It has been awhile I know.. I have been busy! If you want to know more about my business, then you are better off checking our new blog at http://mindbodyinstitute.blogspot.com/.
This entry is all about our obsession with good food. Those of you who knew us in Canberra would have known we had our beloved Cassius Clay oven which provided yummy pizza, bread and cooked food. Well it’s been over 2 years and it was time to build it again. It’s not the same, but we didn’t want that anyway.
This link will show you how it was built from a particular stage. It took two days to build it and we did it through rain, hail and sunshine (and that was just in two days). A big thanks to Tracy and her daughter Khali.
Enjoy - Click here to launch
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Saturday, February 20, 2010
What's been happening?
I've been a busy girl. The power of intention and action has worked well for me. Last October I met a wonderful, inspiring woman and within 2 weeks we had decided to set up shop together at a central location that practically fell into my lap. Since then I have been very busy as we decided to join forces which meant, new name, new signage, new business cards, new website, new blog, new marketing material and new projects.
So this is Sharon Chisholm...
Life coach, mind coach, hypnotherapist and energy therapist. Together we make an awesome team and can deliver a total mind and body approach. With that in mind we have established the Mind and Body Institute and will shortly be launching the website. The blog is up already though and can be found through the following link – http://mindbodyinstitute.blogspot.com/
So this blog will remain largely for personal updates and of course following my personal interest in keeping everything organic – food, health and lifestyle.
So this is Sharon Chisholm...
Life coach, mind coach, hypnotherapist and energy therapist. Together we make an awesome team and can deliver a total mind and body approach. With that in mind we have established the Mind and Body Institute and will shortly be launching the website. The blog is up already though and can be found through the following link – http://mindbodyinstitute.blogspot.com/
So this blog will remain largely for personal updates and of course following my personal interest in keeping everything organic – food, health and lifestyle.
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Imaging a World full of Positive People!
One organisation and one person of worthy note are making a difference and promoting positive impacts in the world. The first being the High Ideals Association which is promoting positivity, integrity and impact in business - imaging that!
The second person is author of the book Spiritual Business - Creating a Business from the Heart - Kate Forster. A most amazing way to realign and plan your business to a positive, values based, integrity based position. I highly recommend the book to anyone thinking of venturing into business or realigning their current business plan. I'm currently developing my final business plan with my new awesome partner Sharon Chisholm (a founding member of High Ideals) and it has made it not only enjoyable, but a soulful journey of self discovery, planning and goal setting.
Friday, January 1, 2010
A New Decade... Will it bring you peace & joy?
A New Decade, Will it Bring You Peace & Joy?
At this time of year many people decide that this year will be different! This year they will make a change and for once and for all get off that treadmill! Then they make a goal, a date to start and throw themselves in to it or find reasons why they can't start this week. For those that throw themselves in at the deep end, only a few will make it to the other end. For those who don't, then the treadmill appears again, they revert to previous behaviour, they beat themselves up, they let down their family, friends and themselves and they get nowhere. Why does this happen!
A combination of factors keeps us on our treadmills but for the most part it's our pre-programming. For every experience from the mundane, to family and social upsets and to the extreme trauma's that occur in our lives, our unconscious mind looks at our previous experiences and determines how we react based on what we've done before (hence the concept of programming).
OK so here's an easy example. Sue wants to lose weight... her unconscious mind reacts to that thought by search for what happened the last time (or few) when she tried? Previously Sue lost some weight and everyone noticed and gave her lots of comments, she was really noticed. However, after a while, Sue found that it was really kind of annoying because they didn't say nice things to her before and she knows that there’s more to her than her looks! Then Sue went through some work stress and the weight crept back on again and she started to feel bad about myself again... and the comments stopped and she felt ashamed... thinking why can't I just keep it off!
Know anyone who's done this? Or stopped smoking only to start it up again a few months later? Or said that this year they were going to change their job because they hated the one they were in and yet didn’t do anything about it?
Your unconscious mind saw that it didn't work last time, or the time before and it wasn't much fun when you did, or it felt too unsafe to make the change permanent and therefore it uses the same program again or it tries to sabotage you from starting so that each effort has to be greater and bigger than the last time you tried.
Then when you combine the devastating physical effects of being stressed, you set yourself up for failure and worse... illness or dis-ease. If you want to know what stress can do to you, just watch this excert from David Marc, an expert in the psychology of eating, as he talks about the important role stress plays in digestion and how it can stop you from loosing weight.
