Valentine's Day A Great Time for Retreat

Valentine's day is a perfect time to Retreat in Sedona to reflect, release stress, and rejuvenate your body, mind and spirit. Below find some tips to release your stress and renew your passion for life. Often we get caught up running from something that isn't really after us. Running from one relationship to another, one job to the next, or from one event to another. Most of our retreat guests retreat to release this habit of constant busy-ness. Next time you find yourself caught in your "busy" cycle--stop. Take a deep breath and visualize yourself in nature. When time permits spend five minutes, or fifteen minutes in nature and clear your mind. As you stop running and the busy habit; you might just find that you have been running from your "self".

Are you seeking inner peace? Here is a tip to bring more inner peace today. Focus your energy on what you want to accomplish today. Gift yourself this reward, when you complete your goals. Create a retreat in the comfort of your own home and the privacy of your bathroom. Collect rose petals from your rose garden, and dump them into your bath. Collect a few blooms from your lavender plant and dump that along with your rose petals. If you don't have rose petals or lavender in your garden, then substitute 2 drops of essential oil of lavender, 2 drops of ylang/ylang, and 2 drops of clary sage. Play your favorite relaxing music, and light a candle. Ahhhhhhhh.......... retreat, meditation, relaxation, and inner peace is only moments away, it's free, and the perfect valentine's gift.

Valentine's Day is just Around the Corner

With Valentine's Day just around the Corner are you looking for a low cost way to show your honey you care?

Like a lot of couples you probably started your relationship with lots of passion and heated sex, but now find the romance dwindling, with sex taking a back seat to the TV. Today's hectic pace of life and auto-pilot living can take over, leaving romance and love in the dust. Take control of your love life by planning a romantic evening to bring love and passion back to your bedroom.

• If you idea of celebrating love is sitting on the couch with your couch potato. Turn the TV off and set the mood for romance. She may have lost her libido to the remote control. Follow these rituals to create a magical romantic evening.

• Pick up her favorite flowers and a mood candle. Make sure that you show up first before her. Put the flowers on the nightstand and light the mood candle.

• Put clean red sheets on the bed. Leave a love note on her pillow with rose petals under the sheet.

• Run a hot bath in the tub five minutes before she arrives. Add three drops each of lavender, ylang ylang, rose geranium, clary sage and marjoram to a teaspoon of honey and add this to her bath just before she enters. Put on her favorite music and quickly get in the shower.

• When she arrives take her directly to the bathroom and help her undress. Have her slip into the bath. Roll a towel and slip it under her head.

• Once she is ready to leave her heavenly bath. Have a nice bathrobe for her to slip into. Lay her on the bed in her bathrobe on top of the rose petals. Take a relaxing lotion like lavender and massage her feet.

She is now relaxed and in the mood. The rest is up to you. Take your time to focus on what you love about each other and make the most of the moment. It is up to you to create love or push love away. If an over busy schedule has left you collapsing in front of the tv; seize the moment and create the love you want. Go to http://www.retreatandheal.com for information on couples retreats to help you recapture love and romance.

© copyright by Annie B Lawrence, Ph.D, CHT.

Be sure and leave me a message and let me know how this worked for you. At Retreat and Heal we offer year round spiritual retreats for individuals, couples, and groups. I also offer phone consultations to clients world wide for couples coaching and spiritual life coaching sessions.

Love's Secret Empowers Couples to Heal Relationship Issues

If you fight over the same issues and push your partner away Love's Secret empowers you with tools to reconnect to love.

Stop giving your power to toxic habits and "live your life in Love!" You deserve love and happiness.

Sedona Arizona is a Beautiful Place to Find Inner Peace

A Sedona Retreat will empower you with tools for inner peace. Are you looking for ways to stay healthy this fall and winter? Follow these tips to boost your immune system and say no to the swine flu.

1. Spend time in the sun each day without sun screen, and without sun shades. This boost your ability to absorb vitamin D.

2. Spend fifteen minutes each day either in prayer or meditation. During this quiet time hold gratitude for the things that you have in your life.

3. Drink at least eight glasses of water. Bless your water before drinking it and ask it to cleanse the toxins from your system.

