Courage MEDS Card (Free Download)

Start your focus on getting more Love into your life with this free downloadable coloring card.

WHY COURAGE IS IMPORTANT:

When we feel a lack of confidence or self-love in our life, we have a lack of courage.  This can happen in a relationship, friendship, as a parent, or at a job etc. It takes courage to believe in ourselves and to speak up for ourselves.  This is very difficult when we feel weakness, shame, guilt, or lack of self-confidence and self-love.

It takes a strength to bring courage to our lives.  It takes being authentic, vulnerable and transparent to feel courage.  Being able to share and not be attached to what people might think or feel about us is courageous.  Being free to express and share what is on our heart and not hide behind the beauty of who we are is courageous.   Sharing your beauty opens us to feeling good about ourselves and the courage to live from this space.

Feel the fear, then transform the fear into love.  When we reconnect with love, we trust our connection with ourselves and our connection.  When we’re connected, we’re connected with love.  There is absolutely no room for fear in love. 

HOW COLORING CAN HELP:

Coloring intentional words helps you to engage with the present by noticing and focusing on the quality you want to bring into your life.  While doing this, the mind will wander, but it should always be brought back to the object of focus without judging or being distracted by the content of those wandering thoughts. While moving your crayon, pen, or colored pencil through the intricate shapes on the page, your mind is focusing, often to the exclusion of unpleasant thoughts and the feelings which accompany them.

Coloring calms activity in the amygdala, a part of the brain that handles the “fight or flight” response. This response is a condition in which the body is in a heightened  state of panic and hyper-vigilance—it’s your brain trying to help you fight against something dangerous or, alternatively, to help you flee from it.  This can lead to inflammation—a state in which the body has been overstimulated by stress hormones, and is harming and exhausting itself. You may already know that inflammation is the root of many disorders, including asthma, high blood pressure, Alzheimer’s, and arthritis, and is a silent killer.  Coloring disarms the amygdala, which, in turn, calms our bodies and brains.