On the other side of the coin, many people can remember a time when they did identify a new goal, one that they have never thought of before and it happened relatively easily. That's because their unconscious mind hasn't had a negative program to use before and most likely they truly did believe they could do it and so did it. However, the older you become, the harder it seems to launch into a goal and achieve it as we have a lot more experiences to prove to ourselves that we aren’t worthy, or failed before or are not clever, strong or have enough will power and so forth. We’ve been running these programs for years and we didn’t even know it!
So how do you re-program yourself when your programs are not working for you? Our minds use our five senses and are largely visual and auditory when we store our programs. What we need to do is reprogram our negative associations by searching and finding the memory (the one that set up the program in the first place) and release the trauma that we are still holding on to. Then the next step is to give it a new positive program instead. That way when your unconscious mind goes to look for the program it has one that is more empowering for you. It could also mean that many memories need to be resolved before the program is released. The process we use at the Coffs Body and Mind Connection is called Matrix Re-Imprinting and it is very gentle and relaxing. It can be done over the phone or face to face and can be used on one or a string of memories to release the old patterns and make way for the new ones. The new patterns can then be laid in through hypnosis and time line therapy and the outcome is a transformation of your future. Contact us today to rewrite your past and transform your future.
At this time of year many people decide that this year will be different! This year they will make a change and for once and for all get off that treadmill! Then they make a goal, a date to start and throw themselves in to it or find reasons why they can't start this week. For those that throw themselves in at the deep end, only a few will make it to the other end. For those who don't, then the treadmill appears again, they revert to previous behaviour, they beat themselves up, they let down their family, friends and themselves and they get nowhere. Why does this happen!
A combination of factors keeps us on our treadmills but for the most part it's our pre-programming. For every experience from the mundane, to family and social upsets and to the extreme trauma's that occur in our lives, our unconscious mind looks at our previous experiences and determines how we react based on what we've done before (hence the concept of programming).
OK so here's an easy example. Sue wants to lose weight... her unconscious mind reacts to that thought by search for what happened the last time (or few) when she tried? Previously Sue lost some weight and everyone noticed and gave her lots of comments, she was really noticed. However, after a while, Sue found that it was really kind of annoying because they didn't say nice things to her before and she knows that there’s more to her than her looks! Then Sue went through some work stress and the weight crept back on again and she started to feel bad about myself again... and the comments stopped and she felt ashamed... thinking why can't I just keep it off!
Know anyone who's done this? Or stopped smoking only to start it up again a few months later? Or said that this year they were going to change their job because they hated the one they were in and yet didn’t do anything about it?
Your unconscious mind saw that it didn't work last time, or the time before and it wasn't much fun when you did, or it felt too unsafe to make the change permanent and therefore it uses the same program again or it tries to sabotage you from starting so that each effort has to be greater and bigger than the last time you tried.
Then when you combine the devastating physical effects of being stressed, you set yourself up for failure and worse... illness or dis-ease. If you want to know what stress can do to you, just watch this excert from David Marc, an expert in the psychology of eating, as he talks about the important role stress plays in digestion and how it can stop you from loosing weight.
On the other side of the coin, many people can remember a time when they did identify a new goal, one that they have never thought of before and it happened relatively easily. That's because their unconscious mind hasn't had a negative program to use before and most likely they truly did believe they could do it and so did it. However, the older you become, the harder it seems to launch into a goal and achieve it as we have a lot more experiences to prove to ourselves that we aren’t worthy, or failed before or are not clever, strong or have enough will power and so forth. We’ve been running these programs for years and we didn’t even know it!
So how do you re-program yourself when your programs are not working for you? Our minds use our five senses and are largely visual and auditory when we store our programs. What we need to do is reprogram our negative associations by searching and finding the memory (the one that set up the program in the first place) and release the trauma that we are still holding on to. Then the next step is to give it a new positive program instead. That way when your unconscious mind goes to look for the program it has one that is more empowering for you. It could also mean that many memories need to be resolved before the program is released. The process we use at the Coffs Body and Mind Connection is called Matrix Re-Imprinting and it is very gentle and relaxing. It can be done over the phone or face to face and can be used on one or a string of memories to release the old patterns and make way for the new ones. The new patterns can then be laid in through hypnosis and time line therapy and the outcome is a transformation of your future. Contact us today to rewrite your past and transform your future.
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
What went wrong?
I'm absolutely enthralled at the moment with the idea that with modernisation and science, we've lost so much and put our earth, health and future at risk. The information that I have read and watched over the last week has been enlightening to say the least.
