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Blog Intention

by Carolyn Collin

Every month I will be posting a blog or two relating to life lessons and life skills. I believe we can learn a lot through story telling as well as hearing personal stories. The intent is to give you a different perspective that you may have not considered before, to inspire positive change and to entertain along the way.

As a holistic practitioner I often advise clients to keep a journal of some kind. Whether it be a gratitude journal or a personal blog. Writing is a form of self expression which is good for the soul. My intent here is to teach from what I’ve learnt in the trenches but also what I learnt from studying personal development over the years. I aim to assist in making your life easier, happier, and more comfortable.

Note, there will be co-contributors along the way to offer fresh material and diverse life stories. Happy reading!

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Monthly Intention

by Carolyn Collin

Every month an intention will be chosen to inspire overall goodness for your life. It’s important to infer what meaning you draw from the sign, symbol or card selected (prior to reading the additional information provided) based on your own internal guidance system known as your intuition. Oracle, angel, animal totem, runes, tarot cards can be used to assist you along your journey. These devices should be used with care and discernment.

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June’s Monthly Intent

by Carolyn Collin

Love is seeing people as they are and accepting them as they are. In addition, we need to accept and love ourselves, forgive our short comings and rejoice in our strengths. This card is an opportunity to examine the relationships you have in your life and the choices you make with matters of the heart. Do you have the right supportive people in your life that add to your being? Are there people in your life that take away from your self worth? Decide this month on where to focus your love energy and where you can make some changes.

 

Source: The Psychic Tarot for the Heart Oracle Deck 

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Love and Compassion are Nature’s Medicines

by Carolyn Collin

It is my belief love and compassion can make the sadness, anger, and coldness you’ve been feeling, perhaps have become accustomed to feeling — heal. At least, that is my hope for everyone.

Who really wins?

As human beings we appear to be hard wired
wanting to be right, wishing for things to be different, and fighting for circumstances to be fair. In my experience life rarely turns out this way.

I went through many years of torment due to a family court battle that never seemed to have an ending. These concepts of things needing to be right, different, fair had caused everyone involved so much pain, anger and confusion —— not a winning combo for anyone.

True Power Lays in Love And Compassion

I heard the aforementioned statement about a few years ago but never really understood it, until I started putting it into practice. I made a choice one day to set aside my desire for things to be right, different, fair by putting forth in every interaction the real tools that have true power–“Love and Compassion.”

As a result of exercising these tools, my circumstances started to shift and change for the better. Reactions from others softened. I became less burdened, less angry, less uptight. It was an act of surrender and trust for a greater yet to be.

Love Heals Our Wounds

I had prayed often hoping for a healing to occur with my broken family. Many times in church, on my knees, or in my sweat ceremonies I would ask source/spirit to come into my life and make things better. On my son’s 17th birthday, May 24, 2015 my prayer came true. My son’s Father and I sat with our grown young man and enjoyed a birthday dinner altogether. It was a rare moment for us but more importantly our son.

For the sake of creating anew, I sat back, listened and offered love and compassion. I left my ego out of it and didn’t fight the need to be right with what was being shared. On account of this, we were able to connect and get along. I was shown that love and compassion can truly be the medicine our souls have been longing for and that maintaining the idea that things need to be right, different and fair was not worth it in the end. If you want to experience more happiness, I urge you to start implementing these powerful tools in your life today.

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Write It Down, Make It Happen by Henriette Anne Klauser

by Carolyn Collin

I can’t say enough about what this book has done for my life. Henriette Anne Klauser gives practical advice and ideas throughout on finding what you want and getting it! I recall an exercise I did wherein I wrote down my dream of what I wanted to create in my life. I tucked it away in a cabinet completely forgetting about it. It wasn’t until 5 years later upon clearing out a few files that I read a letter I wrote to myself wherein I was pleasantly surprised to find out that most of everything that I had “written down” came to fruition.

The author explains that “the important thing is to do something-anything that propels you forward, keeps the dream fresh in your reticular activating system, so you will be attuned to signs, start collecting evidence.”  Completion crept up on me and that’s what it can do for you when you get clear about what you want and write it down. When we commit to writing down what we intend to create we activate our reticular activating system but also the Universal intelligence to assist us in our quest.

Source: Write It Down, Make It Happen by Henriette Anne Klauser 

 

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July’s Monthly Intent

by Carolyn Collin

Chameleon advises to stay in the background and surrender to spirit rather than trying to control all aspects of your life. This month your opportunity is to sit back, be the observer and listen. Allow yourself to flow with life rather then forcing life to happen. The Universe is unfolding as it should. This card affirms that you do not have to do everything yourself but to place trust in an ever loving supportive Universe.

Source: Messages From Your Animal Spirit Guides Oracle Cards by Steven D. Farmer 

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A Warrior Within

by Carolyn Collin

I’ve experienced much loss. Some losses were out of my control; some wherein I had to make the excruciating personal choice to let go because staying meant putting another above me. It’s all too easy in life to stay the course of the well-worn-path, but to switch directions completely not knowing where that new path will lead, takes courage – a warrior-type courage.

