Aware Within

04/10/2023

Inner Sun Alchemy courses are a unique combination of facilitated learning and experiential creative expression.
Whispers from the Divine ~ SPRING ~ is 2 live online classes via Zoom on Saturday April 22 and Saturday April 29, 2023.
Time: 10:00-12:00
Cost: $80 +HST.
Connect with Michele for more information. Michele[at]AwareWithin.ca

01/16/2022

Caution : Expanding your awareness may lead to greater insights 😁

01/05/2022

We as humans naturally experience connection with others as well as the inevitable conflict stage otherwise known as disconnection or rupture. What a lot of us never learned though is what to do next ... which is to repair. Without repair, we grow an unhealthy pile of resentments. With healthy repair though, we grow intimacy and love.

01/03/2022

How are you starting into your new year?
What are you imagining, dreaming into being?
Watch your thoughts ... and if they're not helpful, cancel delete and restate what it is that you want to affirm.

JANUARY
The first month of the year,
A perfect time to start all over again
Changing energies and deserting old moods,
New beginnings, new attitudes ..

~ Charmaine J Forde ~

Artist E. Bayley

12/23/2021

It's OK ...

It's OK if this year it's feeling a little less like Christmas.
Or if the star's not glowing as brightly, on the tree.

It's OK, if this year the carollers feel a little weary, or the lights are up late,
or the Christmas cheer hasn't been quite baked into the shortbread~

It's been a long journey-on-the-donkey year.

It's OK if you didn't get all the Christmas cards out, or if the gifts are looking thin under the tree,

Or if you have slowed down, taken stock and gone inward; or looked for a New Star of guidance~

Some Wise Men did the same, I hear.

It's OK, if you feel like there's no room for anything else now:
to do or to fit in, or to be.
Or that your hands are full already, with life crammed up to brimming:

It was like this at an old Inn, I hear.

But seriously. It's OK, really OK!
If things this Christmas, during this hard time in the world, are humble. Lowly,
or not ready.

Because, it's in the more make-shift places. Behind the heavy,
the weary,
and the door to the Lowly Mangers...
Where Life's Miracles tend to appear.
..So for those who See, and who Look More:

don't worry if this year it's feeling a little less like Christmas.

Because maybe this year, it's more like Christmas than before ❤

~With soul and love, this season.
Rachel Alana (R.A Falconer) Midwives of the Soul

Photo by Loretoidas on Flickr

12/08/2021

Connect to your Self for what you need, not to what you think others think you need.

10/17/2021

What emotion(s) do you usually choose?

10/16/2021

What is within your control and what is out of your control? Do you know the difference?

10/15/2021

10/14/2021

Are you willing to be amazed?

09/01/2021

I had my own notion of grief.
I thought it was the sad time
That followed the death of someone you love.
And you had to push through it
To get to the other side.
But I'm learning there is no other side.
There is no pushing through.
But rather,
There is absorption.
Adjustment.
Acceptance.
And grief is not something you complete,
But rather, you endure.
Grief is not a task to finish
And move on,
But an element of yourself ,
An alteration of your being.
A new way of seeing.
A new definition of self ..

~ Gwen Flowers ~

Art by Andrea Kowtch

08/21/2021

Just imagine becoming the way you used to be as a very young child, before you understood the meaning of any word, before opinions took over your mind. The real you is loving, joyful, and free. The real you is just like a flower, just like the wind, just like the ocean, just like the sun.
~ Don Miquel Ruiz

~ Art by Carla Seaton

08/11/2021

Create your own version of what 'success' is. For me, it's a healthy balance of work and time off, eating well and lots of 'me' time for gardening, walking, reading, etc.
What's your version of success?

07/27/2021

I haven't been a fan of the phrase 'self-care.' Not the act of it but the phrase of it. It hasn't struck me as something enticing or fun to do. It seemed more of a chore and who wants to have to do more chores? Not me!

But, we know that taking care of your Self is extremely important on so many levels. It provides one of the base structures of your relationship to your Self. And, your relationship with your Self affects E-V-E-R-Y-T-H-I-N-G in your life.

So tell me, what are your thoughts about "self-goodness"?

Michele Wolf, RP
Collingwood Ontario

07/15/2021

I find this to be very true ...
When I do a clean up, tidy up, declutter, organize, throw out, recycle ... I have more room in my mind and feel calmer.
How about you?

07/14/2021

I like this ...
Start over from and with experience.

07/13/2021

Create and have experiences.
What are some of your best memories?

07/12/2021

It happens like that doesn't it?
Bit by bit ... and then you have a realization.
So, you decide to do things a little, or a lot, differently.
And maybe it sticks. Or, maybe it comes around again for more awareness, more adjustments, and another reminder to your Self.