To quote Byron Katie, “Is this true?”

Until today I thought it was and I’ve been using the phrase in speeches, saying it came from the Chinese symbol for crisis. When I began to write this morning, I decided to Google the term and find its origin. Low and behold I found that it’s not even true! I learned that John F. Kennedy originated the phrase and while it was picked up and used by many others since his time, it is not the correct interpretation of the symbol.

So now what do I do? Change the title and alter my thinking or use this as a belief that is very supportive to me?

I’ve decided to go with the latter. Since a belief is made up anyway I may as well adopt this one consciously because when I look for the opportunity in a challenge I find it. When I don’t, I only see the challenge and that can be discouraging.

Here’s how I recommend using this belief to support you in living your life purpose.

When faced with a challenge presented by either your life lesson or by a call to live your life purpose, what if you saw this as an opportunity to step into the highest version of yourself?

My friend Jenn is a great example of this. When she is faced with family members who would rather she acted in a way they approve of, Jenn chooses instead to be her authentic self.

One of Jenn’s life purposes is to be the Master of Family and Relationships. Since she had her hands analyzed she has stopped apologizing for being a “stay at home mom” and works only when it doesn’t interfere with her family’s well-being. She finds true fulfillment in her role, but grew up at a time when staying home was frowned upon for women. Every time she had a full time job she felt that her family suffered and she was stressed out. She sees the opportunity she has to give three boys a wonderful start in their lives and to be a powerful influence on who they become. For Jenn that is enough reward to take on the scorn of others who don’t share her truth.

She described her life purpose inverse as “the Master of Family & Relationships working a 9-5 job with overtime and never spending time with her kids and family?”

For someone like me whose lesson is “Victimization” when I have to assert myself to get someone to fulfill their contract with me, it is an opportunity to step into my power. I used to complain to everyone else but the person I should have been speaking to. That achieved no positive resolution and I always felt like a victim.

Is it scary to assert myself? Yes, I do have some trepidation. However, I have found that every time I was willing to feel the fear and do it anyway I was so grateful to get past another fear.

I invite you take a look for yourself and see if looking for the opportunity in a challenge is a good belief to hold. If it serves you, keep it. If it doesn’t, let it go.

I would love to hear from you. Do you have any other beliefs that may not be valid but give you great support? How about ones you’d like to release that do not help you? How are you doing with finding opportunities in your life lesson and purpose?

What’s coming up?
For those of you in Essex County or nearby, come out to Explore the Shore next weekend, July 24 and 25th from 11:00 am to 5:00 pm. There are 25 businesses and wineries along County Road 50 from Holiday Beach to Klassen’s blueberry farm open to share their specialties with you.
I will be at R & R Salon and Spa on Westchester Beach doing hand readings. Tammy and Mike Reid are hosting several of us with Reiki, Reflexology, Intuitive Art and more.
Pick up a map and a passport anywhere along the route and get the passport stamped at any five of the participating vendors. You can enter for a grand prize of a night at the Bell House, 18 holes of golf at Oxley and dinner at Viewpoint Winery.

This is an exciting opportunity for you. You can now participate in a no cost class twice a month with Eidetic Life Coach Wendy Yellen. I’ve had amazing results in releasing blocks almost effortlessly through my work with Wendy. Now you can join her Eidetic Success Blueprint program and have your own experience of the power of Eidetic imagery.
Sign up at http://www.OnceDifficultNowEasy.com

Warmest regards,
Rosemary
Live Life with Purpose, Passion and Laughter
Rosemary Heenan
The Heart Activist
http://www.heartpowercoaching.com
info@rosemaryheenan.com

Watch out for your Life Purpose being in its inverse. This can cause the same type of challenge as your lesson does.

I’ll give you some examples of how that looks.

Purpose – The Master of Success
Inverse – You’re stopping just short of completion. You do everything but the last step. You start so many projects none of them get done completely or thoroughly so none succeed.

Purpose – Leader
Inverse – You won’t step up to the leadership plate however you will notice everything that could be done better and criticize those in leadership positions.

Purpose – Artist/Creative
Inverse – You are hiding out. You either refuse to share your creative expressions with anyone or you deny you have any creative ability.

Purpose – Messenger
Inverse – You’re mute. You won’t open your mouth and share anything, never mind that message you feel passionate about but won’t deliver.

As you can see you can take any Life Purpose and turn it around into its opposite or inverse. As you make your way through life you will undoubtedly come up against your inverse. Knowing what it is will help you recognize it more quickly. Take that as a challenge to get back into your connection with your purpose.
Remember fulfillment, passion and feeling like you are really on track in your life come when you are expressing your unique purpose.

I love to receive your comments and questions. If you’ve had your hands analyzed and don’t know what your inverse is, please ask.

Lighten Up Your Life is a fun, inspiring, creative and transforming program that will give you support as you embody your life purpose. The program consists of weekly classes of two hours in a small group of five – six people where you will define, explore and create your life on purpose. We will place special attention on the subtle ways your specific lessons or challenges block you and use tools to eliminate the sabotage.

