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Cultivating an Amicable Relationship with Fear – Week 2

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The magic of this particular time is that it is a golden opportunity for all of us to explore how skilled we are at letting go of that which we have no control of and, with that relaxed stance, embrace accepting what is actually happening.

Compassion

Cultivating an Amicable Relationship with Fear – Week 1

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Building an Amicable Relationship with Fear – Week 1

These past weeks’ events have really floored me. I am sure that you’ve seen a lot of information about how life WILL never be the same again.

If one takes a curious investigative approach, that adamant stance re-frames to “life COULD never be the same again.” When I am able to open my adamant stance into option, then my heart can sing and
inspiration can shine from a fear-filled experience.

These next few newsletters are a series addressing how each of us can build an amicable relationship with fear. I will take and re-articulate from the free eBook I have available via my website: 10 Tips for Managing Your Strong Emotions. So, let’s jump right in!

Acceptance

Energy Hygiene: The core to self acceptance

In all the decades that I have held self-acceptance as the core practice that supports us in choosing the path of happiness in our life, one of the skill sets and awareness practices that I have found to be very helpful is Energy Hygiene.

Think about it*…how many habits do you have in the name of taking care of yourself every day? I hope you brush your teeth! ☺ Maybe you take vitamins, exercise, bathe, meditate or make sure you get to bed in time so you get plenty of rest. Remember that all these self-care habits have been taught to you or you have chosen to cultivate…in other words, they are all learned skill sets.

Courage

Learning to Set Your Personal Boundaries

Ideally, personal boundaries are limits that you set intentionally which then allows for the healthy receiving of input from others. Boundaries define the parts of your life experiences or your relationships that you are willing or are not willing to participate in. Notice that I am saying “ideally”. Our everyday management of life includes many opportunities for our boundaries to be unconsciously set or to be set inappropriately. This can result in participating in situations and relationships that leave you feeling drained, resentful and unsatisfied with the way you are living your life.

Growth

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You are standing at the crossroads in your internal landscape, realizing that the way you have been managing your life just doesn’t work anymore. You could be facing scarcity, loss, anxiety or anger and you’re looking for a way through the resulting labyrinth. Or you could be facing such abundance that you need to find a way to manage it all well and maintain a healthy balance in your life.

When you can’t see your proverbial forest for the trees, it is time to bring in some help. You could go for counseling or coaching or you could take this opportunity to head in a spiritual direction. Supportive professionals are available to help with your transition into a more spiritual life.

Compassion

Practicing Congruency: Four Steps to Living Life Consciously

If you are practicing living life consciously, cultivating the skill set of “Walking Your Talk” is an important task. This is the quality of being congruent. In all spiritual traditions, one of the all-abiding Truths is “as above, so below,” indicating that being one with yourself on the outside as well as on the inside is a practice worthy of inquiry. Another common saying that alludes to this is “honesty is the best policy.”

Growth

New Year’s Resolutions that Actually Work

There’s a common hitch that affects most New Year’s resolutions: we are lucky if our excellent intentions last out the month of January! Why is this and how can you optimize your success at achieving the goals you set?

Generally, we all know the reasoning of setting a goal and resolving to attain it. Wanting to evolve and grow is a common desire. Because our culture supports January 1st as the beginning of a new year, you have the support of the collective unconscious for setting resolutions at this time. When a society has a collective belief, it provides an actual archetypal scaffold to assist you in setting an intention in place.

Acceptance

Embrace the Dark: How To Take Advantage of Winter…

Here we are heading down the path to Winter’s Solstice on December 21st. This is the dark time, the time that the sun shines on us the shortest, and we have the darkness to enfold us. For many of us this is a time we dread.

I am here to present you with a re-framing of that attitude. What if this time of year is an opportunity to pull in and rest? To relax and reflect on all the projects you worked on over the year? To have the down time you need for balancing the very active lifestyle you live the rest of the year? What if this time of dark is a natural opportunity to look for that quiet voice that softly tells you what living a congruent and authentic life really is like?

Acceptance

Three Tools to Manage Overwhelm in Your Everyday Life

On top of the stress of your everyday life – family, job, finances- you also witness world events like Ebola, terrorist assassinations and devastating tidal waves in real time. This can be overwhelming to your emotional, physical and mental well-being. As an Intuitive Counselor, I work with many people who are dealing with feelings of frustration and helplessness, caused by overwhelming events in their lives or in the world.

Compassion

God Be With the Mother: One parent’s story of…

I have the feeling that there is a commonality in this story for all mothers, if not all parents. A mother, who is very dear to my heart, has a 16-year-old daughter who recently told her that she has tried to commit suicide twice. Now, dear reader, know that this youngster has support. What this post is about is managing the opening and closing and (hopefully) opening again of a parent’s heart.

Category: Self Help

Cultivating an Amicable Relationship with Fear – Week 2

Cultivating an Amicable Relationship with Fear – Week 1

Building an Amicable Relationship with Fear – Week 1

Energy Hygiene: The core to self acceptance

Learning to Set Your Personal Boundaries

What about Trying Online Counseling?

Practicing Congruency: Four Steps to Living Life Consciously

New Year’s Resolutions that Actually Work

Embrace the Dark: How To Take Advantage of Winter…

Three Tools to Manage Overwhelm in Your Everyday Life

God Be With the Mother: One parent’s story of…

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