How Feng Shui Helped Me Leave My Corporate Job

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Beaten down exhausted, constantly sick, feeling unfulfilled and barely able to get myself out of bed to go to work, my job was sucking the life out of me and I was allowing it. Sound familiar? When I realized there was life beyond work, I enrolled in the idea of learning something new. That was a defining moment in my life. The topic, feng shui. In 1992, people thought I was studying to become an Asian chef. No, it was not a new Chinese entree. It was my next career. After reading the very first article on my new found love, I went home, moved my bed and the next week, I got a promotion. Well, this new topic got my attention. It helped me “see” that subconsciously, I was blocking any opportunity that was knocking…marriage, career change…essentially a happy life. How was I doing this? By placing my bed (which metaphorically represented me) in a position so I couldn’t see the door. I was handicapping myself and my life.  When I moved my bed, I felt such a sense of space and relief, I was almost knocked to my knees. It was interesting to say the least. Continue reading

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Fine Is Not a Feeling

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I’ve noticed lately in asking people, “how are you?”, that the reply has been “fine”. Then it hit me…fine is not a feeling! FINE is a an easy way out so we don’t have to say how we’re really feeling… which is usually not so fine!
How often do you reply with “fine” when you’re really feeling quite differently?

It hasn’t been socially acceptable to actually express how we’re really feeling. People don’t know what to do with those feelings. We’ve been sweeping our emotions, our feelings under the carpet for far too long and NOW is the time to clean up. I’m a master cleaner upper! :)

 

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Your Sphere of Influence Matters

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Whether you are a teacher, business owner, employee, parent or you fill in the blank, this video is an important reminder of our incredible power and influence. YOU matter! Enjoy!

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Are your closets more organized than the rest of your house?

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If your closets are more organized and cleaner than the rest of your house, know that is is very good thing. Closets and other storage areas mirror our subconscious minds.

All that “stuff” that is getting in our way and keeps us on the gerbil wheel. Starting from the inside out is a great strategy!

So… having closets more organized than the rest of your house can mean the following:

1.  You’re going for it. You’re ready to face what it takes to breakthrough and live your best life. You’re letting the light in.

2.  You care less about what others say and care more about what you and your family have to say…you put you and your family first.

3.  You understand that all the answers come from within and therefore have put your effort into that area.

Good for you!!! Here’s to your continued success!

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Are you spiritually rich?

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I define “spiritually rich” as having developed the ability to connect to a deeper and greater part of oneself for the purpose of living one’s greatest potential. Again, not so easy for us “doers” out there because it requires getting quiet! How do you define spiritually rich?

Did you know that ever since the new millennium, there has begun a greater spiritual training which then became further emphasized in 2008 with the economic shift. You see not enough of us were getting this message so the universe hit us where we seem to feel it the most…in the pocketbook! Well, that sure got everyone’s attention.

Well, there’s an easier way to get attention  and that’s through how we influence others. As you know, each of us has the ability to be great influencers. Collectively however, we have the ability to change the world! The more of us that get turned around and on purpose, the faster all of us will be living what feels like, “heaven on earth”. I’m signed on for helping more people get on track in 2012. Do I see your hand raised too? If you need support with getting spiritually fit go here now to read more

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Frank Lloyd Wright Was Almost Right

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Frank Lloyd Wright was almost right when he said, “The space within becomes the reality of the building.” I believe what needs to be added is…AND the person or people living in it. What do you believe to be true? Look around you right now!

 

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2012 Intention Exercise

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Hope you’re getting ready for your best year ever in 2012!

Here’s an intention exercise I do each new year. You can do this over and over to create momentum. Get your goals grounded! Enjoy!

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Celebrating Life

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Looking forward to helping you create and fill your canvas for 2012. Remember… your entire home is an opportunity to create your vision. Here’s to your living larger this year. Looking forward to seeing you at one of my Living Larger events in 2012. Here’s to your “home” heaven on earth in 2012!
Enjoy!

Lead Strong Video from Brett Michael Innes on Vimeo.

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Overcoming “Stuck” on the Almighty Buck

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In my work with clients lately, there continues to be great emphasis on financial concerns. I am sharing with you what I share with them…some good old ancient wisdom. When we put our focus and attention on money concerns, we tell the greater powers that be, “please send me more of this”. As if we were ordering from a menu, we are constantly choosing what we want in our lives. What we think, say and do is the order so to speak that we send out into the world. Some version of the order will be delivered. This idea can be a stretch or a “tall order” to get one’s arms around. Yet, once you can, your world will change for the better…better being a relative term of course.

