Dawn Breslin is a Hay House author,TV/Radio presenter and empowerment coach. Her life went pear-shaped when she hit deep financial despair, with adrenal burnout and energy depletion. In an effort to regain control off her life she heeded a call to mother herself well, in nature. 

And now 10 years on, she's created a Harmonising Alignment Process, feels like such synergy with qigong. Here's the overview of the content of this conversation;

What happened to create challenges and burnout all at once? 

• One minute top of career in a most potent position
• On the verge of launching a women’s empowerment portal with Procter & Gamble, so walked away from everything else and moved back to Scotland
• The credit crunch hit and the job didn’t come off. 
• Couldn't cover the bills

Lesson 1. Do not go into a field to set something up, or to do something that you’re not completely skilled at. My skill is people. Life transformation. Working in the media, that was my job.

• At the beginning of a new business venture with in £50,000 debt
• Like being in a sinking ship, feeling like losing control

Echoes of people saying to her; "You’re sitting on a goldmine". Never been so driven by money, but had faith that yes gold will come one day, just keep going.

Series of unfortunate events;

• Early menopause kicking in
• Daughter had acid thrown at her car and became depressed
• Mums partner then had a heart attack
• £100,000 in debt struggling, never missing payment, holding together miraculously.
• Everything around falling down
• Relationship crumbling, yet holding on making sure everyone’s ok..
• What will I do for work? What will I do for money? Am I gonna lose my home, my car? 
• What does bankruptcy look like?

Something had to shift, difficult to let go. The biggest thing was who would I be without this identity? This is my purpose I meant to be doing this. What is going on? 

ASK FOR HELP

• So often we think have to do everything ourselves! We’re not supposed to do it all. We work with the gifts that we have alongside others with complimentary gifts. True community talk.
• Energy behind how debt affects the chi field, no foundation to build from
• Everything was going out, very little coming in. No time to replenish and ground to put anything in the pot

If we don’t look after ourselves, no one else is going to.

How did you chose to  manage yourself once you knew there was a way through with the bankruptcy/money management plan?

Letting go is terrifying as humans we are programmed to want to know what is coming next we want certainty, so sure. Let go and fall into abyss and attend to what is possible; 

• No department store shopping for 4 yrs, just basic buying
• Body was shot, there was nothing left, everything stopped. Fight or flight response ceased as bills were covered as part of the dept arrangement
• Running to get energy .. why can’t I run?

Running disperses energy, whereas the practice of energy cultivation methods help you to tune in and harness the power of the Earth beneath you and the elements around.

Reaching rockbottom, saying; "What have I got left?"  and then simply stopping..

• I did nothing but restore myself with painting
• Grateful for the sea and the spring time garden, noticing snowdrops, crocus near the sea feeling sunlight. Dropping into complete stillness and feeling of presence, so blissful, euphoric and new. The first time of experiencing presence and being
• Something began to move through me in the stillness, creative juices started to bubble

How many people of the planet are burned out? How do we heal?

• Listening to devotional music would hush me into that presence and bliss.. 

TRACK played on UK Health Radio: Carioca - Grateful 

How we can build ourselves back up from the depths of despair and burn out, into flourishing and thriving?

• Stop reading personal development books and anything to do with growth. Time  to recalibrate and heal, restoring a natural rhythm to life
• We grow and then we rest, we were repair and then we grow again. The whole system is traumatised it needs time to slow down. Give time to process big life changing events. 
• Start to read about Taoist wisdom, natural flow, universal intelligence that moves all things. 

Trusting that your energy body has such a wisdom to it of which your mind is only a part of. In Qigong practice we guide the mind to be in tandem to the heart and the energy system in rightful alignment. The mind is not the leader, it’s a supporter.

