To build truly meaningful and powerful coping skills for rapid change in your life, it is important that you set up some kind of sanctuary in your life.

These can either a specific place or a specific time period that allows you to pull out of the noisy "hustle and bustle" daily mind set and instead, allow yourself peace and quiet to work upon hearing and feeling your deepest wisdom.

Overview:

What you will learn in this course is how to create rejuvenating sanctuaries in your life. Combining contemporary Whole Systems thinking with traditional Feng Shui and Vastu Shastra and adding your own personal experience, you can learn to focus your body's energy , your mental energy, and your physical space energy into potent ways to create and achieve what you desire.

The book, Altars of Power and Grace,  is a beautiful book and was the "Best Book 2004" award winner by USABookNews.com.  The full color photos are amazing to look at and the ideas presented well established and fun to do.

The quantity of energy we have to spend at any given moment is a reflection of our physical capacity. Our motivation to spend what we have is largely a spiritual issue.

We define "spiritual" not in the religious sense, but rather in more simple and elemental terms: the connection to a deeply held set of values and to a purpose beyond our self-interest.

At the practical level, anything that ignites the human spirit serves to drive full engagement and to maximize performance in whatever mission we are on.

Expanding our spiritual energy requires subordinating our own needs to something beyond our self-interest.  The commitment to live according to our deepest values not only creates a more stable center in our lives but also helps us to better navigate the challenges we face along the way.

Viktor Frankl has written movingly about the power of spiritual capacity to transform even the most horrifying circumstances. Frankl was the psychologist who survived the Nazi concentration camps and went on to write the classic Man's Search for Meaning.  In it he quotes Nietzsche's famous words, "He who has a why to live for can bear with almost any how."  Frankl goes on to describe the way this insight helped to save his own life, even as others were dying around him:

The following text is from the Noble Purpose website.

What motivates you to show up for work? Is there more waiting for you at the end of a 40-hour work week than simply a paycheck? Do you embrace your work life or are you merely laying low until retirement?

Purpose lies within each one of us, just the way we are. Your actions, deeds and even words may make a difference for not only family, friends and co-workers but, in some cases, the entire world.