When we place our focus and attention on what we wish the money to bring us, like more clients so we can influence others, more fabric so we can clothe more people, more training so we can begin our own business that serves others needs as well as our own, then and only then do we really begin living large.  It is then we discover the key that unlocks or unsticks the flow of money into our lives.  Continue reading

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Do Food Allergies Equal Our Resistance?

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In cooking breakfast this morning, I noticed all the different food groups coming together effortlessly. Then it hit me…what if we as people could come together just as effortlessly, just as deliciously…what a wonderful world it would be!  I then considered if having food allergies or digestive issues is really a mirror for some deeper resistance or judgement we have about ourselves or another “food group” so to speak.

What if we could heal that deeper issue?  Would our allergies or digestive issues go away? Would we be able to digest more easily all that life places in our path? Would we be able to enjoy our lives more fully? Here’s to cooking up your delicious life!

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Are you living in the past, present or future?

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Oh my Gosh! This work never ceases to amaze me. In giving a lecture this week on feng shui and clutter, I gained yet another new perspective. You can think about your basement or the lower part of a room as your youth, your main level or the tabletops as generally your current age (give or take a few years) and the attic or higher part of a room as the rest of your life. Check in on these areas. Any needing some TLC, any cluttered, disorganized, or never used? What’s it possibly saying about that perspective time frame of your life? I have learned that by addressing “said area” of your space directly and profoundly influences that area of your life. Come on…free your space, free your mind…GO FOR IT! I am right there with you!

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Forgiveness

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Today, I read this quote and decided to forgive myself first! Care to join me?

‘If we could read the secret history of those we would like to punish, we would find in each life a sorrow and a suffering enough to disarm all our hostility.”~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Forgive today and forge a new tomorrow~Teresa

 

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Is Your Space Supporting You?

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In teaching a class this week, I was asked the following question: How do you know if your space supports you?

Read on for my answer. Our space supports US when…

1. Bigger pieces of furniture, (including built ins) the location of cable wires or the like, never prevent us from arranging our space to best met our needs. In convincing ourselves that we cannot move such items, it is subconsciously reinforcing a belief system.  Perhaps, limiting beliefs and thinking that are telling us things like…we can’t leave our job, we can’t start our own business, we can’t, we can’t, we can’t. We are powerful beings and the only one saying we can’t is some old version of ourselves that we have believed for way too long. These pieces of furniture don’t have arms and legs to move themselves…only we can do that. Our space can truly support us when we are signed on for it.

2. We come home and feel like we are getting a big hug? Our home feels like a respite from the
outside world providing an enthusiastic supply of love. This “love” can look and feel like relief on certain days, joy on other days and like a comfortable pair of shoes on yet another day. When it does, our home is supporting us.

3. The primary pieces of furniture in each room are supported nicely by a solid wall or other structure. And/or when we are sitting/sleeping in them, we feel supported. This design concept is likened to someone standing behind us ready to catch us if we should slip up or fall, or it can mean resources that are easily available to us as we steadily move forward in life, or even helpful people we can count on..get the point?

4.  We have plenty of energy to accomplish what we need. When we are feeling great, we contribute to the energetic blueprint of our home in a helpful way. Maintenance and upkeep is easy. It’s like feeding our body healthy food. When we are in a foul mood that goes on for weeks, we contribute to the energetic blueprint in a non helpful way and this is like feeding our body a diet full of sugar and carbs leaving us bloated and sleepy. Our home becomes programmed to our emotional and mental state just as our body becomes programmed to what we feed it. Our space supports us best, when we are mentally, emotionally and physically well conditioned.

Enjoy and here’s to you being brilliantly supported both in your space and in your life!

 

 

 

 

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What is the most important part of your home?

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As a feng shui teacher and spiritual coach, I get asked lots of questions about placement of objects, what they mean and are they good or bad. Recently, I was asked this question, “what is the single most important part of one’s home?” My answer was this, “your closets or other related storage areas”.

You see, from where I sit, our closets, our storage areas, (and this includes storage items) represent our subconscious mind. You know that part of ourselves that we want to keep buried or hidden because it contains oh too painful information or experiences. Well, it is just this information that very often prevents us from living our dreams.

So, if you truly want to make the change you are saying you want, begin by ever so gently going through your closets and removing what no longer serves you. While doing this, be open to also removing any limiting beliefs and thinking that are getting in your way of getting what you want.  When you are done, step back and notice what begins to unfold in your life. The downside, clean organized storage areas and a fresh new perspective on life. Enjoy and stay with it!

