Spreading the Word

Thank you to CrossFit Nickel City for hosting my Athletics and Energy Healing workshop.  To interact with talented coaches and fellow athletes while exploring pain in the mental/emotional dimension was a pleasure.

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Whaddya Expect?

I'm good at a few things:  Baking scones, taking tests, packing for trips.  I find success in those activities without much effort, and I have come to expect good results with each attempt.  Running, however, does not have an "easy" button for me.  I am decent at it, but I have to work really, really hard not to suck.  If nothing else, for my training efforts this winter I'm going to have the strongest ankle muscles in running history (doesn't that just scream sexy?). 

When I was running Wednesday evening, my lower legs (for what felt like the 100th time) were straining to trod over the still uneven street and sidewalk surfaces that through the preceding weeks had been doused in snow and scraped, shoveled, semi-salted, and otherwise razed to create a potentially dangerous sort of race track.  In instances of physical challenge such as this, my inclination had usually been to fixate on the pain, worry about possible injury, and complain and fret until my next run when the pain would return, migrate, or lay dormant, waiting to strike (ahem, give me an excuse to bonk) during a race.  All this led to constant worry about any activity becoming the culprit of my next injury.  I had not only accepted running in pain (something always hurt when I exercised), but I came to expect it.  I had actually, without consciously trying, lowered my expectations to meet my injuries.  I had let the injuries become part of who I was, and they shaped my running identity.  I felt like I just wasn't put together for running, like I was a runner in a non-runner's body.  But I kept running. 

Back to Wednesday night:  The muscles around and above my ankles were burning with the effort of propelling my lower body over footprints, ice chunks, and garbage, but when my brain started down its old path of "this is bad"-ness, I got indignant and stopped in my tracks.  It was there, on Niagara Street, that I decided enough was enough:  I gave my bossy brain an energetic bitch-slap.  This winter running was going to STRENGTHEN my legs, CONDITION my heart and lungs and PROPEL my fitness to a new level.  No more hurting, no more fretting, and no more feeling sorry for myself, like a misfit toy, over how I was put together (and of course, I couldn't help but clear my chakras, too).

I had kept running through the pain because of what running could give me - stress release, calorie burning, a feeling of accomplishment, but I wasn't giving to the running.  I'm not talking training intensity or fidelity, I mean attitude and appreciation.  I needed to expect more from myself, rather than relying on running to provide me with an escape and a size 2 butt.  To put a spin on JFK's words:  Ask not what your running (or teaching/parenting/basket weaving) can do for you, really examine what you can do to improve your efforts holistically.  We can raise our own vibrational frequencies to meet our high expectations, and then we will feel more accomplished and be prone to continuing the cycle.  For me it was like stepping out of a snow bank and onto a sunny boardwalk.  And, it inspired me to write this post. Expect more like this one out of me - I do.

 

Well Vibe, in a Nutshell

For those of you who appreciate brevity, here is what Well Vibrations offers in a nutshell.  I will paste segments of this post into my info pages as well. 

Total Body Analysis (TBA) focuses on supporting our anatomy and physiology while detoxifying Disease Causing Agents such as chemicals, heavy metals, bacteria, emotional stress, food allergies, and genetic mutations.  The remedies initiate and facilitate physical, psychological, and emotional healing. 

Energy Coaching sessions aim to bring our energetic vibrational frequencies to their highest (healthiest) point through eliminating limiting subconscious beliefs trapped in our chakras (energy centers).  My technique is based on Dr. David R. Hawkins' research in his book Power Vs. Force.  Click here for a cool chart:  http://www.dharanipitaka.net/2011/2008/teachings/DavidHawkins-PowerVsForce.pdf   This is not a talk therapy session and the client does not need to divulge personal information or share painful emotional memories.  Energy Coaching facilitates setting achievable goals (in running and in life) and taking steps toward realizing our greatest potential.  In addition, we can support injured tissue to allow healing while continuing to run happily! 

These two approaches work harmoniously and together provide the most complete (and speedy) path to eliminating the issues that hold us back as athletes, professionals, partners, and parents.

Why Can't I?

Can't is a strong and overused word.  I've said and thought it a trillion times, but in only a handful of those instances has it been true:  I can't make it at 3:30 on Wednesday because I have to work, yes.  I can't start my own business because I don't have the time, clearly no.  

