The Garden of the Soul

Many thanks to Simon Ireland-Davies of ID Coaching, Liverpool, who selected the number 65 for this week’s meditation. If you would like to help me write my upcoming book “The Companion Guide to the Garden of the Soul” and possibly have your name listed in the acknowledgements of the book, and announced on my weekly radio broadcast, just select a number from 1-80 and post it in the comment thread below.

Meditation 65: Wisdom
from “Lessons from the Lily: the Principle of Being”

Wisdom is the natural energy that flows through us when we surrender our ego so we may establish our connection with the Divine. Wisdom does not come to us as the result of learning. It is not something can be increased by any type of effort. Wisdom is Eternal, Infinite and Absolute. It belongs to no one and to everyone, simultaneously and equally. When we imagine that we can capture Wisdom via our own efforts, we are operating from the platform of ego, wherein we imagine that there is a limited amount of Wisdom to be gained in the Universe, and that it can be controlled and conquered by our own efforts. If this were the case, then the Universe would be a merciless and poverty-stricken place, as only the strongest or most intellectually gifted would ever have access to Wisdom. But the Truth is the Universe is infinitely opulent and full of mercy. Wisdom is the birthright of all living entities, and no effort is required to manifest Wisdom other than to allow it to enter us, without ego blocking its way.

In The Garden of the Soul, the Lily is the bearer of Wisdom. She stands alone, allowing the light of the full Moon to bathe her with its illuminating rays, Without effort, she absorbs whatever Wisdom is shone upon her, and then creates a mesmerising diamond-like mandala of light and reflection around her so that others may be able to see and delight in what she knows intuitively. She does not block the rays via any kind of shade or cover. She allows all of them to shine upon her equally, without judgment or preference…

If you would like to read the rest of this article,
including the Enquiries for the week,
read the complete entry on my NEW blog at http://www.lynnserafinn.com.

AND while you are there, be sure to subscribe to that blog, as this blog will shortly be discontinued and moved to the new site.

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If you would like to find out how to master the four Principles of “Give, Receive, Become and Be” from my book The Garden of the Soul, as well as many other skills for personal transformation, join me and my colleague Vicki Goodyear on the Transformation Trilogy Weekend Workshop Series. Two new UK series starting 17 October (Bedford), and 7 November (Totnes, Devon). Click HERE for complete information and to book your place.

AND… if you think money is an issue, be sure you read about our innovative “Gratitude System” that, we hope, will enable everyone to attend.

See you there!

Warm wishes,
Lynn Serafinn
“Turning up the volume of the music in your heart!”

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Hi there Garden of the Soul friends,
Here is your Garden of the Soul Meditation/Practice from LAST week (Wednesday 8 July 2009). I am sorry this didn’t come to you on Friday as usual, but I was preparing for some amazing training I did in London over the weekend on the Transition Town movement. I’ll share that with you later this week.

Last week’s number was selected intuitively by cancer survivor and author Cindy Papale. I read Cindy’s selected meditation LAST Wednesday on my weekly broadcast of “Lynn Serafinn’s Garden of the Soul on Blog Talk Radio. You can listen on demand at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Lynn-Serafinn. (While you’re there, mark the show as your favourite. Cindy will be one of my upcoming guests in October).

Number 54 is the number for the attribute of “Rebirth”, which comes from the section my book “The Garden of the Soul” called “Lessons from the Daffodils”. The Daffodils teach us “The Principle of Becoming” which is all about youth, growth, discovery, evolution and creativity… and of course the process of rebirth. And in many ways, my training with the Transition Town Network was very much tied into this idea of rebirth. Dive deeply into this one. It’s a meaningful one. And be sure to tune into tonight’s show to find out what this week’s number is

AND don’t forget to send me your intuitive number for next week’s meditation.

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Day 54: Rebirth
Rebirth is that point in our personal transformation when we emerge from the old and into the new. True rebirth of any kind involves letting go of the past. In the autumn, the trees allow their dry, lifeless leaves to drop to the ground, return to the soil, crumble away, and help to create fertile ground for new vegetation to grow, and also for the trees themselves to flourish. Similarly, in our own lives, Rebirth takes place when we let go of the old emotions, as well as old patterns of thinking or behaving that do not bring us joy, and allow them to slip away naturally to become a part of the ground from which our Rebirth will take place. When we do this, we feel ourselves reborn into our true and authentic Nature.