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What if there were no “wrong” decisions?

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If you knew when making a decision that it wouldn’t be the wrong one, would it be easier for you to make
the decision?

Would you be able to enjoy both the decision making process and life more fully?
Would there be less pressure, less sweating over it, less endless hours spent
second-guessing yourself?

Wow, what a great idea? Just trusting that the power within you as a human being will insure the best outcome no matter what!

Well, I’m signed on for trying that, how about you?

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Let Your Light Shine

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One of my favorite pieces to live by. A good reminder. ENJOY!

As taken from A Course of Miracles by Marianne Williamson
EXCERPT FROM MANDELA INAUGURAL ADDRESS

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us

We ask ourselves, “Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented
and fabulous?”
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God

You playing small does not serve the world
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you

We were born to manifest the glory of God that is in us
It’s not just within some of us, it’s in everyone
When we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give to other people permission to do the same

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others

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Moving to 2012-The Eleventh Day of the Month

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If you haven’t noticed, each 11th day of the month heralds in yet another blast of energy, replacing denser energy.

What the heck does that mean? It is part of the move toward 2012 and life becoming easier. That’s right…if you are signed on for it, your life can get easier. I sure am. So what does energy have to do with it? Well in order to have an easier life, we must free ourselves from our baggage. What baggage? The limiting thinking, patterns, behaviors and influences that have helped make our lives difficult. This baggage is the denser energy. We need to let it go so that we can be influenced by the newer lighter energy blasting into this planet. I’d be happy to help you with that piece.

If you notice before and after the 11th day, the weather patterns become interesting. I know where I am on the east coast it has gotten very hot during these 11th day summer months followed by plenty of rain. On a grander scale, the weather patterns throughout the world are helping to foretell this energetic shift.

Don’t buy into this? That’s fine. Enjoy your baggage. I look forward to traveling much lighter!

With brilliant blessings for 2012~Teresa

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Always Question Your Attention

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There is so much information available to us these days that we do not “see” but “sense”. Technology is simply mirroring this availability of information with everything literally at our finger tips. One way to tap into this “sense” of information is to question your attention. Our attention is like a built in navigation system helping direct us. When we question where our attention is going…why we are drawn to make a call, or turn to a certain book in the midst of doing something else, we tap into that information. It is as if someone or something greater than us is trying to help us out, make our lives easier. So…the next time you are interrupted by a thought, a prompting, consider your attention and act on it. You will be so glad you did.

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I Design With My Eyes Closed-Say What?

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When asked how my energy work, specifically feng shui, differs from that of an interior designer, I replied, “I design with my eyes closed”. “What do you mean, replied the designer?”

I believe and have experienced it to be true, that our space speaks to us. I for one, can become distracted with what is apparent on the surface. When I can close my eyes and take in “all” that a space contains, the story of the space so to speak…the imprints and experiences from both current and previous owners, their belongings and even the memory stored in the land itself, I design from an entirely different place. A place that provides energetic calibration, restoring the natural balance to the space and insuring the success of the current owners. When design is not done at this level, to me, it is like putting fresh flowers in dirty water. You may eventually realize you need to change the water but usually by then the flowers have wilted and died! Oh my!

 

 

 

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Tears from Mother Nature

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The external very physical world in which we live is showing us in vivid Technicolor what is possible for us.

Boy oh boy, mother nature has been crying a whole heck of a lot with all this rain. She in encouraging us to cry with her…to cry tears of forgiveness to self and others. As we shed these long overdue tears, we clear away the guilt, the regret, and the pain. So, allow mother nature to assist you.
If you are not even sure what you need to forgive, just be willing to forgive and the rest will take care of itself. Are you noticing all the lush vegetation with all of this rain? Trust that there is great fruit to be harvested from these tears. This emotional and often physical flooding will bring sunnier and more fruitful times ahead.

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Couching You for Change

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Change in the Couch

The transitive verb “couch” means to place or hold level and pointed forward ready for use: to phrase or express in a specified manner.
This is my approach with this topic of money…point you forward and express it in a specific manner.


