In the early days and weeks of this new year, I encourage of you to begin a practice that will shift your mindset; that will open you to find and live of your authentic happiness generated by kind and thoughtful action and the willingness to live from your heart.

It’s something that we all need to become better at as we seek to grow our consciousness; to live inspired by what fulfills us and evokes deeper meaning and purpose.

TRUTH SERUM:  When you practice kindness purposefully, you limit the focus on negativity, judgment, and criticism; you open your mind and your heart to what truly matters. For example, it matters far less if you are right or believe to be better than another. What matters is your honour; to be of your word, your light, to continue to do your best, to always seek self-improvement because this is what enables you to rise up; and to do the right thing, even when others may not choose so.

A-HA MOMENTS:  As you look forward; as you reflect upon the importance of what we all have experienced; a global pandemic, and a virus that is not going away; it is here; an inescapable reminder that we all must share the same values of loving-kindness, of honour and respect for ourselves and all living beings; of raising our consciousness and for being clear that it is no longer “okay” to cause damage; to cause suffering whether in our actions unto the environment and the planet, or in unkind and unloving thoughts, words and actions toward our self or any other living being.

PRACTICAL WISDOM:  In being reminded of what is most important in your life... choose kindness first.  In returning to the importance of kind action, are you ready? Are you ready to seek to live this in all places in your life beginning with your mind influenced by the new thoughts that you choose to hold?

TRUTH SERUM:  “Is it time to re-calibrate how you measure success?” Is your definition of success missing the most important and valuable element? 

What if I suggested that to focus on this distinct and intrinsic measure of your success would make a great difference in how you looked at all of your present and future achievements and what would now be the driving and altruistic force behind what you seek to accomplish and why?

A-HA MOMENTS:  Consider that the most valuable measure of success is your character, it is who YOU are; your positive beliefs (of which you stand for and live by), how you treat others, your ethics, your ability to be loving-kindness, and what you model and teach your children. 

The true measure of your success is your character; it is who you are in all moments. It is these upstanding qualities, traits, and behaviours that impact how you feel about yourself.

The beauty of this definition is that you have autonomy and the ability to recognize the moments in which you are not living this, and then to adjust accordingly; to return to this auspicious definition of true success.

PRACTICAL WISDOM:  You can continue to strive for all of the typical and learned examples of what makes you successful; but in the end, if you do not like who you are, if you are not a kind and honest being with yourself and all others, how will you feel your inherent joy, your inner peace, your true confidence. 

How will you experience innate fulfillment, together with satisfaction, meaning, and purpose?

Join me as I share an evolved definition of success and the questions that you need to ask yourself before you set new goals, and as you “level up” to what truly matters and of what makes you a great success by the right measures.

This episode is one that you may wish to make some notes of as we go along; and as you formulate what will be your new definition and the model of success that you are excited to live.

*If you have a question or if you would like my guidance or help, please reach out to me:  [email protected]

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Podcast Theme Music: 'Aura' from the Album, Illuvia by Eternell  eternell.net

Accompanying Music: Eternell - 'Melting While Falling', 'Elysia'

As we boldly step into this brand new year, many of us carry the hope and our deepest commitment to make our life incredibly meaningful.

You want to thrive in ways that you have never before; and so here, to open the space for all that you are willing to co-create, begin with all that you already are.

Use your innate goodness to wield more; to rediscover your innate power; your dignity, your honour to yourself, to uphold the values that will allow you to live of your inherent goodness; and to teach others as you lead by example and to walk the planet knowing that you are far more incredible and amazing that you have ever known.

This time, this year, your life begins with the wisdom of your heart - for all good.

In this new year of your life, the word needs to be "YES!"  “Yes, I’ll do what’s best for me.”  “Yes I will honour myself and my needs.”  “Yes I will take action rather than sit back and wait for things to come to me.”  “Yes to all things beautiful and plentiful.”  “Yes, I will ask for what I want.”  “Yes to the abundance that I am impassioned by.”  “Yes, I will get up that extra hour earlier and meditate, journal, say affirmations, read, image, pray, be with the presence of myself.”  “Yes to the discovery that I can always do more than I think I can.”

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💕 dorothy

///PODCAST THEME MUSIC: Eternell - 'Aura' https://eternell.net/music

We do not always have the kind of relationships that we would like. Sometimes it is through our perseverance and dedication that the relationship becomes what we make it; and at times it is because the other person is not able to meet our needs; our needs of honesty, of trustworthiness, of kindness, of integrity that the relationship is limited.

Acceptance is the allowing for others to be on their own path and journey through life; and to release your attachments to what you can accept is not possible; not as the result of your unwillingness, rather the acknowledgement and acceptance that another is unwilling or unable – or both.

