Breaking Autopilot's Podcast

Well, how did Ebb and Flow work out in 2019? What happened to my zen balance when thwarted with breast cancer again, returning to work full-time, and loosening self care. Did I have a nervous breakdown? Did I chuck it all and go on a retreat? How do I feel at the end of this Ebb & Flow season? .. spoiler.. I'm doing great, but it wasn't easy and I didn't do it alone!

It's time to close this podcast, where I shared my thoughts and cycles to break my own autopilot and live intentionally. It's time to ebb and flow in what is somewhat a full circle. May you be encouraged that you are more than you see on the surface, that you are enough in your choices, and that perspective and attitude can change your life. Enjoy this crazy beautiful life! Follow H3Grace on instagram for further encouragement and engagement. Fly!

I feel so happy I could laugh and float to the ceiling like in "Mary Poppins movie". I can move from my heart and not understand why that seed is planted, but just follow it. It's okay however it turns out and I worry less about what others think. It's all coming together and I didn't plan the details and that's what crazy. I set intentions and showed up to put myself out there but I had no idea how good these plans laid out for me were going to be. I get this day, this life! 

What did I do and learn in 2018 with a year away from full-time work and living intentionally? My year sabbatical studying yoga, mindfulness, and meditation helped me become more grateful and  compassionate towards myself and others. It was a time in this Western society to release my urge to overachieve so that I could be ENOUGH. I've shifted and am ready to balance my prior business world with new perspectives. A wonderful 2019 is in store!

Online dating! The hype, the drama, the it is what it is.... Finding a steady match was lucky for me at first.... then it ended and I have been in fast paced online dating world for the last six months... it is what is is and not as personal as you think... or is it??

Upon popular request, I hope you enjoy this guided meditation as you offered the opportunity to honor and rest your body. As your body travels into deeper states of consciousness, it can rest and repair itself. Your mind may become lighter and it may feel as if you are awakened from a lengthier rest period or you may choose to go onto sleep. Whichever your choice as you leave the meditation, may you be healthy and strong; may you be at peace and feel this offering of compassion. Fly.

Have you ever recognized a shift in your life? A shift in your path? A shift in your perception? This past few weeks beginning a regular practice of mindfulness and communicating with trusted confidantes became one of the greatest gifts to myself. I learned how to use body scans noticing the feelings, look at my perceptions and meanings deeper to my NOW. And even how my business/busyness was no longer getting in other peoples business. Can I be in the NOW and TRUST/FLOW?

(17min)  It's time to Listen to the voices that serve me and not hold me back in fear. It's time to practice what I've learned and what I share with others. What do I feel in my body? How can I open myself to what brings me closer to peace, love, comfort, warmth?  Finally, I learn to trust this moment and be more than enough. (pssst...It's alway been there inside me... just needed to be still and listen and accept.) #h3grace

Let me share with you my blessings and reflection from my 200 hour yoga teacher training. You'll hear the snippets of my self-discovery and how yoga found it's place within my lifestyle. Yoga strengthens my Christian values and compassion for self and others.  For those listening since my Wonder and Why Not podcasts began, I hope you can hear a difference. Thank you for your support in my journey. May the light within me honor the light within you. Namaste.

As we begin to SEE ourselves, we may have emotions and feelings in our bodies that arise. What is happening? Is this more comfortable or actually less comfortable than being on autopilot and not seeing myself? What is this stuff? Why is the past coming back? How do I see myself today and what can I do to see myself with hope for a future? A future that I am intentionally living and recognizing my choices.

Do you really see yourself? Have you really given thought to who you are within? Do you honor yourself, showing yourself grace, love and acceptance? If you do, great! Keep doing you and sharing your light. If not, join me by opening our eyes beyond the physical. Listen to ways we can see ourselves and become more aware of the wonderful person in each of us. You are a masterpiece! It's time for you to see your beauty and accept yourself.

Do you sometimes wonder, "What is this not so me feeling I have?". I should be feel joy but I don't... YOU are YOU every day and every day we are made up of impressions from our experiences. Sometimes we experience them and sometimes we let them manifest into illnesses in our body or affect our moods so greatly that we just want to change everything or helpless to change nothing. YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL and a masterpiece in process to be loved by you.

In December 2016, I set out to live intentionally. I could not have imagined my life as it is in December 2017. I still have to ask myself out loud... is this my life? Where is my conservative nature.. where is my security blanket.. what will my life look like in 2018? Best thing about surrendering is being real and authentic and saying it out loud, breathing deep, and knowing that truly one set of footprints is all that we sometimes see. (Being spiritually carried by another)

Well approximately 6 months after starting my online experience, I am happy to say that I am happily matched for now 4 months and going. I've learned more about what I want and not to settle and found someone that brings more to my life and is truly caring. If you've been discouraged with dating, look at it as learning experiences and take a break now and then until you are ready to be found. Step out and enjoy! (or call a life-line and have someone get you out of the date sooner lol)

I have a right to feel! Life has a way of showing up with disappointments and we can suppress those feelings they stir or we can allow ourselves to acknowledge those feelings and use them as indicators of emotions but not dictators of actions. We can choose our next actions based on understanding that we have a right to feel those emotions of denial, anger, realizing suppression is easier.  When we do sit with the uncomfortable feeling, we can make conscious choice to see blessing and opportunity.

Allowing myself to make decisions best for me... adults don't expect it! If you can picture a high cliff in a tropical setting and a young woman jumping with a large smile and the word TRUST written in cloud script catching me and letting me enjoy the fall. Listen to my thought process of excitement and joy to retreat and guilt. It is time for me to live more heart centered, more family focused in the small daily things... it's time for me to leave at the height of my career and retire. My final decision...."It is well".  Do you have a decision to make?  Sit with it in quiet and pray about, listen to you and not the noise from all those that want to influence you.. sometimes your best interest and sometimes not... YOU decide! 

Recently, I completed a two-day yoga training titled introspection and introduced the chakra energy system to us. . The chakras are areas of the body that take in energy from outside, process that energy internally, and express it back out again. In this way, the chakras are centers of organization for the receptions, assimilation, and expression of life force energy.  Listen as I follow the guided meditation and sort through my very own root chakra. (descriptions from Chakra Balancing by Anodea Judith)

On a recent Girl Scout camping trip, our Junior troop girls shared what they enjoyed about their trip and girl scout experiences. Listen to the sincerity and pure joy of these young leaders. #privilegedtroopleader

How can time go by so fast? Where is my energy going? Am I being intentional? Why are so many things in my head and energies colliding? It's time for me to slow down and give time to reflect. Folks real time to reflect. Time to sit with the uneasy and sort it out. Join me as I walk through the introspection and come out on the other side seeing things as they are.

Do you feel a range of emotions and feel bottled energy? Not sure what is causing this anxiety and try to settle yourself? I'm feeling anger, joy, discontentment, contentment, and a what do I do with this time? Can I just sit with myself and feel what I'm feeling and "see", "feel", "acknowledge" the range of emotions?