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Spring Cleaning for Your Soul, Day 14: Nurture Joy in the Small Moments
Did you ever notice that the miraculous-seeming “big” things are actually a collection of very small things all grouped together? Being able to view the world as a whole made up of miniscule yet necessary pieces is the first step in understanding how even “little things” that you do can make a big impact on the world at large. In today’s Spring Cleaning for Your Soul challenge, we’ll put into practice the art of seeking and finding joy in the small and seemingly insignificant moments of our day. Joy Is Key Being joyful has everything to do with being present. Think of the beauty of the spring season that is…
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Spring Cleaning for Your Soul, Day 13: Plant the Seeds for Positive Change
Spring brings new life into the world. On our 13th day of the Spring Cleaning for Your Soul Challenge, we’ll plant seeds of optimism. Making the world a better place than you found it involves makes small but meaningful acts. In fact, some of the plans you set into motion may not even be realized by you. It takes time, and it can also take many people, to initiate positive change. The important thing is to take the initiative and get something going. This is the time of year that we tend the soil and plant the seeds that will bear tomorrow’s nourishing food. When you plant a garden, you…
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The 7 Dimensions of Wellness
When it comes to wellness, there are many definitions and areas to consider. Somepeople think more about your physical body, like nutrition and exercise, while others useit as a broader term for all areas of health. According to the co-founder of the NationalWellness Institute, Dr. Bill Hettler, there are actually 7 dimensions of wellness. Physical The first dimension of health and wellness is your physical health, which is probablywhat you tend to think about first. This includes eating right and focusing on goodnutrition, making sure you get good quality sleep and exercising on a regular basis. Itcan also include things like protecting yourself with seat belts and helmets, visiting thedoctor…
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Spring Cleaning for Your Soul, Day 12: Cleanse Your Soul
Thank you for showing up for yourself on Day 12 of our Spring Cleaning for Your Soul challenge. Congratulations on committing to doing the journaling exercises and setting intentions to fill your life with positive purpose! In today’s lesson, you’re challenged with a “soul cleanse.” Soul Cleanse What is a soul cleanse? This can mean different things to different people. A soul cleanse has to do with facing your truth. It’s not easy being starkly honest with yourself. As much as people like to emphasize being truthful in all situations, we do tend to lie to ourselves about certain aspects of our life. This is called avoidance or denial. Why…
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Spring Cleaning for Your Soul, Day 11: De-Clutter Your Relationships
Thank you for joining us on Day 11 of the Spring Cleaning for Your Soul series. On this beautiful day, let us continue with our personal purging to make way for new growth. How can you bring about growth in your relationships? We talked about dark versus light in one of the earlier challenges. Some of the relationships that you’ll have will bring out your dark thoughts. Others will make you feel buoyant and fill you with lightness. So let’s think about the people you engage with on a routine basis. You likely have different friends and relations with different levels of intimacy. Different Types of Relationships Maybe you have…
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Spring Cleaning for Your Soul, Day 10: Make Room for Gratitude
Still following along with our Spring Cleaning for Your Soul Challenge? Today we’ll touch upon the importance of gratitude. Did you know that finding time to be grateful for all the blessings in your life actually can help to bring you even more blessings in abundance? This is because a happy, positive outlook creates good feelings. These are then shared with others to intensify the positive feelings all around. There is even science behind the benefit of gratitude. Positive psychology studies have been conducted which show that people who take part in a daily gratitude practice manage to reduce stress levels and increase feelings of happiness and well-being. Not only…
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Spring Cleaning for Your Soul, Day 9: Simplify your Schedule
Hello and welcome to Day 9 of the Spring Cleaning for Your Soul Challenge. We hope you’re enjoying following along with our enlightening exercises. Feel free to write to us via email and let us know how this series is working for you. For Day 9 of our soul cleanse and purge process, we will touch upon the concept of simplifying our schedule. Many people don’t enjoy following a routine. They feel that it hampers their personal freedom. Another reason why having a schedule can seem so stifling is that we then become tempted to fill up any open spot on the calendar with more activities and events. Then, when…
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Spring Cleaning for Your Soul, Day 8: Organize Your Mental Clutter
Welcome to Day 8 of our Spring Cleaning for Your Soul challenge. Thank you for continuing to follow along! Nature does a cyclical purge each winter. This clearing is necessary to make way for new life in spring time. Whatever dies returns again in a new and nourishing form. Think of a pine tree, shedding its needles to form an insulating carpet for the forest floor. The spent needles decompose along with other dead plant matter, into the most rich, fertile and life giving soil. Death brings life in a new form. So now we see how nature’s built-in cleaning process is really a readying for new growth. Our planet…
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Spring Cleaning for Your Soul, Day 7: Buff and Shine Your Attitude
Welcome to Day 7 of the Spring Cleaning for Your Soul challenge. Today we’ll focus on spring cleaning our attitude. Your attitude goes a long way for shaping what happens over the course of your day. If you approach life from a pessimistic viewpoint, you’re sure to attract more of what you’re putting out there. Since spring is such a lovely time of year, with much beauty to tantalize the senses, why not spend some time freshening up your attitude? Indeed, a poor attitude can feel like wearing a heavy wool coat when it’s hot out. The feeling weighs on you and can seem suffocating. You want to shed that…
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Spring Cleaning for Your Soul, Day 6: Scrub Away Guilt
Has guilt become an unwelcome house guest in your daily life? Do you move from task to task and situation to situation of your day, with the weight of guilt tugging at your mind and heart? Constant guilt is no way to thrive in your life, and that’s what we’ll be purging on Day 6 of the Spring Cleaning for Your Soul 15-day challenge. Guilt robs us of satisfaction in ourselves, and steals away our peace. Where does guilt come from? It might originate in your own mind… wanting to please others and be of service. But guilt is also a feeling that’s shaped by how we were raised. Did…
