The Power Coach - Jayne Morris

Top Five Tips to Taking Power Naps

Jayne — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 15:29:36 +0000

If you find yourself fighting fatigue during the day, try listening to your body by taking a nap. Research indicates that a short 20-minute snooze is all it takes to lower stress hormone levels and super-charge your stamina. It has been proven to be beneficial to your heart, hormonal maintenance and overall cell repair. Napping also enables your brain to clear thought clutter and boosts creativity.

1. Be Creative – Naps can be taken almost anytime, any place if you get creative… keep a pillow under your desk, blanket in your car, find a space at the back of a yoga or pilates class and let the instructor know you plan to stay ‘meditating’ in the lying down position for a while longer than usual!

2. Feel Safe – Our primal instincts can prevent us taking a nap if we are sensitive sleepers and don’t feel relaxed in our environment. If you find it hard to switch off and feel safe, do what you can to reduce distractions and send a message to your brain that it is safe for you to sleep – lock the door, pop in some ear plugs, wear an eye mask, close the blinds.

Many workplaces are now waking up to the power of naps and encouraging their staff to take them. But, if you aren’t your own boss and account to someone else who doesn’t appreciate that napping helps you accomplish more, have a colleague keep watch while you snooze.

3. Set an Alarm – You will relax and drift off more easily if you know that you are not going to sleep through an important meeting or miss the last stop on the bus. Set an alarm to wake you up after 20-30 minutes. Longer naps can bring the added benefits of flooding the system with growth hormones, which are great for muscle and bone repair, but it may take a bit of experimentation to find the length of longer nap for you. Ideally you don’t want to enter a normal sleep cycle without fully completing it, otherwise you may wake feeling disorientated and groggy due to sleep inertia.

4. Avoid Caffeine – Caffeine disturbs sleep. For your nap to have best effect, avoid drinking caffeine for at least 4-5 hours before you snooze – yes it takes this long for the effects of your daily cuppa to even begin to leave your system! Good news is that taking a nap will reenergize you far more than a cup of tea or coffee can.

5. Permission – Give yourself permission to power nap. Release any inner gremlins stuck on ‘go, go, go’ or telling you that you are ‘lazy’ for napping. Remind yourself of the benefits and that napping is actually a far more productive use of your time than pushing yourself to over ride your body wisdom. In fact, according to a study by NASA taking a nap can increase cognitive function by up to 40%! Now there’s reason to snooze!

I Have the Power

Jayne — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 18:20:01 +0000

“I Have the Power”

Spirit and Destiny magazine

Torn between responsibilities and following her passions, Cordelia Brabbs embarks on an empowering coaching session with Jayne Morris. Discover what Cordelia learns from her session and the changes she has resolved to make in her

life as a result.

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Do You Know Your Neighbours?

Jayne — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 14:31:05 +0000

A few weeks ago I was woken in the middle of the night by loud banging on my bedroom window. At first I felt quite frightened because it sounded like whoever it was outside really wanted to get in, and at 2am I wasn’t comfortable with the idea of opening my front door, not knowing who would be on the other side. I noticed I had slipped into a place of fear, so I checked in with my intuition about what action to take – although the banging sounded aggressive, the energy behind it felt desperate. Could it be someone needing help?

Let it Be

Jayne — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 14:29:40 +0000

When we first enter the world all of our needs are met. We are protected, nourished and cared for without any cause for concern. Nine months later we begin to adopt different beliefs from those around us and gradually forget our inherent knowing that all our needs have been and will always be provided for us. In our forgetting, we start to strive, force and resist, instead of letting life flow by accepting and allowing things to ‘be’. Although tendencies of our modern lifestyles move us out of sync with our intuition, we can return to this flow at any time. We simply need to remind ourselves that everything is cyclical, nothing is constant, and that with time all things change and pass. This enables us to live more fully in the present moment, enjoy the experience of life and set positive intentions for our future, thus transferring the thoughts of our creative genius into manifest form.

Six Signs You Need to Slow Down

Jayne — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 09:36:34 +0000

The modern day rat race is a tricky treadmill to avoid, take one step on and it can feel impossible to get back off. But begin to notice signs that you need a pit stop, and suddenly pressing pause becomes a whole lot simpler.

Messages signaling that it is time to slow down can come through our internal and external environments. Our inner guidance system gives nudges via our intuition, although it can be all too easy to override this when a deadline looms overhead. When this happens our body steps in to signal something is out of alignment by sending us a headache or other symptom of pain. When we suppress these warning signs by medicating without exploring the root cause, sure as fate, a situation or circumstance will show up corresponding to our inner stress. The result? Something in our life breaks, explodes, burns out, falls apart or disintegrates!

The Power of Zero Tolerance

Jayne — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 09:27:45 +0000

We all tolerate certain things in life, but did you know that the very things you are tolerating are likely to be holding you back from experiencing the ultimate success you so desperately want to experience? It can be easy to make a list of all the things we tolerate daily, but digging deeper and uncovering the truth of what is hidden behind can be extremely challenging. This is because getting to the root cause of our issues demands us to face our fears, which often hold the key to unlocking our true greatness. By tolerating certain people, places and situations we place boulders before our brilliance, often in an unconscious attempt to protect ourselves from the risk of failure or paradoxically from the risk of shining too brightly.

De-clutter Re-energise

Jayne — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 14:17:29 +0000

Is Your Clutter Clogging Up More than Your Closet?

Many cultures follow ancient traditions of spring-cleaning at the change of the seasons. It is arguably the best time of the year to have a thorough clear out and let go of anything in your life no longer serving you. Clearing has the power to transform your life, because clutter in your external environment is the physical manifestation of all the clutter clogging up your internal world. Why go to the effort to have a spring clean? Because it will have a far-reaching positive effect on every area of your life, ushering in more fulfillment, happiness, health and abundance.

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The Power of Sacred Space

Jayne — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 09:56:00 +0000

Clearing a space in your office or home to honour as your own special sanctuary can be incredibly uplifting and healing – benefiting not just yourself, but everyone around you. Many cultures throughout history have devoted considerable resources to the creation of sacred spaces where people could go to nourish and nurture their body, mind and soul. Yet we seem all too frequently to be swapping sacred structures for skyscrapers and forgetting to leave sufficient space to serve the purpose of as pick-me-up pit stops in between.

Super Start Your Day with a Power-Shout

Jayne — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 13:53:20 +0000

The Power-Shout is based on energy building techniques taken from the martial arts and can be used at the start of each day to help you gain fresh perspective, connect to your intuition and focus your intentions for the day ahead. I use it to help clients clear their energy and power-up from the inside out. The Power-Shout helps you tap into your inner guidance system to help you prioritise your day and be more productive. This technique re-energises you, re-connects you to your inner wisdom and re-activates your sense of personal power.

The Power of Prayer

Jayne — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 13:39:14 +0000

Millions of people around the world pray each day and around 85% of us believe in God, whatever our definition, name or interpretation of that may be. For some people the concept of praying and meditating are synonymous, for others a prayer means asking God for something, whereas meditation means God speaking to us. Whatever our approach or reference point is prayer has the power to positively affect our experiences by connecting us with each other and to a sense of something larger and more powerful than ourselves.

Recent scientific studies are able to demonstrate that we are connected to all that is. The essence of everything on our planet and beyond, to our knowledge, is made of the same elements, the same atoms, the same stuff! With every thought and every prayer we alter the conditions in our bodies, which in turn affects the circumstances in our lives. And because we are connected in essence to everything and everyone, every thought or feeling we have not just affects our own lives, but has a far reaching effect on the existence of every other living thing in the universe.