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Oct 4, 2022
30 Days of Adventure Challenge - courageously embrace the unknown and create the life of your dreams
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Sep 27, 2022
TRUTH 💖 Three Qualities to Recognize Our Deepest Intentions
Today, let's get back in touch with our deepest intention so that we can live in more alignment with the truth of what we really are.
"Before you agree to do anything that might add even the smallest amount of stress to your life, ask yourself, "What is my truest intention?"
Give yourself time to let a yes resound within you. When it's right, I guarantee that your entire body will feel it."
― Oprah Winfre
👁 TODAY'S INTENTION
When we are in touch with our deepest intention, we embody a sincere loving presence that manifests beauty, freedom, and love. Let's feel more into this core of what we are by remembering, embodying, and inhabiting the deepest yearnings of an awakening heart.
🧸 HAVE YOU NOTICED?
Our deepest intention is what we are.
When we go really deep, beyond the survival-mode intentions, we find that our deeper intention is love—that's what we are.
Beyond the limbic intentions that run off of patterns of the past and anxieties of the future, we find that our deeper intention is awareness—that's what we are.
Beyond our egoic desires, our deeper intention is connectedness—that's what we are.
"Gamble everything for love, if you are a true human being. If not, leave this gathering. Half-heartedness doesn’t reach into majesty."
― Rumi
🧸 LET'S REFLECT
Three qualities to recognize our deepest intention:
(1) Our deepest intention is embodied—does my whole body resounds with a passionate yes?
(2) Our deepest intention applies now—does this intention relate to this present moment?
(3) Our deepest intention is manifesting potential—does this intention inspire and ignite my creative life force energy?
🧘 MINDFUL MOMENT
Taking a moment to feel your body breathing you.
Feel the life that's here.
Reflecting on the truth of impermanence.
Letting the fact that everything will change, awaken us to our deepest aspirations.
If you had a year to live, what would you do? What would you want to experience? What would your longing be? What would matter? Letting this be as real as it can be.
If you had a week to live, what would you do? What would you want to experience? What would really matter to your heart?
If you had a day to live, what would you do? What would you want to experience? What would really matter to your heart? What would you long for? What would you care about?
If you had just a few moments to live, what would you do? What would you want to experience? What would your heart long for? What would most matter?
Letting this longing fill your mind, body, and heart.
Whatever the longing ... for love, for light, for healing, for connection, for peace ... letting it be as big as it is
Filling your whole being with this liberating intention.
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"For I have learned that every heart will get What it prays for Most."
— Hafez
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👯♂️ COMMUNITY CONVERSATION
If this was your last day to live, what would you do?
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Sep 27, 2022
INTENTION - Awakening to What You Are and What is Most Important
Today, let's reawaken our deepest intentions so that we can realign our actions with what is most important.
As we wake up to what we really are, the wisdom of our hearts grows louder. From the stillness of our heart, clarity into our most liberating intentions is found. We can trust in this boundless radiant presence of our awakening hearts. Inspiring seeds for a beautiful future takes root each time we remember what it is that is most important.
📖 INSPIRED POEM
Half Life
by Stephen Levine
We walk through half our life
as if it were a fever dream
barely touching the ground
our eyes half open
our heart half closed.
Not half knowing who we are
we watch the ghost of us drift
from room to room
through friends and lovers
never quite as real as advertised.
Not saying half we mean
or meaning half we say
we dream ourselves
from birth to birth
seeking some true self.
Until the fever breaks
and the heart can not abide
a moment longer
as the rest of us awakens,
summoned from the dream,
not half caring for anything but love.
🧸 LET'S REFLECT
What intention is operating right now?
A limbic intention is rooted in fear, grasping, addiction, doubt, shame, defensiveness ... the ego's will.
A liberating intention is rooted in love, freedom, peace, joy ... the heart's will.
How do we wake up from a limbic intention, into our more mature/evolved being? We recognize what's happening and bring kindness to it.
🧘 MINDFUL MOMENT
Bringing attention inward. Feel this body breathing. Arriving more fully into presence.
Bringing a recent situation to mind that triggered reactivity within you.
Noticing what aspects of this situation were uncomfortable for you.
Noticing any egoic intentions to protect, or defend, or separate.
Sensing what unmet needs your feeling? What is at the core of your reactivity?
Hand on the heart, bringing compassion to whatever you notice.
What do you really long for within this situation? What is the heart's will? What really matters here? What is the deeper intention?
How would your awakening heart respond more compassionately to this situation?
How does this situation help to deepen your wisdom and awaken your heart and mind?
👯♂️ COMMUNITY CONVERSATION
What is one liberating intention you've discovered to be at the core of your being?
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Sep 23, 2022
SELF-COMPASSION - Nurturing Emotionally Reactive Parts of Ourself
Today, let's nurture those emotionally reactive parts of ourself by combining two powerful methods of self-compassion.
Self-compassion naturally arises in the moments that we recognize we are suffering and intentionally nurture our inner life with self-care. When the intention to awaken self-compassion is sincere, the smallest gesture of turning towards love, of offering love (even if initially it feels awkward) will nourish your heart, ease the mind, heal the body, and feed the soul.
⚒️ THE METHOD
Let's merge two powerful methods of awakening through self-compassion.
Internal Family Systems (IFS) is the evidence-based psychotherapy model that reveals how each of our inner "parts" contains valuable qualities (especially those reactive parts). Each of these parts are sub-personalities of our core Self—that knows how to heal, allowing us to become integrated and whole.
RAIN is a synonym for paying attention (Recognize, Accept, Investigate, Nurture) that helps us presence our reactive parts and provide the support for working with intense and difficult emotions.
🧘 LET'S PRACTICE
Let's move through the practice of RAIN while compassionately speaking directly to a reactive part of our self:
Taking a moment to get comfortable. Creating stillness. Taking a few breaths to invite all of yourself to this moment.
Bringing to mind a part of your self that has been experiencing difficult emotional reactivity recently.
R – Recognize what is happening, by asking this part:
How as this part been feeling emotionally reactive and unsettled? What sensations does this bring up?
A – Allow life to be just as it is, by letting this part know:
I see you. Yes, you are welcome here. Thank you for making yourself known. It's okay to be here. I know you have something valuable to share.
I – Investigate with a curious attention, by asking this part:
How do you want to be with me? What emotions are you feeling right now? What do you most need right now?
N – Nurture with loving presence, by affirming to this part:
I'm sorry for the ways I may have disregarded you. Please forgive me for the ways I have not been listening. Thank you for showing me what you need to feel nurtured and whole. I love you.
Be still for another minute or two and let yourself rest in this clearing.
📿 TRAIL MANTRA
All parts are welcome.
👯♂️ COMMUNITY CONVERSATION
What is one way you can show yourself more self-compassion today?
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Sep 22, 2022
RELEASE 💥 consistently reclaiming energy
Today, let's reclaim more life-force energy by releasing patterns, again and again, with patient endurance.
Once we recognize a pattern and develop a practice to disidentify with it, the last step is to release the pattern again and again with the practice. Whenever the pattern rises, release it with attention. Step by step, all the triggers, associations, and components of the pattern are identified and we are able to experience them in attention. The unreleased experience is released in awareness, and the pattern falls apart.
🧸 HAVE YOU NOTICED?
The power of patterns to degrade attention is impressive.
Most patterns have been in place for a long time. They consist of solid structures of beliefs, personality traits, and behaviors. They use every available resource to degrade attention—exaggerated fears, distorted perceptions, depression, elaborate realizations, or physical illness. So good on you! It's courageous and commendable work to consistently dismantle a pattern and reclaim the precious life-force energy they require to operate.
🦁 COURAGEOUS ACTION
Consistent releasing is the key to freedom.
As we observe and release deeper and deeper into a pattern's structure, the energy stored in the pattern is released. The energy of the pattern, which is transformed into attention, increases our ability to release deeper into the pattern. The more a pattern is released, the more energy the pattern will try to consume to maintain its operation. Consistency in the form of patient endurance is the only way to get through.
💪 LET'S PRACTICE!
Whenever a pattern arises, release it immediately, with consistent R & R:
(1) Recognize when your attention is being overtaken by a pattern.
Initial recognition of a pattern usually takes place after it operates because its very function is to erode attention.
(2) Releasing the pattern by bringing attention to its operation.
Notice how the operation of the pattern affects your emotions, body, and mind.
Repeat as often as you notice a pattern.
In the end, the work of releasing patterns comes down to a single question: who is going to live your life—you or your patterns?
Recognize and Release whenever you can, it may just save your life.
📣 TRAIL MANTRA
With this breath, I release.
👯♂️ COMMUNITY CONVERSATION
What one thing has been key to your commitment of releasing patterns?
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Sep 21, 2022
PRACTICE 🧘 routine methods for pattern interrupting
Today, let's develop a simple and reliable practice that interrupts the attention-erosion process of a pattern.
"If someone comes along and shoots an arrow into your heart, it’s fruitless to stand there and yell at the person. It would be much better to turn your attention to the fact that there’s an arrow in your heart."
— Pema Chödrön, Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living
👁 TODAY'S INTENTION
The purpose of a pattern interrupting practice is to reclaim the energy and attention that a pattern needs to run. The practice can be very simple—for instance, if you observe that you are triggered into reactivity by stop-and-go traffic, rest your attention on your breath whenever the traffic comes to a stop. Constant observation inevitably reveals other possibilities—let's explore!
🧐 HAVE YOU NOTICED?
Patterns are only limited by the amount of energy available to them.
Patterns have no internal mechanisms that limit their operation or evolution. To dismantle a pattern, we have to disrupt the operation of the pattern by systematically bringing attention to its operation. The energy then flows into attention, not into the pattern.
💪 LET'S PRACTICE
Simplicity and consistency for the win!
Intentionally changing our behavior from a well-set pattern can be challenging. But as we play with different ways to practice reclaiming our attention, identification with a pattern becomes weaker and weaker.
(1) Bring to mind a common pattern you've noticed running your life.
(2) Think of something you can do to remind yourself to return to attention as the pattern in running:
• bring attention to a big juicy breath
• snap a rubber band around your wrist
• bring awareness to sensations in the body
• find one thing in your environment that sparks joy
• anything that reclaims your attention will do
As we intentionally separate from a pattern, we'll naturally come up with more and more ways to practice. Enjoy reclaiming that precious energy✨ 😃 🙌
👯♂️ COMMUNITY CONVERSATION
What is one practice that has helped you reclaim your attention from a pattern's reactivity?
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Sep 20, 2022
DISIDENTIFY 🙅 dying to a pattern's world
Today, let's practice dying to a pattern by disidentifying with it.
A student asked Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, "Why do we practice?"
He replied, "To make the best of a bad situation."
👁 TODAY'S INTENTION
Disidentification is the process through which a pattern becomes an object of attention. The big fear in disidentification is that we won't be able to function without the pattern. Fair enough! The more our identity relies on a pattern, the more it will feel like a part of us will have to die to be free from it. Trust the process: as we die to a pattern's mechanical attention-eroding process, we naturally open to more presence and live with more intention.
🔥 RELEASING RITUALS
How do we develop the willingness to die?
by honestly facing the predicament we are in
by opening to how things are
by questioning the nature of things
by caring about what is
by practicing, one inspired intention at a time ...
💪 LET'S PRACTICE
To disidentify a pattern, we simply and consistently bring attention to it.
In disidentification, we really see how we can be more present in our life, but the attachment to patterns is so strong that we often abandon ourselves at precisely this point. For this reason, choosing weaker patterns to practice disidentifying with may be more useful than stronger ones.
(1) Bring to mind a pattern you have recognized in yourself.
(2) See the pattern as a process that operates independently of your intention.
(3) Observe the pattern in attention.
(4) The pattern will appear to disappear.
(5) You will feel a release of energy, a deeper pattern underneath, or both.
(6) Return to seeing the pattern as a process.
Observe the pattern in attention, and repeat.
📣 AFFIRMATION
I am pure awareness.
(In Sanskrit: सो चैतन्य Soham Chaitanya)
I am not my thoughts.
I am aware of my thoughts.
I am not my feelings.
I am aware of my feelings.
I am not my patterns.
I am aware of my patterns.
I release all that does not serve into pure awareness.
👯♂️ COMMUNITY CONVERSATION
What is one thing you notice when you hold a pattern in attention?
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Sep 19, 2022
RECOGNIZE 🥸 clearly seeing patterned behavior
Today, let's recognize when we're operating from reactive patterns so that we can live with more intention.
"I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars." – Og Mandino
TODAY'S INTENTION
Patterns operate to degrade our attention because they operate from fears of the past or anxieties of the future. By recognizing the energetic drain of reactive patterns, we create the opportunity to live with more presence in ways that align with our most liberating intentions.
HAVE YOU NOTICED?
Reactive patterns operate stronger in adversity.
Friends, teachers, or significant others are very helpful in our effort to recognize patterned behavior. Every more helpful (though more difficult to appreciate in the moment), are the contributions that come from people and situations that create more adversity within us. By paying attention to how we react under stress, we can see patterned behavior clearly.
Reactive patterns create unfulfilled expectations.
Careful observation of actions and their results eventually leads us to recognize patterns. When our actions are consistently contrary to our intentions or expectations, we know we're operating out of a pattern.
LET'S PRACTICE!
To recognize, we simply bring attention to the pattern, again and again, and observe, again and again.
1) Take a reactive pattern you have observed within yourself.
2) Sit in attention, and let the pattern play out in your imagination.
3) Any of the following points can be used to recognize the pattern more clearly:
• shifts in the body, emotional state, or perception of things
• a repeated chain of reactive emotions
• the way the pattern projects a world
• familiar automatic behaviors—physical, verbal, mental
• familiar results, such as how your relationship with others is affected
• a divergence between your intention and what actually happens
NICE WORK!
Honestly taking a look at our patterns is a courageous practice.
It can feel vulnerable as we feel the unfelt emotions that created the pattern in the first place. The repeated practice of recognizing and observing a pattern cultivates a higher level of attention—interrupting the pattern, releasing stuck energy, and dissolving the pattern's operation.
AFFIRMATION
Lightness is my true self.
In Sanskrit: Om Svayam Agurutva.
The inner light I keep is always on and always alive.
Nothing heavy can obstruct who I really am deep down inside.
I am endlessly renewed in the present moment, so here, and now, I abide.
I recognize patterns as they arise, and in doing so become free from their grip.
COMMUNITY CONVERSATION
What is one supportive relationship that helps you recognize your reactive patterns of behavior?
We'd love to hear in our community comments at:
https://iam.intentioninspired.com/posts/the-daily-intent-recognize-clearly-seeing-patterned-behavior
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Jul 11, 2022
REFLECTION 🤩 discovering our greater capability – (The "Art" of Self-Discovery: 8 of 8)
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Let's discover our worthiness and within it, our greater capability.
This week, we dig and delve deeper into our understanding of our own selves to realize that we can handle life's challenges with competency and grace. With our observation we can prove that we are worthy and deserving of love and happiness.
Our self-esteem is one of our deepest psychological needs.
We are generally our worst critics and our judgments of ourselves dictate how fully we allow ourselves to live and love. It can be said that our "concept of self tends to be our destiny". It is our higher self that knows the truth of who we are without judgment or analysis. In this segment, we look at our higher self.
Episode art is called "Celestial Union" by Rassouli
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Jul 6, 2022
EXPRESSING 😃 revealing our Self without restraint - (The "Art" of Self Discovery: 7 of 8)
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It may have occurred to you as you worked through the last segment, that it is not only our "negative" emotions that we have been burying.
We are a social species. Our connection to our "tribe" is of the utmost importance to our well-being. Sometimes we try to make sure that we do not "upset that applecart" by seeming like "too much". If we have been led to believe that what others think or feel is somehow our responsibility, it is likely that we will "contain" our passion or joy to "protect" them.
Imagine, unknowingly, walking into a group of people that are discussing the pain of someone's upcoming divorce after you have won $5000 dollars. What does your "training" tell you is the appropriate behavior?
In this segment we will observe how we may be masking or burying our passion, enthusiasm or joy (or other "positive" emotions) and why.
Let's begin!
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Episode art is called "Celestial Union" by Rassouli
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Jun 29, 2022
FEELINGS & EMOTIONS 😱 exploring emotional intelligence – (The "Art" of Self-Discovery: 6 of 8)
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We begin this week of our self-discovery journey by exploring emotional intelligence.
