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Managing Your Energy

7/27/2021

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You know how sometimes you know something but you don't act on it? For example, you know it's important to eat healthy foods, but you make it to the end of the day and your choices don't reflect it. Or, you know that being reactionary isn't in alignment with how you want to lead your life, but you go ahead and react anyway.

I haven't been doing a great job at times with acting on what I know, and at times I've done a really poor job. In particular when it comes to managing my energy when I'm being triggered. I needed some reminders and decided to share them in this week's post because we all can use reminders from time to time. 


An important part of my energy practice includes bookending my day with intention. For me ideally this includes a gratitude practice, prayer, meditation, Reiki and gentle stretching. For others it may also include journaling, yoga, reading, envisioning, etc.

Another key to my energy practice is using tools to help shift my energy when needed. Do you know how to and practice shifting your energy? There are many ways to shift energy, having options in my toolbox has been important for me to living an intentional life. 

Gratitude is one of my key energy shifter tools. I practice gratitude as part of my morning and bedtime routine, but also mindfully throughout the day. I love how my view on life, the lens through which I see the world, has shifted since bookending my day with gratitude. It's also really helpful way for me to keep my energy in alignment with my intention throughout the day.

Another energy shifter tool that I frequently use is putting my hand over my heart and focusing on filling my heart space up with love and gratitude. I then take that energy and intentionally push it out into the universe by inhaling deeply and on the exhale envisioning sending out that feeling of love and gratitude into the world. When I'm experiencing challenging emotions this is one of my go to tools. 

I also love using the STOP technique as an energy shifter. S...stop, T...take 3 deep breaths, O...observe how you feel and your environment, P...practice gratitude. Even just the practice of taking deep breaths helps to shift our energy and affords us the opportunity to respond in a mindful way.


Everything is energy, we are made of energy and all energy is entangled, It may look like my body has an end and your body has a beginning and that we are separate, but we really are not. My cells and energy and the energy field around me co-mingles with your energy and your energy field. There is really no place where I end and you begin.

The conscious mind is all energy. Thoughts are energy, they can actually be energetically measured. The invisible force of energy is more powerful at shaping the physical realm than the physical realm itself. Consciousness is the shaper of the universe in which we live, thought is what shapes the world. Scientists are finding that e
nergy is more important at shaping your biology than chemistry is, that has amazing implications to our overall health and well-being. 

I invite you to practice being intentional about your energy and using shifters to stay in alignment throughout your day. By staying heart-centered and outwardly expressing love, kindness and gratitude you are shifting energy and positively shaping the world. 
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Are You Searching For The Right Partner? Or, Are You Searching For The Right Relationship?

7/19/2021

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Most people spend energy searching for the ‘right person’ to partner with. They create a checklist of characteristics and qualities they’re looking for in another person (either in their head or written on paper). Although this can be a useful step in the process, taking this approach is missing a very important part of the equation.

A relationship consists of two people coming together to form a union that is its own separate entity. There’s you, there’s them, and then there’s the relationship...both of you together. What qualities are you looking for in this ‘right relationship'? 

Relationships are the most difficult human venture. It takes effort in order for them to thrive and meet the needs of its members.  Establishing a framework, principles for the relationship, is critical to creating a partnership where the entity and its creators can 
flourish. Because, i
f we're pointing in different directions we're not going to be harmonious. 

Building awareness around the following will help to create this framework:

  • Holding as a priority growing as individuals and as a partnership.
  • Cultivating emotional safety within the relationship.
  • A commitment to communication and compromise.
  • An understanding of and a commitment to nourishing the strengths and maneuvering through the challenges of the partnership.
  • Identifying core relationship values, terms and agreements and the devotion to holding them as sacred.

​This does not give consideration to everything a relationship needs in order to flourish, but it gives some ideas to ponder within your own relationships. Giving importance to this additional step can make all the difference in whether your relationships can withstand the test of time in a harmonious and fulfilling way.

Honoring your partner's needs and the relationship needs takes awareness and devotion.
This is what we do, this is what we don't do, and holding each other to it. Choice by choice we can either due harm to our relationships or we can heal them. 
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