What our husbands, wives, children, friends or colleagues do is nothing to do with us…really. Our only business is what we are doing. This may mean reflecting on how we react to what those other people do. We might not like what that person is doing. We might judge them in particular ways, put them in certain boxes and assign specific attitudes and beliefs to them, which determines how we treat them, but it’s still OUR stuff.

All those attitudes, beliefs and judgements are reflecting something WE have going on within us. So ask yourself what is it that I’m feeling or thinking about this person or this situation that is leading me to feel this way? Release the other person from the burden of your crap. They have their own selves to look after and take responsibility for.

All of this is part of becoming more conscious about who you are and taking responsibility for yourself. Turning a blind eye to your negative qualities doesn’t get you far. It just leaves you feeling pissed off at a lot of things. You don’t feel good and the only one to change that is you.

When you get right down to the essence of all this, it’s about being responsible for your energy, for noticing when you feel bad about ANYTHING and understanding that it is a gift that you are aware that you feel bad because you can examine what you are thinking and how you are looking at something, in order to realise where you might be out of whack.

All is good. When it feels like it isn’t, we have something going on within us that’s not seeing the goodness. It’s got nothing to do with the person who is making you angry, frustated, hurt, or sad. Those feelings are your responsibility.

It’s a lot of responsibility to have, isn’t it? But understanding this can deeply affect your life for the positive because it puts your happiness where it should be…

in YOUR hands.

I saw clearly today how each of us is a light in the centre of the Universe…we each represent the Universe as it revolves around us. It’s like we are all having the ‘Universe’ experience, all from our own perspective. We truly are each the centre of the Universe (wrap your head around THAT one!).

Then, I understood that the Universe is neutral. There is no good or bad, right or wrong in the Universe. The Universe encompasses ALL things, it excludes NOTHING, and those things in and of themselves are neutral. They simply are what they are.

The variable is us. We ACTIVATE things in our experience by thinking about them. We tend to either think of things as good or bad, right or wrong, and this determines how we experience those things.

In that regard, we also have ultimate control over our personal experience in life. All that is required is that we take notice of our thoughts and examine them. When we shine our conscious light on something, we can start to question if our thought or belief about it is really true. What is true makes us feel open, light, flowing and good.

When we feel bad, we are restricting our energy, we are shutting ourselves down in some way and feeling conflict, resitance, pain and fear. Examine any thought or belief that makes you feel that way and ask if it is really the truth. Ask “is this how Source sees this?” and use your inner knowing to feel for the answer.

This is how you free yourself from all the pain, fear, suffering and stuck-ness in your life.

In your day-to-day life, not much changes.

What’s the mis-match here?

What’s the conflict between where you currently are, and where you want to be?

Well, let’s consider that if we focus on that end result or outcome, we are definitely going to see how far we have to go to get to that place. It can leave us feeling disheartened and frustrated.

We can’t just jump from A to Z. We have to move from A to B to C to D…and so on.

This is about taking the next logical step in your life, that leads you to a better feeling place.

So here’s the magic pill (if such a thing exists)…

By all means have your big dreams, BUT, you are living your life TODAY and this is where you are currently at.

Think about what you do each day and ask yourself:
What can I do to improve my daily life right now?
How can I play a bit more?
How can I have a bit more fun?
What can I release from my life today?
What can I bring into my life?

In most cases we’re not talking ground-breaking changes, but small, effective and real-time changes that make some sort of improvement that makes us feel a bit better. What can you change right now that will improve your life?

Get real about it…maybe it’s time to give up that additional commitment that always feels like a chore to you? Maybe you can find a way to get all your mundane, regular tasks done on a single day, so you get it all done at once, like the grocery shopping and bill paying? Maybe you can declutter that one cupboard or corner of a room today?

Maybe you can meet your friend for a coffee and enjoy their company, laugh a bit and forget about all those “shoulds” that you’re usually focused on?

Perhaps you can sign up for that class that you’ve always wanted to do…no more excuses.

Happy, playful baby steps

We get overwhelmed when we focus on the big goal and our feeling of distance between now and then can keep us stuck where we are.

Instead, our intention should be movement, even baby steps, towards our bigger goal. And what is our bigger goal anyway?

It’s about having, doing or being something that makes us feel good!

Focus on that feeling and bring THAT into your daily life and before you know it, that big elusive goal (or something even better!) will be right in front of you!

Read the whole “discussion” here and add your thoughts (if only to save me from talking to myself!!)

Here’s a quote from the discussion…

There is FREEDOM to be discovered within you and your life. If you were to release every single expectation you feel that others have of you, including family, friends, employers, your community, the government, and even spirit itself, how would that feel? Right now, imagine there being absolutely no expectations of you. You are FREE. No-one else matters – their thoughts, beliefs and attitudes – that’s all their stuff. It’s not your stuff. You are free to do anything at all in any moment…to express yourself however you like…to be, do and have whatever your heart desires. This is how it is supposed to be.

