Have you ever felt like you were rolling along, in the flow, starting to manifest your life’s vision, and then WHAM! All of a sudden life metaphorically T-boned you and all of that came to a screeching halt? Maybe you lost a job you’d been working hard at for years. You might have felt that all your hard work was for nothing, or that you were back to square one. Or maybe you had a [...]
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the power of language. You might recall some of my earlier posts where I discussed how powerful language is in creating reality. Today I’d like to continue the thread and talk about a little something called metaphor. I’m sure you’ve heard the term before, but here’s a quick definition. According to Wikipedia: “A metaphor is a figure of speech that, for rhetorical effect, directly refers to one thing by mentioning another. [...]
If your current experience of life was the answer to a question, what would that question be? A bit of a strange question to get your mind around, I know. We are constantly asking ourselves questions, consciously and unconsciously, and the nature of these questions impact how we experience life. Tony Robbins said, “The quality of questions you ask yourself determine the quality of your life”. Our questions determine our way of being and how [...]
In my last blog post, “Your Words Create Your Reality - Part 1”, I spoke about a client who said, “I’m just anxious in relationships”. Through some simple inquiry and deconstruction of that statement, I illustrated how by shifting the language we use, we can create a new way of experiencing ourselves in relationship and release ourselves from our own self-created limitations. Today I’m going to introduce another way we can gain mastery over an [...]