In The Garden of the Soul the Daffodils teach us about Rebirth. They burst forth in the early springtime, like bright beacons deep within the dark wood, rising from the fertile ground that has been formed by the leaves of the ancient trees that surround them. Drinking deeply of the nourishment of the history of the forest, they are creating new life every spring, leaving behind the coldness of the earth and bringing forth colour, hope and joy to everyone around them.  Then, when spring is over, they return to the Earth, and their own leaves and petals become fertile ground for their own re-emergence the following spring.

Just like the coming of spring, Rebirth is a natural and divine process. It does not come about from artificially suppressing or denying emotions. Rather, it is about being very in tune with the rhythms of our own lives, and with the world around us, just as the Daffodils are in tune with the seasons. When we develop this awareness, we know intuitively what we need to be happy, and are able to let go of what is no longer feeding our Souls. When we do this, we learn how to take nourishment from all that has come before, even the painful things, instead of sitting within the decay of dwelling upon what once was, and feeling lifeless as a result. Our past then becomes a vital and life-giving part of our bigger hero’s story, rather than a smaller story in which we feel continually stuck. When this happens, we can know with certainty that we have stepped fully into our Divine Rebirth of Self.

Symptoms of when it is blocked or distorted
Bitterness; full of regret; staying stuck; feeling old beyond one’s years; prone to chronic illness; crippling limiting beliefs; despair

 Symptoms of when it is flowing
Hopefulness; lightness; positive; youthful outlook; strong immune system; able to nurture one’s self; not grudge-bearing

Enquiries to cultivate this attribute

1. What thoughts of the past do I think about over and over?
2. What would my life be like if were free of these thoughts?
3. If I allowed myself to be reborn into my true Divine Self, what would I be like?

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I hope you liked this week’s Garden of the Soul Weekly Meditation. Read below to find you how you can help me write my next book, have your name mentioned on the radio, and have a chance to be mentioned in the book, under my acknowledgements.

HOW TO HELP ME WRITE MY NEXT BOOK…
I am writing a “Companion Guide to the Garden of the Soul: 80 Daily/Weekly Practices to Allow Your Spirit to Blossom”. The book has 80 Daily (or Weekly) meditations to help to cultivate the spiritual attributes of the four flowers in the book. All 80 attributes are already “assigned” a number, but the entries for them have not necessarily been written yet.

YOU CAN HELP ME WRITE MY BOOK!

1. Every Wednesday through Sunday, just send me a number from 1 – 80 that you pick intuitively.
2. I will put all the numbers into a “hat” and chose one at random.
3. I will publish the correlating “meditation” for that number on the following Friday.
4. AND… if you number is selected, I will also read your name and your intuitively chosen meditation ON THE AIR on my weekly broadcast of “Lynn Serafinn’s Garden of the Soul” at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Lynn-Serafinn. Now that our show is 1 hour long, I have plenty of time for this. It’s just so much fun.
5. AND…I will also mention every person whose number was selected in the “acknowledgements” section of my book when it is published!

HOW DO YOU SEND ME YOUR NUMBER?
You can SEND me your number by:

• dropping me a line on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/LynnSerafinn
• posting it on my wall on my Fan Page at http://tinyurl.com/gots-fan
• sending it to me at Twitter at @LynnSerafinn OR 
• Sending it through my Ning group at http://gardenofthesoul.ning.com
• Posting a comment on my blog at http://www.give-receive-become-be.com

HOW DO YOU RECEIVE YOUR WEEKLY MEDITATION?
You can RECEIVE your weekly mediation by:

• Subscribing to my blog at http://www.give-receive-become-be.com OR
• Joining my Facebook group at http://tinyurl.com/fb-gots OR
• Joining my Facebook FAN page at: http://tinyurl.com/gots-fan OR
• Joining my Ning group at http://gardenofthesoul.ning.com OR
• Tuning in/downloading my weekly show at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Lynn-Serafinn

HERE’S THE BEAUTY OF IT…
If you send me a numbers for which I haven’t written the entries yet, I’ll write them as you send them. In other words, if 10 of you send me 10 new numbers, then I will write 10 new entries, but I will only post only one per week. That way, you will help me write my book, and you will receive a free meditation every week.

