Feeling stressed could be called a modern epidemic. Dealing with stress is something that most of us have to face, on a daily basis.
The causes of stress are many and varied, but the great news is that there are plenty of simple, practical and even inspirational stress relief techniques that you can apply today, which will make a difference, fast.
Over the past decade or so, I have written plenty of articles and created loads of resources to help you feel less stressed. But rather than asking you to trawl through my website to find them, here’s a handy round-up. In this section I have included 3 main areas, to help you to combat stress and feel happier. They are:
2. Meditation & Mindfulness
One of the most painful aspects of being stuck in a stress-cycle is the chatter that goes on in your mind. Discover some practical meditation & mindfulness techniques that can help you turn things around – in under sixty seconds.
3. The ‘G’ Word…
One of the major causes of stress is focussing on what is going wrong in your life – but I didn’t need to tell you that, did I? 😉 Luckily there’s a one-word solution that can have a massive impact: Is it time to talk about the ‘g’ word?
I really hope you find these stress relief resources useful. I’d love to hear how you get on – either via the comments for each of the articles or in our Soul-Sized Living invitation-only online community (joining is free!).
I’m adding new stress busting resources all the time – make sure you’re getting Soul-Sized Living weekly updates if you want to make sure you hear about them.
Helpful Articles With Stress Management Techniques
Quick Fix: Feeling Stressed? De-Stress Grounding Breath Works In Under A Minute
Here’s a super-easy quick fix for whenever you’re feeling stressed or worried, for whatever reason. You can do it any time, any place – even when you’re surrounded by people. And once you know how to do it, it will become second nature, helping you gently let go of whatever is bothering you in a matter of seconds. Sounds good? Here’s how to do it!
Is Your Monkey Mind Telling You The Truth About Stress?
Have you noticed how your Monkey Mind likes to tell stories about stress? Even when you’re not feeling particularly stressed, if it spots a stress trigger, it uses it as an excuse to start up the story machine again. And it likes labels. It likes to put things in boxes: “That’s a stressful thing. That’s a difficult thing. That’s a happy thing.” When the stuff is in boxes, it makes life easier for your Monkey Mind, because then it knows which auto-pilot scripts and old habitual behaviours to run.
But there’s a problem with all of this: we believe the stories our Monkey Mind tells us. Find out why it’s such a big issue – and what you can do about it, today!
Are You Eating Yourself Miserable? 5 Food Traps That Could Be Wrecking Your Mood
One of the most common reactions when we’re feeling stressed is to reach for something to eat. Our research showed that up to 75% of people instinctively reach for comfort food, when they’re feel down, stressed or angry. BUT what you’re eating (or drinking) could be making you feel worse! Discover the 5 most common food traps that could be wrecking your mood.
How To Magically Find More Time
How often do we spend our time fretting about not having enough time? It seems to fly by. And the more stressed we are, the faster it goes. In our fast-paced society, there’s a common theme in most of our lives – we feel we don’t have enough time.
Most of us would love to find more time – for the things we have to do – and for the things we’d rather do.
So I’d like to share with you a near-magic-wand for creating more time in your day. How To Magically Find More Time
The Little Book Of Daily Sunshine
If you enjoy reading inspirational aticles that can help you to de-stress and change your life in just a few minutes, then you might want to discover why readers love the Little Book Of Daily Sunshine. It brings you bite-sized inspiration to light up your day. Short & sweet. Practical & inspirational. It can really help you to feel less stressed. Readers tell me they carry it around in their bags, keep it in theirs desks at work or leave it on the bedside table, to dip into, whenever they need inspiration. Get your copy of the Little Book Of Daily Sunshine today.
Meditation & Mindfulness
Fluff-free zone – trust me, I’m an engineer 😉
Is It Time To Stop ‘Pretending’ To Breathe? Turn Things Around With A 3 Minute Belly-Breathing Meditation
When we’re stressed, our breathing moves from the belly area to the upper chest. This triggers hormones that create more stress, creating a viscious cycle.
When we do this, we’re also denying our bodies the oxygen-rich fuel they crave, which has implications for our health – physically, mentally and emotionally.
Fortunately all you need to do, to turn things around, is to take 10 deep breaths. Here’s how: 3 Minute Belly Breathing Meditation
Do You Need To PAUSE Today? It’s A 60 Second De-Stressing Mindfulness Technique You Won’t Want To Miss
I was talking to some students recently about how you can work with mindfulness techniques to let go of stresses and icky emotions in under a minute. It’s funny how people rarely believe such a claim – until they have tried it. Of course, it takes practice to get the most out of it – just as with any skill – but this mindfulness exercise is one you won’t want to miss. Is it time for you to PAUSE today? Here’s a 60 second mindfulness-based de-stressing technique you won’t want to miss.
Six Secrets For Training Your Family To Help You Meditate
When you’re feeling stressed, meditation can really help. But starting the habit can feel hard. Moral support is essential.
But have you ever noticed that, sometimes, the hardest place to ask for help is at home?
Training your family (or house-mates) to help you meditate is vital, if you want to create a sustainable, on-going meditation practice. This is one of the most popular bonus articles from the 28 Day Meditation Challenge course, which I’m sharing with you here, as my gift. 🙂 Here are some top tips, to get your family ‘meditation-fit’
Why Are We So Scared Of Silence?
You get home from work and almost before your coat is off and the keys are hung up, the radio is on. You go to a friend’s for coffee and the TV is on in the background. You sit in your car and give in to an almost physical need to tune in to your favourite station or listen to some music. But did you know that all of this will be adding to your stress levels? Discover why we’re so scared of silence – and an insider secret that can turn things around.
3 Secrets Your Heart Wants You To Hear About Meditation
We’ve all heard that high, persistent levels of stress can lead to heart disease. But did you know that meditation not only helps to cut your stress levels, but can help to improve your heart health and reduce your risk of heart disease?
Here are 3 compelling reasons why meditation should be top of your list of strategies. These are the secrets your heart really wants you to hear about how meditation can help you. 3 Secrets Your Heart Wants You To Hear About Meditation
Want To Learn How To Meditate? Join Us For The 28 Day Meditation Challenge Online Course
The 28 day meditation challenge’s approach is unique. It’s about much more than just meditation!
Of course, it guides, step by step, through the essentials of how to meditate, just as you would expect from a course created by a formally-trained, experienced meditation teacher.
But I’m going to help you go further than that – sharing my decades of psychology & NLP expertise (I’m a certified NLP Trainer).
In this inspirational, down-to-earth programme, the 28 Day Meditation Challenge takes you on a powerful journey to free yourself from old excuses, negative thought patterns and limiting beliefs, to enjoy the many scientifically-proven benefits of meditation, no matter how busy your life is.
Drawing from various ancient spiritual traditions, as well as powerful life-changing techniques and practical wisdom, this interactive online course has the potential to transform your experience of life – all served up with an upbeat tone, plenty of encouragement and a dollop of humour! Join us for the 28 Day Meditation Challenge
How To Rope In Your Monkey Mind To Help You Feel Less Stressed
Feeling stressed often comes from giving all of our attention to what is going wrong – and losing our perspective on what is going right. Psychologists and researchers have now proven what common sense already told us: that focussing on the good bits in life helps us to feel happier and less stressed.
Here’s one of the top solutions they recommend, to help you combat stress – and they have discovered it can produce dramatic results in under 3 weeks. In fact, my readers and students have found that it’s much faster than that. 🙂
Are you ready?
Is It Time For The ‘G’ Word?