Being able to accurately and honestly identify our emotions helps us come back into the present moment by grounding ourselves in our body, assessing our needs, managing reactions with self-awareness, and engaging in more thoughtful decision-making. This is "Emotional Intelligence". Despite the fact that the words "feelings" and "emotions" get used interchangeably they are actually two different, connected, phenomena.
Emotions are the raw data, a reaction to the present reality which generally manifests as a physical/body sensation such as a change in breathing, butterflies in your stomach, sweating, etc.
Once the body speaks we make a "value judgment" based on these sensations. A "value judgment" is a rapid interpretation of the experience followed by our response (hide, step forward, yell, run, etc.).…
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Jun 17, 2022
THE CHILD WITHIN 👶 calling on our Inner Child – (The "Art" of Self-Discovery: 5 of 8)
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To access subconscious information about the people of our past we called on our Inner Child.
There is a clear distinction between our perceptions of "The Past" and the Child Within. It is understood that the past is behind us but our Inner Child (and our Inner Teen) shape who we are as an "Integrated Self". The child that lives within has their own values, perceptions and way of processing experience and a longing to live life fully. We are witness to their presence when we act or react to experiences in the present with the consciousness of who we once were.
We can honor the presence of our Inner Child by allowing their voice to be heard.
When our Child feels heard, safe, and loved it does not feel the need to "act out" or demand our attention. If we have befriended our Inner Child we clearly see the spontaneity, curiosity, and beauty that our child provides. If we have ignored th…
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Jun 11, 2022
THE PAST 👀 conditioning that impacts your reality – (The "Art" of Self-Discovery: 4 of 8)
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As we begin to understand more about the human brain we also begin to understand how our conditioning is impacting our reality.
Because of the way our brain (especially during development) processes our experiences we come up with the most brilliant solutions for surviving the wide spectrum of "traumas" we may encounter. For the ability to come up with these brilliant solutions we can be grateful. At some point, these brilliant solutions were our saving grace. It is possible, that these "brilliant solutions" are no longer serving us.
Other species, when faced with high-stress situations, run and shake off the stress hormones that are created.
Once the situation is resolved, they are back to eating or whatever they were doing. They process in real-time even if they meet the same experience many times. They do not run their experience through an analytical mind filter, they do not create…
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Jun 3, 2022
PERCEPTIONS 🥸 interpreting reality with discernment – (The "Art" of Self-Discovery: 3 of 8)
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Things that seem true and universal are often just our own unique experience of the world.
What we perceive in any given moment is not only determined by sensory input, but by our past experience, physical abilities, energy levels, feelings, social identities, past conditioning and more.
Even though perception is not reality it can certainly appear and feel like it is real. Perception can become a person’s reality. It certainly has a potent influence on how we interpret our reality. That is one reason that we have to dig so deep to unearth our conditioning. After years of habitually using our perceptions and imagined beliefs to validate or protect ourselves we have convinced ourselves that they are fact.
Keep that in mind as we move through our journey (and when dealing with others). Compassion and courage, for ourselves and others, are needed as we travel this path.
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May 25, 2022
AWARENESS 👁 becoming aware of our True Self – (The "Art" of Self-Discovery: 2 of 8)
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We come to self-discovery for many reasons.
We may have always felt a longing to know our "true" selves and now want to dig deeper into who we are. We see patterns of behavior and wonder if our behavior is serving our needs. Our relationships are often strained and we wonder if we could be playing a part in that. Our desire to know and understand ourselves can feel like an immediate need or our ultimate, lifelong adventure, or both.
Remember this:
• We are on a quest of SELF-DISCOVERY.
• We are not broken.
• We do not need to "be fixed".
• We have learning and growing to do (no matter what our age).
• Part of that learning and growing is releasing what no longer serves us.
The first step to self-discovery is self-awareness.
The practice of observing ourselves without analysis or judgment and documenting our findings will lead us to ask questions that bring clearer under…
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May 17, 2022
SPACE 🧰 creating the environment that creates You – (The "Art" of Self-Discovery: 1 of 8)
Together, let's step into the fire of self-discovery.
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Before we begin a journey of discovering our Self, we can honor ourselves by having our "supplies" in order and a space where we can create and reflect. In this segment, we explore the format of our journey, create a space that is conducive to our self-awareness, and gather our tools.
This 16-minute episode includes an overview of "Segment 1: Creating the Space" of "The Art of Self-Discovery" journey as we unpack each of the inspirations that we will be using for each segment: PAUSE + INTENTION + BEAUTY + JOURNAL + REFLECTION + CREATE
Explore the full media-rich, self-guided, community-supported journey at https://intentioninspired.com/discovery
"Step into the fire of self discovery. This fire will not burn you. It will only burn what you are not."
– Rumi
Episode art is called "Enrapt", created by Rassouli
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May 12, 2022
Introducing, The "Art" of Self-Discovery 💖 discover and illuminate the beauty within
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PAUSE + INTENTION + BEAUTY + JOURNAL + REFLECT + CREATE
10 minutes a day for 8 weeks
To truly embody our authentic and divine self and feel that beauty in ourselves we need clarity and understanding. This journey includes simple practices that engage our attention and intention in ways that can break down habitual conditioning and overcome fearful resistance. It's a fun and simple way for anyone to blossom more fully into their beautiful selves.
Self-Discovery may be the greatest adventure of our life.
This journey was designed to answer the questions that we ask ourselves daily:
Who Am I?
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Why do I feel this way?
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How can I change (heal, grow, become conscious)?
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Answering these and more specific questions with curiosity (rather than judgment) and having the courage to take action will transform our lives.
It isn't just a "mayb…
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Jan 7, 2022
ADAPTING 🙃 gracefully merging with the unexpected – Morning Routine(7 of 7)
Today, let's embrace unexpected nonroutine moments as part of the routine itself!
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🙏 A MOMENT OF GRATITUDE
Starting the day with gratitude creates clear space for new possibilities to emerge.
When we start our morning with gratitude, getting out of bed will become that much easier, as our day is instilled with meaning beyond what is on the to-do list. Not to mention the wealth of health a consistent gratitude practice brings; including more positive emotions, a stronger immune system, better sleep, a deeper sense of connection to all things, more appreciation for others, and more enjoyment all around.
How about you?
What are three things you are grateful for right now?
🌻 MINDFUL MOMENT
Ran out of coffee? Favorite morning robe is missing in action? A loved one is reaching out for support?
Morning routines hardly ever play out exactly as we want them to. So the way we respond to 'disruptions' in our morn…
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Jan 5, 2022
EXERCISE 🏋️♀️ sweating yourself up for success – Morning Routine(6 of 7)
Today, let's explore the vast benefits of getting our juices flowing first thing in the morning.
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💪 MICRO CHALLENGE
Starting tomorrow, get up just five minutes earlier than usual. If you usually wake up at 7:00 A.M., set your alarm for 6:55 instead. Eventually, if you keep moving your wake-up time five minutes earlier every week, you'll find a time that works for you.
😅 PRO TIPS
Keep your exercise routines short, simple, and fun! This is especially important in the beginning when we first start playing with new routine ingredients. Done is better than perfect. There's nothing wrong with push-ups, squats, jumping jacks, or just standing up beside your bed and getting in some stretches. Keep your workouts fluid, day-to-day, and throughout your life. Enjoy the feeling of accomplishment an early morning sweat brings. Take your workout "win" into the rest of your day.
💧 REHYDRATE FIRST THING
We human bein…
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Jan 4, 2022
PRODUCTIVE 🤓 replacing reactive activities with proactive ones – Morning Routine(5 of 7)
Today, let's stoke a sense of early morning productivity that will continue to radiate into the rest of the day.
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📿 TODAY'S' MANTRA
"I am my greatest priority."
Death comes for us all. So why not invite today to be the next best day of our life!?
Remembering the impermanence of all things, especially our skin and bones, inspires us to show up with attention for whatever the day beholds and reminds us of the importance of prioritizing what is most important.
❗️ HEALTHY HABIT
The most important thing is to remember the most important thing.
We are most fresh and clear-headed in the mornings (if are well-rested), and so what is most important surfaces easier.
Everything we do is because we think we will feel better in the doing or having of it.
A to-do list is most effective when we prioritize the items on it and, once prioritized, do the most important tasks first.
☑ YOUR TURN
1. Start with w…
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Jan 3, 2022
MINDFUL 🧘 the greatest life hack that most people don't use – Morning Routine(4 of 7)
Today, let's view our morning with the playful creativity of our three-year-old and the graceful focus of our 108-year-old.
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📣 TODAY'S AFFIRMATION
I wake up renewed and smile.
I smile with every cell in my body.
Grateful to live another day.
Eager to honor this gift of life.
Receiving each precious moment.
Accepting and loving what is.
Letting it all wash over me.
Embracing myself and all beings,
with kindness and compassion.
🧬 SCIENCE SHOWS
Among a plethora of benefits, meditation is proven to help with the following:
• improves our concentration and attention
• helps us solve problems and make smarter choices
• brings us out of our mental ruts
• reduces stress and lowers blood pressure
• reduces anxiety and depression
• reduces physical pain
• improves sleep
• dampens the genes involved in the inflammatory response, and promotes those genes associated with DNA stability (he…
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Jan 3, 2022
CREATIVE 🧑🎨 a new empty canvas every day – Morning Routine(3 of 7)
Today, let's view our morning with the playful creativity of our three-year-old and the graceful focus of our 108-year-old.
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Striving to improve our Morning Routine is only helpful until it isn't. If we dare let self-criticism get the best of us in amidst the inevitable resistance we'll face ... well, perhaps it's time to ease up a bit and remember that tomorrow is a new day to try it again.
Every morning is a chance to observe and be creative with the details we use to fill our day in with. As we apply one layer at a time, we notice what feels good and learn to stack healthy habits just as we would stack layers of color on a canvas. Part of this work of art is our process of creating an intentional and inspiring flow throughout the day. One perfectly imperfect stroke at a time.
📿 MANTRA
"I create my habits.
My habits create me."
As you repeat today's mantra, notice what thoughts come to surface. Allowing…
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Jan 2, 2022
PRESENT 👁 basking in I amness with broader awareness – Morning Routine(2 of 7)
Today, let's rest in the felt sense of "I amness" by witnessing with broader awareness.
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There is a brief time, between sleeping and waking when reality begins to warp back into present-day life.
This liminal arousal is a unique opportunity to enjoy our spacious beingness and quieted mind before it gets a'head' of us into the day.
TRY IT!
Immediately upon naturally waking up tomorrow morning, notice, and savor this hypnopompic meditative state.
💬 TODAY'S QUOTE
During his morning routine walk, Mooji offers simple and practical guidance for how best to start the day grounded in presence.
"Just be aware of the sense of being, it is not personal. Of all habits, this is going to be the most fruitful, the most delivering. And this habit becomes integrated in your being. The more you try this, the better it gets!"
– Mooji
🙏 A MOMENT OF GRATITUDE
As extensions of Source and creators of worlds, how we focus…
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Jan 1, 2022
WORTHY 😇 honoring our Greatness by creating boundaries – Morning Routine(1 of 7)
Today, let's honor our worthiness by acknowledging our Greatness and creating courageous boundaries around our morning routine.
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📣 TODAY'S AFFIRMATION
"I am the one who is the most worthy of my time and energy.
I can lovingly serve at my best when I first serve myself.
I take as much time as I need to nourish myself so that I can act in harmony with my Truest self.
When I operate from this place of alignment, I am able to love more, serve more, enjoy more, create more, and be more.
I AM WORTHY."
📓 TODAY'S JOURNAL PROMPTS:
Explore the following self-inquiries and free-flow journal about whatever comes up:
Why is it often easier to prioritize other people's desires above my own?
What aspects of myself I am trying to avoid by focusing on others instead of myself?
How can I honor the fact that I am the one who is most worthy of my time and energy?
"Boundaries are an act of self-love."
As you repeat to…
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Jan 1, 2022
Introducing, 7 Days of Morning Routine 🌞radiate more intention throughout the day
Join the morning routine online journey for free at https://intentioninspired.com/join-morning-routine
The intention of this self-guided journey is to inspire creative action into the first moments of our day so that we can be in more alignment with our highest self and deepest intentions.
Why spend 7 days refining your Morning Routine?
How we start our day sets the tone for the rest of it.
When we awake from a well-rested slumber, we are nourished and aligned. As the day unfolds, external influences demand our energy, and internal noise clutters the mind. If we're running on autopilot, we can quickly lose ourselves to the daily shuffle and to the desires of others.
Our morning routine nurtures our deepest intentions into inspired action.
When we start each day with our Self, we gain clarity into who we are (self-awareness), what is most important (set intentions), and how to get it (inspired action).
Our morning routine helps us focus on what is in front of us and where to prio…
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Nov 29, 2021
REALITY 🍯 consciously co-creating life with the support of the Universe - (30/30)
Today, let's consciously co-create our reality with the support of the Universe.
Explore today's full session here: https://intentioninspired.com/creative-autumn30
Our perception of reality informs our belief of what reality is. We believe what we perceive to be accurate and our perception feels very real but many of our beliefs may not be factual.
🔬 SCIENCE SHOWS
"Perception molds, shapes, and influences our experience of our personal reality,”
says Linda Humphreys, PhD, “Perception is merely a lens or mindset from which we view people, events, and things.” She also says that "our past experiences greatly influence how we decode things. Certain people, things, and situations can trigger you to interpret things through a positive or negative lens based on those past experiences."
📣 TODAY'S AFFIRMATION
"I consciously co-create my reality with the Universe. My journey is magical and magnificent."
🌻 MINDFUL MOMENT
Perceive yourself and your reality to be exactly wh…
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Nov 28, 2021
ABSTRACT 🧩 allowing our soul to sing its own song - (29/30)
Today, let's break away from the "norm" in a way that resonates with our inner divinity and allows our soul to sing its own song.
Explore today's full session here: https://intentioninspired.com/creative-autumn29
The abstract is not designed to "make sense" or copy reality.
We are not designed to always "make sense" or copy a reality we have already lived or the reality of anyone else.
Abstract means existing in thought or as an idea but not having a physical or concrete existence.
It is meant to encourage involvement and imagination in the viewer. We are the viewers of our reality. The abstract allows us the freedom to explore and create our own meanings for the reality we are creating and the manifestations that we bring to life. The abstract brings us close to releasing our need to believe that we already "KNOW".
🍂 AUTUMN INSPIRATION
We gaze with wonder as the natural world prepares. Much of the preparation goes unseen but we can imagine it occurring. That i…
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Nov 27, 2021
RELAX 🛀 allowing effortless creativity to flow through - (28/30)
Today, let's allow effortless creativity to flow as we empower ourselves with the relaxation we deserve.
Explore today's full session here: https://intentioninspired.com/creative-autumn28
🍂 AUTUMN INSPIRATION
Winter is coming! We are prepared to ease into it with comfort and anticipation. We have learned to tune into our body and our intuition and rest when it is called for.
From our commitment, we have learned that we are important and that we are deserving of our Creative time. We no longer question whether we are "Creative" because we know that it is the expression of our soul and that everyone is Creative.
📣 TODAY'S AFFIRMATION
"Rest helps me connect to the peace, wisdom, and creativity within me and all around us.
I allow myself to rest as often as I need."
💬 TODAY'S QUOTE
"Creation is the foremost human condition. The right to creation is more important than the right to food. If man does not create or is impeded to create, man ceases to fulfil human function…
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Nov 26, 2021
WORDS 🗣 consciously creating our reality with the power of language - (27/30)
Today, let's be more conscious of the reality we're creating with the words we choose to use.
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🧸 A MOMENT OF REFLECTION
There is power in the words we speak. Power to create or "destroy". Power to soothe or agitate. Power to build relationships or disregard them. This power does not only apply to words used towards others. It also applies to the words we speak to ourselves and the words we use to tell our stories. It is important to be intentional about the words we use.
What messages are we sending to ourselves and the Universe?
🔬 SCIENCE SHOWS
Psychologists have found that our subconscious mind interprets what it hears very literally. Whatever words you use, your body, mind, and environment will eventually follow. This information, however, is older than the Bible.
💪 MICRO CHALLENGE
For one week, be very conscious of the words you speak and write them down every day.
This wil…
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Nov 25, 2021
ARTISTIC 🧑🎨 expressing inspirations of the soul - (26/30)
Today, let's redefine 'art' as we notice what inspires our souls to sing.
