Have You Overlooked Your Home?

Have You Overlooked Your Home?

Many clients overlook how the vibration of their home impacts their holistic health. Holistic well-being isn’t only about things like mindfulness, health, mindset, or your career & purpose. Like your body and mind, your home can accumulate energy that doesn’t support you in creating the life you want.

The overall vibe of a space is greatly influenced by the energy of the people living in it. However, past inhabitants, guests, clutter, furniture placement, color, and other factors can also impact it.

You don’t want your living space to be filled with heavy, stagnant, or stale energy that doesn’t support you as the creative being that you are.

Feeling like the energy of your space could be improved? You have the power to give it a tune-up. Here are some easy subtle energy tools with which to cleanse your home:

Smudging
Smudging is the burning of natural elements to cleanse a place of negative energy. The indigenous shamans I studied with in Mexico, Peru, and the American Southwest taught me that three of the most powerful tools for smudging are copal (tree resin), palo santo (wood), and white sage (herb). All are available for purchase on-line. Burn carefully.

Clutter
Clutter is a magnet for attracting stale energy. It also creates stress and leads to irritability and an inability to focus. Organize your rooms periodically to keep the vibe of both you and your space high.

Sunlight
Pull those curtains away! Sunlight heals and raises the vibration of your space by diffusing negative energy. Sungazing, a great way for people to raise their vibrations, has the same effect on your space.

Windows
Open windows daily. Fresh air is probably the original good vibration. Changing the air of your living space is critical, regardless of what season it is. Bring in new air to shift the vibration of a room.

Feng Shui
Feng shui is the ancient Chinese practice of intentionally arranging the objects in a living space in order to create balance and optimize its energy. This practice allows air, light, and energy to flow smoothly. A professional feng shui practitioner can help here.

Color
Color plays a pivotal role in your home. It can influence your emotions as well as neutralize negative energy. Just as every person’s color needs are unique, the same applies to your space. In general, try to stay away from dark colors. Consult a professional color therapist to help you identify which color your space is calling for.

Plants
Nature plays a vital role in healing. Plants purify both the air and energy of a room. Plus, green is the color of growth and creativity. Some plants work better than others. Try starting with orchid, ivy, jasmine, lavender, or peace lily.

Meditation
You are ultimately the greatest influence on the vibe of your living space. After trying the above techniques, it’s time to clear your mind, body, and spirit. Remember to meditate.

Quantum physics has shown us that everything is created from energy. I help clients to optimize their energy, or chi, by identifying where they hold energetic blocks to their holistic well-being. I then identify solutions to harmonize those blocks so they can feel more balanced and move forward. Creating intentional space is just one solution.

Please contact me if you would like help cleansing your space. 😉

4 Tips for Practicing Amor Fati

4 Tips for Practicing Amor Fati

After facing the trauma and isolation of the pandemic, we now grapple with the challenge of reinvention. Re-creating lives isn’t easy. Practicing Amor Fati can help you with this. To learn about exactly what Amor Fati is, how it can benefit your holistic well-being, and four tips to help you practice it, read my latest article, Four Tips for Practicing Amor Fati, just published by Spirituality & Health magazine.

A personal note — plus a FREE offer

A personal note — plus a FREE offer

Welcome to the many new subscribers and a warm hello to my existing followers.

We are in a time of such dramatic change and reinvention, and so many people are struggling with this restart that it seems like the right time to reach out and remind you of what I do. Also, I want to share a FREE offer (below).

As a holistic life & wellness coach with a goal of integrating your mind, body, and spirit, I offer 1:1 coaching to target a wide range of health and wellness issues. For example, I can help you or someone you know to:

  • Begin a meditation and mindfulness practice
  • Manage stress and anxiety
  • Achieve post-COVID exercise and fitness goals
  • End negative self-talk
  • Identify imbalances in health and develop a program of action
  • Organize and balance finances (I spent two decades as a wealth advisor)
  • Clarify and set intentions
  • Strategize your career and discover your purpose
  • Bring more soul into your life

For the month of August, I’m giving away FREE 30-minute sessions to the first five people who sign-up (you can reply to this email). Do it soon because these limited spaces will fill up. For a half hour you can ask me any question you want or discuss any topic related to your holistic well-being. Zero sales pitch, all ears, no obligation. My goal is to help more people at this critical time.

