Your Wisdom Lies Within

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“Enlightenment is not imagining figures of light but making the darkness conscious.” ~Carl Jung To grow and transform into our greatest selves requires us to be curious about what we don’t know about others, our situations in life, and ourselves. As Baron Baptiste says, consider that your greatest opportunity for growth occurs in the areas [...]

Looking Ahead With Lauren: Let’s Feel Passionate About Ourselves This Year

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Recently I read this blog from Kris Carr, wellness warrior and health advocate. I love her enthusiasm for health and life and recently devoured the book “Crazy Sexy Diet”. Her article uncovers the myth that your passion should be your job, career or even hobby. (Read it here!) She says your passion should be your [...]

The Powerful Effects of Solitude and Nature

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A human being is a part of the whole, called by us “Universe”, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest — a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our [...]

Healing Our Heart Chakra: Feeling Rejected, Abandoned, Unloved, Unimportant?

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Have you ever been stood up, left hanging, left waiting and wondering? No call, no apology, no explanation or accountability – nothing at all. What kind of person stands on top of another, and why? How does this painfully selfish and self-centered behavior make you feel? How does one reconcile feelings of intense disappointment and [...]

Strategies to Cultivate Mindfulness

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Cultivating Mindfulness in Nursing Leadership “Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.” Louis L’Amour A nurse manager recently asked me for advice on how to slow down. She said she was worried about her ability to maintain the pace of work [...]

Coming Back to Simplicity

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The theme for this week of the 40 Days To Personal Revolution program I am facilitating in Miami is “Restoration.” In putting this into to practice, it awakened me, once again, to how essential it is to give up what I must to create space for restoration. This inquiry brought to light where I am [...]

Looking Ahead With Lauren: Who Do You Wish To Be?

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We all have role models or people that we wish we could be more like. There are always people that I wish I could be like or ongoing goals that I never quite keep. In my head, I wish I was a dedicated yogi, who ate very healthy and only indulged in treats occasionally, exercised [...]

“Be Yourself. Everyone Else Is Taken!”

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You may have seen this little message years ago as an email from a friend. I stumbled upon it this morning and liked it so much, I wanted to share. Happy Monday! Lena “You don’t have to actually answer the questions. Just ponder on them. Slowly read straight through, and you’ll get the point.” –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––- [...]

Celebrate Your Strength! Whispers from Within: Your Body Is Talking But Are You Listening?

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 “Your body loves you unconditionally, but the real issue in this relationship is not whether your body loves you, but whether you love your body?” With the explosive popularity of social media, you likely have a LinkedIn, Facebook or Twitter account and are hopelessly addicted to the omnipresent news feeds delivering up-to-the-minute updates on your friends. [...]

Celebrate Your Strength With Beautiful Inspiration: Debt-Forgiveness

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You don’t need to be a lover of Kundalini yoga or any other style of yoga, a religious zealot or super spiritual seeker to appreciate the depth and beauty of  Ramdesh’s thought provoking inspirations. Ramdesh offers daily inspirations on Spirit Voyage.com to inspire and motivate those who are participating in the 40 Day Global Sadhana [...]