Pocket Guide to Your Heart - Softcover

Smith, Colleen Hoffman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0973402008 ISBN 13: 9780973402001

Publisher: Heart Bridge Publishing, 2003

Synopsis

Pocket Guide to your Heart is a daily practice to keep you emotionally fit. Three simple formulas to keep you authentic and attractive. Life is about letting go of past pain and taking care of our own emotions. These formulas can help you * understand how your emotions influence your behavior * to connect and own your emotions and then feel and heal them * recognize the path of connection to your own strength and self-worth * create healthy relationships with yourself and others.

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About the Author

Colleen Hoffman Smith is an inspirational guide and facilitator. Her career experience in the fashion, modelling, and skin care world, woven with her desire to live authentically, helped her create three formulas to lighten the heart. Throughout her career she has learned important truths that she lives by. She understands the delicate balance between inner and outer attractiveness. She has found that the key to success lies in each personal journey to discover one's own self-worth and the confidence to overcome fears and anxieties.

Colleen lives in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada with her husband Bruce Smith. She has two daughters Lindsay and Lauren and a step-daughter Jessica.

Colleen facilitates Pocket Guide to your Heart seminars, workshops and one-on-one sessions.

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Prologue

When you take dance lessons you may discover another way to do the tango that feels much more comfortable for you. In the beginning, your instructor teaches you different steps. It's awkward at first, but once you have practiced, the wonderful music moves you and your body feels good. When your dance partner is also comfortable and confident in the steps, you move together with strength - the passion is felt independently yet, together, it's beautiful to watch.

When you start a new exercise program, your body is stretched in different ways and you release stress from many places. You work your muscles, build your heart rate and in time, the workout is an important part of your life. Your body starts to feel and look more attractive.

When you find a healthy and compatible way of eating, it not only makes you feel satisfied but the joy you take in your meals makes you feel good. Your health is cared for on many levels when you eat well; looking great is a bonus. Your clothes fit better and your skin and hair are healthy.

The emotional body, your spirit, needs attention, too. My formulas, that consist of a daily practice, can help you connect to this important relationship with yourself and commit to a healthy body and spirit. They will also help you become more authentic and attractive.

My clients are put on a four-week program. They commit to four sessions, one week apart, and I am on call for them during this time---guiding them when their changed perception and new way of being feel uncomfortable and they need to be inspired to remember how to feel good again. The formulas and the practice I teach help my clients to reprogram themselves. It's no different than changing your eating habits, your exercise program, or committing to any course in life. The partnership is between you and the concept. The miracle lies in the change of perception or in the confirmation that the new technique or knowledge we have acquired feels right or comfortable. There are times when an instructor, a mentor or a guide can make any change easier.

My one-on-one sessions are very personal and individual, yet I have found that everyone's needs are similar. What makes us different is our behavior and misbehavior, our conscious and unconscious way of living.

We have been conditioned to behave a certain way when we feel uncomfortable. We respond and react without even thinking about it. If you find that you are tired of "wearing" yourself because the life you have attracted is not comfortable, it's because your soul, your emotional body is saying, "I want to do it differently." It's telling you to go "inside".

We can always exercise our free will to make choices; we can change our mind and do something different from the way we were conditioned. The world around us may behave a certain way...it doesn't mean we have to, especially when we realize we no longer feel comfortable.

So when you decided to change your mind, change your behavior, learn a new program and find your way to a better life, it's great to have a guide. I have never wanted anyone to become dependent on me to make them feel good. My desire is to teach people to have their own formulas and tools to find their own peace. These formulas have worked for me. The amazing friends who are my clients have been saying to me for years, "Colleen, I wish you were in my back pocket." That's why I decided to write Pocket Guide to your Heart.

You can read Pocket Guide to your Heart over a weekend and start practicing it immediately. You can carry it with you for a quick reference anytime you need to remind yourself. We only forget long enough to remember. Once you realize that it is entirely up to you to find your way back to peace, take responsibility to find that place each moment. Each day you can inspire others and teach the children that it is all inside us. And, if you forget, you can always open up Pocket Guide to your Heart to remind yourself again...and again...and again... To be authentic and attractive.

Edition details

• Publisher: Heart Bridge Publishing
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0973402008
• ISBN 13: 9780973402001
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128