Trust Your Emotions

All the turning points I have ever experienced in my life have come after moments of clear honesty with myself or at least one other person about something that didn't "feel" quite right.

Hitting rock bottom isn't necessarily what it takes to make a change. Knowing you've hit rock bottom, you're feeling angry, bored, unsettled, disappointed, impatient, glum, or whatever it is for you, and having the courage to look that emotion in the eye, I believe, is really the first step.

All emotions offer gifts--even the ones we don't like so much. If we have the courage to receive them, they can liberate us far beyond anything else life offers. From being honest about our feelings comes the inability to pretend any longer, and the power to finally do something about whatever it is they are trying to say.

A Brighter View

Our experiences in life often have more to do with the stories we're telling ourselves inside our heads than anything else. When it seems as if we've come upon an impasse, or as if "they" are in our way, it can be helpful to ask ourselves if there might, just might, be another way to see what we are assuming is truth.

Our perception of others as judgmental might be instead that they communicate differently than us. Obstacles may simply be a delay so all the details of a future miracle have time to line up perfectly. Silence of a loved one or dear friend may mean they are just waiting for the perfect time to show how much they care.

What inner "truths" would help your perception of reality look a little brighter?

Step-By-Step

When I watch my toddler son learn new skills, I'm reminded how he always does it through trial and error. First he tries this, then that, until finally he finds something that works. He takes that one tiny learning forward and graduallly, inch by inch, he's soon mastered something phenomenal.

In the same way, when we're striving to change our lives as adults, it's nice to remember that if today, we learn one small thing and adopt it into our arsenal, we're on our way.

Creating Beauty

We often think of successful endeavors as the product of lots of action, drive and hard work.

Great works, however, also come when we have cultivated a sensitivity to the nature of energy. As we sense energy building, growing into a new form, we wait, watch and listen.

When we have the courage to wait as the thing takes form, letting the creation guide us rather than the other way around, we are often amazed at what can be birthed through us.

Flooding Abundance

They say the key to manifesting abundance is the willingness to receive as well as give.

As I watch river waters flooding with all the rain we've had lately, I can't help but think it's not just being open to the wealth heading our way that's important, but having a place to put it all.

When we don't just receive, but cherish, care for and nourish all the treasures life brings us, we don't have to worry so much about grasping more, more, more--instead we can experience the joy of watching what we've already been given grow.

The Secret Of Success

The more committed I am to learning through the act of teaching, the more students I seem to magnetize.

The more committed I am to giving, the more I am gaining.

The more committed I am to loving, the more loved I feel.

I am slowly learning that possibilities really are infinite when we're humble enough to be willing business partners with the divine.

Accept Where You Are

The point of departure for making our passions come true is always in the present moment.

When we have the courage to see our lives as they truly are, with open eyes--accepting whatever it is we see with compassion and gratitude--that's when things really start to happen.

Acceptance: True, honest acceptance is always at the root of powerful change.

Choose To Believe

Sometimes all we need to make the energy in our lives shift is to choose to believe that everything is happening just as it should.

Judging or striving to "make something happen" gives way and acceptance steps into its place. Loving the Now becomes our operating focus, giving us a new source of energy.

We are carried forward to a place more aligned with our spirit than ever before.

Soften Your Hold

When we reach for something better, sometimes we hold too tightly to our dreams, our wishes, our old way of doing things.

When we choose to instead trust that our intentions will be manifested easily, effortlessly and joyfully--not only does our grasp softens, making the room for miracles to happen, life also becomes a lot more fun!

Make "You" Happy

When we stop worrying about what others think, when we stop trying to please “them”—we become freed once more to please ourselves.

By bringing our energies in from external sources and centering them within, we once more have all we need to create the lives our souls want us to have—and so much more.

Be In The Now

The best way to attract what we seek is to be where we are.

We can yearn, we can strive, we can desire. And then, there comes the time to return home--to root, to kiss the ground and be grateful as we wait for all the wishes we have cast to fall lovingly into our net from a greater source.

The more we are here now and grateful for all the magnificent good in this moment, the more we attract miracles wherever we go.

Have The Courage To Let Go

Making our dreams come true is often more about letting go than taking any grand action.

When we have the courage to let go of anything standing in our way--and that includes the dreams we could make come true (if we worked hard enough), those we think we "should" make come true, or any other distraction taking our energy--and choose instead to honor the unique dream our soul wants more than anything in the world, life becomes magical.

Letting the rest all fall away, the light from within guides us home!

Enjoy The Adventure

Life is an adventure, one led by a very wise tour guide.

If we don't yet have what we are seeking, we can pretty well be sure that we are being prepared for it or something better to come our way.

Best thing to do is to open to the experience, sit back and enjoy the ride!

Open To A Greater Flow

Letting go usually doesn't require effort, sweat and toil but rather opening to a great force waiting to do the work for us.

Cleansing happens when flood waters rise and wash away anything not rooted deep enough to stay. We simply have to open to its flow.

Make Space For What's Next

Sometimes when I look around, I realize that all this "stuff" is taking up space I could be using for something else.

That prompts me to ask the question: "If not this, then what?"

If everything is a choice--my thoughts, my possessions, my beliefs--then letting go then becomes not time for grief but for celebrating what's to come.