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...]
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...]
5 Sacred Steps to Strengthen Your Energetic Boundaries
Creating healthy energetic boundaries is key to producing a positive flow of energy in our relationships. 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 boundaries with those we love is not easy, because we are especially sensitive to the … [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...]
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...]
Be the Light and Shine, Shine, Shine!
“There’s a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.” —Leonard Cohen As a human community, we are beginning to experience light energy through our hearts as the physical expression of love. To truly know our essence, we must become aware that we are each the source of this energy that flows through us—also referred to as light, God, higher power, universal energy, or divine intelligence. The idea of God as the source of all that we are and will come to be, while often difficult to imagine, is an acknowledgment of light and love in ourselves and the world. Ultimately, light energy expressed through our hearts radiates unconditional … [Read more...]
Inviting in Love and Connection During Difficult Times
“You have to love yourself because no amount of love from others is enough to fill the yearning that your soul requires from you.” ~ Dodinsky Inviting love into our lives allows us to experience our sacred connection to others and to humanity as a whole. When we are born, we temporarily forget our divine magnificence; consequently, we spend much of our lives trying to remember who we are. Before we uncover that remembrance, we spend much of our time and energy seeking out the inner connection which we crave on a soul level without even really understanding why. In other words, even before we remember what love really is, and where it comes … [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...]
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...]
10 Questions to Ask Your Heart
“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry By listening to the guidance of our hearts, we discover that we are love. When we open our hearts, we become conduits for transmitting and receiving divinely inspired information which directs us to use this love for the benefit of ourselves and others. Thus opening the heart not only helps awaken us to our authentic selves, but also leads to self-healing. Although each person tunes in to this energy and information differently, we all tap into the same divine source. It is not our “ability” or “talent” which … [Read more...]
