Category Archives: Relationship With Your Self

Feb11

Yoga Postures for Weight Loss

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Yoga Postures for Weight Loss

Weight Loss Yoga Poses

By Lorean Hover

An amazing way to make your body more flexible and strengthen it up is to go for the yoga postures for weight loss program. It is literally effective while you use it in the right way to lose weight.

Moreover, it is relatively easy to do. Although it does not mean that you can lose weight in a jiffy, if you put dedication into it, then it will work.

Good sides of yoga

This is a form of exercise that makes your body take in more oxygen and trains the lungs, making them physically powerful and benefits your respiratory system. In most cases, you have to remain in the same yoga position for around 15 seconds, and the hard ones would give you a tough time doing so.

This means that even though it is not an extreme kind of workout, it does make your body work, and lets you see the results soon. Not only can you do yoga exercises for weight loss, you can also do it for the sake of your muscles, because it tones them up, too. Read the rest of this entry →

Feb11

Cat Posture

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Cat Posture

The Cat postures relieve stress and anxiety. As you perform this or any other concentrated movement, focus on your bodily sensations and allow your other cares to evaporate for these few minutes so you can reap the greatest value from the motion.

Perform the Cat Posture

This is one set. Repeat it three times.

Start on all fours and inhale deeply. Focus on the quality of your movement, not speed.

Exhale as you round your back upward and tuck your chin to your chest.

Inhale as you reverse the motion. Push your spine toward the floor and look to the sky.


1. …Inhale…

yoga pose 2

2.  …Exhale…

3.  …Inhale…

Cat Posture Benefits

  • Relieves back pain
  • Relieves menstrual discomfort and tones reproductive system
  • Improves skin tone
  • Reduces dark eye circles and puffiness
Feb11

Yoga for Beginners

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Yoga for Beginners

What You Need to Know for a Successful Practice

Beginning a Yoga Practice to Get Maximum Health Benefits of Yoga

by Giselle Toner
If you are just beginning to learn about yoga, you may be unsure about many things. You may be asking the question, “What exactly is yoga, how do I begin and what will it do for me?”

Yoga is viewed by advanced practitioners as a vast science that requires a lifetime of learning and dedication, and rightly so. However, you can easily implement the most basic yet powerful parts of it into your life and start feeling the wonderful health benefits of yoga immediately.

First and foremost, yoga is a stilling of the mind, a yogaquieting of the endless chatter that we have swirling constantly in our brains. When we achieve that stillness, profound results occur. The union of body, mind, breath and spirit is the core and central aspect of yoga. The word yoga means “union.”

Breathing

Breath is life! In yoga, a key component is focusing on the flow and rhythm of the breath. This breath control is called Pranayama, and there are several Pranayama breathing techniques that can be performed during a practice of yoga positions for beginners. Deep breathing is utilized to bring in more oxygen and energy to the body and to release stress from the muscles to promote a relaxing effect. As a result of controlled breathing, the mind begins to focus and settle. As the mind settles, the body follows, and the mind, body and breath all become one, eventually raising the functionality of the body and heightening the consciousness levels of the brain. Once you have achieved that deep meditative state of mind, you are now ready to enjoy the immense health benefits of yoga. Read the rest of this entry →

Feb9

What Do My Senses Have to Do With Spirit?

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What Do My Senses Have to Do With Spirit?

body mind connection logoHow often do you “know” or “feel” exactly what it is that you want (or need) to create a better life for yourself?  Now, how often do you follow through with the steps to accomplish your goal?  The reason you do not “do” what you “need to do” is twofold:

  • Your body is locked in habit and feels much more comfortable with the status quo than with change.
  • Mind and spirit are often working for change long before your body makes it off of the couch.  Everything you “do” depends on your body’s cooperation.  Your mind and spirit easily accomplish miracles…but if your body doesn’t cooperate by doing what needs to be done, then you do not reach your goals.

Your spirit and mind do not effectively communicate with your body.

Mind tells Body to “Just do it!”

Spirit tells Body “I will support you every step of the way!”

Body hears, “Blah Blah Blah,” and thinks, “You two are nothing like me – you don’t understand!” and continues to follow habit.  (If you have kids then this conversation probably sounds familiar!)

