“I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.”  Diane Ackerman

To live life fully is to embrace the richness of each moment, each experience, each encounter. Life is filled with an array of experiences, some pleasant, some not. If we shut our eyes to the unpleasant side, we miss out on the wholeness and fullness of life. When we are present in every aspect of our lives we rely less on external circumstances to fill us up as we know we are already complete. We are then free to enjoy the different scenarios without attachment. Like the turn of a kaleidoscope, each day offers a new picture.

Some miss out on the fullness of life because they are too afraid to participate; they live vicariously while their life sits on a shelf like a book waiting to be opened. Others fill their days with so much busyness and distractions their life becomes a blur, similar to the terrain when you zoom past it on the highway.

The fortunate ones are those who live life fully; they enjoy the subtle essences as well as the vibrant colors; they balance the active moments with stillness and silence; they appreciate the depth of a dull, gray day as much as the sun’s radiant rays.

Life is not meant to be compartmentalized into what’s good, bad and okay, but viewed and experienced from a bigger perspective where experiences flow together into one grand design.

Insights on Living Life Fully

♦ What aspects of life do you avoid? What underlies this - fear, judgment, guilt? What do you miss out on as a result?

♦ What parts of life do you embrace? What supports this - courage, enthusiasm, connection to others, spiritual practices? What do you gain as a result?

♦ What gets in the way of fully enjoying life - duties, obligations, lack of boundaries, addiction to drama, isolation? Are you ready to let any of these go?

Inspiration into Living a Full Life

♦ Use water as a metaphor to describe your life - is it the gushing torrent of a waterfall, crashing waves on the beach, the gentle swirl of a stream, a still lifeless pond? Are you content with it? How would you like it to flow? Close your eyes and tune into the vision and vibration of a water scene that resonates with how you would like your life to flow. Feel the speed and movement. Let your body match this energy. Now envision your daily activities moving at this pace.

♦ Throughout the day, stop doing and enjoy being. Let go of the past and future and embrace the present moment. Touch into the essence of your current experience. Shift out of the head and into the body. Make decisions from your heart and soul.

♦ What would your life would be like if you lived it fully in a balanced way. What would you do differently? What would you do more of? What would you do less of? Set an intention to live this way today and every day.

Was something stirred within you? Please share your insights below.

“The power of intention is the power to manifest, to create, to live a life of unlimited abundance, and to attract into your life the right people at the right moments.” ~ Wayne Dyer

When you set an intention through thoughts, words or vision, the power of intention creates a momentum that carries you forward to your desires. Simply stating, “I intend to do, be or experience” something is akin to making a commitment; a promise to yourself and the Universe. If it’s made with the intent being for the highest good of everyone involved, divine sources come into assist. As Goethe said, “All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred…unforeseen incidents, meetings, and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way.”

Intention is filled with certainty, enthusiasm and courage. Intending to achieve something is claiming it as yours. It is then created on an energy level and it is just a matter of time before it manifests into material form. The power of intention can be used to focus on anything in your life - not just external goals and dreams, but internal states of being, shifts in perception, and emotional, mental and physical healing. Intending to experience a state of being such as ease, joy or freedom can manifest very quickly as you are the creator of your own experience.

No one else creates for you, but intention calls in your spiritual self and the God of your heart to support you to manifest your heart and soul’s desires. Are you ready to start intending?

Insights on the Power of Intention
♦ What dreams and goals that you intended have manifested for you in the past year?

♦ What small daily intentions such as experiencing easy traffic flow, perfect parking spaces, or clear communication in a conversation have manifested for you lately?

♦ How often do you clearly set an intention for bigger dreams and goals? How often do you set small, daily intentions?

Inspiration for Intention Setting
♦ Set intentions every day. When you first wake in the morning, set an intention for how you’d like your day to go. If you’re having a meeting with an individual or group, set an intention for how you’d like the conversation to flow. As you make these smaller intentions, you will see just how powerful intention setting can be.

♦ Set intentions for bigger dreams and goals. What would you like to manifest this year? Choose up to three things you would like to experience, have or be this year and write them down with a statement such as, “I intend to have . . .” or “I intend to experience . . .” or “I intend be . . .”

♦ Envision your intentions. Thinking about intentions is powerful for the small ones. Writing down intentions helps to claim the bigger ones, but for the deeper desires of your heart and soul, envisioning your intentions as though they are real, right here and now, helps to manifest them more quickly and easily. Take time to envision what you want.

