Move Your Body: Moving your body tells your brain that you are unstuck. It shifts the energy to forward momentum. Practice mindfulness moving by taking your mind, body, and spirit for a walk. Start your practice by going outside in nature for a fifteen-minute walk. Before you start to walk, stand on the earth and draw your attention down to your feet. Take Deep Breaths: Slowing down and deepening your breath draws more oxygen into your body which reduces fear and restores balance to your nervous system. A regular deep breathing practice can help you remain calm when you find yourself in anxiety-producing situations. Trust Divine Timing: … [Read more...]
5 Supportive Ways to Regain Balance in Your Life
Balance doesn’t come from making every aspect of your life equal like two sides to a scale. It starts by prioritizing the aspects of your life that matter most, what you hold dear, and what’s non-negotiable to your soul. It’s means putting your time, effort, and energies into what makes your being come alive and your heart sing with joy. Most of all, it’s being true to your heart and soul…your core values or soul elements. When you are out of alignment with your soul truth, you can feel off center, ungrounded, and question who you are and what you really want. If you find yourself defining your worth by your job, achievements, or what … [Read more...]
Embracing Your Anxiety as Part of Your Spiritual Guidance System
Anxiety is a state of physical, emotional, and/or spiritual imbalance that lets you know that there is valuable information that you need to pay attention to and act upon to improve and enhance your life. Your anxiety signals where there are energy blocks (physical or emotional pain) in the body, mind, and spirit. Whenever there are energy blocks in your body, you become vulnerable to physical or emotional disease, especially when those blocks are produced by excessive negative thoughts. Your anxiety lets you know what unresolved issues need to be healed and what feelings need to be released. This healing can lead … [Read more...]
8 Ways to Detox & Restore Your Body, Mind, & Spirit
After any negative encounter or stressful situation, it’s important that you emotionally, spiritually and physcially detox any negative energies you may have absorbed. Like a sponge, your sensitive energy field is porous and can soak up the energy from others. This often leads to compassion fatigue or empathy overload. Here are several sacred strategies you can use to detox and restore energetic balance to your body, mind and spirit: Take frequent breaks throughout the day to decompress and restore balance. You can take this quiet time through meditation, journaling, or reflection. It takes only five minutes to recalibrate your … [Read more...]
Spiritual Resilience: 5 Ways to Move from Surviving to Thriving
“You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.” - Jon Kabat-Zinn Spiritual resilience is what makes the difference between surviving or thriving in your life. It gives you the strength to not only rise above adversity and hardship, but to use it as a catalyst for spiritual growth. To do so, you have to trust that your spirit is stronger than any situation you can possibly face, and with every setback comes even greater transformation. Seeing life from this spiritual perspective, you view any problem, challenge, or difficulty as a stepping stone for change Like a surfer riding a wave, once you trust the experience and relax rather … [Read more...]
4 Sacred Practices to Move You from Fear to Freedom
Trust is the energetic space between your fear and everything working out for your highest and best. For example, imagine crossing a deep chasm with no bridge to get to the other side. On the side you are standing is fear and on the other side is what you want to create in your life. When you step out into thin air, you are stepping in the space of trust. By being bold-hearted, you co-create the invisible trust bridge that gets you to the other side of fear. When you open your heart and let go of fear, uncertainty, and self-doubt, you create the energetic space for the universe to assist you. Trust kicks in and opens you to all the … [Read more...]
The Power of Making Enlightened Choices Inspired by Love
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 think they are making choices based on a positive outlook―such as choosing “good” over “evil,” or “right” over … [Read more...]
A Soul-Hearted Partner Is More than A Soul Mate
Many people hold the false belief that there is only one soul mate for each person and we have to seek them out to be happy. In reality, there are thousands of soul-connections with whom we can come in contact or interact with over a lifetime. When we encounter any person with whom we have such a connection, we instantly are drawn to them, and experience an energetic connection through our thoughts, feelings, and bodily responses. We may not see each other for long periods of time, but our soul bond remains forever. Soul mates appear in our lives to assist us with our soul’s progression. They enhance our lives by providing insights, … [Read more...]
Looking at Loss through the Lens of the Soul
“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief and unspeakable love.” ~ Washington Irving Life-death-rebirth transitions are passages which bring about physical, emotional, and spiritual maturation. Many of us have difficulty accepting or moving through loss of any kind— let alone the kind that unravels us to our core, and challenges us to find the spiritual strength to live in the midst of such devastating pain. During these dark moments of the soul, I find solace in knowing that we are all here for a … [Read more...]
A Spiritual Forgiveness Practice to Keep Your Energy Clear
Forgiveness renews connection, enhances our compassion, and allows us to create a clean slate so we can begin anew. It allows us to remain engaged in positive interactions with others even when there has been an emotional injury. Practicing forgiveness consistently sustains unconditional love and connectedness with others. Such positive interactions support positive health benefits and loving connected relationships. Forgiveness also promotes well-being because it helps up you regulate and release your negative emotions. Through forgiveness, you can clear any negative emotions that block trust and intimacy in your relationships. It assists … [Read more...]