Magical Minds

Manifest You Goals Group Coaching 2010

2009-12-19T12:09:00.003Z

On Monday evenings 19.00-20.30 from 18th January 2010 I will be holding a 5 week coaching group especialy dedicated to manifesting goals. This programme shows you how to attract what you want into your life by giving you the right tools and information. This is a small group so please contact me for further details by sending an emial to info@energyroots.co.uk.

Find The Zen In Everything You Do

2009-11-29T14:38:00.003Z

While I was standing outside the school gate on a cold and wet November evening waiting to pick my son up, I struck up conversation with one of the adults waiting for his nephew. Through our conversation I learnt that he was a motor bike courier and spent many hours in all types of weather on the London roads. I asked him how he coped with the discomfort, the traffic, the noise and the cold and the wet. “By appreciating the warmth and comfort when I walk into the house at the end of the day, by realising that I am free to watch what is happening around me, by focusing on what I am doing each moment and by and discovering the wonders of thermal underwear” Besides, he added with a smile “I love my job. Isn’t life about finding the Zen in everything you do?”

What he said resonated with me particularly because I had been writing an article about the benefits of meditation. Shelley the courier enabled me to understand that you can live life as if it were a practical meditation. Joseph Campbell advises us to “follow your bliss” and Shelly to “find the Zen in everything you do.”
Perhaps we can best accomplish this by living life in a perpetual state of appreciation, acceptance and presence. I know this is extremely challenging. Our minds flash backwards and forwards from our past memories to future possibilities and we can waste a lot of energy wondering what other people are thinking. Every time we delve into a painful memory we evoke the emotion associated with that memory and when we project into a fearful future we stimulate worry and anxiety – both of which will take us away from experiencing the joy of now.

Living in the present takes disciplined practice and I really recommend the processes described in Jerry and Esther Hicks book “Ask and It is Given.” The book encourages us to feel good in the present –that is our only work. One of the processes that is particularly helpful, (and one that Shelley does naturally), – is to appreciate everything in your life. Writing down these daily observations in a notebook encourages you to channel your conscious awareness to things that enhance your energy and optimism and make you feel good - and find the Zen in everything you do.

Catherine Dixon

Empowering Life Choices

2009-10-13T22:30:00.005+01:00

I have written a coaching programme called Empowering Life Choices
Making choices is about how we relate and choosing to relate differently if what we are doing is not working for us.

When I wrote this, I researched many best practice methodologies including project management. I also bought into the process the principles of energetic manifestation - in other words, how our conscious and unconscious mind and beliefs need to be working together with an well thought out plan.

I use a great deal of this material into my work with individuals because it is focued, flexible, clear..and it works. It takes clients through the understanding and through the "how to" by providing appropriate exercises to reinforce the changes desired.

I am looking for clients who want and need to make these changes - whether it be in relationship to themselves, in relationship to others or in relationship to their work and health.

How Long Does it Take To Change Your Mind?

2009-07-30T00:16:00.001+01:00

Myth Number one: People can’t change
Myth Number Two change takes a long time
Question: if a problem can be created in seconds, why can’t it be remedied within the same time frame?
Reality: Adult brains can change within seconds

A soon to be published report in the Journal of Neuroscience by scientists working at the Institute for Brain Research at MIT has established that our brains can alter in a matter of seconds. “Our study shows the amazingability of the brain to adapt to moment-to-moment changes in experience even in adulthood.” states one of the authors.

The changes are too quick for the brain to have grown new connections, and the current theory is that the change is the result of dormant short-term cortical connections being ‘booted up’ in response to some changing circumstance in the person’s environment.
Many of the more traditional therapies models sustain that change has to take a long time yet that is also a belief structure that is questionable.

Cogntive Hypnotherapy is brief therapy, working on the assertion that changes – whether major or minor change, doesn’t necessarily require a long time frame.

I often witness major breakthroughs in a singel session whether that be release from a traumatic memory to releasing a major fear or phobia.

Moving Beyond Resistance

2009-07-02T16:01:00.000+01:00

If you intend to get to a destination and you decide to go by train, would you turn up at the station and tell the ticket officer that you don’t want to go to Manchester, you don’t like Grimsby and you are unsure whether to go to Birmingham? The attendant would expect you to know where you want to go and what time you need to get there. Why should affirmations be any different?

