The Path Your On, Is It The Right One?

CURIOUS ON LIFE: the Blog vol. 9

Rebecca Guevara Wingler

Creator of COLOUR: Language of the Soul Workshop Series

Artist/Creative Life Coach

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PASEO San Miguel de Allende / Artist Rebecca

I'm often curious and looking for signs that help me gauge whether I'm following the right path.......... for me.

A path where I'm feeling an overall sense of calm, balance and connection.

Things like, Is there balance in my physical body, in my mind, in my spirt?

Is there curiousity?

Is there clarity?

Is there creative inspiration?

If the answer is yes, then it is a safe spot.

No matter the path we walk, we come across major changes, challenges and unfamiliar experiences. And when we do, it is uncomfortable. We become smaller versions of ourselves if we don't pay attention.

One thing that has become important for me to understand is that the clearer and cleaner my mind and body are, the better my ability to receive energy, beauty, understanding and musings. A better connection to my higher self.

Creative inspiration for me, is driven by spiritually, ancient customs, culture, deep emotion, travel and nature. All equally important muses that show up unexpectedly..

This requires me to connect deeply to my intuition.

Creating art also allows me to pay attention and be in the moment.

When I'm painting, I'm raising my vibrations and my state of mind.

With elevated levels of positive energy, the law of attraction creates more goodness and abundance into my life.

When we learn to say no to behaviors that no longer are serving us, we then invite in positive energy and new ideas of who we are supposed to become!

I'm still discovering my truest desires. By becoming more in tune you learn important things.

You can discover what work you should be doing to be most fulfilled

What kinds of relationships you should be forging

Discover how to identify the biggest challenges in your life and how to overcome them.

Ways to practice connecting to your higher self

1. Meditation- The busier the mind is the harder it is to focus, relax and get connected. Meditation is the key to understanding our inner wisdom. If you are new to meditation, start with five minute increments. Just sit in silence and allow for anything that comes to you and pay attention to your breath.

2. Nature- Being in and feeling nature's vibrations on a tangible level will allow you to reap the benefits of its ancient wisdom. This also allows you to align even more closely to your higher self.

3. Creating- Art and creativity is more than just imagination. The universe grants every person with the same access to the creative self, in all its forms.. We can go to better places when we engage with creativity, Including to our Higher Self.

All the people you meet on the path of life have something to teach you.

"The illusion that we are separate from one another is an optical delusion of our consciousness."

Albert Einstein

Thanks for reading.

With love and wonder,

Rebecca

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Is ALCOHOL the new CIG? I've been curious about it..... here is what I've learned.

CURIOUS ON LIFE: the Blog vol. 8

Rebecca Guevara Wingler

certified life coach/ artist/ grey area drinking/ reiki practitioner

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I remember when cigarettes were welcome everywhere. In the board meetings I would attend, when I was in banking, there could be nine colleagues in a closed room for sometimes up to 2 1/2 hours at a time.

Five of the nine were chain smokers.

It was understood, there really was no choice but to sit in that smoke filled room until the meeting was over..

It was the norm, nobody questioned it back in the 80's.

On an airplane, they would sit smokers in the "smoking area" in the back,

as if the fuselage was airtight in the last 6 rows of the plane. Really? Crazy.

Again, everyone just went with it because this is how everyone travelled. Dinning at restaurants and bars..... forget about it.

And teachers lounges at schools, same thing.

Wow, have things changed.

As evidence that smoking causes lung cancer become common knowledge, cigarette sales declined.

The filter tip cigarette was a direct response to the publicity given to evidence linking smoking and cancer. However the "benefit" of filters were illusions. As it turns out, filters were not really filters in any meaningful sense. There is no such thing as a clean smoke.

What about consuming alcohol, is any amount healthy? It is marketed to us in all sorts of ways, Our life will be better some how.

More glamorous, sexier, happier, and even more fun!

You have heard "it takes the edge off", as if it is good for our mental health.

On my very own sober curious journey, and then even more so as I studied to become a certified alcohol free and grey area drinking coach, what I discovered was mind blowing.

Not just is it a very addictive liquid drug, it is very toxic and damaging to our mind body and spirit.

It can take such a toll.

We know it causes inflammation of the liver, which is potentially fatal, it increases blood pressure and damages the heart muscle.

There are so many alcohol related heath problems. Cancer, eyesight issues, oral health issues, gum disease just to name a few.

What about our Mind? Drinking for long periods of time run the risk of serious changes in the brain.

It causes mental confusion, paralysis of the nerves that move the eyes. Our mind will shut down and we drink too much, we experience black outs.

It shuts down the part of the brain that has reason. It creates false highs with dopamine hits.

What about my essence, my soul?

I was being affected from my daily wine habit.

I drank wine every evening for decades.

I am a artist. I used to believe it made me more creative. In my 50's, I began to feel my vibrations lower.

I wasn't waking up hungover from several glasses of wine the night before,, because I had a high tolerance, but I was foggy and not clear headed and ready to go, as I am now that I kicked that habit, I have made alcohol small and irrelevant in my life.

I think as we strive for healthier living, especially as we age, questioning our relationship with alcohol is a positive thing to do.

If you are like me, you never thought you had a "drinking problem" I mean not really. Did I know that occasionally I drank way more than I should? Yes, but didn't everyone? I didn't question it because it is everywhere.

It is expected.,

Like cigarettes I think we are getting smarter around what we have been conditioned to believe and how to behave.

Looking back, I'm so glad I got curious about what my life could look like if I didn't drink.. You don't have to hit a rock bottom to question it.

I didn't have a rock bottom per se, but little by little it was definitely taking more away from me and my life than it could ever give me.

Get curious. Stay curious.

I'm here and easy to reach if you ever just want to chat about any of this. You can book a "free discovery & discussion call" and discover how to live your best life. You deserve it, we all do.

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Thanks for reading

Until next time, with love and wonder,

Rebecca