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Meltdowns Abound
By admin | November 17, 2008
I’m not sure what it is, but there’s something in the air. Perhaps the stars are arranged just so, or the elections bothered people more than they thought, or maybe it’s because the moon is at its closest point in 100 years (it is, you know), but whatever it is, something is up. EVERYONE is melting down. Over the last month I have had to comfort on average one person every other day who was in meltdown mode. And on one of the few days when it wasn’t me having to comfort someone else, I was having my own meltdown about being over done from being “on duty” for all of these meltdowns.
So, if you’re feeling a little more blue, or stressed, or panicked, or exhausted, or anything else these last few weeks, you are not alone. It seems to be going around. I know, it doesn’ stop you from meting down about it, but I find it comforting to know that when I am a puddle of goo on the floor, I’m not alone.
That is all…
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Product Review - Topricin - Freakin’ Rockin’ Topical Cream
By admin | September 26, 2008
Many of you know that I’ve been dealing with some seriously bad tendonitis for about 9 months now. It’s been so bad at times that I couldn’t sleep because I couldn’t find a position that didn’t hurt. With sleep depravation comes slower healing times, so it’s a vicious cycle.
Well, I started seeing an Acupuncturist a little while ago, Anthony Phillips (Arlington and Peabody, MA), and he did wonders. I felt well enough to stop the 1-2 sessions per week I had been doing for months. And for a while it was better. But then it started getting worse again. Since Anthony is only in my area one day a week, I sought other solutions. I went to my local health food coop (Harvest Coop in Central Square) and one of the women at the coop recommended that I use Topricin which is an herbal topical ointment specifically designed to work with tendon issues such as tendonitis and carpal tunnel syndrome. Well, all I can say is that I could kiss that woman.
I took it home and rubbed it in. Within minutes the pain was soothing away and I slept soundly for the first time in over a week. I have kept using it daily for about two weeks now and it, combined with a few massages from my boyfriend has opened up a whole new layer of locked muscles which have relaxed in my arms. I have range of motion like I haven’t seen in years. And no pain. I’m sleeping.
So if you have anything tendon related, get this stuff. Topricin. I haven’t found it in conventional stores, but the health food places and probably Whole Foods, Wild Harvest and possibly Trader Joes should have it. It’s worth going out of your way for.
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Kelle Sparta is a life/business coach, motivational speaker, and shaman for self-motivated, high energy people offering workshops and personal consultations to businesses, groups and individuals that raise your consciousness, shift your perspective, and open new vistas. Kelle has spent the last 30 years studying mysticism, self-help, personal growth, religion, metaphysics and psychology. She uses her knowledge from these areas as well as her large array of personal experience to guide her clients. For more information about Kelle’s services, visit her website at www.KelleSparta.com © 2008, Kelle Sparta.
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Rules of the Road (Start Here) TuneInSite Podcast Intro
By admin | September 25, 2008
Introduction to the TuneInSite Podcast with The Techno Shaman, Kelle Sparta. Visit www.TuneInSite.com for more information.
(Transcript Below)
Welcome to TuneInSite, the audio program that takes you on a scavenger hunt for unique experiences in everyday life. I’m Kelle Sparta, the techno shaman, and I’ll be your host for the show.
This is not your typical audio program. Unlike most programs, this show is not a passive experience where I talk and you listen. This show is meant to be interactive and therefore it requires your active participation in order for you to get the most out of it.
Throughout the shows it is my goal to open your eyes, expand your awareness, and wake you up to the wonders of the world around you.
Some shows will have you interacting with your environment physically (looking at the world from a new angle, noticing the details around you, etc.). Other shows will have you looking at how you are reacting emotionally, mentally, or physically to the environment you are in.
In the show notes for each episode, you’ll get a location to go to and, if necessary, pictures of the different places you’ll be directed to in the course of the show. If it’s an experience of a physical location, there will also be a link with a map and directions on how to get there as well as things you may choose to experience before or after your audio experience. Each set of show notes will also tell you if you need any special clothing or equipment for your experience.
I recommend that you do NOT listen to the episodes prior to doing the exercises. Let the exercises be fresh to your experience so that you aren’t tempted to edit your experience or to judge the exercise prior to trying it. Remember, you can always choose not to do the exercise in the moment – no one will be the wiser. But engage it first and then see how you feel.
The programs on this site are meant to be explored in order. Each one builds upon the last and expands your ability to appreciate the next. So try to restrain yourself from jumping ahead (I know it will be an effort for some of you). Have patience and faith that there is a reason the sessions are offered in this order.
