Boosting

Your Self Love and How You Feel About Yourself

Do you practice self love?

I do and my whole being likes a good pep talk! Tuning in to how your whole being feels. From your mental awareness to your mood to your body language. Your breathing and posture can tell you a lot about your current state of being too! 

Do you know how amazing of a being you truly are! You have everything you need from within to handle life’s moments and life’s adventures, from the happiest to the most challenging. How you discover that is by listening to the inner you!

• Your beliefs, values and virtues.
• Your respect and trust.
• Your intuition and wisdom.
• Your gifts and talents.
• Your gratitude and appreciation.

Remember to reflect on and focus in on nourishing and nurturing your whole being! How to feel better in your whole, well being. How to be the best you can be. Most of all love you for you!

Remember to learn and try new things! Be present to what you are truly experiencing. Tune into your mindful awareness and really focus in, especially on the here and now. Tap into that passion and empowerment as well as that motivation and drive. Practice and learn each and every day!

Sometimes I feel like I need to speed up and sometimes I feel like I need to slow down! I find I make better decisions and choices in slowing down. To think and to process. To quiet the noise to gain clarity. To become more aware and pay attention to what I need!

Think about pleasing yourself as well as forgiving yourself! Find that confidence to boost yourself and make your whole being feel its best. Find that trust to build yourself and engage your instincts. Discover your whys in your needs and do it for you!

Think about that internal validation from yourself versus the external validation from others! Own your decisions. Validate. Own your feelings and emotions. Empowerment. Own your passions and dreams. Owe it to yourself to be the true, real person that you are!

Remember to communicate and connect with yourself! To build. To cultivate. To challenge. To just be and show up for YOU!

(Photos by RSheridan)

Remember to Pause, Breathe Deep and Really Listen to What Your Whole Being Needs! Tune Into Your Self-Talk and Truly Listen!

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A Different Type of Core

That Keeps You Healthy & Well

“An Apple a Day Keeps the Doctor Away!” That is one way to get to the core of the matter. However, there is another core that matters. Your core!

The exercise studio I have been going to for two years now really opened my eyes and awareness to the function of my core.

***Please note I am not a doctor or health professional. I am writing about my personal experiences. Thank You!***

The Core

Your core is more than your abs and stomach. Your core matters to your strength and overall health and wellness. Your whole body is connected through your core.

Who knew there was so many layers as well as deep layers of the core. This blew my mind! In focusing on your core you perform movements more safely and effectively.

I have learned that your core does matter in ALL that you do!

The Pelvic Floor

I remember first starting out and the instructor talking about our pelvic floor. It was so nonchalant and just put out into the open. I was thinking to myself who talks about the functioning of one’s pelvic floor. I thought I was pretty open about my body until the pelvic floor was openly talked about!

A pelvic floor that is properly strengthened has health benefits. It helps with prevention, pain and discomfort and dysfunctions. It helps with your overall core strength and that helps your body move and be in motion, including improving your posture!

There are many aspects when it comes to being open about your body and being body aware! One is being comfortable with who you are and how you feel in your body!

Think about how you simply hold yourself up throughout the day!

Benefits

One benefit is more effective breathing! Really knowing how to inhale and exhale. Especially when engaging your core and connecting to the deep layers of the core. Breathing helps release stress and tension as well as clears your mind and body!

Stress affects your whole being! When to release, respond or react by tuning into your self awareness. Tapping into your self care tool kit to protect yourself. A great stress reliever as well as self care is how you use movement (i.e. standing, stretching, taking deep breathes, going for a walk, etc.)!

My biggest take away! Slowing down while practicing. In using control and a smaller range of motion your help yourself create stability and strength throughout your whole being. Injury prevention is key to being a healthy and well being too.

Learning Lessons

Lessons I Have Learned . . .

• I breath better. I am learning how to maintain my stress level.
• I have become more in tune to my whole being, especially in how my body moves. I decrease my range of motion and focus in on my core activation.
• I have learned to tap into my body’s energy through practicing.
• I create power for my whole being through my energies and increasing my strength and stamina.
• I have learned how to use and engage my body in everything I do, especially posture, movement and motion.
• I can create space and lengthen my whole body. I am practicing and learning how to lengthen properly and safely.
• I am seeing results in my tone, movement, posture, etc.

