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This week you are being asked to examine your payoffs in remaining stuck. You will explore how you curtail your own possibilities by placing limits on the good you can receive. You will examine the cost of settling for appearing good instead of being authentic. You may find yourself thinking about radical changes, no longer ruling out your growth by making others the cause of your constriction.

The Artist's Way (Week 5) - Recovering a Sense of Possibility

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This week you tackle a major creative block—money. You are asked to really look at your own ideas around God, money, and creative abundance. The essays will explore the ways in which your attitudes limit abundance and luxury in your current life. You will be introduced to counting, a block-busting tool for clarity and right use of funds. This week may feel volatile.

The Artist's Way (Week 6) - Recovering a Sense of Abundance

We turn this week to the practice of right attitudes for creativity. The
emphasis is on your receptive as well as active skills. The essays,
exercises, and tasks aim at excavating areas of genuine creative interest
as you connect with your personal dreams.

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The Artist's Way (Week 7) - Recovering a Sense of Connection

The Life Pie exercise is a good indicator of where our time and energy are spent so we can make informed decisions that will bring more balance into our lives.

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We use these Life Pies to determine the state of balance in our lives at this moment. This exercise requires an honest, non judgmental assessment of where your focus is most of the time at this stage of your growth.  If you do this exercise once every other week or so, you can track your state of balance, notice which areas may need to be shifted and note the difference that any shift of the segments have on your reality.

It is very important that you are intentional and honest about your percentages. Watch out for trickery (The Judge and the Ego like a good trick).  For instance:  One of the segments is Friends/Social Connection-If you gather with a group and spend much of that time on your phone or scrolling Facebook, that is trickery and not actually Social Connection.  Same idea if you eat dinner with your family but you are all focused on a device or you spend the meal distracted by something that happened at work.  That is not part of the Family/Home percentage.  These situations are where the honesty and intent come into play. 

This exercise is information only.  We don't need to be "fixed".  It was not designed to cause guilt, shame or judgment.  Do not let this be something you beat yourself up over.  To make the changes we may need to make, it helps to have well thought out information and that is the intent of this practice.

LIFE PIE - Creative Exercise to Discover What Area of Your Life Needs More Time and Energy

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This week initiates your creative recovery.
You may feel both giddy and defiant, hopeful and skeptical. The readings, tasks, and exercises aim at allowing you to establish a sense of safety, which will enable you to explore your creativity with less fear.

The Artist's Way (Week 1) - Recovering A Sense Of Safety

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This week addresses self-definition as a major component of your creative recovery. You may find yourself drawing new boundaries and sticking out in new territories as your personal needs, desires, and interests announce themselves. The essays and tools are aimed at moving you into your personal identity, a self-defined you.

The Artist's Way (Week 2) - Recovering A Sense Of Identity

The Artist's Way is a journey of discovery. You are the terra incognita (unexplored territory) that you will be exploring. Expect to fall in love with both yourself and the world around you.

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The Artist's Way is a distillate from forty years of Julia Cameron's artistic practice intended to teach people to process and transform life through acts of creativity.

The Artist’s Way "helps de-mystify the creative process by making it part of your daily life. It tackles your self-doubts, self-criticism and worries about time, money and the support to pursue our creative dream. It has already helped thousands of people to uncover their hidden talents - it can help you, too." - Julia Cameron

Many of us sense we are more creative, but unable to efficiently tap that creativity. While there is no quick fix for instant, pain-free creativity ... creative recovery (or discovery) is a teachable, trackable spiritual process.

When we engage in a creative recovery, we enter into a withdrawal process from life as we know it. Withdrawl is another way of saying detachment or non-attachment, which is emblematic of consistent work with any meditation practice. We ourselves are the substance we withdraw to not from as we pour our overextended and missed placed creative energy back into our own core.


"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters, compared to what lies within us." – Ralph Waldo Emerson

As you learn to recognize, nurture, and protect your inner artist, you will be able to move beyond pain and creative construction. You will learn ways to recognize and resolve fear, remove emotional scar tissue, and strengthen your confidence. Damaging all ideas about creativity will be explored and discarded. You will experience an intensive, guided encounter with your own creativity — your private villains, champions, wishes, fears, dreams, hopes, and triumphs. The experience will make you excited, depressed, angry, afraid, joyous, hopeful, and, ultimately, more free.

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Today, let's accept our Critic within and begin to nurture our artist child.
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TODAY'S CREATIVE EXERCISE:

Take a moment to tune in to your Critic.
If you need help, go ahead and start writing your morning pages ... your Critic will soon chime in to question the validity of this, badger you for that, it will do whatever it can to prevent you from putting your thoughts on the paper. Poor thing that Critic, always reacting out of fear, it really does mean well.

