Life's Toolbox on Empower Radio

We are taking the first steps on a beautiful journey to defining essence. We are opening awareness and understanding to what essence is and what it is not. We all have an eternal, ever expanding essence within that can be tapped into to guide our thoughts, beliefs and actions. Even if we cannot see it within us, it is there and we need only realize the truth that we are right here, right now, to know it exists. As we become aware of the brilliance, strength and lovingness of our essence, we can experience and express it in each moment of our lives. We can choose to perceive all of our experiences and expressions from this most sacred space within. Join us on this episode and begin your journey to truth, awareness; your essence.

It takes more energy to conform to what we believe others want us to be than it does to stand true in our own Uniqueness. What prevents you from expressing the beauty of your uniqueness? What do you have to offer yourself and the world that no one else can offer? Whether you believe it or not, you have a unique presence that deserves to be shared. When we experience our own unique truth and express it in all we do, judgments subside, comparison of self to others is no longer necessary, and we find a life of ease and love. On this episode of Life’s Tool Box, we discover that we are all unique and need only recognize and express as our unique selves. We explore the barriers to understanding our uniqueness and why we do not always express our truth. We also look at the benefits of experiencing and expressing as our authentic and unique selves. Learn how to recognize your own unique qualities and talents and share them with the world.

Embracing the flow of kindness to and from ourselves allows us to create a kinder and gentler experience of life. Knowing kindness within opens us further to express kindness to others, and, also to more fully receive kindness from others. When we embrace kindness within our own hearts, we more fully realize the kindness that is present all around us. Jan Lundy is back with us on this episode to discuss Embracing Kindness. We will take a look at self-kindness, what it is, how we can be more kind to ourselves and the relationship between self-kindness and being kind to others.

On this show, we talk about the power of “Moving Forward with Positivity.” We all move forward in life, it is the only way to go. The energy we express is what determines whether we move into a life of possibility or struggle. The wonderful news is, We Have A Choice… We can choose the energy we experience and express in our lives. We can choose where to place our focus and we can choose to open the door to a life that creates all we desire.

The New Year invites us to look forward with hope for a better life. We look at improving things in some areas and expanding things in others. Some of us want to be rid of some things and leave behind others. Before we can move forward, though, we must look at what worked and what limited us from the past. Our tool for today invites us to reflect on that which did not serve us from the past, release the things that no longer serve our higher good and renew our life, our perceptions and our beliefs. We are transforming or replacing old thoughts and beliefs with new empowering ones. We are letting go of habits that hindered our progress with ones that serve us and lift us throughout this life experience. We are renewing our view, experience and expression of life. Join us on this episode and enjoy the opportunity to look within and see the amazing and empowering traits within you. These traits serve your journey of life by elevating your experience and expression, and they open you to deepen your positive self-belief and self-value. With these beliefs and traits, you empower the journey to your desires for the upcoming year and beyond.

We have access to maps on our phones, our GPS devices and the old school printed maps that lead us nearly anywhere we want to go. How cool would it be to have a map to your intentions and goals for the new year? How much more likely are you to succeed in reaching those goals and intentions if you had a map to follow? Today we are talking about mapping out the new year. We are taking goal and intention setting to a new level by using the process of mind mapping. This tool will add clarity, empowerment, creativity and enjoyment to the journey towards our intentions. The beauty of this tool is that we create our own path and in the creation, we can make it fun and exciting. We not only set our intentions for the new year, we map out the way to those intentions. Join us on the show and mind map your 2019. Manifest your intentions and goals for 2019.

Whether you absolutely love the holidays or dread them, you can expand your experience of the holidays by being fully present. On this episode, we talk about the importance of being present and mindful, releasing the stress, and finding joy. No matter your typical experience of this season, join us and discover how you can find joy and happiness through all of the activities and dramas.

Today we are exploring the four most wonderful gifts that we can receive and give. Love, Peace, Gratitude and Oneness. As we look within and realize these gifts within us, we express them more fully into every situation we experience. As we express them out to the world, we gift the world beauty and kindness. The more we express these four gifts out to others, the more we feel them grow within our own hearts.

