We have passed the threshold into Spring, the energy of freshness and renewal. As we dive deeper into the season, more of Nature is blooming and blossoming, and we are too. The spirit of this time is full of Creativity.

In March, we explored the Original Self, the authentic essence of you. Once you have connected with this purest part of you, then it is natural to begin to share it. It actually wants to overflow from you. 

The most beautiful things in the world are created from the soul. There is a creative flow where you are not judging the creation, where you are not blocking it, where you are allowing it. It's not that the environments are flawless, or that we have all of the perfect tools, but that there is a kind of merging with the universal life force, with the Creator, and with creation. 

Oftentimes when I create, it is the things that I don't feel that are that special, but that are sincere, that inspire and uplift others the most. I've noticed that sometimes I have almost not shared something because I began to judge its quality, and then I am so glad I did, because it was meaningful to someone else. It had a purpose beyond me to come out into the world. 

It is a form of greediness to hold in our creativity, and it takes a certain amount of generosity to share it with the world. 

What are you being called to create?

@Devora Gila Berkowitz

We meet at the usual Soul Gym zoom -- http://smpl.ro/SoulGymZoom23

Dear Soul Gym Members,

I love the kinds of work we get done in our short co-working sessions each week!

Excited to announce that I will be hosting additional co-working sessions for members 🙌🏾

To see the new times, add one of these calendars:

• Soul Gym Google Calendar
  
  
• Soul Gym Apple Calendar

You'll notice that most sessions are 1 hour long, but it'll be 50-minutes of co-working (with a bit of check-in in the first 2 minutes, and some celebration of progress at the end.)

If you'll be planning to attend, do your best to show up on time :)

See you soon!

--George

**

Previous / old post:

Are you able to attend one or both of these:

• Wednesdays 8 - 8:50am Pacific / 11am Eastern / 4pm BST
  
  
• Weds 5:30 - 6:30pm Pac / 8:30pm East / Sydney time Thurs 10:30am

Comment below with your thoughts 😊

We try so hard to go it alone. 

Many of us were taught:

"Be independent!" 

"Pull yourself up by your bootstraps." 

"If you want something done, do it yourself."

The idea of independence is built into the foundation of the USA. And it continues to permeate our culture. 

Many of us have so much shame in asking for help, as if we have failed by even needing help. It's like an admission of failure, rather than the sign of courage that it truly is!  

Me too. I was praised for being independent. And I got really good at it! For so long. Until I crashed. It’s lonely and exhausting. 

I have learned to find and ask for support, initially out of necessity, but now I recognize that we all need each other.💕 Plus, asking for help is actually a sign of courage and helps me better cope and better able to do the things that are mine to do.  

As I get older, I get a little wiser, plus just more practical. I have set up support from different people for different areas of my life. It bolsters me to have support, and it helps me live with more ease. And it reminds me that I am not alone!

However, when I am stressed, sometimes I default to my old negative thinking and wonder, “What is wrong with me that I need so much support???” 😩 

How mean is that? If I need support, I need support! Gratefully, I stay in touch with people who gently remind me again that we are all human, and we need each other.  

Is it easy or hard for you to ask for support? 

What do you tell yourself that asking for support means? 

Failure? Courage? Weak? 

Is your past self any different from your current self? 

Would love to hear what your experience is with asking for help.

@Anastasia Salichou

I've heard this term a lot in the self-development field.

I subscribed to it in the past too. 

It makes sense that when we are engaging in behaviours that seem to be going against our best interests, these behaviours could be called self-sabotaging.

It really seems like we are sabotaging our:

- efforts

- progress

-health

-relationships

Yet, in my line of work, this idea that we can go against ourselves has never been proven correct. To the contrary, it is always proven that these behaviours that seems to be resulting in things we don't consciously want, are never ever meant to harm us.

They are always meant to protect us. When we get to find and talk to this part of us that acts out by binging, procrastinating, staying in situation that are toxic and so on, we always realise that this part has been programmed to act like that because it does believe it is in our best interest to do so.

For some, it might be difficult to believe, yet, all parts of us are trying their best to do their best to keep us safe. They will give all of their energy to this purpose, 24/7. They are relentless and never stopping guardians of our safety. So, if they perceive that safety means, "you never ask for too much", that's what they will do. 

The problem with thinking that we can actually go against ourselves is that we are missing the real point of understanding what is really happening and being able to bring awareness and healing into the situation.

We also come to believe that we have to be in a fight with those aspects of us in order to win against them Yet, this is one behaviour that will aggravate their need to hold on to trying to save us in ways that don't work for our lives and desires.

Understanding and integration is key to living to releasing those behaviors.

Blessings