Now, take a "blurt" from your Critic and convert it into a positive affirmation.

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TODAY'S QUOTE:

"An affirmation is a strong, positive statement that something is already so."
– Shakti Gawain

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TODAY'S JOURNAL PROMPT:

What is one positive affirmation you've made for yourself?

Share in the comments below👇

SHADOW ARTISTS - the critic within - The Artist's Way (Week 1, Day 1)

Today, let's find and protect our artist child by gently acknowledging enemies of our creative self-worth.

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INSPO FROM JULIA CAMERON:
"The artist child must begin by crawling. 
Baby steps will follow and there will be falls. Typically the recovering shadow artist will use these early efforts to discourage continued exploration.

In recovering from our creative blocks, it is necessary to go gently and slowly. What we are after here is the healing of old wounds—not the creation of new ones. No high jumping please! Mistakes are necessary! Stumbles are normal. These are baby steps. Progress, not perfection, is what we should be asking of ourselves.

Remember that in order to recover as an artist, you must be willing to be a bad artist. Give yourself permission to be a beginner. By being willing to be a bad artist, you have a chance to be an artist, and perhaps, over time, a very good one."

(The Artist's Way, p. 29-30)

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TODAY'S AFFIRMATION:
My creativity heals myself and others.

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TODAY'S CREATIVE EXERCISE:
Time Travel: Monster Hall of Fame
List three old enemies of your creative self-worth.

Please be as specific as possible in doing this exercise. Your historic monsters are the building blocks of your core negative beliefs. (Yes, rotten Sister Ann Rita from fifth grade does count, and the rotten thing she said to you does matter. Put her in.) This is your monster hall of fame. More monsters will come to you as you work through your recovery. It is always necessary to acknowledge creative injuries and grieve them. Otherwise, they become creative scar tissue and block your growth.

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TODAY'S QUOTE

"Make your own recovery the first priority in your life."
– Robin Norwood

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TODAY'S JOURNAL PROMPT:

What is one negative belief about your creative self-worth you are ready to let go of?

PROTECTING THE ARTIST CHILD WITHIN - begin by crawling - The Artist's Way (Week 1, Day 2)

Today, let's uncover false negative beliefs that inhibit our creativity.
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INSPO FROM JULIA:

Core Negative Beliefs

"Here is a list of commonly held negative beliefs: 
I can't be a successful, prolific, creative artist because:

Everyone will hate me.
I will hurt my friends and family.
I will go crazy.
I will abandon my friends and family.
I can't spell.
I don't have enough good ideas.
It will upset my mother and/or father.
I will have to be alone.
I will find out I am gay (if straight).
I will be struck straight (If gay).
I will do bad work and not know it and look like a fool.
I will feel too angry.
I will never have any real money.
I will get self-destructive and drink, drugs, or sex myself to death.
I will get cancer, AIDS—or a heart attack or the plague.
My lover will leave me.
I will die.
I will feel bad because I don't deserve to be successful.
I will have only one good piece of work in me.
If it's too late. If I haven't become a fully functioning artist yet, I never will.
None of these core negatives need to be true. 
They come to us from our parents, our religion, our culture, and our fearful friends. Each one of these beliefs reflects notions we have about what it means to be an artist.

Negative beliefs are exactly that: beliefs, not facts. The world was never flat, although everyone believed it was. You are not dumb, crazy, egomaniacal, grandiose, or silly just because you falsely believe yourself to be.

What you are is scared. Core negatives keep you scared.

(The Artist's Way, p. 30-31)

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TODAY'S AFFIRMATION:

My creativity always leads me to truth and love.

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TODAY'S CREATIVE EXERCISE:
Bravely acknowledge and list false core negative beliefs you have about yourself that have silenced your artist child.

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TODAY'S QUOTE

"There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them."

– Anthony de Mello

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TODAY'S JOURNAL/COMMENT PROMPT:

What is one false negative belief you are ready to let go of?

FALSE NEGATIVE BELIEFS - freedom from fear - The Artist's Way (Week 1, Day 4)

This week tackles another major creative block: time. 
You will explore the ways in which you have used your perception of time to preclude taking creative risks. You will identify immediate and practical changes you can make in your current life. You will excavate the early conditioning that may have encouraged you to settle for far less than you desire creatively.

