Tools for Self-Renewal, Manifesting and Creating Space

Jun 27

As we find ourselves midway through the year, it's a chance to realign with our intentions, aspirations, and desires. It's an opportunity to reconnect with our inner selves, assess our progress, and make adjustments for the second half of the year.

The midpoint marks a pause point for self-renewal, reflection, and refocus on what we wish to manifest throughout the remainder of the year.

Self-renewal is a natural path that maps our transformation and growth on all levels. It’s a vital part of the process of becoming who you are and who you want to be. Self-renewal has distinct phases:

Taking stock
Letting go
Nurture & Nourish
Rise & Shine

Explore these journal prompts from our dear friend Chara Caruthers to explore self-renewal and manifest wholeness, fulfilment, joy and peace in the year ahead.

Phase 1: Taking Stock

Getting clear and present to who and where you are, what you want and what you need. As we wrap up this most recent season of the year take the time to journal around the following questions:

Who are you right now?
What are the qualities of this season that you’re in and the one that you’re moving into
What have you learned from the season that you’re leaving or have left behind
What aspects of this season ahead can you celebrate
What aspects of YOU in this season can you enjoy

“Unimaginable happiness is right in front of you ready to be claimed.”

— Chara Caruthers

Phase 2: Letting Go

Easing your internal and external burden, creating an environment that allows your system to operate in the most efficient way possible, recognizing that everything we experience or hold onto requires a degree of energy to process and integrate. Letting go creates space for digesting vital aspects of life. These prompts will help you identify that which you may like to release in the year ahead:

What is essential (in life and in the moment)?
What is challenging your stability?
What CAN you let go of?
What are you WILLING to let go of?

Letting go is a vital part of being able to embody the lightness of being that is our birthright.

So this question should be one that you’re asking yourself every day. What is truly essential in your living, being, and travelling through the world?

“What is truly essential in your living, being, and travelling through the world?”

— Chara Caruthers

Phase 3: Nurture and Nourish

Fortifying your foundation and feeding it with the love or food that it needs to grow. Try these prompts to explore how to bring more nourishment into your world:

What feeds you?
What ideas, images, experiences support your authenticity, wellbeing and growth?
What are you open to receive?.

Phase 4: Rise and Shine

This is the natural expression of a well tuned, well fed person that is unburdened, energized and fortified by love and a stable foundation. We’ve all experienced these moments of rising and shining. These beautiful and natural expressions of who we are that come from feeling grounded and loved. These moments give us a view into our dharma, why we’re here and who we’re here to be.. And these glimpses can help to guide us further along the path. Consider these questions:

What needs to be expressed?
How do you honor your personal truth?
How willing are you to share your truth with others?

Take a moment to review what you’ve written or experienced. How does this process of renewal sit with you? Which aspects are the most enticing and juicy? Which aspects feel the most challenging? What picture have you created? What actions might flow naturally from your current understanding?