On this episode of Life’s Tool Box, we are talking about rekindling one of the greatest joys of our childhood; creating a Christmas Wish List. We will discuss the benefits of creating a list, and those benefits go far beyond a list of things to purchase. We explore the journey of creating the list. We acknowledge the childlike joy found in the curiosity required to make the list. We look at the meanings each item holds for us on the heart level. We discover the benefits of making the list in our everyday lives. And, we open our realization to how the heart desires that lead us to each item on the list serve our well-being. Allow your inner child a chance to explore, get curious and have fun as you Create Your Christmas Wish List.

Life is full of situations that invite us to react in some way or another. Many times, we are tempted to react with a knee-jerk reaction with little or no consideration of our actions. Today we are talking about the tool, “Respond From Essence.” This requires us to go within, connect with our essence and then respond with consciousness of our truth. When we respond from essence, we are not changed by the situation, we change the situation. Respond with love and kindness and live your truth.

On this episode, we talk about deepening our consciousness beyond the awareness of what we are experiencing in the moment. As we deepen our consciousness even further, we see truth, we see the love and peace that is present in every moment. Deepening Consciousness to the level of love, we realize the oneness with all and all is well.

Overcome excuses in your life and open the pathways to living the life you desire. Today we are talking about how excuses prevent us from accomplishing much in life, how they create beliefs about ourselves, and how they limit our experience. While, on this episode, we focus on excuses that are common around elections, we see how they roll over into other areas of life, as well. Join us and learn how to identify and overcome excuses that you may use.

With all the turmoil, hate and anger being expressed into the world these days, it is time for us to stand in the strength of peace. It is time for us to Be Kind. There are many kind acts we can offer, such as, smiles, holding the door open for someone, buying coffee for the person behind us in line at the coffee shop, offering hugs and many others. While these are beautiful expressions of our heart into the world, let us take kindness to new levels. On this episode, we talk about being kind in our thoughts and beliefs. We talk about standing in our kindness and transforming the negative energy into the light of love. We revisit some of our life tools that will assist us in shifting more fully to kindness. Join us and transform the energy in your world.

When you look at your life, are you thrilled with what you see? Have you accomplished all you set out to do and are you excited for what is yet to come? Or, do you feel that you have settled for the life you live? Do you feel life has dealt you a fixed set of circumstances and talents that you must deal with? Do you dread what is yet to come? Whether you are happy with your life, regret your life or feel that fate will determine your future, you can elevate life. Life is changed, expanded and/or elevated when we adopt a mindset that supports our desires. Your experience of life is determined by your mindset. Join us on this episode as we discus mindsets; what they are, how they can be transcended and how they serve you. Join us to find out how you can be more self-compassionate and how this behavior benefits all of life.

We often push ourselves to do more. We judge and critique ourselves harshly and rarely take time to treat ourselves with gentleness and kindness. Life becomes chaotic. Issues seem to pile up on us and overwhelm is not far in the future. Jan Lundy joins us today to talk about what it means to live gently. She shares a bit about her own journey of living gently with herself and we will discuss a 30-day journey she has created that will assist us all in being gentler and kinder to ourselves. Join us to find out how you can be more self-compassionate and how this behavior benefits all of life.

The death of a loved one or celebrity brings a since of loss. The fear of never again feeling what that person provided in our life creates a hole we often cannot imagine being filled again. The sadness and sorrow can be over-whelming and can often consume us for quite a while. On this episode, we talk about feeling the feelings, moving through those feelings and opening awareness to the true connection with that person that is never broken. In holding our loved ones in our heart and memories, we honor them and the relationship. Through our loving thoughts, we nurture and expand the love that will never subside. Loss is an illusion.

