It’s not about YOU!

That is what my coach said to me this week!

What do you mean it’s not about me?

I was telling her that I have this feeling I’m meant to be doing something bigger, bolder. Heck I work with clients who tell me that all the time. They know there is something more. I help them discover that ‘more’. I help them get into that place that can be scary exciting! I know they can’t do it by themselves. I know I can’t do it by myself.

Hence our conversation.

Have you ever felt like this? It seems that no sooner do you make a big leap and get comfortable there, than this little voice pipes up to make you think of even bigger possiblities.

Of course, this could be the part of yourself that is never satisfied, but it could also be the part of you that knows there is something more just waiting around that corner ahead.

So, here are some questions that may help - and here are my answers.

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3+ Powerful Tips to Feng Shui your Stove, and Boost your Prosperity!

At a party, your kitchen is often where guests and energy gathers. It’s similar in Feng Shui. Your kitchen is a microcosm of your entire life. The energy of your relationships, personality, struggles all begin here in your kitchen. Your kitchen, being the space associated with nourishment in your home, is also closely related to your prosperity.

Within the kitchen, your stove is a focal point and applying basic Feng Shui strategies to this appliance will give you high returns for your efforts.

Here are 3+ Tips for applying Feng Shui principles to your stove:

1.Avoid fights between your stove and refrigerator and others in your home! Your stove needs to be away from your refrigerator. The stove and fridge have opposing energy - one hot, one cold. If these two appliances are next to each other, this can lead to conflict in your home - even if you live alone!

If they are right up next to each other and can’t be moved apart, I recommend glue-ing a mirror to the side of the fridge near the stove. This will help deflect the stove’s energy from the fridge.

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Completing the Year that Was…..2011

Taking some quiet time to look back on the year just gone and reminding yourself of where you are, brings both a sense of completion and a reminder of your wins. Let’s face it, you likely pay more attention to where you’ve yet to get to and what isn’t working, than your success and the gifts you’ve gained along the way.

This is an opportunity to drink in some truth about yourself and start to redress the balance. You’ve experienced success for sure. This is worth celebrating! And is fun too!

And, remember the definition of clutter? Anything unfinished, unused, unresolved, tolerated or disorganized.

What’s unfinished for you? You are very familiar with physical clutter and how it bogs you down, but wait, there’s more. Clutter can also appear in your relationship with others, intentions you made last year but you no longer feel passionate about, and successes you haven’t acknowledged yourself for and celebrated. And if you don’t stop for a moment to really own your insights and what you learned about yourself in the last year, that’s more unfinished business.

Questions to complete your year

Take some quiet time for yourself to reflect on the past year and answer these questions. Below you’ll find a worksheet you can use - save it to your computer and start keeping a record of your years. You will only receive the benefit of this process if you write down your answers. Thinking about it will not do it!

1. What was an upset or a disappointment in the past year? Every challenge is a chance to realign yourself and each brings a gift for you. What might be the lesson or gift in this (or these) situation(s)? What did you learn and what were the gifts?

2. Where and when did things not flow easily ? where was there a lot of energy for little result? Are you still trying to push this? If things aren??t flowing, it??s often not in your highest good. Perhaps it??s time to let it go? Or is there a change you wish to make so you feel inspired and excited again? Write down your new 2012 intention.

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Manifesting Miracles…..it can be easy!

Earlier this year I finally admitted I needed a hip replacement. I’d tried everything, so by the time I saw the surgeon I was walking with a cane and in a lot of pain. I was told there was an 8-month waiting list! That meant January 2012. Socialized medicine is great - just the waiting lists can be a bit much!

From the start, January didn’t work for me for a few reasons. Too long to be in pain, and I was traveling to New Zealand in February 2012 to lead a retreat (see above!).

So I knew I had to get busy manifesting what I really wanted. I looked at my year and decided November would be a great time for surgery. That would give me plenty of time to recover. I tuned in with myself and yes, November it was. So I rescheduled my Orcas Island retreat for October, and started getting things organized.

I had renovations done in my bathroom so I could use the shower over the bath after surgery, I went to all the pre op classes, had my bed raised, and started collecting various gagets to help me. I researched surgery visualizations and started listening to them while hip proofing my house. The picture above is a SoulCollage card I created - to remind me of what I’d soon be able to do.

Whenever anyone asked me when my surgery was, I’d tell them: November. I was 100% clear about what I wanted, and acted as if it was a done deal.

