"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart." - Helen KellerTuning in to our intuition or inner wisdom helps us develop a more spiritually conscious and integrated relationship with ourselves. We all have sensitivities that we can listen to guide our lives whether it is a gut feeling, an "aha" moment or an inner knowing. When we are inspired or "in-spirited," our senses tune in to this pure vibration. Opening our hearts, we can access this pure flow of information and invite spirit to guide us to make better choices in our lives.With an open heart, we can intuit … [Read more...]
Cultivating Intimacy in Our Relationships
Absolute trust is the cornerstone for cultivating intimacy in our relationships. True intimacy is based on mutual absolute trust and requires that both people are willing to be open, vulnerable and uninhibited with each other. Moreover, we find that the more we open ourselves, the more we receive, which creates a cycle of trust, love and intimacy that continually replenishes itself.Cultivating intimacy in our relationships requires eliminating "emotional baggage." Most people enter into a relationship with this baggage feeling more like a trunk than a carry-on bag, and filled with all the emotions they have accumulated and never released … [Read more...]
Releasing the Need for Control
The need for control erodes our sense of well-being and adversely affects our relationships. This fear-based pattern stems from our need for stability, security and predictability in our lives, especially when we are faced with such survival issues as earning a living, being in a relationship, or taking care of our physical needs. Unfortunately, the need for control creates an illusion of security, displacing a trust in ourselves and our connection with source onto external conditions such as who we are with, what we do, where we live, or what we own. As a result, we feel we are victims of circumstances, lacking the power to manifest the … [Read more...]
Letting Go: Living Beyond Fear
"If you can face and understand your ultimate death, perhaps you can learn to face and deal productively with each change that presents itself in your life."Elisabeth Kübler-RossLetting go is one of the most important, yet most difficult spiritual principles that we need to incorporate into our lives. Too often we brace ourselves for change instead of letting go and embracing change as an opportunity for our personal transformation. When we resist change, we actually generate more energy around our deepest insecurities, drawing toward us what we fear most.Letting go takes an open heart, expanded awareness, a grand sense of humor and a … [Read more...]
The Power of Perspective
"The best, most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart." - Helen KellerLike a spiritual GPS, conscious awareness is our ability to tune in to spiritual information that expands our understanding of ourselves and provides us with a broader perspective from which to navigate our lives. Using conscious awareness, we can access a greater wealth of information to support our spiritual growth. In doing so, we must see with the eyes of our heart. This shifts us from viewing life simply in physical terms to seeing why things happen from an expanded, more spiritual perspective.Using conscious … [Read more...]
Taking Precious Care of Ourselves
Taking precious care of ourselves supports a more conscious, loving and cherished relationship with ourselves."Precious" care is nurturing ourselves with the utmost love and attention as we would someone close to us. Having been on an airplane, we have all been reminded to put on our own oxygen mask before we help anyone else with theirs. It's often difficult to dedicate the time and energy for self-care as our lives are filled with endless to-do-lists, obligations and distractions. Putting off self-care may seem selfless, until we get sick, overwhelmed, or exhausted, and suddenly don't have the energy to care for anybody. That's when we … [Read more...]
Expressing Love Beyond Conditions
When every human being continuously expresses love beyond conditions, our world will transform itself. In the meantime, we can consciously chose to move through every moment with an open heart, with no expectations and operating as stress free as possible. It is important that we celebrate each day no matter if the shopping lines are long, the traffic congested, and/or our interactions with people more challenging. All of these conditions can be handled well by sustaining love, humor, flexibility, and a sense of adventure. Many of us who are deeply sensitive are dealing with compassion fatigue which can create feelings of spiritual … [Read more...]
Sustaining Light in Your Life
This is a time of unprecedented transformation so we must sustain lightness in life. We are all being challenged to let go of anything that doesn't serve or support the love, joy, peace and abundance we want in our lives. Transformation at this level feels turbulent, unsteady and sometimes like the ground is shifting under our feet. Like a surfer, it requires us to remain balanced, grounded, and steady as we move through these shifting waves. Sustaining lightness gives us the ability to move beyond any circumstance with complete trust in ourselves and the source of light through us. But, how do we sustain lightness without falling off our … [Read more...]
Autumn a Time of Transformation
"Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts...There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature--the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter." - Rachel CarsonAutumn 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, release energy blocks and move through this regenerative clearing process as a part of our spiritual development.As we were admiring the brilliant scarlet leaves of my Japanese … [Read more...]
Confronting Our Deepest Vulnerabilities
Facing our deepest vulnerabilities is the path to healing ourselves and expressing our fullest potential. So many of us hide behind a wall of resistance, afraid that if we let our guard down, let someone in, or let our feelings emerge, we will spiral out of control. However, when we lean into our deepest fears and insecurities, we are more open to transformation than at any other time. In these moments of spiritual crisis, we can peel away the hard shell of our humanity revealing the light of our being.We start by taking time alone to make ourselves available to our emotional pain. Confronting our vulnerabilities can make us feel anxious, … [Read more...]
