Integrative Life Design
Reconnecting you to Self, Soul, Home
"There is an Indian Belief that everyone is in a house of four rooms: A physical, a mental, an emotional and a spiritual. Most of us tend to live in one room most of the time, but unless we go into every room everyday, even if only to keep it aired, we are not complete."
~ Rumer Godden
When YOU want to make changes in your life, if you’re like most people, your first instinct is to look for external solutions. This approach may work for a while but it usually ends up leading you to frustration or to a temporary fix.
To make real and lasting changes ~ YOU have to redirect your energy to look within yourself and see the interconnectedness of all things. You have to pay attention to your inner and outer spaces and environments.
“We are each responsible for our own life ~ no other person is or even can be.”
~ Oprah Winfrey
What is Integrative Life Design?
The inception and the creation of ILD has come after my many years of working side by side with numerous clients as a Certified Feng Shui Practitioner and Wholistic Designer. While I was helping clients facilitate changes on the outside, I realized that a vital component was still missing from the equation. It became very prevalent that even though each person’s state of dis~COMFORT or dis~EASE manifested itself in different ways on the outside the REAL CAUSE of it was the same. This same truth kept repeating and presenting itself time and time again, and that one TRUTH was; there was a dis~connect from who they were, they truly did not know themselves. So it was developed in response to each of my clients needs to understand and support them more on a deeper and richer level.
Integrated Life Design is not a philosophy, not a belief system, not a quick fix but a conscious practice and way of life. Its approach is individualized, unique and multidimensional; it honors and includes all the areas of ones life. Working in a wholistic manner from two distinct levels of space, it helps in bridging the inner and outer worlds, bringing much needed awareness and clarity, from the unseen to the seen, from the unknown to the known, making the intangible tangible and the principle that everything is energy and is all connected.
What is the Goal of Integrative Life Design?
The keyword on the path of transformation is “INTEGRATION”, it means to join together to unify into one function, to reclaim a sense of wholeness. It is a foundation for living and its goal and purpose is in restoring and regaining a sense of balance, becoming WHOLE in Body, Mind, Spirit, and Soul. To uncover, rediscover, and reconnect to all there is so one can find their way home.
Why Self, Soul and Home?
Like I said everything is energy and everything is connected. By working on these three areas either individually or simultaneously; it will provide you with a powerful opportunity to transform, heal and experience shifts in every aspect of your life and on many levels. It is designed to unearth what feeds your SOUL!
Reconnecting to Self…… the Power of Self Discovery!
“The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.”
~ Oprah Winfrey
Knowing YOURSELF is one of the most challenging and most rewarding tasks of your life. HOW CAN YOU MAKE the necessary changes in YOUR life if you do not know who you are, what you’re looking for, or why you are looking to make these changes? What needs to be understood healed or let go of in order to live your life joyfully?
As you become clearer to the “WHO YOU ARE”, and understand YOUR UNIQUE ENERGY MAKEUP you will begin to connect to and to honor what it is you really NEED in YOUR life. Best of all you will begin to discover or shall I say uncover your richness within. You’ll be better able to respond and decide what the best changes to make for yourself are, allowing you to live in your highest integrity to achieve your own success, and personal fulfillment in life. Happiness is a by-product of being true to YOURSELF. YOU ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT REMEDY YOU’VE GOT!
Reconnecting to Soul...... the Power of Emotional Healing and Spiritual Pure Awareness!
“When I accept myself and my feelings as they are, I become whole. I am no longer split, fighting or condemning a part of myself. The power of self acceptance and self-love builds within me. I acquire the ability to heal myself and the conditions of my life. I awaken the power for transformation.” ~ John Ruskan
Another very important area for you to master and transform is your inner world or your inner spaces. The connection between your emotions and your thinking, affects your health, your well being and your overall happiness which cannot be ignored or denied.
In order to awaken and to experience total freedom and spiritual awareness, you must work at peeling away the layers and heal your emotional wounds, thoughts, beliefs, patterns and anything that blocks you or stands in your way from allowing you to experience pure awareness all the time. All of these are considered to be a form of emotional baggage or clutter which mysteriously lurks in the shadows of your unconscious awareness. And because it is hidden, it posses an awesome power to run and control you and your life. Pure awareness techniques can assist you in freeing yourself from whatever blocks you and your natural essence and state of connecting to and experiencing source. When you learn to master your inner world your outer world changes dramatically. Self awareness opens the door to spiritual and personal growth, and is the key which unlocks the richness to life.
“Spiritual awareness is not only one of the keys to the healing process. Spiritual awareness is the only way that healing can occur.” ~ Dr. Deepak Chopra
Reconnecting to Home...... the Power of Creating Sacred Spaces!
“We shape our dwellings and afterwards our dwellings shape us.” ~ Winston Churchill
Your living spaces and environments express who you are in the world. It communicates your values and beliefs and to a large extent dictates how you live your life. Your personal environment either supports the wholistic integration of your body, mind and spirit as well as the nurturing of all of your senses or it depletes you and takes away from your sense of wholeness and well being. The importance of creating sacred space is not in its meaning, but in its significance in your life.
Creating sacred space means that you are creating a space that you honor because of its deeper meaning to YOU. Spaces that comes from a place of conscious intention and a deeper level of awareness to what it is you really would like to connect, experience and feel in your home and life; beauty, calmness, balance, radiance or joy. Also asking you the question; what it is you want your home to enhance in your life and provide you with; stability, prosperity, opportunity, creativity or spirituality. It is about gaining clarity about what is really important in your life.
Creating your sacred space is about making choices and it is about priorities and boundaries, you make conscious choices about what you will allow to be in your environment, what items will stay and what items need to go. It is about taking the time to create a home or environment that supports you physically, emotionally and spiritually. It is about creating a space you can connect, slow down, recharge and live in the present.
Creating sacred space is about finding that place in you where your soul can dance. It opens up space, which allows you to experience your personal journey inward where your individuality is honored, and your own creative style can unfold. By understanding that your inner and outer experiences are connected, it’s about drawing yourself inward and getting closer to what's really in your heart. Creating spaces to come HOME to, your sanctuary for your body, heart and soul of you and your family.
“Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.” ~ Joseph Campbell
Integrative Life Design offers you REVOLUTIONARY ways of creating, building healing, and living your life from the inside out.
Here’s your opportunity to make dramatic, empowering and lasting changes in your life….Become an active participant in YOUR life and no longer an innocent bystander.
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Updated March 2009
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