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In the quest towards a life of greatness it can be easy to forget that we already have already have access to a tremendous source of consciousness, inspiration and creativity within ourselves.
In each moment we have the ability to shift our direction and consciousness simply by choosing to ask more empower questions of ourselves. The greater the quality of question, the greater the energy of the answers that we receive.
So today, I simply want you to connect with just one question that has the capacity to radically shift your energy, vibration and intention on all levels. It also has the capacity to connect you to the deeper source of intelligence and wisdom that is within you, your own sense of personal worth and greatness. And that question is:
“Who are you at your best?”
Here’s why this simple question is so powerful and some ways that you might like to explore and play with it in your own life.
1. What We Place Our Attention on Grows
If you had an upbringing like most children then you probably would have experienced moments where you did not receive the acknowledgement, affirmation and love that you really desired. In fact it’s been proven through research that most children will hear the word ‘no’ many more times than they ever receive the word ‘yes’.
Changing our lives therefore requires a deep need to reprogram our consciousness and focus away from what we ‘don’t want’ towards what we really ‘want’, and this simple question has the power to do that by allowing you to delve deep into your own consciousness and experience to find and acknowledge those moments where you were engaged in your best work and contribution in the world.
Best of all what you place your attention and focus on grows. So the more you direct your consciousness to moments where you have been your best, the more opportunity that there is for these moments to manifest and appear in your life.
2. Our Self-Worth Determines Our Net-Worth
Answering this question will also help you to connect to the moments where you’re self-worth and image were at their best. As you recall and bring to mind the experiences of your life that have filled you, that have inspired you that have allowed you to step from within the confines of your comfort zone into the light, you’ll also be activating new neural pathways that will literally re-program your mind and consciousness for greater success.
And as your self-image and self-worth expand they also directly impact your ability to attract and create greater levels of prosperity and purpose in your life.
3. Go Deep with Your Inquiry
There is something fascinating about the process of self-inquiry. As we continuously ask ourselves a question we can delve deep into the realm of our own consciousness to activate the presence of our soul. And it is here in the depth of our soul’s understanding of our lives that we have access to tremendous power and presence.
So take out a notepad and start by asking yourself this simple question above. Write down all your answers and then repeat the process. As you continuously ask the question of yourself and simply allow the answers within you to arise, you will begin to notice the energy and intent in the answers you receive change. They will often align with the following process:
Conscious Responses (what I think) –> Unconscious responses (what I feel) –> Soul Centred Responses (what is my real truth)
The deeper you go in your self-inquiry and process of ‘allowing’ your soul’s truth to arise, the greater the meaning and power behind the answers that you will receive.
4. Invoking an Energy of Self-Love and Appreciation
This question also has the capacity to connect you with a deeper sense of self-love, respect and appreciation for yourself.
When we choose to look at ourselves through the eyes of self-love and appreciation we open new door ways for self-empowerment and presence in our lives.
Therefore, if you want to take this process further. You may want to practice it in front of a mirror. Start by looking at yourself through the eyes of love, through the eyes of self-respect, through the eyes of compassion. Then begin to elicit the answers that come to mind. Each time you receive an insight love and respect yourself even more.
You already are a divine child of creation. The moment you answer this question with honesty and respect you embrace the truth that you already are ‘whole, perfect and complete as you are’. You embrace the understanding that you are a loved, valued and highly respected.
5. Catch and Cradle Your Moments of Magnificence
Asking this question on a daily basis and recording your answers in a journal or diary is one of the fastest ways to increase your personal energy, self-esteem and efficacy.
As best-selling author of the ‘Discover Your Strengths’ series, Marcus Buckingham says “we need to catch and cradle” our success on a regular basis.
So, if you want to take this question to the next level, why not embed it as part of your daily ritual and ask this question either at the beginning or end of your day.
Those who have shaped and created lives of greatness have done so by embracing daily habits of success in their lives. They literally have conditioned and taught themselves to ask more empowering questions, that generate more empowering and fruitful answers.
And answering this one question might just hold the key to unfolding and awakening your own potential for greatness today.
Les Price is a transformational life and business coach, author, speaker, intuitive and healer. If you feel you have been holding onto limiting patterns, emotions, feeling and blockages from the past that no longer serve you, and are looking for a safe environment to allow greater freedom and liberation into your life – contact our office to organise a consultation with Les.
