Rhonda Byrne is a great example of someone who lives out her spirituality at work. You might not recognize her name, but you probably recognize something incredible that she and her team produced and created called The Secret. About 5 years ago The Secret hit a tipping point and before you know it millions of people were either watching the DVD or reading her book. I was one of them.
Her latest book which she released last summer is called The Power. In this book she takes the principles from the law of attraction to talk about the power of love, the single greatest force in the universe. Rhonda states how“love is the positive force of life. Love is the cause of everything positive and good. Everything that you want to be, do or have comes from love. It’s the positive force of love that inspires you to move and give you the desire to be, do or have anything.”
Two different times I’ve heard her speak; one during an interview on TV when she was on Oprah along with other stars of The Secret and another time when she was interviewed for a Healthy Wealthy and Wise program. Both of these examples showed me her genuine desire to share these powerful secrets with the world. As she researched and discovered these principles were changing her life, she then wanted to find a way to share them with others.
Have unwavering faith
Faith is an area that she stresses is so critical to living a life with purpose. She knew in order to accomplish her vision to bring joy to billions, she needed to have unwavering faith. It is something that she never doubted not even once, it was just a matter of how and when it would all happened. This kind of faith is something that also needs to be integrated into our mind, body and soul.
According to Rhonda, “I had to have absolute faith and knowing in the outcome. I knew it with every fiber of my being. We just trusted that it would all unfold perfectly. It does take faith to keep moving in a direction when you can’t see everything; to keep moving in faith when it’s unknown to you. I have to tell you, it’s that aspect that is the greatest joy of life, it truly is.”
Practice gratitude
Gratitude is another key element to both The Secret and The Power. Rhonda and her team awake each morning and before arising write down 10 things they are grateful for. The gratitude she has for her work and life just flows from within her. During one of these audio interviews, you could tell that she had tears of gratitude for all that’s happened in her life. Before she even made any money with The Secret, she gave away millions of copies of the DVD in thanksgiving of all it’s taught her.
“You should love everything and everyone you can. Focus only on things you love, feel love and you will experience that love and joy coming back to you – multiplied!”
Janae Bower is an inspirational speaker, award-winning author and training consultant. She founded Finding IT, a company that specializes in personal and professional development getting to the heart of what matters most. She started Project GratOtude, a movement to increase gratitude in people’s lives.
I like the Fall Equinox as a time to reflect on balance- in my life, my work, my relationships, my world. Frequently when we mention balance and work, we think of work-life balance. I’d like to share some thoughts this week on balance at work.
Last week I attended an interesting presentation by Drs. Alexander and Helen Astin who received a grant from the Templeton Foundation to study spirituality among college students. The researchers used five dimensions of spirituality as a focus for their study:
Quest for Meaning and Purpose,
Ethic of Caring,
Equanimity,
Ecumenical World View,
Charitable Involvement
I was particularly struck by the word Equanimity. The researchers measured equanimity as the ability to find meaning in times of hardship, feels at peace or is centered, sees each day as a gift, and feels good about the direction of one’s life. Using this definition, explore who much equanimity you have in your work…..
Equanimity
The phrase ‘spiritual repose’ comes to mind when I think of equanimity. Having a presence that is palpably peaceful. How can you bring that type of presence to your work? To your colleagues or clients? In a recent gathering of spiritual professional colleagues, we discussed the spiritual practices we used to help us stay balanced, find peace, be centered. The challenge is to bring that same presence and balance to our work, with clients, in meetings etc.
Meditation:
Here’s a meditation you can use if you find yourself stressed, out of balance, or need to reconnect with your Source to rejuvenate. I offer this as a tool to find greater peaceful presence at work.
Breathe slowly and deeply from your belly. Bring your breath up to your forehead and into your face. Relax your jaw, your eyebrows, your neck…. Relax your shoulders, your wrists, your fingers…. Fill your chest with another deep breath in your lungs…. Now send your breath through your hips, down your legs, knees, ankles, and out the bottom of your feet.
Center your focus on your heart space. Expand your chest, open your heart – fill it with peace, with positive intent. Expand your heart so that it is open to receive love, kindness, joy. Breathe deeply into your expanded heart….. Imagine your heart glows with a gold or brightly colored light. See the light radiating out from the center of your being…… Draw that light up into your head and raise your awareness, your thoughts, your consciousness to connect with God Consciousness/Divine Wisdom/ your Buddha Nature.