Read more about it on the events page.

I will be doing a telephone version in the future. Get your hands analyzed and enjoy creating life from what your soul would find fulfilling like clients Maggie McLeod, Intuitive Energy Artist http://maggiemcleodintuitiveenergyart.com and Jenn Merritt, Reiki Master at http://www.stateofbeing.com

Most of us know the saying “the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence”. Well that applies to your gifts, talents, and skills too.

I have often noticed this as I read people’s hands. Whatever they do naturally and easily, they place little value on. Whatever someone else does easily and naturally, they admire and wish they could do.

We make ourselves wrong for not being able to do certain things and at the same time we discount what we do very well. It takes other people noticing and complimenting us, sometimes for years, before we finally give in and recognize the inherent value of what we do.

Have you ever worked really hard to learn how to do something? Something that you thought you should learn how to do. How much value do you place on your ability to do that? I’d venture it’s of much higher value to you than the value you place on your natural skills, talents, and gifts.

Now ask yourself what do others appreciate me in me? I bet it’s the things you don’t value, rather than the thing you worked so hard to learn to do.

Five Tips to Open Your Heart and Embrace Your Gifts

1. Notice what you do so easily. See the impact it is having. Allow your attention to focus on how much that means to the recipient.

2. Pay attention to how you feel when you do it. Are you enjoying yourself? Are you enthusiastic? Do you feel like you’re getting filled up inside with joy?

3. Pay attention to the compliments you receive and breathe them in. Thank the person. Stop and breathe in the words and the feelings being expressed to you.

4. Watch your inner dialogue. Don’t allow your ego to tell you what you did is not important or meaningful. Also don’t let your ego over-inflate the compliment and make it into how ‘special’ you are. There’s a two edged sword to avoid here because minimizing or making too much of are both insidious to your genuine open-hearted acknowledgment.

5. Self-love truly must come from the self and not from what others tell you. Yes, borrow their belief in you until you have your own. That’s a good way to climb a step up the staircase. Just don’t rest there too long without looking for ways to cultivate genuine self-appreciation and acknowledgment.

Sometimes people who are spiritual feel that it’s ego to claim their magnificence. I appeal to those with that point of view to consider that all of us have something special to offer the world. As long as you discount your gift you’re really saying you have less value than others. How spiritual is that?

I have found these gifts and talents are usually part of our Life Purpose. Once we recognize and use them intentionally they contribute to us living a life that is fulfilling to our souls.

Make 2010 the year you own and claim your gifts.

With warmest wishes for this holiday season.
Rosemary Heenan

If you’ve struggled with the same problem most of your life, wouldn’t you be relieved to learn the reason why? Are you “hiding out” like one of my clients? Carrie was so afraid of being seen as her true self she became invisible in groups. Are you suffering from nagging guilt no matter how much you do? Sarah’s to-do list was a mile long and she always felt guilty for things that were not her responsibility. Do you allow fear of others’ disapproval to keep you from expressing your gifts? Natalie hid buckets of talent from the world because one grade five teacher told her she couldn’t sing.

These are possible life lessons and your fingerprints reveal that you are hard-wired to have challenges with one or more specific lessons.

The good news is this does not mean that you are powerless to change. When you know what your lesson is, you can create a plan to use when you’re stuck. In my coaching work, I help clients create ideal strategies for navigating through the challenges of their lessons.

Have you always secretly wanted to be on centre stage – up in front of a large crowd singing your heart out or moving people with your motivating message? Are you the one everyone goes to with their problems because you listen well and somehow know the right words to say? Perhaps you’re a leader who can see a clear vision of where a project is headed and you wonder why no one else seems to be able to have the same picture.

Those are some of the life purposes your fingerprints will reveal. Have you had a persistent longing for a certain career that you ignored because it didn’t offer a safe, secure pay check? Don’t be surprised to find it as your life purpose in one or more of your fingerprints.

Your fingerprints were formed when you were in the womb and they stay the same throughout your life. The rest of your hand changes in several ways. The shape of your hand and fingers, the length of each third of your fingers and the lines in your hands all change to reflect your predominant thoughts and emotions. You can think of the prints as your soul’s intention for this lifetime and the rest of your hand is a reflection of your personality.

Some people also have extra talent, extra gifts they can use to enhance their success. These are uncovered by gift markings on your hands. Wouldn’t you like to know what your hands tell about your talents?

Imagine how great you will feel when you are living the life purpose you’ve been searching for!

See yourself behind the wheel of your favourite car. You’re heading off to your destination of your life purpose. You have your GPS; it’s your hand analysis, to tell you which directions to take and which roads to avoid. However, someone has to voice those out to you while you’re busy driving. I act as the voice giving the directions. I use my skills as a creation specialist to help you vision your life on purpose and then support you in making that happen, while helping you keep from getting stuck in a traffic jam caused by your life lesson.

