14 Ways to Deeply Transform Your Life in 2023
1- BEFRIEND YOUR NERVOUS SYSTEM
Learn to translate the subtle language of your autonomic nervous system. If you don't know where to start with this, you can join our Nervous System Resiliency + Intro to Polyvagal Theory Workshop being held in February (TBA) or take our Intro to Breathwork Course which also supports with nervous system regulation & autonomic unwinding!
2- CULTIVATE FULL-SPECTRUM SELF-INTIMACY
Create a relationship with your emotional body. Practice somatic experiencing, compassionate inquiry & deep listening. Learn to trust in ALL emotions as intelligent messengers. Open your heart, soften & become curious about the full terrain of your inner landscape. Be gentle & loving with yourself and practice radical self-compassion. We highly recommend Breathwork Journeying as a pathway for deeper self-intimacy.
3- INTEGRATE YOUR SHADOW LOVE YOUR INNER CHILD, FIND RIGHT RELATIONSHIP WITH YOUR EGO & UNPACK YOUR UNCONSCIOUS BEHAVIORS
As Carl Jung eloquently explained: 'Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life, and you will call it fate. The greatest journey is the one within- to truly know thyself in all facets. If you want to go deeper, many of our programs offer shadow work, inner child work, subconscious re-patterning, and deep self-inquiry.
4- PRACTICE RELATIONAL INTIMACY & CONSCIOUS COMMUNICATION
To nurture relational intimacy is to be willing to reveal all aspects of ourselves; to learn how to communicate compassionately & mindfully; to embrace differences; to grow from conflict; to choose the individuals we share ourselves with intentionally. Relational intimacy is making the choice to be connected to, rather than isolated from our deepest truth in each moment. As M. Rosenberg writes, "Every criticism, judgment, diagnosis, and expression of anger is only the tragic expression of an unmet need.
5- DEVOTE TO A REGULAR PRACTICE- PHYSICAL, SOMATIC & SPIRITUAL
Strengthen and cultivate your body, mind & spirit! Consider regular exercise/strength training alongside practices like yoga, stretching, breathwork, qigong, dance & intuitive movement. Show up to a morning container every day and let the details be fluid & open. Toin SBA for our weekly Breathwork Journeys for somatic. emotional and spiritual healing, empowerment & activation! Practice regular self-care by nurturing, tending to & honoring yourself! Treat your body like a temple. Remember you are worthy of sacred rest. We are cyclical in nature, ebbing and flowing between our inner spring/summer & our inner autumn/winter. When you forget, remind yourself that you are a human being, not a human doing.
6- BE IMPECCABLE WITH YOUR WORD
Being impeccable with our words includes both self-talk AND how we speak to & about others. Our word is our command. Did you know that 'abracadabra' is actually derived from an Aramaic expression 'avra kehdabra', meaning “I will create as I speak” or “With my words I create”? So what are you creating with your words? What are you calling in & materializing, whether knowingly or unknowingly? Examine all expressions of how you speak/write/think and determine if it is empowering, loving, constructive & integrous or not... course correcting where needed. I also highly recommend the '4 Agreements' by D. M. Ruiz.
7- TRACK YOUR SUB-ENERGETICS
It’s not what or who you say you are, it’s who you are being at all times. Who we are being aka our personal quantum reality is built upon our thoughts, beliefs, emotions, frequency, personal energy, words, deeds, actions & intentions. Even our body language & non-verbal cues. Our desires respond to the total quantum attitude we are emitting- both conscious & unconscious. And if we want or intend something that our body & nervous system cannot hold, we cancel it out.
8- CREATE COMMUNITY COHERENCE
Surround yourself with people who can meet you, see you, uplift you, unconditionally love you, honor you + amplify/support/encourage/celebrate you. Detox, heal or redefine relational dynamics that drain & deplete you- especially ones that are built on codependency or unconscious mechanisms. Find the intersection of both sovereignty & interdependence. Follow what feels good & don’t settle for slivers of halfhearted connection when there is a vibrant wellspring of communal magic that awaits you.
