Simplicity

Is Your Life Full Of Simplicity, Order, Harmony, Beauty And Joy? 

Wonder what would be different if they were?

“Simplicity, order, harmony, beauty and joy – all the other principles that can transform your life will not blossom and flourish without gratitude.”

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Simple Abundance

 

 

 

 

Photo By: Olga Lyubkin

 

I suggest that we all make sure we build gratitude into each day. Consider making it a daily practice. Let’s start together today. I agree full heartedly with Sarah.

The qualities that she mentions in the quote above are at the top of my mind these days. Simplicity has become a good friend as I have noticed I have a tendency to over complicate things. Order – gives me freedom from chaos and more clarity.

Beauty and joy are at the center of my every day. I am realizing how important it is to consistently notice how ever present beauty is in our day.  Joy is a choice –again, available to us every day if we take the time to clear disharmony and to invite joy in.

Harmony is the quality that brings peace and has a pleasing effect in our lives.

It is a quality that I have been paying a lot of attention to these days.  I have been noticing that both me and the good earth are crying for greater harmony. Mother earth has been thrown off balance. In many ways we live off her yet separate from her.  When she is off balance we are all off balance.

 

In the stream of consciousness that I am sharing with you here– I feel a distinct desire to return to gratitude. Gratitude is where we become conscious of these gifts and is a resting place for us to pay reverence and to root them more deeply in our life. Always remember- each day – to find time to rest – in gratitude. The rewards are huge.

 

Maureen Simon

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Our Ancestors: Are They Still Around and Supporting Us?

“When we know about our ancestors, when we sense them as living and as supporting us, then we feel connected to the genetic life-stream, and we draw strength and nourishment from this.”

Philip Carr-Gomm “The Druid Tradition”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Theoretically, we each have two parents, four grandparents, eight great-grandparents, and so on, back in time.  In practice, though, if each person alive continued that exponential progression for, say, thirty generations, we would come up with more people than were on earth at that time.  Genealogists tell us that if we each went back about seventeen generations, we would find many family relationships between ourselves and people of our acquaintance.  It follows, then, that we are all intimately related to each other, that our personal ancestors are shared with many thousands of people alive today.

I love our Celtic way of thinking as it naturally encourages the Laws of Interconnectedness.  The word interconnectedness has become almost a cliché these days as we look at the news and see how the markets are.  The same is true of the web of life.  I believe that our ancestors hold nuggets of wisdom that are important for us to understand at this time.  What do you know about your ancestry?  Does a family member have a particularly important message for you?  Begin to listen.  The web of life is precious and we are all interconnected. Is there an ancestor that comes to mind that may have specific guidance or support for you…today?

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The Power Within: How To Use Life’s Experiences To Guide And Support You Now

When we think about the influence we have in our life and in the world- the idea of our personal power and how we use or do not use it – it always becomes a central theme.  Women have been a part of cultures that place power over her, as opposed to power with or next to her, for far too long.  We need to realize that only when we ourselves recognize and claim our strength, voice and power – as a daily practice – will we fully manifest it!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

One of the best ways to allow our inner strength to manifest is by fully contributing to life- by sharing our gifts and the parts of us that we love. By sharing our competence through speaking clearly and sharing what is most important to us -we will create a true and deep excitement towards living!  Also remember to use your past experiences to inform the future and to provide you with strength to which you can begin integrating past lessons.  Never be victim to the challenging days that have passed but use them to your benefit and advantage today.

 

Gloria Steinem speaks to this in her comment below:

“ I had been raised to assume all power was outside myself, but they (men) had been raised to place power almost nowhere but within themselves.  Often, they were suffering, too.  Just as the fantasy of no control was the enemy of my self-esteem, the fantasy of total control was the enemy of theirs.  For both of us, the goal should have been a point of balance in between: a back-and-forth between the self and others, uniqueness and unity, the planned and the accidental, our internal selves and the universe.  As wise women and men in every culture tell us, the art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us.”

Gloria Steinem “Revolution From Within”

 

 

Use life’s experiences to guide and to support you. You have all you need!

Maureen Simon

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Contemplation, Meditation and Inner Reflection ~ Our True Guides in a Fast Paced World?

