11:11:11, I love you dearly 11/11/2011
I would feel so silly if I didn't take the time to write a short love note today (it being 11-11-11 and all). Life never tasted so sweet, felt so soft and inspired so much passion, grace and integrity before. I am grateful for the opportunity to be AWAKE in this moment, to be ALIVE in this moment and to share it with those I hold so dear. My journey is only just beginning and I can feel the power growing beneath my feet. In this moment I am confident of my love for the Universe and I know that The Universe, well, it loves me too. Cheers to a year of our GREATEST adventures yet. MM  Photo by Dee Hill Your Call to Action Did you hear about my latest course? Holidays with Heart begins December 5th and there are only 3 spots left. Hop on this gravy train now to be a part of the JOY this Holiday Season. (But it's really about a lot more than that.) If you like what you read here, then go on and subscribe to my mailing love list - it goes out every Monday, Tuesday and Thursday. Thanks, ya'll! What is whispering in your wind? 11/08/2011
I’m standing on the shoreline, my toes being caressed by the ocean water, my skin exfoliated from the sand. I can hear my heart. Boom. Boom. Boom. I close my eyes, spread my arms wide open, I smile and tears begin to stream down my face. My body, mind and spirit are cleansed by the rays of the sun. Crash. Another wave reaches the shoreline. Boom. My heart continues to beat. Ahhh. Breath continues to flow and in this moment I am purely grateful for existing without struggle or pain. In this moment, my brilliance is effortless. My inner light beams with radiance. My mind is calm and I am here. Present. Now. What happens when you allow your imagination to run wild in this moment? Where does it take you? How do you feel? What is your experience? What is the wind whispering? Finding Stillness 10/31/2011
Be still long enough, I thought, and the trees would take no notice of me and continue whatever it is they were doing or saying before I happened upon them. -PL Travers, author of Mary Poppins Isn't that pure poetry? Ever time I read it over [and over] I find my stillness. How often in life do we take time to stop and observe what is going on around us? I'm not just talking about people watching. I mean nature watching, I mean world watching, I mean wind watching. Being so still and observant. So quiet and observant, that not even the grass you are sitting on notices you are there. How often do we take the time to stop and just be? Don't you wonder what lives in that moment, that heartbeat of undisturbed perfection? That breath of oh-so-fleating existence lingering at our finger tips and then whisp, gone. Don't you wonder? I'll tell you what's there. I've only recently been visiting this place more often. In that moment. In this moment lives a swirling sweetness so Divine that even the Angels can't resist it. In this moment there are mounds of greatness flooding over your being, constantly. In this moment. There lives what's calling. Are you listening? We come to understand the irony that we can experience progress even while standing still, that going inward can be going forward. - Gregg Levoy, Callings Listening, Megan Monique 2 Comments I'm Being Haunted 10/25/2011
These past couple weeks I have been haunted. No, I'm not talking about ghosts. (Though that would be a cool Halloween story.) I'm referring to my emotions. My thoughts. There have been breaks, moments of joy + happiness. Laughter. But when the dust settles + I am alone with my thoughts, there is a "thing" lurking in the shadows. Haunting me. Up until today I have made it wrong. I have allowed the shadow to push me into a cave (mentally). I have beat myself up for letting it stay present in my life for this long. I have done lots of things to try + make it go away. It is clear to me now that what I really need is acceptance with the shadows. The lurking, haunting shadows. On some level, I feel I must grant what it is they are requesting. Hibernation. Moving slower. More alone time. Gentleness. Today, I am done being afraid of what's lurking in my darkness. I know that it is here to help me see the light. I know that it will not consume me, but merely show me another way. Today, I believe that the shadows can be my friend. Afterall, there is no Yin without Yang, Megan Monique PS. Have you heard about what we are creating in The Goddess Life Community? Last night during my SoulFire Coaching Group we did a really powerful exercise from A Course in Weight loss by Marianne Williamson. I do not use the word powerful lightly here. Disclaimer: I highly recommend doing this exercise with a group of close girlfriends where you have the option to do a burning bowl ceremony after. This exercise brings up some heavy emotional stuff that needs to be released to The Universe. The end result is your freedom from these heavy bricks that you knowingly + unknowingly carry. Here's how it works:
I was one of the ladies who did not. I cried. I felt nauseous. I was heartbroken that this lived within me. But after the burning bowl ceremony, I was able to release these things to the courageous full moon. It was, like I said, powerful. As I fell asleep last night, I surrendered these things to the Universe once more, asking for complete healing in my sleep. I woke up at 9:30 today crying. Hard. In my dream I killed off three people + since I know that this is often how our being clears what no longer serves us, I accepted. I would encourage anyone to do this shadow work. It's amazing what happens when we embrace the light with the dark. But do proceed with caution. A Giveaway In honor of this HUGE release I had last night + through my slumber, I am giving away the audio CD collection of A Course in Weight loss by Marianne Williamson to one lucky winner! Here is how you win: required*
Embracing My Shadows, Megan Monique 
Right now I am reading a book called Callings: Finding and Following an Authentic Life by Gregg Levoy. It was a gift from a friend, but this book has been on my radar for well over 2 years when I first heard about it from my previous boss, Lissa Rankin. She too said it was the bees knees. You could say I was beyond pleased when it's splendid glory showed up on my door step as a surprise belated birthday gift. I'm only on page 22 + already, my mind is more awake. Levoy talks about Gordon Hempton, the man who wrote The Vanishing Dawn Chorus, an Emmy Award winning PBS Documentary. Hempton tells a story about a particular time he was in the forest with his listening ears recording the sounds around him when suddenly he was overwhelmed with a state of panic. Though his logical mind was telling him there was nothing to run from, his listening ears + intuition insisted that there was. Hempton decided to leave his equipment behind + high-tail it out of there. When he returned in the morning, the footage showed that moments after he left a leopard had visited where he was. If he had listened to his logical mind, he might not be alive. But because he chose to listen to that voice of intuition even though it didn't make sense at the time, his life was spared. It made me wonder how much I miss out on because I choose to deny the voice that lives within. "We shy away from introspection because, however fearful the surface seels, we fear the depths still more. And we are right. There is much to fear there. If there is terror about darkness because we cannot see, there is also terror about light because we can see. Would rather not see. If we do not climb down willingly with our eyes open, he said, we risk falling in with our eyes closed. If we ignore seuketat [*], we end up turning our backs on the leopard, tempting fate, putting our souls in the position of having to come after us, teeth bared. The only conscious oveservations we'll make will be those forced on us by crises." I would love it if some of you would read this book along with me. As for now, I am turning my listening ears on. Trusting my intuition a little bit more + keeping my heart open to what this book has to teach me. "You have to be willing to suffer what you hear. It's probably fair to say that awakening is attached to suffering like a rope to a bell, and you're not going to pull on it withoutmaking some noise." *seuketat - the ear of the animal Putting on my super duper Listening Ears, Megan Monique A Life Without Judgement 09/26/2011
 For the past week or so my roommate Heather + I have been doing morning meditations on abundance. In addition to that, we have been reading bits + pieces of The A to Z Steps to a Richer Life by Deepak Chopra. This mornings reading called to me. So I decided to share. "O stands for the fact that life is the coexistence of all opposite values. Joy + sorrow, pleasure + pain, up + down, hot + cold, here + there, light + darkness, birth + death. All experience is by contrast, + one would be meaningless without the other." What stood out for me when I read this is judgement. When we say something is good or bad - that is a judgement. My car got repossessed - bad. I had lots of money come in last week - good. But what happens when we take the judgement away? What would our lives look like if things happened, people made choices, natural disasters occurred + our left opinion was it is what it is + I love you. The freedom that exists within the gap is extraordinary. Placing no rules or regulations on the people, places + events of this world. Just to be with out judgement. WOW. Live in what is possible without judgement, if only for today.  Gracefully Yours, @MeganMonique PS. This is the LAST week to register for Sacred. Registration ends on the 30th. Is it time to get a real job? 09/15/2011