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The Artist's Way (Week 8) - Recovering A Sense Of Strength

This week finds us facing the internal blocks to creativity. It may be
tempting to abandon ship at this point. Dont’! We will explore and
acknowledge the emotional difficulties that beset us in the past as we
made creative efforts. We will undertake healing the shame of past
failures. We will gain in compassion as we reparent the frightened artist
child who yearns for creative accomplishment. We will learn tools to
dismantle emotional blocks and support renewed risk.

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The Artist's Way (Week 9) - Recovering A Sense Of Compassion

This week we explore the perils that can ambush us on our creative path. Because creativity is a spiritual issue, many of the perils are spiritual perils. In the essays, tasks, and exercises of this week, we search out the toxic patterns we cling to that block our creative flow.

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The Artist's Way (Week 10) - Recovering A Sense Of Self-Protection

This week we focus on our artistic autonomy. 
We examine the ongoing ways in which we must nurture and accept ourselves as artists. We explore the behaviors that can strengthen our spiritual base and, therefore, our creative power. We take a special look at the ways in which success must be handled in order that we not sabotage our freedom.

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The Artist's Way (Week 11) - Recovering a Sense of Autonomy

In this final week, we acknowledge the inherently mysterious spiritual heart of creativity. We address the fact that creativity requires receptivity and profound trust—capacities we have developed through our work in this course. We set our creative aims and take a special look at last-minute sabotage. We renew our commitment to the use of the tools.

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The Artist's Way (Week 12) - Recovering a Sense of Faith

Today, let's honor all facets of our being—both the darkness and the light.

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Because we are human, each of us contains elements of both darkness and light.  In fact, our light and our darkness is the duality that makes us whole. Often we acknowledge and value the light and attempt to avoid, bury or mask over the darkness.  We pass judgment, quickly, on those we perceive to be "dark".  To be clear, light and dark are merely opposites, polarities that exist in our human experience.

Can you think of a time in your life when your light and dark were out of balance?

LIGHT: love. compassion, trust, peace, passion, freedom, fulfillment, caring, delight, beauty, divinity, joy, health

DARKNESS: fear, perfectionism, greed, jealousy, lack, dishonesty, dis-ease, loss, suffering, pain, anxiety, depression

Only you can fully identify (by knowing your values and beliefs) what your perceptions of light and dark would be.  This is very valuable information for creating our reality.


🍂 INSPIRATION FROM AUTUMN

As Autumn unfolds the days get shorter and the night gets longer.  Darkness and light gently return to balance.  Our focus today, as we follow the cycle of Autumn, is the darkness and light within each of us.

"I will love the light for it shows me the way. Yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars."  – Og Mandino


💬 TODAY'S QUOTE:

"Put light against light...you have nothing.  Put darkness against darkness...you have nothing.  It is the contrast of light and dark that each give the other one meaning. " – Bob Ross


📓 TODAY'S CREATIVE JOURNAL PROMPT:

Honor of the Darkness and the Light and your unique imagination.

Depict your own connection of Light and Dark within you in whatever medium you choose.


👯 COMMUNITY CONVERSATION

It is not always comfortable to acknowledge our perceptions of the dark.

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BALANCE ☯ embracing both the darkness and light - (4/30)

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The intention of this self-guided journey is to inspire creative action into the first moments of our day so that we can be in more alignment with our highest self and deepest intentions.

Why spend 7 days refining your Morning Routine?

How we start our day sets the tone for the rest of it. 

When we awake from a well-rested slumber, we are nourished and aligned.  As the day unfolds, external influences demand our energy, and internal noise clutters the mind. If we're running on autopilot, we can quickly lose ourselves to the daily shuffle and to the desires of others.

Our morning routine nurtures our deepest intentions into inspired action. 
When we start each day with our Self, we gain clarity into who we are (self-awareness), what is most important (set intentions), and how to get it (inspired action).

Our morning routine helps us focus on what is in front of us and where to prioritize our time. From this place of clarity, we are more prepared to move through the day with focused intention, empowered decision-making, and aligned action.

As we refocus and reprioritize our deepest sense of Self first thing in the morning, what is most important naturally surfaces to our consciousness, and those trivial things that have been consuming our precious energy fade to nothingness. 

Over time, we craft an ever-changing morning practice that consistently shows us what is most important to us at the moment ... (love, joy, creativity, flow, fulfillment, happiness, freedom, equanimity).

What to expect on this journey.
Over the next 7 days, and hopefully forever beyond it, we will be gifting ourselves at least 15 minutes each morning to lay a clear and focused foundation that the rest of the day can blossom from.

