The Results

Yay! This is the post where I get to talk about the shifts I’ve seen since doing the 30 day challenge. I think it’s important to note that receiving a Bars session or Body process session became such an easy part of my schedule that I continued to day 34 and then took a break on day 35. I still receive a session anywhere from 1-5 days a week.

One of the most noticeable changes over the course of the 30 Day Bars Challenge was the ease that I was able to incorporate into my life. When I read my first post I can remember that way of functioning (being overwhelmed and overstimulated). That still comes up every once in a while, but I’m functioning there hardly at all anymore.

During the month of September while I was doing the challenge, my healing clients increased by 25% and had two new graphic design projects. I was able to increase my income by about $1000 in September and then another $500 (in addition to the $1,000) in October.  In October, the students in my classes double in one class and then doubled again in an other class. My private healing clients stayed the same, but then in November I had my biggest private client month ever with well over 20 clients in a month (this had been a goal of mine for years). Needless to say this was great for my income. I reduced my hours with my part-time contract (to about 5-10 hours a week) and worked from home for those hours. The more I was able to create and generate money and clients for my own businesses the more working for someone else was an inconvenience to me.

I definitely feel that the stomach aches are milder when they happen and less frequent. Sometimes not happening for weeks. My skin was getting better during the 30 day challenge and by the end of October had cleared amazingly.

I found an awesome hair stylist that was still in school and would come to my home to cut my hair.

As for relationships, the challenge allowed me to interact with so many more people that have interest in or are doing Bars. I made new friends! I definitely let go of the guilt and wrongness of being single. I actually really enjoy being single!

I certainly amped up the joy and ease in my life! I was able to attend the 3 day body process class that I was desiring. I chose against a season pass this year for snowboarding (it seemed like I would be busy with other new and exciting ventures). As for travel, I went to Florida for the Access level 2/3 class in October and I’m planning a trip to Rome in the spring.

How does it get any better than this AND what else is possible?

 

 

Day 24 – 25 – 26 – 27 – 28 – 29 – 30

Day 24 – I had another Bars and body process combo. I’m very excited about how easy it is to sleep these days. Today, I felt less stressed and more in flow with life. Yay!

 

Day 25 – As I near the end of my 30 day challenge, I was thinking today about how when I started this I had about 7 days of Bars sessions scheduled and then had no idea how I would receive or fit in a Bars session for 30 more days. In that first week of Bars I met a friend who was interested in doing Bars trades and lived 5 minutes from me. How cool is that? I guess that is the power of choosing what you desire. Today was another great Bars session and I’m really in tune with this massive amount of energy I’m playing with. It sounds intimidating, but it’s totally fun!

Day 26 – Wow, this Bars schedule is really easy to do these days. It’s just part of my schedule now. I’m wondering if I’ll even stop at day 30 or just keep going. I’m still feeling great. That stomach pain I talked about earlier in the month came up today during my Bars session. I chose to let the full intensity of it to come up and it was pretty uncomfortable for a while. I like that it happens less and less.

Day 27 – Today, my daughter and I ran her first 5k together! It’s not totally Bars related, but she was so awesome! I received Bars in the evening and it lulled me into a restful sleep!

 

Day 28 – How does it get any better than this? I have some great movements happening in my businesses! I’ve got clients on the schedule this week and new web design projects! I received a Bars and body process combo today.

 

Day 29 – Jina Kay came over and ran my Bars today. She has her own style when she gives a Bars session. It’s SO relaxing! She’s also a blast to chat with. She is a Bars practitioner and facilitator and is definitely in a creative period. I’m excited to see what she creates as her business and how she contributes to the planet!

 

DAY 30! – I ended my 30th day at a Bars trade in Denver. It was fun to be around everyone and as I reflected upon the last 30 days I had this strange sense of awareness that a lot of shift had occurred, but not actually feeling different. When I say not feeling different, what I actually mean is that I’ve already become the new vibrations or the new way I be. By doing that, I don’t actually feel different because I simply am different. I think it’s also worth noting that I didn’t actually change. I just shed a lot of what wasn’t “me” in the first place. I’m more me!

 

 

DAY 21 – 22 – 23

Day 21 – I went to a Bars trade this evening in the Lakewood area. My body still feels great and I have a new mental clarity. My day has been full of those fun serendipitous creations. I went to a coffee shop to work and ran into a person I knew who was working on their website. It turns out they were frustrated with it and are interested in hiring me to design the site for them.

Day 22 – A friend came over today and ran my Bars in combination with a body process. The last few days I’ve really been asking my body what it would like to eat or where it would like to go. Having this ability to ask and hear my body makes life easy. I still have total choice, but when my body is happy and heard so am I.

Day 23 –  Another friend came over to run my Bars. I’m noticing a definite increase in ease with money. Also, it’s been easy to increase the amount of healing clients I see. I’ve been scheduling lot’s of client sessions today!

