'The Best Natural Stress Relievers....' Bar One!

In my completely biased opinion the Best Stress Reliever I have found to date is Bars healing :-). However life is all about choice so here's the Best Stress Relievers according to www.wholeliving.com

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Really? Constant Stress Makes You Sick

New York Times

THE FACTS

Chronic stress and illness are intertwined. It is well known that psychological stress raises the risk of heart disease, cold and flu, and even allergies. But how does one lead to the other? Read more

Fear Versus Excitement

Did you know that physiologically speaking, fear and excitement are one and the same thing in your body?

So a great question to ask when you think you're feeling fear is..
Is it fear or is it actually excitement?

FEAR is (much of the time) based on something imagined that may never actually happen. It's False Evidence Appearing Real.

Confession. I perceive 'fear' often.

But then making a commitment to changing your life is pretty exciting too.. Right? And when I ask myself that question - Is it fear or is it excitement? The F.E.A.R seems to dissipate into nothing as if by magic.

So now I've learned the tools that make it much easier for me to embrace fear. After all it's just energy. And it's totally up to you to choose what to do with it.

What if, as I heard Rikka Zimmerman say recently "beyond fear is total bliss"? Now thats pretty exciting.

What if that were true? And what else is possible?


Click here to read my article Is Fear Holding You Back from Achieving Your Goals?

Love & Gratitude,

Linda xx

Linda Stewart BSc

Access Bars Facilitator, Holistic Coach, Transformational Bodywork Practitioner provides Body, Mind & Soul Support to non-stop busy women so they can live life with less stress and more ease. 
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Bars Healing

Bars Healing (Access Bars)
I've been asked a lot about Bars Healing lately. If you're not familiar with The Bars, it's a wonderful 32-point energy healing process that can literally facilitate change in any area of your life. All you need to do, is simply lie down fully clothed oouch assuage couch and get comfortable for 60-90 minutes and be willing to receive.


Access theory says there are 32 points on and throughout the head relating to various aspects of life such as money, control, creativity, healing, sexuality and so on. By lightly touching/holding the specific points on the head years of limitation in the corresponding life areas can be effortlessly released. Its like deleting the files on your hard drive.


Another way of describing Bars Healing is it's a bit like reflexology, but instead of points on the feet relating to specific areas of your body, its points on the head relating to specific areas in your life. It's all about being, receiving and opening the doorway to greater possibilities in your life in any area where you desire change.


A recent Bars Healing testimonial I received
"The most peace I've felt for the longest time"
A BIG Thank you for sharing a wonderful experience. I loved, loved my Bars...
Truly, I felt like I'd slept for 100years! When I was finally able to sit up from my deep relaxed state of only what I can describe as... PEACE. The most peace I've felt for the longest time.
Sarina Singh, Thai Yoga Massage teacher


Intrigued? See below for how you can experience a Bars Healing session for yourself.


Bars Healing FAQ
Frequently Asked questions about Access Bars

Articles on Bars Healing
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Now you can experience a Bars Healing session for yourself
I invite you to contact me via email or telephone me on 07855 833 451 if you would like to experience Bars for yourself.

Linda Stewart, Access Bars facilitator, London UK

Gratitude - Medicine for the Soul

I've kept a gratitude journal for a few years now and believe it's one of the most effective (perhaps the most effective) tools for transformation I've used to date. Don't make the mistake of underestimating the power of gratitude.

I haven't talked about this publicly before but not so long ago I was diagnosed with severe depression which triggered a really scary bout of what's known as post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). I'm pleased to say I'm well now and blessed with my health and peace of mind. And I now have a completely alternative view on these events which I share here.

The point I was getting to and wanted to share, was that practising the art of gratitude - simply by writing what I was grateful for in my journal every day without fail - was one of several powerful tools that I believe supported me and allowed me to pull myself out of the depression and back to myself again

And the truth is, in the beginning there were some days when (due to feeling so low, and having literally zero energy), I actually had to make myself write something, anything. And even if it was just one word I told myself it was ok.

Medicine for my soul
Then when I started to notice increasing changes in how I felt I started to look forward to writing in my journal again. It acted as medicine for my soul. Medicine that I actually enjoyed taking and that actually lifted my mood for an increasing period. The effects became pretty much instant and the more I used this and other tools the more I began to feel hope, and a new possibility. Some days I would write pages. Other times just reading it back to myself gave me a wonderful boost.

Now im not trying to say just take a bit of gratitude and youll be sorted, but given my holistic beliefs, background and training it was close to 100% unlikely that I would ever take the antidepressant medication my doctors repeatedly tried to prescribe to me. So I looked elsewhere.