First one is the new book by Dan Brown - the Lost Symbol. Now, I do love Dan Brown's work, he writes such thrillers about historic data which sends people into frenzies on whether what he's written is fact or fiction. I'm not going to weigh into the debate. What I do like about his book, so far (I haven't finished it yet) is the mentioning of Noetic Science.... I didn't even know that this science existed and yet I work with it almost on a daily basis! www.noetic.org states that their mission is to advance the science of consciousness and human experience to serve individual and collective transformation. How fantastic is that! The book explains that it is about the potential of the human consciousness to transform, heal and read the human information field or conscious blue print of every living thing on this planet.
The second piece of information I received yesterday is the film - The Living Matrix. I saw about 10 minutes of this at the EFT extravaganza conference I attended a couple of weeks ago and knew I had to see the whole thing. I can't recommend it highly enough to anyone in the healing/alternative health or even mainstream medicine fields. It talks about the human morphogenic field which is energetic and which our cells use to determine how to react. The old Newtonian way of believing that we are machines does not hold true any longer and there is a split in the scientific world now between the old physics and the quantum physics world. This film shows how you can help yourself and tells you why you shouldn't just trust the current medical model to help you get well. It's too limited and they work in the dark about why you are unwell in the first place. Did you also know that it is well known that over 1/3 of medical cures are because of the Placebo effect? The Placebo effect is where the person's belief that the cure will work actually cures the person. The film provides one example where a number of arthritic patients were selected to have the same operation on their knees and half of them were only cut open and then closed and yet up to 3 years later they were saying how much better they were and had no further pain. Nothing had been done to them other than supplying stitches!
Lastly... I subscribe to the Food Matters newsletters and they have released this free 1/2 hour documentary on the Gamo Highlands of the African Rift Valley and the unique worldview held by the people of the region. This isolated area has remained remarkably intact both biologically and culturally. It is one of the most densely populated rural regions of Africa yet its people have been farming sustainably for 10,000 years. It shows how much we have lost in the green industrial revolution since the 1950s. I also love the fact that they have a spiritual approach to growing their own food and give thanks to the creator and to the mountains. Watch it here:
First one is the new book by Dan Brown - the Lost Symbol. Now, I do love Dan Brown's work, he writes such thrillers about historic data which sends people into frenzies on whether what he's written is fact or fiction. I'm not going to weigh into the debate. What I do like about his book, so far (I haven't finished it yet) is the mentioning of Noetic Science.... I didn't even know that this science existed and yet I work with it almost on a daily basis! www.noetic.org states that their mission is to advance the science of consciousness and human experience to serve individual and collective transformation. How fantastic is that! The book explains that it is about the potential of the human consciousness to transform, heal and read the human information field or conscious blue print of every living thing on this planet.
The second piece of information I received yesterday is the film - The Living Matrix. I saw about 10 minutes of this at the EFT extravaganza conference I attended a couple of weeks ago and knew I had to see the whole thing. I can't recommend it highly enough to anyone in the healing/alternative health or even mainstream medicine fields. It talks about the human morphogenic field which is energetic and which our cells use to determine how to react. The old Newtonian way of believing that we are machines does not hold true any longer and there is a split in the scientific world now between the old physics and the quantum physics world. This film shows how you can help yourself and tells you why you shouldn't just trust the current medical model to help you get well. It's too limited and they work in the dark about why you are unwell in the first place. Did you also know that it is well known that over 1/3 of medical cures are because of the Placebo effect? The Placebo effect is where the person's belief that the cure will work actually cures the person. The film provides one example where a number of arthritic patients were selected to have the same operation on their knees and half of them were only cut open and then closed and yet up to 3 years later they were saying how much better they were and had no further pain. Nothing had been done to them other than supplying stitches!
Lastly... I subscribe to the Food Matters newsletters and they have released this free 1/2 hour documentary on the Gamo Highlands of the African Rift Valley and the unique worldview held by the people of the region. This isolated area has remained remarkably intact both biologically and culturally. It is one of the most densely populated rural regions of Africa yet its people have been farming sustainably for 10,000 years. It shows how much we have lost in the green industrial revolution since the 1950s. I also love the fact that they have a spiritual approach to growing their own food and give thanks to the creator and to the mountains. Watch it here:
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
At last the Science is catching up what some have known for hundreds of years
Today I've been learning a technique called Matrix Reimprinting and it has been totally fascinating. The science behind it is provided by Dr Bruce Lipton. The information is not new if you look deeper into spiritual practices like Buddhism and the Course in Miracles.
