Aspire Magazine: Inspiration for a Woman's Soul.(TM) Feb/March 2018 Aspire Mag Full Issue: Inner Prospe | Page 62

Listening to your heart finding out who
you are, what your truth is and having the
courage to follow that is about taking the
time to quiet down all the chatter around
and within you. In this sacred space, you
will begin to feel, see and sense your inner
knowing. You will develop and enhance your
intuition to hear that truth and understand it
with greater clarity.
In our day-to-day life, it is easy to forget to
do this and work off of auto-pilot. When you
do, your attention gets diverted, and you will
begin to take action by default. Reacting
to life this way, ultimately, will lead you into
choices that are not for your highest good
and takes you off the path of truth that allows
us to be who we truly are.
When you develop and practice this skill,
this truth becomes easy to access. Hearing
this truth, which has always been there but
in hiding waiting for you to see and hear it,
becomes a way of life. Much like any skill
does that you put into practice! And, this
truth is essential to being on the path to joy
and abundance.
There are several ways to use to
begin to hear this truth within:
JOURNALING: gives you time and space
to recognize what you are
saying to yourself and what
you are avoiding hearing. It
offers the chance for you to
fully see how you are reacting to things and
embracing others and uncover and lead by
the beauty that is within your soul.
MEDITATION: by quieting the mind and
being still, you can hear the whispers of your
soul with greater ease. A simple strategy, to
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begin with, is to sit peacefully focusing on
your breath. Allow any thought that comes
through your mind to be parked to the side.
After a time, you feel, sense and even see,
an answer that comes from within.
MINDFULNESS: by listening to what you are
saying to yourself and asking if that is your
truth, you will begin to understand how your
mind may be playing with you. Yare able to
decode what is ego-speak and what is wise-
talk from within.
WALKING IN NATURE: There is no better
space than a walk in
nature that allows chatter
around you to quiet down.
Here in the calm, away
from the hustle and bustle of life, you
uncover hidden horizons that allow your
innate wisdom to flow.
MANTRAS: by using mantras (or simply
repeating a sound like Ommmm) clears the
clutter out of our heads that tries to guide
us in the wrong direction (all the should and
would’s that we repeat). By using a mantra,
it quiets that misguided inner voice and
allows the truth to come up from within.
Aromatherapy ~ scent allows us to step out
of our ego-self and wrap ourselves in the
trail to our truth. By using our senses, we
align ourselves with our inner being. We
stop the chaos and reconnect to our inner
self.
SOUND: again, by using our senses, we
align ourselves with our
inner being. Remember
how you feel when a music
with a good beat comes
on? It brings us back to a natural rhythm.
Drumming and using chimes can do this
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