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feel how you want to feel now {breathing space}

5/29/2013

i'm in a "sharing is caring" kinda mood so rather than listen to me this week, I'm going to share with you a meditation recorded by an inspiring soul, coach and speaker that i recently met at a blogging event >>

<< so enjoy this meditation recorded for you by Connie Chapman which guides you through feeling how you want to feel right now.

Click here to be transported over to her site and make sure you come back to tell me what you thought by commenting below :-)

make sure you never miss a "sharing is caring" moment from me by popping your email in the box below, i'll make sure i keep you updated xx

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a few of my favourite things

5/28/2013

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This week's post is all about sharing. Me sharing with you a few of my favourite things ... on the internet. The things that really have my heart sing, make me feel like I'm part of a community and give me really awesome tools to be the best me I can be! They are really great things ...

But let me start with this little warning and a subsequent challenge: I know everybody's inboxes are already full of things to read, things to do and things to delete so before you go adding more things to your inboxes, because you'll want to add the things I'm going to share with you, I challenge you to an inbox clean up!

Oh my! Beside meditation, the inbox clean up I did last week is THE BEST thing I've done to free up space in my mind and heart. I feel more on top of what needs action, what needs deletion and in the times I want a pep up or to read something inspiring, I've organised myself a "To Read" Folder.

So here's how to accept my challenge of an inbox clean up:

Step 1: Be Brutal
You know those newsletters you've signed up to which you had all intentions of reading but if you're honest, you NEVER open their emails. Well UNSUBSCRIBE! The ones that you occasionally open, if they write some good copy that appeals to you, keep those (and I'll show you what to do with those later) but if you never read them UNSUBSCRIBE! And that includes my newsletter too.

Your time is important and even 2 seconds of your time seeing an email drop into your inbox that you know you'll never read is wasted time. 20 seconds wasted every day for 10 unread emails is 161 hours over a life time (assuming that you'll live to 80, hopefully even longer!) Thats almost a total week of your precious life wasted on something you know you wont read anyway.

Be brutal. Unsubscribe.

Step 2: Get Honest
Start at the oldest emails and DELETE. Now I use gmail as my email "holder" for mish@meditationwithmish.com and so I started with the oldest, "selected all" and then unclicked any emails I needed to keep for action or for reference or to read later. Delete, delete, delete!

Now get honest with yourself: is this email something you will actually, most definitely, without a doubt use later? Is it something for Tax or a Password or something you refer to regularly? If so, keep, if not DELETE! Same goes for things you want to read later. Will you actually, truly ruley, absolutely have the time to read this email later? Is it something that you will make time for, to come back to? If so, keep (and I'll show you where), if not DELETE!

My inbox went down from 1500 emails to just 160 by using this handy little step and man did it take a load off my mind.

Step 3: Organise
Folders. Yes, don't just keep all of this must action, must read stuff in your inbox. Arrange it into folders.

Admin, Bschool, Design, Document Templates, Follow Up, Ideas Collection, Marketing, Meditation Bookings, Moore Street Classes, Passwords, Payments, Personal, Retreats, Tax Stuff, To Read.

These are mine. Yes it might sound like a lot, but I know exactly where to go if I need something. I now move every email that drops into my inbox into one of these Folders or I press Delete. It keeps my mind and heart free!!

And in those times that I find I need inspiration I go to my "To Read" Folder and I pull out one of these babies that I'll share with you now that you've completed the Inbox Clean Up Challenge:

A few of my favourite things ... on the internet

The Wellness Warrior

This is where I read all my health stuff. Written by a woman in her late 20's, I resonate with the stuff that Jess shares. Mostly targeted at women, she posts interviews, recipes, inspiration, mind-busting tools, great info on meditation. I think its so important to follow at least one health blog, there are loads out there, so find one that resonates with you.
www.thewellnesswarrior.com.au

Marie Forleo

This year I enrolled in Marie's program Bschool which is all about building your business online. Oh! But it's so much more than that!! I receive business building, life inspiring videos from Marie each Wednesday and generally I get up on a Wednesday morning, sit on the toilet and watch them. Sorry if that's too much information, but that is just an indication of how much I can't wait to watch them! If you're an entrepreneur or just someone who likes to be entertained, definitely subscribe to Marie's newsletter.
www.marieforleo.com

