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Infinitely Powerful: Are We Truly Capable of Being This?

Ponder this quote about how you are infinitely powerful…

“You are an amazing being who is infinitely powerful.”

So many tell us that we are amazing and that we are infinitely powerful, but how powerful do we feel when we are sitting under a load of oppression, abuse, depression, bullying or other disheartening behaviours from others?  And in reality, what does it mean to be ‘infinitely powerful’?

Infinitely Powerful Definition

I thought I’d go see what it says about being ‘infinitely powerful’ in the dictionary.  Are we capable of this level of power in this life?   Interestingly, the phrase was linked to the word ‘omnipotence‘.  When I looked at ‘omnipotence’ it gave me the list of the following words…

adjective able, all-powerful, almighty, capable, dominant, dominating, effective,
effectual, Herculean, illimitable, infinitely powerful, irresistible, mighty, omnipotens,
overwhelming, plenipotent, possessing unlimited power, potent, powerful, predominant,
prepotent, puissant, ruling, sovereign, strong,
supreme, uncircumscribed, unlimited in power

And when I thought about this it seemed to me that infinitely powerful was like being ‘without limit’.  Are we truly capable of being without limit, when we are living in limited bodies?

Omnipotence

I know this phrase omnipotence and I have only ever heard of it in relation to God.  He is omnipotent – all-powerful, unlimited, mighty, possessing unlimited power.  But are we capable of this as human beings, limited by bodies that expire, bound by time and space?

Difficulties that we face make it hard to feel infinitely powerful,  So the question is, are we?  And I have to answer that with the truth.  The facts may be that we are in a tight, hard place, but the truth is that were are often more powerful than we allow ourselves to express or even know.  The truth is that I don’t think any of us walk in the fullness of the power that we possess.  However, this does not mean that we are omnipotent.  We are limited. But our level of limitation is governed by our will, mind and spirit.

Are You Infinitely Powerful or Infinitely Disempowered?

The difference between someone walking in power and someone disempowered are a couple of things:

  1. Their understanding of who they are. 

    As they say, you don’t know what you don’t know until you know it.  Revelation is necessary.  And this revelation can only come from living life and exposure to new information and experiences.  They need to commit to try new things.  And when they try new things, they need to take responsibility for their reactions to those things.

  2. Taking Personal Responsibility.

    Owning their ‘stuff’, their emotional responses is a vital difference between the empowered and the disempowered.  Disempowered people refuse to take personal responsibility, so they are always at the mercy of others.  They become stuck in their ‘stuff’ and find it hard to distinguish between what is their ‘stuff’ and what is others ‘stuff’.  They are boundariless.

  3. Having firm boundaries.  

    People with firm boundaries are able to allow others to grow from their experiences, whereas people without boundaries feel like they have to rescue others from their learning opportunities.  Empowered means you are able to trust that others will be able to work out their own challenges.

  4. Being a Victim or a Conqueror.

    If you allow others to trample down your boundaries and expend all of your energy, always complaining about how others are the problem, you are never going to walk in your power.  The truth is no-one can take your power.  You give it away.   And in the same way, no-one makes you a victim, you choose to be it.  You can also choose not to be it.  You can choose to be part of the solution of part of the problem.

  5. How they view the glass.

    If the glass is always empty, it is hard to be amazing in life.  The trick is that even if the glass is half empty, you will experience more joy if you learn how to appreciate that you have a glass at all. To be truly grateful for the opportunity to have a life is essential.  And to take whatever is in your glass and apply it will transform your life.

Conclusion

So if we want to be truly amazing, it is essential for us to grasp these things.  Transformation is possible.  It starts with acknowledging your current position in life.  It also comes from recognising that you are truly amazing. Crafted by design, not by accident. Made in the image of God, who is infinitely powerful.  Created in His image with creative power.  However, if you think you are infinitely powerful, then I would question the truth of your belief.  Certainly, the goal should never to be powerful for being powerful’s sake.  Power must be tempered with love.  But when we embrace the thought that we are limitless it does open up to us, possibilities and I believe this is necessary if we are to reach our full potential.  The bar should always be higher than we can reach so that we reach beyond our limited thinking.

