Leaning in and letting go are our greatest spiritual teachers. When we release anyone or anything, we create space for change, growth and ultimately, transformation. Whether we experience it as a tsunami or a gentle wave, each of us is up for life-altering change at these times. Leaning in and letting go creates the sacred space for self-healing and spiritual transformation. The release of emotional pain is the key to our uncovery to love. We cannot fully open to self-love when we are clutching our hurts so tightly. This week I said good-bye to my beloved piano. I felt incredibly blessed for the joy it has given me. The piano was gifted … [Read more...]
4 Simple Ways to Lean Into Life (Instead of Trying to Control It)
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.” ~ Alice Walker One of the ways you know you’re feeling out of control of your life is when you notice yourself trying to micromanage everyone and everything. When you feel yourself needing to control, it’s time to pause, lean in to these feelings, and ask yourself what’s really going on within you. The need to control stems from insecurity and you use it as a substitute for internal security. Unfortunately, this fear-based pattern only generates an illusion of stability. It displaces an absolute trust in yourself and your connection to source onto external … [Read more...]
3 Sacred Steps for Healing Your Wounded 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 … [Read more...]
The Spiritual Practice of Letting It Be
A good way to release the need for control is by “letting it be”—a spiritual practice highlighted in Paul McCartney’s inspirational song of the same title. Simply saying to ourselves, “Let it be,” informs the brain that we have entered a no judgment zone which allows us to drop into our heart. In this heart space, we can let go of our attachment to a person, situation, or outcome and any associated negativity. The practice of “letting it be,” encourages compassion, forgiveness, and acceptance of our own and others’ soul journeys. It also allows us to trust the divine unfolding of our lives by leading with our hearts as they whisper words … [Read more...]
Practicing Compassionate Detachment in Negatively Charged Situations
“A truly compassionate attitude toward others does not change even if they behave negatively or hurt you.” ~His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama All our relationships are energetic exchanges—opportunities to become a conduit for loving-compassion. In such turbulent times, however, it’s important that we practice compassionate detachment more than ever. For many of us who are highly sensitive, it’s not easy being so open to the multitude of needs and energies of others. Like sponges, our energy fields are porous and prone to soak up these energies. Because we take in the build-up of energies from others and the world, we often feel … [Read more...]
Blessing and Releasing as a Spiritual Practice for Life
The spiritual practice of blessing and releasing helps you constantly clear your energy field and sustain a high vibration of energy. It has considerable physical and mental health benefits and promotes well-being because it encourages the consistent release of negative thoughts, limiting beliefs, and toxic energy. The act of blessing and releasing any person or situation also helps you let go of the past, appreciate the present, and create the future you truly want. When you learn to bless and release any negative thoughts, reactions, or energies it clears potential energy blocks and frees up new energy for manifesting what you want. When … [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...]
The Healing Power of Forgiveness
“If you are really paying attending and really ready to heal, the day will come when you recognize that forgiveness is the only way back to the center of your innocence.“ ~ Iyanla Vanzant Generating a mutual flow of forgiveness renews connection, enhances the sharing of vulnerabilities, and heightens intimacy in our relationships. It is at the core of every soul-hearted relationship, and is an essential dimension of being love. Forgiveness is the willingness to let go of any resentment, judgment, or grievance toward someone who has injured us. It has two essential parts: a release of negative feelings previously held toward the person who … [Read more...]
Let Go of Fear and Just Trust
Letting 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 conscious practice to move through fear. It also requires surrounding ourselves with loving people and environments that support us releasing what is necessary in a healthy and … [Read more...]
The Spiritual Practice of Letting Go
“When letting go is called for, if we have not learned to do so, we suffer greatly, and when we get to the end of our lives, we may have a crash course.” ~ Jack Kornfield Last week with a heavy heart, I said goodbye to my next door neighbors, dear friends, and soul family, Dan, Ada, and my surrogate dogs, Stormy and Misty. For six years, we shared yards, puppies, meals, and lives together always being there for each other. Through the gate we made in the fence to connect our yards, we connected our hearts and families. Instead of creating division between our properties, we created cohesion. We created sacred community! Too often we brace … [Read more...]
