“To live is to be willing to die over and over again. From the awakened point of view, that’s life.” ~ Pema Chödrön Sometimes a crisis such as a serious illness, trauma, or loss gives us the opportunity for soul level 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 soul level transformation. Instead, we allow the emotional pain to build for years, even decades, because it’s easier to ignore it than to lean in and let go. Without full release, however, these old traumas can create chronic distress … [Read more...]
The Power of Making Enlightened Choices
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...]
3 Ways to Remain Positive and Centered While Moving through Intense Transitions
“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...]
Become ‘Unmessable With’ By Setting Energetic Boundaries
“Compassionate people are boundaried people.” ~ Brene Brown Become “unmessable with” by setting healthy energetic boundaries. With energetic boundaries in place, we can create healthy relationships that support our soul’s evolution as well as enhance our lives. On the other hand, with loose boundaries or none at all, we can easily exhaust ourselves of energy or inadvertently take on the toxic energies of others. This can impede your spiritual growth, undermine your health, and damage your relationships. By setting energetic boundaries, you become a more loving, compassionate person. Such “love fences” allow you to compassionately engage … [Read more...]
Shedding and Shredding Your Patterns
“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 Living a soul-hearted life requires that you continuously shed and shred the layers of your patterns. Like the Turkish pastry baklava, with its fragile phyllo layers, the subtle layers of your patterns must be released on an on-going basis. In fact, you actually create the life experiences that reveal the next layer of a pattern to shed and shred, a process that occurs throughout your life. This regenerative process initiates a new cycle of transformation and is essential to your … [Read more...]
A 3-Step Spiritual Process for Recognizing and Releasing Energy Blocks
Releasing energy blocks opens you to healing energy. Like removing the kinks from a garden hose to open the flow of water, releasing energy blocks opens you to the flow of love, connected to your divine source. First, you have to learn to recognize the reactions that create energy blocks in your body. Any physical, emotional, or spiritual reaction you have is a trigger that you need to lean in and let go. This is your spiritual guidance system (SGS) and it assists you in recognizing when you need to release negative energy. What is an energy block? Where do they come from? How does it affect your mind, body, and spirit? When you … [Read more...]
Forgiveness: A Daily Practice for the Ultimate Release of Energy
Forgiveness is the ultimate release; the greatest gift you can give yourself and others. By forgiving and releasing any negative energy, you transform judgment into acceptance and make the past powerless over your life. It brings you fully into the present moment, free of anything that holds you back from living a soul-hearted life. Ultimately, there is no hurt that cannot be transformed by forgiveness. Above all, the more you forgive yourself the easier it is to forgive others. To forgive takes an open heart, loving-compassion, and a healthy detachment from any outcome. The greater outcome is that forgiveness severs the flow of negative … [Read more...]
The Spiritual Path: Beyond the Proverbial Pink Bubble of Complacency
Spiritual transformation is not a goal that can be attained, but an ongoing process of evolution. We are often seduced into thinking that once we have experienced spiritual growth on some level, we have reached our pinnacle and therefore, no longer need to change or work on ourselves. We may even allow our momentary feeling of gratification to become a proverbial pink bubble enveloping us in feelings of security and triumph. Like Glenda, the good witch of the north in The Wizard of Oz, we try to remain inside this bubble of complacency, ignoring the fact that we still have a life-long yellow brick road of transformation … [Read more...]
3 Spiritual Practices to Guide Your Life in the New Year
We all have powerful intuitive moments when we channel information that comes directly from our divine source. These divine downloads are when our heart expands, time stands still, and we tap into the essence of our soul. Recently I received these divine downloads and want to share them with you to support you on your soul’s path in the new year. Trust that you receive what you want or need for your highest and best good. When you step into your spiritual power and heed the calling of your soul, you are given every opportunity to let go of anything that impedes your spiritual progression. This means every pattern, mindset, and emotional … [Read more...]
Shift Your New Year’s Resolutions to Sustainable Re”SOUL”utions with 5 Sacred Strategies
It’s only been two weeks into the new year and you may already feel like you’ve fallen off the proverbial resolution wagon. Now that the new year is well underway, you may be feeling a bit frustrated, stuck, or defeated with how to move forward with your new year’s resolutions. You are not alone with your “good” intentions, but you may need assistance in staying the course. Let’s look at your approach to making resolutions in the first place. Resolutions have a heavier, fixed and dense energy. That’s because they come from your head and are more of a dictate for what you “should” change, do, or accomplish. Resolutions come from a belief … [Read more...]
