Written by: Kim Wilkinson, Executive Contributor
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As we near the end of another year many are starting to think about the change and opportunity of a new year. It is that time of year when many starts to get serious about setting goals, improving health, wealth, and relationships, and let’s face it, for many, the last two years have been a nightmare.
Despite losing my 22-year-old son to an overdose in 2019 and then COVID bringing a tonne more challenges and losses, the past year and a half have been amazing for me in every way! I was stuck in a 4-year struggle of suffering and a quarter of the way into 2021 I realized I had two choices. I could stay stuck in the suffering or I could do the work and create the life I desired and deserved. I chose the latter
What I have come to learn is that all the most powerful affirmations, vision boards, goal-setting exercises, and coaching aren’t going to work, unless these 5 key areas of focus are included. I have been working on mindset and manifesting for about 10 years but I was missing some very important aspects.
Incorporating these into my daily life this past year and a half helped me to:
Triple my Business
Publish my first book (that quickly became a 1 Best Seller), my second book is almost ready for publishing and my third book is in the works.
Launch a new 4-week online program called Empowered Transformation that has had participants from 5 different countries so far.
Launch a Facilitator Training program to certify people to teach my 4-week online program. I now have 18 Facilitators and another training coming up in Nov 2022.
I manifested several speaking opportunities on podcasts and at conferences (both virtual and in-person)
I filled my Oct 2022 Thailand Retreat in less than 48 hrs
I also achieved several other smaller goals and am still working on a few
You too can manifest your goals and dreams by incorporating these 5 key areas of focus into your daily life.
1. Make peace with your past - dump the emotional baggage. Everything is energy. Emotions are energy. Most of us are not taught how to manage our emotions. Most of us are actually taught to avoid and distract from our emotions, suppress them, just keep busy, and so on. All that emotional energy builds up inside of us and blocks us. Holding on to anger, resentment, sadness, fear, and/or judgment. This is a very toxic energy, not the energy to attract abundance. These past emotional experiences are also what create our limiting beliefs and behaviours that block us from attracting abundance and manifesting our goals and dreams. Identify and resolve past emotional experiences and set yourself free. This will create space for more and new things to come to you and it will help to raise your vibration.
2. Identify and release those limiting beliefs - through working on the first part of making peace with your past you will be able to identify your limiting beliefs. We often state our limiting beliefs out loud in conversation but don’t recognize them. For example, it is common to say “I am not ready for that”, which is often a belief of not being good enough. Another common thing people say is “I can’t afford that right now”. How many times have you said that or heard a client or potential client say that? The belief there is one of lack. I will never have enough. As long as that belief is there, they will never be able to afford it right now. Working with a coach can quickly help you identify limiting beliefs and there are many different practices that can help change those beliefs. Different things work for different people, find what works best for you.
3. Raise your vibration - as I mentioned everything is energy. Anger, sadness, resentment, judgment, and other similar emotions are all low vibration energy, dense, heavy, closed off, and tend to attract more negative energy. Love, joy, and gratitude are among the highest vibrational energy, light, fast, open to receive, and attract abundance. It is easy to move up and down the emotional scale throughout the day. The key is having awareness as to where you are at on that scale and consciously choose to raise your vibration if it has fallen. When triggered or when something unpleasant happens, there is always something to be grateful for. Make that shift. Again, there are a few different ways that a person can raise their vibration, find what works best for you! Our greatest gift is the power of choice. Every moment is an opportunity to make a different choice. If you unconsciously chose to fall into a low vibration, into anger, judgment, etc., choose again. Choose something better. Make a more conscious choice.
4. Consistency - you need to “do the work” and do it every day! If you want a different outcome, you need to do something different. Be aware of your thoughts. What you think, you create. With our minds, we create the world but first, the world creates our minds. If your thoughts are too often on things that have happened in the past, you will recreate the past in your future. If you are too often worried about the future you miss out on the present. It is what we do in the present moment that creates our future. Be present. Choose love over fear. Choose to live consciously and to respond instead of reacting. If you work with affirmations, work with them daily. If you meditate, meditate daily. You need to re-wire your brain to change limiting beliefs and break the cycle of behaviours that don’t serve you. This does not happen overnight, after a weekend workshop, or after a month-long training. To change your thoughts, behaviours, and beliefs you have to “do the work” daily.
