7/21/2024 0 Comments What Feeds Your Soul?There are times when you want to experience life in ways you can’t readily see for yourself. You want "it," whatever "it" is but you can't seem to see it in your life or connect with it in the moment it's present. Maybe past trauma prevents potential insights or mounting disappointment limits your vision. Perhaps, the experience was never modeled for you therefore, you never learned or experienced "it" for yourself. This makes it even harder, especially if you really don't know what you're looking for. Naming what you want is very different from acknowledging its presence and allowing yourself to receive it fully. At times, we must be mindful of the tendency to imagine what we want in only one specific way and neglect the fact that it may show up in several ways you never thought of. A fixated mind is a trap. It prevents you from connecting with yourself and your life in a vibrant, present way that fills you up rather than subtracts from your being. It also perpetuates feelings of emptiness and a mindset of lack, (you don't have what you want, therefore it doesn't exist). This blocks what is already present and has the capacity to build momentum into bigger, better, more meaningful experiences in connection with what you want.
I learned something today about happiness, joy, and fulfillment, my "it" factor. It was revealed in a way that I wouldn’t have thought. I felt a craving for chicken fingers which I usually don't eat. It’s the type of food I generally stay away from because at times, it also comes with a string of guilt after I eat it. So, I did my best to squash the craving and eventually, went on with my day. However, the craving came back and with a bit more bite. Although I generally restrict those kinds of foods, this time, I chose to honor the craving. When I picked up the chicken fingers, I noticed I felt happy and filled with a sense of joy just to have it. I saw myself smiling like a little kid and my face was bright. I couldn't wait to get home. After I finished eating, I sat back and felt an overwhelming sense of fulfillment and ease. I learned that happiness, joy and fulfillment live in little moments connected to the soul that literally guide you to your happiness and joy. I craved chicken fingers for whatever reason and not usual but, it was loud and clear and very present at that moment. Fulfillment is about allowing the Soul to flow. You can't fill if you don't flow. When you limit, restrict or block the Soul's Flow you cut off the energy needed to thrive. That's what makes feeding your Soul so important. When the energy to thrive is cut off, you feel empty. That feeling of emptiness doesn't mean there's something wrong with you. There's nothing wrong with you. You just can't fill the void with "things" that are empty to begin with. If you never honor the pangs of your Soul, depleting a sense of wholeness is inevitable. Fulfillment is about allowing yourself to flow and receive your Soul's guidance in the moments that connect you to your happiness and joy. Who would've thought chicken fingers could offer such inner contentment, certainly not me. Who would've thought that such a small gesture would be so satisfying or allowing the craving of the Soul would lead to such a wonderful state of fulfillment, not me. However, today I learned that it’s not only possible it’s actual. Let's stop chasing the elusive "it" and start listening to the guidance of the Soul. Let's stop limiting, restricting, and blocking and start flowing with the Soul. Let's stop being in states of lack and start feeding the Soul. Let's stop doubting the Soul and start trusting it to know what is needed. Let's start believing in the Soul to bring us to touchstones along the way, moment to moment, because if you really look, they are everywhere; ready, willing, and able to serve you, if you just give yourself permission to receive. When you feed your Soul, you honor your Soul and that's the highest value Love, Jennifer Gentle Touch Healing www.jennifersmusing.com Healing through Compassion - Inner Beauty Blog: What Feeds Your Soul?, Tiny Poet, 7.15.2024
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How often do you check-in with your Soul?
