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Tap Into Your Intuition Through Wonder

1/29/2019

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Can you think of an occasion where you’ve had a gut feeling that something wasn’t right about a decision you needed to make or a situation that you were facing, but didn’t listen to your intuition and later regretted it? Do you often doubt your intuition in favor of hard evidence to support your decisions? If so, you may be underutilizing one of the most powerful tools you have...your intuitive intelligence.

In our American culture, we are conditioned to not use it, not to trust it. Instead, we are conditioned to make decisions based on our head and our intellect. Because of this, most of us have become intuitively deaf. 

In timеѕ of challenge or decision making, it's easy to get caught up in the need to control, the fear of failure, of not being right,  of making a bad decision, or of being judged. Our negative thоughtѕ саn spin оut of соntrоl. The negative mind chatter and thought patterns can be соnvinсing, conniving, аnd сrаftу. Your mind and your ego will trу tо persuade уоu tо pay attention tо it and nоthing еlѕе.

We make lists of pros and cons, analyze things to the nth degree, ask other's opinions and try to feel 100% confident before making decisions. 
Our ego, our negative thoughts and mind сhаttеr blосkѕ access to оur intuitiоn. It convinces us that it’s more important (аnd ѕаfеr) tо focus оn our fear and wоrriеѕ rather than thе wiѕdоm оf your intuitiоn. 

Our intuition is our best navigation system available. Intuition is not just an ability, but a way of life. It’s paying attention to the flow of your inner experience, it’s being aware, it’s having trust and faith. When we pay attention to our intuition it puts us into the flow of the universe allowing us to create our future with more ease.

One easy way to begin to ignite and tap into your intuition is through practicing wonder. Sonia Choquette states in her book, Trust Your Vibes At Work, and Let Them Work for You, "The minute you turn your awareness over to that wonder, your mind steps aside and your intuition becomes activated. Wondering invites invention, adventure, and exploration of things to come. It shifts you out of defense and self-preservation and into creativity and collaboration with your higher self. Often we are too busy trying to figure things out to allow ourselves the opportunity to wonder. Yet wondering taps into our right brain (the creative side) and explores new possibilities and unknown variables, while figuring things out taps into our left brain (the logical side) and draws from past experiences and known variables. Solution arise from within, but we rarely think to look there, being conditioned to seek outwardly from others instead."

The solution to a challenge often lurks just below the surface of your awareness and simply needs to be tapped through exploration. Stretching our imagination muscles like we did when we were a child is a key step. Wonder on paper, wonder out loud, wonder with a trusted friend, have fun and wonder. The creative, intuitive mind is also playful mind. 

An exercise I love that helps me to create the new story is to play the "imagine if" or "what if" game. When playing the "imagine if" and "what if" game there are no limitations, no rules, no restrictions, no logic. You get to freely create using your imagination what you would like the story to look like. You can play this game on your own through journaling, drawing or talking out loud. It's a great game to play while driving.

My favorite way to play the "what if" game is with a trusted friend or family member. The synergy that is created by the amplified energy of two or more people engaging their imaginations can bring forth the really juicy stuff!

​Ignite and tap into your intuition through wonder, imagination and creative play!
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Keep Moving

1/22/2019

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Yesterday was Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday and it marks a National holiday here in the United States. Each year, on his birthday, I like to take time to reflect on his message. This quote stood out to me this year, especially given my post from last week, "If you can't fly, then run. If you can't run, then walk. If you can't walk, then crawl, but by all means, keep moving."

That's really the important part right? Keep moving, do what you can, do something, anything. I know sometimes I feel like it has to be of a certain measure in order to count, in order to be good enough. I'm hard on myself and can get stuck beating myself up. Doing this doesn't serve me. It doesn't motivate me to keep moving forward, it causes me to stay stuck.

Instead I am choosing to celebrate every movement forward. You meditated for 5 minutes today, great! You walked a mile on the treadmill, great! You skipped peanut M&M's and chose grapes, great! This helps to motivate me to keep it up, to do one more thing that will move me forward. Otherwise, I'm apt to say screw it and eat the whole bag of M&M's. 

Every small win, every movement forward is a step in the right direction. Celebrate it, embrace it, feel good about your movement forward, this will make it easier to take the next step.

​I believe that our world right now needs all hands on deck. The more people moving forward to make their own lives more positive and committed to healing the world the better. If each of us keep moving forward in whatever way we can we will create momentum, shifts of movement forward.

Sometimes the challenges in front of us personally and globally feel overwhelming and too large, this can paralyze us and keep us stuck. Just keep moving forward one small step at a time. It all makes a difference. One more positive choice after another. Stay in the present, not in the past, and keep choosing and moving.

Get involved, do something to help. Be of service to others and to the world. Ask what you can give versus what you can get. Sometimes we get so focused on ourselves, our challenges, our insecurities and needs that we can lose site of being of service to others. Shifting our focus to being of service makes us feel good. By being of service to others you are in turn helping yourself and creating personal movement. Trust in that.

A famous quote by Marianne Williamson comes to mind. It motivates and inspires me to keep moving: 


“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” 
― Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"
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"I Can't" Versus "I Won't"

1/15/2019

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Wow, we are already halfway through the first month of 2019! Most of us set resolutions, intentions, and goals for the  new year. How are you doing on your resolutions? Are you moving in the direction toward them?

I recently read the book Letting Go by David R. Hawkins, in it he talks about "I can't" versus "I won't". In the chapter on apathy and depression he writes, "Another way out of apathy is to look at the payoff we are getting out of the apathetic attitudes. The payoff may be in the face-saving excuses to cover up what is actually fear. Since in reality, we are very capable beings, most 'I can'ts'  are really 'I won'ts.'" Gosh darn it all anyway, I hate it/love it when I'm reminded of truths like that!

His words spoke to me because sometimes I hold myself back. I let fear take over and convince myself that "I can't" when the actual  reality is that "I won't." Hawkins states, "Behind all of the 'I can'ts' are merely 'I won'ts.' The 'I won'ts' mean 'I am afraid to' or 'I am ashamed to' or 'I have too much pride to try, for fear I might fail.'" He goes on to say that, "Apathy and depression are the prices we pay for having settled for and bought into our smallness."

In this new year, I invite you to examine your "I can'ts" and determine if they are really "I won'ts".  Being more conscious through the realization that we are choosing a state of being makes a big difference to our self-concept than to think I am a victim and "I can't."


Let's make the conscious choice to not let fear paralyze us and hold us back, keeping us stuck in our old stories, our old programming, and our smallness. You are not too old, too busy, not qualified, or whatever excuse, whatever story you are choosing to hold onto as to why you are not going after your dreams, your intentions, your goals.

You can always choose again. Every moment of every day you can choose again. Be courageous, YOU are enough, YOU are not a victim, YOU are a powerful and amazing creation of God. Let your beautiful light shine bright. You've got this, you've totally got this. 
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