How to be Your Natural Self When You Are Not Sure What That Is (Hint: Gently...
In a perfect world I want to be relaxed, comfortable and free to express myself openly. And I don’t want to worry about being judged for doing it. I used to believe this was next to impossible, but...
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It’s the 31st of December, the last day of the year. I felt like I spent the whole month of December contemplating life and its meaning, much more than I ever had. The truth is that I just experienced...
View ArticleHonoring our Authentic Self
When we are small children, before we learn from others that happiness depends on anything else but our innate joy of life — we are naturally happy. Small children, unless they are hungry, ill or hurt...
View ArticleNavigating Life From My Authentic Self
It is my belief that each of us is created out of an invisible “something” or “presence.” I call this presence, this entity, God — as do so many others throughout the world. After much study and...
View ArticleNavigating Our Changes in Becoming an Authentic Person
What does the authentic self mean? It is who you are, including your innate wisdom, in your deepest place — in your core. What does it mean to live authentically? It means you must go inward and spend...
View ArticleNavigating Life from the Authentic Self
The authentic self is the foundation of actualizing our evolutionary potential, and it is our birthright. It is an expression of being: us to the very core. It makes sense then that we can reap so many...
View ArticleLiving Authentically
Authentic living is a process of knowing who we are at the soul level and then, essentially, expressing that soul knowledge out into the world. Being our authentic selves is a “work in progress” that...
View ArticleHow to Live From Your Authentic Self
The permanent, more authentic, part of you did not come to Earth to live from fears and mental limitations, but rather came to become aware of and overcome whatever blocks hold you back. The soul part...
View ArticleComing Home to our Authentic Self
For many of us, life moves on a fast track. We are constantly jumping from one thing to another. It is all about doing and getting through our day as best as we can. How do we feel at the day’s end? Is...
View ArticleYour Self
Imagine time slowing down for a second, at any given situation. Perhaps when you overhear gossip, or when you’re having a heated conversation, being confronted directly; any time before the consequent...
View ArticleSticks & Stones: Letting Go of a Deep Hurt
Being 19 was the bomb! I was off at college, with no parental controls and loving the freedom and flexibility of creating my life. Each day was a learning opportunity — to discover who I was. Did I...
View ArticleSpirit Leaves: Authentic Beauty
There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet… — T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Raised in the old energies, I worked to perfect my persona,...
View ArticleWhere I am Most Loved
“And Max, the king of all wild things, was lonely and wanted to be where someone loved him best of all.” ― Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are Many of us spend our lifetimes painfully searching...
View ArticleSpirit Uranus Speaks: Self-Awareness Exercise
You are capable of being aware of things from many different levels, and they are in you — although you are not conscious of them, for you have shut down this ability. The ability is hidden underneath...
View ArticleHealing is Spiritual
Have you given much thought to what healing is and how it happens? Like many, I took healing for granted. If I rested and gave it a little time, I got better. That was it. Healing was bandaging a wound...
View ArticleIf It’s Not Okay to Say It to Someone Else, It’s Not Okay to Say It to Yourself
Adapted from the book Out of Love: Finding Your Way Back to Self-Compassion I thought I had to be self-critical. If I wasn’t, who knew what would happen, what bad things I’d do, what a loser I’d be? I...
View ArticleSelf-Care Is Your Prayer
An excerpt from Your Life is Your Prayer: Wake Up to the Spiritual Power in Everything You Do “You, yourself, as much as anyone in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” — The Buddha...
View ArticleHow to Defeat What’s Defeating You
The biggest problem facing us as individuals is that we have all been caught up in the race of looking for relief. Our time would be spent far more profitably looking for strength. We would never...
View ArticleFreedom from the Bondage of Self through Yoga Meditation
What is freedom? If you asked 100 people what freedom is, you may very well get 100 different answers. The reason for this is that no two people are exactly alike and each has his or her own set of...
View ArticleFinding Self-acceptance through Gratitude
Never in my life would I ever have thought I’d be grateful for my small, wide, Flintstone feet. Yep, these little piggies shaped like a rectangle get more compliments, all because I can find great...
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