Before you can shift your anxiety to inner peace, you first have to become mindful of it. When you’re in fear or anxiety, you are in your head either worrying about the past or the future. By bringing your attention from your head to your heart, you come into the present moment where anxiety doesn’t exist. That’s why mindfulness practices work well with reducing anxiety because they create a calm and peaceful shift in your energies. Mindfulness gives you the ability to reframe your anxiety and see the sacred information that is there to guide you. Once you become aware of your anxiety and call it out into the open, you have the choice to … [Read more...]
Sacred Emerging: Navigating the New “Normal” as We Reenter the World
As you begin to emerge from your pandemic cocoon, you may feel overwhelmed, even anxious about re-entering a post-quarantine world. You may be concerned about things returning to “normal” when you’ve transformed your life into a new, more conscious and enlightened normal. Most of all, you may want to stay in your safe and secure bubble. If you’re feeling this way, you’re not alone. You’ve just come through an especially intense, challenging, and for some of you, traumatic time. Just the thought of shifting back to the way it was can be anxiety-provoking. I’ve been calling this, “Reentry Anxiety.” This time of spiritual … [Read more...]
Healing Insecurity and the Unhealthy Patterns that Stem from It
Feelings of insecurity undermine your health, career, and relationships. Such feelings create anxiety, diminish your confidence, and erode your self-esteem. You may believe if you do more, achieve more, or care more, you will finally “be enough.” Yet, when you feel insecure, you deny our power and sabotage your success. You live in a perpetual state of self-doubt, afraid to freely express your true self. As a result, you try to overcompensate for your insecurities through unhealthy patterns such as people-pleasing, approval-seeking, needing to control, and care-taking. Feelings of insecurity develop early in our lives. The relationship we … [Read more...]
3 Ways to Reduce Anxiety by Expanding Your Present Moment Awareness
Maintaining balance and inner peace is challenging for all of us right now as we navigate the rough seas of this intense shift in human consciousness. But, before we can shift our anxiety to inner peace, we have to become mindful of it. When we’re in fear or anxiety, we are in our head either worrying about the past or future. By bringing our attention from our head to our heart, we come into present awareness where anxiety doesn’t exist. Present awareness invites you to the simplicity of existence---the peaceful, unworried level of pure consciousness. It is here you are grounded in your own being. When you are consciously present, you … [Read more...]
5 Anxiety-Soothing Strategies for Highly Sensitive People in Challenging Times
There’s no way to escape that anxiety is rampant right now, but if you are a highly sensitive person (HSP) , it can be overwhelming if not managed and channeled positively. As an HSP, you have chosen an extraordinary time to be on earth to assist in the healing and elevation of human consciousness. You can sense what others and the world needs and want to provide it. You are a lightkeeper in the world and who we’ve been waiting for to elevate our world’s energy to a higher vibration. While feeling things deeply and compassionately is your superpower, it’s essential that you practice these five anxiety-soothing strategies to release energy … [Read more...]
Rescript Your Anxious Thoughts with Anxiety-Soothing Affirmations
Anxiety-soothing affirmations help release negativity, calm the nervous system, and elevate your vibration. Such empowering affirmations bring your energy down from the chatter of your brain into the inner peace of your heart. This sacred strategy builds trust in yourself and your ability to respond rather than react to any anxiety-triggering situation. It not only shifts your thoughts from positive to negative; it actually begins to change the neuropathways in your brain. This anxiety-soothing strategy takes only a few minutes and can be used anytime and anywhere. You’ve had limiting beliefs, anxious thoughts, and old stories playing … [Read more...]
A Sacred Chat with Your Anxiety Journal Practice
Anxiety is your body’s signal that there’s something that needs your attention. It can be an emotion that needs to be processed, a painful wound that needs to be healed, or as spiritual information to guide you. Looked at in this light, anxiety is there to assist you, not harm you. It doesn’t have to be debilitating. In fact, it can even be beneficial, if you embrace it as part of your spiritual guidance system. You can embrace anxiety as a spiritual guide by having a sacred chat with it and seeing what it’s trying to tell you. When you feel anxious, your energies become scattered and it’s hard to focus. So, it’s important to first notice … [Read more...]
A Sacred Exercise for Grounding in the Midst of Frenetic Energies
You may feel overwhelmed by anxiety, especially during these intense, uncertain, and turbulent times. You are not alone. You may feel on edge, more agitated than usual, and your sense of security faltering. All you have to do is turn on the news and you will notice how deeply affected you are by what’s happening in the world. Because of this energetic intensity, you may be feeling more anxious, overwhelmed, and unsettled than you normally do. Here’s the good news! This is actually an intense period of self-healing, self-discovery, personal and global transformation. Maintaining balance and inner peace is challenging for all of us right now … [Read more...]
5 Sacred Steps to Take When Feeling Energetically Overwhelmed
Creating and maintaining healthy energetic boundaries are key to producing a positive flow of energy in our own being as well as our relationships, especially for highly sensitive individuals. At heart, all our relationships are energetic exchanges—opportunities to become a conduit for life force energy. When energetic boundaries are in place, the resulting flow is growth promoting, first for ourselves and then for others. Without such boundaries, however, we can easily exhaust ourselves of energy or inadvertently take on the unwanted energies of others, outcomes that impede our growth and damage our relationships. Establishing energetic … [Read more...]
5 Anxiety-Soothing Practices I Used When a Childhood Trauma Resurfaced
Sometimes an unexpected situation can trigger a past trauma or unresolved emotional wound that hasn’t fully healed. Such an experience can activate a trauma that seems to come from out of blue; yet, has been buried in our psyche for years. Even when we think we have worked through such trauma, more subtle layers can surface for healing when we least expect it. This is what happened to me while scuba diving in Cozumel, Mexico last week. My husband, Doug and I were so excited to dive on one of the most beautiful coral reefs in the world. Yet, it had been almost four years since I had been scuba diving in Roatan, Hondurus. Knowing how … [Read more...]