We’re talking Gratitude here.
Ok – let’s deal with the #1 tomato-throwing objection first: focusing on gratitude doesn’t mean turning into Pollyanna and pretending that everything in life is ok! Instead it’s about retraining your Monkey Mind to think about things that make you feel great, more often than it tells you stories of things that make you feel bad.
And, unsurprisingly, it can be an amazing antidote (and even long-term solution) for feeling stressed.
Are you up for playing with this idea? Here are some of the most popular gratitude resources from my website, for you to enjoy.
Feel Less Stressed: Change Your Life Now With Gratitude Minutes
Want to know one of my favourite gratitude techniques? Even if this were the only one you chose to do, it will still have a massively positive impact on your life.
It takes a minute or two – and it’s worth every second of your time.
Interested? Here it is! Change your life now with gratitude minutes.
Finding It Hard To Get To Sleep? Bedtime De-Stress With The Gratitude Spiral
Sometimes in life, especially when we’re stressed, it can be difficult to fall asleep. It’s as though the worries of daily life just keep going round and round in our mind. But stress doesn’t have to be something that keeps you awake at night.
Rather than fighting your thoughts, which just feeds them and keeps them at the centre of your attention, there are many simple techniques that cost nothing, but make a huge difference! Here’s one of my favourites.
Forget About New Year Resolutions! Is It Time To Change Your Life With A Gratitude Jar, Instead?
Forget about the whole gym / giving up chocolate / never swearing again stuff. Sure, it’s helpful, but it’s really only twiddling with the outside.
If you want to make real, life-long shifts in your life this year, go for Gratitude instead. Just imagine training your brain to think of happy thoughts and things you are grateful for, instead of pointing out everything that’s going wrong!
Just imagine saying goodbye to feeling glum and fed up, when things don’t go the way you had wanted! It only takes five minutes a day to train your mind to look for the positives and to feel gratitude for what is good in your life. Here’s a fun technique you can use with the whole family – and it’s incredibly useful, when you’re feeling stressed. Is it time to start a gratidue jar?
Want To Dive In? Is It Time For A Gratitude Journal?
Want to be inspired? Want to discover how to make the miracle of gratitude an easy and life-changing part of your daily routine? Gratitude: A Daily Journal is more than ‘just’ a journal. It brings you the ‘how to’ of gratitude, in bite-sized, light-hearted, practical chunks – as well as a Readers’ Club, with reader-only bonuses and a supportive online readers’ forum, to share your journey with other like-minded gratitude-fans.
Can you imagine how all of this will fast-track your experience of gratitude changing your life?!
Of course, other gratitude journals are available, but – in true Blue Peter style, here’s one I prepared earlier 😉 Gratitude – A Daily Journal
Give Your Gratitude A Kick Start
We have all heard of the power of gratitude to change your life.
We’re just supposed to ‘think grateful thoughts’ and ‘cultivate an attitude of gratitude’ and suddenly it all falls into place? Hmmmm….
Perhaps there’s a teeny bit more to it than that? 😉
But, actually, gratitude doesn’t have to be as difficult as it might seem – when you know how.
And it doesn’t need to take longer than a week, for you to notice real shifts in your experience of life. Interested? Then the 7 Day Gratitude Kick-Start online course could be just what you’re looking for. Use coupon code soulsizedliving to get a 50% discount. 🙂 Get started with your Gratitude Kick Start today!
I hope you find the above stress relief resources helpful! I publish new articles and videos each week, many of which can help you to set yourself free from the cycle of feeling stress. If you’d like to know when they’re published (and get your hands on lots of gorgeous goodies as my gift), then please make sure you have joined Soul-Sized Living – it’s free!
Thank you so much for popping by and I’m stoked that you’re interested in learning to meditate.
Here’s my best-selling online meditation course. As a B-School ‘share the love’ thing, I’d like to share it with you at just half the usual cost. I really want as many B-Schoolers as possible to have a chance to do what Marie is telling us to do ~ to have Non-Negotiable Time each day to meditate.
It can make such a difference – for your business, for your personal life and for the lives of those you want to serve.
If this course resonates for you, simply use the coupon code bschool to grab your half-price place.
I hope you love it!
Namaste,
P.S. I have no attachment to whether or not you join in with this course. I’m sharing it with you because I know how much a 10-minute-a-day Non-Negotiable Time meditation habit will help with B-School. 🙂
The 28 Day Meditation Challenge Shares The Insider Secrets That Make It Easy For You
It took me 20 years to learn to meditate.
Yup.
I read books. I took classes. I went on uber-expensive retreats and workshops, spending thousands and thousands of pounds. I contemplated my navel from every posible perspective, but still I didn’t have a daily meditation habit. And – what’s even worse – after the first 15 years, I realised I hadn’t even meditated at all. I had been being taught deep relaxation and guided visualisation, but they’re very different beasts from actually meditating.
I wanted to feel calmer, happier, less stressed, less anxious, more at peace, more in flow, more connected, less worried, less negative, more confident and to generally fall in love with life.
20 years. I’m not kidding.
Then, one day, while I was formally training to become a Meditation Teacher, I had one of those life-changing light bulb moments. I realised two insider secrets that made everything fall into place. They suddenly made it all so simple and easy.
And that’s what I’m sharing with you, as part of the 28 Day Meditation Challenge.
Interested? Want to cut your journey from 20 years to just 28 days? 🙂
Sure, I can teach you how to meditate…
Of course – that’s what you’d expect!
But there’s more:
I also make it easy for you to create the habit
(the ‘missing link’ on most meditation courses), with an inspired blend of NLP (the ‘user manual for your brain’) and light-hearted common sense.
And I help you to get over your old excuses – so you actually find the time to meditate – and do it!
You get all of this in bite-sized chunks, throughout the 28 days – and beyond. (This is a 90 day programme: after the 28 daily emails, you get another 2 months of inspirational twice-weekly messages, to keep you on track – and exclusive membership of our gorgeous 28 Day Meditation Challenge Grads Group)
And the 28 Day Meditation Challenge has helped so many people change their lives, that I know it will help you get great results, no matter how busy or stressed you are!
It pre-empts where you might otherwise fall off the wagon and gives you what you need most, just before you need it!
But…
I can’t do it for you.
This course (and changing your life) won’t work by osmosis. Simply signing up for it isn’t enough. You have to actually go use this stuff!
The great news is:
That it really isn’t so hard, when you know how (and that’s exactly what I’ll be sharing with you). 🙂
5 minutes a day for your daily email and then listen to the MP3 for 10 minutes, as you meditate.
That’s it. Life changed. Big smiles all round! Woo hoo! 🙂
P.S. It’s even easier than that – in this course I share the secrets for how to find the time, how to get started and how to stay motivated. What more could you want?!
All you need to do is to choose – to choose to make a commitment to yourself today that the ‘future you’ will thank you for.
Do you need to know more, before you decide?
Here are some of the shifts that 28 Day Meditation Challenge Grads report – often as early as the first week:
feeling calmer (Mmmmmm! That deliciousness of not feeling frantic, the whole time…)
feeling less stressed (it’s time, isn’t it?)
easier to concentrate (reckon your boss might be interested in this one?)
feeling less irritable (your family, friends and workmates might be pleased? 😉 )
feeling happier and more at peace (your inner tiger needs a rest!)
feeling more energised (woo hoo! You won’t be bashing your adrenals as hard and might even get to ease off the caffeine & sugar)
getting more done, in less time, with less effort and stress (who doesn’t want this? It’s the ULTIMATE superwoman dream!)