SO FAR THE WEEKLY MEDITATIONS I HAVE SENT TO YOU HAVE BEEN:

1. Day 75: Self-Awareness, selected by Kristina Berglund
2. Day 11: Boldness, selected by Kate Parker
3. Day 13: Vitality, selected by Callie Carling
4. Day 48: Discovery, selected by Geoff Laughton
5. Day 54: Rebirth, selected by Cindy Papale
6. Day ??? Coming tonight! What does YOUR intuition tell you?

I look forward to receiving your intuitive number this week.  

See you in the Garden!

Warm wishes,
Lynn Serafinn
Author of Amazon bestseller, The Garden of the Soul: lessons from four flowers that unearth the Self
Official book site: http://www.give-receive-become-be.com
Coaching: http://www.create-a-life.co.uk

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Personal Transformation and Why it is Important for the Greater World (Part 5 of 5)
by Lynn Serafinn, MAED, CPCC
Personal Transformation Coach and bestselling author

For Part 1: view post dated 7 July 2009
For Part 2: view post dated 8 July 2009
For Part 3: view post dated 9 July 2009
For Part 4: view post dated 10 July 2009

Becoming BIG
Just to share with you, three years ago, I claimed my own life purpose: 

“I am the all-embracing voice that frees the hearts of millions
to sing their own true song.”

 Notice this life purpose sounds very “big”. A life purpose should be big! When I work with clients to find their life purpose, we don’t stop until it takes their own breath away. My purpose still takes my breath away, and it gives me tremendous self-permission and motivation. How can I “free the hearts of millions” if I stay in a box living a small life? For instance, I wrote a book and I also do a radio show. Both of these reach an audience that is far greater than I could ever have reached if I stayed “small”. My book is all about finding one’s voice and living the life you were meant to live. Reaching a wide audience is not driven by my own personal desire for fame, but rather by my life purpose. I know that I can only help free the hearts of millions by reaching millions of people.

 Balance, resilience and recovery
Getting to the stage of discovering and claiming our life purpose is wonderful, but if I were simply to get clients all high on life during our coaching sessions with no tools to recover from the inevitable ups and downs of life, then they would simply burn out and are likely to go back to their old patterns in life. In my book The Garden of the Soul, as well as in my own life, I follow a simple balancing model of Four Principles: Give, Receive, Become and Be. Life is like riding a surfboard. There are always going to be waves going up and down and side to side. Surfers know how to sense the waves and stay on the board, and if they do happen to fall off, they know how to get out of the way of the board, and also how to get back onto their feet. All in all, it’s a fine craft learning how to find balance, expanding the awareness, trusting your intuition, responding to the situation and enjoying the ride.

And that is what really what life is all about too. In my own life, my book, my coaching and my workshops I use this model of “Give, Receive, Become and Be” to master the art of balance, resilience and recovery, so that we can find a sustainable way to find fulfilment, manifest our life purpose and become the heroes of our own lives, and bring all those wonderful gifts into the world for which we were created.

And that is why personal transformation is so important, not merely for our own sakes, but for the sake of the entire world. If you have been stuck in an unfulfilling state of life, resisting the call of your own life because you thought it would be selfish to do so, or felt you did not have the courage or ability to change, go for a walk into Nature today and simply listen, allowing the Universe to speak directly to your heart. You will hear that all your reasons for avoiding your own life are based upon fear of being alone in your story. Step into that fear and embrace your purpose in life, and allow the Universe carry you. If you feel any doubts, remind yourself that this wonderful Universe is big enough to carry each and every one of us.

AND… never forget: the Universe WANTS you to succeed!

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That’s the complete article
“Personal Transformation and Why it is Important for the Greater World.”