Each morning, we will be served with a daily intentional session that includes a variety of positive, healthy inspirations that help us see things in a new light. 

You are encouraged to make each daily session your own and find what works for you. Our morning routine is uniquely suited for each of us as we continue to experiment and adjust.

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Introducing, 7 Days of Morning Routine 🌞radiate more intention throughout the day

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👁 INTENTION
Today, we focus on using communal resources to create collective wealth and prosperity.

💡 INSPIRATION
Financial synergy goes beyond strategy; it's understanding our interdependence. By combining our resources and talents toward a shared goal, we create wealth that surpasses individual efforts. Like in a community barn-raising, every contribution is vital. We explore the benefits of pooled resources and collaborative investments in our financial journey.

Today's Golden Nuggets:
🌱 Cooperate.
🤲 Share.
🌐 Cultivate networks.

💬 WEALTHY WISDOM
“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” – Helen Keller

🧬 PROSPERITY PHYSICS
Ecosystem ecology shows biodiversity enhances resilience and productivity. Similarly, a diverse community contributes more collectively than individually. We explore diversifying our personal ‘ecosystems’ to strengthen our collective financial health.

📿 MOOLA MANTRA
"Together Wealth Thrives"
Our wealth, shared and supported by a community, grows and gains meaning.

🧘 MINT MEDITATION
We meditate on financial synergy, envisioning how collective efforts create expansive wealth. We breathe in diverse resources and breathe out their integration, imagining our unique contributions growing with community support. We reflect on the power of collaborative investments and shared economies, committing to engage and contribute.

✍🏼 RICH REFLECTION
Reflect on the impact of your financial decisions on your community and how contributing to a shared economy supports your financial goals.

🔥 PROSPERITY PIVOT
Challenge scarcity beliefs, shifting towards abundance and acknowledging our interdependence for collective prosperity.

🪄 MONEY MANIFESTATION
Envision yourself as a conduit of prosperity. Act by exploring collaborative investments or savings with others.

🙏 GRATEFUL INVESTMENT
Reflect on your synergistic resources—time, skills, knowledge, and finances—contributing to collective wealth. Recognize how collaborative efforts enhance your individual contributions.

💖 ABUNDANCE AFFIRMATION
I am a beacon of abundance, nurturing a flourishing shared economy with my community. Our mutual support multiplies our collective fruits of labor.

🙌 KUDOS
Congratulations on embracing communal prosperity. Your financial growth journey is inspiring. Keep this energy for tomorrow's session.

💬 COMMUNITY CONVERSATION
Share how synergy in your financial life has led to unexpected abundance. Join the conversation!

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SYNERGY 🤝 Build Collective Wealth with Community Support • (Day 25 of 30 Days of Money)

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👁 INTENTION
Focus on the power of sufficiency to release ourselves from money stress, celebrating our inherent worth.

💡 INSPIRATION
We often unconsciously believe in scarcity, overshadowing our true wealth found in spirit and connections. It's essential to redefine our understanding of prosperity.

🌿 Money is our creation, not our master.
🌸 Personal worth is more than financial figures.
⚡ Shift from “I lack” to “I have, I am, I will.”

💬 WEALTHY WISDOM
"Money is like an iron ring we put through our nose. We just forgot that we are the ones who designed it." – Mark Kinney

🧬 PROSPERITY PHYSICS
Valuing time over money leads to greater happiness. Balance in the universe brings tangible and intangible richness.

📿 MOOLA MANTRA
Appreciating time, love, or money allows it to flourish.

🧘 MINT MEDITATION
Visualize an abundance-filled forest and stream, symbolizing wealth beyond material assets. Focus on feeling abundant in love, creativity, and purpose.

✍️ RICH REFLECTION
Contemplate your treasured non-material possessions and moments of feeling truly wealthy.

🔥 PROSPERITY PIVOT
Transform limiting beliefs about money into abundance anthems. Replace “I can't” with “How can I?” to pave the way for a prosperous future.

🪄 MONEY MANIFESTATION
Set a financial goal, release attachment to outcomes, and take inspired action towards it.

🙏 GRATEFUL INVESTMENT
Acknowledge non-monetary aspects enriching your life, recording them in a “Grateful Investment Jar.”

📣 ABUNDANCE AFFIRMATION
"I am wealth beyond numbers, rich in spirit and connection. My financial decisions reflect my heart's values."

🙌 KUDOS
Congratulate yourself for exploring your financial relationship, opening a path to true prosperity.

💬 COMMUNITY CONVERSATION
Share how changing your wealth perspective has affected your life, and discuss any resultant shifts.

