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Jacqui Taylor (she/her) Calm Courage Presence Writer 📖 Speaker Coach Meditation Teacher LGBTQ+ Ally 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

What do you find to do when you are avoiding doing What do you find to do when you are avoiding doing the thing you’re meant to?

Well today - it’s a plant watering day with an added twist. 

The lovely man I buy my coffee from @number26coffee  outside @dbs_gym_ltd gave me some@coffee grounds to fertilise my house plants. 

So that was kinda of satisfying way to spent half an hour (like cutting back my rampant  buddleia, hazel and clematis in the garden  yesterday- so satisfying!).

House stinks of coffee now 🤥

✔️ One the plus side - I won’t keep looking at the bag of grounds thinking ‘I must stick those on the plants’ then end up throwing them away because I never got around to it ….🙄

❌On the downside - I followed my distractible, post menopausal, drug induced - ‘I’ve got no f***ing hormones to speak of’, tired, overflowing brain and let it run the show 🫣

And in this next moment (after I’ve posted this stupid reel- which was one of the things on to do list fortunately 🤨) I will do better. 

It’s never over but all we can do is be with it as it is …..🫣

#nooneisperfect #distracted
Despite how it may appear I am pretty fed up with Despite how it may appear I am pretty fed up with this stupid broken toe thing.

Two and a half weeks in it’s still sore and yes I have rested it (🤔🤨🫣) - of sorts.  Honest!!

It’s all relative of course. And I live in a terraced house so moving about - or at least up and down - is of the essence. 

Anyhow, I skipped gym today but had a wonderful sports massage with  @___becc____  of @apexsmt 

Now I’m a tough gig when it comes to massage - busman’s holiday and all that - but Becky is great.  As I suspected I’ve got a few funky tight muscles from hobbling around on this broken toe so that all feels grand now. 

So huge thanks to Becky for fitting me in, boo hiss on the sore foot and a quiet, internal word with myself as I really do know better and I’ve been on my feet way too much. 

(And the rather uncomfortable crunch teaching yoga @feelgoodhub_emma on Thursday was a worry too 😳)

My little pinky ain’t never going to get better walking around or trying to do flipping warrior pose on it (or was it downward facing dog 🤔). Either way - it might be meditation only this week!!! 

I can however still train almost everything at the gym 🙌🏻 just no running, burpees, lunges - so hooray for that. 

And it means I don’t have to punch anything (or anyone) instead. 

#gymmotıvatıon #gymlove
Imagine how it would feel to say ‘no, just becaus Imagine how it would feel to say ‘no,  just because it was the right thing for you.

Who would you be for not feeling guilty, with no need to make justifications or excuses?

Not worrying that people won’t like you or that you’re letting anyone down.

You want to  feel completely confident in yourself that you know what you want and why and feel completely at ease with that. 

How good would it be to get  underneath your habits that lead you to sometimes say yes when you  really mean no? 

To no longer believe the story that makes you do it. 

And the best part - once you no longer believe that story there is space to believe something else about who you are! 

Working 1:1 with a mentor is a powerful and productive way to shift the obstacles in the way of you leading your life the way you actually want to. 

There are a couple of slots available to work with me, so message me to book a call to start exploring if this a what you need. 

#limitingbeliefs #mentoring #yourlife
A CONFESSION…. You don’t need to learn to meditat A CONFESSION….

You don’t need to learn to meditate at all!

I only got properly into meditation when my 💩 properly hit the fan. It was a choice made out of necessity if I was going to get to where I wanted to be. 

Now I know most people have no interest in adding something like meditation into their lives.

We’ve all got enough going on so there’s never enough time! 

Weirdly having cancer during Covid meant I was shielding so I couldn’t go to work at my physio clinic SO I had time.

But here’s the thing…

making that choice to learn to meditate, to get out of my own head and learn to let go of all the stuff I had no control over was a GAME CHANGER.

No word of a lie. 

Rolling the skills I’ve learned through regular meditation into deeper self development (through mentoring) has helped shift some stuff I’ve been dragging around with me FOR YEARS.

