Graphic Designer, Author, Business Consultant and Coach Karrie Ross Gives Away Insane Down to Earth Advice and Tips for Self Publishing, Book Design, Branding and Promotional that is Worth Stealing! You will also find some Life Coaching and Parenting Tips.
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I’ve talked about not being able to sleep… sometimes when this happens “magic in the night” shows up and gives me a boost of the wonder of being alive. Tonight was such a night for me.
It’s early, all evening I had thoughts running through my head… I’m in the mist of a change of thinking so I’ve been staying up late, early. I was just finishing my evening sitting, meditation when I heard voices outside and when I looked out, there were about 15 cyclists riding by my home… it’s 4 a.m.! Young men and women, bright front white lights and rear flashing red lights, conversation, giggles, backpacks, waterbottles, and helmets.
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As a parent one of my biggest fears was that I was going to transfer my fears and weaknesses to my son. What I learned was that as long as I was aware of my fears and the what and how they showed up I was doing fine.
It was when I began noticing that I wasn’t always aware I had a fear until I was “in” it that the Wow! I had to deal with it right then with my son present, that I started the questions.
Questions that guided me on my path of becoming a more consciously connected parent and brought and created a continuous sense of wonder and adventure to my life and my sons.
Learn more how this is possible from my book and my coaching services. Contact me for more information at hello@texturedparent.com and check out the link above for the Book.
Remember, parenting begins from the inside out and continues a lifetime of wonder.
Karrie Ross
Life EnergyOS Coach
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No, parenting isn’t a flu, or something we buy at the store. It also doesn’t have a bunch of salespeople who knock on our door at dinner time AND there is no renewable license! So what is the how and what of parenting?
My coaching is about energy, so lets start there as a how…yes, stretch your mind into this… it will be fun. For the purpose of this conversation, lets imagine parenting being attention. Oooooh sounds good doesn’t it?
If the saying “energy flows where our attention goes” can be considered correct, then when we place our attention on the action of parenting, we are creating the energy, passion, necessary to push it forward into our lives, our thoughts, feeling, actions… our consciousness.
So, HOW do we “get” parenting? What is the “get” we’re getting? Does “get” stand for understanding or to acquire something OR maybe it’s both?
First we’ll look at understanding. The ability to get or perceive the meaning of, grasp what is meant, to interpret.
Next we’ll look at acquire. The process to get or gain by one’s efforts or actions, get possession of or get as one’s own. Continue Reading…
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Insomnia can hit us at anytime in our lives. Many of us experience an occasional night of restless sleep without even worrying about it. However when it becomes a pattern of several nights in a row, we need to face the possibility that it has now become a sleeping problem and we need to change the way we daily live our life.
Loss of sleep affects all areas of our life: The physical, the mental, and the emotional. Sleep deprivation can affect our overall daily performance and may even have an effect on our personality, who can really be a happy perky person when they’ve not had enough sleep?
If these bouts of insomnia continue for a longer period of time they can cause problems in our relationships, compromise our productivity, and perhaps lead to other health problems and other forms of fatigue!
It can become a continuous trying cycle of worry and anxiety as each night we toss and turn, wondering when sleep will come, wondering what is wrong with us.
Insomnia and sleeplessness generally fall into three categories:
1. “Initial” insomnia: where we have difficulty in falling asleep, generally taking 30 minutes or longer to fall into a sleep state. Continue Reading…
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Women in menopause find it hard to get to sleep and stay asleep. There seems to be an evening ritual of waking up at 2:30-ish to the “Okay, I’m awake… NOW what do I do” question and frustration of a possible sleepless night ahead of them. I’m here to tell you that there are processes that will help you achieve sleep filled, restful nights without resorting to dangerous narcotics and other drugs.
Here are some ways to consider:
• Set the mood for a comfortable sleep atmosphere
• Prepare your body for relaxation
• Use colors to stimulate calmness and relaxation
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What is Personal Energy? The energy our body creates that keeps us living. Most of us never think of IT in “keeps us living” terms or for that matter, in any terms at all that gives IT life beyond stating whether we feel energized or tired. Never really seeming to care where IT comes from or why. We usually just figure we didn’t get enough sleep if we’re tired or drank too much coffee when we’re energized.
I’m here to pose another possibility, one that, once mastered, can keep our thoughts occupied and ward off the feeling of boredom for hours, days, years and even lifetimes. It’s a question that has been asked and studied already in many different forms and now I ask it about the concept of personal energy.
First we need to watch our daily lives, the experiences we have and how we feel about them and how we act or react towards them, then ask this question, “How do I do that?” and “Why?” Once we ask the question we need become aware of our senses and observe what happens next.
Learn more in the SmileAttention Report
What are you doing with your Smile?
Kareen Ross
BeASmile.com
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In noticing where our attention is at any given moment we can see where we are putting our energy. If our thought/feeing attention is on a nagging obsessive thought, that’s where our energy will be, usually, no matter what we are doing… this can cause stress when we’d prefer to have our energy on what we’re doing instead of what we’re thinking or imagining.
