Listen.
Sounds simple enough.  Sometimes we just want to be heard.  So we find ourselves talking and talking, hoping someone will listen to us. 
The aha comes when we feel no one is listening and we discover it is us that is not listening.  
Stop.  Listen.  It may be quiet at first.  Breathe deeply and relax.  Listen.  Wait!  Did you hear/feel something?
Maybe do a little journaling too.
--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

This my friends is not always an easy one.  Drama sneaks up on us sometimes.  
Work it in steps.  Begin to notice when there is drama.  Some drama is easier than others to notice.  Some drama can be well woven into your life experience that at first you don't even see it.  Just take it one day at a time.  One moment at a time.
What do you do when you notice or find yourself in the middle of drama?  In the beginning, try to change the subject or go to the bathroom to remove yourself from the energy ball.  This will allow you to mentally let go of the topic and shift up your energy to a better feeling place. 
The more sensitive you become to drama, the sooner you can shift it. 
Now for those who have a daily meditation practice, try to allow yourself to become the observer during those dramatic moments and just watch and only contribute when guided to by your Inner Self.  That is when the real magic happens.
Want to learn more?  Come to a class or schedule your own private mentoring session.
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

We all want to do things.  Take a vacation, buy a new car, find a new career.  Today's word is DO and with it the question of why.
When you think of those things you want to do, how does it feel to you?  Is it overwhelming?  Stressful? 
Then the energy behind the thing you want to do is not a positive one.
Let's start with the question of what do you want to do?
Let's say the answer is a vacation.  I want to go on a vacation.   How does that answer feel?  Does your heart race?  Does it lie flat?  Or is anxiety creeping in?
Ask yourself, "why do I feel this?"
What is the answer that comes back to you?  How does that answer feel?  Look at your answer.  That answer is the difference between going on the vacation of a lifetime or not.
Look at the why and begin to find a better why.  One that feels good.  One that fires up excitement.  You will know the right why when you hear it.  It will feel really good to you.  The idea of a vacation will excite you and that is when you have begun to create the thing you want to do.  Don't worry about how it will happen.  Just stay with the what do you want to do and why.
Happy creating,
Gwen Peterson
Mentor of Insights and Illuminations
Founder of Spiritual Communities Network 
Leader of FemCity Naples Collective

How funny.  I have been doing this for many years and yet it still makes me laugh at how accurate this can be.
For those who know me and my work, I have a morning practice.  It changes from day to day but it is the me time I give myself to focus on who I AM, what I AM feeling and where AM I going.  This morning a book was calling to me.  I picked it up and read a couple of pages.  The message that came through was clear.  So I ended my workshop and headed over to the computer to share with you a word for the day.  I pulled out my Insight Cards and pulled....  LOL  Read.  
So I ask you, What is calling to you?
Gwen
Mentor of Insights and Illuminations
Founder of Spiritual Communities Network 
Leader of FemCity Naples Collective

So today started out a little rough.  Dog woke me up early to go potty and someone didn't refill the bag dispenser.  Tried to go back to sleep and husband is snoring and pulling the blankets off me.  You know, all the first world problems.  I could feel that my energy was off.  I didn't feel as uplifted as I can be.  I found I was struggling with my meditation too.  I pulled this card and laughed out loud.  Loving myself.  I realized that I was beating up on myself because I felt a little off and that wasn't helping at all.  Once I read the words and laughed, everything began to shift.  A phone call I had been waiting for, a great morning meeting and a few other confirmations that the energy had indeed shifted and the day was going to be smoother sailing.  So a reminder to you my friends.  Love, again and again and mostly you.
Gwen Peterson
Founder of Spiritual Communities Network
Mentor of Insights and Illuminations
Leader of FemCity Naples Collective