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Living On Purpose - Jacob Sokol Interview. This is interview with Jacob Sokol of Sensophy as part of our Interview Series with Thoughtful Adventurers (aka people who care, they do what they love, and they make money doing it). You can also pick up a copy of Jacob’s guide, Living On Purpose here (this is an affiliate link). Well… you will want to watch today’s interview with a Purposeful Dude. Purpose is one of the most important things you need to handle… IF you want to have the Adventure of Your Lifetime. When you live on purpose, every aspect of your life has more meaning and ease.

Planning a big travel adventure will be easier. Understanding how you should make money will be simpler. And your life will be more like a Kerouac Novel… than you can imagine (if that’s your Purpose Living on Purpose doesn’t make everything all Eazy Peezy, of course… But it is a completely different way of living, than floundering and struggling Purpose-Less. To help you… I grilled Jacob Sokol about how to live on purpose. Jacob and I talk about: Your friend, 5 Awesome Ways to Nourish Your Spirit. When most people think of nourishment, it’s usually in the form of a healthy diet – plenty of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, proteins, and water.

But while wholesome food is certainly essential for physical growth, is it enough to satisfy your hunger for life? As a Holistic Health Coach, one of the most insightful things I’ve learned in my training is the concept of primary food. It states that true health means more than just the physical condition of the body, and the food we eat is often secondary to the experiences and excitement in our lives. This energy fulfills us on a multi-dimensional level that includes the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. Assessing your relationships, physical activity, career, and spirituality, can help pinpoint where you are feeling unsatisfied and why. Here are 5 ways to feed your spirit: 1. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a career that is aligned with your passion in life? 2. 3. Everybody is unique. 4. 5. How do you nourish your spirit? How to Let Go of Resentment. When we are hurt, it can be very difficult to simply forgive and forget. We feel pain, anger, sadness or guilt over things that people have said or done to us.

Or perhaps you've been the one to upset someone else and feel frustrated with yourself? It's human nature to mentally revisit upsetting experiences as a way of processing an experience. Holding onto resentment is considered a way of punishing yourself or the other person. However, by carrying around this negative feeling, you are hurting yourself, because this drains your resources. Believing in yourself can be a real challenge if you lack self respect and self love, which can make it even more difficult to simply forgive. If you feel people are constantly criticizing or judging you, remember that it is your own internal processing system that makes you decide what they are saying is upsetting.

As you stop focusing on the mistakes of others, you will stop punishing yourself for your own. ~ A Course in Miracles. 3 Sure Signs You Are Ready for a Change... Details Created on Tuesday, 12 June 2012 08:56 Hits: 3231 Life is in a constant state of flux and change. Nature reminds us that nothing ever stays the same. We go from Spring to Summer, Autumn to Winter… Sometimes, there is a time of expansion. In this article, I share 3 sure-signs that you are ready to do something different. 1. If you feel bored, then this is a classic sign that life is inviting you to express more of your gifts in the world. As you step forward and start to grow, it is important that you support yourself physically, mentally and emotionally. When you are moving into an expansionary phase, support yourself by eating natural foods.

When starting to move your body, do so in a way that brings you exquisite joy. 2. Addictions numb or block out your emotions so that you can can’t feel or lessen the feeling of pain. Depending on the addiction, it may be more or less obvious the true extent of the problem. 3. When old fears pop up it means that you are ready to grow.

Confused about your purpose on this planet?Notsalmon. Deepak Chopra: The Difference Between the True Self and Everyday Self - @OWNTV. Don't Delay Your Dreams. 5 Ways to Live Your Life Orgasmically. Romantic relationships are a fascinating place to expose our vulnerabilities, to learn and grow with our “mirror," to be loved, nurtured, challenged and ultimately, to share our deepest natures. Relationships are constantly negotiated and re-negotiated as our sense of self shifts, and our ideas about life change over time. Where people can easily suffer is at the point that relationships become a place to express neuroses. Connecting with another should always be interesting and fun.

When it starts to be painful, something within us is making it painful. Our suffering stops when we become conscious of choosing the experience of a relationship to relate to another as a mirror of our being. The moment we bring awareness into relating, barriers of the ego self start to fall. There’s no separation. Sometimes all that remains is LOVE after the fall of all other illusions. Unfortunately fear so often penetrates and suppresses the natural flow of life, love. 1. 2. 3. Orgasm. 4. 5. Anxiety and Your Super Brain » Intent Blog. By Rudolph Tanzi. Ph.D, and Deepak Chopra, MD, FACP, co-authors of Super Brain, Ph.D., In today’s world of super connectivity and pervasive social media, we have never been in such intimate contact with others.

