Sandra Dawes
Hons. BA, MBA
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Spiritual Growth and Relationships Expert
Sandra Dawes Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Dispute Resolution, Relationships, Spiritual Growth
- Career Focus
- Author, Life Coach
Sandra is a life coach specializing in Spiritual Growth and Relationships. After the passing of her father and circumstances that followed, she suffered from bouts of depression and sought the help of psychotherapists. Unwilling to seek medical assistance to deal with her chronic unhappiness, she was lead on a journey of self awareness and forgiveness that changed her life in deep and meaningful ways.
Through meditation, affirmations, yoga and mirror work, she has learned to achieve balance and self awareness that has helped her to discover her desire to help others to do the same. A student of A Course in Miracles, she works with clients to help them rediscover their connection with the Source of all Creation.
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Competition
Growing up, competition was considered a good thing, healthy even. As a visible minority I was told I had to be better than the rest, because nothing was going to come easy to me, and I was going to need the upper hand intellectually in order to achieve the success I wanted. To be honest, I used to categorize this “warning” as one of my parents rants on the importance of education and never took it too seriously. Thankfully, getting good grades was never a struggle for me, so I never saw myself as having to fight or compete with my peers in such a serious, life altering way.
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Finding Your Voice
Have you ever found yourself in a situation where someone says or does something that you consider inappropriate and you fight the urge to say something? Or even worse, someone says something inappropriate or demeaning to you and you let it go, convincing yourself that they didn’t mean it or that he or she is “just having a bad day”? I’m not talking about being a spoiled sport; most of us intuitively know when someone’s being funny versus passive aggressive or just plain mean.
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Taking things personally
The Four Agreements has given me a nice reminder about the importance of not taking things personally. It is something that I have gotten better about with time, but there is always room for improvement! The first time I was ever presented with the idea that peace of mind could come from not taking things personally was when I took a certificate course in dispute resolution years ago. In the book Getting to Yes, one of the recommended readings for the course, they speak about separating the person from the problem.
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Resistance is Futile
It makes me giggle a little bit to type the title of this article. How many times have I heard this line quoted? A line made famous by the Borg in Star Trek: The Next Generation, it has taken me a long time to realize that it’s not just another cheesy quote, but a truism. Resistance truly is a futile action. How successful has anyone been in resisting and keeping the object of their opposition from their reality? I’ve heard it said that what we resist persists, and that has definitely been my experience.
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Learning from our experiences
I almost entitled this article Learning from our mistakes, but I don’t want to refer to the opportunity to learn as a mistake. The title of one of Wayne Dyer’s books echoing in my head, Change your thoughts, change your life. Since changing my life for the better is a constant theme, then it is clear that changing the way I think is a necessity.
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Dealing with our dark side
Between watching Star Wars for the millionth time and finishing the book The Shadow Effect, I have been in heavy contemplation about the dark side, more specifically, in terms of The Shadow Effect, my dark side. There was a time when I would have denied the existence of a dark side in me, the proverbial “good girl”, but I have experienced enough road rage and temper tantrums in my life to know my inner “Darth Vader” exists.
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A Course In Miracles - Year One
I didn’t know what to expect when I decided to start doing the daily lessons in my A Course in Miracles text. I had received the book in March 2010 and started reading the text shortly after. I’ve never been one to highlight textbooks in the past, but this book had so much information to digest that I was very tempted! Instead, I took to a notebook, jotting down quotes that resonated with me. After putting a pause on reading the text to focus on the daily lessons, I plan to return to the text and begin the lessons again in the New Year.
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Surrender
I was reading Caroline Myss’ book Defy Gravity the other day and I came upon the word surrender. For some reason it gave me pause, and immediately I decided that it would be the subject of my next article. What is it about the word surrender? Why did it seem to be something I needed to give more thought to?
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Creating your legacy
I was doing a workshop at a youth shelter I volunteer at and the topic for the day was Values. One of the exercises was borrowed from The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: write your obituary. The purpose of this exercise is to give you an opportunity to think about how you want to be remembered and to get you to think about whether or not the way you’re living your life today reflects that vision.
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What are you going to do differently this year?
I don’t know about you, but 2012 was quite an eventful year! Many things changed, but a lot remained the same. While I did accomplish a lot last year in terms of goals I had set at the beginning of the year, there are still a few things that I wanted to get done, that didn’t.
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Maintaining Momentum
For many, the beginning of a new year brings promises of new positive habits and the release of old negative ones. While we start the year off motivated to make big changes in our lives, we often lose steam before the end of February. But what about those that actually do stick to their resolutions, what is their secret to success?
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Dealing with the rough patches
You’ve been doing your spiritual work; affirmations, visualization, meditations, and life is going pretty well. All of a sudden, something you perceive as negative pops up in your life and you are completely blown away! How did this happen? Negative experiences aren’t supposed to happen to someone surrounding themselves with positive energy, right?
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Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Sandra Dawes
I believe there is an important distinction to be made between religion and spirituality. Religion I take to be conce
ed with belief in the claims to salvation of one faith tradition or another--an aspect of which is acceptance of some form of meta-physical or philosophical reality, including perhaps an idea of heaven or hell. Connected with this are religious teachings or dogma, ritual, prayers and so on. Spirituality I take to be conce
ed with those qualities of the human spirit--such as love and compassion, patience, tolerance, forgiveness, contentment, a sense of responsibility, a sense of harmony, which bring happiness to both self and others.
-His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Contacting Sandra Dawes
Email: sandra@embraceyourdestiny.ca
Skype: embraceyourdestiny
Mobile: (416) 543-8952
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