Create What You Want in Life

 Whether you want to create a more balanced lifestyle in general or create something specific like a new career, relationship or health regime, it all begins with the end in mind. By this, I mean envisioning the results you want. The more clearly you are able to visualize and get a sense physically, mentally and emotionally of the type of lifestyle you want, the better chance you have of attaining it. It’s just like planning a vacation. First you need to decide what scenery, temperature, atmosphere, activities and so on. Then you can choose the location, time frame and mode of transportation. So it is with choosing the life you want. All it takes is spending a little bit of time using your imagination to envision what you want, what you are doing, how you feel and any other relevant components. From then on, each day you can ask yourself, "what can I do today to support myself in moving towards my goal?"

 The next step is to accept where you are in the present. You may not like where you are and you may feel as though you are a long ways away from your vision, but the energy spent denying your present reality can sap you of all the needed energy to move forward. Accepting present circumstances without judgment goes a long way to create the momentum required in order to achieve your goal.

If you find you are going over the same territory time and time again with no change, it may help to identify any blocks or resistance on your path. One way to do this is to draw the patterns you keep repeating in your life. This picture may look like a roller coaster ride, a spiral, or a limiting box. But once you have it on paper you can get a more objective view of the situation. It’s easier then to see what the triggers, motives and payoffs are for each stage of the pattern. Fear of being rejected may prevent you from meeting new people, speaking your truth or becoming more visible in some aspect of your life. An unconscious habit of negative thinking and self-criticism might be stopping you from taking the next steps in your career. The need for external approval may be causing you to say yes to others’ demands and no to your own desires.

 Most people have the same underlying needs in life: acceptance, love, freedom, passion, security, joy, safety, fun. We each may pursue and attain these in different ways, but often they will underlie most of our behaviors. So if you’re pattern of worrying or hiding from new challenges in life is preventing you from going for your dreams, find a healthy way to satisfy the need for safety and security while pursuing the exciting unknown at the same time. Discovering ways to accept and love yourself while creating boundaries that give a sense of safety, yet at the same time provide flexibility to encompass vistas of unknown territory, will support you as you pursue your dreams.

 Another step in creating what you want is doing it with ease. We often hear that good results come from lots of hard work and effort, yet in reality many great things occur effortlessly. When you set the tone of effort in trying to make something happen, often the flow of synchronicity is blocked and struggle ensues. Action steps towards our goals are important, but doing them with trust and certainty is more likely to move us forward.

 Along side the step of ease is the step of letting go. Once we’ve clearly envisioned what we want, we need to release it and allow it to manifest in a way that’s best for us. Attachment to specific details and results narrows our focus and limits our options. With trust and flexibility we open ourselves up to the many unseen possibilities available to us.

 The final step in creating what you want is being able to have it. There may be many things we want in life, but how many of them can we have. If we don’t have what we want there is often some kind of hidden message or belief blocking us from our desires. The messages are many, but if you look deeper you’ll often find a common underlying belief based on fear or guilt such as, "I’m not good enough" or " I don’t deserve more" or "others will go without if I have lots". Becoming aware of these untruths is the first step in releasing them. Once they are out of the way, you can create whatever you want in your life. So what’s stopping you? Go for it, and make this a great year for yourself.

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Discover Yourself

 There’s a part in each of us that yearns to be free. Free to do what we want, feel what we want, be what we want. We really shine when we’re just being ourselves. Unfortunately, most of us grow up covering up our real selves. We learn at a very young age how to shift and mold ourselves in order to get our needs met. Combine that with all the comparisons and competitions we take part in, and it’s no wonder we lose ourselves. By the time we’re adults we’ve become so accustomed to wearing a mask that we think we are the mask.

 To get back to our true selves we need to uncover the layers of traits and roles we’ve adopted over the years. In exploring our character traits we can discover the parts that are us and the parts just covering us up. One person who feels shy and reserved may be that way because of a negative experience they had when they were young and upon self-exploration discover an outgoing comedian waiting to burst forth in their lives. Another person who glitters like a 1000-watt light bulb may be just covering up a delicate, gentle flower inside that was once trampled.