Stuff I’ve talked through with other great coaches before. I scratched the surface but never truly knew how to release my hold on all the beliefs, behaviour and conditioning.

So it all came back again, and again and again. 

Not any more. 

There’s still work to do because life keeps happening to me so different obstacles arise that lead me to another box to unpack. 

BUT  I went away to learn how to share this with others ..

And you DON’T actually have to learn to meditate at all to be one of my mentoring clients. 

So if you know there is stuff holding you back from where you want to get to I can help you.
Can I let you into a secret? Your brains only pays Can I let you into a secret?
Your brains only pays attention to what you tell it to!

So when you wish you could  bottle that great feeling you get when you’re having a good time?

Well you can - you just need to tell your brain - this matters to me pay attention!

I want to come back to this feeling again!

Your work project gets delivered on time and is received well by the client
Your kids say they had a fun day at school and tell you all about it wiht a huge smile on their face
You come out of a movie wiht friends that made you all laugh a lot 

You can hold onto those moments  by really taking the time to linger in how they make you feel. 
Pay attention to all the sensations in your body that these postive emotions create and really savour them

Our brains are wired to focus on the bad things - the stuff that might be a threat or harm us - it’s the negativity bias and it is all about survival.

We have to work doubly hard to get our brain to pay attention to the good stuff. 

But the more we do,  the more we grow that goodness and the more we notice and expereince it. 

And yes - meditation can help us with this!

Classes and courses available @the_loft_skipton  and @feelgoodhub_emma this autumn 

Links in bio 

#meditationpractice #dailypractice #growthegood
Are brushing your teeth at bedtime and trying to s Are brushing your teeth at bedtime and trying to solve ALL the problems of your day things you do at the same time?

It’s not ideal is it? 😳

You know you’re rhen either not getting to sleep or you’re waking up STILL ruminating over it. 

You’d love to be able to stop going off down the track with your train of thought at bedtime (well anytime but especially then). 

Jumping off that train, or even better not getting on it in the first place, let’s the thoughts run on and without your driving the train they eventually run out of steam. 

It’s a skill that can be learned… and yes meditation can teach you that. 

Comment below for a Free meditation and support notes to help you get through off your train of thoughts
Today’s been a tough one for me but I’m showing up Today’s been a tough one for me but I’m showing up here because I promised myself I would. 🏳️‍⚧️

Do you get super pissed when people say they’ll do something then they don’t follow through ….

And do you hold yourself to the same standards?

Today I said I wouldn’t get lost down the social media scroll - another story for another day but it’s a tough news day for me today. 

I didn’t scroll socials all day - no news, no doom
scrolling, no rabbit holes 

Give yourself a chance to trust yourself. 

Follow through on what you say. 

Be true to  your word. 

#truetoyourself #meditationpractice  #transrightsarehumanrights
When things really matter to us it’s easy to allow When things really matter to us it’s easy to allow ourselves to react to what hurts us before we have time to think if that is the best course of action. 

🤨 To say something we could have phrased better

🤨 To say something we perhaps shouldn’t have said at all

🤨 To say something that is for a later conversation 

When we’ve had time to be with the difficult emotion it gives us the clarity to work out the possible alternative courses of actions. 

I care about a lot of things and I’m learning that sometimes saying less can matter more than defending my position or protecting what I hold dear in that moment. 

Being able to observe myself - my thoughts, feelings and emotions, all the words bubbling up so keen to be spoken out loud that might not serve me right now. 

Just recently I have done exactly that - watched, waited, observed and allowed what needed to be said to be said and held back on what was burning me up inside. 

It’s not fawning, or being a walk over or people pleaser. 

It’s making better decisions in challenging moments.

The process in meditation of observing our mental reactions to externals inputs as well as thoughts, feelings, emotions and memories even build the ‘muscle memory’ so to speak when we are in our daily lives. 

Is it uncomfortable at times - absolutely. 
Is it worth is - 100 %

DM WAIT for a free meditation and 7 day problem solver check list 

#meditation #feelingemotions #dailypractice
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