From Dreams to Reality: Manifestation and Mindfulness with Jennifer Pilates

Do you ever feel like you're juggling too many plates, trying to maintain a near-impossible balance? Join me, Jennifer Pilates, as I share my personal tale of self-discovery and insights gained from a cross-country journey. With a refreshing perspective on work-life harmony, we explore the beauty in the dance between peaks and valleys, acknowledging that perfect equilibrium may not be the final destination.

In a world that's changing faster than ever, are your dreams keeping pace? This episode also challenges you to question whether you're clinging too tightly to old dreams, potentially missing the chance for something even richer and more fulfilling. As we unravel the power of mindful release and dream manifestation, we'll also explore how we can cultivate peace on earth. Wrapping things up, I'll share some handy tips on creating a personal wellness journey that aligns with your innermost values, so you can live a life that's empowered from within.

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Transcript

Speaker 1: 1:00

Welcome to Empowered Within, a soul-clenching, transformational podcast that will set your soul on fire. Through candid and inspiring conversations, leading experts, celebrities, healers and I share our journeys of how we've overcome challenges to living an empowered life from within. I'm your host, jennifer Pilates. Welcome to another episode of Empowered Within. Hi there, and welcome to today's episode. How are you? Can we say it? Oh my gosh. Happy November 2023. Wow, I can't believe we're here and I can't even believe that there's barely 60 days left in this year. Oh my gosh. So let's talk about all the things. It's been a hot minute. Thank you for your patience.

Speaker 1: 1:52

This summer, I was doing these little snippets, little tidbit, bite-size episodes for you all, all about self-care and our wellness journey and building habits good habits to bring us through the fall and take us through the end of the year. And I realized at the end of the summer that I hadn't really been following my own advice. And isn't that always the way we get? So caught up in everything that's outside of us and around us. We want to make sure that everyone else is doing okay and everything else is taken care of, and we begin to realize that we've put ourselves last. And sometimes we can catch it before it gets to that burnout phase or till when you're lying on the floor and you have no more energy. And so I have to say that I got to that point where I went oh my gosh, something has to give and I really needed to go inward and take all of my own advice and take the time to heal, especially after this last year, becoming a United States traveler bopping around, I realized that, you know, my gosh, this last year we never really had home. We never had that place to call home. I traveled cross-country three and a half times, went through 21 different states, stayed in so many different areas, and in it there were definitely beautiful moments and in it there were definitely moments of you've got to be kidding me right. Just like anything, there's always the lesson and the blessing and everything, if we can look at it, if we can really step back from it.

Speaker 1: 3:37

And because I was so in it and this seemed to almost never end this journey and really and truly it only has ended in this last month, and so I really needed to take the last couple of months to heed my own advice, to just be to allow myself to finish that one aspect of the journey to get me to where I am today, which is now settled in a place that we're beginning to think that this could be home, which would be amazing and, 21 states later, very excited to be here, very excited to be sitting in our own four walls at a beautiful kitchen table and being able to record this podcast, versus in the car hooking up to wifi at Dunkin' Donuts not that there's anything wrong with that and I made it work. And that's something that I wanna talk about is that we can only do what we can do in the moment with what we're given, and I was making things work right. I was making the podcast work sitting in the car in Dunkin' Donuts with the wifi. I was making it work if I was in a park and the river was rushing behind me. We made it work to deliver the message because that was important at that time and that space. And then it became important for me to go wait, I've done for everyone else and now I need to do for me and I really need to take that time and I encourage you to do that too.

Speaker 1: 5:21

Take some time to look at yourself, look at your life and in the areas of where you can say you know what? There's a little imbalance here and I've really been going 100 miles an hour over here in lane A and I've kind of forgotten about the rest of the highway and I really need to kind of balance things out In with that. That word balance Do I believe that there's ever like the perfect work-life balance? I really don't. I think that we can strive for it absolutely, but is it ever really perfectly balanced? I don't think so. And I think it's within that balance, within that dance, that there's beauty right, that there's that learning aspect of who we are, what works best for us, and then we just continue. It's that, seesaw, remember, when you're kids or I'm dating myself. But you know, being on that seesaw, sometimes there were high highs and low lows and every once in a while you got to balance out a little bit in the middle and then you were high again and then there were other lows and you know there's so much growth in between and that is what we really wanna harness and that is what we wanna hold on to and that is where we wanna share that knowledge that we've learned with other people. So, with that said, let's share some knowledge.

Speaker 1: 6:44

21 states I have been through, and that's just since May of 2023. So go May, june, july, august, september, october, so just in six. That's six months. Six months, I know, and now I love to travel. I'm all about it. However, this last year and a half is really challenged me. The beauty, I will say, is that, and going through all of these different states, all the way from very far west in Arizona to very far east in Massachusetts and everywhere in between, it was interesting to see, after the last few years, how much has changed and how the energies have changed, the people have changed, the environment have changed and how I changed. When showing up into those environments, they didn't feel the same to me, because I had changed, the environments had changed, the people had changed. So much has changed and I think that that's where it gets back to.

