03.04.08
Posted in Life Coaching, Your Soul, Creativity, Thought of the Day, Favorite Quotes at 12:25 pm by Life Coach Nova
Create masterpieces out of the fabric of life:
Leonardo Da Vinci states beautifully in one of my favorite quotes:
“Where the spirit does not connect with the hand, there is no art.”
~ Leonardo Da Vinci
Writing with a pen in your hand I have found to be one of the best ways to connect with your creative-self. I encourage my clients to write as much as possible. In fact, my sessions consist more of my clients writing than myself. Words are powerful. The act of creating a story pulls your spiritual energy to the surface.
I encourage you to write freely with a pen in your hand, journal without limitations, discover your creative self, your true self.
“True creativity is born in the soul and rises to inspiration, to be a masterpiece.” ~ Life Coach Nova Reed
“Within your creative spirit you have endless solutions, infinite possibilities, and masterpieces just waiting to be born.” ~ Life Coach Nova Reed
“Pay close attention to whispers of the soul, let them out freely. Be inspired today, tomorrow, and for eternity.” ~ Life Coach Nova Reed
Go and Create Today!
Life Coach Nova
Email: Nova@StepStonesForLife.com
Call: 1.877.484.LIFE or 949.858.2442
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03.01.08
Posted in Life Coaching, Health and Wellness, Spirituality, Fulfillment, Creativity, Hope, Lifestyle at 5:38 pm by Life Coach Nova
Finding Balance
Would you like to live fully with vitality, health, and prosperity? The secret to living a content, happy, and productive life is finding balance. Realizing the state of being balanced includes emotional stability, physical strength, spiritual harmony, and the means to decide. The decision to influence or determine the outcome of one’s life by being balanced requires dedication, effort, and fluidity. Just relaxing, getting away, recharging your batteries, while very beneficial, is not enough to achieve living a balanced life. Balance implies a continuous state, a push and pull in equal directions resulting in complete stability to waver any wobbles in life while remaining sure footed enough to succeed.
The concept of balance often arises in my sessions. In fact, most seek help because some part of their life is “out of balance” and the discomfort pushes them to reach out. It is so with your health as well. When your throat hurts beyond toleration, you go to the doctor knowing treatment can alleviate the discomfort. The same is true for disharmony within the family and yourself. Being a Life Coach, I have the fantastic position to offer help at all levels. Whether your life is a little out of balance, or in complete turmoil, I can be of assistance and help you find comfort.
I often think back in my life and recall lessons I’ve learned that have helped me integrate all my studies in psychology, health, wellness, and coaching. One visual that I often picture is walking the balance beam. I was once a competitive gymnast. I loved everything about gymnastics. Using your body to create something beautiful to watch, reaching and stretching outside of what others could do, and finding that perfect state of “balance”. I would get lost in the rhythmic motions and tune out the whole world, focused on movement, balance, and creation. I can recall my coach telling me the one factor that continually put me ahead on the beam was my ability to trust myself, and not be afraid. Living a balanced life reminds me of the same dedication, concentration, and movements on the balance beam.
Imagine a 2 ½ inch beam, on which you will not only walk, but do cartwheels, back-flips, and spin around full circle on the ball of your feet. Managing the challenges of life is a lot like walking the balance beam. You learn very quickly, if you loose concentration, you WILL fall, and guess what? It hurts! So you are motivated to stay on course. Much the same, if you loose focus with your life, it hurts. It hurts physically, emotionally, and financially.
The act of walking the balance beam, and walking a balanced life requires three simple steps:
1. FOCUS
Focus not on the beam itself below you, but directly ahead. Looking ahead in life manifests movement forward, keeps your head up, and creates a goal. Intense concentration requires a knowing of your abilities, concern only for what really matters, and a relaxed energy that guides you so deeply it seems without thought.
2. FAITH
How do you know where to put your next step if you don’t look down? By trusting you know the way to the end of beam. When you reach out to take a step, you hold your arms out for balance, focus on the end of the beam, and gently dip your foot along the side of the beam to feel your placement. As you brush the side of the beam, you feel confidence and deliberately place your foot ahead of you. Faith is having trust the beam will be there, trust in your ability to stay on course, and trust in the outcome.
3. DEDICATION
The beauty of fluidity comes from constant practice. Repeating the same routine over and over until you could close your eyes and still see the end of the beam. Living a balanced life is exactly the same. Practice focusing on your goals. Practice trusting and having faith. Practice holding your arms out, taking steps, and believing in yourself.
I believe in you.
Start living a balanced life. Call or email me to walk a balanced life.
With warmth,
Life Coach Nova
Email: Nova@StepStonesForLife.com
Office: 949.858.2442
Toll Free: 877-484-LIFE
START LIVING!!!
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05.04.07
Posted in Life Coaching, Creativity at 6:21 pm by Life Coach Nova
The following is one of my favorite excerpts from The Prophet by Khalil Gibran inspiring my chapter on Creative Intelligence. Creativity is the ultimate balance of reason and passion. While there are some of us who would be considered “creative,” I urge you to consider we all CREATE our lives each and every day, every moment, every choice determines the masterpieces of our lives. To live with the balance of reason and passion calls to us to live in congruency with our soul. Listen, create, inspire, and add your comments below.
Reason and Passion
And the priestess spoke again and said: “Speak to us of Reason and Passion.”
And he answered saying:
Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon which your reason and your judgment wage war against passion and your appetite.
Would that I could be the peacemaker in your soul, that I might turn the discord and the rivalry of your elements into oneness and melody.
But how shall I, unless you yourselves be also the peacemakers, nay, the lovers of all your elements?
Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafaring soul.
If either your sails or our rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas.
For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.
Therefore let your soul exalt your reason to the height of passion; that it may sing;
And let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may live through its own daily resurrection, and like the phoenix rise above its own ashes.
I would have you consider your judgment and your appetite even as you would two loved guests in your house.
Surely you would not honour one guest above the other; for he who is more mindful of one loses the love and the faith of both.
Among the hills, when you sit in the cool shade of the white poplars, sharing the peace and serenity of distant fields and meadows - then let your heart say in silence, “God rests in reason.”
And when the storm comes, and the mighty wind shakes the forest, and thunder and lightning proclaim the majesty of the sky, - then let your heart say in awe, “God moves in passion.”
And since you are a breath In God’s sphere, and a leaf in God’s forest, you too should rest in reason and move in passion.
Beautiful…
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Life Coach Nova
Email: Nova@StepStonesForLife.com
Call: 949-858-2442
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