{"id":1440,"date":"2021-06-30T16:20:35","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T16:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lensq.com\/?p=1440"},"modified":"2021-06-30T16:20:35","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T16:20:35","slug":"july-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lensq.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/30\/july-goals\/","title":{"rendered":"2021 June Review &amp; July Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;<em>One&#8217;s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimension.<\/em>&#8221; ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This quote summarises what June was for me. One of the major realisations I had this month was how psychotherapy was related to healing in spirituality. I did a lot of work on my inner child and my life looks totally different to me than what it did a few months ago.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Review of Q2\u20192021<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To be honest, Q2 was about workshops, workshops and workshops. It was about designing courses to help others overcome their major pain points in life. While I focused only on those topics where I already worked on myself, my growth as a person was definitely side tracked.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The downside of doing courses was my mind being in a thinking state most of the time. I have too active a brain which keeps coming up with new ideas all the time. As a result, my meditations and mindfulness took a toss. I have stopped focusing on what are the areas I need to improve. If there is one major thing I want to change for the next half of the year, I want to bring in a balance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I was running a Whatsapp group on giving a prompt daily for others to notice patterns in their life. It was a huge success because the participants reported an increase in awareness with those prompts. This gave me an idea to turn my workshops into courses where I support the group throughout their journey.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Plans for July<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Currently, I am greedy about only one thing &#8211; \u2018Healing\u2019. It might sound like I am dying hence I am talking about healing. But healing for me is all about bringing my unconscious mind into consciousness and living life more purposefully with full of energy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the first half of the year, my efforts have been all over the place. I find something interesting, I go after it. After my realisation from last month on the relation between chakras and inner child healing, I have decided to put a structure to my healing in terms of chakras.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The focus for this month is on Root chakra.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Root chakra is about stability, security, trust and nurturance. When these are not balanced, we feel insecure about relationships in life, overweight or underweight, constant fear, lack of money, addictions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here are some actions I would like to take. I will update the entire list at the end of the month based on my experience.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Yoga asanas and bandhas<\/strong> &#8211; I will spend this month focusing more on yoga asanas for root chakra like malasana, tadasana, virabhadrasana, janu shirasan, pawanamuktasana and Mula bandha. Also, spend at least two days in the week following yoga flow for root chakra by Anodea Judith.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Beliefs<\/strong> &#8211; I will discover my beliefs around root chakra topics and use affirmations to correct them.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Meditation<\/strong>&#8211; I will also explore root chakra meditation and use the beeja mantra.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Inner child<\/strong> &#8211; I will explore experiences from my childhood and work on releasing those experiences.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Grounding activities<\/strong> &#8211; I will spend time on walking meditation and gardening activities.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Essential oils<\/strong> &#8211; I will use Frankincense oil for healing the root chakra.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Sound therapy<\/strong> &#8211; I will listen to root chakra music while working to produce a grounding effect.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Red Colour<\/strong> &#8211; I will wear red more, paint red pictures, write with a red pen and be mindful about red colour.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Food<\/strong> &#8211; Vegetables which grow below the ground are good for root chakra. Potatoes, carrot, beetroot, radish, ginger and garlic. Also food which is in red colour like pomegranates, watermelon will be helpful.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Psychology<\/strong> &#8211; I will work on my fears, attachment style, boundary setting, codependence, addictions and weight issues.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even though it is not a great idea to work on just one chakra, since it is not possible to work on all of them at the same time, the smallest step one can take is to focus on one chakra at a time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Happy July!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;One&#8217;s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimension.&#8221; ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes. &nbsp; This quote summarises what June was for me. 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