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Some thoughts on Maturity

Some Thoughts on Maturity What does maturity mean to you? What makes someone mature or immature? I began to more-deeply investigate the question of maturity when I noticed I was repeatedly judging someone in my life as immature. Being a practitioner of Nonviolent Communication, which invites us to move beyond our judgement to see more clearly what is actually occurring, I wanted to really unpack what behaviors or ways of being I was labeling as immature. What I came to see [...]

By Elana|2020-02-05T07:09:34-07:00August 22nd, 2014|Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: Awareness, choice, Compassionate Communication, connection, Consciousness, freedom, Nonviolent Communication, NVC, Personal Development, Self-determination|1 Comment

Positivity and it’s unintended consequences

Positivity and its Unintended Consequences I have noticed a trend in the world I live in toward extreme positivity and optimism. There are even many teachers and leaders and celebrity advocates in the world of positive thinking. While I do see great value on accentuating the positive, and that it can be a powerful tool to transform our experiences, I think it also has its unintended consequences. One of these consequences is to be in denial about the [...]

By Elana|2020-02-05T07:03:29-07:00July 31st, 2014|Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: Consciousness, healing, Personal Development, personal empowerment, Transformation|1 Comment

Trust yourself and choose for you

Trust Yourself and Choose for YOU no Justification or Explanation required I am finding the courage to just walk away. Walk away from situations, conditions, dynamics, ways of being and engaging that aren't serving me or resonate for me. Knowing what's true for me in a given moment and trusting and following that truth. It feels truly liberating. No explaining, no justifying, no arguing with myself, also no blame, just clear, present choice about what works for me, how I [...]

By Elana|2019-12-08T18:56:43-07:00June 13th, 2014|Categories: Transformation|Tags: Awareness, Being present, care-taking, choice, Consciousness, empowerment, freedom, personal empowerment, self-confidence, self-respect, Self-trust, trusting yourself, yes|2 Comments

Mind the Gap

Mind the Gap: Perhaps you've walked away from a situation or condition that you have been tolerating or that is no-longer serving you and at first it feels liberating. Then you start to wonder if you made the right choice, if things will work out, if you were just overreacting or being silly, if maybe you could have worked things out after all. Maybe you're even considering going back... to the job, to the relationship, to the circumstances that challenged [...]

By Elana|2020-02-05T07:03:58-07:00May 1st, 2014|Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: change, Consciousness, empowerment, Personal Development, personal empowerment, Self-determination, Transformation, Vision|0 Comments

“GOOD” relationships…

"GOOD Relationships" "It only takes one person to have a good relationship..." I heard that piece of information from Byron Katie a while back, but it has taken me a quite a while to really get its meaning. What does that mean? How can that be? My friend was there to listen and make this a good relationship... even if I wasn't having it. So often we blame our partner for how the relationship is [...]

By Elana|2020-02-05T07:02:30-07:00January 15th, 2014|Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: Awareness, Byron Katie, choice, connection, Consciousness, empowerment, family, healing, peace, personal empowerment, personal power, relationship, relationship building, respect, self-respect|3 Comments

Create Your Year

Create Your Year the Way You Would Like It's a New Year. For many this signifies new beginnings, an opportunity to start fresh, to resolve to take on a new habit, let go of one that doesn't serve you or just the hope and promise that this year will be better than the last. Yet how many of you actually follow through on your new year's resolutions? How closely does your New Year become what you wish it [...]

By Elana|2020-02-05T07:02:30-07:00January 6th, 2014|Categories: Creating your life, Transformation|Tags: Awareness, choice, Consciousness, Creating your life, empowerment, Goals, New Years resolutions, Personal Development, personal empowerment, Transformation|0 Comments

What IS actually Possible?

What IS actually Possible? Would you like to find out? Have you ever noticed how many conditions and limitations you put on your life? Have you ever noticed how many conclusions you have every day about what is or isn't possible, about that you can and can't do? Me hiking in the Andes in Argentina. I thought I'd NEVER make it to the top, but I DID! I have! And guess what else I noticed? When [...]

By Elana|2019-11-23T04:07:16-07:00October 3rd, 2013|Categories: Creating your life, Depression, Transformation|Tags: Awareness, child Empowerment, Consciousness, empowerment, freedom, Self-determination, self-help, Transformation|1 Comment

Receiving Judgement

Receiving Judgment How many of us stop yourselves because we are afraid to be judged, afraid what others will think? When you are being more than others are willing to receive or to allow themselves to be, they will go into judgment of you. So, do you want to function from and be controlled by others limitations or are you willing to choose and have a reality that works for you, regardless of what others think? The more [...]