You might also benefit from visiting my Creating & Manifesting page where you can watch a short video on the main steps to create and manifest your goals, listen to a short guided imagery session on envisioning your goals, and read an article on how to have what you want in your life.

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“The only real valuable thing is intuition.” ~ Albert Einstein

Trusting intuition involves tuning out the external world and listening to internal cues; the gentle inner voice that reminds you to bring your umbrella even though the sun is shining; the goose bumps that quiver across your arms inviting you to pay close attention to the conversation; the image of a person that flashes through your mind just before they call on the phone. This is intuition in action.

Whenever we need to make a decision we can access intuition by centering within and listening to our inner voice, looking at the situation through spiritual eyes, or opening to our higher awareness. Each person has their favored way of intuiting situations, but all forms are available.

Some find it easiest to listen to body cues such as tingling sensations nudging them forward or a knot in the stomach warning them to stay back. This clear sensing is what many call a gut feeling. Others rely on their inner voice or clear hearing to guide them towards or away from situations and people. It often sounds quiet and neutral, like a gentle Tibetan Monk calmly stating that going in this direction will lead to a peaceful path, but heading in that direction could be treacherous. And then there’s times when the inner voice screams loudly to ensure it gets your attention; “Get out now, the caller is in the house!”

Visual people may prefer to use their clear seeing or spiritual eyes to see the subtle energy dynamics within and between people and situations. This is a valuable tool to quickly and easily see the truth or reality of any situation. My personal favorite is clear knowing or higher wisdom, where you simply know what is going on or about to happen. Trusting intuition is natural for some, but takes time and practice for others. It’s important to turn down the analyzer that wants to assess people and situations from a logical point of view only. The analytical mind is great for doing such things as taxes, but limiting when looking for deeper answers and broader awareness.

Insights into Accessing Intuition
♦ How do you access intuition? What form of intuition comes most naturally to you? Which form is less accessible? What form would you like to develop?

♦ How often do you trust your intuition? What happens when you do? What happens when you don’t? Reflect over times you were grateful for your trusting intuition and times when you didn’t and wished you had.

♦ What supports you to trust intuition? What limits it or gets in the way? What can you do to trust your intuition more often?

Inspiration for Developing Intuition
♦ Set your intention to pay closer attention to intuitive nudges. With this simple intention you will begin to notice your inner voice, clear sensing, clear seeing or higher knowing.

♦ Follow your intuitive decisions. The next time your inner voice, sensing, or higher wisdom suggests something, follow it even if it goes against logic and see what happens. Start with small safe actions and then as you gain confidence and trust, follow bigger intuitive decisions.

♦ Play intuitive games such as intuiting who is calling when the phone rings, seeing an image of the weather later in the day, holding cards with a different color or shape on each and using your clear seeing to visualize what color or shape is on each card without looking, tuning into what others are feeling or thinking while having a conversation with them, and noticing the energy in different settings (such as a library, party, office, friend’s home).

If you have any questions on intuition or examples to share, please comment below.

“Give love and unconditional acceptance to those you encounter, and notice what happens.”  Wayne Dyer

Breathing into what is, letting each moment be as it is; this is acceptance. We have a choice in each moment to accept or resist what is happening. In acceptance we acknowledge the truth instead of resisting reality. We may not like what we see or what we’re experiencing, but we accept that it’s real. This softens our heart and allows us to be in the flow of life rather than struggling against it.

There are things we want to deny - loss, death, hardship. And things we may wish to avoid - difficult people, uncomfortable feelings, traffic jams. But in doing so we shut a part of ourselves off and this feels worse than the thing we are avoiding. Resistance, denial and struggle are anti-life and prevent us from moving forward into a new experience. Acceptance is like the breeze - it keeps on moving and before you know it, the difficult person or situation is gone or has been transformed into something new.

Insights into Acceptance

♦ What are the positive experiences and people you are accepting right now? What are the difficult situations and people you are accepting right now? What does acceptance do for you mentally, emotionally, physically and spiritually?

♦ What positive experiences are you resisting because they are too good to accept? How does this affect you? What do you gain? What do you miss out on?

♦ What difficult experiences or people are you resisting? How does this affect you? What underlies the resistance - is it fear, sadness, hopelessness? What would happen if you accept these feelings?

Inspiration for Being Acceptant

♦ Notice something positive you are resisting in your life at this time - it may be a compliment, a new opportunity, a skill or talent you have. Imagine accepting it as it is into your life. What thoughts arise, what feelings surface? Hear the messages and let them go. Feel the feelings and let them process. Breath into acceptance until it feels neutral.