Contemplation, Meditation and Inner Reflection ~ Our True Guides in a Fast Paced World?

 These past two years have been very active for me and in retrospect I have been looking at the  inner lifestyle supports that I have turned to that have helped  me to create and live so many  of my dreams as I have been designing and co-creating The Essential Feminine Company. (www.TheEssentialFeminine.com).

I have had to find ways to stay grounded and open to innovation, peace and the quality of good living that I so value. I have turned to Transcendental Meditation for over twenty years and suggest it as a way to gain deep inner peace. I have also suggested a nice meditation/ refection for any day you need to center yourself.

After two very fast paced years I must now in retrospect acknowledge that my time spent in the quiet mornings in contemplation, meditation and inner reflection have not only been my life savers for creating inner peace but my well spring for creative ideas. This reflective time has been the place where I receive powerful ideas and guidance that leads to inspiration.

 

Contemplation, meditation and inner reflection have actually become essential to me daily as I have been stopping and listening most mornings in quiet- to hear what is most important and what signs thoughts or repeated patterns are occurring.  I now realize how this guidance and information would go right by me if I did not stop to listen and assimilate. I can now see what a huge price we pay in this world when this time is not taken – for each of us personally and for us collectively on the planet. Taking time to relax and listen- I believe—is where we gain and access so much rich knowledge and wisdom. Imagine if everyone stopped and listened each day! I wonder how our world would be different.

In the past five years-I have noticed how evolved we have become in the areas of thinking and analyzing – as we live in the fast paced information age. Our minds have adapted to these great skills as a way of receiving information for the guidance we turn to make so many of the decisions in our daily lives. But these are only part of the tools and resources we need to be referencing if we desire to live the amazing, intuitive and guided lives that I believe we are meant to live.

So how do we turn from relying often solely on our minds to now incorporate other essential informers? Try a few out in your early morning and throughout the day. Here are some of my daily friendly reliables:

• In the morning create a peaceful place to sit – contemplate – gather yourself – a place to – be present.
• Build time into the morning to sit still – learn a practice to support you. (I find Andrew Harvey’s Book “The Direct Path” a fountain of inspiration and resources for stilling the mind and looking more reflectively at life).
• Sit
• Breath
• Contemplate
• Make time to include some contact with nature each day.
• Experience the light, joy and peace throughout the day – some days we actually have to keep an eye out for it!
• Notice when you are rushing… breath – slow down in that very moment.
• Value the time you make for you – as a precious gift to and for yourself!
• Be conscious of how you best create quiet in your life – Go with what works and do more of it!
• Clarity – notice if things are clearer in your life. Are you seeing things differently? Getting more information?

Please do share with me any changes that you may be experiencing in your life. Just two days of being “tuned in “should yield results!

Enjoy!

Maureen Simon

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Claim Your Influence: Claim Your Life

Influence is a state of being.  When we are living with our influence fully expressed doors open, life becomes easier and we make a difference.  Power and influence are all directly connected.  Power is the ability, strength, and capacity to do something.    Influence is the effect of something on a person, thing, or event or the power that somebody has to affect other people’s thinking or actions by means of argument, example, or force of personality.  When we believe we have the power to create change influence is a direct outcome.

It’s important for us to understand what we value in order to make a decision on where we want to place our attention in the world.  Power is the energy behind influence and can be found in four specific realms:  the spiritual, the intellectual, the emotional and the physical.  Have you ever thought about the source of your power?  Have you ever asked yourself where you place the majority of your power and influence?

Women have a great ability to influence the direction in which the world is moving but we must first understand our powerful and unique world view and value the strength and contribution of our voice.  Voice is the medium or expression for power and influence.  In my work with women, two of the greatest areas I have focused on over the years are clear expression of voice and the right use of will or influence.  We need clarity and confidence to express our values through our voice.

 

Where could you show up more in life today?

 

Warmly,
Maureen Simon

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Wealth Comes In Many Forms

These days I’ve been learning that wealth comes in many forms.  I must admit, I’m most interested in the inner wealth.  Of course, having enough to comfortably live and share is a high value, but at the end of the day, it’s the wealth that I experience when speaking with a client and seeing her business excel, sharing a story with a close friend over a cup of hot tea and watching the mountain at sunset as it displays phenomenal colors before my eyes.  The wealth I am speaking about comes to me in a strong emotion or feeling.  In many cases, it cannot be bought.