I’d love to hear your thoughts about this…

Infinitely-Powerful

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Is Passion the Key to True Happiness?

Ponder this quote about happiness and passion…

“True happiness comes to those who dare to live out their passion, no matter what anyone else tells them.”

Do I agree with this statement?  Well, I guess it depends on what the passion is that the person wants to live out.  I mean, if the passion is killing people, then I would say listening to what others say might be important!  As opposed to if the passion was dancing, which has no immediate risk to other’s lives.

As they say, EVERYTHING is RELATIVE!

But as I was pondering this quote I was thinking about my life and that of some of my modern day friends who I share time with but essentially have a base difference in philosophy.

If I can indulge for a moment, I want to cast my thinking back to my roots.  Born again at 18 years of age, I lived a 7-day-a-week, passion-filled Christianity that was very much God-focused.  All activities were for the benefit of God and others, with the spin-off being the satisfaction that I had surrendered my life to God and that I was in service of Him.

Fast forward to the present time frame and I am now surrounded by people who have a modern, ”new age” philosophy where the individual’s focus is on self actualisation.  Self realisation is the goal and along the way you will be in service of others.  So, instead of you being at the beck and call of a Higher Being, ‘it’ is at your beck and call.  You vibrate higher and you attract what you want.  In so doing, the individual’s desires are paramount.

Can you see the subtle difference here?  Both have a mandate of service, but one is service through self-development and the other is service through sacrfice of self.

Self-Sacrifice vs Self-Service

There is a very obvious difference…

Christian – self-sacrifice and submission to God.

Enlightened person – self-service and drawing from Source so that you can attract what you want and then be of service to others.

The enlightened one is living their life based on their self-desires and confident that they can attract to themselves all that they desire by becoming a better version of themselves.

The Christian is living their life from a space of self-sacrifice, where the desires of God and others are more important than their own desires.  And they also believe that it is through this dying to self process that they are becoming a better version of themselves.

There are some very large and glaringly obvious differences in philosophy that I would like to discuss in this post.

You see, for me, true happiness comes from being aligned with your core values.  It also comes from fully embracing and expressing the gifts that God has given you.  And in the expressing of these gifts, one may be described as pursuing your passion.  For example, I am passionate about music and singing.  Through worship of God, I get to pursue my passion.  Certainly, I am happiest when I am worshipping God.

If your core value is living a life that is in submission to God, then thoughts about placing yourself as the most important person in the universe are going to be contrary to your core values.  Conflicted is how you are going to feel.  And conflicted is not a recipe for happiness.

Equally, if your core values are about placing yourself as the centre of your universe and everything else having a secondary position, the concept of sacrificial giving is going to be a conflict for you.  So you will never find happiness in sacrificing your desires for someone else.  In fact, you would be encouraged to put yourself first in every situation.

So, back to this quote…

“…living out your passion…” then has to have context.  Does this mean, doing whatever your heart says to do in that moment? ie the philosophy of ‘if it feels good, then do it’?  Or does it mean that you have some gift or talent that needs to find expression?  That this pursuit alone is worthy of your full attention, as only then will you experience real happiness?

You see, we often read something like this and go, “Yes!  I want that!”  It appeals to some part of our human nature that needs to feel a spark and think that we have any kind of control over our destiny.  However, I have found that the reality is quite different.  That even those who are busy designing their lives down to the minutest detail are still at the mercy of God because they can’t control EVERYTHING or even ANYTHING.  And that in a moment EVERYTHING can be changed.  EVERYTHING and ANYTHING can be taken away from you.

That then leads me back to my original thought… “Do I choose God or do I choose Self?”  Is it a case of one or the other?  Is there even a right answer?

Given that I can’t control everything, I think I am safer to put myself in the hands of God.  And in so doing, I think perhaps I am chasing my passion and discovering true happiness as a by-product, rather than the goal.