Anxiety creates a false picture of the world, piling on things to be afraid of that are in fact harmless. Free-floating means the thing you fear is not a specific threat. What they experience is like a bad smell that stays on the edge of their awareness no matter how hard they try to pretend it isn’t there. Achieving detachment is only possible if you can get at what makes fear so sticky. So, anxiety, fear, and doubt generally creep into the brain as a survival mechanism that is deeply ingrained in the more primitive areas of the brain.

Pre-Order your copy of SUPER BRAIN: Unleashing the Explosive Power of Your Mind to Maximize Health Happiness, and Spiritual Well-Being. About Deepak Chopra. Wayne Dyer: The Power of Releasing Guilt. How to Get What You Want in Relationships. There is something you can do to guarantee that you will start getting what you want in your relationships. And it's probably not what you think. In fact, it’s probably the opposite of what you think. No, it's not by getting him to commit or by getting a guarantee from her. You've tried all those things--they don't work. Trying to GET someone to GIVE something to you is always a dead-end street. But there's something else you can do, something that you probably haven't thought of. This something is called GIVING. Yes, turns out the old saying is true, "You get what you give. " Problem is, most of us think we are giving; in fact, we are giving and giving and giving--too much!

If you give and give and give in your relationship (and it feels like too much), I hate to break it to you, but you aren't really giving. Over-giving is a sure sign of GIVING TO GET, and the truth is, it's not going to GET you anything (except for resentment). No, this isn't giving at all--it's called sacrifice. 4 Simple Ways to Improve Your Self-Esteem. How you see yourself has an enormous impact on the rest of the world sees you. Feeling confident and being happy in your own skin stems from an authentic connection with your true self, and is likely to help you succeed. Authentic confidence is sexy. I'm not talking about smugness or arrogance. Those qualities stem from insecurity and for many, are off-putting.

Real confidence, the kind that attracts your soul mate, lands you a perfect job and makes all your dreams come true, is authentic and inviting. After leaving the corporate world a few years ago and successfully launching my own freelance writing and coaching business, I have had to relearn a lot of traits. Over the past few months, I have made it my full time job to look at my own insecurities and see how they are holding me back.

Here are 4 simple ways you can improve your own self-esteem: 1. Believing in yourself starts with removing the beliefs, situations and thought patterns that no longer serve you. 2. 3. 4. 3 Tips to Be More Compassionate to Yourself. I believe that if people can find more compassion within themselves they can transform every aspect of their lives. Compassion is an important tool for personal growth and overall health. Negative energy and emotions stifle your ability to stay healthy and keep you stuck in frustration rather than flow. Let's get past those feelings of defeat and step into more loving thoughts toward ourselves and our bodies.

I'm willing to bet that many of you reading this have many compassionate thoughts for other creatures less fortunate than yourself, including people and animals. We can care so deeply for others, yet when it comes to ourselves we can become negative and even nasty. How do we translate the feeling of compassion for others to compassion for ourselves? 1. Your thoughts can be out of control.

I'm not saying you can control your thoughts. You see, what you think is not who you are but it will define who you become. 2. Your inner judge is always on duty. 3. This is a big one. 5 Ways to Get Rid of Guilt. As busy people who struggle with the daily responsibilities of work, family and self-care, we often find ourselves over-stretched, frustrated, and unable able to accomplish all we'd intended.

If we aren’t careful, we can be really hard on ourselves and allow negative self-talk to overcome us. However, once we can learn to "think outside the box" and realize that we (and others) are doing the best we can with the best intentions we have, then we can begin to rid ourselves of the guilt and move forward with positive changes. Of course, feeling guilty about something you did that was harmful to someone else can be useful in that it can give you the information to make amends. But when guilt is triggered by perceptions of what others may think, or what we think we "should" be doing, it can be harmful.