(Photos by RSheridan)

My quality of life has changed for the better too! I am continuing to practice and learn . . . From core connection to strengthening the pelvic floor to breathing and everything in between!

What Are Your Learning and Practicing? Love to Hear, Please Share!

Practicing Activity

One Step At A Time . . .

Here’s a challenge for you.

Do the thing you are most likely to procrastinate on and maybe place it in the first position to tackle for the day!

Especially if that thing is something you have put off and keep putting off! At times you feel so much better after tackling it. You may even feel a little lighter and freer too!

Another fun way to practice activity is doing something that you have been wanting to do! Make time to act on it and just do it. Make it a bi-weekly or monthly intention too!

• Experiment and explore.
• Wonder and wander.
• Learn and grow.
• Create and color outside the lines.
• Inspire and engage.
• Movement and involvement.
• Motivation and energy.

(Photos by RSheridan)

Love to Hear What You Have Been Up To, Please Share!!!

Happy Medium

Finding “IT” . . .

Connection versus Disconnection

A Sense of Belonging versus Isolation

How does one be a “social being” in a technological advancing world? To communicate and interact. To connect and engage. To find a common ground.

Grounding . . . Balancing . . . Connecting . . .

Where does that balance come into play between interactions with technology versus face-to-face? Balancing the real world with the virtual world.

I have been hearing a few buzz words lately that peaked my curiosity. Emotional intelligence, positivity, empathy, etc. I am curious. What do these words mean to you?

In one way I find it a little old school and in another way I am glad it is being brought to the forefront again. It got me thinking about finding that happy medium between face-to-face versus tech interactions. How does one find “it”! Especially with technology at our fingertips!

• Are we time saving or time wasting?
• Do you think we need to tune into and tap into our emotional intelligence, positivity and empathy?

Especially when it comes to those artificial intelligence interactions!

Can You Hear It?

I also see it as a way to perceive and look at all sides! To try and take the judgement and bias out of it. To gain a deeper understanding. To better inform your responses and actions!

Empathy is a way to identify with different types of people. Communicating, interacting and even connecting with others, our communities and with the world around us. Being open and cultivating understanding. Taking the time to listen with those conversations and interactions with others.

• Listening, observing, focusing.
• Being patient.
• Asking questions to gain insight.
• Opening the dialogue to improve communication and connection.
• Making an environment more warm and welcoming as well as comfortable and relaxed.
• Problem solving and decision making.
• Practicing empathy towards others as well as for yourself.

Exploring . . . Opening . . . Being . . .

It is very much about being a teacher as well as being a student.

• Learning to understand more about yourself and who you are. From your abilities and skills to your attributes and performance.
• Learning your communication style to build better relationships. From your responses and reactions to your social and soft graces.
• Practicing flexibility and humility. From your traits and habits to your emotions and behaviors.
• Connecting to your personal identity and emotional intelligence. From logic to emotional and in between with your whole being, especially with your mind set and physical being.

Learning . . . Growing . . . Experiencing . . . (Photos by RSheridan)

Love to Hear Your Thoughts, Please Share!

Manifesting Love

Love Sweet Love

We all search and seek out love! How do you manifest love for yourself? How about others, especially your greatest someones?

• To love and be loved.
• To give and to receive.
• To belong and be a part of something.

How do you open your heart as well as your mind to receive the love you are searching and seeking?

• Knowing what you want and why.
• Learning to forgive, especially yourself.
• Learning how to be open to receive what you want.
• Learning to release and let go of what is no longer serving you.
• Stretching . . . experiencing . . . growing . . .

Really think about shifting gears! Coming from a place of love versus fear. Getting the mind and the heart together as one team. Believing, valuing and trusting yourself by being who you are!

Knowing

Do you know what you want and why! What do you want to receive? What do you want to give? A key piece in manifesting is getting clear on exactly what it is you want and the reasoning behind it (aka the why?)!

• What is your practice? Coming from a place of love in following your heart.
• What is your focus? Being clear on why you want what you want.
• What is your passion? Doing more of what you love.
• What is your purpose? Tuning and tapping into your hopes and wishes as well as your dreams and desires.

Learning

Learning to forgive and letting go of the guilt in being and doing for YOU! You will start to open up more. You will start to attract more of what you want. In being more open and in attracting more of what you want you will open yourself to the possibilities and opportunities!

