How to empower your need for Significance

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We all want to be significant somewhere in our lives. Whether its significant in a relationship, as a parent, as a friend, in our career or in a hobby. We all have the desire to do something a bit 'our way', and this is natural - we are all unique and everyone has something special to express.

For me, significance is all about giving - it's what I can contribute to people, a situation or the wider community. I do this through my work, whether its on a one-to-one basis, with groups of children, groups of adults, families or teams of people. If I'm not contributing in some way, I'm either looking at ways to contribute, or relaxing somewhere feeling that my work is done - for now!

How do you express your significance?

The trick is learning that's its OK when you are NOT expressing your significance. Feeling insignificant is the extreme of this and usually comes from a place of waiting for someone else's approval. Its when you won't feel better until that other person has acknowledged you. How can you rise above feelings of insignificance and approval? With congratulating the self. If you congratulate yourself, you don't wait for anyone else to applaud or congratulate you, you do it yourself. You make the time to do it and you go for it! You are in touch with yourself and trust yourself to feel when you've done the best possible job you can. Its wonderful when people say you have done a good job, but to rely on that for your feeling uplifted is dis-empowering.

How are you currently congratulating yourself? Could you congratulate yourself in a more beneficial way?

Its all about getting the balance right - honouring yourself enough to make sure you can be the best that you can be. You can be significant and you can come from the heart and you can be authentic.

Its about managing your energy so that you are always doing the things you love, but being open and free enough to allow new experiences that you may not have even considered. This is the beauty of life!

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Its all about going with the flow, having patience and perseverance.  Gardening has taught me about this (most of the photos I use on my blog are from my little oasis in London). When you see the seasons change and you watch a seed grow into a plant, look after it along the way and then harvest the fruits, you become in touch with the flow, growth and change of all things.

In practice, its all down to experience - being open and aware in situations and coming from the heart - your true self.
When we tweak the little things, everything else falls into place :0)

Much love


Leona x
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