Here are four questions to ask yourself if you are experiencing money issues:

1. What or where else in your life are you not seeing the “value”? Sometimes we do not feel valuable. In mentoring students and clients around their fee structures, I often find, myself included, that we devalue ourselves and therefore, do not charge enough for our services. When establishing your fees or your desires, consider how valuable you really are then believe it with all your heart!
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2. Are you donating or tithing consistently? Money is an energy. In order for it to flow, we must create a cycle. Consistently giving back allows more to enter. Donating anything of value; your time, your talents, used clothing or your money is one way of creating this flow and cycle. Continue reading

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Dr. Emoto’s Work with Water

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Consider this:
Our water supply is fairly constant because our water gets recycled. Yes, the water you brush your teeth with may be the very water that was used to wash Abraham Lincoln’s shirts!!!
When I read these words, I was stopped dead in my tracks. Talk about  history repeating itself! In my experience and in my training, water is a very profound and powerful asset. For one, we would all be dead without it and next it is a great teacher for us as it has the ability to adapt to any environment, container if you will. If you have not heard of Dr. Emoto’s incredible work with water, then go here now because this adds new meaning to the words..do unto others as you would have them do unto you! I promise you will be blown away!

On last week’s teleseminar, I recommended that we basically give clutter some respect because some of these items that we consider clutter can be interpreted as mirror aspects of ourselves; our experiences, our losses, our desires. When we do honor “all” of us, we become whole.
When I am quick to judge myself or another,  I try and remember this and remember Dr. Emoto’s work. Until then, be gentle and patient with yourself and be sure to join me May 12th for the next free teleseminar where valuable information will be shared.

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Getting Front and Centered in Life

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Listed below are five tips that I have shared with guests at the premiere Lodge at Woodloch~a destination spa in Pennsylvania.

1. Your bed, desk, sofa and any other significant piece of furniture represents YOU in life. These pieces should be emphasized and positioned facing the main door of that particular room so that you can see what is coming to you in life-embrace the possibilities so to speak. Move off the wall, move out of the shadows, move front and be centered.

2. Objects given to you by others that you do not love or use take up valuable space preventing YOU from being centered. Lovingly remove these objects; donate them, return them to their original owner, sell them if necessary or purge them to create a center for you.

3. Gently, remove family heirlooms and the like that you may have acquired and for which you have no affinity. These objects can overwhelm your space and your life, physically, mentally and emotionally serving to move you off center.

4. Check in on your children’s items that may be over flowing in your space and consuming your life. Purge what you can and contain the rest to their specific rooms or the play area creating a more cohesive center.

5. Place objects, paint, and design to your personality. What color makes you happy? Paint your kitchen this color. What color makes you feel full? Paint your living room this color. What color makes you feel safe? Paint your bedroom this color.
BE front and centered, BE Brilliant!

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Super Moon

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March 19~20/2011
Just a quick note to let you now about this weekend’s exciting energy!

View the super moon click here to read more TONIGHT at 7:08pm EST. We have not experienced a super moon in almost 20 years.
With the spring equinox occurring tomorrow, this weekend is the perfect time to reinforce your goals and visions so that they can take form. A perfect time to let go of the illusion that we have no control, This is the time to know that we DO have control: control over deemed to be “unpleasant emotions” that have appeared to rule our lives and control over situations, people and experiences that have appeared to control our lives. The first step is in saying, “I am in control!” Step up and begin to reclaim that control and plant new seeds this spring. Seeds that will materialize the goals and visions of your heart and soul!
Here’s to your dreams becoming super charged this weekend!

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The Cloud

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Consider this:
1. The “cloud” concept is the ability to plug into the collective power of thousands of computers that serve all this information to you from far away rooms or “boxes” if you will, distributed from around the world-think
you tube. This so called “cloud” is mirroring the zero point or more traditionally referred to as the akashic field. A repository of all information that has been recorded forever in time. Yes, we have this at our disposal too and when strategically and frequently used, you will move into a place of magic.
Just focus on a question and sit quietly and percolate for at least 10 minutes. If this is your first attempt, it may take longer or not. Then allow the “cloud”, your mind, to search the database of forever in time and notice what you get as an answer.
Have fun with that! It is just as addictive as surfing the net.

2. 511-Know before you go. Have you heard about this new up to the minute transportation option? Again, mirroring up information to make life easier.
We have this option in our daily lives when we pay attention to the whispers along the way, the signposts if you will that help us to navigate more successfully. When we just slow down, we will know before we go!

3. What is this obsession with texting while driving? First of all, I do not advocate this. Next, here is my energetic interpretation. This is another attempt to know before you go in more ways than one!
We live in a time where we are between two worlds. Let’s say, earth one and earth two-think 2012.
Earth one is doing the driving and earth two is doing the texting.
We are literally acting out the living in two places theme when we text and drive. The problem is that it is dangerous so refrain from going there.
Instead, consider this: when you are listening to the radio and hear a song you do not like, remember you can change it. Now that sounds obvious but I can tell you, I for one, have left the station playing, feeling annoyed and powerless. Think having no control of old patterns and behaviors.
That was an example of earth one. Earth two is knowing that you have control and you can change the station, the behavior, the thinking. You have plenty of options; you can play your iPod or mp3 player or you can simply turn it off. This is earth two, a place of possibility, a place of empowerment, a place of magic.

