Pure Light

Dreams that seem impossible don't have to be dismissed.

If you only allow yourself to do things that seem doable, you aren't giving yourself the opportunity to expand and grow.

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Related episodes: What jealousy is trying to teach you Are your excuses getting in your way? Do you trust yourself? Here are three ways to tell Books & Courses: Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert Nobody Wants To Read Your Sh*t by Steven Pressfield Writing Your Story with Joyce Maynard

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Wish you could stop feeling jealous?

Jealousy isn't here to make you suffer. It's here to help you grow, by revealing your limiting beliefs.

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Related episodes: The upside of jealousy Automatic patterns "I can't do that. I'm not that kind of person."

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Ever wish that you had more willpower, discipline or determination?

Commitment helps you rise above any obstacles that get in your way. It's a decision you make over and over and over again.

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Laani Teetsov CBC Nonfiction Prize Related episodes: What resistance looks like Are your excuses getting in your way? Procrastination & perfectionism Are you waiting for permission? 5 signs you're stalling out of fear How to do the thing that scares you (that you've been avoiding)

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Do you ever feel like you're being a lesser version of yourself?

There are many things that can make you want to shrink. Who you think you are is one of them—especially when one aspect of you contradicts another.

You stop shrinking when you allow yourself to be all of who you are.

Resources & References "To be authentic, you have to be everything that you are, omitting nothing. Within everyone there is light and shadow, good and evil, love and hate. The play of these opposites is what constantly moves life forward... If you can truly embrace these qualities within yourself, you will be authentic..." –Deepak Chopra, The Path to Love

Related episodes: Trying to fit in Automatic patterns "I can't do that. I'm not that kind of person."

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When you're working on an important creative or entrepreneurial project, does resistance ever get in your way?

Would you notice if it did?

Resources & References "Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance." –Steven Pressfield, The War of Art

"The more Resistance you experience, the more important your unmanifested art/project/enterprise is to you - and the more gratification you will feel when you finally do it." –Steven Pressfield, The War of Art

Meditations: How to reset yourself (in 3 minutes) Ever get in your own way? Try this Courses: GuruMeher's Emotional Liberation Course Seth Godin & Alex DiPalma's The Podcasting Fellowship

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Want to experience more love in your life?

Try this Kundalini meditation to create selflove.

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A love letter to all the single ones More meditations: Feeling triggered? Try this meditation A simple practice to rise above fear How to reset yourself (in 3 minutes) Ever get in your own way? Try this A meditation for inner peace

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When you experience failure, does it feel like the end of the world?

It can be a portal to a new beginning.

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Related episodes & posts: 3 strategies to let go of your fear of failure Emotional clutter Inner resistance An alternate perspective on failure and rejection The goal of failure (or why I want to fail as much as possible) Confidence myths Fear of judgment

"And so I can tell you that it is out of this space that real genuine communication with other people starts to happen, because it's a very unguarded, wide-open space where when you look out your eyes–unless you are getting into the blaming yourself or blaming others–you can go beyond the blame and just feel the bleedingness of it, the raw-meat quality of it. You can't describe it, but I bet everybody knows what I am talking about. And so in that space, communication with others and all of life happens, and my experience is that it's from that space that our best part of ourselves comes out. It's in that space–when we aren't masking ourselves or trying to make circumstances go away–that our best qualities begin to shine." –Pema Chödrön, fail fail again fail better

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Do you ever stop yourself from doing something because you're worried you may not succeed?

Learn 3 strategies to let go of your fear of failure and get out of your own way.

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Related episodes & posts: An alternate perspective on failure and rejection The goal of failure (or why I want to fail as much as possible) Confidence myths Other references: The New York Times Best Sellers Seth Godin's post about The New York Times Bestseller List (and why authors shouldn't obsess over it) Matt Kahn event Super Soul Sunday

"Life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better."" –Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The most important decision we make is whether we believe we live in a friendly or hostile universe."" –Albert Einstein

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How can you build trust in yourself?

Here are three questions to ask to see how much you trust yourself—and to help you build self-trust.

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Related episodes: 3 reasons you're ignoring your intuition What your fear of judgment is trying to tell you Are you distracting yourself from your inner knowing? Are you trying to be normal? Are you waiting for permission? Fear of judgment

"You can't be traveling east and west at the same time. You must choose your path." –Debbie Ford

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Do you listen to your inner wisdom, or do you find a reason to talk yourself out of it?

Your intuition is the voice of your soul. Discover three reasons you may be ignoring your intuition so that you can learn to listen better.

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Free resource: Become your bravest self

"In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or back into safety." –Abraham Maslow

"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step." –Martin Luther King Jr.

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