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Lynn Serafinn, MAED, CPCC

For more information about Lynn and her work, visit:

• COACHING: www.create-a-life.co.uk
• BOOK: www.give-receive-become-be.com (or find the book on Amazon)
• GLOBAL WELLNESS CIRCLE: www.global-wellness-circle
• GARDEN OF THE SOUL RADIO SHOW: www.blogtalkradio.com/Lynn-Serafinn
• GARDEN OF THE SOUL FACEBOOK GROUP: http://tinyurl.com/fb-gots
• GARDEN OF THE SOUL FACEBOOK FAN PAGE: http://tinyurl.com/gots-fan
• GARDEN OF THE SOUL SOCIAL NETWORK: www.gardenofthesoul.ning.com

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Personal Transformation and Why it is Important for the Greater World (Part 4)
by Lynn Serafinn, MAED, CPCC
Personal Transformation Coach and bestselling author

For Part 1: view post dated 7 July 2009
For Part 2: view post dated 8 July 2009
For Part 3: view post dated 9 July 2009

The role of coaching in this process
In my coaching, this is a major facet of how I help people. First, I help them realise the unconscious limiting belief patterns they have created and carried with them for many years (perhaps since they were children). Because coaching focuses on the “now” and not the past, it is not essential to go back in time to the cause of these beliefs; but often I find that as soon as clients see the pattern emerging in their lives, they can frequently scan back in their memory and find the root of it without effort. Usually, they are amazed that the belief has gone back so far in time, and they begin to see the impact this belief has had upon them, sometimes for many decades. This in itself can create a huge shift in the clients’ view of life, and they see that they are truly at choice to change their belief system, if it is no longer working for them in their current lives.

Stepping into your life purpose
Of course, as you begin to transform, it is also important to learn compassion and forgiveness towards oneself as you release these old belief systems, so you do not blame yourself for wasted time or spend time dwelling on regrets for past decisions. This process of “letting go” is the next stage in transformation. Taking a step back and seeing the bigger picture of the story of your life, instead of all the little stories in isolation, you begin to see who the world has been calling for you to become within your lifetime. At this stage, I help clients identify and claim their life purpose.

A life purpose is not the same thing as a career or defining what you want to “do”. A life purpose is identifying your ultimate impact on the world—your legacy. Once we come to understand that we actually have a life purpose, we look at life differently.

If the words “impact” or “legacy” are too challenging for you at this point, trying substituting them with the word “gift”. To get a clue as to your purpose in life, ask yourself these questions:

• What keeps calling me over and over again throughout my life?
• What do I keep resisting out of fear?
• If I could create/do anything, what is the “gift” I would want to leave behind for the rest of the world?
• What would I need to stop resisting so I could give that gift?

When you begin to see that you have a “gift” for the world, it shifts your sense of purpose. Instead of believing you are powerless and insignificant, you begin to see your own importance in the world. When I work with clients at this stage, I help them “claim” their life purpose, and learn how to give themselves full permission to live that purpose, for the sake of giving the gift that only they can give. This is when all the old, out-of-date belief systems simply start to slip away. No longer do we see ourselves as selfish human beings for living our life purpose, Rather we start to see that our own personal transformation and fulfilment is actually the key that can unlock a future world that is full of peace, harmony, compassion and wide-spread happiness at a global level…

To be continued.
Be sure to subscribe to this blog to receive complete article.

Coming up in Part 5:

• “Becoming BIG” and
• “Balance, Resilience and Recovery”

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Lynn Serafinn, MAED, CPCC

For more information about Lynn and her work, visit:

• COACHING: www.create-a-life.co.uk
• BOOK: www.give-receive-become-be.com (or find the book on Amazon)
• GLOBAL WELLNESS CIRCLE: www.global-wellness-circle
• GARDEN OF THE SOUL RADIO SHOW: www.blogtalkradio.com/Lynn-Serafinn
• GARDEN OF THE SOUL FACEBOOK GROUP: http://tinyurl.com/fb-gots
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Personal Transformation and Why it is Important for the Greater World (Part 3)
by Lynn Serafinn, MAED, CPCC
Personal Transformation Coach and bestselling author

For Part 1: view post dated 7 July 2009
For Part 2: view post dated 8 July 2009

The impact our beliefs have upon us
When we are convinced that something “is” true, it stands to reason that we will not bother to look at it a different way. So at the core of this feeling of powerlessness is the belief that something simply “is” and we are not at choice with it.

