People who have contentment of being are in touch with their minds and bodies at the same time. They LIVE from a knowing that is a marriage of all the nuances of being. Their intuitive connectedness has changed their attitude and their lives. This marriage is a development of finding self in what you think AND feel. The greater life that develops from this marriage lets go of limitations and then your spirit grows - and so does your life - despite your physical circumstances. Surrender to this marriage brings perfection of awakening daily while learning to make mistakes. This foundation is a sacred spiritual design for ALL good things. When your life is lived this way, you have constant access to principles of truth that are the alpha and omega - the depth and weight - of LOVE and POWER. Without this daily ceremony, the feeling of being whole will elude you. The POWER that marries logic and emotion - the middle - awaits you. Let's get there together.

It seems amazing to me to continue - over many years - to hear the cries of unfairness and powerlessness again and again from women. There is much power to be gained by women participating in and changing things (like business) - but it can't be done before the greater need of self-change and inner focus. I fear that women still don't know how to find true purpose because their intuitions are still trying to find balance through the masculine. Power is not masculine OR feminine - it is the marriage of the two. It's the place where you know you are strong and sensitive too. It is the pit of your gut, deep behind your belly that feels and KNOWS what is good and right, and doesn't have to make anyone wrong (including you). Your intuition serves and your logic defines. The relationship you crave is inside the correlation of the two...it cannot be found hiding behind the scarcity of your lack and blame. When it comes to TRUE Power, it must be found in your own depth and wisdom, which is cannot steer you wrong. Find that wisdom outside the ghetto of your mind. Tip your toe in a warmer water of self-trust and being all that you are - without having to define it by someone or something else outside of you that you believe has more. You ARE More.

What does it mean to "stand"? It doesn't mean to do nothing, it means you just don't have to fight everything. Change what you can (you have power over only yourself), and then create a new experience and world through your own growth and actions. It takes courage to stand in principles that are fluid. Living according to "rules" (some of whih are only in your head) keeps you stuck and can make you feel worse as you try to control these rules, other people, and their adherence to these rules (from their OWN forms of control). Power over yourself enables you to stand and wait on nature to provide answers. They WILL come...In the meantime, be responsible for adhering to energies instead of pushing against energy that cannot be moved by you alone. The greatest power of hope is in love acceptance and knowing.

What is it that makes one person like someone, and another NOT like that same person or thing? How much of our likes and dislikes - who or what we follow - is determined consciously in the moment, or by things within that we don't even question? Is your ability to make decisions solely from your own resources and autonomy, or have you become an unwillful follower of the "norm" instead of your own conscience? Your conscience, if you're like many these days, seems to be overrun with fear, insecurity, sometimes downright depression and panic. It's time to get back to self. You really DON'T have to follow blindly. You really CAN gain confidence and self-respect by making up your own mind, intelligently and spiritually, of course. Get on the course back to yourself through coaching today: nicoledevlin.com

How do you know if your feelings are facts? I mean, if you "feel" them should you necessarily believe them? Is it possible that some of your feelings are attached to perceptions you've formed from denial or dishonesty? The world divides are currently being fueled by the "feelings are facts" and "your feelings don't matter" camps. There is truth in the middle of camp - around the fire where we break bread and learn to communicate. The ability to communicate is with ourselves first and then with others. If you can objectively immerse yourself in feelings that are separate from the lies in your head then the purity in them will be felt and you can be healed. If you ignore deep feelings, or become totally accountable to them ALL the time, you miss out on the building of deeper self-esteem. Let yourself feel. Let yourself let go. You're all-right, no matter how you feel.

Remember the debate team where teams argued sides and HAD to win... Some of us are still acting like conversations where we disagree are about winning. You don't need to be right and you don't need to win. In fact, by focusing on changing another's point of view - especially when they can't or don't want to change, or hear you, will only create loss. Conflict is still communication and healthy communication is still two ways. If I can remain open-minded to other people's lifestyles and opinions - and my own - true freedom and greater awareness grows inside and all around me.

The search for deeper meaning will come...it's inevitable unless you fight it. If you trust the natural process of conscious creation you don't have to fight for anything. It's all already there. So why are changes and challenges so difficult? Because the best and most intelligent of us subscribe to the God of the outer. Highly intellectual people live by the power of the brain and material things - which is never all there is. There is greater goodness, light, life and power available if you are just willing to open your mind to bigger ideas manifesting in your heart and deepest gut-knowledge. Decision-making is isolated and difficult when all you rely on is your thinking. It can get crowded real easily up there without the strength of the ages in deeper contemplation, self-awareness and wisdom. BEing and allowing will bring what you seek. Oh, patience don't hurt either.

Light is change that comes from your inner energy and belief in your own POWER. The lowest power is about your patterns of thinking and feeling that are prone to lack and ugliness. The highest power is about focusing your mind on expecting your most beautiful expression and vision. Whatever conditioning you have that makes you feel like you don't have light - or that darkness follows you - is about the way you think and how that magnetizes and manifests negative experiences. You must, through your power of choice, see the real and valid nature of GOOD. You must refill your well of light and love repeatedly through taking care of self and emptying that well into the lives of others. Uncover and discard what doesn't work, but don't forget to look at it for gold-mine energy about how you can be the best you can in love...just for today.

We say we want peace, but are we creating it? Are we building a peaceful life from within? Are we willing to forego argument and dissension for the sake of more calm? Peace can be hard to find sometimes. Most think peace is a state of the world, but it's truly an internal state of mind and emotion. Can you handle more peace? What do you do when you have no drama and chaos? Are you able to sit and be still? Most would say no. Most wouldn't know how to find their way to the lightness of peace. Their minds are too dark, especially after the past two years of having to sit in the silence of fear and sickness. Whole health needs attention from the mind and peace starts there. If you have no peace, look within. Change your thinking patterns, learn to let go, create peaceful terms to engage in more peaceful interactions. Your mind can be your friend, start from there and then go out to create peace in the world.

Pain cannot be avoided, so when you try to fight it, it becomes more painful. Happiness should be pursued, but happiness is elusive. The return of pain - due to life, to you, to others - is inevitable. It is a part of life. If you face pain, it will evaporate (not instantaneously, but over time). If you avoid pain, it will return to bite you. Why is this? Because change is the supreme surrender. Without this type of deep DEEP surrender, without letting go of your self-help prescription, change will remain difficult to achieve - and an equal level of pain will return continually. Willingness and openness bring re-birth. Resistance and control of emotions (a dead-end exercise) bring more pain. Getting results in your efforts to change necessitates direction from Love and Good-Orderly-Direction. Stay on the course, remember to help others, etc. Stay out of your own way. Become free.