4. Buy a netti pot and wash your sinus each day before you retire.

5. A Sedona Retreat like the one Ann attended will help you release your stress and learn new ways to connect with inner peace.

Follow these simple daily rituals to stay healthy and boost your immune system. Our retreat guests find inner peace and clear away their emotional bag. Feeling inner peace and learning to meditate is another way to boost your immune system.

Sedona Retreat offers Healing and Peace of Mind

Spring is the perfect time for introspection and spiritual renewal. If the economy has you down and you feel you can't spend the cash to get away to Sedona here are some tips to renew yourself without leaving home.

1. Purchase a journal or notebook. Spend time each day and determine what is working in your life and what you are ready to release.

2. Purchase a small green candle. Light your candle as you write in your journal. Set your intention to connect with your angels or guides (whichever fits your beliefs).

3. Shower each morning. As you allow the shower to cleanse your body. Set your intentions to release your stress from your body, mind, and spirit.

4. After your shower spend time practicing breathing and release your thoughts. As a thought floats in release it to your angels. Ask your Angels to assist you to quiet your mind and reach a deep meditative and peaceful place inside. Once you are in that very peaceful place visualize yourself happy and peaceful throughout your day.

5. EFT is a very powerful and simple way to release your stress and stuck emotions. Love's Secret is an award winning book that empowers you to apply EFT. Email me if you have questions regarding our Sedona Retreats, EFT or Sedona Readings.

Relationship Retreats to Renew Your Love

Love Relationship Advice to Deepen Your Love Connection.

1.Fighting over the same issues? Keep shutting down and stuffing your feelings? This habit results in an explosion of hurtful words and pushing each other away.

2. EFT or Emotional Freedom empowers you with tools to heal your past hurt and trauma and stop your recurring fighting patterns. Realize, that each of you are reacting from past hurt and trauma, and never from what is or has happened in the present moment. Until you heal the old stuck hurt and trauma, it will continue to be brought to the surface to be healed and released.

3. Agree on a word that can be used by both partners as a signal to stop the fight. Make an agreement to honor each other and your love by stopping the argument when the word is said by either partner. This word must have meaning for both of you. Words used by previous couples include: love, partnership, agreement, commitment, healing, what is important, the past, freedom, I choose love. You can also decide on a symbol of love and unity ie: a Dove, heart, a pink bubble of light. When you feel yourself stuck in reaction say the word and hold the symbol in your mind and breath.

4. If you become so triggered that you can't keep yourself from reacting; you are hitting a core survival issue. When this occurs you might need help to get unstuck. Find someone who has experience working with couples and EFT and give them a call to either work in person, or over the phone.

Our Sedona Retreats offer tools for healing your core issues with EFT or Emotional Freedom Technique. I also work with clients throughout the world by phone and have great results with couples issues, core issues, stop smoking and weight loss. Gift yourself lasting love, invest in a couples retreat and begin 2010 with renewed love a couples retreat is a gift of lasting love.

Relationship Advice--Plant a Love Garden

Relationship advice to keep your love garden flourishing. Follow my Love Byte or Love Secret to plant your love garden and harvest lasting love, romance, and passion.

Follow these love secrets to plant your Love Garden.

1. Love is like a garden and must be nurtured daily with love and kindness. Plant seeds of love by focusing on the things you love most about your mate.

2. Old habits and survival skills smother you ability to keep your heart open. Stop thoughts of fear, jealousy, and resentment by pressing pause. Take a deep breath and hold thoughts of love and acceptance instead.

3. Making choices that support love require constant presence and focus. Avoid the old habit of checking out and going on "auto-pilot", by practicing "being present". When you find yourself checking out--bring yourself back take a deep breath and check-in instead. As you practice presence it will become easier and easier to make a conscious choice to stay present.

4. You will reap rewards in your relationship equal or greater to the time commitment you give. Our couples retreats empower you with even more great tools to plan your love garden and keep your love, romance and passion alive.

Happy planting and happy harvesting in your love garden. To support your love garden and spring planting go here to get your copy of Loves Secret and free EFT Session. I hope that you enjoy my relationship advice and that you keep your love garden flourishing.