In many ways, you’re body is right.  It is the only member of this powerful group that lives solely in the present and relates to everything in this world only through what it sees, hears, feels, tastes and smells.  If you were only your body, life would be very different indeed.

Fortunately, you’re not only your body, and our world is not only made up of what your body senses.  The trick is getting your body to accept this idea as fact.  It is possible!  Think about Helen Keller and Teacher at the water pump and that remarkable moment when Helen understood that “water” had a name.  The whole world opened up to Helen at that moment – everything she had known previously took on new meaning!

The same is possible for you.  You can gently retrain your body to understand more than what is directly in front of it by using items that are, well, directly in front of it. Herbs, stones and crystals, pendulums, Tarot…all of it works to convince your body that there’s more to it than meets its eyes.

Feb8

The Space Within Your Bubble

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The Space Within Your Bubble

acceptingYour whole life glistens like a soap bubble in the bright summer sun. When you think of your life as a bubble, your first vision of it is from the outside. You focus on the glistening surface that separates what is outside the bubble from what is within it. You focus on the fragile film.

You know that danger lies on the outside of the bubble. You’ve seen many a bubble lose its life to a razor sharp blade of grass. Sometimes, an errant wind is too much for the bubble to withstand. Looking at life from the outside is a scary proposition!

When you consider all of the dangers that lie outside the bubble, you spend your energy finding ways to protect it instead of enjoying its beauty, however fleeting. We expend way too much energy protecting what we have rather than enjoying its beauty.

You do not know how long your bubble will last. You do not know when you will be released back to Spirit. So time is irrelevant. Your job is to keep the inside of the bubble clear and crisp and beautifully individuated from the other bubbles floating in your breeze for as long as you live.

Your job is not to protect what is yours, but to enjoy life as the gift it is intended to be. Your job is not to live outside the bubble, but to live within it. When Spirit breathed life into your bubble, Spirit intended your bubble to bring happiness to you and everyone who saw it. The only way to keep that intention alive – the only way to truly live – is to enjoy the beauty of the space within the bubble.

Feb8

A Tarot Wand Story

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A Tarot Wand Story

tarot storyThe Tarot deck tells our common life stories. Although each of us are unique, our stories are similar because there is only so many things that can happen in this world! We fall in love, out of love. We earn a promotion and lose our jobs. We meet people and lose people. Tarot tells these stories not through magic but through intuition. The tarot draws out our inner voice, the one that speaks in metaphors and pictures. The tarot allows us to put into words what our soul knows to be true.

You can self-coach yourself using the Tarot cards as a guide.

Below is a sample story using the first three cards in the suit of wands. It is not meant to guide someone, but ultimately it will. Are you the one who needs to hear this story today? Read the rest of this entry →

Feb8

Life Coaching

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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

Get My Free Life Coaching Session Now!

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

Get My Free Life Coaching Session Now!

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!

Jan29

Life Coaching Costs

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Life Coaching Costs

life coachingWhat can you do if you want a coach badly but can’t afford one?

The commercial says, “You’re Worth It.” However, that advertising phrase is misleading. It implies that you are worth going into debt over something you want very badly. Before you extend yourself to an uncomfortable financial situation, rework the phrase in your mind.

“You’re Worth It” is not an excuse to overspend. You are worth the discomfort of sacrificing your immediate desires when doing so will create a better future for you. You are worth the effort it takes to create a financially peaceful, debt-free life. You are worth the investment in time it will take to find workable solutions to your financial problem!

So, if you feel limited by finances, your first step is to research methods you can use to improve your financial situation. Your second step is to formulate your own financial plan. Your third step is to carry out the plan you create. As you work your plan, new opportunities and ideas will come to you simply because you are working your plan!

In a nutshell, you are worth it. You are worthy of a peaceful, happy life; but, you have to create it, not buy it. Do not overextend your finances to hire any coach.

How Expensive is Life Coaching?

Coaches try to price their services similarly to other coaches. Coaches offer many levels of service and varying types of coach involvement for your money. You really must poke around on the web to find a coach that meets your needs. Bluelady Muse offers life coaching, too.

Your money gives you power to hire and fire. You can’t do that with your friends, you know. Frankly, money substitutes for emotional obligation.

Do you pay your plumber for his insight into your personal life? No, you pay him to fix your plumbing. If he doesn’t fix your plumbing, you choose another plumber. The power of your money ensures that your plumber will do everything in his power to fix your dilemma.