3 Insights to Help You Gain Freedom from those Moments that Hold Your Life Back
As a transformational life coach, business coach, intuitive guide and energy healer, one of the most common patterns I see present with my clients is that of being stuck.
When we are stuck and being limited by an unconscious block or pattern it can seem like nothing in our lives is working. In fact it is often said that the “only different between a rut and a grave is the depth”, and while this statement may seem confronting for many, the reality is that energetically anything or anyone that is not growing, moving forward or realising its full potential, will at some level of consciousness be energetically dying, retreating and stagnating.
So, if these patterns of being ‘stuck’ and ‘inner-conflict’ are so common
how do we break-free and realise our true destiny?
How do we find the awareness, courage and insight to bring harmony and balance back to our being and allow our true energy, passion and vitality to flow again?
Well, here are some powerful insights and strategies to help you gain greater awareness of what might be holding you back, and at the same time lead you towards creating greater freedom in your life or business.
1 : What ‘Type of Stuck’ You Are Experiencing?
While all feelings of being stuck, held back or feeling blocked carry similar energetic traits, not all types of ‘stuck patterns’ are the same. Therefore, it helps to pay attention and gain greater awareness of the ‘type of stuck’ that you are experiencing in the moment. Here are just a few of the main one’s I have often seen presenting in clients and my own life.
A. Beliefs, Fear Patterns and Limiting Decisions
Have you ever seen a fly that has found itself stuck inside a room and then desperately seeks to escape via a closed window? If so, you’ll understand the consequence of limiting belief systems, fear patterns and limiting decisions.
Often characterised by an ‘upper limit’ problem or glass ceiling many of these patterns are unconscious and serve to keep us separated from our truth. Often run by the ego, they tend to manifest as patterns of protection, control or survival.
The key to freedom here is to identify the ego-based pattern or limitation, release it, and then install a more empowering pattern that is based on your soul truth, spirit and true being.
B. Core Choice and Indecision Points
Many times, we can simply find ourselves stuck because we have reached a critical decision or choice point in our lives. Resonant of the image of a ‘fork in the road’, when we have two or more alternatives, it can be difficult leaving what we have known in the past, in order to embrace a new future.
However, these soul-defining points are critical for our soul’s progress and offer us the greatest opportunities for transformation and growth. The key here is to learn to make these decisions based on the courage, strength and certainty of our higher self, not from the place of our fear-based ego or scared inner-child.
C. Conflicts in Values Between our Spirit and Ego
Those who have been on a spiritual or personal growth quest will know those moments where we need to choose between our ego-based needs/desires/fears, and the calling of our true spirit.
For example, we may find ourselves desiring to make more money, but find ourselves in conflict with another part of ourselves that fears if we had too much money people might not love or accept us anymore.
While many believe we must get rid of the ego in order to be free, the truth is that our ego serves an important purpose in our lives, especially when it is aligned and working for us. It is therefore in learning how to have our ego and spirit work together that we can create great strides in our personal and professional progress.
D. End of a Cycle or Season
Sometimes we may find ourselves at the end of a season or cycle in our lives that brings us to a point of uncertainty. In these moments it can seem like what we held dear in the past is gone, and yet the new is still to arrive. These voids or plateaus in our lives offer an incredible opportunity for growth, refocusing and alignment.
In the voids of our lives we are being challenged to look deeper into our soul for what is trying to manifest. Like a newly planted seed, we may have to look under the covers to discover the growth and opportunity that awaits us. And sometimes we also will need to call on our patience as we wait out the gestation period, paying attention to the new growth and ways of being that are about to sprout.
2 : Change Your Paradigm
Often changing our ‘stuck’ or ‘blocked states’ simply requires a paradigm shift in our thinking and perception. Here are just a few shifts that you might consider making:
A. Sometimes we Need to Change Who We Are
There is an interesting story in the bible of Moses who was leading the Israelites out of slavery from Egypt, into the promised land. After many years of wandering the desert, an angel came down to Moses and the Israelites and said, “It’s time to leave this mountain”. Up until that point they had spent years going around in circles due to the old belief systems that they refused to let go of.
