Clouds

I am up north this weekend at my country home with my boyfriend. In the afternoon I decided to go out to the dock, lie down on my back and look up at the clouds. I realized that I have never 'really' looked at clouds.

I always thought that clouds move in puffs or bunches across the sky. When I looked today, it was like cotton candy being pulled apart or cotton padding that was being pulled and torn. It was awesome. Something so simple, when I paid attention was awe inspiring and truly fulfilling.

The more I slow down and be in the moment, the more I enjoy and feel a sense of calm and inner peace!

Tai Chi and Inner Peace

Yesterday I attended the Richmond Hill Chinese Community Church Family Event. My Tai Chi instructor invited me to participate in the many activities and festivities. Besides the many foods and games available at no cost, my favorite activity was the Line Dancing Activity and the Tai Chi/Chi Kung.

I am a novice at Tai Chi. I started participating and learning about it at my gym about 3 months ago. In the '48 forms' there is a specific move that really grounds me. You watch your hand move from one side of your body, across your body to the other side and then watch the other hand move in the same pattern. You do this 4 times. In the space of the 10 seconds it takes to perform those moves, I am totally present. I am focussed, relaxed, at peace and calm. Everytime I perform those moves, I feel a sense of Inner Peace.

Ekhart Tolle and Oprah

Ekhart, in his new book, The New Earth, talks about the benefit of not labeling items. He says that being open minded about people and things that you see allow you to be curious and to truly explore it without reverting to beliefs you have from the past.

In listening to Sonia Ricotti's interview of Denise Marek on 'Inner Peace and Happiness", Sonia talks about how being in nature gives her a sense of inner peace.

This week, when a client of mine came to the office to see me, she complained of feeling very high anxiety and couldn't find a way to reduce the level of anxiety. Spontaneously, I decided to take her outside. At first we looked at an evergreen bush and I asked to tell me what she sees. Then I asked her to notice the warmth of the sun on her back and the feel of the wind on her face. Next, I decided to go to a flower shop next door and spent about 2 minutes asking her to describe the beauty of the flowers, white on top, verigated purple on the back, yellow centres with brown dots.

This excercise took less than 10 minutes and my client reported her anxiety diminished by 50% and now at a manageable level. Her anxiety put her in a state of resistance - I shouldn't be here, and trying to get to somplace else - in the future. Simply being in nature, allowed her to be in the present moment and allowed her to shift her focus and her anxiety.

Creating Inner Peace

On a recent teleseminar, I spoke about Inner Peace. There are many aspects to creating and maintaing Inner Peace. However, if you are going to only focus on one characteristic, I would suggest that you look at resistance. Resistance is being in the mindset of:

- 'Something is wrong here' or
- 'something shouldn't be this way'.

This mindset undermines Inner Peace and creates stress, frustration, anger and disappointment. The problem with this mindset is that if we wait till all our circumstances line up so that we can have Inner Peace, we are at the mercy of our circumstances - which honestly never line up perfectly the way we imagine we want it to be.

So, if you are looking for 'Inner Peace in the face of your circumstances', you are going to want to become aware of all the places you resist. Here I have listed the four forms of resistance and an example of each:

1) Gossip
i) "Did you hear what she said?"
2) Complaints
i) "I cant' believe it's snowing again!"
3) Forcing an outcome
i) Using the cold shoulder to force someone to apologize to you
4) Wishing that something would change
i) Your spouse's clothes on the floor

Spend a few minutes each day and begin to list all the places you resist. Once you begin to notice these areas, then you can begin to change them.

Finding Inner Peace!

Many of my clients complain about not enjoying their life. They do what they are supposed to. They fulfill their obligations in their jobs, with their spouse, their parents, their children and their friends. Once they have completed that, they have no energy left to fulfill themselves.

What if one of your obligations while on this earth is to enjoy yourself? How would you be doing things differently?

Your mission, if you wish to accept it, is to find peace and joy every single day. This isn’t an everyday mission where you ‘do’ things, to get your closer to the goal. This mission is a special mission where you are going to ‘notice’ experiences to get closer to your goal. Begin by noticing:

**What you did today that made you laugh!
**What you did today that had you experience happiness and joy!
**The experiences that gave you pleasure!
**What you are grateful for!

You might even want to go to www.oprah.com and sign up for her seminar on Ekhart Tolle's Book the New Earth and learn through his guidance how to let go of all that creates suffering in your life and find your Inner Peace!

Send me a comment about what you noticed and learned. Can’t wait to hear from you.

Attention Women:

The ‘Living a Life of Passion Teleseminar Event’ starts in less than a week!

What: Living a Life of Passion – 5 Experts share their Secrets for Inner Peace & being Guilt-Free

When: 5 days, beginning March 3rd, 1 p.m. Eastern Time
Who: Women who are tired of just doing what they are supposed to and want to create life of Joy and Peace

What will you learn:

Conscious Choices for Change!
How to get rid of Guilt & Make Room For Passion in a S.E.C.!
Passionate Commitment!
Leverage Your Time, Save Your Sanity!
Journey to Inner Peace

Now there’s an option. If you want to sit in on the calls, you can attend for free, but I still recommend that you invest in the recordings of the 5 events and the $194 in bonuses. So go ahead, and reserve your seat to learn how to create more love, more passion and greater inner peace while having more time off to do the things you love!
If you want the free option click the link below and enter your VIP discount code ‘VIP307’. Use it now and get a 100% scholarship courtesy of me Iris.

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- a replay for 24 hours after each call
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If you want all the goodies, click the link below. To get over 50% off, put in your discount code ‘0317’ in the discount box. That will give you:
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I also wanted to give you an opportunity to find out what you will learn in the “Passionate Commitment” so I’ve included a clip for you here.

http://www.audioacrobat.com/play/WhdxK9ts
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Here’s a sneak preview of Jennifer Britton’s teleseminar “Leverage Your Time, Save you Sanity” and what you can expect to learn from her event! To listen, click here http://www.audioacrobat.com/play/WRGStsNs

Remember, the event starts this Monday so register today.

Looking forward to having you on the call!
Iris

Speaking for Women

Last week I spoke to a group of professional women on keeping balance in their lives. It was a breakfast meeting, so in fact it was only a mini-seminar. I was able to share the foundation of what it means to be in balance and gave the participants one of the principles for both creating and maintaining balance. What I found as I was speaking, is that I really enjoy being up front and sharing my knowledge with women. The seminar was video taped and I loved what I saw on video. This is and will be a very important piece to how I contribute to people and transform their way of thinking; to find more balance and inner peace in their lives.