WinterMentalEnergy

Below are some simple suggestions
and guidelines to follow during the course of Winter to allow you to harmonise your Mental Energy with
the natural rhythm and energetic flow during the Winter season!

Remember to try just one idea at a time, allowing yourself time to adjust and then reflect on how well the practice works for you.

NB: If you have a medical condition, are taking medication and are under the supervision of a health care practitioner, please talk to your doctor before making changes to your diet or lifestyle.

The information provided on www.WhyWeight.co.za is purely for
educational purposes only, and is in no way designed to be prescriptive or to replace medical care or advice.

The Power of Colour......

If you have spent some time exploring the WhyWeight website, you probably will have realised that the categories have their own colours, and that I love to use colour in the work that I do on the website.

This is a natural overflow from how I use colour in my own life. I only use certain colours in my bedroom, and I use completely different colours in my workspace - colours that I would never think of having in other rooms in my home. Then their are the colours that I wear - whilst I love to wear yellow during Summer, there isn’t a single item of clothing in my Winter wardrobe that is yellow. I often wear dark blue and navy in Winter, yet seldom wear blue at any other time of the year.

Using colour during Winter can be especially helpful and beneficial. Whether it’s the colour of the clothes you wear, changing the colours in your bedroom - by changing the colour of your bedding, curtains or other more subtle accessories, like towels in the bathroom, or adding certain colourful items to your office or work environment.

Just adding a few specific coloured accessories can change the ambience of a room and evoke a certain state of mind.

On a Monday which is usually my day off from work, I seldom do much more than the smallest chores or the simplest of errands, as I often take a few hours to explore my ‘Dreams and Desires’. I call this my ‘Dream Time’. This usually means I am wide awake, although in a hazy, reflective state. I like to wear the colours that will best suit what I am doing, or really what I would like to be doing. For me the best colours to use when I am exploring my dreams are purple, black and maroon - although I seldom wear any of those colours. So I use other things in these colours - crystals or stones, flowers, candles, lamplight (there is a huge variety of coloured light bulbs available), pictures, and sometimes even socks, (I have the most amazing collection of different coloured pairs of socks ;o). There is no magic or mystery (although I enjoy the mysterious and magical results) in using colour to seek solution, or evoke a certain state of mind. There has been many years of scientific study and research into colour, and it’s influence on people, with some incredible findings and results.

Yet, certain colours affect some people one way..... and affect others in a different way, so you really need to find your own sense of what each colour means to you personally. Above is a chart of Winter colours and their meanings, that you can use as a guide to help you evoke a certain state of mind. All you need to do is use your coloured item as a reminder for what you want to think about during the course of working with that colour. So on the Mondays that I want to spend some time reflecting on my ‘Dreams and Desires’ and evoke a state of mind to create my ‘Dream Time’ - I would probably wear my black and maroon socks, carry a black crystal (Obsidian or an Apache Teardrop) in my pocket, burn a red candle or turn my Rose Quartz lamp on. These items create little reminders for me to keep my thoughts and intent focused on reflecting on my ‘Dreams and Desires’. Most times this works well for me, with the most magical results. I also use music and affirmations to support what I am doing.

If your mind is in chaos and your thoughts are conflicted, take a little time to water indoor pot plants and wipe clean their leaves, using the green colour of their leaves to create inner balance, allowing for clearing and growth. Lighting a fire during Winter and gazing into the multicoloured flames can also evoke a deep state of warmth and well-being, creating the right ambience for reflective and introspective thought.

Using colour in your work environment can also produce tremendous benefits. I am basically an easygoing person, and sometimes because of this, I allow my work colleagues to take advantage of me. When this becomes an issue for me, I find that wearing the colour blue with intent - especially deep and dark blues, helps me to find my voice, stand my ground and express myself truthfully and honestly.

Explore the colours of Winter to evoke a thoughtful state of mind and to deepen your inner reflection and contemplation at this time!

It Works!

I had a really great experience with a client a number of years ago. She was trying to simplify her life by dealing with the longest ‘To Do List’ I have ever seen. So we went through her list prioritising by urgency and difficulty. The first task on her list was to complete and submit not one, but four years of tax returns. The last item on her list was to sort out her boxes of family photographs, compile them into some sort of order and place them in photograph albums - although it would take a considerable amount of time, she had placed it last on the list because she felt it was the least important task - but it was the one task she wanted to do the most.

So we set about choosing the five easiest tasks for her to complete.
Following the Focus on the Task, Imagine what needs to be done, Visualise the benefits of completion, and following through with Just Doing It, she then Celebrated with a Reward,
and she was able to complete
her five tasks in a week.

Then it was time to tackle the biggest issue on her ‘To Do List’ - her four years of tax returns. I made the suggestion that she consult an expert or just to get a tax consultant to do all the work for her, only to discover that she already had a tax consult waiting for her just to compile figures and answer some very important questions before he could submit her returns. The important discovery I made was that once her tax returns were completed and submitted, there was a very substantial refund due to her. The problem was that her focus had been on all the time and work she would need to do to gather her paperwork, sort it out, compile figures and then all she needed to do was give the figures to her tax consult and he would do the rest. Each time she thought about it, her focus on the job at hand grew in time and work, until she felt completely overwhelmed and unable to even start the task.

By first Focusing on the task, then Imagining what needed to be done and completing the process by Visualising the benefits - having the money from the refund to spend on whatever she wanted, she was able to change her state of mind from being overwhelmed and frustrated to empowered to start the task. She felt further motivated to do the work by visualising the benefits she would enjoy once the task was completed. Through the process of Imagining what she needed to do - she simplified her plan, work to be done and the time spent doing it, by just working through one year of paper work per week. As soon as that first year of paperwork was sorted, filed and the figures submitted to her tax consultant, she rewarded herself by enjoying a facial. Once the second year of figures were submitted to her tax consultant, she rewarded herself with a massage, and the third year of figures submitted, she rewarded herself with an expensive pair of shoes. Once the fourth year of figures was completed and submitted, she started to visualise and imagine what she would do with her refund and how she would spend her money. Since she had completed the most urgent and time consuming task on her ‘To Do List’ - she felt a huge sense of accomplishment and was empowered and confident to tackle the next most important tasks on the list. For the first time in fours years, her ‘To Do List’ started to decrease and become manageable. After four months she had worked through all the tasks on her list and was able to deal with tasks as they arose on a day to day basis for the first time in years.

I started working with her sometime in the April of that year to help her deal with her ‘To Do List’ and by the end of July all her tasks on the list were completed. From the start of August, she learnt the process of ‘Letting Go and Releasing’ in the [ Winter Spiritual Essence ] and the interesting thing to happen during the course of August and September [ Spring ] was the fact that she reduced her weight by 12 kilograms and decreased her dress size by four sizes. Although she changed her eating habits and started doing exercises, the changes she made were subtle, nothing radical, and she shared that she just felt so much ‘lighter’ and so free, as her mind was clear from all the frustration, anxiety and feelings of being overwhelmed. Her self-esteem and confidence grew with each completed task, and then she began to find purpose in her days. As her focus changed from the things she hadn’t done and still needed to do.... To how much she had accomplished and achieved, her love and her passion for herself, her family, her life and her career increased expeditiously. During the course of the following Summer (4 months) her weight seemed to simply ‘melt away’ without much effort, reducing by a further 18 kilograms. Then she decided to spend her tax refund on new clothes, a radical new hairstyle, a facial and makeover.

So GET the tasks on your ‘To Do List’ completed during the course of Winter, and free your mind to embrace the coming [ Spring ] with a more positive attitude and increased Mental Energy!

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