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Which Season Are YOU In? Part 2

Feng Shui Tips for flowing with life

For Part 1 of this article see here.

Which season are you in? It may or may not correspond to the actual season. From the descriptions in Part 1, choose a season to focus on (include the Bagua area that follows it). Look at those 2 areas of the Bagua in your home, your bedroom and your home office to see what’s going on - anything there that doesn’t represent what you’re intending for yourself?

For example, if you’re feeling confused about where you should be doing in your life - take a look at the Career area and the Knowledge and Self-Cultivation area of your home. You can also map the Bagua on a room - so look at those quadrants in your home office and bedroom as well. Look for clutter, symbols of what you don’t want, anything that represents something not relevant any more.

One of my clients had a photo of coal miners in his Career area - a symbol of struggle if ever I saw one. Other clients have found books in their Knowledge & Self-Cultivation area related to long past careers or past interests. Look with fresh eyes and act like a detective - the clues will be there.

Use these questions to prompt you to shift your energy in those areas.

1. Winter - Career - How much time am I spending on things that don’t energize me? What would I love to be doing? Do I feel on purpose?

2. Knowledge & Self-Cultivation - Is my learning keeping up with changes in the world and in my work? Am I taking enough time for myself? Have I consciously set my intention for what I desire?

3. Spring - Health & Family – Am I allowing others to support me in my business and life? How can I increase the quality of my connection with others? What can I delegate? What inspired actions can I take towards my goals?

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Discover the Gift that Keeps on Giving

There used to be spaces in life that were sacred: walking along a beach, being in the mountains, being in the bathroom or in bed even.  Places you could hear the voices that guide you and keep you true to yourself.

Now there are televisions in the bedroom, cell phones beside the bed, and most people are reachable on the beach, and in their most intimate moments!

To have sacred time for yourself, to nourish yourself and your creativity, hear your intuition and stay true to yourself today, takes a deliberate act.  It needs to be scheduled into your calendar.

Here are 5 reasons you really need to schedule regular retreats!

1. It’s a commitment to officially STOP the day-to-day busy-ness of your life.  An opportunity to hear that small voice that calls to you every day.  To gain clarity about where you want to go next.

2. In making a commitment to reconnect with your inner world, “magic” happens.   Doors open and the right people appear.

3. You’ll find your true essence from a place of empowered feminine energy and be able to make choices that are authentic and powerful. Everyone and everything around you is then positively impacted.  You return a changed person.

4. By unplugging and being with a group of powerful women, you are surrounded by those who see you for who you truly are. You start to remember who you really are.  

5. When you step into the sacred space of a retreat environment,  making choices that support living your life more fully, is made easier. 

Are you ready to reclaim your divine feminine power and reconnect to your soul?  If so, it’s time to retreat.  When you make a move that’s for your highest good, the Universe steps in to support you….and magic happens.  You do not need to know HOW it will happen.

YOU are invited to join us at a 5-day retreat in New Zealand, in March 2012.  What better way to begin this most powerful of years? Please come check it out: www.nzretreats.com and if you have any questions at all, please contact Vicky or Cindy.  We’d love to talk with you about whether this is the right thing for you, and how you can make it happen easily.

We’re excited.  Is this YOUR time?

Contact one of us today : Vicky White or Cindy Prosor

with Love and Blessings

Vicky and Cindy

P.S.  A retreat is the ultimate gift you can give yourself.  And before November 15, 2011 you can take advantage of the very easy 4-pay option.  New Zealand Retreat

Feng Shui Tips - Which season are you in? Part 1.

There you were, flowing along with everything falling into place like magic and then….. ever wonder what happened to that feeling?

Feng Shui teaches that everything is alive, connected and constantly changing. There are natural forces at work and you’ll be pleased to hear there’s purpose and perfection to each phase of the cycle. When you flow with these changes you’re more attractive… and you’ll have more fun.

The Bagua gives valuable insight into the cycle of life, whether it’s the life cycle of your business or your own life cycle. And there is a connection with the seasons.

Here’s what is really happening - starting with the Career area and journeying around the Bagua - see where you are right now.

Winter - planting bulbs. This is represented by the Career area of the Bagua – the beginning of your journey, everything you need for sprouting is being developed. This is a time of reflection, inner journeying, and it can be a time of unknowns as you gather strength to flow with the changes. You may feel stuck, confused or overwhelmed, but this is where everything you need for your next sprouting and blossoming is being developed. Your purpose is being clarified, even if it doesn’t look like it.

