Pause, Breathe and Create
Pause, Breathe and Create is about creating a positive perspective to help you experience the inner peace, joy, love and happiness you deserve. Let go of your busy to-do list and practice new ways to pause, reflect, and develop habits to live life with unlimited inspiration! We will explore how using all your senses, words and images can become an oasis of calm. Pause in dLight with discovery and curiosity so you can play, be thankful, and wonder-filled in awe with what our world has to offer.
Episodes
April 7, 2023 • 55 mins
“Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for.” —Zig Ziglar
Are you basically a thankful person for both small and big things in your life? Are you constantly hustling and bustling to navigate your daily moments? When you stop and pause, there is so much to be thankful for from nature's abundant colorful gifts,...
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March 31, 2023 • 57 mins
You have an abundance of 1,440 moments each day. Do you feel the prosperity in the morning. Who is driving your moments today? If you have left the driving to Auto - your end of day feeling will likely not be the same as when you started your day.
Can you recall where you were each moment and how you spent the abundance of the 1,440 moments? When you are in a mind-set of lack of something such as time or money, it has a way o...
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March 24, 2023 • 57 mins
“If I were a flower… I would be a sunflower. To always follow the sun, turn my back to darkness, stand proud, tall and straight even with my head full of seeds.” – Pam Stewart
Use the sunflower as a big bright inspiring model for your life to grow and bloom. The sunflower is resilient and represents joyfulness. Stay focused on positive things you are facing and share your spirit as a warm heart with hope. There is a time, there i...
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March 17, 2023 • 60 mins
Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning how to dance in the rain… Vivian Greene
Many great locations around the world have physical reflecting pools built by humans included within their physical environments. They come in many shapes and sizes. The ultimate importance of reflecting pools is to provide a space to embrace quiet contemplation that is separate but open to interact with the world.
Do y...
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March 10, 2023 • 58 mins
When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps. – John Lennon
How often do you find yourself answering to the open invitation of nature to step outside and give your full attention to observe, listen, open all of your senses and be filled with awe? Expansive nonverbal language is born between ourselves and ou...
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March 3, 2023 • 56 mins
It sounds very simple when we make a comment to choose to 'Just Be'. The request we are making in reality is a complex request. When we choose to become present 'here now', we are choosing to not be on autopilot. We begin our life adventure expanding ourselves beyond where we currently are. We start observing we are not where we think we should be. We can become overwhelmed with our constant mental gymnastics and beliefs about wh...
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February 24, 2023 • 57 mins
Everything in life is vibration. Albert Einstein
When you observe images of nature or read stories about people helping others, do you pick up on a higher vibe and uplifting feelings? Even if you do not totally understand the language of vibrations, you can feel them in your environment and directly from people around you.
Everything vibrates at a different speed including trees, nature, and humans with our thoughts and emoti...
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February 17, 2023 • 54 mins
“The most adventurous journey to embark on; is the journey to yourself, the most exciting thing to discover; is who you really are, the most treasured pieces that you can find; are all the pieces of you, the most special portrait you can recognize; is the portrait of your soul.” ~ C.JoyBell C.
How do you introduce yourself or greet someone you meet for the first time? Your response can be an energy downer and mixed if you are co...
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February 10, 2023 • 57 mins
It's not only moving that creates new starting points. Sometimes all it takes is a subtle shift in perspective, an opening of the mind, an intentional pause and reset, or a new route to start to see new options and new possibilities. ~ Kristin Armstrong
Do you find yourself asking But why? before you do anything. Do you take time to pause to listen to your internal response? Do you know what you really want and what you need to m...
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February 3, 2023 • 56 mins
Take a moment to pause. Slowly take a breath in and hold. Then slowly breathe out and let it go. Activate your awareness and pay attention to what your internal senses are sharing. Balance your precious daily time being and doing without a list. This effort will help ignite your inner sparkle throughout your whole day. d Lee
Do you find you are spending all of your time in focused pursuit of your endless listed to-do things? H...
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January 27, 2023 • 56 mins
“The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary can speak.”
~ Hans Hofmann
Nature is a true creative master and teacher of design abundantly sharing examples of identified principals and elements of art. As humans, we have a lot to learn from Nature. Each of us is a unique piece of art. As we step along with our personal design assignment project, we are invited to actively participate with an op...
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January 20, 2023 • 55 mins
Keep knocking and the joy inside will eventually open a window and look out to see who is there. ~ Rumi
When you pause for a moment in your day, how do you remind yourself to shift and make this an expected valuable part of your time focus? Do you put post-it notes for yourself in your living and working environments with key words or phrases to remind yourself to act? Do you use images to invite you to pause and take a break? Or...
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January 13, 2023 • 55 mins
How do you feel when required to wait unexpectedly for something or someone and you did not allow yourself time to have to do this? Sometimes different expressive emotional words erupt from deep inside ourselves like a volcano of hot lava. And like hot lava, this uncontrolled flow of impatience can have a negative effect in all areas of our lives. PAUSE IMMEDIATELY – Pause Always Uses Simple Energy. When you take a moment to patien...
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January 6, 2023 • 57 mins
Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning how to dance in the rain… Vivian Greene
Many great locations around the world have physical reflecting pools included within their environments. They come in many shapes and sizes. Their ultimate importance is to provide a space to embrace quiet contemplation that is separate but open to reflect and interact with the world around them.
Do you find yourself bei...
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December 30, 2022 • 60 mins
T.S. Eliot said “For last year's words belong to last year's language. And next year's words await another voice…”
When you come to the end of something, do you take time to acknowledge where you have just come from and where you are currently at? When a chapter comes to an end, what matters is leaving the past where it belongs and letting it go Take a deep breath and release. Endings are valuable.
At the end of a year, it ...
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December 23, 2022 • 57 mins
And still, after all this time, the Sun has never said to the Earth, “You owe me.” Look what happens with love like that. It lights up the sky. Rumi
We are so used to the sun shining on the earth that we take its light for granted. Focusing light can create a laser for healing, a spotlight on stage, or soft light for a reading nook. Put through a prism, light creates an explosion of rainbow color.
Each day dawns with light filli...
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December 16, 2022 • 54 mins
Pause and Breathe
We all have twenty-four hour days. You have many items on your to be and to do lists. It can seem that the minutes available in the day are not enough to get everything done. You want to be balanced in your daily schedule. but it can seem like an impossible dream. Is it realistic to think that you can accomplish everything on your list within the limits of the clock?
Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the...
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December 9, 2022 • 57 mins
As with a flower and a tree, choose to be a full awesome colorful spectrum of YOU. Within the seasons of time, embrace and then release with blessings the time to pause, the time to listen, the time to see, and the time to just be. d Lee As you start your day, do you find yourself automatically dragging the past with you into your new day? This could be whatever experiences you had just yesterday or it could be all of the baggage ...
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December 2, 2022 • 55 mins
What is your 'Thing'? Do you find yourself always planning something but not really getting it done because you constantly run out of time to do it? Do you feel time abundance or time deprived? Historically, a lot of devices have been created that provide an illusion of having more time. An example is examining how you choose to start your day. If you use an alarm clock to wake up, do you immediately get up when the alarm sounds or...
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November 25, 2022 • 56 mins
Your environment is your external body. How you honor it reminds you of your own self-worth, ability to live your life fully and is your physical connection to the greater Universe. Lynn Scheurell
You are connected to what is around you. Like many people, you may be unaware of how your environment reflects you and how it affects you.
Feng Shui is the art of becoming aware of the connection between ourselves and our environment, ...
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