For many of us, when we became adults, life became serious, we left behind the fun. For some, the first career invited seriousness in. For others, when they became parents, life became serious. For those who still have fun, there are probably specific times that you allow fun and other times that you move back to serious. For most of us, when we find ourselves in a difficult situation in life, we get serious and leave fun out of the situation. We have been taught that a serious situation requires us to be serious which, for many of us, takes on a somber aspect. We move into areas that are somewhat dark and match our emotions to the situation we are facing. Fun is one of the most empowering tools we can add into life situations. When fun is present, we are more able to expand our awareness of the options available to us. We are more free to experience the situation with love and peace. We expand and elevate all of life. Join us on this episode as we discuss the power of Fun.

Did you know that you matter? You matter more than you may know. You are vital to the healing of this world and you are capable of being a catalyst for positive change. Join us as we talk about seeing the light within and illuminating the world with your beautiful truth. Our world needs great healing and you hold a key within you to ignite that healing. Your expression into the world can elevate love and peace. You do not need a huge platform from which to share your gifts before making a difference; you make a difference when your express your love and gifts in all you do.

We can change the world when we stay true to our own inner truth. When we discover the traits of our essence and express them into the world, we infuse the world with love, peace, authentic strength and goodness. Our perceptions of all that is occurring around us shifts and allows us to see goodness and light. Join us on this episode to learn more about identifying the beautiful qualities within that allow you to be a catalyst for positive change in your own heart and all experiences you face. You can change the world and it all begins within.

Do you now have, or have you ever had situations in your life that are difficult to face? Do you feel alone as you consider the situation and how to handle it? Have you ever wondered what it would be like to face those situations with an ally, a friend, a supporter? Have you ever considered that you can be your own greatest ally? When we connect with our inner truth and focus on our heart’s messages, we become our own greatest ally, even in times we are led to seek help from others. Tuning into our essence, we are never alone in our life journey. Join us as we discus the importance of being our own greatest ally and how to make the heart connection that serves our greatest good.

Last week, the United States of America celebrated its 242nd birthday. In this celebration we experienced what can be the foundation for healing the division we see in our country. We came together in unity to celebrate and show gratitude for the good that is found here. We can expand this healing in our country and our lives when we carry gratitude, love of our neighbors and the peace we experience as one people. Join us on this episode of Life's Tool Box as we journey to expanded healing in all our lives.

Our tool on this show, when practiced, will manifest the desires we hold within our hearts. Vision Love is a process where we can find Love, Peace, Compassion, Strength and any other desire within ourselves first, the world around us and it will allow us to be a beautiful expression of that desire out to everyone we meet. This tool will even assist us in manifesting the material things we wish to have in our reality. Join us on this episode as we Vision Love. Embrace the experience of your desires in each moment of your life.

The time has come that we Stand Up for goodness, light and love. And, we must do so in a way that encourages healing and unity instead of pain and division. We can no longer remain silent to the hateful and atrocious behaviors occurring in the world around us. We can no longer allow the love we desire in this world and our lives to take a back seat as we wait for other people’s hateful behaviors to subside. We must take our stand and not wait for someone else to take an action we hope leads to our desires. We must be the love and light this world needs and we must do it now. When we Stand Up, we can stand with love; we can stand for what we desire instead of in opposition of something we wish gone. As we Stand Up for goodness and love, we offer healing, we promote unity and we encourage positive change. Stand Up!

On this episode, we are talking about the four most empowering communication tools available today. With the use of these tools you will find greater understanding in each conversation you participate, you will more completely express the content you share, you will build trust in each relationship, and you will create an atmosphere allowing resolution and understanding for all. Join us as we look at the importance of communications in creating a more peaceful and loving life.

Are you allowing your beautiful individuality to shine in all you do? Do you stay true to you even though many of those around you are striving to be like each other? Do you celebrate your unique self and honor the uniqueness of others? Our tool today is Embrace Unique. Join us today as we open awareness to the beauty available to each of us when we honor and embrace the uniqueness of ourselves and others. In this embrace, we enlighten our experience of life and realize the gifts each individual brings to this world. Embracing unique silences judgment and comparison while opening us to truth and possibility.

