“Whatever you feed will grow,” said InPower Institute founder and life coach Rebeccah Bennett. “So if you are focused on what you don’t have, you’re focused on your fears and managing 9,000 details and you’re not going to get that fulfillment.”
In her effort to offer life nourishment, Bennett issued a call to action toward purpose, peace and joy.
Two weeks ago, she kicked off InPower Institute’s 28 Day Feed Your Life Challenge.
“For four weeks, we’re going to focus more of our presence, attention, words and actions on the sources of love, joy and well-being in our lives,” Bennett said. “We’ll also watch how our life experiences change with the shifts in our energy.”
She says that it’s not too late to start – and participants are more than welcome to start (and finish) outside of the official “Feed Your Life” calendar that concludes on October 13. And she is encouraging all to attend the culminating workshop on October 10 at InPower Institute.
“Feed Your Life” began with Bennett peeling back the layers of her own life and the challenges she faced.
A new husband, a new baby, her business of empowering others, a crippling economy that threatened her business and led to her husband’s lay off – her life was crowding in on her.
“There were just so many things I was responsible for,” Bennett said. “There were plenty of things that I was interested in that I couldn’t say yes to because I didn’t have the room to say yes. Add to that having a life that I felt was overflowing with responsibility but not overflowing with fulfillment, and it made me rethink some things.”
A loving marriage, a growing family and a new business that was aligned with her life’s calling are probably the top three among any woman’s wish list – but somehow it wasn’t working.
“Usually when you don’t have any easy answer, that’s usually when you start asking the right questions,” Bennett said. “That’s the power of our circumstances – when your circumstances aren’t going well, they make you reflect on your consciousness.”
Her circumstances led her to a higher power.
“We said, ‘Okay God, now what?’” Bennett said. “And the answer was, ‘You are so focused on your fears, you are so focused on what you don’t have and managing all of these little projects and details that you are missing the bigger pictures. Whatever you feed will grow. So you are focused on what you don’t have, you’re focused on your fears and managing 9,000 details and you’re not going to get that fulfillment.’”
Bennett then felt moved to draw others towards discovering.
“We are literally not available for ‘the better than.’ We wish it, but we don’t invest the energy into it,” Bennett said. “And life goes wherever our energy goes – if you focus your energy on maintaining the status quo, that is exactly what you are going to get.”
So hopes Feed Your Life will have a ripple effect.
“My hope is that they tithe their energy differently,” Bennett said of the guests. “The greatest asset you have in your life is not your money. People are very careful about how they spend their money, they pay far less attention to how they spend their energy – and the only asset you have that is really yours is your energy.”
So she is asking people to focus – through thoughts, prayer, imagination, action, energy and community – on moving towards the things that matter to them.
“What we are trying to do is reprogram people and get them to understand that their experiences follow their energy, and that puts them in the pilot seat,” Bennett said.
“We waste a lot of energy. Stop reacting to stuff and start focusing so that you can create the things that you want to see in your life. If it doesn’t feed you, it doesn’t deserve your energy.”
InPower Institute Feed Your Life: Finding Satisfaction & Fulfillment will take place on Wed., Oct. 10, 6:30 p.m., 5400 Nottingham Ave., 63109. For more information, call (314) 832-1669 or visit http://inpowerinstitute.com/. Feed Your Life is found within the ‘What’s New’ button.