Acceptance is the understanding; the ability and need to allow another to be as they are; to soften into this and to meet them right where they are choosing to be. This doesn’t mean that you must have a relationship with this person or any other; rather it means that you no longer give so much of yourself in vain.

Acceptance is liberation. It frees you. You free yourself from the need to change another or a situation when your kind efforts have been in vain. Not everyone is ready. Not everyone is willing. Not everyone is able to be relieved from the thoughts that hold them back.

Listen to The WISDOM podcast here on Soundcloud. Watch the video of this episode here: https://youtu.be/3RXvvz-YvLc

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*If you have a question or if you would like my guidance or help, please reach out to me:  [email protected]

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💕 dorothy

///PODCAST THEME MUSIC: Eternell - 'Aura' https://eternell.net/music

Here I offer valuable strategies and recommendations to implement for each of these three best practices; so that you will have the secrets to never feel lonely again; because the goal is to enjoy being alone with yourself and to not feel lonely.

Throughout this time of a global pandemic, there have been many illuminating ‘aha’ revelations that you, that I, that we all have come to witness. One resounding and common ‘voice’ that I have heard echoed by so many is the feeling of loneliness that has been exacerbated by the critical state of lock down; now something that we are again experiencing at the time of writing this, and in many parts of the world; coupled with the accumulated months of continued social distancing and self-isolating. But does loneliness have to be our existence?

If you are someone who has been suffering with loneliness; if you do not like being alone with yourself, I invite you to think about the reasons why. Do you feel loneliness even as you live with others? Have you considered what the psychological and emotional impact is of prolonged loneliness and isolation, and what can you do to eradicate this?

To instead feel connected; to have social contact that is meaningful and nurturing, and to discover and know the joy in the time in which you are alone, because being with yourself has the propensity to be what you look forward to as much as the social connections and the meaningful relationships you have with others.

Find 'The WISDOM podcast' wherever you listen to podcasts. Be sure to check out the additional resources within each episode to support you in living as your best self. Check out the episode transcripts here:

https://www.dorothyratusny.com/wisdompodcast/

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/// ABOUT ME: I am a registered psychotherapist, meditation teacher, and author. I work with children, teens, adults, and families (via phone, video calls, and in-person sessions). I also facilitate workshops and retreats globally.

Contact me to arrange your 15 minute 'Discovery Session' - https://www.dorothyratusny.com/schedule-your-discovery-session-with-dorothy/ Let me help!

in kindness and love,

💕 dorothy

///PODCAST THEME MUSIC: Eternell - 'Aura' https://eternell.net/music

"Illumination is the light of the world. It is energy alive in all living beings. It is up to us to illuminate the path of true freedom; our hearts open in witnessing the perfection of life." - dorothy ratusny

This episode is particularly special for what it offers of hope, of the messages in which to renew your life; to awaken to your intuitive voice and to live free. Freedom is not bound by physical movement or a lack thereof, but how you think and feel; how you see everything both with eyes and in sensing using your heart.

This episode is also important to us at this time in our lives when we must not forget what we are capable of as an individual and as a collective. You must illuminate your path in order to walk with confidence towards what is most wanted. You may not have all of the pieces known to you and yet, what matters most is your willingness to live in the freedom of your choice and to decide everything.

Let this prose inspire your choices made with your heart wide open. Let yourself use these words to inspire conscious thought, inner contemplation and to live of your goodness. This is how you live in light and enlightened. "You are this light. Be willing to live of it deliberately."

Find 'The WISDOM podcast' wherever you listen to podcasts. Be sure to check out the additional resources within each episode to support you in living as your best self. Check out the episode transcripts here:

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/// ABOUT ME: I am a registered psychotherapist, meditation teacher, and author. I work with children, teens, adults, and families (via phone, video calls, and in-person sessions). I also facilitate workshops and retreats globally.

Contact me to arrange your 15 minute 'Discovery Session' - https://www.dorothyratusny.com/schedule-your-discovery-session-with-dorothy/ Let me help!

in kindness and love,

💕 dorothy

///PODCAST THEME MUSIC: Eternell - 'Aura' https://eternell.net/music

In this episode of The WISDOM podcast, I have written a prose to offer light and liberation at a time when several parts of the world was in the midst of a lockdown due to the pandemic (July 2020).

For whenever you listen, let yourself feel the depth of what this prose is offering as guidance and wisdom; at a time in which you are seeking more for your life and for how you live each moment.

In the dawn of a new awakening; a new moment, a new time; you feel the expansive nature of what you are.

Allow yourself the blissful moments of your nature, your quest, your knowing - as the perfection of what you are; as your soul consciousness - your inner being - your spiritual self.