But the minute we are willing to try to see the same situation from a different angle, we have stepped out of the role of being the victim, and become one step closer to our Authentic Self. For instance, if someone has the habitual tendency to criticise you, you might have developed a belief around the fact that you are trapped in this situation and cannot escape it. At the core of this belief might be a deeper belief that you are weak and powerless, or that you actually are all the horrible things that the person is saying you are. Standing in these beliefs, you already believe yourself to be weak, flawed and vulnerable, and your reactions will be dictated by these beliefs. Because you feel so vulnerable, you might react by counter-attacking their criticisms. Or, if you are feeling very flawed and weak, you might simply “stuff” your feelings so as not to get into an argument, only to feel upset or irritable about it later. You might even believe that what they are saying is true, and beat yourself up about it rather than get into a conflict with them.

This is classic “passive-aggressive” behaviour. In either case, whether passive or aggressive, you have still allowed their criticisms to affect you emotionally, and to enter your mental and physical world. In the long term, this can cause stress and even disease. In some extreme scenarios (such as abuse or incessant bullying) it might be necessary to take yourself physically out of the situation as a first step, but until you learn how to realign and rebalance yourself from such energies in the outside world, you will simply continue to swing back and forth in a passive-aggressive pattern, without being truly free of its effects.

Learning to realign
Learning to realign is a matter of developing the ability to step into different perspectives where you are not “taking on” the energy of that critical person, and you do not feel the need to expend any of your own energy towards it, whether physical, mental or emotional. When you begin this process of realignment, you start to see that person as someone who is simply trapped in their own sense of powerlessness, and their criticisms lose their energy. When you do not take on that undesired energy, and you do not expend any of your own energy to reflect it, you remain equipoised, balanced and stress-free. And when the body and mind are not under stress, it means you are not only healthier and happier, but you are also more able to be creative and find more solutions to the challenges in your life. So while it is true that you cannot change the person’s behaviour, their behaviour no longer has a negative impact on you, and you find that you are more able to create the outcome you truly desire for yourself…

 To be continued.
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Coming up in Part 4:

• “The Role of Coaching in this Process” and
• “Stepping into Your Life Purpose”

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Lynn Serafinn, MAED, CPCC

For more information about Lynn and her work, visit:

• COACHING: www.create-a-life.co.uk
• BOOK: www.give-receive-become-be.com (or find the book on Amazon)
• GLOBAL WELLNESS CIRCLE: www.global-wellness-circle
• GARDEN OF THE SOUL RADIO SHOW: www.blogtalkradio.com/Lynn-Serafinn
• GARDEN OF THE SOUL FACEBOOK GROUP: http://tinyurl.com/fb-gots
• GARDEN OF THE SOUL FACEBOOK FAN PAGE: http://tinyurl.com/gots-fan
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Personal Transformation and Why it is Important for the Greater World (Part 2)
by Lynn Serafinn, MAED, CPCC
Personal Transformation Coach and bestselling author

(if you missed Part 1, view post dated 7 July 2009)

The stories we tell ourselves
In my work, I have discovered that many people would indeed change, even at the age of 50 or even older, if they believed they had the power, choice and courage to do so. I hear them say things like, “Ok, all that sounds really good, but I can’t change my life. I have a family, job, etc. It would be SELFISH for me to change. My world would fall apart. I would let everyone else down. It would be irresponsible of me. I cannot change my life. Isn’t it the mature and dignified thing to simply accept what we cannot change?” 

