberships

I wanted to let you know today about a Health and Wellness site that will allow you to download 100’s of self help gifts. And the best part is that it is absolutely free.

If you’ve had enough of plodding along year after year and you want to improve yourself and your health to make this your BEST ever year, then you will want to see what is available that can help you do just that.

Healthy, Wealthy & Wise Gifts will be open only for a VERY LIMITED TIME from June 9th to June 30th, 2011. When you go there you’ll find a multitude of products – all free – provided by Health, Fitness, Wellness and Marketing experts from all over the world. Here is just a small sample of what you will find:

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The organizers of the event are Stephanie Mulac, Carolyn Hansen and Dr. Joe Rubino.
Stephanie started this style of event in 2006. It’s in the form of a “Giveaway” which is sort of like a giant electronic trade fair where 100’s of experts offer their products free to the public.

Because it has become so popular, this year Stephanie has enlisted the services of Carolyn Hansen, renowned fitness professional, and Self Exteem Expert, Dr. Joe Rubino.

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Working with Shadow One Step at a Time

The purpose of working with your shadow is to discover what you have buried in your life that is preventing you from being your most authentic and creative self living your soul's purpose. Empower your waking life and find the gold within the shadow that leads to integration and transformation with these simple steps. Living without excavating your shadow is the equivalent of sleep walking through your life.



The shadow qualities peeking out can be:

Dissatisfaction; always feeling like something is missing
Unfulfilled dreams
Depression
Negative self talk
Envy/jealousy
Anxiety
Perfectionism
Obsessive behaviors

If any of the above resonates with you the following steps can help you on your discovery journey to finding the gold within your shadow.

1. Keep a notebook with you at all times and write down any negative thoughts, and the situations that they are based around, for a week. At the end of the week take a look at any patterns that you can see. Are you putting yourself down every time you even think of doing something new or different? Are there things you are talking yourself out of doing?

2. Who does it sound like from your past? Someone, maybe many, from your past has told you (and usually with the best of intentions) the words that you have taken on as your truth or belief. Take each person that comes up and say out loud with empowering conviction, "That is not my truth or belief. I forgive you for (insert their truth or belief here), I forgive myself for believing that was my truth and/or belief and I let go of it now. My truth is I am (create a positive statement for your truth and/or belief to replace it)."

3. Choose a few of your favorite music pieces, dance and move out of your body the old truth and beliefs. Then dance in your new truth and belief. Writing in your journal after you dance can help you discover further insights.

4. Now take a look at the situations that the original negative thoughts were around. Such as wanting to do something creative, or a different career choice, or wanting to live somewhere else. Pick one and journal a day in the life as though you were doing it now. Then choose another and write a day in the life. Do at least three of them. As you are writing, do you find yourself feeling excited or passionate about what your day would look like?

5. Choose the one that excites you the most and make a list of steps, from small to large, that you can take to move in the direction of your new choices.

6. The final step is gratitude. It is important that you feel gratitude for all the blessings in your life. Even if it is hard to see them at the moment there is always something to be grateful for. Thank your higher power/divine spirit/god/goddess for all that you have.

You can do these steps any time you feel the shadow qualities returning. There may be occasions that you can skip a step or two and go right to what you really need in the moment. Only you know what is best for you. If you don't know then it is time to find out.

As seen in my original article Excavating Your Shadow One Step at a Time - Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/6084558

Working With Shadow

Many people hear the term Shadow and either don't understand or think it is something negative that they just don't want to deal with.

Yes there are things hidden within the Shadow that can be scary, but... and this is a really big but, how scary is your life right now because you don't want to face what is in the Shadow? How often do you feel derailed because something that you have stuffed inside of you has pushed you off center? What in your life would you love to be doing but you keep allowing your inner shadow to keep you from doing it?

Alright, let's take some of the scary out of it.  Sit down and make a list of anything and everything you are avoiding in your life whether you think it is good or bad. Don't worry no one is going to see this list.

Now were you really honest?  Get really honest with yourself and write it all down.

Take a look at the list and allow yourself a few long deep breaths. On a different piece of paper make a list of what you are willing to work on in the near future.

Remember to keep breathing. We tend to hold our breath when we are stressed.

Pick one item on the list that you are willing to look at deeply, and write everything down that you feel about it. I can hear you groaning now. Yes how you feel about it.

Pick a piece of music that embodies that feeling. Choose a piece of music that is a little up beat and the last one should be a lot of fun. 

If possible put all the music on so that it will play one right after another but if you have to physically change it, it is alright.

Put the feeling music on first and allow yourself to move and feel to the music.  Make sure you have tissue near by in case you need it.  When you are finished immediately begin moving to the next song, allowing the feelings to slowly melt away. With the last song, really let loose and allow yourself to rejoice in yourself, in your day, in your life.

Take the first and last piece of paper and burn it safely. The second paper keep for yourself and choose one new item a day or a week and go through the steps above from writing everything about it and then dancing it out.  Yes I know this isn't going to change everything but it will help you shift the energy of it to allow you to do what is needed to clear it from your life.

What do you think of using this simple tool to help you work with shadow?  I would love to hear about your experience, either as a comment below or send me an email.