 We often become trapped in the roles we play as well, letting them define us. We all have family roles we play at one time or another, being the daughter or son, brother or sister, parent or grandparent. But what about the other roles we take on within the family, workplace or society? The responsible one, the caretaker, the joker, the mediator, the victim or scapegoat. We may pick up these roles in our families of origin, but if we’re not conscious of it we may become these roles permanently or just trade them in for new ones as the group dynamics change. For example, if a person who grew up being a scapegoat, getting blamed for everything and feeling victimized, married someone who plays even more of a scapegoat role, they might unconsciously shift into the role of the over-responsible one to compensate. Either way, they feel locked into their role. Where is the freedom in that?

Exploring our character traits and the roles we play can be the first step in uncovering who we really are. Discovering our true selves inspires us to follow our dreams and passions in life, and this is where true freedom lies.

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The Power of Beliefs

 We live our lives out of our belief systems. Our beliefs are the filters we perceive life through and the foundations upon which we base our decisions. Basically we only see that which we believe to be true. This is why different people can have such varying views on the same situations. If you believe that the world is a cold and lonely place, guess what? That is what you will experience because that is what you will see. Your mind will filter out or discount examples, which disprove your belief. Now that is not to say our beliefs can not change. They can and do, and the more flexible and open minded a person is, the more likely they will alter their beliefs to the true experiences they are having rather than alter their view of reality to fit their beliefs.

 Our early life experiences create a number of our core beliefs. The pleasant and unpleasant experiences we have as children shape our view of the world. It’s how we make sense of the things as we are growing up. But we also base many of our beliefs on what we’ve been told by our parents or by how they lived their lives. The problem with basing our beliefs on past experiences or on other’s beliefs is that we miss the chance for new experiences to happen in the present. We just keep recreating the same old, same old.

 You can see examples of when people are holding onto their beliefs despite the change in reality when you look across generations. Many people who grew up in the depression or whose parents grew up in the depression have deep-seated beliefs around financial and security issues. Due to the circumstances of those times, people held onto their jobs whether they liked them or not and didn’t take financial or personal risks. In more modern times, more opportunities exist and many people have discovered that taking risks and following one’s passion can lead to higher success and happiness. Yet there are still people who cling to jobs they don’t like in fear of their survival. They are carrying beliefs from the past into their present circumstances and filtering out potential opportunities for growth and happiness.

 You can discover a person’s beliefs by looking at their behaviors and life experiences. If a person is hoarding all of their money, it’s a good chance they have a belief in scarcity. If a person gives freely of their time and money, chances are they have a belief based on abundance. If a person is spending most of their time with work and achievements yet wishes they had more time for family and fun, they may belief that their worth is dependant on their accomplishments. If a person is constantly underpaid in jobs, they may be holding on to the belief that they are unworthy. People who seem to put so much effort and energy into their work and personal lives, may believe that anything worthwhile has to be hard work.

 Beliefs are not good or bad, but they can be limiting or supportive depending on what you believe. Once you uncover your beliefs and question whether they are true or not for you, whether they are likely to assist you in having what you want in life or not, you can decide whether to keep them or change them. It’s all up to you.

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Change Your Beliefs, Change Your Life

 Underneath your circumstances are your actions and underneath your actions are your choices. Underneath these, are your beliefs; thoughts and messages strung together to create the foundation upon which we build our lives.

 Beliefs are not good or bad, right or wrong. They just are and they either support us in life or they limit us. Just like the old saying ‘if you believe you can, you can. If you believe you can’t, you can’t’. Where do our beliefs come from? Passed on from our families, picked up from our friends, absorbed in from teachers, peers and society, or triggered by our experiences. Sometimes even a seemingly insignificant event like seeing the frown in our grade four teacher’s eyes as she looks upon our purple rendition of a forest could stifle our creativity later in life.

 Often we develop our beliefs unconsciously. For example, if our parent’s role modeled hard work ethics combined with a good dose of struggle energy and some martyrdom thrown in, chances are we would grow up believing that to attain anything you have to work extra hard, or it’s not worth anything if it wasn’t achieved with effort and sacrifice. We may not know why we believe this, we just think its true and now we have our lives to prove it. Yet it’s only true for those who believe it. Take a closer look at people who effortlessly create wealth and joy in their lives and you will see beliefs based on ease and abundance.

 Even if you secretly rebel against certain beliefs, what we resist often sticks so you might end up playing both ends of a dichotomy, neither of which is freeing. One common dichotomy involves creative and artistic pursuits. The starving artist mentality has led many people to bounce between following their creative careers, but living meagerly, or taking on well paying work, but at the expense of their passion.