So perhaps, my initial thoughts that this quote was contrary to my core values are in fact not true.  That you can find happiness in chasing your passion if your passion is God.  That passion expressed is God at work in your life.

What are your thoughts?

I’d love to hear your thoughts on this subject.  Do we create our own life or are we subservient to God?  Do we attract into our life things or are we blessed with things from God?  And do we have any control whatsoever about what we get in life or is it a case of potluck?  ie Do we choose our life or do we just have to work with what we are given?

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Is there more to life than what you see in your fish bowl?

Ponder this quote about life and opportunities…

“Open your heart to the possibility that there is more to life than what you see in your fish bowl.” – Hayley Solich

Life with a Fish Bowl Mentality

Sometimes in life, we get trapped in the cycle of routinely experiencing life.  We swim round and round, doing the same old, same old because we live our life in a fishbowl.

Repeating bad habits, we experience the same results, all the while wondering, why?

The truth is that we have been conditioned to think that life only exists in our fishbowl.

The good news is, there is a whole ocean of opportunities waiting to greet you the moment that you decide to get out of the bowl and to explore the world.

What keeps you inside the fish bowl?

  1. Fear.
    Fear of what you may or may not experience if you risk jumping out of the bowl.  We are creatures of habit and comfort.
  2. Change is uncomfortable.
    That’s why they call it the ‘comfort zone’.  Our bodies and minds are accustomed to our routine existence.  When we try to break out, it is uncomfortable.
  3. Lack of awareness.
    We are clueless about the possibilities that await us if we were brave enough to make the jump.
  4. Lack of skill.
    We lack the skill to break mindsets and habits.  For example, the elephant that has been chained to a small post since it was small.  Instead we are contained with very little effort because we fail to recognise the strength that is innate to all human beings.
  5. We fail then give up.
    When things don’t immediately change, we give up.

There are benefits from staying in the fish bowl and this is probably one of our motivations for not jumping ship.

Those benefits are:

  1. It is a known lifestyle, so feels safe.
    Experiencing the same results is the only immediate risk we associate with staying.  We feel comfortable and we don’t have to risk failure.
  2. We escape the mockery of trying and failing.
    It is safe and there is no opportunity for failure if we continue to do what we know works currently.
  3. We get attention, even if it is negative, but we are more accountable.
    Consequently, there is always going to be someone who wants us to change if we have something worthy of the attention, so I think that sometimes people stay in their stuff longer than they should or could because they enjoy the negative attention.  They are able to have a captive audience because they are more visible and accountable.

I don’t know what your situation is like, but I want to challenge you to consider this question:

Are you living in a fish bowl or are you swimming in the ocean of life?

There is no problem with a fish bowl existence – it does have its place in the aquarium of life.

Therefore, try to remember that there is also an ocean of opportunity that awaits the brave who are willing to make the jump.  Just ask Nemo!

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You can’t force change on others, but you can be influential!

Ponder this quote about change…

“No matter how much you love someone, you can’t force them to change.  They have to want it for themselves.” – Mandy Hale

Change is possible but not guaranteed. Love is a wonderfully transformative emotion and powerful motivator, however, love for another does not have the magical power to overrule that person’s free will. You can have an ocean of love for someone but that is not going to be enough to create real change for them.  It may inspire them to take action, the thought of your love, but at the end of the day, the decision to change is theirs.

Therefore, love in and of itself is not enough to transform a life.  Only the will can.

It’s Hollywood’s Fault

Historically, Hollywood has sold us the lie that love is able to remedy every situation, resulting in the happy ending. However, there is this issue of free will that must be addressed. And how can we be influential in other’s lives, bringing about the changes that we desire to see?

The truth is that we can only create an awareness, stoke the fire of desire, share information about how to make the changes, then hopefully this is enough for the person to catch the spark and take action.

