Daily Practice Tips

One of my SHIFT IT clients, Margaret from Denmark, asked me during one of her coaching calls to explain what my daily practice is like.  She wanted to know what a regular day was like for me and what I do to live the SHIFT-IT and Law of Attraction principles that I teach and preach.

First off, I had to explain that I don’t have a regular day per se.  That my schedule tends to morph according to what I have going on that week.  Sometimes I have a workshop that I’m leading, or a private retreat or training that someone is coming in for.  Or, many calls, interviews or sessions that I need to do by phone, Skype or webinar.  So it changes all the time – and being a fan of variety I like it that way (keeps life interesting).

Clumping My Days:
I do tend to clump my days though.  My coaching and other calls are usually conducted on Tuesdays or Thursdays.  I save Mondays and Wednesdays for writing and working on my business (not in it).  And Fridays and Saturdays are for specialty trainings and retreats (but only once or twice a month … otherwise I take a nice long weekend … interrupted maybe by a tele-seminar on Sunday morning).

As for daily practices, these are the things I regularly build into my day … they have become habits that support my lifestyle:

Record My Dreams:
Each morning when I wake up I record my dreams from the night before.  I learned about dream interpretation from Gayle Delaney and really like her ‘dream interview’ method.  As a grad student in San Francisco back in the ‘90s, I was lucky enough to do some research for Gayle for one of her books, and study with her — and her techniques for understanding yourself thru your dreams has stuck with me.

Best to write them down when they are fresh in your mind.  You can interpret them later when you have some time and are in that kind of reflective mood.

Create My Day:
While still in bed, I do another simple process to direct my energy in helpful ways.  Its called ‘Create Your Day’ and I got this one from Ramtha (who I wrote about a few issues back).  It’s a ‘pre-paving’ exercise. Which means that you write down very specifically how you want your day to go and how you want to be in it.  Takes just a few minutes but its pretty miraculous how it shifts your energy (which is what I need cause I tend to wake up grumpy and this practice makes me re-focus my mood quickly … so I’m creating from an upbeat vibe as opposed to a grumpy vibe).

Segment Intending:
Now, I’m not 100% on this one, I forget to do it at times … it’s something called ‘segment intending’ which I learned from Abraham-Hicks.  It’s basically a continuation of the Create Your Day exercise … but it’s about creating specific segments of my day as I enter them.

Our day happens in segments … the wake up segment, the dress and get ready segment, the get to your desk segment, all the different appointments and events that occur are segments.  Soooo, the idea is, before each segment to take a few moments and get clear about what you want to happen before you go do it. Like setting a mini-intention.  Sometimes life happens so fast it’s hard to get an intention in beforehand, but when you can, it is again miraculous how smooth things can go as a result.  Your brain, the field, the universe (whatever you want to call it) likes to receive and follow directions.  So with segment intending, you direct it!

Exercise and Good Food:
Things come up that occasionally interfere with this (like my recent boxing match with the Mexican parasite), however, for the most part I engage in regular, daily exercise and eat good, basic food. For me, my body seems to require regular protein to keep me balanced, stable and feeling good (fish, chicken, eggs, cottage cheese and protein shakes when I need something on the go).  I follow Bill Phillip’s Body for Life and Eating for Life materials.  It took several years, but I now have a lifestyle where these basics come first, then I build the rest of my schedule around them.  That way they get done, and I’m working off of a strong physical and energetic foundation.

Holosync Meditation Technology:
Ok, I’ll admit it, I’m a lazy meditator – I have a very hard time sticking to a regular meditation practice and an even harder time sitting in lotus position for long periods of time (my legs just don’t work that way, never have — despite the cute graphic below!).  I intellectually know the benefits of doing meditation (increased self-awareness, moving through emotional limitations, better ability to see how I am creating my world and course correct) but have a really hard time doing it in the traditional way.

So, what is the solution?  For me, it’s been the Holosync Meditation program.  I use it each night as I go to bed.  I simply stick the custom made CD into my CD player and slap on my headset.  Do I sit up as I should? … no, I prop up some pillows and lay back into them. Sometimes I drift off into sleep and that is ok by me.  Life is suppose to be fun.  I don’t believe meditation has to be hard.  So, it works for me and I’ve been very pleased with the results I’ve gotten.

Sooooooo, those are the things that I do each day to help keep me aligned and in good vibes – my daily practices if you will.  I couple these with other practices as I need them (like reviewing my vision map, doing SHIFT-IT templates (particularly the FLIP IT, Flip It Good map) and shifting my energy via Law of Attraction methods (positive aspects, focus wheels, gratitude dance, virtual reality and scriptwriting).  Keeping yourself and your vibe up is a discipline.  It’s a way of living.  Not hard to do but definitely does require ongoing and consistent application.  The more you do it the easier it gets … you get Law of Attraction working on your side.  And getting in that flow is a wonderful thing!

© 2008 Christina L. Merkley

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Christina Merkley, “The SHIFT-IT Coach” and creator of the SHIFT-IT Method® is a Visioning and Strategic Planning Expert specializing in Graphic Facilitation and Law of Attraction techniques. Based in charming Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, she works deeply with individuals, partners and groups in defining and getting what they really, really want. For more information visit: www.shift-it-coach.com

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