Let's Get Woo-Woo!

Hey everyone, me again!

Today I want to share about something a little bit different for me; anyone who knows me knows that I am a pretty practical person, a straight down the line, no nonsense kind of personality, which is fine. But I've recently been diving into the spirituality side of my journey and I wanted to share some "woo-woo" stuff with you today! Do you ever feel like the universe is just lining up for you and everything's playing out exactly as it should?? Because that now I've been feeling the last couple of months! Coming into the new year I was feeling very burnt out from 2020; I have been burning the candle at both ends for way too long and spent most of December just trying to find my equilibrium again, so coming into the new year was all about finding my flow and getting back to my mission. Which I have been doing slowly, but it's still been a heck of a journey of self-discovery and personal growth trying to find a balance in the priorities in my life! I don't know if you're into manifesting or anything like that but it's something that i have been highly sceptical of, and really unsure of how it would work for me in a practical sense because i'm more of a practical person; but so far this year I have had a sequence of things happen that were messages I needed to hear at exactly that moment! Even though I haven't been consciously manifesting anything... I've tuned into myself more, and am more in tune to what's popping up for me! The first thing that happened was I got gifted a beautiful self love journal and deck of self-love cards at the end of last year. The idea behind the self love cards is to draw one every week and complete the activity, or repeat the mantra, etc. One of the first ones I happened to draw was a card about releasing the shame, which at the time I didn't think much of. But later in the week, when I sat down to do the journalling activity as part of the card, which was all about releasing the shame and releasing the guilt, I had to really think about what I wanted to release! And then I realised I was holding a lot of shame around my online business; shame around working on it when I perceived that I should be doing something else, and shame and guilt when I wasn't working on it, or wasn't consistently doing something productive... No wonder i was feeling so burnt out! I was in a no win mindset; whatever I did, I was feeling crappy about, so releasing that shame and knowing that I'm doing my best and my best is enough was a really big step for me! I also listened to a podcast recently about content consumption which really hit home for me because I often find myself bingeing on business or health or self development podcasts, which then leaves my brain so incredibly tired that I don't actually do any work to implement what I've learnt! So I think giving yourself the permission to listen to an audiobook novel, instead of a non-fiction book, or letting yourself watch that TV show to wind down at the end of the day, can be really healthy, since your brain gets tired too! For me it was all about giving myself permission and releasing the shame I felt in not being "productive"; you are not a robot, you don't need to be doing all the time! You are a human BEING! Followed closely behind that was a message I got from something one of my leaders said in a training video. Towards the end of last year I started to do a 60 day run with one of my business mentors, which I didn't end up completing due to all the things I had going on in my mindset. So I decided to revisit the training again this year, to kick off the new year.And there was a couple days there where my leader was showing up and saying that it had been a hard day for her, that she was feeling unmotivated and didn't want to work on her business for herself, and shared some of the strategies that she had used to overcome that block. This just so happened to fall at the same time in the 60 day run where I was already feeling overwhelmed, lost and not on track for my new years goals. I was ready to jump right off that bandwagon! But I did what she suggested and worked on my mindset and I was able to come back from that stronger than ever, and February has been one of my biggest months in business so far! All of this brings to mind a little snippet I heard from a business training I watched back in November which said: "just keep showing up, you never know when you'll hear the snippet that will change your life." At the time, I was feeling so overwhelmed, burnt out and exhausted that it didn't really ring true... but it's stuck with me and it's what kept me showing up month in month out; even when I wasn't doing the work, and therefore I wasn't seeing the results - but I was still hopping on live training, I was still staying a part of my community, and I was still showing up online as much as I could! Just in showing up; in getting my butt on a live training every week - maybe I've managed to hear something that has kept me going for just another week, for just another day, and as long as I keep showing up everyday I will continue to hear the messages that will drive me forward! It's incredible what the universe puts in front of us if we're just willing to see it and hear it. A lot of you might not I know this about me, but I'm actually quite religious! I grew up going to church and still do go to church and believe in God, so whether it's the universe or God or a higher being that you believe in, just know that there is an energetic force looking out for you, and the world really does work in mysterious ways; but there is a plan behind it all! Just trust that the world is working for good, and be aware enough to notice the signs! I know that I still have got so far to go with all of this, but this is just my dabbling in it so far and this is only the things I've been woke enough to even pick up on! I'm sure there has been many more messages put in front of me that I didnt even see or hear! And I know there's been little day to day things that have resonated, that have gotten me through the day, and I've just as quickly forgotten them too, but they're there! I would love to know your experience with anything woo-woo! Are you into manifestation?? What signs has the universe been putting in front of you!?

If you would like to dive into more of what I've been talking about, the Healthstyle Emporium has a whole section on mindset and spirituality which I haven't even scratched the surface on yet! Our 16 week program will be opening up new spots for March, so please reach out if you would like to join in and see for yourself what it's all about!