30 Things to Start Doing for Yourself

Posted on December 31, 2011 by Suzanne Schevene

No worries – you don’t have to start doing all 30 this week. Or ever. And I promise you there is no quiz next month to see how you do. But be forewarned – it may have the snowball effect on you – engage one or two and you just might find yourself leaning into these ideas more and more as you feel lighter and brighter as the days go on. Open to the possibilities. Enjoy!

This is a guest post by Marc at http://www.marcandangel.com. Here it is, a positive ‘to-do’ list for the upcoming year – 30 things to start doing for yourself:

Start spending time with the right people. – These are the people you enjoy, who love and appreciate you, and who encourage you to improve in healthy and exciting ways. They are the ones who make you feel more alive, and not only embrace who you are now, but also embrace and embody who you want to be, unconditionally.
Start facing your problems head on. – It isn’t your problems that define you, but how you react to them and recover from them. Problems will not disappear unless you take action. Do what you can, when you can, and acknowledge what you’ve done. It’s all about taking baby steps in the right direction, inch by inch. These inches count, they add up to yards and miles in the long run.
Start being honest with yourself about everything. – Be honest about what’s right, as well as what needs to be changed. Be honest about what you want to achieve and who you want to become. Be honest with every aspect of your life, always. Because you are the one person you can forever count on. Search your soul, for the truth, so that you truly know who you are. Once you do, you’ll have a better understanding of where you are now and how you got here, and you’ll be better equipped to identify where you want to go and how to get there. Read The Road Less Traveled.
Start making your own happiness a priority. – Your needs matter. If you don’t value yourself, look out for yourself, and stick up for yourself, you’re sabotaging yourself. Remember, it IS possible to take care of your own needs while simultaneously caring for those around you. And once your needs are met, you will likely be far more capable of helping those who need you most.
Start being yourself, genuinely and proudly. – Trying to be anyone else is a waste of the person you are. Be yourself. Embrace that individual inside you that has ideas, strengths and beauty like no one else. Be the person you know yourself to be – the best version of you – on your terms. Above all, be true to YOU, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it. Continue reading →

Internal Landscapes

Posted on November 16, 2011 by Suzanne Schevene

The first snowfall of the season has begun. As I went for my ‘first snowfall of the season walk’ I felt myself appreciating this gateway to the winter season and the inner reflections that often accompany it.

Consider this: Your experience of life is created 80% internally and 20% externally. The way you interpret and respond to what happens in life is how you are creating your life experience.

Do you often feel like a victim – powerless to change the external world, angry at others or life for what is happening to you, resentful that others seem to thrive while you just survive? There isn’t anyone that is coming to save you from this.

Changing your life is an inside job. It begins with you and can ONLY be done by you (that doesn’t mean doing it alone, but it does mean taking responsibility for your internal environment and development and getting the help you need). What kind of a world do you want to live in, to experience, to contribute to and to leave for future generations?

Let us build an empowered culture where possibility is a given and deeper levels of care, connection, creativity and well-being are the norm. I’m in!!!

Enjoy your day.

Boost-a-licious Liquids

Posted on November 5, 2011 by Suzanne Schevene

I want to share these favorite recipes for the oh-so-advertised cold and flu season. Be well! Live life! And, of course, Find Your Passion!

Steamin’ Mama’s Lemonade

I’ve been drinking this for years and just recently came across an actual recipe for it in the book, Healing Tonics by Jeanine Pollack. They state “this is a simple warming and antiseptic drink that is both preventive and remedial for any upper respiratory congestion (coughs, colds, fly, bronchitis and so forth).” It tastes like lemonade, with a kick. Yummy!

Juice of 1 fresh lemon

2 c boiled water

1-2 TBSP honey or maple syrup

1/8-1/4 tsp Cayenne pepper

Stir the fresh lemon juice into the hot water. Add the honey or maple syrup and the cayenne pepper and stir well.

To use: Drink 1-2 cups as needed at the first sign of chills, sore throat or cough. Sip slowly, and be prepared to “feel the heat”! Can be drunk as often as needed; generally, 2-3 times per day if you’re feeling sick or a few times per week as a tonic.