Draw in Love through your heart and allow that energy to fill your body. As your heart pumps blood, intentionally pump that Love through your body to feel peace, clarity, equanimity.
Know you are this energy today
Feel this expanded awareness and consciousness
Affirm that you easefully and graciously get things done
Create a peaceful focused, positively potent workplace
You are a clear channel of equanimity and balance today.
Linda is an author, speaker, coach, and consultant. Go to her website www.lindajferguson.com to read more about her work, view video clips of her talks, and find out more about her book “Path for Greatness: Spirituality at Work” The paperback version is available on Amazon. The pdf version of Path for Greatness is available for download from her website. ALSO, Linda’s new book, “Staying Grounded in Shifting Sand” is now available on her website.
Getting consumed with work is easy to do, especially when we spend most of your waking hours working.
We get caught up in exciting projects with superhuman deadlines or works under a boss who thinks 8 hour days are for sissies or maybe it’s because we just can’t say no to a request because it makes us feel important. The real issue is do you want to change? Do you want to maintain a more reasonable balance between your life and your work?
If yes, here are some tips adapted from a Harvard Business Review article.
Assess how much time you spend at work.
You may need to put in long hours at times, but make sure you’re doing it for the right reasons. Don’t stay late to impress others or because you can’t manage your time well.
Banish time-hogs.
If something or someone is wasting your time, get rid of it. Stop attending unnecessary meetings, limit face-time with your demanding direct report, or stop visiting distracting websites.
Treat non-work time as sacred.
Protect your time outside of work for your health and sanity. You will only feel refreshed if you truly disconnect and recharge.
Remind yourself you’re more than your job.
How much you love your job, it is a mistake to define yourself too closely to your work. Take time to reflect on what you want to achieve in life. There’s the famous line that when reflecting about your life on your deathbed, no one says that they wish they had worked more.
Take the time to smell the roses. When was the last time you took a relaxed walk rather than a timed run; stopped and enjoyed watching ducks in a pond; had an evening of fun that had nothing to do with business; took you kids to the zoo for the entire day; spent a leisurely dinner with your partner? Even if these activities don’t turn you on, find ones that will.
Career Success Tip:
“It’s not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is what are we busy about?”- Henry David Thoreau. So, what are you busy about? What do you I want to accomplish in your life? What do I want to be remembered for? What’s my vision for my future? If you don’t have your own mission, get one. Otherwise you’ll be signing up for someone else’s.
Readers, what are your thoughts about work and how it can take over your life? Do you have any additional recommendations for achieving work life balance?
A new slant on the “why Johnny can’t read” debate. Only this time it has to do with the four Cs instead of the three Rs.
Sandi Edwards’ article, Educated Workers Short On Skills Government Needs Most, published in the online publication, Aol Government, puts a new slant on the “why Johnny can’t read” debate. Only this time it has to do with the four Cs instead of the three Rs.
In case, you’ve forgotten, here are the “The Four Cs:”
Critical thinking and problem solving
Effective communication
Collaboration and team building
Creativity and innovation
Of course, it isn’t just government that needs the “The Four Cs,” it’s everyone who wants to succeed in the work place, manager or worker. I can’t imagine a trainer or leader of an organization forgetting them.
The article says, “In 2010, American Management Association (AMA) undertook a study to research the needs of government and industry organizations when it comes to building and nurturing the leadership pipeline. The “AMA Critical Skills Survey” revealed that, by overwhelming majorities, executives had begun placing emphasis on a new set of skills that is neither intuitive for most people nor taught in school.”
Edwards defines the problem more specifically: “In addition, cutbacks to in-house education and leadership development programs mean that many government organizations are relying on our schools to deliver graduates who are ready to fill leadership roles. Yet with the Obama Administration reporting that up to 82 percent of American schools are failing in their mission, it is clear our schools are not equipped to teach curricula that imbue students with the skills leadership demands.”
How is it schools are not equipped to teach curricula on leadership?
How is it schools are not equipped to teach curricula on leadership? Perhaps, there is a political message there. I don’t know, but I think we may not be talking of college-level schools. Again, I agree leadership education and training should start earlier. But it’s not just not always directed toward the work place.
Some student efforts are directed at solving one the world’s problems–say hunger, presenting the problem and solutions on how to do that, putting together a team and collaborating to come up with solutions, and do with creativity and imagination. Some students do make a shift toward business, but that idea is boring to some. The young always want to save the world, right?