It may sound crude, but the same principle applies to life coaching. You pay a coach to help you find ways to fix your dilemmas. If your coach fails, you take your money elsewhere. Period. That’s not to say that your coach’s only interest is your money. If she were, there are much simpler ways to go about earning it. In addition, your coach’s relationship with you is not based on your ability to pay.

If paying for coaching is a problem, tell your coach. Perhaps you can barter, work out a payment plan, or find some other creative solution to help you get the help you want.

Money is the equalizer in a coaching relationship – it ensures that you get what you need from your coach without having to worry about her personal needs or feelings in return.

Jan29

Is Your Schedule Making You Crazy?

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Is Your Schedule Making You Crazy?

prepared scheduleI used to feel crazy all of the time.  I would schedule myself down to the minute.  Much to my frustration, my rigid schedules broke apart day in and day out! Most of the time, motherhood will not conform to even a seemingly perfect schedule.

If I spent time with my children when I was scheduled to be working, I would beat myself up for not sticking to “The Schedule.”  Plus, time with my children was scheduled for later in the day, which meant that I couldn’t possibly make up the work I’d missed!

When I spent the scheduled time with my boys, I resented it and thought about work.  The next day when I worked, I felt guilty for resenting the time spent with my children.  I felt further and further behind, and less and less of a good mother.  Yucky stuff.

Time as Bubbles

One thing that works for me is to think of time as ‘bubbles’ instead of a line, and then I choose my time bubbles carefully.  For example, some of my bubbles are: Read the rest of this entry →

Jan29

Life Coaching

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Life Coaching

life coachingYou’re a smart, curious woman and probably a mother, too.  You know how to fix the world when it gets turned upside down. You’ve managed emergency room visits, social dramas, bruised egos, financial trouble and teacher conferences and/or home school stress.

All of your life experiences have led you to where you stand today.  You may wish you’d handled some things differently, but you figure you’ll know better next time around.

Women consistently manage this world’s ups and downs (often at great cost to themselves).  That’s why women are mothers.  We’re the ones everyone else turns to when their worlds go haywire.  Nurturing so many other souls is a large burden to carry!


We women are so good at fixing other people’s worlds that we don’t take time to fix our own world.  Where do you go when you’re hanging on by your fingernails?

Oh sure, you can cry on our husbands’ shoulders, complain to your friends or call your mom. It feels liberating to finally take an opportunity and unload stress. But if you’re like most women, that feeling of liberation is short-lived.

You feel so much better after unloading stress that you think you’re ready to carry on. Unfortunately, “carrying on” means diving back into the situations that caused the stress in the first place. Nothing changes.

You only get to feel like Super Woman for a little while. Then you go back to doing the same things in the same ways. In a few months, weeks, or even hours, you’re a basket case all over again.

If you’re ready to break the Super Woman to Basket Case cycle, then a personal life coach is for you. If you can answer “Yes” to most of these questions, then life coaching could be a positive force in your life.

  • Are you willing to set or learn how to set goals for yourself?
  • Are you are willing to create new perspectives and work to change your attitude when appropriate?
  • Are you are willing to follow up your thoughts with positive actions?
  • Are you are willing to enhance your intuitive and creative abilities?
  • Are you are willing to listen to your own heart for solutions?
  • Are you are willing to begin leaving where you are now in life to create a better, more positive future for yourself?
  • Are you are willing to believe that helping yourself benefits your children, your spouse, and your entire circle of influence?
  • Are you are willing to believe that your life will be full of health, happiness, peace and success by committing yourself to following your heart and soul in all matters?

Are You Willing?

You probably noticed the phrase “willing to” in each of the questions. Your ability to change or grow is based on your willingness to do so. For example, you don’t have to fully believe that ”helping yourself benefits your children” right now. But you must be willing to believe that it could be true. Your coach helps you to find the ability to help yourself.

The coaching process will reveal how helping yourself helps your children, and in time you will believe it to be true too.
Where there’s a will there’s a way. Where there’s no will, there is no way to receive (or to give) help. If you want to change everyone and every thing around you (but not yourself, then you will only get frustrated and alienate everyone who cares for you. Changing your Self is the only way to grow.

Bluelady Muse offers Life Coaching