Stress To Success

Week 6 “Discovering Personal Truth” builds on week 5’s discernment as well as the Theme for the day of silence – Self in Relationship

Here you will find:

1. An Introduction to this week
2. Suggested Podcasts for this week  (Audio Files)
3. Ideas for journaling during this week
4. Challenges for this week

1.  An Introduction to Week 6: Truth

“Week 6 discovering personal truth – Our truth changes as we go through life, and so it is important from time to time to ask ourselves what is really true for us now as opposed to what might have been true before.”  –Turn Stress Into Bliss pg 149

2.  Suggested Podcasts

• 1 Minute Mindfulness (during moments of peak stress)
• Centering & Intention
    
  Alternating days.  Notice ‘What’s ‘True” as you move or sit:
• Mindful Movement  (password protected)
• Mindful Meditation (password protected) or Heart-To-Heart exercise
   
• Integration Process (to complete your daily practice or end a day or week)

3. Ideas for daily journaling

• Begin by writing, “What’s really TRUE for me RIGHT NOW is…..”, and then finish the sentence in as many different ways as you can in the next 10 minutes.  No editing or censoring.

• Be sure to distinguish your Truths from your Desires (Week 5: Discernment). 

“Although your truth is not permanent, it is not superficial or transitory.”

• Here are some examples of Soleil’s Truths to help get you going:
  1. I love my family and want to spend more time with my Mom.
  2. I love to travel and want to spend more time doing this for pleasure and business.
  3. My son is needing me less as he gets older.  This feels right. 
  4. It’s important that I travel with my son to visit family.
  5. I love my work and though I like computers, I want to spend less time working w/ them and more time working with clients.
  6. I need the balance of working with individuals & groups.
  7. My spiritual practice is less a formality and lived more each moment in my daily life.
  8. I am ready to bring a long-term relationship back into my life.
  9. I love to dance.

4.  Challenges

• Continue the 20 second Awareness breaks & complete by asking yourself, “What is true for me now?”
   
• Self-Observation Exercise     (Turn Stress Into Bliss pg 152)
  Take 15 Minutes to make the following 2 lists:
  • Write down everything you can remember picking up to read in the last week, including magazines or journals you subscribe to.
  • Write down all the places in which you have spent time during the last week & felt some degree of contentment or happiness.

Read over your lists.  What do they tell you about what might be true for you?