Forgiveness renews connection, enhances our compassion, and allows us to create a clean slate so we can begin anew. For instance, it allows us to remain engaged in positive interactions with others despite emotional injury. This sustains unconditional love and connectedness with others which engenders positive health benefits. Such positive interactions require forgiveness if we wish to sustain loving connected relationships or at least avoid desolation or loneliness. Forgiveness also promotes well-being because it is associated with the ability to regulate and release our negative emotions. Through forgiveness, we can clear any negative … [Read more...]
The Power of Practicing Compassionate Detachment in Negative Situations
Practicing compassionate detachment increases our ability to infuse difficult situations with positive energy―and ultimately, to transform them. In choosing to respond rather than react, we can diffuse a negative situation and create a neutral space in which the other person doesn’t have anything to come up against. Without something to react to, they are more likely to calm down and even become aware of their own reaction. Providing them with a mirror of love in which to see themselves helps them gain awareness of their behaviors. Thus, holding them accountable for their actions actually opens the possibility for unconditionally loving … [Read more...]
How to Make Enlightened Choices That Align with Your Heart
Break free of your fear by making enlightened choices that align with your heart and not your head. Such enlightened choices, however challenging, will get you moving toward creating your dreams. Several months ago when I was visiting a friend in NC, I took a stroll on the beach with the intent of beachcombing. My friend desired a sand dollar to place in a healing fishing net she was creating. I, on the other hand, wanted a sand dollar to support my intention of abundance. While beachcombing with these requests to the universe, I sorted through a myriad of shells. Each time, I picked up a shell, I examined it, and decided if it resonated … [Read more...]
Autumn: A Time of Transformation
“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 we find the inner reserves of strength to change as well. To do this, we have to take the time to go within. Once we realize what’s up for change, we can move through this regenerative clearing process as a part of our spiritual development. Autumn is my favorite time of the year. And as much as I love the cooler weather, the changing colors of the trees, and harvesting apples and pumpkins, it’s the transformational part I love the most. As I looked out my front window this week, I was … [Read more...]
7 Ways to Take Precious Care of Yourself
Precious self-care requires us to nurture ourselves with all the kindness and love we would shower on someone we cherish. Too often, we set aside our own needs while caring for others, or put off self-care in favor of the endless to-do lists, career obligations, and other distractions in our lives. However, disregarding our needs to focus on activities we consider more important takes a toll on us physically, emotionally, and spiritually. It triggers such mind-sets as “I should be doing things for others right now, not wasting time on myself.” Putting off self-care may seem noble and selfless—until we become stressed, exhausted, or ill, and … [Read more...]
Releasing Old Patterns and Creating a New Legacy of Love
There it was again, the lump in my throat. I felt it every time I called or texted my son. And here it was showing up on the day when Tom’s baby, my first grandchild was being born. How long had I had this sign that there was an energy block? How long had I been carrying this weight on my heart? How long had I been unforgiving of myself? Sixteen years almost to the day…the day when I told my son that I was leaving his stepfather and the second time I was putting him through a divorce. Tom was two years old when his father and I divorced. So he didn’t grow up experiencing his parents being together. But at sixteen, he would remember all of … [Read more...]
10 Affirmations to Shift Your Vibration
Affirmations can help you elevate your vibration to a higher level especially when you feel lower vibrational emotions such as fear, despair, doubt, or powerlessness. These 10 affirmations will help elevate your vibrational frequency to that of the energy of love, where well-being is sustained. As you move through your day, notice any negative, self-deprecating, or limiting thoughts, and replace them with the following affirmations to open your heart and shift your vibration. I trust that I am the co-creator of my life. I embody all that is kind, compassionate, and loving. I am whole and complete love and channel this energy on … [Read more...]
10 Questions to Ask Your Heart
“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry By listening to the guidance of our hearts, we discover that we are love. When we open our hearts, we become conduits for transmitting and receiving divinely inspired information which directs us to use this love for the benefit of ourselves and others. Thus opening the heart not only helps awaken us to our authentic selves, but also leads to self-healing. Although each person tunes in to this energy and information differently, we all tap into the same divine source. It is not our “ability” or “talent” which … [Read more...]
6 Heart-Opening Quotes on Love, Fear & Authenticity
Tap into the wisdom of your heart and the whispers of your soul. Six heart-opening quotes that will remind you of the truth of who you are... LOVE! _________________________________________________________________ “To trust ourselves is to love ourselves even when we feel unlovable, to make loving choices for ourselves even when we feel unworthy, and to open ourselves to love even when we are afraid of being hurt.” “The fear that we are unworthy of love prevents us from experiencing love and connection with ourselves and others.” “Acknowledging our need for love and connection is the first step in embracing our vulnerabilities and … [Read more...]
7 Steps to Bless and Release a Relationship with Love
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 and … [Read more...]
