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Jan
15
Meditation: Staying Grounded Meditation
Filed Under Life Coaching, Spiritual Healing, Stress Remedies
Trees play a major role in our life, literally and symbolically. Considering how much we depend on them, it’s natural to welcome them into our meditation practice.
Enjoy this meditation inspired by woodlands. All you need to get started is a quiet spot and a comfortable sitting position.
Observe your breath for a 3 – 4 minutes and then begin to reflect…
1. If possible, sit with your back against the trunk of a tree. If this is not possible, imagine that you are seated, firmly supported, leaning against your favorite tree. Press down gently, relaxing into the surface beneath you. Let yourself sink into the earth as though there was a faint pressure pushing down on your shoulders and your body was growing heavier. Make any adjustments you need until you feel firmly planted.
Continue breathing deeply and slowly … Read more
Dec
16
Balance: More Powerful Tips to Transform Chaos into Calm
Filed Under Goal Achievement, Life Coaching, Stress Remedies
As I pointed out in our last post …
The opportunity to turn chaos into relative calm is within reach.
Here are a couple more simple, yet effective, organization tips. Using them can assist you to experience a turnaround from chaos to calm:
- Take inventory of all the things you need to get done. You’ve already established that everything else is “noise.” Now, take a moment to rank the to-do list in terms of importance.
- Always do first things first. The things that are most important need to be at the top of the list.
- You’ll find that this approach helps you to calmly focus on one thing at a time. Knowing that you’ve made time for each item is important. It allows you to relax while doing each one instead of feeling anxious about something getting left behind.
- Try to complete each item before moving to the other. Choosing to abandon this strategy can easily result in the chaos returning!
- Ask for help. This is perhaps the easiest way to turn chaos into calming balance. Sure, you want to do it all yourself. But maybe that’s an unrealistic desire. Look around. Ask those
trustworthy people around you to lend a hand.
Nov
11
Does it sometimes feel like everything is in disarray? Regardless of how hard you try, you just aren’t able to eliminate the chaos. In your mind, you’re probably thinking that just too much is happening at once.
However, have you stopped to consider an alternate explanation for the chaos? Maybe it has absolutely nothing to do with the amount of things happening. Instead, it may simply be due to how you organize your time.
The opportunity to turn chaos into relative calm is within reach. With these simple, yet effective, organization tip
s, you’ll be able to experience a complete turnaround:
- Allow yourself time to breathe. It’s easy to get overwhelmed! And especially if you aren’t able to squeeze breathing time into your schedule. Breathing time refers to those moments you get to re-collect yourself.
- Focus on productivity. It’s easy to be distracted by the noise around you. And sometimes it’s that noise that gives you the feeling of chaos. Instead of giving everything your attention, try to focus on the things that matter.
Oct
25
Healing: Emotional Healing for a Hurting Heart
Filed Under Emotional Healing, Mental Healing, Spiritual Healing
Do you find it true that your emotions really take a knock when your heart is aching? Sometimes it feels like the day of healing is a million miles away. A painful time can take a while to be purged from your system.
It’s definitely healthy to experience a range of emotions. However, it’s unwise to have the negative ones consume 
your existence. You’re better off working towards healing the hurt. That way, you can start to experience joy and happiness again.
Emotional healing is possible if you work at repairing the source of the hurt. As you’ll see, this may mean making some tough decisions. Here are some tips to get the healing underway:
- Remove negative influences from your life. If you’re honest with yourself, you’ll realize something important. Some of the negative influences may very well be the people closest to you! It’s going to be a challenge separating from them. But your emotional health is more important that maintaining those relationships.
- Accept responsibility for your actions. It may be difficult to look in the mirror, Yet, deep down, you often recognize that they were your actions that resulted in the hurt you feel. But it’s difficult to accept the part you played
- Take responsibility for your own actions that contributed to the hurt;
- Be willing to forgive yourself … and move on!
- Live according to your moral compass. You likely have a set of morals to live by. And while you know they exist, you may sometimes avoid them when making decisions. Abandoning morals is the easiest way to make missteps in life.
Sep
5
Positive Change: Slip into a Positive Space … even on Discouraging Days!
Filed Under Emotional Healing, Goal Achievement, Life Coaching, Positive Thinking
“If only I could find a way to bounce back on trying days.” Have you ever found yourself wishing this? There’s so much beauty in the world — it’d be a shame to let your state of mind prevent you from enjoying it all.
It’s time to make a positive change! Believe it or not, all the power to make that change is within you!
Here are 3 approaches to use to help your gloomy days take a turn for the better:
- Reaffirm yourself. Lots of things in life can leave you feeling discouraged. But by no means is discouragement supposed to consume your existence! In fact, you owe it to yourself to live an inspired life. And one of the best ways to do that is to keep your self-image intact.
- Each morning, write a list of three things that you’re grateful for. Those are the things you endeavor to keep a part of your life.
- At the same time, write a list of accomplishments you’re proud of. Reflecting on your accomplishments can help boost you into a positive state of mind. Focusing
on your accomplishments can make you smile when you think about them. Allowing yourself to smile regularly can certainly help to turn your grey skies blue.