And here’s some of what you get, over the 90 days:
All in bite-sized chunks that are easy for you to work through, helping you to create and build on your meditation habit, day by day.
Daily Messages – For The First 28 Days
To guide you step-by-step through creating your meditation & mindfulness habit.
Daily Affirmations – For The First 28 Days
To help you stay focussed and to inspire you all day long.
Daily Inspirational Quotes – For The First 28 Days
Download & print out these inspirational images & messages, to help keep you on track.
Twice-Weekly Inspiration & Motivation
For the rest of the 90 days, you get twice-weekly messages, with more insider secrets, motivational ideas and – frankly – a bit of butt-kicking, to help you keep on track and really get the daily meditation habit in your bones!
Membership Of Our 28 Day Meditation Challenge Grads Group
This is an exclusive group, only for people who have gone through the 28 Day Meditation Challenge. It’s a fabulous place to connect with like-minded people, to share your journey, to get moral support, to get answers to your questions, to share your ‘light bulb’ moments, to make new friends and to inspire each other, long beyond the initial 90 days! It’s like a virtual meditation & mindfulness coach.
MP3 Meditations x 4
Listen online or (better!) load onto your iPod or MP3 player.
MP3 Deep Relaxation (23 minutes!)
An essential part of the course (for most of us who are running around on adrenalin and feeling tired!)
CD of the Meditations & Deep Relaxation
If MP3s aren’t your thing, then I’ll send a gift CD with the audios for the course in one place – at no charge. This is usually $14.99.
Bonus Articles
Insider secrets and extra techniques, to help you go deeper, on sections that have inspired you, without overwhelming you.
Exclusive Videos
Get a deeper understanding of the core techniques with exclusive members-only videos.
Plus My Weekly Soul-Sized Living Updates
These bring you my weekly (hopefully inspirational!) Soul-Sized Wednesdays video, as well as members-only goodies, treats, life-changing resources, bonuses, discounts and priority booking on workshops and retreats.
Whatever your reason for learning to meditate (and feel free to share via the comments to this page: “I want to learn to meditate, because…!), there are two steps to the process:
Learn the nuts and bolts of how to meditate
and
Figure out how to create the habit
Most courses and classes concentrate on step 1 – the ‘how’. But here’s where the first insider-secret comes in:
Insider Secret #1:
I realised that in 20 years of studying meditation I had never actually meditated.
Whether it was twisting my legs into a pretzel or having to take on new beliefs, it was all about doing what I was told and every one of the teachers had their own prescription for what was necessary. But most of them weren’t actually teaching meditation.
It seemed to be all about drifting off to ‘somewhere lovely’ ~ but this wasn’t really meditation. It was a form of very relaxing and fairly enjoyable escapism, instead.
There’s nothing wrong with that, but that kind of ‘meditating’ wasn’t getting me to that happier, calmer inner-peace-type place I wanted to be living. Instead, it was allowing me to temporarily escape the stress and worry, but it wasn’t changing me, at any deep level. It wasn’t helping me to feel less stressed or calmer, outside of the meditation time.
It’s a pattern I have seen with my meditation students, over the past years, if they have done lots of meditation before coming to my workshops. Most of them had been taught that meditating is about ‘escaping’ and ‘disconnecting’ and ‘going to a special place’ – anywhere but here and now.
It was only once I started to formally train to become a meditation teacher that I realised I had never meditated before.
As I studied how to teach it, I realised that meditation isn’t about escaping from what’s ‘here’ and disconnecting from your physical experience.
It’s about opening your heart to living in this present moment – with full acceptance and awareness – so you can set yourself free from the stories your Monkey Mind has been telling you and reconnect with the essense of who you really are, with a big fat grin on your face. 🙂
That sense of stillness and peace that carries you through your day… Mmmmm! Delicious! 🙂
That’s when meditation can help you to feel calmer, happier, less stressed, less anxious, more at peace, more in flow, more connected, less worried, less negative, more confident and to generally fall in love with life – during your meditation and beyond.
And it’s much easier than you might think ~ when you know what works for you.
Insider Secret #2:
The second insider-secret I realised that day was that no one had suggested ways to actually create the meditation habit.
Sure, books and gurus had told me I ‘had to‘ meditate for at least an hour, ideally every day, and that I ‘should‘ do it first thing in the morning (and, er, who’s going to get the kids to school?! 😉 ). But the stuff I was being taught only seemed to work for yogis living in caves, monks in monasteries and people who had a huge amount of free time.
Woah! Did I learn to beat myself up over all of that – big time?!
But – woo hoo – as soon as I set myself free from the ‘shoulds’ and ‘have tos’, I was able to experience how even 10 minutes a day could make a massive difference.
Imagine this: what matters is how often you meditate. Daily for ten minutes will shift your life much faster than once a week for an hour – or once a year for a week.
Doesn’t that sound much more achievable?
So I decided to apply my expertise in ‘Practical Psychology’, from over a decade of being an NLP Trainer, along with my background in common sense, as a reformed mechanical engineer :-), to figure out how to create that daily habit.
And it made all the difference.
The 28 Day Meditation Challenge helps you to:
Learn how to meditate ~ by figuring out what works for you
and…
Discover how to actually create that non-negotiable daily habit, to get past fears, excuses, limiting beliefs and lack of time, to transform your life.
And, as a busy mum of 3 youngs boys, along with writing books, leading workshops, running a small farm and healing centre and occasionally even getting time to have a cup of tea, I know how challenging it can be to find the time and energy to start a new habit.
So I’m passionate about making the journey as easy and fun as possible for you. It is my honour to get to walk alongside you, wherever it is you want this journey to take you, if that’s what you choose.
Why do you want to learn to meditate?
I’m curious: why do you want to learn to meditate? (You must have landed on this page for some reason?!)
What is it you’re looking for?
What is it you need most, right now…?
And is that worth ten minutes a day of your time?
I’m wondering ~ bear with me on this one ~ what the ‘you’ on your 80th birthday might advise…? Would they tell you to carry on as things are? Or might they tell you that taking the time to reconnect with who you really are was one of the wisest choices you ever made?
Will you make that commitment to yourself; that investment in your future?
Now, I have to be really honest with you, and I’m going to tell you something you might not be expecting to hear:
I’m not actually attached to whether or not you want to learn to meditate with me or with someone else. What I care about is that you get to discover how ten minutes a day can change your life. Please, just get started! And it will make a difference to your life this week. I promise you that!
But if you’re feeling called to dive in and make a start with me today, here’s what I’m sharing with you, over the next 28 days (and beyond!):
My biggest vision over the next 28 days is to demystify ancient meditation techniques, whilst combining them with an inspired blend of modern psychology, to help you get the results you’re looking for.
I’ll be sharing with you the secrets to getting started and staying motivated, finding time for your ten minutes a day, no matter how busy life is.
It’s up to you how deeply you allow the 28 Day Meditation Challenge to work for you. But in just 28 days, you have the potential to:
avoid the most common meditation myths and mistakes that prevent people from being able to benefit from meditation
overcome the fears that may have stopped you from making changes in the past
learn how to keep yourself motivated, even when you’re not in the mood
weave practical relaxation strategies into your day-to-day life
discover how to find more time in your day
learn how to easily handle common meditation challenges, that could normally de-rail you
deal with your meditation excuses, calmly and effectively
start to feel more relaxed, less stressed and happier
begin to handle your emotions more easily
find simple ways of making meditation practice – and its enormous benefits – an integral part of your life
Meditating is easy, when you know how:
Over the 28 days, you can:
Meditate for 10 minutes a day (specially-designed meditation audios & full step-by-step guidance provided ~ and you get a new meditation each week, so you can try out 4 different styles, to ‘feel’ what works for you).