Ever hear of Odyssey of the Mind? It’s a middle school program where kids are given a problem and asked to solve it and present it to others. They are judged on “The Four Cs” It’s a very successful program. And, there are other leadership programs. Why doesn’t business, non-profits and government get in on the act and sponsor such programs? I’m sure there’s a need for adult coaches that is…if employees aren’t too busy at work. If the office is flexible enough to allow or support their participation, it serves a great purpose in promoting “The Four Cs” for organizations anywhere. I’ve known corporations to allow participation; it’s good for its community image, but it’s value goes deeper than that.
I find it hard to believe that institutions are not teaching “The Four Cs,” while I would agree it’s not intuitive. As a college teacher and as a trainer, I emphasize those aspects of work life as necessary for success. Critical thinking and problem solving, effective communication, collaboration, creativity and innovation are certainly a part of the higher education program and the emphasis on those points starts much sooner. The real problem is that we, in the workplace don’t allow the flexibility for these essential components to be practiced.
It seems that we like to use the standard fall-back solutions and look for the obvious answers, no matter what the situation or question may be.
One government agency colleague says, “We are having this discussion in our agency currently, specifically about Critical Thinking. It seems that we like to use the standard fall-back solutions and look for the obvious answers, no matter what the situation or question may be. If anyone has any great ideas for developing critical thinking skills please share.”
He also said that when the “boomers” leave, they are replaced with people like themselves, which begs the guestion if we should let the next generation determine what leadership should be. Therein lies the problem. Maybe it is time.
Another colleague provides this perspective: “I find the biggest shortcoming in both government professionals and graduating students is their inability to explain.” Ironically, effective communication probably one of the easiest of “The Four Cs” to teach, and it is that most managers assume they can do it well without thinking. How wrong they are.
Ignoring that the article says that educators and trainers aren’t doing their jobs in these areas, I have been very impressed by the newbies I heard. One intern actually presented information in a lucid and persuasive way. So, there is hope after all. It was interesting to hear leadership express just how impressed they were with her communicative skill. It shouldn’t be all that unusual; it should be expected.
For anyone, success depends on leaderships skills–especially The Four Cs.”
My colleague goes on to say, “A significant part of public service is public instruction and clarification between fellow professionals. If you can’t do it, none of those other C’s is gonna help you none (sic). We talk about “knowledge work” these days, and its increasing importance. But the mistaken assumption is that knowledge is fundamentally what you possess, and not something you have the responsibility to create in others. If you cannot foster understanding and knowledge in others, you ain’t no knowledge worker, buddy.”
He’s absolutely right. If you can’t communicate it, you might as well not say it.
But what do we do in training for the government, corporate, small or large businesses, or the non-profits? The ways to train each of “The Four Cs” would be the next order of business on this blog site. I think each one will require individual attention. More importantly is getting the attention of management to see the value in training “The Four Cs” not just to leaders. Time and funding allotments make it difficult; however it has to be done even though “The Four Cs” do not guarantee any immediate success; the result is long term. The trick is convincing management of the pay-off.
The schools need help, too. While corporate universities and business-based schools realize the importance and slant their curricula toward business, academic at any level concerns itself with bigger problems. Young idealistic teachers and students ready to take on the world may not realize that this practical world of work is pretty important as well. It’s up to us to explain it to them. We may have to change some attitudes there as well.
This may be a unique idea that gives training a whole new line of work. Suppose we as trainers created initiatives for employees to outreach to the schools to provide those connections loud and clear? Not only that, we trainers could present to the students the “secrets of success,” a result of effective leadership “being imbued with the skills that leadership demands.” It brings a practical application of leadership closer to home and more down to earth. Not every student will join the Peace Corps and fight world hunger. We need, of course, to walk the walk (pardon the cliché). Make sure we have dynamic examples to bring to them. Those who can teach, should–regardless of your profession.
Not every student will join the Peace Corps and fight world hunger.
Work place issues aren’t always solved by training, but you already know that. Sometimes the issue has to do with issues removed from performance. And sometimes as here, the solution we can handle because if anyone can understand and communicate “The Four Cs” it should be the communicators and leaders we call trainers.
These are my opinions. As always I am indebted to colleagues for their illustrative comments and people who write the articles as the one described here. Although a trainer and coach, I am a communicator at heart. I find other things I write about on my website have great bearing on everything we do, so please check out my page and if you’re interested in what else I might write, look under What I Say. I’ll give you a hint: the world we live in is often illuminated by theatre, which communicates through art, who we are, what we do, and how we became that way. Sometimes it even tells us what we can do about making a change. We don’t have to always agree on anything–be it art or training. Meanwhile, happy training.