♦ What or who do you tend to resist? Notice what happens to you physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually when you go into resistance. Take a few deep breaths and breathe out resistance while breathing in acceptance. Say to yourself, “I accept this situation as it is or this person as they are.” You don’t have to like the situation or person, but notice how freeing it is to be in a state of acceptance.

♦ Turn inward and tune into the essence of acceptance - that open, unguarded, spaciousness within. Be a flower blowing with the breeze - grounded into the earth, yet in a state of ease and flow. Take this with you wherever you go.

What supports you to be in a state of acceptance - please share below.

“It is lack of love for ourselves that inhibits our compassion toward others. If we make friends with ourselves, then there is no obstacle to opening our hearts and minds to others.”   Author unknown

When our heart is full of love and acceptance, we are compassionate towards others. We know that just like us, everyone has the same basic needs for safety, a sense of belonging and appreciation. We also know that everyone has experienced some form of pain and suffering in their life - some more than others. We rise above judgment or pity to a place where our heart meets our soul and we see the hurt in others as well as their wholeness and we trust in their ability to heal.

When we drop below compassion we can get caught in a painful form of sympathy where we feel sorry for another as though they don’t have the knowledge or resources to help themselves. We may take on their pain and problems in an attempt to rescue them. This can be invalidating, as all humans have the ability to find solutions and access healing, particularly during the most challenging times when the logical mind lets go in despair and allows the higher self and its wisdom to take over.

When we tire of trying to save the world, we may swing over to the opposite of pity which is apathy or condemnation. Finding others’ pain too much to bear we shut down and suddenly don’t care. Or we find reasons to judge others as wrong and deserving of their suffering. This perspective only hardens our heart and creates a barrier between us and the rest of the world.

Touching into empathy - that place of felt understanding, where we can relate to another’s plight or at least imagine it, elevates us up to a place of compassion. We don’t take on the other’s emotions or problems, but we remember a time when we experienced something similar, or we can imagine what it would be like to be in their situation even if we don’t know all the circumstances.

Bringing this state of compassion to others supports us to bring it to ourselves; to be kinder, gentler and more loving and accepting of our own foibles; to forgive ourselves for past mistakes; to trust in our inner wisdom to find solutions.

Insights into Being Compassionate

♦ With what people and situations are you able to be in a state of compassion - to care about a loved one’s difficulty without dropping into pity, accept another’s moodiness without taking it personally, understand a challenging world event without judging it? Reflect on the people and situations where you find it easy to be compassionate.

♦ Where is it difficult for you to be in a state of compassion? Where do you lose yourself in worry or pity? Where do you shut down into a place of uncaring or condemnation?

♦ What helps you to be more compassionate? What gets in the way and triggers pity or judgment? What do you need to let go of and what do you need to embrace in order to have more compassion?

Inspiration into Developing Compassion

♦ When you find yourself moving into a pity form of sympathy - worrying about someone or feeling compelled to jump in a rescue - shift your perspective by seeing the whole of them. See their strengths, past accomplishments, and their inner spiritual being that has higher wisdom. Acknowledge their pain while envisioning their ability to heal at the same time.

♦ The next time you catch yourself about to judge another’s behavior as wrong, bad or rude, stop for a moment and ponder the possibility that perhaps this person is having a bad day, is in some sort of emotional, mental or physical pain, or was conditioned in their childhood to behave in dysfunctional ways and hasn’t yet accessed the tools to heal and find more appropriate ways to behave.

♦ If you have a habit of feeling sorry for others or doing the opposite, avoiding and judging them, try this visual energy exercise for transcending dichotomies. Close your eyes and see the two polarities in front of you - imagine sympathy/pity as a symbol on one side and on the other side imagine a symbol for uncaring/judging. Notice the energy and tone of each side of this dichotomy. Notice which one you relate to the most. Then raise these two symbols up higher, gradually bringing them closer to each other until they meet and overlap each other and then transform into a symbol that represents empathy and compassion. Notice the energy and tone of this state. Set the intention to match this vibration by letting it flow throughout your whole body.

What are your insights into compassion?

“Simplicity is the glory of expression.”
Walt Whitman

Life is meant to be simple, easy and enjoyable, not complicated, difficult and frustrating. Simplicity is a state of being; it feels peaceful, yet alert; still, yet flowing. It’s where yin meets yang; where the nurturing, creative, feminine aspect merges with the active, manifesting, masculine energy. Being in a state of simplicity is being in the ultimate balance of one’s true nature.