- Conquer a physical challenge. A lot of times, a challenging physical exploit can help you appreciate life. It also helps you to recognize your inner strengths. When you realize just how strong you are, it’s easier to conquer a discouraging day.
Aug
15
Decision Making: More Tips for Difficult Decisions
Filed Under Emotional Healing, Life Coaching, Mental Healing, Stress Remedies
The only way to make healthy decisions is to be true to your beliefs. Your conscience is bound to be at peace when you choose to go this route.
Use these additional tips to help you make those tough decisions with confidence:
- Limit the advice you take. In some scenarios, advice is very helpful.
However, in others, it can easily cloud your judgment. When making a tough decision, go with your gut. It’s usually correct if you’re aligned with your conscience!
- When you start to hear several different opinions, you can get confused. Of course, you can be courteous to everyone offering their suggestion. You may want to respectfully listen to everybody who’s trying to help. But listen with one ear!
- It’s possible to hear the advice and not take it to heart. It’s also possible to weigh everybody’s feedback and filter the ones that aren’t helpful.
Jul
17
Decision-Making: Guide to Making a Tough Decision
Filed Under Life Coaching, Mental Healing, Stress Remedies
When it comes to making decisions that take you out of your comfort zone, it can really be emotionally trying.
The only way around those decisions is to be untrue to your beliefs. And that’s an 
approach you most likely want to avoid. Your conscience is bound to eat away at you if you go that route.
Instead, try this process to help you make those tough decisions with confidence:
- Weigh the alternative. When a tough decision looms overhead, you know there’s always an alternative. It’s probably easier to go with that alternative, and save yourself the stress. But at what cost?
- If you’re honest with yourself, you’ll realize that the tough decision may be the best decision from a moral standpoint. It’s hard to go wrong when you go the moral route!
- Avoid making decisions that you know may rest on your conscience forever. Those make it difficult to live with true peace of mind.
Jun
22
Procrastination: 2 More Tips to End Procrastion
Filed Under Emotional Healing, Life Coaching, Mental Healing
Procrastination is the root of unachieved dreams and success. It’s the most important factor between you and the prize you’ve set your eyes on. But somehow it’s difficult to eliminate it.
For some reason, you may be magnetized by delaying the tasks at hand. The sense that there’s enough time to get things done can be misleading. It can be the difference between celebrated success and shattered dreams.
End procrastination once and for all by slowly taking some steps towards a renewed approach:
- Renew your commitment each day. In order to stay on track, it’s important to maintain commitment to the goal. That can be easily achieved by renewing your commitment each day.
- When you wake up, remind yourself of your purpose. Take a look at what you’re motivated to achieve. The feeling of excitement about achieving a desired goal is constantly alive. You just need to reengage it regularly.
- This exercise also helps you to maintain focus on what’s important to you. In fact, you may even find that the spark of a goal fades. This can happen when you realize something you thought was important really isn’t.
- Daily renewal helps you to zone in on what means the most to you.
May
11
Procrastination is the root of unachieved dreams and success. It’s the most important factor between you and the prize you’ve set your eyes on. B
ut somehow it’s difficult to eliminate it.
For some reason, you may be magnetized by delaying the tasks at hand. The sense that there’s enough time to get things done can be misleading. It can be the difference between celebrated success and shattered dreams.
End procrastination once and for all by slowly taking some steps towards a renewed approach:
- Prioritize opportunities. If something isn’t important to you, you’ll probably spend very little time trying to achieve it. That reality is the basis of your priority list. The achievements that really matter most belong at the top. Everything else can fall whenever. And that might even mean falling off the list!
Apr
21
Purpose: Discover PURPOSE in Your Life
Filed Under Emotional Healing, Life Coaching, Mental Healing, Spiritual Healing
If you’re like most people, you might not have figured out what you’re intended to do with your life. What is your Purpose?
What is Life Purpose anyway? For our purposes, let’s define your Life Purpose as something that you love to do that also has a great impact on the world. It’s that sweet spot where you’re having a great time and doing something wonderful for as many people as possible.
Many people leave their lives up to chance. They slide into a profession that they don’t hate and stay there or in a similar situation until they’re ready to retire. Living your purpose usually requires taking action with the intention of finding it.
There are several ways you can attempt to discover the purpose of your life:
- Describe your ideal day. Project yourself several years into the future and imagine that your life is essentially perfect. What would your life look like? Are you working? What type of work are you doing? What do you do all day? Who is in your life?
- Now that you know what the end looks like, what can you do today to take the first step in that direction?
- Find an organization in your community that interests you. Doing something worthwhile can be a good way to discover your purpose. Even if you come up short, at least you’ll have done something important.
- Assume you can do the impossible. When anything is possible, what would you do? Take action to bring your dreams to life.
- Write. Perhaps the most effective way to discover your life’s purpose is to spend an hour writing. At the top of your paper write, “My life’s purpose.†Now spend the next 60 minutes writing whatever pops into your mind.