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QUESTION • INSIGHT • ACTION

CONTEMPLATIONS

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"It all begins and ends in your mind. What you give power to, has power over you, if you allow it" - Leon Brown

Question: Do you embrace and feel confident with who you are? • Insight: We can all relate to wanting to fit in at some point in our lives, yet it's our differences that make us truly beautiful. • Action: Today instead of trying to fit in, celebrate

"A flower does not think of competing with the flower next to it. It just blooms." - Zen Shin

Question: How present are you in your life? • Insight: Most people spend their days reliving the past or projecting into the future, rarely tasting the gift of the present. Life is but a series's of fleeting moments from first to last breath. The qu

"Each time you make a new choice that is in alignment with your future, you are priming your brain to install the neurological hardware to actually think, act and feel like the person you want to be in your future. - Dr. Joe Dispenza

Question: What is unconsciously creeping into your life? • Insight: Be aware of the small things that creep in and how they effect you. Noticing our thoughts and feelings without judgement can allow energy to flow more freely and keep us present to

Question: Are you seeing and acknowledging your inner growth? • Insight: It's easy to notice and fixate on what isn't working in our lives. Yet, it's so beneficial and important to celebrate our small triumphs and see the small steps on our journey.

"Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue." - Buddha

"There is nothing permanent except change" - Heraclitus

Question: What's got your attention? • Insight: In the quantum field all possibilities exist simultaneously, each awaiting the observer's attention and focus. We are the creators of our reality. • Action: Notice how you are living your possibilities

"You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation". - Plato

"If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way" - Napoleon Hill

Question: Are you letting enough green into your life? • Insight: It’s our innate instinct to be surrounded by the nurturing energys of the natural world. Sadly, many of us live in concrete jungles with little to no access to the greenery that feeds

Question: What does it really take to make your dreams reality? • Insight: Begin by knowing clearly what your dream is... live it, breath it, feel as if it's already happened. Show up every moment with joyful persistence, steadily applying yourself

“Melody is the aspect of music that catches the emotional breath and causes human beings to dream” - Richard Rudd.

Question: Are you aware of the powerful impact of your words? • Insight: The words we hear and speak are the building blocks of our experience. The messages we hear as a child greatly shape what we believe we can or can not do. Empowering and disemp

"Don't fight forces, use them" - R. Buckminster Fuller

"Through our self-esteem, which has three components; self-love, self-trust, and self-respect, we are able to unfold like flowers and grow more fully into our many-splendored expression."⠀ - Angeles Arrien⠀

Question: Are you feeling synergy and connection in your life? • Insight: By nature, we are relational creatures. We thrive in supportive loving relationships. The quality not the quantity of our connection with others is of most importance. In this

Question: Do you pay attention to the subtleties in life? • Insight: true happiness and fulfillment live in the subtleties of our human experience. • Action: Take time today to indulge your senses, see the beauty in the details, taste all the flavor

“A person is not a thing or a process but an opening through which the Absolute can manifest” - Heidegger

Questions: Where do you not feel free in your life? • Insight: Everyone seeks freedom. Our untiring efforts to be free from suffering is what drives humanity forward. Freedom is not something that can be forced or chased. It is something that arrive

Question: How deep is your self-love? • Insight: Often times we show more love, patience, acceptance, support, understanding, and compassion to others, but find it difficult to give that quality of love to ourselves. • Action: Think of someone or so

“Be patient. The best things in life happen unexpectedly”

Questions: What are you devoted too? • Insight: Devotion can be expressed as deep love or loyalty to something or someone. How about to yourself? The more we devote time and energy to what feeds and nurtures us the more we are able to be loving and

“Inner peace doesn't come from getting what we want, but from remembering who we are.”⠀ - Marianne Williamson⠀

Question: Do you move with the natural rhythm of life? • Insight: Stress is experienced when we disconnect and fall out of the natural flow and unfolding of things. When we force or do not accept what is happening we suffer. • Action: Connect with y

“Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity, and change.” ― Brene Brown

Question: What motivates your breath, survival or creation? • Insight: Every breath brings a new moment, a fresh opportunity to renew oneself. • Action: Inhale all you want to bring into your life, exhale all that you want to let go of.