The Daily Love

Mastin Kipp is the guy that writes this blog and I love his straight down the line coaching style when it comes to life, love, fears and just all the stuff that stops you from getting the most out of life. I've done his "Find your Soul's True Purpose" course and am currently going through his "Love and Relationships Mastery" Course. They're all great value and I resonate with is no BS style and so if you resonate with no BS then I think you'll like it too.
www.thedailylove.com

Gabrielle Bernstein

Gabby is all over Meditation and Spirituality so I love checking out her weekly videos and learning a new Meditation or watching her Interviews with other inspiring peeps in the Spiritual or Healing scene. I tend to buy all the books she recommends as they're right up my alley! Her books are also amazing! I'm still yet to read her "May Cause Miracles" book but its the next on my list (when I get through the 10 sitting on my bedside table ha!)
www.gabbyb.tv

Leonie Dawson

This lady is crazy Spiritual meets Business. She's eccentric, colourful and "woo woo" and although generally that's not my style being practical, analytical Mish, I have resonated with a few of her down to earth, again no BS posts around relationships which you can read here and here. But check her out and see what you think for yourself.
www.leoniedawson.com

And so they're my favourite things on the Internet right now. I hope after you've taken on the Inbox Clean Up Challenge that you'll check some of them out and that they bring as many smiles and happiness into your life as they do for me. And if you already know a few of these, let me know what you think of them in the comments below. Maybe I've missed some of their gold?!

I've loved sharing with you xx

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turn that frown upside down {breathing space}

5/20/2013

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in this week's breathing space recording we are going to turn our frown's upside down with a little meditation inspired by the book Eat Pray Love

so get yourself comfortable, press play and let me guide you through this week's meditation >>

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1. Scroll down to the bottom of this post and click "Web", zoom in and then press play.
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so how was the meditation smiley? let me know how you went in the comments, i'd love to hear feedback from you xx

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the free-time guilts

5/19/2013

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Last week I had a morning in bed.

Yep, I did, really, I had to. I had a bad run-in with my "lady problems" (sorry boys for the over share) and my body said "Whoa nelly, you're not getting up to email, write blogs, create meditations or even feed yourself. All I'm going to allow you to do this morning is get a hot water bottle and lay horizontal."

Now laying still doing nothing doesn't sit all that well with me. Hence why meditation is the perfect teacher for me. I get the serious guilts. The kind of guilt that starts to turn anxiety ridden (if I let it).

I've always got "stuff" to do. I rarely, if ever, actually, never ever do I have nothing to do. And this "stuff" tends to take priority over just lazing around hanging out in bed. I like doing the "stuff". I don't want to give up my "stuff" but when one morning of forced bed laying had me feel guilty, I'm thinking hmmmm maybe I've got a little imbalance going on? Maybe my "stuff" is doing me!

In these busy times of fast technology, everything at our finger tips, loads of books, blogs and emails to read. Instagram and Facebook to check and post on. People to meet and call and work with. Creative, strategic and fun marketing plans to devise. Websites to update. Podcasts, webinars and online courses to listen to. Not to mention food to buy, prepare and eat and houses to clean, clothes to wash, showers to be had and relationships to be nurtured.

Where does free-time fit in? And do you find if you do have a pocket of free time, which seems such a luxury these days, you don't necessarily fully enjoy it? Does the thought of just laying in bed make you a wee bit nervous, a tincy-wincy bit guilty?

If you do feel like me, guilty at the thought of free-time, maybe your "stuff" is doing you too! Don't let it get to a point where your "lady problems" or exhaustion or the flu have to force you to have a morning in bed. Give up the guilt and enjoy some free time.

But how?

Hit it with meditation. Now this isn't by using the closed-eyed, sit on a pillow kind of meditation. Although that's a great training ground. I often guide my clients through emotion observation meditations so they have more power riding the emotional stuff when it arises. When the emotional stuff does arise, I like to use an in-the-moment mindfulness approach.

