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...]
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...]
5 Sacred Strategies to Move from Stuckness to Inner Freedom
In every moment, we have a choice to move forward or remain stuck. When we feel stuck, it feels as if the same old things are repeating themselves or we’re just going through the motions. “Stuckness” is a state of paralysis where you feel unable to make a change. This sense of stuckness is at pandemic levels right now. As a collective, we are suffering from anxiety, depression, and hopelessness more than ever before. Most of us crave change and want to be free from suffering, but we don’t know how to create such freedom. Above all, we will continue to perpetuate these negative patterns, conditioning, and beliefs unless we do the … [Read more...]
4 Ways to Transcend Fear and Negativity & Shift to Love
Transcending fear and negativity can be challenging when we are constantly bombarded with negative words, messages, and images. Yet, we can lift out of this toxicity by connecting to a higher power or divine source (whatever that means to us) through our hearts. Many of us feel adrift and detached, having lost our spiritual compass and any kind of higher guidance. We may wander aimlessly through life, waiting for something to fill the spiritual void we experience. Thus, we try to shift the burden of responsibility for our spiritual awakening onto others and do not acknowledge the innate power we have to create it for ourselves. From the … [Read more...]
4 Ways to Be of Service During Caregiving Without Losing Yourself
"A true caregiver opens her heart compassionately and emits a positive flow of energy with others without suffering with them." ~ Dr. Debra Reble Even with all the strides women have made, we are still discovering how to be of service without losing ourselves. We tend to lose our sense of self in relationships while focusing on our partner or family. Most of all, we often forget that we are whole and worthwhile apart from the “caretaker” roles we play. Like many women, I’ve been a “caretaker” most of my life. Yet, it’s only been recently that I’ve become a “caregiver.” I’ve discovered that there’s a difference between the two. As a … [Read more...]
4 Sacred Practices to Awaken to Your Soul’s Purpose
You are here to feel inspired, create joy, and fulfill your soul’s purpose. Like the phoenix rising out of the ashes, you are liberating yourself from anything that shackles your soul. You are being called, nudged and even frustrated to the point of waking up. It’s time---no more postponing your soul’s call to action. When you experience the things that take your breath away or make your heart sing, you live with passion and purpose. You step out of the shadows and into the light, aligned with your soul’s path. Above all, you realize that your full soul-expression is greater than the job you do, the roles you play, or how successful you … [Read more...]
Your Soul Legacy: Leaving A Legacy of Love
“Wisdom tells me I am nothing. Love tells me I am everything. And between the two, my life flows.” —Nisargadatta Maharaj Leaving a legacy of love begins with positive energy and a healthy optimism for your future and the future of your world. When you channel love and create what you want in alignment with what is best for yourself and others, this flow becomes a spiritual path that leads to living joyfully, abundantly, and well. Leaving a legacy of love is the path of seeing life as a challenge, an adventure―and, most of all, a gift. Being and expressing love is your soul legacy and your purpose in being here on earth. People who … [Read more...]
4 Sacred Practices to Awaken to Your Soul’s Purpose
You are here to feel inspired, create joy, and fulfill your soul’s purpose. Like the phoenix rising out of the ashes, you are liberating yourself from anything that shackles your soul. You are being called, nudged and even frustrated to the point of waking up. It’s time---no more postponing your soul’s call to action. When you experience the things that take your breath away or make your heart sing, you live with passion and purpose. You step out of the shadows and into the light, aligned with your soul’s path. Above all, you realize that your full soul-expression is greater than the job you do, the roles you play, or how successful you … [Read more...]
3 Ways to Reduce Anxiety by Expanding Your Present Moment Awareness
Maintaining balance and inner peace is challenging for all of us right now as we navigate the rough seas of this intense shift in human consciousness. But, before we can shift our anxiety to inner peace, we have to become mindful of it. When we’re in fear or anxiety, we are in our head either worrying about the past or future. By bringing our attention from our head to our heart, we come into present awareness where anxiety doesn’t exist. Present awareness invites you to the simplicity of existence---the peaceful, unworried level of pure consciousness. It is here you are grounded in your own being. When you are consciously present, you … [Read more...]
5 Positive Changes to Embrace from Your Spiritual Quarantine
This time of spiritual quarantine has challenged us to let go and become clear of what’s truly important in our lives. It has shown us the unhealthy habits, endless distractions, and self-sabotaging behaviors that keep us stuck and hold us back from living our best lives. This sacred self-quarantine gives us the opportunity to create a new “normal" for all of us. What's going to be your new normal? Here are 5 Positive Changes to Embrace from Your Spiritual Quarantine Keep It Simple: Simplicity of the present moment originates in the heart, not the mind. It’s grounded in your present awareness in connection with your divine source. … [Read more...]