When we embody a state of simplicity and bring it to all of our activities and encounters, productivity increases effortlessly, relationships flow with ease, communications unfold with clarity, and our lives become an expression of our heart and soul’s passion.

Life becomes complex and overwhelming when we let our busy mind run the show analyzing every detail, rehashing and rehearsing every conversation, planning every future event. And if we let our ego take control, status and image become more important than authenticity, driving us to do more and more until our schedules are maxed out and our bodies are exhausted. Then we fall into a constant craving to accumulate more stuff until our homes are cluttered with every imaginable fixture and gadget. There is absolutely no room for simplicity here.

Simplifying our lives by doing less, owning less and thinking less is one way to bring back ease and balance. The other way is to relax into a state of ease, move at our natural rhythm, respond instead of react, and live in the present moment. From this simple state of being, we follow the natural seasons and cycles of life, and we trust that we are fine just as we are - no need for all the extra bells and whistles.

Insights into Living Simply

♦ What areas of your life are simple and easy? Reflect over relationships, work, family, home, finances, health etc. What supports this simplicity?

♦ What areas of your life are more complicated? What is it about each of these areas that make it complicated?

♦ What would you have to let go of to live more simply? What would you have to embrace?

 Inspirations to Simplify Your Life

♦ Make a commitment to de-clutter one area of your home or office this week. Do another area next week until your whole working and living space feels lighter and simpler.

♦ Choose a complicated area of your life - it may be a relationship, finances or health issue and brainstorm ways to simplify it. Perhaps accepting another’s behavior is the simplest thing to do, or creating a realistic budget to follow, or taking care of yourself physically with regular exercise and rest. Sometimes the smallest actions net the biggest results.

♦ Take a few minutes each day to embody the state of simplicity. Being with nature is one way to move into this state: watching leaves on a tree blow gently in the wind, listening to water swirl over rocks in a stream, following clouds as they float by. Another way is to close your eyes, let go of all thoughts and activities, and notice the natural rhythm of your breathing - follow it in and out until you feel your whole body relax into a simple state of being. Open your eyes and take this state with you.

What are some of the simple things in life you enjoy? Please share with me and other readers below in the comments section.

“Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.”
Winston Churchill

“Courage faces fear and thereby masters it. ”
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Courage involves being bigger than the fear and doubt hovering in our space when it’s time to step into the unknown, embark on a new venture or go against the status quo. We are constantly learning, growing and moving forward in life, yet there are times when we are just about to take a new step and fear barges in with threats of doom, or doubt skulks in muttering hopeless messages. If we listen to these lies, fear and doubt grow into a seemingly impenetrable wall to block our progress.

Fortunately, as we connect to our heart and soul we remember who we are and we see through the illusions of fear. We touch into the purpose of our plan and reignite our enthusiasm to move forward. Our purpose may be as simple as opening our heart, or as daunting as expressing our gifts and talents through a new business, but with courage we can take another step.

When fear and doubt loom larger than life it’s helpful to remember that these are just feelings, no different than joy or anger. There is a fine line between fear and excitement so we can choose to cross over to the exhilarating, yet forward moving, side of the line. Doubt often feels like a suppression of enthusiasm, so viewing it as being wrapped in a heavy cloak on a warm sunny day can support us to simply take it off and leave it behind.

Insights into Having Courage

♦ Reflect over times in your life when you felt fear or doubt about taking a new step, but you found the courage to do it anyway. How did it feel? What supported you to have courage?

♦ What areas of your life have you let fear or doubt run you? What would support you to have more courage in these areas?

♦ Where in your life today do you want to take a step that feels scary or risky? What do you need to remember, touch into or do that will support you?

Inspiration for Having Courage

♦ Choose an area in your life where you would like to have more courage to make a change or embark on something new. What part of the process - the beginning, middle or end - requires courage? It helps to be aware of where you get stuck. Notice what feelings arise as you imagine taking the first few steps toward your goal. Does fear or doubt come up here or is it easy to get started. Imagine taking steps into the halfway part of your goal and notice if you get frozen or can keep moving. Continue moving forward to the realization of your goal and notice what pops up. Bring awareness to the areas that are most daunting and breathe into them. Breathe out any fear and release any doubt. Focus on the purpose of your goal and feel the joy of moving towards it.