Well here’s something that might come as a shock to you—if you are not living the life that the world had in mind for you when you came into this world, and you are currently suffering as a result, it is actually selfish of you NOT to transform yourself, and step into the person you were always meant to be. Why? Because you are not on the outside of the world looking in, or the inside of your own little world looking out. You are an integral part of this greater world called the Universe. You are like a facet in a very intricate diamond. If I take out your facet, the entire system loses a bit of its lustre. When you are not living the life the Universe deeply desires you to live, you not only get caught in an endless karmic swirl of frustration and personal dissatisfaction, but you also cause the Universe to weep for that person it knows you are, and for the impact it wants you to create in the greater world.

“Whoa there—impact?” you may ask. “Who me? You say I am supposed to create an impact? People like me don’t create an impact on the world.” 

Well, here’s the news:

• You are exactly the same kind of person as those you consider to be great heroes
• Everything you do already creates an impact, whether you are aware of it or not

Why we stay stuck
I believe that the reason why so many of us stay stuck in lives that do not fulfil us is because we believe we are powerless. I believe that this feeling arises from a basic lack of connection to Self and the rest of the world. When we feel disconnected from Self and other, our energies are driven downwards—mentally, physically and emotionally—and we become less able to see and feel our impact, even though we are indeed creating one. We begin to feel isolated and insignificant, and these feelings can lead us to believe we are very small and therefore have no impact upon the world. And sadly, when we believe ourselves to be these things, the world (and the life) we create for ourselves only reinforces these beliefs again and again.

Seeing so much “evidence” around us confirming (or so we believe) that we are small and insignificant, we develop the underlying belief that life is “happening to us” and all of this is simply beyond our control. As soon as we adopt this belief system, where we hold ourselves to be powerless, we have stepped into the role of the victim. Playing the role of the victim is a very subtle thing. Many of us may not realise we are doing it, and would argue that it is not true. Many of us might say, “You’re wrong. I’m not playing the victim. It’s just that the economy really is bad right now” or “It’s just that my parent/partner is always so critical of me” or “It’s just the way my life is right now” or “It’s just that my body is prone to such-and-such illness.” As soon as such “is” statements become our truths, we take on the role of the victim because we are saying that we are simply powerless against the forces around us. And in some distorted way, this because a very satisfying place to be for many people (I used to be like this myself) because it allows us to blame another person, entity or circumstance for our troubles, thus making us feel less critical of ourselves. But deep down, we are simply spinning in a vortex of powerlessness that we ourselves have chosen…

To be continued.
Be sure to subscribe to this blog to receive complete article.

Coming up in Part 3:

• “The Impact Our Beliefs Have Upon Us” and
• “Learning to Realign”

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Lynn Serafinn, MAED, CPCC

For more information about Lynn and her work, visit:

• COACHING: www.create-a-life.co.uk
• BOOK: www.give-receive-become-be.com (or find the book on Amazon)
• GLOBAL WELLNESS CIRCLE: www.global-wellness-circle
• GARDEN OF THE SOUL RADIO SHOW: www.blogtalkradio.com/Lynn-Serafinn
• GARDEN OF THE SOUL FACEBOOK GROUP: http://tinyurl.com/fb-gots
• GARDEN OF THE SOUL FACEBOOK FAN PAGE: http://tinyurl.com/gots-fan
• GARDEN OF THE SOUL SOCIAL NETWORK: www.gardenofthesoul.ning.com

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Personal Transformation and Why it is Important for the Greater World (Part 1)
by Lynn Serafinn, MAED, CPCC
Personal Transformation Coach and bestselling author

Like so many other coaches I know, when I first started my coaching practice, I was going through many changes in my life. Moving to a new country, major illness/surgery, my father’s death, menopause, divorce from a 22-year abusive marriage, recovery from post-traumatic stress, leaving my decades-old religious and social circles, doing a Masters degree and a full teaching qualification, feeling the pangs of “empty nest” when my daughter started her adult life, moving to a new town with nothing but a computer and a suitcase of clothes, living completely on my own for the first time since my 20s, becoming a grandmother, changing jobs three times while climbing the corporate ladder in the educational sector, “making it” by becoming a director of a college department with a good salary and even better prestige, and then suddenly dropping everything to change my career completely to start my own coaching practice (and all the training that goes along with it) had all come within an unbelievably short time period of only 7 years. Furthermore, by the end of those 7 years, I was already in my early 50s. Who in their right mind would start their lives over from scratch at such an age and after going through all that change already?

