by Gizelle | Sep 23, 2019 | Gratitude & Joy, Love -- The Alpha & Omega, Relationships
When you perform work from the center of JOY (which has a high resonance), the effort that you put out will lift people up. If you do meaningful work, but it isn’t from a place of JOY it isn’t as transformative. So by doing JOY, by being in JOY, you are not only...
by Gizelle | Sep 16, 2019 | Change & Growth, Growth/Self-Love
Changing the footing of our life work, our daily activities is a challenging process under any circumstances. But initiating such a change away from the premise that our life must be productive in order to be of value, is almost impossible. We are indoctrinated with...
by Gizelle | Aug 26, 2019 | Centering Practice, Inner Life
We turn a tremendous amount of power over to our mind, seldom questioning the force behind our logic, our doubts, our proof from an endless supply of evidence based on past, present, unpredictable future. We rarely see these mental constructs for what they are,...
by Gizelle | Aug 19, 2019 | Self Discovery, Self-Awareness
In the early days of spiritual exploration I relished the challenge of venturing into the Unknown. I thought of it as a Great Mystery that would be revealed to me through diligence and hard work, a reward for demonstrating my commitment to Spirit and perseverance in...
by Gizelle | Aug 12, 2019 | Free Choice, Self-Awareness
Every human on the planet, to some degree or another, has control issues. CONTROL is the force each of us exercise as a means to cope with life’s uncertainties. Some folks may be softer in their approach, couching their efforts as being assertive, or setting...
by Gizelle | Jul 29, 2019 | Inner Knowing/Wisdom, Self-Awareness
The capacity for the human mind to create solutions to problems we don’t even know we have is endless – infinity takes on a whole new meaning. There are the obvious ‘rabbits’ that multiply, secretly feeding our sense of fear and dread, we nonetheless embrace them...
by Gizelle | Jul 22, 2019 | Healing Separation, Life in Balance
It is possible, nigh probable, that what we experience as the “fear of the Unknown” is really a case of mistaken identity. Some stalwart souls attempt to see such a fear from the ‘glass is half full’ perspective, reframing it to be the Great Mystery, the Unknown or...
by Gizelle | Jul 8, 2018 | Self Discovery, Self-Awareness
Throughout all of human history we find the universal theme of “dis-ease” and throughout the same history, we are offered countless ways that humanity has strived to explain the source of this ‘dis-ease’ as a means of coping, if not eradicating the cause. What if our...
by Gizelle | Jul 1, 2018 | Centering Practice, Inner Life
As a child I would often escape to Nature, find a field to lie in, and stare up at the Clouds — watching the Cloud-People dance across the blue field, morphing, changing, bumping into one another, I would propel myself upward hoping to be enveloped into the...
by Gizelle | Jun 24, 2018 | Self Discovery, Self-Awareness
It is common to create artificial ‘aids’ to help cultivate an attitude of mindfulness. Some people post sticky-notes aound the house, other’s create an affirmation jar (pulling one out every morning to set the tone for the day), still others may...
by Gizelle | Jun 17, 2018 | Conscious Living/Mindfulness, Life in Balance
Every particle of our being is saturated with Life Force Energy. Much like fish that draw water through their gills, deriving the oxygen they need from the water, flushing out what they don’t need through bubbles, we are surrounded and embodied with Conscious...
by Gizelle | Jun 10, 2018 | Self Discovery, Self-Awareness
It is said that fish don’t know that they swim, that they don’t know that they move and have their being in a liquid. They simply glide and flow within the environment that is their Universe. Awareness as Water is very much the same thing. We don’t know that we...
by Gizelle | Jun 3, 2018 | Being Present, Centering Practice
Retraining ourselves and the way we perceive is not easy. Seeking what isn’t there is illogical, but can be fruitful. Applying the practice of looking, really LOOKING at negative space we can open ourselves up to a unique way of approaching life that is not...
by Gizelle | May 27, 2018 | Change & Growth, Healing Separation, Life in Balance
For many years I struggled with owning that I was a creative person, in fact I would defer to my sister as the ‘artist’, the person in our family who was the ‘creative one’. Eventually I was able to by-pass the whole inner debate, and came to an awareness of...
by Gizelle | May 20, 2018 | Inner Knowing/Wisdom, Self-Awareness
Many people look forward to sleeping as a way to gain relief from stress or worry or feelings of powerlessness, anxiety, and hopelessness. Others seek similar relief through addictions – use of chemicals or other activities that allow them to fantasize or create the...
by Gizelle | May 13, 2018 | Centering Practice, Prayer & Meditation
I remember years ago attending an art class where my teacher instructed us to draw ‘negative space.’ Instead of focusing on the object or the scene, we were asked to focus on the space around and in between the objects, then draw those shapes. We were encouraged to...
by Gizelle | May 6, 2018 | Healing Separation, Life in Balance
I had a mentor ask me this question about 30 years ago, and I’ve never forgotten it! Of course I wanted to be RIGHT! I had to be RIGHT, my life (so my ego thought) depended on being RIGHT! I was terrified of being wrong, of making a mistake, of being found out. ...
by Gizelle | Apr 29, 2018 | Self Discovery, Self-Awareness
Perhaps the simplest way to think of this is to imagine that you are peering through your eyes through the opening of a cave, and in that peering you see starlight, shooting stars, comets, or moving beings. It is as though you are observing reality, taking it all in,...