So here's how: firstly schedule yourself some free time. Make it something that's really going to get that guilt going. For me that's laying in bed, unshowered, unmakeuped and unrecognisable until 11am (pushing 12 I think I'd run out of the bedroom screaming, so lets just leave it at 11am for now).

Your guilty free time might be sitting on the couch in your pjs eating chocolate for breakfast. It might be strolling along the beach, picking up pretty shells and beachy creatures and ignoring your watch. It could even be sitting down with a cup of tea, a magazine and leaving that dirty pile of dishes.

But if your guilty free time is laying in bed (like I was forced to), you're allowed to have a book. But no business topics, no self development, make it something trashy, something that's going to add absolutely nothing to your life other than a smile. No emails, no social media, pretend you're back in the 80s again.

The thoughts will come "I can't do this. I've got to get to my "stuff". Come on, people will stop liking your page on Facebook unless you post something! Go on, just post one quote on instagram. Sh*t I forgot to get the washing off the line and I can hear it's started raining!"

Take a deep breath, notice the thoughts, connect with the feeling of guilt and slight panic, feel it in your body, say "Hello there old friend Guilt, I know you're freaking out because you think I'm going to die if I don't get to my stuff this morning, but its aye okay. I'm staying in bed this morning and I'm going to get back to my trashy book now".

Let the guilt be there, feel it in your body, let the thoughts be there, notice them when they have something to say, but stay in bed, ride it out, realise that thoughts of "stuff" and feelings of guilt wont kill you, just stay in bed unshowered, unmakeuped and unrecognisable and watch what happens.

We love to sit with the "good" feelings don't we. That's easy! But sitting with the "bad" feelings is just as beneficial. Getting to know all of the colours of your rainbow-filled emotional landscape gives you more insight, more knowing and more understanding of YOU!

And the more you understand you the more choice you have to choose free time days (mornings or moments) or busy time days. YOU get to choose when to do your stuff. You are doing your stuff, your stuff's not doing you!

Am I alone here? Do you feel guilty having free-time? Have you ever just sat with your "bad" emotions? What happened when you did. Share, share, share with me by commenting below xx

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who are you really? {breathing space}

5/13/2013

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in this week's breathing space recording we are going to enquire into "who am I really?" >>

<< it's a great question to meditate upon and to begin to connect to your own truth and innate wisdom on the topic.

But let me guide you through it by pressing play below >>

A happy little warning:
this Breathing Space goes for a little longer than our usual meditations together, so make sure you can set aside just over 13 minutes for this little beauty.

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So take your time, allow yourself to process the reading. You may want to listen to it again to allow your answers to come from that silent space, rather than your judging and analysing mind. If you do have something to share, feel free to comment below.

And if you're interested in going deeper into this question, the reading in this meditation was taken from the book "Falling into Grace" by Adyashanti and you can purchase it by clicking here.

I hope you enjoyed taking some time out from your day and I can't wait to meditate with you again next week xx

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the every day lie

5/12/2013

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You don't have to meditate every day!

You don't have to meditate every day!

You don't have to meditate every day!

Say it after me ...

I don't have to meditate every day!

Phew!!

I too used to believe the "every day" lie. And this lie stopped me from meditating.

Who was I kidding? I knew I was never going to meditate every day! I'm a busy woman, I've got stuff to do, important stuff, stuff that HAS to get done. Stuff that is way more important than sitting still in silence for 15 minutes. (Pffffttt even non-important stuff is more important than that!)

So I thought, if I commit to starting this meditating-biz and I have to miss a day because of my important stuff (which surely I would), then whats the point in starting?! I'll just fail anyway. And then I'll never get any of the anti-aging, stress busting, focus clearing, relationship improving, happy vibe-ing benefits that these meditating peeps go on about.

I know! I'll wait till I've finished all my important stuff.

The "important stuff finishes" lie. Important stuff never finishes. Have you noticed that?

So a year or two goes by, important Mish-stuff doesn't finish, and I still want all of these meditating benefits (even more actually because I've heard it helps with all the important stuff!)

