Confessions of a control freak

I had never thought of myself as a control freak. I guess with being a perfectionist it makes sense but I just thought I was too passive to be a control freak. But that’s because I thought control freaks controlled others. I hadn’t thought of my own control over all the fine details of my life. I had considered my organisation skills to be just that, a skill. But since attending Joanne Antoun’s event I have been looking at myself more closely.

I was blessed to have been given her book and I took it to work and had fun with my colleagues doing the personality tests on each other. Then one of my colleagues emailed the link to the personality test at www.16personalities.com and we all did that. I discovered I was a ISFJ personality (the defender) and this made just as much sense as ‘the doer’. I find personality tests so interesting and love gaining insights into myself. It was so funny that the following night I can across a personality test to do with my cat. She got the shy cat and that is exactly what she is! You can test your cat here.

So in light of all these personality tests I scrapped all my to-do lists for this week which I had taken off work. And it was a struggle. You can read about the beginning of my struggle here.

I moved passed it and enjoyed a day connecting with family. I rocked my crying 3 month old niece to sleep in my arms and I took my 3 year old nephew to Bounce where we had so much fun. I had such a great day and hadn’t thought about tomorrow or future plans. For the first time in a long time I was actually just in the moment.

Manifesting Grace Through Gratitude

I have been feeling the pull to meditate for awhile now. I have been struggling to find balance in my life and had problems with my health. I knew that meditating would no doubt help me but I still couldn’t motivate myself to do it. I needed guidance. Was this just an excuse? Possibly, but I had tried meditating by myself before and wasn’t very successful. I did the Manifesting True Success 21 day meditation experience in March and loved it. So I am so excited that the Manifesting Grace through Gratiude 21 day meditation experience starts tomorrow!

 The meditation experience is a guided daily meditation that you can do online or download the app to your device. You get daily emails to keep you on track and let you know the purpose of each day’s meditation. This experience is about making grace come alive in your life and teaches you how to:

• Make gratitude a blissful practice that infuses each moment with the life-changing power of grace
• Stop chasing the things you think you need to be happy, and start finding true joy in each present moment
• Tap into the power of grace to effortlessly attract more and more to be grateful for

I learnt so much during the Manifesting True Success experience so I can’t wait to see how I am transformed during this 21 day meditation experience. I will write a review blog post at the end of the week and keep you all posted xx

If you would like to join me or want some more info then head over to the Chopra centre here.