The other ides I’ve been thinking about is the endless supply when we believe that all the beauty, wealth and richness in the world are in endless supply.  I’ve learned this lesson in the days when my well had nearly run dry and shortly after I experience an abundance of richness.  It’s so important to move from our smallness to our greatest selves where trust and possibility are natural and omnipresent.  The art here is to believe.

~ Maureen Simon

Maureen is founder of The Essential Feminine Company™ (TEF)-a lifestyle and business design company that supports women to create successful powerful lives that incorporates their feminine attributes and gifts. The company provides learning environments and products that support women in claiming, living and leading with their natural strengths and talents. TEF believes that it is now time for women step forward and makes a major contribution in the world. Maureen’s experience with women is based on over 25 years of successfully mentoring and guiding women leaders from around the world to create successful lives and businesses that reflect their values. As a social alchemist she addresses women’s pertinent issues of social change and transformation. Her work as a pioneering consultant supports women to reduce economic stress, open new channels for their personal and business expression and enhances their ability to access the deeper powers and gifts that each woman holds within their feminine essence. As a highly intuitive business and life designer, Maureen incorporates principles of mysticism, alchemy and social entrepreneurism to achieve focused outcomes and results. Join Maureen on Facebook and Twitter.

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Uncertainty Serves As One Of Our Greatest Teachers

Uncertainty serves as one of our greatest teachers.  When we see it as an opportunity to regroup.  In a world that moves fast and places great pressure on us, we tend to need to know, to control.  Control and knowing serve as crutches or security in a world where we really truly know very little and need to be prepared to live from a place of unknowing.

Are you willing to consider looking at uncertainty in a new way?  Could you see it as a friend, an ally – and opportunity?

The opportunities that can be found in trusting what is uncertain are vast.  Try to include some new thinking around uncertainty and use these keys to guide you:

• What uncertainty are you faced with now?
• What is the message or teaching that the uncertainty presenting to you?
• Where could you apply greater trust?
• What would be the next right action?

Again, I truly believe that uncertainty is an ally and a great teacher – nothing to fear. ~ Maureen Simon

Maureen is founder of The Essential Feminine Company™ (TEF)-a lifestyle and business design company that supports women to create successful powerful lives that incorporates their feminine attributes and gifts. The company provides learning environments and products that support women in claiming, living and leading with their natural strengths and talents. TEF believes that it is now time for women step forward and makes a major contribution in the world. Maureen’s experience with women is based on over 25 years of successfully mentoring and guiding women leaders from around the world to create successful lives and businesses that reflect their values. As a social alchemist she addresses women’s pertinent issues of social change and transformation. Her work as a pioneering consultant supports women to reduce economic stress, open new channels for their personal and business expression and enhances their ability to access the deeper powers and gifts that each woman holds within their feminine essence. As a highly intuitive business and life designer, Maureen incorporates principles of mysticism, alchemy and social entrepreneurism to achieve focused outcomes and results. Join Maureen on Facebook and Twitter.

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Prosperity…Once you Claim it in Your Business and Life- There Is No Turning Back!

How do you define prosperity?

So many of us- have been socialized- to view prosperity from the lens of finance and hard core money.  Even the dictionary mentions the financial respects of prosperity as being key when it defines prosperity as:

“A successful, flourishing or thriving condition, especially in financial respects; good fortune”.

In launching The Essential Feminine Company I have learned so much about prosperity that I have made it a personal focus in my live and one that I will be sharing with women in our community in the months to come. For me prosperity– true prosperity becomes available to us fully in life when our material wealth is derived from a deep inner knowing of ourselves Then it can be created and re-created in all areas of our lives…for the rest of our lives. Prosperity can include financial abundance and yet it is not limited to financial abundance.

Here is a prosperity formula for you to think about- food for thought that has recently served as the base of my personal inner work and with some of the work I have been doing with my clients—

When you line up-in your life:

 – Your talents and gifts with what you enjoy and love to do and then …

–  Tune in to what contribution you are here to make (or connect more with your life’s destiny) then…

– You build a life where prosperity will thrive and your harvest will be rich!