I have met a lot of people –  parents, partners, friends – who try to take responsibility for another person’s life.  The truth is, you just simply cannot.  But you can be influential.

I learned this very early on as a parent.  What parent doesn’t feel embarrassed and responsible for the behaviours of their child?

You Can’t Assume Responsibility For Another’s Choices in Life

Just yesterday, I was sitting in a fast food restaurant. Eating at the tables outside, I saw a mother with her two primary school-aged sons and their friend.  The youngest boy was standing on the bench. He then stood on the tables. He threw his food and dramatically dropped the container on the ground. Then to my horror, he started holding his crotch, gyrating and then he pulled own his pants and urinated on the bushes whilst standing on the table.  The whole time he was looking for a reaction from his mother.

My mother’s voice was in my head as I sat there watching him. She would never have allowed my brothers to behave like that in public. So I had taught my children similar values. I have taught my son to be aware of others. He knows to put his rubbish in the bins and leave a public space as clean or cleaner than it was before he came there.

This mother was switched off, that is until her son started urinating.  Then she was horrified by his behaviour and embarrassed. Spotting me watching them through the window, I saw the shame wash over her. As I walked out she muttered an embarrassed apology to me.  I smiled my understanding of her. Then I spoke directly to the boy, telling him, “Other people have to eat off those tables,”  Immediately he got down from where he was, suddenly aware of his behaviour.

Awareness Leads to Change

Aha…I had created an awareness and desire to change…just with some simple words.

I watched as she left, with him following close behind and I could see her suddenly becoming aware of how she had failed her son.  The boy was probably 8 or 9 years of age.  He was definitely old enough to know better, but she had paid him little attention until now.

I wondered later about why that child felt it was okay to stand on table tops, to hold onto his genitals and gyrate, then to pull his pants down and urinate in an eating area like that.  I also wondered what would it take for that child to experience change?

Every Change Needs a Catalyst

The first thing I recognise is that the child needs the motivation to change their behaviour,  The boy was doing whatever he could to get his mother’s attention off the phone she was so engrossed in.  I could him calling her name, “Mum…”  The more she ignored him, the more he amped up the behaviours.  And is it that we do have a part in helping others to change, that we can be influential? Ultimately the decision to change will be theirs, But is our own behaviours key to influencing another’s change? Do have a part to play, even though we are unable to force the change?

I will leave you with the thought that you are always leading someone somewhere – either towards something positive or away from it.  And in this case, you may not be able to force another to change, by YOU CAN influence them to do it and by saying nothing, by ignoring their behaviours, you are actually part of the problem.

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Transformation is possible…so never lose hope

Ponder this quote about transformation and hope…

“Never lose hope.  The butterfly is proof that beauty can emerge from something completely falling apart.” – Jane Lee Logan

The Butterfly’s Transformation

I love the story of a caterpillar’s transformation into a butterfly because it gives me the hope that the unattractive aspects of my life have the possibility for transformation.

A little caterpillar, known as the larvae, recognises that its season for change has arrived after it has eaten the leaf it was born on.  As it cannot move very far, it creates a chrysalis around itself in which to spend a season of solitude and seclusion.  Whilst in this place of solitary confinement, it goes through a rapid and dramatic period of transformation called metamorphosis.  I love that word…it is strangely magical.

Cloistered away from prying eyes, the little caterpillar sheds part of its body, developing beautiful surprisingly soft wings, and it emerges with these wings wrapped around the little caterpillar body.

Considered the adult phase of the butterfly’s life, it has one purpose for the next phase – reproduction.  It seeks out a mate to be able to produce the next generation of butterflies and the cycle continues.

The Human Analogy

So, I see from this a bit of an analogy of the healing process.  When we are woudned, we are like the larvae.  Vulnerablea nd unable to find our mojo for movement, we become stuck and sorry for ourselves.  Finally, we withdraw from life for a season where we build a protective shield around ourselves.  Isolated, we process our grief.  But eventually, we are ready to emerge. Having worked through our issues, when we emerge we are stronger. We have the ability to fly over our circumstances and to seek out greener pastures.  And finally, we reproduce ourselves.  We pass on the learning from our journey for the benefit of others.