Are you taking care of you and practicing extreme self-care? Are the things you do for you nurturing you on all levels or are you doing things that occupy your time? Do you nurture yourself on the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual levels? On today’s show, we are talking about creating flow in your life by nurturing all aspects of you. Join us on this episode as we talk about nurturing our entire self; physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. When we mindfully nurture our whole self we create clarity, health, peace and love for ourselves and the life we live. It is in nurturing ourselves that we create flow in our lives. When all aspects of ourselves harmonize, we open awareness of our authentic selves and can then authentically experience and express truth and love.

Giving 100% is not reserved for the sports venues, it is for all of life. Giving 100% has is not about giving all you have until you are totally spent. Giving one hundred percent includes standing up for what you believe, your values and morals. Giving one hundred percent includes expressing your feelings and communicating your views. Giving one hundred percent is about you being the best you that you can be throughout life and within your relationships. And part of that is giving the other person the gift of seeing you at your strongest and your weakest. It is about expressing your authenticity each and every day. 100% incorporates balance of our efforts and our experiences. In giving 100% we express and receive from our authenticity. Join us on this episode as we talk about Giving Your 100%; the benefits and the gifts.

Do you sometimes find that your thoughts derail or delay a project you have been working on? Do you start one thing and find yourself doing something else and not really know how the switch occurred? Have you ever begun your day with intentions of having a peaceful day, where everything flows beautifully, only to find chaos and stress taking over? We are talking today about focus and the distractions that pull us away from the important things in our lives. Not all distractions are of a negative nature, some are actually fun, and all prevent us from staying fully present with our intentions. Join us and learn how distractions derail us and how to remain focused on the important things.

Have harsh words or actions from others or yourself caused you pain? Are you carrying that pain with you today? Even when we do not feel the intensity of the pain, it can still prevent us from living fully, moving forward and expressing love into the entirety of our lives. On this episode of Life’s Tool Box, we embrace forgiveness. When we forgive, we free ourselves to live and we remove the burdens required to hold onto the pain. Forgive others and yourself; heal and be free.

Have you built walls in hopes of creating protection from pain and suffering? Are the walls actually keeping you safe? Do they protect you or are they hindering your experience of life? What if these walls that seem to be protecting you are actually preventing you from fully experiencing in life? What are you cheating yourself out of by hiding behind them? On this episode of Life’s Tool Box, we are considering all these questions and discovering how to remove the walls and live. The safety and comfort we desire comes from within and not the walls we build. Our authentic truth, our strength, our trust in self, allow us to see that all is well. Hiding behind walls to keep safe from our fears, imprisons us and hinders the full experience of life. Remove the walls and expand your living.

Do you ever make stuff up about what is happening in your life and assume it is the truth? Do you ever make stuff up about what is said to you? How about the actions someone else takes that may or may not involve you, do you make stuff up about the intentions behind the actions? What about the thoughts in your head; do you make stuff up and create beliefs about those thoughts? We all make stuff up and it is not until we open awareness of this practice in our daily lives that we can see beyond the fabrications in our mind and seek truth. Join us on this episode of Life’s tool Box as we take a look at how we make stuff up, what it does to us and how we can transform this practice into one that serves highest good for ourselves and the people and situations in our life.

Have you ever experienced a miracle? Have you ever been in a seemingly hopeless situation and wished for a miracle to help you through or take it all away? How many times have you wished for a miracle to sweep in and take the pain of a situation away? Have you ever prayed for a miracle and felt you did not receive an answer? Obviously we have all experienced the miracle of birth; what we are talking about on this episode of Life’s Tool Box is creating your own miracles. You are empowered to do that and you can create miracles in every area of your life. We are talking today about the definition of miracles, how to create them and how to make them a part of every moment of your day.

Spring has arrived and along with it comes many activities we want to add to our already busy schedules. The warmer temperatures invite us to get our into the garden, tend to our lawns or tackle that deep spring cleaning. We get back on our bikes, take walks or runs. We clean up the boats and get ready for the lakes or head out to watch our children’s sporting events. Even though we enjoy many of these things, overwhelm threatens to step in with the addition of each new activity. On this episode of Life’s Tool Box, we are talking about overwhelm; what it is, what it does to us and how we can overcome it and live a mindful life. Move from overwhelm to peace and elevate your enjoyment of life.

