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Love, Trust, Forgive

Love is the beginning of everything; it is the root of all relationships and the foundation of happiness and deep spiritual joy. From love, or lack of love, all other things flow. With love we embrace all the virtues of the heart, including the ability to trust and forgive. Appendix A in Nurturing Wellness through Radical Self-Care has a long list of virtues which are all definitions of love; abundance, honor, excellence, insight, balance, focus, kindness, communication, friendship, gratitude, openness. The above virtues and many others can’t exist within you at the level your mind-body-spirit needs unless you gradually increase…

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February 16, 2015 Leave a commentLove, Nurturing WellnessBy Janet

Choose Happiness

True Happiness is an inside job and a conscious choice. I choose to be happy every day. I prefer to see the bright side, the lessons learned, and the hope for tomorrow. While I recognize life is often a very challenging journey, I choose to focus on the up side of the challenge. How about you? Today, my friend Linda Joy released Inspiration for a Woman’s Soul: Choosing Happiness featuring the soul-inspiring stories of 27 beautiful women who share their intimate stories of transformation. Choosing Happiness includes Reflection Questions after each story which will empower you to integrate the vital lessons of…

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February 11, 2015 2 CommentsEventsBy Janet

Laugh Often

Have you laughed today? Have you doubled over in laughter fighting to get your breath – sides screaming in pain, tears running down your cheeks? Laughing is so good for you. As soon as you engaged in a side-splitting laugh, you changed your body chemistry by downloading a whole lot of feel-good endorphins that caused you feel better emotionally and physically. You reduced your stress and boosted your immune system with nothing other than the pure enjoyment of the moment. “Laugh at every opportunity and when an opportunity does not exist, make one! Laughter lifts our mood, jiggles up our…

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February 9, 2015 Leave a commentEnergy Medicine/HealingBy Janet

Living in the Now

Week 4 of the Nurturing Wellness through Radical Self-Care daily Mindful Minutes is found on my new Facebook page www.facebook.com/janetgnestor. Take a look, think through the comments and questions and enjoy the sparkles you create. We all want to lead a grounded, capable, powerful, clear minded life. We want make good choices and decisions. We want to feel the expansion of our consciousness, and we want to feel the love. To have this magnificent experience of “living in the now” it is necessary that you and I feel comfortable in our own skin. Is there one grand secret that will…

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February 3, 2015 2 CommentsMindfulness/Stress, Nurturing Wellness, UncategorizedBy Janet

Trust the Process

Do you trust the process of life? I know that I’ve struggled with process learning and trust, and for a long time I don’t think I even knew what it meant to “live in process”. “Living in process is about living – spiritual living and living spiritually. We all have the opportunity to live completely, fully, wholly, joyfully, serenely with our spirituality expressed in every facet of our lives … Living in process is about the relearning of living our wholeness.” ~ Anne Wilson Schaef I first heard of “living in process” from one of the great co-dependency writers of…

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January 26, 2015 6 CommentsMindfulness/StressBy Janet