Spiritual hygiene practices are like anchors that return you to your baseline energy. Each day, we immerse ourselves in a sea of vacillating vibrations. Some are uplifting, others are neutral, and many are outright toxic! We maintain our energetic integrity best when we practice clearing our energy daily. These tools promote a more conscious way of interacting with the world. With practice and consistency, spiritual hygiene helps us better honor ourselves. Spring, the season of new beginnings, is the perfect time to offer these essential reminders. Make them part of your daily habits, like brushing your teeth, and they will …
If You Want Growth, Let Go
Advice to let go to grow, heal, or find peace would meet my younger self with utter defiance. Was it that these gurus had nothing bad happen to them or lived in some Pollyannaish existence? I may have held on to whatever story or emotion harmed me simply to spite them. Now, I offer this guidance as sound wisdom. Learning how to let go may be the challenge and gift of a lifetime. It is the means to use your energy more masterfully. Each of us has been the gum on our shoe, the hairball in the drain, and the driller of holes in the bucket of life. We are, indeed, both …
To Love or Fear is Your Choice!
What if you could have the reality of your choice? Would that experience be one that delighted you or one that disgusted you? Of course, we all want a pleasing reality, something beautiful to feel passionate about! If you could have your choice of experiences and those decisions effected everyone and everything in the world, you’d be sure to use your best creative power! Right? We choose our thoughts and what we say and do each moment. Everyone does. If you don’t recognize that these micro-choices matter the realities you co-create may not align with your foremost desires. Imagine now …
Use Free Thinking For Empowered Living
As the new year begins, commitment to free thinking sets the tone for empowered changes. An open mind without the limitations of belief transforms perceptions. January is the month of resolutions, new beginnings, and renewed dedication to maintaining healthy habits. Many of us are returning to self-care routines and personal goals that got lost somewhere between the spiked eggnog and second helpings of our favorite holiday meal. Some are still there among the missing or hibernating. Free thinking challenges us to reevaluate our convictions and shows us there’s no one way to live right. It also helps us to get …
5 Fulfilling Winter Activities on a Budget
The best-loved winter activities cost very little, yet feel meaningful and rouse joy. When thinking about making the most of the winter months, entertain ideas that ignite a creative spark and provide opportunities for enriching connections. Find quality in simplicity and appreciation. Some of the most worthwhile winter activities require very little monetary investment. Invest in pricey tickets, or holiday-themed events only if you love to ski or find going to the Nutcracker delightful. Otherwise, consider a few modest ways of enjoying this season. Discover that the finest memories come with a frugal price tag. The Best Part of That …
Conscious Creation From What’s Foul
Conscious creation requires a look beyond the reality we see so we may envision the future we aspire to build. When your attention brings forth softening and mindfulness within the present moment, you’re primed to experience what you most desire in the future. Where are your thoughts and emotions focused right now? It’s influencing what is to come. So if your future doesn’t look the way you want, consider redirecting your focus away from what you dislike. Don’t fight what you deem foul. Conscious creation begins with the desire to actualize something new. Stop bracing in fear and start upgrading …
Be Mindful Within a Distracted World & Live Better
To be mindful instead of mind-full, reactive, or mentally absent is a worthwhile challenge. A busy world has people frenzied, immersed in their tasks, and preoccupied with their next assignments. We all get wrapped up in our doings and miss a lot. Prioritize slowing down to foster a way of being that enriches meaningful living. To be mindful is to taste your food, notice when your friend gets a haircut, or that the mountain laurel on your street has more blooms than last season. Present within our senses, we become conscious of the beauty of simplicity regardless of the complexities …
Find Joy in What You Choose to See
How do you find joy? You make discovering it a priority over everything else. To do this, reassign the meaning you attach to people and circumstances that make you feel troubled. Change your interpretations so that what once caused anxiety now strengthens you. As you master this new way of explaining your world, it will transform your perception, offering you peace and purpose. You will then find joy in reflecting the light you see back to those who need it the most. Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from …
Addiction to News: A Drug of Hate & Division
At this time in history, millions of people saturate themselves in a barrage of sensationalized news content daily. Addiction to news increases the propensity toward viewing and rehashing information that affirms one’s opinions and beliefs. Reading or listening to content that carries an emotional charge affects our physiology. These physiological responses sound an alarm and release the neurochemicals that cause us to react. Our reptilian brain interprets this as a matter of life or death! However, it does not prime us to consider the integrity of the source (Use Higher Knowledge: A Rare Credible Source), contemplating another’s perspective, or any …
Quality Matters, Don’t Settle For Less!
Quality matters in what you consume and purchase, the thoughts you hold, and the conversations you entertain. Election season challenges our integrity. It presents black-and-white equations that pull us into garbage thinking and low-value conversations. Are you allowing outside chatter to sour your thoughts and emotions? Do you trade quality for convenience? It’s our responsibility to decide that quality matters enough to make high-value choices, especially when presented with very few. Prioritize your personal quality above all else and it will support your highest visions for a better future. You make the greatest contribution, embodying the quality you seek. The …