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Today's focus is on enhancing relationships using the ATTUNE framework, fostering deeper connections and understanding. View the full session and delve deeper into building meaningful relationships at https://intentioninspired.com/the-attune-framework-connect-deeper-understand-better/ This approach involves becoming fully aware of our partner's needs, engaging fully, tolerating differences gracefully, understanding their perspective, listening without defensiveness, and deeply empathizing. Key Takeaways:
Today, let's practice the art of emotional surfing: learning how to ride the waves of stress and return to balance with compassion and ease. View today's full session
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Today, let's focus on internalizing the timeless principles of wealth creation so that we can build financial resilience and prosperity. Full Money Session » https://intentioninspired.com/money8 30 Days of Money Journey » https://intentioninspired.com/money ✨ INSPIRATION Today's session is inspired by George S. Clason's wisdom, a man who revolutionized our understanding of wealth creation in his book, The Richest Man in Babylon. As we dive into the essence of his words, we discover that wealth creation and prosperity, like a tree, require time and nurturing to grow. So today, we'll explore ways to:
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30 Days of Money intends to empower anyone to become financially free regardless of their current financial situation by following the structured guidance in each day's 15-minute morning money session. Explore the full journey at https://intentioninspired.com/money Like money, the return on investment in self-discovery compounds exponentially by investing in our self with rhythmic consistency. If you already have a daily practice of self-discovery, you'll need to create an additional 15-30 minutes each morning to allow yourself time for these additional monetary communions. If you don't have an intentional practice of self-discovery, this journey will help create the structure and accountability to get started. Make this daily practice a morning ritual and the rest will be history. Cultivating a wealthy relationship with money is a slow and steady (yet reliable) path. The foundational wisdom and practices offered in this journey are what the most successful (wealthy and happy) people collectively agree on—thank Lakshmi! The goal of this journey is to provide tools that will cultivate more freedom, more generosity, more connection, more creation, and more love for our inherently wealthy self and the reality it creates. “There is a science of getting rich. It is an exact science, like algebra or arithmetic. There are certain laws which govern the process of acquiring riches. Once a person learns and obeys these laws, he will get rich with mathematical certainty.” – Wallace D. Wattles Explore the full journey at https://intentioninspired.com/money
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Today, let's get back in touch with our deepest intention so that we can live in more alignment with the truth of what we really are. "Before you agree to do anything that might add even the smallest amount of stress to your life, ask yourself, "What is my truest intention?" Give yourself time to let a yes resound within you. When it's right, I guarantee that your entire body will feel it." ― Oprah Winfre
Today, let's reawaken our deepest intentions so that we can realign our actions with what is most important. As we wake up to what we really are, the wisdom of our hearts grows louder. From the stillness of our heart, clarity into our most liberating intentions is found. We can trust in this boundless radiant presence of our awakening hearts. Inspiring seeds for a beautiful future takes root each time we remember what it is that is most important.
Today, let's nurture those emotionally reactive parts of ourself by combining two powerful methods of self-compassion. Self-compassion naturally arises in the moments that we recognize we are suffering and intentionally nurture our inner life with self-care. When the intention to awaken self-compassion is sincere, the smallest gesture of turning towards love, of offering love (even if initially it feels awkward) will nourish your heart, ease the mind, heal the body, and feed the soul. ⚒️ THE METHOD Let's merge two powerful methods of awakening through self-compassion. Internal Family Systems (IFS) is the evidence-based psychotherapy model that reveals how each of our inner "parts" contains valuable qualities (especially those reactive parts). Each of these parts are sub-personalities of our core Self—that knows how to heal, allowing us to become integrated and whole. RAIN is a synonym for paying attention (Recognize, Accept, Investigate, Nurture) that helps us presence our reactive parts and provide the support for working with intense and difficult emotions.
Today, let's reclaim more life-force energy by releasing patterns, again and again, with patient endurance. Once we recognize a pattern and develop a practice to disidentify with it, the last step is to release the pattern again and again with the practice. Whenever the pattern rises, release it with attention. Step by step, all the triggers, associations, and components of the pattern are identified and we are able to experience them in attention. The unreleased experience is released in awareness, and the pattern falls apart.
Today, let's develop a simple and reliable practice that interrupts the attention-erosion process of a pattern. "If someone comes along and shoots an arrow into your heart, it's fruitless to stand there and yell at the person. It would be much better to turn your attention to the fact that there's an arrow in your heart." — Pema Chödrön, Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living
Today, let's practice dying to a pattern by disidentifying with it. A student asked Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, "Why do we practice?" He replied, "To make the best of a bad situation."