 So how do you free yourself from a set of beliefs that prevent you from creating the life you want? First it’s important to explore your beliefs so you know what you’re dealing with. An easy way to do this is to look at the circumstances in your life that you are not happy with and ask yourself what might your beliefs be about yourself, others and life in general, for you to have created this in your life. Be particularly willing to unearth the core beliefs about feeling good enough, deserving and worthy. Then the next step is to replace these limiting beliefs with empowering supportive beliefs. This may involve useful tools such as affirmations or visualizations, or it might take a deeper approach such as releasing any unhealthy attachments to those in your life who gifted you with the limiting beliefs or letting go of unspoken family agreements or draining the charge out of unpleasant experiences.

 Just imagine what you could create in your life by changing your beliefs and perceptions about life. The possibilities are endless.

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Acceptance and Gratitude

 Each year in Canada and the United States we celebrate Thanksgiving. A time when families and friends gather together to feast and socialize and pay tribute to the things they are thankful for in their life. Reminding ourselves what we are thankful for broadens our perspective in life. It is so easy to focus on what’s missing, needed or wanted and this can lead to feelings of lack and disappointment. By focusing on what we already have and the things we appreciate we begin to see the bigger picture in life and move into a state of acceptance and gratitude.

 Acceptance and gratitude are healing states as they help to shift our perspective whenever we find ourselves in a place of despair. Accepting where we are in the present time is the first step toward moving forward. Our energy is freed from denial or resistance and expands into other possibilities. Adding a bit of gratitude shifts our attitude into a lighter, more hopeful place. Even when things seem there bleakest there is usually something to be grateful for. It might be something we take for granted like having a roof over our head, or the sunshine above, or it might be something more personal like a dear friend we have in our life. Whatever it is, if we can place our attention on it we can open up to the bigger picture in life.

 It’s often not until hindsight hits us that we become grateful for the lessons we’ve learned from the difficult times in our life. What would our lives be like if we spent more time each day focusing on what we are grateful for rather than on what we are unhappy about? Being in a state of gratitude brings balance into our lives and allows us to see more of the unlimited possibilities awaiting us.

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Creating Balance in Life

 It’s so easy to feel out of balance these days with what’s going on in our lives and in the world around us. With all of our "to do" lists and schedules and meeting other people’s expectations and agenda’s, when do we have time to just sit, relax and enjoy being in the present moment. Our moments seem to go by too fast.

 In all our efforts to speed things up and create more efficiency through faxes, email and cell phones in order to create more free time for ourselves, we’ve in fact just created more time to cram more busyness into. There’s just that many more calls and emails to respond to. And throughout it all we seem to have become so externally focused that we’ve disconnected from ourselves. We forget to breathe. We don’t listen to our bodies let alone our hearts. We stop taking care of ourselves and begin to feel overwhelmed, frazzled and out of control.

 Now more than ever, is when we need to take time for ourselves. To slow down and replenish ourselves and decide how we really want our days to flow. For if we don’t give first to ourselves we’ll have nothing left to give to others, our families, our friends, our careers, our communities.

 It all starts with knowing what your ideal balance would look and feel like. Everyone is unique and has different degrees of mental, physical, emotional, spiritual, and social needs in order to feel balanced and healthy. Try spending five or ten minutes with your eyes closed to get a sense of what an ideal balance would be for you right now in your life. Once you’ve set the intention for the type of balance you’d like to have, then it’s a matter of identifying what supports you and what limits you from having this in your life on an ongoing basis. Often it involves shifting stress reaction styles and behaviour patterns that have kept you going down the same old path. Adopting new healthier ways of looking at life and reacting to life’s ups and downs can take you in a whole new direction. Connecting more deeply to yourself, your body and your own inner wisdom will help you embark on a healthier, happier and more uplifting journey through life.

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Nourish Your Body

 When you think of nourishing your body, what do you think of? Nutritious healthy food, a variety of exercise, fresh air, and rest? All of those things are great for the body, but what, when, and how often can be the puzzles that prevent many people from nourishing themselves fully. By connecting more deeply to your body and listening to its subtle signs you can give your body exactly what it needs.

 Our bodies are miraculous creations. We don’t have to tell them to breath, pump blood, regulate chemicals and hormones, regenerate cells and the other numerous things our bodies do to keep us alive. Our bodies have a wisdom of their own. It’s when we don’t listen to what our bodies are telling us and we don’t give them what they need that our health starts to fail. And then we need to go to outside sources like doctors, or diet and exercise books in order to discover how to regain our equilibrium.