What are you opening to? Involve your mind and heart and whole being. Engage your senses and feelings. Imagine and envision. In knowing what it is you want you bring that into your life by manifesting, attracting, going for it, and doing it! 

Practicing and learning to release and let go! Especially of what is no longer working for you or serving your best interest. This is not so easy when you want to be the one in control! Think about how you can be more open to receiving what you want.

• Being curious and exploring.
• Adventuring and trying new things.
• Being flexible in order to shift, transition and just adapt.
• Learning, developing and experiencing growth.
• Stretching yourself and your whole being from the inside out.
• Gaining those life experiences and lifetime memories.
• Expressing what you want and why!

(Photos by RSheridan)

 Love to Hear How You Are Manifesting Love For Your Whole Well Being and Your Greatest Someones. Please Share.

The Learning Path

Staying The Course

There is nothing better than when the pieces click into place! That feeling of enlightenment and lightness. That feeling of freedom with a twist of enchantment. That feeling of being proud of yourself for doing it, going through the experience and accomplishing it!

You are more open to expand, especially in your personal development and growth! Oh the possibilities and the opportunities. The creativity. The connection you have to yourself, to others and to the world you live in.

Think about how lucky and how blessed you are to experience those moments that become a part of you! That help you learn, grow and experience. That make you smile and laugh! That help you just be and to be mindful and present. That give you pure bliss, joy and happiness!  

• You have to seek what you need and want as well as what you dream and desire.
• You have to be open to the opportunities and be willing to learn, grow and experience.
• You have to learn how to believe and value as well as love and trust yourself.
• You have to tune into your inner voice and tap into your inner self.
• You have to nurture and nourish your whole well being.

It is wonderful when your inner being finds its voice again. It is amazing when your inner guidance system kicks in and you begin sending and receiving. It is amazing when you live your life by giving your inner being the opportunity to shine from within.

Remember to find your learning path to stay on course in those good times as well as the challenging times! To come from a place of love to follow your heart. To let your inner self guide by shining through to provide much needed light. To remind yourself to journey along and not rush or race from destination to destination!

(Photos by RSheridan)

What are you grateful for? For Oh So Much! Love to Hear, Please Share.

Go On An Adventure

Discover Time

When was the last time you went on an adventure? At least weekly for me, especially in escaping to the Great Outdoors.

Are you one that makes every outing an adventure? At times for me.

Are you one that finds fun in everything? I really try to.

Get Curious and Explore

A great way to get active and motivated as well as stimulated and engaged! Check out the sights and the happenings. Find the excitement, joy and pleasure in the small, simple and new! Refreshing and renewing too.

I love a good stroll to peak my curiosity and stimulate my inner explorer. Outdoor play is a fun way to get the exercise in too.

Good for the whole being!

Exploring

Finding the Light

I look, seek and even crave the natural light upon waking in the morning. Plus I find spending time outside helps me sleep better too.

Natural Light

Tapping Into Your Senses

• Your sense of self
• Your creative self
• Your five senses

Sense of Self

Creative Self

Engage Your 5 Senses (Photos by RSheridan)

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Resilience

Self Building

Accepting who you are helps you build the foundation to learn, grow and gain experiences!

• To expand yourself versus keeping yourself small.
• Doing what is best for you versus perfection and what is right.
• To making mistakes and having failures and learning from those experiences.
• To celebrating the successes and the milestones.

A key piece in being a resilient being is to value who you are as well as believe and trust in yourself! That self acceptance and self respect. That self love and self forgiveness. Being there for YOU!

Think about building yourself up versus breaking yourself down to develop, improve and be the best you can be.

• Being your biggest encourager, motivator and cheerleader.
• Discovering more about who you are and how you tick.
• Looking into the expectations you have and the standards you set for yourself.
• Creating space to experience development and growth.
• Being more resilient and developing your coping skills toolkit.
• Changing . . . weaknesses to strengths . . . learning lessons into life experiences, etc.

Learning good self talk to inspire and motivate as well as encourage and cheer yourself on! Think about how you criticize, judge and interrograte yourself, especially those things that have become habits. Make good changes that work best for your whole being! Remember to do a self check of your whole being, including your current mood, ego and attitude. Become more loving, caring and kind in your self talk!