• When we’re exhausted, there’s medicine in the term exhaustion.
• The body saying 'I cannot take this weight you need to recalibrate here. You need to listen to me and do something different.'
• We are culturally conditioned to be in perpetual growth and deny what our capacity is.
• Give ourselves permission to take care of ourselves. Self compassion has been diminished from our culture due to constant growth.
• Nature has her rhythms and her cycles and we are part of nature, we are nature
• We are organic beings, we have an intelligent pace within, biorhythms, body clocks, hormones, moon, sun, internal, external cycles. When we come into alignment with them come into alignment with our soul
• Give ourselves permission to Be
• Many organisations used to treat things like menopause with disdain, now they look more at the human being and support them to work with what is naturally occurring in their lives

In harmonising practice, I go back to the child, teaching people to commit to themselves and to mother yourself, build deep compassion towards yourself.

• Build connection to hear with compassion what is going on in the body
• How important it is to nurture oneself well
• This link is essential
• Be the mother of yourself first - and in Mother Nature next

"I will go to that Mother and walk in the woodland, listen to river, listen to the rustle of the trees, watch squirrels bounce out in front of me or listen to the blackbirds calling. I immerse myself so deeply. 

‘It’s really difficult to think when your senses are open’. 

When in the forest open all senses open. Awake. As I nestle into the rhythms around me. By myself. No dog or partner. I allow myself to merge with the sounds, the sights, the feelings and walk until no more thoughts, into the feelings of bliss and presence. I walk on until I merge with it all. The wonder and awe of it begins to ambush me.. seeps into me, cleanse and move me, shapes me, fills me up.  I receive an emotional, physical experience and i just keep moving - sometimes I don’t even want to come home when it’s dark, I’m there until the light disappears, I love walking at Twilight. So full up, so ready, so nourished. Allow myself that time. 1 hr goes to 3 hrs. 

It takes courage to go into the woods by yourself. I used to pretend I had a dog and shout; 'Charlie, Charlie!"  DAWN

Going into nature seems too simple, but it’s not, it’s massive! it’s huge, there's  an abundance of energy there for us at all times, for us to gather up, store and give gracious thanks for.

• Grounding, balancing down, light-dark, yin-yang.
• Harmonising goes beyond balance to co-ordinate all the different aspects of your life.
• This aligns you with your empowered self

RECEIVE YOURSELF FULLY with ENERGY before GIVING out with POTENCY.

Be comfortable with who we are in the flow of our chi.

"It’s in the now moment that you do this resourcing, this full body listening, tuning in with compassion to your system. Yes there can be a fear around that, but my experience was the fear of not knowing what that was gonna be like, rather than actually when I met myself. I became curious and compassionate with this little Clara inside who was a bit lost and didn’t quite know the answers to everything. It’s funny but when I gave myself to myself it’s like my heart expanded, 'I’m here for you'. Different aspects of character can come in to help. Sometimes I throw my toys out the pram, have a little hyssy fit, but that’s okay, it's all part of being a person, a whole spectrum of being here“ 

"I love how you’ve just summarised what I do in a completely different way! I’ve watched your video just before I came on and you're doing something amazing. I take quite a bit of time to educate people into this alignment process and I could see you bringing that mindful presence in an instant in your video and I was there in the feeling. It’s obvious I can hear it we are coming from the same places, difference strategies but from the same places. And that’s a beautiful thing. As humanity evolving at the moment, what is exciting is people like you and I are out there sharing this work it’s new and it helps and it’s exciting and it uplifts.

People just need to opt in and say yes to themselves and their life. Go and learn some new strategy, info energy, qigong, say yes.. try something new and get on a new track, because if the track that you’re on is not working, find a new track that does. What are your intuitions to take a new track. We need to do this to come into wellness vitality and health." DAWN

What is inspired within us that wants to birth through us in service to humanity? First and foremost is how we look after ourselves - how do you take care of your Chi is of the most importance.

See more from Dawn Breslin here:

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Tw - @dawnbreslinuk

Web - https://dawnbreslin.com 

IG - @harmonizinglife

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