How Are You Today? From Marina J Coaching Club

By Author: Marinaj
Total Articles: 8
Comment this article

When was the last time you woke up in the morning and decided to have a day that would make your pleasure important? Does even the thought make you laugh out loud?!!
As women we like to have a "to do" list running through our heads first thing in the morning, because we like to be efficient. Having a shower, running through the day's events in our minds - tick, tick, tick. Yes we are efficient, practical and often rushing because we want to be on time. What if our priorities changed? What if the "to do" list started with how to pleasure the most beautiful person in your life?.... (You!)
What if we put our pleasure first?

What makes you happy?
I believe we have, much like a bicep muscle, a pleasure muscle. Compromising our pleasure regularly will make this muscle weak and slack. Often, when busy and stressed, the first thing we drop is ourselves as we put others first. It's the easiest thing to do. But this is Fools Gold. If you drop yourself, you have lost yourself. And because so many women are doing it, it kind of seems normal. We also do this with our partners in life, a little like this scenario ...
... played out across households all over the world on a Friday night:

Husband/partner: "What do you want to do tonight?"
You: "I don't know, what do you want to do?" (Said somewhat irritably because he should know what you want, he's known you long enough)
Husband/partner: "I don't know, how about a video and take out?"
You: "Ok" (somewhat numbly)

Hmmmm... how is that pleasure muscle of yours?
See, I believe men were put on this earth to support us to look after the next generation. If you'd said: "I want you to massage my feet with warm oil, look deeply into my eyes and really see me", or, "I want to sit naked at the table except for a pair of heels and I want you to feed me morsels of food whilst making me laugh madly", I think your man would be delighted. And so proceeds an evening that revolves around your happiness and pleasure which affects the rest of your weekend.

Men want us to be happy. Who told you this was too much to ask? Become the Goddess you already are. Do what you love to do -- go see the film that makes you cry, go volunteer at the homeless shelter, do whatever gives you pleasure and do it a lot. I tell my coaching clients that the more you use this muscle, the more your life will be a fabulous juicy journey that will make you glow.

Our society has been built on a diet of pain. You only have to switch the TV on in the evenings to see the drama and pain being served up to us: numerous hospital dramas, police shows, real life dangerous police chases, and the news which, if we are lucky, will serve up a heart warming story at the end. What do you want to serve up to yourself each day? Pain? Or pleasure? If it's pleasure, you'd better get ready because it takes a lot of discipline to live a pleasurable life. A life of pain is easy -- just look around you, there are a lot of people living a mediocre life.

Let's have a pleasure revolution -- why not? Is there something else waiting for you? Is there something else you thought you'd have to get out of the way first? Because there will always be something to do. Pleasure is not something to do, it's a state of mind...with HUGE health giving properties. Have a look at our women's coaching programs which centre on health, relationships, money and business - http://www.marinaj.net/coaching/marinajcoaching.html

After writing this, I have to complete my BAS statement and, because it's something I hate to do, I am going to make it fun. I already have a steaming cup of Chai tea, a bowl of blueberries, I have beautiful music playing... and I am wearing my hot pink swirly heels and my chocolate-coloured velvet strapless evening dress, complete with a wild necklace I bought in France. I feel fabulously ready to complete my BAS!

And make no mistake, I run two companies, I have a daughter and before I met my gorgeous husband I used to be a single mummy. As I said before, pleasure is a discipline...

Are you game?"
http://www.marinaj.net/

gym clothing | yoga e-books | yoga wear & yoga classes | Relationship Coaching