♦ If you continually come up against a barrier such as procrastination, over busyness, or any number of excuses for not going in the direction you truly want to go, it’s time to look at the bigger picture of your life. Imagine how wonderful your life will be 1 year, 5 years and 10 years down the road if you do what’s necessary to move towards and achieve your goal. What will your life look like, how will you feel? Now imagine 1, 5 or 10 years down the road if you don’t take the necessary steps to get there - what will your life be like and how will you feel? This might spark the courage to take action.

♦ Touch into the essence of true courage right now. Close your eyes and center within yourself. Calm your mind and relax your body. Tune into who you really are: a powerful spiritual being, bigger than your mind and body. Connect to your inner courage by feeling the essence of certainty, trust and love. Let these flow together until they well into a current of courage. Fill your whole body from head to toe with the vibration of courage.

Please feel free to share your insights & inspirations on courage in the comments section below.

“Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.”  Rabindranath Tagore

Faith is that deep inner knowing that you are on the right path, you are being divinely guided, and everything will work out. Faith is crucial when going through difficult times, but it is also needed when it’s time to embark on an adventure; start a new business, quit a job to follow your passion, leave an unhealthy relationship to start fresh on your own, invest your time and energy or money in a new project.

How do you have more faith when it’s most needed?

Faith requires us to let go of fears and worry, and trust our higher selves and the universe to guide us and take care of us. When we are in touch with our inner wisdom we access our intuition and we know when it’s time to take a step forward, when to turn here or there, and when to stop and wait. We feel an inner nudging and the glow of enthusiasm when we’re headed in the right direction.

No one else knows what is best for us. We have all our own information and when we put faith in ourselves we transform from crawling caterpillars into dancing butterflies.

Insights on Having Faith

♦ On a scale of 1 to 10 with 1 being low and 10 being high, what is your current level of faith regarding the general direction of your life? How much faith do you have regarding specific areas of your life such as work, finances, health, relationships?

♦ For the areas where your faith is 5 or below, what gets in the way of having faith? What would it take to raise it a notch or two?

♦ For the areas where your faith is above 5, what supports you in having this amount of faith?

Inspiration to Increase Your Faith

♦ Identify what blocks your faith - look at any pessimistic thoughts, limiting beliefs, past experiences or doubts from people around you. Ask yourself what’s true and false with each of these. Often, faith is blocked by insecurities and lies in your space. With awareness you can shed light on your truth and release false beliefs.

♦ Identify what supports your faith - what thoughts, beliefs, and past experiences uplift you into the place of trusting yourself and having faith that everything will work out? Use these when your faith drops below 5.

♦ Faith is an inner knowing and feeling that you can tune into. Close your eyes, relax your body, and turn inward. From this centered place, touch into the energy of trust and faith. It may just be a glimmer, but let it grow within you until it flows throughout your whole body.

What supports you in having more faith? Please leave a comment and share this article with others if you feel inspired.

“When you do not set healthy boundaries for yourself you are inviting people to ignore your needs.”
Oprah

Creating a fine line between what you will and won’t accept into your life saves you from miscommunication, heartache, and that feeling of overwhelm from saying yes too often and no too little. Everything you let into your space can have a ripple effect into your whole life. What you say yes and no to today will have an effect tomorrow.

If we don’t have clear, healthy boundaries, we end up with draining relationships, unrealistic workloads, and unhealthy bodies and minds. First we need to decide what is healthy for us and what is not. From what foods you want to ingest into your body, to what you want to spend your time and energy on, to what quality of relationships you want in your life.

For example, what do you want to give and receive from a friendship? If you want friends that are fun and supportive, but you have friends who are negative and critical, then you either haven’t defined your boundaries or you’ve broken them. No one can define your boundaries for you, and no one can cross them without your permission on some level. Do you subscribe to the ‘once bitten, twice shy’ model, or the ‘three strikes you’re out’, or the ‘I’m a welcome matt, wipe your dirty feet on me as you enter’?

It’s not always easy to set a clear boundary, especially when the pros and cons of a situation, a relationship or a job are about even. You want the pros, but at what cost? Each of us has a breaking point, and the clearer we are about where that fine line ends the sooner we can let go of what no longer serves us and open up to healthier experiences.

Insights

♦ Review the important areas of your life such as relationships, finances, work, physical, mental and emotion health, and so on to determine how satisfied you are in each area.

