Sunday, October 30, 2011

Break Out of the Blues With Authenticity – Week 4: Make Someone’s Day!

Continuing in the Inspire Your Inner Journey program, we are in week 4 of 4 in the Break Out of the Blues With Authenticity segment.

In week 1, we focused on how we hold back our authenticity and the damage that does in our lives. In week 2, we focused on expressing your authenticity more freely. Week 3 was about bringing it all together and becoming ultra aware of just how great you are, and this week we focus on recognizing greatness in others.

We have established that we are all unique and that we should celebrate that authenticity in ourselves. What better way to do that then to honor the authenticity in others?
Something happens inside of us when we help brighten the day of others by taking the time to let them know we recognize what makes them great. By brightening their day, the “feel good” vibes spread over to us as well.

In this fast paced world, we often don’t stop to let others know we notice and appreciate them. Email makes it very easy way to do this nowadays, but my favorite way is to send a hand written card. There is nothing like seeing something in your mailbox, knowing it isn’t a bill, and feeling that expression of love when you read a card from someone who took the time to tell you that you are great.

If you need some inspirational note cards to help with this process, check out these: www.enchantgifts.com.“Works of art created with the intention of not only uplifting and inspiring you, but also providing you with a way to use these products to transform your life.”



Friday, October 21, 2011

Break Out of the Blues With Authenticity – Week 3: You Are Great!

Continuing in the Inspire Your Inner Journey program, we are in week 3 of 4 in the Break Out of the Blues With Authenticity segment.

In week 1, we focused on how we hold back our authenticity and the damage that does in our lives, and last week we focused on expressing your authenticity more freely. This week, we want to bring it all together and become ultra aware of just how great we are.

Authenticity is truly beautiful. It is what makes everything that exists in this world possible. If we all had the same skills and greatnesses, we would be very limited in the resources we have available to us. Because you are different than me, you will add to this world in a unique way and I will add to it in a unique way. We can all benefit from the greatness that is inside of each of us.

It’s time to let your greatness shine. Don’t hide behind your masks, covering up who you really are. The world needs your uniqueness. Begin to let it shine today by pulling out your journal and creating a list of all the things that make you great. What are you great at? What unique talents do you have? What have others complimented you on? What do you secretly wish you could share with the world?

If you still need a journal to complete these activities in, check these out: www.enchantgifts.com. “Works of art created with the intention of not only uplifting and inspiring you, but also providing you with a way to use these products to transform your life.”


Friday, October 14, 2011

Break Out of the Blues With Authenticity – Week 2: Express Your Soul

Continuing in the Inspire Your Inner Journey program, we are in week 2 of 4 in the Break Out of the Blues With Authenticity segment. If you missed week one, click here: http://enchantblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/break-out-of-blues-with-authenticity.html

Last week, we focused on how we hold back our authenticity and the damage that does in our lives. This week, we want to focus on expressing your authenticity more freely. To me, the soul is the source of authenticity. Everyone has a personality (or ego) and everyone has a soul. Our personalities can change as we go through life, but our souls do not. The soul can grow, but that growth only leads to the soul expressing more deeply what is inside of it.

When you are being authentic, you are allowing your soul to sing. You have probably met people whose souls are singing. You will recognize them as those people who look radiant and seem to have a passion for life. They are the people for whom everything seems to just fall into place. That is because when we are living more from the soul instead of the ego, we are expressing true beauty out into the world. We aren’t fighting against what we are meant to be, so things happen more easily for us, and since we are not feeling stifled, we are happier. Authenticity is never perfect, but is always beauty.

In your journal this week, jot down some times in your life when you have felt that inner song; when you knew you were being fully authentic and it felt incredible. Throughout the week, look for more moments like that and record those also.

If you still need a journal to complete these activities in, check these out: www.enchantgifts.com. “Works of art created with the intention of not only uplifting and inspiring you, but also providing you with a way to use these products to transform your life.”

Friday, October 7, 2011

Break Out of the Blues With Authenticity - Week 1: Be Authentic

This month in the Inspire Your Inner Journey program, we are focusing on authenticity. Being authentic is one of the best things we can do to enhance our lives, our careers, our relationships, and really anything you can think of. That is because when you are not being authentic, you are holding back who you really are, and that only creates problems.

By not being fully authentic in each aspect of your life, resentments are created as you secretly wish you could just “be yourself.” In addition, life will feel more difficult and uninspiring because you will not be expressing your real talents and you will therefore be trying to do something or be someone instead of letting your real self flow easily. When you hold yourself back in life by either doing what you think others expect of you or by doing something and being someone different than you want to be because you don’t think it is possible to do or be what you really want to be, it is like you are taking aside a little child and telling them over and over again that they need to be someone different than they are. It’s damaging and demeaning and only leads to heartache and depression.

In your journal today, jot down the ways that you hold back your authenticity. In what ways are you not being yourself in how you dress, eat, speak? In what ways are you stifling yourself in your career, in your relationships, in the place you live in? Keep going. How are you not being you?

Still need a journal to do these activities in? Check these out: www.enchantgifts.com
“Works of art created with the intention of not only uplifting and inspiring you, but also providing you with a way to use these products to transform your life.” 

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Get the Goodness Part 3: Tell Others You Are Grateful For Them

Continuing on in the Free Inspire Your Inner Journey program, this is part 3 of a 3-
part series about the getting good things in life.

Imagine what the world would be like if we all shared with people how grateful we
are for each other. It is one thing to be blessed with goodness and to express that
gratitude in our heads or in our journals, but it is quite transforming to share it with
others.

You know how good it makes you feel when people tell you that you did a great job
or that they appreciate you. It makes you feel uplifted and passionate and it makes
you want to do more of what you were praised for. You probably also know what it
feels like to do and do and do without any kind of expressed gratitude. It makes you
not want to try as hard.

Knowing this, let’s all make more of an effort to express our gratitude for others to
their faces. What better way to do that than with a hand written card? Set a goal to
send one card a week out to someone who you are grateful to that week. The world
would be a different place if we all did this!

If you still need some inspirational note cards to send your gratitude on, check out
these: www.enchantgifts.com.
“Works of art created with the intention of not only
uplifting and inspiring you, but also providing you with a way to use these products to
transform your life.”

If you missed part 1, click here: http://enchantblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/get-
goodness-part-1-what-is-good-in.html

If you missed Part 2, click here: http://enchantblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/get-
goodness-part-2-be-part-of-what-is.html