Category Archives: Healthy Relationships

Spiritual Meal Preparation

Spiritual Meal Preparation

healthy meal prepWith so many recipes available to us on the Internet, sometimes I forget that it is not the recipe that is important to meal-time, but the love that goes into preparing that meal.

My family can tell when I “throw something together!” Not by the taste of the recipe, but by the way I present it to them. The presentation is a direct result of how much love, or how much of myself, I put into the food. When I carefully measure, blend and stir, somehow the energy of the food is different and better than when I am not so careful.

How do you stir the pot?

How do you prepare the food for yourself and your family? Many times, I feel the heat at meal time to throw something together quickly and with the least possible trouble. However, with just a bit more concentration, I could infuse love and goodness into my family’s food.

It is important to treasure the moments you spend preparing a meal for yourself or loved ones. Make meal preparation enjoyable by planning what you will eat beforehand so that you can make the most of meal prep time.

Here are some mindful ways for you to make your meal preparation and family meal times more meaningful from start to finish:

bulletTake time to inspect fresh produce and meat. Is it ripe and beautiful? Is the meat truly fresh, or is it enhanced with color?  Choose fresh foods with care.

bulletWhen preparing a meal, handle foods with love. Think about the nutritious qualities of each food and how it will benefit you.

bulletAs you chop and slice, try to make the pieces of equal sizes so they are pleasing to the eye and easy to chew.

bulletAs you mix and cook, stir the foods carefully. Think about how much you love the ones who will eat this food (even if it is only for you!).

bulletStir the food in your pot clock-wise for better health and a happier family dinner time.

bulletMake eating time special. Play soft music, mention the nutritive values of the foods you’ve prepared, and be grateful from the inside out – you’ve spent quality time with your food!

Taking time to think about what you are preparing has the added benefit of priming your subconscious mind to believe that you are taking care of your body. Over time, you will begin choosing healthier foods naturally.

Life Coaching

Life Coaching

life coachingDo you want or need support and guidance to bring your dreams to life?  Are you willing to explore your reality and create a future in line with your soul’s desires?  If so, your Bluelady Muse Coaches are here to guide and focus your intentions as you venture along this exciting, and sometimes confusing, path.

  • Free first coaching session and interview
  • $250 per 30-day period

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What You Get From Life Coaching

Bluelady Muse Coaches draw on their life-experience and intuition to help you create a future of your choice.  Although you will correspond via email and phone with the one Bluelady Muse Coach of your choosing, you will gain the knowledge and experience of the entire Bluelady Coaching Team.  It is like having three coaches in one! (Erin and Kellie confer with their mother, our silent partner, Judy Christenson. Your information stays with our team!)

You may schedule a free, sample coaching session and interview to experience a Bluelady Muse coaching session and to decide if our coaches match well with your personality.  If you feel a connection and decide to work with us after the sample coaching session, then we will enroll you as a Bluelady Muse client and allow you to choose your personal coach from our staff.

All new clients will receive an Introductory Packet via email explaining Bluelady Muse’s coaching service, how to reach your coach, and what we ask of you to make the most of your coaching sessions.

Our coaching program is open and free-flowing to best meet the needs of our clients.  However, there are many things you can expect to happen during your enrollment.

Every 30-day enrollment in the Life Coaching Program gives you:

  • life coacingFour 1-2 hour phone calls
  • Continuous email correspondence with your coach
  • Special BLM programs personalized to you and offered only to clients
  • Detailed information about managing your time, focusing your intent, developing your intuition, using your senses to your highest good and using your nutrition and fitness habits to bring about holistic health and healing
  • Access to other Bluelady Muse coaching clients who want to share their knowledge, experience, hurdles and successes in group sessions (when available)
  • Discounted or Free Learning Sessions on a variety of topics on holistic wellness, divination methods, inner spirit quests, creativity, and alternative health solutions

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Coaching Uses and Focus

People who use coaches stay focused, balanced, and energized!  You use coaching to accelerate your movement toward your goals about family, spirituality, finances, career, or any other area or situation specific to your life.  Your coach will help you to develop, set and meet goals with measurable results, proving that there is nothing beyond your reach.  Bluelady Muse Coaches emphasize harmonizing your body, mind, spirit and senses to create a lifetime that you are enthusiastic about and proud of living.

I Want This!

Bad Ideas

Bad Ideas

Many of the ideas and beliefs ingrained into our minds are actually very bad ones. Here are five of the worst bad ideas you can allow to control your thinking:

Everything in my inner life has to be going perfectly before I can do what I want to do.

bad ideasShort answer: “Life is a process.” With so many aspects of life being both out of our control and messy (i.e. politics, traffic, etc.), the temptation to have what you can control completely subdued can be strong, especially if you have any tendencies toward perfectionism.

You wouldn’t go out with your makeup only partially applied—how could you go forth into this mad churning world without having all your internal ducks in a row? The difference is that putting on makeup for the day has a definite goal… when it’s done, it’s pretty much done.