Learning to create space and set boundaries for yourself in order to show self value and self worth in how you want to be treated! You start tuning into your whole being in listening to it and knowing what it needs. You start to come from a place of love instead of fear. You start to know what matters to you and what is most important in living your life fully!

Learning to bounce back is a great life skill to practice, learn and develop! It can be a building process as well as a freeing process. You find better ways to communicate, interact and connect to your whole being. You go after what you need and what works best for you!

(Photos by RSheridan)

 How Do You Strengthen Your Resilience? How Do You Build Up Your Whole Being? Love to Hear, Please Share.

Everything Is Connected

The Act of Practicing

Practicing and learning go hand in hand! A few years back I stopped practicing and just went into learning mode. I could not figure out at times while all this learning was not helping me in living my life. Duh! – I forgot to practice! Practicing allows you to try things out, test them out and see if it is truly something you want to pursue or not. Why waste your time doing something that you are not passionate about and love doing, right!

Connecting = Practicing + Learning

This speaks volumes to me because I now know it is true! 

“You see that everything is connected, and realize that you weren’t off track. You were in training.”~Shannon Kaiser

• What are you practicing?
• What are you learning?
• What have you learned?
• What have you been given?

Everything is connected to help you in the next phase of living your life!

• Making a commitment to yourself to do for you.
• Cultivating your hopes, wishes and dreams.  
• Finding your gifts and talents.
• Discovering your loves and passions.

Being Curious

Remember to follow your curiosity! I learn so much when I am open to being curious about things. I find inspiration, passion and interest! 

I am practicing to act on my inspirations, passions and interests more by . . .

• Stretching my comfort zone.
• Trying new things.
• Learning and growing.
• Exploring and adventuring.
• Experiencing and living.

Say “YES” to trying something new!

Unleashing Imagination

I can unleash my imagination! I like routine, but not when every minute is scheduled. I like technology, but not when every minute is consumed. I have to escape and let myself be free at least once a week!

I can get creative and just let my whole being unplug, unwind and unwrap itself! It feels so good to find that communication, interaction and connection with my whole being again. It feels good to recharge with those creative juices. It is such a free experiencing to tap into that creativity and just let it flow!

Say “YES” to creative time!

Making Time/Spending Time

I lose track of time in doing what I love! It brings me joy and happiness. I find I give myself more time to do what I love too!

“ASK” yourself what brings you joy!

(Photos by RSheridan)

 Love To Hear About Your Aha! Connection With Yourself, Please Share!

Reaching Out

To Stretch Yourself & Expand Your Life

My journey of self in 2015 made me more aware of who I am; being true to who I am and being myself!

Practicing . . .

• I practiced releasing and letting go, especially the perfection and rightness.
• I practiced being present and mindful.
• I practiced resetting and creating the newness again.
• I practiced to progress to learn, grow and experience.

I focused on how my life feels versus how it looks! Talk about a freeing experience. I can either practice balancing, holding on or letting go! 

Everything is a process as well as everything is connected! Practicing . . . Learning . . . Growing . . . Experiencing . . . Accepting what is in order to know I am where I need to be right now, especially in who I am!

Creating . . .

Learning . . .

• I learned about humility.
• I learned to dream and desire.
• I learned to come from a place of love.

I do not have it figured out and I do not want to have it figured out! I am okay with taking it one step and one moment at a time. I am right where I need to be on my path journeying along! There does not need to be a destination. Conquer Today because each and every day is a TRUE GIFT to unwrap, revel in, cherish, and most of all celebrate!

Another lesson in humility is learning that getting what I wanted was not what I always needed! MIND BLOW & MIND BLOWN!!!

Journeying . . .

I learned to get out of my head and follow my heart! Coming from a place of love is better than letting my fears override how I live my life. Believing and trusting in myself again. Nurturing and nourishing my whole being. Tuning into and tapping into my emotions, feelings and thoughts. Learning that my head and my heart need to collaborate instead of pin one against the other! Share the wisdom with my heart and that love with my head and my mind. Let my whole being discover, play and have fun!

My greatest someones are my greatest gifts of love! Family and friends are the most important piece of journeying along and experiencing what life has to offer. The care and the support. The true act and expression of unconditional love! 

Experiencing . . . (Photos by RSheridan)

What Are You Practicing and Learning? Love to Hear, Please Share!