< PreviousThe key is awareness without self-judgement, as awareness is the first step to change. Change is your choice, and yes, you may need expert help to polish off the rough bits that no longer serve you or cleanse and heal pain from the past, and that’s okay. Being an adult means you are still allowed to learn and grow, and are not expected to know all and do everything perfectly first time. Give your inner rebel a cause that uplifts and creates more than it consumes. Notice the difference! You may recognise elements of each in yourself. Be a rebel in the pursuit of your dreams- Tsepiso MakhubeduIT BEGINS ON THE INSIDEBy Louise PlantIstudied naturopathy about 30 years ago where I learnt that there have been ‘cures’ (dare I say the word) for cancers, diseases and health conditions for years and years.I was horrified by this and being the rebellious person that I have been, I wrote letters to the Arthritis Foundation, The Diabetes Foundation and the Cancer Foundation. I printed out flyers, I put them up on car wind screens and then I got a warning from the Police - I did not know I was not allowed to do this. No one replied. No one cared. That was 30 years ago. Do people want to know that people have been sick for years and years when they did not have to be? There are other solutions and other ways. Are you ready to listen now? I became very dismayed and dishearten. After years of being a teacher and educating students about complementary therapies I started to realise that the only way to make changes was to empower people and to encourage them to make their on decisions and choices. This became part of my vision and mission. I soon learnt that the rebellion is not an outside job, it is an inside job. The changes that we want to see happening have to start at home and they have to start from the inside out. We are moving into a time where our intuition will be the guiding light. When we live in fear we are stopped in our tracks, the life force and our guiding light becomes extinguished. It's hard to push against this inner resistance, so the best thing to do is to side track that and go looking for an easier and happier path. This is the work we have to do. W hy did no one want to hear any of this? WIt's like a muscle, and once we start to use it, it will start to grow and evolve. I look forward to the day when we are our own doctors, when we know what is best for us. We take one thing and it feels great, we do something else and it does not feel so good. So why keep doing the thing that does not feel so good? STOP IT. Do what feels right for you. Only you know this, as there is only one of you. You are unique and there is no one else like you, so how would anyone else know what is right for you? So how do we start this inner rebellion? Firstly we start to connect to our feeling body. We start to know what feels right for us and what does not. We fine tune this by knowing when we are inour heart, body or head. We start understanding the subtle differences. Then we exercise this muscle by working it. We start to bring some trust in. We trust what our body, mind and heart is telling us. We start to follow the feel good feelings. Finally once we have the focus we start to apply and take action. We create boundaries and we start to say “No”. “No” to whatever, even if everyone else is saying “Yes”. e must start exercising that inner guidance. TRemember we feel fear in our heads, though not when we drop into our bodies. In our bodies there is no space for fear and doubt. Here there is only space for inner guidance. I remember years ago, we were being told “Drink Soy Milk, it is so good for you.” My intuition said “No” Every time I drank it, something did not feel good inside. My husband would tell the kids to drink it and I told them to do what feels right. They did not want to drink it either. Now there is lots of information about the Soy Industry and questions as to whether they have our wellbeing and health at heart. I continued to trust my gut. So today I am asking you to do the same. Trust your gut feeling and allow that inner rebellion to start. Say “No” to things that bring you down or make you sick and start saying a big “yes” to life and feeling good. rust this guidance and do not allow the fear to step in. “Just because something bears the aspect of the inevitable one should not, therefore, go along willingly with it.” ― Philip K. DickSTEP OFF THAT LADDERBy Maggie Georgopolous-HOW TO THRIVE AUTHENTICALLYII must be up in 3 hours and I am on the floor in the bathroom, throwing up blood. My body is rebelling against me. It is not happy with my choices and letting me know. Here I am the executive Chairman of the Board, President of a large not for Profit, sitting on two other boards as well as a government advisory committee. I am at the top of my game. I am a woman in a male dominated field. My board is all male. I have rebellion in my blood…. ….well at this stage I didn’t! You see I was climbing someone else’s ladder. It was the “go to school, get good grade, get a good job and do well” ladder that my parents had instilled in me. I had been very good at it and had climbed quickly. I was the executive chairman of the board at the age of 32! I was unhappy. One day I woke up and decided that it was time to rebel against all I had done, all my success, and step off my ladder and take a different path. It wasn’t the day my body was telling me to. It took me another 6 months to make the decision. t's 2am and only just an hour after I have gone to bed for the night. Friends and family where shocked. What are you doing? How can you give up the car, the salary and all the perks? You were doing so well why did you give up? This was all I heard for months after I walked away from my high level executive position, resigned from the boards and just decided to take the time to figure out what my path was. I in unchartered territory. I was on my own. I was scared and I was excited all at the same time.That was the start of my journey to becoming an entrepreneur, speaker and trainer. Most importantly I went against all that was expected of me. I am happy. I am not the first person to do this nor will I be the last. We all have something in common though, we rebel against what is expected - set out and create our own ladder to success. Next >