Anytime you need to be reminded about the way in which to explore these podcasts, simply come back and review this initial intro. I will not be repeating these instructions on each podcast because that gets a little tiring and nobody wants to hear things over and over and over again certainly not mean I don’t want to see them over and over and over again so if you need more help come back here and listen again. And that’s it for the intro. I suggest you find your first podcast and get started. Let’s go exploring together. I can’t wait!
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The Five Dollar Exercise
By admin | September 25, 2008
In this podcast, we’ll be exploring your feelings about money and other people. Remember to review the “Rules of the Road” podcast before listening to this one so that you know how to best utilize these podcasts.
What You’ll Need:
- Your journal and a pen
- A five dollar bill (and a paper clip if it’s windy outside)
- Something comfortable to sit on that you can take with you
For this episode, you’ll need to be in a public location where there are lots of people coming and going.
The TuneInSite Podcast is designed to raise your awareness and bring you into consciousness about what’s going on inside your own head. So tune in, listen up, and let’s get started as Kelle Sparta, The Techno Shaman, takes you on another journey into your own beliefs, thoughts and feelings.
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Let The Sun Shine In
By admin | August 18, 2008
I woke up this morning and it the skies were overcast. My living room was dark and dreary. I found it difficult to wake up. I sat down to write at my computer and found that I had to turn down the brightness of my screen if I wanted to be able to see the keys over the glare of the screen without turning on a light.
Then I realized that the blinds were still drawn from the night before. While it didn’t look like it would make much of a difference, I decided to open them. Suddenly, the room was filled with light. It was still diffuse – the sky was still overcast after all, but the act of opening the blinds made the difference between a dreary day and one with soft light.
As usual, my brain works in metaphor, so I immediately wondered what mental blinds were still drawn in my mind and how I could open them up to let the sun shine in there too. I started rooting through my head to see where I was down about things, feeling hurt or depressed. I worked on how I could re-frame those thoughts – look at them from a different perspective, one that might make me feel better. Here’s an example of what I found.
The latest thing that has been bothering me is that my friends don’t seem to know me anymore. I’ve been working really hard on being softer and more vulnerable, on putting down the warrior façade that I have lived in for the last 10-15 years. And I have succeeded fairly well in that goal. The problem is that the friends I have who don’t see me very often are still treating me like the warrior. They beat on me verbally and this causes me to have to step back into that role to defend myself. This had been depressing me – the facts of not being seen, getting my feelings hurt and being forced to defend myself against my friends and the knowledge that I created all of this for myself by who I had chosen to be for so long. I was stuck in judgment – my blinds were firmly drawn.
I could stay in this mode with my blinds drawn, or I could reframe the situation. I chose to reframe. Now I see this huge disparity between the world that was mine and the one that is mine now (I’ve found some new friends who appreciate the new me) as the proof of how far I’ve come and how much I’ve grown. It’s still sad to me that I’ll have to leave some of these people behind, but it is inevitable that as I grow, there will be some people who just don’t fit in my life anymore. I can grieve the loss without being hurt and angry (at them and at myself) and that’s what I’m choosing to do.
Then I looked at where I was being less of me than I could be. After all, that’s another form of drawing the shades. The shades not only block the light coming in, but going out too. I started to look at where I don’t quite put myself out there all the way and I’ve started to take action on those things too (this article is an example of that).
So here’s the question – where are your shades drawn? What anger or upset are you attached to that is making your life more dreary? How are you not putting yourself fully out into the world? Start looking for those things. They are insidious. Some of them have been with us for so long that we don’t even recognize them anymore but when we finally strip them away, the sun comes streaming in and the world is a very bright place indeed.
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Talking With My Observer
By admin | August 9, 2008
You know, it’s sometimes pretty schizoprenic in my head. The wonders of having my experience and watching myself have it at the same time. I find myself arguing with myself at times. It’s really ironic and totally strange, but sometimes, it’s entertaining as well. Here’s an example of the types of conversation that I have:
“I feel like crap.”
“Hooray! You’re allowing yourself to feel!”
“But I feel like crap!”
“Yes, isn’t it wonderful?”
“Bite me, bitch.”
“Wow, we’re really attached to feeling like crap. I wonder why that is?”
“It doesn’t matter - I feel LIKE CRAP!”
“Yes, yes, I hear you. I also hear that you’re angry that you feel like
crap.”
“Well, yeah. I shouldn’t have to feel this way. But then if I didn’t feel
this way then I wouldn’t appreciate when I felt better. Oh, damn it! You’ve
ruined my perfectly good wallow. I hate you!”