Read your daily ‘how to’ inspirational email. Experiment with the affirmations. Enjoy the inspirational quotes.
You might like to watch the bonus videos and read the bonus articles, for when you feel called to dive in more deeply.
Take action, when you feel inspired.
Ask questions & share your journey with others in the exclusive online community. You are not alone! Let us help! We can hold you accountable and give you moral support that might otherwise be hard to find in your day-to-day routine.
This course is part of my Conscious Pricing Policy, which means that: if you genuinely cannot make the suggested donation, please get in touch to agree an alternative energy exchange.
Need to know more, before you dive in?
The 28 day meditation challenge’s approach is unique.
It’s about much more than just meditation!
Of course, it guides, step by step, through the essentials of how to meditate, just as you would expect from a course created by a formally-trained, experienced meditation teacher.
But I’m going to help you go further than that – sharing my decades of psychology & NLP expertise (certified NLP Trainer).
In this inspirational, down-to-earth programme, the 28 Day Meditation Challenge takes you on a powerful journey to free yourself from old excuses, negative thought patterns and limiting beliefs, to enjoy the many scientifically-proven benefits of meditation, no matter how busy your life is.
Drawing from various ancient spiritual traditions, as well as powerful life-changing techniques and practical wisdom, this interactive online course has the potential to transform your experience of life – all served up with an upbeat tone, plenty of encouragement and a dollop of humour!
What You Get
During the 28 days, you will be guided through four styles of meditation, which progressively help you to lay the foundations for your meditation practice.
The daily emails pre-empt and help you handle the most common pitfalls & mistakes that would usually stop people from creating a meditation habit.
They can also inspire you with practical techniques to deal with stress, worry and emotions in other areas of your life, even when you’re not meditating.
The 28 Day Meditation Challenge is split into four sections:
Week One brings you a breath awareness meditation.
The daily messages cover busting the #1 meditation myth, how to sit comfortably to meditate, handling your meditation excuses, how to ‘magically’ find more time and how to keep the momentum going.
Week Two takes you into the realm of making friends with your ‘Monkey Mind‘.
You’ll discover some of the tricks it can play and how you can reclaim control, without turning things into a war. The daily messages cover how to stop others from stealing your meditation time and how to get over an addiction to putting your ‘to do’ list, plus Clare shares insider secrets to fast-track creating any new habit and getting past the ‘meditation hump’.
Week Three brings you practical mindfulness meditation techniques that can transform your experience of life.
The daily messages include giving you a magic wand to deal with worrying, spilling the beans on how wiggling your butt can help you meditate (really!) and sharing strategies for what to do if meditation stirs that old emotional pot.
Week Four moves into gentle mantra meditation, to help you make subtle, yet profound, changes in your life.
The daily messages tip you off about the most dangerous word a beginner can use, two little words that could change your life, how to tell whether you’re ‘actually meditating’, how to find the time you need, creating a special meditation space and ideas to help you continue with your meditation journey.
Being told how to meditate is rarely enough.
Millions of people, over the years, have found that being told how to meditate isn’t enough. You need help to create the habit, too.
Past students on the 28 Day Meditation Challenge have discovered the truth of this – and the fact that just 10 minutes a day can change your life.
The 28 Day Meditation Challenge has helped them to finally achieve the results they were looking for.
Just Imagine…
Whether you’re new to meditation or rekindling an old habit, imagine…
being guided, step by step, with daily inspirational emails
enjoying a new, tailor-made meditation each week, on MP3 or optional CD
having access to exclusive videos, helping you avoid common meditation mistakes
breaking through old excuses and limiting beliefs, to make change easy and lasting, with proven psychological strategies in your Welcome Pack and daily emails
turning your monkey mind into your friend, rather than continuing to fight and resent it
staying motivated and feeling supported by sharing your questions and experiences with others in the members-only online forum
All this, and more, in the comfort of your own home, at times that suit you. Are you up for it?
Want To Get Started Today?
This course is powerful, though fun and immensely rewarding. It can help you shift your experience of life, to feel happier, more calm, less stressed and more at peace. And it will lay firm foundations for any further meditation practice you choose to follow in the future. Many of the students who have done other meditation courses in the past often report that, with the 28 Day Meditation Challenge, “This time it finally worked.”
If you do the meditations and apply the techniques, then this course will work for you.
BUT: Reading the emails won’t be enough to change your life. You’ll need to take action – when you feel inspired – in order to make those changes. 🙂
The 28 Day Meditation Challenge has taken over a thousand hours to create and is based on many years of teaching (and still studying!) life-changing techniques. So it’s not a ‘freebie course’.
What’s The Investment?
Expect to spend 10-15 minutes a day on the 28 Day Meditation Challenge – that includes time to read each day’s message, as well as time for your meditation.
From the feedback I have had from students of the 28 Day Meditation Challenge, I know how easily it can help people make shifts in their life, even in the first few days.
“Love It!” Guarantee
To help take the risk out of your decision to join in with this course, we offer a “Love It!” guarantee.
It’s really simple:
Try the course out for the first 28 days, to see how it fits for you.
That’s 28 days of emails, insider secrets, life-changing techniques, meditations, audios and forum membership. .
Let us know if your heart is telling you that it’s not right for you.
If, after the main 28 days, your heart is telling you that this isn’t the right course for you, reply to one of the daily emails and let us know that you’d like to stop. .
We would then arrange for your membership to stop and give you a full refund.
No quibble, no hoops to jump through, no sulks, no awkward feelings. It’s ok.
So you’ve got nothing to lose – and a lot of de-stressing and inner peace to gain!
How about getting started today?
Make your donation now and you can start the course in the next five minutes.
After registering, you’ll need to check your email for a message confirming your login details for your membership of the Soul-Sized Living forum, where all the 28 Day Meditation Challenge goodies are waiting for you.
Once that’s done, you’re in! And your Welcome Pack will be winging its virtual way to you.
If you genuinely cannot make the suggested donation, please contact us to agree an alternative energy exchange.
What People Are Saying About The 28 Day Meditation Challenge
“I wasn’t a believer in this kind of thing, but having done the 28 day Challenge I have changed my mind completely. It has given me the ability to have some time of complete peacefulness, allowing me to centre myself and become calmer. Thank you for allowing me to participate and helping me along the way.”
Charlotte
“The 28 Day Meditation challenge helped me re-focus and find a peaceful moment in the day. It felt like a had a reassuring hand on my shoulder, willing me to allow myself 10 minutes a day to find peace. The change in my mental attitude is remarkable.”
Alex
“I did the 28 day challenge and realised, even after doing intensive 10 day retreats, that 10 mins a day is enough to have a massive impact!”
Star
“The 28 day meditation challenge was just what I needed to get myself refocused and calmed before a quite hectic time, thank you Clare.”
Joy
“The 28 Meditation challenge was a deeply personal, much needed exercise that I looked forward to on a daily basis. Although done in the comfort of my own home (and alone) I felt a sense of inclusion reading the daily updates via email and on the forum, and a sense of involvement in something powerful and far reaching.”
Nick
“I did the 28day challenge and it made me feel like I had a kind and firm hand on my shoulders. I felt reassured that all was well. I felt a deep peacefulness and ‘in the moment’.”
