Often it’s in life’s painful moments that offer an opportunity to practice. To practice becoming more conscious about your power to positively shift the energy on the earth. When we process something as being upsetting we can look at it as an opportunity. I wonder what will happen now? What will people choose? More importantly, what will I choose? And so we begin the practice of observation without judgment. That part takes extra practice. I know I’m still working on non-judgment. Though judging others is not to be confused with having opinions about the chaos or troubling incident. Experiences lead to opinions and opinions can lead to clarity. Judgment is not assisting anyone.
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It’s Good to Become Comfortable with Uncertainty and Mystery
There’s an art to living with uncertainty and mystery. If you can learn to be open to not knowing all the answers then you’re on your way to an exciting life that’s constantly evolving with your growth, well-being, and purpose at heart. None of us has to be an expert at living life. Questions are an expected part of our existence. Some answers we’re ready for and some we’re not. The art is allowing for what’s best and trusting that whatever shows up in your life, is best. Some life experiences may not make sense at the time but everything happens for a reason. All we have to do is show up, open to allowing for rather than forcing. If you’re alive, you’re dancing, even if it feels you have two left feet.
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You’re probably experiencing the tumultuous energy in the world today. There isn’t a single person who isn’t affected. There’s a lot of humanity out there. Everyone at varying frequencies and at various points along their own path. That means everyone is dealing with the events and corresponding energy differently. You may be struggling mightily or perhaps you’re able to see the bigger picture. Either way your heart, skills, and unique gifts are needed. At least one person or many, need your light. You are already assisting humanity and are doing so in small and large ways every day. Can you see this? Can you grow it and take it to new heights?
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Allowing your own experience requires confidence, letting go of caring what others may think, and instead be a stand for the light you practice so hard to bring to your life experience. “We’re all in this together” is, in part, about being there for others. “We’re all connected” is more than a woo-woo phrase. Let’s do our part to honor our connectedness. To no longer stand by while injustice, inequities, abuse, and corruption exist. If you believe injustice, inequities, abuse, and corruption are not personally affecting you, they are affecting someone. And it’s that someone that you don’t personally know but are still connected to. So in a sense, it is harming you personally as well. When you look the other way and trust that it will all work out, you know in your heart that something is not working now for someone, somewhere.
What your part in this is, is for you to discover. You may discover your passion and voice and realize that standing for peace and love means taking beneficial action. And how that shows up for you is as individual as you are. You get to decide.
I’m not suggesting upping your game on social media. This isn’t about getting people to agree with you. It’s about becoming who you know you really are and sharing your authentic self.
Continue readingMore TagBeing Busy or Efficient Doesn’t Equal a Meaningful Life
We’re the producer, director, and actor in our daily lives. As a producer, we create our life goals. As the director, we think about how we want to come across. How we want others to see us. Not as we are, but as we want to be seen. As the actor, we work hard to ensure we achieve our goals while looking good as we achieve them. Getting our life all ship-shape. Making sure it works this way or that way. Forcing everything into place.
It’s common to force productivity on myself for the sake of, “I matter because I’m busy”. And therefore I make myself busy to matter.
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Mankind experiences crises in all shapes and forms to varying degrees. If you’re experiencing a crisis you never thought you would see in your lifetime, you’re in good company. You may be somewhat or very shocked. But how you process experiences is as individual and as unique as you are.
The crisis will end and mankind will have evolved. And you’ll now better understand how to effect a dramatic positive shift in your life. If you can step up to looking to yourself in challenging times, you’ll definitely be able to do this on an average day. This is you learning to stand in your personal power and create light in more and more moments. Even in the tough moments. Mastering your energy in terms of your thoughts, feelings, and emotions, through your choices, patterns, and habits will serve you well. It will serve others well.
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Every single human being has an opportunity to live their life according to what works best for them. That even includes all the bumps and detours we’re all entitled to experience. I will never follow anyone because I didn’t come here to follow. I came here to create.
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Do you ever feel that you have unpleasant experiences in your life that are asking you to look at them? But you can’t be bothered because you avoid feeling unpleasant. You’re aiming for awesome, even if you have to force it.
However, there’s a reason you’re prompted to look because, at some point, it will serve you well. Until you take a look and work through the troubling part of your life, you will continue to feel somewhere in the range of blah to awful. It’s understandable that you don’t want to feel these kinds of feelings. It’s so much easier to pretend there’s nothing to look at.
You’ve probably experienced that it’s the messy and darker areas of life that hold the greatest gifts. They’re hiding in our muck. It’s a little bit of a treasure hunt to uncover them.
If you’re feeling that you’re standing smack in your own muck, that’s great news! You’re being asked to take action and grow. Things will get better.
