Hey there, how are you doing? Are you anxious, feeling heavy, and/or overwhelmed with emotions or thoughts?

This world is a lot to take in for many of us right now. Be sure to remember the potency of self care and regularly practice your routines and rituals because they matter now as much as ever.

Your well being, your emotional state, and your spiritual needs matter on an energetic level. Feeling at least some semblance of balance and connection is a game changer when you are in the midst of a proverbial storm, and it contributes much needed benevolent energies to our world.

15 minutes per day (BECAUSE YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY WORTH IT!) with the intent to focus on personal nourishment and whatever your emotional insights are surfacing for you to acknowledge is a non-negotiable energetic practice to thrive. This is the same medicine that contributes to being able to less painfully (and with more honor and awareness) endure the really tough gritty stuff that we are sure to meet along our path, too. It can shorten the duration of the discomfort, as well. This is NOT because you are bypassing feeling.

It’s BECAUSE you’re taking the time to feel. And being open to feeling deeply, knowing that the emotions will transition into new one as they’re meant to.

So… You think you are too busy caring for everything outside of you to make time for self care on the regular? Here’s your good news/bad news fact of the day: the focus and care that we pay to our own needs greatly expands our ability to give to the people, places, and situations that we want to lovingly impact.

You cannot share from an empty cup. And you can’t give much from a cup that isn’t overflowing.

We put together a really simple, but powerful checklist of 20 activities to use as a reference tool when you know you need to practice self care and soul connection but need some inspiration based on where you want to focus. Choose from activities to nourish the body, your soul connection, relationships, the community you live in, and your creative expression.

You can request the PDF of the checklist here. Big hug to all of you.

Kate

Welcome, March!  Tomorrow is a new moon, too- a new moon combined with a new month is an energetic powerhouse for creating delicious, life enhancing new creations and beliefs!

Today and tomorrow are the perfect containers of time and energy to sit in loving solitude and stretch your imagination to your highest benefit. Welcome the new and really sit in the joy of what it is that you want to create in your life over the next month, and also this year.

What do you want to feel like?

What do you want to experience?

What kinds of people do you want to cross paths with?

How do you want the universe to show you how wonderful, powerful, and loved you are?

When you allow yourselves a period of time to dream/imagine up delicious ideas that spark joy and lightness and feel good energy in the core of your stomach or heart area… in these moments you are taking some of the most powerful energetic steps necessary to shifting your life! Even in just 1-2 minutes of imagining while a with the enjoyable emotional sensations that accompany imagining the experience of having what you desire, you welcome energetic attractors that will allow you to see people, places, and opportunities that were simply not available to you previously. Doing this practice daily will simply change your life, and I’m not even kidding.

Remember when you could daydream or play vividly for hours back when you were a little kid? Let’s show ourselves it is SAFE to do that, again. Joyously. Without abandon.

The best part? The momentum of the goodness that transpires because of these imagination sessions gains great speed the more you do it. The very real, concrete ways that energy lets us know that it is responding to us by the wonderful happenings and miraculous events in our reality just builds and builds. It becomes PALPABLE and VISIBLE pretty dang quickly.

There’s only one rule to this practice… Leave anything heavy, stressful, dubious or outright doubtful at the door before you embark upon this practice!  Not one speck of of dream killing is allowed inside your imagination sessions. If anything subpar rears its head during your imagination session, you show it the door and get on with your feel-good process.

 Quantum Energy Success Tip: I encourage you to have your imagination session when you are already in an overall feel-good space. Energy never lies, and this practice is only effective when you’re feeling easy going to neutral (or better) within your body and mind. To quickly improve your energetic/emotional state you can try listening to your favorite music (that makes you smile and want to move your body), or spending 30 seconds thinking of your favorite person or imagining a beautiful flower. You can also sit in the sun and focus on the sun’s warmth or simply imagine the sun shining on your face for as long as it feels good.

*Disclaimer: It’s totally ok if you read this and thought something along the lines of “I would love to feel joy, but I’m barely staying afloat right now”.

That’s ok. Let’s honor that, because this world is A LOT. Save this practice for another day, because your joy will return! Seeking positive experience or life enhancing wisdom (or practicing it with fervor) doesn’t guarantee a pain free existence, and I don’t teach or endorse pain free living. There is no wisdom or new perspective available to us when we choose bypassing, dissociation, or only focusing on the “good”. Highly sensitive people feel and/or think BIG. That’s part of what makes us special and important to this world. This goes for our enormous love and also our deepest depths for feeling discomfort and pain. One of the most loving acts of courage we can do for ourselves in this world is to choose to show up and feel whatever is present for us in the current moment.