The best suggestion for reducing stress is to take the obsessive thought and adjust the way we think about it. The process of putting a new perspective on it and lowering its intensity, its meaning for us, helps to even out our energy consumption…the who, what, when, where, why, how we are in the world and brings us never ending opportunities for growth… what will you do with yours?
In my SmileAttentionReport I refer to different steps in the process.
What’s your smile telling the world?
Be a Smile. Be a Cause. Be IT Now!
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Is your energy working for you or against you? Do you notice when you give it freely or feel you don’t have enough, that circumstances become too involved and begin taking more time and thought and energy than you are willing to give them or someone is demanding of you and end up giving it all away?
Taking care of ourselves, our energy, is one of the most important actions we can develop. When our energy is working for us we are energized, we naturally smile and are more aware of having fun. When we feel depleted we tend to pass it off as depressed, sad, lonely, bored, tired and then this pattern, because it seems easier to repeat, stays longer than we want or need.
To be sure you keep your energy up, begin to notice the things you do that make you feel energized and do them more often. And notice when you feel depleted and what it is that you are doing, observe it over a period of time to be sure you find the trigger point for it and then begin changing the way you react to it.
You’ll find more tips and tricks for SmileAttention at BeASmileResults.com
Until later…
Be a Smile. Be a Cause. Be IT Now!.®
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What did I do before I realized I could create my own energy? Really, be aware of IT is more exact.
When I think I’m tired, I take an look at how my body feels, it’s a good judge of what to do.
Sometimes its as easy as getting out of my chair and walking to another room or outside for a breath of fresh air. Getting into nature certainly brings back the juice!
So does drinking some water and sitting in silence for a few minutes allowing the tingling feeling to take over my head and go down my back and around to the front and up again ending in a circular motion at the crown of my head and expanding out. I do this with my eyes closed and wonder at the results. Try it… it works for me.
Be a Smile. Be a Cause. Be IT Now!®
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What makes us tick? I ask the question from a life coach, parenting, advertising/marketing, business and personal information gathering stance.
I look at life from the eyes of an artist, a person who questions, from a social advertising and marketing impact and someone who watches human nature. We have been trained to brand ourselves and most especially over the past 30 years. This is not a new thing and has been around from forever since the caveman era when what animal skin, what cave size/location and what mate you had defined who you were and your status. Do you see it?
We are mentally, physically, emotionally, and socially conditioned to think, feel, act and respond in certain ways. This began before we were born, it is cultural and cellular, it is in our chemistry.
Mental: We are conditioned by repetition of either hearing or reading in a certain way. The more we are told that something is this way or that way it sticks and as it sticks it becomes part of our psyche and this determines out speaking and acting patterns and behavior. If we are told that “chocolate” is a stimulant we will bond to the concept and speak and act as though it is real…but what if it wasn’t… real, just imagined and we’ve just adopted what someone else said as a truth for us without considering it?
Physically: Our hair by it’s color or style. Our face by how we maintain it or emphasize it. Our bodies by shape, size, clothing. Our feet by the shoes we wear and when. We’d think, or I do at least that this is a little less controlled but it’s not. Do we wear clothes for business, sex, fun, exercise…what is it defining for us? In this definition is it for comfort or for fitting into a certain social preconceived category of acceptance?
Emotionally: What are the emotions we carry with us the most, they say what we do is either for the experience of pain or pleasure. How do we respond to the simple and yet not so simple at times, act of getting up in the morning and proceeding with the day at hand and not living in the yesterday of our thoughts defining the who we are NOW not then. The daily news ‘hits’ our emotions through the visuals they feed us when presenting what is going on in the world. Our psyche is filled with images that need to be assimilated /associated and responded to in a minutes in some way. What effect is this having on us over time and how does it show up?
Socially: What groups do we hang out with? What is our social political religion focus. Where do we put our attention what are we attracted to and Why? What is the language of this place, tribe, associations and how do we make it fit in our lives. Why? What do we get from it? What is our sacred space.
I shoot photos and ask questions with the intention of stimulating the existing “conditioned” responses we have around us at all times, what they imply consciously and subconsciously socially and internally and externally and are we aware of them and our reactions whether it be comfortable or uncomfortable… how are we responding to our environment and what are we doing about it to make it a healthier place. I believe the more we are aware of the who, what, when, where, why, how, because of our lives the more we are able to make and live into a consciously competent created world especially created for us…within the greater whole of society creating the space around us.
SmileAttention™ concepts extends not only to the processes of being a present, fun loving person. It also stimulates perspectives of looking at life through different connections and considerations. Building skills that create patterns, that become habit and behavior, and ultimately generate a new attitude and live in stillness. Observing what, who is it I really am inside and what the heck am I going to do about it to change my world?
This inquiry is for us to find what is essence for us … to make the connection and for us to determine what we want and for us to live into IT with passion and purpose
Be a Smile. Create the energy for the IT in your life…your passion.
Be a Cause. Take a stand for that IT and make IT mean something.
Be IT Now!® As there is no better time to be IT.
What are you branding?
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