“Our thoughts are the camera, our eyes are the lens. Put…
“Our thoughts are the camera, our eyes are the lens. Put them together and the picture we see is reality.”Sydney Banks
“YOU CAN HAVE YOUR EXPERIENCE…
4 Tips for Stress-Free Solutions
Hello Friends,
Today I’m writing you from Salt Spring Island, BC, where I’m attending a conference. Preparing for this conference is where this story begins. Getting
to Salt Spring requires taking a float plane. It all sounds fun until you get the news that you can only carry 25 pounds on the flight. That’s it, 25# for 6 days, including purse, mobile office, etc. I’m laughing because my clothing takes up the least amount of poundage in this equation and my incidentals the most!
What occurred to me, through this process, is how often seeking solutions can bring additional stress. In our innocence, we get to work on ‘figuring it out’. This is where we start to resemble a dog with a bone; we chew on it until we’re exhausted or stressed out. We just can’t let it go until we know the solution. There’s another way.
Here are 4 Tips for Stress-Free Solutions:
1. Know that you have a factory installed Creative Process built into your design as a human being. We all carry this feature. What’s cool about this 
feature is; the more you enlist it, the more it works on your behalf, the more you experience it, your confidence in its presence in your life soars.
2. Stop ruminating or trying to figure out a solution. This habit adds congestion to your head space and consumes your bandwidth for what’s requiring your immediate attention. Too many things living in your head space is where the feelings of overwhelm and burnout come from.
3. Relax; know that you have an inner resource that will lead you to your solution. Listen for fresh insights and ideas that show up on the scene about your topic.
4. Engage with these fresh ideas. Don’t poo-poo on them, follow the thread. When you poo-poo on these next steps, your creative process interprets it as you don’t want help and it retreats. Tip: these fresh ideas don’t always show up as logical. Keep following the crumbs and you will arrive at a solution that’s a perfect fit for you. This approach to arriving at solutions is like a mysterious treasure hunt. The discovery is fun and the bounty brings something brand new. In addition to a solution, you will also experience a new found hopefulness and resilience.
Right about now is when I usually hear someone say, “Yeah, but the solution I need is bigger than a weight issue!” No worries, the mechanics work 
the same regardless of the topic. Try it out for yourself. I’d love to hear from you.
My packing journey turned out to be a very fun ride. I woke up to new ways to travel with more efficiency, much less weight, and a whole lot more ease getting through my flight connections. The process also offered me the opportunity to hop on 2 earlier flights, arriving hours earlier to my destination. Following the ideas that occurred to me through this process brought me to the scales with a stress free 22.9 pounds and a big inner chuckle.
I encourage you to enlist this factory installed resource and let it work on your behalf. If you’d like to learn more and be supported in discovering a multitude of unrealized internal resources, I’d love to work with you. Let’s set up a time for a conversation.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Sending smiles,
Cherie
Want to be Authentic? Let’s Look at the Truth of Who You Are.
Hello Friends-
I hope this article finds you smiling and thriving in your life.
In my work with coaching clients and facilitating workshops exploring innate creativity, my intention is to have you realize you are not broken or deficient of what’s needed to live authentically and to have a wonderful experience of life. Your True self consists of love, peace, joy, and harmony. This is what you are!
Too often your True self gets covered up by many layers of life-conditioning and experiences. As you move through life you interpret these experiences and conditioning to be the truth about you and the truth about life. If you want to live authentically, it’s helpful to be reminded that you don’t need to add anything. Typically, what’s most helpful for you, is to let lots of mental-things fall away. When that happens, your True self has the opportunity to be seen and experienced.
Below you will find an excerpt from a book that articulates exactly what I’m attempting to express.
If you have any questions or comments, I’d love to hear from you.
Enjoy your week! Have some fun, for no good reason!
Smiles,
Cherie
Excerpt from:
Seduced by Consciousness
by Jack Pransky
Essence and Oneness
What exists, what remains, once we see illusion for what it is?
The essence of who we are as Human beings, spiritual beings.
We are the essence of who we are. We are essence! Our true nature. We can only create the illusion that we are not.
Our essence contains pure peace, pure love and pure wisdom. How do we know? Because when our mind clears or shuts down or quiets from its personal thinking, this is what remains as our experience. We feel closer to it.
What is our essence connected to? The Oneness of All Things. We are one little teeny part of the Oneness. No real separation. A part, not apart. It only looks as if we’re separate.
Within the realm of essence and Oneness no problems that appear within the world of form even exist. Within this realm all our form-problems are a joke.
Love
This morning the sweetest message came to me, out of the blue, “We came from LOVE, we are LOVE, and we will return to LOVE.”
It appears to me to be a response to a recent inquiry with God about how my mind makes determinations, conclusions, and assessments. In addition to these assessments, they have a convincing tone while simultaneously feeling true. I find myself drinking the Kool-Aid of my own thinking as if it were the true definition of how life works. As a result, I am filled with a YUK feeling.
What appears to be TRUE to me now, is that my mind is not a reliable source of news. If it feels painful or critical, I must not be seeing things clearly. There must be a lack of understanding somewhere because if I came from LOVE and I am LOVE, it would feel loving. This creates a natural curiosity for me to listen for what I’m not hearing, looking for what I’m not seeing, and reminding myself that my thinking is not a reliable source of TRUTH.
I hope that you are having a wonderful day experiencing all types of LOVE!
Sending love,
Cherie