Starting up a blog as the year rolls into next - kind of cool :-)

More joy and peace in our lives... a good thought as the holidays draw closer. One of the key ways to get that joy and peace in our lives is to tame our gremlins! You know, the little voices/urges in our heads that are always questioning us: "are you doing the right thing here?", "are you sure?", "have you been a good enough person?" -- or often telling us we are not.

We ARE NOT our gremlins. After all, if we are listening to it, who is listening? So where are our gremlins and how do we tame them? By paying attention to our tension - tension in our bodies, tension in our thoughts (those thoughts where you sense the voice gets an electric charge, louder, more intense). Our tensions are our gremlins.

If we pay attention and unwind from that tension (through biofeedback or conscious stretching or good bodywork) we'll often remember the whole series of choices/decisions - many out of conscious awareness even -- that we've made over the years to get in our current tense spot. The choice to keep our lips buttoned over something we didn't dare say years ago that now travels up into a nasty migraine whenever we are especially "tactful."

We can learn we have to deal with the worry and stress in our situation - and take steps to resolve it. But we don't have to let our bodies get so involved in the process that we uncage a gremlin :-)

The result - more joy and peace in our lives, which I sure wish to all!

Erica Bliss Winston, LMBT
Licenses Massage and Bodywork Therapist
www.massage-therapy-cary.com