Tag: emotions
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Creation is Natural: Don’t Suck At It!
It has been said that, “Every thought is a prayer and every word a spell.” This is to say that we’re all creating, because life, in, and of, itself, is a process of creation and recreation. The question isn’t whether we’re creating or not, but whether we’re good at it. In this regard, creation is…
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Creative Visualization: See it, Feel it, Trust it
For anyone who has been following my content for some time, they will know that I’m a faithful advocate and practitioner of creative visualization. The power of the human mind and the faculty of our imagination often goes unexplored and untapped for most of us in adulthood. To this, I say, “Say it ain’t so!”…
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How to Break the Trauma Cycle and Detach from the Pain of the Past
Emotions are energy in motion, and wherever attention goes, energy flows. This is true at the conscious level, but what about at the subconscious level; especially, in situations where the trauma of our past keeps sabotaging the present moment? In this post, we’re going to lay out the transformative process that will allow us to…
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Monday Mirror #4: Personal Reflections that Increase Self-Awareness
“Anything you can’t say thank you for is baggage.” -Joe Demartini For today’s installment of Monday Mirror: Personal Reflections that Increase Self-Awareness, I want us to bring to light some of the residual energy and emotion that most of us suppress in an effort to protect ourselves from future hurt or trauma. In a previous…
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QOTD #25: Emotions Don’t Die, They’re Buried
For today’s Quote of the Day, we will contemplate a quote from Austrian neurologist and psycho-analyst, Sigmund Freud about the nature of dormant emotions. “Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.” ~ Sigmund Freud In a previous post, I talked about how emotions cannot be…
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The Bedrock of Mental Health: Practicing Good Mental Hygiene
At the foundation of all mental health is our willingness to care for our mind the same way we care for our bodies. Every day we eat, hydrate, sleep, perform personal hygiene, and move around to provide our bodies with what it needs inorder to function. Our minds should be no different, because our mental…
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Emotional Alchemy: Trauma Cannot Be Created or Destroyed, Only Transformed
In my previous post on emotional alchemy, I shared 3 techniques to convert toxic emotions, pain, and trauma into therapeutic offerings that benefit others. I also shared how, at the heart of emotional alchemy is this concept of energy transference. Where we take an emotion, painful memory, or traumatic event and we repurpose it. With…
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QOTD #19: The Wisdom of Trauma
“Trauma is not what happens to you. Trauma is what happens inside you, as a result of what happens to you.” — Dr. Gabor Maté Emotions are energy in motion. Trauma is emotion stored in our nervous system at the heart-brain level. It’s important in our healing process to remember that attempting to suppress our…
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Monday Mirror #1: Personal Reflections that Increase Self-Awareness
For today’s personal reflection, we dig into the true nature of worry. For many of us, worry can be a default response to emotional triggers that coast under the radar of our concious awareness. The true nature of worry is a concious (or subconcious) concession for an unsteady and unsettled soul. “Worrying is like praying…
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QOTD #18: Demystifying Emotions
“Emotions are incomplete awareness.” -Joe Demartini Not every feeling we feel should be nourished. When we nourish certain emotions for long enough they become a mood, and moods, given enough time, become an attitude. When we adopt a certain attitude for long enough, that attitude can become our dominant disposition. At every step of the…
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MOTW #2: Heal Documentary Featuring Dr. Joe Dispenza, Gregg Braden, and Bruce Lipton
Director Kelly Noonan Gores’ documentary will take you on a scientific and spiritual journey to discover that your thoughts, beliefs, and emotions have a huge impact on your health and ability to heal.
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Emotional Alchemy: 3 Simple Techniques to Convert Toxic Emotions, Pain, and Trauma into Creative Offerings
In 2 previous posts (HERE and HERE), I shared quotes that testify to what has been true for me, personally. Our mess can be our message, and the pain we can’t get rid of can become our creative offerings to others. In this post, I want to talk about 3 techniques that have helped me…
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QOTD #1: When Things Get Messy… Try This!
When I sit down at the blank page, some times it’s intimidating. Then, there are other times, it’s nothing short of triage because I need a safe place to bleed, and these blank pages become my “paper” towels and wound dressings. On those days, and there have been MANY of them, my mess truly is…
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