Let this sink in for a moment... How often do you connect with yourself when life goes awry or vehemently challenges you? When you've been blindsided by unexpected disappointment or uprooted by sudden conflicts? When a relationship abruptly stops or the position you thought you had falls through? When you're moving in one direction and then suddenly, you have no idea where you're going or what you're even doing anymore? How often do you check in with your Soul especially, when these pockets of time seem to short circuit? It's a common response to find yourself questioning or trying to figure out ways to "fix” or "make it better." It's also common to feel triggered, shut down, and/or assume the worst. You might even get taken in or swept away by external circumstance and forget to return back to yourself. There's often a dichotomy in life experiences. At times, you can feel you’re exactly where you should be, want to be, and doing exactly what you want with a sense of purpose and positive potential. Then before you know it, the lines blur, confusion sets in, and everything feels off-track. You question everything only to feel lost, unclear and severely uninspired. Somehow, you're taken right out of your being, uprooted and exposed. When everything feels like it’s falling apart, it's a Soul calling to return home to yourself. It is an invitation to ground down and replant into more fertile soil for yourself and your life. Resist the instinct to focus on external chaos and internal confusion. Don't attempt to understand or fix it. Run toward yourself first. Come back home first so, you can reconnect in a more soulful way, to what’s most loving, nourishing and vital for your well-being. This kind of authentic self-value is how you align with your Soul being. Getting into Soul Alignment is about acquiring self-knowledge through self-connection to plug into your deeper values. It's about asking the right questions of yourself and developing an unwavering understanding of your deepest qualities and healing potentials. So, when the storm comes, ask yourself these 3 questions: 1) Is this (circumstance, person, disagreement, behavior, thought, etc.) in alignment with my soul qualities? Knowing your Soul qualities offers a basis for establishing a foundation in the pursuit of self-knowledge. First and foremost, you must know who you are at the core and root of your being. Often, Soul qualities match your values and tend to lean toward non-negotiables as part of your inherent worth. You see Soul qualities emerge within the stages of innocence and childhood years. These qualities are associated with your purpose and contribution including your natural gifts, strengths, healing process, practice, and potential. You feel most alive when in your Soul qualities and most fulfilled within and when similar qualities are found and shared with others. True fulfillment is not about external gain or achievements, it's about filling your human vessel and experience with the qualities of your Soul or embodiment. To align with that you must know who you are at the level of Soul and in being. This type of self-knowledge confirms who you are and gives you a direction to walk in. It helps you land in ways that guarantee that connections are full of good fruit and purpose. It also helps you course correct when you feel off-track. Having the knowledge of your Soul, simply affirms when you are in right alignment and encourages your movement forward. 2) What purpose does this experience have for my soul? Every experience is a learning process toward healing any disconnections to your Soul qualities. This question works to guide you back to your healing focus. It highlights those areas needing more development and aspects of self to strengthen. Being conscious in this way, offers insight into how you can best serve your growth and transformation at this time. It also introduces a more gentle, nurturing way to change old ways of being that no longer serve you by aligning you with a deeper understanding of yourself in a more loving way. 3) By staying connected to this, (circumstance, person, disagreement, behavior, thought, etc.) does it move my soul forward in a positive, healthy, healing, more meaningful way? This is such an important question because it helps you break free from anything holding you back or keeping you stuck. It gives you an opportunity to re-confirm who you are, (Soul qualities), and reminds you of where you want to re-connect or align yourself accordingly. This question sparks your vision, ignites your heart and builds momentum forward in healthy, healing, more meaningful ways and most importantly, in ways that well align with your Soul which, is the most ultimate healing of all. DEEPER DIVE INTO EXPLORING INNER VALUES HERE>> Love, Jennifer🌸 - Inner Beauty Blog: Soul Alignment is a Divine Assignment, Tiny Poet, 5.26.2024 - Emotional Wellness Coaching: https://www.jennifersmusing.com/emotional-wellness-coaching.html 4/19/2024 0 Comments SHAME: The Teacher WithinThe inner experience of shame is so painful and at times, so elusive that it will even hide from you. It goes underground and affects your subconscious beliefs toward yourself, carrying notes of embarrassment and distress along with, a severe and relentless self-humiliation. Shame takes root in the perception of having done something wrong, bad, immoral or improper. At its core, shame believes, "Something is wrong with me" and that is the deep soul injury. It distorts your sense of inner-goodness and damages your innate innocence by turning it into self-deprecation and deep self-loathing. Shame, thereby infiltrates your self-esteem, tarnishing how you appreciate and value yourself and ultimately, diminishes or completely obliterates your sense of self.
Your sense of self derives from your self-esteem, the image of how you see yourself and the results of that, always matches the image. Self-esteem drives your vision and capacity to fulfill yourself and your life. Therefore, your level of self-esteem becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. So, you must be mindful in the ways in which you fill and fulfill yourself. Shame, as the teacher within assists in shaping your self-concept, how you define yourself. It shines a light on those shadows that penetrate your identity and distort your Divinity. It helps you see those places of darkness that cover your goodness and works to connect you to your standards and values. In this way, you can remember what's most important to you. Shame helps you reconnect to who you really are, the original you. It challenges you to accept your worst as perfectly imperfect and supports you to rise into the best version of yourself. This is to say, that the intention of shame can guide you back to who you are and were created to be. That’s if you are brave enough to look at it and accept the teaching. The experience of shame is waiting to heal you from whatever happened and restore your innocence. But first, you must restore your inner-sense and self-image which, is the only way to return to wholeness. In this way, shame offers a vehicle to take control of your self-esteem, encourages you to step into your power, and build an unshakable fortress of self-love. WAYS TO WORK WITH SHAME AS A TEACHER: https://www.jennifersmusing.com/shame-the-teacher-within.html Love, Jennifer🌸 Gentle Touch Healing www.jennifersmusing.com Healing through Compassion - Emotional Wellness Coaching Here>> |
TIS` THE SEASON OF HEART
December can be quite a magical month and fulfilling time of year. We get a chance to embrace the spirit of holidays and witness the wonder through the eyes of children and adults alike. Tis` the season of heart, when the world steps into a place of family, togetherness, and hope. It’s an end of a year that begins an active path into giving and receiving, rooted in a coming together of values and the essence of home. The season fills the atmosphere with magic; crisp air and snow falling from sky, lights aglow on streets and in homes, long gazes into loved one’s eyes by the crackles of fire and sparks of sweet-hearts. We take care, nestling into hearty foods like soups, stews, and hot chocolate. We bundle up with sweaters, scarves, blankets and loved ones and we find ourselves surround by light, the illumination of our hopes and dreams in the stillness of love within our hearts.