9- HEAL, CLEAR, ACTIVATE & LIBERATE YOUR ANCESTRAL BLOODLINE
You are the living answered prayer of your ancestors. I believe that many of us consciously choose to incarnate into specific bloodlines to both heal and liberate them. We aren't only transmuting and clearing ancestral pain, trauma, disempowerment and karma... we are also here to reactivate the gifts and medicine of our bloodline. Create an ancestral relationship with your primary lineages if you have not already, and allow your ancestors to guide you and walk with you. Remember, you are the chain-breaker here to write a New Story for your lineage(s). You are the sacred key.
10- TAKE A COMPLETE LIFE INVENTORY
Intentionally examine each manifestation of your life and determine if it is in alignment or misalignment with your deepest core truth. If something is out of alignment, dig deeper to excavate the underlying energetics and what it was founded upon. If something is not created from truth, it's often created from distortion or disempowerment. Yet everything serves our growth & evolution until we are ready to shift & evolve to the next place.
Take a newfound empowered approach to determine how you participated in the co-creation of each piece. If you find you are unhappy with something, whether feeling unfulfilled in a relationship or drained by soul-diminishing work, etc., ask yourself how it can be shifted, dissolved or redefined. Take radical ownership & thank it for the lessons. Then create a plan of action that allows you to gracefully segue into the life you truly desire. And always give the other party in relationships a chance to rise to meet you/do the work with you before ending something. Explore all avenues and get creative!
11- INVITE NEW EXPERIENCES & GET OUT OF YOUR COMFORT ZONE. EXPAND YOUR PERSPECTIVE. LEARN NEW CRAFTS & STUDIES.
Life is your oyster; your blank canvas. Play & explore! Stay curious & open; lean into resistance; get resourceful when you meet a challenge; never stop expanding, growing & deepening!
12- STOP FORCING & CHASING INSTEAD DEEPEN INTO THE RIVER OF ALL THAT IS
When you remember that you are a POWERFUL CREATOR, life becomes far more effortless & magnetic. Here we resonate, attract, align & open into the infinite prosperity, creativity & ecstasy that is our most innate birthright. Yet part of this journey is becoming sovereign & self-responsible in all areas of our life. This includes taking authorship & ownership of our thoughts, emotions, words, vibrations, deeds, actions & reactions (moving from disempowerment to empowerment, self-sabotage to self-responsibility, & self-limitation to infinite potentiality). This path invites us to become the author of our own story; a life artist, even. Are you ready to write your luminous masterpiece?
13- LIVE FOR A HIGHER PURPOSE, DHARMA OR MISSION
Commit to Service to the Whole over solely Service to Self. Allow a greater divine plan to work through you, as you. Walk the path of the Visionary who trusts in what has not yet come to be. Offer your work as sacred service while also making sure you are thriving & abundantly taken care of. You can have both! Follow life-serving, soul-nourishing pursuits. Choose alignment & truth over old paradigm metrics. Refine your business to be nervous system-led so that you give from a full cup. Let God/Goddess/the Divine guide you and work through you, as you.
14- COMMIT TO THE JOURNEY OF SELF-ACTUALIZATION AS A LIFELONG ROMANCE OF BECOMING, CLAIMING & REMEMBERING
Awaken your most authentic expression & fully-claimed self. Unleash your power, voice, inner truth, pleasure, creativity, vision, genius & sovereignty. Retrieve your personal medicine & unique gifts. Choose to walk in the BeautyWay, living a soul-aligned, spirit-led, dharmic-driven existence and you will be rewarded & provided for beyond your wildest dreams. It’s all here for you, my love. If you want to go deeper, we have 2 leadership trainings next year to support you on this path:
Golden Age Leadership: A Conscious Breathwork, Business & Legacy Training
— Written by Kaya Leigh, Founder of Sacred Breath Academy
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