Asking for what want and really desiring it is the first step. The second is to take the appropriate actions for this to happen. The process of goal setting requires that you ask, do your part and then allow outcome to be delivered. Allowing is an art which takes some understanding. The thing that pushes wishes and goals away or takes longer for them to happen is the not allowing through over obsession with the outcome especially if this is accompanied by negative thoughts and feelings. In addition, this creates anxiety. Using EFT to address each thought and feeling that indicates the resistance can cut through the not allowing. Once cleared tapping on the affirmations that underpin what it is you wish to create (whether that be a material goal or a state of mind) speeds up the delivery process.

If you have been disappointed in the past, doubt, mistrust and a lack of belief that this can happen for you is an understandable response. I do not suggest that you deny these feelings and thoughts or that you push them away. Not getting the result you want does not mean that what you want is wrong or impossible. You need to understand what these results are telling you and what you can learn from them. Write the doubts down and ask yourself if they are true and look at the evidence that supports them. Ask yourself or someone you trust what you can do differently next time to get a different result.
A client who had successfully and easily given up smoking for over nine months returned dismayed because she had gone back to smoking. She found it so easy to stop she thought one cigarette would do no harm which kicked off her old habit. I asked her what this had taught her. She said she always worked hard for things she wanted and did not trust things that came easily to her. She BELIEVED if things were too easy they were worthless so consequently started smoking again! We used EFT to disperse this negative belied and EFT again to reinforce the belief that achievements can be effortless once resistance is cleared.

Take a piece of paper and write down all the negative thoughts, feeling and beliefs that undermine your trust that you can achieve your goal. On another sheet write down your responses to these doubts. Burn the sheet with all the negative comments and as you burn them, say to yourself, I commit to my wish/goal and I acknowledge my resistance and doubts -yet I choose to commit to what it is I wish to achieve. Use EFT to turbo charge each of these statements on a daily basis.
Read the sheet that responds positively to your doubts and decide how you will integrate these in your life. Find an object that visually represents your goal and put it in a place of prominence so it catches your eye several time a day. Place notes around the house to remind yourself of your goal and repeat the affirmations that support them. Carry something around with you that remind you of what it is you want. All of these reinforce your commitment to what it is you want which in turn strengthens your belief that you will get it.

Please email me with any questions you have about this process or at Catherine@energyroots.co.uk
Or visit my blog www.cathy_dixon.blogspot.com.

Magical Minds

2009-06-01T16:07:00.000+01:00

It is ALL IN Your Mind!
How do we develop a powerful mind? Personally, I believe that setting goals and focusing on them is one of the best ways of super-charging your mind. In May’s article I wrote about a goal setting process that can be used for absolutely EVERYTHING. Here is what you need to remember.
1) Know exactly what you don’t want to help you understand exactly what you do want - write both down in a notebook only used for this purpose.
2) Use your inner mind’s eye to see it, be it and live it.
3) Take inspired action and do it.

Most racing drivers know that if they want to avoid crashing into bends, they need to keep their focus beyond the curve as they drive through it. We need to do exactly the same thing when we are navigating from what we don’t want to what we do.

If your mind is fully occupied with what you don’t want, then this is the dominant vibration and rather like a radio station only playing the blues, it will attract people who like listening to the blues! We also need to ensure that the conscious and unconscious mind both want the same thing. The conscious mind is rational and analytical and helps us to decide what we want. However, it is the creative unconscious that brings what we want to us. This is precisely why self hypnosis, visualization and positive affirmations are so important in setting goals– it imprints what we want also into the unconscious.

If you are interested in learning more about hypnosis or EFT please visit my website or write to me with your question. You can talk to me about is bothering you. I deal with health issues, relationships as well as weight loss, fears and phobias and overcoming addictive behavior including Stop Smoking. The thing to keep in your mind always is that every problem you have created holds the key to the solution that you also create.
To contact me you can email info@energyroots.co.uk or visit my blog: www.cathy-dixon.blogspot.com