Like the Ocean- Soul Musings

Hey Inspiring Souls!

I talked about last week how i wanted to do more writing from the Soul, I did this in my first (but was unsure it was going to be a category) Soul Musing. I decided I did want to make it an ongoing part of the way I show up for you and for myself on this blog.

In having a conversation with someone I love the other day, I was telling her how at the retreat Catherine had us look for power objects.  For me my power object was/is the Ocean. The Ocean is a place I feel hopeful, peaceful and in amazement. The more I thought about it the reason this was my power object is it represents how i want to show up in my life.

You see the Ocean is powerful, calm, goes with the flow , sometimes chaotic. It’s doing what it was created to do. When the ocean has a big wave, I am sure it doesn’t say things like “oh my if I show everyone this wave they are going to judge me, they are going to think I am showing off. Nope it just is totally itself all the time. It’s not carrying shame for being a contradiction of peace and chaos it just is, it does what it was created to do. It’s a symbol of the possibilities being endless as well.

Thats what I want to do, I want to show up in all my beautiful crazy contradictions in my life, I want to just be able to flow from what is true for me and to rock what I was created to do.

I want to be a lot more like the Ocean! What about you, what is your symbol of what you want to show up in your life?

Here is to living Inspired, Creative and Empowered

Heather

5 Ways to STOP giving away your Power!

Hey Lovely Souls!

I know it’s all too “easy” sometimes to just go along with it, whatever it may be for you. To feel like you don’t want to cause any problems, ruffle any feathers etc.. You don’t even realize at first that you maybe more than you thought care or have more of an opinion then you realized.

We give away our power in even small ways much more than we realize. Look I am not saying don’t ever compromise that is how we can be in most realtionships.But there is a difference between “I will compromise with you on this” mindfully and with intention and just giving up, stepping back when you really do not agree with it, when everything in you is telling you something different (or when you even just get those hints from your body/life) that it’s not right..

So lets look at 5 ways we can STOP giving away our power…

1-Pause before you agree to something, check in with yourself, how do you really feel about it?

2-Define what your values are, it’s much harder to live within your values if you have never taken the time to define them for yourself ( post them in a place where you will see them often) …(look for a post coming up next week on how to determine your values!)

3-Stop saying “I don’t Care” when you really do, I have had this exact same “default” response more than I care to admit and still often do (but making progress!) Even something as simple as saying you don’t care where you go to eat if you have a preference, tell them, but first you have to be able honest with yourself about it!

4-Speak Up, I know, trust me I know this is not easy. I am not suggesting you pick a fight. If there is  situation that you feel really strongly about, find the best way you can to express that in a firm, solid and calm manner. I am also not suggesting that you put yourself in a dangerous situation. There are however going to be those times where it’s not really comfortable and it’s not easy to do so people are not going to get it, belive you or support you, however if you are doing so for yourself that is huge and should be acknowledged.

5-Get honest with yourself about in what and with who you are giving away your power, how can we change something, how can we shift it if we are not even aware or willing to look at how we continue to do so.

Be gentle with yourself, we have often been giving away our power in the smallest ways and not even realized it. Bit by bit we can get that power back.

Here is to living Inspired, Creative and Empowered

Heather

The power of journaling…

Hello you amazing Creative and Inspired people you!

I have recently been talking to a few people who have a resistance when it comes to journaling. This happens for all sorts of different reasons from not liking your handwriting to feeling like someone is going to take a peek at your journal and judge you, to all sorts of things in between..

You can journal on your computer, places online, in an Art Journal, a “traditional” journal.. It is probably one of the very top if not the top personal growth tools.. In journaling you can get perspective /clarity on your past and enhance your future, you can dream, rant, celebrate, spew whatever you want.. It’s YOUR journal … If it’s a written one and someone seeing it is the issue, put it in a safe place where it’s not likely to get picked up, on the computer you can password protect it.. There are all sorts of ways to protect it , if that is what you feel you need to do. There is no right or wrong way to do this, there really is not..

Journaling is one of the main ways I have been able to get through some stuff, to help me sort it out, plan it out or let it out!

So I encourage you to choose the way that is comfortable for you and start today. For the first entry set a timer for 10-15 min if you can and just let it out, maybe all you are saying is that you don’t know what to say, just let out whatever is on your mind. Though I do encourage you to journal daily , do what works for you.. There are no shoulds in journaling.

I wish you an Inspired, Creative and Empowered day..

Heather

Talking yourself out of it..

I read in Body and Soul Magazine in there awesome 10 Thoughts on Whole Living a phrase that really hits home and that I will tell myself often until I stop doing it!

Stop Talking Yourself Out of the Life you Most Want…

Simple but amazingly powerful.. If we were mindful about it, and we tracked how often we do talk ourselves out of the life we most want, I bet it would be several to many times a day. It shows up in different forms and phrases: By telling yourself that an idea is silly, or by saying you can’t handle it, by taking on things that are not in line with your vision for yourself. I could go on and on!

Where are you talking yourself out of the life you most want?