👁Explore today's full session at https://intentioninspired.com/creative-autumn26
What is Art? How do you know if you are making it? Is there a valid reason for having "Art" defined? Wouldn't everyone have a different opinion of what Art is?
Let's look at this together.
Here are what some artists had to say about what Art is:
"Filling a space in a beautiful way. That's what art means to me." – Georgia O'Keeffe
"Art is harmony." – Georges Seurat
"To me the thing that art does for life is to clean it – to strip it to form." – Robert Frost
"We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth." – Pablo Picasso
What do you think Art is?
Can't art just be a soul's expression? And wouldn't your soul be called to stand and marvel at whatever resonates and vibrates with it? A song, a quilt, a sculpture, a dance, a building, a dress, a loaf of bread, a can…
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Nov 23, 2021
INSIGHT 🥝 examining what's inside to gain deeper understanding - (25/30)
Today, let's broaden our perspective of reality by attentively examining what is on the inside.
👁 Explore today's full session at https://intentioninspired.com/creative-autumn25
We have heard it many times, "It is what's on the inside that counts.
We may make our first impression judgment based on the look of someone or something but seldom does that first impression hold valuable information.
If we want to make a true and creative connection we must assess the outside (without a judgment), follow our intuition, and attentively examine (using our well-practiced listening and observation skills and our power of curiosity).
What is on the inside?
🍂 AUTUMN INSPIRATION
Autumn is the season of contrast and duality. Our practice is calling us to look at all sides of what appears in our reality.
The inside and the outside, the dark and the light, the outer "shell" and the core of what we encounter or experience.
Creatively speaking there is a whole new world of "insides" to b…
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Nov 22, 2021
EMOTION 😱 channeling emotional energy into creative expression - (24/30)
Today, let's elicit the energy of our emotions to inspire our creative practice.
Intention Inspired community can access today's full session at https://intentioninspired.com/creative-autumn24
🍂 AUTUMN INSPIRATION
It is in Autumn that the impermanence of all things and the assurance of change are all around us.
For many people that may produce a feeling place of fear, anxiety, or depression.
What do you do when you feel the emotions of loss, grief, anxiety?
We play with our journal, our hobbies, and our creative pursuits and in turn begin to be creative about our family, our work and ourselves. Creativity breeds creativity across the board.
That is the beauty of the Creative Journal.
It allows for observation, imagination, and self-awareness to occur through an active creative outlet. Practicing any creative outlet benefits all other experiences.
The more you practice, with intention, the more healing can occur.
We will give simple form to some emotions in our Creat…
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Nov 21, 2021
FREEDOM 🤪 reconnecting with your child-like creativity with curiosity and imagination - (23/30)
Today, let's reconnect to our child-like creativity with curiosity, imagination, and freedom!
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Remember what it was like to create freely?
To have a connection to creating that was simply curiosity, imagination and freedom? Today, let's bring our freedom to the page.
🍂 AUTUMN INSPIRATION
The Weather has turned and we are prepared.
We may not have a lot of "art supplies" on hand (or we might have too many and have to choose) but one thing stays with us: our imagination.
Maybe it has been a while since you used it but it is always there.
📣 TODAY'S AFFIRMATION
"I honor the creative child within me.
I create with joy and freedom knowing there are no 'mistakes'."
📓 CREATIVE JOURNAL PROMPT
Here are a couple of fun exercises to spark your imagination for an interesting journal page.
These can be done with only a pencil and a piece of paper if that is all you have.
1) Ten Totally Rando…
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Nov 20, 2021
INTUITION 💡 instinctively receiving and trusting inner wisdom - (22/30)
Today, let's clear the cobwebs of creative resistance with intuitive, inspired action!
Explore today's full session at https://intentioninspired.com/creative-autumn21
💬 TODAY'S QUOTE
"To be creative can be as simple as seeing something everyone else sees, but thinking what no one else thinks about it." – Robert and Michele' Root Bernstein
👆 I would take that one step further and include yourself.
Seeing something you have seen many times, but thinking something different than you ever thought before.
Your creative voice is always there, imploring you. "What if...?"
🍂 AUTUMN INSPIRATION
Look at the lines and shapes of Autumn.
These are the creative observations that invite your creative voice to be heard.
📣 TODAY'S AFFIRMATION
"I hear my creative voice. I see a challenge, intuitively imagine a solution, then creatively take action."
🌻 MINDFUL MOMENT
Bask in the beauty of this Autumn day.
Whatever the weather, taking a walk outside to breathe…
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Nov 19, 2021
RELAXATION 😎 being free of tension by resting with appreciation and satisfaction - (21/30)
Today, let's free ourselves of tension by resting with appreciation and satisfaction.
Explore today's full session at https://intentioninspired.com/creative-autumn21
We covered a lot this past week on our Autumn Creative Journey.
It is so curious and exciting to stretch our imaginations and consider all possibilities ... like creating loving connections and imbuing our creations with love and healing. That process of expanding the box we live in makes our creative journey magical.
Autumn changes quickly.
The weather has turned at my house. It has gotten wet and windy and colder than I like. The garden is mostly gone...a few onions remain. We are moving towards Winter in a slow, wet, colorful spiral.
REPEAT WITH RELAXING INTENT
"I am always exactly where I am meant to be.
I am never behind, never slacking, lacking, or procrastinating.
I am right where I am meant to be—in this moment.
I give myself the rest I need."
Today, have fun!
"As I rest in this moment…
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Nov 18, 2021
JOY 😄 creating from the soul with surrender, curiosity, and love - (20/30)
Today, let's joyfully create with surrender, curiosity, and love.
👁 Explore today's full session at https://intentioninspired.com/creative-autumn20
The most important part of this journey is to CREATE.
Create with abandon. Create with Curiosity. Create to Heal. Create with Love ... but by all means, CREATE.
Today, we aren't going to broaden our view of creativity out to all things created. Today we are going to bring it home and CREATE!
🍂 INSPIRATION FROM AUTUMN:
Autumn is a very creative season.
Up to this point, our focus has been on the power of creativity in all experiences.
Creativity-Expanded Version ... as in, We Are Creating our Reality. A Study of Creative Self Awareness.
The rest of our journey will be Creating ... the making of ... using our imagination, getting curious, being courageous, and creating from our Soul with Compassion.
What will you create today?
📣 TODAY'S AFFIRMATION:
Prime the heart, body, mind and soul with creative intent by re…
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Nov 17, 2021
INTENTION 💖 imbuing all creations with soulful energy of love, healing, and growth - (19/30)
Today, let's imbue all our creations with soulful intentions of love, healing, and growth.
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When our intention is to let our souls "speak" we can heal and we can grow. We can raise consciousness for both ourselves and the planet. This expression of feeling has been present since the first cave drawing was created and our souls feel it.
📿 TODAY'S MANTRA:
"Creating with intention sets me free."
🍂 AUTUMN INSPIRATION:
When we are intentional about our creative process we serve this field. When our alignment is toward healing and a feeling place of love and compassion we raise the consciousness of the field. That in turn raises and heals all consciousness.
Each time we create (whether that is soup, a song, a painting, a mutually respectful conversation, a business...or of course, our journal pages) we imbue our creation with our energy. That energy lives in our creation. If our intention is…
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Nov 16, 2021
CONNECTION 🤝 enhancing our connection to all things - (18/30)
Today, let's explore how creativity enhances our connection to all things.
👁 Explore today's full session at https://intentioninspired.com/creative-autumn18
We hear from many different sources that "we are all connected". What does that actually mean?
Not only are we, as humans, connected but all things are connected by energy on a quantum level. (Studies have now been done that validate this but ancient wisdom has known this for years). What that also means is that our "feeling place" (vibration, if you prefer) emanates out from us, affecting the energy in this connected field.
Our internal creative practice brings our focus to this moment with an intention to grow and heal.
Through this courageous, curious, self-aware process we observe and shift our conditioning. This balances our "feeling places" so that we are generally adding "love energy" to the field. When that is our general state of being ... a love for peace, a love for the planet, a love for others...we n…
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Nov 15, 2021
PREFERENCE 👌 aligning with what feeds the soul - (17/30)
Today, let's get more clear about what's most important so we can live in more alignment with what makes our soul sing.
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The world is in the midst of great change and transformation. Change can be scary but we know, deep within, that this change is necessary to restore balance and connection. We also know that balance and connection must be restored within the individual for transformation to occur. This change and transformation is guiding us towards our preferences.
📣 TODAY'S AFFIRMATION:
"I pause to make sure I am aligned with what feeds my soul.
My values are clearly defined. I prefer to live in alignment."
🍂 AUTUMN INSPIRATION:
Autumn is the Season of change and transformation.
The time to intentionally practice our preferences. It seems like that would be easy enough but often we make choices that are counter to who we are, our values, and the life we want to create. In many cases, we…
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Nov 14, 2021
PRESENCE 💓 interrupting patterns of past worries and future anxieties (16/30)
Today, let's break the momentum of past conditioning by returning our focus to the abundance of this moment.
Explore today's full session at https://intentioninspired.com/creative-autumn16
To be aware and mindful of what we are feeling ... in this moment, what is happening, in this moment ... the abundance around us, in this moment allows us to break the momentum of past conditioning. We may also realize that in most cases we are safe and whole and secure ... in this moment.
📣 TODAY'S AFFIRMATION:
"When I drift to past moments or worry about moments to come, I take a breath and bring myself into this moment.
I am fully present in this moment."
🍂 INSPIRATION FROM AUTUMN:
As we practice what Autumn has to teach us, we can be mindful that we are in a cycle of preservation and gratitude for our abundant "Harvest". We can honor and accept the dark and the light. We can prepare for a future of our choosing from our point of power in the present. We can examine the past,…
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Nov 13, 2021
EQUILIBRIUM ⚖️ accepting the contrast and celebrating periods of balance (15/30)
Today, let's accept the inevitable contrast and celebrate periods of balance.
Explore today's full session at https://intentioninspired.com/creative-autumn15
📣 TODAY'S AFFIRMATION:
"I accept the contrast and celebrate periods of balance.
My creative process is in equilibrium."
🍂 AUTUMN INSPIRATION:
Our whole system longs to maintain its equilibrium. We are noticing the natural world continuously moving towards balance and we experience it thoroughly in Autumn. Darkness and light, birth and death, giving and receiving are the push and pull of this season.
Equilibrium is not something we want to "lose".
I enjoy exploring all that Autumn has to show us and applying its lessons to my creative practice. "Letting go" of perfectionism, insecurities, and critical thoughts. Pausing to center myself, bring myself into the moment, break the momentum of conditioned reactions, preserving my creative time and space and the healing benefits I receive daily. Honoring the "har…
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Nov 12, 2021
REST 😴 reflecting with graceful observation of our seasonal cycles (14/30)
Today, let's rest and reflect with curious observation of our seasonal cycles.
Explore today's full session at https://intentioninspired.com/creative-autumn14
📣 TODAY'S AFFIRMATION:
Read today's affirmation out loud with purpose and intent:
"Rest and reflection allows me to do my best work.
I connect to the seasonal cycles, allowing myself to rest and reflect."
🍂 AUTUMN INSPIRATION:
As we look towards Winter we get to choose how we proceed as the days get shorter and colder.
We can allow the approaching winter to hamper our "forward motion" and fight against it or we can use our time to go within and focus on creative pursuit.
Autumn cycles suggest that we meet change with grace.
One way to ease into and choose how the changes affects our lives and decisions is to take the time to rest and reflect. Reflection allows us to observe the changes with curiosity and make the choices that further our growth.
📓 CREATIVE JOURNAL PROMPT:
As we Rest and Reflect today, let's…
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Nov 10, 2021
PAUSE ⏸ choosing an intentional path that feeds the soul (13/30)
Today, let's take stock of our internal landscape and choose a path that feeds our soul.
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📣 TODAY'S AFFIRMATION:
"When I pause and take stock of my internal landscape, I am able to intentionally choose a path that feeds my soul. I pause and honor this cycle with grace."
When we feel that there is so much to do we fall back to our old patterns quickly. We may experience feelings of overwhelm and anxiety. We may begin feeling our life as a hamster wheel...round and round, endlessly "doing" but not moving forward much. We are busy people and that is why the Pause is so vital to our well-being.
If we can Pause before the overwhelm and anxiety takes full hold we can use the tools we've been learning to honor our cycles with grace. Our commitment to our creative practice is a wonderful way to pause and reassess our choices, beliefs and behaviors.
Other creative tools that can facilitate the Pause (and…
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Nov 10, 2021
TRANSFORMATION 🦋 serving others wholehearted with loving boundaries (12/30
Today, let's be wholehearted in our service by upholding loving boundaries that allow for authentic transformation.
Explore today's full session at https://intentioninspired.com/creative-autumn12
📣 TODAY'S AFFIRMATION
“As I identify and alter my conditioning, I embrace wholehearted giving and lovingly set personal boundaries.”
Setting boundaries is essential if we want to be physically, spiritually, mentally, and emotionally healthy.
It is also a kindness to others (though it may not seem that way). Boundaries lay a strong foundation for our authentic and desired participation in this life journey and also gives necessary information to those journeying with us. Personal boundaries help define where you end and others begin on all levels. They help you decide what types of communication, behavior, and interaction are acceptable to you and are true to your values.
Setting these boundaries can also be one of the most challenging tasks we undertake.
Many of us have had co…
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Nov 9, 2021
OBSERVE 🔎 gaining insight into what feeds our soul (11/30)
Today, let's take stock throughout the day to improve our connection to Self.
Explore today's full session at https://intentioninspired.com/creative-autumn11
📣 Read today's affirmation out loud with purpose and intent:
"I honor my commitments to my health and well-being."
🍂 INSPIRATION FROM AUTUMN:
The Harvest is underway.
We have the opportunity to gauge what we have to carry us through Winter. Do we have enough tomatoes to can or just enough to eat? How much squash did we grow? Enough cucumbers to pickle?
We also take stock of our mental, emotional and spiritual harvest. Did we make a commitment to create daily, meditate daily, connect with Nature, observe and journal our conditioned patterns? Are we honoring that commitment?
Taking Stock
What did you grow this year?
I grew a garden-tomato, cucumber, onion, eggplant, squash, melon, etc. I grew Patience (still tending that). I grew my commitment to daily creativity (I get a gold star). The desire to declutte…
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Nov 7, 2021
SYMBOLIC 🌀 deepening the connection we have to the cycles Autumn - (10/30)
Today, let's play with symbols of Autumn in ways that deepen the connection we have to the cycles of the Universe.
Explore today's full session at https://intentioninspired.com/creative-autumn10
🍂 AUTUMN INSPIRATION: Autumn is a season rich with symbolism. Falling leaves, pumpkins, Thanksgiving and Halloween may be the symbols that spring to mind. However, there is so much more to be learned from this season of Harvest and how it connects to the maturity and awareness of our own cycles. For those of us in the Autumn cycle of our life journey, we may look at the Symbols of Autumn with conflicting emotion.
There may be a sadness, yet also a feeling of fulfillment. There may be some fear, yet also a feeling of peace and knowing. Autumn brings a knowing. All of these conflicting emotions allows us to choose what best serves us best from a cornucopia of possibility.
These are some of the aspects of Autumn that may apply to our stages of development both internally and externally:…
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Nov 5, 2021
RELEASING 🍂 embracing impermanence by letting go of what is no longer serving - (8/30)
Today, let's embrace impermanence by letting go of what no longer serves us.
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📣 TODAY'S AFFIRMATION:
"As Autumn leaves fall to the ground, I will also release all of my burdens and stress."
🍂 INSPIRATION FROM AUTUMN:
Nature is within us and around us.
We can rejoice in the letting go, as the leaves change color and fall. It means the release of what has served its purpose. We may feel a sense of grief at the impermanence of all things but still rejoice in our awareness that this is part of the cycle.
"Autumn is about to show us how beautiful it is to let things go." - Anonymous
Everything seems a bit more precious at this time of year.
That may be because this is the time when things come to an end, or begin to come to an end. Maybe everything seems more beautiful at this time of year, because everything is in transition and we are aware that we must let go. In fact, letting go when things ar…
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Nov 5, 2021
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 👁 reflecting on the magnificence of divine abundance - (9/30)
Today, let's embody the feeling place that reflects the magnificence of our own being.
Explore today's full session at https://intentioninspired.com/creative-autumn9
With curiosity and observation, expressive creativity can guide us more clearly through deep-seated feelings and fears, conditioned patterns and responses, connection to other creators, and intuition. It is enhanced by our ability to think BROADLY about our life experience and possibilities (even the possibilities we find "far fetched"). All that is required is our acknowledgment.
