SUMMER SESSION: Questions to Awaken Your Heart, Mind, and Soul.

Here is a question that will help you reflect, clarify, and celebrate your story.

Sometimes it simply takes the spark of a questions to ignite an inner flame, illuminating where you have been, where you are in this moment, and where you heart is longing to go.

Ask yourself, ask your friends, your partner, your children, or ask a stranger this week’s question, and watch the miracles unfold before you!

This week’s question is:

 

When Have You Been The Most Resilient?

 

Let’s get vulnerable with each other for a moment. We have all been in places we hate, lost in moments of time that are the exact opposite from where we want to be. The suck factor is real, and can lead you down an inner spiral of fear, pain, and suffering. You are not alone; I have been there too in tears, begged for a glimmer hope? The voices of limiting beliefs try to convince you to focus on how wrong everything is, talking you into believing you deserve the suffering. For every moment you find yourself you find yourself in this kind of turmoil, there is a greater moment where the truth within you is ready to be chosen.

Your resilience is:

• Your power to choose something beyond your present moment.
• It is your power to bounce back.
• Your ability to not let what “is” in the moment; stop you from your desire.
• The strength and fortitude within every cell of your being to say YES when the voices in your head and people around you say no.
• Your inner nature to come back from suffering and claim your truth.
• That ever-present hint of possibility through the fog of uncertainty.
• The divinely-rooted truth within you that is always waiting to be chosen.
• The strength of your longing and dreams to keep moving you forward.

And guess what… None of this is determined by an outcome or measured by successes or failures. It is measured by your willingness to step up and step into all that you are and all that you long to create with your life. Resilience is not a one and done experience, it is a fundamental characteristic and truth that your divinity wove into your humanity.

I believe there is power in acknowledging your resilience. Owning your power to show up when it is easier to crumple under the lies that limiting beliefs is an accomplishment worthy of celebrating. Whether your resilience is part of a big story or a minor moment in time, it has value.

A Few Things To Deepen Your Experience With This Week’s Question

1. Don’t Stop At One Answer:
   Take the larger macro scape question; “When have you been the most resilient?” and make its focus more micro in scope; “When were you resilient today or this week?”  Shifting the question like this helps you see that your truth is not just a one off experience.
2. My Favorite Thing About Resilience:
   Hands down my favorite thing about resilience is the shift in power over limiting beliefs. I adore that inner nature to come back from suffering and claim the truth. Like a magnate you can’t help but the pulled to the truth that is fundamental to you. I love that so very much.
3. Use The Question to Stay Plugged Into Your Truth:
   Keep this week’s question stoking the fire of inner curiosity and let it help you stay plugged into your truth.  A couple of the “I AM Essential Truths” that work really well with this week’s question are: I AM RESILIENT of course, and I AM WHOLE.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My Answer To This Week’s Question Goes Like This…

In many ways I feel like I am constantly engaging my resilience. Moment to moment my thoughts are bouncing back from the lies of my limiting beliefs, to the fundamental truth that is waiting to be owned. The times I have been the most resilient always seem to follow big shifts in my heart’s capacity. It’s those moments when the contrast between the limitation and the truth grows so great that you can’t help but pay attention.

My teenage years were a place of this kind of great contrast. I look back on that time and think, how the hell did I keep fighting for what I wanted. Sometimes I hearken back to cellular memories from that era because I was so unapologetically resilient. There were endless people trying to smash me in boxes to make themselves feel better, and I just wouldn’t have it. I had suffered too much through parts of my childhood; the taste of the freedom that came with growing up created a contrast that was palpable.

It seemed to go a little something like this: You don’t fit in; who cares I will do my own thing and love every moment of it. You can’t go to school, let alone graduate from one; try to stop me. You can’t believe outside of this strict format of thinking; sorry that just doesn’t feel right to me. You don’t deserve that; well it’s what I want and you don’t get a say in it. I just kept coming back to my truth. Sure there were tears, and a sense of clawing my way to these responses sometimes, but nothing could keep me down.

I went through another ere of radical resilience in my 20’s when I lost my job and chose to go back to school. Then again in my 30’s when I decided to quit my job to follow my purpose. All big moments of contrast where an old way of being no longer fit, but I didn’t seem fully ready for what was ahead. Resilience allowed me to say yes and show up when it was hard and would have been safer for me to say no.

My micro response for this week’s question directs my attention to the daily moments of resilience. How often do I rise up out of the fog? When do I grant myself space to own my truth even when I catch myself sitting in the thoughts of limiting beliefs? I am going to acknowledge those moments of resilience and celebrate them for the power that they hold.

I am so looking forward to hearing about your moments of resilience. Keep in mind there are no wrong answers here. Try not to let the limiting voices in your head judge your responses or talk you out of showing up or even sharing your moments with others.  Just stay open and curious as you reach for more of your truth and reflect on how amazing moments like these are in your story.

Share your moments of resilience with me. Write them in the comments on the blog and social media, or reply to the weekly email is you want to keep them more private.

Remember I am always here to teach, support, and inspire you with heart-centered solutions for your everyday problems.
xoxo- Alicia