Ginger Tea Continue reading →

New Releases!

Posted on April 4, 2011 by Suzanne Schevene

Generating Joy: Release the Struggle, Embrace the Mystery

is now available through Amazon! You’re here to give your best – where shall you begin? Whether you read this book cover to cover or in a random fashion, you will find tools, questions, resources and musings to help you:

• Awaken Within – Move beyond the pain, the confusion and the stuck places in your life towards knowing yourself better; your needs and desires, your dreams and intentions. Know thyself.

• Generate Connection – First with self, then with life for you must connect within to weather the storms of life guiding you towards greater wholeness. Change is inevitable so take charge of the direction you want it to go. Connection, not separation, is the key.

• Find Your Unique Flavor of Brilliance – Tap into your individuality to uncover, recover and discover more of who you are. Learn to stand in your core strength and connect with life from THAT place.

• Blossom into the More That You Know You Are – Standing in your core strength with the wisdom of your experiences, skills and talents is a joyful and powerful place to create from.

Take a stand to be yourself and to share your unique gifts with the world! You are so much more than you can possible imagine. Take a deep breath, sink into the moment and open to the possibilities. Become your radiant, joyful, dynamic self!

“…I felt I was sampling a very superior box of chocolates, each chocolate offering a different but equally enjoyable taste sensation…” Justus Lewis PhD, EMF Balancing Technique Instructor

Spring Fling Aromatherapy Collection

Spring is the season of the soul that signals optimism and hope. Energetic spring cleaning!

Clear away and release what no longer serves you – physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually – and open yourself for spring inspiration, creativity and joy. New relationships, new perspectives, new beginnings.

This kit consists of 4 sprays contained in a chrome tote. 125 ml each

Purity to clear unproductive thinking and anxiety bringing in playfulness and purity of mind.
Joyfulness to help you out of the heaviness that life seems to bring so you can open your heart and mind to new levels of love and joy.
Inspiration let go of the feelings that keep you bound to a limiting environment and open to fresh perspectives.
Creativity to get past the “same old” and help you reignite your flame of personal expression.

They can also be purchased separately. You can learn more on this site or go to my aromatherapy site.

As always, let me know if you have any questions, comments, concerns or suggestions.

Towards Joy and Love

Posted on March 30, 2011 by Suzanne Schevene

This funny, insightful and important 20 minute talk is well worth your time. Have you realized that numbing is not a selective process – that if you numb down your pain you also numb down your joy, creating a cycle that flatlines your life? How depressing is that?!?!?! To break the cycle…well, I’ll let you watch and see. And in all honesty, I am so very grateful to be working with my passion, which is helping people to live a fully alive life. Enjoy!

How do you smell?

Posted on March 28, 2011 by Suzanne Schevene

Ok, I’m not really asking how YOU smell to others but how do you personally take in the scents of the world? The forests, the oceans, the restaurants, the earth, the chemicals, the garbage.

Some of scent-ual things you may want to completely inhale, absorb and infuse into every cell in your body. And others, well, you’d rather not breathe it in at all.

Can you do that? Yes, of course – to a degree anyway.

Scents that delight you and nourish your well-being are abundant. They are often found in or arise from nature – trees, flowers, water, earth, home baked bread … the list is endless. With these, slowly inhale through your nose deeply filling your belly then your chest. Feel the nurturing life force enter your system and feel, sense, think about, imagine or intend for the energy of that scent-ual experience to fill your whole being and expand out beyond your physical body into your energy fields all around you. And exhale gratitude for the joy of being alive and the ability to enjoy this luscious experience. Do this a few more times deepening and slowing the process, allowing yourself to bask in the juiciness of this sensory experience.

And then there are those other scents; Continue reading →

The 36 Jin Shin Breaths

Posted on March 26, 2011 by Suzanne Schevene

The simplest and most important self help tool we have is our breath: the exhale and the inhale.

When we exhale consciously and deeply, we release tension and stress. When we inhale naturally, we receive an abundance of life energy. This life energy connects our body, mind, and spirit.

