Heart and Soul Centering To Live Your Best Life Now!

Heart and soul is a part of our bodies that we can’t see, but we can feel daily. Pizza is heart and soul food (recipe below for making a heart shaped pizza 🧡).

A daily heart and soul-centering check-in can change your life! You could be an old soul or have an old soul like some of us who remember young life before the internet.

…I remember when I first started out working and ambitiously I thought I wanted to climb the corporate ladder. It didn’t take many years before I shifted my priority to wanting better work-life balance.

And with those intentions, I career pivoted that gave me that outcome. But had I not picked my head up to see what my heart and soul was telling me (and now I know my spirit was helping me), I would’ve missed the message about finding time to work on me. Personal growth was something I had to go outside of work to find in volunteering and discovering myself.

It’s never too early to start checking in. Maybe now is a good time to set this priority in your life as you had to rethink parts of your life in 2020, along with everyone else (so you’re in good company!).

There were many external changes made affecting your life, that you had no control over, and may help you later on in ways you may not see how yet at this moment.

So for now, you can just keep going, growing, and focusing on creating the best that your life offers in abundant possibilities that you put intention to until the next step. There’s always a next step when the timing is right.

It’s better to think this optimistic way and joyfully pivot into your forming newer overall life, including work, relationships, passion, and purpose, so you can enjoy the process with greater ease (and not create unnecessary dis-ease or woes-me feelings).

That doesn’t mean you don’t have varying feelings with so many gray areas and small decisions you need to make, but that you’re finding your happier way now in the process (and possibly then seeing through a different lens than the one you may have been previously looking from).

I provide a lasting impactful way to do a heart and soul check-in, further below. ⬇️

Encouragement: Our Society, You, and Your Gained Ideas

In America, convenience is at our fingertips, and many of us started last year to positively lean into our interests, curiosities, and skills development.

You may have learned how to grocery shop differently, cook meals, bake your own bread, and learn new digital skills as a way to communicate with the rest of our virtual world and the local community.

You picked up other life skills that everyone needs so you could stay relevant.

You may have even discovered or rediscovered a few passions and hobbies, and read more books than you sought out originally to do. Those were some of the common gains for many of us.

All was not lost in our home life, and more has been gained (and is being gained) in our overall lives if we choose to focus on the higher lens way of living.

It’s helpful for you to reflect and personally remind yourself of the progress over perfection you’ve made, so you can stay feeling uplifted in your spirit. It’s too easy to get sourly influenced in our culture.

You can be less on guard, open up to your authentic self and reap the benefits in a new era where we’re all finding our way in many ways.

Over the past year especially, you may have changed some lifestyle habits or behaviors that you like, that work better, and that you decide to keep forever.

And you may have gained clarity about what you want in the next chapter of your life. Even though you wouldn’t have done this if you weren’t challenged to do so. But you can use your situation to your good advantage!

You may even have found the better way, and experienced that good changes in your life can show up as a combination of thinking, doing, and feeling what is right for you. You get internal clues and they can help you find your second or next act.

If you took or take your connect-the-dot lessons one step further, you can reflect on how you felt about what you first thought about specific ideas. You can then take another brave leap of action so you can try and replicate best practices and discover even more new ways, as our world is evolving. This creates innovation and gives you a better way of doing things.

For example, you’re inspired to try a new recipe and that seemed to work out and made you happy, so the next time you tweak the recipe and create something new and different that you enjoy. This works the same with a new workout, new route, or a new passion project you’re developing. Variety and innovation keep you making progress!

And that’s how personal growth attitudes and creative progress are fed and can seep into every fiber of your life if you’re open to new ways and ideas.

New ideas can take time to form in the process and as you start dabbling with curiosity, you can become less intimidated to make mistakes. That’s how you grow and learn.

In this forming introspective way of life, you can also dig deeper into yourself to find what gives you more meaning and joy than what you previously found made you happy, as you become more of who you are and will become.

You can also reach higher levels of contentment and then feel fewer emotional ups and downs.

Many positive changes can be happening all at once in this complex life, with yourself and your life.

You may have even re-thought your life’s retirement plans and this year’s optimistic and realistic plans. And you’ve probably learned to be more grounded in reality and to get back to simple basics, focusing on what actually is happening to you and around you.

As a global society, we’re still not able to freely travel and create safe, live events. From these changes, new ways have been born and are birthing, such as the newer apps where you’re entering live global event conversations safely and without travel hassles.