This accurately sums up the process in my own life where I have had seasons of trauma, then times of retreat for healing. Right now I am a beautiful butterfly who has found her wings and is passing on the learning to others.  I have been achieved this by adopting the right heart-set.

An Encouragement to the Reader

I encourage you.  No matter how hard your season currently is or if you feel like you are in seclusion, remember there is a reason for all things and you will emerge a beautiful butterfly ready to reproduce.  You will emerge. You wil  experience more agility, more freedom and greener pastures to be explored.

Interestingly, everything about a butterfly’s life cycle has a purpose, right from the moment of birth.  It is born on the leaf that it will need to consume to have the strength to build the chrysalis, to have the strength to create the butterfly.  Its parent chose that leaf specifically for it’s edible appeal to you and it’s benefit for your health. And finally, once you have transformed, to reproduce and start the cycle over.

There is a purpose in everything.  And sometimes our purpose is not our goal, it is the offshoot of us working towards our goal.  Don’t always judge the outcome of what you are doing by what you can see.  Hidden in the hearts and actions of others, the outcome often manifests days, months or even years after you have touched their lives.

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Kindness…is it a possible way through conflict?

Ponder this quote about kindness…

“Be kind whenever possible.  It is always possible.” – Dalai Lama

I have waded my way through some pretty tough situations in life, but it was only recently that I was listening to a Psychiatrist speaking about kindness to a group that I got a picture of how to better deal with conflict in the workplace.

And it wasn’t so much that he even spoke about kindness in this context. My heart immediately puts two and two together to create this beautiful image of what conflict resolution could look like.

Often we get bogged down in the debate, in the power struggle of who is right and who is wrong.  We look for allies to air our grievances to and we fight for what we think is our rights.

Enter a strange and misplaced thought…what if we were kind to the other person?

What if who was right suddenly didn’t matter, but rather, the soul health of the other person was the most important thing?

Or we could look at that damaging behaviour from an objective perspective and see it for what it is…the actions of a person who is in a struggle with themselves being expressed externally?

What if we did as Dr Stephen Covey suggests, to seek first to understand and then to be understood.  To sincerely step into the other person’s shoes for a moment and feel their struggle, to feel their pain?

Could kindness be the ultimate weapon in the warfare of personality clashes and conflict resolution?

I wonder what would happen if I decline to be offended by another person’s behaviour?  If instead, I offered them grace and love.  Does kindness mean that I am a doormat to be walked on?  I don’t think so.

Kindness is potentially a balm or salve for a hurting heart and don’t you think we all deserve a little kindness when we are struggling?

I know that when I was suffering from jealousy and feeling angst towards another woman, I befriended her. I made myself give to that woman until I broke that jealousy.  Consequently, I gained a friend for life.

I leave you with that thought…next time someone comes to you with a conflict about someone else, ask them, have they considered being kind to that person.

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Imperfectly Perfect

Ponder this quote about giving up on being perfect…

“The thing that is really hard and really amazing is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.”

 

I remember when my daughter was younger and everything had to be perfect.  She hated being late for school.  In fact, she would rather die than be late for school.  I always wondered what that was about.

As she grew older and entered her teens, she went through some really difficult times. This resulted in my taking her to see a Psychologist.

The interesting thing was that Psychologist worked her out in the first appointment.  She was a perfectionist. Her anxiety was based on her inability to cope with failure and she saw being late as a failure and she couldn’t cope with everyone looking at her when she arrived late.

My poor little girl had a constant rod on her own back and I had to wonder if I hadn’t been part of the problem, because my mother had a rod on mine.   Her favourite saying was, “don’t be a half a job Martin”, Martin being my maiden name.  And it is my mother’s voice, that has been echoing in my own ear down the decades long after she was killed in a car accident.

Fortunately, that Psychologist was able to give her some strategies and she is a work in progress.

