by Erin Owen | Nov 24, 2015 | Ezine
It was a typical busy weekend morning. I had been awake 15 minutes and already my presence was in demand from four others…
I was in my 5 year old son’s room trying to help him get dressed. He was dancing around, acting like his beautiful silly self, when I noticed my patience about to break.
“Miles, can you please stop dancing around?”
“Why, Mommy?”
“Zoe is barking because she needs to go out. Ian wants me to help him with his computer. You asked me to help me get dressed. But, I haven’t even made my own tea or had a glass of water or even my breakfast.”
Then he laid it on me. Those wise-beyond-years words that this gift-of-a-child often lays on me…
“Oh! So even you need you!”
“Yes, Miles, even Mommy needs Mommy.”
Here’s wishing you some relaxed time to be present with those you love and those who love you–including yourself!
by Erin Owen | Nov 19, 2013 | Ezine
What is Simcha?
It’s a Hebrew word that means many things, including happiness or joy.
However, it was explained to me last week during a lecture given by Wharton Professor G. Richard Shell about his new book Springboard, that Simcha can mean something much more profound. A rabbi once explained to Richard that Simcha can describe that feeling you sometimes have when you feel like you are in the exact right place doing the exact right thing at the exact right time.
My own personal definition of Simcha?
Something I like to think of as that wonderful, high vibrational humming feeling I get when I’m neither striving nor resisting, and I’m both in my experience yet able to observe it at the same time – the sweet spot of being in the rich flow of life.
I am grateful to know about this word Simcha, just as I am grateful for the experience of Simcha.
What moments of Simcha have you recently experienced in your life?
What are you grateful for?
As we move into next week’s celebration of Thanksgiving and Hanukkah, I invite you to pause and consider these two questions:
What moments of Simcha have you recently observed in your life?
What are you grateful for?
If the second foundational principle* I teach my clients holds out in this context, you will experience more Simcha and have more things to be grateful for, simply by pondering these questions and shifting your awareness and attention to them.
Let me know what you discover!
by Erin Owen | Nov 19, 2012 | Ezine
I am grateful to be living in our world at this time.
Yes, in spite of all the darkness that surrounds us.
Collectively, we have had enough of polluting our planet and political corruption. We are tired of a select few manipulating our financial systems and supporting wars to fuel personal profit. It is time to end social injustice, child slavery and abuse, and abusive work conditions.
I am grateful to be witness to an exponential leap forward in our collective consciousness. All around me I see people experimenting with new ways of living and working, engaging in new and more environmentally friendly ways of constructing homes and buildings.
I see a strong movement toward better ways of creating health and preventing illness, and a desire for unbiased and positive media, along with new approaches to government and education and social support systems.
If you don’t see what I see, then I invite you to examine the thoughts and experiences that influence the way you view the world.
What are you ready to let go of? What are you eager to welcome in?
As I teach all my clients: wherever you direct your attention, energy follows.
And as Gandhi taught, we can each BE the change we want to see in the world.
So, what change do you want to see in the world at large? What change do you want to see in your daily life and work?
It all starts with your mindset. And a huge dose of gratitude thrown in.
I invite you to be inspired by the Thanksgiving holiday to be grateful for what you want more of in your life and in our world.
And if you just can’t get your head around how to do this, then drop me a line and let’s see if we can find a simple, enjoyable way for you to move forward.