SUFFICIENCY 🐂 Unshackling the Iron Ring of Money • (Day 26 of 30 Days of Money)

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👁 INTENTION
Challenge fear of “not enough” through generosity, opening channels of wealth and abundance.

💡 INSPIRATION
Generosity transforms our relationship with money, signaling to the Universe “I have more than enough.” It's a spiritual and material abundance pathway.

Today's Golden Nuggets:
• Giving invites receiving.
• Generosity counteracts scarcity mindset.
• “Pay It Forward” as an investment.

💬 WEALTHY WISDOM
“It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.” – Mother Teresa

🧬 PROSPERITY PHYSICS
Generosity boosts mental well-being, happiness, physical health, and life expectancy. Engage in financial generosity today.

📿 MOOLA MANTRA
“Give freely, live richly.” Generosity charges spiritual and financial batteries, attracting more abundance.

🧘 MINT MEDITATION
Visualize giving from an endless heart vault. Notice emotions and the replenishment of your inner wealth.

✍🏼 RICH REFLECTION
Reflect on fears and creative ways to express financial generosity.

🔥 PROSPERITY PIVOT
Overcome scarcity mindset. Replace limiting thoughts with abundance affirmations when hesitating to give.

🪄 MONEY MANIFESTATION
Manifest generosity through visualization, feeling, gratitude, and actions. Carry a token as a reminder.

🙏 GRATEFUL INVESTMENT
Acknowledge existing wealth. Practice gratitude with a “Grateful Investment Jar.”

📣 ABUNDANCE AFFIRMATION
“I am an abundant being, rich in love, joy, and financial prosperity. As I generously give, I open new channels for abundance.”

🙌 KUDOS
Celebrate unlocking generous abundance. Keep the flow going.

💬 COMMUNITY CONVERSATION
Share experiences of enrichment through generosity. Join the conversation.

GENEROSITY 👐 Unlock the Flow of Abundance Through Giving • (Day 27 of 30 Days of Money)

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👁 INTENTION
Today, let's consciously sow seeds of abundance and generosity to create lasting wealth.

💡 INSPIRATION
Wealth reflects our internal state and actions. To manifest it, we must give and act generously, using the law of cause and effect.

Today's Golden Nuggets:
👁️ Wealth reflects internal state.
🔃 Cause and effect govern creation.
💸 Act and give abundantly to attract wealth.

💬 WEALTHY WISDOM
“Generosity...the manner in which it is bestowed.”
— Mahatma Gandhi

🧬 PROSPERITY PHYSICS
Fractal geometry parallels the law of cause and effect. Small actions influence broader patterns, like karmic principles.

Action Step:
Perform a “Fractal Act of Prosperity”: a small financial decision reflecting generosity and abundance.

📿 MOOLA MANTRA
"Sow generosity, reap abundance."

🧘 MINT MEDITATION
Explore the law of cause and effect. Visualize creating and experiencing wealth, giving generously, breaking illusions, and cultivating compassion. Trust this process to shape your future.

✍🏼 RICH REFLECTION
Reflect on your wealth beliefs, their impacts, and actions to align with prosperity.

🔥 PROSPERITY PIVOT
Shift from limiting beliefs to expansive ones like “Wealth is natural” or “I'm worthy of abundance.”

🪄 MONEY MANIFESTATION
Reframe limiting money beliefs to align with wealth and abundance.

🙏 GRATEFUL INVESTMENT
Use gratitude to attract wealth. Hold money, think of something you're grateful for, and save it in a “Grateful Investment Jar“.

📣 ABUNDANCE AFFIRMATION
Affirm your worthiness of prosperity, and the free flow of abundance through you.

🙌 KUDOS
Celebrate sowing seeds of abundance today!

💞 COMMUNITY CONVERSATION
Share your recent “Fractal Act of Prosperity” and its impact on your view of wealth and karma.

KARMA 🔄 Harness the Law of Cause and Effect for Wealth • (Day 28 of 30 Days of Money)

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Today, let's become wealth itself, right now, so that our thoughts, actions, and experiences naturally lead to becoming more and more wealthy.

💡 INSPIRATION
In the infinite vastness of the universe, everything we seek exists already within us. Our inspiration today comes from the profound wisdom of David Cameron Gikandi, whose insights in his book, A Happy Pocket Full of Money, invite us to acknowledge our innate wealth and embody wealth (now) to most effectively actualize it in our lives.

Today's actionable takeaways:

🤑 Choose to be wealthy, now, without a doubt.
💭 Allow a wealthy state of being to influence your thoughts, words, and actions.
💯 Hold onto your chosen state against any external evidence to the contrary.