I like the Sufi expression, ‘Keep your feet firmly planted on the earth and your heart fully open to God’. Work is such a wonderful place to practice this expression. It is through work that we feel most grounded in the physical world, yet often feel most disconnected from our spiritual life. It is here that we most need to re-connect to the Source of our being.
Think of all the times you must be grounded and present at work as you desire to keep your heart open to God. Do you seek clarity or support from your Source (Higher Power/Buddha Nature) in the midst of your work challenges? What helps you do that?
When you are having a tough time meeting deadlines, paying bills, working with difficult clients or co-workers -Is your heart fully open?
Close your eyes for 10 seconds and breathe deeply into your Source, feeling the power and comfort of it in your heart……..Feel your heart expand and fill you with peace…. (Repeat as necessary)
Remember
Remember that you are a Divine Presence. Too often we don’t remember, or as Rumi and others have written, we fall asleep to our Divine Nature. Remembering your true nature as a spirit being, while in the midst of experiencing your human emotions, re-connects you to Source. Making that reconnection helps you plug into the Master Energy Circuit. I’m guessing you’ve experienced moving through stress with more ease and grace when you remember. Your heart expands as you open to your Source.
Pray Throughout Your Day
The last time I traveled through the Middle East I wondered how our workplaces would feel if in the middle of a meeting or throughout the day, we stopped to kneel in prayer. How would we work with others if we intentionally set aside time to connect with the Holy Oneness (Allah, Yahweh, Great Spirit, Divine Wisdom)? Praying several times a day, not out of duty or obligation, but from a yearning to connect with God would almost certainly open your heart. Would your work be done with joy, meaning, compassion, purpose? See what happens in your week ahead- stop 4-5 times throughout your day to offer a prayer of thanksgiving, healing, compassion, forgiveness or petition. You can direct your prayers for yourself or others. See how this opens your heart and keeps your feet firmly planted.
Om, Shanti, Bismillah
Bismillah- In the name of God, most Gracious and Compassionate
Please share prayers that you like to use to stay connected.
A popular notion is that you should only focus on your strengths rather than develop weak spots. Is that the secret of career success?
Of course you need to appreciate your strengths. If you don’t, you can fail to leverage core skills to help you be more effective in your present job and move you toward your next career goal.
On the other hand, certain skills relied upon too heavily can become weaknesses. Being overly decisive, for example, can lead to the impression by others of micromanaging or being too aggressive. Or, not realizing that you need to develop additional skills, can prevent you from being effective. For example, your analytical ability can be a real asset in a technical specialist position. But once you move into management, what becomes much more critical is building and managing relationships. If that is a weak point for you, you can’t afford to ignore it.
Pay Attention to Both Strengths and Weaknesses.
1. Get Informed. Get a clear honest picture. What are your strengths? What are your weaknesses? There are a number of ways to get informed; 360-degree assessments, StrengthFinders or direct feedback from your boss and others you work with. This is the first step to positive change.
2. Get Real: Evaluate perceptions. To what degree does your view of your strengths and weaknesses match how other people see you? If you underrate your abilities, you may be under-performing. If you overrate your abilities – thinking you re better than you actually are – you may be damaging your effectiveness..
3. Get Moving: Set goals for improvement. Are your strengths having the effect you want? How are your weaknesses impeding results? What one thing could you do differently that would have the most beneficial impact if you were successful in changing?
Career Success Tip:
It’s not one or the other. Rather, determine what skills or behaviors will best serve you and your organization. Ultimately, development is development. It doesn’t matter if you are trying to build on strength or lessen a weakness. The important thing is that you are growing your potential, getting better at what you do, and building your career.
I’ve got to admit that I really struggled with Q. With most of the other letters with this case study series who to highlight just came to me. With this one, I needed to search out someone to study and share. So I present to you Queen Esther. She has a book in the Bible about the important role in her work at an important time in her nation’s existence.
She was originally brought to the king’s palace because she was beautiful to look at. This probably isn’t what she had intended for her work, but she obeyed her place in the kingdom and purpose for it at this point. Just like us, we often find ourselves doing work that we didn’t intend originally. Sometimes the work falls into our laps and is a good fit. Other times we question why we are even doing what we are doing.