In many ways, the Israelites need for certainty and security convinced them that slavery might in fact be a better option than walking through a desert to find their freedom.
The key here was that the promised land was less than 100km away. So, while Moses was trying to get the Israelites out of Egypt, somehow, he couldn’t get Egypt (the past) out of the Israelites and this is what kept them stuck.
To create a new destiny, we will be called to release our past, and change the way we choose to see ourselves.
B. Honour Your Confusion
Have you ever found yourself in a place where you were confused?
Each of us are highly intuitive beings. In each moment we are receiving incredible guidance. So why then do we find ourselves in states where we become stuck?
The key is to realise that confusion is often the result of our heart trying to give us a message that our mind or brain does not understand. It’s in these moments that we need to stop struggling and instead, go inside, speak to our heart’s wise and innate intelligence and discover what it is trying to tell us.
C. Find the Blessing in Your Stuck State
Every behaviour or emotional pattern at its core is trying to serve or help us in some way. Therefore, even your ‘stuck state’ holds a gift and blessing for you, if you would find the courage to go within, seek awareness, and fully discover its highest intent for your life.
So, take a moment to simply ask:
What is the highest intent or purpose of this feeling stuck? How is it serving me?
What am I concerned would happen if it were no longer a problem?
3 : Key Insights for a Break-Through When You’re Stuck
Here are 5 insights that will help you navigate your way out of ego, fear and being stuck, and help create the environment and freedom for you to thrive:
A. Simply Move
It’s often difficult to ‘think our way’ out of a stuck state, because many of our ‘stuck patterns’ are held physically or energetically in our bodies.
Therefore, the greatest gift you can give yourself when you find yourself stuck is to simply move! Go for a run, go do some yoga, go for a walk and get some fresh air or go for a swim at the beach.
Movement has the power of getting us out of the head, and freeing our energy to flow again, and it is often in our times of movement that we receive our greatest breakthroughs and inspirations.
B. Make a Choice
If you’ve found yourself at a cross-road, then it’s time to get over analysis-paralysis and simply make a choice. After all, sitting on the fence will only give you splinters!
However, we’ve been conditioned in life to think that when we make choices there are ‘good choices’ and ‘bad choices’, success or failure. However, in any situation the worst thing you can do is make no choice. By learning to let go of your attachment to the outcome and entering your heart space you will begin to ‘feel’ which one of your choices appears the most appropriate for you now.
C. Unpack Your Consciousness
If you find yourself going around in circles, then it may be time to unload and unpack your consciousness. While the mind is a powerful tool for helping us make analytical decisions, when it comes to trust, movement and creativity, it comes second to the heart.
Therefore, if you find yourself overwhelmed mentally, get a notebook and simply write all your feelings, thoughts, stories, decisions – and allow them to be unpacked onto the page in-front of you. This process is a little like closing all the open application windows on your PC at home. Its about getting back to a fresh screen with nothing being held on it.
Then simply close your notebook and go to sleep on the problem or issue that you have in mind. Many solutions to great problems were discovered during or after the sleep state. Therefore, you might even want to seed your consciousness with a question you would like your subconscious to answer as you sleep.
D. Go Play
Yes, that’s right. I want you to go out and play!
While this strategy may seem contradictory to the outcome you are trying to achieve, have you ever noticed that as a child, the moment you engaged play in your life, it freed you to become more creative, more open and more resourceful?
There is something magical when we enter a state of play. We let go of all expectations. We become present in the moment. We let go of forcing things to happen and being tied to an outcome.
And it’s usually in these moments that our soul and spirit have the capacity to weave their magic and show us new pathways to freedom, providence and happiness.
E. Seek Wise Counsel
I know first-hand how frustrating it can be to be stuck in our own world. As a therapist, coach and healer myself, it can be hard working on our ‘own stuff’ because we are so attached to it. While we may think we have all the tools, and have read all the books, there still comes a times when we need to seek outside help and wise counsel.
That’s why I surround myself with practitioners I resonate with and respect. People I can turn to when I need wise counsel or need to bounce something important off them.
While our ego’s might convince us that we can do it ourselves, that we’ll handle it. The reality is that when something is not working in our lives, and we keep hitting brick walls, its time to call out for help.
