How do start your day? Do you get up and start of running or do you have some kind of daily ritual to ease yourself into waking reality? A little of both? Yes, I can relate to that! Even though I do have a morning ritual, at times I allow myself to get sucked into the doing, forgetting to feed my soul just as I feed my body breakfast. Lately however, I have had the delicious pleasure of starting my day beneath my favourite Oak tree friend which I have written about before. In all of my readings about grounding […]
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I really did! I forgot to tell you about a great book that was launched on October 22nd. It actually slipped through the cracks and I didn’t get to tell you about it. I am talking about Paul Hoyt’s book, The Practice of Awakening II: The First Light of Joy http://www.thefirstlightofjoy.com/ I strongly encourage you to check it out. It could be your gateway to deep joy and a new connection with yourself and the world. And speaking of connection to self, what is you take on the concept of “Self”? Is it your body, your mind, your emotions, your […]
Do you sometimes feel that you are walking around with this subtle river of anxiety flowing just beneath the perceptible surface? Do you have extreme reactions to certain aspects of changed plans? Do you have trouble simply going with the flow and enjoying the ups and downs of life? Hey, you are truly not alone. Many of us have felt like this for varying periods of time, while some periods of anxiety are more intense and long lasting than others. None of us lives in the world alone; completely isolated from events outside of ourselves that tend to affect us. […]
Do you take the time and space to check into yourself on a regular basis? Do you have a practice or ritual that helps you to connect with yourself? Have you ever asked yourself what it is that you may be in need of right at this moment? If you have answered “yes” to any of these questions, then congratulations, you practice Self Care on a regular basis! Many of us, however, fail to check in with ourselves and at times find ourselves in a whirlwind of constantly providing for others, without taking the opportunity to receive the care or […]
Do you let yourself feel the full force of your passion and creativity or do you tend to slightly douse the fires of excitement welling up from within? Funny question, huh? Well yeah, many of us tend to suppress the real depth of what we are feeling because it may mean that we may actually have to go all the way with them. Like to fulfill a long felt dream, desire, vision etc. It would mean actually having to go for it; to take steps, possibly really really scary ones, to make things happen. We have all felt this fear […]
Are you completely honest with yourself? Do you make excuses for yours’ or others’ behaviour? Do you override the deep down truths that you carry? Hey, I think we all do at times, for any number of reasons, like not wanting to rock the boat, being afraid to upset someone, being too afraid to really go for our dreams, not feeling really worthy to go for the whole dream, so we do just a little and the list goes on. Even the most talented and capable of us have our moments of doubt and as a result create sometimes unconscious […]
How do you cope with the unexpected? Do you resist it, kicking and screaming all the way? Do you move into action? Do you freeze? Perhaps you try to negotiate with it or go into denial? Most of us do a little of each at different times. My pattern is usually to go into action, leaving my emotions to be dealt with later on. At other times, I tend to try to negotiate with it, not wanting to feel the loss of control or the unknown looming right in front of me. Nowadays when something unexpected and usually unplanned knocks […]
Do you long to express yourself in a way you have never dared to? Are you afraid of being judged by people not getting what you have to say? Do you have trouble finding ways to say what you mean? How about being able to do just that, only in a way that circumvents your and others’ judgment? How about expressing something powerful that doesn’t require words and finds its way directly into people’s hearts? This is what can happen when you Sing Your Own Song, your own in- the- moment melody, straight from your heart and your cells. This […]
Do you find yourself rushing incessantly? Do you live by the correct internal pace for you or do you exceed your own inner rhythm? Do you take the time to attune to your inner flow? Whoa, so take a minute to just breathe and listen in. You may be creating discord mentally, emotionally and physically, including knocking your hormones way off balance. Our hormones govern so many processes in the body, including protecting us from overextending ourselves, cancer, heart disease and so much more. We often fail to notice how off balance we are, ignoring the subtle aches and pains […]
Are you afraid of change? What happens when the unexpected once again creeps into your life? Do you get frustrated or do you embrace it as an adventure? Maybe a little of both? What helps you get back into the flow and the stream of life? Let’s face it, as much as some of us love the sense of flow that change brings with it, most of us are more than a little afraid when it comes to major change, like changing jobs or moving our homes and such. This kind of process often comes with a good measure of […]