One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; the word is love.” —Sophocles The more we lean into our vulnerabilities, the more open we become to love. The areas of our lives in which we feel most vulnerable are health, relationships, and finances. Whether or not we had a healthy and loving childhood, we all experience some form of emotional pain as a reflection of the human condition. Our subsequent pain, when left unresolved, keeps us living in habitual, protective ways and inhibits us from co-creating a fulfilling and happy life. Leaning into our vulnerabilities requires spending time alone so we can confront the source of … [Read more...]
3 Sacred Strategies to Shift from Self-Sabotage to Self-Empowered
Every moment in your life is an opportunity to become free of your self-sabotaging behaviors and open your heart in self-love. Be more discerning in your choices and release the self-sabotaging patterns of behavior. Choose intentionally what soulfully aligns with you, and what does not. Each choice you make from your heart brings your mind, body, and spirit into coherence with the flow of love. This is the essence of soul-hearted living, which is living in alignment with your heart and soul. Here are 3 Sacred Strategies to Shift from Self-sabotage to Self-empowered: 1.List the top five things you are doing to sabotage yourself. Take … [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...]
Blessing and Releasing as a Spiritual Practice for Life
The spiritual practice of blessing and releasing helps you constantly clear your energy field and sustain a high vibration of energy. It has considerable physical and mental health benefits and promotes well-being because it encourages the consistent release of negative thoughts, limiting beliefs, and toxic energy. The act of blessing and releasing any person or situation also helps you let go of the past, appreciate the present, and create the future you truly want. When you learn to bless and release any negative thoughts, reactions, or energies it clears potential energy blocks and frees up new energy for manifesting what you want. When … [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...]
Create a Divine Validation List to Stretch Your Trust Muscles
One of the best ways to build and stretch our trust muscles is to notice the divine signs all around us. Even if we don’t always recognize them in the moment, these divine signs are there guiding us all the time. You may never know why you make a wrong turn, get behind a slow driver, or pick up the phone and say to a friend something that comes from out of the blue. Yet, you have to trust yourself and accept that everything is unfolding optimally. You must always trust your first gut instinct. When you sense or feel something’s right at that moment, it usually is. If you have a doubt, then there is no doubt. Your spirit acts in … [Read more...]
Come Home to Your Heart: The Seat of Trust, Truth, and Tranquility
“What is not love is always fear, and nothing else.” A Course in Miracles. Come home to your heart, the seat of trust, spiritual truth, and tranquility. This is where trust in yourself and your divine source live. In fact, the lower vibration of fear cannot co-exist with the high vibe energy of trust in the space of your heart. Opening your heart allows you to access your spiritual guidance system and develop a deep trust of yourself. Moreover, the quality of your life improves because you wake up each day with positive energy, inspiration, and greater joy. Over the years, many of my clients have asked me, “How do I distinguish the voice … [Read more...]
Trust Lives in You as Your Divine Touchstone
Trust lives in you as a divine energy source, your divine touchstone. Opening your heart in trust is one of the secrets to living a soul-hearted life. To nurture this seed of trust, become aware that you are the powerful source of this energy that flows through you—also referred to as light, God, higher power, universal energy, or divine intelligence. When you trust yourself, you are connected to your heart, the space of your true being and your divine energy source. It requires more than deep breaths and saying positive mantras; it takes an unwavering sense of inner security, like having a safety net while walking on a high wire. Even if … [Read more...]
Embracing Your Imperfections to See Your Divine Perfection
To discover your divine perfection, you have to courageously embrace all of your imperfections. To see who you truly are, you have to excavate all that inhibits your full self-expression. To step into your light, you must allow yourself to make mistakes, experience disappointments, acknowledge our failures, and create messes. As Anne Lamott writes in Bird by Bird, “Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism, while messes are the artist’s true friend. What people somehow forgot to mention when we were children was that we need to make messes in order to find out who we are and why we are here.” Your greatest mistakes, biggest messes, … [Read more...]