Blessings,

Morgan Dragonwillow

My Creative Journey

 

As a young child of about eight years old I told my father I wanted to write a book.  He told me, “Well that takes a really long time.”  In a voice that sounded like he didn’t believe I had what it took to do something that would take a long time. It became a common theme in my life.  Something that I would hear time and again to the point that if something didn’t have immediate results I didn’t even try.

I thought I wasn’t creative.  I loved art and reading but didn’t think I had what it took to be an artist or writer. How I yearned to be both.  I thought about writing all the time but every time I sat in front of the white page I would hear those old familiar voices telling me “I wasn’t good enough,”  “Who did I think I was,” and “Don’t you get bigger than your britches.”

I saw color everywhere I looked and thought about how it would look in a painting or photograph.  My heart ached at the thought that I wasn’t creative and wouldn’t be able to express the colors in a painting or picture.

My inner critic would ridicule my efforts, any time I sat down to write or draw, telling me that it was horrible writing or drawing, that I might as well give up since I was never going to be good enough.

Acceptable Creativity

My mother taught me to crochet when I was about ten years old.  This seemed to be an acceptable creative outlet as long as I didn’t try to do any really big projects.  I also cooked my first meal at that age. It was a measure of worth in my family to be a woman that has good cooking skills. Another acceptable creative outlet though I didn’t realize until I was much older that it was creative. 

Somehow I got it into my mind that cooking and crocheting weren’t hard so I could do them.  It wasn’t risky. It wasn’t a challenge.  By the time I was in my late twenties I was crocheting blankets for everyone I knew.  I had discovered how to crochet with a large hook that made it faster to create them.   I stuck with traditional colors and cheap yarns. Nothing fancy, nothing daring.

Writing Exploration

I began writing in a journal in my late teens, mostly writing poetry that I told myself wasn’t very good.  For years you can look through my journals and see my dreams of someday writing, of fussing at myself for not being strong enough to write.

In my early thirties I began writing seriously.  I was writing around eight to ten pages a day.  I had finally learned how to type and the words were flowing out of me.  I thought to myself that I would finish this book in no time if I kept this up. 

Many life changes happened shortly after that.  I came out to myself and to my family.  I became like a teenager all over again.  I didn’t know the rules of dating.  I explored for about a year until getting into a serious long term relationship.

I couldn’t find the flow of my writing again.  It was probably because I was no longer sure of who I was or what I wanted with life.  More lamenting in my journals about not writing, wishing I could write, why am I not writing and going long periods of not writing in my journal.

Every time I would get serious about writing again it would sound preachy or I would get in the flow for about one hundred pages then I would let something get in the way. 

Becoming More Courageous

Around forty-three years old things began to slowly change.  I began journaling in a more healing way. I began doodling in my journal as well as writing.  I was writing and drawing for me and I liked it. I was enjoying it for myself. It didn’t matter if other people liked it; it was for me and my healing.

My Shadow

I am now almost forty-seven and at the beginning of this year many things came together for me and shifted for the better.

I had been working with my shadow for a couple of years but I discovered within my Shamanic Astrology chart that my life really was all about shadow.  Much of me had been shoved inside for me to take out, rediscover, clear, and integrate at later times.  I discovered that it was necessary for me to walk with shadow on a daily basis for me to have a true understanding of shadow and how to help others with it. 

When I really understood that, my creativity jumped through the roof; I literally had the doors blown off the hinges to my creativity and I was creating all the time.  So much was coming through me that I would lay in bed feeling like I was vibrating, unable to sleep until I would just get up and continue creating.  I had found my purpose.  I found what was necessary for my creativity.  I found myself and my direct connection to the Divine and my Muse.

This is why I am here. This is why it took me so long to find my way.  I had to really understand what it meant to walk with shadow and feel what it was like to be stuck in the underworld before my path became clear.

I enjoy my days and nights of creating.  I did have to finally ask my guides to give me a little break because I wasn’t sleeping much and I could feel my body breaking down.  I told them if they wanted me to be able to write and create all that they wanted me to write and create then I needed to be able to have a good night’s sleep.

Now I am on a steadier stream of creativity that I can shut off when I need to. This doesn’t mean that everything in my life is suddenly glorious.  It just means that I feel differently now.  As long as I remember to connect in, create what wants to come through, then it doesn’t matter as much what is going on around me.  I am living my purpose and it feels wonderful.

I am now living courageously bold and juicy. I love to help others do the same.

Now it is your turn. What is your creative story?  What have you always wanted to create but stopped yourself from creating? If you are creative how did you find a way around your creative blocks to create what you felt compelled to create?

Blessings on Your Creative Journey,

Morgan Dragonwillow

Transforming Your Life With Creativity

The surprising benefit to being creative is how meditative it can be.  You might think you can't meditate but if you are able to get out of your own way while being creative you will notice your breathing deepens, your pulse slows down, and your whole body relaxes. 

Using creativity as a meditative practice on a daily basis can transform your life.

Creativity Ideas that are particularly relaxing

• Beading
• Crocheting
• Drawing
• Painting

Remember the key is to get out of your own way while you are creating and not worrying about it being perfect.  It is meant to be fun and enjoyable.  As long as you enjoy what you are creating it can be a transformational process. 

The more you use this creativity as a means to relax the more you will notice your anxiety becoming less and less when you are doing other activities. The easier you will find it is to take risks that are necessary to reach your goals.

Create for you and discover the dance of life more fun!