📣 TODAY'S AFFIRMATION:
Repeat today's affirmation out loud with releasing intent:
"I am creative.
There are infinite possibilities available.
Just because I currently believe something does not make it "truth".
I am a magnificent being and I honor my growth."
It is unfortunate that acknowledging our magnificence is so difficult for us to do without hesitation, resistance or embarrassment. What is your usual response when faced wi…
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Nov 4, 2021
SENSING 🖐 tuning in with our whole being - (7/30)
Today, let's rest and reflect as we capture the essence of Autumn by tuning into the smells, textures, sounds, tastes, and sights.
📣 TODAY'S AFFIRMATION
"To prepare for the short and chilly days I will learn to rest and reflect. I will welcome this day with my open heart."
🍂 TODAY'S INSPIRATION FROM AUTUMN:
As we ease into Autumn, the season of Harvest, Gratitude, and Preparation we are reminded that Nature's cycles are reflected in our lives.
Tune into this Autumn Season with your whole being. See if you can capture the essence of Fall with each of your senses.
“Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Many of us live by the clock and it might be easy to forget that we live in a world of natural seasons and seasonal change. Each season teaches us lessons about ourselves, other people, and life in general. We know that as one cycle end…
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Nov 3, 2021
GRATITUDE 🙏 refocusing energy where it best serves us - (6/30)
Today, let’s focus our energy where it best serves by acknowledging our blessings.
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A gratitude practice is a daily ritual of expressing your gratitude for all the wonderful things, people, and experiences in your life so far. I like to practice gratitude, periodically, throughout the day or whenever I feel "lack". A gratitude practice can be as simple or as as listing three things you are grateful for in the morning and then three things about your day that you were grateful for in the evening.
What would your daily gratitude practice look like? The main idea is to "feel" grateful by acknowledging the bounty that you have created (your life). Don't leave the many wonderful attributes that YOU possess on the back burner. Feeling gratitude about the wonder of your being has its own set of benefits.
📣 TODAY'S AFFIRMATION:
"I see and feel abundance all around me and I feel blessed."
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Nov 2, 2021
PRESERVATION 🐿 gathering and protecting what we most value - (5/30)
Today, let’s examine our Harvest so we can gather and protect what will carry us through the darkest times.
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Because we have been gathering, the abundance lays out before us in a cornucopia of possibility. We are beginning to become very clear on what feeds our soul. With that knowledge each day becomes an experiment and a treasure hunt for more input.
During this Autumn Season what bounty do you want to experience daily? What will you hold in your knapsack? What will you compost?
📣 TODAY'S AFFIRMATION
"I choose to gather and preserve what I need to live a creative life."
🍂 TODAY'S INSPIRATION FROM AUTUMN
Gathering the Autumn Harvest allows us the opportunity to decide how we will "preserve" our "bounty" (or if we even want to).
Much of our bounty (the pause, creativity, compassion, self care, meditation, connection to Nature, breathing, etc.) we would like to use on a daily basis. This…
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Nov 1, 2021
BALANCE ☯ embracing both the darkness and light - (4/30)
Today, let's honor all facets of our being—both the darkness and the light.
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Because we are human, each of us contains elements of both darkness and light. In fact, our light and our darkness is the duality that makes us whole. Often we acknowledge and value the light and attempt to avoid, bury or mask over the darkness. We pass judgment, quickly, on those we perceive to be "dark". To be clear, light and dark are merely opposites, polarities that exist in our human experience.
Can you think of a time in your life when your light and dark were out of balance?
LIGHT: love. compassion, trust, peace, passion, freedom, fulfillment, caring, delight, beauty, divinity, joy, health
DARKNESS: fear, perfectionism, greed, jealousy, lack, dishonesty, dis-ease, loss, suffering, pain, anxiety, depression
Only you can fully identify (by knowing your values and beliefs) what your perceptions of light and dark would be…
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Oct 31, 2021
NOURISH 💧 feeding the soul by honoring our creative process - (3/30)
Today, let's craft more intention into the space where engage with our creative practice.
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Any experience can be a chance to practice our creativity and an opportunity to embrace all aspects of our being. You do not have to be "productively" creative to be a creator. Creativity is your life force energy, the embodiment of ALL you are. You only need the courage and curiosity to find out what that means for you.
We move into Autumn appreciating what we have learned from the "seeds" we have tended. Gathering the bounty that our intentions have sown, honoring this bounty with ritual and gratitude and allowing ourselves to feel the cyclical rhythms of this Harvest Season.
Our busy Summer has come to an end and in Autumn we prepare for Winter by establishing our daily routines, preparing our Winter spaces (internal and external) and feeding our souls.
📣 TODAY'S AFFIRMATION:
"I look within to unearth inf…
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Oct 30, 2021
ABUNDANCE 🌟 celebrating our creations and becoming receptive for what's next - (2/30)
Today, let's broaden our perspective of abundance by appreciating what we have already created and become open receptacles of for the vast bounty that is yet to come.
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We have manifested a great bounty of love and creativity. There is more to come! That is not a statement of greed. We are deserving of this abundance. We are doing the internal, creative "work" necessary to become the highest expression of our being. "Source" is active and willing to give. How open are we to receive?
📣 TODAY'S AFFIRMATION
"I am deserving of the abundance of the Universe."
Not only are we surrounded by the abundance of the creative life we are living (both internally and externally) but this very moment we are creating the path towards what lies ahead. This knowledge adds importance to our creative observations.
What we think, believe and feel will determine what our future path will be. That is why we spend…
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Oct 29, 2021
COMMITMENT 💪 feeling our creative Life Force with our whole being - (1/30)
Today, let's feel our life force with our whole being and make a sacred commitment to our creative journey.
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When we began our journey through the Seasons of Creativity we may not have realized the new rituals we were going to create. One such ritual is our commitment to our creative practice. For each season that is where we begin.
We acknowledge that creativity is not specific to "the Arts" or the Act of physically making or producing things. It is the key to unlocking our self-awareness and our potential. Creativity is an energy that is at the root of all things. It is life force energy that invites us to expand. Nothing happens without the energy of creativity.
Creativity brings us to life!
📣 TODAY'S AFFIRMATION:
"My Commitment to Creative Practice is Sacred"
Making the time to express ourselves creatively is a sacred undertaking. You may not be called to your creative journal, dai…
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Oct 28, 2021
🍂 Introducing, 30 Days Of Autumn Creative Journaling Journey
Join the Intention Inspired fam this November for
30 Days of Autumn Creative Journaling Journey.
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✨🍂 Welcome to the Bounty of Autumn! 🍂✨
The Autumnal Equinox began on Wednesday, September 22 in 2021. Day and night come into balance and once again we, in turn, balance our energies of darkness and light. We look upon the Abundance of our intentions and we prepare for Harvest and Winter.
Our Creative practice and process becomes all the more exciting with what we have been learning. Autumn gives us an opportunity to be discerning and curious about our Creative Life.
We have basked in the warm, energy of Summer, sown and tended our seeds and with the coming of Autumn we acknowledge, with awe and gratitude, the cycle of all things. The season of ritual, we will use this season to examine our growth and refine the process of our Creativity.
Autumn invites us to experience the fruits of our labor by enjoying them when they are…
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Sep 28, 2021
CREATIVITY 🤩 expanding limiting beliefs to grow in self-awareness - (Self-Awareness: 3 of 3)
Our final addition to the Self Awareness “tool kit” is creativity!
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We saved creativity until the end of our three self-awareness tools because it is where we get to use our understanding of judgment and our powers of observation. It is also our favorite way of becoming self-aware at Intention Inspired and expanding our connection to self.
📓 JOURNAL PROMPT:
Most of us have at least a small amount of trauma around the idea of “being creative”.
We hear the word and think the ARTS, unusually gifted, not a valid use of our time and energy, something we are not talented enough to achieve. We may have come to the conclusion that we are not creative on our own or received “well-meant” advice from another. It is equally possible that we were, straight up, discouraged from any creative pursuit. If any of that resonates with you, you are not alone. We may have been conditioned to…
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Sep 24, 2021
OBSERVATION 🧐 becoming the stillness beneath the noise and pain - (Self-Awareness: 2 of 3)
Today, let's learn our stress signature and practice becoming the empowered "Watcher" of our emotional triggers.
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One of the greatest practices for enhancing self-awareness is OBSERVATION.
We may think that we have no choice but to observe the way we act, the things we say, the things we do, the things we are “triggered” by. That is observation on a surface level and we generally chalk that up to “The Way I Am…”. Most of the time we are on autopilot running the same old programs and conditioning that we have run for years and these states of being seem like “who we are”.
To evolve as consciousness and become more self-aware we need to become very observant as we travel on this journey. We need to become “The Watcher” as Eckhart Tolle says.
"Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the men…
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Sep 23, 2021
JUDGEMENT 🤔 cultivating personal insight to honor your worthiness - (Self-Awareness: 1 of 3)
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It is our nature to judge our circumstances and what is occurring around us.
Years ago it was a matter of survival. Quick judgments have to be made if the circumstances are a matter of life or death. Our survival is generally not the cause of our stress in this day and age (obviously there are circumstances where survival is still a concern but we tend to view those circumstances from the moment and take appropriate action to be “safe”) but we are more stressed-out than ever before. Our physical, mental and emotional states of being and those of the people around us, now, have “new” areas of stressful focus and they seem to be more invasive and dangerous than being chased by a tiger.
Certainly with the combination of “actual” physical danger and emotionally and mentally perceived threats to our well-being, our capacity to JUDGE is on high alert. For a lot of peop…
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Aug 3, 2021
INSPIRED ACTION - the key to freedom - The Artist's Way (Week 7, Day 7)
Today, let's turn jealousy into liberating creative action.
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Jealousy is always a mask for fear: fear that we aren’t able to get what we want; frustration that somebody else seems to be getting what is rightfully ours even if we are too frightened to reach for it. At its root, jealousy is a stingy emotion. It doesn’t allow for the abundance and multiplicity of the universe. Jealousy tells us there is room for only one—one poet, one painter, one whatever you dream of being.
The truth, revealed by action in the direction of our dreams, is that there is room for all of us. But jealousy produces tunnel vision. It narrows our ability to see things in perspective. It strips us of our ability to see other options. The biggest lie that jealousy tells us is that we have no choice bu…
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Aug 2, 2021
JEALOUSY - a tough-love friend - The Artist's Way (Week 7, Day 6)
Today, let's befriend jealousy as fuel for inspired creative action.
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Jealousy, I’ve often heard, is a normal human emotion. When I hear that, I think, “Maybe your jealousy—not mine.”
My jealously roars in the head, tightens the chest, massages my stomach lining with a cold fist as it searches out the best grip. I have long regarded jealousy as my greatest weakness. Only recently have I seen it for the tough-love friend that it is.
Jealousy is a map.
Each of our jealousy maps differs. Each of us will probably be surprised by some of the things we discover on our own. I, for example, have never been eaten alive with resentment over the success of women novelists. But I took an unhealthy interest in the fortunes and misfortunes of women playwrights. I was their harshest cr…
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Aug 1, 2021
Summer Creative Journaling Journey Community Kickoff Call
Marva here, welcome to my "Art Room" and our New Creative Summer Journal Journey. 👉 Join us for free at https://intentioninspired.com/art-friend
This is a different kind of active journaling and a journey into the power of Creativity. This is not an "art" course (although we will play with art...color, prose, design, collage, etc.) and you do not have to believe that you are "creative" to participate.
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THE DAILY FLOW
• intention
• affirmation
• summer inspirations
• gratitude
• creative journaling
• community reflections
The daily process of the creative journal is really fun and uniquely meaningful to each of us. It need not take more than 15 minutes a day and the return on self-investment is immeasurably rewarding.
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CREATIVITY IS A STATE OF BEING
Creating is an innate human attribute, available to everyone. We will explore this. You will find so much benefit to daily creative expression and so many areas that creativity can enhance your life. E…
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Aug 1, 2021
RISK - breaking through accepted limits - The Artist's Way (Week 7, Day 5)
Today, let's expand our self-definition by releasing conditioning limits.
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QUESTION: What would I do if I didn’t have to do it perfectly?
ANSWER: A great deal more than I am.
We’ve all heard that the unexamined life is not worth living, but consider too that the unlived life is not worth examining. The success of a creative recovery hinges on our ability to move out of the head and into action. This brings us squarely to risk. Most of us are practiced at talking ourselves out of risk. We are skilled speculators on the probable pain of self-exposure.
We deny that in order to do something well we must first be willing to do it badly. Instead, we opt for setting our limits at the point where we feel assured of success. Living within these bounds, we may feel stifled, smothered,…
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Jul 31, 2021
PERFECTIONISM - not losing sight of the whole - The Artist's Way (Week 7, Day 4)
Today, let's notice how our perfectionistic tendencies are stifling productive action.
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Tillie Olsen correctly calls it the “knife of the perfectionist attitude in art.”
You may call it something else. Getting it right, you may call it, or fixing it before I go any further. You may call it having standards. What you should be calling it is perfectionism.
Perfectionism has nothing to do with getting it right.
It has nothing to do with fixing things. It has nothing to do with standards. Perfectionism is a refusal to let yourself move ahead. It is a loop—an obsessive, debilitating closed system that causes you to get stuck in the details of what you are writing or painting or making and to lose sight of the whole. Instead of creating freely and allowing errors to reveal themse…
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Jul 30, 2021
SYNCHRONISTIC SUPPORT - expecting the universe to help - The Artist's Way (Week 7, Day 3)
Today, let's accept the help of the universe's synchronistic support.
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Once you accept that it is natural to create, you can begin to accept a second idea—that the creator will hand you whatever you need for the project.
The minute you are willing to accept the help of this collaborator, you will see useful bits of help everywhere in your life. Be alert: there is a second voice, a higher harmonic, adding to and augmenting your inner creative voice. This voice frequently shows itself in synchronicity.
You will hear the dialogue you need, find the right song for the sequence, see the exact paint color you almost had in mind, and so forth. You will have the experience of finding things—books, seminars, tossed-out stuff—that happen to fit with what you are doing.
Learn to acce…
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Jul 29, 2021
INTUITIVE VOICE - creating with faith - The Artist's Way (Week 7, Day 2)
Today, let's practice listening to that inspired, intuitive voice that exists past the Censor's chatter.
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These moments of clear inspiration require that we move into them on faith.
We can practice these small leaps of faith daily in our pages and on our artist dates. We can learn not only to listen but also to hear with increasing accuracy that inspired, intuitive voice that says, “Do this, try this, say this....”
Most writers have had the experience of catching a poem or a paragraph or two of formed writing. We consider these finds to be small miracles. What we fail to realize is that they are, in fact, the norm. We are the instrument more than the author of our work.
Some people find it easier to picture the stream of inspiration as being like radio waves of all sorts bei…
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Jul 28, 2021
LISTENING - hearing past the Censor - The Artist's Way (Week 7, Day 1)
Today, let's replace thinking something up with getting something down.
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The ability to listen is a skill we are honing with both our morning pages and our artist dates.
The pages train us to hear past our Censor. The artist dates help us to pick up the voice of inspiration. While both of these activities are apparently unconnected to the actual act of making art, they are critical to the creative process.
Art is not about thinking something up. It is about the opposite—getting something down. The directions are important here.
If we are trying to think something up, we are straining to reach for something that’s just beyond our grasp, “up there, in the stratosphere, where art lives on high….”
When we get something down, there is no strain. We’re not doing; we’re…
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Jul 17, 2021
LUXURY OF TIME - playing is serious business - The Artist's Way (Week 6, Day 7)
Today, let's get serious with our art by getting serious with our play.
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Creative living requires the luxury of time, which we carve out for ourselves—even if it’s fifteen minutes for quick morning pages and a ten-minute mini bath after work.
Creative living requires the luxury of space for ourselves, even if all we manage to carve out is one special bookshelf and a windowsill that is ours. (My study has a window shelf of paperweights and seashells.) Remember that your artist is a youngster and youngsters like things that are “mine.” My chair. My book. My pillow.
Designating a few things special and yours alone can go a long way toward making you feel pampered. Chinatown anywhere offers a beautiful teacup and saucer for under fiv…
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Jul 16, 2021
LEARNING LUXURY - spoiling ourselves for once (or twice) - The Artist's Way (Week 6, Day 6)
Today, let's acknowledge and practice what feels luxurious today.
