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		<title>GIVE: Awaken By the Spirit — Awaken the Creativity Restlessly Sleeping Inside You!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA["    Thoughts, emotions, and creativity are all forms of energy. Energy is meant to keep moving and when we stop its flow and keep it stuck, it intensifies. If we keep this up and keep it in for too long, that stale energy can wreak havoc spiritually, mentally and emotionally. And this stress definitely takes its toll on our bodies." Chris Assaad, from Share Your Truth and Set Yourself Free!

I recently heard Dr. Brené Brown say that creativity unexpressed doesn't remain dormant in our bodies but that it becomes toxic as unreleased energy. She also believes there aren't "creative and uncreative" people in the world but rather those with the courage to be vulnerable and share and those who succumb to fear. I believe we all vacillate between the two extremes based on the choices we make from day-to-day and moment to moment.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bythespirit.net&#038;blog=10107872&#038;post=4572&#038;subd=bythespirit&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SHINE: Awaken By the Spirit — Accept Your Shadows, Awaken to Your Light!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy—the experiences that make us the most vulnerable. Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.” - Brené Brown

Recently, I’ve poured over the pages of her book The Gifts of Imperfection, which I believe is an essential text for anyone — like me — recovering from the crippling dis-ease of perfectionism. Dr. Brown describes perfectionism as another very toxic form of fear and as a major obstacle to our ability to live with the type of authenticity that is only possible when we are vulnerable to the very things that perfectionists spend all of their time and attention avoiding like the plague.

But what I’ve learned from my own spiritual journey, and what Dr. Brown explores and explains in her work, is that embracing the parts of our ” life stories” we’re afraid and shamed of is the only way to experience love and belonging and joy in all of their spiritual glory. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bythespirit.net&#038;blog=10107872&#038;post=4573&#038;subd=bythespirit&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SHARE: Awaken By the Spirit — Awaken to the Path that Leads to a New You!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[SHARE … By The Spirit™ April 26, 2013 “Every positive change–every jump to a higher level of energy and awareness–involves a rite of passage. Each time to ascend to a higher rung on the ladder of personal evolution, we must go through a period of discomfort, of initiation. I have never found an exception.” ~ [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bythespirit.net&#038;blog=10107872&#038;post=4567&#038;subd=bythespirit&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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