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Spirited, The Desire Map & other inner beauty tools for 2014

February 12, 2014

I love this time of year, anticipation of what’s to come for the year ahead, a sense of renewal, shedding of old ideas and opening the way for new possibilities.

There are always goals on the board throughout the year and I for one, have a tendency to race ahead at full speed in order to achieve them, going from one to the other without many breaths in between. So when the new year rolls around, I make a point of taking the time to sit down, to pause, to just be.  Seeing what ‘comes up’ for me but with a focus on those soul-deep ‘core desired feelings’ that Ms Danielle LaPorte has me hooked on.

In the coming weeks, I will be revisiting my vision and goals so in order to help me along with the process I thought it might be fun to look at some of the inspiration tools floating around at A Conscious Beauty:

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What trail running taught me about beauty

January 15, 2014
A few snaps from my running journey

A few snaps from my running journey

One of last year’s goals taught me something I never expected to learn. I guess you could say I went on a form of spiritual journey, with running as my vessel for learning.

I had set a goal to do a 27km trail run in New Zealand, but I didn’t expect the hours spent training would teach me as much as the race. I discovered the truth that it is the journey, not the goal or the end result that teaches you the most. It was in the journey that I found a new side to Beauty in more ways than one.

It started out something like this – I hadn’t really trained to run long distance in over 3 years. Body in shock, big time. Most of my training was solo, so if you are going to learn about yourself, it’s when it’s hard and there’s not a soul around that you’ll discover the unknown.