When Esther found out that some of the king’s helpers were going to exile the Jewish people, she was the only one in position to petition for their survival. While the king didn’t know at the time that she was Jewish, he later found out once she shared her plea with him. In order to petition the king, now her job was to really step it up and be bold and courageous. What she was about to do to approach the king could render her dead. But she replied with a firm presence to do and complete her new mission saying, “if I perish, I perish.”
Many times in our work, we will be asked to step out of our comfort zones to lead into new areas of our lives that we’ve never explored “for such a time as this” (Esther 4:12). We will need to take risks that we’ve never taken before. Just like Esther we will need to be bold and courageous. She was willing to risk her position in the kingdom for the greater good of the people. We too might be asked to do something similar at some point in our lives.
In order to fulfill this great mission, she knew that it would require supernatural strength and thus cried out to God for help. She prayed and fasted. It didn’t just include her either. She asked others to pray and fast for 3 days for this mission.
When it was time for her to put this mission into place, she used God’s guidance to approach the situation very carefully. She was deliberate and took her time. She hosted a banquet in the king’s honor as well as his helper (the leader plotting against the Jews). The first time she didn’t reveal her request to the king. At the second banquet is when it happened. She gave her plea and had amazing savvy to manage the politics of the kingdom. Our workplace is no different. The politics are a huge part of learning how to best connect with others and navigate the many challenges thrown our way.
As she built trust with the king and treated him respectably, he granted her request in the end. When we have an important relationship that we need to influence, especially one in which we need to manage upwards, think about how the lessons from Queen Ester could help you – be bold and courageous, ask for supernatural strength and unwavering faith and have the necessary political savvy.
Janae Bower is an inspirational speaker, award-winning author and training consultant. She founded Finding IT, a company that specializes in personal and professional development getting to the heart of what matters most. She started Project GratOtude, a movement to increase gratitude in people’s lives.
While we often feel spiritual when all is peaceful, joyful and calm, spiritual growth often happens on the edges of our comfort zone. When you feel the tug of your soul or psyche, you are called to shift somehow. It is in these times you have to dig deeper to connect with your Higher Power and Inner Wisdom for creativity, forgiveness, clarity, or strength. Re-connecting to your Source, you find energy to move forward and see a bigger perspective for what is unfolding.
Think of a situation currently in your work where you are feeling that growing edge. Perhaps you are challenged by a co-worker, have a stressful deadline, or you don’t have a job and are looking for work. Emerson describes times of Divine Discontent, when your purpose may not be clear or your soul feels unsettled. Honor this time of unfolding. See what may be brewing below your discomfort.
Is there something that needs tending in your soul?
Where is your growing edge in this situation?
What is the next best version of yourself that needs to be expressed or discovered?
Pema Chodron speaks of the in-between time:
The challenge is to stay in the middle rather than buy into struggle and complaint. The challenge is to let it soften us rather than make us more rigid and afraid. Becoming intimate with the queasy feeling of being in the middle of nowhere only makes our hearts more tender. When we are brave enough to stay in the middle, compassion arises spontaneously. By not knowing, not hoping to know, and not acting like we know what’s happening, we begin to access our inner strength. From The Places That Scare You
As we move from summer to fall, the changing leaves and changing temperatures, note what changes are brewing below the surface for you. Breathe deeply into this time and space. Allow this time to speak to you without moving too fast to fix it or change it. Embrace whatever vulnerability and fear surfaces as a friend. It may show you something within yourself that needs to heal, to awaken, to strengthen, to rejuvenate. It is in the time of Divine Discontent that you recognize a deeper yearning, opening up to a more authentic you waiting to be expressed.
“I’m a lawyer in a firm but I’m unhappy. I’m not really sure if I want to continue here or even in law. My family tells me I can make good money. Sometimes I feel I am a quitter for wanting to consider doing something else. I feel very confused. What can I do?” – Muriel, a frustrated lawyer.
Muriel, I once coached an anesthesiologist who also was unhappy in her chosen field. She went into medicine because of her father. Here’s what I told her to do before “throwing in the towel” and making a radical career change.
1. Separate the good from the bad in your current career. So Muriel, what elements of law do you enjoy? What don’t you enjoy? Think back to when you were really excited – perhaps it was in law school or your first job or whenever. Now make a list of what you were doing. Was it the research, the client interaction, the courtroom, the writing of briefs, etc?