💬 QUOTE
“What you are, so is your world. Everything in the universe is resolved into your own inward experience. It matters little what is without, for it is all a reflection of your own state of consciousness. It matters everything what you are within, for everything without will be mirrored and colored accordingly.”
– James Allen
pioneer of the self-help movement and author of the influential book ‘As a Man Thinketh‘


🧬 SCIENCE
A study published in the Frontiers in Psychology emphasizes the impact of our internal beliefs on our external reality. The research reveals that those with a mindset of wealth, regardless of their current financial status, we're more likely to attain financial success in the future. The psychology of abundance is real, and it begins within us. Let's harness this potential today, choosing to embody a state of wealth, and allowing a wealthy state of being to influence our thoughts, words, and actions.

📿 MANTRA
“As I choose, so I am.“


🧘 MINDFUL MANIFESTATION
Change begins with a decision. Decide now to transition from a state of lack to a state of abundance.

Embrace this mindful manifestation process as you align with the vibration of wealth:

🌚 ACKNOWLEDGE
🪞 REFLECT
🔥 RELEASE
🪄 REPLACE
💃 EMBODY
This process can take time and may need to be repeated as old patterns and beliefs surface. Be patient with yourself and celebrate each step forward on your journey towards wealth consciousness.

Let's break it down. 👇
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BEING 🌟 become wealthy through an embodied state of being • (Day 29 of 30 Days of Money)

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👁 INTENTION
Today, we crystallize our 30-day money journey's wisdom into lasting prosperity.

💡 INSPIRATION
Our journey has been transformative, blending financial enrichment with spiritual growth. We've navigated practical money management and tapped into wealth beyond material means. As we conclude, let's invest in ways that align with our financial goals and intentions.

Today's Golden Nuggets:
🔄 Transform challenges into opportunities.
🌱 Embrace growth as wealth.
🧘 Reflect to create an integrative game plan.

💬 WEALTHY WISDOM
“Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.”
– Henry David Thoreau

🧬 PROSPERITY PHYSICS
Positive psychology shows reflection and gratitude enhance well-being and a sense of prosperity. By appreciating life's wealth in all forms, we foster personal happiness and a richer abundance.

📿 MOOLA MANTRA
Abundance in Reflection
True wealth lies in introspection and insights. Reflect on your financial journey to uncover a deeper understanding and perspective.

🧘 MINT MEDITATION
Reflect on our 30-day financial journey. Revisit your beginnings, growth, and transformation towards financial wellness. Visualize your future path in manifesting financial desires.

✍🏼 RICH REFLECTION
Consider how your perception of wealth has evolved. What money habits will you change? How will you foster financial growth post-journey?

🔥 PROSPERITY PIVOT
Identify and transform limiting beliefs or behaviors hindering financial growth. Embrace changes, shifting from scarcity to abundance, fear to faith, doubt to certainty.

🪄 MONEY MANIFESTATION
Visualize financial success beyond money. Align your desires with your values and purpose. Take actionable steps towards manifesting your financial goals.

🙏 GRATEFUL INVESTMENT
Note one aspect of this journey you're grateful for. It could be an insight, lesson, or newfound confidence in finances.

💖 ABUNDANCE AFFIRMATION
I embrace the abundance within and around me. Every step is towards greater wealth in all life aspects.

🙌 KUDOS
Celebrate your dedication to growth and abundance. Carry forward the wisdom and practices learned, nurturing a life rich in joy and abundance.

💬 COMMUNITY CONVERSATION
Share the most valuable insight or habit you've developed and plan to continue using. Join the conversation!

REFLECTION 🌄 Harvest the Riches of Your Financial Journey • (Day 30 of 30 Days of Money)

Today, let's practice the art of emotional surfing: learning how to ride the waves of stress and return to balance with compassion and ease.

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Navigating life's stress isn't just about staying afloat but thriving through understanding, patience, and support. Whether we're aiding someone in a low moment or managing our own stress, the secret is emotional agility. Today, we'll tackle these emotional tides together, ensuring we and our loved ones feel seen, heard, and supported without overwhelming ourselves.

Key Takeaways:

🌊 Embrace emotional waves
🤗 Support with sensitivity
🧘 Maintain personal balance
💡 INSPIRATION

Stress, like the ocean, can be navigated. Imagine standing by the shore, where each wave represents life's challenges. Like surfers, we can learn to choose our responses, finding balance on our inner strength's surfboard. Feel the breeze, taste the salty air, and see each wave as an opportunity to glide towards deeper connections and emotional resilience. Let this vision inspire us to rise above life’s tempests and find serenity in the chaos.