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For many blocked creatives, it takes a little work to even imagine ourselves having luxury. Luxury is a learned practice for most of us. Blocked creatives are often the Cinderellas of the world. Focused on others at the expense of ourselves, we may even be threatened by the idea of spoiling ourselves for once.
“Don’t try to let go of Cinderella,” my writer friend Karen advises. “Keep Cinderella but focus on giving yourself the glass slipper. The second half of that fairy tale is great.”
What we are talking about when we discuss luxury is very often a shift in consciousness more than now—although as we acknowledge and invite what feels luxuriou…
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Jul 15, 2021
TRUE JOY - enlarging our art - The Artist's Way (Week 6, Day 5)
Today, let's practice listen for and saying yes to those things that give us true joy.
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In order to thrive as artists—and, one could argue, as people—we need to be available to the universal flow.
When we put a stopper on our capacity for joy by anorectically declining the small gifts of life, we turn aside the larger gifts as well. Those of us, like my artist friend, who are engaged in long creative works will find ourselves leaching our souls to find images, returning to past work, to tricks, practicing our craft more than enlarging our art. Those of us who have stymied the work flow completely will find ourselves in lives that feel barren and devoid of interest no matter how many meaningless things we have filled them with.
What gives us true joy?
That is the question to ask concern…
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Jul 14, 2021
AUTHENTIC LUXURY - pampering ourselves into abundance - The Artist's Way (Week 6, Day 1)
Today, let's allow ourselves the luxury of time to explore dwindled passions while trusting that tiny changes towards abundance are occurring.
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For those of us who have become artistically anorectic—yearning to be creative and refusing to feed that hunger in ourselves so that we become more and more focused on our deprivation—a little authentic luxury can go a long way.
The keyword here is authentic.
Because art is born in expansion, in a belief in sufficient supply, it is critical that we pamper ourselves for the sense of abundance it brings to us.
All too often, we become blocked and blame it on our lack of money. This is never an authentic block. The actual block is our feeling of constriction, our sense of powerlessness. Ar…
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Jul 13, 2021
MAKING LIFE ART - doing what we're meant to do - The Artist's Way (Week 6, Day 3)
Today, let's get clarity on what we are really meant to do by tuning into what we really want to do.
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Making art begins with making hay while the sun shines.
It begins with getting into the now and enjoying your day. It begins with giving yourself some small treats and breaks. “This is extravagant but so is God” is a good attitude to take when treating your artist to small bribes and beauties. Remember, you are the cheapskate, not God. As you expect God to be more generous, God will be able to be more generous to you.
What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do.
When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us.
We will continue to work this week with our ideas surrounding money. We will see how our ideas about mone…
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Jul 12, 2021
INSENSIBLE CREATIVITY - opening to supernatural support - The Artist's Way (Week 6, Day 2)
Today, let's soften our rational and sensible minds and be more open to receiving divine creative support.
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Many of us equate difficulty with virtue—and art with fooling around.
Hard work is good. A terrible job must be building our moral fiber. Something —a talent for painting, say—that comes to us easily and seems compatible with us must be some sort of cheap trick, not to be taken seriously. On the one hand, we give lip service to the notion that God wants us to be happy, joyous, and free. On the other, we secretly think that God wants us to be broke if we are going to be so decadent as to want to be artists. Do we have any proof at all for these ideas about God?
Looking at God’s creation, it is pretty clear that the creator itself did not know when to stop.
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Jul 11, 2021
THE GREAT CREATOR - redefining beliefs of God's will - The Artist's Way (Week 6, Day 1)
Today, let's explore the ways our limited beliefs about God/source/Creator limits our financial abundance.
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“I’m a believer,” Nancy declares. “I just don’t believe God gets involved with money.” Although she doesn’t recognize it, Nancy carries two self-sabotaging beliefs. She believes not only that God is good—too good to do money—but also that money is bad. Nancy, like many of us, needs to overhaul her God concept in order to fully recover her creativity.
For many of us, raised to believe that money is the real source of security, a dependence on God feels foolhardy, suicidal, even laughable. When we consider the lilies of the fields, we think they are quaint, too out of it for the modern world. We’re the ones who keep clothes on our back…
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Jul 10, 2021
SELF-DESTRUCTION - recovering our true nature - The Artist's Way (Week 5, Day 7)
Today, let's explore how we've been systematically and unconsciously destroying our true self.
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The question “Are you self-destructive?” is asked so frequently that we seldom hear it accurately. What it means is Are you destructive of yourself? And what that really asks us is Are you destructive of your true nature?
Many people, caught in the virtue trap, do not appear to be self-destructive to the casual eye.
Bent on being good husbands, fathers, mothers, wives, teachers, whatevers, they have constructed a false self that looks good to the world and meets with a lot of worldly approval. This false self is always patient, always willing to defer its needs to meet the needs or demands of another.
Virtuous to a fault, these trapped creatives have destroyed the true self, the…
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Jul 9, 2021
MAKING NICE - disassociating through others - The Artist's Way (Week 5, Day 6)
Today, let's see how we've passively given up our individual sovereignty and practice reclaiming our personal power.
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Many recovering creatives sabotage themselves most frequently by making nice.
There is a tremendous cost to such ersatz virtue.
Many of us have made a virtue out of deprivation. We have embraced a long-suffering artistic anorexia as a martyr’s cross. We have used it to feed a false sense of spirituality grounded in being good, meaning superior.
We strive to be good, to be nice, to be helpful, to be unselfish. We want to be generous, of service, of the world. But what we really want is to be left alone.
When we can’t get others to leave us alone, we eventually abandon ourselves.
To others, we may look like we’re there. We may act like we’re there. But ou…
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Jul 8, 2021
THE VIRTUE TRAP - healing in solitude - The Artist's Way (Week 5, Day 5)
Today, let's have the courage, conviction, and resiliency to honor the solitude we need to heal and grow.
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An artist must have downtime, time to do nothing.
Defending our right to such time takes courage, conviction, and resiliency. Such time, space, and quiet will strike our family and friends as a withdrawal from them. It is.
For an artist, withdrawal is necessary.
Without it, the artist in us feels vexed, angry, out of sorts. If such deprivation continues, our artist becomes sullen, depressed, hostile. We eventually became like cornered animals, snarling at our family and friends to leave us alone and stop making unreasonable demands.
We are the ones making unreasonable demands.
We expect our artist to be able to function without giving it what it needs to do so. An artist r…
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Jul 7, 2021
GENTLE EXPLORATION - accepting the generous joys - The Artist's Way (Week 5, Day 4)
Today, let's lose the fear of intimacy by no longer confusing our intimate others with the higher power we are coming to know.
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By holding lightly to an attitude of gentle exploration, we can begin to lean into creative expansion.
By replacing “No way!” with “Maybe,” we open the door to mystery and to magic.
This newly positive attitude is the beginning of trust.
We are starting to look for the silver lining in what appears to be adversity. Most of us find that as we work with the morning pages, we begin to treat ourselves more gently. Feeling less desperate, we are less harsh with ourselves and with others. This compassion is one of the first fruits of aligning our creativity with its creator.
As we come to trust and love our internal guide, we lose our fear of intima…
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Jul 6, 2021
FINDING THE RIVER - saying yes to the flow - The Artist's Way (Week 5, Day 3)
Today, let's find freedom from dependencies by focusing our dependence on the creator within.
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For four weeks now, we have been excavating our consciousness. We have seen how often we think negatively and fearfully, how frightening it has been for us to begin to believe that there might be a right place for us that we could attain by listening to our creative voice and following its guidance. We have begun to hope, and we have feared that hope.
The shift to spiritual dependency is a gradual one.
We have been making this shift slowly and surely. With each day we become more true to ourselves, more open to the positive. To our surprise, this seems to be working in our human relationships. We find we are able to tell more of our truth, hear more of other people’s truth, and encompass…
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Jul 5, 2021
SCARCITY MENTALITY - embracing the abundant flow - The Artist's Way (Week 5, Day 2)
Today, let's let go of having to sabotage ourselves by letting the flow manifest itself where it will—not where we will it.
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One reason we are miserly with ourselves is scarcity thinking.
We don’t want our luck to run out. We don’t want to overspend our spiritual abundance. Again, we are limiting our flow by anthropomorphizing God into a capricious parent figure. Remembering that God is our source, an energy flow that likes to extend itself, we become more able to tap our creative power effectively.
God has lots of money. God has lots of movie ideas, novel ideas, poems, songs, paintings, acting jobs. God has a supply of loves, friends, houses that are all available to us. By listening to the creator within, we are led to our right path. On that path, we find friends, lovers…
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Jul 4, 2021
SELF LIMITS - noticing self-sabotage - The Artist's Way (Week 5, Day 1)
Today, let's clear way the wreckage of our negative patterning and clarify the vision of what we really want.
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One of the chief barriers to accepting God’s generosity is our limited notion of what we are in fact able to accomplish.
We may tune in to the voice of the creator within, hear a message—and then discount it as crazy or impossible. On the one hand, we take ourselves very seriously and don’t want to look like idiots pursuing some patently grandiose scheme. On the other hand, we don’t take ourselves—or God—seriously enough and so we define as grandiose many schemes that, with God’s help, may fall well within our grasp.
Remembering that God is my source, we are in the spiritual position of having an unlimited bank account.
Most of us never consider how powerf…
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Jul 3, 2021
INFORMATION DEPRIVATION - thrusting into the sensory world - The Artist's Way (Week 4, Day 7)
Today, let's practice not distracting ourselves to further invite creativity to flow.
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If you feel stuck in your life or in your art, few jump starts are more effective than a week of reading deprivation.
It is a paradox that by emptying our lives of distractions we are actually filling the well.
Without distractions, we are once again thrust into the sensory world. With no newspaper to shield us, a train becomes a viewing gallery. With no novel to sink into (and no television to numb us out) an evening becomes a vast savannah in which furniture—and other assumptions—get rearranged.
Reading deprivation casts us into our inner silence.
If we monitor the inflow and keep it to a minimum, we will be rewarded for our reading deprivation with embarrassing speed. Our reward will be a…
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Jul 2, 2021
RESTING IN MOTION - moving with the flow of God - The Artist's Way (Week 4, Day 6)
Today, let's learn how to recuperate while continuing the momentum of our creativity recovery.
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If you look over the time you have been doing your morning writing, you will see that many changes have entered your life as a result of your willingness to clear room in it for your creator’s action. You will have noticed an increased, sometimes disconcerting, sense of personal energy, some bursts of anger, some flash points of clarity. People and objects may have taken on a different meaning to you. There will be a sense of the flow of life—that you are brought into new vistas as you surrender to moving with the flow of God. This is clear already.
You may well be experiencing a sense of both bafflement and faith. You are no longer stuck, but you cannot tell where you are going. Yo…
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Jul 1, 2021
HEALING CHANGE - emerging our individuality - The Artist's Way (Week 4, Day 5)
Today, let's embrace the natural change that allows the unique snowflake pattern of our soul to emerge.
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When we have engaged the creator within to heal us, many changes and shifts in our attitudes begin to occur.
I enumerate some of them here because many of these will not be recognizable at first as healing. If fact, they may seem crazy and even destructive. At best, they will seem eccentric.
There will be a change in energy patterns.
Your dreams will become stronger and clearer, both by night and by day. You will find yourself remembering your nighttime dreams, and by day, daydreams will catch your attention. Fantasy, of a benign and unexpected sort, will begin to crop up.
You may find yo…
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Jun 30, 2021
CREATING SPACE - making way for the new - The Artist's Way (Week 4, Day 4)
Today, let's listen to our impulse to release what is no longer serving us to make way for new shifts in identity.
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Shifts in taste and perception frequently accompany shifts in identity.
One of the clearest signals that something healthy is afoot is the impulse to weed out, sort through, and discard old clothes, papers, and belongings.
By tossing out the old and unworkable, we make way for the new and suitable.
A closet stuffed with ratty old clothes does not invite new ones. A house overflowing with odds and ends and tidbits you’ve held on to for someday has no space for the things that might truly enhance today.
When the search-and-discard impulse seizes you, two crosscurrents are at work: the old you is leaving and grieving, while the new you cele…
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Jun 29, 2021
REIDENTIFYING YOUR 'SELF'- making creative contact - The Artist's Way (Week 4, Day 3)
Today, let's lose our vagueness about our self and our life situation to become available to the moment.
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People frequently believe the creative life is grounded in fantasy.
The more difficult truth is that creativity is grounded in reality, in the particular, the focused, the well observed or specifically imagined.
As we lose our vagueness about our self, our values, our life situation, we become available to the moment.
It is there, in the particular, that we contact the creative self. Until we experience the freedom of solitude, we cannot connect authentically. We may be enmeshed, but we are not encountered.
Art lies in the moment of encounter:
we meet our truth and we meet ourselves; we meet ourselves and we meet our self-expression. We beco…
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Jun 28, 2021
SPIRITUAL SURRENDER - cries of the soul - The Artist's Way (Week 4, Day 2)
Today, let's find the clarity we need for constructive change by letting go of ambiguity, illusion, and misconceptions.
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The process of identifying a self inevitably involves loss as well as gain.
We discover our boundaries, and those boundaries by definition separate us from our fellows. As we clarify our perceptions, we lose our misconceptions. As we eliminate ambiguity, we lose illusion as well. We arrive at clarity, and clarity creates change.
As we notice which friends bore us, which situations leave us stifled, we are often rocked by waves of sorrow. We may want our illusions back! We want to pretend the friendship works. We don’t want the trauma of searching for another job.
Faced with impending change, change we have set in motion through our own hand, we want to mutiny, curl up i…
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Jun 27, 2021
HONEST CHANGES - puncturing our denial - The Artist's Way (Week 4, Day 1)
Today, let's begin sorting through the differences between our real feelings and our official feeling.
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Working with the morning pages, we begin to sort through the differences between our real feelings, which are often secret, and our official feelings, those on the record for public display. Official feelings are often indicated by the phrase, “I feel okay about that [the job loss, her dating someone else, my dad’s death, ...].”
At the root of a successful creative recovery is the commitment to puncture our denial, to stop saying, “It’s okay” when in fact it’s something else. The morning pages press us to answer what else.
In my years of watching people work with morning pages, I have noticed that many tend to neglect or abandon the p…
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Jun 26, 2021
GROWTH - two steps forward, one step back - The Artist's Way (Week 3, Day 7)
Today, let's honor the rest required for sustainable growth.
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Growth is an erratic forward movement: two steps forward, one step back.
Remember that and be very gentle with yourself. A creative recovery is a healing process. You are capable of great things on Tuesday, but on Wednesday you may slide backward. This is normal. Growth occurs in spurts. You will lie dormant sometimes. Do not be discouraged. Think of it as resting.
Easy does it is actually a modus operandi. It means, "easy accomplishes it." If you hew to a practice of writing three pages every morning and do one kind of thing for yourself every day, you will begin to notice a slight lightness of heart.
If you do one nice thing for yourself a day, God will do two more.
Be alert for support and encouragement from unexpected quarte…
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Jun 25, 2021
DETECTIVE WORK - uncoupling guilt from our gifts - The Artist's Way (Week 3, Day 6)
Today, let's restore those parts of ourselves that we've abandoned for fear of hurting others.
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Many blocked people are actually very powerful and creative personalities who have been made to feel guilty about their own strengths and gifts.
Without being acknowledged, They are often used as batteries by their families and friends, who feel free to both use their creative energies and disparage them. When these block artists strive to break free of their dysfunctional systems, they are often urged to be sensible when such advice is not appropriate for them. Made to feel guilty for their talents, they often hide their own light under a bushel for fear of hurting others. Instead, they hurt themselves.
A little sleuth work is in order to restore the persons we have abando…
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Jun 24, 2021
DEALING WITH CRITICISM - rules of the road - The Artist's Way (Week 3, Day 5)
Today, let's explore some rules that are useful in dealing with any form of criticism.
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It is important to be able to sort useful criticism from the other kind.
Often we need to do the sorting out for ourselves, without the benefit of a public vindication. As artists, we are far more able to do this sorting than other people might suspect. Pointed criticism, if accurate, often gives the artist an inner sense of relief: "Ah, hah! So that's what's wrong with it." Useful criticism ultimately leaves us with one more puzzle piece for our work.