 By learning to communicate with our bodies we can give them all the nourishment they require in order to be vibrant and healthy. Turning inward and sensing through feelings, images, or words can tell you a lot. Like when it’s time to take a break from the computer and do something physical (before the headache sets in), or when that urge to eat something sweet and doughy hits, asking yourself whether you’re really hungry or perhaps just thirsty, or maybe you need some emotional nourishment like a hug. What about when you’re feeling tense and agitated at your desk, your body might be asking you to stretch a little. It’s amazing how good it can feel to take 5 minutes of your time to stretch out your legs, arms and back. Whatever it is that you need, your body will let you know. Often there is no need to analyze or figure it out. Just closing your eyes for a few seconds and sensing what the body wants will give you your answer.

 A good way to start is to check in with yourself several times throughout the day. Notice what emotion you are feeling. See if your body feels tight as if you are holding or tensing muscles, and just relax them. Check your breathing; are you breathing fully or just taking in enough air to stay conscious? Full breathing is a great way to relax or rejuvenate yourself. Is it time for a snack, and if so, what does your body really want to eat? Does your body want some exercise, and if so, does it want something vigorous like an aerobic workout, something strengthening like lifting weights, or something soothing like yoga? Perhaps your mind needs to settle down and your body wants you to get out into nature where you can feel more grounded. Listen to what your body really wants and let it guide you to your highest state of wellness.

 After a few weeks of checking in with your body regularly, you will begin to know what your body needs without having to ask it. You will have developed a close relationship with your body and will be naturally giving it the nourishment it truly deserves.

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Choose Your Thoughts Carefully

 Have you ever stopped to notice what thoughts are running rampantly in your head? What type of messages you’re telling yourself? Or even where those messages came from in the first place? Most of us have an ongoing chatter murmuring relentlessly behind the scenes. If you stop to notice you might catch yourself having an inner dialogue with one stream of thoughts going happily in one direction and the other countering them with questions, concerns or doubts. You can imagine the results of this conversation.

 The thoughts we think have a direct impact on our emotions and attitudes and this in turn affects the choices and decisions we make in life. This makes our thoughts very powerful. You can test this out for yourself by purposely thinking some negative thoughts and noticing how you feel and what your general attitude is afterwards. Try waking up one morning and tell yourself what a crappy day it’s going to be and then imagine all that could go wrong going wrong. Add some personal insults to the package and voila, you’ll have an attitude sour enough to spoil any sunny day. How do you think your day will go if you continue feeding self-doubting thoughts into your space? Are you likely to see unlimited possibilities in front of you, or have the courage to take on new exciting ventures in life? How will your attitude affect your health, work and relationships?

 Now on the other hand, try waking up one morning and tell yourself what a great day it’s going to be and how you can handle any challenge that comes your way. Reflect gratefully over any skills, talents and wonderful people you have in your life and imagine creating even more abundance in your life. What attitude will be conjured up if you permeate your space with these thoughts throughout your day? What affect will this have on your overall health, work life, and interactions with others? What if you spent every day of the year weeding out self-doubts and criticism and filled yourself up with uplifting, supportive words of encouragement? Can you imagine the positive chain reaction you would set off in your life!

 Most of us are more than happy to offer words of support and encouragement to friends and loved ones, for we can see their true gifts and all the possibilities available to them. But if people don’t believe in themselves, no amount of external encouragement will help in the long run. We have the ability to choose our thoughts, so let’s choose them well.

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Express Yourself Creatively

 Do you remember coloring trees purple, grass blue and skies green? Or drawing pictures which no one knew what the heck they were, and it didn’t matter? Having imaginary friends, singing from the depths of your belly, splashing in mud puddles and making tree forts? Those are the kinds of activities that make childhood magical.

 Somewhere along the years to adulthood, many of us lost our spontaneity and creativity. Filled with facts and figures during school years, we developed strong muscles in the analytical, logical, reasoning side of the brain while our insightful, creative and intuitive side of the brain was overlooked.

 Those of you, who continued to express your creativity throughout your life or awakened it in later years, know how miraculous and nourishing it can be. Those who have been living most of your lives in the logical side of the brain know something is missing.