💬 QUOTE

"You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf."
— Jon Kabat-Zinn, founder of the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program.

🧬 STUDIES SHOW

Research shows that emotional regulation can reduce stress-induced inflammation. Practices like deep breathing and mindful listening help stabilize our emotions and genuinely support others.

📿 TRAIL MANTRA

Breathe, Center, Expand.

This mantra guides us to breathe deeply, center on our breath, and expand our awareness. This sequence fosters stress management and emotional balance through mindfulness.

🧘 MINDFUL MOMENT

Try the Three-Step Breathing Space Exercise inspired by MBSR:

1. Breathe - Notice your internal experiences without judgment.
2. Center - Focus on your breath, feeling each inhale and exhale.
3. Expand - Broaden your awareness to your body and surroundings.

This exercise can help regain balance when overwhelmed, grounding us in the present and reconnecting us with our resilience.

✍️ JOURNAL PROMPTS

When have I felt supported yet overwhelmed? What did I learn?
How can I approach someone in distress while maintaining my emotional boundaries?
What are my signs of emotional overwhelm, and how can I proactively address them?
🎨 CREATIVE EXERCISE

Draw two waves: one calm, one turbulent. On the calm wave, write how you support others; on the turbulent, note your balance-restoring strategies. Color them to reflect your emotions.

🌚 SHADOW WORK

Reflect on times you've absorbed others' emotions to your detriment. How can you recognize these feelings without owning them?

🔥 RELEASE

Engage in "emotional decluttering": Identify and release an unhelpful emotion or thought through visualization or writing.

🙏 GRATITUDE

Identify three emotional strengths that help you and others through tough times. Value your blend of strength and sensitivity.

📣 AFFIRMATION

"I am both a sanctuary and a surfer, embracing and managing life's emotional waves."

🙏 PRAYER

May I find balance between supporting others and caring for myself, navigating my emotional landscape with grace and love.

🙌 KUDOS

Today, by practicing emotional equilibrium and support, we've taken a significant step. Keep nurturing this awareness for compassion and resilience in your daily life. Keep surfing those waves! 🌊💪

💞 SHARE THE INSPO

Know someone who'd benefit from learning to surf their emotional waves? Share this session and spread the balance!

This session aims to equip you with tools to handle emotional stress and support others without losing your balance. Keep practicing, keep sharing, and stay inspired!

Riding Hearty Emotional Waves with Ease and Grace

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Today's focus is on enhancing relationships using the ATTUNE framework, fostering deeper connections and understanding. 

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This approach involves becoming fully aware of our partner's needs, engaging fully, tolerating differences gracefully, understanding their perspective, listening without defensiveness, and deeply empathizing.

Key Takeaways:

👂 Listen Deeply
❤️ Empathize Fully
🌱 Grow Together
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The ATTUNE Framework Details:

Awareness: Notice your partner’s emotional states beyond their words.
Turning Toward: Engage with nods, smiles, and wholehearted responses.
Tolerance: Accept misunderstandings and embrace differences patiently.
Understanding: See from your partner's perspective without judgment.
Non-defensive Listening: Focus on understanding, not reacting.
Empathy: Feel what they feel and respond with care.
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Daily Practice:
Make it a habit to check in daily, using small conversations to foster big connections.

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Quote by Gary Chapman:
"Love is not a place to come and go as we please; it's a house we enter in and commit to never leave."

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Research Insight:
Studies show that empathy and non-defensive listening boost relationship satisfaction.

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Daily Mantra:
"📿 Turn Toward Love" - Choose to engage with compassion and openness in every interaction.

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Mindful Moment:
Spend five minutes holding hands and syncing breaths with your partner, feeling a mutual understanding.

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Journal Prompts:

Reflect on a time you felt truly heard by your partner. What made you feel understood?
How can you show more empathy during disagreements?
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Personal Challenges:

Identify moments of defensiveness or difficulty in empathizing and explore ways to change these patterns.
Practice releasing the need to always be right.
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Visualize Success:
Imagine your relationship enriched with mutual understanding and empathy.

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Express Gratitude:
Thank your partner for their efforts to understand and support you.

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Affirmation:
"🙏 I value and respect the perspectives and feelings of my loved ones as much as my own."

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Explore more with John Gottman’s The Relationship Cure and Esther Perel’s Ted Talk on lasting relationships.

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Community Engagement:
Share a relationship insight that transformed your connection with others.