♦ With the areas you feel satisfied, notice where you’re boundaries are being honored. These may be boundaries you were not aware of, but are intrinsic to your values, such as having honesty in a relationship, fun with friends, rewarding work, eating nutritious foods, spending time on what is important to you, and so on. Congratulate yourself!

♦ With the areas you feel unsatisfied, notice where you either have unclear boundaries or you have allowed a situation or person to cross your boundaries. What are you saying yes to and what are you saying no to (like saying yes to someone or something else and no to yourself)? What’s at stake for you to set and honor your boundaries? What will it take to set clear boundaries?

Inspiration

♦ With the important areas of your life where you are satisfied, identify the boundaries you’ve created within those. This will help you to make choices in the future. As you set your intention to attract new people and experiences into your life (i.e. a new job, friendship, goal etc.) use your boundaries list as a way to define what you want in your life. Whenever you have a decision to make, ask yourself whether it honors your boundaries or not.

♦ With the important areas of your life where you are not satisfied, make a list of what boundaries you haven’t set and/or which ones have been crossed. Determine what boundaries you need to set and how you will do that. Instead of getting caught in blame or victimhood, simply redefine your boundaries and move forward.

♦ If you are unclear or nervous about setting a new boundary, try this guided imagery exercise as a way to gain clarity and confidence. Sit in a comfortable position with your eyes closed. Take a few relaxing breaths and move all of your awareness into the center of your head, a few inches back from your forehead. Imagine the situation where you would like to create a healthier boundary. Notice any feelings of discomfort arise and simply feel them and breathe them out. Breathe in relaxation and as much amusement as you can as you look at this situation. Let yourself see clearly what it will cost you if you don’t set a healthy boundary. Ask your highest self what boundary needs to be set. Imagine this boundary has been set and notice the positive results. Even if it means ending a relationship or job etc. which would be sad for you, see the benefits down the road. Move past any fear or doubt and feel the relief, freedom, joy or whatever comes up as a result of honoring yourself and your boundaries.

“There are many paths but only one journey.” Naomi Judd

There are many paths we can take on this journey through life and fortunately we can change paths at any time if we find we are headed in an unpleasant direction. Embark on a new career, move to a new city, end a relationship, start a new hobby, change our health habits and so on. Even if we don’t consciously choose a new path when the detour signs warn us, we somehow end up where we’re supposed to be, albeit a little bruised at times.

This journey called ‘life’ has a way of teaching us exactly what we need to learn, but ultimately it’s up to us whether we learn it the easy way or the hard way, whether we take a bumpy road or a smooth road. Within the paths of our life, we can also decide what type of pathway to take.

Some pathways are peaceful, like a gentle stream meandering through a forest. Other pathways are rough, like a rocky hillside with a steep incline. Some are exciting with large hills to ride over and careen down, some are inspiring with expansive vistas and breathtaking scenery, some are unclear like an overgrown trail, and then there are those that are direct like the express freeway with no views, but very expedient. What type of pathway do you prefer?

Insights

♦ What is the type of pathway you are on right now? Is it easy and smooth, filled with effort and struggle, exciting and adventurous, slow and bogged down, effective and efficient, or a blend of one or more? If you were to choose a metaphor in nature to depict your pathway, what would it be?

♦ When you reflect over your past, what types of pathways have you taken most often? Did you enjoy them? What motivated you to take them?

♦ If you were to choose your ideal pathway right now, what would it look like? How would it feel? What would it do for you?

Inspiration

♦ If you are already on your ideal pathway, congratulate yourself for creating this and set your intention to continue on this as long as it serves you. If you are not on your ideal pathway, take some time to discover what has led you to your current pathway. Go beyond circumstances to the underlying beliefs, fears, attachments, and so on that have created the foundation of your pathway.

♦ If you would like to choose a new pathway, write down what qualities you would like it to have (focus more on what you want than on what you don’t want, so instead of writing, “I would like it to be less dramatic,” write, “It is calm and peaceful” or whatever vision you have for your new pathway). Then ask yourself the following questions and write down the answers: What would I have to change in order to be on this pathway? What would I have to let go? What would I need to embrace?

♦ Experience your new pathway right now. Close your eyes and envision it as a scene in nature. See yourself moving along this pathway; view the terrain, smell the scents, feel the sensations in your body through your movement. Then let go of the vision and just feel the essence of the pathway (peaceful, flowing, exciting or whatever it is for you) and let the energy of it flow through your whole body and mind. Open your eyes and take this experience with you; operate from this perspective daily and it will be your new pathway no matter what path you are on.