Nobody’s perfect…

Fortunately for me, the best thing that I ever did was to cut myself some slack. Accepting my imperfections brought me peace.  No mean feat, I have to say. I had to decondition my heart from all those years of punishing myself for being imperfect.

When I reflect back, I think that it all started when I was in primary school and the MACOS van (Man A Course Of Study) came to visit our school. In that van was an imitation toy that they said dated back to primitive man. It was a piece of wood with a string attached with a small piece of wood on the end and you had to flip the string and try to get the small piece to balance on the large piece.

Determined to master that toy, I wanted to be the best wood flipper possible.  I saw everything as a competition back then.  Unfortunately, that toy had been around to a lot of schools.  By the time it came to us, it was pretty worn out.  Consequently, when I flipped it, the string broke.

I remember that day so well.  It felt like I nearly died a thousand deaths when it broke. I just wanted to run away and hide rather than admit that I had been the person who had broken the string.  It never even occurred to me that it wasn’t my fault, but the result of wear and tear.  All I could see was my failure. I was imperfect and I was mortified.

Fortunately, I have come a long way since then. These days I openly say that I am imperfectly perfect and own my imperfections. I love that thought. It is the thought that I am one of the experiments in life that will lead to the perfect solution eventually and that it is okay to practice life.

We have a long journey through life with ourselves.  It pays to be kind to yourself.

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Unbecoming, Becoming or Mercy Be…Just Being!

Ponder this quote about the journey…

“Maybe the journey isn’t so much about becoming anything.  Maybe its about unbecoming everything that isn’t really you so you can BE who you were meant to be in the first place.” – Rhonda Hendricks

Let’s explore this thought about unbecoming a little…because sometimes we read something and go, ‘Yes!’ but fail to really read it.  And I am sure that when Rhonda Hendricks put this quote together, and I am assuming she is the author, she was hoping to inspire you.

I pull these quotes from all over the internet, plus add a few of my own for good measure.  But often I find we don’t stop and really think about what is being said. We don’t think about what it means to us as individuals. So, what is this quote saying to you.  What is it’s core message?

So, with that in mind, what is this quote saying to you?  What is it’s core message?

Firstly, there is the radical thought that perhaps the philosophy that life helps you to change until you become what you are meant to be, may actually be a false premise.  Well, fancy that.

It goes on to say that instead of becoming something that you currently are not, it’s about unbecoming everything that is not really you.

I find this an interesting thought, as it implies that you have been in some way infected by others and conditioned into believing something about yourself or adopting behaviours that are not really you.

An interesting thought.

My only question is, doesn’t this feel a little too conspiracy thinking like?  I mean, the implication is that somehow you have been infected with elements that are not essentially you that you have to excavate to uncover the real you.

I’m not usually one to pull apart another’s thinking but I think this thought at first glance makes the rebel inside you go, ‘Yes!’  But on closer inspection, it assumes that you were an unwilling party to some kind of layering process and that now you must delayer.  To my way of thinking, that is not dissimilar to the becoming theory, which this quote is tryng to debunk.

Now here is a radical thought…are you ready for it?

What if you are perfect just the way you are, in this moment and you didn’t have to change a single thing, just relax and be?

I know…you are falling off your seat in shock, or laughing yourself silly right now.

But I’m serious.  How about we remove the b.s. about becoming or de-becoming and just be?

Ahhh…I can feel the peace settling on me even as I speak.

And I want you to go to the mirror and look at yourself and say, “I am enough.”

Now that you know you are enough…please sign up for my personal development programme…just kidding!

Ask yourself, ‘Why?”

But seriously, you have to ask yourself, “Why?  Why do we feel the need to construct a reality around self-acceptance and life?  Why can’t we just accept that we are, that we are enough, that how we came to be here, in this moment, has shaped us and that is okay?”

We don’t have to make sense of it.  Nor deconstruct it.  We can just accept it and decide if we want to add more information to our life, or more skills to equip us for bigger adventures and just move forward.

