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EPISODE 134: Create the holiday experience you LOVE

Hi all,
This week Erin and I continue our plans to create a low-stress, high-pleasure winter holiday season.

This week’s show will teach the fine arts of holiday self-empowerment, where we really get honest about what does and doesn’t carry meaning and pleasure for us.

Love to hear what you think!
Best,
Mary Hayes Grieco & Erin Warhol

EPISODE 134: Create the holiday experience you LOVE

“Remember – this is YOUR holiday, you are not ITS person.”

So make sure to pick your own favorite things to do (or not do) this season.

Holiday stress and exhaustion come from the pressure of unrealistic or undesirable expectations on ourselves or from others; but

you are the boss of your own holiday choices for meaning and pleasure.

What does this winter holiday mean to you?

A time of deeper religious devotion?
A festival of food and giving?
A commercial extravaganza?
The time for winter solstice silence in the mind, and rest for the body?
New Year/New Start?

Get clear. Make it yours.

Mary plugs her favorite holiday event:     “NOTHING.” 

Check out her recommendation of a good dose of silence for spirituality and stress relief. And the Christmas Day Nap. 

Here’s some other good ideas:

See the good and say it.
Clear your heart with forgiveness.
Go for the glow, it’s a collective activity. worth doing. 
Is the Yule log on TV silly or sweet?

See what Mary and Erin have to say – Yule like it.

EPISODE 133: Smile through the holidays: do “pre-emptive forgiveness”

Dear friends,
 
As the winter holidays approach, we might be anticipating our time with our extended families with mixed feelings.
 
This time of year offers a prime opportunity to amp up our ability to live the powerful attitudes of unconditional love and forgiveness.
 
Our families are ours for a lifetime, to learn from, to accept and appreciate, or to avoid and set limits with, as the case may be. If you already are aware of what some of your uncomfortable family dynamics have been and are likely to be, you can practice “pre-emptive forgiveness,” and enter your family situations in a new way, surprising yourself at how much better this can go for you this year.
 
It only takes one person who is consciously bringing forgiveness and good will into a family system, to start a gentle trend towards real transformation of outdated family dynamics.
 
I hope you will make this special time of year a time to grow spiritually, in the most practical way possible.
 
In this conversation, Erin and I discuss the power of choosing to forgive yourself, a family member or a family situation, before the next time you are with them.
 
Then we can open up to the light of Spirit to enter in and do its quiet magic: reflecting to us everyone’s basic goodness, and giving us renewed ease in our own skin when we’re with our tribe. God bless us, every one.
 
Yours always,
Mary & Erin

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EPISODE 133: Smile through the holidays: do “pre-emptive forgiveness”

 “Forgiveness is releasing an expectation that is causing you to suffer.”

 If the thought of spending time with certain family members causes you to tense up, it’s a really good idea to practice “pre-emptive forgiveness!”
 
Release your unrealistic expectations of others before they drive you crazy, and take some time to privately clear up a sore spot from the past.

No matter how difficult they are
– no matter how different you feel
– this year it will be better.

“Peace on Earth”
starts right here.

EPISODE 132: DISCERNMENT FOR DUMMIES

Hi friends

Thanks for the comments we’re getting these days,
that our podcast is serving you well as your upbeat weekly spiritual classroom.

With each of these conversations, it has been our fond hope that we will deliver a “golden nugget” that you can carry in your pocket during the week, and that nugget will continue to help you discover new insights in your path.

Back to INTUITION now, with
“Discernment for Dummies.”
(No disrespect intended! It’s how we received the request from a listener.)

Erin and I will review the 5 kinds of intuition,
and then hone in on a few tricks of the trade of spiritual discernment.

In other words,
how do I know this is an accurate intuition?
How do I trust this?

Our first favorite clue is,
“The ego speaks loudest and it speaks first, with a spirit of drama, glamour, or anxiety.
True spiritual guidance is simple and has some silence wrapped around it.

Even if you don’t like what your guidance says,
it feels right, and there is some peace in that.”

We hope this show kicks off some fun experimentation for you,
as you throw down your willingness to the Universe to be in loving service to all,

and to become a completely fulfilled version of yourself,

with the help of your wise guidance.

Enjoy! Love,
Mary & Erin
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EPISODE 132: DISCERNMENT FOR DUMMIES

Intuition is your soul’s GPS for your personality
and your path through life to personal fulfillment.

How do you develop an accurate intuition and trust it?
Are you being guided, or is it wishful thinking?
Which of the 5 kinds of intuition is the one most natural for you?

In the classroom of your soul’s lessons, are you an enthusiastic student or a resistant one?

Mary and Erin explore some helpful tricks to enhance the fine art of spiritual discernment.

Learn how to ask the brave questions and hear the truth, even if you’re afraid you won’t like it.
Work with the elegant orchestrations of the Universe – sensing when to come and when to go,
and discerning when a door in your life is open and beckoning to you, or closed – because something is over.

Mary says, “If you desire to be of service and bring good to the world, your intuition will accelerate!

The Universe wants to put you to work, and bring about your thriving and fulfillment.
It will guide you with intuition.”