Pondering Surrender
I had often heard people talk of surrender, but I didn’t have a grasp of how or why I would use it in my life. I had always thought it meant capitulation, yielding, submission or giving up – I equated surrender to weakness, as giving in.
What does it mean to surrender? And how do you action it in your life?
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When discovering the real meaning of surrender, life opened to amazing opportunities I had not seen available to me before.
Surrender was as simple as asking, and trusting I am on the right path, and all I need would come to me.
I learnt there is no partial surrender – you cannot control the outcome – for partial surrender is control. Total surrender is total trust.
What is surrender for you and how would it impact your life? I invite you to ponder how surrender could affect you.
Enjoy your pondering
What is ‘If’
People have asked me about the title of my book ‘If’, and what made me choose this as the title?
Think of how we use the word ‘if’ –
‘If’ was the word linked so intrusively to my powerless struggle of survival on a daily basis, a tiny word with enormous impact, linked to my sadness, grief and dis-empowerment.
What if…? If only…? If he/she did…! If I had …! If I was…!
Can you hear the doubt, powerlessness and undermining in the way I/we can use the word ‘If’ ? Can you sense the ‘hard’ vibration it sets up?
In my book, I explore how we have created and maintained such patterns, why we might choose to change them and what we can do about it.
Come on the journey with me. You can uncover great peace, love, empowerment and deep abiding happiness.
Here’s an excerpt from the book ‘If’ explaining the premise behind the title:
If; one of the most powerful words in our language, yet a simple 2 letter word which goes unnoticed in our everyday speech. Powerful for it displays the level of dis-empowerment within us, through our statements and questions. Reflecting the level of doubt and uncertainty we operate subconsciously within in the everyday direction of life.
I say a powerful word, because it impacts and reflects how I felt within a loving family environment surrounded by a myriad of trials. It is the word which best mirrors for me the stress which I believe shaped my journey into cancer. The word found in most of my thoughts of anguish, blame, shame and resentment, which was the catalyst to create the two different cancers I journeyed through. Then when gaining the clarity of eliminating ‘if’, I was able to own and take responsibility for my journey and find a new sense of freedom and purpose within myself.
Are you Afraid to Dream Big?
What my husband Steve taught me about Dreaming Big.
I’d like to share with you a short excerpt of my book ‘IF’ , about Steve and Dreams.
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Steve would Dream Big and it scared me!
“His Big Dreams, and my fears to Dream, clashed.”
Are you afraid to Dream Big?
How does that show up in your life and in your relationships?
It’s time to consider what your dreams are and if you believe in them. Dreaming Big needs strong belief to soar on.
If you enjoyed this short excerpt and would like to hear more, you might like to follow the Facebook Live series currently underway. This free 5-part workshop series, called “Lessons From IF”, is running on 5 Tuesday nights 7.30 pm AEDT, and started on October 22nd 2019.
Go to our Support With Spirit Facebook Page and watch the replays of the first two sessions, and attend the up-coming sessions, or catch the replays.
It’s a Profound & Powerful Series outlining the steps taken from dis-empowerment to Self discovery, shared in an easy to understand and easy to enact experiential workshop.
Please join me on our Facebook Page (click here) and share.
Pondering Self First
Pondering Self First – A thought posed by Vicki about the need to put ourselves first in our own lives. It’s not always the first consideration we have in our busy lives to ponder what it would look like for us to be the most important person in our life.
Where are You on your list?
Are you first on your list? Second on your list? Third on your list? Somewhere way down the bottom of your list?
Just waiting to get those things out of the way so you can do for you? Have that bit of time, have that bit of n
Do you even think about it?
We need to consider ourselves first.
How would it be to take a whole half-hour to ourselves, or more, without feeling guilty? without feeling the need to justify taking this time?
I invite you to ponder.
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Announcing Facebook Live Workshop – Lessons from “If”
Announcing a Free Facebook Live Workshop series – for 5 weeks every Tuesday starting 22nd October 2019. Please join me on our Facebook Page (click here)
A profound and powerful workshop series, designed to gently discover the areas of dis-empowerment people work within and take the steps to turn them around into an empowered life.
I am so happy to be Announcing this Free Facebook Live workshop series.
Title – The Lessons from ‘If’
When – 5 Tuesday nights. Starting 22 Oct 2019. 7.30 pm AEDT
It’s a Profound & Powerful Series outlining the steps taken from dis-empowerment to Self discovery, shared in an easy to understand and easy to enact experiential workshop.
Please join me on our Facebook Page (click here) and share.
Excerpt from my upcoming book, “If” :
The steps from ‘if’ are those I learned over years, which appear to be an overnight comprehension, to challenge my beliefs and move into empowerment. In many ways it felt like a massive change in a very short time. Hindsight however, is a wonderful way to achieve perspective and gave me the ability to see how many years of self-exploration and research culminated in the rejuvenated and expansive transformation of my self-esteem.
Confidence in exploring the passionate integral self was a practiced art and not an overnight event. Within the discomfort of my feeling of inadequacy, lack and guilt, I squirmed in my judgements and felt overwhelmed in my world which necessitated the need to strive for more.
I’m super excited to share this with you!
What’s Coming up for 2019 ?
I’m so excited to give you a heads up for what’s coming for the remainder of 2019 !
Support With Spirit has planned a number of Facebook Lives, Events, Workshops and Retreats for you to plug into, as well as the usual Isaiah Welcome Nights and Ease-&-Grace Groups.
Details will be released soon, so keep an eye on our Facebook page, and the Support With Spirit website. We are also now on Youtube, and in time will be uploading lots of great content there, too – so you may like to Subscribe to our YouTube channel.
Here’s a quick run-down of what’s to be released soon:
- A series of (free) Facebook-Live sessions
- talking about Lessons from “If”
- “If” is a book I am writing, which will be released soon
- ‘What are your Words Telling You ‘
- a 2 day workshop in Melbourne, Victoria
- ‘Walking With Wisdom’
- a half day event – a walk-and-talk with Isaiah in the bush
- limited to 4 people each trip, several will be scheduled
- A Retreat – 2 days and 2 nights
- Working through the entire Lessons-from-“If”
- Really working on your stuff as a group
- a Powerful and Nurturing weekend – a gentle way of looking at ourselves
I’m super excited and am eager to share more with you. Watch this space!