Encouragement & Inspiration

  • Beliefs & Intentions,  Encouragement & Inspiration,  Finding Balance,  Limiting Beliefs,  Thoughts Are Things,  True Self

    Affirmations for the New Year

    I enjoyed a year-end, year-beginning session with one of my coaches (Beth Katherine) yesterday.  I didn’t have anything specific in mind, just wanted to see what insight/intuitive information Beth might be able to give me as I closed one year and started the new one. During the initial query part of the call, she asked me what I was excited about in my life.  To be honest, I don’t “get excited” … at least I don’t really FEEL excitement (that’s from a past life experience and I’m working on it … but that’s for another post).  Anyway, I realized I was kind of stoked about some cosmetic things I was…

  • Encouragement & Inspiration,  Finding Balance

    The Winds of Change

    The winds of change are blowing in my life again.  Sometimes they are soft, gentle breezes.  Other times, like now, they are a full-blown tempest of raging winds.  I guess that’s what happens when you mentally decide to clear the clutter from your life.  You see, those gale-force winds blow away anything that’s not strongly anchored down.  In my case, it’s mostly a long-term relationship.  It takes two people working at it to really anchor a relationship to any kind of foundation.  Evidently, I was the only one putting in those anchor bolts.  You know, it really sucks … I’ve been doing my part for 7 years and thought things…

  • Beliefs & Intentions,  Encouragement & Inspiration,  Finding Balance,  Health & Wellness,  Limiting Beliefs,  True Self

    Free to be ME!

    My life is anything BUT conventional and sometimes I really struggle with what Other People (OP) think. As I sat with my coffee this morning and let spirit and angels talk to me, I felt them saying “Your life is YOUR life. No one else needs to understand or validate the decisions you make for yourself or your family. Do everything with love and for the highest good.” Those OP, they will assume and judge – this is their inner voice, inner critic, continuing to align with their concept of truth.  Is what you choose kind and compassionate? Do you set personal boundaries?  Live YOUR life YOUR way.  This is where…

  • Encouragement & Inspiration,  Finding Balance,  Hearth & Home,  Relax & Renew,  True Self

    Topsy Turvy

    My last post on “Morning Routine” sat here as a draft for quite a while before I posted it.  Things got more than just a little crazy at my house and my sacred ROUTINE wasn’t anywhere in the mix anymore and life became Topsy Turvy (or up-side-down) in a BIG way.  Nothing was going right at work or at home and my stress level was through the roof. I’d started a part-time job that took me away from my home office 4 days a week.  The job I’d had the past 6+ years ceased to exist as the company closed, and I started taking online classes to finish up the…

  • Ancient Wisdom,  Beliefs & Intentions,  Encouragement & Inspiration,  True Self

    Not a Coincidence

    Learning to trust my intuition has been a challenge for me.  I second-guess my self on a regular basis.  After so many years of doing this work and seeing alignment, this continues to be an area of struggle for me.  One of my affirmations for the past month or so has been … My intuition is strong and accurate. I don’t believe in coincidence, I fully acknowledge the synchronicity of things showing up in our lives … signs, symbols, omens.  For the past couple of weeks, my guides have been working overtime to help me trust my intuition. I journal almost every day as part of my morning ritual.  I…

  • Ancient Wisdom,  Books,  Encouragement & Inspiration,  Finding Balance

    Angel Numbers

    All of my life, I’ve been one to think about and analyze things.  I am deeply philosophical by nature.  I plan things and I have been skeptical of the mystery surrounding the metaphysical world.  I have, in the past, been one who needed to see to believe. I don’t know when this changed or even how.  One of my mantras now is “believing is seeing”.  Even so, when I first heard about the book Angel Numbers by Doreen Virtue and Lynnette Brown, I again was skeptical that the numbers I was seeing as I went through my daily life held any meaning.  I could get on board with basic numerology…

  • Beliefs & Intentions,  Encouragement & Inspiration,  Relax & Renew,  True Self

    Just Ask

    You know, we’re typically conditioned from childhood to do things for ourselves and that asking for help is a sign of weakness and should only be a last-ditch measure.  I’m not sure this holds true in the real world but it’s definitely not the way the spirit world wants us to operate. Our angels and guides are always there for us.  They are waiting to help us in every situation.  But they can only help when we invite them as they cannot impose upon our “free will”.  I am so conditioned to “go it alone” that I don’t even remember to ask the angels for help until I’m pretty damn…

  • Beliefs & Intentions,  Encouragement & Inspiration,  Thoughts Are Things

    It’s Been Cracked

    There has been a huge crack in this melting pot we call American society. That crack has been covered up with matching wax (to make it look like it was great, whole, beautiful, and perfectly functioning). Well, folks … our melting pot heated up the past few months and the wax filling that huge crack melted. All of the hatred and separatism that’s been simmering, undercover, for centuries just leaked out and the whole damn stovetop (country) is covered with the residue. How do we clean it up? Let’s be light in the darkness … be love. Be the change you want to see (Gandhi). Treat your neighbor with the…

  • Beliefs & Intentions,  Encouragement & Inspiration,  Thoughts Are Things,  Uncategorized

    The Metronome Project

    To what are you giving your time and energy? What are you creating in YOUR world with YOUR thoughts? In a sense, the world really does revolve around you. It constantly swirls with the energetic frequency of your thoughts and feelings. These are the magnets in your life which attract or repel everything in your life. All of life attempts to join you with similar vibrations. This isn’t some magic thing or a line of BS. It’s based on the laws of physics. Have you ever seen the short video of 32 metronomes that synchronize to be in time? Take a minute to watch the video below. I think you’ll…

  • Ancient Wisdom,  Beliefs & Intentions,  Encouragement & Inspiration,  Finding Balance,  Health & Wellness,  Peaceful Living,  Wellness

    What is Reiki?

    Reiki is a lovely Japanese technique for stress reduction and relaxation of the body and mind. It typically increases feelings of peacefulness, balance and wholeness.  This, then, aids in promoting healing as it facilitates stress reduction and relaxation. By definition, Rei (ray) ki (key) is spiritual energy. We all have spiritual (or life force) energy. If one’s “life force energy” is low or not moving freely, we are more likely to become sick or feel stress.  If our life force energy is high, we are more capable of being happy and healthy. Reiki is a complementary approach to well-being and can safely be used in conjunction with other allopathic (traditional…