Embracing Myself

“There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love.

When we are afraid,

we pull back from life.

When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance.

We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create.

Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.”

― John Lennon

 

BrainSnacks, by Karl Albrecht, Ph.D.

Fear seems to have gotten a bad rap amongst most human beings. And it’s not nearly as complicated as we try to make it.

A simple and useful definition of fear is: An anxious feeling, caused by our anticipation of some imagined event or experience.

Medical experts tell us that the anxious feeling we get when we’re afraid is a standardized biological reaction. It’s pretty much the same set of body signals, whether we’re afraid of getting bitten by a dog, getting turned down for a date, or getting our taxes audited.  more here

Let Your Light Shine

by Marianne Williamson,  from A Return To Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles

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, fabulous?Actually, who are you not to be?

You are a child of the universe.

Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.

We were born to make manifest the glory of the universe that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone.

And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Leap And The Net Will Appear

by Mastin Kipp

Knowing how to cultivate your intuition can help in every aspect of our lives. In his article, “Leap And The Net Will Appear,” Mastin Kipp asks us to listen to “the small and still voice within.”

You are extremely intuitive. Yup, you are.

You are so intuitive you scare yourself at how intuitive you are. So many times in my mentoring sessions my clients tell me they don’t know what their goals are or they don’t know what they should do. But that isn’t really true.

Almost 100% of the time my clients know what their goals are and what they should do, but they are too scared to act on it.

They aren’t seeking out clarity of their own intuition. They are seeking out a different answer, one that is filled with guarantees and an easy path. But as a Seeker, the Path is never easy and there are no guarantees. That is why Seekers rely on Faith.

The Path requires AVID faith in yourself and TRUST that you are being guided from within daily to the exact right space. How many times have you NOT listened to that voice in your head that knows what to do and ended up in the wrong place, or had life get all messy and twisted?

It happens to you in your choices of relationships, jobs, risks, the food you eat and even what path you should take to work today. When you listen to that small and still voice within you, your life will begin to change. The truth is that you are more afraid of change than you are of dying. So instead of asking for clarity of intuition, you ask for different instruction from your intuition.

Your intuition in The Uni-verse (which is INFINITE, HUGE, CONNECTED to everything and WAAAAY smarter than you are) is talking to you. If you want to live a creatively free life, if you want love, prosperity and joy – let your intuition guide you, no matter HOW crazy it might sound; there is always a reason for why you are being guided today. You might not find out the reason for years, but there is a purpose and a reason and your job is to show up and trust.

So, what crazy thing is your intuition guiding you to do today? Wanna go for a ride and trust it? Yes, I believe you do! Jump – the net WILL appear!

Mastin Kipp is the creator of the The Daily Love The site blends wisdom with style and delivers a daily email and Twitter messages for a fast paced lifestyle.

Five Tips on How to Access Your Intuition:

1. Firstly, create the intention to begin noticing your intuition.  Set out to stop ignoring or dismissing this aspect of yourself. Shut off your inner critic that needs to rationalize everything, and just listen – without judgment.  You must first be willing to hear the truth in your heart. That’s what the intuition speaks for. Meditate.

2. Keep a journal or a dream journal, or start a synchronicity notebook to write down all your so called “coincidences.” Start simply following your hunches and be prepared to be amazed where they lead you.

3. Many people find that learning how to get in touch with your intuition is most easily kicked-off using guided imagery.   Click here for three (free) guided imagery exercises. Each is 2-3 minutes long. All you need is your imagination, some peace and quiet, and a desire to get in touch with your higher self and innate wisdom.   Guided imagery helps you direct your imagination in a particular way that allows the intuitive voice to come out naturally, just as you naturally know how to dream. In an instant, a person can know something to be true, understand something new.

The intuition’s most important role is that it alerts us to the path, people, and circumstances that we will uniquely find fulfilling.

Using your intuition or sixth sense is just like working a muscle. It will get stronger the more you use it.

“We often hesitate to follow our intuition out of fear. Usually, we are afraid of the changes in our own life that our actions will bring. Intuitive guidance, however, is all about change. It is energetic data ripe with the potential to influence the rest of the world. To fear change but to crave intuitive clarity is like fearing the cold, dark night while pouring water on the fire that lights your cave. An insight the size of a mustard seed is powerful enough to bring down a mountain-sized illusion that may be holding our lives together. Truth strikes without mercy. We fear our intuitions because we fear the transformational power within our revelations.” 

– Caroline Myss, best-selling author and speaker.