"Being safe is about being seen and heard and allowed to be who you are and to speak your truth" -Rachel Naomi Remen

Question: How is synchronicity showing up in your life? • Insight: Synchronic moments have the power to shake the rational mind with events that are unexplainable. For example, thinking of a friend and then they call. You have a question, you open a

Question: Do you listen to your intuition? • Insight: Intuition is something we all have, the more we acknowledge, listen and give attention to it, the stronger and clearer it becomes. • Action: Strengthen your intuition muscle! Before making your

"What makes you different Makes you beautiful"

Question: What motivates you to move? • Insight: We all know that movement is an essential part of our life affecting our health, happiness, and well being. It makes us feel good! • Action: Notice what gets you motivated and start moving today, walk

“I am a river returning to its source You are the ocean welcoming me All roads lead home, wherever I roam I know I’m exactly where I need to be” - Jeremy Roske

Question: Are you fully present? • Insight: We can go through our whole day on auto-pilot not present in our actions and interactions with the people in our life. Our quality of presence can be the greatest gift we can give ourselves and others. • A

"By feeling and practicing gratitude in your waking day, you're in a state to receive - you are in an energy that is drawing something to you on a moment-to-moment basis" ~ Dr. Joe Dispenza

“Self-reflection is the school of wisdom.” – Baltasar Gracian

Question: What wonders await on the path to your dreams? • Insight: When we commit to our dreams and align with our heart so many beautiful surprises appear along the way. • Action: Write down 3 steps you can take in the next two weeks towards your

“Travel brings power and love back into your life.” -Rumi

Whatever is, is whatever is Whatever will be, will be According to our willingness to set it free Release the grasp of the future and past and Let the moment be Whatever is, is whatever is - Einstein

"Life isn't about finding yourself, It's about creating yourself." - George Bernard Shaw

Question: What beauty within goes unnoticed? • Insight: Sometimes our most beautiful parts are the ones we can’t see with our eyes but have to sense with our hearts. • Action: Take a moment and sense the beautiful parts of yourself that have been fo

"The middle path is the way to wisdom" - Rumi

Question: How do you deal with the twists and turns of your journey? • Insight: Even when we feel like we are moving backwards we may be moving in the right direction. Life is not a linear path, but a spiraling movement upwards. • Action: In the fac

Question: What are you ready to unleash? • Insight: When you give yourself to the present moment and you are fully engaged you are unstoppable. • Action: Be the momentum in your life.

“I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become” - Carl Jung

“Open the aperture of perception and receive more light into your life.” - Jeremy Roske

Question: What brings out your silly side? • Insight: “Even a man made of stone deserves some play time” ... and so do you! • Action: If your feeling too serious, make a funny face in the mirror and lighten up 🤓

“Nowhere will you be able to find peace unless you have peace in your heart” - The Mother

Question: Is there space for the unexpected? • Insight: Most of us lead very busy lives with packed schedules. This leaves little time for anything else. Creating more space for the unexpected leads to joy, surprise, and synchronicity. In the space

“Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself” - Hermann Hesse

Question: What reflections are you receiving? • Insight: On our transformational journey feedback and reflections are important to help us navigate and track our progress. • Action: Take notice of the quality of your thoughts, words, and actions. Do

“Inside I find a seed let it blossom and I am freed” - Jeremy Roske

Question: What constraints do you place around your hopes and dreams? • Insight: There can be a fragility to our inspiration and creations. Sharp edges of judgment, insecurity and limiting thoughts can pop our bubble and leave us deflated. • Action:

Question: What awakens your inner knowing? • Insight: Beyond the chaotic expectations and obligations of modern life, there is a still point of knowing and connection that is always available. • Action: Put aside the noisy activities and distraction

Question: Can you say NO to single use plastic? • Insight: The world changes with our choices and actions. Saying no to a plastic bag or straw and bringing your own portable cup / bottle and bag can make a big impact. Every small step counts. • Acti

The road may not be clear, trust the inspiration that got you started.