I can help you navigate the direct route, the one that’s scenic and beautiful and lets you drive with ease. With my help, your route is the expressway to your purpose and not the long one with the detours.

All the successful people I know have had mentors along the way. Working with a mentor speeds your path to success. Contact me to get started on your road to living life on purpose.

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These are possible life lessons and your fingerprints reveal that you are hard-wired to have challenges with one or more specific lessons.

The good news is this does not mean that you are powerless to change.  When you know what your lesson is, you can create a plan to use when you’re stuck. In my coaching work, I help clients create ideal strategies for navigating through the challenges of their lessons.

Have you always secretly wanted to be on centre stage – up in front of a large crowd singing your heart out or moving people with your motivating message?  Are you the one everyone goes to with their problems because you listen well and somehow know the right words to say?  Perhaps you’re a leader who can see a clear vision of where a project is headed and you wonder why no one else seems to be able to have the same picture.

Those are some of the life purposes your fingerprints will reveal.  Have you had a persistent longing for a certain career that you ignored because it didn’t offer a safe, secure pay check?  Don’t be surprised to find it as your life purpose in one or more of your fingerprints.

Your fingerprints were formed when you were in the womb and they stay the same throughout your life.  The rest of your hand changes in several ways.  The shape of your hand and fingers, the length of each third of your fingers and the lines in your hands all change to reflect your predominant thoughts and emotions.  I think of the prints as your soul’s intention for this lifetime and the rest of your hand is a reflection of your personality.

Some people also have extra talent, extra gifts they can use to enhance their success. These are uncovered by gift markings on your hands. Wouldn’t you like to know what your hands tell about your talents?

Imagine how great you will feel when you are living the life purpose you’ve been searching for!

See yourself behind the wheel of your favourite car. You’re heading off to your destination of your life purpose.  You have your GPS; it’s your hand analysis, to tell you which directions to take and which roads to avoid. However, someone has to voice those out to you while you’re busy driving.  I act as the voice giving the directions. I use my skills as a creation specialist to help you vision your life on purpose and then support you in making that happen, while helping you keep from getting stuck in a traffic jam caused by your life lesson.

I can help you navigate the direct route, the one that’s scenic and beautiful and lets you drive with ease. With my help, your route is the expressway to your purpose and not the long one with the detours.

All the successful people I know have had mentors along the way.  Working with a mentor speeds your path to success. Contact me to get started on your road to living life on purpose.

Which of these scenarios describes you and your life?

Number 1 You’re stuck in a job you hate but it pays the bills. Your life lacks meaning and yet you know you could be doing something more fulfilling. You do more for other people than you do for yourself and are resenting them and feeling powerless?

Number 2 You’re living the life your innermost heart urges you to live. You wake up each day and look forward to the possibilities it will bring. You love your career and find it fulfilling. Your close relationships are nourishing you.

If your life is more like number one than number two, then I have a solution for you!

What if you could find a special message about what your soul intended for you in this lifetime? This special message, meant just for you, will describe your soul’s purpose and the core challenges you’ll experience and have to prevail over in order to fulfill it.

All of this is revealed in a hand analysis.

When you have the blueprint revealed in your fingerprints and palms, you will have a guide to follow that inspires your life, career and relationships. Have you had a sense that there’s more to life than most people know? Do you wonder why you were born and what’s it all about? Your hand analysis will give you the answers you’ve been searching for.

While palm reading or palmistry may be used to predict your future, hand analysis is different.

Imagine how you’ll feel when you realize you already have within you everything you need to live your life with love, passion and purpose!

Heart Power Coaching can help you get in touch with your heart’s desires and create a magnificent life! Stop living your life half-heartedly.  Live with passion and purpose.

As your coach, I will use the information in your hand analysis to help you vision and design the life you were meant for. When the challenges of your lesson come up, coaching will help you manage them and not let them block you from living the life you desire.

Don’t wait another day to get started. www.rosemaryheenan.coachgenie.com/contact.html

Testimonials

“I realize now through my art work I will be able to support others to connect with their own soul. It has always been my true desire in life to connect with everyone at the soul level, and I’ve done that only to be rejected many times.  Thanks to my hand analysis, I am done that drama!

Your insights in my hand analysis are so powerful.  They put me in touch with the core of my being. What comes into the forefront now is I am experiencing clarity in my mind and peace in my heart.  This is my natural state of being!

You are a powerful healer Rosemary! I’m very grateful that you are in my life!”

- Maggie McLeod Intuitive Energy Artist

“If you are looking for a way to break out of any boxes you feel constricted by, Rosemary is the perfect success coach to help you do this.” – Jason

“Thank you for the wonderful session. I actually felt quite relieved after I spoke with you; like a renewed faith that things would be ok. That same night I was so excited I couldn’t sleep. I’d gotten the book Think and Grow rich before but could never ‘digest’ any of what I read. Last night things started making sense! Thank you so much, you’ve helped me more than all the self help books I’ve read so far! Thank you Thank you Thank you!!!!!”   - Hilda

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