5. Surrender and trust - we don’t create on our own we co-create. We all believe in something, whether that is God, the Universe, Energy, Source, your higher power, or whatever you refer to it as. The more you become present, aligned, balanced, open, and in a high vibration the more connected you are to that co-creating force. This means patience is also required. Sometimes what you are focused on manifesting doesn’t happen as quickly as you want. It all happens at the right time IF you are in a state of allowing. Sometimes that co-creating force has a bigger or better plan that is taking a bit longer to unfold. Trust the process. When you try to control it too much, it becomes too complex and difficult to unfold. I can recall many personal experiences where this happened, getting a better paying job, getting a nicer house at a lower cost than the one we originally had an offer on. I can honestly say that I am grateful for many of the things that didn’t manifest because they resulted in something better.
Having a daily spiritual practice (not religion) has been a big part of helping me to do this work and to see the fruits of my labour. It has helped me to work smarter not harder and to work less and make more. This has resulted in having more time to truly enjoy life and the things I love to do.
I plan to make 2022 and even bigger and better year. Most of my Business ideas, programs, and workshops come to me in meditation. I always trust and follow through with that guidance, it has served me well. The latest project that just launched on Oct 10 is my new 14-month online Manifesting Coaching Program.
2022: A Year of Manifesting Magic & Miracles
This 14-month program is currently being offered at an incredibly low rate of ONLY $22/month IF YOU START NOW!
VALUED AT $400/MONTH.
*Monthly price goes up as time goes on.
You need to make peace with your past, resolve limiting beliefs, clear blocks and create a high vibration mindset before you can even think about goal setting, vision boards, and manifesting!
THAT IS WHY WE ARE STARTING NOW!
From now until Dec 31, 2022, the monthly coaching program includes:
minimum of 2 live zoom coaching calls/month (recorded)
vision board workshops (quarterly)
hypnosis/meditations
tonnes of educational videos
every month a chance to WIN a one-on-one coaching session (value $120)
special guest presenters including intuitive readers, mindset experts and other coaches
daily motivation and a variety of practices to help move into alignment and into a manifesting mindset
Career, relationships, health, travel, finances, and whatever else you want to bring abundance to!
Don’t regret NOT doing this!
Life is too short. Join us and let’s make 2022 your BEST YEAR YET!
For more information on the Grief Recovery Program, visit my website or follow me on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Twitter.
Kim Wilkinson, Executive Contributor Brainz Magazine
Kim Wilkinson is the Founder, Coach, and Facilitator of Empowered Life. She specializes in Trauma and Grief Recovery and has a passion for helping people move from suffering to empowerment.
Kim found her passion and purpose through her own journey of healing trauma and loss. The experience of losing her 22-year-old son to an overdose in 2019 after years of Mental Health and Addiction concerns was her greatest struggle and greatest gift.
She has become an expert in emotional health and healing and continues to study Trauma under one of the world’s most leading Trauma experts, Dr. Gabor Mate.
Kim has been a Facilitator/Teacher for over 25 years. She is a certified Yoga/Meditation teacher, Reiki Master, Belief Clearing Practitioner, Advanced Grief Recovery Specialist, and Life Coach who works with clients across Canada and the U.S. In addition to one-on-one coaching, she facilitates a variety of healing and personal growth programs, both in-person and online. Kim recently launched her own 4-week online program, entitled Empowered Transformation – The Road Map to Living an Empowered Life. In the fall of 2021, Kim will be training a team of Facilitators to teach this new online program.
Her own incredible journey of healing and transformation along with her trainings and certifications have helped many of her clients find freedom and peace from their past traumas and struggles. Along with support for healing, Kim also has a strong passion for educating parents, to reduce the risk of mental health and addiction concerns for their children.
You can find a full list of programs and services on the Empowered Life Website.