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The ATTUNE Framework

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The ATTUNE Framework 💞 Connect Deeper, Understand Better!

Today, let's explore the landscape of our loved ones' inner worlds. 

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Understanding their fears, hopes, and joys is foundational in nurturing deep, loving relationships. We'll build robust "Love Maps" to strengthen our bonds.

Key Takeaways:
🗺 Map the heart
🧭 Navigate together
❤️ Connect deeper

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💡 INSPIRED PRACTICE

"Love Maps" is from Dr. John Gottman's Seven Principles for Making Long-term Relationships Work. Enhance yours with these practices:
- Question Game: Dive deep with questions like “What has been on your mind lately?”
- Update Often: Regularly check in on each other’s thoughts and feelings.
- Favorites Folder: Keep note of their current favorites—song, stress-reliever, Saturday activity.

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💬 QUOTE

"Knowing one another well is the foundation on which a loving relationship is built." – John Gottman

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🧬 STUDIES SHOW

Regular updates to "Love Maps" foster stronger, more resilient relationships. Commit to learning one new thing about your loved ones each week.

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📿 TRAIL MANTRA

Embrace Understanding

This mantra encourages active participation in truly knowing our loved ones, striving to see beyond the surface and appreciate their unique emotional landscapes.

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🧘 MINDFUL MOMENT

Reflect on your knowledge of your loved ones and identify areas needing more exploration. Set an intention to discover these aspects lovingly and attentively.

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✍🏼 JOURNAL PROMPTS

Explore your curiosity about your loved one’s world and how they have changed over the last year.

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🎨 CREATIVE EXERCISE

Draw Your Maps: Visualize your loved one's world—fears, joys, stressors, dreams.
Share and Reflect: Discuss your drawings and discover new insights.

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🌚 SHADOW WORK

Reflect on inaccurate assumptions about your loved ones and how these can be corrected.

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🔥 RELEASE

Let go of outdated perceptions and embrace their current realities and growth.

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🦁 COURAGEOUS ACTION

Ask a deep, probing question you’ve hesitated to ask before, with gentleness and openness.

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🙏 GRATITUDE

Appreciate the efforts in staying connected and informed about each other.

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📣 AFFIRMATION

"I am committed to truly knowing and loving my loved ones every day."

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🙏 PRAYER

Bless us with the curiosity and compassion needed to continuously discover each other and strengthen our bond.

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🙌 KUDOS

Great job on taking steps to deepen your connections! Keep building those Love Maps and nurturing your relationships’ foundations.

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💞 SHARE THE INSPO

Pass this session on to someone who could benefit from strengthening their relationship foundations!

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💬 COMMUNITY CONVERSATION

Share recent discoveries about your loved ones that intrigued you or brought you closer in the comments!

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LOVE MAPS 🗺️ Building Resilient Loving Connections

Dive into the transformative practice of heart-brain coherence with today's podcast session!

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Join us as we explore how harmonizing the heart and brain can unlock profound personal power and healing. Learn simple yet powerful techniques to align your emotional and cognitive functions for increased stability, clarity, and resilience. 🧠❤️

3 Steps for Heart-Brain Coherence:

1. Shift your focus to your heart, connecting deeply with your center of compassion and love.

2. Practice controlled breathing to activate relaxation and reduce stress.
3. Evoke positive emotions to create a state of inner harmony and coherence.

Perfect for anyone looking to enhance their well-being and embrace a life of joy and peace. Tune in and transform your day with just a few minutes of practice! 🎧✨

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Today, we begin to lay the groundwork for our journey towards experiencing love (of self and others) in a profoundly different way.

Further notes and inspirations from today's intention can be found here: https://iam.intentioninspired.com/posts/days-of-love-day-1-curious

Day 1 of Love - I AM CURIOUS

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This week may find you dealing with unaccustomed bursts of energy and sharp peaks of anger, joy, and grief. You are coming into your power as the illusory hold of your previously excepted limits is shaken. You will be asked to consciously experiment with spiritual open-mindedness.

The Artist's Way (Week 3) - Recovering a Sense of Power

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This week may find you grappling with changing self-definition.
The essays, tasks, and exercises are designed to catapult you into productive introspection and integration of new self-awareness. This may be both very difficult and extremely exciting for you. Warning: Do not skip the tool of reading deprivation!

The Artist's Way (Week 4) - Recovering A Sense Of Integrity

Short daily sessions that cultivate the self-awareness that inspires our most authentic selves to shine! Explore the expanse of our multi-day journeys at https://intentioninspired.com

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