You could use the saved travel time and energy to work on your life, to double down on a new purposeful trajectory, or seek a new mission in your life.

Just one idea can change your life and if you have an extra few minutes, that could be the difference-maker in your life.

So where would you spend those extra minutes? Here’s what I do and what I suggest.

Prioritize a Daily Heart and Soul Check-in

Especially as we’re all distracted, prioritizing a heart and soul check-in can be the best way to (re)focus on your life.

Below you can be reminded or learn to take a specific step for long-term impact and to find your daily heart and soul-filled joy, peace, and balance.

Do a daily internal check every day to transform your heart, soul, and peace in the positive ways you aspire to.

Long before last year, virtual church had become hip and a sustainable way for modern churchgoers to attend and still reap benefits.

You don’t need to physically be inside a church to worship or gather at a specific date and time, as services are live broadcasted. You can stay connected with small groups in Facebook groups or Zoom.

We’ve come a long way in this world!

Hillsong is an example of a pioneering global reach church that evolved from a worship singing band presence that gained popularity over a couple of decades into a unique online television channel.

Today, the possibility that messages can reach global communities is spreading to increasing ways of worship as part of daily life during the week.

These days, no one is questioning why you’re meditating in broad daylight if you’re not a monk, lol. They’re wondering what your meditation or yoga practice is.

When thought in these terms, you can branch out to not just attend Sunday church but also have a daily church check in, giving yourself a relationship with your higher self during the week, Monday through Friday.

This helps you to not isolate the benefits of reaching your kinder-giving, and purposeful self consistently that may have been missing in your life outside of Sunday. This isn’t about religion, it’s actually about living out your best self–and not becoming selfish or selfless, but self-aware.

If meditation or yoga are calming to you, you can take daily time to revitalize and focus in the comfort of your home or anywhere. And whatever your practice is that works for you, carve out at least 20 minutes per day to check out of this busy world and get (into) your inner peace.

During this time, be unavailable to others for your personal health reasons. You can use this consistent quiet time that can be short but very impactful, to reset your intentions for the day that can grow into another positive life-growing branch.

Early on in my career, I put my work ahead of health needs and maybe you’ve done that too. I had walking pneumonia and I didn’t find time to go see a doctor. Thankfully the managing CEO I worked for recognized my physical health need and made me go, as a friend would!

Sometimes you need a little tough love push like I did in that situation. As you gain wisdom, you realize that health is the only real factor that needs immediate attention.

Use those spiritual (check-in) and intentional moments to gain wisdom and clarity, to see how you feel about your life and priorities. The best answers for your life come from within you. Happiness is within. Otherwise, why would those who seem to have it all, not be happy? It’s in the beliefs.

See what comes up in this blank breathing space and use your higher self-communication channel that’s different than the frequency you operate from when you’re in your other time and plugged back into the world.

I use meditation to inhale and bring in a canvas of new thoughts and ideas, and I use prayer to exhale communicating our thoughts and ideas.

If you can’t get silence in your mind in mediation, then you could look up and pray to the higher intelligence, or the Universe in life’s wonder that can give you peaceful moments.

You may be surprised at what you can get back in supernatural responses, especially if you’re holding yourself back in worry, criticism, and self-judgment.

Without looking up and out from our higher perspectives, we can spend time just going through the motions, spinning wheels, and following other people’s plans instead of checking in with our own deeper needs and aspirations. And others who sadly look fine on the outside and ignore these signs check out if you get my drift.

It’s easy to work in our lives, and not on our lives.

It’s also easy to get distracted and off the desired course with so many moving parts in the real vs. digital complex world, that’s changing all around us, regardless if you’re the business boss or the house decision-maker.

Now, you have the opportunity to re-invent and create new activities.

You also want to set new boundaries as you can get brought into urgent news flashes or pulled back into someone else’s wants out of feeling guilt, comfortability or worldly responsibility.

Those can become habits you didn’t intend as it’s easy to forget to keep your eye on what’s really important to you.

Checking in often keeps you on course.

Use “life is short” as a motivator to keep finding your best life now and not down the road or in retirement. Every brand new day you get a new chance.

Without a daily heart and soul pulse weigh-in, you may not notice any gradual drifts taking you through the undesired path for you. If you listen to your heart and take mindful baby steps daily, you’ll decrease your mistakes. And then this becomes your new best life.

So don’t overthink, but do prioritize and carve out regular meaningful, self-check-in time.