Are you an overcomer? Of course you are. You have been 100% successful at overcoming all of the obstacles that life has thrown at you up to this date, or you wouldn't be here. Today's guest Donna Lee Humble will talk about her strategies for overcoming obstacles herself and helping others to do the same. She is author of the book, “Seek Not For Love'' that contains her five steps to higher self-care formula. In our interview, she talks about that transformational formula and she leads us through an exercise to access intuition and recognize obstacles therefore empowering emotional release. Donna Lee says that “peace and calm are natural states”.
● Greetings. My name is Donna Lee Humble. And I am so excited to be here with Dar today. I started my business almost 21 years ago in the holistic health field, doing something called Bio Energetic Testing, which detects toxicity at a cellular level. And then we create remedies that are specific remedies that will rid the body of the toxin that is inundated at the time. And that toxin can be a fungus, virus, parasite, bacteria, chemical or heavy metal. And how I got into bioenergetic testing was because I was sickly as a child growing up dealing with trauma and other things and very sensitive to pharmaceuticals. And so I had to find alternatives. And bioenergetic testing worked for me. It was gentle and effective at helping clear my body of toxins so that it could do what it knew how to do to heal itself. When I realized the body can tell us exactly how to heal itself just by tapping into the meridian system. I realized also that we can tap into the emotions and the thoughts to create healing in emotions and in negative thinking.
Thank you for sharing that I resonate with that body being able to heal yourself. And I know that you've refined the work until we even have a title for it.” Empowering Emotional Release”. Will you help define that for our audience today?
● Well, sure, empowering emotional release is a technique that I developed through studying many, many other emotional release techniques, and kind of created my own version of letting go of emotions and not by running away from our emotions or suppressing them or trying to get rid of them. But rather by diving into the emotion, whatever was coming up, whether it was sadness, or fear, or anger or wanting whatever was surfacing in the way of lower frequency emotions we could dive into. And the deeper we dive into it, the more likely it is we're going to pop out the other side, processing it and coming back to center, coming back to peace because peace and calm is our natural state and all we need to do is remove the barriers remove the unprocessed emotion.
Beautiful… peace and calm are our natural state. So I know that you're a published author, and I can't wait to dive into talking about your book. So would you tell our audience about that?
● Yes, I wrote a book last year called “Seek Not for Love, removing your barriers to peace, authenticity, and enlightenment. It goes into the trauma that I dealt with as a child, and how I overcame that, the modalities I used, that worked, and the ones that didn't work, and how I came out the other side to creating a formula called the five steps to higher self-care that anybody can do to process any of the obstacles in their life that are keeping them out of peace.
That's beautiful. I love peace, authenticity, and enlightenment, like great transformational terms, those are! When you mentioned the five steps to higher self-care, could you just go over what those are, and perhaps we can dive deeper into maybe one of them?
● Sure. Well, step number one is accessing your intuition, which is essential because we, we have to know we have to be able to connect with our source, our inner guide, the light within the light that never goes out within us that we're always connected to. And there are many ways to connect with your intuition or your higher self. And that could be meditation, walks in nature, yoga, many, many ways, creative pursuits, things like this. I'm sure many of you have connected with that piece within…in many different ways. There's probably as many ways to connect with that as there are people out there. And so we want to fortify that connection. Step one is accessing your intuition and fortifying that connection with your higher self. Step number two, is to identify the barriers. And, you know, most of us would be living in bliss if we would just stay in step one where we're accessing that intuition. But in this world, we are inundated with distractions to that piece that's within and in my experience, there are three distractions that I find that are categorized one would be thoughts, negative thinking, or negative mind chatter cyclical thinking is another way I put that that would be the thoughts. The second barrier is overwhelming emotion then being inundated with one emotion after the other, we live our lives, stuck in emotion, trapped in unprocessed emotion as if we're carrying a heavy bag of emotion that we learn to push away because we couldn't deal with it at the time. Well, that accumulates and, and causes a heaviness in our life and kind of a cloud over everything. And until we process those emotions, we kind of stay stuck and not connected to our source. Number three barrier is navigating the physical world that we live in. And that includes our to do list, finance, finances, relationships, exercise, food, spirituality, career, etc. And it also includes health, taking care of our body and being as healthy as we can be while we're here. So those are the three barriers. The next step is to dive into your barrier, whether it's thoughts, emotions, or the physical. So diving into those areas that we don't want to look at, nobody wants to go there, nobody wants to rebalance their life, they don't want to reframe their thoughts, and they don't want to take the time to release their emotions. So this is where we create a formula. And you can use this formula and a coach to help you work through this. And then number four of the five steps is to let it go and you let go of the thought by reframing it, let go of the emotion by releasing it, let go of the imbalance in your life by rebalancing it. And then step number five is experience. Joy, you naturally come back to Step five, by working through two, three and four. By identifying where your barrier is, by diving into it and letting it go, you naturally come back to joy and peace.
You put that so succinctly, thank you for going through those five steps. And I know that they're all much deeper than you were able to express in just a few minutes. So is there an exercise that perhaps you could lead us through right now that would start in on this process?
