Author: Kimberly Kingsley

Please say a prayer for a man named Donnie. He is a beautiful man with a huge heart who is in Iraq right now. He is struggling. What he is experiencing is more than his innocence is able to digest.

Donnie is the son of one of my students. He came to speak to my communication class about what it’s like to be in the military. At that time, he still had his spunk, hope and passion for life.

Yesterday his mom shared that he is having a very difficult time even remembering the value of his life. I know our love and prayers will lift him up and buffer him through this.

God Bless,
Kimberly

You know when you contain a lot of energy because your presence sharpens with intensity and you develop a palpable edge or border. Each time you honor your unique personality you infuse your being with energy. Each decision you make that reflects your true feelings rushes energy from your core into each of your cells and into the energy field that surrounds your body.

The upside of claiming and honoring your authentic self is empowerment and brightness. The downside is that sometimes being true to your core conflicts with other people’s agendas. That is when you feel your edge. And they feel your edge. You bump up against somebody else’s edge and chose not to cave in on yourself.

It takes time to get used to this feeling – you may already be proficient, or you may continue to feel the tension of another wanting to shape and define you, but yet, do not cave in to the expectation. Or, you may be empowered as long as it doesn’t offend, but when it does, you give your power away in order to “keep peace.”

Wherever you are in this process of becoming edgy – know that being edgy is a good thing – powerful and transformative.

– Passage from my upcoming book on personal energy management

Classes are coming to an end this semester. It is always bittersweet for me. It is such an honor to teach the principles of communication and energy management. I develop a genuine fondness for each and every student and feel sadness as the classes come to a close.

Each of us has a unique archetypal blueprint awaiting our acceptance. Before wondering if you are in the right career or living your purpose, identify your archetypal blueprint. You can do this by identifying the major aspects of your personality since birth.

You are like a diamond. Each facet is one aspect of your archetype. Each facet has sub-facets. For example, the four major facets of my archetypal blueprint are healer, teacher, performer and lover. Each of these has a more specific list below it like writer, mother, etc.

Once you identify your archetypal blueprint, you can align with it and further integrate the various facets. As we identify, claim and integrate each facet, we become shiny and radiant like a diamond.

I’ve noticed that the people I am most taken with are those who embody their unique archetype. They are powerful from the inside out and affect us all with their brilliance. No two of us are alike – the world needs each of us to be bold, sparkly and powerful in our own way.

Babyface was amazing.

One of my classes just ended at Scottsdale Community College. Two students wrote some wise and profound messages that I would like to share. The first passage is from the student’s own experience. The second is a letter written to the class.

“A real failure in life is when someone has fallen and they don’t get up, because they fail to realize that every passing second was another chance to turn it all around.” -Z.

“There is a reason for each of you… There will be times of utter solitude and complete devastation. This I promise. But I also promise you that you will experience the greatest heights that life has to offer. You will experience love. You will experience joy and happiness. You will watch your dreams come true right before your eyes. You will change this world in some way.” -L.

Having a blog is an odd experience. I envy the youngin’s who have had years of practice on “My Space.” For the writing to flow, I’m finding that, like in a relationship, I have to tell the truth or I get blocked. I can tell when I have something to say, but am not saying it because all of a sudden I can’t come up with anything to say. Confused yet?

So here’s what I have to say. I feel like I’m putting my words into a big black hole. It feels as if I’m yelling in the forest, somewhat useless to be perfectly honest. However, my ex-husband, still handy in a blogging sort of way, assures me that I NEED a blog so I will continue to babble on.

In the spirit of Thanksgiving, I would like to share a saying from my first yoga teacher, “An attitude of gratitude is prayer in action.”

‘Tis the Friday before Thanksgiving. For the first time ever, my parents will be out of town, leaving “the kids” to celebrate on our own. Despite my ripe age of 41, this feels oddly grown up.

I will miss my parents – they are the best. At the same time, I feel excited about being with my siblings and watching all our beautiful children run around and enjoy themselves.

The energy of the holiday will be different, but I’m sure just as sacred.

This weekend I am attending the “Celebrate Your Life” conference. It is amazing. So far I’ve seen Carolyn Myss, Wayne Dyer, Doreen Virtue and others. Today, I get to see my beloved Deepak Chopra.

My sister Michelle and I are there together. Although there is a year and a half between us, we are like twins. We speak the same, laugh at exactly the same time and look people intensely in the eyes when they speak. We often joke that the two of us together are like a dessert that’s too sweet – appealling at first, but quickly too much…

What I have learned at this conference is that the only difference between the brilliant people speaking and the rest of us is that they have developed good habits. One such habit – for the truly powerful speakers – is meditation. Meditation gives us the power, courage, insight and will to make choices in alignment with our highest selves.

The voice of intuition gets louder each time we tune in during meditation – life will lead if we let it – it seems so simple and elegant.