Archive for Being Conscious

CAN YOU GIVE YOURSELF 5 MINUTES TO DO WHAT YOU LOVE TODAY?

Simplify. Simplify. Simplify.  This rule holds true even when fulfilling our deepest dreams and desires.  I have found from experience that a simple beginning on a project or a passion is all that is needed to ignite my internal flame and bring more joy into your life.  During my last Soul Coaching group in February, I made [...]

Take the 7 Day TV/Reading Deprivation Challenge!

For those of you that follow me on Facebook, you know that Sunday I began a 7 day reading and TV detox.  That’s right, no reading or TV for one week.  The reading detox is part of  The Artist’s Way curriculum.  “Each of us is a unique, creative individual.  But we often blur that uniqueness with sugar, [...]

VIDEO – CAN YOU LET YOURSELF BE FULLY SEEN?

Give yourself a 20 minute gift sometime this week and watch this amazing video from Brene Brown.  She shares her insights in a witty and wonderful way on embracing vulnerability as a key to overcoming shame, fear and our struggles to believe we are enough.   I LOVE this video.  After viewing, I would love to here [...]

CAN A MATERIAL GIRL REALLY LEARN TO EMBRACE SIMPLICITY?

The universe has such an incredible sense of humor.  I have been taught humility time and time again by having to embrace things that previously repulsed me.  For example, today I do not eat sugar and I do not drink alcohol.  There was a time in my life when I would not have been your friend if [...]

WHAT WILL THE NEW YEAR BE LIKE? I WONDER!

This is one of my favorite lines from one of my favorite movies, The Sound of Music.  Ok, I have modified it slightly.  In the movie, Julia Andrew’s character Maria actually asks “What will this day be like?  I wonder. What will my future be? I wonder.”   Today, I strive to live my life from a place of [...]

WHAT WOULD YOUR 80 YEAR OLD AND 8 YEAR OLD SELVES REVEAL TO YOU?

In my Artist’s Way group a few weeks ago, Julia Cameron had us do a powerful letter writing exercise.  She asked us to consider what we would say to our present day self from two different perspectives – our 8 year old self, and our 80 year old self.  I can’t describe for you how profound [...]

CONFRONTING FEAR – THE BIG BREAKTHROUGH

As promised, here is the follow up to my last post – Confronting Fear – The breakdown before the breakthrough.  In this post, I shared how I recently spent almost a month paralyzed by my friendly nemesis, or “bogeyman” as I like to refer to it, FEAR.  I felt like I was wearing cement shoes, [...]

CONFRONTING FEAR – THE BREAKDOWN BEFORE THE BREAKTHROUGH

I have been stuck.  Paralyzed.  Stopped.  I completed my TV detox in early August and came face to face with my inner most thoughts and it wasn’t pretty. During these last few weeks I would love to say I took everything I learned about confronting my fears, being present in my life, not escaping when [...]

WHAT MAKES YOU LAUGH? PLEASE TELL!

HELP!! I realize I am not laughing enough.  I want to laugh more.  I think the “seriousness” of meditation, silence and my recent TV detox has created a desire for me to be more lighthearted and playful in my life.   According to a study by Dr. Michael Titze, a German psychologist, “In the 1950s people used to laugh [...]

VIDEO – HOW TO BE ALONE

  WOW.  STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING AND GIVE YOURSELF THIS GIFT FOR 5 MINUTES TODAY. This video took my breath away.  Its message is simple, beautiful and truthful.  Thought it provided a good follow-up to my most recent post about my third week of  TV Detox – Confronting Loneliness. It says it all.  Appreciate the [...]

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