You don’t like your muck? I don’t especially like mine either! But, stay with me here…
Continue readingMore TagWhat I Wish I Knew When I First Considered My Spirituality
What I wish I knew is that my experiences and beliefs will evolve as my life journey evolves. There’s no right or wrong way. And that I’ll be uncovering what the more expansive picture means to me. It’s my unique experiences and life journey that inform my ideas.
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Intuition is within everyone. You just have to be you. Everyone is intuitive. Sometimes we can get in our own way and not allow ourselves to open to our intuitive guidance. Here are several things to consider.
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How do you know, exactly, when you are being spiritual and when you are not? What makes for a spiritual moment?
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Is it possible to bring mindfulness with you, even when something changes for the seemingly worse? It’s something to consider.
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Funny isn’t it, that we human beings are in such need to be coached on how to experience gratefulness?
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What I’m feeling when I attend those formal learning women’s networking meetings. I walk away feeling “I could be more” and that’s not how I want to feel.
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I had to learn that I couldn’t get my spiritual mojo from others. I learned that spiritual growth comes from within myself. From my own experiences. But it took a brief meeting with someone to understand it’s not the woo-woo that counts. It’s how our lives feel.
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Finding the right people at the right time is a gift. I love connecting with people to support each other and share our experiences. Life is so much sweeter when we connect with each other as ourselves.
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Meeting a puppy on a trail taught me to allow more for joy in that moment. When we’re stuck in our thoughts we block the propensity for lightheartedness. Lightheartedness can, in part, lead us to our best ideas and inspiration. I think of that puppy a lot and what he taught me. To get out of my head and enjoy the moment.
Continue readingMore TagIt’s a Good Time in Our World NOW
Speak up and stand for what you believe in. Peace will only come about through those who care enough to embody it. But it takes action. Consciousness, heart, kind words, our best intentions.
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We all make a difference in the world by how we are being. No matter how ordinary we may feel we have extraordinary power to contribute. Our thoughts, feelings, choice of words, and actions all have an effect on the collective consciousness. It’s possible to create and contribute more love in the world. How do you contribute? One beautiful thought at a time.
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Stop trying so hard. Life is best when you let go and enjoy yourself. Your life experiences are created by how you are feeling. Perfection doesn’t really exist so it’s best to stop pursuing it. Have more fun and life will be more fun.
Continue readingMore TagHow a Horoscope Cheered Me Up
An example of when the universe knows you need support and encouragement.
Continue readingMore TagGardening and The Art of Slowing Down
How deer and our backyard are teaching me to just chill and enjoy the moment. There’s no rush. Everything happens at the best time anyway.
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A sampling of ideas and tips you can practice every day. These are my ideas that work for me and I encourage you to find your own practices.
Continue readingMore TagFollowing Our Murmurations To Truly Live Well
Finding support sometimes is just a matter of listening to your intuition. Often we are dealing with something, wonderful or challenging, where a group may offer us confirmation or just an ear. Whatever you’re looking for there’s a community for you if you so choose.
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The 60-second elevator speech and women’s networking luncheons are not everyone’s cup of tea. Ok, it’s not my cup of tea. But I learned to appreciate these women spending two hours connecting with each other to promote their business and help each other. Not my thing. I left my career to do what I’m doing now. Why waste even one moment doing something I don’t enjoy?
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Just paying someone a compliment can light them up. When we do something positive for one another it positively transforms the moment and touches all of humanity. Our energy is a valuable gift. We have a choice and can use it for beneficial purposes.
Continue readingMore TagTrying to Resist Vulnerability
Vulnerability is nothing to be afraid of. When we look at it we can see our best parts. It’s what’s being human is about. I’d rather be human than tough.
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All windows lead to perception. This morning’s exercise of looking out of my office window led to a feeling of peace and appreciation for nature.
Continue readingMore TagReceiving My Loud Invitation to Enjoy
Joy is not something you have to work at but it may take practice to cultivate it in your everyday life. It’s always within you just waiting to be accessed.
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Spiritual transition and awakening can bring up all sorts of nuances in one’s life. Friendships are bound to change. Some friendships will grow and others will fade away. In the meantime, there may be ill feelings that creep in as we’re both standing in the same place but perceiving it very differently. No one’s at fault here. Take a look and decide how you can still be you and be in this friendship. If not, it’s a practice in letting go and that might be the kindest thing to do.