Life is more dynamic; by its very nature, there is always pulling and pushing going on. The pitfall of wanting to have everything just right before you go ahead is that life doesn’t play fair. Weeds pulled from your garden grow right back. Dishes absolutely refuse to stay washed (and, I am convinced, reproduce like rabbits out of pure spite).

Our minds, spirits and bodies—therefore our lives—are like that. They need gentle maintenance as long as they’re around, as opposed to a one-time fix. Read the rest of this entry

The Balance Point

The Balance Point

balanceWhat happens around and inside of you determines where you place your balance point.

For example, you may want to spend more time on fitness and less time on housework. When you adjust your schedule to give fitness priority, then you are in balance.But if your white-gloved Auntie is coming for tea, then you may feel more in balance by attacking your dust-bunnies in lieu of an extra ten minutes on the treadmill! Read the rest of this entry

Spirit Isn’t Normal

Spirit Isn’t Normal

spirit and curiosityIt is easy to dismiss that small voice whispering, “Take the other road to work today,” if that road takes you on a round-about cruise instead of the direct shot to work that you’ve planned.

You think, “I must be over-stressed or avoiding work for some reason to even consider following that voice today!” Besides, you’ve already made the habitual turn onto your normal route.

Whatever your excuse, you effectively shut off Spirit’s message because it seemed irrational. After all, you’re a grown-up and you work hard to make well thought out, logical, good-for-everyone decisions! Being late for work is not responsible, so you continue on your pre-planned (very normal) route.

Most likely, nothing horrible will happen on your usual route. No accidents, no traffic jams, nothing. You tell yourself, “See? That voice meant nothing. I’m just crazy. What’s new?” And on you go with your normal day.

Normal thoughts. Normal people. Normal as far as the mind can see. Your mind likes Normal. It’s comfortable there.

But what might have you experienced if you listened to spirit?

Change Your Reaction to Spirit

What if your normal reaction to Spirit’s messages was to do as instructed? What if you cut out the habitual patterns that your mind and body construct? What if doing what spirit asked became, well, normal?

You would heal. You would create new thoughts. You would feel fully. You would have no limit. You would become more than you ever thought possible. You would move mountains. Or you may find a better job on a little-traveled road while rushing to the job you hate.

If you want to find wholeness, wellness, greatness of heart, you have to follow Spirit’s lead. To follow Spirit’s lead, you first must listen to that small voice.

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shop logoBluelady Muse donates 100% of her shop’s profit to the Verbal Abuse Journal Emergency Fund for victims of domestic violence and abuse. Erin Joi Chavez and Kellie Jo Holly make up Bluelady’s life coaching team. They work together to help you!

 

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Domestic Violence Links at Verbal Abuse Journals

Kellie Jo Holly, founder of Verbal Abuse Journals, suffered the oppression of domestic abuse and violence when she and her sister Erin Chavez created the Bluelady Muse website in 2004. Kellie Jo eventually freed herself from her abusive marriage and credits her online friends and Bluelady Muse (the Spirit of this website) for her decision to leave.

Are You Abused? Take the Quiz – Recognizing that your lover abuses you is the first step to ending it. Yet, sometimes the abuse is so subtle that you don’t realize you’re being abused. And sometimes the abuse has gone on so long you no longer recognize it as abuse.

What is Verbal Abuse? – Verbal abuse includes threatening behaviors (body language) and makes you feel horrible. It is the primary form of abuse in marriages and escalates into physical violence over time.

How To Help An Abused Friend – It isn’t as easy as you think! Follow these tips for guidance.

Bluelady Muse uses affiliates to provide funding to The Emergency Fund. Every dollar you spend on an affiliate site kicks back some change to Verbal Abuse Journal’s Emergency Fund. Together, we can make sure at least one family is safe tonight.
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Is Your “Other-Half” Half the Man You Thought?

Is Your “Other-Half” Half the Man You Thought?

Prince Charming

You know the story. You met your soul-mate and he was oozing with charm and appeal. He supported you emotionally, psychologically, and helped do the dishes, too. He was interested in your life – your mind, soul, and body! So you married him, knowing that paradise was only a ceremony away.

Evil Queen

Oops. Now he comes home too exhausted to deal with anything more than a sitcom. Meanwhile, your day has been full of child-chatter, chores, and a myriad of thankless tasks that you’re hoping, maybe today, you’ll be appreciated for doing! Yikes. He’s still there on the couch. Not a “thank you” to be heard.

Storming through dinner preparation, you rattle pots and slam cabinets. You complain through your children with statements like, “I don’t know when dinner will be ready. Why don’t you ask His Majesty when he would like to be served?”

Even though he pretends not to hear, he does. Even though you hope your children are too young to catch your sarcasm, they aren’t. By the time your family sits down to eat, there’s enough tension in the air to smother the whole lot of you. Read the rest of this entry