Feel Good Challenge#10

For our last major Feel Good Challenge, you are going to allow your past self to embrace your future self. We are constantly growing masterpieces, learning more about ourselves each day. It becomes necessary for us to reflect on where we've been with a non-critical eye, while gleefully appreciating the progress we've made and know we will continue to make (with full intention *_^)
This exercise will allow you to begin the process of embracing the whole you.



You'll Need:

Old pictures, Awards, Certificates
Paper
Pen
Old Home movies


Action:

Take some time to remember yourself in the past, during your growth phases. Look through old photos. Watch old home movies. Review past awards and certifications. How did it make you feel to win them? How have you arrived at this moment? You've surely dedicated your time to challenging yourself for personal enrichment and expansion. Are you ready for the continued fruits of your success? Are you willing to continue to grow? Do you accept that life is much based upon change?

Now take a look at your future creatively.Where will you be? Allow yourself success. Accept the new you that is emerging. What are you creating within yourself for future expression? What seeds are now blooming in your garden of intentions in your future-now?

When you're ready, take some time to write down any insights you've gained from this experience. Making the connection from the past, to the now, to the future, can grant you an interesting look into your patterns and how you operate. This wisdom can assist you a great deal when you're looking to find ways to motivate yourself, and maintain positive perspective.


Please share your feedback about the challenge and talk with other challenge participants in the comments.

Feel Good Challenge #9

Oftentimes the things we are hoping to attract into our lives can't come in, because we haven't done the internal cleaning necessary to make room for the newness. Without even realizing it, we may be holding onto old gripes that we do not even remember clinging to. Those gripes can weigh us down and inhabit too much room in our creative unconscious, possibly attracting the very things we do not want to have in our lives any longer.
This makes periodic releasing an extremely beneficial practice. Called 'Holistic Releasing' by some, the act of releasing old gripes, negative perspectives and energies willingly, is kind of the reverse affirmational way of creating plenty of freed up sacred space to welcome the blessings that are surely waiting to fill your dimension.




You'll Need:

Paper
Pen




Action:


Time to release the regrets and resentments holding you back to improve health on all levels and make way for the glorious new, that matches your goals. Take a moment to assess the areas you would consider problem spots in your path. Are there reoccuring issues that are irking you, and causing you to doubt your ability to remove them? Is there a trait within yourself you find it difficult to strengthen or remove? What are the conflicts in your life that you can identify, and would wish to heal?
Write them down in a list. Take your time with this. It doesn't have to be done overnight.
When you are quite ready write them out by filling them in the blank of the following sentence, then read it aloud:
"I willingly release _______________________ from my path and perceived negative regard."

Allow yourself to feel the anger or negative emotion, and then let it go. Let it be what it is, knowing you've released it and it will become positive energy in its new state of freedom. You can keep your release list(s) to look back on when you wish to reflect on the progress you're making in embracing your life with the intention of feeling good.




Please share your feedback about the challenge and talk with other challenge participants in the comments.

Feel Good Challenge#8

There is nothing like gratitude when you find yourself in a grey place. Counting our blessings can do wonders for our spirits, by reminding us of the beauty in that is already in the world, and allowing us to step away from the pull of desires we may be dwelling on, or problems we are allowing to take over too much mental terrain in our minds.





You'll Need:

Pen
Paper
or a blank page book to create a Gratitude book for you and the whole family.




Action:
This challenge is easy and ongoing.
Start a list of of sentences going down the page with the following statement:
"I feel good because...".
As you fill out your list, end the statement with: "... and I am thankful".

You can also include pictures of things you are grateful for, and surround them with doodles of hearts, stars or other positive symbols. Create journal passages of gratitude examples, prayers, meditations and other things that support your gratitude practice.


Please share your feedback about the challenge and talk with other challenge participants in the comments.

Feel Good Challenge #7

When was the last time you looked in the mirror and wooed yourself lovingly?
We can often get caught up in the habit of being hyper critical of ourselves; picking and poking at our faces, and bodies with a frown, easily forgetting how to recognize our own beauty, perhaps even making the mistake of looking for approval of our beauty through others. Taking the time to do the opposite can have measurable effects on your self-esteem, especially because the good approval you'll be receiving will be coming from one of the most important sources: you.




You'll Need:

A blown up faceshot or full body picture of yourself
Collage cut-outs or stickers of positive symbols like suns, stars, hearts, flowers, butterflies and etc
Gluestick (if needed)


Action:

You're going to take a picture of yourself that is large enough to sustain decoration (or self-illustrated if you wish) and adorn it with symbols of beauty. You can even draw in symbols, and use color to enhance your beauty consciousness and have a bunch of fun with the expressive possibilities.

When you are quite satisfied with your adornment exercise, hang the picture up in a sacred place, or keep it in your journal to return to as a reminder and affirmation of your beauty and self-love.




Please share your feedback about the challenge and talk with other challenge participants in the comments.

Feel Good Challenge #6

Everything in existence finds natural harmony in its environment. We all resonate with certain vibrations, and when we surround ourselves with harmonious vibrations we are better for it.


Identifying your harmony tools (colors, and etc--- to use in color bath therapy and etc)


You'll Need:
Various pictures
Items like shells, acorns and other 'good luck' charms



Action:

Take some time to note your reactions to the colors of the rainbow.
Which colors are your favorites? Which do you have strong dislike for.
Which seem to bring you extra luck? Ask these questions of other symbols and items, and in doing so create a list of associations that are in harmony with you. Once the list is made to can begin the practice of collecting them into a special treasure box. When you are in need of the energies or a reminder that you have an at=oneness with other aspects of creation you can take them out to meditate with or carry with you. You can add to list and box at anytime.