Knowledge & Self-Cultivation – where you find inner strength in daily practices as you learn more about yourself and your work. You nurture the new bulbs, gain wisdom and trust they will emerge. The energy in this area will support you in getting clear about your intentions.

Spring – sprouting. This is represented by Health & Family – gaining strength and nourishment. This is a time of new beginnings, taking action and creating synergy with others. You’re feeling full of energy. You’re in the right place at the right time and everything is sprouting lusciously. You feel ‘on track’ and you’re taking inspired actions.

Wealth & Prosperity – as you move around the Bagua you increase your comfort level for the changes taking place and your dreams are turning into reality. You’re allowing your intentions to manifest.

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Feng Shui Tips to Harvest your Abundant Rewards

Summer’s a time of rapid growth and change. Perhaps you’re experiencing changes in your work, or in your relationships, health, creativity or spirituality, or perhaps you’ve had insights into something important to you. Maybe you even feel changes have been forced upon you.

Receiving the gifts these changes bring and having them make a lasting impact depends on how well you integrate and expand into them. It’s easy to carry on seeing yourself as you used to be, especially if you’ve made big changes.

Here are five strategies to tap into Autumn energy to expand into the new you and harvest the rewards of your summer energy.

1. Ask yourself what’s changed in your life over the last few months - big or small, inner or outer? Then, acknowledge yourself for stepping into the unknown. What have you learned? What feels exciting?

Take some time to journal about the new you - how it feels, what it means, what’s becoming more important to you? You might even want to create a vision board with words and images that reflect your changes. When you bring them into your consciousness, it grounds them

2. It’s Autumn: shed some leaves. With change, comes death. Could be a small part or a big part or yourself. If you’re feeling you haven’t quite integrated a change you’ve made, if you’re still seeing yourself as you were, light a candle and have a conversation with the old you. Thank her for everything she gave you and how she kept you safe. Say goodbye to her, and tell her what you’re moving on to. You can do the same with some aspect of yourself you’d like to say goodbye to.

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Clutter Holds Your Dream - what are yours?

Under that busyness, the overwhelm, the extra weight, the piles of stuff in your home and the stuffed full garage, something is lurking. And it’s not just dust, lost keys and your past life.

If you have lots of clutter, you probably know what it’s like to want to run away. You don’t feel comfortable in your own home, maybe not even in your own skin. There’s no space to breathe. No space for passion or inspiration. No space for you! Just very stuck energy.

Clutter has a hold on you. As does your TV, your cell phone, your closet and especially your kitchen counter. Clutter has its grip on you, and on your dreams. There is no space in your head or anywhere else.

And where is your energy, attention and focus? On the overwhelm, the piles, the extra weight, the full schedule, right? So what do you get more of? Overwhelm, piles, weight etc. The Law of Attraction brings you more of what you focus on. For some reason the Universe gets the idea that’s what you want more of - or you wouldn’t be focusing on it.

Meantime, your dreams are lurking beneath your squeezed life force. They might have been there for so long that you don’t even remember what they are, or perhaps that you ever had any.

It doesn’t need to be this way.

5 Tips to loosen the Grip Clutter Has on Your Dreams

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Menopause: the journey towards your soul’s adventure!

Ohhh, that’s opened a can of worms! 

Here’s the thing: Menopause - you know, it’s that 10 years or so that sort of creeps up on you, when you might be tempted to blame your hormones for all kinds of things, including finding your car keys in the fridge! Menopause is when everything you’ve hidden away (and often forgotten about) is made visible (and I’m not talking about car keys here). Things fall apart - your life might become chaotic, it might now take a lot of energy to do what you used to be able to do easily. Relationships can change, you’re feeling things strongly - often painful things, you know somethng is missing - but what, and where the heck is your passion for life?

What’s happening?

Here are some things to remember in the midst of chaotic times - especially menopausal.

1. When you set a big intention, ask for something bigger, you’re inviting a shift in who you’re being. Who you’ve been has got you where you are right now. Something more, something different means a shift in who you’re being. You’re inviting those experiences and lessons you need to experience in order to grow. That’s the agreement you’re making with spirit, with your soul. This is the adventure and the essence of your journey here.

2. During menopause, you don’t even need to consciously invite change. The thing is, you may have forgotten what you really wanted at some point in your life, or what would give you that feeling of being on purpose, but your soul has not! Life is a move towards wholeness and life will bring you what you need in order to move into the wholeness of who you really are.

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