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October 2005In this Issue: |
The launch of Be the Change last month was a wonderful success. 457 people joined the community and I received over 50+ emails sharing thoughts, suggestions and insights. Thank you! The BCBs were a particular favorite. I use the audio-guided body-centered breaks daily. I choose to say to myself, hey, wait a minute! I’m in charge of my time. I choose how I use it. I get to choose whether my next action comes from fear or love. I get to choose to actually inhabit my body. I recently became involved in the movement called Take Back Your Time. If you’d like to see what it’s about go to http://www.simpleliving.net/timeday/ And do please let family members, friends, colleagues know about the 24/7 access to BCBs online and pass Be the Change on to anyone you feel might benefit from its content. Warmly, Sean Casey Leclaire If you'd like to share this issue with a friend, they can view the newsletter online at http://www.seanleclaire.com/ezine/. If you'd prefer not to receive future issues of Be The Change, click the Unsubscribe link at the bottom of this message. WHYNINGWe all whine in different ways. From outright negative drooling, to diatribes and delusional rants, through living under the dark clouds of isolation and “but you don’t understand, I’m unique, life just doesn’t work for me” to simply be unwilling to accept current circumstances in our life. That’s a favorite form of negativity for me. I get frightened and I start to think I’m special, unique, different and I allow my mind’s fantasies to take over, and go for a romp through the fields of the grass is always greener, when life does not give me what I want when I want it. Of course, there’s simply whyning. Always asking myself why, why why… why this, why that, you know, whyning. I absolutely encourage asking why, to determine personal motivation behind our choices and actions, but endless questioning about why things happened in the past or why they are happening now, well, whyning seems to be a bottomless pit. Abort the dive! I recently had the privilege of being hosted at a coaching client’s home and leading a weekend workshop called “Living Life on Purpose” in her lovely city. When we weren’t in the workshop my client and her partner and I enjoyed many fine home-cooked meals and stimulating conversation. The client’s partner was a brilliant and talented individual, who seemed incapable of stringing together two sentences without sarcasm or negative comment. I decided to challenge the man over tea and dessert on our last evening together. “Would you be open to an observation I have made about you, sir?” “Yes. But please be gentle!” “I am curious, have you ever noticed that almost everything you say is negative?” “What?” “Almost everything you say is negative.” “Well! Wit and sarcasm… a sign of intelligence.” He adjusted his glasses. “Would you be open to trying something,” I asked. “Why not?” “I wonder if you could attempt to make no more than seven negative or sarcastic comments a day. For one month, just seven a day. No more.” I challenged the man. “I’d be mute by breakfast.” “Just try it, notice what you observe about yourself. What can you lose? Try it!” He smiled and reluctantly agreed after more conversation and a few well-placed sarcastic jabs. We shook hands. My hostess thanked me profusely as she drove me to the airport after dinner. I can tell you that the man kept his commitment to the life-affirming practice I challenged him with, and because of his new awareness he has changed for the positive. In launching Be the Change I had challenged myself to undertake any pertinent challenge that I gave to my clients (or their spouses). I’m a somewhat brooding, heart-scorched, drama–loving, dark-night, triple-scorpio-moon artistic type, so negativity is pertinent to me. The life-affirming practice… Speak seven or less negative/sarcastic comments a day for one month. According to my clients, I’m a useful coach but after observing and engaging myself in the challenge that I gave to my client’s husband, Wow! I need to cultivate a lighter perspective. So, I know two guys who are reducing their particular form of whyning. Where you at?BODY-CENTERED BREAKS (BCBs)The Body-Centered Break is a body-focused inquiry and awareness meditation lasting only two minutes and done whenever and wherever you are in your day. Benefits as described by coaching clients include: calmness of mind, overall sense of well-being, sharpened mental focus, reduced anxiety, increased ability of autonomous nervous system to recover rapidly from stress, and an increased capacity for learning. CLICK here for an audio-guided BCB at any time you feel the need to slow down and center into yourself. Enjoy the Benefits NOW! HeadRest Radiate QuietMind SteamValve SHARED WISDOM “Ya, ya spirituality, awareness and all that, look Sean, sometimes you just got to snowplow through!” “Everything changes: Except the things I want to change now and the things I don’t want to change now.” POEM If I stopped for a year Sean Casey Leclaire INQUIRYThe eye goes blind when it only wants to see why. (Why is that?) WONDERINGHow does God dwell in me as me?EVENTS AND WORKSHOPS Living Life on Purpose* *This is an ideal workshop for anyone discerning an important choice/direction in their life. Four spots remaining! Living Life on Purpose Facing Dragons, Finding Our Hearts The Journey Home |
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