So, was I in my right mind?

Well, since making the decision to embark on my own journey of personal transformation:

• A long list of long-term physical illnesses have vanished from my life
• I look and feel 10 years younger than I did 10 years ago
• I won a business award for my coaching
• I started an organisation called the Global Wellness Circle that is transforming the holistic community in central England
• I became a talk radio host and frequent media guest
• I have been a keynote speaker at such events as International Women’s Day
• AND I wrote and self-published an Amazon bestselling book called The Garden of the Soul: lessons from four flowers that unearth the Self 

Furthermore, I have coached and mentored hundreds of people through the process of their own personal transformation.

But regardless of all those wonderful things, for which I am truly grateful, the most significant thing of all is that I can honestly say I am truly, deeply happy and fulfilled, and that I know my life has meaning and purpose.

Fleeting versus Ultimate Happiness
A sense of purpose is the most important element in finding deep, core happiness. “Every day happiness” can come to us in many guises. We are happy when we fall in love, have children, are accepted for great new job, complete a course of study, or win a competition. But all of these things are what I call “fleeting happiness” because they are dependent upon time and circumstance. What happens when circumstances change? Where is happiness then?

Ultimate happiness—or joy—can really only come when we are connected to a sense of purpose. You might call it “Divine Purpose” (or at least I do). I firmly believe that every human being is born with an innate purpose to fulfil in this world, and that unless and until we hear the call of that purpose—and answer it—we will continue to spin around in life, trying to get as much “fleeting happiness” as we can find. But the problem with this is that as soon as the “fleeting happiness” runs its course, we will simply look for our next “hit”, because we don’t necessarily have the deep core happiness and joy that comes from living a life “on purpose.”

 To be continued.
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Coming up in Part 2:

• “The Stories We Tell Ourselves” and
• “Why We Stay Stuck”

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Lynn Serafinn, MAED, CPCC

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Lynn Serafinn, MAED, CPCC
Create-a-Life Personal Transformation Coaching and Training
http://www.create-a-life.co.uk

“I help people overcome their limiting beliefs, establish connection to their Higher Self, discover their life purpose, and become the heroes of their own lives. My goal is to turn up the volume of the music in YOUR heart!”

I am an award-winning certified coach, teacher, Co-active Leader, as well as an Amazon bestelling author in self-help, mind-body-spirit and spirituality. My passion is to help people find and express their authentic voice and find deep fulfilment in their work, life and relationships. I do this through my coaching, my courses and workshops, my public speaking and broadcasting, and my writing. I like to refer to myself as a “Cosmic Alchemist”, as I believe the universe is continually providing us with everything we need to pro-actively create fantastically rewarding lives, if we only learn some basic skills to recognise, receive and utilise what is around us. I also believe that all people are the heroes of their own lives, and that Personal Transformation is one way to unlock that inner hero, not only for your own personal fulfilment, but also to enable you to create a powerful and positive impact in the world. What makes me unique is my “Create-a-Life System” for personal growth that can help you tap into your “Whole Self”, offering you a practical system for specific needs, depending upon where YOU are on your hero’s journey in life.

My coaching company is called “Create-a-Life”
because I help people create the lives they want to live.

I offer:

• 1-to-1 coaching
• Garden of the Soul Coaching Groups
• Transformation Telecourses
• Transformation Trilogy Workshops
• Coming late 2009: “Becoming the Hero of Your Own Life Retreat”

Details of the above services will be on this site shortly. If you wish to know more now, please send your query to info@create-a-life.co.uk, or sign up for a free consultation on my Create-a-Life website at www.create-a-life.co.uk.

If you are FINALLY ready to discover your life purpose, stop self-sabotage, express your authentic self and create the life you were meant to live with an award-winning coach, teacher, and bestselling spirituality author:

Visit my Create-a-Life Website at http://www.create-a-life.co.uk 
or
call 0845 880 2528 (UK) and ask for a free consultation.

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