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The Journey to New Beginnings Starts on April Fool’s Day

Keena — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 16:42:24 +0000

Once heralded as the start of the New Year, April Fool’s Day is the day for new beginnings.

In a deck of Tarot cards, there are 2 types of cards known as the Major and Minor Arcana. The Minor arcana is basically what we know as playing cards. The other – the Major arcana – is the story of the hero’s journey through archetypes. Our lives are our own hero’s (or heroine’s!) journey and the cards can tell us where we are along the way.

The hero’s journey begins with card zero. This is the card of The Fool.

The Fool (public domain)

The Fool is not actually foolish, but has a childlike optimism as he starts on his adventure. He and his canine companion are joyful, taking in the sun and the scenery, picking roses and no doubt singing a happy tune. Have you heard the saying “only fools go where angels fear to tread”? This is the card’s warning – to watch your step and be aware.

So, Happy Fool’s Day! Use this day to start your adventure new and fresh, just like spring. Reinvent yourself, step out of your shell and into the world***!

Are you starting a new journey today? Tell us about it on the blog! (click the link in the top right under the title).

Wishing you joy and success on your journey!

Blessings,

Keena

PS: ** The World is the last card in the Major arcana and the hero’s journey. It means: fulfillment and completion, integration, satisfaction, a feeling of accomplishment and realization.

PPS: Starting out on the heroine’s journey with a compass and map is extremely helpful! Knowing your purpose and your soul level gifts and talents (as well as starting out with a “clean slate”) will assist you in finding your direction and path in life! Find out more! Click here.

Adding oomph to New Year’s resolutions!

Keena — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 18:32:19 +0000

Working with Energy: Seasons and Astronomy

When you work with energy, you don’t just work with your own energy or invoke the assistance of the Universe. These are common energetic practices, but you can go beyond that and work with the energy of the earth and planets by working with seasonal energy. I touched on this already in this article on working with seasonal energy and this one on “spring clearing”.

In this post I’m going to talk about yearly goals. Most people make their New Year’s resolutions and yearly goals on New Year’s Eve. Psychologically, this works because this is when we celebrate our New Year. But, if you want to give them added power – or yourself added power to achieve your yearly goals – renew your dedication to them on or about Groundhog Day, February 2^nd.

If you can imagine the energy patterns of the earth’s astronomic cycles as a wave, the reason for this will be very apparent. The equinoxes and the solstices are changes in energy patterns, and are therefore the lowest part of the cycle. In between, the energy rises to a crest and then decreases. So, halfway between the Winter Solstice (Dec. 22^nd –ish) and the Spring Equinox (March 21^st-ish) – around February 2^nd – is the high point of the cycle.

Goals and dreams that are long-term – those you will be working towards throughout the year will have added oomph if you make or renew them at the highest point of the new year’s energetic cycle. Like a surfer, if you catch the wave at the highest point, you can use the energy of that wave to ride it all the way into shore (to the completion of your goals).

In your journal, write down your goals for this year: your goals from New Year’s Eve, your dreams, and your long-range plans. Really concentrate on them as you write them down. Imagine them accomplished – what will it feel like? How will it look? When you are done, connect with the energy of the Universe (Source, God, your higher self – whatever gives you a strong connection to your infinite power). Draw this power into you. When you feel as those you can’t hold any more, once again focus on your goals. Look at them, read them, imagine them accomplished. And then pour all of that energy you are holding into your goals.

When you are done, acknowledge them as completed and feel gratitude.

Now ride the wave!

What are your goals and dreams for this year? Tell me about them on the blog! Collectively, we can give even more power to each other. And we will be able to review them at the end of the year.

To your joy and success!

Blessings,

Keena

PS Start your year off on the right foot –with a clean slate and knowing your life purpose!

The Courage to Follow Your Highest Path and Purpose: Part 3

Keena — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 00:14:30 +0000

Part 3: Express Your Divine Self

When you listened to the whisper of your soul, when you connected with your divine self from the exercise from the last post – what images do you see? What nudges did you get? What answer did you get in response to your life question? What synchronicities did you experience? Whom did you meet and what information did they have for you? What book or information found its way to you?

Many times we ask our higher selves for guidance and then don’t follow it. The guidance we receive may be outside our comfort zone. For example, you may see an image of yourself speaking in front of people – and then you say No WAY! Some people fear public speaking more than death! Maybe you are one of them. But what if public speaking could fast track your business success? You could follow your intuition and experience this – or you could make a decision based on fear (instead of love or truth) and not try public speaking. And you may not experience business success for several more years yet. There’s more than one path to the top of the mountain – and your intuition knows the shortcut!

Acting on intuitive impulses, inspirations, and dreams to follow your highest path and purpose – to express your divine self – will always lead to success and fulfillment!

To your joy and prosperity!

Blessings,

Keena

PS: Expressing your divine self in an income-producing manner is seldomly aligned with a J-O-B. My most recent case in point: a client was doing work he really liked for an enormous corporation. Then he got laid-off, but could bump someone of lesser seniority. The management kept him on awhile longer in this job that he liked, trying to get him back in. In the mean time, the executives slotted someone else into the job that he was laid off from stating that since he was laid off they couldn’t give it back to him. Go figure. The management then decided to give him a job he hates with less pay. But at least he has a J-O-B right?

You tell me – is this man following his life purpose? Is he living in Truth or Fear? We discussed that yes, he has a family to support and that comes first. But does he want to stay in the job that sucks until he can retire? Would it not be better for everyone if he were to express his soul purpose? To bring his gifts to the world? Everyone has their own unique gifts that must be brought into the world. Yes, you, too! Learn how to create a successful and fulfilling Purposeful Biz and bring your gifts to the world!

