Sort Yourself Out

There are 2 practices that I credit with totally uplifting my life, when I was a mess after I quit drinking. The first is meditation. And the second was beginning a mindfulness practice.

These two techniques totally turned my life around.

This week on The Sort Yourself Out Podcast we’re focusing on mindfulness, and the joy that it can bring to your life. Because trust me, mindfulness is a practice that can uplift your life on all levels, physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual.

It is a top-down technique extraordinaire, and by top-down I mean that you use the higher part of yourself to manage the lower. 

As Albert Einstein said, "No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it."

When you practice mindfulness you are raising your awareness, so not only are you creating the conditions to resolve those problems, but you are creating a knock-on effect that ripples out to uplift and illuminate all areas of your life.

Mindfulness also helps in all 3 phases of transformation, and that is why it is so powerful, and one of my top techniques for sorting yourself out.

RESOURCES:

Janine’s Quick Start Guide to Doable Meditation

Get on the wait list for The Better Than Happy Zone Membership

SYO37 Easy Mindfulness Techniques To Start Today

I’m going a little off-piste with my subject matter today, but I think it’s something you’ll still find interesting. I’m going to share a few of my favourite techniques for keeping fit.

And of course, they’re my favourite because they pack a big bang for my buck! That’s important to me. I want to be putting my efforts into things that actually work. 

I also want them to be enjoyable. 

Now for many of us, we made our new year’s resolutions to get fit back in January, and by now at the beginning of March, despite all those good intentions, we’ve often lost enthusiasm and fallen off the wagon, with a big, disheartening thud!

But fret ye not my friend, as help is at hand!

This week we’re discussing 3 powerful techniques to get you on the fast track to fitness.

The first is a really effective method of exercise. The 2nd is a really doable diet, (oh how I hate the d-word, so let’s call it a way of eating!) and the 3rd is a visualisation technique to help you get fit and toned.

RESOURCES:

• Get on the wait list for The Better Than Happy Zone Membership
• Janine's Visualisation Essentials Guide

LINKS:

• Kettlercise Unstoppable Program
• The Fast 800

This week we’re discussing the art of self-tweaking. What the hell is that, you say? 

Well, I don’t know if self-tweaking is a thing, or if I made that name up. But I like it because it really reflects the nature of personal growth and how we effect change in our lives. Also, it amuses me a bit too! Self-tweaking! Hmmmm.

So often we want to make change in our lives, and we want it done yesterday! But this is just not realistic, and we put too much pressure on ourselves when we expect nigh-on miraculous change to occur.

We also bring up all sorts of resistance when we have such high expectations. And then we crack, we crash and burn, and then, we usually beat ourselves up about it, and hate ourselves, and we’re worse off than we started out! 

For the most part, this is just not the way change occurs in our lives. Lasting change is made incrementally. That’s why I’ve called it self-tweaking. It is a marathon, not a sprint. 

Join me as we discuss how to move through incremental growth with ease, and the main things to consider for effective and balanced self-tweaking.

Resources:

• The Quantum Liberation Spa Guided Meditation
• Get on the wait list for The Better Than Happy Zone Membership

This week we’re discussing the amazing, life-changing benefits of my favourite practice to uplift your well-being, meditation.

Meditation and mindfulness teacher David Michie said that “If meditation were available in capsule form, it would be the biggest selling drug of all time.”

That’s quite a statement! But one I agree with wholeheartedly. I count meditation as the single best thing I’ve ever done for my well-being. 

Now you may have heard that there are numerous benefits to meditation, and maybe even thought, DANG!, I should be doing that. But time passes, and you just don’t get around to it. Or maybe you try it for a little bit, but it’s off and on, really sporadic, and you don’t really get into it enough to feel the benefits.

Well, you’re not alone! Most of us faff around for a while, before we get into it. I faffed around for a couple years, meditating every now and then, trying this and that. 

The important thing to know about meditation is that you don’t need to make a big meal out of it. You can start really simply and make things easier on yourself. In fact, it’s best to take it easy and keep it simple when you are beginning.

Join me to learn about the amazing proven benefits of meditation. 

Resources:

Janine’s Quick Start Guide to Doable Meditation

Get on the wait list for The Better Than Happy Zone Membership

Valentine’s Day is just a couple of days away. Rather than focusing on romantic love, I want to discuss how you can love YOURSELF this Valentine’s Day.

Even if you’re listening long after Valentine’s Day, this issue is still incredibly relevant. Feeling like we’re not good enough is a widespread human malaise these days. 

Unless you’ve done work on yourself to improve your self-esteem, or you grew up with enlightened masters as your carers (!), chances are you could benefit from learning to love yourself, or as I suggested last week, give yourself a little top-up of self-love, to keep your energies and well-being high.

This week I share several easy techniques you can start using today, to uplift your well-being, and share the love!

Also this week:

• How self-love enables you to truly love others.
• Why others love being around people who love themselves.
• How to release neediness and validate yourself.
• The importance of self-compassion.
• Why you DESERVE love.
• The reason for love’s healing powers.

Resources:

• Get on the wait list for The Better Than Happy Zone Membership
• Inner Smile Meditation

We’re kicking off February with a 2 part series on cultivating self-love!

Whether you’re listening to this near Valentine’s Day or not, it doesn’t matter. This is a topic that is important all year round!

Self-love, self-esteem, self-worth... they’re all pretty much the same thing.

This is an area so many people struggle with. Feeling like we’re not good enough is a general human malaise these days, and it has all sorts of knock-on implications for our mental, emotional, and even physical health and well-being.