I also teach meditation to small groups and can deliver lunchtime wellness talks for your company or organization.

My Approach
I provide new perspectives and practices, some science-based and others from ancient wisdom. I am trained in applied positive psychology, mindfulness, meditation, motivational techniques, and many subtle energy practices that help you break through whatever is holding you back. My approach draws on my intuition and kinesiology (aka muscle testing) to take you from where you are to where you want to go.

My Philosophy
We are all energetic beings. Our energy impacts our physical and emotional realms, not the opposite. Any emotional or physical issue is a product of our energetic imbalance and will ultimately also influence our mental state.

I  believe that as humans we should thrive, not just survive. Wholeness is the key to thriving, but we are taught to view our mind, body, and spirit as separate from one another. This contradiction creates the conflict that results in discomfort and disease. I can help you to integrate these aspects of yourself by identifying and prioritizing the blocks that are preventing you from your wholeness. When you release these constraints, you can express your potential.

I look forward to hearing from you, even if it is only to say hello! 😉

Five Tips to Support Change with Flower Essence Therapy

Five Tips to Support Change with Flower Essence Therapy

Lockdowns are being lifted, but even the happiest transitions can test us emotionally. The use of flower essence therapy to harmonize mind, body, and emotions dates back to Ancient Egypt and can support you through change. Read about how I finally discovered the power of this healing modality, all you need to know about it, and some tips to support you during this time in my article, Five Tips to Support Change with Flower Essence Therapy, just published by Spirituality & Health magazine.

Memento Mori — An Ancient Practice for Living

Memento Mori — An Ancient Practice for Living

Happy Birthday to me! I’m grateful to have celebrated another trip around the sun last month.
 
My birthday always makes me feel sentimental about the time that has passed. This year, my musings took me back to a concept I first learned about in middle school when my seventh grade English teacher referred to “Memento Mori.” This Latin phrase, unknown to me at that time, translates into “Remember, you must die.”
 
Memento Mori is an ancient practice of facing our mortality as a vehicle to lead us to create a meaningful life. This practice has a long history that extends over many cultures, religions, and philosophies. It has inspired the philosophers of ancient Greece, Roman generals, and continues to inform the likes of Buddhist monks and Islamic Sufis to this day.
 
As a seventh grader excited by the idea of blooming into adulthood, considering my mortality seemed depressing. But as an adult faced with the reality of life’s impermanence, I now appreciate its meaning. Remembering that I will die one day is a powerful catalyst for living. This practice has motivated me to do many things. If I must die, then heck I had better live now, let me do what I want to do!
 
If you think back to your school years, you will discover that you all had a dream in your hearts. Sometimes, those dreams were best articulated by the lyrics to your favorite song at that time. Those dreams and those songs, seemingly forgotten, remain within us. We tend to dismiss the idea of going after our dreams because we’ve been conditioned with fear. Our socialization teaches us to fear the unknown, judgment, and failure. We’re encouraged to live safely. We know what we have, but don’t know what we will get if we release what we have now. What if we wind up with…dare I say…less?
 
My work with clients centers on presence, self-empowerment and taking personal responsibility. When you activate these energies, you could never wind up in a state of less.
 
It’s easy to get stuck in a safety zone that seems practical rather than chase an elusive dream. In our linear society, practicality often dominates. The result is that a lot of time is wasted on insignificant things and people. We wind up focusing our energy in places that don’t support our ability to thrive.
 
On this birthday, traveling back to seventh grade was a jarring reminder of the swift passage of time. This experience made it crystal clear that the concept of Memento Mori isn’t about death. It’s about embracing life. Facing the reality of our death creates a sense of urgency, a hyper-awareness that our time here is finite.
 
Your most valuable asset is your time.
 
Don’t waste this lifetime. Live with purpose. Utilize your power of intention to manifest the experience you want. Take ownership of your health. Dare to introduce yourself to that person you’re feeling drawn to, end that relationship that no longer serves you, tell that person you love that you love them and the one that hurt you how much they did so, take the trip you’re saving for “later,” move to the place that’s been calling you, and pursue that career change you’re dreaming of. The only thing standing between you and these things is your own fear, and fear is not real because it only exists in your head.
 
If you’re waiting for “one day,” please know that one day means no day.
 
What will you do with the remainder of your life?
 
Contact me to book a private session guaranteed to refine your focus.
 
Memento Mori. 😉