Useless criticism, on the other hand, leaves us with a feeling of being bludgeoned. As a rule, it is withering and shaming in tone; ambiguous in content; personal, inaccurate, or blanket in its condemnations. There is nothing to be gleaned from irresponsib…
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Jun 23, 2021
CRITICISM - for better or worse? - The Artist's Way (Week 3, Day 4)
Today, let's learn when and where to seek out the "right" type of criticism.
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We don't make art with its eventual criticism foremost in mind, but criticism that asks a question like "how could you?" Can make an artist feel like a shamed child. A well-meaning friend who constructively criticizes a beginning writer may very well and that writer.
Let me be clear. Not all criticism is shaming.
Does this mean no criticism? No. It means learning where and when to seek out right criticism. As artists, we must learn when criticism is appropriate and from whom.
As artists, we cannot control all the criticism we will receive.
We cannot make our professional critics more healthy or more loving or more constructive than they are. But we can learn to comfort our artist child over unfair…
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Jun 22, 2021
SHAME - the saboteur of action - The Artist's Way (Week 3, Day 3)
Today, let's recognize how we've been wrongly shamed and how that affects our creative process.
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Those of us who get bogged down by fear before action are usually being sabotaged by an older enemy, shame.
Shame is a controlling device. Shaming someone is an attempt to prevent the person from behaving in a way that embarrasses us.
The act of making art exposes a society to itself. Art brings things to light. It illuminates us. It sheds light on our lingering darkness. It casts a beam into the heart of our own darkness and says, "See?"
Art opens the closets, airs out the sellers and attics. It brings healing. But before a wound can heal it must be seen, and this act of exposing the wound to air and light, the artist's act, is often reacted to with shaming.
For the artist who endured childhood shaming—over an…
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Jun 21, 2021
SYNCHRONICITY - a wink from the Universe ;) - The Artist's Way (Week 3, Day 2)
Today, let's take a small step in the direction of a dream and watch the synchronous doors fly open.
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Life is what we make of it.
Whether we conceive of an inner god force or another, outer God, doesn't matter. Relying on that force does.
Is it any wonder we discount answered prayers? We call it a coincidence. We call it luck. We call it anything but what it is—the hand of God, or good, activated by our own hand when we act in belief of our truest dreams, when we commit to our own soul.
When we answer that call, when we commit to it, we set in motion the principle that C. G. Jung dubbed synchronicity, loosely defined as a fortuitous intermeshing of events.
Back in the 60s, we called it serendipity. Whatever you choose to call it, once you begin your creative recovery you may be star…
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Jun 20, 2021
ANGER - it's is a map! - The Artist's Way (Week 3, Day 1)
Today, let's listen to our anger to better understand where we have betrayed ourselves.
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Anger is fuel.
We feel it and want to do something. Hit someone, break something, throw a fit, smash a fist into the wall, tell those bastards. But we are nice people, and what we do with our anger is stuff it, deny it, bury it, block it, hide it, lie about it, medicate it, muffle it, ignore it. We do everything but listen to it.
Anger is meant to be listened to.
Anger is a voice, a shout, a plea, a demand. Anger is meant to be respected. Why? Because anger is a map. Anger shows us what our boundaries are. Anger shows us where we want to go. It lets us see where we've been and let us know when we haven't liked it. Anger points the way, not just the finger. In the recovery of a blocked artist, anger is a health sign.
Anger is…
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Jun 19, 2021
THE GIFT OF PAIN - requesting our attention - The Artist's Way (Week 2, Day 7)
Today, let's notice that each moment is not without its beauty.
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Writing about attention, I see that I have written a good deal about pain.
This is no coincidence. It may be different for others, but pain is what it took to teach me to pay attention. In times of pain, when the future is too terrifying to contemplate and the past too painful to remember, I have learned to pay attention to right now. The precise moment I was in was always the only safe place for me. Each moment, taken alone, was always bearable. In the exact now, we are all, always, all right. Yesterday the marriage may have ended. Tomorrow the cat may die. The phone call from the lover, for all my waiting, may not ever come, but just at the moment, just now, that’s all right. I am breathing in and out. Realizing this, I began to notice…
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Jun 18, 2021
ATTENTION - connecting with delight - The Artist's Way (Week 2, Day 6)
Today, let's find delight through our capacity to pay attention.
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Very often, a creative block manifests itself as an addiction to fantasy.
Rather than working or living in now, we spin our wheels and indulge in daydreams of could have, would have, should have. One of the greatest misconceptions about the artistic life is that it entails great swathes of aimlessness. The truth is that a creative life involves great swathes of attention.
Attention is a way to connect and survive.
Success or failure, the truth of a life really has little to do with its quality. The quality of life is in proportion, always, to the capacity for delight. The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.
The reward for attention is always healing.
It may begin as the healing of a particular pain — the lost lover,…
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Jun 17, 2021
BALANCING THE SKEPTIC - an open-minded exercise - The Artist's Way (Week 2, Day 5)
Today, let's set skepticism aside to further examine beliefs that keep us stuck and imbalanced.
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One of the things most worth noting in a creative recovery is our reluctance to take seriously the possibility that the universe just might be cooperating with our new and expanded plans.
We've gotten brave enough to try recovery, but we don't want the universe to really pay attention. We still feel too much like frauds to handle some success. When it comes, we want to go.
Of course we do! Any little bit of experimenting and self-nurturance is very frightening for most of us. When our little experiment provokes the universe to open a door or two, we start shying away. "Hey! You! Whatever you are! Not so fast!"
Setting skepticism aside, even briefly, can make for very interesting explorations. In creative recovery…
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Jun 16, 2021
SKEPTICISM - the secret doubt - The Artist's Way (Week 2, Day 4)
Today, let's look at the inner enemy we harbor ourselves.
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Perhaps the greatest barrier for any of us as we look for an expanded life is our own deeply held skepticism.
This might be called the secret doubt. It does not seem to matter whether we are officially believers or agnostics. We have our own doubts about all of this creative/creativity stuff, and those doubts are very powerful. Unless we air them, they can sabotage us. Many times, and trying to be good sports we stuff our feelings of doubt. We need to stop doing that and explore them instead.
Boil down to their essentials, the doubts go something like this: "Okay, so I started writing the morning pages and I seem more awake and alert in my life. So what? It's just a coincidence… Okay, I have started filling the well and taking…
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Jun 15, 2021
CRAZYMAKERS - blocking the creative flow - The Artist's Way (Week 2, Day 3)
Today, let's acknowledge how others can be a destructive block to our creative work.
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"Crazymakers are the kind of people who can take over your whole life.
Whether they appear as you're overbearing mother, your manic boss, your needy friend, or your stubborn spouse, the crazymakers in your life share certain destructive patterns that make them poisonous for any sustained creative work.
• Crazymakers break deals and destroy schedules.
• Crazymakers expect special treatment.
• Crazymakers discount your reality.
• Crazymakers spend your time and money.
• Crazymakers triangulate those they deal with.
• Crazymakers are expert blamers.
• Crazymakers create drama—but seldom where they belong.
• Crazymakers hate schedules—except their own.
• Crazymakers hate order.
• Crazy…
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Jun 14, 2021
POISONOUS PLAYMATES - cultivating safe space - The Artist's Way (Week 2, Day 2)
Today, let's nurture a space of safety and self-acceptance that will allow our creativity to flourish.
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Creativity flourishes when we have a sense of safety and self-acceptance.
You're artist, like a small child, is happiest when feeling a sense of security. As our artists protective parent, we must learn to place our artist with safe companions. Toxic playmates and capsize are artists growth.
Not surprisingly, the most poisonous playmates for us as recovering creative or people whose creativity is still blocked. Our recovery threatens them.
Blocked friends may find your recovery disturbing.
You're getting unblocked raises the unsettling possibility that they, too, could become unblocked and move into authentic creative risks rather than bench sitting cynicism. Be alert to self-sabota…
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Jun 13, 2021
GOING SANE - trusting our creativity - The Artist's Way (Week 2, Day 1)
Today, let's neutralize self-doubt before it turns into self-sabotage.
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Trusting our creativity is new behavior for many of us.
It may feel quite threatening initially, not only to us but also to our intimates. We may feel—and look—erratic. This erraticism is a normal part of getting unstuck, pulling free from the muck that has blocked us. It is important to remember that at first flush, going sane feels just like going crazy.
There is a recognizable eb and flow to the process of recovering our creative selves. As we gain strength, so will some of the attacks of self-doubt. This is normal, And we can deal with these stronger attacks when we see them as symptoms of recovery.
These attacks are groundless, but very convincing to ourselves. Buying into them enables us to remain stuck and victimized.
Thes…
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Jun 12, 2021
AFFIRMATIVE WEAPONS - your allies within - The Artist's Way (Week 1, Day 7)
Today, let's turn negative blurts into affirmative allies.
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Affirmations help achieve a sense of safety and hope.
When we first start working with affirmations, they may feel dumb. Hockey. Embarrassing. Isn't this interesting? We can easily, and without embarrassment, bludgeon ourselves with negative affirmations: "I'm not gifted enough/not clever enough/not original enough/not young enough…" But saying nice things about ourselves is notoriously hard to do. It feels pretty awful at first. Try these and see if they don't sound hopelessly syrupy:
"I deserve love."
"I deserve fair pay."
"I deserve a rewarding creative life."
"I am a brilliant and successful artist."
"I have rich creative talents."
"I am competent and confident in my creative work."
Did your Censor perk up its nasty little ears? Censors loathe anything th…
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Jun 11, 2021
AUDACITY TO ACT - moving past jealously - The Artist's Way (Week 1, Day 6)
Today, let's acknowledge jealously as a stalling technique that reinforces our staying stuck.
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Your Ally Within: Affirmative Weapons
All too often, it is audacity and not talent that moves an artist to center stage.
As blocked creators, we tend to regard these bogus spotlight grabbers with animosity. We may be able to defer to true genius, but if it's merely a genius for self-promotion we are witnessing, our resentment runs high. This is not just jealousy. It is a stalling technique that reinforces our staying stuck. We make speeches to ourselves and other willing victims: "I could do better than that, if only…"
You could do better if only you would let yourself do it!
Affirmations will help you allow yourself to do it. An affirmation is a positive statement of (positive) belief, and if we can become one-tenth as goo…
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Jun 9, 2021
CENTRAL NEGATIVE BELIEF - this or that? no, BOTH! - The Artist's Way (Week 1, Day 5)
Today, let's reveal the central negative belief that all other negative beliefs stem from.
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"Stripped to their essence, our multiple negative beliefs reveal a central negative belief: we must trade one good, beloved dream for another.
In other words, if being an artist seems too good to be true to you, you will devise a price tag for it that strikes you as unpayable. Hence, you remain blocked.
Most blocked creative carry unacknowledged either/or reasoning that stands between them and their work. To become unblocked we must recognize our either/or thinking.
"I can either be romantically happy or an artist." "I can either be financially successful or an artist." It is possible, quite possible to be both an artist and romantically fulfilled. It is possible to be an artist.
Your block doesn't want you to see that. Its who…
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Jun 8, 2021
FALSE NEGATIVE BELIEFS - freedom from fear - The Artist's Way (Week 1, Day 4)
Today, let's uncover false negative beliefs that inhibit our creativity.
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Core Negative Beliefs
"Here is a list of commonly held negative beliefs:
I can't be a successful, prolific, creative artist because:
Everyone will hate me.
I will hurt my friends and family.
I will go crazy.
I will abandon my friends and family.
I can't spell.
I don't have enough good ideas.
It will upset my mother and/or father.
I will have to be alone.
I will find out I am gay (if straight).
I will be struck straight (If gay).
I will do bad work and not know it and look like a fool.
I will feel too angry.
I will never have any real money.
I will get self-destructive and drink, drugs, or sex myself to death.
I will get cancer, AIDS—or a heart attack or the plague.
My lover will leave me.
I will die.
I will feel bad because I don't deserve to be succes…
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Jun 7, 2021
YOUR ENEMY WITHIN - fear of the unknown - The Artist's Way (Week 1, Day 3)
Today, let's find ease from the fear of the unknown.
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INSPIRATION FROM JULIA CAMERON
"Most of the time when we are blocked in an area of our life, it is because we feel safer that way.
We may not be happy, but at least we know what we are—unhappy. Much fear of our own creativity is the fear of the unknown.
If I am fully creative, what will it mean? What will happen to me and to others? We have some pretty awful notions about what could happen. So, rather than find out, we decide to stay blocked. This is seldom a conscious decision. It is more often an unconscious response to internalized negative beliefs.
(The Artist's Way, p. 30)
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TODAY'S AFFIRMATION
I am willing to learn to let myself create.
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TODAY'S CREATIVE EXERCISE
Yesterday, we listed three old enemies of our creative self-worth.…
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Jun 6, 2021
PROTECTING THE ARTIST CHILD WITHIN - begin by crawling - The Artist's Way (Week 1, Day 2)
Today, let's find and protect our artist child by gently acknowledging enemies of our creative self-worth.
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INSPO FROM JULIA CAMERON:
"The artist child must begin by crawling.
Baby steps will follow and there will be falls. Typically the recovering shadow artist will use these early efforts to discourage continued exploration.
In recovering from our creative blocks, it is necessary to go gently and slowly. What we are after here is the healing of old wounds—not the creation of new ones. No high jumping please! Mistakes are necessary! Stumbles are normal. These are baby steps. Progress, not perfection, is what we should be asking of ourselves.
Remember that in order to recover as an artist, you must be willing to be a bad artist. Give yourself permission to be a beginner. By being willing to be a bad artist, you have a ch…
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Jun 5, 2021
SHADOW ARTISTS - the critic within - The Artist's Way (Week 1, Day 1)
Today, let's accept our Critic within and begin to nurture our artist child.
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TODAY'S CREATIVE EXERCISE:
Take a moment to tune in to your Critic.
If you need help, go ahead and start writing your morning pages ... your Critic will soon chime in to question the validity of this, badger you for that, it will do whatever it can to prevent you from putting your thoughts on the paper. Poor thing that Critic, always reacting out of fear, it really does mean well.
Now, take a "blurt" from your Critic and convert it into a positive affirmation.
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TODAY'S QUOTE:
"An affirmation is a strong, positive statement that something is already so."
– Shakti Gawain
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TODAY'S JOURNAL PROMPT:
What is one positive affirmation you've made for yourself?
Share in the comments below👇
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May 14, 2021
Introducing, The Artist's Way Online Community Journey
The Artist's Way is a journey of discovery. You are the terra incognita (unexplored territory) that you will be exploring. Expect to fall in love with both yourself and the world around you.
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The Artist's Way is a distillate from forty years of Julia Cameron's artistic practice intended to teach people to process and transform life through acts of creativity.
The Artist’s Way "helps de-mystify the creative process by making it part of your daily life. It tackles your self-doubts, self-criticism and worries about time, money and the support to pursue our creative dream. It has already helped thousands of people to uncover their hidden talents - it can help you, too." - Julia Cameron
Many of us sense we are more creative, but unable to efficiently tap that creativity. While there is no quick fix for insta…
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May 6, 2021
Uncover Patterns and Conditionings That Hold the Key to Unlocking Our Creative Freedom
Today, let's use our creative journaling session to uncover patterns and conditionings that want our healing attention.
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Art opens the closets, airs out the cellars and attics. It brings healing.
– Julia Cameron
People have been relying on the arts to communicate, express themselves, and heal for thousands of years.
We think of the creative journal as a “new” form of creative expression but visual journaling has been a way of documenting ideas, questions, and observations since there has been paper and writing media. Leonardo da Vinci was probably the most famous in the late 1400's.
AFFIRMATION: I am the artist of my own life.
It is possi…
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May 4, 2021
A Poem & Self-Portrait that will Entice Your Creative Muse to Stay
Today, let's embark on a curious adventure that will make a clear division between our 'self' and our creative expression so that we can better carry out the wishes of our creative muses.
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"If there's a book that you want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it." – Toni Morrison
How do you connect with your creative Muse? Greek poets would "invoke the muse" to open the door to creative ideas and thoughts. The word Muse comes from the Greek mousai, and refers to the goddesses of creativity and the "arts". I choose to believe that those goddesses live within me. When I need a dose of inspiration I turn my creative…
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May 2, 2021
Dancing with the Energetic Cycles of the Moon in our Creative Journals
Let's dance with the moon's energetic glory as we embrace her illuminated pull and connect to her power with balance and grace.
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All things on Earth have a natural cycle.
Nothing on the physical plane shows cycles better than the Moon. (The tides, the water that evaporates and turns to rain, fruit that falls, rots, and then creates new life).
