Jolene Hart - Ignite Your Light: A Sunrise-to-Moonlight Guide to Feeling Joyful, Resilient, and Lit from Within

FOR AS LONG AS I CAN REMEMBER, IVE BEEN PARTICULARLY ATTUNED TO LIGHT. When Im indoors I have a habit of flipping off switches and turning on lamps until I get the lighting in the room just so. And then theres the sun. Im always settling down with my laptop or a cup of tea near sunny windows, chasing slivers of sunlight. I feel most like myself in the summera direct response to light thats longer, stronger, and warmer. But it wasnt until chronic illness that I learned that I had, in effect, a light emanating from my very own being. My bodys own light illuminated my path out of unimaginable darkness at a moment when nothing else would. But before I could see my way, I had to learn to ignite my light.

What is your light? And whats the source of its power? Youve no doubt heard the phrase feeling lit up uttered by a friend who was inspired, moved, or deeply connected to a thought, an object, a place, another personyou name it. When you feel flooded with light, youre experiencing inspiration, insight, beauty, or love; youre feeling exactly as and where you should be; youre emitting vitality and magnetism. Your light is your personal energythe feeling that your presence conveys. That light brightens when you listen and respond to the inherent wisdom and power of your body, mind, emotions, and spirit. Over time, maintaining that lit-from-within effect influences your beauty, strength, gratitude, relationships, health, and your life itself, both in day-to-day experience and all-encompassing journey. In just one day, you encounter countless opportunities to ignite your inner light and apply its potential to transform your life experience. But so often, these opportunities are missed. In the pages ahead, Ill help you create more of them as you move through each day of your life, from sunrise to moonlight. Get ready to surround yourself with more of what lights you up, and less of what leaves you feeling stuck, drained, lacking, and anything but authentically you. The result is a visible, palpable shift in your body, mind, emotions, and spirit that begins with energyenergy that supports beauty, healing, joy, connection, and even the health of our planet.

Read on if youre ready to ignite your light and, with it, your own journey of possibility.

FINDING YOUR ENERGY

Consider that every person, and every living thing, has its own unique energy. Some call it an aura, or qi, whereas others refer to it as your vibe, or your feel. Its all energy, and its altogether different from the metabolic energy that powers you through your morning run. You see, your personal energy is youit introduces you before you speak a single word. Your energy can strengthen positivity, success, and joy; reflect beauty and vitality; support health, and help you thrive amid the varied chapters and challenges of life. Your energy is the power source for your inner light. Within these pages, youll find a blueprint for a day, and a life, filled with the inspiration and actions to better understand your own personal energy and ignite your light.

Ask a roomful of people for their definition of energy, and youll receive answers that vary based on personal beliefs and life experience. Some define energy as straightforward physical endurance. Others will tell you its the power that runs our heaters and appliances. Still others believe that energy is a divine guide. For a long time, I considered energy to be the stamina and motivation that carried me through the day, something I recharged each night as I slept. But there was another type of energy I had yet to understand. More than simply a force to accomplish my to-do list, I learned that energy is an overlooked element in beauty, healing, and happinessacross races, cultures, and life experiences. Your energy is the feeling conveyed by your presence; it defines you in a way that you alone can choose.

If this interpretation of energy seems abstract or illusory, know that its remarkably rooted in science. Human beings are quite literally bundles of energy; our bodies emit measurable electromagnetic fields (unsurprisingly, the strongest of those fields comes from the heart). The electricity of our bodies is influenced by outside electromagnetic fields given off by such devices as cell phones, televisions, and Wi-Fi routers, in addition to the magnetic field of the Earth itself. Theres also eye-opening evidence that the electromagnetic fields of other people (which extend well beyond our physical bodiesestimates range from 5 to 20 feet) directly influence our own. But energy is affected by far more than just these fields. In the pages ahead, well explore the leading factors that impact your energyI call them the energy influencers. They include mindset, movement, environment, relationships, food, spiritualityeven the breaths you take. There are thirteen dynamic energy influencers to discover in this book. Each influencer youll encounter is like a switch that, when flipped on, floods your life with light!

The ideas, rituals, and recipes in this book share the same key benefit of supporting the energetic health of your body. They do so in varied wayssome by shifting the actual electricity that flows throughout your body, others by rewiring habitual thought patterns, others by nourishing your body with high-quality fuel, and still others by reducing stressors that impair your bodys ability to thrive at its energetic best. These energy sources work together to transform the way you look, feel, respond, and experience life. Youll find that, incorporated into your lifestyle where they feel inspiring and well suited to you, even small shifts yield major changes over days, weeks, and months. And as you change your energy over time, your whole body is also being remade, right down to the cellular level, allowing those changes to build on one another. In these pages, youll discover that the very same energy of the body, mind, emotions, and spirit that supports healing also builds radiance. The same energy that builds radiance also grows joy. And the same energy that grows joy ignites a light in all of us, universally. Not only do you feel it personally, but others take note of it as well. Energetic shifts alter relationships, communication, and connection.