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 …
Tag: Intentional Living
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 …
Flexibility With Personal Goals Fixes Your Flow
You may approach your personal goals with every intention of adhering to routines and habits that allow for flow and ease. Just then, as life will have it, the unexpected happens! Achieving balance in life requires the freedom to adapt plans, sometimes without notice. How willing and able you flex with change shapes your experiences and influences outcomes. Rigidity impedes energetic flow. Regularly reassess your personal goals even when there are no fires to put out to maintain balance and avoid stalled or leaky energy. Personal Goals and Plan B, C or D! One of my personal goals is to …
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. …
My Secret Sugar Addiction
Sugar addiction, much like other addictions, involves a complex interplay between pleasure-seeking and a desire to be free of inner angst. Sugar often serves as a distraction, a means to self-soothe, and can be unconsciously and compulsively consumed. Eating sugar releases dopamine, the neurotransmitter responsible for pleasurable reward, and thus reinforces the desire to consume more of it! Frequently eating high-sugar foods amplifies cravings. A secret ‘drug’ of choice for many, its insidiously addictive nature may be disguised, within packaging that has an alluring innocence. Heed caution when entertaining the lollipops of the world, for they are truly sheep in wolf’s …
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 …
How to Stay Healthy ~ (18) Simple Habits
Adopting simple daily habits is how to stay healthy! Make your well-being a priority by committing to a few manageable practices. When you listen to what your body has to say and love yourself enough to set boundaries that respect your need to rest and care for your mind, body, and spirit, your life will transform! Recently, I wrote about ancestral healing and how the energy of the past may affect your life. The habits we adopt, usually stem from our upbringing. For me, this means that any recipe that calls for two cloves of garlic gets a minimum of …
Ancestral Healing for Intentional Living
Ancestral trauma is part of the lineage that we inherit. Ancestral Healing helps us to reflect, forgive, and learn lessons from our past. Even with a desire to know more historically about our families, we may fail to recognize that the roots of our struggles began long before we experienced them. As it happens, you needn’t experience the same traumatic events that your ancestors endured for it to affect your life. Clearing ancestral trauma has the potential to create new attractive patterns moving forward and ensure better outcomes not only for yourself but for future generations. Nudges to Work on …
Not So Rare Side Effects of Medication
If experiencing rare side effects of medication could negate any potential benefit, how “rare” would that side effect need to be for you to take it? What if your decisions to take medications are not as informed as you’d like to believe? I’ve spent many years working with people who’ve entrusted medical professionals to steer them in a direction that they’d hoped would help or heal their suffering. Too many of these people are left feeling betrayed by a medical establishment that easily passes off faulty expectations about drug efficacy without giving informed warnings about the potential risks and side …
The Power of Belief – How Healthcare Harms 101
Your mind and body are intricately linked. The power of belief is so strikingly significant to your wellness that it will be the catalyst for healing or the force that feeds cellular discord. Modern healthcare harms by focusing on diagnostic labeling, pathologizing, pill pushing, and fear-driven approaches to prevention and wellness. There are many empowered ways to care for oneself that honor your energetic contribution to your good health. Sadly, greedy industries have steered the vast majority astray. People’s identities have become attached to specific diagnoses, and much of their energy is given away to conversations and attention to topics …