Instead, when I eventually found the courage to come out from under the duvet, I looked deep in my holistic toolkit for natural, spiritual and nurturing alternatives.

I know that I'm blessed to have these tools available to me and sincerely believe that gratitude and my commitment to practicing it daily - often several times a day - writing my thoughts into my beautiful gratitude journal was one of the most powerful, if not the most powerful tools of them all.

But it was also nutrition (I learned about the link to low serotonin levels and many of the symptoms I was going through), exercise, reading and researching, talking therapy, Reiki, Affirmations, LOA tools and other daily rituals that helped me heal. I was committed.

Gratitude is a high vibration energy
I learned that gratitude can quickly transform your mood, even lift you out of a dark depression. I learned that Gratitude is a high vibration energy, one of the highest, and is capable of transforming anything if we allow it.

We can all think of something we are grateful for - actually we all have plenty. If you have clean running water, a roof over your head, clothes on your back. If you're reading this you have the technology that enables you to have Internet access and stay connected. Millions of people across the globe have none of these things.

But thats not a call for us to feel guilty but one to be grateful for all we have. Maybe like me you have a deep gratitude and appreciation for the wonder and beauty of nature. Or someone dear that always makes you smile - the children in my life do that for me.

You may have just one thing you choose to write down and be grateful for today, or you may have pages. Either way, I invite you to practise gratitude and witness it's power.

All you need is a notebook, preferably a hardback book with a beautiful cover, a nice pen (the ink flows nicely), and a few moments of your time to spend on YOU.

Feed your soul with gratitude.

Linda xx

Are You Living in the Question?

Yay!! Easy peasy lemon squeezeee tool for transformation!

If you are looking to transform or attract anything in your life whatsoever - money, relationships, health, business, career, your environment, your sex life, anything and everything.. you should start by suspending everything you have ever known, believed, perceived or concluded and start living in the question.

That is asking questions and then continuing to ask questions but WITHOUT concerning yourself with the answers.

Weird right?

Actually no, more smart than weird. That's because questions are expanding whereas answers are limiting. You see, the minute you come up with an answer or a conclusion about something, you've made a decision. And that decision shuts down all other options that are outside of that awareness. Maybe even greater and better possibilities that you ever would have imagined, but probably never will because you already closed your mind to them.

But it does makes perfect sense that it would seem weird. After all, we've been programmed from a very early age to always find and know the answers to questions. And made to be wrong if we didn't know the answer.

Well what if there were no right or wrong? What if there was just choice? And possibility?

Asking questions is one of the fastest most effective, pragmatic ways of opening up to attract and receive more in your life. It activates your brain to be ready and open to see what else is on offer for you to choose. The idea is to ask a question in order to bring the energy of it up into your awareness. You're then perfectly placed to receive what's out there for you to receive.

You can get super clever with this and really play with it but to get started try asking "what else is possible?" and see how things start to show up. I mentioned earlier some large items such as relationships, money, business and so on, and you can also try it on small things too. Like inflexible customer service lol. Try it and see. And keep trying it. Like anything the more you do it the better you get.

If you're really going to go for it my recommendation is to ask questions about EVERYTHING. and don't stop. Ask "And what else is possible now?" and "How does it get even better than this?" try those for size, or better think up some great questions for your own life and living.

~What can I do to change this?
~What would it take for ____________ to show up?
~Who am I today and what grand and glorious adventures can I create?
~How can this turn out better than anything I could have imagined or planned?
~What contribution can I be to the consciousness of the planet?
~How much am I willing to receive?
~What phenomenal results can I generate?

Have fun with it. I am.

Love & Gratitude, Linda Linda Stewart, The healthy living coach 07855 833 451 Get Some Email Love! Sign up to my Free weekly newsletter BODY & MIND and receive updates, life expanding resources, exclusive special offers and breaking news.

Interesting Point of View

Do you sometimes feel as if your thoughts, feelings, emotions and reactions are in control of you and not the other way round? If so, you should try practicing the art of allowing.

This means setting your intention on refusing to get caught up in, or emotionally concerned about certain things and just allowing them to just be, while having no judgement or attachment.

Heres how you do it, and it's really very easy. You simply have to be willing to make a choice to just view everything, particularly other's opinions, views, dramas, actions and behaviours, even your own - simply as an interesting point of view.

So instead of thinking of things as right or wrong or good or bad, or giving any meaning or having any attachment to them, everything just becomes an interesting point of view. And instead of reacting to stuff simply say in your head "that's an interesting point of view you have that point of view". I invite you to try it for a couple of days and see what happens.