So I now have two choices: commit to meditating every day (which I still know will NEVER happen) OR stop believing the "every day" lie.

Soooo because I'm a girl who wants to have it ALL, the important stuff AND the meditating benefits, I stopped believing the lie. Simple as that.

I don't have to meditate every day .... Yehaaar!

I don't have to meditate every day .... Whoop whoop!

I don't have to meditate every day .... Wahoo!

Say it after me ...

I don't have to meditate every day .... Yippee!

Other lies I also gave up are as follows:

I won't get the meditating benefits unless I meditate every day
I'm not really a meditator unless I meditate every day
I'm not doing it right unless I meditate every day
I'm being lazy and copping-out if I don't meditate every day

Obviously to get the meditating benefits I do have to meditate regularly, but now I meditate when I choose to. Which is sometimes every day, sometimes twice a day, but never always every day ;-)

I meditate when it feels right for me to meditate. I fit it amongst the important stuff and I give it an "important stuff" purpose so that it's inspiring and empowering for me to meditate. If I miss a day, its no biggie, I just do it the next day, or the next day, or the next ...

So are you willing to give up the "every day" lie? When does it work for you to meditate? Once a week? Once a month? Here and there? Let me know in the comments below and what other lies you're giving up that stop you from doing awesome stuff in your life?!!

Of course, if giving up the "every day" lie doesn't leap you into a meditating frenzy and it still feels impossible to fit it in, why not click here to book in a regular (weekly, monthly, 6 monthly) Meditation Session with me where you can set aside time for THE most important stuff - YOU!!

I promise an hour with me will save you at least 2 hours of wasted mind-mess.

And if you'd just be so, so sad to miss out on any future lie busting posts from me, make absolutely sure you're on the newsletter list by putting your email in the box below and pressing "add me to the list"!

And to finish with my favourite little quote by who knows who:

"Don't believe everything you think!"

it might just be a big fat "every day" lie,

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dogs & elephants

5/6/2013

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dogs & elephants in this week's breathing space? what the fruit?! i got you to read it though didn't i? hehe!

i promise though if you press play below you'll find out what dogs & elephants actually do have to do with this weeks breathing space and then you'll be taken off into the blissful world of meditative "listening".

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So how'd you go? What did you notice and observe as you really listened to each of the music tracks I so "technologically" faded together for you (so proud of my growing recording skills!). Share your experience with all of us meditators in the comments below.

I know a few of you are going to have loved some of the tracks and want to listen some more (maybe you hated others?) so here's the names and artists and a link so you can purchase them on iTunes.

Track 1. Lioness Eye by Xavier Rudd click here to purchase
Track 2. Baba Hanuman by Krishna Das click here to purchase
Track 3. Bizet: Carmen Suite #1 on The Art of Landscape CD
*sorry iTunes doesn't stock this exact track but I'm sure you could search around :-(
Track 4. Timsel by Mumford & Sons click here to purchase

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Until we meditate together again next week, make sure you don't put any dogs in any boxes okay?! ;-)

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a text i wrote to a girlfriend ...

5/5/2013

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So man troubles! I text my girlfriends about other things too (no really I do!) but my friends and want awesome relationships with our men and so who better to ask for advice than a girlfriend who's been there and done that?

So that's what this text to my girlfriend is all about. She's in a new, live-in relationship which always requires a few "adjustments" (nice way of saying "what the f*ck am I doing?! Have I made a BIG mistake? I think I'm better at being single").

And well you see I was there too, only just over 2 years ago.

Here's the background:
I moved up to Thirroul from Melbourne because I'd found love! I could chat to my Melbourne girlfriends over the phone but pretty much I knew no-one up here. Started a new job, lived in a new house, with a new boyfriend. No girlfriends, no family (other than over the phone) so you could say I had to make a few "adjustments".

So when my girlfriend text me in distress I wrote her a text that I would have liked to have received from myself 2 years ago and so I thought I'd share it with you too x

my advice to my younger self helped xx

I hope my advice to my younger self helped you too!!

