Awareness is the greatest agent of choice. You can get stressed by a million different things; all of which act as your system’s information up-setters and distorters. When you are healthy and relaxed, life energy flows freely and unobstructed, through you. Stress, illness or dis-ease are both contributing factors and an indication that there … [Read more...]
Julia von Flotow is an executive coach, Therapeutic Touch Teacher and Practitioner, mindfulness instructor and founder of the Kaizen Leadership Institute and Therapeutic Touch Institute, Toronto, Canada. Her 12 step program to becoming an authentic and mindful leader kaizenleadershipinstitute.com/12steps/ has helped hundreds of independent professionals and business owners live happier lives and build more sustainable businesses. www.kaizenleadershipinstitute.com.
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Awakening to Choice is Self-Empowering
November 18, 2014 by
Awakening to Choice is a beautiful piece of anonymous prose I received from a friend and share it here with you. It's inspirational in its wisdom and resonates with the shifts in perspective many of my coaching clients tell me they experience. The piece gives expression to the process of awakening and accepting responsibility for choice, that's at … [Read more...]
Stress and Gender
November 6, 2014 by
Research on women’s responses to stressors suggests that women experience a wider range of life events (e.g., those happening to friends) as stressful as compared with men who react to a more limited range of stressful events, specifically those affecting themselves or close family members. Studies show that women tend to react more to chronic … [Read more...]
How is Stress Affecting your Quality of Life?
November 3, 2014 by
Stress is a recognized cause of 80% of today’s illnesses – so what are you doing to mitigate the risk of chronic stress in your life? “If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.” Marcus Aurelius The choices we make, how … [Read more...]
Inspired Leadership A Must for the 21st Century
October 29, 2014 by
In the midst of the global economic, cultural and ecological turbulence we live in – a time in which organizations straddle local, regional, national and international structures – leaders need to engage, empower and inspire their workforce: their human capital, their people. To do so, leaders must be inspired, engaged and empowered. Inspired … [Read more...]
Look to Workplace Stressors as Causes of Anxiety
October 22, 2014 by
In a workplace where conditions exist that are outside your control or realm of influence and where roles, responsibilities, authority, accountabilities or expectations are unclear, frustrated passion can arise, resulting in: A high stress environment Poor communication Office politics Workflow problems Diminished … [Read more...]
Self Esteem and the Power of Belief
October 16, 2014 by
Self esteem is affected either negatively or positively by how we relate to ourselves and how we respond to and interpret life stressors such as: Job promotion or being passed over Provocation Financial set-backs or challenges Unfair competitions Injustice “The belief that becomes truth for me…is that which allows me the best use of … [Read more...]
The Guts – Inner Athenor, a Transformational Powerhouse
October 8, 2014 by
“Feed the fire in your belly and your dreams will become clear to you.” Julia von Flotow It’s in your belly that dreams are born…the desire for something awakens hope and with hope comes possibilities activating the imagination, the creative indwelling Spirit and the heart’s best friend. Creating the inner safe space for dreaming stokes the fires … [Read more...]
You Are Connected. Now, Just Plug In!
October 3, 2014 by
“A human being is part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest … [Read more...]
Therapeutic Touch – A Complement to Modern Medicine
September 30, 2014 by
Therapeutic Touch™ (TT) is an energy field modality first developed in 1972, as a modern healing method by Dolores Krieger, PhD, RN and her colleague, Dora Kunz. Therapeutic Touch is a consciously directed process of energy exchange during which practitioners use their hands as a focus for facilitating healing. The intervention is administered … [Read more...]
