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From Auto-Pilot and Non-Awareness to Creating Inner Peace

This is the first in a series of posts to discuss the benefits of a morning awakening practice. In this blog post, Sara speaks about the challenges of contrast in our very human lives. She speaks about how allowing ourselves and others to be who and how they are is a practice of self-awareness and ultimately self-care and self-love. It’s in the most challenging moments that afford us the opportunity to love ourselves in all moments rather than “try to be better”. Inner peace might be a result of perhaps allowing ourselves and others to be.

Help Yourself and the World During Chaotic Moments

Assist Yourself and Humanity During Chaotic Moments

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.

5 Simple Lessons To Benefit Humanity Now

Benefit Humanity Now Through 5 Simple Lessons

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?

Marrying Your Spirituality with Action

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.

Being 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.

Do You Follow Blindly?

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.

5 Things I Learned On My Last Vacation

How I realized how good present moment living feels. We don’t need to go on a travel adventure to live more fully in the present moment. Our life is an adventure and offers us the gift of a present moment.

What 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.

8 Things You May Not Know About Intuition

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.

What Fear and Balance is Teaching Me

Balance isn’t a perfect mix of work, play, health, and well-being. Balance and even success to me mean joy. Joy can show up as working or playing a lot or anything in between. There’s no right way or wrong way to go about it. There’s just whatever feels best.

When are We Being Spiritual?

How do you know, exactly, when you are being spiritual and when you are not? What makes for a spiritual moment?

How I Learned to Look to Myself for True Growth

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.

Trusting And Learning What Our Feelings Are Showing Us

Feelings are awesome! Our feelings are our barometer of what’s working and not working for us. When we listen to our feelings we’re tapping into our intuition. Our feelings speak to us. They’re teaching what’s working and not working so well for us. We can take appropriate action based on how we feel. What a great system.

I Recently Met Joy

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.

When It’s Time To Stop Trying So Hard

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.

How a Horoscope Cheered Me Up

An example of when the universe knows you need support and encouragement.

When I Cringe I Pay Attention

Do you ever shrink from speaking up for your opinions? It’s almost comical how I hold back from being myself for fear of offending someone. Even in a business relationship where two people benefit from an honest dialog I find myself holding back. Here’s how listening to myself on a conference call illustrated just how much I put up a phony facade. Yuck! No more! It’s much healthier and more respectful to the other person to be our honest selves. Like me. Don’t like me. At least I’ll be genuine and you’ll like or dislike the real me.

I Know More Now About Energy

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.

Trying 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.

Gracefulness of Air and Water

How air and water demonstrate beauty through gracefulness. It’s easy to be grateful for the small things that point out the simplicity of the beauty and gracefulness of air and water.

My window to feelings

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.

Receiving 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.

We’re the Big Picture

Watching and hearing negativity for long periods of time does not allow for solutions to problems. It’s better to practice self-care and stay in a lighter headspace so that we can become more inspired. From inspiration, we have more of a chance to come up with ideas and solutions.

The 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 […]

Authenticity Challenges and Heals Us

If I’m to feel delighted in my life then it’s time to be myself. Learning to step up to do my inner work stretches me in exciting ways. It’s also exciting and new. I choose to stand in my power, be myself unapologetically. Yes, to work on myself but also to love myself and to grow.

Allowing 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.

That 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.

My 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.

Luck 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.

What Spirituality Means To Me

Our spirituality is not about fitting into other’s beliefs. We are here to discover and honor what is appearing for our greatest good. I’ve discovered that my ideas, opinions, and beliefs are as unique and individual as I am. I’m not interested in looking anywhere but what is within myself.

What Relationships Can Do For Us

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.

Maintain Joy And Higher Vibration

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.

Roadmap to Purposeful Work?

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.

Living 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.

Being a Good Person

The word spirituality is such a loaded word. When I use the word I feel other people’s assumptions. It can even grate on someone’s nerves. To some, it equates to their religion. To others it’s more about how one is consciously choosing to be aware of themselves. Why does the word spirituality take on such significance and feel so loaded?

Whatever it means to you is fine with me. I like to say that we’re each unique individuals and so shouldn’t our spirituality and spiritual journey be as unique and individual as we are? It is what it is. And all too often it gets lumped in with being a “good” person. I don’t feel it has anything to do with how nice someone is.

To me, it’s simply about how I feel, at every moment. And the choices that I’m creating in each of those moments and how I experience those choices. Ok, there’s more but it has nothing to do with what exists outside of me. My experience doesn’t have to fit in with anyone else’s.

Expectations around Meditation

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.

How Music Positively Transforms Us

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.

Little Fox

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.

Sparkles on My Lake

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.

Why I Love Painting and Writing

The point of life is to enjoy it. Yes, we’re evolving and learning and understanding with more clarity. However, none of that is worth it if we don’t enjoy and feel grateful.

Failure?

It’s early afternoon and I’m still in my pajamas. I can’t stop sighing while I look out my window at the season’s last (let’s hope) snowstorm. My repeated sighs have nothing to do with the thought of shoveling and everything to do with a personal challenge…

What 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.

No News Is Good News

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.

Coming Out About My Spiritual Journey

My spiritual journey involved leaving my corporate career to enjoy where my path takes me.

Thoughts, 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?

Doing Spiritual

Workshops and classes and incense and singing bowls and gurus oh my! The amount of “spiritual” products and teachings can be very overwhelming. Let’s be real. At the end of the day it’s how we think, feel, behave, and the choices we make that matters. All the other stuff is just gilding the already beautiful and perfectly imperfect Lilly.