Healthy Living

A Course In Healing Through Forgiveness

Spirit is a powerful force for creating positive changes immediately into your life experience, and I love explaining how to use spirit to bless the lives of everyone ready to learn!

I recently spent a few hours with a new client, guiding her to greater enlightenment by sharing tools of forgiveness and creation from the truth already within her, calling forth and allowing that magnificent energy of love to fill her whole being. Within a few hours together, she shifted from feeling extremely depressed and hopeless to having 100% confidence in herself, in love with her life, and with the strength, desire, and ability to go forth and live accordingly.

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Judy Hansen, our official Guided Meditations Expert

Ask and Receive

Sometimes we try to do everything with our limited physical selves, when it is so much easier, effortless really, to create the good life when connected to spirit. Sometimes we could use a little help getting into our spiritual matrix, that power place where we can practice experiencing the blessings of spirit. So today, I want to be that friend, and give you a tool for short-cutting your access to spirit.

Your spirit is one with God now, always has been, and always will be. Your spirit can manage life quite well, perfectly in fact, if you will let it in! Your spirit is very sacred, very precious, and must be able to trust you, to trust that your physical being will follow the inspirational promptings it receives. Your spirit wants to be fed, nourished, from the source of all spirit—God and the angels.

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Judy Hansen, our official Guided Meditations Expert

Journal writing from a balanced perspective

I’ve had times in my life where my journal was a dumping ground for every heartbreak, regret and mistake I ever made. I hear lots of other people say that they only write in their journal when they are going through difficult times or when something horrible is happening (a loss, a break-up, money problems, a health crisis, etc.)  I have learned that there is a risk to this style of journaling because what we focus on tends to grow in our lives.

It is helpful to write during both good times and bad. I call this yin and yang of journaling. You don’t want your journal to simply be a dumping ground during difficult times.  Our lives and how we are feeling get profoundly shaped by what we focus on – our thoughts, impact our feelings, which shape our behaviours.  This being said, it is important to consider the power of your thoughts while journaling.

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Lynda Monk, our official Self-Care Expert

The Power of Remembering Your Divinity

For about a dozen years I had the impression to study a certain class—one that was becoming more and more popular amongst truth-seekers such as I. Everything I had heard about the class felt in alignment with my beliefs, but no such class had shown up along my path.
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A little while back, concerned about my experience with a particular health issue, my exercise instructor shared with me a certain healing group in my town. She even drove me there after class, to show me the way, in case I might get lost. As I entered the offices with her, I was overcome with the impression that those who ran that organization were some amazingly loving people, and I felt grateful to know of their existence.

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Judy Hansen, our official Guided Meditations Expert

What is Trusting Spirit?

In the summer of 1999, I spent a week in the heart of the Grand Canyon in a lush and rare shangri-la called Havasupai. People go there to enjoy the magnificent turquoise spring waters that flow through the red rock valley, creating breathtaking waterfalls, pools, and eventually meshing with the Colorado River. People also gather there to meditate and to seek spiritual experiences.

With a group of single adults, most of whom I did not previously know, I shared a private campsite, catered meals, and guided walks by a native shaman.

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Judy Hansen, our official Guided Meditations Expert

self-love, esteem, and confidence for women

Do you value self-discovery, self-actualization and living your most authentic life?  I sure do!!  I have learned, sometimes the hard way as my mother likes to say, that it can be a rocky ride to truly show up for yourself and live your highest truth!  The following words are intended for inspiration on your living well, living fully journey – they are from a book I am reading called Circle of Stones: Woman’s Journey to Herself by Judith Duerk.  She offers…

“To discover who she is, a woman must descend into her own depths.  She must leave the safe role of remaining a faithful daughter of the collectives around her and descend to her individual feeling values.

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Lynda Monk, our official Self-Care Expert

Allowing I Am To Be

Here I am, sitting on a foreign beach of the massive Atlantic Ocean, watching the waves roll in. It’s La Pedrera, the stones, in beautiful Uruguay. Azure blue ocean and sand and stones—stones that have been here, holding onto the edges of the sand and waters, as far as the eyes can see, for as long, I suppose, as life has been happening.

Feelings of being more peaceful come to me near these stones, as if I too am strong and real and timeless. Being here is a grounding experience, bringing my soul and these rocks and all that we both represent, into a state of oneness. Such a spiritual connection is what I call, simply being. In this moment, I am here, and none of me is anywhere else. I simply am.

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Judy Hansen, our official Guided Meditations Expert

The Healing Power of Journal Writing

There is a great deal of research across various fields of study including psychology, education, and healthcare that proves the efficacy of journaling and expressive writing for healing and well-being.

James Pennebaker, PhD, (2004) a research psychologist and author of Writing to Heal:  A Guided Journal for Recovering from Trauma & Emotional Upheaval conducted a study in the 1980’s with people who were dealing with trauma and emotional upheavals.  His research showed that individuals who wrote about their traumas needed less medical attention in the following months than they had previously.  His work clearly demonstrated a link between writing and health.

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Lynda Monk, our official Self-Care Expert

Looking Deeper

Venice? No, Kansas City. Surprised? So was I when I discovered this charming neighborhood. Yes, it is true—this gorgeous setting is in the heart of America. It’s as beautiful as the gondolas in Italy, and almost identical to the River Seine in Paris, with its walkways and bridges. How nice to know such beauty exists so close to home. What else is going on right in our neighborhood or home or loved one’s life, the richness of which we might be missing?

A few years ago, while sleeping on the top of a houseboat on Lake Powell, far away from any city lights, I laid awake every night watching the stars for a long, long time. Every few minutes, I witnessed the thrill of a shooting star dashing across the magnificent Milky Way. I could hardly close my eyes, not wanting to miss the show.

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Judy Hansen, our official Guided Meditations Expert

Who is in your sphere of influence?

Who do you want to do life with?  Behavioural scientists suggest that we think, feel and act like the ten people we spend the most time with.  What type of people do you choose to spend your precious time with?  Are you drawn to optimistics, pessimists, make it happen folks, complainers, dreamers, artists, thought leaders, change agents, people who make you laugh?

Try this:

1) Make a list of the ten people you spend the most time with

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Lynda Monk, our official Self-Care Expert