4. This earth two is filled with new words or new ways to use current words. You have probably found yourself making up new words, spinning old words a new way or heard new and interesting job titles in the last couple years, Yes?
Here are some I have come up with or have had others share with me:
Words: Mirrored, Actualized, Moreness, Actionable, Publicated, Refudiate,
Profitize
Titles: Enlivener, Imagineer, Social Marketing Manager

We are being presented with a buffet of possibilities on earth two and I personally find it very exciting! If you have words or titles you would like to share, email me!  Essentially as technology continues to make our lives easier,
it serves as a mirror for this idea that anything is possible, an easier way is upon us.
We can no longer deny this as our external world is already validating it for us. It is a truth and it is becoming our new reality. So, allow yourself to move into this new place of magic and your brilliance will shine!!!

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Highlights for 2011

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Highlights for 2011

Thank the Lord; we are still standing after last year!

So, what the heck is in store for 2011?

I know you can all feel it but may not be able to quite articulate the change that is occurring in big ways both on the surface and just beneath it. This is causing many of us to grab hold of any buoy (both conventional and non conventional methods). Buoys that will effectively help us navigate and direct not only our immediate futures but each and every day leading up to it.  Why? Because business as usual is no longer an option.

This year will continue to bring more necessary change. The theme for this year is “everything is not what it seems”.

Here are five tips to implement now in order to position YOU for a successful and less stressful year.

1.  Pay attention to your gut instincts this year and trust them more than ever.  This year our instincts will be more naturally heightened which should make it easier to trust them.
Just like I tell my daughter, “Go with the first thing you get”.

2. Love is in the air. If you are not in a relationship, the prospects for
love are heightened this year. Remember the theme this year however…everything is not what it seems!
If you are in a relationship and are unhappy, be careful not to get pulled into the allure of an affair. There will be great veils of illusion around this year~be smart. Address issues appropriately so that you may be moved into
proper alignment in all areas of your life.

3. With all of the emphasis on the cerebral, beneath the surface of this year, comes the impulse to indulge…experience more material/physical things. You may find yourself shopping more or redesigning your home or taking an unplanned vacation. This helps us remain grounded in the physical so that we may experience the beneficial mental and cerebral aspects of this year. Remember however, too much indulgence and experiencing does not come cheaply. Be mindful of finances and stay grounded.

4. There is stronger emphasis on the feminine. We see that showing up already with the awesome women in government lately. The feminine is also about slowing down and noticing. Receiving rather than the hard core doing we are so rooted in currently.
Take time to breathe, pause and reflect, Ease your way into this new idea. In the coming years, we will be experiencing life more and more this way. High five to that one!

5. Connect to the child within you, with your own children or the children in your life.  The resilience of the young will greatly assist in successfully navigating this year. Watch them, spend time with them and learn from them. They have much to teach us this year.

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Brilliance in a Box

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We live in a time of pure potentiality and possibility. When we can allow the space that surrounds us (both in our homes and between our ears) to support these possibilities in unfolding, we move into a place of magic.

Recently, I allowed myself to experience the six walls around me (the four walls, the ceiling and the floor), as a box filled with brilliance and here is what I discovered. The ceiling was my sky overhead where I could look upward, imagine and receive…inspiration from a greater source, a fresh perspective filled with clarity and a reminder that I was a part of something far greater. The floor was my stability where I could stand solidly, fearlessly during recent wobbly times when I have been thrown off balance. It reminded me that I am unconditionally and perfectly loved.
The four walls provided a full circle perspective ~ a flow moving from what was ahead of me to what was beside me and reminding me of what was behind me. All six sides whispering messages of wisdom. Continue reading

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A Mirrored Existence

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The external very physical world in which we live is literally showing us in vivid technicolor what is possible for us. Technology is the single biggest indicator of the awesome possibilities that exist for us.

Consider this:
1. Sharp has come out with “the cube” which allows a 3D video experience~ literally broadcasting video on all four sides of a space. This is confirming this concept of technicolor, moving us into experiencing in a richer more fully vibrant existence! Click here to read more.Sharp’s Cube Continue reading

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