Continue readingMore TagThe Power of Coaxing Joy Along
Joy is the key that unlocks the power of my creativity. When I’m joyful, I feel creative, new ideas are born and I feel empowered to step up to act on them, however much I’m stretched. Though joy can be elusive. It takes a bit of focus to coax joy along. One way I coax […]
Continue readingMore TagAllowing the Petty Moments to Fade
Learning how to let go of insignificant moments that irk us is worth the practice. Who wants to be annoyed when a second ago they felt good? If you’re human you’re served plenty of practice at this.
Continue readingMore TagThat Tingly Shiver Feeling
There are many ways to feel my connection with higher energy. At the time of writing this blog post, my strongest sense is clairsentience. That means that I feel my connection through my feelings. It’s these feelings that provide confirmation, serve to bring my awareness to what’s present, teach me what’s working and not working. There are numerous benefits. What is it? My connection is to my intuitive guidance, source energy, higher self, and so forth. I don’t get too bogged down to exactly what it is every time I feel it. I’m just aware and that offers me information and connection from within myself for my benefit.
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I love being organized and having a plan. To-do lists were my comfort zone. Efficiency my middle name. These days I’m allowing for what’s best rather than forcing things into place. The result is I am enjoying my life more because I’m allowing for what’s truly best for me to show up. Much better than what I think I want. Instead, I’m receiving what I most need.
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Connection touches my life in so many ways. We’re all in this together meaning what any one of us is feeling is felt by all. What any one of our actions are is felt by all. Truly it’s a network of energy and that energy is the collective consciousness.
Continue readingMore TagMy Sanctuary Is Wherever I Am
My sanctuary is wherever I am in nature or at home. We don’t have to manufacture our most supportive space. You’ll know it by how you feel. Do you feel relaxed, joyful, peaceful, supported? Is this a place where ideas and dreams bubble up easily for you? Go to this place when you most need it or just as a practice every day. It will serve you well. Here are some of my most special places.
Continue readingMore TagLuck Has Nothing To Do With It
Who knew that I could learn gratefulness from a landscaping experience? I also learned what positive thought does. It brings more gifts and what’s best for us. Practicing higher thoughts and gratefulness is us in our natural place of being. If we desire a lovely life it means cultivating lovely thoughts and gratefulness.
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If you want to move your personal and spiritual growth forward in a faster and more direct way, observe. Observe your relationships because they are the teaching ground for growth. Every single relationship in our life matters. It’s an exercise in exploring what’s showing up. Sometimes there’s pain, other times joy. But it’s always an opportunity for learning from your own experiences. The most direct and best kind of learning there is.
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First I want to say that I sometimes gossip. If someone hurts my feelings my go-to is complaining about that person to another friend. What I’m learning is that I feel awful when I do that. That constriction are my intuitive feelings coaching me to do something more supportive for myself.
If I want to create my higher vision and ideas then I will need all the assistance I can get. That means getting out of my own way and enabling something better.
When you feel yourself going gossipy just notice how you feel in your gut area/power center/solar plexus chakra. The more you notice how you feel the more you’re training yourself how not to go there the next time. It takes self-awareness to make positive habits stick. The more you take on lighter thoughts and words the more you’ll be creating lighter life experiences. It all comes down to the energy system that we are. Our natural space is to stand in our power as in light and love. When you’re in that space you should feel expansive, confident, lighthearted, and able to let things slide off of you more. When you speak up to another you’ll do so with confidence, kindness, and still be able to get your point across to state your feelings and opinions. This is you taking care of your needs from a position of true strength and power.
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Discovering one’s purposeful work can take a minute. You may have come here with a plan but you will have shortly forgotten it. If we think of it as a fun game to uncover what we’re truly passionate about, it will show itself to us. Step by step we can discover what we’re meant to do. And we’ll know it by how we feel. Just as we’ll know what doesn’t feel good to us. It’s a process. We can’t mess it up. All roads lead there.
Continue readingMore TagLiving Intuitively Is Easy
Living intuitively sounds all woo-woo but it’s as simple as living with more self-awareness and from ourselves. The more we do this the more aware we become. We have our very own internal guidance system if we just listen to it. It will never steer us wrong. It doesn’t mean we won’t decide to take a different tact and wish we hadn’t. But we can get back on track faster by paying attention to what we’re being shown.
There’s a desperate desire for more love and peace in our world. But all it takes is deciding to be the vibe you wish to experience. Desire more love in the world? Be loving.
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Meditation without expectations allows for a better experience. Just being at anchor on our sailboat is meditative. Walking in the woods or looking out the window at a beautiful nature view. This is yet another example of how we each experience something differently. Not better or worse, just different. The more I let go of expectations the more enjoyable it is.
