These were the words that profoundly struck me in my yoga class this past weekend. It connected things for me on so many levels. Imagine wading out into a swift river carrying a vessel to hold water. If it is already mostly full of rocks and debris you collected on the shore, you won’t have […]
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3 years ago I found myself at an event. I attended alone, and knew absolutely no one there. During the opening reception, a gorgeous and charismatic woman immediately came up to me and started asking about my life. She had such a magnetic energy about her and the magical ability to focus on you and […]
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“You have never been taught to become you. You have been taught to become “somebody.”… We have been taught wrongly for all these years. We have never been taught to be peaceful or how to achieve peace of mind when everything is upside down… The time has come. You have to be you—a beautiful, bountiful, […]
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I’ve lived with this odd mantra for much of my life where I want to prove how ‘low maintenance” i can be to other people. I never want to inconvenience others. I need to do everything on my own. All the time. Unfortunately, this line of thinking has caused my downfall over and over again—a […]
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Everything in this world is made of energy, and just as a single tuning fork that is struck will cause adjacent tuning forks to also resonate at that same frequency, the same holds true for our experience of emotions in life. How many times have I encountered a sad or angry person and felt my […]
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Isn’t it the truth? The natural tendency to anything uncomfortable is to close off in protection. Closing our hearts and our minds. But oh the irony! Closing is only a form of holding on! It is only when we open that the discomfort has the ability to pass through and move on and truly be […]
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Have you ever heard of the write and burn method? A spiritual mentor of mine introduced it to me this week. For years I have been doing Julia Cameron’s “Morning Pages” ritual, that consists of journaling stream of conscious thought for ten minutes. It’s a great way to get junk out of our subconscious so […]
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I had a great mentoring session with my spiritual mentor last night. She taught me that when I intentionally seek guidance from my intuition, that the first thought is always right. the second thought it always doubt, and the third thought it always fear. Learning to trust that first thought is so important. We can […]
ReadI have needed this quote several times in the last week. It beautifully illustrates that to live a peaceful and happy life, we need to be clear on principles, but have charity for ourselves and others on how those principles are practiced. Sometimes in our pursuit of living a principle we close ourselves into a […]
ReadThis crazy world of comparison can often make it hard to believe that who we are is already amazing. As I have studied the topic of identity this year, one of my most surprising discoveries for me has been in the realization that what we ‘do’ and what we ‘have’ is not our true identity. […]
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