Day 18 – 19 – 20

Day 18 – For the next three days I’ll be taking Jason Pettipiece’s Body Process Class. It’s another Access Consciousness™ class and I have really been looking forward to it. Basically, we give and receive dynamic body processes that have the capacity to change the body, reality, energy, and much more. These body processes feel limitless to me right now. Today, I received two body processes (healings) and a BARS healing after the class. I was pretty uncomfortable today with a headache on and off. The BARS helped with this headache. I’m aware that the body processes I received today are shifting my body and reality, but I do feel tired.

Day 19 – This is day two of body process class. I woke up feeling great!… and rested. Today, my body felt totally different than yesterday. I did not have any headache or body pain. The day was pretty easy and I didn’t even feel hungry. I ate a little lunch because I was feeling like if I didn’t I would be hungry in the afternoon, but then I didn’t require any food for 10 hours after lunch. That’s crazy for me! It seem like it has something to do with the body work and simply receiving energy all day (even when not getting a healing). I received body processes on embodying joy and creative energy. My body did not require an individual BARS session today and I am noticing my BARS run at times while I’m receiving a body process.

Day 20 -  This is the third day of the body process class and I’m still feeling great. It was another pretty easy day of giving and receiving healings. Again, I had awareness of my BARS running themselves at times during the day. I didn’t need an individual BARS session today either. I’m pretty aware that after this weekend I have a lot more space and more comfortable in my own body. I feel like I would not have been able to receive this body process class at the capacity I did without having my BARS run so often beforehand. I actually think I would not have gone to the class without starting this 30 challenge. I’m certainly not saying that would be true for anyone else, but it is an awareness I had over the weekend.

I’m noticing writing this blog is less significant to me (I had been feeling some pressure to post every day). I’ve decided to continue to take notes over the remaining 30 days and post the blogs when it’s easy for me. I also feel like receiving strictly BARS sessions is less important. I’m moving forward with the target that I will receive what my body requires on that day and I can’t guarantee that will be a BARS session. However, I will continue to receive something every day. ; )

Day 15 – 16 – 17

Day 15 – I went to BARS trade in Denver this evening. I had some new awareness about the intensities in life that I’ve been experiencing. This experience of intense energy, chaos, feeling uncomfortable or whatever you want to label it is actually more of a global shift that’s happening. This morning I was driving and I felt overwhelmed by this feeling of “stuck-ness”. As I exited the highway, I demanded out loud to the universe something like “F-*& this! There is more to this world and I know it! I demand more! I don’t care how uncomfortable I get… I demand change NOW!”. It’s great, I’d prefer be uncomfortable and having the phenomenal life I desire… rather than comfortable. When I got to the BARS trade someone decided to play a recording from Dr. Dain Heer who was speaking about exactly what I was experiencing in the morning. He said right now is the time to change anything you want. He noted if you are feeling uncomfortable that’s part of the shift and he asked if we are willing to be uncomfortable. Listening to that recording while receiving BARS was a great experience and it named a lot of what I had been feeling.

Day 16 – Today I traded with Matt Bochsler again. When I was receiving my BARS healing Matt noticed my BARS didn’t actually need to be run. I checked in and agreed. He tried to run a few BARS points and nothing was really happening. That’s actually a fun point to hit. I didn’t think that would happen in this 30 days, but it did. It just means my body didn’t require a BARS session at that time. Since this 30 day challenge is about receiving I chose to have some body processes done. It’s basically where different energies are activated in your body through another person touching different locations on your body. It will shift things on a physical and energetic level. It was the first time I have totally fallen asleep during any session I’ve received.. like ever. How cool is that? It’s exactly what my body required!

Day 17 – I traded BARS with Katie Sommerfeld again. It’s great, I’ve been finding healers that live close to me and it makes my schedule much easier to coordinate. This session was fun with plenty of giggling. My body did want a BARS session so that’s what I received. I released a lot of energy pertaining to money beliefs and frustration of feeling stuck. After this session we went to a fun dinner with some friends. It’s getting easier to have fun in life and I’m having more people show up in my life that are joyful. Yay!

Day 14 – noticing some changes!

After some rest I feel functional today… yay!

Today, I went to another BARS trade and had my BARS run by Gina Green from Omaha who has been running BARS on many people who are having amazing health results. She is very enthusiastic about this healing method so it was fun to meet her. Sessions are getting quicker for sure and Gina seemed to follow the energy on that.

