Honoring Who You Are!

Winter is a time that many of us pull back a bit from our external lives and go to a quiet place of reflection. Whatever time of year it, it’s an excellent opportunity in which to discover or review your values. If it’s winter, it may feel even more appropriate.

A great step in the exploration towards reclaiming your life is to understand your own personal values. Ask yourself this question: “Who am I?” The focus is on your own uniqueness rather than on the norms of society or who you “should” be. These values express the essence of who you are.
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Reconnecting With the Self

One of the key elements in reclaiming your life is to develop a strong relationship with your Self. This sounds so simple and yet many people are in conflict because they have a limited relationship with their inner world.

They are driven by external forces and lead lives through others. They wake up in the morning, and hit the floor running: take a shower, get the kids up, say a brief “hello” to their partners, eat some breakfast (maybe), get the kids to school, get to work, spend the next 8 hours doing stuff that they may love or not, pick the kids up, take them to various activities, get home, sigh, prepare dinner, do some laundry, and then-then they crash if they haven’t already! They watch TV, or stare at one page in the novel they have been trying to read for the last two weeks, and it is then time to sleep-yeah! Then they wake up and do it again! Does any of this sound familiar?
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