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Conscious Aging Women September 2025

Let us look at taking a “time out” from our labors to become more conscious about our beliefs and about how those beliefs might affect our behaviors. Sometimes, we become so concentrated on a task that we work too much and then begin to get in our own way. Staying in our mind can lead to this predicament. Looking to the heart can be helpful.

The heart can take a larger view of our labors, can be less judgmental, and can measure success or failure in different ways than our mind might. If we listen to our heart, we have a better chance at recognizing when we are getting stuck or when we are becoming too judgmental of our progress.

This project of becoming more conscious is a process and will take a lifetime. Our heart is better able to see and feel when we have reached as far as we can go at a certain time. The heart knows when it is time to relax and let the process do what it needs to do, without further laboring from us.

So, begin, if you haven’t already, to ask the heart to be part of the process. To become whole, we need to listen to all parts of ourselves. We need to be gentle with ourselves and not have hard and fast expectations of how quickly we will succeed in recognizing and changing a belief that is troublesome. In fact, if you are experiencing a particularly difficult time with something, that is a sign that you need to “back off”. It may not be the appropriate time for that effort to bear fruit.

Trust the journey that you are on, and trust your heart and mind, and Spirit, to lead you where you need to go in the time that is appropriate for you!