For all you stress bunnies out there – try saying this to yourself at those crucial moments on a daily basis – it takes just 10 seconds, so any excuses about not having enough time just don’t wash…

Ten Zen Seconds by Eric Maisel

• I am completely stopping

• I expect nothing

• I am doing my work

• I trust my resources

• I feel supported

• I embrace this moment

• I am free of the past

• I make my meaning

• I am open to joy

Did you know that the average life expectancy for your children is approximately 10 years shorter than your own? Here, in this passionately delivered TED talk, Jamie Oliver shares his perspective on what’s happening right here, right now all over the Western world – parents, schools, society – we are feeding children with food that ultimately will damage their bodies and affect their health. And it’s happening all over.

Two years ago, my cousin died – her body just couldn’t take any more. They had to get special equipment in to lift her body out of her home into the hearse to take her to the funeral home. When she was buried, she took up two plots rather than one. She was 42.

If you’ve listened to my interview with Sada Nam Kaur, you’ll have heard her mention a powerful meditation called Kirtan Kriya. Sada Nam ‘prescribes’ this for many of her Kundalini students, as it works on many blocks and common problems. And unlike many meditations, it doesn’t even demand that you sit still and empty you thoughts – you really have no choice, because when you start you have so much to concentrate on and once you know how to do it, you get straight into the repetition and lost in the meditation anyhow… Here’s a fantastic video showing you how (I love this video!!).

Be able to say “I am who I am… and that is that!”

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Sada Nam Kaur began coaching people on their personal development long before coaching became a recognised profession. Trained as a management consultant in the banking world, she adapted what she was teaching in business and applied the same principles to help people improve their own lives. “When we begin to know who we are, we begin to take steps in our authentic path, then we blossom – and that gives me huge joy”.

My post yesterday, where I talked about Shadow Artists was, of course, only one version of ‘my story’ – a story of struggle and what was missing. The way we tell our personal stories – to others and to ourselves – has a great impact on how we go forward in our lives; whether that story is empowering or whether it keeps us stuck in an endless loop, doomed to repeat the same mistakes over and over.

“This is not just my work – this is the work of all women on the planet at the moment – to go out and take the essence of the feminine out there and share it with others ”

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“Spend time envisioning your future – you don’t have to know what’s happening in your future – just imagine… a future moment where you’re doing something that you love and you set it up as a surprise… and just experience and discover what you’re doing”

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Ow! everything aches!! Today I officially started my 31 Day Challenge to lose that not so little bulge round my middle that I’ve been putting up with for far, far too long.

Why now?…  Well, why not now?!   I’ve been hiding behind words up till now…

Time to come out into the daylight… The shift happened for me, mentally and emotionally, several weeks ago. I was Taming My Dragons, as one does on a Sunday afternoon in leafy Hampstead, (fantastic course!), when a single sentence hit me like a brick and I had one of those ‘aha!’ moments.

“Going on a journey like this isn’t done in a vacuum – there are so many people who had been so incredibly supportive who had believed in me when I didn’t believe in myself…”

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Jennifer Lee uses creative and artistic techniques combined with coaching to help people get out of their normal left brain modes of thinking and move towards a clearer vision of a more authentic way of being. ‘I help them awaken their inner muse – that creative, intuitive part of them that we sometimes lose touch with in our day-to-day lives’.

“…we’re always at a new edge, there’s always that new frontier that we’re exploring and that comes with a certain level of tension, it comes with a certain level of anxiety at times and doubt at times, and that’s a good thing… celebrate the challenges rather than think they shouldn’t be there.”

It’s day 27 of the Prosperity Experiment and I just couldn’t help it spilling over into this blog . The exercise today is to let yourself free on a Rampage of Appreciation. Just let it all out – all the things you’re grateful for, all that you love, everything that gives you joy or make you feel bliss…. HAVE FUN with it!!! Enjoy. Once you get going, who knows if you’ll be able to stop… Here’s a wonderful example in motion of such a Rampage:

Today is the last day of the Virtual Zen Retreat with wonderful Mary Jaksch and her team – thank-you so much Mary.

And I can’t help but want to share this wonderful and inspiring video from Brother David Steindl-Rast that Mary shared earlier today – pass it forward… and help make a few more people a few degrees happier today!