● Okay… Yes, I do have an exercise. It's very simple. And we can do it right here right now if you'd like Dar.
I would love it.
● Okay. So the first thing we want to do is access that source, that love, universal love by coming into the moment, simply breathing. Noticing your body being supported by the chair, noticing the sensations in your body, from head to toe. Noticing the breath, passing your nostrils or mouth, noticing the sound of my voice and coming into the moment and this is how we connect to our higher self. How we access our intuition and, in this moment, consider something that's happened recently. Somebody disturbed you or upset you. There was a situation, maybe a tragedy or a trauma that had happened recently. And bring that up. Just for now, as best you can, something that disturbed or upset you takes a moment. It could be a person that was rude or it could be anything that disturbed your peace of mind. And now, check in with your body, breathe into that disturbance or that upset. Do your best to let go of the thoughts and the story that precluded the upset, just for now let go of the story and sink into your body as best you can. Notice your heartbeat. Notice if you're trembling, shaking or twitching. And breathe into the discomfort. It may have a name: it may be sadness, or fear, or anger. Or any derivation of any emotion on the scale of emotions. Knowing that emotions cannot hurt you simply experience as best you can. The frequency, the energy of the emotion in your body. Notice where it is in your body, breathing into it and giving it all the space, it needs. Stay with it. And just a bit more. In this moment, could you let go of that emotion? Could you drop it? Could you release it just for now. As best you can? Could you allow it to pass through even one molecule? Could you let it go and take two or three breaths, deep belly breaths. And notice your feelings. Now. It may be a heavier feeling or a lighter feeling. It may be completely different than maybe a higher frequency feeling like joy or relief. Just notice and it doesn't matter. Just be as honest with yourself as you can. As you notice that emotion that you're feeling now. In this way, you have just permanently released emotion buried in your big bag of unprocessed emotion. Congratulations.
Yes, yes. Congratulations to everyone who followed along with Donna Lee, if you experienced when I did, it was very powerful. Thank you. (Well, now for me to be able to talk again is something else.) As you mentioned before, Donna Lee “that we're not always that willing to dive in” …we're more willing to go find something else to do or avoid feeling that emotion and this was quite powerful to be with it in the moment like that. Thank you.
● So welcome
Without breaking any confidentiality. Do you have a transformation of a client that you could share with us... some fun story of change?
● Hmm, yes, I have one that comes to mind… I work with women, super women who are exhausted from overdoing, over giving and overthinking, which I think is similar to your niche. Dar, yes. But I have a client who, let's see, she graduated from my program last year, and she was caring for an elderly parent. And she had a lot of emotional baggage and negative thinking going on around how she wasn't enough. She couldn't see, there was nothing she could do, in her mind, to please that parent, which really came from childhood, but she carried it into her after 50 years old. She carried that into her life, that belief that she wasn't enough and she was driving herself into depression and unmotivated because there was nothing she could do to get past that. As we worked together, we did a lot of emotional releasing and reframing negative thinking and old beliefs. And helping her to rebalance her life by bringing in better health habits such as drinking more water and things like eating whole foods, that kind of thing. And as we progressed in about probably four months into the program, suddenly, she found herself again, she found who she was, all this time, she was her parent’s daughter, and she discovered who she was, her authentic, higher self, and started exploring things that she didn't even know she loved to do. And since then, she's been mostly on that high, of just living her life fully. Yes, she has her parents to care for but she's gotten help with that. And now she's really living her life. It was an amazing transformation to watch her.
That is a very exciting transformation. Good for her and good for you to be able to witness that and be a part of that. How wonderful. Thank you. Before we conclude her interview, can you tell our listeners what they could do as a next step in working with you?
● While there's a couple of things we could do, I would recommend going to the website to learn more about how I work and I have testimonials, you can check those out too. And on the website, I have a freebie “Six Steps to Easy Emotional Release. And basically, it walks you through releasing your own emotions. Now I will tell you, it took support for me to release my emotions at first because I was so overwhelmed with emotion, I couldn't even identify what I was feeling. So I needed the extra professional support to do that. But for most of us, you can use my six-step formula and do it on your own. And each time you release an emotion, you're lightening your heavy bag and becoming more enlightened, and more peaceful and more authentic.
That is so exciting. I'm sure many of us will go over and take advantage of clicking on your freebie and receiving those six steps. We will have the printed information on how to get there on the show notes page every one so you don't have to totally rewind the podcast and get the information verbally we'll have that written for you.
● And I don't think I listed my website which is Donna Lee umbel.com.
All right. So that will be posted on the show notes page. So Donna Lee, before you leave us today, is there anything that you just feel that needs to come forward for our audience before we depart?
● I love this quote and hopefully I can quote it from A Course in Miracles. It's also interestingly a Rumi quote. It goes like this…”Your task is not to seek for love, but rather but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
Beautiful and I will add that those barriers can then become steps.
● Oh, I love that. Thank you.
Those barriers can be steps on your life purpose. It's amazing work.
● That's a great addition Dar.. Thank you for saying that.
And thank you for being with us today.
● You're so welcome. It was a pleasure.
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