A wise counsel can often help you get through and navigate your stuck states more effectively, therefore freeing you to do and experience the work and life that you were truly created to live.
Les Price is a transformational life and business coach, author, speaker, intuitive and healer. If you feel you have been holding onto limiting patterns, emotions, feeling and blockages from the past that no longer serve you, and are looking for a safe environment to allow greater freedom and liberation into your life – contact our office to organise a consultation with Les.
Now, I know that might seem like an unexpected way to start an empowering and inspiring blog post but …
On the weekend I found myself doing some healing, hypnotherapy, emotional clearing and counselling with a close friend who has recently been diagnosed with cancer.
As you can imagine our time together was a mix of emotions that ranged from anger, to frustration, sadness, regret, possibility, hope and a fighting spirit. But the one thing that stood out the most to me was how clear, authentic and real our conversation together was.
While our lives may not always be easy, I believe that the greatest gift we each have is the choice to step into our vulnerability, to acknowledge it, to allow it, and to find the courage to move beyond it.
In the midst of my friend’s vulnerability there was great power
In the midst of my friends vulnerability there was the possibility of peace and healing
In the midst of my friend’s vulnerability there was the need to ask for help and support
“Wherever we are in life we all need the support of like-minded friends
who have the capacity to look beyond our personality – and to love and accept us
as the magnificent souls that we truly are.”
What Do We All Need?
Most of all we need people in our circle of influence that have the
self-awareness and capacity to:
Hold us to a higher standard of being
Help us acknowledge our true gifts, talents and abilities
See us as we truly are – without the need for masks and deception
Help us find strength and belief in ourselves – when we simply cannot
Love us unconditionally – with all our flaws, warts and inadequacies
“We must have the courage to embrace our greatest fears,
to accept our limitations and imperfections. For only then will we will find the true path to
healing, self-love and purposefulness.”
We Are All ‘Perfectly Imperfect’
If there’s one great lesson I have learned along this amazing journey called ‘life’ it’s that we’re all imperfectly perfect. While the fear of humiliation and judgement may often keep us from sharing our most intimate challenges – the reality is that we are all in the process of ‘becoming’. None of us have arrived yet, and none of us are any better or worse than the other.
So today I’d like you to look for that one thing about yourself that you’ve been hiding – and all I want you to do is love it. Yes – love it! Love it so much that you literally squeeze the fear out of it. Love it so much that you begin to know at the core of your being that it’s ok for you to just be you.
But don’t just listen to me…
Take a moment today to watch this great TED video on
The Power of Vulnerability by Dr. Brene Brown.
When you’re done watching it – go out and find someone you trust, respect and love and share your vulnerability with them. In doing so you’ll probably find that you’re not alone in this world … and just the act of sharing will help lift a weight of your mind, body, soul and spirit.
And like my friend who is unwell … you may just find that the cause of your stress and dis-ease has simply been ‘the stuff’ that you have carried with you your entire life – but that you have been too afraid to let go of.
The message for today … Let it go!
And remember …
It takes courage to say I don’t know
It takes courage to ask for help
It takes courage to admit I got it wrong
It takes courage to forgive ourselves
It takes courage to love ourselves completely (warts and all!)
Les Price is an intuitive soul coach, hypnotherapist and transformational energy healer. If you feel you have been holding onto limiting patterns, emotions, feeling and blockages from the past that no longer serve you, and are looking for a safe environment to allow greater freedom and liberation into your life – then contact our office today to organise a consultation with Les.
Wow … how exciting! Have you realised that we’ve entered a brand new gateway to another year that is so full of possibility, opportunity and potential for helping us live more fully from our highest life and soul purpose?
A New Year … And So Much New Potential
Like many people around the world I had a chance to take some time over the Christmas holiday period to simply rest, replenish and set a new foundation for the year ahead. I often find that the quiet period between Christmas and New Year is perfect time for doing a short ‘life review’, and starting to get clear on intentions, outcomes and pathway forward for the year ahead.
However this year I found myself being really challenged. Because no matter ‘how hard I tried’ to review my personal goals and business plan, I just couldn’t seem to connect with the true passion and purpose that I know helps ‘light my inner-fire’ and fuels me forward towards happiness and joy.
