Opening Your Heart To Your True Intentions

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1:02who participated in various mom groups, ran a few, even joined some book clubs, but envisioned something different, as she found herself looking around still wondering what did she like to do anymore that didn't involve the kids' activities, as she worked to discover her own passions. She realized that there is no one size fits all program, but the true key to figuring out your passion and making your goals happen is finding connection in a supportive environment. Therefore, her new mission is to help other mamas find their passions while being more present with their families, in a supportive, empowering environment surrounded by grace. She has started spreading this message through YouTube, Instagram, and her blog. She holds an MA in education and spent eight years dedicated to the classroom before having a family. But before you listen to Michelle, here are a few words from one of our partners who help us keep free content coming.

2:19I want to say a warm hello to the daily calm audience. I thank you for having me today. This is a guided meditation to open your heart to your true intentions. When we don't set forth an intention, we leave it up to chance. Our worst, our subconscious, tries to figure it out for us. It is time to be intentional now. So we're going to start by taking three deep candle breaths together. The breath starts by inhaling a quick blow out like a candle and release. We're going to take three together. Inhale, blow out and release. Inhale, blow out and release. Inhale, blow out and release. These breaths start to help take our intention back to our breathing. And now as you start to take the deepest breath, you take it all day, we're going to inhale.

3:29And as you start to exhale, slowly start to close your eyes. Start to shift in your seat until you're comfortable and you feel your feet connecting with the floor. Feel that connection ground down into your feet, grounds down into the earth. Picture the roots sprouting from your feet like a tree's root grounding into the earth. The more you feel those roots, the stronger your intentions will be. Keep letting those roots just grow. Now slowly let that energy close from your grounding flow through your body and take notice to what is happening.

4:34Remember, we are only noticing not judging ourselves. If we notice a spot that needs a deep, a few deep breaths, simply take them and send energy that way. Start moving through your body and breathing with intention. As you're moving, take your time, expiring all the way through your body, sending energy and breathing where it needs to go. When you reach the ground of your head, just pause and breathe.

5:37As you keep breathing at the ground of your head, picture a light filling you and working its way through your body. The sun comes from above giving you energy which represents a light or color that is moving through your being right now. What color do you see? What is that energy feeling like to you right now? That energy, that light is your intention for this moment. Let it fill your body. Let the energy move through you. As it moves through you, what is it saying to you? Where does that light feel strong in your body as you focus on this intention?

6:49Start the words flow from you to describe what you want in this moment. What words come to your mind as they flow through you? Now take it a little further and what do you want for this week? What are your intentions? What about for this year? Five years from now. Let this intention take you as far as you need into the future. Take note of what you were feeling as you see those intentions become part of you.

7:50You have the power to set forth your intentional future as far as you want. Remember to start with now and stay with now if that's where you are at. Or keep going to as far as you need as you can always come back to keep you going forward. All you need is one intention for this moment and let it fill you with color and energy. Let it expand your heart so that it becomes part of you. And as that intention reaches your heart, share some gratitude with it for being part of you.

8:54And then gratitude to your subconscious self will now take over on making this intention so. Let the energy and color fill your heart with gratitude as you cement this intention. You are so strong because you chose to guide your subconscious. Repeat after me. I have the power to lead an intentional life. I have the power to lead an intentional life. I choose to lead one now. So the energy moving through you as you cement that intention with these affirmations.

10:22Now return to your feet where the roots were growing. Feel those roots stronger. Feel the intention within those roots. Wiggle your feet. Feel the ground with your feet. As you start to wiggle your feet, let the sensations of your body against your seat start to return. Slowly start to fill your body again. We're going to take three more deep cannel breaths. Inhale, blow out and release.

11:29Again, inhale, blow out. Release. Inhale, blow out and release. Now you're going to take a deeper breath than you've taken earlier. Breathe in as deep as you can. And as you slowly start to exhale, slowly start to open your eyes. Start to bring this forward. Remembering cementing that intention. Now to do that, you're now going to spend five minutes wring down your intentions. You're right now how you feel about those intentions. The important part is the emotions that you feel towards these intentions.

12:30Then as you read over what you wrote, just write and don't stop. Pick out a phrase to put on a posted or a paper to hang somewhere you will see it all the time. Repeat this when you feel you need to set a new intention or you're moving away from being intentional now. This is your moment to come back to. And to find a new intention to live more intentionally now, hang that piece of paper, hang that post it, make it part of you. Thank you. We thank Michelle for that wonderful guided meditation on opening your heart to your true intentions. Learn more about Michelle by visiting www.connectingmamas.com slash free course. This is a free course that goes through her framework. Check in.

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