In our local paper here in Las Vegas, the Review Journal, there was a short article in the entertainment section about a gal, Tricia Huffman, who gets paid to hug people. She travels with a band and helps ground the performers by making their back stage rooms very Zen- like with soft lighting – meditation pillows- rugs and tapestries. For the crew she prepares raw food and teaches yoga and hugs players and the crew before and after every show to help center them. She likes to call herself their “vibe counselor” or their “joyologist”.

After reading this article – I thought I could be called a vibe counselor or joyologist. I have been busy for the past few years spreading the joy. I have even written a book about “JOY”. I have taught personal growth seminars and have been a life coach. From here on end, I will start calling myself a Joyologist / Vibe counselor. How fun is that! I am so excited about finally naming what I have been doing. I have seriously been looking at starting up workshops on loving yourself and vibrating in love and joy. I have also wanted to get back into doing my energy work again- this is just what I needed to get the ball rolling.

Thank you Tricia Huffman for helping put a name on what I do. I would love to meet you some day- you are a kindred spirit. I guess one can never know where an inspiration can come from–who would have thought I would get one from the entertainment section of the RJ. God works in mysterious ways.

IN JOY & GRADITUDE,
Vicki

On my last blog entry- I shared with you my experience with the “Loving myself” affirmations and some of my results. I also said that I had two friends that said the affirmation regularly also for the last few months. Here what has happened in their lives since they have started their loving affirmations- I will not use their names so I can respect their privacy. They have given me permission to share their experiences though.

Friend number one, let’s call her, Jen. She is a gal that has been working one loving herself for a few years now. And for whatever reason – she has struggled with this concept. Like many of us- she listened to everyone else and looked outside her self for everyone’s approval. A trap I believe we all have been in. In response to her approval program, she has become a huge procrastinator of things she says she wants.

Once she started saying, “Jen, I love you unconditionally” – she added unconditionally which worked for her, she started looking at a few unfinished projects that she had started. She seemed to have energy to work on them. She cleaned out her garage – huge task. She went shopping for a new car but in the end she had her old car serviced- (she had put that off for years)- and the AC fixed that had not worked for a while. She even told her mother, who lives out side of the US, that she would come and visit her. She has not been home in 8 years.

A few weeks ago, I got a call from her and she was having a really bad week- after she shared her emotional week with me I asked her one question, “Have you been saying- Jen, I love you conditionally?” There was silence at the other end of the phone- then she laughed and said. “NO”. Then we both laughed. She went on to say- I totally forgot to do that – this is the gal that ends every phone to her friends with- “love ya!” She always remembers to say that to her friends but not to herself! We humans are a strange and wonderful species!

Loving ourselves really is not hard however we let other things in our lives make that act become not as important as what everyone else thinks of us. I cannot remember who said this statement –I love it- “It is none of my business what others think of me.”

My challenge to you this week is to – Give yourself some approval for doing nothing. One way to do it that is to say your “I love myself” affirmation out loud while looking in the mirror right into your own eyes. Do it and let me know how it goes! I get all tingly all over when I do that. I usually end up smiling and feeling like a little girl again. I feel at that very minute- I am connecting to the universe’s truth of who I am. What a wonderful and loving place!

If you are unable to do that- let me know what happened there, too.

In Love and Joy,
Vicki