Now, I’m not sure if you’ve ever experienced moments like this in your life??
Moments where you felt dis-engaged from true purpose?
Or where you found parts of yourself in conflict with each other?
Creating a New Life with New Meaning
The good news is you are not alone! Even the most successful, inspired and dynamic people on the planet find themselves in the ‘valleys’ of life, waiting for the next breath of air to lift them back up the mountain of purpose, meaning and fulfillment.
Serendipitously, in the moment of my own ‘valleyness’ (yes that is a word that I just invented!) I came across some notes on the unfolding of personal ‘Entelechy’ that inspired me back to purpose!
defn. Entelechy – Meaning the realisation of potential.
The condition of a thing whose essence is fully realised.
A vital force that directs an organism towards self-fulfilment.
You see … every living organism on the planet has its own innate intelligence and potential. Just as the entelechy of the acorn seed is to grow into a large oak tree, just as the small green caterpillar will one day transform into the magnificent Ulysess Butterfly, you too have a program for great success, happiness and meaningfulness programmed within you. This often hidden, yet innate potential is usually found at the intersection of your own personal sweet spot i.e. what you love to do, your innate talents and gifts, and your soul purpose and desires.
At a deep level of being there is an aspect of your soul and spirit that already knows your highest purpose. Often for most people it is simply our conditioned fears, self-doubts and limiting beliefs that keep us separated from realising our own greatness and purpose.
What Aristotle Knew about Potentiality
Greek philosopher and scientist Aristotle was one of the great proponents of Entelechy. He realised that who we are is much more than just our physical body. That among the cells, organs and tissue is a far greater organising power – a subtle but powerful essence that permeates our entire consciousness. When our soul truly connects with this essence we become alive, our inner-flame is fanned into being, our work takes on a higher and more important level of meaning, and we become truly alive again.
So as we start 2015 how can we engage more of our own personal entelechy? How can we align ourselves over the next 12 months towards action and inspiration that is aligned with our highest good? And most importantly, how can you ‘Live More Fully from Your Purpose’?
I’d like to encourage you to take just 5 minutes from your ‘busy-ness’ to contemplate the following questions.
What’s my true essence?(i.e. Who are you really? Who are you being guided to become?)
What’s my blessing?(i.e. How am I being called to use my gifts/talents to make a difference?)
What’s my mission?(i.e. What am I here to do? How am I here to serve and create value?)
Each of these questions will help you to connect more deeply with your own Entelechy – your soul’s higher organising power.
Write the answers down.
Keep them with you.
Remind yourself often of their importance to you.
Let them become the guiding star by which you make all your important decisions this year.
Let them become the sail by which capture the heart of success, happiness and prosperity and that guide you vessel to a new and more meaningful destination this year.
So, what’s your essence?
What’s the true essence of your soul that seeks to express itself in 2015?
I’d love to know. So make sure to post and share your thoughts with us here online.
Having trouble connecting with your own life purpose, destiny and passion? Wanting to break-free of old emotional baggage, doubts, fears and self-limitations that are holding you back? Or simply want to take your life, focus and results to a new level?
A transformational healing, guidance, coaching or mentoring session with Les will help you find and create your own pathway to greater success with grace, ease and lightness. Contact our office to organise a personal, online or Skype consultation with Les today.
Are you capitalising on your unique gifts, talents and abilities?
Are you presenting to life each day – knowing you are flowing in your mastery?
Just recently I was doing an intuitive reading and guidance session for a client who wanted to know more about their life and career path for this life time.
It’s a question that I am often asked in my coaching, mentoring and guidance sessions because everyone wants to live a more meaningful and purposeful life. Now more than at any time in history individuals like your self are being called, and almost ‘pushed’ to step up, own their own power and share their personal message and life story.
So whether you are in business, or just seeking to find greater happiness and fulfilment in your own life, realise that the moment for living your purpose is NOW. In this instant, in this moment, you have the opportunity to embrace the gift of life that you have been given, and the ability to not only change your own life, but in doing so make a significant difference in your world.
Your Life Is Your Message
It was the famous Indian civil rights campaigner Mohandas Gandhi who brought greater attention to the possibility that maybe “our life was indeed our message”.
