Have you taken a deep breath lately?  Or, are you caught up in the craze of the holiday season?

Your breath is a great way to connect to your internal emotional barometer. Is it deep and full, short and quick or are you holding it in?

Take a few moments throughout your day to assess your breath. This will guide you in knowing your level of stress.

If you find your breath is a little quicker than usual or you find yourself holding it in, it is time to make adjustments! Sometimes it is easier to change your internal emotional barometer just by changing your breath. This is true when the hectic holiday season is here or when any of life’s bumps spring up and block you on your journey.

If you know that you have to go through an anxiety provoking experience or if one finds its way on your path… focus on your breath.

Take a deep breath in for a slow count of 5. Hold it at the top of the breath for a few seconds and then slowly exhale for a count of 5. When you have reached the bottom of your breath and you feel “empty” of breath, hold that for a few seconds. And then, slowly repeat. Do this breathing exercise 5 times.

Think about how you felt before and now notice how you feel after.  Hopefully some of the stress you had has dissipated away.  The great thing is that when you relieve some of your stress you are able to think more clearly, make better decisions, be more creative and have more fun. 

It is critical to notice when your stress is starting to build because it impacts so many areas of your life. The easiest way to assess your stress level is to notice your breath.  You can then get relief by releasing it with the breathing exercise mentioned above.

We also created the Holiday Rescue Package for the hectic holiday hangover to give you tools to release the build up of stress from the holiday season! I want you to start the New Year on a solid foundation without the toxic build-up that stress creates on your mind, body, spirit and home! Click here to access your Holiday Rescue Package!

Happy Holidays!

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Here is a simple Holiday Harmony Tip to decrease your sense of overwhelm and stress!

It is understandable to feel more stress during this busy time of year. With that said, you can use your environment to help create calm in the midst of the chaos of the holidays! Here is one way to do that…

The Home in Harmony Team wanted to help you create more harmony during your holidays and they came up with the Holiday Rescue Package, which is “For the Hectic Holiday Hangover”!

I agree wholeheartedly with them! It is so important to recharge your batteries on a regular basis and especially with the swirl & twirl of the holidays!

 The Holiday Rescue Package will help you recharge and rejuvenate during the holiday season and for the start of 2018! It will help you feel recharged so that you step in to the New Year feeling vibrant instead of depleted and exhausted from the holidays!

Wishing you harmony in your holidays!

Blessings,

Here is a quick tip to help you understand why you might be feeling anxiety or agitation during the holiday season AND how to ease the tension!

This one tip can help you create calm in the midst of the chaos of the holidays! It will soothe your mind and body!

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Enjoy the start to your holiday season!

Blessings,

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Are you overwhelmed & scattered? I will make this simple… Less is truly more. Less gives you clarity which gives you focus. Focus breeds success.Look at your life and decide what is essential in your home, life & business. Greg McKeown illustrates an important concept of why you might feel scattered. He explains why the Disciplined Pursuit of Less can have a major impact on you in every area of your life.

Explore what is essential and non-essential in your home, personal life and business.
Eliminate anything non-essential.
Execute by starting now… even if you start with something simple like your closet.

In this week’s video I show a page from Greg’s book, Essentialism, that might help you have an ah-ha moment of why your home, life and business might not be flowing with ease and grace. I know this picture gave me a thousand insights in to why Less would be so much More in my life! I would love to hear what you think is essential and non-essential in your life… Leave your comments below the video!

Happy Soaring!

XOXO

P.S. Just in case you need the link to the Free Clutter Clearing Challenge… here it is —> https://christaoleary.com/14-day-clutter-clearing-challenge-registration/

Where do your thoughts usually take you? Do they meander down a path of beautiful fragrant flowers or wind down a trail of pointed rocks?  Is your home set up to encourage positivity or to exhaust your life energy?

What you focus on creates your reality, so it is important to begin to notice if you are focusing on the positive or the negative. If you tend to focus a bit more on the negative, let me share a quick story on how I changed my thought which helped me turn something aggravating into something I sought out and enjoyed.

I will also share one Simple Solution that you can include in your environment to help you focus on things that bring a smile to your beautiful face!

This is an example of how I caught my thought in midair and changed my mind on how I would think about the experience. Noticing your thoughts is the first step in an awareness of whether your thoughts are dragging you down or helping you soar.

There is about 10-15 feet of rocks between our beach stairs and the sandy beach and lapping water that waits. It can be a bit precarious trying to maneuver let alone carry large items like paddle-boards over. Each step hurts. It can make the strongest among us cringe as their delicate feet try to maneuver the rocks without bending over and wincing in pain.

As simple and silly as it sounds, the rocks are annoying.  We have been blessed to be in this beach cottage for three years. Every day I wake up in gratitude (positive) and then look out the window to see if the tides have carried more rocks in (negative) or washed them out on the currents.

One day this summer, I was about to descend the beach stairs, staring at the rocks and lugging my paddle-board… a memory flashed to my conscious awareness.  It was a recollection of being at the La Costa Spa in Southern California. By the spa pool, I had purposefully chosen to meander a rock garden meditation labyrinth, stepping thoughtfully on the pointed rocks with bare feet. The “goal” was both the mediation and the acupressure benefits that helped the body.

In that moment on the beach stairs, I decided to change my mind on how I viewed the rocks at the bottom of the stairs. Instead, I would set the intention that with each step, a rock would hit a needed acupressure point that would benefit my body. This practice was a benefit to body, mind and spirit.  I actually began to look forward to descending the stairs knowing that I was supporting myself… the dreaded rocks turned into a practice of self-care.

What thoughts in your life are draining you and dragging you down? Is there an area in or around your house that is annoying or frustrating?

Noticing is the first step.

Can you take action to either change the negative thought provoking area in your environment or in your mind?

I would Love to hear from you! Share your example here or on the Home in Harmony Facebook page.

P.S. If you need help changing your home environment or or internal environment (thoughts) from one that depletes you to one that sets you up for happiness & success, click here to schedule your Success Strategy Call to see if Christa can help you!

Happy Soaring!

XOXO