I’m also noticing some changes. My skin got worse after my distance session Sollena (I asked her to specifically work on that topic). However, it’s clearing up nicely now! Sometimes, things get worse before they get better. In my first entry I noted I really needed a haircut and had not had time to go to the salon. Especially with this 30 day challenge, doing my tele classes and then releasing my ebook I couldn’t even look at scheduling a time. It was really cool, I came across a woman who came to my house today to cut and color my hair while I worked from home. Another great change is my interaction with Indie. We are not morning people and often have grumpy interactions before school. However, that hasn’t happened at all lately. I think I’m less tired in the morning when I wake up and generally more easy going. As a side affect of me getting my BARS run she is also getting her BARS run and is around healing sessions often. Something not totally related to the BARS challenge, but very cool, is last year she was getting bullied by a girl at school. It was one of those “frenemy” situations. Over the summer she has come to 3 BARS classes with me and she has learned a lot. Right before school started, she was stressing about going back and being bullied. I started healing her on being bullied and explained how silly it was that someone was trying to be more powerful than her. We laughed a lot and then she fell asleep for two hours (she’s not a napper, but BARS put her to sleep or wind her up). School started in August and there have been no bully issues. Very cool!

I will keep you posted on any further changes! One thing I am aware of is that it’s difficult to see the changes. It’s like I know things have shifted, but it’s just difficult to describe. I might start asking people around me for some feedback.

 

Day 13

All I can say is I got my butt kicked today (in a good way). I had a session scheduled with Lauren Mathews. We often trade sessions and she had a special topic in store for me that was sure to kick my butt. The topics were money, family, and people owing me money. This all seemed to connect together into one huge realization that I hated this reality and did not want to be here anymore. After she facilitated me through this series of topics she ran my BARS, which was intense too. Having my BARS run after any coaching, processing, or energy work seems make life smoother. However, I went home, put together dinner, and then could not bear to move. I convinced my daughter to watch a movie with me in bed while I drifted in and out of following the plot. So that’s where I’m at today.

Day 12

I woke up this morning with the upper/middle part of my back hurting. It felt like it was about to go into muscle spasm if I moved incorrectly. Maybe this was from moving those cinder blocks while building the shed walls yesterday, but I had zero pain yesterday. Good news! I am going to a BARS class today. It’s my 3rd BARS class and my last required class to become a certified BARS facilitator. It’s also my daughter’s 3rd class.

Lauren Mathews taught this class and we had a blast! We went through the normal BARS material and then she processed us (cleared energy) on being seen, judgment, being YOURSELF, and tons more. My head was swirling at one point….. well, many points. My daughter had several giggle fits and below is some video of her receiving and giving the healing. Great news, my back pain was gone within the first session! What a fun day this was….

Indie giving a healing:

Indie receiving a healing:

Day 11

This (Saturday) morning I slept in while my daughter watched cartoons. Yay! I am well rested. Our plan for the day was to go up to my Mother’s house with my other siblings and help her and her husband build a shed. However, when we got there we learned that she took her husband to the hospital. This week he started chemo for bone marrow cancer and this morning he had a mild heart attack, mild stroke-like episode, and pneumonia (without coughing). This sounded very scary, but it seems that it was all very mild and he ended up spending only one night in the hospital. (My mother has been running his BARS almost every day). I think I know where I was picking up that chest and heart stuff from. Anyway, my siblings and I built the shed walls (with cinder blocks) as they requested, fixed some other things, grilled lunch, and then went home.

I had my BARS run by Erin Lawson of EarthericTouch in the evening. She is a BARS practitioner, facilitator, massage therapist, reflexologist, and I’m sure I am missing something. Erin’s session helped me shift the rest of that chest/heart stuff. Erin draws from her bodywork knowledge and seems to really understand how to help the body relax and release. I was wiggling around a lot during this session, but it seemed to facilitate something. Her awareness was that at one point the energy was not flowing and I extended my arm out, which instantly unblocked some points. Cool!

Day 10

I’m definitely noticing, even more, that I am working through some things. It seems to be around being seen, vulnerable, and allowing what I desire to show up in my life. I feel like I am about to break through to something new, but I’m at that uncomfortable point where it’s sometimes painful to let go of the old. I also can’t quite see what the new is. F-U-N! No really… I sort of look forward to these times when life as I know it is about to shift.

I also, am feeling the continued release of energy from my lungs. I sort of felt like I had been smoking the night before, but it is lightening up.

Today, I had my BARS run by Katie Sommerfeld who is a BARS practitioner and facilitator. I met Katie just a few days ago when I went to dinner with some friends after the metaphysical fair and she is delightfully giggly… just what the doctor ordered! While receiving my BARS session she helped me release some things around judgment/self-judgment and allowance. There were several points she hit today (in the healing) that really shifted my body. It’s fun to feel the change when it’s happening!

I am noticing that for me when I have my BARS run at night I have more energy. This has me staying up later sometimes, but I’m still able to get up early. I am noticing this cycle of my body wanting to be up later (2ish am) and then wanting to go to bed earlier (11ish pm). The cool part is I can have that late bedtime happen and not feel exhausted the following day. I also have not at all felt tempted to take a Tylenol PM, which I would take maybe once or twice a week if I were having trouble sleeping.