Hey there, my reader.

You might have noticed a thread connecting them all if you’ve been following or reading my blogs lately. That thread is related to deepening my awareness of who I am, what I’m here to do and why it’s important to me to do/feel/have certain things in my life.

I’ve been an active meditator for over a decade. When I say active, I would say that I meditate 90-95% of the time, not a complete 100%, but close to it.

I’m a firm believer that practising meditation or mindfulness of any kind can transform your life for the better. And I’ve felt this so significantly in my life.

The old version of me was a fast one. People in my closest circle joke about how I might get an idea, and before they have even fetched a cup of coffee to have a deeper discussion about the concept, I’ve manifested it and made it a reality ;-)

Strengths and weaknesses - same thing?

That skill, being fast, has been my blessing and a curse. It typically is if you think about your skills or abilities to do something; if you overdo it - it becomes your curse - right?

Practising meditation has helped me enormously to slow down my eagerness to act and react to things directly linked to my subconscious programs.

It took me years of actively using meditation to discover that I was stuck in one particular box.

That box was thinking I had to work on something constantly - I call it being stuck in the HUMAN DOER BOX.

Claim the right to be yourself, the person you were born to be.

Like any new awareness, there becomes a new space for things to emerge. And when I became aware of being stuck in the HUMAN DOER BOX, I laughed hard at myself.

I recall a moment as a young girl when a good family neighbour and a wonderful family friend said to my mum, and I overheard it.

She said: “Rúna might not be a pretty one, but she is a doer, and she will get things done.”

In retrospect, I’m pretty sure something happened for me internally that day; an internal program was created. Eavesdropping that conversation made me understand at a young age that I could not get away with things by using my beauty!

BUT…HOWEVER… if I continued to be a DOER, I could be accepted in this world.

There is real humour in this memory, and reflecting on it today. It took me decades and decades of deep dive meditations, personal development work, leadership coaching and training to understand that ALL of these years, I had kept doing everything I could to manifest what the neighbour saw in me!

Not paying attention to who I am and what I want to manifest in my life, I kept myself busy trying to fulfil another person’s manifestations.

And that’s pretty much how I became such an excellent human doer and less of a human being!

Do you see now what I see? Do you see how silly that is?

Oh, man… I hope you are laughing or at least smiling ;-)

I mean… it’s so silly to believe that now, as a grown-up woman, you have to follow something that another person said to you… when you were a child?

Now my wonderful neighbour passed years ago.

If I continue following what she thought of me as a child and fulfilling her vision, wouldn’t that mean I’m accepting PEER PRESSURE FROM DEAD PEOPLE?

Which is… in my head anyway, what so many of our habits and rituals are all about. Simply put, peer pressure from dead people! - TWEET THIS!

Stuck in the Human Doer Box?

Perhaps it’s time to design who you want to become, less who other people felt you needed to be!

Anyway, going back to my meditation journey and why practising meditation or mindfulness can help you tremendously in being in love with your life.

During these years of active meditation, I’ve attended two meditation retreats with Dr Joe Dispenza. One in Malta in 2019 and another in a follow-up retreat in Denver, Colorado, in April 2022. During the Denver retreat, my friend and fellow change-maker, Monique Blokzyl, who was also attending the retreat, decided to see if we could get a group of people to continue daily meditation and share our experiences in space in a WhatsApp group.

That’s just what we did.

We gathered a small group of people from all parts of the world. Ready to commit to doing the same guided meditation for 30 days. It impacted our lives so much that we decided to extend the commitment to 90-days. Then we changed the meditation but kept being committed, sharing etc.

A few interesting things were that daily meditation wasn’t new to me, and I’ve meditated daily for years. Even though, as a group, we didn’t meditate simultaneously. The energy was different; it felt more unified, more collective.

There was also something so special about sharing what you were experiencing. Even if it was done in a written post on WhatsApp, it was as if you could somehow relive the moments you had in the meditative state.

- The more we meditated together.

- The more inner shift I noticed.

- The more peace I noticed.

- The more inner joy I noticed.

- The more tiny moments of bliss I noticed in a waking state.

- The more I shared…, the deeper I noticed my inner state shifting.

Hearing yourself say; Oh, Gosh! I’m so in love with my life!

Then this summer, I was driving on the country roads in the North part of Iceland with my partner. It was in the early hours of the morning. We had just been attending a fabulous 50th birthday party in the countryside with the most unique, interesting, loving and entertaining group.

Driving down the road, looking out the window and feeling the freshness of a new day, noticing how the sun’s rays gave the green and brown mountain hills different shades of colours and how mother earth was getting ready for a new day. I had that out-of-the-box moment where I said spontaneously: Oh, Gosh! I’m so in love with my life!

Expressing this deep gratitude and love for my life felt liberating and exhilarating.

It also opened my mind to the power of self-awareness and how we can train ourselves to notice more about ourselves and the life surrounding us.

Ever since that Sunday morning in the summer of 2022, I’ve not only repeated this sentence on several occasions. I’ve also used it in my out-of-the-box conversations and talks both nationally, internationally and in online sessions, exploring with my audience the question:

What if… you could be in love with your life? - TWEET THIS!

Have you ever heard yourself say that sentence?

I invite you to give it a go…say it aloud now and see what happens for you!

What are you noticing?