If we were really to unset our heart, even while setting goals for ourselves, we need to let go, to give our troubles to the Universe. We need to trust. Trusting that things will turn out for the best—not necessarily how we want them to be—is one of the hardest…
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Letting go of resistance
This month we are talking about achieving our goals for 2024. Here is one of Susan’s visualizations from End the Struggle and Dance With Life that can help us let go of our resistance to change. This visualization can help us go with the flow no matter what comes our…
Set your intentions, unset your heart
“When we have done our best, we should await the results in peace.” Naturalist John Lubbock The New Year is here again. It’s time for a fresh start, new outlook, new goals. It’s always exciting to start something new, even if only just a new calendar. Most of us likely…
Being a Perpetual Beginner is a Great Thing
This month we are talking about being impatient while we explore the path to our Higher Self. Our spiritual journey is a life-long one and there are no “magic pills” or “quick fixes.” Sometimes we get frustrated because we think we aren’t moving along the path as fast as we…
“Anything worth doing is worth doing badly”
This month’s article was about how needing to be perfect—an impossibility—stops us from knowing that we are enough. That doing our best is all that we need to do. For Stacy, her need to be perfect came at the cost of enjoying the learning process. Stacy had always been a…
It’s All Happening Perfectly
This month we’re talking about how trying to achieve perfection can become an addiction—rather than living life knowing that we are enough, we struggle to achieve something that is impossible—perfection. Susan had a wonderful response for when things aren’t going as “perfectly” as we want them to. The answer is…
Each one of us is Enough
Which of us doesn’t want to have a good life? Who doesn’t want to be enough? With a lovely house and garden, sweet children, a loving spouse, who come together for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. A life filled with good friends who celebrate over an elaborate meal and extended family…
Creating Good News Out of Bad News
“I recently received an advertisement for a how-to book about health. On the cover of the brochure was emblazoned the words, ‘READ THIS OR DIE.’ I didn’t read it and I didn’t die!” Susan wrote in Embracing Uncertainty. How often do we come across headlines, advertisements, videos, social media posts,…
A Children’s ‘What If’ Game
A fun party game is asking crazy ‘what if’ questions and creating playful, entertaining answers. Questions like, “What if unicorns are real,” or “What if you could surf on sand?” However, ‘what if’ questions can become a problem internally when your inner Chatterbox starts asking them from a place of…
You Always Have a Choice in How You Feel
Lesson Seven of taking responsibility for our own experiences states that we must be aware of the multitude of choices we each have in any given situation. This statement makes it sound easy, but putting it into practice is hard—especially when our obligations seem to overwhelm us, our friends are…