The heart symbolizes life, love and the engagement in partnership. The heart never leads alone... It never beats alone... One pulse follows the other in the direction of union. A sense of union requires partnership. We learn to connect and re-connect through the heart-experience, magnified between a pair of arms that allow us to reach out and touch what we love, while, cradled and comforted between two breasts that safely hold what we feel. We are given an opportunity to feel the magic of life, connection and harmony both, individually and collectively. The season of heart reminds us in order to create a spark of life, we cannot go at it alone. We simply relate and create in a blended continuum of wholeness. The heart does not beat alone... It does not lead alone... One pulse follows the other in complete unification. This is a time of un-veiling, re-vealing, and an un-folding of self to the inner sweetness of comfort and warmth. It’s a reminder of the mother-child experience, the inner connection and bond of unconditional love. Our very own place to rest soulfully in the wonder and awe, completely disarmed and embraced in the natural state of being. The heart leads us to a clear passage and cleansing, a shedding of old, a point to nurture life and all that we live for. It is a space given in which to surrender, to lay down a clean slate, to be re-born in concept as we celebrate into the new, calm and cradled in the mother energy, inside the season of heart. Love, Jennifer #HeartSeason #SpiritofCalm&Comfort #MotherEnergy #CradledInHeartEnergy #TistheSeasonforMagic #HeldinLight CONSCIOUS BALANCE
It’s time to get out of the “cookie cutter” version of what healing should look like and shift back into our own personal experience and guidance. Sometimes, the path to healing can feel off balancing and can cause concern. We forget that being off balance is also for good purpose in defining it. The act of balance looks to the center of opposing forces to reveal a place of wholeness. This is the path to healing. The gift in that is in being open and available to both sides to integrate them as a point of conscious balance.
Let’s look at pain for example. Pain is real. It’s relentless. It reveals itself through the body. It wants to be seen. It beckons to be heard. It tugs at you every minute of every day. Pain is restrictive, trapped in the body with no space and we suffer. Pain is suffering, the physical manifestation of being held in, held back, shut down and buried within your own emotions. Your physical becomes the storehouse for emotional energy that has been ignored, unacknowledged and suppressed. Pain is a barometer, an internal broadcast system for the feelings buried inside, screaming to be heard. To be acknowledged. To be cleared. To be loved. Every healing journey will not look the same. It’s a personal pursuit- Have you ever sat with the inner voice of your own pain? I have and it had a lot to say. Pain is a lot more than just the name we gave. It’s the culmination of stuck emotions, blocked feelings, experiences, memories, unconscious belief systems and because of this, pain can be the source of evolution. Acknowledging what exists inside you, begins the path that serves as a healing direction. All of it is important information. Sometimes, the tendency is to give up because we don’t like what we see and it can be hard to move through. This is when healing becomes dedication and time invested becomes discovery. I’ve thought about pain. I’ve been in pain. I’ve worked through and with pain. It occurred to me, like a whole being awareness that the other side of pain, is pleasure. What a revelation! It never occurred to me that pleasure could be a root deficiency to the experience of pain. I was totally invested inside the pain that I missed out on any form of pleasure. I thank God for that moment in wholeness. Pleasure was now part of understanding personal balance and became a priority. When we embrace the other side, pain can rest. We cease falling back into rigid, perfectionism disguised as discipline and the “trigger” has a place to go, a space to flourish. My personal healing did not look ideal or what I had anticipated. I found rest. There was no more pushing or forcing life forward. The grip was loosening and I took in some fun, sweeter foods, conscious movement based on my needs rather than any “should’s.” My healing journey through pain helped me find a better balance within myself, a conscious balance. When you make your healing journey personal, it moves you, changes you, transforms you. Shift away from the “call to action” approach to healing and move deeper into intimate understanding. Let that be the life-giving medicine you need. Love, Jennifer🌸 Gentle Touch Healing Healing through Compassion - Inner Beauty Blog, Conscious Balance, Tiny Poet, 4.19.2024 AUTHOR OF INNER BEAUTY BLOGSJennifer is a truth seeker and artistic expressionist. She is certified energy therapist, emotional wellness coach, yoga/meditation instructor and intuitive. She is known her poetry and the deep care she feels for others. Categories |
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