We see posts on Social media about a divided country. There are pictures that have the democrat symbol on one side of the page and the republican symbol on the other and a large gap in between. Everywhere we look we see division and one side pitted against the other. Are you ready to experience unity again? Are you ready to dissolve this division, to heal and turn instead to a peaceful unity? On this episode we take a look at how the division we see on the national and global scale is a distraction from the healing that can truly occur. We discuss how we can heal the world and experience unity by healing ourselves first, our relationships second and then our world. You do have the power to heal and together we can close the gaps that divide us.

Are you aware of how present blame is in your life? Are you on the receiving end of blame? If so, do you counter with blame to the sender? How strong is your blame behavior and how does it affect your life? On this episode of Life’s Tool Box, we look at blame, how it limits our experience of life, and how it throws us into victim mode. Even when we have no control over some life situations, we have full control over our response to the situations in our life. Falling into the blame game serves only to add more darkness into the situation and moves us further from resolution. Claiming responsibility for our response and whatever part we played in the situation empowers us to find the answers that heal and serve our highest good. Explore how blame is limiting you and open your awareness to ways you can re-claim your power.

If there was a practice that could radically change your life for the better would you commit to it? What if I told you it must be the first thing you do each morning, even before getting out of bed, would you still do it? What if I told you it took only five minutes? Would this be something you would wholly commit to and make a part of your morning ritual? On this episode of Life’s Tool Box, we are talking about the thoughts-beliefs-reality process that happens in each moment of each day. We are taking a look at our thoughts and how shifting them gives us a platform to experience the life of our desires. Join us and learn how the first five minutes of your day can positively shape your entire life.

As we continue our topic of Elevating Relationships, we also need to add action. On this episode of Life’s Tool Box, we are talking sacred rituals that you can introduce into your relationship that will deepen the love, elevate the friendship and create an atmosphere where your connection with your partner grows. These sacred rituals go much further than spending time together. While they do call for that, the experience is far beyond time, space and business. We are journeying to a deeper level of awareness for the heart of the relationship, your partner and you. With these sacred rituals, you will mindfully experience more; you will Elevate Your Relationship. Listen in and embrace the love that is truly available in your relationship.

Valentine’s Day is almost here, and we are once again reminded of our relationships and the love that we have. Today’s show is an invitation to take your relationship, the love for your partner and the love for yourself to elevated levels. Our tool, Elevate Your Relationship is actually an umbrella under which we introduce several tools to assist you in renewing the love you once had, creating more love and recognizing the authenticity of your partner and yourself. Listen in and embrace the love that is available in our relationship.

Join us on this episode as we continue our talks on manifesting intentions, goals and resolutions. This week we are talking about the key ingredient to success in our journeys as we talk about the glue that holds the journeys to our intentions together. This glue, these invaluable resources are the milestones we set for our path to intentions. In setting milestones, we create stepping stones along our journey that allow us to reflect on where we have been, where we are now and where we are heading. Milestones help us see when we are on track and off… and, milestones give us an opportunity to celebrate far more than just at the completion of our journey. Listen in and learn how to set milestones and discover this empowering resource that is available to you.

Whether you intend to or not, you influence those around you and ultimately influence the world. Our tool for this episode is about mindfully choosing the influence you are to the world. Listen in as we discuss the things you can do to make an empowering difference in your life, your home and your world. You are capable of starting the ripple that gives love and peace to all.

It is that time of year where we set intentions, resolutions and goals for the New Year. Those of us who practice this each year go into it with hope for a better life. We seek to make major change to some things in our lives, desire adding new things to our lives and/or just enhance some things that are working pretty well in our lives. When we look at the statistics for New Year’s intentions, though, we find that most intentions are abandoned as the year goes on. In this episode of Life’s Tool Box, we take a deeper look at those intentions and find ways to beat the odds; we look at ways manifest those deepest desires. Join us in our journey to Manifest Your Intentions.