Let the freeing nature of what you are be the unleashed form of you.  Let yourself build upon a practice of expression - of truth - of knowing; that who and what you are is the most divine and sacred consciousness; it is what you are in the freedom of your expression - your inner knowing - your faith - your love.

Unleash yourself from what has kept you contained, suffering...

In your heart, let your wisdom speak; begin to follow... listen, acknowledge, be with what you discover, then 'repeat'. 💜

Please enjoy this prose as a spiritual gift of awakening; to remind you to follow your heart's wisdom. Namaste! 🙏🏼

Find 'The WISDOM podcast' wherever you listen to podcasts. Be sure to check out the additional resources within each episode to support you in living as your best self. Check out the episode transcripts here:

https://www.dorothyratusny.com/wisdompodcast/

/// FOLLOW THE LOVE! FIND ME HERE...

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▸ aura | https://www.aurahealth.io/

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▸'The 30 days of Gratitude'

▸ '10 Sacred Habits of Meditation'

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/// ABOUT ME: I am a registered psychotherapist, meditation teacher, and author. I work with children, teens, adults, and families (via phone, video calls, and in-person sessions). I also facilitate workshops and retreats globally.

Contact me to arrange your 15 minute 'Discovery Session' - https://www.dorothyratusny.com/schedule-your-discovery-session-with-dorothy/ Let me help!

in kindness and love,

💕 dorothy

///PODCAST THEME MUSIC: Eternell - 'Aura' https://eternell.net/music

When you use your heart intelligence, you are literally dropping into your heart center and asking and receiving sensory feedback from your heart brain.

Your heart and its more than 40,000 sensory neurons, of which are the same kind as the neurons that are found in the brain are always providing you with information largely of a felt sense or intuitive wisdom; a perceiving of the world using cardioelectromagnetic communication.

In the new field of neurocardiology, scientists have discovered that the heart possesses its own intrinsic nervous system—a network of nerves so functionally sophisticated, it has earned the description of a “heart brain.” With its over 40,000 neurons, the heart has the ability to independently sense, process information, make decisions, and even to demonstrate a type of learning and memory.  Source: heartmath.com

Accessing this heart centered inner wisdom may be experienced quite easily; it may take some practice to feel your confidence grow in what you are reading and witness to, however the experience of following your intuition or your heart is something that we have all done; often without naming it as so.

Sometimes we may need to access our heart wisdom immediately; for decisions that are not driven by analytical processes and so we may use our feelings to navigate what is the right and best choice.

Find 'The WISDOM podcast' wherever you listen to podcasts. Be sure to check out the additional resources within each episode to support you in living as your best self. Check out the episode transcripts here:

https://www.dorothyratusny.com/wisdompodcast/

/// FOLLOW THE LOVE! FIND ME HERE...

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▸ 'The Sacred Teachings of BEING LOVE'

▸'The 30 days of Gratitude'

▸ '10 Sacred Habits of Meditation'

▸ https://theschoolofwisdom.dorothyratusny.com/

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/// ABOUT ME: I am a registered psychotherapist, meditation teacher, and author. I work with children, teens, adults, and families (via phone, video calls, and in-person sessions). I also facilitate workshops and retreats globally.

Contact me to arrange your 15 minute 'Discovery Session' - https://www.dorothyratusny.com/schedule-your-discovery-session-with-dorothy/ Let me help!

in kindness and love,

💕 dorothy

///PODCAST THEME MUSIC: Eternell - 'Aura' https://eternell.net/music

"Becoming more is the expansion of your consciousness.” It is meant to be confidence building; akin to seeking out a new experience that you are excited for.  'Becoming more' is the path of freedom, life fulfillment and perpetual happiness.” It is your ever-present gift and eternal choice to always seek and become ‘more’.

More is a deliberate path of self-evolution that we are all encouraged to live by nature; that allows us to thrive in the world; to seek new experiences, opportunities and yes also material things. Yet the primary reason to pursue more is to like and love yourself first.

Watch the Video in my Weekly WISDOM Notes series here: https://youtu.be/-4JSJUQMp3Y

*If you have a question or if you would like my guidance or help, please reach out to me:  [email protected]

Find all Episodes of The WISDOM podcast here:  https://www.dorothyratusny.com/wisdompodcast/

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A generous 'thank you' to Audio Engineer, Pavel Kirpikau  platosound.com  

Podcast Theme Music: 'Aura' from the Album, Illuvia by Eternell  eternell.net

Accompanying Music: Eternell - Shine', 'Kalumba (Meditation)' and 'Singularity'

Sharing the wisdom and beauty of divine love with you...

Namaste!