Therese Kravetz

Free Your Voice: Live and Learn Beyond Anxiety


Mind over Matter

So how can we influence our mind to create new matter? In his book, “The Power of Story” Jim Loehr talks about how he works with professional athletes and business men and women to help them transform. His strategies center around authoring a new story to tell ourselves. In his work with athletes and business leaders, he’s found that the stories we tell ourselves determine our health, work, relationships—every aspect of our lives. He asks us to locate the areas of our lives where it is clear “that [we] can not achieve [our] goals with the stories [we’ve] got.” He then shows us how to create new powerful stories which are then supported by our deeply held values that inspire us to take action. I
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A Tiny Bloom

I was out on a walk and I saw this flower: I wondered how it could grow in a field of greens. It had 12 petals in three groups of four surrounding the pistil. I wondered about this “sign” that appeared in my life as I walked my dog on a very average morning through grass covered lawns. This little flower was blooming in the face of regular grass trimming, pesticides, and animals crossing it. It had amazing fortitude and precision in its growth and beauty. I got home and looked up petals and flowers. On one page the writer compared petals to the chakras, and I was curious that the heart chakra had 12 petals–the same as in my flower. I thought that the
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LISTEN!..But How?

“Listen to your heart and gut and you’ll be fine.” I remember reading and hearing these words a lot growing up. It was the “cure-all” advice for someone like me desperately seeking purpose in my life. But how can you listen to the heart and gut when the mind is spinning or when you are tangled up in knots from worry about the past or future? I have found these three ways: 1. Tune into the senses near the gut and heart. Sense the feeling: Is it hot, cold? What does the energy feel like? Is it heavy or light? Can you give it a color? This moves me out of the mind and into the sensation of the heart or gut area. That can
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The Shift

Something shifts when we direct our knowing inward. Recently, I started to do more meditation, contemplation, and something has shifted. I hear the inner voice more and follow it. It tells me about people, relationships, and it gives me impetus to take my next step. I recently found out why I had back pain from this small voice. It had to do with stresses created around other people. Other people in my life were contributing to my back pain. As soon as I tuned into that awareness, did something in my life about the relationship, the back pain subsided. Once I tuned in, took a step, a new medicine in the form of MSM came into my life. The world is tintalating: Food, drink, TV,
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