Sharon
If you have any questions, at any stage of the course, you can pop by the online forum, that’s exclusively for course members (full details will be in your welcome pack & each daily email). If you have a question that’s not answered by the forum, you can always reply to the daily emails.
If you have any questions before you register, you can email hello {at} clarejosa {dot} com
It would be an honour to share this journey with you.
Namaste,
P.S. If you are unsure as to whether meditating is appropriate for you, please consult your medical professional. As a grown-up, please accept full responsibility for your actions in applying any of the suggestions and techniques in the course and will use common sense at each stage, asking for professional advice, should you need it! We also ask everyone to agree to respect the privacy of everyone in the group forum, responding to their posts without judgement, and receiving the same gift in return.
P.P.S. If online courses aren’t your thing, there is also a low-key version of the 28 Day Meditation Challenge in the paperback or Kindle books:
Join Us For An Inspirational And Nurturing Life-Changing Retreat In Turkey – October 2014
Join us for a week of 5* all-inclusive nurturing, with daily yoga, meditation, mindfulness and NLP-based inspiration, to help you recharge your batteries and press the spiritual ‘reset button’ on your life – laying the foundations for creating the life of your dreams.
And your family is welcome to join you! Partners and children can either join in with the retreat or kids can join in with the professional Kids’ Club at the hotel – and partners can relax and enjoy the beach, the pools and the local activities. There will be plenty of free time for you to holiday, as well taking part with the retreat.
When: October 1/2 term 2014 – From Morning: Sunday October 26th (i.e. you’ll want to arrive the night before) to Evening: Thursday 30th October
Where: Luxury 5* hotel in Dalaman, Turkey
Who with: Led by Clare Josa (Author, NLP Trainer, Meditation Teacher and reformed Mechanical Engineer) and Peter Briant (Yoga Teacher, Shiatsu & Bowen Therapist, Conscious Accountant)
Clare JosaPeter BriantRebalance Your Life! is a unique blend of NLP, Meditation, Mindfulness, Yoga, practical spirituality and light-hearted fun, led by Clare Josa and Peter Briant. Discover how easily you can let go of what has been stressing you, create clarity about what you want from life and move towards consciously creating it – easily.
What We’ll Be Sharing With You
Your day will start with an early-ish morning pre-breakfast yoga session – even if you don’t feel like it when you wake up, this session will really wake you up and revitalise you, as well as help you to shift any blocks in your body, mind and emotions. For kids, there will be an optional children’s yoga and movement session
Enjoy an amazing gourmet breakfast – after your early morning yoga, of course!After breakfast, there is a morning session, which will vary each day but will include a blend of NLP (‘practical psychology’), ancient wisdom, meditation and mindfulness. These sessions form the core of the teaching on the retreat.
After a break, there will be a further one-hour morning session, which will be light-hearted and practical, for you to get to apply what you learned in the earlier session. This is vital, to help your body, mind and soul ‘get’ the shifts you’re making. 🙂
How’s this for a spot for an afternoon rest?You get free time after lunch, to enjoy the hotel’s facilities and to allow the morning’s work to sink in.
Then, later in the afternoon, there’s another session, with inspirational techniques and group work, to help you to learn and grow.
On some days, after dinner, there will be optional meditation sessions and satsang (group discussions), for those who want to experience these practices more deeply.
Here’s SOME of what we’ll be covering:
How to feel less stressed and reconnect with your inner peace, no matter what is going on in your life.
How to ride the wave of emotions, setting yourself free from other people’s drama.
Why you (and those other people who are obviously crazy!) do the strange things you do, even when you can see it’s not getting you where you want to be!
Why your environment has such an impact on your experience of life – and what you can do about it.
How to start dealing with the habits that have got you to where you are now – including how to choose those you want to keep – and what to do to painlessly dump those that need to go.
How to handle the thought patterns, limiting beliefs and old excuses that have been supporting you or perhaps holding you back so far. You’ll learn highly practical techniques for dealing with them.
Insider secrets, to help you shift towards positive thinking, at times of stress.
Take a tour through the obstacle course of our relationships (with others and with yourself), covering strategies for dealing with difficult people. You’ll even discover how those who annoy you most could actually be giving you your biggest ever gift.
How to create more time for yourself – and what you really want from life.
How to reconnect with the essence of who you really are, feeling happier and more at peace, no matter what is going on around you.
Simple, yet transformational, techniques that you can use daily, in just a few minutes, to maintain the shifts you make on the retreat – and to take things further.
How to create an inspirational vision for your future – getting clarity about what you want from life and moving towards consciously creating it – easily.
Sessions are timed to fit in with the hotel’s fabulous kids’ club, so that any little ones are well cared for and you can relax and enjoy your retreat.
What’s The Investment
Want to do yoga and mindful walking on this beach?Before the retreat:
To help you get the most from this life-changing retreat, there will be some specially designed exercises for you to do, over the coming months.
You’ll be sent these in August and the materials will take you about half a day to work through, then a few minutes, several times a week (or daily) to practice. They’re a vital part of the retreat and are easy and fun to do.
You also get moral support in our friendly online community. There’s a special area, just for people who are joining us in Turkey this year, so you can share your experiences of the pre-retreat materials and get answers to your questions.
Financial:
We are in the process of negotiating a great discounted rate with the hotel for you – we’ll be able to let you know exactly how to book, in June. Their typical ALL INCLUSIVE rate is around £100 per person per night, if sharing, or about £150-£200 per night for a family of 4. That’s less than the typical cost of a B&B in the UK – yet you get 5* all inclusive 🙂
Because everyone’s needs are different – and because some people will want to travel on their own, whilst others will be bringing the whole family, we are asking you to book your accommodation yourself, so that we don’t ‘get in the way’ or over-complicate things. But please wait until we can give you the code for your discounted rate, so we can make it really easy for you!
In the meantime, to get an idea of the hotel’s typical room rates, here’s where you can get a rough idea of the maximum accommodation cost for you and your family: Hilton Dalaman.
You will also need to arrange your own flights to Dalaman in Turkey. We can help to arrange group transfers, nearer the time.
What’s Included
Silver
Gold
The pre-retreat materials – worth at least £295, for the shifts they can help you to make in your life
Worth £295
Worth £295
The full 5-day retreat programme, including early morning yoga, all taught sessions and all satsang sessions
Worth £500
Worth £500
After the retreat – CDs of the key meditations and visualisations, plus online videos for the yoga and energy shift techniques
Worth £100
Worth £100
A gift copy of one of Clare’s books or CDs – you get to choose which one
Worth £15
Worth £15
Gold Level membership of our Soul-Sized Living online community for a full year (usually over £800)
Worth £800
A gift place on any one of Clare’s online courses or Inner Circle programmes, taken within 12 months of the end of the retreat (worth up to £497)
Worth £497
A 30 minute laser-focus breakthrough mentoring session with Clare (via Skype or face-to-face), after the retreat (usually only available as part of the silver Soul-Sized Mentoring package – to be taken within 6 months of the end of the retreat – this would usually be £147). These are like gold-dust – Clare doesn’t have much availability and you will get to jump to the top of the queue.
£147
Total Value
£910
£2,354
You Pay Just:
£495
£995£795
Super Early Bird
Note: This is a super-early bird discount, for everyone who books and pays the retreat fee in full by 15th July 2014. And, of course, the sooner you book, the cheaper your room and flights will be.
There will be also an optional 1/2-day excursion (more details soon) which would be about £50 – tbc.