Feeling guilty can be toxic to your body, mind and spirit. Here are some ways to get rid of guilt: 1. 2. I like to say my positive affirmations right after I wake up while I am still in bed. 3. 3 Simple Ways to Be Present. Sometimes we can get so busy living our lives that we forget to be in the moment. Worrying about the future and brooding about the past means that we miss what's happening right now. Living and appreciating the present minimizes how much we look back with regret. A life well lived is best lived as it’s happening! Here are three simple steps to help you be in the present moment: 1. I am breathing in, I am breathing out. 2. You can’t be full of anxiety and genuinely laugh at the same time. 3. This may be the most challenging of the three, but can also be the most rewarding. When we open ourselves and accept what is, that invisible force disappears. However, a crisis can be a great teacher and it can show us new ways of being that can bring us a lot of peace.

I will leave you with these wise words from Eckert Tolle about staying present, from his book, The Power of Now: “Wherever you are, be there totally. Experiencelife. By Marcelle Pick, OB/GYN, NP / June 2012: Amplify Your Energy Go to a movie or flip on the television and it’s easy to think that everyone but you has a libido in overdrive.

But in the real world, our lives aren’t often very sex-friendly. Most Americans are besieged by stress, work and myriad opportunities for instant gratification — none of which lend themselves to long, leisurely hours of lovemaking. Remember the freedom we felt in our late teens and early 20s? One of my patients, in remembering these halcyon times, says, “Back then, it seemed like life was an endless summer, wide open with possibility.” As we age, however, we confront the unceasing demands of work, family and a relationship, and it can be difficult to find the freedom and the energy that once fueled our desire. Most of the patients who come to me with libido issues — and in my more than 30 years as a practitioner, I’ve seen a steadily increasing number of them — are women who range in age from their 30s to their 60s.

How to Get Out of Your Own Way. Although our body is constantly transforming and renewing itself, our minds have a tendency to stay stuck in repetitive thought patterns, like grooves carved out in the brain, or samskaras, as they're called in yogic texts. Often, these thoughts are self-defeating, negative, or anxiety-producing. For many, this becomes the mind's “default” setting which then sets the stage for chronic, psychosomatic conditions to creep in--such as Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), low back pain, and high blood pressure, to name a few. Toxic thinking also hugely impacts our personal relationships and the ability to achieve our goals. So how do we get out of default mode? Start by becoming aware. Notice your thoughts as soon as they arise, especially the emotionally-charged ones. An example of observing a thought would be to think to yourself, “I'm having a thought that I’m not good enough,” or “I'm having a thought that I shouldn't have to go through this.

" Stay here for ten breaths. Try it. I will too. A Simple Tip to Help Your Meditation. It's only October, but I already find myself craving a quiet space away from the “new normal” which has taken over my household now that school has started. One of the most powerful things we can do for ourselves at this time of the year is to simply be. The changes of the seasons create change within us, both physically and emotionally. In Ayurveda, we hear “like increases like.” The idea is that, the more you feed something, the greater it will grow. So as the outer world begins to move like the wind, we must settle the inner world. If you've fallen away from your meditation practice, now is the time to recommit. Find a quiet, sacred space and just be. Twenty minutes a day. One powerful tool in your practice is the idea of recapitulation, which is a way to replay the day out in your mind's eye. You become witness to the events of your day without attachment to the outcomes.

It may go something like this: This allows you to observe your actions rather than being a part of them. 1. 2. 3. 4. 10 Things to Remind Yourself on a Daily Basis. Bad days can be extremely overpowering sometimes. When we're having a bad day, everything feels wrong and the day seems to get even worse as we sink further into frustration and despair.

By the end of the day, all we want to do is pull the covers up over our heads and block it all out. When I clawed my way out of a depressive phase last year, it was a daily challenge to keep myself from falling back into that phase again. I had to go through a process of re-building my self-esteem and re-evaluating my life. But there were days when I was not very successful with these things and the negative thoughts that stayed with me for so long would interfere again. It sort of felt like climbing up and over a steep hill and every time I let a negative or discouraging thought sink in, my foot would slip and I would roll all the way back down to the bottom of the hill and have to start all over again. On the bad days, I would feel like it would never end and that I would always be unhappy. 1. 2. 3. 4.

3 Sure Signs You Are Ready for a Change... Love Quotes – Best Quotes About Love. Learning to Be Mindful, Integrative Medicine, UW Health, University of Wisconsin Hospital, Madison. 5 Things We Can Learn from Nature. 3 Tips to Have an Incredible Day. Sharon Frey: Is There a Way Out of Negative Cycles of Thought?