Speaker 1: 7:47

When we are looking and dreaming of where we want to go and what our hearts desires are, it's really important to be able to get clear and taste, test, touch it, feel it, see it, really get to know it, because we can romance an idea of what was and then the reality of what is. That's it, and sometimes it's equal and sometimes it's very different. So we want to watch the expectations that we have, we want to dream, and then we also want to be open to how that dream unfolds. A lot of times we hold on so tightly to. I want four seasons, and the only place we ever think about four seasons is New England, believing that it's only New England where you're going to get your four seasons and get that you know, hallmark, special community sense of a moment when the truth is that the universe, god, your guides, your angels have something so much better in store for you that you would have never thought of, would have never dreamed of. And so, when we're in that process of I'm going to go and make my dreams come true, we still want to have that aspect of I am co-creating with God in the universe.

Speaker 1: 9:02

What is for my highest and best good in this moment in time? What is for the highest and best good for everyone? Because, while you and I may think moving to New Hampshire is for our highest and best good, god, our guides and angels are like hold on a minute, I've got something so much more amazing. Can you loosen up your grip on your dream as to how you receive? Maybe it's four seasons, maybe it's a quaint little community, maybe it's a snowy winter. Can you release, because I've got something so much more amazing in store for you?

Speaker 1: 9:40

That's when we want to take those moments and take those breaths and really look at what are we holding on so tightly to something for? To the dream, to the vision, to the work, to the job, to the relationship? Is it because a sense of control and I'm not saying that in a bad way, but in that sense that if I just hold on to this, this is what's saving me in this moment in time? You all know you've had that moment where you're like, if I hold on to this, I can get through A, b and C. I'm going to hold on so tightly and meanwhile God in the universe is like can you just loosen the grip? We've got you, but you've got to loosen the grip, or this is going to be much, much more bumpier than it needs to be. So I encourage you to think about what it is.

Speaker 1: 10:31

What dreams do you have in your heart? What do they look like? And then can you be open to how they can be delivered? Because when we go back to our dreams, we're meant to dream dreams bigger than probably what you and I are dreaming in this very moment. That's where it's supposed to end.

Speaker 1: 10:51

At that point in time, the how is when we release it over to the universe, to God, because ultimately, that is where the magic is and that is where those incredible miraculous moments happen. Not because we're forcing something or planning everything out down to the last minute of a trip or a job or a relationship. It's because we've dreamt this beautiful dream. We can feel it. We have the emotions of it in our body. We can just oh, my goodness, you can just feel it through every cell in your body and then you go okay, god in the universe, I'm ready when you are, and allow them to bring it to you.

Speaker 1: 11:36

So this is a magical time of year that we are stepping into. This can be an incredible, inspirational, miraculous time of year when we all come together and when we are a community and we're working together. We can collectively manifest peace on Earth. And I know you're like, oh my gosh, what is? Jennifer said too much coffee today. Nope, it's not that, and, by the way, I only drink decaf.

Speaker 1: 12:07

If we all Turned on our television tonight and the news reported there is peace on earth, we as a collective would manifest peace on earth, most likely within a month. That's how energy works. That's how manifesting works. That's how our world here on earth works Now currently. That's not what you're seeing in the news, that's not what you're reading in newspapers or hearing Anywhere. You're hearing the exact opposite, what you're always reading, what you're always hearing, that goes into the subconscious, that plays out.

Speaker 1: 12:43

So if we could all come together during these incredible, magical days and every day we woke up and we were thankful for peace on earth. If each one of us did that every day, we are growing the true opportunity for peace on earth to come to us. Now I'm not deciding what peace on earth looks like you aren't. It looks different for each of us, but that feeling in our heart of what peace feels like, what it feels like to have peace in a moment, that feeling that resonates in your soul, that is so similar for all of us, and if we can Get on that page and align energetically all of us, we can make magic, we can make miracles come true. We can do that for ourselves individually, we can do that within our families, we can do that within our communities and we can Do that within the world, because that is how powerful you are and that is how powerful I am. We have this ability. It is time that we stand up and use and Embrace the power that is within each and every one of us. That is my hope, that is my prayer that each and every one of us, every day, not only do we wake up and the first words out of our mouth are thank you, thank you, thank you. It's followed with thank you For peace on earth.

Speaker 1: 14:23

I want to thank you so much again for your patience, for hanging with the podcast, for joining us back. I've got so many Incredible, amazing interviews that are coming through the rest of this year and all the way into next year. I want to thank you so much for being here today. Thank you for all of your support, for your emails, for writing in and checking on the babies and I. You all are amazing.

Speaker 1: 14:46

It is because of you are incredible, empowered within community, that it is my honor and my privilege to show up and share and inspire and motivate you. So thank you so much and, as we say, until next time, may you live an empowered life from within. Thank you so much for tuning into another episode. Please remember to rate, review and subscribe to empowered within with Jennifer Pilates. Your feedback is important. It helps me to connect with you and gives me insight into who you are and what you're enjoying about the show. For today's show notes and discount codes from today's sponsors. Head over to Jennifer Pilates calm until next time. May you live an empowered life from within.