Sedona Soul Retrieval Blog
I hope you enjoy my growing collection of inner feelings and writing. These explorations provide insight into my way of thinking, inspirations, and aspirations. Check back frequently for new articles. Thanks – Debra.
Articles of Inspiration and Discovery
Releasing Ourselves from Suffering
How do we release ourselves and grow from our experiences of suffering rather than become more constricted? Start to view suffering as an opportunity for your inner child to grow up. The experiences of life are an opportunity to become empowered, conscious, and a more compassionate person. We can begin to train our minds to see...
Taking Responsibility for Ourselves
Are you taking responsibility for yourself? Getting stuck in the drama of our lives means we get wrapped up in a situation and our feelings about it and aren’t able to see what’s happening. An example could be someone at work making a remark and you feel disregarded. You could say, “She is terrible. How could she say that to me? She is...
Seeing Suffering as Our Teacher
When something happens in our life that triggers us, we usually try to keep from feeling the feelings that arose from the trigger. To avoid these feelings, we may medicate ourselves by using alcohol, shopping, TV, working, or exercising, slamming the person who triggered us to friends or reacting or projecting onto someone else. This type of...
There Is Nothing To Fix-Give Yourself A Break!
Of all the people we can be hard on, we tend to be our own worst critics. At times when we are healing ourselves, it can be very difficult to give ourselves a break. If we feel ourselves start punishing our inner child by yelling at her or getting upset, especially when she is acting out, we need to take a breath and give ourselves a break. We...
Bringing Your Experiences In and Not Outside of Yourself
When life experiences happen, our first tendency is to look at what is happening from outside of us. If something happens that we are uncomfortable with, we look at the person or the situation and think that if that person or situation could change, we would feel better. That is going outside of yourself for how you feel. If we look for change...
Are You Being Compassionate With Your Meditation Practice?
I used to be the gal who said, "Put the house on my back. I can carry it." I lost my mother when I was 26-years-old, my children were 4 and 5 years old, and I went into survival mode. I am a doer; I get things done, sometimes at any cost. The problem with operating this way is the price my health and nervous system paid. Today, I know better, or...
Living In The Present Moment
We hear it in books, see it on affirmations, and our teacher’s tell us all the time, breathe and be in the present moment. It seems so easy when it is said, but just try it. Bring your thoughts, your mind back to what you are doing for just 5 minutes. It’s amazing how many times you will have to bring it back. Our thoughts are running rampant...
Staying Out Of The Drama and Moving Into The Higher Learning
How do we stay out of the drama of life and take that drama and move into a place of higher conscious learning? First what is drama? Drama is conceived through getting wrapped up in a situation that happens instead of looking at why it is happening. Let’s say someone treats me with disrespect. If I lament about the situation and say things like,...
Living A Conscious Life
What does living a conscious life mean exactly? It means not sleeping on the job! It mean being awake! Going through your day with awareness, not being on autopilot. The majority of people on this planet are sleep walking and don’t know it. They get up in the morning, drag themselves to the coffee machine, take a shower, go to work, work, come...
Shifting Your Old Belief System and Living in Bliss
What do you see when you look at your life? What have you created in the outside world? By looking at the outside, you will know exactly what is going on, on the inside. If you believe the world is rude, harsh, and uncompromising, guess what? That is how it is going to show up for you. If you have an old belief that no one shows up for you...
A Key to a Happier and Healthier You
When we are 20 years old, we think we are invincible. Our body looks good and strong. Even though our emotions are all over the place, we can stuff them so deep that we hardly even know that they are there. It’s a pattern we have followed since childhood. This response may work for us until we are well into our 30s. And then things change....