The moon is a goddess symbol.
In pagan traditions, it is said that the moon represents the Maiden, Mother, and Crone as the waxing, full and waning moons. the cycle of birth, life, death, and rebirth. It is also a symbol of the spiritual aspects of femininity, such as intuition, psychic abilities, creat…
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May 1, 2021
3 Exercises That Access Your Magical Creative Child
Today, let's explore a few creative exercises to access our magical, creative child.
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"It took me four years to paint like Rembrandt, but a lifetime to paint like a child." – Pablo Picasso
What do you think Picasso meant when he said the quote above?
Children create in a magical state. Until rules or conditioning begin to dampen their imagination they exhibit a freedom to their creativity. They do not realize it but their experimentation with everything is all the expression of their creativity. To them it is just their natural state of being. To children the world is a wonder, a playground and canvas to be decorated.
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I am a crea…
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Apr 30, 2021
Having a Creative Block? Here Are 9 Exercises to Confront and Dissolve Creative Resistance
Today, let's acknowledge a creative block for it's temporary state of being and address the issue with courage and compassion.
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"There is no such thing as creative or noncreative people, only people that use their creativity and people that don't." – Brené Brown
No matter what modality we use to create it is possible that at times we will feel blocked. An occasional feeling of “creative block” is totally normal when it happens every now and then and it is this type of block we are discussing in this session. (Over the years, creatives have reported creative blocks that have lasted weeks, months,…
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Apr 29, 2021
Blooming with Beauty and Grace Wherever Life Plants You
Today, let's release our intentions into the fertile soil of our consciousness where they can flourish and grow.
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Spring is the season of growth.
This is the perfect time to honor growth of all kinds. The days become longer. The nights are warmer and the world wakes up from it's winter sleep.
As journal keepers, we might feel compelled to go back through our journals from years ago and we may have the thought that nothing has changed. The “battles” we were fighting then seem to be the same “battles” we are fighting now. In fact, that is not the case. Each time we experience a challenge we a…
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Apr 28, 2021
Integrating Our Dark and Our Light to Feel the Wholeness of Our Soul
Today, let's befriend all the parts of ourselves and use the powers of creativity, courage, and compassion to try on all the hats of joy.
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Even in the Spring the night is still dark.
Even as we observe, shift and grow our shadows remain. That need not be a concern…our shadows are part of our learning on this physical plane. We are human and we need the contrast to expand our growth and consciousness. We also have the ability to choose and play around with our actions and behaviors when shadows appear. What feels like the loving, conscious solution to this challenging experience?
If we can integrate…
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Apr 27, 2021
Where to Dig to Find Wondrous Treasure Within the Adventure of Your Self
Today, let's search for life-enriching treasures in the form of opportunities to explore and experiment.
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Take yourself back to a time when every day was an adventure.
When a pile of rocks and some sticks became a fort or a fairy garden. When you could fly to the moon in a cardboard box. Maybe your days are filled with adventure right now and if that is the case I applaud your desire to find "hidden treasures" in your every day life. You don't have to travel to the jungle or a great d…
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Apr 26, 2021
How Essence Identity Can Ease the Suffering of Your Form Identity
Today, let's get still and balance our form identity with our formless, interconnected essence identity.
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When we began our Spring Journey we asked ourselves a question that we may believe holds great importance to the expansion of our consciousness. Who Am I?
Eckhart Tolle, renowned spiritual teacher and best-selling author says, “You have form identity and essence identity. Suffering arises when you know “yourself” only as form identity.”
Many know themselves only as form iden…
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Apr 25, 2021
Let's Practice Vulnerability Stepping into the Unknown with a Courageous Heart
Without vulnerability, we struggle to achieve love, creativity, belonging, trust, and joy (to name a few). Today, let's courageously show up and be seen when we have no control over the outcome.
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When we live in a reality of conditioning we guard ourselves against the possibility of being hurt.
Many times we don't even realize when we are guarded or how thick the walls are. The guarding has become habitual and we are protecting ourselves against people and situations that could open u…
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Apr 23, 2021
Elevating Consciousness by Merging Imagination with Creativity Through Inspired Action
The power of imagination brings things that do not exist into the mind and uses it to visualize how things "could" be. The more you use this power the stronger it becomes.
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Imagine that you have extraordinary power.
This power brings things that do not exist into the mind and uses it to visualize how things "could" be. The more you use this power the stronger it becomes.
If you can reach a state of stillness and quiet your mind, your subconscious will be more accepting of the "reality"…
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Apr 20, 2021
The Self-Empowering Practice of Basking in Your Own Warmth and Light
Today, let's bask in the energetic glory of our own warmth and light to feel whole and peaceful.
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Let's pretend that we are the light and the warmth. Let's pretend that we recognize the magnificence of our being. We are shining bright and holding ourselves in the highest esteem. Let's pretend that our warmth and our light radiate from us and surrounds the entire world. At once the world experiences love and compassion and feels safe.
Let's pretend we are exposed to the warmth and ligh…
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Apr 19, 2021
How Breathing Affects Our Focus As We Create
Breathe …. intentional breathing helps us decrease stress, relax our mind and body, helps us sleep better and so much more. Today, let's observe how our breathing affects our focus as we create.
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Taking just a few moments each day to practice some deep breathing exercises can decrease stress, relax your mind, body and can help you sleep better.
These are only a few of the benefits of breathwork. Having a daily breathing practice could drastically improve your health and well-being. Other…
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Apr 18, 2021
Dropping into the Feeling Experience of Play in Our Creative Journal
Play is crucial to the development of our creativity, health, and happiness (as well as many other benefits). It may be one of the higher expressions of humanity. It is more a feeling of an experience than the experience itself. Today, let's play with some color and see if we can get to that playful feeling space.
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PLAYFUL CREATIVE EXERCISES:
If you have a creative ritual begin with that.
Bring yourself into alignment with your space by taking a few long, slow breaths. Focus on the air as…
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Apr 16, 2021
How Slowing Down Can Help Us Expand Beyond Our Creative Comfort Zone
Today, let's slow down and try new experiences that take will expand our knowledge of how we do what we do.
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When Spring returns again energy springs into action. Winter has been restful and reflective but now it's time to grow.
That is usually my thought process with the arrival of Spring but this year I decided to Ease into Spring. I want to fully commit to the tasks I have been waiting to accomplish. I want to get intentional and not start more than I can finish and I want to finish…
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Apr 13, 2021
Create a Self-Love Card that Honor the Uniqueness of Your Being
Let's compile what we know about ourselves and answer the question to the best of our ability—WHO AM I?—with a self-love card!
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You may have noticed that when we were gathering our personal data I kept saying "Who we believe ourselves to be" rather than "Who I Am". Who we believe ourselves to be may be very different than who we actually are.
What we know about the way the brain works is that we form a belief and then we look for evidence that support them afterwards.
We ha…
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Apr 13, 2021
LIFE PIE - Creative Exercise to Discover What Area of Your Life Needs More Time and Energy
The Life Pie exercise is a good indicator of where our time and energy are spent so we can make informed decisions that will bring more balance into our lives.
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We use these Life Pies to determine the state of balance in our lives at this moment. This exercise requires an honest, non judgmental assessment of where your focus is most of the time at this stage of your growth. If you do this exercise once every other week or so, you can track your state of balance, notice which areas may nee…
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Apr 11, 2021
"WHO AM I?" ... Grab Your Journal and Let's Find Out!
Today we will compile all of the data that we have been collecting over the past few days and we will add to that data through a series of questions until we can clearly define: Who Am I?
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Who Am I?
Get out your journal and let's find out.
How do I feel right now?
What are my thoughts about life?
What are my top 5 core values?
Am I living in alignment with these values?
What would…
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Apr 10, 2021
Cultivate Clarity into Who You REALLY Are and Manifest What You REALLY Want
What do we really desire from our life? Today, let's examine our values to get clarity on what will allow us to feel more balanced and whole.
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To gain clarity about who we are, how we aspire to live, and the choices we make and to live fully rather than just survive. New beginnings require clarity and focus to manifest. Being clear about the path we choose can help us create the new life adventure we long for. What is more SPRING than a new adventure?
Yesterday we briefly touched on o…
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Apr 9, 2021
How to Celebrate and Honor New Beginnings with Creative Inspiration
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Winter is over and Spring invites us to celebrate a New Beginning!
We have spent the past few months in the winter stillness and wrapped in the reflective blanket that Winter provides. We have used our time wisely and have gained some clarity about who we are and how we show up in the world.
We have observed ourselves in action and are aware of the “masks” we wear and the conditioning that has shaped us. We are all a work in progress and we are all whole, beautiful and enough just…
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Apr 8, 2021
A Profound Commitment to Awaken Your Creative Energy
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We begin with our commitment to our creative expression and to our own self-awareness.
We begin with the realization that even if a “creative journal” isn't your chosen form of creative expression, any creative practice enhances the power of creativity in all areas of our life. I find that I can be more authentic, experiment, play, and also share these ideas with you more fully if all of us have the same tools to work with. Keeping a creative journal, honoring the commit…
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Apr 8, 2021
Introducing, 30 Days of Spring Creative Journaling with Marva Midkiff
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👩🏼🎨 Creativity Is a State of Being
Creating is an innate human attribute, available to everyone. We will explore this. You will find so much benefit to daily creative expression and so many areas that creativity can enhance your life. Each person that accepts this challenge and commitment changes the world for the better.
🌱 Aside from honoring Spring, this journey was designed to:
• Examine and reframe our beliefs about our own Creative expression and expand our unde…
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Feb 27, 2021
TRANSFORMING ㊎ METAL: power in alchemy 🌀(Resilience: 10 of 10)
Today, let’s discover our power as alchemists of our lives.
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Feb 26, 2021
LETTING GO ㊎ METAL: power in breathe 🌀(Resilience: 9 of 10)
Today, let’s let go of what is ready to go, noticing the beauty in changing.
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Feb 25, 2021
INTEGRATING ㊏ EARTH: power in integration 🌀(Resilience: 8 of 10)
Today, let’s digest and integrate our experiences and feelings.
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Feb 23, 2021
NURTURING ㊏ EARTH: power in nurture 🌀(Resilience: 7 of 10)
Today, let’s sink into the love and nurturing of our centers.
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Feb 20, 2021
QUICK ㊋ FIRE: power in shifting 🌀(Resilience: 6 of 10)
Today, let’s play with how fire’s quickness can help us change and charge our brightness.
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Feb 19, 2021
JOY ㊋ FIRE: power in transformation 🌀(Resilience: 5 of 10)
Today, let’s tap into the joy warming our beings.
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Feb 18, 2021
VISIONARY ㊍ WOOD: power in visualization 🌀(Resilience: 4 of 10)
Today, let’s climb to the top of the trees and vision the future.
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Feb 18, 2021
FLEXIBLE ㊍ WOOD: power in flexibility 🌀(Resilience: 3 of 10)
Today let’s explore the flexibility we need to be able to bend in the wind of life’s storms.
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Feb 16, 2021
TRUST ㊌ WATER: power in flowing 🌀(Resilience: 2 of 10)
Today, let’s tap into the power of flowing water, how there is no rush but it always gets where it wants to go.
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Feb 16, 2021
STILL ㊌ WATER: power in stillness 🌀(Resilience: 1 of 10)
Today let’s explore the seed underground, waiting in darkness. What power lies in stillness?
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Feb 14, 2021
10 Days of Resilience Community Kick-off Call
This course is inspired by juniper's studies in Chinese Medicine and the five movements that generate and create all life. Each element/movement has a powerful key to developing resilience. Unlocking the gift of each movement opens the way for the five movements to dance in your life. This is a dance to foster calm, flexibility, joy, nurture, and surrender. Get ready to get your alchemy on!
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Jan 30, 2021
FUN - preparing for hunger with delight 😛 (Intuitive Eating 30 of 30)
Today, let's have fun and learn to be prepared for hunger (because it isn’t going anywhere).
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Jan 29, 2021
COURAGEOUS - inviting healthy change 😛 (Intuitive Eating 29 of 30)
Today, let's find the courage to invite the healthy change we know we need.
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Jan 28, 2021
COMPASSIONATE - cultivating self-trust with grace 😛 (Intuitive Eating 28 of 30)
Today, let's have grace for the times we eat emotionally while continuing to cultivate trust in our body.
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Jan 27, 2021
RESILIENT - giving praise to our body 😛 (Intuitive Eating 27 of 30)
Today, let's give praise to how resilient our bodies are.
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Jan 26, 2021
DISCOVERING - expanding beyond diets 😛 (Intuitive Eating 26 of 30)
Today, let's discover what life feels like without dieting.
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Jan 25, 2021
MOTION - exercising without worrying about burning calories 😛 (Intuitive Eating 25 of 30)
Today, let's look at exercise without worrying about burning calories.
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Jan 25, 2021
REST DAY - fill in the blank meditation 😛 (Intuitive Eating 24 of 30)
Today, let's see what the body has to say about this and that.
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Jan 23, 2021
CREATIVE - creating effective and adaptable routines 😛 (Intuitive Eating 23 of 30)
Today, let's create effective routines that naturally adapt to life's unexpected events.
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Jan 22, 2021
PRESENT - understanding calories and portion sizes 😛 (Intuitive Eating 22 of 30)
Today, let's understand calories and portions without falling back into the diet mentality.
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Jan 21, 2021
RELAXED - basking in guilt-free relaxation 😛 (Intuitive Eating: 21 of 30)
Today, let's bask in the transformational power of guilt-free relaxation.
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Jan 20, 2021
FOCUSED - noticing thoughts of body hunger 😛 (Intuitive Eating: 20 of 30)
Today, let's notice where our focus goes when thinking about our body.
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Jan 19, 2021
FEELING - trusting your innate guidance system 😛 (Intuitive Eating: 19 of 30)
Today, let's feel our feelings and let them guide us.
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Jan 18, 2021
FLOWING - riding the natural flow of food 😛 (Intuitive Eating: 18 of 30)
Today, let's learn how to ride the natural flow of our thinking around food.
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Jan 16, 2021
Day 17 of Intuitive Eating - Trusting, Sensualizing, and Breathing into Food Freedom with Jen Gens
Today, let's breathe back into our bodies and turn on our senses. For today's rest day, we chat with Jen Gens.
Jen Gens is a Holistic Empowerment & Relationship Coach, who guides women to release their fears of the past, cultivate unshakeable confidence, & call in aligned soulful connections. She is an award-winning speaker & has a Bachelor’s degree in Interpersonal & Nonverbal Communications from Boston College. She is also a certified Nutritional Health Coach, certified Raja Yoga & Ayurvedic Wellness teacher, & Meditation teacher. She has extensively studied psychology, fitness, the science of habit change, intuitive eating, disordered eating recovery, & an array of alternative healing & mindfulness modalities.
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Jan 16, 2021
UNAPOLOGETIC - releasing opinions around your body and eating 😛 (Intuitive Eating: 16 of 30)
Today, let’s find freedom releasing opinions of others around our body and eating habits.
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Jan 15, 2021
OBJECTIVE - noticing our mindset based on our perspective 😛 (Intuitive Eating: 15 of 30)
Today, let's notice how our mindset changes depending on our perspective.
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Jan 14, 2021
WHOLE - evolving beyond the labels into wholeness 😛 (Intuitive Eating: 14 of 30)
Today, let's see ourselves as whole and evolving by letting go of labels.
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Jan 13, 2021
ACCEPTANCE - responding to eating habits with love 😛 (Intuitive Eating: 13 of 30)
Today, let's learn how the diet mentality shows up and see how we can respond with love, instead of react with fear.
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Jan 12, 2021
LOVING - exploring binge, emotional, and overeating 😛 (Intuitive Eating: 12 of 30)
Today, let's explore the difference between binge eating, emotional eating, and overeating.
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Jan 11, 2021
UNDERSTANDING - exploring the pitfalls of diets 😛 (Intuitive Eating: 11 of 30)
Today, let’s explore why diets aren't always what they're cracked up to be.
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Jan 10, 2021
REST - scanning the body 😛 (Intuitive Eating: 10 of 30)
Today, let's soften the brow, drop the shoulders, and loosen our bellies.
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👁 View today's full session: https://intentioninspired.com/eating9
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Jan 9, 2021
REDUCING - noticing patterns to reduce sugar cravings 😛 (Intuitive Eating: 9 of 30)
Today, let's learn how to reduce sugar cravings by noticing patterns.
