Insightful Inspirations

Sometimes I find that we have trouble being decisive. People often call me to help them make a decision. I try to careful not to tell them what to do or how to do it… that is their choice to make. But walking that line of giving enough information that might help them tap into their own clarity better and make decisions with confidence and ease. Decisions seem to be a constant dilemma we all deal with in our lives.

Making decisions isn’t always easy, but my guides are always telling me that we give it too much credit. We are just choosing what experience we would like to have, nothing more. Why do we fret over things as if they are life or death then? Our egos! Making a decision and moving forward with it without looking back or regretting it later is a huge gift you can give yourself. It helps you be present rather than always looking into the past and future about what you did or didn’t do right or wrong.

Insightful Inspiration for the week

Work on being decisive this week. Make decisions and move forward with them. Notice when you are judging yourself about them or trying to control the outcome of them. See if you can let that go. If not, ask yourself why you are getting hung up there. What are you really afraid of? What do you need to make you feel okay with this decision? How can you give that to yourself? As doubt and fears come up, notice. This is your key to the things blocking you from what you want. Work with it with love and see how this shifts your energy. As always, I encourage you to share your ideas on this with me and others on my facebook page.  

Influences… the free dictionary defines this as “A power affecting a person, thing, or course of events, especially one that operates without any direct or apparent effort”.  We have so many influences in our lives which I think we are only consciously aware of  about 10% of the time. It could be something obvious, like what your friend said to your yesterday or a blog you read. But it could also be something subtle, that you don’t give much attention to. Since this definition says “without any direct or apparent effort” I would venture to guess most of the time you are responding to the influences without even knowing it.

This is why it is so important to surround yourself with love, peace, abundance. The things you want. And when you aren’t surrounded by those things, it is hard to GET surrounded by those things, sometimes. Because you are influenced by the energy around you. Time and time again I see people gravitating in clumps of friends and family that have the same energy around things. This is not always supportive, even when these are their apparent support systems. For example, the friend who tells you all guys are jerks and you will never find a good one, so you might as well settle for what you can get. Or the group of friends who all are struggling to be happy with their lives and sit around and complain together.

Don’t get me wrong. I love to surround myself with people who get me and validate my struggles and don’t tell me to “get over it” or “I am in control”. But sometimes I need to be reminded of how reality is flexible and I am in control. If I was always just a confirmed victim by my support system, there shall I remain. So I want to make a conscious effort to surround myself with friends who encourage me to be the most whole person I can be. Who that it may change over time as we all grow.

Insightful Inspiration for the week

Take a look at your influences in your life. Write them down. Are they supporting you in where you want to go in life? Are they helping you be the best you can be? If not, what can you do to shift the power this influence has in your life? This doesn’t mean you have to disown people.  You have the power to interact with these influences any way you want, if you are aware. Notice these influences and take what you need, leave the rest.

Part two… as you are influence, you too are the influencers. How are you influencing people? Are you supporting them to live their best lives?

This doesn’t just have to be people either. Think of other influences as well. For example electronics, work, the food you eat, the paint on your walls, the lighting in your room, the clothes you wear. It is all influencing you and those around you.

Interact with me on Facebook! I would love to hear what you think about this. Any of your own insights would be gladly consumed by the rest of us.

My inspiration for this week comes from a man with a job most of us wouldn’t want.

There is man who stands on the corner near my home with one of those advertising signs. It is for a painting company. Now most people who stand with these signs might wiggle the sign a bit or just hold it lazily… I mean lets face it, this isn’t the most exciting job in the world. But this man with the painting sign puts his whole heart and body into it. He dances (not just a little wiggle I might add, this is a whole body dance), he tosses the sign, he waves and just gets into it. We have all come to expect him to be there and we all notice him. People wave at him, honk at him and just seem to feel like they know him somehow. Today, he added a “be my friend on facebook sign” which I am sure will also be a success.

My observation of him inspires me. He may like his job, he may not He may get paid well, but probably not. The point is he is putting his whole effort into his job. Rain or shine, he is out there making us smile and notice. People notice when we make an effort. They notice when we do our best. Even if they don’t notice 100% of the time,  the constant effort is appreciated in some way. This man could stand there quietly, biding his time until something better comes along. Be he doesn’t he does what he is doing now, well. He isn’t waiting for tomorrow to be the best he can be, he is just doing it and from what I can tell, it will take him to better places faster than if he just stood their waiting.

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What are you waiting to put effort into? What are you saying to yourself, “when I get that xyz, then I will do more”? It could be a relationship, your house, your job…but what ever it is, it is YOUR LIFE. Put in the effort. Show up for what you are committing to. If you can’t show up for it, find what you can show up for.  Amazing things will come out of your efforts. Things you may not even expect. But don’t put in the effort out of the expectation that it will be something better tomorrow. Just show up and let the miracles unfold.

Find one thing you can put 100% effort into where you haven’t been before. Visit my facebook page and tell us how it changed the energy around it. We all like to be inspired by each other, share your ah ha.

I am still coming up against myself trying not to try. Relaxing into your life and allowing it. It is easier said than done and sometimes I find myself asking “how will I keep going if I don’t have desire to do so”? Many of my clients over the least month have been getting this message as well… to just relax into it and release the effort.  As we “try” we limit the potential of our lives. We limit it to only what we believe and expect is possible. If we open ourselves up to the possibilities, amazing things can happen. I understand this, but never the less, still encounter this issue time and again. My evolution process brings me to that saying, the more I know, the more I know I don’t know.

I was watching a Himalayan Yogi on YouTube discuss the issue of just the act of desiring enlightenment, still keeps you from it because your ego is attached to the desire.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rrw7bE_a4NY

The thing is, as we follow our spiritual practices, isn’t that effort as well? I struggle with how much to push myself into my own studies of these things. I don’t want to stop, but I also only want to do it when it is effortless and fun. I no longer seek to understand things the way I use to. I allow myself to gently go where I feel guided to go, and change course when it feels right too, even if I have learned it “all”. This has helped me relax into this space further, but I can still feel the tug of the world on my “expertise”. Clients and potential clients wanting to know where I have studied, what I have done, etc. Some how this information make me more qualified. But reading, learning, studying doesn’t help me find the true meaning of these things. It is only when I relax into it that it comes to me.

Insightful Inspiration of the Week

Explore this concept for yourself a bit futher. I have talked about this in the past, but this is something that is really hard to know how to do, because you just have to experience it. In order to experience it you have to allow it to come in. But how do you do that without effort? So this isn’t a “to do” or a contiplation this week as much as it is to just spend sometime with yourself on this topic. What does it mean to you to try? What if you didn’t try? What would happen? Probably not what you think. See if you can just be still with yourself once a day and relax into who you are. Even if it is just for five minutes.

As always, I would love to hear what you think. You can post your thoughts on my facebook page if you would like. Insightful Inspirations by Leanne is the name of the page.  Let’s learn from each other.

Recently I had a couple come in to me and tell me a terrible tale of being ripped off by a psychic. This bums me out to no end. It makes me (and others like me)  look bad and makes people afraid of the help they can receive from intuition… their own and other’s. If you live locally, beware of the psychic advertising on the main street of downtown Lafayette, Colorado. I don’t know her personally and this is just two people’s account of her service, but just be aware of where you are giving away your power. It is never good to give away your power to anyone. You should always be on equal ground with everyone you seek advice from, be it doctors, healers, therapist, etc. You know you best and listen to YOUR intuition first and foremost.

The attraction of someone else having all of the answers is a tempting one. Someone to “save” us from ourselves. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could just go to a guru and get our lives all straightened out? But that is not the point of all of this. The type of help I provide is simply to support you in having more of yourself in your life. Living your life to its fullest with the ups and downs being equal gifts in your life. Not to “fix” you or take away all your problems.

Insightful Inspiration of the week

Notice who you might be giving away your power to. Just because of their title, status, experience, etc. No one knows the answers for you, better than you. Check in with this relationship and see if you can gently shift it. Bring yourself up on equal ground with this person. Take their advice, and even direction (if they happen to be your manager) but hold in your heart you are choosing to do this because it is for your intuition telling you to do so, not because an outside source is driving you. You are in charge of your life, your energy, your heart. Everything is a choice, choose your power first.

I often get my messages in metaphors that relate to my life in some way. It is so I can interpret the language of the cosmos into a way that can be (somewhat) understood. Our ability to perceive the vastness of this information is limited by our own systems, perceptions, etc. But I feel what ever is needed will come through, regardless.

That being said, I am going to share my personal message I received this week. I often have long, in depth conversations in my sleep (it is challenging to by my husband and sleep next to me ). This one came in  my sleep by I requested to remember it so I can share it with you.

I was shown a diving board as my spring board into the next place I want to go into my life. It was balanced, springy, and ready to launch me. Then it was explained that this was a metaphor for being weighed down by either past, present or future. I am always striving to be in the present moment, but what that mean is a combination of my past experiences, my current experience and my thoughts on the future. Not just the present.

The back of the diving board represents the past. If it is balanced, it provides support for the board and allows it to extend out over the water. If it out of balance the board may fall over or prevent the board itself to be springy.

The board itself is the future. If we are stretching ourselves too far out into the future with our worries and concerns, the board is very long and we could walk down it forever before we get to the end, and most likely won’t be able to be supported by the past and present.

The end of the board is your present, your launching off spot. If you are in the past, you are still on the steps, if you are walking down the board you are focused on the future.

I hope this is making as much sense to you as it did to me.

Bottom line, the past has made you who you are and adds value to your moment, but isn’t something to focus on. The future is out there and you can make goals, but give yourself places to jump off from rather than keep extending your board to a place impossible to reach. Then…get ready to JUMP!

Insightful Inspiration for the week

Use this metaphor to examine your own life. Is your diving board in balance? Are you able to use your past to support you rather than hinder you? Are you able to give yourself places to jump off rather than constantly push your thoughts into the “what ifs” of the future? How can you bring yourself into balance and prepare yourself for the next leap? Remember, you can always go for a swim, get out and do it again for the next experience.

Have a nice swim! We are all still learning so let yourself have a break from the “perfect”.

Eww… okay, I know, but as the stress of the holidays bears down on my VERY sensitive skin, I get reminded of what I hear regularly from my guides. Don’t push it or force the issue to the surface before it is ready. This isn’t really all about a pimple… I just wanted to get your attention and I love metaphors present in our life. Even the unpleasant ones. Okay, a better one might be that a mother duck doesn’t help her babies out of their eggs. Even though she knows what needs to happen next and it seems like such a struggle. It is a necessary struggle.

But that is just it, it IS related to your life. So quickly we want to rush through hard situations and push things through to the other side when things are “clear” again. We want to force things to be done before they are and in doing so make things worse or make them last longer than necessary.

When I offer healings to others I  have to set my space to allow them to be supported where they are rather than where they “should” be. I do not judge where they are at and try and point them where I want them to go, but simply help them be more present in their power NOW. I am sympathetic to the struggle but often times can find humor in it too, where there typically is none. (not always appreciated by the client but helpful to the healing nevertheless) But my judgement is no more useful than their own, on what to do next.  The reason this is true is for several profound reasons. One most important fact being I don’t know what I don’t know. Meaning, I may have an idea in my head of what might work better. But the direction this person is heading is usually in a place I couldn’t even dream up. So who am I to limit the healing with my thoughts and ideas. Instead, I open up to the power of the miracle and just facilitate whatever goodness wants to show up. Maybe there are some hints in their on where to look, but never a “should” or “must” or hurry and get to the next place in life.

Now if only I could do that in my own life 100% of the time!

Insightful Inspiration of the Week

What are you trying to force to closure before it is ready? What issue are you trying to rush? See if you can allow yourself to drop away some of that urgency and just be with the situation at hand. Notice, are you making it worse by trying to “fix it”? Perhaps you are suppose to just step back and allow it to turn itself. Maybe you are over correcting and it will swing back into balance if you take your expectations out of it.

Release yourself from the responsibility to make things “right” and see what purpose the situation is serving. Don’t beat yourself up for where you are or how you got there. Instead see the good of it. If you can’t figure it out now, try stepping back from it. Find something else to do that is fun and makes you laugh. Then return to it with fresh eyes to see what else you can learn. This isn’t to say the universe doesn’t want us to have endurance, but sometimes it wants us to take our white knuckled grip of the steering wheel and let it drive. Remember, you can’t know, what you don’t know. But divinity is there to help us allow more of the goodness to show up so we can know it. If we allow it to. This is called surrender.

There is more to life than worry but some days it sure doesn’t feel like it does it? Sometime we are consumed with ourselves. The what ifs, the if onlys and the why mes! We just can’t help ourselves sometimes. We use everything around us to validate our victim state rather than validate our success. We have trouble just being satisfied with status quo. We have been taught status quo is BAD!

Status quo isn’tbad. It is just status quo… nothing more, nothing less. Wikipedia defines it as “current or existing state of affairs”. Aka the present moment, how things are, or NOW. Spiritual advisers since the beginning of time have been telling us the happiness is in the now, so  in other words, happiness is in status quo. Maintaining status quo is really what we have labeled as bad and the funny thing is, it is impossible to maintain status quo. It is always changing, moment to moment, even if you held you breath and sat still would be different because the earth is moving, you heart is beating, your stomach is working as so on. Maintaining status quo is impossible, so why are we so afraid of it. We are so afraid we aren’t moving in the right direction we start creating directions we “might”  move into to worry about. Stuff that hasn’t happened yet, yet we are trying to plan for it just in case it does which ironically makes it happen!

I did a reading today that actually was telling her she could move in a new direction, but if she chose not to, she can look around and expect more of the same. I think that is what we label bad. If we don’t like what we see, we don’t want it to stay the same. We want it to change. But if we don’t like what we see we fear change because we are afraid of creating more of the same or WORSE! If we could just get moving and not have any expectations on all of it, we would save ourselves a lot of mental anguish and bring in new experiences, for good or bad… but never dull!

Insightful Inspiration of the week

Accept status quo. Status quo is serving you up a dose of just what you need. Embrace it! Swallow it whole and then keep moving forward. Release yourself from the expectation that you SHOULD be somewhere different or things will be better WHEN something happens. Right now, life is as you have created it. Look around, use it as a shopping experience. Focus on what you want more of and go from there. Congratulations! You have come so far on your growth. The majority of your suffering has passed. Make a mental note of where you are now and know the next path is still unwritten there is more joy to have than pain. Bring it on by firmly planting your feet on all you have already built and allowing the next thing to come as it will with or without your worries.

If you read my blogs at all, you know I am not really going to tell you to give up if you are feeling overwhelmed. But the truth is, it is part of the reason we have trouble moving forward sometimes. We can see there is so much to fix and so much going wrong, we just can’t make it work, so why try? It is like trying to contiplate swimming across the ocean.  Add to this the way things are today, especially in the US, we are bombarded with unconscious ways of doing things where our food, clothes, lives come from corporate practices that are less than good for our bodies, let alone our energy, we are maxed out.

What I am seeing happen a lot lately is the straw factor… the camel is so overloaded that one straw throws the whole thing off. It makes the person feel crazy, because they thing “I should be able to handle one piece of straw”. But the straw isn’t the issue, the issue is all the rest of the crap that made you so sensitive, you can’t take it any more. Give yourself a break and then look at all the things behind that last thing that threw you over the edge. It isn’t just that one thing it is everything. I know I have already mentioned keeping your space clean, but it is more than just dusting and decluttering. It is just starting to notice where you are overwhelming yourself with negativity.

If someone can take a piece of jewelry from someone else and hold it in their hand and tell their story (which is a fun exercise to try, most of us can do this to some extent), imagine this power being held in everything you have in your house. That lamp you bought has the energy of the people who made the metal, plastic, cloth and parts associated with this lamp. It has the energy of the packing company and the material suppliers of that. It has the energy of the person who loaded it on the truck, drove the truck and stocked it on the shelves. It has the energy of the person who sold it to you… and so on! Energy is on every thing and affecting you, even if you don’t know it.

I tell you this not to overwhelm your further. But to just make you aware of why you are feeling overwhelmed and empower you to change it. Sometimes simplifying your life, space and world can help you learn your limits and modify accodingly. It can help you just be more mindful in your life, which helps you be more in the present moment and manifest what you want in life. It isn’t about noticing everything that is wrong around you, it is just about noticing everything around you, period. Notice how many things you have in your house. Think about the effort brought into manifesting that into your home. Be mindful of what you label as important and give yourself a break for feeling bombarded by the world. You are, sometimes you just need a break from it and kids do too.

Insightful Inspiration for the week

Pick one thing in your life to pay more attention to this week. Maybe it is just your toothpaste or the shampoo you use. Think about the energy that is put into this thing, where the materials came from, how they came together, how they got to you. Notice if that is what you want to be putting into your energy. Just do this with one thing and notice how you feel about this product. It may be something you feel good about… it is just to notice. This isn’t an exercise in ridding your life of negative energy, it is just about being more aware of all the sources that come to you so that when you are feeling overwhelmed, you know how to reduce the noise and get back to yourself. It is about understand how your energy interacts with the world, and doing it consicously.   Good luck. If you feel overwhelmed just by this one extra thing, this is also something to just notice. What can you do to help yourself feel less overwhelmed instead? Share your ideas.

Have a wonderful weekend!