This week in part one, we’re going to discuss the importance of cultivating a healthy sense of self-esteem, and in part two next week, I’m going to share some easy ways that you can begin to cultivate self-love and improve your life no end!

Resources:

• Get on the wait list for The Better Than Happy Zone Membership
• Inner Smile Meditation

Links mentioned in this episode:

• The Easy Way To Control Alcohol by Allen Carr
• You Can Heal Your Life by Louise Hay
• Frequency: The Power of Personal Vibration by Penney Peirce
• Shirlie and Martin Kemp: It's a Love Story

In this week’s episode, I want to float a question: How you are using your brain? Are you using it to support where you want to go, who you want to be, how you want to live?

Or are you living on automatic, on all the old programs that authority figures installed in you when you were young, and that you really had no say about then? Because we don’t when we’re little kids. We just absorb everything we’re told.

Later in life, as adults, we have the opportunity to filter through all those programs and clear ourselves of what’s unhelpful or unhealthy or not working for us now, and actually choose the beliefs and ideas that we want to guide our lives by now.

Unfortunately, many of us have become experts at dysfunctional behaviours. For example, maybe you’re very skillful in worrying, or judging others, or having low self-esteem, or feeling guilty, or blaming others, or finding things that stop you from feeling happy. 

There are all sorts of ways of being and looking at the world that we have learned, that do not serve us. But they are so deeply ingrained in us, that we don’t even realise that we do it, or most importantly, that we have a choice to be otherwise.

Join me for a discussion of a topic that is integral to sorting yourself out - how you can train your brain, so that you can free yourself of your hangups, and also program new and healthy patterns to create the life you want.

Resources:

• Get on the wait list for The Better Than Happy Zone Membership
• Janine's Visualisation Essentials Guide

Links mentioned in this episode:

• SYO4 How to Liberate Yourself From Your Self-Sabotaging Beliefs, Thoughts and Habits
• SYO31 How To Get Unstuck And Break Through To Success And Well-Being 
• SYO45 How To Visualise Successfully 

Are you ready for something a little different? Because this week we’re looking at things you can do to benefit from the cosmic energies that are pouring into the earth plane right now.

Last month, that’s December 2020, there was a cosmic event that took place called the Great Saturn-Jupiter Conjunction, on the full moon of Cancer on the 29th. So this event, which has not happened for 800 years, is allowing new energies to stream into the earth.

These energies will cause an upgrade to human consciousness, that will upgrade our DNA, creating a great shift in our consciousness that will move us forward greatly in our evolution.

I’ll be looking at their significance for human life and suggesting ways and techniques to smooth your way through the turbulent times ahead, as we ride through this transitional phase toward a new era of inclusiveness and brotherhood. 

Resources:

• Get on the wait list for The Better Than Happy Zone Membership
• Janine’s Quick Start Guide to Doable Meditation

Links mentioned in this episode:

• SYO3 The 3 Phases of Transformation and How to Activate Them in Your Life
• SYO 14 Karma Part 2 - How To Work Off Your Karma
• SYO26 How To Protect Yourself From Negative People And Influences
• SYO37 Easy Mindfulness Techniques To Start Today
• The Rays and the Initiations by Alice Bailey

This week I’m sharing with you my No. 1 book recommendation of the year. I want to share this one special book with you, as it’s sooooo good! 

What I love about this book, is that it’s the type of book that accompanies you throughout the year. It adds a really nice focus to your year, and helps to keep you on track with an ongoing program of upliftment and growth.

It’s not just a book for reading. It’s a book for DOING. And as you know, I love a good practice! There’s no point reading the book and then not practicing it what it teaches. 

Along these lines, here’s a taster from the author, “Whenever we want to learn something new or want change to occur, we must consciously and consistently engage in a practice. Just as we learnt to walk, write and speak through practice, we can change ourselves at any time through its transformative power. Practice develops and transforms us, encourages discipline, and enables us to focus, facilitating change and increased awareness.” 

I started reading it a few months ago, and I was blown away by its depth and the new ways it guides me to experience and reflect upon my life.  

So if you’re ready for an inspiring and profound read, and a month by month guide to a multidimensional practice that benefits and advances your personal evolution and helps you become happier, healthier, and more effective across all areas of human experience, then you don’t want to miss this episode.

I also cover the basics for the month of January, so you can get started right away, without buying the book.

Resources:

• Get on the wait list for The Better Than Happy Zone Membership
• Inner Smile Meditation

Links mentioned in this episode:

• Living in Gratitude: Mastering the Art of Giving Thanks Every Day, A Month-by-Month Guide

Happy new year! 

I hope you’re feeling good after the end of year festivities, and are raring to go into 2021.

And after the whopper of a year we had in 2020, I want to share with you a technique I’m using this year, to set the tone for my year ahead, so that I can fill it with purpose, intention and positivity.

I began this practice last year, dubbed the year from hell, as an antidote to all the negativity and uncertainty that was dragging me down.

I felt myself sinking, getting submerged in the mess, and had to find a way to lift myself up and get back to my regular cheerful, positive self.

This easy practice led to a shift of focus that had a massive impact on my life and my mindset. It was so good, I’ve decided to carry on with it this year!  

I’d love for you to join me, and set the tone for a magnificent year with this life-enhancing technique.

Resources:

• Get on the wait list for The Better Than Happy Zone Membership
• Life Conspires To Make Me Successful Affirmations