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 …
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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 …
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 …
Who’s at High Risk of Being Misled? You Are!
Who is at high risk of being conned into believing you need something harmful? We all are! In this upside-down world of wellness, big business, big money, and direct-to-consumer drug advertising, we are in danger of having our values shaped by the man behind the curtain. The wellness economy has a lot to say about what you should value and how that translates into what you should invest in. The closer you look at the products and services you consume to support your wellness, the more you’ll discover misalignment. Let the process of grounded awareness, coupled with a critical look …
Spring Clean A Path To Freedom
Where do we begin our path to freedom? While the false front suggests that cleaning up the outside will fix your woes, true liberation is not an external process. Clean the baseboards, wash the walls, and, yes, eliminate the scuzzy food particles that take up residence, and grow between your stovetop and counter to get your inner energy stirring. It will not free you, however, from the self-imposed chains that bind you. No amount of outer tidying purifies the inward contaminants of distorted thinking and harbored emotions. Human nature compels us to set right what we deem disagreeable or foul. …
Your Higher Self: Master Your Divining Rod
Your Higher Self is the highest calibrated system to get it right, in real-time, every time! To live a meaningful life and experience fulfillment, learn how to go within and up to receive guidance. Instead of handing the divining rod over to people and entities outside yourself, master the path of connection to your higher self, and this will allow the beauty of your life to flow and unfold with ease. In connection with your higher self, you are less reactive, more grounded, and loving. These are the moments when you feel greater peace, more assured, and look back without …
Practice Gratitude For Wellness: 7 Solid Tips
When you practice gratitude, your life’s energy begins to shift. It will improve your health, enhance your relationships, and increase your abundance. Most people are grateful for what they have and appreciative of the people in their lives. While this is true, the benefits that come from practicing gratitude may become overshadowed by thoughts of lack and a desire to have more. When you begin to intentionally practice gratitude in all ways of being, the transformation set into motion is nothing less than miraculous. So, Let’s Begin! 1. Reframe Annoyances and Practice Gratitude With Intentional Refocusing Check your attitude and …
Live Authentically and Develop Inner Wealth
To live authentically, recognize the external and internal pressures that beckon you to participate in life artificially. When you reflect on early influences, make the unconscious conscious, and practice pausing before engaging you come more fully into your authentic self. Many influences diminish your ability to participate in life honestly. These micro self-betrayals, detected within the truest part of your being, tell you when you are deviating from your authentic expressions and paths. Making choices that reduce these compromises, helps you to develop inner wealth and live a more authentic life. Challenges Presented by Outside Expectations and Measures By the …