“You love me”
“I know, but shit. It was a really good wallow. You never let me have any
fun.”
“Yeah, right - you KNOW that comment is true.”
“Whatever - OK, alright - I’m over myself.”
“About time. Let’s have ice cream.”
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Philosophy and Life
By admin | June 2, 2008
A coaching client of mine recently recorded a session we had where she asked me a lot of philosophical questions about life. She video-taped the session and then edited it down into what she considered to be the “nuggets of wisdom” and posted it on You Tube for me. I thought you might like to see it.
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Forgiveness
By admin | May 22, 2008
As long as I do not forgive my ancestors, I cannot forgive myself. Fore it is their eyes that look back at me in the mirror, their heart that beats in my breast, their blood that courses through my veins. I am them and they are me. That is the way of it. - Kelle Sparta
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For The Days When The Manifestation Dam Breaks
By tuneinsite | December 28, 2007
f you’ve ever done any major manifesting work in your life, you know that sometimes there’s a block that keeps you from getting where you’re going. You can work really hard manifesting and still, nothing happens. Well, when you finally do figure out what the block is and you remove it, something magical happens. All of the things that you had been manifesting so hard for so long come crashing in on your head all at once. It’s wonderful, it’s amazing - it’s exhausting!
I’ve had this problem recently. I finally got out of my own way about 6 months ago and the manifestations that I had been putting out for the last three years have started to roll in. Immediately, my cash flow improved dramatically. Things are moving so quickly I can barely breathe! But I keep reminding myself not to put the brakes on. These are opportunities I sweated for in the last three years. It’s all the stuff I worked so hard at manifesting finally coming to fruition. OK - a little too much “all at once” for my taste, but they’re my opportunities - and like any opportunity, if I don’t take it, it might not come around again.
So I find myself on the express train. It’s fun, it’s fast, it’s scary. The good thing for me is that I know that there’s only about half of a vibration difference between fear and excitement, so when I get overwhelmed with the fear, I just decide it’s excitement and I hoot and holler a bit to let off the steam.
What are you manifesting and how are you letting fear stand in your way?
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Changing A Bad Habit
By tuneinsite | December 22, 2007
Habits are insidious things. They exist and function without any conscious thought on our parts. They will continue for as long as we allow them - or for as long as we ignore them. If you want to change a habit, it takes effort. You have to take it out of the realm of the unconscious and bring it into your conscious mind before you can even begin to change anything.
As an example, we’re going to use the idea of telling ourselves a story - something that we make up in our heads and don’t know if it is true or not. Stories are often destructive things because we often assume the worst of people and situations. So many people work hard to stop themselves from telling stories.
Notice the Bad Habit
The first step to breaking a bad habit is to notice when you do it. We often don’t give ourselves enough credit for this particular aspect. It’s easy to overlook this step as being valuable since it’s the time in which we realize that a change is needed. But this step is critical. If we never notice there is a problem, then we can never hope to overcome it. So if you wanted to stop telling yourself stories, you would spend the next few days noticing when you are telling yourself a story. You’d start to recognize the situations in which you are most likely to make up a story and notice what form your stories usually take.
Break the Pattern
Once you learn to recognize the pattern, you are in a position to shift it. This requires breaking the pattern/habit that you’ve been participating in. It means changing the path that your brain takes. So in our example, whatever the story was that you were creating for yourself, you’d break the pattern by telling yourself “This is only a story. I don’t know the actual truth. By telling myself this story, I am being self-abusive. I refuse to continue telling myself this story.”
Put a New Pattern In Place
Once you have cancelled out the old story, it’s time to replace your habit with a new, more healthy one. Nature abhors a vacuum, so it’s critical to create a substitute habit for the one you are removing. Otherwise, you run the risk of the old habit reasserting itself. Even if what you replace it with is just a placeholder, it’s still better than nothing. So in our example, you would consider whether there is even a need for you to have a story for this situation. It might be OK for you to not know the reasoning that someone had for acting the way they did. In this case, you’d put a placeholder in your habit that said “I can’t possibly know what this person was thinking, so I’m not going to make something up”. Or perhaps you could put a new habit in place by asking the other person what their reasoning was. Or, if you can’t and you feel you really need a story, see what you can do to create one that makes you feel better rather than worse.
It Takes Consistent Effort
Keep in mind that new patterns require a little effort. It may take you a while to get used to this process. It will also require discipline if you’re dealing with an issue that is long ingrained. But eventually, you will find that changing your habit can be a rewarding experience.
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