Shared Wisdom – Just Let Go

Aug 21, 2011

 Shared Wisdom Guest Post – Featuring Alia Indrawan I am so excited to feature my dear friend Alia’s wisdom this week! While I have never met her in person – we live on opposite ends of the world – I still feel that I know her soul, her heart, and her truth. She has the amazing ability to allow herself to be authentic, vulnerable, and raw. There is no pretense with Alia – we all feel her pain and celebrate her triumphs. I am so inspired by her honesty, and because of that we have been able to connect on a soul level where it feels like we’ve been friends for years. Alia and I are each on a journey, like so many of you are. We’re striving to remain connected to our inner wisdom, serve others with our words and love energy, and be open to divine guidance. We are definitely kindred spirits and have each had the experience of reading each other’s blogs and felt that it was exactly what we needed to read in that moment. She is definitely walking the walk and living her truth, and I am honored to call her my friend. I know you will love her honesty just as much as I do.

I have a tendency to hold on – often with a death grip.  It could be holding onto a thought, belief, habit, or action.  Often the things that really don’t serve my best interest are the ones I hold on to the most.

I may think limiting thoughts like “there’s nothing you can offer to the world that isn’t already being done” or go for a cup of coffee in the morning instead of the ginger tea that I know would feel better. I find myself buying into beliefs of not being good enough More

I Love to Pay the Plumber

Aug 14, 2011

Shared Wisdom Guest Post – Featuring Lesley King

I am thrilled about this week’s Shared Wisdom guest post, which was written by Lesley King! Reading it truly helped me explore the way I view my own finances and begin to open myself to an abundant, relaxed mindset – knowing that all is well, and that there is always enough. I know that it will help you, too. 

Lesley and I are on very similar paths in that we are both focusing more on allowing our inner wisdom to direct More

Fear of Success

Aug 7, 2011

Shared Wisdom Guest Post – Featuring Alice Chan

I am so excited that this week’s Shared Wisdom guest post was written by a dear friend of mine. While I just met Alice in June, I feel like I have known her for years. Our connection and friendship was immediate, and while our paths have been very different externally, we have shared many of the same internal struggles. We are kindred spirits who are on a similar journey to live our best lives and inspire others to do the same.

I feel very More

The Saboteur

Jul 31, 2011

Shared Wisdom Guest Post – Featuring Carolina Caro  I am a firm believer that the universe is designed to grant us everything we could possibly desire. So you might be asking yourself, then why don’t I have the perfect life? If you’re anything like me, you might have some limiting beliefs that stand in the way of having everything you want. I’ve mentioned in previous posts this notion of picking up negative programming as early as our childhood.  Most of us have been taught that life is difficult in some form or another; therefore, our circumstances manifest themselves to prove us right. Exploring our dark side is a way to understand why we act in ways that are opposite to the desires of our conscious mind. Once we grasp why we have certain self-defeating attitudes, we can work towards diminishing them and eventually eliminating them completely. Identifying these shadows from our past is not always easy because by the time we are adults, we have developed a sophisticated ego mind. This ego does not want to be examined very closely because it prefers to keep us enslaved by our wounds rather than to have us get acquainted with our higher Self. Think of every time you’re inspired to behave in a way that would better your life. Isn’t there always a pesky voice telling you all the reasons why you shouldn’t move forward? That little monster is the ego. Its sole purpose: to keep you from being truly happy. I like to refer to my ego as the saboteur. The most dangerous thing about the saboteur is that it usually tries to convince me that it’s acting in my best interest. The ego doesn’t realize that it sees the world as a projected perception based on all these distorted ideas it has accumulated. I certainly grew up with the ingrained belief that everything would be a struggle. I would need to work really hard to get the grades to land the stable job with the big salary to support a family and afford all the perks in life. Sound familiar? Then if I add to that every belief that was born from my bad experiences, the recording starts to sound like this: the world is a scary place, people shouldn’t be trusted, you need to compete with others, there isn’t enough to go around, people will hurt you and on and on. And then I wonder why my experience of life is the way it is! But what if none of that were actually true? What if our inner dialogue could be completely different? What if it sounded something like this instead: “My life is effortless. I acquire information and skills about the things I am passionate about. I am fortunate enough to apply my knowledge in my job, which never feels like work because I enjoy doing it so much. I am well compensated for my work. I am surrounded by people who do the very best they can everyday. I have wonderful personal relationships that are supportive and nurturing. All my desires are fulfilled”. Does that sound too good to be true? I know my ego would certainly say that’s a bunch of airy-fairy stuff. But I’m learning to pay close attention to the voice of that saboteur so that I no longer accept its arguments at face value. Sometimes it’s like a little wrestling match between my ego and my higher Self. And yes, sometimes the saboteur wins. But with every confrontation between these two, my ego shrinks a little more allowing my higher Self to step a little more to the forefront.  And sure enough, when my higher Self is steering the wheel, life is definitely abundant in all areas. The right people and the right circumstances just show up at exactly the right time – the synchronicity of the universe never ceases to amaze me. The blessings are all there, just waiting for us to get over ourselves. We really are the only ones standing in our own way.

Carolina Caro has had the pleasure of holding many different careers from being a research scientist in the area of HIV/AIDS, to holding various sales and marketing positions in the corporate world to being an actress in theatre, film and television. But her most thrilling experience More

The Incredible Importance of the Sideline Crew

Jul 24, 2011

Shared Wisdom Guest Post – Featuring Sheri Geyer

Recently I walked in the Atlanta Peachtree Road Race held annually on July 4. For me, it’s more about hanging out with friends and family who walk along together.

I’m not a runner. Not even a sprint walker – but I am a finisher. Mama taught me that the difference between winners and losers is that winners don’t quit. They may have to find 1001 ways to keep trying but the simply DO NOT quit!  I finished the race, and it’s a cool feeling. I had some side effects More

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