Nourishment for your spiritual awakening

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“You’ve got to be before you can do, and do before you can have.” Zig Ziglar

Maintaining balance between being and doing is a delicate dance. Be – do – have is the formula Zig Ziglar gives us in the quote above, but it’s very common to go about things in a do – have - be way. The other trap I’ve seen people fall into is the be - have trap, totally forgetting about the do!

I used to live in the world of 100% doing and didn’t care for the airy fairy land of being. ‘Just get on with it’ was my motto. Realising this wasn’t working too well for me, I started opening up spiritually, learning about universal laws and spending time on my state of being.

In a total rejection of my old ways, being equalled good and doing equalled bad which is just not true, they both have their place and work wonderfully together when you know how. I have come to see that many of us living with an awareness of the importance of our state of being are not taking enough action. Thinking (and I don’t believe consciously) instead that we can jump from being to having, skipping doing or taking action.

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1 Comment . Apr 20, 2009
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I love it when I come across an inspirational quote that really speaks to where I am in my life. This week the following quote dropped into my inbox.

“Your power is proportional to your ability to relax.” David Allen

It totally verified for me something that was bubbling under the surface. You see we’re only 4 months into the year yet this year has been the most transformational year I have encountered so far.

What with 3 months to go until I give birth to my first child, my soul calling me to play bigger in my business, HUGE no, QUANTUM shifts in my spiritual and personal growth and a greater level of energy being exchanged with the Universe; I have a lot on my plate right now.

As much as I feel bang on purpose and love it, some days I’m just physically shattered! On the day that this quote fell into my inbox, I had slept almost until the afternoon and woke knowing this was going to be a ‘taking it easy’ day. There was an inability to stop my mind from leaping into the future thinking of all the things I still had to do over the next few months, even after meditation and yoga.

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3 Comments . Apr 06, 2009
Filed under: Growth, Personal Power, Personal development, inspiration, productivity

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by Lynn Serafinn, MAED, CPCC
Personal Transformation Coach and author of
The Garden of The Soul: lessons from four flowers that unearth the Self

We all associate springtime with new beginnings. After a long, barren winter of hiding under the earth, the flowers begin to emerge one at a time. Here in the UK, the first flower of spring is the daffodil. This week, I took two lovely long walks in different parts of town here in Bedford—one along the River Great Ouse, and the other through Bedford Park, a beautiful Victorian park that is much loved by us Bedfordians.

Daffodils were bursting with bright yellow everywhere I walked, especially in one wooded section of the Park, which was actually the inspiration for the setting of one of the stories in my upcoming book, The Garden of the Soul: lessons from four flowers that unearth the Self. And when these brilliant flowers make an appearance, they really make an appearance. Never satisfied with being just a flower or two here and there, daffodils usually come in the hundreds when you find them. And what a glorious site they are. Their yellow colour and their unique shape makes you feel just as if the sun itself had decided to incarnate right there in the woods and burst into a thousand tiny suns. It is the true announcement that spring has come, and that new life is brewing all around us.

In my book, I use the daffodil as the symbol for “The Principle of Becoming”. “Becoming” means all that is continually evolving, growing and changing within us. Many of us fear change, but we all inwardly know that without change in our lives, we stagnate and die.

Change is where innovation, imagination and creativity are born. It is the source of spontaneity, laughter and, ultimately, joy. “Becoming” therefore is the principle of regeneration and rebirth. No rebirth is able to take place without letting go of something else. In the case of the daffodils, they release themselves from the hidden safety of the earth, to take their chances in the open air of the late winter in the barren world above, before any of the other flowers dare attempt to poke their heads out. They do not wait to see if other flowers survive the ordeal first. They may look like light and cheerful flowers, and indeed they are; but in my view, they are also the most courageous.

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2 Comments . Apr 01, 2009
Filed under: Book review, Growth, Personal Power, inspiration, Books