How To Join Us
Fancy a relaxing swim?There are only 20 17 places available.
If you feel excited about joining us in October, you can reserve your place by paying a £100 deposit. This holds your place for 14 days, to give you time to confirm hotel and flight details.
If, at that time, you find the details don’t work for you, that’s fine. We will happily refund your deposit, as long as you let us know within 2 weeks, so that we can release your place to someone else.
Is your heart calling you to join in ~ to rebalance life?
Want to meditate under a beach umbrella?Want to watch the world go by?Want to do early morning yoga under the palm trees?Want to spoil yourself with 5* all-inclusive gourmet food?It’s not all hard work! In fact, it’s not hard work at all!How’s this for a spot for an afternoon rest?Enjoy an amazing gourmet breakfast – after your early morning yoga, of course!Plenty of evening entertainment – or you could just relax.How’s this for a view from your bedroom window?
Want to learn to meditate, but think you don’t have time? Discover how 10 minutes a day can change your life.
Want to feel less stressed? Happier? Healthier? More positive? More calm & relaxed?
In the 28 Day Meditation Challenge Clare Josa shows you how.
Discover how 10 minutes a day of meditation could change your life.
The 28 Day Meditation Challenge is more than just a meditation course.
Yes, it will help you learn to meditate, bringing you the meditation techniques you need, whether you’re a meditation beginner or an old hand rekindling your meditation practice.
But the 28 Day Meditation Challenge goes further than that.
Being taught how to meditate is rarely enough.
It’s knowing how to create the daily meditation habit that makes the difference between a ‘nice idea’ and a strong, sustainable meditation or mindfulness practice.
That’s the key aim of the 28 Day Meditation Challenge.
In the 28 Day Meditation Challenge Clare Josa (an experienced Meditation Teacher and NLP Trainer) demystifies ancient meditation techniques, whilst combining them with an inspired blend of modern psychology, to help you get results that other courses can’t.
She shares with you the secrets to getting started and staying motivated, finding time for your ten minutes a day, no matter how busy life is.
It’s easy, when you know how:
Meditate for 10 minutes a day (specially-designed meditation audios & full step-by-step guidance provided).
Read your daily ‘how to’ inspirational email. Experiment with the affirmations. Enjoy the inspirational quotes.
Take action, when you feel inspired.
Ask questions & share your journey with others in the exclusive online forum.
Watch how the 28 Day Meditation Challenge changes your life in subtle, yet profound, ways.
Conscious Pricing
It’s really important to me that everyone can afford to join in with this life-changing course – whilst also making a fair energy exchange.
As with all of my courses, my Conscious Pricing Policy applies to the 28 Day Meditation Challenge – so if you genuinely can’t afford the suggested donation, please contact us to arrange an alternative energy exchange. I trust you to be fair and there’s no judgement.
Get Started Today
The 28 day meditation challenge’s approach is unique.
It’s about much more than just meditation!
Of course, it guides, step by step, through the essentials of how to meditate, just as you would expect from a course created by a formally-trained, experienced meditation teacher.
But Clare Josa helps you go further than that – sharing her decades of psychology & NLP expertise (certified NLP Trainer).
In this inspirational, down-to-earth programme, Clare Josa takes you on a powerful journey to free yourself from old excuses, negative thought patterns and limiting beliefs, to enjoy the many scientifically-proven benefits of meditation, no matter how busy your life is.
Drawing from various ancient spiritual traditions, as well as powerful life-changing techniques and practical wisdom, the 28 Day Meditation Challenge has the potential to transform your experience of life – all served up with an upbeat tone, plenty of encouragement and a dollop of humour!
It’s up to you how deeply you allow the 28 Day Meditation Challenge to work for you. But in just 28 days, you have the potential to:
avoid the most common meditation myths and mistakes that prevent people from being able to benefit from meditation
overcome the fears that may have stopped you from making changes in the past
learn how to keep yourself motivated, even when you’re not in the mood
weave practical relaxation strategies into your day-to-day life
discover how to find more time in your day
learn how to easily handle common meditation challenges, that could normally de-rail you
deal with your meditation excuses, calmly and effectively
start to feel more relaxed, less stressed and happier
begin to handle your emotions more easily
find simple ways of making meditation practice – and its enormous benefits – an integral part of your life
What You Get
During the 28 days, you will be guided through four styles of meditation, which progressively help you to lay the foundations for your meditation practice.
The daily emails pre-empt and help you handle the most common pitfalls & mistakes that would usually stop people from creating a meditation habit.
They can also inspire you with practical techniques to deal with stress, worry and emotions in other areas of your life, even when you’re not meditating.
The 28 Day Meditation Challenge is split into four sections:
Week One brings you a breath awareness meditation.
The daily messages cover busting the #1 meditation myth, how to sit comfortably to meditate, handling your meditation excuses, how to ‘magically’ find more time and how to keep the momentum going.
Week Two takes you into the realm of making friends with your ‘Monkey Mind‘.
You’ll discover some of the tricks it can play and how you can reclaim control, without turning things into a war. The daily messages cover how to stop others from stealing your meditation time and how to get over an addiction to putting your ‘to do’ list, plus Clare shares insider secrets to fast-track creating any new habit and getting past the ‘meditation hump’.
Week Three brings you practical mindfulness meditation techniques that can transform your experience of life.
The daily messages include giving you a magic wand to deal with worrying, spilling the beans on how wiggling your butt can help you meditate (really!) and sharing strategies for what to do if meditation stirs that old emotional pot.
Week Four moves into gentle mantra meditation, to help you make subtle, yet profound, changes in your life.
The daily messages tip you off about the most dangerous word a beginner can use, two little words that could change your life, how to tell whether you’re ‘actually meditating’, how to find the time you need, creating a special meditation space and ideas to help you continue with your meditation journey.
Book vs Kindle vs Online Course – What Do You Get?
Daily Messages
To guide you step-by-step through creating your meditation & mindfulness habit.
Daily Affirmations
To help you stay focussed and to inspire you all day long.
Daily Inspirational Quotes
Download & print out these inspirational images & messages, to help keep you on track.
MP3 Meditations x 4
Listen online or (better!) load onto your iPod or MP3 player.
MP3 Deep Relaxation (23 minutes!)
An essential part of the course (for most of us who are running around on adrenalin and feeling tired!)
CD of Meditations & Deep Relaxation
All the audios for the course, to play on your CD player.
Optional
Optional
Optional
Bonus Articles
Insider secrets and extra techniques, to help you go deeper, on sections that have inspired you, without overwhelming you.
Daily Messages – Straight To Your Inbox
Get the daily messages emailed to you each morning. It’s a great way to remind you to read them, take action and – importantly – to do your meditation and mindfulness practice!
Members-Only Forum
Share your journey with other like-minded people, get answers to your questions, share your ‘light bulb’ moments, even make new friends.
It’s like a virtual meditation & mindfulness coach.
Exclusive Videos
Get a deeper understanding of the core techniques with exclusive members-only videos.
Daily Audios (MP3s)
Audio recordings of each day’s message, so you can listen to them, whenever you want to.
Gold Membership Of Soul-Sized Living
A full year’s Gold Membership of our Soul-Sized Living online community (usually £48), plus all of the goodies that go with it.
Membership of the Facebook Fan Page
Join in on our Facebook page, for extra tips and ideas – for fans of the 28 Day Meditation Challenge.
Soul-Sized Living Monthly Newsletter
Get Clare Josa’s Soul-Sized Living newsletter, packed with the latest resources, exclusive competitions & special offers, plus the best from the forums, absolutely free.
