The Lighter Life

At this time of year, as we conclude all the parties and over indulgence many of us start thinking about losing weight, taking up an exercise regime and making all sorts of promises about how we will change in the forthcoming year.
For most of us, these promises will last somewhere between a few days and a few weeks, very few will continue their new choices until they are ingrained as new habits in their life. Why is that I wonder?
Personally I think it's about motivation.
As you start the goal setting process for the forthcoming year, I invite you to ask yourself, "Why?". What is the reason that you are setting this goal? You may be surprised by the answers.
When I use this type of exercise with my clients the most common answer is based around the word 'should'. E.g. "Why do you want to start dieting and losing weight?", "because I should want to be thinner and healthier".

When we take this deeper, we see that the 'should' comes from social norms, parents, school teachers, fashion magazines, media advertising and many other outside influences.

What if you turned within and asked that inner wisdom that you have, "what do I really want to achieve, be, do or have this year."  As you tap into the voice of your inspiration you will be amazed at what you are really motivated to achieve.  As you operate from this place of connection you become lighter in your spirit, unfettered by 'shoulds' you are set free on the wings of true inspiration.
Once you realise what you truly want to achieve for yourself you are much more likely to reach the goal or target, you are more likely to make the time to take the action steps, and you will feel a lightness in your heart as you do all the things you know to do because it will be carried on the wings of your inspiration.

Are you ready to get lighter from the inside?  Let go of the 'shoulds' and start living the unlimited possibilities of your inspiration. You will fly so much higher.

In love
Juliet

The Resurrection

"Be thou comforted, little dog, Thou too in Resurrection shall have a little golden tail."   ~ Martin Luther

It's not Easter, so why am I talking about the resurrection? Because that is what happens to us over and over again, but we don't notice it. We are reborn as we change a situation in our lives but because we are asleep to our true nature we don't recognise the transformational change that is happening as we move from one thing to another.

Rebirth and renewal are the perpetual states of nature, they are constant in their state of change. We are also in our own perpetual state of change, but just like nature that are certain points in the seasons of our life that are more significant than others.

What often happens is that we see these changes as negative and we struggle and fight our way through them; we could see them as an opportunity for transformation, a resurrection.

What is it that you currently see as unobtainable or unavailable that, just like the little dog's tail, you could experience differently if you were resurrected? This metaphor for life doesn't have to be a physical death and rebirth, but the metaphysical death and rebirth of old, outmoded belief systems into an empowered vision for your life.

I am currently journeying through this transformational phase of life and it is really inviting me to consider how I create my own fences and boundaries that prevent my greater growth. I also recognise that change and transformation is happening even when I'm not consciously engaged in it and when I'm even recoiling and rejecting it on a conscious level. However no matter how extensive my resistance, change happens. In meditation I experience the greater truth and my dreams bring me wonderful stories of Phoenix and Resurrection so I know that transformation is at work in my life, just as it is in yours.

I invite you to consider your own transformational journey and seek the places you can embrace your own resurrection instead of railing against it.

Affirmation
In the infinite now of my life I recognise that I am reborn in consciousness time and again. I release all resistance and embrace the radical resurrection as well as the tiny transformation. I trust the process of life to only bring me the things I can handle and I use the tools in my tool box to process the change as it happens. I am free and flowing in the river of life. All is well.

In love

Juliet x