By Steve Molter

Ideally, we all live deliberate lives. Lives in which we make sound decisions based on deep insights and thoughtful consideration of all the possible outcomes.

In reality, we live lives based on quick decisions influenced by many external factors like family, friends, society, career, money, fear, among others.

At November’s CMBOS event, guest speaker Katie Boyd shared stories about her time chasing degrees, sports accolades, fame, and acting rich, all because she wanted people to like her. She was driven by her ego. “When anything is tied to your ego, it’s never a good thing,” she opined.

As her career progressed into the pageant industry, then into reality television, she felt that something wasn’t right within her. Then she had a profound realization that she wasn’t taking part in these things for the right reasons. “I wasn’t doing it to serve. I wasn’t doing it to help people.”

After her reality show was canceled, she fell into a depression. But through her newfound introduction to meditation and a lot of deep-diving within herself, she was able to find her five core desired feelings: Free, progressive, vital, abundant, and fearless.

Katie encouraged all of us in the audience to stand up, consider our five core desired feelings, and led us through a Kundalini exercise using the vibrational energy of the universe to align ourselves with those feelings.

She left us by encouraging us to consistently consider those five core desired feelings—and adjust when necessary—and be sure to use them in every decision we make.

What are your five core desired feelings?