Do you have an inner dialogue or song that fires you up right before a good workout? It’s so powerful that no bad day stands a chance against it against it…
What would happen if that voice turned against you?
Early last month my Higher Self, Ahava, banned me from the gym. Yes, that’s right! ME?!? Of all people. Sheesh. I said to her “do you even know who I am?!” She laughed, “uh, duh! Of course I do. I AM you.”
Her instructions were clear in the tune-ins that followed: lose the muscle I worked so hard to put on. Really. She said I had put it all on from an ego space and the energy was toxic to my spiritual evolution. True, in the beginning of my weight loss of 80 pounds I was meditating, doing daily yoga and finding many ways to be connected. Though somewhere along the way I had sunk deeply into the world of competition, body building and non-soulful training.
When I walked away from my last personal training business I wanted to never look back. I felt like I had been betrayed by the industry, the sport and everything that I had allowed to take me down. In actuality, it was nobody’s fault but my own. After years of using supplements to MAKE my body do things it didn’t want to do, boost my metabolism when my adrenals were shot and build muscle for the sake of looks rather than function, my body had enough and so did Ahava.
And so, I ventured onto a path of self-discovery, seeking a more holistic approach to training and nutrition coaching. Returning to a life that I had originally intend when I first found weight training felt good but I struggled with regret and shame of walking away from my own path. This renewed path included the overall health and longevity of the body, bio-individuality and a truly customized program to suit the needs of each of my clients. Because I had shifted so much in my experience and overall evolution, I spun my wheels trying to find the right fit but nothing ever fit quite right.
The real issue is that I had tweaked my own training style to suit my ego’s needs rather than seeking what was in my highest good for so long that I knew only conceptually what was possible. My body had grown accustomed to my limiting beliefs about training, fat loss and over all metabolism of foods. While working out was a form of meditation for me, I was disconnected from it’s real needs feeding it with mass amounts of supplements and thought patterns that tore me apart. On top of all that, I was trying to “get back” to where I was instead of seeing that, despite my perceived downfall, I had actually evolved.
After my near death experience last year, I never really got back into the training process as my whole beingness had shifted. Although I desperately missed the thrill of the bodybuilding lifestyle I couldn’t bring myself to getting into a routine as it felt soul-less.
Fast forward to two months ago, my ego went into shock being told I could not work out anymore. You can imagine a gym junkie like me, who, for almost a decade, actually planned my life around my gym sessions, including vacations, threw a tantrum to a message like that. And that’s just it, she knew I had lost my way somewhere and something had to give in order to get me onto a fitness path that was suitable for goddess energy as opposed to warrior fight-or-flight spirit.
The first recommendations she gave me were to wake up every day at 6am and do yoga. Only yoga. On the days I tried to throw in some extra yogi pushups to build a balanced physique…she made me stop for the day. It was brutal and my ego did NOT like it, at all!
After about four consistent weeks of being true to her guidance, listening to my body and taking note of when my ego would try to take over, she allowed me return to the gym. I went four times that week! It was amazing to feel a sense of accomplishment in trusting her as well as to return with a new perspective on how I would train in the future.
On Christmas Eve, she guided me to do an hour of cardio, something I would NEVER do unless I was prepping for competition. In that hour I did some major tune-ins with her to understand what I needed to know in moving forward with our new Limitless Athlete program.
I sat on the bike for 30 minutes and the rowing machine for another 30 while she hammered out the goal and path for me: a “fit body” without running myself through the ringer. She even gave me tools to remove any limiting beliefs I had about the food I eat. There will be no more limiting myself based on research of others, diet fads, cutting/bulking diets, etc. She showed me the path of least resistance to create a healthy body that reflected strength, conditioning and femininity. You better believe I took notes!
I reflected back over a year and a half ago when I wrote a book about soulful weight loss. It was a story about how I lost my weight and the skills I had discovered along the way. Ahava, my higher self, said “you don’t need all of that anymore” when she wrapped her arms around me to signal my arrival in this new space.
And here I sit, a queen in this space. A council of 12 guides me now to goddess shape and conditioning, providing me with the tools and resources I need to reach a new level of optimal health and wellness. It’s much easier than I had ever imagined!
Today, I’ve been shown the week ahead would include the following:
- Weigh-in on Thursdays as Wednesdays are my days off
- Workouts Thursday-Tuesdays
- Tune-in at each meal for foods in my highest good with projections (see note below)
- Focus on shape and goal weight of only that which is in my Highest Good
- Enjoying the journey
The fun part about this is that she has not taken any foods or activities away from me. Sundays have always been my favorite day to train and she’s included that in my training schedule. Instead of focusing on a “goal weight” and choosing foods according to what the experts or my past nutrition education tells me, she’s given me the ability to tune-in to what’s in my highest good each time by using a tool we teach in Ui Group’s Self Mastery course called Future Projections. It allows me to tap into the future with certain variables and see which of the variables will create the best outcome.
The biggest differences I’ve seen so far:
- I’m not struggling to fit into someone else’s pre-determined program
- My foods are not automatically limited to suit an eating plan
- My workouts change daily (which I absolutely LOVE!)
- There’s no stress
I’ll keep you posted on my results. 🙂
If you want to learn how to do Future Projections to see how your choices will play out prior to making them, check out the Recording of Week 11 Inner Future. If you’d like to learn more about how we use Universal Intelligence to create abundance in life, check out What is Ui?