Turning off the stress

Okay, today was a killer – really!  I mean it had the potential to be a killer.  A bunch of things came at me all at once and I felt like an air traffic controller – out of control!

Then I remembered… I am committed to a stress free reaction!
This means that I will still encounter stress in my work and my personal life but that I have decided not to release the adrenaline reaction – the fight or flight that works to create disease and ages my mind and my body. 

I have decided that I will handle the stressful events – to my BEST ABILITY and that does not require the danger arousal response that pumps up my pulse and heart beat.  It only means that I must be quite happy with my best effort even if it means people on the other side are not.

I hope that you will join me in Turning off the Stress!  Email me at the website The Wave Riders .com  http://www.thewaveriders.com

Indigo

Is depression breeding in the steam room?

Maybe it’s a crazy title but yesterday I was good to myself and gave myself the pleasure of a swim and steam at our local pool.  We are very close to the 2010 Winter Olympics (only 5 hours north) and so the torch was passing through our town an hour from the time I was in the steam.

I happened to mention that it was going through town and a heated discussion began. What was a place of relaxation, calm and clearing of the body toxins became infested with the sounds and emotions of negativity.

What they were talking about (in some ways) I agreed with.  The huge amounts of money spent on the Olympics would be great to have to build new hospitals and for me, I thought, “to compete” not for sports but for global solutions.   So the topic did not bother me … but the hopelessness did.

“It’s the government – what can you do”, “corporations only care about money” – I decided I could not take any more and suggested instead of just spreading the negativity that perhaps we should consider offering solutions.  To complain about our government and corporations; to place sole blame on them is a very old fashioned way of thinking and a very easy “out”.

I have been writing and researching a great deal for my new book “Creating Emotional Balance in our Accelerated World” and what I have been finding is that “governments” and “corportations” are changing.  They must in order to stay competitive and this mean they must nuture their employees, their environmental impact and the way they communicate on a global scale.

So who is  shouting that “the good is coming, the good is coming”?

Very few people are giving energy to the good that people are doing and we need more shouting about positive things in our world so that negativity and depression are not the seeds that are set to grow as we hover around water stations and steam rooms talking about the plight of our world.

We can laugh again, we can have faith, we can feel and see the good things coming and the wonderful things that are already here.

Point your face towards the sun and feel depression begin to melt away.

Indigo

Join me on the Mike Nabuurs Radio show this morning

Hello everyone, hope you will get a chance to join me on the Mike Nabuurs Radio show this morning 8 AM PST http://www.talk820.com/shows/777732

Happy New Year

Happy New Year 2010!

Tonight I took a few moments to count my blessings for which I have many.  Good family, good friends, a roof over my head, bills are paid and food is in the fridge.  Enjoyed the fresh air and romp in the snow with my two dogs.  2010 looks like it will be a busy year.   Hope yours is wonderful!

take care Indigo

Merry Christmas

Well that’s it I’m stuffed and grateful for family and friends.  Hope that you are all well. I am having a quiet Christmas with family, including my two border collies. 

Merry Christmas

Indigo

Sense of Completion with the second book released

There is a sense of completion now that the second book in The Wave Riders Series is complete and available in digital format. Printed version coming in 2010. I hope that you will join my on the journey through the lessons learned through bouncing back from poverty.

10 Revelations in the Leap from Lawn Chairs to Limos
by Indigo Irwin Kennedy

Unlock the 10 secrets that only this journey could reveal! A sometimes humorous reflective journey into the poverty patterns we create in our lives.

A new book for our Tough economic times

Ahh, feels great to finish the second book in The Wave Rider’s series.  The Wave Riders Book I introduces a wave pattern in our personalities that followed the “bipolar pattern” found in some mental health problems, only it was also happening in the mainstream population – I like to call it the “Pre-bipolar State”.   It also suggests that depression may be caused from the natural down of an adrenaline, high energy state.  

In the third book scheduled to be released Jan. 2010 I will introduce three trends that are already influencing our families and our finances.

I thought that the second book should be from 10 Revelation from Lawn chairs to Limos, bouncing back from bankruptcy and poverty as there are so many people feeling down now from these tough economic times. These 10 Revelations from the Leap from Lawn chairs ( my only living room furniture years ago) to Limos were important lessons that I observed through the process and hope that they may help other people through their tough times.  I try to show that poverty does not relate to your value and that there is hope and opportunity even when we feel that we have hit bottom.   The book will be available at The Wave Riders http://www.thewaveriders.com

 

The book is in the final edit and layout process for digital release in about 1 week and I hope it will reach people that need a boost this year.

I hate hearing that another person has tried to commit suicide!

We know what causes depression – or at least we know one of the major causes of depression…yet we still turn a blind eye to the cause and reach only for the the symptoms that appear at the end of the cause.

Yes, there is a chemical balance but enough studies now show that the chemical balance is caused by things like stress, high adrenaline and worry which results in non-regenerative sleep. 

We need to start listening more to what our minds and bodies need.  It is not the large stress that causes the problem it is the constant stress: running the kids to school, getting to work on time and worry that we might lose our jobs.  If we do not reduce our stress, increase our exercise, stop overworking, the result will be a chemical deficiency in “happy chemicals” that are strong enough to convince us that we are insufficient, that our futures are bleak…. this is the tired brain trying to stop you and when we know that it is not real..we have some power to “fight back” otherwise all we see is success or suicide!    It is time for all of us to wake up….me too.  I still find myself overworking and still find  that “voice” that threatens to convince me that I have nothing to offer the world.  I think I am finally ready to really listen and reduce the stress in my life … Are you with me?

Seattle Mariner John Wetteland was just hospitalized for attempted suicide!   Let’s not add any more of our talented overachievers/overworkers to that list!  I know how dark and hopeless the bottom feels….we need to learn how to not listen to that voice “it is not real”

Free 7 Secrets to Stopping Depression CD from The Wave Riders.com

I hope everyone got their Free 7 Secrets to Stopping Depression CD from The Wave Riders.com Just click on the #1 Secret on the website – we did a prelaunch just the other day of the new site http://www.thewaveriders.com  .   The Free Cd is just a start to the video training that we hope will help to lift our members out of depression and all the way up to success.

Back from New York City

New York  is not really a “city” it is an “adventure” and is definitely an experience that changes us in many ways, even if  just to realize that there is a place in our world where there is a constant hum (and honk) of human activity. 

From my window in Manhattan in the morning I could see the constant flow of yellow cabs in one direction and black suits in the other (the morning shift).  Dotted through the sea of black was a periodic tourist or California visitor in pink.

From the instant that you step off the plane you can see and feel diversity.  I really am a country girl, I like the quiet to think and read and walk with my dogs but I found that while the occasional honk in a city might be disruptive the constant honk and siren and whistles for cabs was more like a living symphony.

I was very busy there talking about The Wave Riders and so will have to go back to play tourist.  New York City is vibrant and encourages even the most humble hermit  to come out and play.

Indigo Irwin Kennedy
TheWaveRiders.com