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Honor Your Deepest Desires: Start with How You Want to Feel

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Heart in Sand. Honor your heartAs one year rolls into another, dreams that still beckon, unfulfilled desires, intentions and goals drift up into our mind and heart. We long to see them fulfilled and feel glimmers of possibility shimmer in the silence between doubts. Honor your deepest desires; start with how you want to feel.

Feelings are a portal to having. Our dreams and deepest desires can seem like they are a long way from us, living in a misty future that may or may not happen.

It’s helpful to begin with what you don’t want, what’s not working out, what you’re fed up with.

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Gratitude is Who You Truly Are

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woman looking peaceful and grateful with hot drink in mugIf you want a quick reset, look for what you’re grateful for. Gratitude feels so good because gratitude is who you truly are. It helps you to open to life, rather than resist or judge it…

We all feel grateful when something wonderful happens, or when what we were dreading doesn’t happen after all. Gratitude is usually the last thing on our mind when the shit hits the fan. Our mental preoccupations and thought spinning brains lure us in and keep us  glued just like endless TV. Gratitude becomes a forgotten practice tucked away with pretty journals, crystals and aromatherapy oils.

I used to be that way, but I have become increasingly grateful for the power of gratitude. Gratitude can often be like a magic wand, transforming my energetic state and wiping the windows of my eyes, so I see beauty and notice what is good in my life. [Read more…] about Gratitude is Who You Truly Are

Drop Deeper to Find Your Truth

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Meditative lake scene with small pile of flat stones at sunsetEnthusiasm can wane. What once excited you, may not necessarily continue to do so. Your big yes can suddenly feel like a strain. What to make of this sudden change that goes against all plans and expectations? It’s time to drop deeper to find your truth.

I sometimes feel deeply humbled by life’s waves of change. Which way now? Do I still go ahead with my plan because that’s what I planned?

Whenever I have made myself stick with the program, despite nagging concerns, I just prolonged the inevitable. In the end, whether it was a job, a client, a creative idea or relationship, my misgivings turned out to be well-founded.

It turned out it would have been better to acknowledge that something wasn’t feeling right and listen deeper to the messages I was getting from my intuitive guidance.

All the same, just because you are suddenly feeling weary or tense about what once felt so compelling, doesn’t mean to say that it’s the wrong choice. You just want to check in with yourself.

In some cases, it can be that our fears are masquerading as intuition. Feeling jittery, focusing on situations that didn’t turn out well in the past or your own perceived inadequacies show that you are listening to your mind, rather than your wise self.   

The first thing to do is hit the pause button.

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What Happens When You Block Your Feelings

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Sometimes people have told me that they block their feelings and emotions. I can understand the temptation at times, when you don’t want to rock the boat. Emotions can be messy, with no respect for perfect timing. You don’t want to blubber during a meeting with a prospective client who says, “No,” and your mortgage is due. Or, shout at your boss when you need your job. Or even listen to those feelings that something doesn’t feel right about your relationship when you’re just about to fly off on vacation.

So it’s natural to want to push down inconvenient feelings and emotions back where they came from. At least you can control pretending things are fine.

This might work for a while. But it’s a little like pushing down a ball in water. The greater the force you use to push it down, the greater the splash when it finally surfaces. And if the ball is there, it will emerge at some point.

Have you ever had a bunch of roses that didn’t all bloom? Sometimes you get one bud that just holds its petals tight, hiding its beauty from your eyes.

Feelings and emotions make you bloom and grow. They lead you into a vulnerable place where the light can shine through. You face the unknown, but it’s real. It’s exciting actually. If you like watching adventures on TV or the movies, you might enjoy your own. “Oh my God, what’s going to happen next?!”

I do believe that living your full bloom takes a lot of courage, but that’s what life is about. I’ve been totally committed to mine, even though this has meant facing fears on a more regular basis than some people might. Courage is a muscle you develop, just like learning to listen, trust and follow your inner guidance is a muscle. Discipline, persistence and choosing to find your way back to inner happiness are all muscles too.

One of the ways your inner wisdom speaks to you is through your feelings and sensations. If you block your feelings then you block your inner wisdom, which is like your life force. Your inner wisdom helps you to elevate your life beyond the mundane. It leads you to discover more about yourself, your heart and life itself by stepping through pain, facing the unknown and discovering the light.

 

Nicola Walker, apricot top, head and shoulders

Nicola Walker is an Anything is Possible mindset coach, with over 25 years of combined life coaching and hypnotherapy experience. She guides people at a turning point in life, to navigate and fulfill their dreams and deepest desires.

Nicola is the author of the forthcoming book, Joy in the Middle of the Mess: An Evolutionary Adventure on the Quest for Success. One of her greatest joys is to walk and hike in the hills and along the beautiful California beaches, near her home in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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