While clearing my home, I recently came across an old children’s book titled Places of Power by Michael Demunn. An authentic example of how to power up by living in connection with your source energy. It is a beautifully illustrated book that explains how all people can discover places where they feel close to their “maker.” In these powerful places, one feels protected and can sense, hear and see the messages for them. How much time do you spend in a place of power? For most people, time spent in these environments is not nearly enough to be life-sustaining. (Excerpt taken from …
Category: Coaching
Addiction to News: A Drug of Hate & Division
At this time in history, millions of people have saturated themselves in a barrage of sensationalized news content. There is an addiction to news and an increased propensity toward viewing and rehashing information that affirms one’s opinions and beliefs AND carries an emotional charge. The acts of reading or listening to emotionally charged information directly affect our physiology. These physiological responses sound an alarm within our nervous system and release the neurochemicals and stress hormones that cause us to react. According to our reptilian brain, it is a matter of life or death! However, they do not prime us for …
Use Higher Knowledge: A Rare Credible Source
All is not what it appears, and finding a credible source is often more difficult than simply collecting ‘facts.’ Come into the knowing of your larger purpose here: that of embodying the higher aspects of self. Here, we may come into unity with source energy and thus connectedness with each other. When you become distracted by an attitude, an opinion, or a position, you move further from this higher purpose. “Opinion is really the lowest form of human knowledge. It requires no accountability, no understanding. The highest form of knowledge is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos …
How to Trust in Yourself by Finding Your Inner Compass
A key component for how to trust in yourself is finding your inner compass and maintaining a connection to it. The Solar Plexus is often referred to as the ‘seat of personal power. ‘Experiences in early childhood will largely influence one’s connection to this energy center. Energetic imbalances or ‘blocks’ may manifest in ways that negatively affect a person’s self-esteem, confidence, and feelings of personal power. Outwardly, one may express apathy, insecurity, or a seemingly opposite extreme of seeking power and control. Often this disconnection results in a lack of body awareness and diminishes the ability ‘to know’ based on …
Empowerment Coaching. How to Stop Giving Your Power Away
Empowerment Coaching will help you to anchor into your authentic personal power. In doing so, you may stop giving your power away to inner and outer demons, imaginary or self-created. Keep your energy as high as possible, making sure not to meet your “enemy” (whoever or whatever that may be) with the same negative energy. What harms us is giving our power to a perceived threat or antagonist. Extend compassion to self, avoid focusing your attention on what feels harmful, set healthy boundaries with others, and relax…, “good” wins. You Have No Power Here. Begone, Before Someone Drops A House …
Empathy in Communication: Basic Advice
Empathy in communication requires the suspension of ego-based agendas and the need to be right. The ability to recognize another’s feelings, feel those feelings as personally relatable, and respond compassionately within subsequent communication has the power to diffuse the tension in most conflicts. “Choosing with integrity means finding ways to speak up that honor your reality, the reality of others, and your willingness to meet in the center of that large field. It’s hard sometimes.” Terry Tempest Williams If we wish to be heard, we must be willing to recognize the reality of others. Our inner world, life’s experiences, inner …
Boundaries: An Important Life Skill
Setting boundaries and honoring boundaries is an important life skill. Early experiences with poor, non-existent, or inconsistent boundary-setting lead many to ignore inner sensations and knowing. If an important life skill is rarely or never modeled well, it easily becomes a skill deficit that has great impact on a persons experiences later in life. You CAN trust that what is right for you will feel right. We always have a choice to get ‘unstuck’; to leave a job or a relationship, set a limit, say “no,” or move away from a situation, location, person, or substance for our higher good. …
The Most Potent Form of Communication is Embodying Your Truth
Define Yourself By Embodying Your TRUTH. There is power in this form of communication! The longer you harbor words and ignore or stuff emotions, the more the energetic holding blocks the natural flow of creating. The withholding itself causes harm to the holder and those within the immediate environment. No amount of pretending or hiding can conceal the vibrational pollution that occurs from negative stored emotions. Authentic, honest communication is healing and empowering and has the power to heal ourselves, others, and our relationships. Communicating in this way is the beginning of embodying your truth. Harmful Communication Protecting yourself and …
Benefits of Focused Attention
You deserve to experience the benefits of focused attention. Multitasking and scattering your energy across many different tasks and roles leads to lowered feelings of self-efficacy, increases your stress hormones, and decreases feelings of fulfillment. Make time for yourself and uncloud your mind. Practicing body-centered exercise helps to improve your focus and mitigates many of the negative consequences of spreading yourself too thin. Over a short period, this will translate into an improvement in one’s overall wellness. Self-efficacy Unrealistic expectations, either self-imposed or from outside people or entities, will quickly erode your feelings of how well you may consistently stay …
Self-Mastery: Responding Vs Reacting
Developing skills at responding vs reacting helps you to maintain your power. Refuse to be baited into lowering high standards and treat ALL people as you wish to be treated. This will always energetically bring you the best and highest outcome. ASK YOURSELF, “WHAT AM I LEARNING.” What are all your senses telling you? How are you feeling in response to someone’s words or actions? Breathe in and ask inwardly, why? Emotional Triggering and Feelings of Powerlessness This will often occur in situations where there is a general lack of recognition of something that matters to you. You may feel …