Healing our pain, limiting beliefs, and unhealthy patterns requires that we continuously peel away the layers. Like the Turkish pastry baklava, with its fragile phyllo dough layers, the subtle layers of our patterns must be peeled away on a continuous basis. Often, we unconsciously create 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 spiritual growth. This healthy clearing process is like skin sloughing off dead cells that accumulate and block the growth of new cells. Animals, birds, and plants also move through a regenerative clearing … [Read more...]
The Power of Choosing to Respond to Life Instead of React
It’s not always easy to respond when life comes at you especially when there’s so much chaos and unpredictability in the world. You may feel like you are powerless when it comes to health, financial, or relationship issues. Yet, you can take your power back by choosing to respond to life. Being responsible, “able to respond,” gives you the power to be the co-creator of your life and not the victim of your circumstances. Our lives are made of up of a series of choices everyday----whether or not we get out of bed, what we eat during the day, how we spend our time, whether to continue with a relationship, or what we do for a career. Each and … [Read more...]
3 Ways to Stay in High Vibration When Life Gets Tough
Although you are in a physical body, you are connected to an energy field that is formless, vibrating, and emanates from you. You can consciously plug into this energetic field through prayer, meditation, being in nature, or simple mindfulness. Such higher awareness opens you to your divinity and strengthens your sense of connection with others and the universe. Knowing that I can connect to this energy has always been my touchstone in the midst of fear and turmoil. As a little girl, I found solace in knowing that I was connected to an energy that sourced through me. At the time, I didn’t know how to explain this universal connection I … [Read more...]
3 Ways to Be Unshakable in Uncertain Times
“Making things happen in your life, requires a faith or an ability, to believe that is unshakable, regardless of circumstances.” ― Les Brown Spiritual resilience is the key to joy, happiness, and being unshakable during these uncertain times. It moves you from feeling uncertain about what’s happening in your life to handling challenging situations with trust rather than fear and trepidation. It gives you the strength not only to rise above adversity, but to use it as a springboard for personal transformation. Most of all, it makes the difference between merely surviving or thriving. You live in a quantum universe of unlimited … [Read more...]
