Personal transformation requires that we continuously peel away our layers. Like an onion or the Turkish pastry baklava, with its fragile phyllo dough layers, the subtle layers of our patterns must be peeled away on an ongoing basis. In fact, we generate 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 physical, emotional, and spiritual growth. Using conscious awareness to recognize the layers of our patterns gives us the power to step outside of any situation, no matter how difficult or uncomfortable, and release our destructive reactions. This healthy … [Read more...]
Take Time for Yourself to Replenish Your Soul
Cherishing time alone with yourself is beneficial to your health, happiness and well-being. It also gives you the opportunity to tune in, reflect and cultivate self-awareness so you can bring your life into alignment with your true essence. Spending time alone assists you in nurturing a relationship with yourself which is key to creating a balanced and fulfilled life. As difficult as it is in your busy life to take time to be alone, you must give yourself permission to recharge, rejuvenate and restore and push the restart button. Solitude and introspection will assist you in understanding yourself more and tuning in to your connection with a … [Read more...]
5 Sacred Steps to Strengthen Your Energetic Boundaries
Creating healthy energetic boundaries is key to producing a positive flow of energy in our relationships. At heart, all our relationships are energetic exchanges—opportunities to become a conduit for life force energy. When energetic boundaries are in place, the resulting flow is growth promoting, first for ourselves and then for others. Without such boundaries, however, we can easily exhaust ourselves of energy or inadvertently take on the unwanted energies of others, outcomes that impede our growth and damage our relationships. Establishing energetic boundaries with those we love is not easy, because we are especially sensitive to the … [Read more...]
The Spiritual Practice of Letting Go
“When letting go is called for, if we have not learned to do so, we suffer greatly, and when we get to the end of our lives, we may have a crash course.” ~ Jack Kornfield Last week with a heavy heart, I said goodbye to my next door neighbors, dear friends, and soul family, Dan, Ada, and my surrogate dogs, Stormy and Misty. For six years, we shared yards, puppies, meals, and lives together always being there for each other. Through the gate we made in the fence to connect our yards, we connected our hearts and families. Instead of creating division between our properties, we created cohesion. We created sacred community! Too often we brace … [Read more...]
Making Discerning Choices Inspired by Love
“Be universal in your love. You will see the universe to be a picture of your own being.” —Sri Chinmoy Making discerning choices inspired by love leads to actions based on a broader spiritual perspective, and prepares the way for loving relationships with ourselves, others, and the world. As the transformative energy of love in today’s world continues to shift human consciousness, we are being guided away from choices that prevent us from loving ourselves and others. Choices inspired by lower vibrational frequencies originating from fear, negativity, and stress result in suffering, imbalance, and disease. Even though many people … [Read more...]
Words are Powerful Intentions to the Universe
Love is the highest energy frequency in the universe. And so our words must source from love. The high vibration of positive words has an uplifting effect on our world, whereas the vibration from negative words has the power to destroy. When we open our hearts, light energy flows through us as pure love, making us conduits for the flow of love to others through our thoughts, words, and actions. As conduits of love, we can receive and transmit energy that is divinely sourced. Then, we can use this information to align with our soul’s journey and sustain the circulation of loving energy through positive thoughts, words, and choices that benefit … [Read more...]
The Power of Practicing Compassionate Detachment in Negative Situations
Practicing compassionate detachment increases our ability to infuse difficult situations with positive energy―and ultimately, to transform them. In choosing to respond rather than react, we can diffuse a negative situation and create a neutral space in which the other person doesn’t have anything to come up against. Without something to react to, they are more likely to calm down and even become aware of their own reaction. Providing them with a mirror of love in which to see themselves helps them gain awareness of their behaviors. Thus, holding them accountable for their actions actually opens the possibility for unconditionally loving … [Read more...]
Releasing Old Patterns and Creating a New Legacy of Love
There it was again, the lump in my throat. I felt it every time I called or texted my son. And here it was showing up on the day when Tom’s baby, my first grandchild was being born. How long had I had this sign that there was an energy block? How long had I been carrying this weight on my heart? How long had I been unforgiving of myself? Sixteen years almost to the day…the day when I told my son that I was leaving his stepfather and the second time I was putting him through a divorce. Tom was two years old when his father and I divorced. So he didn’t grow up experiencing his parents being together. But at sixteen, he would remember all of … [Read more...]
10 Affirmations to Shift Your Vibration
Affirmations can help you elevate your vibration to a higher level especially when you feel lower vibrational emotions such as fear, despair, doubt, or powerlessness. These 10 affirmations will help elevate your vibrational frequency to that of the energy of love, where well-being is sustained. As you move through your day, notice any negative, self-deprecating, or limiting thoughts, and replace them with the following affirmations to open your heart and shift your vibration. I trust that I am the co-creator of my life. I embody all that is kind, compassionate, and loving. I am whole and complete love and channel this energy on … [Read more...]
Your Greatest Gift of Love is Your Presence
The primary element in love is our divine presence. When we are truly present with another person, not distracted or guarded, we open a portal of loving energy that facilitates communication and healing. Presence is having the conscious awareness of what’s happening moment to moment without being caught up in your own thoughts. Looking deeply into another person’s eyes, giving them our undivided attention, and listening with an open heart are all elements of being present. Our divine presence, more than any other aspect of love, answers the basic connection question, “Is that person there for me?” It is in this sacred space of presence that … [Read more...]