Question: What is ready to be transformed in your life? • Insight: In the Hindu tradition, Shiva is known as the destroyer or transformer of evil and ignorance, not destroyer for the sake of destruction, but for the sake of regeneration; transformat

Question: What hidden beauty are you not seeing? • Insight: “The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself” - Henry Miller • Action: Give close at

Question: What inner rules do you have that would be good to break some times? • Insight: Through our education and training we learn "the rules of our trade". We also create our own rules on how we want to create and express ourselves. This can be

Question: How can you clean the inner lens of perception to better see the truth of your experience? • Insight: How we see and perceive our life, situations and experiences is greatly determined by our past conditioning and the lens that those exper

Question: When you feel depleted and parched, what do you do to replenish and quench your thirst? • Insight: Knowing yourself and understanding what feeds and nourishes you is key to finding balance and staying alive in trying times. • Action: List

"As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others" - Nelson Mandela

Question: What are your personal and professional boundries? ⠀ • Insight: Boundaries define our own limits, how we want to show up in any given situation and how much of someone else we want to let into our own space. When we can be open and honest

Question: Are you feeling abundant in your life? Insight: Abundance comes in all shapes and sizes, we can be abundant in love and care, creativity, nourishing food, good friends, finances, nature’s beauty and even bananas. When we take a moment

Question: What feelings have you been avoiding that you are ready to transmute? Insight: When we lean into and really feel what we want to let go of and allow ourselves to have that experience, we can release and transmute it. Whatever that fee

Question: Are you comfortable with solitude? Insight: There are many benefits to taking time alone that can help enrich your life and wellbeing. Finding solitude can be an opportunity to cultivate mindfulness, find clarity, ground and center yo

Question: Do you feel aligned and balanced in your body? Insight : When we lift ourselves up, we defy gravity. Aligning our spine with our intention, elevates our experience. Our physical form informs our relationship with life. Action: Find

Question: What are you practicing? Insight: What we practice and focus our attention on, we get good at and it builds momentum in a certain direction. Choosing healthy practices that support your highest intentions are the stepping stones towar

Question: What opens you up? Insight: We all have that special thing which breaks down the walls and opens the door to our heart. Action: Let what opens you up be your guide.

Question: What does being creative mean to you and how do you express it? • Insight: When we tap into the creative potential within us we access a wellspring of inspiration, imagination, joy, bliss and fulfillment. This can manifest in so many diffe

Question: How does the love of family express itself in your life? • Insight: The sense of family is an essential part of the human experience. We create and manifest it in many ways. It can be our blood family, soul family, work family and or our c

Questions: Do you find bliss in simple things? • Insight: Every moment holds an opportunity to experience unimaginable bliss and fulfillment. Our ability to receive the blessings of each moment determines our happiness. • Action: Feel the life givin

Question: What is the quality of your efforts? • Insight: Every effort and action requires a certain amount of energy to perform. Often times when we are unaware of what is actually needed, we can end up over exerting ourselves. This can show up as

Question: Are YOU your highest priority? • Insight: Often times we prioritize our external world over ourselves (i.e. work, family, friends etc.) in doing so sacrifice our own essential needs.  How long can you keep this up?  When we give

Question: Is your love flowing freely? Insight: Love like a river yearns to move and flow freely. Fears can build like dead debris blocking loves natural course. Action: If you find your fears getting in the way of you expressing your love,

Question: How are you BEING the impossible? • Insight: Who sets the limits and constraints in your life? Is it you or an outside force? The line between what is possible and impossible is drawn by an inner choice that can lead to following the path

