Are YOU Ready for Bonza Bottler Day?

Written by M. Maureen Killoran, MA, DMin


BONZA BOTTLER DAY is any day whenrepparttar date andrepparttar 130060 month haverepparttar 130061 same number -- in this case, JULY 7. Bonza, I'm told, means "excellent" or "really great" in Australian, and there's some suggestion that "bottler" meansrepparttar 130062 same. Bonza Bottler is a "just because" kind of holiday, started a decade or so ago byrepparttar 130063 late Elaine Fremont who believedrepparttar 130064 world needed more holidays. On BBD, we are called to let loose, just forrepparttar 130065 joy of it, and Ms Fremont's original wish was that we celebrate without alcohol or other artifical stimulants. Celebrate using just our natural ability to be joyous -- even in hard times, letting this part of ourselves play out . . . come out to play. Think of Snoopy, dancing madly to music maybe only he can hear. Think of Shrek and Princess Fiona, giggling and roughhousing as they walk through a field.

Deep Tissue Desires

Written by Claudette Rowley


"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes." -Marcel Proust

The question of what I want has bubbled up frequently in recent weeks. I've explored many facets of wanting: wanting more, wanting less, wanting something different, wanting what I think I can't have, andrepparttar challenge of giving myself permission to want what I want.

In my estimation, here arerepparttar 130057 top eight reasons we don't give ourselves what we want. Hint, hint - this is all about social conditioning - or what you've absorbed from family, friends or "experts" about "the way things should be."

- You've lost touch with what you want and how you feel.

- You're not willing to admit what you want.

- You're afraid of what you want.

- What you want runs headlong into someone else's opposing desires or -- yikes!-- into their fear. This is an "outer critic" showing up.

- Your judgment or someone else's stops you in your tracks.

- Your "inner critic" rears its noisy head, and says "Are you crazy? You don't deserve that!"

- You don't see that you already have what you want.

- You simply can't give yourself permission to want it.

Here's what I'd like you to do right now: Take out a pen and paper and make a list of all that you want, both internally and externally. For example, a more internal desire might be inner peace or self-acceptance, while an external desire might be a fun new sofa or a fun new job. Write whatever comes to mind without any censoring. NO CENSORING. Include everything from wanting new socks to wanting to be more self-aware to wanting to berepparttar 130058 President ofrepparttar 130059 United States. Make it a stretch: If you can comfortably make a list of fifty desires, then make a list of sixty. If one hundred is a piece of cake, I challenge you to create a list of two hundred.

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