{"id":7515,"date":"2014-09-04T17:57:22","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T17:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendywolfe.com\/?p=1694"},"modified":"2014-09-04T17:57:22","modified_gmt":"2014-09-04T17:57:22","slug":"why-you-need-to-put-the-stick-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wendywolfe.com\/?p=7515","title":{"rendered":"Why You Need to Put the Stick Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I never Coulda Shoulda<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t remember where I learned this phrase but it was at least 20 or 30 years ago.\u00a0 It means what we have done in the past was done with what we knew then, where we were emotionally and <em>couldn&#8217;t<\/em> have been done differently.\u00a0 To live in the past and rehash how we might have done something differently never serves us.\u00a0 We could only do what we knew then.<\/p>\n<p>This doesn&#8217;t mean we don\u2019t learn from our past. \u00a0As Maya Angelou often said \u201cWhen you know better, you do better\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0 The tricky part is when we know better, when we learn to do differently it\u2019s easier to <i>judge our past choices<\/i> as mistakes.\u00a0 In our now more enlightened state we would make different choices.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s remember we weren&#8217;t \u201cenlightened\u201d then. \u00a0We made choices based on what we knew or understood <em>then<\/em>.\u00a0 This isn&#8217;t limited to what we knew intellectually but what we understood about ourselves emotionally and intuitively as well.\u00a0 We did the best we could with where we were.<\/p>\n<p>And maybe\u2026that\u2019s exactly what needed to occur for the learning to happen.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe your Soul was leading you in that very \u201cwrong\u201d direction on purpose.<\/p>\n<p>If you had made other choices can you see that you wouldn&#8217;t be who you are now?<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s time to put the stick down.\u00a0 Stop beating yourself. Hashing over the past wishing you had done something different keeps us in a place of \u201cnot good enough\u201d.\u00a0 And my dear friend, there is nothing \u201cnot good enough\u201d about you.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s time to begin speaking to yourself as if you are good enough. More than good enough.\u00a0 Because\u2026<\/p>\n<p><b>What we say to ourselves is very powerful.<a href=\"https:\/\/wendywolfe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Your-thoughts-can-change-your-DNA-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2100\" alt=\"Your thoughts can change your DNA (1)\" src=\"https:\/\/wendywolfe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Your-thoughts-can-change-your-DNA-1-300x251.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"251\" \/><\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Our thoughts or intention physically affect matter.\u00a0 Really.\u00a0 There\u2019s scientific proof.<\/p>\n<p>The<a href=\"http:\/\/www.heartmath.org\/\"> Institute of HeartMath<\/a> conducted studies to observe the effect intention (thoughts) have on physical matter, specifically, DNA.\u00a0 The results were nothing less than astounding.<\/p>\n<p>The most important thing to understand is that to change physical matter in a way that we want, we need to be in what HeartMath refers to as <strong>Heart Coherence<\/strong>.\u00a0 I first learned of this at a workshop with Greg Braden.\u00a0 As Heart Coherence was described, I realized they were describing the same process I use to teach others to communicate with animals.\u00a0 Heart Coherence is a measurable state of the heart from a physical standpoint but also employs generating an overwhelming sense of love and gratitude.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a summary of the findings in a nutshell.\u00a0 In a very well structured scientific study, the results demonstrate that when in a state of Heart Coherence participants are able to alter DNA with their thoughts.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously.\u00a0 Think about this. \u00a0<em>Your thoughts can change physical matter.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Those who were more proficient at the Heart Coherence state were able to have more effect on the specific strands of DNA.\u00a0 With their intention and thoughts, they loosened and tightened strands of DNA.\u00a0 In some cases the DNA was in another location a half mile away.\u00a0 The founder of HeartMath, Doc Childre, when presented with three strands of DNA in one vessel was able to tighten one, loosen another and leave the third one alone.\u00a0 If you want to read the full research summary,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aipro.info\/drive\/File\/224.pdf\"> it\u2019s here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I invite you to think about what you tell yourself.\u00a0 What is your intention towards yourself?<\/p>\n<p>Are you being kind?<\/p>\n<p>Would you speak this way to a friend?<\/p>\n<p>If not, it\u2019s time to change your conversation.<\/p>\n<p>You deserve nothing less than gentleness and unconditional love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I never Coulda Shoulda I don\u2019t remember where I learned this phrase but it was at least 20 or 30 years ago.\u00a0 It means what we have done in the past was done with what we knew then, where we were emotionally and couldn&#8217;t have been done differently.\u00a0 To live in the past and rehash [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","entry","has-post-thumbnail","gs-1","gs-odd","gs-even","gs-featured-content-entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wendywolfe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wendywolfe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wendywolfe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wendywolfe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wendywolfe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wendywolfe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wendywolfe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wendywolfe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wendywolfe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}