 Fortunately, one’s creativity can never be lost as it sits quietly simmering, awaiting our attention. All one needs to do is throw out the rules and forget about the end result. The nourishing part of being creative is being in the process. Sitting down to write whatever wants to come out, randomly choosing a color of paint and letting your hand decide where to spread it on the paper, opening your mouth and allowing sounds to arise from within you, or letting your body move in whatever way soothes or excites it, is what creative expression is all about.

 Tell your inner critic who wants to control or judge what you do to take a vacation (or better yet, to go into early retirement). Feel the freedom of expressing yourself in ways that inspire, awaken and renew you. Creative expression is a wonderful way to release pent up energy or emotions, get you unstuck, open up new possibilities and refresh your whole body, mind and soul. Once you’ve given yourself the time to explore your creativity, it will begin to flow into other areas of your life. Your problem solving abilities will be enhanced, you will see new possibilities where you hadn’t before, and you’ll become more spontaneous, and generally feel more playful in life.

 So what are you waiting for?  Go ahead, unleash your creativity and let it color your life.

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Know Your Stress

 The first thing most of us learn about stress is how to cope with it. Coping with stress doesn’t eliminate the sources or symptoms of stress, but alleviates the symptoms of stress. Exercising, nutrition, and relaxation techniques all help to buffer the effects of stress, release tension, increase feel-good hormones and bring you back to a healthy balanced state - until the cycle begins again.

 Detecting stress involves being aware of the initial stress symptoms before they become full blown. It requires an increased level of awareness to the more subtle signs your mind and body are giving you. Noticing the knot in the stomach, the tightening of back muscles, the worrisome thoughts, just as they are beginning can give you the opportunity to stop a stress cycle from taking hold of you. You still need to deal with whatever the situation is, but you can do it from a calmer, more centered place. Detecting stress catches the symptoms before they can cause damage to you mentally, physically and emotionally. It eliminates the need to cope with stress so instead you can enjoy your exercise, nutrition and relaxation at a deeper level.

 Preventing stress is the ideal as it eliminates the need to detect or cope with stress symptoms, so your energy is freed up for more creative and uplifting ventures. Preventing stress involves a deep level of awareness to not just the sources of stress in your life, but the motivations that attract you to these sources. We are all responsible for the state of our lives and we are constantly making choices, whether consciously or unconsciously, that direct the course of our lives. Aside from such things as an illness or accident in the family etc., we create the stressful situations in our own lives. It may be an unconscious pattern we picked up from childhood or youth, or there may be hidden payoffs for our actions. But whatever the reasons, we need to discover them for ourselves and decide if we want to shift the patterns or not.

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Stress in the Workplace

 Despite stress being a hot topic all through the 90’s leading to individuals adopting stress management routines, and many businesses implementing workplace wellness programs in order to reduce workplace health costs, stress still appears to be on the rise. The World Health Organization predicts that stress, anxiety and depression will become the leading cause of disability in the workplace over the next 20 years.

 The blame for stress has been cast onto many areas. The breakdown of family support systems, financial burdens, the aging population, pollution, traffic, crime, the government, you name it. A major focus though has been placed on workplace stress. With all of the downsizing, increased competition, demands for higher productivity and performance there’s no wonder stress in the workplace increased. Looking deeper into organizations, the main sources of stress have been identified as poor communication, lack of job control and conflicts between work and family life.

 Although more and more companies are becoming people focused and implementing healthier practices at work, reaping the rewards of decreased absenteeism, higher productivity and increased profits, stress itself has not declined. People comment on what a stressful society we live in as if stress were outside of oneself. It’s time now for people to focus on their own perceptions and reactions to life’s pressures and demands. People make up the society we live in, so therefore the cause and solution of stress lies in the very hands of the people who are experiencing stress. Individuals are responsible for what they create in their life and can empower themselves to create a healthier more joyful lifestyle

 Stress hardy was a term developed years ago by researchers who, while studying individuals living high stress lives, discovered a group of people that were much healthier than others experiencing the same amount of stressful circumstances. It was determined that people who are stress hardy feel in control of their lives and life situations, are committed to and feel fully engaged in their daily activities, and view change as a challenge rather than as a threat.

 People have become so externally focused in life that they have given up their power to handle stressful situations effectively. No matter what one does in life, they are going to experience pressures of some sort or another. How one perceives these pressures and reacts to them, will affect how they feel in life. Feeling in control of one’s life comes from being connected to one’s inner source of strength. Looking outside of oneself for approval and recognition only leads to doing more, achieving more, becoming more. It’s time for people to shift their focus internally to discover who they really are and the unlimited amount of choices and resources available to them. Then people’s lives will flow more easily no matter how many demands are placed in front of them.

