Books are my weak link.  I love to read and so my defenses are down when it comes to reading.  That is, if Spirit wants to communicate with me it will be through a book.  Sometimes it is just a paragraph or two or the title that will speak volumes to me.  Pardon the pun. lol
I usually will share one of many crazy books coming to me stories in my discussion groups.  They are so crazy that it can only mean one thing.
So what are you feeling nudged to read.  Book, Facebook, billboard.  You will know when you have hit on the message because you will feel it in your heart center.  Trust the message you feel.  
Maybe it was this message causing you to open up to the bigger part of you.  Spirit asking you to write a new page in your life's story by Trusting who you are more deeply.
--Gwen Peterson

Gwen Peterson is the Mentor of Insights and Illuminations//Helping others to refocus, re-energize and recreate their lives.  In addition to this work Gwen is the Founder of Spiritual Communities Network//a global community of Teachers and Seekers of Spiritual growth with classes and events held virtually and locally and leads the Naples FemCity Collective//Supporting business women with that Soul connection.  She has been featured in Natural Awakenings Magazine.  To learn more about Gwen, her classes or SCN, visit: Insights and Illuminations, Spiritual Communities Network 

Find things to smile about.  Even if it is the small things in your day.  A bird.  Your dog.  The sun.  A friend.
I think you get the picture.  Once you shift your focus to something that will make your smile you change up the energy you hold and you allow the good in life to flow to you more easily.
With practice, you will not need anything to shift your focus.  Just the smile itself and your body will relax into the moment.  You will begin to see the things around you shift.  Give it a try right now. Right this moment as you are sitting here reading this.  Can you feel the relief?
--Gwen Peterson
Gwen Peterson is the Mentor of Insights and Illuminations//Helping others to refocus, re-energize and recreate their lives.  In addition to this work Gwen is the Founder of Spiritual Communities Network//a global community of Teachers and Seekers of Spiritual growth with classes and events held virtually and locally and leads the Naples FemCity Collective//Supporting business women with that Soul connection.  She has been featured in Natural Awakenings Magazine.  To learn more about the Gwen, her classes or SCN, visit: Insights and Illuminations, Spiritual Communities Network

As you practice more and more your alignment with that deeper part of you, your Soul, you begin to feel or hear nudges.  In addition, to your Inner knowing, you are surrounded by Angels and Guides who also are there for you.  You can be nudged or hear them as well.  They are all working for your higher good.  When you do your work, no matter what it looks like, be centered.  You may find that you will need to stop and re-center from time to time.  Find a good feeling place as you move through your day.  This will let you feel their nudges. 
For example, I spend a lot of my days on the computer due to the nature of my work.  I love to get in a good feeling place first.  It makes the work move quickly and I have come to find that I will get nudges regarding different things I need to do or should look at.  The other day a particular post came up on Facebook and I felt a nudge to click and listen. I tried to dismiss it, but the nudge came back to listen.  I did and found out some rather interesting information that would prompt me to take some action.  It was very important that I had that information and take that action, so I was very appreciative of the 'outside' help, if you know what I mean.
These are friends with the best kind of benefits.
--Gwen Peterson
 Gwen Peterson is the Mentor of Insights and Illuminations//Helping others to refocus, re-energize and recreate their lives.  In addition to this work Gwen is the Founder of Spiritual Communities Network//a global community of Teachers and Seekers of Spiritual growth with classes and events held virtually and locally and leads the Naples FemCity Collective//Supporting business women with that Soul connection.  She has been featured in Natural Awakenings Magazine.  To learn more about the Gwen, her classes or SCN, visit: Insights and Illuminations, Spiritual Communities Network