I wish we could write a text to our younger selves. Often I will sit in meditation and go back to a time that I needed support or advice and I whisper like an angel into my ear what I think I need. Or just give myself a hug. Whether or not it works on some quantum time-space level, who knows?! But it makes me feel better so that's all that counts. You should try it!

So yeah what about you? What advice would you give to your younger self about your relationship or relationships past? I'd love to hear about it in the comments below. No really I would LOVE to hear it!! It's like my favourite thing to talk about!!

And if you never, ever want to miss out on future texts to my girlfriends make sure you've signed up for my updates below xx

Can't wait to hang out again but until then ...
allow true love to arise
be "warts and all" YOU
stop doing stuff and start just being
sit back and allow answers to come to you
have more chai with your girlfriends
open your eyes to the bazillion blessings around you
and cry more
xx

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feel how you want to feel now {breathing space}

i'm in a "sharing is caring" kinda mood so rather than listen to me this week, I'm going to share with you a meditation recorded by an inspiring soul, coach and speaker that i recently met at a blogging event >>

<< so enjoy this meditation recorded for you by Connie Chapman which guides you through feeling how you want to feel right now.

Click here to be transported over to her site and make sure you come back to tell me what you thought by commenting below :-)

a few of my favourite things

make sure you never miss out on any challenges from me again by popping your email in the box below, i'll keep you in the loop xx

turn that frown upside down {breathing space}

in this week's breathing space recording we are going to turn our frown's upside down with a little meditation inspired by the book Eat Pray Love

so get yourself comfortable, press play and let me guide you through this week's meditation >>

if you cannot see the player:

so how was the meditation smiley? let me know how you went in the comments, i'd love to hear feedback from you xx

the free-time guilts

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who are you really? {breathing space}

in this week's breathing space recording we are going to enquire into "who am I really?" >>

<< it's a great question to meditate upon and to begin to connect to your own truth and innate wisdom on the topic.

But let me guide you through it by pressing play below >>

CLICK HERE to listen in iTunes
press arrow to download and play from your iTunes app under "Podcasts"

if you'd like to be emailed more weekly mediations like this pop your email in the box below >>

the every day lie

dogs & elephants

a text i wrote to a girlfriend ...

my advice to my younger self helped xx

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i'm in a "sharing is caring" kinda mood so rather than listen to me this week, I'm going to share with you a meditation recorded by an inspiring soul, coach and speaker that i recently met at a blogging event >>

<< so enjoy this meditation recorded for you by Connie Chapman which guides you through feeling how you want to feel right now. Click here to be transported over to her site and make sure you come back to tell me what you thought by commenting below :-)

make sure you never miss out on any challenges from me again by popping your email in the box below, i'll keep you in the loop xx

in this week's breathing space recording we are going to turn our frown's upside down with a little meditation inspired by the book Eat Pray Love so get yourself comfortable, press play and let me guide you through this week's meditation >>

if you cannot see the player:

so how was the meditation smiley? let me know how you went in the comments, i'd love to hear feedback from you xx

want updates if mish writes a new blog? put your email below and you'll never miss out!

in this week's breathing space recording we are going to enquire into "who am I really?" >> << it's a great question to meditate upon and to begin to connect to your own truth and innate wisdom on the topic.

But let me guide you through it by pressing play below >>

CLICK HERE to listen in iTunes press arrow to download and play from your iTunes app under "Podcasts"

if you'd like to be emailed more weekly mediations like this pop your email in the box below >>

my advice to my younger self helped xx

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<< so enjoy this meditation recorded for you by Connie Chapman which guides you through feeling how you want to feel right now.

Click here to be transported over to her site and make sure you come back to tell me what you thought by commenting below :-)

in this week's breathing space recording we are going to turn our frown's upside down with a little meditation inspired by the book Eat Pray Love

so get yourself comfortable, press play and let me guide you through this week's meditation >>

want updates if mish writes a new blog?
put your email below and you'll never miss out!

in this week's breathing space recording we are going to enquire into "who am I really?" >>

<< it's a great question to meditate upon and to begin to connect to your own truth and innate wisdom on the topic.

CLICK HERE to listen in iTunes
press arrow to download and play from your iTunes app under "Podcasts"