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Music is one of our most powerful and beautiful tools we can use for connection and healing. Our intuitive guidance can use it to connect with us and bring us supportive messages. Music offers us healing by transforming our mood just by listening to songs we positively resonate with. Our musical preferences are as unique and individual as we are. It can transport us to a daydreamy state and lift us to new heights. We lose track of time and go within to access its gifts.
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Soon I’d be leaving my area and moving away. Before leaving, I wanted to visit all the places that mean so much to me. There’s a park that is quiet and offers both woodlands and water. The day my husband and I visited it we saw a beautiful fox that spent a little time with us. He was just as curious about us as we were about him.
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Our walk around my neighborhood lakes led me to feeling both misty and feeling a little vulnerable to what’s next. I know that change is good and it’s time for me to leave this home I’ve lived in for approximately 20 years. It’s time for my husband and me to look for a home we can both love. While I’m looking forward to this, we’re taking a walk in the natural areas near my current home to say goodbye to the benches I’ve sat on, the wildlife I’ve enjoyed, and my sparkly lake view.
Continue readingMore TagDoing Exactly What I Want
The definition of being is pure joy. Whatever that looks like in any one moment. You don’t have to try to be or feel joy.
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A wedding like no other. With a view of our sailboat in the background because that’s how we met. Sailing. We found the most perfect officiant and we wrote vows that came from our hearts. It was the perfect day.
Continue readingMore TagDistancing Myself From Negative Nellies
There’s no law that says I have to figure out how to feel awesome while in the presence of negative people. What if I don’t have to expend any energy and effort on how to work at it. I can choose to remove myself from their presence and go on my merry way. There’s nothing wrong with me if I’m not able to enjoy someone’s company, particularly mean people. If it looks like an unpleasant situation then I can take myself out of it. And it takes little to no effort to do so. Done. Problem solved.
Continue readingMore TagWhat It Took For Me
I had to look within myself at the crummy experiences I had in order to learn why I felt the way I did. On my goodness was that a great idea! That work was priceless and I’m happier in my life, have a larger perspective, and realize my value. I stretched myself by taking whatever necessary steps are in my best interest.
As I learned by considering my experiences I noticed patterns in how I thought about myself, others, and even how I perceived humanity.
Museum of Inspiration and Humanity
For a while now I’ve been wanting to offer people a positive way of honoring humanity and inspiring. I thought about creating a Museum, perhaps an online version. A museum unlike any other that I’ve been to. It won’t tell the stories of the world’s greatest atrocities but instead exhibit stories of love, generosity, and […]
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Human beings like things to be easy but expect big beneficial change to be difficult. That’s we get stuck in the same old paradigm of looking to political leaders to fix things. But how’s that working out for humanity? The news aggravates and accentuates humanity’s supposed divisiveness. It isn’t helping to be that kind of informed.
For most, it’s easier to watch the news and feel disgruntled rather than creating beneficial experiences. But sitting, watching, discussing, and bitching does nothing beneficial. It just contributes more doom and gloom. And, doom and gloom isn’t a great recipe to inspire positive action. It’s a motivator for more doom and gloom.
A better motivator is realizing one’s own unique and individual personal power. It may not come with a political institution attached to it but it’s powerful nevertheless. True beneficial change happens when each of us steps us to act in peace, practice compassion, tolerance, and patience to collaborate and cooperate.
Continue readingMore TagIt Can Be A Real Drag But People Are Great Teachers
My serving on my homeowners board is a microcosm of the larger political institution in our country. There’s politics, misinformation, anger, hate, frustration, distrust, paranoia. Did I mention misinformation?! I had to learn that I always have a choice. There’s no rule or law that says I have to stay in a horribly negative environment. I had the opportunity to walk and return to peace, joy, calm, cooperation, collaboration, trust, compassion, and patience. But unfortunately, I wanted to control the situation thinking that would make everything better. It didn’t. This was a lesson for me in letting go and allowing others to be who they are. At any point in time, I could have resigned and returned to where I’m experiencing something so much kinder and lovelier.
Continue readingMore TagAnd It’s Only Tuesday
This particular Tuesday was full of experiences. From an appointment with my GP, to my Toastmasters talk, to forgetting my volunteer work which led to me hitchhiking. It was a first all around.
Continue readingMore TagThoughts, Words and Choices Matter
Some of my greatest life lessons are around learning to speak up for myself. To speak my opinions and not make myself small. However, there’s also the lesson in learning when to let go and choose peace just by walking away. For now, I’m choosing to try to fix things. A good or less than good choice?
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When I first began considering spirituality I wanted to “do it right”. That very desire actually slowed down my growth. I had to learn that lightening up is how I can access more of me and uncover purpose. Lightening up allows me to let the darker moments pass by without taking me down. There’s no downside to embodying a lighter being.
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