Question: Do you feel and experience a healthy dance of masculine and feminine energies in your life? Insight: Within each of us there are feminine and masculine qualities that exist and are forever seeking balance. Action: Take a moment and

Question: Can you feel the power of a smile? • Insight: It's scientifically proven that smiling lowers stress and anxiety, releases endorphins and strengthens your immune system. It is also contagious and straight up fun! • Action: Close your eyes,

Question: Are you BEing the change in your life? • Insight: The drive of modern life has cluttered our days with countless activities and responsibilities. There is an overwhelming emphasis on doing, having, wanting and grasping for more. What is mi

Question: How do you experience community? Is it supporting your growth or holding you back? • Insight: Communities form around identity, values, activities, beliefs and heritage. Through different stages of our life this can offer support and refle

Question: What layers are you willing to shed to shine your light fully? • Insight: There is a story of a Golden Buddah in Thailand that was covered in clay to hide its value from an invading army during wartime. In the conflict all the monks died a

Question: Are you getting in your own way? Insight: Our fears and conditioning can block us from being who we truly are. We become the greatest obstacle in our life. What would it be like to drop who we think we are and embrace who we really ar

Question: What calls you to spread your wings and fly? • Insight: There is a wellspring within, that when tapped gives us the energy, inspiration and courage to live our dreams and soar above self-doubt and limitations. • Action: Close your eyes, im

Question: Are you striving to be your personal best? • Insight: It is said that how you do one thing is how you do everything. Every thought feeling and action can be an exercise in working towards your personal best. • Action: As you move through y

Question: What's your story? • Insight: We go through life, living out stories that we have created based on experiences we have had. These stories have an empowering or disempowering effect on our life. Change your story, Change your life. • Action

Question: What are you reflecting? Insight: Walking through life is like a hall of mirrors, what we put out is reflected back. Action: Sincerely take notice of what is being reflected back to you from the outside world, both positively and n

Question: What are you open to receive this spring? • Insight: When you feel open and worthy to receive the beauty, generosity and abundance of life, it flows and grows in surprising ways. • Action: Be open to receive the unexpected gifts that sprin

Question: What does it take for you to enter the zone and ride the epic waves of your life? • Insight: To enter the zone is a delicate balance between skill and challenge. Too much challenge without proper skills you can be anxious and overwhelmed,

Question: What does it take for you to enter the zone and ride the epic waves of your life? • Insight: To enter the zone is a delicate balance between skill and challenge. Too much challenge without proper skills you can be anxious and overwhelmed,

Question: What is the inner architecture of your being? Are we made by design or default programming? Insight: Throughout our life we are molded by internal and external forces, that shape the way we think, feel and act, which we call our perso

Question: What feeds you? Insight: If we are, what we eat, let's feed ourselves the beauty and goodness that helps us thrive. | Whole Foods | Connection | Love | Exercise | Purpose | Spiritual Practice | Action: Observe today what you are fe

Question: What calls you out to play? • Insight: Laughter and play is a powerful medicine to shake the burdens of a busy and stressful life. • Action: Take 5 mins today and Play, connect with your inner child and free yourself of the seriousness of

Question: Can you feel your essential nature within? Insight: Remember you are a creation of this vast beautiful and complex ecosystem within and around us. Action: With breath and awareness integrate the beauty and qualities of the natural

Question: Can you feel your essential nature within? • Insight: Remember you are a creation of this vast beautiful and complex ecosystem within and around us. • Action: With breath and awareness integrate the beauty and qualities of the natural worl

Question: When was the last time you leaned out of your comfort zone? Insight: growth and transformation exists when you go beyond what you know and what is predicable. Trust that you are being held and go the distance. Action: Do something

Question: Is your focus in alignment with your vision? • Insight: Energy flows where your attention goes. What you focus on grows. • Action: Today, observe what has your focus and take note without judgment.

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