Being told how to meditate is rarely enough.
Millions of people, over the years, have found that being told how to meditate isn’t enough. You need help to create the habit, too.
Past students on the 28 Day Meditation Challenge have discovered the truth of this – and the fact that just 10 minutes a day can change your life.
The 28 Day Meditation Challenge has helped them to finally achieve the results they were looking for.
Just Imagine…
Whether you’re new to meditation or rekindling an old habit, imagine…
being guided, step by step, with daily inspirational emails
enjoying a new, tailor-made meditation each week, on MP3 or optional CD
having access to exclusive videos, helping you avoid common meditation mistakes
breaking through old excuses and limiting beliefs, to make change easy and lasting, with proven psychological strategies in your Welcome Pack and daily emails
turning your monkey mind into your friend, rather than continuing to fight and resent it
staying motivated and feeling supported by sharing your questions and experiences with others in the members-only online forum
All this, and more, in the comfort of your own home, at times that suit you. Are you up for it?
This course is powerful, though fun and immensely rewarding. It can help you shift your experience of life, to feel happier, more calm, less stressed and more at peace. And it will lay firm foundations for any further meditation practice you choose to follow in the future. Many of the students who have done other meditation courses in the past often report that, with the 28 Day Meditation Challenge, “This time it finally worked.”
If you do the meditations and apply the techniques, then this course will work for you.
BUT: Reading the emails won’t be enough to change your life. You’ll need to take action – when you feel inspired – in order to make those changes.
The 28 Day Meditation Challenge has taken over a thousand hours to create and is based on many years of teaching (and still studying!) life-changing techniques. So it’s not a ‘freebie course’.
What’s The Investment?
Expect to spend 10-15 minutes a day on the 28 Day Meditation Challenge – that includes time to read each day’s message, as well as time for your meditation.
If that’s too much for you, you might prefer my weekly mindfulness course, which comes in 5 minute segments, once a week, but it takes a full year, instead of 28 days 52 Mindful Moments.
From the feedback I have had from students of the 28 Day Meditation Challenge, I know how easily it can help people make shifts in their life, even in the first few days.
And I want to make it accessible to everyone.
So the 28 Day Meditation Challenge is part of my Conscious Pricing Policy – you get to choose how much to donate – simply contact us to arrange an alternative energy exchange, if you genuinely cannot afford the suggested donation.
“Love It!” Guarantee
To help take the risk out of your decision to join in with this course, we offer a “Love It!” guarantee.
It’s really simple:
Try the course out for the first ten days to see how it fits for you.
That’s ten days of emails, insider secrets, life-changing techniques, meditations, audios and forum membership. .
Let us know if it’s not right for you, by day 10.
If, by day 10, your heart is telling you that this isn’t the right course for you, reply to one of the daily emails and let us know that you’d like to stop. .
We would then arrange for your membership to stop and give you a full refund.
No quibble, no hoops to jump through, no sulks, no awkward feelings. It’s ok.
So you’ve got nothing to lose – and a lot of de-stressing and inner peace to gain!
How about getting started today?
Make your donation now and you can start the course in the next five minutes!
After registering, you’ll need to check your email for a message confirming your login details for your membership of the Soul-Sized Living forum, where all the 28 Day Meditation Challenge goodies are waiting for you.
Once that’s done, you’re in! And your Welcome Pack will be winging its virtual way to you.
Conscious Pricing
It’s really important to me that everyone can afford to join in with this life-changing course – whilst also making a fair energy exchange.
As with all of my courses, my Conscious Pricing Policy applies to the 28 Day Meditation Challenge – so if you genuinely can’t afford the suggested donation, please contact us to arrange an alternative energy exchange. I trust you to be fair and there’s no judgement.
Get Started Today
What People Are Saying About The 28 Day Meditation Challenge
“I wasn’t a believer in this kind of thing, but having done the 28 day Challenge I have changed my mind completely. It has given me the ability to have some time of complete peacefulness, allowing me to centre myself and become calmer. Thank you for allowing me to participate and helping me along the way.”
Charlotte
“The 28 Day Meditation challenge helped me re-focus and find a peaceful moment in the day. It felt like a had a reassuring hand on my shoulder, willing me to allow myself 10 minutes a day to find peace. The change in my mental attitude is remarkable.”
Alex
“I did the 28 day challenge and realised, even after doing intensive 10 day retreats, that 10 mins a day is enough to have a massive impact!”
Star
“The 28 day meditation challenge was just what I needed to get myself refocused and calmed before a quite hectic time, thank you Clare.”
Joy
“The 28 Meditation challenge was a deeply personal, much needed exercise that I looked forward to on a daily basis. Although done in the comfort of my own home (and alone) I felt a sense of inclusion reading the daily updates via email and on the forum, and a sense of involvement in something powerful and far reaching.”
Nick
“I did the 28day challenge and it made me feel like I had a kind and firm hand on my shoulders. I felt reassured that all was well. I felt a deep peacefulness and ‘in the moment’.”
Sharon
If you have any questions, at any stage of the course, you can pop by the online forum, that’s exclusively for course members (full details will be in your welcome pack & each daily email). If you have a question that’s not answered by the forum, you can always reply to the daily emails.
If you have any questions before you register, you can email hello {at} clarejosa {dot} com
It would be an honour to share this journey with you.
Namaste,
P.S. If you are unsure as to whether meditating is appropriate for you, please consult your medical professional. As a grown-up, please accept full responsibility for your actions in applying any of the suggestions and techniques in the course and will use common sense at each stage, asking for professional advice, should you need it! We also ask everyone to agree to respect the privacy of everyone in the group forum, responding to their posts without judgement, and receiving the same gift in return.
[wp_eStore_cart_when_not_empty]If you’re feeling a heart-based desire to make 2014 your best year yet, stepping up and creating the life of your dreams, perhaps so you can get out there and change the world, then you’ll want to make sure you’re part of this exciting, dynamic, fun and inspirational Inner Circle programme, starting on January 1st 2014.
Interested? Find out how it could be turning the world of ‘living the life of your dreams’ on its head.
The secret to creating the life you have been dreaming of is to be who you really are.
And, for most of us, that’s the most difficult and terrifying thing we can imagine.
Yet it is the only thing that will set us free from the stress and the pain of the life we have spent the past decades creating, allowing us to align with the magic of our inner light.
All of the time that we’re out of alignment with this inner light – our True Being – either through self-judgement or through the mask that most of us carefully create each morning, it’s as though we are sending the Universe a signal that we’re not good enough; that we don’t deserve; that we ‘can’t’, ‘shouldn’t’ or ‘may not’ live the life we want.
Then we try the whole ‘manifesting’ malarkey – in whichever form resonated for us, be it goal setting, Law Of Attraction or coaching. And we get some results, but we usually unconsciously sabotage things, just before we get what we thought we wanted. And if we manage to avoid that one, getting what we wanted doesn’t taste as sweet as we thought it would; there’s still something missing.
The thing is, if you choose what your dreams are from a ‘place’ of not being true and authentic to who you really are, then those dreams are limited by the beliefs and fears that were ‘real’ for you at that moment of choice.
And, at some level, we’re expecting the achievement of those dreams or goals to ‘make everything feel right’, to ‘make us feel good’.
But it doesn’t work, because it’s still making our happiness and Inner Peace dependent on something outside of ourselves.
As I said at the beginning, the secret to creating the life you have been dreaming of is to be who you really are.
