"This week I will:
_____________✨practice devoted awareness of my thoughts, feelings and words. @kaylaburnsfloyd and I call this going all "belief police" on ourselves.
_____________🤗choose the better feeling, the better thought and enjoy the better reality.
_____________🌼get in the space of possibility for happiness and feelings of being in love with life.
_____________🙋welcome opportunities for growth (and maybe even consider coming on Shift Retreat in June)." #happymonday
Taken from a convo with my sis who reminds me to use my tools in the most loving ways. Image by @emilywalen at a Shift retreat. The fella in this photo says it was "a crystalline moment that won’t fade from memory." I could not agree more. 👭👫👬👭💚
Citrine For The Win
In lieu of choosing a word this year I let a gemstone choose me by drawing a card from the Crystal Wisdom Healing Oracle Deck. This is Citrine and I'm thrilled that she's my gal for 2017. I already think of her as my bestie who is all kinds of positive even when life gets dreary. She's the one who shows up at your house with your favorite smoothie and cassette tape of the Footloose soundtrack (and player because... totally necessary). She knows all the words to "Let's Hear It For the Boy." Citrine is a high frequency stone all about joy, inner peace, abundance and play.
What about you? I'd love to hear about your guiding stones and words.
Love & Thankfulness
Thank you to everyone who supported my business this year. Thank you for your openness to attend and share Shift Retreats! Thank you for showing up for personal coaching, cleanses, groups and the Home Kit! Thank you for being a beautiful reflective mirror for me to look into. ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ Years ago this business was born out of my own search for healing and it continues out of my desire to continue to learn and serve along the way. With each passing year the business grows, I feel more seen and impassioned to keep going. ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ We all have the ability to allow the freedom that we so deeply desire into our lives, but sometimes we just need a little help. We get so stuck in seeing things one certain way that we become paralyzed to finding a new way. We lose sight of what we want. We disconnect from ourselves. We forget that there's a bigger force at work in our life that we can use to conjure and create with. Being a part of your transformation, helping you connect into that bigger force, and continuing to share my own transformations with you is everything to me. ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ Thank you with all my heart. May 2017 be filled with love and total well being!
The Four Agreements
The Four Agreements I come back to time and again that generally make me a better person (and in my opinion the best short book out there to give as a gift this holiday season)
1. Be Impeccable With Your Word
Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.
2. Don't Take Anything Personally
Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering.
3. Don't Make Assumptions
Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.
4. Always Do Your Best
Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Create The Life You Want
When we first met I had a vision of dancing at her wedding. I later learned she deeply desired inviting love into her life. She did incredible work over two Shift Retreats and last night I danced at her wedding with all my heart.
Calm Your Storm
Last week I walked into a store and immediately wanted to turn around and walk out. The crowds + chaos that often come with the holidays can be really overwhelming. I've created a short and potent visualization to support you if you ever feel overwhelmed or vulnerable in crowds. This morning I received some solid feedback that it is already working it's magic!
"This morning getting off the train, Penn station was filled, absolutely filled, with cops. I didn't put 2 and 2 together that it's a holiday and reason for heightened security. As I'm approaching the exit I was bracing myself for the soldiers and bomb squads which are usually outside Penn Station in cases like these.
Suddenly I remembered that I had a new protection glove and I instantly switched it on and a wave of calm came over me. Then I got tingles on top of my head that it worked. I'm currently emanating a ✨warm yellow glow✨."
You can find it at Soundcloud.com/lacyyoung or if it's easier to remember bit.ly/invisibleprotection
#getyourglowon 🙌🏼 #meditationsforreallife
ps. This is also a wonderful meditation to share with your kiddos.
Bigger Dreams
My typical daily intentions are in the realm of dreaming a much bigger dream for myself and this life. Today I am giving myself points for showing up amid incredible breathing woes. Today I aim to be dispassionate. Rational. Impartial. A true observer.
I share this because I know so many of us are negotiating something physical (or emotional) and that can feel scary and hard (some days more than others). Remember that you are not alone. I'm sending you love ❤️ and light✨. I see you and thank you for seeing me. I love you.
ps. This was the most fun day of beach hopping with my little brother way back in June.
#takeheartandgathercourage#neveravictim #wontstoprunning#thestoryofmyhealing
Word Collection
Most of time I'm tempted to delete all my emails and start fresh but then I read one like this and remember why that's a terrible idea.
"I just want you to know that I will be forever grateful to you for the wisdom, love, perseverance, and patience you have had for me over the past 6 months. Because of you and your work, my life has changed forever. You will never know how much you mean to me and all I can say is Thank you, Thank you, Thank You!"
Bestimonial
Hey, we are looking 😻 at you!
"Why I'm going steady with Lacy Young and SHIFT Retreats -
There is a terrific movement toward higher consciousness happening right now, which means retreats galore. Every time I visit Facebook or Instagram, someone I know or follow has launched a new retreat. So many to choose from, all kinds lead by all types. Many look interesting! However, I've flown to beautiful California and far flung Bali to join Lacy's SHIFT circle and each experience has been a game changer that has thrust me into a space of accelerated learning, knowing, and feeling, and a vastly improved mode of being. I can't imagine a better retreat experience! As a client of Lacy's for five years, she has been my health coach, biz coach, ally in personal evolution, meditation guide, healer, and general uplifter. She's the whole package. So call off the search. You've found "the one". SHIFT and Lacy Young are the best things going. (And you deserve the best.)"
#youreallydo #yourtimeisnow#bestimonial (you read that right 😉)
Startovers
"For what it's worth: It's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over." - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Image by @emilywalen at a Shift Retreat last year. It says everything doesn't it. I am honored to witness all kinds of good start overs.