"Oh God, make me an autumn tree if I must die.” – Esther Popel Autumn is a time of personal transformation. It is a season of permanence and change where you find the inner reserves of strength to change as well. To do this, you have to take the time to go within. Once you realize what’s up for change, you can use this regenerative clearing process as a part of your spiritual development. Autumn is my favorite time of the year. I love the cooler weather, the changing leaves of the trees, and harvesting apples and pumpkins; but, it’s the regenerative clearing process that I love the most. As I looked out my front window this week, I was … [Read more...]
The Power of Love and the Wisdom of Albert Einstein
“Each individual carries within them, a small but powerful generator of love whose energy is waiting to be released.” ~ Albert Einstein I came across this letter from Albert Einstein to his daughter, Lieserl a few years ago when I began writing my international bestseller, Being Love, and today’s post is dedicated to sharing it with you. It inspired me then and still inspires me today especially in a world that desperately needs love. I wrote my book on love because of everything that Einstein state’s in his letter. It’s his testimony to the power of love and its ability to heal ourselves, each other, and our world. Here are just a few … [Read more...]
11 Affirmations to Tap into Courage and Enhance Confidence
Positive affirmations can help you tap into courage and enhance your confidence. They also help relieve anxiety, calm your overactive nervous system, and elevate your vibration to a higher level when you feel lower vibrational emotions such emotions as fear, doubt, or powerlessness. When life comes at you and you feel hesitant, anxious or afraid, you need powerful “encouragers” to tap into your courageous heart. When you shift your negative thoughts to positive ones, you shift the vibrational frequency of your energy field from fear to courage. Whenever you react in fear, it’s your cue to pause, check in with yourself, and observe the … [Read more...]
Feeling Sensitive to the Energy of Others? Zip Up Your Energetic Suit!
Differentiating between your sensitivity and vulnerability can be a challenge. Just being highly sensitive alone can make you “vulnerable” to the energies of others. Yet, vulnerability isn’t a weakness, it’s a strength. It lets you know that it’s time to shore up your energetic boundaries. I believe that vulnerability makes being highly sensitive your superpower. When you feel overwhelmed by the energies of others, you may be leaking your own energies. It’s time to zip up your energetic suit before you go into a challenging situation. You are prone to absorb the energies of others by not putting on your protective suit and zipping up your … [Read more...]
How to Tap into Your Courage Using the Leaps of Trust Process
"A warrior is not about perfection or victory or invulnerability. (She's) about absolute vulnerability. That's the only true courage." ~ Peaceful Warrior Trust is a real and powerful energy that lives in your present awareness. It helps you move beyond fear and anxiety especially in these uncertain times. Trust is activated in moments when you experience fear, anxiety, or doubt, move toward what you fear, and make a choice anyway. When you tap into this heart-centered energy and make courageous choices, you build trust moments. These moments of courage when you shift from fear to faith are “Leaps of Trust.” Trust isn’t developed in one … [Read more...]
4 Ways to Transcend Fear and Negativity
To facilitate a shift in our current consciousness, we must transcend fear and negativity, and ascend to the soul of love. We can do this by learning how to connect to a higher power or divine source (whatever that means to us) through our hearts. Most of us feel adrift and detached, having lost our spiritual compass and any kind of higher guidance. We tend to wander aimlessly through life, waiting for someone to define our purpose or something to fill the spiritual void we experience. Thus, we try to shift the burden of responsibility for our spiritual awakening onto others and do not acknowledge the innate power we have to create it for … [Read more...]
7 Ways to Bless & Release an Unhealthy Relationship
Maintaining unhealthy relationships drains our life force, while letting go of them empowers us to create space for new relationships that enhance our spiritual growth. Blessing and releasing unhealthy relationships with unconditional love and integrity can teach us how to forgive our past, heal ourselves, and generate positive energy to progress on our spiritual path. It’s important to break clean from an unhealthy relationship and stop investing energy in it. If we don’t, we often continue to desperately keep it alive while knowing in our hearts that our spirit has already left it, causing us to feel dead inside. In preparing to bless … [Read more...]
Flexibility: The Key to Living a Soul-Hearted Life
“Always fall in with what you’re asked to accept. Fall in with it and turn it your way.” ~ Robert Frost Living a soul-hearted life requires flexibility. It takes letting go of our ego, expectations, or reservations, and embracing whatever comes our way. It inspires a sense that nothing is more important than the present moment. It encourages responding rather than reacting and spurs an instantaneous recognition of the lack of control we have in many situations. Most importantly, it involves radical acceptance: acceptance of ourselves, others, and our current circumstances. Every day you are presented with the opportunity to flow … [Read more...]
Understanding the 3 Relationship Life Cycles from a Spiritual Perspective
Like the life cycles we move through as the years unfold, relationships also have life cycles too. Some last for only a brief period and others a season or a lifetime. In fact, there are relationships that show up for just particular periods in our lives. That’s why it’s helpful to look at three major types of relationships that, together, can satisfy everything from need fulfillment to spiritual growth. The Transitional Relationship First, there is transitional relationship, based on momentary needs. This type of relationship includes casual encounters for the purpose of sex, friendship, healing, ego validation, overcoming loneliness, or … [Read more...]
3 Sacred Keys for Lightworkers to Heal Their Wounded Inner Child
“We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.” ~ T.S. Elliot Although each person’s soul journey is unique, the developmental process we experience is the same. Such transformation involves spiritual growth in one way or another. And this growth requires healing our psychic pain, “our wounded child.” Most people choose to remain developmentally stuck rather than face their wounded child. Their emotional paralysis stems from their fear of experiencing their emotional pain. When we avoid working through such loss, trauma, and emotional … [Read more...]