And my intention – and deepest prayer – with Inspire Your Life is to help you to make life-changing progress along that journey.
Can You Imagine Finishing 2014 Knowing…
you have kicked plenty of old habits, so they no longer get in your way?
you have dealt with limiting beliefs, fears and old blocks, that used to stop you from living the life you’ve been dreaming of?
your dreams are no longer ‘nice ideas’ – they’re fast becoming your reality?
you no longer feel like you’re riding a storm of emotions – and it’s easier to connect with your sense of inner peace?
you are moving from living a ‘head-based life’ to living from your heart?
your relationships are blossoming – with others, as well as with yourself?
you no longer wake up feeling tired and dreading your day – you feel inspired?
your inspirational energy, smile and sense of purpose inspires others to change their lives, too?
We’re going to be diving in to discover what it is you really want from your experience of life, lovingly uncovering the blocks, fears, out-of-date beliefs and assumptions that have been holding you back, and gently (but firmly!) dealing with them, so you can set yourself free to be who you really are.
The techniques we’ll be using are designed to help you discover the miracles that gratitude and heart-based living can create in your life. Don’t worry if the idea of that scares you – that just means that it’s worth you diving in and joining us! And don’t worry about it all being ‘fluffy woo-woo navel-gazing’. As a reformed mechanical engineer, you can rely on the fact that the insights I’ll be sharing with you are grounded in ‘practical-world’ common sense and won’t be requiring you to levitate with your legs twisted like a pretzel for 3 hours before breakfast each morning. 🙂
All of this happens over the course of the coming year, with full support from others sharing this amazing journey in a peer support forum. And I’ll be breaking these shifts down into bite-sized chunks for you, to make it easy to fit things in around ‘life’, guiding you each step along the way.
As a member of the Inspire Your Life Inner Circle in 2014 you will receive:
An inspirational pdf workbook, based on each month’s core theme.
Each month’s instalment covers a key area for this journey, structured so that the modules build on each other, helping you to feel the progress you’re making.
A practical action plan, each month.
Each monthly module comes with a practical action plan, to help you take the most important learnings from that month’s instalment and weave them into your daily life, quickly and easily.
Weekly inspirational emails and affirmations
We’re all busy and I want to make sure that you have time to make these changes – so you’ll get weekly (or sometimes twice-weekly) email or video messages, with extra bits for that month’s theme, plus an uplifting affirmation, to help the techniques work at the deepest level possible.
Monthly live Q&A calls
These calls are a chance for you to get answers to your questions, to learn from the experience of others and to share your successes. They will be recorded, so that you can listen again, whenever you need to.
Peer support in the exclusive Inner Circle Forum
Share the journey, hold each other accountable and take your experience of this Inner Circle to the next level by joining in with the exclusive members-only forum (a ‘closed group’ on Facebook).
Regular meditations and visualisations
Sometimes it’s best to let go of your thinking mind and to let your unconscious mind (the bits that’s really running the show) take over and make the changes you’re looking for. Guided visualisations and meditations can make a huge difference – and I’ll be making sure you’ve got what you need, at key points over the coming year.
A gift copy of “Gratitude – A Daily Journal”
The fastest way to create a life you love is by working with gratitude – for all the many and varied aspects of life, as it currently is. To allow you to dive in and get started straight away, when you register, you’ll get a gift copy of Gratitude – A Daily Journal, with love.
Get Started Today
I want to make this Inner Circle as affordable as possible, whilst acknowledging that there needs to be a fair energy exchange. The suggested donations is:
Early Bird (register before midnight on 25th December 2013): £99 – includes a gift copy of Gratitude: A Daily Journal
Regular donation (from 26th December 2013): £199
If you genuinely cannot afford this donation, but feel passionately about making these shifts in your life, please email hello {at} clarejosa {dot} com to discuss alternative energy exchanges.
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Still got questions?
Please let me know by emailing hello {at} clarejosa {dot} com and a member of my team will do their best to help.
I’d love to share this journey with you. I really hope you choose to join us.
With love, Namaste,
Feeling stressed could be called a modern epidemic. Dealing with stress is something that most of us have to face, on a daily basis.
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Here’s a super-easy quick fix for whenever you’re feeling stressed or worried, for whatever reason. You can do it any time, any place – even when you’re surrounded by people. And once you know how to do it, it will become second nature, helping you gently let go of whatever is bothering you in a matter of seconds.
Have you noticed how your Monkey Mind likes to tell stories about stress? Even when you’re not feeling particularly stressed, if it spots a stress trigger, it uses it as an excuse to start up the story machine again. And it likes labels. It likes to put things in boxes: “That’s a stressful thing. That’s a difficult thing. That’s a happy thing.” When the stuff is in boxes, it makes life easier for your Monkey Mind, because then it knows which auto-pilot scripts and old habitual behaviours to run.
One of the most common reactions when we’re feeling stressed is to reach for something to eat. Our research showed that up to 75% of people instinctively reach for comfort food, when they’re feel down, stressed or angry.
How often do we spend our time fretting about not having enough time? It seems to fly by. And the more stressed we are, the faster it goes. In our fast-paced society, there’s a common theme in most of our lives – we feel we don’t have enough time.
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When we’re stressed, our breathing moves from the belly area to the upper chest. This triggers hormones that create more stress, creating a viscious cycle.
I was talking to some students recently about how you can work with mindfulness techniques to let go of stresses and icky emotions in under a minute. It’s funny how people rarely believe such a claim – until they have tried it. Of course, it takes practice to get the most out of it – just as with any skill – but this mindfulness exercise is one you won’t want to miss. Is it time for you to PAUSE today?
When you’re feeling stressed, meditation can really help. But starting the habit can feel hard. Moral support is essential.
You get home from work and almost before your coat is off and the keys are hung up, the radio is on. You go to a friend’s for coffee and the TV is on in the background. You sit in your car and give in to an almost physical need to tune in to your favourite station or listen to some music.
We’ve all heard that high, persistent levels of stress can lead to heart disease. But did you know that meditation not only helps to cut your stress levels, but can help to improve your heart health and reduce your risk of heart disease?
The 28 day meditation challenge’s approach is unique. It’s about much more than just meditation!
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Sometimes in life, especially when we’re stressed, it can be difficult to fall asleep. It’s as though the worries of daily life just keep going round and round in our mind. But stress doesn’t have to be something that keeps you awake at night.
Forget about the whole gym / giving up chocolate / never swearing again stuff. Sure, it’s helpful, but it’s really only twiddling with the outside.
Want to be inspired? Want to discover how to make the miracle of gratitude an easy and life-changing part of your daily routine? Gratitude: A Daily Journal is more than ‘just’ a journal. It brings you the ‘how to’ of gratitude, in bite-sized, light-hearted, practical chunks – as well as a Readers’ Club, with reader-only bonuses and a supportive online readers’ forum, to share your journey with other like-minded gratitude-fans.
We have all heard of the power of gratitude to change your life.
It took me 20 years to learn to meditate.
As I studied how to teach it, I realised that meditation isn’t about escaping from what’s ‘here’ and disconnecting from your physical experience.
The 28 Day Meditation Challenge helps you to:
I’m wondering ~ bear with me on this one ~ what the ‘you’ on your 80th birthday might advise…? Would they tell you to carry on as things are? Or might they tell you that taking the time to reconnect with who you really are was one of the wisest choices you ever made?
Over the 28 days, you can:
Whether you’re new to meditation or rekindling an old habit, imagine…
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