Healing the past is so important for whole body healing. Learning where trauma hides in the body and what you can do to release your pain is an important part of releasing it. In this article, I share how physical, emotional, and spiritual trauma from the past can be the cause of your pain today.

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Nature always provides us the most empowering examples of healing and wholeness and a place to witness the natural process of growth and abundance to apply to our lives. Being the gardener of your own thriving life requires regular sunshine, water, fertilizer, weeding, and good companion plants. Self-Nurturing Expert and Aspire Mag Expert Columnist Kelly Grimes, MSW shares some reflective questions to show how this metaphor can support your self-nurturing practice. Grab your journal and begin!

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Journaling at the end of each day is an extremely powerful ritual. It’s not about keeping a secret diary as many teenagers do but a mindful practice that truly can improve your life. It seems that the act of writing down your goals somehow increases your chances of achieving them, perhaps because when you write something down it feels more official and helps your mind focus. Writing involves both your analytical and logical left brain and your intuitive right brain and therefore allows you to use all your brain power to understand yourself better and the world around you.

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You are never fully dressed without a smile is how the saying goes and morning ritual number five completely agrees. We often think of a smile as a natural response to feel good emotions but did you know that smiling – even if that smile is fake – can boost your mood and reduce stress? Research done by psychology and facial coding expert Paul Ekman and backed up by recent research* published in Psychological Science found that a big smile that involves facial muscle activity around the eyes can produce a change in brain activity and mood.

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Several recent studies from the University of Toronto and published in Harvard Review confirm that there is a correlation between rising early and reaching your dreams in life. There are exceptions, of course, but people who get up earlier are healthier, happier, slimmer, more positive and generally more successful in life and work than those who lie in. Energy, positivity and discipline are required to get up early day in day out and these are the qualities that great achievers share.

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