Why Do We Resist What is So Good For Us?

Many sisters have signed up for the Dance Your Power for Darfur Daily Dance-A- Thon, yet In spite of our best intentions to dance for 15 minutes a day, 15 measly minutes per day, even the most devoted of us are challenged to live up to this meager commitment.

Well, it is precisely because we are challenged that we must do it. If it were easy, there probably would not be women in parts of the world who are denied the basic right and freedom of dancing. If it were easy, we ourselves would likely not be suffering from burn out and chronic disease and lack of self care the way so many of us are.

If it were easy to prioritize our self care and healing self expression, the world would be a profoundly different place.

So, these are the things to understand and accept:

1. It is not easy, and that doesn't mean we shouldn't do it.
2. Community and sisterhood help.
3. Reaching out and sharing the challenge can inspire us beyond the resistance.
4. Most of us do not have self-care wired within us. It needs to be learned and practiced in order to get the hang of it.
5. Dancing together, even if only in spirit, is easier than dancing alone.
6. Remembering that you dance for your sisters when you dance helps alot

Please keep this list handy. When the impulse occurs to you not to dance, remember how blessed we are to live in a world where we can, and then find the dance that most wants to flow from within you in that moment. And remember that there is dance even in stillness!

Dancing Vividly,
Leela

Leela Francis is an Embodiment Expert. She helps women dance their power and rock the world with their passion for life.
www.VividlyWoman.com

What is an Embodiment Expert, You Ask?

An embodiment expert helps people to tap into and enjoy their sensual, spiritual and creative power by inhabiting their body as a temple instead of using it like a machine. Harnessing this power gives you access to divine wisdom and authentic joy so your life is a lush tropical adventure instead of the voyeur experience from behind tinted glass.

Imagine a rich thick chocolate or strawberry mousse. How delicious and divine that 's going to be when you scoop it up and savor it passing over your lips and feeling its texture on your tongue and palette, then sliding over your throat like liquid love. Mmmmm........

Now how juicy would that same mousse be if you were to try to suck it through a small straw? You can't even get it half way to your mouth! What a rip off. But that's how a lot of us live our lives, trying to suck up mousse through a straw by trying to enjoy our body when all we ever do is use it like a machine.

I'll give you another example, imagine the lush tropical rainforest, moist and rampant with scents and textures, the spongey earth, the humid air, the wild sounds of bird call. Now imagine it from behind the tinted glass of a tour bus at 50 miles per hour.

It's yours for the choosing my sisters. And I am here to help you make the choice that will allow you to claim a life that is richly lived!

Leela Francis is an embodiment expert. She helps women dance their power and rock the world with their passion for life.
www.VividlyWoman.com

More Sensual Pleasure

I just spoke to Fitness Trainer, Thomas Tadlock's audience about 3 tips for more sensual pleasure. You can listen to the recording here http://tinyurl.com/Vividly-Woman-3sensual-tips or just have a gander at the list below for 3 powerful ways to get you more sensually connected to your body.

All of it is founded on one important principle; Inhabit your body instead of using your body. If that seems confusing to you, the 3 tips below will help you distinguish between inhabiting and using.

1. Spend more time caring about how your body feels (inhabiting) instead of how it looks (using).

2. Repattern your feeling/thinking/sensing processing. Instead of going from your feelings to your thoughts (using), go from your feelings to your body sensations (inhabiting). This will help dissolve unpleasant feelings and sensations, and it will help amplify pleasant feelings and sensations.

3. Develop a daily ritual of moisturizing your skin with a deliciously scented lotion. Instead of just rubbing in the lotion (using), spend time massaging your body, discovering more of what your body loves (inhabiting).

Start noticing how you typically relate to YOUR body. Do you more often lovingly inhabit your body, or do you usually mechanically use your body?

Leela Francis is an embodiment expert. She helps women dance their power and rock the world with their passion for life.
www.VividlyWoman.com

Unweave the Story

"The "story" is sometimes what keeps us from ever experiencing our true creative self." Thank you Cassandra Russell, creativity coach, for these wise words.

If only we could catch ourselves in the story. But so often the story pulls us in, wraps us up in her dramatic web, and consumes so much of our energy that could otherwise be spent on more creative adventures that delight and please us.

So how to catch the story before it becomes a trap?

Well, here are a couple of tips to identify and pull the plug on the inflated illusion of disempowering stories:

1. Notice if you are spending a lot of time talking about, instead of experiencing life. If you are constantly in the role of commentator instead of living life in the first person, present time, you are likely in the story. So stop talking and start being and savoring!

2. Does it take you a long time to get a point across? Do you notice that others are hesitant to spend time with you or they tend to boundary their time with you? This is a good indication that your stories are an energy drain on others and likely you too.

3. Are you a glass half full or glass half empty person? If you are constantly complaining, it's likely that you are swept away with the story instead of the truth. Remember that the truth will set you free from the story ridden chronic complaining that keeps you stuck and the victim.

So start noticing these things about yourself and the way you relate to yourself and others. Always weaving stories is alright if you are a spider, but for many of us we just get tangled into our own web of victimhood!