Simplicity or complexity?

Actually, it’s funny because only a few days ago the big, fun, exciting amount I had in my head and was dreaming about was 22 million dollars. It just sounds good doesn’t it?

Money means a lot of different things to a lot of different people. To me, it means opportunities and freedom. It means that the essentials and bills are taken care of and then you can choose to take that course that appeals to you or take the family on a trip overseas to experience other people and places.

I also know that money is energy and it reflects what’s going on inside us (just as other things in our life reflect our inner world), so if I’m experiencing a lack of money, perhaps I’m feeling a lack of something within me.

Money is also our main material representation of abundance. In order to have an abundance of money, I have to tap into my inherent abundance within me and within the universe…to be feeling that awesome knowing that there is always abundance if we allow it into our lives. To allow it we must see it and feel it in and around us. It is so much more than money.

So back to the big question, what would I do with 20 million dollars?

The first thing that comes to my mind is a wonderful piece of land that has a stream running through it and some big boulders and trees throughout the property. A gorgeous house that’s open and feels connected with nature both inside and out. There’s a separate building that is a creative workshop and I can have groups of people come to my property for workshops, retreats etc.

I’d love to set up different opportunities, especially for women and children, to engage in creative activities and to connect with nature and themselves, even if it means setting up centres or businesses that others can run for me.

I’d also love to be able to pay a great assortment of inspirational, creative and spiritual people to come and be guest facilitators in workshops and retreats and other events.

See a theme here? lol

Of course new cars would be great, as would not having to worry about paying rego, maintenance etc.

When suddenly faced with such a large sum of money you do realise how hard it is to then come up with ‘things’ to spend it on. I believe that we feel like we need more and more money when we don’t have it, but having it brings in totally new considerations.

I’ve observed my own spending habits and can see that I’m much more likely to splurge on things I don’t really need, in order to feel good, when I don’t have much money. But having money makes you want to take time to make better decisions and you don’t feel so rushed anymore to have more and more.

To me, it’s about experiences. I’d love to be able to take my children to wonderful places, to explore and learn and have great adventures as a family. I’d love to visit the lushness of Hawaii, the sacred places and stones in the UK and the massive red rock we have here in the middle of Australia.

Would having 20 million dollars solve all my problems? Of course not. It would solve some problems but it would also open up a new world of contrast and considerations. But boy I don’t think I’d mind those contrasts! lol

How about you? What would you do with 2o million dollars?

Oh yeah and I’d also love to buy my mum a gorgeous cottage on a nice piece of land and perhaps shout the whole extended family to a special holiday somewhere. Cool!

Attracting Money Tip #1: When you visualise what you’d do with the money, FEEL what it’s like to experience that home, that car, that trip, that course, etc. Let your mind wander into the experience of having the things that would bring you joy and engage all of your senses. Feel it resonating from within you rather than just being thoughts in your head. This is how you come into alignment with that money…that money that you CAN indeed have.

Attracting Money Tip #2: Pay careful attention to the quick little thoughts that pop up in relation to thinking about money, e.g. thoughts that tell you that you don’t deserve that money or those wonderful things and experiences. Explore those thoughts because they are false beliefs that hold you back. Replace those false beliefs with the truth that you are deserving of wonderful things.

I’ve also done up the banner to utilise the logo I created for the original Inner Wisdom and Creativity website. It really represents the feminine, the creativity and the spirals I love, that represent connectedness within and the ever-expanding cycles of learning and growth.

My about me page was very much lacking on my blog so that’s updated too.

Oh, and I’ve added a sign-up form to the right where you can enter your name and email address to receive news of my latest blog posts to your inbox at the end of each week. Easy peasy.

Well, writing a book is one of mine. The thing that differs now is that I know I have the content within me. There’s a whole heap of inspired, connected, soulfully wise stuff that I know can flow from and through me. I guess it’s a matter of starting in one spot and seeing where I end up, which is how I do anything creative.

The other thing I want to explore this year is my intuition. I’ve worked with my intuition for several years now, but I’m being drawn to explore it more consciously and more regularly. So I’m often pulling out one of my many decks or oracle or tarot cards. Perhaps engaging my intuition more, and flexing my “psychic muscles”, is actually linked to writing my book?

After all, I started out as a channel and did channelled messages for people fairly regularly and through eBay (good ol’ Ebay), along with other readings. In the last couple of years I haven’t done much in the way of sitting down and using my abilities in a focused way. It’s been more incidental and occassional.