Please share your feedback about the challenge and talk with other challenge participants in the comments.

Feel Good Challenge #5

Balancing our feminine and masculine sides is essential to our balance and ability to function within healthy relationships.
With this exercise you are going to engage in positive mythwriting for the inner man and woman. Spinning a positive fairytale with a happy ending can make all the difference in how you shape your perspectives of anything holding female and male traits.
Society has been working on mending the divide created between the female and male consciousness by misinterpreted notions of superiority and inferiority.



You'll need:

Your imagination
(opt'l) Pictures of very happy people (both male and female- all ages)
Paper
Crayons, pencil or pen (whichever you prefer)


Action:
Create a collage, illustration, text story or combination of these that includes a Female and Male overcoming an illusion of separation to find a beautiful union with one another. Remember that both of them should be whole within themselves, finding the addition of union between them to be a wonderful complement. The union of these beautiful opposites represents your inner realm female and male "sides". We usually unconsciously attract someone to 'act-out' our beliefs about relationships by taking on one of these sides. By rewriting the script, we invite positive and affirming relationship partners.

Once created either hang the collage, or read the text at least once a month. You can also blog your myth as well so others can benefit from the positive archetypes.

Please share your feedback about the challenge and talk with other challenge participants in the comments.

Feel Good Challenge #4

Compiling affirmations helps us to get back in touch with the part of us that dreams vividly, and has access to a neverending pool of hope: Our innerchild. Society has told us to stuff the child within down, and grow up, but how well does that really work for us? Creativity is natural.
It is time for everyone to come out of stifling the one gift that makes all of us unique. Our ability to express our view.








You'll Need:

Innerchild tools of your choice (clay, glue, paper, crayons, pen, stickers, glitter, etc)
Goodies for guilt-free munching (PBJ, Green Banana Smoothies, etc)



Action:

It's playtime. Allow yourself to create right now, without judgment. Color. Glue. Sculpt. Reconnect with the part of you that knows the value of wonder, and expression of perspective. Draw a picture of the tree in your front yard. Doodle and find symbols in your doodles for personal insight. If you find yourself drawing flowers, notice whether they are blooms or buds. What do they tell you about your own process. If you notice alot of stars in your art, consider that your subconscious may see much brightness ahead in your path. It may be your time to shine.

When you've finished your innerchild session, take some time to write down any insights you may have gained through the process.


Please share your feedback about the challenge and talk with other challenge participants in the comments.

Feel Good Challenge#1

As part of an ongoing effort to share inspiring actions that fuel vitality, FruttiKrem will be offering new challenge and feedback features. These challenges may include two day detoxes, all-fruit skincare regimens, personal assessment days, affirmation programs to reshape positive perception, and similar.


Our first challenge is simple:

Why I'm Special.

You'll need:

A Journal or FruttiKrem workbook (not yet released)
15 minutes a day of your time for two-four weeks
A calendar to keep track of action days (opt'l)


Action:

For 15 minutes a day over the course of 14 days, you will take time to write out different things that set you apart from the rest. This action is non-competitive. Anything you do is already unique because there is only one you. The benefit of this action is that you will begin the process of reacquainting yourself with yourself.

When the fourteen days pass, take an optional 14 additional days to read from your writings each day, in preparation for the next challenge.

Why is this a challenge, you ask? It is simultaneously a discipline tester and builder. It also requires you to break past any barriers you may have that involve looking at yourself objectively, by siting your characteristics and evidence of where these characteristics play out. The advantages to this challenge exercise are immense because we often forget how individual we are, and how much important that makes us to the world collective. Once we begin the process of seeing our value, our motivation to increase our vitality takes on massive growth.

Please share your feedback about the challenge and talk with other challenge participants in the comments.

The Mechanics of Feeling Good, part 1

At FruttiKrem we offer simple but sage advice: Feel Good.
It is advice we believe in so deeply, we've made it our slogan.
Why is feeling good the ultimate advice? Feeling Good is master advice because the bulk of our lives are built upon our vibrations. Quantum physics has proven it. We receive what we vibrate. More simply put: We get what we feel we will get. There are even chemicals that the pituitary gland regulates in our body to provide us with the chemical equivalents of our moods. The more we practice peace and joy, the more our body will work to produce chemicals that make it a physical reality as well.

In addition to taking in proper fuel for the body to work with, it is important to take inventory of our lives. Where have we been and where are we going? Most importantly though, we must first ask: What do we want? When we know what we want, we can organize our actions to take steps in the direction of our goals. It reduces the potential for boredom, listlessness, and depression because life won't stand still. It will instead be focused toward a purpose that can act as a self-motivator.

We know that feeling good can be easier said than done to start out, but you can begin to employ exercises that will get you in the habit of producing higher vibrational moods until it becomes second nature. Over the course of 21 days, habits are formed. This makes something as simple as repeating a designated affirmation ten times per day for 21 days an effective action. Likewise adding a health shake to your morning meal for 21 days can become a strong memory for your psyche that reminds you to check your diet to be aware of what you are putting into your body temple.

Here are a few affirmations you can try for 21 days
(you can compose your own as well- Be sure they
are stated in the present tense):

I allow myself to feel good and receive good things.

I am worthy of love and good vibrations.

I work diligently toward my goals knowing I will succeed.

I am a success.

My life works for me to help me grow.

I am beautiful inside and out.

I am becoming happier and glow more the happier I become.

My joy is infectious.

I share joy with others.

I am aware of my boundaries and respect them.

Others respect my boundaries.

I am good to my body and my body is good to me.

I have all that I need and want.

I am satisfied with my prosperity and wealth.


These are just a few ideas to start with.
We plan to offer more 'Feel Good' exercises and information
for your growth and success in coming months.

Feel Good!