If you're interested in how our health is affected by our environment and beliefs then there are a number of Youtube interviews with Dr Lipton. Here's just one:
Dr Lipton talks about the importance of changing the pre-recorded tape we have going in our minds. He also offers a couple of ways to do this. Over the last week, I've learnt two other ways. One is the Matrix Reimprinting technique which uses EFT to change the tape (our unconscious or subconscious mind largely works with pictures) into new empowering pictures and releases the trauma that you may have experienced previously. After all, it is in the past, why would you want to hold onto it?! Especially if it is currently providing you with a trigger that brings about a behaviour you'd rather not have or do (such as over eating, anxiety attacks, yelling at the kids etc).
The second process goes towards creating new behaviours by changing our negative way of thinking. The technique is called DreamCatcher. For one minute a day, you write down what you would have/do/be if you had absolutely not limits on money, time or talent and seems impossible for you to have right now! The idea is not necessarily to reach for these ideas/items/desires, it's to retrain your mind into a more positive way of thinking. To stop arguing for your own limitations! What a wonderful idea that would be... here's what I put down in one minute..
I'd have my own Panda, Zoo and Nature reserve in Africa. Be the queen of animals so that I could stand up for their rights and repatriate animals out of captivity. Be a star in the universe. Own 10 different houses in all the continents of the planet. Open my own gallery in NYC full of my art.
So try it... one minute each day... challenge yourself to change your mindset. Like Dr Lipton says, you need to make it a habit.. so do it for at least 21 days and see the difference.
If you're interested in how our health is affected by our environment and beliefs then there are a number of Youtube interviews with Dr Lipton. Here's just one:
Dr Lipton talks about the importance of changing the pre-recorded tape we have going in our minds. He also offers a couple of ways to do this. Over the last week, I've learnt two other ways. One is the Matrix Reimprinting technique which uses EFT to change the tape (our unconscious or subconscious mind largely works with pictures) into new empowering pictures and releases the trauma that you may have experienced previously. After all, it is in the past, why would you want to hold onto it?! Especially if it is currently providing you with a trigger that brings about a behaviour you'd rather not have or do (such as over eating, anxiety attacks, yelling at the kids etc).
The second process goes towards creating new behaviours by changing our negative way of thinking. The technique is called DreamCatcher. For one minute a day, you write down what you would have/do/be if you had absolutely not limits on money, time or talent and seems impossible for you to have right now! The idea is not necessarily to reach for these ideas/items/desires, it's to retrain your mind into a more positive way of thinking. To stop arguing for your own limitations! What a wonderful idea that would be... here's what I put down in one minute..
I'd have my own Panda, Zoo and Nature reserve in Africa. Be the queen of animals so that I could stand up for their rights and repatriate animals out of captivity. Be a star in the universe. Own 10 different houses in all the continents of the planet. Open my own gallery in NYC full of my art.
So try it... one minute each day... challenge yourself to change your mindset. Like Dr Lipton says, you need to make it a habit.. so do it for at least 21 days and see the difference.
Saturday, October 31, 2009
Viva le Revolution!
For as long as I can remember my family always had some form of veggie patch in suburbia Melbourne and Canberra. When I moved out of home, it wasn't until I moved into my first rental house that I could start growing veggies again and it didn't take me long to get back into it - even as a single mum at the time, I loved the idea of going out the back and picking what I was going to eat that night.
Most people don't bother. They just go to one of the big super markets and purchase their food there. It's convenient. But at what cost? Listen to any media these days and they are reporting higher obesity levels, increased cancer, diabetes and disorders such as ADHD and Autism. Food allergies and sensitivities have gone through the roof also. When are we going to realise that our move to production and processed food is in line with the increase of dis-ease and dis-orders we are experiencing today? A move to a natural, sustainable approach is on the way... not only because many people don't want chemical, genetically modified food, but because we have to.
How much more can you're body take? A veggie garden doesn't have to take hours each weekend and by getting the kids involved, then you create interest and ownership in the food that lands on the table. I found this Youtube movie inspiring, hopefully you will too.
Most people don't bother. They just go to one of the big super markets and purchase their food there. It's convenient. But at what cost? Listen to any media these days and they are reporting higher obesity levels, increased cancer, diabetes and disorders such as ADHD and Autism. Food allergies and sensitivities have gone through the roof also. When are we going to realise that our move to production and processed food is in line with the increase of dis-ease and dis-orders we are experiencing today? A move to a natural, sustainable approach is on the way... not only because many people don't want chemical, genetically modified food, but because we have to.
How much more can you're body take? A veggie garden doesn't have to take hours each weekend and by getting the kids involved, then you create interest and ownership in the food that lands on the table. I found this Youtube movie inspiring, hopefully you will too.
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