When I was wrestling with the notion of running my sixth marathon this spring, knowing the time and energy commitment, and my husband said, "Maybe you should wait and train over summer vacation.  You like to do a lot of other things on top of teaching and running," I snapped back:  "You like to do a lot, too!" (he is training for his eleventh marathon, swimming, teaching, and fathering).  His response resonated like a Medieval church bell:  "I can handle training and teaching; when I get tired, I don't get mad or take it out on other people."  

True, I haven't trained for a marathon during the school year since 2002, before children, and have avoided it since - until that conversation.  "Well why can't I, then?" was my retort, more a statement than a question in that moment.  Ever the husband, Mike either evaded or was alluded by the rhetorical nature of my reply and shot back:  "Yes, why CAN'T you?  You're the one making the remedies, doing all the energy healing stuff."  It was his emphasis on can't that struck me. 

I had been so focused on helping others to heal and release their energy blockages that I had overlooked practicing what I preach:  Pick a goal, right your chakras, dissolve your negative beliefs, detox your bod, and just DO it (Nike pun intended).  I had also, as usual, targeted problems preventing me from doing and having it all:  What if I get too tired?  What if my kids are cranky and I have to get them dinner before an evening run?  What if my butt gets vacuumed to the toilet seat at 5 am and I miss my 400 meter interval session?   I was living excuses in my mind instead of finding solutions.  I began to use my own protocol for clearing negative beliefs and chakral densities until I could clearly see what I needed to and COULD do:  Not only run the Buffalo Marathon on May 25 (along with Mike, although he will be running much more swiftly), but also start a blog about my busy spring adventure while declaring that I am trying to qualify for the Boston Marathon.  To put it all out there is very motivating (and a bit stressful), but I am excited to bring you www.runvibrations.blogspot.com. Best of all I can handle it, knowing that the doubts and excuses that may arise are simply manifestations of dark energy and can be conquered through the energetic healing mechanisms of the universe.  I have found the dragon slayer and uncovered the "can" in myself, and I bring it to the world for anyone who wants to shed the shroud of self doubt and step (or run) up to a better life.

Mindfulness Is Only the Half of It

This post is a follow up to my previous installment entitled New Year, So What?  In that post I discussed the value of choosing change and how Well Vibrations helps your body allow the transformation by identifying energy blockages and negative beliefs.  Today I am writing to stress the importance of clearing the energy in which lay our negative subconscious beliefs in order to enable change in our attitudes, health, and overall abilities to act positively.  Only then can we experience the follow through of positive change:  Our true selves reaching toward and achieving our goals and dreams.
I recently read Susan Albers' "Mindful Eating Pledge."  It caught my attention because of my own desire to think more about what, when, why, and how I am eating to facilitate nutritional balance and overall digestion and assimilation.
Albers advises (source):

1. Eat mindfully: I will be more aware of each bite.
2. Pace, not race: I will eat slowly and with intention.
3. When I eat, just eat: I will eat without distraction.
4. Calm without calories: I will find true comfort and soothing without food.
5. Eat less, nourish more: I will eat foods that nurture my body.

These recommendations make perfect sense; they are practical and each is simple enough to parse out and attempt to master systematically rather than simultaneously.  The only hitch is actually living them, day after day, bite after bite, and not worrying when we might give in to the next marshmallow craving or sweet potato chip binge.  That worry and temptation don't come from mental weakness or a desire to be unhealthy. They stem from inner, unconscious beliefs that we have assimilated over time from our families and schools, the media, and our own choices.  We don't and can't choose what negative energy our unconscious allows to form any belief, be it positive: "I am a fit and active individual" or negative:  "I will never enjoy exercise or healthy foods."
Those of us who have difficulty taking this pledge and following through on it (or any other positive life change) need to rid ourselves of the energetic blocks that are the root cause of our, in this case, inability to separate food from emotion and eat for the purpose of nourishing our bodies.
At Well Vibrations, I have created a protocol for clearing negative beliefs in the order of which our bodies and minds are ready so that positive changes occur with almost no effort from the client and results appear in all aspects of life.  Stop worrying and start achieving; it's all within you.