We live in a fast-paced world and our thoughts are usually several steps ahead. Living in this way causes time to race by and we experience very little of the life we live. Today’s show and our tool are all about slowing down. Even if you are in a position where slowing your pace is not feasible right now, slowing your thinking brings you back to the present. You are able to live mindfully when you align your thoughts with your now. Slow down and consciously live your life. In doing so, time does not race by so quickly and you will experience a fuller and more meaningful life.

This holiday season transform your Christmas list. Give the present no one else can give and know that it is truly a gift like no other. Give the gift of your presence. Be present and give the gift of your heart and awareness. By giving this beautiful gift to others, you also allow an amazing experience for yourself. Join us for this episode as we talk about fully experiencing the holidays in a brand new way. Create memories that will stay with you and others forever. Let go of all that stands in the way of you being here now. This is a season of light, let your light shine.

As we enter into the most wonderful time of year, we present a tool that will make sure it truly is, the most wonderful time of year. In all the pressure to give the greatest gifts to the ones we love, there is a gift that rises above all others. Join us as we talk about giving love and gratitude and learn how these beautiful expressions are gifts to you and others and can assist you in experiencing goodness and compassion in all your relationships and all your experiences.

Have you ever had an idea or a dream that seemed like a wonderful direction for you to take; an intention to make positive and empowering changes in your life; maybe even for others, only to have them die away, wither from lack of follow-through or feel as if some obstacle jumped up to prevent you from reaching your goal? Have you ever been inspired to take steps only to change course sometime after you began, if you began at all? We all receive inspiration. We all have ideas for positive change. We all have thoughts of how we can improve our lives, no matter how incredible life may be for us at the time. And, we have all experienced not manifesting that inspiration at some point in our lives. The missing link is passion. Not the external passion we get sometimes as we fight for a cause but the internal, deep burning passion that moves us to highest good. On this episode, we talk about how to fuel this passion and follow it to the manifestation of our inspirations, intentions and desires.

We seek change in so many areas of our world. We even fight for the change we want to see, sometimes heatedly. If we truly want to change the world, we must seek highest good and take steps in that direction. Today’s tool is about changing to be the person that can truly bring about change that serves. It is not about getting our way, it is about letting go of beliefs that do not serve highest good and allowing awakening and enlightenment to show us the way.

With all the fighting we see happening in the world today, on every level, chaos and anger and even hatred seem to be the norm. The extremes we live with every day on the political, environmental, and human behavior fronts seem to pull us further and further into the darkness of chaos and fear. We have the responsibility and the power to heal our world. It is up to us to manifest change and to do that, we must release the fighting, we must let go of the need to be right, me must seek understanding. Join us to find out how you can heal your world.

We often hold tight to things that no longer serve our greater good. We hold on to habits, behaviors and thoughts that clearly are not in our best interest. We also hold on to emotions that are better left alone. These things we hold onto are limiting our greater good, they are hindering our experience of living life to its fullest. They are preventing you from being the best you that you can be. Today we are talking about releasing those emotions that hold us back. We are Letting Go so we can Soar.

Last week we explored the question Who Am I? we found how the question is answered and we discussed how vitally important it is to our everyday living. This week, we are taking Who Am I a bit further and considering how to bring our experience with the question into our awareness which allows us to answer from a place of essence instead of ego. We will look at some ways to release the ego’s grasp of our answers and free ourselves to soar into our truth.

Have you ever stopped and asked yourself, Who AM I? You may be surprised how often we actually ask ourselves this very question. We ask it of ourselves every time we need to make a decision, begin something new, face something negative. The way we answer this question determines our actions and our experience of life. The answers to this question determine how we feel and what we are capable of. It is a pretty important question and the answers are even more so. Today we are talking about where our answers come from and how to find the true and authentic answers to this question that powerfully serve our greater good. We will discover where to find our answers; those answers that are true and empowering and never change.

There are many crazy things happening in this world today that threaten to bring darkness upon us. We will feel it in many ways emotionally but we do not have to allow it to define us or direct our lives. Join us as we take a look at what happens when darkness settles in, and learn how we can rise above it and move back into the light.