The Courage to Follow Your Highest Path and Purpose: Part 2

Keena — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 23:29:20 +0000

Part 2: Trust Your Divine Self

Your soul incarnates here with the intention of learning through life lessons and evolving through following the path of your life purpose. In your journey through life, your higher self (your soul, your divine self) guides you with the wisdom, love and patience through your intuition.

In business and in life, it is so important to trust your intuition. People and media try to influence us all the time on what to eat, wear, what to do for a living, how to make money and what to think. We have information (and advertising) overload. Now, you do a good job navigating this chaos, but overwhelm often results. And before the overwhelm hits, it’s best to already be using your intuition to navigate. Your intuition is your most trustworthy source of information – it is subtle so that it will not interfere with free will, it won’t lie to you, ask us to act in opposition to our values, and it can cut straight through the crap. No one else knows better than you how to live your life than your divine self.

Your divine self knows where you are going and understands where you are coming from. This inner wisdom is not a product of experience but rather a piece of your connection to the universal mind.

You tap into your intuition easily when you are connected to your divine self. So, how do you know if you are connected? You will experience one or more of the following:

You feel a deep sense of joy, contentment, bliss or love.
You see beauty in your surroundings. Elements in your environment may seem to be more luminous or brightly coloured, and have more presence.
You feel a connection to the elements in your environment. Like you are one with the entire Universe, or simply the tree you are leaning against.
You feel lighter and more uplifted.

There are many ways to access your intuition through connection to your divine self, and I am going to share one way with you.

Think of a question that you need an answer to and keep it foremost in your mind throughout your day. This can be a personal question or a business question. One question to get you started with is: What is my next step in fulfilling my life’s purpose?

When you have a couple of minutes to get quiet do so – preferably in a place where you will not be disturbed and where you feel an aesthetic connection (a beautiful park or other place in nature, a serene spot in your home, etc).

Spend some time looking for – and finding – the beauty in your surroundings. Connect with it. Appreciate it. This will lead to a raising of your vibration level.

When you feel that bliss, connection, beauty and lightness of being, bring your question to mind.

Set an intention that you be led through intuition and synchronicity.

Let go of attachment to outcomes.

Stay still and quiet for a few more moments in this state of raised vibration and see what presents itself. Were you daydreaming? What about? Does it relate literally or symbolically to your question? If you are outside in nature, did any animals appear to you? What did they do? How does this relate to your question?

Have fun with this!

To you joy and prosperity!

Blessings,

Keena

PS: A quote from Daily OM: “In the whole of your existence, no force you will ever encounter will contribute as much to your ability to do what you need to do and be who you want to be as your natural wisdom. Through it, you reveal your growing consciousness to the greater source and discover the true extent of your strength. If you heed this wisdom with conviction and confidence, the patterns, people, and fears that held you back will be dismantled, paving the way for you to fulfill your truest potential.”

Your Child’s Life Purpose

Keena — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 02:29:20 +0000

Jumpstart your child’s growth and development to his/her fullest potential.

Knowing your life purpose is the most important gift you can give yourself. It gives you direction and focus, gives your life more fulfillment and meaning, increases your happiness and enthusiasm. When we know our life purpose, we don’t wander around our lives wondering what we should “do” or who we should “be”. Life is more easy, effortless and enjoyable – and we can all use more of that in our lives!

In learning our life purpose, we also learn about the flip side of the coin: life lessons. When you know what lessons you are here to experience and learn from, you can approach them in a conscious manner. It becomes quicker and easier – and we get out of the endless repetition of these experiences because we are aware of them. Life ceases to be an endless struggle, and is filled with greater joy and meaning.

Can you imagine what it would have been like for you as a child if your parents knew your life purpose and life lessons? Can you imagine how much of a head start you would’ve had in life if you had received the support and encouragement you needed as a child. So, imagine the enormous benefits your child will have if you know his/her life purpose and are able to support and encourage her/him from the beginning!
Outside of bringing your beautiful child into this world, this is THE greatest gift you can give him/her!

If you have wondered about your own life purpose and searched online, you will have found dozens of websites. While the content may be a bit different, you will have found that every single one is a variation of journalling the answers to a series of thought provoking questions. They may, like Steve Pavlina’s method, take 20 minutes, or they may take months or even years. And often, you will end up with something sort of nebulous. A vague direction that seems to apply to you, at least at this point in your life. If you really would have liked something accurate, real, lifelong, concrete and specific, that was quick, painless and, for once, didn’t involve journalling, please feel free to order a Life Purpose Consultation for yourself!

Back to your child though, you never see anything about your child’s life purpose, do you? When does life purpose kick in? When you are 18? 30? No! Your life purpose and life lessons are determined – by you – before you even “get here”. We are just not conscious of it, so we don’t remember.

Your Child’s Life Purpose process does not require your child to be old enough to hold a crayon! Never mind be able to write, or especially to answer questions about what they ‘loved to do as a child’, or if they never had to work again – with a million dollars in the bank! That stuff is strictly for adults. Your Child’s Life Purpose process can be done with children as young as 3 months of age.

What do you think of knowing your child’s life purpose? Do you wish that your parents had known and supported you in your life purpose as a child? Please leave your comments!

Want to know more about Your Child’s Life Purpose and the process? Please click here.

To your happiness – and your family’s!

Blessings,

Keena