“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.” ~ Alice Walker One of the ways you know you’re feeling out of control of your life is when you notice yourself trying to micromanage everyone and everything. When you feel yourself needing to control, it’s time to pause, lean in to these feelings, and ask yourself what’s really going on within you. The need to control stems from insecurity and you use it as a substitute for internal security. Unfortunately, this fear-based pattern only generates an illusion of stability. It displaces an absolute trust in yourself and your connection to source onto external … [Read more...]
4 Ways to Peel Away & Release Your Layers
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...]
