Today may be the day to transcend your fears and the ordinary life and enjoy the benefits of a spiritual rebirth: connecting with a power greater than yourself, within you and all around you. Call it what you like: your Spirit, Higher Power, Higher S
1. To be truly authentic, true to yourself.

With the knowledge that you are not alone in the Universe and that you have the potential for internal, inspired guidance, you can come to know yourself and to love all of you. Feel cherished and safe enough to learn from your past experiences. Dare to identify your gifts, own them, and use them. Be your own champion and stop waiting to be discovered or rescued!

2. To live with inspiration, effortlessly, and in the flow.

When you have connection with a personal source of power and inspiration, you will know what you need to know when you need to know it. You will understand the ebb and flow of life and learn to pace yourself lovingly. When something requires too much sustained effort, you will know that it may not be the thing to do at this time! You will see the choices before you and chose wisely.

3. To be internally-guided vs. other-oriented.

How often have you waited on someone else's response, reaction, or approval before you took the next step? Do you read other people's faces or voices and worry that they don't like you, or what you're saying or doing and lose perspective? To be internally-guided will help you bring the focus back on you, from a balanced point of view. Rather than reacting to others, you will calmly respond when the time is right. And you will know when that time is. Your internal guide will let you know!

4. To be peaceful inside and at peace with your past.

Stop the inner dialogue that keeps fighting with you! Do your gremlins put down your best ideas? Do you ruminate over all the things you could have done and see only the downside of things? Learn to take things in stride and be gentle with yourself. Treat yourself the way you would have others treat you. Feel how peaceful and serene life can be when you're not always second-guessing yourself or those around you!

5. To remember your Purpose, the Great Plan, the "Why" you are here.

Are you wondering what you are really doing here (on Earth) and what your purpose is? Have you forgotten what really matters? Do you have a Big Plan, something greater than personal rewards? Maybe it is time to get in touch with what your Higher Power has in mind for you. Could be far greater and more exciting than you ever dreamed! Just imagine!

6. To connect your head with your heart and feel whole again.

Do you spend all your time in your head? Are you cut off from your heart, body and soul? Do you know what intuition, internal inklings or hunches feel like? Pull all of you together and feel complete again. Allow your heart, body and soul to guide your mind. What an awesome shift you could experience!

What would it be like to feel the power within you to really play and stretch beyond the box you may feel you have been placed in or put yourself in? Let your Spirit fire you up so you can grow and create in ways never imagined before! How will you know it is working? You won't be watching the clock anymore, for one! You may forget that you are working because you are playing! And, good things will continue to flow to you because you will be attracting without effort. How cool is that?!

8. To establish and maintain strong, healthy boundaries.

When you are in touch with what Spirit has in mind for you, you will understand what healthy, strong boundaries look like and feel like. You will know how important it is to establish and maintain them. This you will do out of self-love and with great benefit. You will gain the respect and space you need to do the work of Spirit, whatever that may be.

9. To live in the present.

If your thoughts take you to tomorrow and yesterday, all the time, where is today? Be in the moment and know that all is well. You will tend to what needs to be tended to, but not obsessively. Remember where your feet are and check in often! Enjoy and savor the moments. They are all we truly have.

10. To build a supportive, Higher-Powered network/community.

When you know what really matters to your spiritual and overall well-being, you will attract and be attracted to like-minded people. Building a strong support network will help you through the sticky times. Being a person of honor and dignity, connected with a Higher Power, will make you someone that people will be drawn to and they will want what you have. Just keep on doing those things that keep you connected to your internal power source and life will continue to open for you!

About the Author

Verena Aibel is a prolific writer of Top Ten Articles and other pieces, and is a Top Ten Coach & Consultant, Renaissance Coach, Global Biz Woman, Public Speaker, Workshop & Teleclass Leader, and a first-time mom at the age of 44. She can be emailed at Verena@optonline.net, visited on the web at www.renaissance-coach.com, or contacted at 201-487-6910 (US-Eastern Standard Time). Verena wants you to know: I have written over 30 Top Tens and I have had over 20 of these published online. One of the things I do as a coach is to help other people write and submit a Top Ten so that they can begin to gain global recognition and to market themselves with confidence and finesse. For those of you who would like to make an appointment to help write your Top Ten or for coaching, email or call me, we'll create! To obtain written permission to use or quote from this article, please email Verena Aibel. A Word document of this article is available upon request.