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Energize YourSelf

Have you ever walked into a room and felt the energy in it? Sensed and felt the silence and somberness of a library, the buzz and effervescence of a concert, or the love and joy at a wedding ceremony? In the 60’s and 70’s they called it the ‘vibe’ and now it’s referred to as energy, but it’s all the same thing; waves of energy particles that vibrate at certain frequencies. And it’s not just in the locations we enter; it’s within us as well. We are each filled with energy which is affected by the foods we eat, thoughts we think and emotions we feel. The higher our bodies vibrate, the healthier we are. Therefore having uplifting thoughts and emotions supports our overall mood and health.

Notice how you feel when you focus on problems in your life or judgments of other people or situations. Now reflect on all the things you are grateful for in your life. Think of as many things as you can and notice how you feel. Those thoughts have their own vibrations which affect your body’s emotions which contribute to your overall flow of energy. When your energy is flowing with ease and lightness everything within you matches that. Imagine how healthy you would be living your life from this place. And because like attracts like, imagine how many wonderful things you would attract into your life from this energized state.

At our true essence as spiritual beings we are naturally in a state of ease, lightness and amusement. This gets clouded over by our analytical minds and emotional bodies. When we forget who we really are we let our analyzers run the show and allow our bodies to over react. This can lead to complicated thoughts, judgments, and heavy emotions. Yet when we reconnect to our true self and operate from this higher place of wisdom and neutrality, we can easily redirect our thoughts, clear our emotions and shift our energy. It’s amazing how quickly and easily we can do this when we are centered in our spiritual selves.

Experience this now by playing with the following spiritual energy tools:

Centering: Bring all of your awareness into the center of your head, back a couple of inches behind your forehead. Notice the still peaceful quality there. Now move all of your awareness into the front of your forehead. This is often where we are concentrated when thinking and planning. Losing ourselves in this space can feel busy and complicated. Move back to the center of your head and find yourself there. By being in the center of our heads we are more aware of ourselves as spirit and can access our neutrality and truth. From this place we can choose to use our analyzers rather than letting them run us. We can also communicate with our bodies and be aware of our emotions rather than becoming them. Notice how you view yourself, others and life from this centered space.

Grounding: Become aware of an energy connection between your body and the center of the planet. Feel this connection flow from the base of your spine all the way down to the center of planet and allow it to be as wide as your hips. Being grounded supports you in being more present in your body, having an appropriate level of energy, and allows you to release any problems or foreign energy down your grounding.

Aura: Your energy space doesn’t just end at your skin. Surrounding your body is an electromagnetic field of energy which is what you see through and are seen through. By owning this space and being aware of the edges of your aura you develop clearer boundaries. This supports you in having more of your energy in your space instead of spreading it out, depleting it. It also prevents others from moving their energy and emotions into your space. Play with expanding and contracting the size of your aura as a way to get a feel for it. Generally, having your aura about an arms length away from your body, in front, behind, beside, above and below will support you in owning this space for yourself.

Have Your Energy: Your energy often gets left with the people, projects and situations you have been focusing on throughout the day. To bring it back into your space you can create an image of a gold sun five or six feet above your head and imagine it’s like a magnet calling all of your energy into it. Then bring it down through the top of your aura and into your body releasing all of your energy back into your own space. You will feel more refreshed and replenished having your energy with you.

Shift Your Energy: Become aware of yourself as a spirit in the center of your head and play with shifting your energy from this place. Tune into your state of ease and lightness as a spiritual being, then say hello to your body and notice how it feels. If your body is feeling heavier than this, set your intention to have your body match your lighter state. Here are a few exercises to support you in doing this. Imagine having an amusement dial which you can turn on and turn up the volume. Allow this vibration of amusement to fill all the cells in your body. Create a dot of clear gold in the center of your head and let it fill your whole head and then your whole body. Become aware of the vibration of pure love and let this energy flow throughout your whole body.

The more we operate through our spiritual awareness the more easily we can shift our energy and create a healthy life. As the saying goes, we are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience. It’s up to us to decide who’s in charge; our spiritual self or our analyzers and bodies. From there we create our own reality day by day, moment to moment.

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