More love, compassion, and understanding of true humanity (i.e. seen/experienced in the lives and teachings of Jesus, Mother Theresa, Gautama, and many other incredibly peaceful loving teachers) for all others is needed everywhere in every single country on this earth. Greater love than ever before. I infuse this way of living into my life every day as much as I can because I know what a life without love looks and feels like. I would think that we all do.

This means more love for the person who could be totally unlike me, including in their beliefs. Love for the person who is fearful of change and fearful of living in equality and in peace.

This is not an easy peasy everything goes distorted “love” (which is not real love at all), but the wisest Divine love that cuts through it all and knows without any doubt that we are all equal and worthy of our unique paths and of our greatest well being. Worthy of all the tools necessary to get us on our unique paths and and worthy of support to assist us in playing our part in this world. Worthy of sharing the tools with each other.

Wise, divine love is the key to going about redesigning this world in that loving inclusivity meant for ALL of us. When you’re rooted in love (wisdom or “light”), the world comes together in the most divinely orchestrated ways.

Wise love isn’t a pushover- don’t get it twisted, because this real, wise love isn’t afraid to let you fall down in order to learn how broadly encompassing love really is. It will also remind you right after the fall that even in those times of lesson and growth, you’re still worthy of the greatest fulfillment, joy, and experience. That your neighbor, no matter how unfamiliar to you, is worthy of this, too. It reminds you to keep trying. To keep growing your understanding of love.
Love doesn’t need to resort to violence or threats of violence. Nor does it have to manipulate with the use of money or control to get things done. Love conducts miracles and can move mountains without an ounce of tomfoolery. The wisdom of love BLASTS through illusion and mistruths, but you have to be willing to allow love to show you the way. And it’s not always easy opening your eyes to truth when you haven’t allowed much truth in your life. I’ve been there, too. As long as you’re willing to try and commit to bringing in more love and seeing absolute truth in all matters of importance to you, unbelievably amazing things are possible.

Here’s to MORE LOVE. And to being unafraid in acknowledging how unfamiliar this kind of acceptance, compassion, and peace may feel to us. A lot of us have been without this kind of unconditional love in our lives for a very long time, and if so we deserve to honor and explore the process with tenderness and care.

“I give myself 100% permission to live my greatest expression of life with courage and fantastic creativity.”

DAY FIVE: It’s time to dream and live bigger in our authenticity. To allow ourselves a life driven by that which lights us up and interests us. Let us meet those interests with openness to learn and passion – and warmly embrace wherever that may lead us. Let us be lovingly unapologetic about what stirs our hearts and imaginations, and offer compassion to others on their journeys however different it may be from our own.

Today we are welcoming all the ways we can live more deeply and courageously in that which brings us the most satisfaction and joy. To the confidence that we can have in truly being ourselves. Let us stay grounded in our confidence and knowing of who we are and what we love to do.

“I give myself 100% permission to embody and embrace love and compassion in all areas where I encounter struggle or strife.”

DAY ONE: Today begins a 7 day commitment to MANTRA power. The thoughts we think, and the words and statements that we identify with are powerful guiding forces in how we perceive ourselves and the world.

Really stop and think about the thoughts that get the most playback or are repeated most often in your mind. Are they life enhancing? Are they supportive? Do they encourage your greatness and wellness? If not, that’s ok. It’s time to give our Self permission to begin the work of rewiring and re-framing of our inner experience.

Over the next 7 days we are going to use one powerful tool to do this- the MANTRA. Mantras welcome a shift in ourselves that allows for more love, more prosperity, more compassion, more understanding, and all the good stuff that makes us most receptive to that which serves us most deeply. The keys are the intention and the focus of the mantra.

When it comes to mantra creation in our practice “that which serves us, and does not enslave us” is the foundation of our mantra system of light.

Embracing in repetition an unconditionally loving statement which encourages greater fulfillment and/or satisfaction in one’s life can move mountains. It may sound so silly but give it a test. We always, always, always encourage testing a self-exploration or healing modality that seems too easy or too good to be true to possibly work. Why not give it a go so you can experience it for yourself and see if it makes an impact?

Reciting a mantra in your head or spoken out loud is absolutely a way to work with divine powers and energies beyond our physical sight. Spoken mantras embody maximum power and shift creating energy. This in itself can incite change. When you pair it with a smile or even a slight smile, and the feeling of a joyful, grateful heart… Magic happens.

For my loves who have experience in the power of mantra, these are my gift to you, too. Enjoy!

Join us on this 7 day expansion in mantra, and let’s bring joyful light into our lives. There is no time for this work like the present. Love to you!