Who knows what’s in store? Well, maybe I should if I’m talking about psychic abilities! LOL

So there you have it…I’m gonna write my book (perhaps the first of a few). I’m going to do it 1) because I want to and 2) because some people will find it helpful, insightful and inspiring. Do I want it to be a best-seller? No, but if it is, then I won’t knock that back. Anything I do is for the experience of doing it rather than what I can get from it.

Here’s to going with whatever is bubbling within!

What’s bubbling within you? I’d love to know…just leave a comment below…

• connect within
• connect with nature
• connect with spirit
• and connect to each other

The world needs women who are tuned in and expressing their fullest, creative, insightful selves so this is where’s it’s at….

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See you there!

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Creating community begins with people. We have the place, now let’s get some action happening (with a bit of stillness thrown in)!

So here are two videos by Serge Kahili King, author of “Urban Shaman”, one of the first books I read on shamanism.

I’d love you to share your thoughts or own experiences connecting with nature. Just add a comment at the bottom of this post.

Don’t forget to share your thoughts and experiences below…

If you’re a friend, family member or have been part of my social media circle, you’ll know that I’ve been keen to launch myself and my self mastery coaching and mentoring but something has been holding me back like a vicious circle.

I have written notebooks full of ideas and I’ve had the ‘know how’ to set up coaching programs and multiple streams of income as part of my business. I’ve taken in a lot of info, watched a lot of videos, listened to a lot of teleseminars and audios, read many books. All the while hitting a brick wall every time it came to pulling together my “stuff” and launching it in a particular way.

Lately I’ve really been feeling the frustration of having great ideas but hitting that block…around and around again. BUT, I did know that something would have to give eventually and that I was still in a process of clarifying until I tapped into that missing piece of my internal puzzle.

Today was one of those really strong angst days where I was so sick of not moving forward.

I decided to ask my soul what it wanted.

I acknowledged that one of my strongest core values for my business is FREEDOM – to express who I am and in sharing my gifts to help others. It’s why I left my previous business partnership. My soul longed for freedom and no constriction.

Herein lies the conflict. I kept trying to use a business model where I would be packaging my “content” and offering it in different ways to clients. Something kept feeling unsettled about that and I KNOW to listen to my intuition…it’s just that sometimes we know something’s off but we don’t know why or what to do about it.

The good thing is that the more roadblocks we hit and the more frustrated we are, coming head-on with what we DON’T want, we eventually get to that place where we can clarify what we DO want. When we reach that point where we can ask the right question, the answer ALWAYS comes. I knew this but it didn’t help me stop the frustration of not HAVING that answer yet.

As I’ve been exploring various business models and what others are doing, I repeatedly identified some things that didn’t sit right with me (not that they weren’t right for others…just that they didn’t resonated with how my soul wanted to express itself). As I encountered them repeatedly it helped me become clear about what I wanted.

Earlier today I wrote down clearly that I wanted to be “leading edge”…not to do something someone else was doing. I also realised that I was most passionate about what I do when I’m in the process of helping someone – I wanted to feel passionate in my work, not to have to write an article or seminar just to have content to share. I had this inner sense of co-creating with people. I also realised that I’d previously observed how others naturally draw from me what they need, from their own asking. So I had to acknowledge that a big part of who I am and what I do is in working intuitively, without a pre-determined plan for “content”.

Ahhhh….my soul took a deep breath! While I knew these things about myself like seeing myself doing retreats and feeling strongly drawn to connect directly with people, I devalued this about myself by thinking I still had to package myself like everyone else and offer that “content” in some way. Wrong. In the last 24 hours this little voice in the back of my head was telling me that I needed my own business model. When the bits fell into place and I stopped trying to fit the “template”, my soul started buzzing.

Another AHA – the purpose of past pathways becomes clear…

From 1999 to 2002 I studied for 4 years to earn a Bachelor of Education degree where I explored my love of learning but felt conflicted with the restrictions in the education system. I didn’t end up teaching like I’d envisioned for those 4 years but I was divinely guided to then home school my eldest children for 2 years…and now I know why. EVERYTHING I identified about learning naturally and providing the space for learning to take place as a facilitator and guide… is WHO I AM. I’ve known I am a guide but it’s really deeply hit home how it all ties together for me.

So, this is what you can expect from me:

• facilitating sacred environments and opportunities for you to connect with your soul in your own unique and powerful way
• to be there to intuitively answer your questions based on my own connection to Source…being the guiding light that allows you to tap into your own inner light
• to be the one who sees your truth and value and reflects that back to you
• to integrate your powerful transformation and insights with casual, fun, playful and creative environments – bring on the coffee-shop gatherings!
• to guide you into the space where you can tap into your own inner wisdom, inspiration and creativity
• to gather together circles of women where everyone’s knowing can deepen and widen by co-creating together – this is the leading-edge stuff where we all contribute to expanding each other’s knowledge, wisdom and inspiration. Bring your pens and notebooks!

Ain’t it grand! LOL