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Jan 8, 2021
RESTED - sleeping our way to healthier eating habits 😛 (Intuitive Eating: 8 of 30)
Today, let's learn how poor sleep can make weight loss hard and cause cravings.
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Jan 7, 2021
HYDRATING - eating for optimal energy 😛 (Intuitive Eating: 7 of 30)
Today, let's learn about and experiment with eating for energy.
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Jan 6, 2021
ENERGY - treating food as life force fuel 😛 (Intuitive Eating: 6 of 30)
Today, let's learn about and experiment with eating for energy.
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👁 View today's full session: https://intentioninspired.com/eating6
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Jan 5, 2021
SAVORING - crowding the plate to allow for more indulging 😛 (Intuitive Eating: 5 of 30)
Today, let's learn about the benefits of plate crowding to allow more indulging.
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Jan 4, 2021
DECELERATING - slowing down to listen for hunger and fullness 😛 (Intuitive Eating: 4 of 30)
Today, let's learn how to slow down while listening to hunger and fullness.
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👁 View today's full session: https://intentioninspired.com/eating4
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Jan 4, 2021
RESTING - playfully enjoying and connecting 😛 (Intuitive Eating: 3 of 30)
Today, let's be playful and connect with the Intention Inspired fam to see how everyone else has been doing on their intuitive eating journey.
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For your rest day today, I invite you to go do something fun that you enjoy and notice how when you get caught up enjoying life, thoughts, fears, and worries about food go away. You still want to pay attention to hunger and fullness but instead of purposefully waiting to get hungry, you will naturally just notice when the stomach rumbles. That is your cue, your signal to take a break and go eat soon. Then go back to enjoying what you were doing if you wish. Don't forget to visit the course Act…
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Jan 2, 2021
INTUITIVE - consciously listening to the body's wisdom 😛 (Intuitive Eating: 2 of 30)
Today, let's consciously listen to the body to unlearn subconscious beliefs that have been keeping us stuck.
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TODAY'S QUOTE
“I believe in intuitions. I sometimes FEEL that I am right. I do not KNOW that I am.”
― Albert Einstein
TODAY'S JOURNAL PROMPT
What does hunger and fullness feel like to you?
TODAY'S HEALTHY HABIT
Chew your food as much as possible. Aim for 20 chews per bite of food!
TODAY'S MINI CHALLENGE
Slow down and notice Hunger/Fullness in the moment.
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Jan 1, 2021
OPEN-MINDED - regaining control of eating habits 😛 (Intuitive Eating: 1 of 30)
Today, let's let go of judgemental limitations and regaining control of we want to live our lives.
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Our intention today is to be open-minded to change.
Change can be scary and often we think it is long term. When it comes to changing your eating habits some fear may pop up because of past experiences. Maybe you worked with a coach, trainer, or just tried a random diet online that told you to cut out your favorite food. You might have fears similar to some of my clients. Thoughts like “Please don’t tell me I have to stop drinking coffee, I just can’t live without it.”
The thing I want to point out today is that you’r…
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Jan 1, 2021
Introducing, 30 Days of Intuitive Eating with Meaghan McElroen
This 30-day journey will inspire and empower you to create a sustainable, healthier lifestyle by understanding how problematic eating habits are created and how to shift away from the diet mentality that keeps us stuck and feeling crazy around food.
Intuitive eating is a natural way of eating that most of us have lost touch with. This journey will cultivate freedom around food by tuning into the wisdom of your body.
Along this journey, we learn how to eat more intuitively, understand how to eat for energy and to reduce cravings, no longer overthink food choices, and begin to change your habits around food.
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Dec 3, 2020
Projects For The Soul - Winter Creative Journaling
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Introducing, our next project for the soul: Winter Creative Journaling!
A message from our host, Marva:
Bring yourself...every day...because this is your art room and you are the creator of your own sanctuary.
You are worthy, important, magical and wise. You are a creator and you are enough.
The intention for this project is twofold. First, I want to make my creative expression a priority by devoting a period of time to it daily. I want creativity to be my spiritual practice. Not only because it is what feeds my soul but also because sharing my specific view of "creativity" is my gift to you and that makes it a high priority. I feel out of balance if I don't practice what I preach.
My thought is that even if keeping a creative journal is not one of the creative practices that feeds your soul we can all benefit from making ourselves a priority. This is a fun way to do that.
Seco…
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Dec 2, 2020
Day 30 of Rainbow - I AM UNFOLDING
Today, let's celebrate our unfolding, welcoming every version of ourselves as we are becoming.
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Dec 1, 2020
Day 29 of Rainbow - I AM SURRENDER
Today, let's daringly surrender needing to know or control the future. Let's practice accepting what is and explore where we are being invited to surrender.
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Nov 30, 2020
Day 28 of Rainbow - I AM SHIFTING
Today, let's release control and welcome the people we are becoming. Let's make room to shift.
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Nov 28, 2020
Day 27 of Rainbow - I AM MADE OF LOVE
Today, let's practice believing we are made of love, and let that expand our awareness.
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Nov 27, 2020
Day 26 of Rainbow - I AM LEARNING
Today, let's follow our curiosity. Let's learn from what excites us, what is already around us, and this wonderful community we're journeying with right now.
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Nov 26, 2020
Day 25 of Rainbow - I AM STILL
Today, let's be still. Let's let this be a respite and a sanctuary in a world always moving.
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Nov 25, 2020
Day 24 of Rainbow - I AM LIMITED
Today, let's explore balance and what it looks like to be limited creatures. Let's come to terms with our edges and practice presence together.
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Nov 25, 2020
Day 23 of Rainbow - I AM A MIRACLE
Today, let's practice radical acceptance for the miracles that we are, for the miracle of being alive, and how seeing ourselves this way can change everything.
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Nov 24, 2020
Day 22 of Rainbow - I AM BECOMING
Today, let's let the story be unfinished. Let's leave room for what is being born and what is becoming.
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Nov 21, 2020
Day 21 of Rainbow - I AM MAGIC
Today, let's awaken our inner truth and magic. Let's see how this lights us up and connects us to all that is.
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Nov 20, 2020
Day 20 of Rainbow - I AM OPENING
Today, let's notice the places inside us and in our lives that feel closed. Let's explore nudging open, breathing into stuckness, and what space feels like when we shift with our breath.
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Nov 19, 2020
Day 19 of Rainbow - I AM RECEIVING
Today, let's dive into how we receive love and care. Let's unblock and let the river of love flow.
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Nov 18, 2020
Day 18 of Rainbow - I AM AWAKE
Today, let's breathe and find the life coursing through our bodies. Let's not just coast or trudge through life but be awake.
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Nov 17, 2020
Day 17 of Rainbow - I AM INFINITE
Today, let's imagine beyond what we believe to be possible. Let's push the boundaries of our self-limiting beliefs.
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Nov 16, 2020
Day 16 of Rainbow - I AM BEAUTY
Today, let's view ourselves from the perspective of people who love us, to see our own beauty and presence in the world.
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Nov 15, 2020
Day 15 of Rainbow - I AM SPRING
Today, let's explore the energy of springtime, and how we see that manifesting in our lives.
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Nov 13, 2020
Day 14 of Rainbow - I AM EXPANSIVE
Today, let's expand our awareness, our minds, and our hearts. Let's dream and be.
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Nov 13, 2020
Day 13 of Rainbow - I AM KINDRED
Today, let's see how we are connected to all that is, and find ourselves in the ecosystem of our lives.
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Nov 12, 2020
Day 12 of Rainbow - I AM NOURISHED
Today, let's soak in nurture & care for our beautiful selves.
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Nov 11, 2020
Podcast Trailer
Together, let's develop the self-awareness that inspires us to live in more alignment with our deepest intentions.
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Nov 11, 2020
Day 11 of Rainbow - I AM READY
Today, let's look at hesitation and fear as we face the places that are ready for action.
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Nov 10, 2020
Day 10 of Rainbow - I AM LISTENING
Today, let's get in touch with where we need to listen and course adjust.
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Nov 9, 2020
Day 9 of Rainbow - I AM WEAVING
Today, let's see ourselves as weavers and follow the threads of what we are weaving, and the communities that make us who we are.
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Nov 7, 2020
Day 7 of Rainbow - I AM DYNAMIC
Today, let's embrace our dynamic nature and move our bodies.
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Nov 6, 2020
Day 6 of Rainbow - I AM HOME
Today, let's feel into the meaning of home, and how we can welcome ourselves home in our bodies.
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Nov 5, 2020
Day 5 of Rainbow - I AM LIMINAL
Today, let's explore the concept of liminal space and how life is change.
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Nov 4, 2020
Day 4 of Rainbow - I AM AN ADVENTURE
Today, let's play with the possibility that we are an adventure, that our lives are a playground of possibilities.
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Nov 3, 2020
Day 3 of Rainbow - I AM LOVED
Today, let's welcome in love for ourselves, and what it looks like to be a being of love.
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Nov 2, 2020
Day 2 of Rainbow - I AM ALIVE
Today, let's honor the darkness and the light that make up our dynamic experience of being alive.
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Nov 1, 2020
Day 1 of Rainbow - I AM HUMAN
Today, let's explore what it means to be human, to embrace our messiness and live in a body.
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Oct 22, 2020
becoming a rainbow with juniper klatt
juniper klatt sips tea with me in the tiny house as we follow the rainbow.
We unpack the creative process of her new book, becoming a rainbow, and how that inspired the creation of November's Community Course: 30 Days of Rainbow. Throughout our goobs & giggles, juniper reads us some of her light weaving poetry, shares insights into embracing the human spectrum between fear and joy, and invites us to come play on this journey of wonder, whimsey, and magic.
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Sep 4, 2020
Day 30 of Authenticity - I AM
Today, let's explore what 30 Days of Authenticity looked like for each of us individually with the goal of ending up with a powerful I am statement that resonates and touches the core of who you really are.
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Sep 3, 2020
Day 29 of Authenticity - I AM RECEIVING
Today, let's connect to what we have received and learned about ourselves in this authentic journey.
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Sep 2, 2020
Day 28 of Authenticity - I AM REFLECTIVE
Today, let's look at this authentic journey as a whole and honor exactly where we are, reflecting on everything we have gained and all of our own individual growth.
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Sep 1, 2020
Day 27 of Authenticity - I AM WHOLE
Today, let's look at our own personal definition of wholeness so we can be more accepting of the polarities that create our reality.
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Aug 31, 2020
Day 26 of Authenticity - I AM OPEN
Today, let's open ourselves up to our own healing and allow whatever needs to come through for ourselves to come through.
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Aug 29, 2020
Day 25 of Authenticity - I AM UNDERSTANDING
Today, let's get to a space of not judging but being loving, compassionate, and understanding for what someone else might be going through.
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Aug 24, 2020
Day 24 of Authenticity - I AM GRATEFUL
Today, let's shift our perspective to realize that whatever we're working through can ultimately help us to love ourselves more deeply.
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Aug 23, 2020
Day 23 of Authenticity - I AM INTENTIONAL
Today, let's spend some time unfolding the future from the tip of intention.
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Aug 22, 2020
Day 22 of Authenticity - I AM REAL
Today, let's heal and transform into more of who we are meant to be.
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Aug 21, 2020
Day 21 of Authenticity- I AM REFLECTIVE
Today, let's be reminded of all of the wonderful things (creativity, passions, hopes, beliefs) that exist within us and are available to connect to at all times.
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Aug 20, 2020
Day 20 of Authenticity - I AM HOPEFUL
Today, let's explore what our future self would tell us and remain hopeful for what's to come.
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Aug 19, 2020
Day 19 of Authenticity - I AM OPEN
Today, let's identify and work with our inner sense of truth and how that shows up for us.
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Aug 18, 2020
Day 18 of Authenticity - I AM CONNECTED
Today, let's explore what love means to us and capture it in a way that excites us and allows us to remember the ultimate truth of who are.
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Aug 17, 2020
Day 17 of Authenticity - I AM AUTHENTIC
Today, let's look into our personal sense of power and how we truly want to show up in this world.
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Aug 16, 2020
Day 16 of Authenticity - I AM CREATIVE
Today, let's move into the expansion of what’s to come by connecting with our future self.
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Aug 15, 2020
Day 15 of Authenticity - I AM VISIONARY
Today, let's move into the expansion of what’s to come by connecting with our future self.
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Aug 14, 2020
Day 14 of Authenticity - I AM REFLECTING
Today, let's spend some time in reflection for all we have uncovered within ourselves recently.
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Aug 13, 2020
Day 13 of Authenticity - I AM WILLING
Today, let's see how expectations might be limiting the potential that exists in each present moment.
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Aug 12, 2020
Day 12 of Authenticity - I AM OPEN
Today, let's accept and embrace all of what makes us who we are.
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Aug 11, 2020
Day 11 of Authenticity - I AM EMBRACING
Today, let's approach our fears with gratitude in order to discover why they are there and how they can help.
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Aug 10, 2020
Day 10 Of Authenticity - I AM THE OTHER
Today, let's see ourselves in the light and eyes of someone we consider outside of ourselves.
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Aug 9, 2020
Day 9 of Authenticity - I AM PATIENT
Today, let's show up with our inner child to gently heal wounds with gentle care and patience.
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Aug 8, 2020
Day 8 of Authenticity - I AM AWARE
Today, let's make the connection to what a trigger is trying to show us and discover what the opportunity for you is.
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Aug 7, 2020
Day 7 of Authenticity - I AM REFLECTING
Today, let's connect with the work we have done and create a purpose statement that will inspire our most authentic self to blossom.
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Aug 6, 2020
Day 6 of Authenticity - I AM FORGIVING
Today, let's honor ourselves by paying attention to the way we are talking to ourselves offering forgiveness when we don’t treat ourselves the way that we ultimately deserve to be treated.
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Aug 5, 2020
Day 5 of Authenticity - I AM OPEN
Today, let's explore the notion there is no “good” or “bad,” there is ultimately just exactly where you are, which is worthy of expression!
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Aug 5, 2020
Day 4 of Authenticity - I AM COMPASSIONATE
Today, let's release self-limitations by shifting challenges into opportunities.
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Aug 4, 2020
Day 3 of Authenticity - I AM POWERFUL
Today, let's release self-limitations by shifting challenges into opportunities.
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Aug 2, 2020
Day 2 of Authenticity - I AM LOVE
Today, let's reconnect to how loved we all are, how amazing we all are, and how much we all have to offer.
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Aug 1, 2020
Day 1 of Authenticity - I AM CONSCIOUS
Today, let's take time to experience all of the emotions that go into our everyday reality in an effort to recognize our own personal development and growth.
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Aug 1, 2020
What is 30 Days of Authenticity?
What if we spent 30 days in a state of acceptance? Not with how we think things should be, what we think we are lacking, how we can’t do something or aren’t ready for XYZ, but really in a state of authentically making peace with exactly how things are - the way they are. What would happen then? We plan to spend the next 30 days exploring that with you!
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Aug 1, 2020
Embrace Your Authenticity + Crown Jewels Book Launch Interview with Maria Vandenburg
Tune in to this community call as we celebrate the launch of Maria Vandenburg's new book, Crown Jewels: The Akasha Records, along with her course, 30 Days of Authenticity. 😄🎉💖
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Jul 25, 2020
Day 30 of Mindfulness - I AM MINDFUL
Today, let's embrace the beauty of who we are, right now, as a result of all past moments that have led to this one … and this one … and this one …
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Jul 24, 2020
Day 29 of Mindfulness - I AM FEARLESS
Today, let's flex our brave muscle and expand the boundaries of what we're afraid to do.
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Jul 23, 2020
Day 28 of Mindfulness - I AM GRATEFUL
Today, let's become totally absorbed in the present moment by appreciating everything that comes our way.
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Jul 22, 2020
Day 27 of Mindfulness - I AM GRACEFUL
Today, let's practice basking in the moment by letting things flow naturally in whichever direction they like.
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Jul 21, 2020
Day 26 of Mindfulness - I AM TRUSTING
Today, let's let go of all the distracting and insignificant details that bog us down and cloud the mind.
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Jul 20, 2020
Day 25 of Mindfulness - I AM WISE
Today, let's release the weight of past burdens to allow more space for a mindful, peaceful, and happy life.
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Jul 19, 2020
Day 24 of Mindfulness - I AM FORGIVING
Today, let's release the weight of past burdens to allow more space for a mindful, peaceful, and happy life.
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