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Explore The "Art" of Self-Discovery online journey at https://intentioninspired.com/discovery Let's discover our worthiness and within it, our greater capability. This week, we dig and delve deeper into our understanding of our own selves to realize that we can handle life's challenges with competency and grace. With our observation we can prove that we are worthy and deserving of love and happiness. Our self-esteem is one of our deepest psychological needs. We are generally our worst critics and our judgments of ourselves dictate how fully we allow ourselves to live and love. It can be said that our "concept of self tends to be our destiny". It is our higher self that knows the truth of who we are without judgment or analysis. In this segment, we look at our higher self. Episode art is called "Celestial Union" by Rassouli ––– Explore The full online journey at intentioninspired.com/discovery
Explore The "Art" of Self-Discovery online journey at https://intentioninspired.com/discovery It may have occurred to you as you worked through the last segment, that it is not only our "negative" emotions that we have been burying. We are a social species. Our connection to our "tribe" is of the utmost importance to our well-being. Sometimes we try to make sure that we do not "upset that applecart" by seeming like "too much". If we have been led to believe that what others think or feel is somehow our responsibility, it is likely that we will "contain" our passion or joy to "protect" them. Imagine, unknowingly, walking into a group of people that are discussing the pain of someone's upcoming divorce after you have won $5000 dollars. What does your "training" tell you is the appropriate behavior? In this segment we will observe how we may be masking or burying our passion, enthusiasm or joy (or other "positive" emotions) and why. Let's begin! ––– Episode art is called "Celestial Union" by Rassouli ––– Explore The full online journey at intentioninspired.com/discovery
Explore The "Art" of Self-Discovery online journey at https://intentioninspired.com/discovery We begin this week of our self-discovery journey by exploring emotional intelligence. Being able to accurately and honestly identify our emotions helps us come back into the present moment by grounding ourselves in our body, assessing our needs, managing reactions with self-awareness, and engaging in more thoughtful decision-making. This is "Emotional Intelligence". Despite the fact that the words "feelings" and "emotions" get used interchangeably they are actually two different, connected, phenomena. Emotions are the raw data, a reaction to the present reality which generally manifests as a physical/body sensation such as a change in breathing, butterflies in your stomach, sweating, etc. Once the body speaks we make a "value judgment" based on these sensations. A "value judgment" is a rapid interpretation of the experience followed by our response (hide, step forward, yell, run, etc.). These responses can be valuable information for self-discovery once a pattern is observed. Feelings manifest first as a thought (sometimes a thought about the emotion we are experiencing). They are an emotional manifestation of conditioning, perceptions, and beliefs. They may be influenced by emotion but our feelings can be distorted or diluted by stories we've created in our head based on events of the past or fears of the future—not necessarily the truth of the situation. With practice, we can ask "Is this true?" "Have I correctly identified this feeling place or the emotion connected to it?" and look carefully at how the feeling place is serving you, how often you feel it, and what experiences trigger it. Listening to our body, informed by our sense perceptions, helps us connect to the reality of our present experience rather than to stories made up of potentially inaccurate perceptions. By becoming adept at honestly identifying our emotions and employing both curiosity and a lack of judgment we can become "emotionally intelligent". Let's begin...
Explore The "Art" of Self-Discovery online journey at https://intentioninspired.com/discovery To access subconscious information about the people of our past we called on our Inner Child. There is a clear distinction between our perceptions of "The Past" and the Child Within. It is understood that the past is behind us but our Inner Child (and our Inner Teen) shape who we are as an "Integrated Self". The child that lives within has their own values, perceptions and way of processing experience and a longing to live life fully. We are witness to their presence when we act or react to experiences in the present with the consciousness of who we once were. We can honor the presence of our Inner Child by allowing their voice to be heard. When our Child feels heard, safe, and loved it does not feel the need to "act out" or demand our attention. If we have befriended our Inner Child we clearly see the spontaneity, curiosity, and beauty that our child provides. If we have ignored that child or resisted their presence we may be experiencing "tantrums" that are difficult to understand. In this segment, we expand our understanding of childhood perceptions and beliefs. Let's dive in! ––– Episode art is called "Celestial Union" by Rassouli ––– Explore The full online journey at intentioninspired.com/discovery
Explore The "Art" of Self-Discovery online journey at https://intentioninspired.com/discovery As we begin to understand more about the human brain we also begin to understand how our conditioning is impacting our reality. Because of the way our brain (especially during development) processes our experiences we come up with the most brilliant solutions for surviving the wide spectrum of "traumas" we may encounter. For the ability to come up with these brilliant solutions we can be grateful. At some point, these brilliant solutions were our saving grace. It is possible, that these "brilliant solutions" are no longer serving us. Other species, when faced with high-stress situations, run and shake off the stress hormones that are created. Once the situation is resolved, they are back to eating or whatever they were doing. They process in real-time even if they meet the same experience many times. They do not run their experience through an analytical mind filter, they do not create a story, they do not judge themselves or the experience. Watch as this antelope freezes from the stress response of a cheetah attack and then, once free, shakes off the stress stressful event. Play Video As an exercise in observation and discovery only, this week we will look to the past. To the people and experiences of the past. Not to perpetuate a trauma story but to make peace with it. Not to blame, shame, or judge ourselves or others but to identify and gain clarity. Let's begin ... ––– Episode art is by Rassouli ––– Explore The full online journey at intentioninspired.com/discovery