I think it is rather simple and we love to overcomplicate life.

That’s my no b.s. take.

 

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How to have an Unstoppable Heart-Set

Ponder this quote about heart-set…

“I choose to be unstoppable.  I am bigger than my concerns and worries.  The strength of others inspire me daily.  I focus on my goal.  I trust my intuition and live a courageous life.”

As I pondered about this quote, it occurred to me that many of us live our lives in a way that is completely stoppable.  We need to shift our heart-set.  Rather than being slapped by our current reality, we get to see who we are. We get to realise our potential.

I mean, stop me if I am wrong.  In life, we often come up to a barrier in our pathway and instead of finding a way to get over or around it, we sit down and have a pity party.  Woe is me.  I can’t do what I want to do because there is this barrier in the way. It’s too big and too hard and I can’t cope…blah…blah…blah.

But the truth is your spirit man is jumping up and down on the inside saying, “Let me at that barrier!”

This is where we need a shift…a shift of gears.

Disengage mindset and embrace heart-set.

Your mind wants to tell you why you can’t.  After all, it has had experiences in life and these experiences have been followed by certain outcomes.  And your mind wants to tell you all about those experiences and outcomes, so that you don’t repeat the negative ones.  But the problem is, sometimes you have to go through the negative experiences to get to the positive ones.

For example, you go to the gym.  After the first day all your muscles are aching.  You decide to go to the gym again and your brain is like screaming, “Stop!  Don’t you remember how painful it was last time?”  However, if you go again and you work out, your muscles get used to the stretched state of being and before you know it you can tolerate a lot more exercise without feeling the pain.

Your job in life is to disengage your brain and engage your heart.

Your heart knows what to do.  Your heart is connected to your spirit and your spirit is jumping up and down and saying, ‘Hey!  Let me come to the party.”

So today, I would encourage you to disengage your brain, engage your heart.  And make sure that you guard your heart.  It is your job to keep your heart pure!

Choose to be unstoppable.  Remember that you are bigger than your concerns and worries.  Remember that the strength of others inspires you daily. (Check back here for some inspiration or sign up for our daily does of IYH bulletin at the top of the screen.)  Focus on your goal and don’t give up at the first hurdle. Trust your intuition and live a life you can be proud of…a life that is courageous.

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Welcome to Inspire Your Heart

I am excited to be launching the new Inspire Your Heart blog.   This blog is designed for you to find something that will literally inspire your heart.

So why another blog to inspire your heart?

There is so much bad news circulating.   Facebook, TV, and Radio are all full of the many trials and struggles that people are facing in our current lifestyle.  It is time for some positivity to combat all that negativity!

We need somewhere we can just refresh our hearts; somewhere to challenge our perceptions and to be inspired to live life to the fullest.

My goal is to start a new and inspiring trend…the trend towards good news stories and encouraging your soul by inspiring your heart.

On this blog I will be sharing:

  • Videos
  • Testimonials
  • Stories
  • Poems
  • Quotes
  • Images
  • Dream sequences

I would encourage you to bookmark the page.  Get on our mailing list for daily or weekly inspiration.  View our shop and see if there is a IYH product that ticks the boxes for what you are needing right now.

If you are a writer, would you like to be a guest blogger?  I would love to hear from inspirational writers looking to connect with an audience.  I’m very keen to work with as many people as is practical.  This blog offers writers an opportunity to grow their personal writing brand, whilst sharing great information.

In the tradition of Golden Pen Magazine, the magazine that shared the extraordinary stories of ordinary people, my goal is to help you to inspire your heart every day.  I will achieve this by sourcing quality stories.  By sharing the wisdom that all may achieve a higher level of abundance.

I hope you will come on the journey with me and…

If you are a woman and you are interested in a blog that is focused around heart-set, check out our sister blog, Fat Girls Can Dance.

If you have enjoyed reading this blog and are looking for more inspiration, consider following our Inspire Your Heart page on Facebook.com,