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Is Your Mind Filled with Anxiety
or with Trust?

"Anxiety in human life is what squeaking and grinding are in machinery that is not oiled. In life, trust is the oil."

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Greetings!

The beach last week was fabulous! My husband and I really needed that time of relaxation to just BE and dream and get in touch with what’s really important.

We set some intentions about our purpose – our mission in life, both individually and as a team. I’ll be telling you more about that later.

In this issue, I’ll share some of my experiences in the on-going lesson of letting go and “trusting.” I also reveal my secret “motorcycle protection” song. :)

Enjoy the rest of the issue!

- Becky

Trusting the Process of Life

Trusting the process of life… that has been a long hard lesson for me. As a teenager and young adult, I was impatient and wanted things to happen or to be better NOW. As a result, I spent the early years of my adult life trying to force relationships that, looking back on them, sent me off in little life tangents where I “sold my soul” for a self-esteem fix.

All in all thought, I learned a lot. And those experiences brought me to where I am today.

Through all the many life adventures, my confidence has grown. In addition, those experiences have given me opportunities to collect valuable information that enables me relate to many, many different people in all walks of life.

And I can finally say, even though I’m sometimes tempted to “push” things along, I understand that there IS a gestation period in just about everything in life, and that no matter how much you long to, you can not “rush” the process.

It takes as long as it takes.... And that’s where trust comes in.

I got a big lesson in trust at the beach last week.

Usually, you can walk into the water and it gradually gets deeper. At this beach, however, there was a pretty big drop off about 10 steps into the water. And the waves were pretty big too. This combination meant that my 4’10” body needed some “floaties” just to keep my head above water. (Thank goodness for those tootsie roll looking tube floating things!)

My husband, 12 inches taller, could stand out there fine without any floating assistance. But on this particular occasion, he had come into the water with a float board.

The tide was going out and there was a strong undercurrent. Before long we realized that we were drifting farther and farther out. So we turned and started back to shore.

I kept trying to touch bottom as a way of gauging our progress. But with the undercurrent, it felt like we were making no headway at all. Kent was a few yards ahead of me. And after what seemed like 10 minutes of all this work and getting nowhere, I felt myself begin to go into panic.

I knew intellectually that panicking would not help me, and that it could possibly cause me to fall off my float. And it seemed that Kent was too far away and the current too strong for him to get to me if I went under.

So I chose to “snap out of it” instead. I chose to stay out of panic, to remain calm, and to continued in the direction of the shore knowing that I was handling the situation in the best way I could and trusting that I would reach the shore safely.

Life is a lot like that too.

Go Deeper, Reach Higher

I invite you to try on the "trusting" hat and fill your mind with trust instead of anxiety this week.

When you find yourself in one of those life "situations" and feel the panic or other anxiety begin to rise, make a conscious choice to snap out of it.

Then notice what happens. Notice how you feel.

Did the situation resolve itself? Was it easier to work toward a solution? Were you more at ease and calm? Were you in a more "happy" place when it was all over?

Make some notes to yourself about the experience each time. Did it get easier to "snap out of it" each time? Were you able to side step the anxious feelings altogether?

Motorcycle Update: Angel Protectors

I am proud to announce that I have made it all the way up to 2nd gear - and withOUT my training wheels! (Read the background story: Fear Lessons from a Newborn Motorcycle Mama.)

This past Sunday, my 4th motorcycle practice session, I really worked hard on trying to make the take off a “no brainer.” Taking off – letting go of your foothold on the ground, balancing, and moving forward involves a great sense of “trust.” Trust in yourself and trust in that "Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands.”

One of the little “tricks” that has helped me is my Angel Protectors Song. Amanda at GT Choppers gave me the idea. She told me that the only way she could get over her fear of “letting go” when she was learning to ride was to keep singing a happy or silly song over and over in her head.

So I made up my own. I start singing it as I put on my riding gear and you know what? It really does work!

ANGEL PROTECTORS
There’s an angel to my left, an angel to my right;
an angel before me, an angel behind;
Angel above me, an angel below me
keeping me safe and strong all of the time.

You can listen to it here. :)

The bell you hear is The Gremlin Bell. Amanda and Tim put it on every motorcycle they sell. Legend has it that a small bell attached to your motorcycle, close to the ground, catches the Evil Road Spirits. The Little Gremlins live on your motorcycle causing all kinds of mechanical problems. The cavity of the bell attracts these Evil Spirits, but the constant ringing drives them insane and they lose their grip and fall to the ground.