The Spiritual Warrior in Me

I have come to know myself as being a warrior — a Spiritual Warrior — “one who combats self-ignorance, the universal enemy, the ultimate source of suffering in Buddhist philosophy.” A spiritual warrior is “a heroic being with a brave mind and ethical impulse.” Different from other paths, the spiritual warrior compassionately helps others with wisdom.

The Spin Cycle

People often remain in a cycle of quandary not realizing their life is passing them by. They are walking mindlessly, merely reacting to their environment rather then waking up to the present moment and coming ALIVE into it!

They’ve lost hope due to their pain-filled experiences. They do not dare tempt fate for the off chance they may experience more pain. They choose the spin cycle, not realizing that in fact they have chosen a long-term relationship with pain — instead of jumping over the chasm and choosing a short-term relationship with pain. It’s not easy to follow the internal calling to make a change but I can tell you from making this choice over and over again, it’s well worth it!

My Quest

Since my early 20’s, I’ve been aiming to achieve a higher understanding of myself. Suffice it to say: one may never reach the place of full understanding as we are always evolving and shape-shifting into greater versions of ourselves. Nevertheless, not everyone is as ambitious to strive for this level of enlightenment. I personally have not chosen the path of least resistance. I have felt excessive emotions of sadness and anger, as well as feelings of pure love and ecstasy from my own actions taken.

My quest is motivated in assisting others along their path in creating positive shifts in their life and finding their Warrior within. I believe it’s important for us all to dig deep and align our inner selves with the outer World. Do you want to live a much richer and fuller life? Would you like to become more accepting of self and thus accepting of others? It’s never to late to make the choice to find your Warrior within and begin igniting wonderful new opportunities. Your Life awaits!

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Peaks and Valleys by Spencer Johnson, M.D.

by Carolyn Collin

The author discusses how to make good and bad times work for you at work and in life. I have throughly enjoyed Spencer’s writing as his books are easy reads but powerful and offer learning through parables. I find that story telling allows the message to become fully incorporated thus creating positive shifts in ones life.

The take away for me was explained through the purpose of a peak which is meant to celebrate life and the purpose of a valley which is meant to teach us about life. The book offers how we can move from a valley into a peak and also how to move through our illusions and fears. Having these life skills is crucial to our well being, as I have yet to meet a human being without having experienced their own peaks and valleys.

Source: Peaks and Valleys by Spencer Johnson, M.D.

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August’s Monthly Intent

by Carolyn Collin

Awareness is the ability to connect with your deeper self and also connect with the infinite and all that exists around you. In this, you will experience truly unlimited possibility. When you disconnect from source, you also disconnect from everyone and everything around thus limiting your potential. This month practice creating conscious connections with people, animals  and with nature. In doing so you can experience who and what you really are.

Source: Universal Laws of Conscious Creation Fractal Art Message Cards by Solara, Da Ponte and Chapman

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Busy Is Not Better

by Carolyn Collin

Hmm, where do I begin? (I think to myself, as the mind races around to what’s next on this long list of things I “have” to do.) I confess to finding it a challenge to live in the now. I’m an active person — a doer – and often feeling like the white rabbit in the well known children’s classic, Alice in Wonderland. Always rushing off for a “very important date”.

What’s the rush anyway?

After checking off one item on the list, there most certainly always is another, and another. There’s repeatedly more to do if I allow myself to be caught up in the doing. It never ends. Case in point…when I bought my first house this year in March. Many thoughts and worries surfaced — and the main one was “if and when this gets taken care of, then I’ll be happy”. This went on and on all Spring and Summer long. I’m sure some of you can relate. Why wait on yet another thing before I allow myself to be happy? Why not be happy now? It’s now August, and I’ve finally resigned myself to the fact that if there really is nothing left to do, it’s only because I’ve joined the land of the non-living.

Does busy make us feel better? 

Up until now…up until my body couldn’t move anymore and I found myself making mistakes, double booking, sometimes triple booking myself, I finally understood that “busy” is not necessarily better. It took working a full-time 9-5 job, running two small groups opposite weeks of each other for three months, starting up a new Toastmaster’s Club, playing on two baseball teams, doing one on one coaching, putting on a Summer Health & Wellness Retreat as well as playing several active roles at the local Centre for Spiritual Living that I realized this ‘doing’ business was complete MADNESS. I had this impression that being busy equated to being important (so “not busy=not important”). I lost touch with myself.

The seed won’t bloom if…

Now, its great to have plans and act on them, but what I’ve come to learn has been a valuable lesson to me. One must ‘pace’ oneself. I have to give myself the right conditions to grow, and at the right ‘pace’ in order to become truly effective in life. We can’t do this if we’re depleted. We need the proper nutrients and conditions that will allow us to grow to the best of our abilities. The seed won’t bloom into a beautiful flower if you give it too much water to fast, or too much sun. It needs just the right amount. This can be used as a great lesson for us all.

Give yourself a break. There’s no shame in taking it slow. Write in your schedule today under your to do’s the following phrase; “nothing to do” and be okay with that! 😀

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