"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...]
Listening to Your Heart
Most of us have been raised in cultures that value the head over the heart, logic over intuition and thought over inner knowing. As a result, we have lost touch with the inner voice that lets us know us who we are. We often listen to our mental dictates and beliefs instead of tuning in to the whisper of spirit through our heart. This physical habit can feel as ingrained as the way we breathe or walk. However, with effort and conscious awareness, we can shift our energy to our hearts, listening and responding from this much deeper, more resonant place.Our analytical brain gives us a limited perspective-from the past. Like a computer, it can … [Read more...]
Disengaging From Negative People
Many people who we come into contact with everyday have difficulty being accountable for own lives. Rather than taking responsibility for their choices, they often become defensive, blame others, and/or play mind games trying to protect their own ego. People stuck in these toxic patterns can be depleting to our energies and highly destructive. When we interact or are in relationship with them, we think we have to play the same games to defend ourselves, but this only leads to deeper confusion, more conflict, and erodes our true sense of ourselves.The best way to detach from people who engage in such negative patterns is to disengage from the … [Read more...]
Opening Our Heart Links Us to Our Being
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched. They must be felt with the heart." - Hellen KellerOpening our heart links us to our true being. When we open our hearts, light flows through us as pure love, allowing us to receive and transmit energy that is divinely sourced. With an open heart, we can channel spiritual information, bypassing the incessant chatter of the brain and experience new possibilities. We can tap into this energy to create inspired choices in our lives.In this state of open-heartedness, we feel relaxed and compassionate toward everyone and everything around us and experience a state of … [Read more...]
Becoming Our Own Loving Coach
By becoming our own loving coach, we can respond to life circumstances proactively rather than reactively. Through opening our heart and projecting the beauty of our inner being, we begin to see ourselves in a positive light and that we are doing the best we can. This allows us to release anything that keeps us stuck in a holding pattern with life. We can forgive ourselves for our past choices and then visualize ourselves moving forward and making more impeccable choices in the future. This takes trusting the voice of spirit through our hearts and eliminating self-abusive thoughts, beliefs, and words and replacing them with positive … [Read more...]
Moving Beyond Negativity
"I thank you God for this most amazing day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky: and for everything which is natural which is infinite which is yes." - E.E. CummingsWe are bombarded with negativity everyday and it is up to us to move beyond its incessant presence in our lives. As human beings, we may find ourselves addicted to the daily drama of the world, the people around us, or our own negative process. We are even conditioned to reinforce the negative when we co-miserate with our family, friends, or colleagues. When we take responsibility for another person's process, we actually imprison their capability … [Read more...]
Divine Synchronicity
The sequence of choices that lead to making dreams a reality may often appear random, but we have to trust the voice of spirit speaking through our heart that there is a spiritual purpose to the chain of selections, which reflects divine synchronicity. Divine synchronicity occurs when we empower ourselves to move beyond fear and self-doubt, declare intentions, and use positive energy to manifest them. During such experiences, we are a conduit for the spiritual information moving us toward manifesting our intentions. As such, we will know what our next choice is and when to implement it.Like combing the beach for special shells, we have to … [Read more...]
Letting Go: Saying Goodbye and Hello
The empty robin's nest nestled in the crook of the Japanese maple tree right outside my door reminds me everyday of letting go. For weeks, I have watched the baby robins release their shells, open their mouths, and develop just as I did my own children, delighting in each new milestone. As this nest is now vacant, so is the space of my life awaiting new opportunities. For I'm not only completing my life cycle as a parent, but opening to the future which signals a beginning more than an end.Letting go is the greatest guide to our spiritual existence. When we release anyone or anything, we give way to the flow of our being. Releasing a job, a … [Read more...]
Humor, Spontaneity, and Play: Keys to Sustaining Light Energy
"One should dance because the soul dances." - Holbrook JacksonBeing silly, spontaneous, and playful are keys to sustaining a flow of light energy in our lives. Because society often frowns upon adults being spontaneous and playful, we can sometimes feel inhibited about expressing ourselves freely. If we follow the advice to take life more seriously, grow up and act like adults, we lose our sense of life as a passionate adventure to be enjoyed and shared.Children are our best teachers of playfulness because they endlessly infuse light-force energy into their daily interactions with life. Observe a child in imaginative play and you will see … [Read more...]
