by Ann Evanston | Jan 4, 2018 | Energy
As a gardener, I am a big believer in the power of connecting to the earth (earthing.) There is even research that proves the value of it. You would think I spend enough time in the garden. I recently had an important reality check which has led to a new challenge I will incorporate in my life.
Waking up in the middle of the night sucks! Especially when your brain turns on and cannot go back to sleep. I woke and decided I just needed to get up. Initially I played one of my games thinking it would turn my brain off, and that didn’t work. So I decided to get on Facebook. I figured reading about everybody else’s lives would take my mind off mine!
While doing that, I ended up watching a video about the idea of grounding. (Also known as earthing.) Energetically the earth can help us heal. Especially around areas of inflammation. When I think about my time in the garden, I typically have shoes on, and often gloves depending on what I’m doing. I am not physically grounded.
This mini movie was all about how being connected to the earth can actually reduce inflammation in the body. And in the past several months, my husband and I have had conversations about how inflammation is my issue. I have it everywhere in my body.
That very moment I decided to take on a challenge related to grounding. Every day I will go outside and spend three minutes with my feet connected to the earth. Just three simple minutes, I’m not trying to be superwoman here and do more right away!
This means taking off my shoes and socks and making sure I am connected to the earth. Not the concrete or the asphalt. It must be grass, dirt, sand, ocean, lake or even natural rock. In many ways it’s a form of meditation yet I’m not stressing about visualization or quieting my mind. Just connecting to mother earth. It’s only been a few days and I really look forward to my commitment.
I could say there are some changes in my body, and I’ve slept better the last two nights but I want to leave that until further down the road! This could be a very valuable challenge for any woman who is always on the go and has a ton to do all the time. Might you join me in three minutes of earthing?
by Ann Evanston | Dec 28, 2017 | Energy
Every emotion, including anger, vibrates energetically. We can consciously connect to it, and move and transfer it anytime, anyplace.
I believe with awareness we understand that we can choose to connect to any emotion and transfer energy. I believe I control how I react and act energetically.
With wisdom, most of us learn this to be true.
One time I had a woman in a group setting transferring the most angry energy. It was permeating the entire room. People sitting near her were leaning away. The room, dampened. It seemed next day she left. The room changed. It filled with love, laughter, support.
Was she aware of her energy? And did if so, was she choosing it? I so hope not.
My challenge was I couldn’t overcome it. If you have been in a room with me, you KNOW how strong my energy is. How I can flow through a group of people. I could not get my loving, powerful energy to blanket over hers and put it out.
Now I must consciously work to improve my abilities.
Are you aware of your energy?
by Ann Evanston | Dec 21, 2017 | Energy
One would assume that because we are women that we just have feminine energy. What is feminine energy? When looking at feminine energy, there are characteristics we can use to describe it. When these are projected correctly they create feminine energy.
Here is what is important to remember. As a woman, this isn’t about it being feminine because you possess it. It’s about understanding that feminine energy creates a feeling. What do people feel? Well, a participant in a class said it well: “it’s like a warm hug.”
Yes! Feminine energy creates warmth, safety, like-ability. It is loving and sensual. It comforts us.
Just a few of these characteristics are:
👉🏼Forgiving: the ability to let it go, release judgement and allow others to have their imperfection. Accepting of your own imperfections.
👉🏼Appreciating: showing others why they add value, celebrating success, ability to love and appreciate self, not just others.
👉🏼Intuition: trusting what you feel, expressing it in a valued way. Checking in with it in any situation.
These are just a few. I could write for days about them! The understanding is when is this energy needed? Do I realize how to balance it with masculine energies? Am I able to tap in a shift as needed?
Leaning too masculine or too feminine can hurt our ability to be influential. It can also hurt out personal relationships we hold dear.
by Ann Evanston | Nov 30, 2017 | Energy
Working with many high tech and science-based industries, I see very few women in leadership. Even this week, while teaching a class to women, we are in agreement: the few women that there are in these leadership roles have taken on masculine characteristics and have lost who they are as women.
When I ask women what they feel about those role models, they are disappointed. They want to believe that women can lead and still be women.
Guess what? They can. Research even shows that women who balance feminine and masculine characteristics and energies are more respected and admired in the workplace and also have increasing opportunities versus women who are too masculine. Or too feminine, but we rarely see that in higher levels of leadership.
Do you know where you lean? Are you too feminine? Or too masculine? I naturally tend to lean more towards masculine energy. So I’ve worked through exercises that help me balance with the feminine. I work on feminine energy. I listen to my husband when he says it’s time to “put my dick away.” I check in and ask what I am feeling so I am more aware.
At my retreat you will learn about your own energy and what characteristics you use. You will find techniques that allow you to balance them better. You will leave balanced. Join us.
by Ann Evanston | Nov 16, 2017 | Energy
Through a series of e-books I am creating called “Unscripted,“ I’m asking people to share pivotal moments and stories in their lives. One of the books is written for entrepreneurs by entrepreneurs and I thought this example from Shark Tank was a great one.
A gentleman who called him self an inventor, not an entrepreneur, came on with the first product he invented as a teenager. When he was asked by the Sharks more about his background he shared:
“One day my girlfriend asked me to move an elliptical out to the garage, I couldn’t get the elliptical through the door without either taking it apart, or taking the door off. The easier solution was taking the door off. So I did and put the elliptical in the garage for her.”
“When I told her I finished getting it in the garage, she said: ‘great, now put the door back on its hinges.’ I teased her about not giving me credit for getting it out there and her comment was: ‘you never finish anything you ever start so go put the door on it hinges.’
He explained further that was the pivotal moment for him. She was right. He went and dug out his dollar store notebook that he has had for 15 years, since he was a teenager. It is filled with all of his inventions and he went to the very first one and patented it and started selling it. And she is now his fiancé.
Are you one to start something and rarely finish it? Do you put conscious energy into completing what you started? This amazing man wasn’t and having something as simple as putting the door back on changed his life forever.
What a great story. So simple and powerful with amazing lessons. That’s what the ebook series Uscripted is all about. I hope you’ll join me in reading amazing stories from people just like you and the lessons that they have learned!
by Ann Evanston | Nov 10, 2017 | Balance, Energy
So many speaking engagements in the last two weeks discussing influence and power. While working with leaders, especially women wanting to step into the higher levels of excellence in their careers and businesses, I realize that there’s a common theme that still happens for many women.
As we look up and out for a role models who look like us -many of them have become more masculine in their energy. Even how they talk and dress shows us less feminine energy.
The crazy part is that research actually shows that women who demonstrate too much masculine energy as they become more visible in their careers are less admired and respected. But if what we always see in front of us is that masculine energy then we think it’s what we need to become.
I would challenge any woman to learn how to balance feminine and masculine energy in order to achieve their career and business goals. I am a strong alpha female and can naturally lean toward masculine energy. When I put a conscious effort into balancing them, I immediately have greater connections, stronger relationships, and more immediate buy-in from my tribe and people I need support from.
That’s the power of balancing energies.
