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2020 Vision

It’s widely known that 2020 means perfect vision. Living through the year 2020 has been less than perfect - or has it? Our communities have been affected with sickness, our livelihoods have been impacted, our security has been removed, and we are all left looking back on the year wondering how it will end - wondering what’s next. 

NextGen was created with the belief in how powerful a positive mindset is when it comes to our quality of life, our health and wellness, and our world as a whole. When we view a world through a lens of positivity and abundance, it transforms our environment. This year is a catalyst, a launching point to dig deeper, look inward, and find more meaningful connections with ourselves and the world around us. 

“I am never in control of what happens around me, 

but I am always in control of what happens within me” 

- Unknown

When we flip the script on what has happened in 2020, we start to re-evaluate the impact it can have on our lives. When the environment we exist in becomes uncomfortable and causes us to struggle, it initiates something within us that questions the status quo. Diamonds are formed from intense pressure. Greatness can be found in the really difficult seasons.  

Not everyone’s transformation will look the same. For some, you’ll see it in relationships. For others, it will be how they approach their health and wellness. And in other cases, it’ll be seen on a soul level with their spirituality and life purpose. All are important parts of us as humans. 

“You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.”

-Swami Vivekananda


Not everyone’s transformation will look the same. For some, you’ll see it in relationships. For others, it will be how they approach their health and wellness. And in other cases, it’ll be seen on a soul level with their spirituality and life purpose. All are important parts of us as humans. 

It is easy to allow difficult situations to get the best of us or discourage us. When we approach struggles differently they can be incredibly transformational and make us even more of who we are meant to be. 

So, we challenge you to take this year and turn it on its head. See it as an opportunity. See it as a catalyst for you in your health, your relationships, your career path, your future vision...everything. This is an opportunity to pivot. This is your platform to envision something different, to put yourself in the driver’s seat of your life, and live life to your fullest potential.


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The Heart Brain

“The quality of communication between the heart and brain is increasingly being recognized as key to our ability to perform at our best. Watch this video with Rollin McCraty, Ph.D., Director of Research of the HeartMath Institute to learn why this is so important.”

You can watch the full video here.

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Energy and the Heart

The article below is about research conducted by the HeartMath Research Center of the Institute of HeartMath. The article discusses the human body and electromagnetic fields that are within it.

Read the full article here.

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