PEACE Challenge: Day 28

Welcome Back to the Peace Challenge 2010

For 40 days, beginning January 6 and ending on Valentine's Day, the day of love, we are working collectively to bring nothing but peace to life~

I encourage you to go back and read each daily post beginning Jan. 6 and to print them out, forward them at work, to your family and friends and to join us in Bringing Peace to 2010

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February 3, 2010

Day 28

No fighting, with yourself .....or others

In a coaching session yesterday, a newer client said to me, "I feel so stuck, I am in a rut and I know it but have absolutely no idea which way to turn, what to do, how to be or how to really change. I am stuck...."

I took a very deep couple of breaths (we had been through this same dialogue several times already) and from somewhere deep within, I replied, "I encourage you to just stop fighting and give it all up."

We were both silent, completely silent for a moment or two at which point I gently reminded her to simply breathe....and the flood gates opened. And I mean OPENED. The fight finally came out, poured out in tears and sobs and more tears for many minutes. No words, just a full, huge release of what she had been fighting with for years.

When I encourage clients to give it up and stop fighting, I am in no way implying defeat, but am instead implying victory. Fighting will never produce a real winner, for even the 'winner' must live with whatever was done to the other in order to 'win.' Fighting off what makes you feel bad, makes you feel bad, which induces the fight which makes you feel bad.....

You and I and everyone, every client (nobody is beyond the hope of healing, nobody) has an incredible source INSIDE of us, that is wise, intelligent and spirited. This source inside of us is a power if you will, a drive, a force and is infinite in spirit.

This source is waiting for you to call on it, to give in to divine surrender, to know that once you can get quiet enough to listen to what you know is right and true and just, and to follow that, you will find peace. This source is IN you, it is not anywhere outside of you. You have been made to manifest the Glory of God in all you do, and the power to do so was gifted to you at conception.

You just have to be quiet enough, removed enough from the noise of your day, to hear it and to listen and to follow.

Even in the times when we alone may not have the energy or wisdom to navigate a challenging time, situation or relationship, there is something inside of us that does.

Only in quieting the mind, calming the body and lighting the spirit can we experience the divine surrender that will offer the guidance we long for, instead of reacting to the conditions outside of us that keep us 'stuck' and overwhelmed.

Today, no more fighting; seek this source, merge with in in body/mind/spirit and feel peace infiltrate as you never have.

Until tomorrow,

Peace,

Juli

www.coaching-forlife.com