A day at the beach I was blessed with a weekend retreat at seaside Florida. The reason this happened is because I am a team lead for the mix life, a group of 25K plus mainly women, young living essential oil secret group. I get to create content about social media! This is been one of my greatest privileges to date online. I get to help entrepreneur moms navigate the algorithms and make online doable. Having that said I was treated to a weekend of fellowship, worship, and being ministered too. It was truly amazing! I got to do rooftop yoga, chill at the beach, all the ninja read my heart wanted, and more. It was a weekend of the best self care you can handle.
And one of the learning sessions we as a group did what is called aroma freedom technique, AFT for short. I came to the retreat with the mindset I am going to get to the place where I can rock my business. Honestly the session was an answer to prayer. So during the 60 second reset I uncovered some deep rooted trust issues. I know this was the place where I needed to focus on to get clarity and focus. I needed to learn to trust God to enable me to do this business with the resources that I already have, and to trust myself to be a good steward with my time and resources. I need to trust my husband to support me in all aspects of my business. It was a lot to take in at once. I was rock to the core to say the least. I up to this point with sweeping things under the rug. Now they were being brought to light and I had to deal with them. Learning how to have Grace with myself has also been a huge issue. Especially since I am a perfectionist. Later on that day I was told that Traci was doing one on one sessions. I jumped on the chance to dig in on what was necessary. So we focused on the emotions that were dug up. Then on the opposite emotions that I wanted to feel. My goal emotions were powerful, capable, and trustworthy. I wrote out an affirmation to accompany it. Then a word to encompass all of it, FREE!
We used freedom oil to release the negative emotions and my favorite beach retreat blend I call it of stress away, frankincense, and lavender. We were each given a sample bottle of that at the first session.
After getting to the point of solidifying the affirmation I was asked to say it each time after smelling oil’s to where I felt confident in saying it. If it’s not comfortable it won’t stick. Then we added a power pose. I normally don’t do power poses so this was super awkward. Now I have to do this twice a day to keep them in my mind. Not only that it holds me accountable to what I want to do and how I want to feel about myself. By the end of the sessions I had such clarity on what needed to be done that I was able to make a game plan. I wrote it down in my journal that I had brought with me and I keep it every day in front of me.
There are days where the insecurities start to creep back in and I have to do a 60 second reset. I work through the new emotions that try to creep in and nail down what they are and find their counterparts. I go back to my goal emotions and my plan and see what I need to do to get back to that. AFT has been a total game changer for me.
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