Simply and consciously exhale while dropping your shoulders as if they were touching your feet. The smile comes naturally as you release and gently welcome the inhalation.

Each day use this formula to exhale consciously and inhale naturally 36 breaths. You can do this all at once or you can do 9 complete exhales and inhales four times per day. Use your breath!

Full to Overflowing or an Empty Barrel of Apples?

Posted on December 30, 2010 by Suzanne Schevene

Which are you? Are you able to maintain your fullness and presence with yourself and others? Or are you feeling … you know, the other one?

As we come to realize that an empty barrel has no more apples to give, hopefully we also come to understand the real necessity for self care.

There are many ways to do this and you probably have your favorites. What is important is that you remember to keep yourself full to overflowing, so that you can offer the best that you have to give.

Suzanne Scurlock-Durana, in her book Full Body Presence, offers these 5 principles for creating or maintaining your full body presence:

1. Trust the existence of nurturing life energy. Trusting that there is an unlimited source of nourishing, life-giving energy in the Universe allows you to recognize that you are loved and supported throughout your life, and allows you to live from trust rather than from fear.
Feel the presence of this life energy in your body. Feeling your internal connection to this life energy as a natural state of being opens your awareness to discover a sense of belonging, reclaim your inner wisdom, and experience vitality and joy.
Integrate this energy throughout your entire system. Integrating a felt sense of this nurturing energy throughout your entire body helps you establish a full personal container with strong, flexible, healthy boundaries.
Expand your perceptual lens. Expanding your perceptual lens enables you to see clearly, release expectations and limiting beliefs, and open fully to life.
Choose nourishing resources moment to moment. Choosing moment to moment to connect to healthy resources requires commitment, courage and kindness, and provides you with a steady foundation and a deep sense of inner peace.

Integrate ways into your daytime routines to keep yourself full. Not only will your life be that much better, but it will ripple out to others as well. And it will ripple out from them to others. And from them. And from them…

EMF Balancing – Phase XIII

Posted on July 29, 2010 by Suzanne Schevene

Phase XIII of the EMF Balancing Technique

The Way of the Evolutionary

Everyone is feeling the changes.

You may be experiencing this in a myriad of ways ranging from unsettled anxiety to major life challenges and you may be traveling with the flow of change or fighting like heck to maintain some degree of normalcy. Where ever you are and whatever you’re doing, know that you are not alone. We are all going through this.

And although the language is different, everyone is talking about it whether you listen to the physicists, the channels or the leading evolutionaries in consciousness. There is no denying it. It IS happening. The question is – how are you choosing to handle it?

We are living in a time of great change, personally and collectively. This time of transformation presents us with a golden opportunity to evolve beyond our current limits. If we keep doing the things we have always done, we will continue to create the same results. Do you choose to embrace your evolutionary process, or do you choose to remain the same? Peggy Phoenix Dubro, originator of the EMF Balancing Technique
Continue reading →

Jin Shin – Heart Meridian

Posted on June 29, 2010 by Suzanne Schevene

Let us continue to look at a series of easy self care, quick release techniques to help you feel better. The body can regenerate and restore when the energy is flowing. With Jin Shin, we work with the acupressure points on the body using light touch to release stress and tension.

Remember that you can work on yourself or use these points to work on a client. For Quantum Touch students/practitioners, holding these points while doing QT really pumps up the effectiveness. These are quick release points not full flows that a practitioner would likely use.

This month we are peeking into the Heart Meridian.

Do you notice any of these tendencies in yourself? Pretense, crying on the inside while laughing on the outside, inappropriate joy, masking feelings, insecurity, trying too hard, nervous or circulatory system issues, seriousness, shyness, afraid to play.

The Heart Meridian thrives on new ideas, action and adventure. It is the force which enables our planted seeds to grow, ripen and flourish. It gives us the power to act. It brings us prosperity, spontaneity and integrity. This flow is most responsive to spiritual thought and is nourished by exercise and playfulness.
Continue reading →

Awakening Essence

for those seeking to live an ExtraOrdinary life

Tag Archives: Self Care