Within each and every one of us is a unique tapestry, a unique and glorious story of endurance, of learning to love self, of overcoming hurdles and obstacles that only we, and our souls, have chosen to experience in this lifetime.
The key however, is that your unique story is GOLD. It is the stuff that everyone who calls themselves human may go through in a lifetime. It contains the lessons and revelations that can set your soul and spirit free – to be who you are, free from the expectations, desires and beliefs of others.
Award winning Canadian/American actor Michael J Fox was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 1991. Since then he has used the experience to be a prime advocate for raising awareness and money for this debilitating condition.
While actor, film director, producer and screenwriter Christopher Reeve, renowned for his role as Superman, became a quadriplegic after being thrown from a horse in 1995. Christopher later went on to become a prominent international speaker, and campaigner for stem-cell research and funding for those with disabilities.
How amazing that at some level of consciousness, a man who played the role of someone with super-human abilities, would find themselves in the extreme opposite position, but still harness the power, the belief and spirit of certainty within themselves, to inspire and move other human beings to action – through love?
Flowing in Your Mastery
Apart from the hardships, obstacles and challenges, all of us have also experienced times in our lives where we were just ‘flowing in our own mastery’. The times that we are so connected and engaged in what we are doing, through a perspective of self-less love and service, doing what brings us immense joy, that time seems to slip away, that we become almost one with the moment, and through which some ‘greater force’ seems to flow through us.
Many in our world have started to awaken to the possibility, that maybe, just maybe, we were placed here on this Earth for a reason. That maybe when we are engaged in using our talents, gifts and abilities for a greater good, for a good outside of ourselves that magic has the opportunity to break down the door, and show us the path to a greater freedom, happiness and fulfilment.
Flowing in our mastery therefore becomes the intersection, the union of three self-paths.
The Path of Personal Love – what ignites us, what inspires us and fills our souls with happiness
The Path of Personal Purpose – the ability to use our gifts and talents in ways that bring greater meaning and purpose to our lives
The Path of Personal Service – the place where we are making a difference and contributing to the people, places, organisations and causes that we are most passionate about.
Distilling Your Core Essence – Finding Your Sweet Spot
All great tennis players and golfers know that in their respective sports there is a moment of contact made between racquet/club and the ball, where the contact is pure, whole and complete. Destined in many ways for complete perfection – the way the club or racquet was designed and crafted best to operate.
So too, you have a personal sweetspot. A place of pure essence, of uniqueness, of divine perfection within from which your highest work flows. The great masters, leaders and teachers of our time, were great because they simply found their sweet spot, and then found ways that they could encompass it regularly in their lives. They literally lived from a place of pure core essence.
So how do you distil your core essence? How do you find and captivate your personal sweetspot in life? How do you awaken your personal charism or unique note that you are here to share?
After many years of doing coaching, mentoring and reading sessions with clients one great truth seems to be evident. At the core of our souls and beings – we already have a sense of our ‘core essence’. It has usually been a part of our life journey and has continued to unfold along the way.
Exploring Your Life Story
So here are some questions that will help you engage in a personal dialogue. A personal mining expedition into your own soul. A journey to discover your own path:
What were the moments that illuminated your soul?
What were the moments that created greatest challenge? What did you learn? Who were your being encouraged to become?
When were you engaged with your highest and greatest work?What needed to happen in your environment to create this
What is a story of struggle from you past which you overcame?
What is the lesson or message from this story that you most need to share?
Permission to Be the Best You that You Can Be
Finally, remember, this life has been given to you as a gift. Seek within to find your own answers, your own path, and know and trust that your life is no accident.
Recently rum company Barcadi promoted a famous quote of Oscar Wilde that read …
“Just be yourself; Because everyone else is taken!”
In this new age of consciousness, we are now starting to realise that we don’t need to be carbon copies of everyone else. That it is indeed our uniqueness, our differences that make us valuable.
Living in your greatness therefore becomes a different quest. A quest to stand out from the crowd and own our difference.
Each of us has been given a different life experience for a purpose. When you awaken the power of gratitude to be thankful for even the most challenging experiences, then like Michael J Fox or Christopher Reeve, you may just open the door to your greatest gift in this lifetime.