By Elana|2019-11-23T03:40:15-07:00September 16th, 2013|Categories: Creating your life, Transformation, Trusting yourself|Tags: Consciousness, empowerment, freedom, judgement, receiving, Self-determination, self-help, self-respect, Self-trust|2 Comments

Being in Acceptance

Being in Acceptance I've been writing a lot about choosing, about honoring your YES and Your NO, on being intolerant, essentially on truly listening to yourself, knowing what's true for you and honoring that. Though it may at first appear contradictory, today I want to write about acceptance You may have heard the statement “what you resist persists.” Maybe you've even found it to be true... As long as we are resisting something, in opposition to something, we [...]

By Elana|2019-11-23T03:38:34-07:00September 5th, 2013|Categories: Transformation|Tags: Acceptance, Awareness, Being present, choice, Consciousness, healing, peace, Personal Development, personal empowerment, Presence, self-help, Transformation|2 Comments

Just Be

JUST BE When is the last time you just let yourself be? Really be. Without agenda, without expectation, without needing to change, fix, do or accomplish anything? To just listen to an allow your being to find it's own pattern it's own flow, it's own rhythm? Just listening and being? Our culture has such an emphasis on doing, on achieving that keeps many of us constantly on the go, sometimes to the detriment of our own well-being and [...]

By Elana|2019-11-23T03:36:10-07:00August 27th, 2013|Categories: being an empath, Transformation|Tags: Awareness, Being, Consciousness, empathic, energy, peace, relaxation, Self-acceptance, self-care, self-connection, self-help, Self-trust|0 Comments

The virtue of intolerance

The Virtue of Intolerance Tolerance is something that people usually tout as a virtue, as a quality worth developing. In many ways tolerance can be a virtue. I'm also discovering how it can be a hindrance to forward movement, an obstacle to being in full alignment with our beings and having what we want from life. I've done a lot of tolerating in my life- tolerating which has kept me from clearly knowing and owning what I want, [...]

By Elana|2019-11-23T03:32:41-07:00August 8th, 2013|Categories: being an empath, Creating your life, Transformation, Trusting yourself|Tags: Awareness, choice, Consciousness, decision making, empowerment, peace, self-help, self-respect, Self-trust|5 Comments

Trusting your design

Trusting the Intelligence of your design "You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves... I've been thinking about this a bit... about this soft animal... Have you ever noticed how often we make ourselves wrong? Fight ourselves, think that we should be different? Judge ourselves for feeling [...]

By Elana|2019-11-23T03:31:00-07:00July 31st, 2013|Categories: NVC, Transformation, Trusting yourself|Tags: Being present, communication skills, Compassionate Communication, connection, Consciousness, Cooperation, empowerment, inner animal, Nonviolent Communication, NVC, peace, Presence, respect, Self-acceptance, self-help, Self-trust, Transformation|5 Comments

Learning to Trust your YES and your NO

Learn to trust your YES and your NO Do you remember what it was like to be five years old? To trust yourself and to clearly know what you did and didn’t want?… To go for what you wanted without hesitation?… To freely share your love and your joy and your aliveness with the world? So what happened to that? What happened to your confidence in knowing what you do or don't want and what's true for you? [...]

By Elana|2019-11-23T03:06:56-07:00July 18th, 2013|Categories: A new Paradigm for childhood, Transformation, Trusting yourself|Tags: child rearing, Consciousness, empowerment, freedom, healing, inner listening, intuition, Knowing, Parenting, peace, Self-determination, self-help, self-respect, Self-trust, Transformation, yes and no|4 Comments

Disengaging for greater engagment

Disengaging for Greater Engagement Do you know how to take a step back? To take some space? To allow for distance? To disengage? Have you allowed yourself to experience the sweetness and benefit that comes when you do? Most of us don't give ourselves this gift, and it can be at great cost to ourselves and our relationships. If you're an empath, if you're sensitive and pick up on what's happening around you then chances are, taking [...]

By Elana|2019-11-23T03:01:05-07:00July 13th, 2013|Categories: being an empath, Depression, Transformation|Tags: Autonomy, Being present, choice, connection, Consciousness, emapth, energy, personal space, Presence, self regulation, self-care, self-help, space, Transformation|3 Comments

an exercise with feelings…

Try this exercise: Notice a sentence in which you use the word feel. Now say the same sentence again, without using the word feel. When you take out the word feel, are you actually expressing a feeling or are you expressing an opinion or interpretation?... Example: "I feel excited." Take out feel and it translates to "I'm excited." "I feel welcomed." Take out feel and you have "I'm welcomed". Which actually expresses a feeling, an emotion?... If you [...]

By Elana|2019-11-23T02:47:05-07:00July 5th, 2013|Categories: NVC|Tags: communication skills, Compassionate Communication, connection, Consciousness, empowerment, Feelings, Feelings vs. Judgements, Marshall Rosenberg, Nonviolent Communication, NVC|2 Comments

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