Fear, Courage, FUN and the Process of Making Changes

How's 2010 going for you so far? Whether you're a person who set 'intentions' or made 'resolutions', or are whimsically wandering through your days, I'm hoping YOU will benefit from the two inspiring and related interactions I had yesterday.  Paula King, PhD presented "Strategies for Lasting Change", which reminded me of the core concepts from the Lumigrate video (link at bottom of blog) of how making change takes courage, which is overcoming a fear.  What we are used to feels comfortable and when making change we need to get through an uncomfortable time period and 'let our feelings catch up to us'.  I appreciated the timing of the reminder on this message and doing the guided imagery exercise as she presents it.  I encourage people to utilize the resource of the Lumigrate video, which is $20, 20% the cost of an individual session with Dr. King and could provide the key tool for YOU to be successful in making whatever changes you're setting out to 'do' be successful and permanent.

Early in her presentation she talks about how kids will take on a new task without over thinking it -- they'll just pick up a golf club and swing!  Adults go about things differently.  She talked about her taking up juggling in order to be learning something NEW and FUN, and what the process is like for her.  I couldn't help but think that I'd like her to meet the woman I met with earlier in the day, who I had said 'I want you to meet Paula King, can you come to the IMC seminar tonight?' (She couldn't -- kids in 2 different activities in the evening, but I trust we'll get their paths crossing soon and hopefully make it FUN ... maybe combine Paula's juggling with Kohava's YogaDance.

I'd met mid-morning with Kohava Howard, RPN (Canadian nursing registry), who I think is about as interesting as they come! At least in such a petite package/body. From Israel, she is married to a geologist who moved here from Canada two years ago due to the energy resources here that are poised to be redeveloped.  (This was just in the Sentinel newspaper -- we're running out of cannibalizing the fuel rods from dismantled nuclear weapons and Grand Junction's the center of uranium-rich Earth.)  In addition to her medical foundation in nursing, she has a dance background, is a reflexologist, and is an instructor in Kripalu YogaDance, which her business card says is "a combination of yoga moves and fun."  As YOU know, FUN is one of the four key concepts of Lumigrate.com. 

She's the first person who has said I should be charging people to write in the Forum area.  I'd just met on Monday with an adviser about planning for the first part of 2010 and we thought that would be appropriate in a year or so.  Very nice to have it be offered by a contributor when we're only 3 weeks into the year and not yet to the 9 month anniversary of Lumigrate being 'live' on the Internet.  Right now I'm really wanting to get GRATE content and interaction integrating in the Forums area of Lumigrate.com, so I encourage you -- whether you teach people formally or not, to click on 'Forums', tell others who you think of about the area, and help Lumigrate get information and questions exchanging which will help even MORE people than it has already.   

I'm able to make new Forums and I haven't even goofed anything up this week doing so, but if I do, I have an "It guy" -- not much unlike 'Cousin It' (my I.T. guy, Adam Cochran -- he actually is referred to as 'looks like Mike Myers' by people in town when trying to place which IT guy I'm talking about).  YOU (and anyone) can start a new Topic in each Forum.  Organizing the Forums into Containers (groupings) is presenting the challenge right now, but I'm getting the hang of it.  And I hope Kohava's influence on Lumigrate as she comes into the Forum area (Mind/Body/Spirit and Energy Medicine AND Movement Therapies) will infuse us with FUN and valid information that will help open us up for experiencing our lives differently!  I wasn't able attend her class last Sunday but she has 10 people in it and I think I still bring with me the joy from the Collective Health Initiatives meeting she did an 'energybreaker' warm-up at last month.

When Paula asked the audience last night for things they've taken up recently to learn, my thought was 'developing a website'.  You have no idea what a challenge it is for me, and what courage I have had to have to get Lumigrate to this point.  I'm glad you're here using it, and really appreciate all that all do to make it the success it is becoming.  In a message to me on facebook yesterday I was told 'you have no idea how many people you are helping" and had a woman in the stream say that she has, based on my facebook promotion of a show and program I believe in, called and is hopefully heading for Bay Recovery shown on A&E's "Intervention" (see Sunday's blog for more information).  They're a facility which specializes in pain management and medication, etc. addictions and uses an 'integrative medicine' approach, which is what Lumigrate is all about. (Luminous / Integrate form the company name).   I look forward to following THAT thread where it goes.  And then bringing more progressive, valid, streamlined and FUN information your way. 

So please comment below if you want!  What are YOU taking on for new challenges so far this year? How's it going?  What do you think about the Strategies for Lasting Change video's concept  (watch the snippet by clicking on the frame with Paula in it)? Our snippets are pretty generous so that you can tell if it's something you want to invest an hour of time, the energy it takes to watch it, and twenty dollars to a credit card.   The COOL think before the seminar was I had seen a local friend on Chat on facebook and asked her if she wanted to go to the seminar.  She did, but I checked and they were about at capacity on reservations, and my friend realized that she could order it online and watch it at home with her mom and aunt!  I suggesting making it FUN and popping popcorn and having a good beverage with it.  It's a FUN video anyway.  I have a feeling Paula and Kohava are going to share many real clients together here in Grand Junction, and I hope you'll be inspired by what is written by them in the Forum areas when we get them in there! 

Link to video snippet (and ordering) of Paula's video:

www.lumigrate.com/product/strategies-lasting-change-dr-paula-king

Link to a facebook friend's son's very good video about 'Fear' on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch