The Path to My Heart

Tools, insight and wisdom for the newly awakened

What’s Inside – Welcome Message
Newly Awakened and Questioning Reality?

You’re in the right place! Experiencing freedom while living on a prison planet has been a long-time goal of mine.
- How to be in the world but not of it.
- How to remain centered in the storm.
- How to discern truth from lies.
It’s been quite a journey. I share with you my blog which contains insights I’ve gained along The Path to my Heart which I hope will be of benefit to you. It’s also a place for me to share my experiences with healing negative beliefs, ending vicious cycles, facing fear and allowing negative emotions to surface without judgment.

Without healing and completing these things, you can not be free.

Please join me if you are interested in finding your own truth and a possibility for lasting healing!
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What is Your Soul Desiring to Express? A Message From Two Great Inspectors!

I love synchronicity. I watched an episode of Agatha Christie’s Poirot and an Inspector Morse within a couple of days of each other. Just so happens, the two episodes were similar – I unknowingly chose to watch the episodes where each inspector dies. I saw the last episode of Poirot and the last episode of Morse. Incredible, I thought: How can that be . . . and why?
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Florence Scovel Shinn Affirmations: Turn Fear into Faith

In her book, The Power of the Spoken Word, Florence Scovel Shinn states: “Be Strong! Fear not: Fear is man’s only adversary.” She believes our word is our wand, filled with magic and power, and our word is the only weapon we can use to defeat our lions. “You face defeat whenever you are fearful!” Many of us at one time or another find ourselves at the mercy of fear, as in:
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Fragmentation – Finding and Healing Your Lost Pieces

I was listening to a friend of mine as she was sharing her story about being in a very traumatic car accident many years ago. She said it took a lot of physical therapy and hard work to fully recover her body. However, she recalled, the panic she felt being trapped in the car while waiting for rescuers to free her and shared how that panic feeling is still with her today. She said anytime she feels “trapped” or sees someone “trapped” (like on TV) it places her right back in that car, feeling extreme panic again.
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Manifesting Growth Opportunities

I had a dream last night that I showed up to work without my uniform. It got me thinking. I believe we manifest situations and people in our lives for ultimate growth and learning, especially if these situations and people really get under our skin. When this happens in my life, I take it as a sign that some part of me wants to leap out of a self-imposed box and have a breakthrough – almost as if to say: I’ve had enough of being bothered and want to move on from this ridiculousness.
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Finding Your Humanity in Times of Stressful and Uncertain World Politics

When it comes to the topic of transformation, Werner Erhard is my go-to person. I recently watched a video on compassion with Werner and Dr. Jim Doty, one of the world’s leading neurosurgeons. I found it extremely beneficial in that I learned we, as humans, are hard-wired to care, it’s our default state and it’s how we function. As it turns out, compassion is the most optimal state for our health. When the heart and brain are working together, there are many, many benefits to us as humans. It’s also been proven medically that we are made to care.
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Creating a Future of Possibility

Imagine what life would be like without judgment. As far as I can tell, judgment is pervasive and automatic: we do it without realizing. We judge ourselves and we judge others. We have opinions and we make comparisons. Our brain does this in split seconds and before we know it, our opinion or judgment is being thought and/or spoken. In order to do this we must access the past.
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Plagiarism in Blogging

I’m fairly new to blogging, under a year, and have been spending time reading lots of great posts in WordPress . Under the advisement of a seasoned blogger, I started following the people who follow me, figuring we’d have similar interests. For the most part that has proven true. Then, from those blogs, I read other’s comments and if I liked the comment, I’d check out their blog too! So far so good, I’m having fun!
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A Long-Awaited Change is Coming: Your Life may Start Shifting in a Powerful Way!

I am feeling an exciting, welcomed consciousness change in our midst that is having an apparent effect on people. I’ve been reading articles and blogs discussing significant changes taking place in people’s lives, starting with making big changes to their environment. Many people are moving and/or clearing out their possessions they’d held onto for years. It’s like a “spring cleaning” of sorts – the difference this time is that many of these possessions were previously left untouched by past spring-cleanings.
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Rekindling Creativity: Healing Stuck Feelings That Block Inspiration

I’ve heard people say they’ve received creative inspiration from various kinds of places. At the time, I couldn’t really speak to that because I believed I had limited personal experience with creativity. I’ve always believed and said, for better or worse, “I’m not a creative person.” I couldn’t conceive of what being creative meant so it wasn’t missing for me, except, though, when I discovered a creation that really spoke to me. I would be in complete admiration and appreciation for the creator’s talent.
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Facing Our Fear of the Dark

Darkness would have us believe it’s engaged in an all-out war with the light. Is it true? Is there actually a war going on between darkness and light? Darkness (our own fear) would have us believe it will prevail, that it’s stronger than our light. It uses our love against us and others by shutting us down, enabling us to cause harm to and/or turn us away from the ones we love – divide and conquer is a common weapon.
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Start Healing Life-Long Vicious Cycles and Triggers – Put an End to the Blame Game

Being triggered into a reaction causes you to behave in ways you wouldn’t dream of under normal circumstances, and once the dust settles, you most likely regret your actions and wonder why you couldn’t stop yourself – again. This occurs probably more often than you like. So, what can you do about it?
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How to Increase Your Life Force and Vitality by Paying Attention to Your Words

Our words contribute to healthy living and are just as important to us as good nutrition and exercise. Our words are powerful and carry weight. If we’re not careful, continually being casual with our word and promises may lead to unconscious feelings of guilt, unworthiness, self-blame and depression. Sound severe? Over time, this negatively effects our vitality and life force. It eats away at us until we believe we’re not worthy and can’t be trusted.

Leave it With Me . . .
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Knowing Your Values Will Provide A Roadmap for Clarity

I saw Wayne Dyer speak years ago and something he shared really stuck with me. Jokingly, he mentioned he had to squeeze every ounce of toothpaste from the tube before throwing it away. It’s not something he thought about, he felt compelled to do it. He said it really frustrated him when he saw a not-so-empty toothpaste tube in the garbage that one of his kids had thrown away. He described how he picked it out of the trash with discontent and continued to use it until the tube was completely flat.
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The Inner Child – Lessons in Control

I’m reminded of a time when my inner child was desperate to control me, and everything and everyone in my life in order to feel safe.

Here’s the story as it unfolded:
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The Journey to Self Love

Wouldn’t it be nice to live without self-judgment? It’s a bad habit. We automatically judge ourselves without realizing it. Have we been sold a line that we’re defective? Why isn’t self-acceptance the norm? How did we get to be so hard on ourselves?
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Asking For What You Want

Do you ever notice, we always get what we ask for? More times than not though, things appear out of the blue and we scratch our heads wondering – Why did this happen? I didn’t ask for this nor do I need this now! It just proves to me that we don’t always realize or remember we’ve asked. Perhaps our heart or soul asked for something and we didn’t hear it. A likely possibility, especially with the important things in our life.
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Speaking up for Yourself – Easier Said Than Done!

This can be a very stressful decision – Do I speak up or say nothing? I have struggled with finding my voice for many years. I have also been healing that which stops me from speaking up for myself. My tendency would be to “stuff it” down and say nothing out of fear of reprisal. I have recently been in a situation that challenged me yet again to speak up. I share the following in hope that it will help others sort through this dilemma!
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The Body Temple – Leaving is no Longer an Option

I just returned from a 21 day trip through Peru and Bolivia. When I was deciding whether or not to book the trip, I kept thinking: I don’t want to go to Peru or Bolivia, but I kept coming back to the idea that it might be worth it since a good friend and spiritual leader was also going. As it turns out –
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The Breath of Life

It’s now Autumn and I suppose the trees could be saying – “What’s the point? Why do I have to drop my leaves again?” It’s what they do isn’t it, without a thought. We are a part of nature, so it follows that we all drop our leaves too. I know for myself I’ve had cycles in my life of dropping my leaves, followed by moments of contemplation and hibernation, then moving into growing new leaves again. It’s a continuous cycle on a micro scale: birth – growth – death, on and on throughout life.
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The Pursuit of Happiness won’t end in Happiness

Just the nature of “being in pursuit” implies something is missing, akin to the grass is always greener on the other side. The one in pursuit believes he or she lacks the very thing they are pursuing. In the act of pursuit, what you’re after, in this case ‘happiness’, will always elude you. That’s the nature of pursuit.

It’s only when you give up the search, in the absence of looking, and in the stillness, can you find what you’re seeking.
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Authenticity: Being True to Yourself

I hear the word “authentic” a lot. It’s one of those words that have an assumed meaning, like one we can almost pull out of our heads to describe. I wanted to focus on this word specifically and apply it to my own life. I wanted to know if I was being authentic. Being genuine and congruent also work here as well.
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Freedom: You Have the Keys!
Take a minute to ask yourself these questions:
- What does freedom look like in my life?
- How would I know if I was free?
- And, why is freedom so important to me?
In the past, I’ve associated freedom with the physical, through my body. Running always felt like freedom to me, however, there have been few times in my life when my body felt the ease of running. What does physical freedom really feel like then? And what about emotional freedom or spiritual freedom? Have you ever experienced these freedoms?
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How to be Free of Negative Circumstances by Taking Self-Responsibility

No one wants to be told they’re the source of their own misery and suffering. If you’re blaming others and circumstances for your predicaments and unhappiness, you’re missing a golden opportunity for some amazing changes and growth to take place in your life. Misery and suffering come from within but it’s not who you are and it’s not usually what you think it is – typically.
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Am I Selfish if I Love Myself? Uncovering the Myths and Lies of Self Love

Some people believe it’s selfish or vain to love yourself. You may have even heard it’s unhealthy. This is a myth and a lie. Many people haven’t experienced what it means to love themselves, or what it entails. Imagine the looks you might get from people you know if you were to suddenly announce out loud: “I love myself!” while proudly sporting a big smile. A likely response from your friends might be: “Oh . . . that’s nice.” at the same time wondering: “Who does she think she is?”
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Blessings in Disguise

I remember years ago reading a wonderful story from OSHO about blessings in disguise. It really struck me as truth and a great example of the ultimate in allowing and not being attached to outcomes. The opposites of good and bad meld together when we’re being neutral and open to all possibilities. I’ll share the parable at the end of this chapter.
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