 Lately I feel as though my body, mind and spirit are being pulled in two very distinct directions; continuing to expand my online business and going out to get a... dun dun DUN... real job. >big gulp< I even had a dream interpreted earlier this week by my good friend Kim Larocque that turned out to be all about this [unspoken] pressure I feeling from outside sources for me to go out and get a real job. I'm sure some of this can be attributed to my car being repossessed a few weeks ago. Any normal person might say how could you let that happen? Didn't it occur to you to go out and get a job? Well, my answer is yes, it did occur to me. But I can't ignore the voice within that is telling me to stick it out and just keep trying! That success is not that far out of my reach. It's not as if I'm beating a dead horse here [sorry for the horrific visual]. My business is generating an income. People, YOU, are showing an interest in my work. Things are getting better. Just not at the rate my bills need them to. I'm still not totally settled on where to go next with this dilemma. But I figured, if I was experiencing this separation, then you might be to. And we should never, ever feel alone just because we afraid to be honest with ourselves out-loud. I'm not sold on going out and getting a real job. But if something fell in my lap that supported my values and allowed me to keep at it on The Rainbow, then I can't say that I wouldn't scoop it up and eat it. Er, take the job. What about you? Are you feeling the pull between what you heart is calling you to create and the voice of the real world knocking at your door? Maybe you've heard it before and over came it? I'd love to hear where you are at right now in regard to your hearts calling and societies standards.  don't ignore the signs 09/12/2011
 Do you ever have those days where you just don't know how to answer your soul's calling? For me, my soul calls me to write. Maybe yours calls you to paint, sing, dance, build parks, climb mountains or go scuba diving. In Steven Pressfield's The War of Art, he talks about showing up. No matter what you are experiencing, the person that is professional about listening to their calling and is serious about their happiness always shows up. What areas of your life have been calling to you, requesting that you show up? Are you listening? Have you been responding to their call? Or do you hear it and dismiss it? Consider for a moment that by answering this calling something within you will be released. Something that has been holding you back and that you felt was in your way. You don't even have to show up with an idea of what will come from you participating with this calling. That doesn't matter. You are merely the vessel through which Source energy travels to be created. This is your sign from the Universe. This is your reminder to answer that voice. Something so very magical and crucial to your happens in store for you. If you only just show up.  If you click here, this will look much prettier...  Photo Credit: Meagan Sanchez Creativity takes courage. -Henri Matisse Where it Began Even as I begin writing this, my heart is swelling, my hands are sweating, my eyes are tearing up and yes - I might have been holding my breath a little. When we invite magic and surrender into our lives it can be a little scary. As I began creating Sacred the eCourse, I was questioning why I hadn't created it sooner. Why it took so long after diving into the Root chakra and unleashing ROOTED to the public to come to the Sacral Chakra and now I know. Our Sacral Chakra is our power center. It is where creativity truly comes alive and our desires are AMPLIFIED. Breakthroughs During my time in the Sacral Chakra (which has only just begun) I have had major financial breakthroughs, including my car being repossessed, a heated conversation with The Mister that allowed me to let go of some things I didn't realize I was holding on to and taking on an entirely new perspective of my business and what I want to come of it.  You cannot fulfil God's purposes for your life while focusing on your own plans. -Rick Warren Letting Go and Trusting Can Be Scary But I believe it is more than worth it. The more time I spend meditating and journaling - allowing myself to dive into my desires and then act on them, the happier I am. I know what you might be thinking, how you can be happy about your car being taken away? I believe it's part of a bigger plan. I no longer have the stress of trying to make a car payment I can't afford. I don't have to pay for insurance and The Mister and I have another car, so it's not like we are stranded. This happening has allowed me to see that my freedom was not in my vehicle. In fact, I feel more free now than I ever have. The burden of the attachment to things has been lifted once more. I know that more will come of this adventure. I trust that The Universe, God, Our connected Energy - what have you, will prevail. It always does. Above all else, I know that I am the best version of myself when I am dancing in that golden white light. Are You Ready For An Adventure? If the current events of my life have sparked something within you and you'd like to clear away the dirt and dust from your Sacral Chakra, energy center - then hop on the Sacred bus. The course is filling up quickly and I've got lots of greatness in store for you!  With Kindness, Love and Gratitude, @MeganMonique If you'd like to be surrounded by people who dance in the light of love- join our community. | ♥ Subscribe here ♥
Hello There Love! I'm Megan Monique. I've been married to a wonderful man since June 2011 and I have a little one on the way (due in July 2012). Keeping my passion and authenticity alive is my greatest priority. What's yours?
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