Refocus. 
Do you feel like you are hitting your head against a wall?  Do you find yourself doing the same thing over and over again with no results?  Yay!  If you are at a point to begin asking yourself these questions then you are moving into an awareness about yourself that will allow for change.  Change can be easy once you begin to understand that you are the one calling the shots.  You call the shots by what you focus on.  You have been focused in a certain way until now.  Now it is time to re-focus.  Take a look at what it is you are trying to do and begin to change the perspective on it.  Can you begin to find a better feeling place with this thing?  You may need your Emotional Guidance Scale to help you begin shifting to a more positive feeling place.  When you start to feel a shift in your feelings around the thing you have been focused on, then the magic happens.  What seemed to be stuck now seems to be moving forward.
--Gwen Peterson
Gwen Peterson is the Mentor of Insights and Illuminations//Helping others to refocus, re-energize and recreate their lives.  In addition to this work Gwen is the Founder of Spiritual Communities Network//a global community of Teachers and Seekers of Spiritual growth with classes and events held virtually and locally and leads the Naples FemCity Collective//Supporting business women with that Soul connection.  She has been featured in Natural Awakenings Magazine.  To learn more about the Gwen, her classes or SCN, visit: Insights and Illuminations, Spiritual Communities Network

What do you want to be and why?
This came up at last night's Art of Allowing group.  It is important where you put your focus.  How can you focus if you haven't taken the time to decide for yourself what it is you want?  Each morning I stop and focus on me. I meditate for a little bit and then I journal asking myself questions.  What does my day look like?  How do I want it to look?  How do I feel?  Where are my emotions at on any given topic?  Do they feel good to me?  Can I shift them to a better feeling place?  
As I answer these questions, I get a better feel for what it is I want.  More important, doing this helps me to center.  That is what I always want to be.  Centered. Why?  Because I can focus on those things that I just sat with.  I will be less swayed by those around me, who don't have any real idea of what it is I want and why.  They can't.  So it is up to me to do the work first.  Before I go out into my day.
--Gwen Peterson
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Gwen Peterson is the Mentor of Insights and Illuminations//Helping others to refocus, re-energize and recreate their lives.  In addition to this work Gwen is the Founder of Spiritual Communities Network//a global community of Teachers and Seekers of Spiritual growth with classes and events held virtually and locally and leads the Naples FemCity Collective//Supporting business women with that Soul connection.  She has been featured in Natural Awakenings Magazine.  To learn more about the Gwen, her classes or SCN, visit: Insights and Illuminations, Spiritual Communities Network

Re-generate.
This was an interesting word to see pop up when I was creating the Insight cards.  I do have to say that it is the first time I have drawn it.  Actually, it came flying out of the deck as I shuffled. lol So this is the first time I get to sit with it and talk on its meaning for the day.  
Re-generate.
Hmmmm. Where to start?
Yes, let's begin with the notion that everything is energy.  God/Divine Energy.  The Omnipotent.  Begin to feel that.  Everything on our planet is infused with that unconditional love, peace and joy.  Yes, sometimes that balance goes out of wack and we see that.  It can manifest as illness in our bodies.  The beauty of the Omnipotent is that it will want to right itself.  To find the balance again, if you will. 
We humans and our need to control or fix things want to get ourselves in the middle of that balancing and we just add to the unbalance because we bring fear, anger and a whole host of other not so good energies to the mix.
I know this as I see it in myself as I work with the "re-generating" of my body.  In particular, my lungs.
So without delving deeper into this, if you are wanting to find balance say in your health.  Find a way to shift to love, peace, joy "around it" and let the Omnipotent Energy of Spirit heal or re-generate your Beingness.
In that space, you will feel the guidance you need to seek out the appropriate treatment you require to assist in the re-generating of your body and Spirit. 
--Gwen Peterson
Gwen Peterson is the Mentor of Insights and Illuminations//Helping others to refocus, re-energize and recreate their lives.  In addition to this work Gwen is the Founder of Spiritual Communities Network//a global community of Teachers and Seekers of Spiritual growth with classes and events held virtually and locally and leads the Naples FemCity Collective//Supporting business women with that Soul connection.  She has been featured in Natural Awakenings Magazine.  To learn more about the Gwen, her classes or SCN, visit: Insights and Illuminations, Spiritual Communities Network