2. Then narrow down what is making you unhappy or frustrated. Is it the kind of law you’re practicing? Is it work you’re doing – types of clientele or the cases? Is it the culture of the law firm? Is it life / work balance – too many hours spent in the office and not enough for other things important to you?
3. Take a hard look at your profession and perhaps others. Putting aside everyone else’s opinions about the money, the education, the prestige, etc, are you still excited about the profession of law? If yes, what aspects of the profession? If not, what do you feel disenchanted about it? Can you diversify into other professions using your law background?
4. Finally, look at all your options. If you want to stay in the legal profession, what other areas would be a better fit? If you enjoy the law firm, but it’s the work you’re doing, what how can you change you job to make it more amenable? If you find you don’t fit the firm’s culture (too hectic, too cut throat or too bureaucratic), then what other firms could be a better fit? What else do you currently do outside of work that you enjoy? Do you have any interests or hobbies that you could consider pursuing as a new career path?
So what did the anesthesiologist do? Perhaps you can learn from her experience. At the time of the coaching she was taking a course in mediation. She realized that she liked the analysis of conflict situations and then working with the parties to come to an agreement. She did not want to leave the medical profession entirely so she got involved in arbitration within a health insurance company. She’s utilizing her medical background in a new way and is much more satisfied with her career.
Readers, how have you dealt with unhappiness or frustrations in your career?
Career Success Tip
Don’t jump from the frying pan into the fire. Take time to assess your goals, your skills and interests, your options and most important the cultural fit before moving to another job, another company or another profession. Career change is a big decision.
Many people in the eastern half of the US are cleaning up debris in the aftermath of Hurricane Irene and the Gulf storm impact from Lee. Several thoughts crossed my mind about the symbolic nature of the rain and storms this past week. In various Earth-based faith traditions water symbolizes cleansing, emotions, purifying.
Emotions– What emotions need to be expressed or balanced?
Cleansing, purifying and rebuilding seems appropriate this week. As we approach the 10th anniversary of Sept. 11th many are preparing memorials or tributes. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that we are getting heavy rains as we approach this anniversary. People around the globe were impacted by this attack and we need to individually and collectively process the emotions that go along with it. This week is not only a time of reflection but also an opportunity to move through any emotions that linger.
You may be feeling frustration, anger or grief as the anniversary approaches. Regardless of your political persuasion, you probably have some emotional response to that day and the course of history since then. Take some time to get in touch with any emotions you want to acknowledge and shift.
Think about about how you can release and move through those emotions so that you are more balanced and whole. What needs to surface or heal so that you move through your emotions connected to the Sept. 11th event? Honor whatever comes up for you; it’s part of your spiritual growth and unfolding. Pay attention to your emotions and energy as you move through this week and next.
Purification and Cleansing – What needs to be cleansed and remade whole?
Many sacred traditions use water in rituals- baptism, blessings, ceremonial purifying, anointing etc. Once your emotions are honored and released it’s important to individually and collectively purify your space to reclaim it as holy ground- at work, home, community. Examine those aspects of your life and work that need purifying and cleansing.
I spent my Labor Day weekend cleaning out my office, clearing out files, and painting. It was work that I had been thinking of doing for months and finally got to it. Only now as I write this blog and reflect on this week, I see this project was my way of purifying that space. Now I can bring new energy into my office- to be more productive and peaceful.
Look around your office or home and see what needs to be purified. If you don’t have the time to completely clean the space, at least use a spray bottle and spritz the area with a nice smelling aroma. That will help you clear the air and purify the space. You can say a blessing or set an intention for what new energy you want to bring into that space once it’s purified.
Spend some time this week focusing on what needs to be purified and balanced in your life and work. Find some way to use water symbolically or physically to cleanse that space. As you do this purifying ritual, release any emotions that no longer serve you. Acknowledge emotions you are ready to heal and release so you can bring in energy of greater balance, harmony and wholeness.
Linda is an author, speaker, coach, and consultant. Go to her website www.lindajferguson.com to read more about her work, view video clips of her talks, and find out more about her book “Path for Greatness: Spirituality at Work” The paperback version is available on Amazon. Also available for download from her website is the pdf version of Path for Greatness.
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Her latest book which she released last summer is called The Power. In this book she takes the principles from the law of attraction to talk about the power of love, the single greatest force in the universe. Rhonda states how “love is the positive force of life. Love is the cause of everything positive and good. Everything that you want to be, do or have comes from love. It’s the positive force of love that inspires you to move and give you the desire to be, do or have anything.”