In the next few months I am excited to share my experiences in growing The Essential Feminine and my new awareness’s about prosperity and how you can claim it in your life. Stay tuned for more!!

Happy autumn!

Maureen Simon

Please do leave me a comment. Share your views on prosperity & feel free to come on over and join me on Facebook!

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Change Your Business, Change Your Life, Create New Possibilities – Are You Ready?

We’ve been talking about the Elixir Course for the past month. One of the most important things we women need is financial independence.  Many of us have chosen to create sustainable businesses that support our values.  Over the last five years I’ve hundreds of conversations with women who have pointed out that they have had to change or adapt their business to become more relevant or to adapt to new market needs.  The fac e of business is changing.  Relevance is an essential theme to business.  One of my all time favorite things to do is to evaluate a business based on the following criteria:

• Does It meet a specific market need
• Is it financially sustainable
• Does the woman founder/director believe fully in her business.

I truly believe that when we line up our lives with the essence with why we are here, success becomes easily accessible.  However, we still need to have an expertise, passion and diligence in the work we do.  Did you ever consider changing the work you do?  Or, designing or re-designing your business to include something you do well or have a strong interest in.  Stagnation is a great killer.  Never fear change.  Especially, when you have a strong niggling or calling to do something differently.  Are you getting new ideas?  Is something unique or different calling you?  Are you learning new skills that could be applied in new ways? Are you ready to innovate, contribute or change something?

I and my team here at The Essential Company have been working diligently to create the Elixir Course for Women:  http://theessentialfeminine.com/shop#life-elixir

An opportunity for you to totally transform your business and life so that you can align with your purpose, create success and fulfillment in your life.  Join me June 27th and use this code (ELIXIRSPECIAL) for a major savings this week.

My wish for you is that change will be in the air.  I will be delighted to have you join us June 27th.    http://theessentialfeminine.com/shop#life-elixir

Maureen   J. Simon

Founder and Creative Director

The Essential Feminine™   Company

Author

“Awakening The Essential   Feminine: Claiming Your Influential Power”

maureen@theessentialfeminine.com

www.theessentialfeminine.com

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Designing Life– Consciously….Is This REALLY Possible?

In the recent months I’ve taken the time to stop and look closely at what is working and what is not in my business and my life; I have been evaluating the parts that are interesting and exciting to me and the areas that need to change.  It is so easy to bumble along and accept the life that comes to us.  I believe it is the courageous one who becomes pro-active by envisioning and designing businesses and lives that reflect what we most value.

I mentioned last week that I have been in a personal transition and have been looking at my own tools and ways to traverse life: its challenges, joys and opportunities and it’s joys. For a long time I have wanted to share with you these invaluable resources and supports for creating a life of prosperity, influence and passion now.  In my last blog I mentioned that I would be revealing powerful information in May and June that has supported me greatly on my journey….I am excited about the Elixir Course http://theessentialfeminine.com/shop  and about the women who are signing up for the journey with me. Here are a few gems that may be helpful to you in your day to day life.  I started to assess my life and in the process,   realized I needed to ask myself some specific questions.  Take a look at the list below and read on.  This is a small piece of the journey I have been traversing in the past few months.

We must begin by

• Looking closely at what Is working and what Is not – notice in your business what must change – notice in your personal life what must change.
• Begin to tune into your natural rhythm, notice what supports you (quiet time, working at a certain time of the day, working out with a certain vigor) being cognizant of the seasons and the biorhythms of the day.  When we are aware of our daily rhythms and what is working and not working,  we can make powerful changes to enhance our energy.
• Measuring Your Day Against Your Destiny – Become clear about why you are here and each day be conscious of whether you are living with that reason at the forefront of your day. 

 

These are a few little gems and essentials of life that I have held close to my heart as I have been redesigning my life and business over the last 6 months.  Play with these and add your own.  We will be covering these in great detail on the Elixir Course on June 27^th   http://theessentialfeminine.com/shop   ….I hope to see you there!

Maureen J. Simon

Founder and Creative   Director

The Essential   Feminine™ Company

Author

“Awakening   The Essential Feminine: Claiming Your Influential Power”

maureen@theessentialfeminine.com

www.theessentialfeminine.com

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