Explore The "Art" of Self-Discovery online journey at https://intentioninspired.com/discovery Things that seem true and universal are often just our own unique experience of the world. What we perceive in any given moment is not only determined by sensory input, but by our past experience, physical abilities, energy levels, feelings, social identities, past conditioning and more. Even though perception is not reality it can certainly appear and feel like it is real. Perception can become a person's reality. It certainly has a potent influence on how we interpret our reality. That is one reason that we have to dig so deep to unearth our conditioning. After years of habitually using our perceptions and imagined beliefs to validate or protect ourselves we have convinced ourselves that they are fact. Keep that in mind as we move through our journey (and when dealing with others). Compassion and courage, for ourselves and others, are needed as we travel this path. --- Episode art is called "Love Glance", created by Rassouli ––– Explore The full online journey at intentioninspired.com/discovery
Explore The "Art" of Self-Discovery online journey at https://intentioninspired.com/discovery We come to self-discovery for many reasons. We may have always felt a longing to know our "true" selves and now want to dig deeper into who we are. We see patterns of behavior and wonder if our behavior is serving our needs. Our relationships are often strained and we wonder if we could be playing a part in that. Our desire to know and understand ourselves can feel like an immediate need or our ultimate, lifelong adventure, or both. Remember this: • We are on a quest of SELF-DISCOVERY. • We are not broken. • We do not need to "be fixed". • We have learning and growing to do (no matter what our age). • Part of that learning and growing is releasing what no longer serves us. The first step to self-discovery is self-awareness. The practice of observing ourselves without analysis or judgment and documenting our findings will lead us to ask questions that bring clearer understanding. We can use our feeling place as a guide to becoming aware. How you "feel" will undoubtedly be painted with conditioning but it is our habitual conditioning that we are uncovering. Own those feelings without judgment. Document them without analyzing them. Can we become AWARE of ourselves and just notice, through observation, the beauty in all of our states of being? I believe we can. Your ability to acknowledge your feeling place, no matter what it is, is the key to authentic, lasting growth. If you can put to rest the "shoulds" or "if only" or "can'ts" by identifying them but not allowing them to take hold, you can answer with your own authentic truth. Spend the day observing your feeling places and documenting those feelings. If you are at work keep a post-it note near you to jot down these feeling places. Be specific enough on your post-it to remember, when you document in the evening, the person, place, or thing that contributed to that feeling. --- Episode art is called "Balance Your Mind", created by Rassouli ––– Explore The full online journey at https://intentioninspired.com/discovery
Together, let's step into the fire of self-discovery. https://intentioninspired.com/discovery Before we begin a journey of discovering our Self, we can honor ourselves by having our "supplies" in order and a space where we can create and reflect. In this segment, we explore the format of our journey, create a space that is conducive to our self-awareness, and gather our tools. This 16-minute episode includes an overview of "Segment 1: Creating the Space" of "The Art of Self-Discovery" journey as we unpack each of the inspirations that we will be using for each segment: PAUSE + INTENTION + BEAUTY + JOURNAL + REFLECTION + CREATE Explore the full media-rich, self-guided, community-supported journey at https://intentioninspired.com/discovery "Step into the fire of self discovery. This fire will not burn you. It will only burn what you are not." – Rumi Episode art is called "Enrapt", created by Rassouli
Access The "Art" of Self-Discovery at https://intentioninspired.com/discovery PAUSE + INTENTION + BEAUTY + JOURNAL + REFLECT + CREATE 10 minutes a day for 8 weeks To truly embody our authentic and divine self and feel that beauty in ourselves we need clarity and understanding. This journey includes simple practices that engage our attention and intention in ways that can break down habitual conditioning and overcome fearful resistance. It's a fun and simple way for anyone to blossom more fully into their beautiful selves. Self-Discovery may be the greatest adventure of our life. This journey was designed to answer the questions that we ask ourselves daily: Who Am I? ________________________ Why do I feel this way? ________________________ How can I change (heal, grow, become conscious)? ________________________ Answering these and more specific questions with curiosity (rather than judgment) and having the courage to take action will transform our lives. It isn't just a "maybe". Once one discovers the beauty within, not only can we see more of this intrinsic beauty in all things but reality will forever change in ways that are more in alignment with who we really are. The "Art" of Self-Discovery can guide you to the creative, expansive life that you were born to experience. ✨ THE FLOW: There are a total of 48 short sessions, broken down into 6 sessions within eight segments. So if you spent just 10 minutes a day on each session, you would complete this journey in about eight weeks. As you get started, please feel into whatever pace is best for you ... whether that's an eight-week journey, an eight-day journey, or an eight-hour journey. Get started at https://intentioninspired.com/discovery
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