It can take a bit of practice, and repetition in certain situations but I’ve found that having this new perception can instantly change the energy around a situation. Not only that I've seen how it can banish a lot of mental clutter and free up an abundance of energy, space and time to focus on exactly what I want. And it allows for forward motion where I may previously have felt stuck. It creates more choice and the possibility of being able to change things that are no longer working for me. I'm back in the driving seat baby!

Letting go of aaaallll my stuff has been liberating. And begs the question, Was it even my stuff?

Or is that just an interesting point of view?

Since we’re all at different stages of growth, learning and personal development and each of us has our own unique situation, experience and take on life, it follows that we are going to differ in our thoughts, feelings and conclusions about everything. Our perception dictates that we all have a different way of seeing things. It’s a given.

Even the scientists, researchers, thinkers and academics amongst us are discovering new information every second of every day which changes previous thinking.

Don’t forget, the earth was flat once upon a time and way back when.

And what's true for you, of course does not have to be true for me. Equally what’s true for either one of us today or right now may not be true for us next week, or even tomorrow.

You just don’t know what you don’t know. There’s always new information. And importantly it all depends on what you happen to choose to focus on.

I know from my own personal experiences that one's whole world, and sometimes as a result, ones whole belief systems about a thing can do a complete 180 degree spin in an instant. And I’m coming to realise that the sometimes roller coaster reality that we call life is full of
surprises and as they say “Change is the only constant”. I embrace and allow change.

So what are you focussing on? And what other possibilities might there be?
Maybe you want to let go of some ‘stuff’ or points of view that you might've been holding on to that no longer serve you.

I wonder what new possibilities are waiting for you? Maybe your world might open up as a result of your new allowing. Are you willing to consider that? I know I am.

I practice a wonderful energy therapy called Access Bars which is deeply relaxing and can magically banish the mental clutter and mind chatter that has become such a part of daily life. If you'd like to experience a new sense of peace and calm reserve a session with me today. At worst you'll feel like you just had the best massage of your life, and at best your whole life could change. Call me on 07855 833 451 for an appointment.

Happiness Makes Your Brain Work Better

Inc.com
27 Feb 2012

Harvard psychology researcher explains that rather than thinking of success as the source of happiness, we should think of happiness as a source of success--and one that's more under out control than we imagine.

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What would it take to Put Yourself first?

All too often I see women not putting themselves or their health and wellbeing first. And the truth is I USED to be the same. Oftentimes I hear smart, intelligent, even successful women say they're too busy, too tired, don't have the time, or the money or __________________________ (insert any reason or EXCUSE you choose). Yet at the same time they strive to be all things to all people, taking perfect and devoted care of everything and everyone but themselves.
Does any of this sound familiar?
I'm here to gently remind you that you can choose to do both. But you've got to put yourself first.
That way you can be the very best you can be both for yourself, your loved ones, your businesses, work, and life, whatever. Taking amazing care of your SELF will change your life and the lives of your nearest and dearest. And you might even notice a shift from just coping, managing and surviving to Loving your life and thriving.
How does it get any better?
Love & Gratitude
Linda xx

STOP HIDING & GET VISIBLE! Why I Think That EVERYONE Should Get Shot!

When I went for my photo shoot last week with Grahame Green of Shot Photography, I was stepping right out of (I prefer expanding) my comfort zone by being in front of the camera in front of a stranger who also happened to be male. Grahame who had impressively done his research on me, immediately pointed out the importance of my shoot since my work involves supporting women to be confident and comfortable in their own skin. Of course!
What I learned in the process - which turned out to be a hugely enjoyable experience facilitated by a really cool guy - was that it was in the moments that I was able to simply relax and just be myself that the most powerful shots emerged.
Really difficult to put into words, but from making the decision to stop hiding and get visible, to arriving at the converted studio on a farm in the idyllic surroundings of the Kent countryside through the process of being Shot and receiving my amazing photos on CD just a couple of days later, there was something positively transformative about the whole experience. 
All the ingredients that made up my shoot and the resulting images that were captured by Grahame ultimately enabled me to really "see myself" in a way that I hadn't previously considered.
Loved the shoot, LOVE the photos, loved Grahame (watch out for his book), and I'll be recommending him to all my clients. Well worth the visit. 
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Shot-Photography/157414301037349
Linda
PS. I forgot to mention, one of the heavily pregnant cows on the farm just a few metres from the studio was expected to give birth that night too. How exciting!

Linda Stewart - The healthy living coach
www.accesshealing.net