“Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning, and under every deep a lower deep opens.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Transitions are intense periods of discovery, self-healing, and personal transformation and open space for new possibilities and spiritual growth. From a spiritual point of view, a person’s life is a constant series of transitions: changing jobs or careers, suffering from and healing an illness, beginning or ending relationships, having a baby or facing a death in the family, and initiating or completing creative … [Read more...]
4 Sacred Strategies to Become a Conscious Observer of Your Experience
Becoming conscious observers of your experience—your thoughts, feelings , patterns, and life circumstances—allows you to witness your life from a healthy detached perspective and assess any situation. This is expanded conscious awareness and it becomes activated when you trust your connection to your divine source. Like operating the zoom lens of a camera, you can pull yourself away from any experience to access it from a more spiritual point of view. Consciously observing your experience from an expanded viewpoint helps you gain perspective on and disengage from negative reactions such as blame, attacking, or resisting others when you feel … [Read more...]
Are You a Love Ambassador? Here are the Signs You Could Be.
People who live in the flow of love are love ambassadors. They aren’t saints, prophets, or gurus maintaining an austere and monastic lifestyle. Quite the opposite, they are people like us. They usually go unnoticed until you realize how happy, joyful, and peaceful they are, even in the midst of life’s messiness. When you engage in a conversation with them, you see how positive and present they are compared to most people living at lower levels of spiritual awareness. Here are eleven energetic signs you may be a love ambassador: Love ambassadors are connected to a field of divine energy that emanates from them. They consciously plug into … [Read more...]
Peeling Away the Layers of Old Patterns to Reveal Your Inner Light
Personal transformation requires that we continuously peel away our layers. Like an onion or the Turkish pastry baklava, with its fragile phyllo dough layers, the subtle layers of our patterns must be peeled away on an ongoing basis. In fact, we generate life experiences that reveal the next layer of a pattern to peel away, a process that occurs throughout our lives and is essential to our physical, emotional, and spiritual growth. Using conscious awareness to recognize the layers of our patterns gives us the power to step outside of any situation, no matter how difficult or uncomfortable, and release our destructive reactions. This healthy … [Read more...]
Spiritual Alchemy: Rising from the Ashes
Sometimes a crisis such as an illness, trauma, or loss forces us to open to intense transformation. In some ways, change—even the hard change of healing old wounds—is easier when the alternative is unthinkable. But for many of us, daily life isn’t enough to trigger that kind of radical transformation. Instead, the pain is left to build up for years, even decades, because it’s easier to ignore it than to let go and lean in. Without release, however, these old wounds create chronic distress that can manifest as depression, anxiety, or physical illness. Our vulnerabilities offer us a great gift because when we lean into them we initiate an … [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...]
