Awareness

What does it mean to nurture your genius?
Better yet, do you believe you are a genius?
One definition of genius from the Merriam-Webster dictionary is: extraordinary intellectual power especially as manifested in creative activity.
So, let me ask again, are you a genius?

Transformation must start from within. It is an “inside-out” process that encourages a deeper understanding of what is within in order to make a lasting shift to what is seen or experienced on the outside. It’s important to awaken to what is within in order to embark on the humbling journey.

When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too. —Paulo Coelho

I love the concept of growth being a new way of seeing. It makes a lot of sense to me. Growth can sometimes be construed as work, finding all that’s wrong and changing it, for the end goal of spiritual enlightenment. What exactly is spiritual enlightenment anyway? That phrase has a way of chaffing me when I read it or hear people talk about it.

Can you imagine how many arguments could be avoided if the idea of what is right took priority over who is right? Take a moment and think about that.

Do you ever find yourself spinning your wheels and not getting anywhere? Feeling like every effort you’re making is yielding, “access denied” or “effort declined”? If so, you’re not alone.

When I find myself running into walls like that, I need to pause and pay attention. What am I bringing to the situation that is providing an unintentional (or unconscious) road block? How am I creating resistance?

The biggest area in my life I try to control—or blame someone else—is around emotions. I can dance around really feeling my emotions better than Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers on the silver screen.

Maybe this would be better phrased as the intolerable need for honesty and the uncertainty that keeps me stuck. There is a weight on my heart that I feel needs to be seen and heard, but there is such uncertainty around it all: how will it be received? How will I deal with the fear that is sure to come up after I share? What impact will it make in my world, both professionally and personally?

I love my work. It is a natural outpouring of who I am. At the same time, I can also put a decent amount of pressure on myself outside of the hands-on healing work I do.

There are a variety of ‘models’ you could become a slave to: your parents, teachers, classmates, star athletes or influencers in your field, the general cultural norm, limiting beliefs, stories of the past. There’s nothing to say you can’t be inspired by any of these people, but it is important to differentiate between being inspired by them versus trying to be just like them.

Nurture Your Genius

Coming into Focus

Love Better, Be Better

What am I Seeing?

Who or What-That is the Question

Why Does It Seem So Hard?

You Made Me Feel Uncomfortable

Honest Intolerable Uncertainty-What’s Eating at Me?

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