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Mind Awareness – Catch Thoughts that Hold You Back from Your Dreams

September 11, 2024 by Nicola Walker

lightbulb above outstretched palm of handCultivating the practice of mind awareness, catching what we are thinking and feeling and mindfully shifting gears into a fresh perspective, is a crucial factor in realizing our dreams and goals.

We all do it from time to time. Worry, overthink, expect something to be hard. We approach situations with unquestioned stories that we tell ourselves, that make life harder than it needs to be. I call this negative visioning.

One of the stories I have to catch myself telling is expecting things to be hard. This way of thinking can sneak in, influencing how I feel when I decide to create a new workshop or event. Initially, I am fired up with inspired passion, which soon fades when I think about promoting and filling it. I all too easily remember what has been hard in the past, rather than reflect on my successes. Once I catch myself, I remember that, fortunately, I can choose a perspective that helps me to feel inspired and excited about promoting my event.

Practicing mind awareness is also about catching different self images that we can slip into, such as seeing ourselves as a victim, powerless, not good enough, burdened, alone or different. Equally, we might be compensating for feelings of inadequacy by trying too hard, being pushy or controlling.

Awareness is key to bursting the bubble of illusion. We are all powerful, creative beings. We can use our power to focus on opening to greater possibilities. 

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Filed Under: Inner Freedom Tagged With: fears, living your dreams, mind awareness, mindfulness

Focus on Your Brilliance, Not Your Failings

May 22, 2019 by Nicola Walker

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Everyone is brilliant. Yet brilliance is easily obscured, undiscovered or forgotten. Focus on your brilliance. Train your mind to recognize and appreciate your brilliance rather than your failings.

What makes you brilliant?

Brilliance is about who you really are, without trying, doing or working out how.

Your brilliance is visible in the light that shines through you when your heart is open and your joy is sparked.

Your brilliance is your intuition, your innate knowing that guides you. This wise part of you shows you the way.

When you focus on showing up as your most brilliant self, the highest and best outcomes happen.

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Filed Under: Inner Freedom Tagged With: fears, highest potential, Inner knowing, true self, your brilliance

Stop Negative Thinking: Develop Mind Awareness

February 2, 2017 by Nicola Walker

blue sky with clouds - stop negative thinking, develop mind awarenessDoes your mind sometimes drive you to distraction? How often do you catch yourself worrying, imagining negative outcomes or getting upset when what you want is not happening. Discover how mind awareness can help you to stop negative thinking.

Maybe you are good and catching your negative thoughts. But when you catch yourself, do you stop negative thinking? Or, do you just pick up where you left off on the downward spiral of worry, fear and negative mind talk? I don’t really like the term negative thinking. It sounds heavy and judgmental. But I know I can feel pretty heavy when I start worrying or judging reality.

So what to do? First of all, congratulate yourself, because if you’re reading this article you have probably moved, for the most part, out of the first stage of mind awareness.

Here are the first three stages of mind awareness: [Read more…] about Stop Negative Thinking: Develop Mind Awareness

Filed Under: Inner Freedom Tagged With: awareness, fears, happiness

Are Your Fears Making You Give Up On Your Dreams? Five Reasons Why People Compromise On Their Dreams

January 12, 2017 by Nicola Walker

red orange flower full bloom - are your fears making you give up on your dreams?“I’ve always dreamed of having an exciting life,” a woman in her mid-thirties told me.  Now she was concerned because she had given up on her dreams in order to play safe, while at the same time fearing that her life was running away from her. Are your fears making you give up on your dreams? I often come across people who feel like they have compromised on their dreams. Dreams change. The dreams you have in your early years can be transplanted by new dreams as you grow and evolve. Yet, the more you’ve been knocked around by life, struggled and tasted failure, the harder it can be to rise up and experience the fruits of your yearnings.

Five reasons why people compromise or give up on their dreams that I come across the most.

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Filed Under: Success Tagged With: create, dream life, fears, letting go of attachment, self-expression

How to Shift from Fear to Love

September 26, 2016 by Nicola Walker

Pink HeartDo you have days when you wake up in the morning with all your fears hammering around in your head? You feel a sense of dread. How are you going to get rid of the fear? You so want to have a great day. You so want to feel confident, energized, motivated and full of love.

All the emotions we can ever feel boil down to two very opposite states of being: we can either be in fear or love.

When your fears take over, you feel heavy, small, everything is an effort. Your mind keeps reverting to the worst scenario as your most likely outcome. You know if you have any hope of success, you have to think positive, but trying to do so is like lugging a sack of stones up a slippery hill. Love seems to be as distant a destination as a glimmering star in the night sky.

So how do you shift from fear to love?

Here are two ways: [Read more…] about How to Shift from Fear to Love

Filed Under: Inner Freedom Tagged With: confidence, fears, love, truth

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