This year’s energy is going to be full of big changes. It’s being reported by the astrologers, numerologists, intuitive readings and us. Many of us already feel it, we are getting sick, feeling unmotivated or overwhelmed and overall we are uncomfortable with the unsettled feelings we are experiencing; no one really embraces change easily so it’s all normal.
I want to let you know it’s OK, whatever is going on for you, illness, loss, mental health challenges, financial concerns….it’s all part of the shift and there is nothing to be afraid of. Our role is to ride the waves of change, be present to whatever is currently happening in our reality and do our best to not attach to it, focus on the important things we do have and allow the learning and growth to come through by being more present and less distracted.
How do you not attach to it?
There are many ways, deep breathing and focusing on your breath and your body. Staying hydrated and doing things every day that make you happy, is it music, nature, community involvement?
Just do it, even for 10 minutes, and if you don’t have the means to do some of the things on your list get creative as I suggest below. (Yes make a list of what brings you happiness).
Free Happiness: Focus on feeling the joy, go to your happy place as often as you can, vision it and imagine you are there!
Society tells us to do, do, do. That’s not proving to be helpful so why not try to be instead? Not be who others want you to be but be YOU. Not sure who you are? Then it’s time to explore that.
Be still and meditate daily, even if it’s starting with 10 minutes and slowly increasing it, meditation has huge benefits in our lives. Check out this blog I wrote that explains why in more detail.
Tap into your creativity; write out your thoughts and feelings, sing in the shower, play intuitive games with yourself, and the most powerful way to inquire on who you are is asking questions!
Take out your journal and ask yourself these Soul questions. Don’t ‘think’ about the answer, just let your pen flow and see what comes out.
Who am I?
What do I want?
What am I grateful for?
What is my purpose in life?
Please don’t get caught up in these questions, they are meant to touch your soul and cut through all the noise to reach your truth. That means quieting that monkey mind.
Here’s some more content on each question to sit with before you do this exercise; and make sure you take some deep breaths and connect to your heart before you write otherwise you still will be in your logical brain and it will send you down the rabbit hole of limits and judgments.
Who are you, you are a beautiful soul who came to this world to experience a wide range of experiences so you could learn and grow and to come to the realization that they are just experiences, not sentences, or your identity.
What do you want is a question to not limit yourself on, don’t get all practical, imagine there are no limits of time, space or money and ask this question. Dream big, just for fun!
What are you grateful for is all the little things you might not even notice or pay attention to in your daily life. This is a great question to ask every single day.
What is your purpose is to live this live as YOU, express yourself and shine your light in YOUR WAY.
From the janitor who puts love into his work and creates a beautiful, clean space, to the barista who brews our beloved hot beverages, or the mother and father who nurture their family and work at the same time while holding it all together, to the public leader who is empowering others to be their best self. There are so many people doing their own thing and labels confine us so whoever you are and whatever you do remember you are purposeful and your purpose is to live life with love , shine your unique light and sharing that love and light with yourself first and then everyone else. Be kind, be generous and have faith in others.
So there you have it, a few ideas on how you can go deeper and shed some more heaviness that is ready to leave behind. We are all doing this and the energy supports us so you certainly are not alone.
Do you want to be part of a loving community of Soul Adventurers? Join us in the Facebook group where I hold guided meditations, spiritual teachings and we have open discussions about the adventures of life in a private, safe and non-judgmental space.
Namaste dear one.
Besides impacting the lives of others to ‘be real and love life’ the most powerful thing about the work I get to do is the reflections of the teachings that come back to me. I always receive some type of wisdom, healing or blessing from the experience, whether it’s a private, group session or a speaking event.
Whatever the message is that I’ve conveyed I am somehow reminded of how it applies to me as well and it guides me towards the next stage of my growth.
Being aware of the subtle messages that are being sent to guide us forward is very empowering.
Last weekend at the Soul Full Day conference, I guided a group of 70 women through a visualization meditation to identify and let go of a fear story holding them back from what they truly wanted for their life, freedom to live their love story.
It was remarkable to witness them releasing the fear and claiming their love stories, seeing and feeling themselves living in the higher potential of their dreams.
This week I’ve been deeply reminded of the fear story that I’ve been carrying, ‘not being well enough to live a fulfilling life because my digestive health is failing’.
This is the same story my grandmother carried, and she died in fear with this story in her which was unconsciously passed on to me, and I accepted it.
For 8 years now I’ve been having various challenges with my digestive health. I’ve seen many different professionals and tried many different remedies and lifestyle changes. Some have worked and some haven’t. Over time things seemed to have mostly settled, then just a month ago the issues flared up again in a bigger way.
This brought up the old fear story for me as I prepare for a trip of a lifetime. I’m going to Egypt on a sacred pilgrimage to the visit the lands and ancient sites with 13 other women. This will be my first trip overseas and I’ve always been fascinated with Egyptian history, never thinking I would get the opportunity to visit until it showed up to me. I was very drawn to go, and decided I was going, even though it felt way outside my ability to be able to take such a trip.
Worries and a wide range of emotions have been coming up for me since these flare ups have been happening. My mind races and makes up stories based in old fears.
What if I am not well enough to fully experience this trip? What if I am stuck in my room and miss the tours, or what if I am not able to digest the food there? All that disappointment and money spent if I might not be able to full experience it.
These stories are very similar to what my grandmother used to tell herself. She was afraid to go far from home, let alone on a plane to another country. Everything centred around her digestive limitations and she was petrified of having an ‘accident’ while out in public. These fear stories debilitated her and she became a hermit and was very lonely in her later years.
I will never forget seeing her in the final days of her life living in fear. I visited her almost every day and seeing her like that was very sad because there wasn’t much I could do other than comfort and reassure her that she would be ok.
What it did do was motivate me to face my own fears and not go down the same path as she did. In this regard, she was a great teacher to me and not long after she transitioned I was divinely guided to take the Radical Forgiveness Master Coach 10 day training in Atlanta.
It was a huge step for me, and again way outside my comfort zone, but in the end it was one of the best things I could have done for myself because it set me on the trajectory of facing my fears, and the journey of living my love story.
I am eternally grateful to be on this path of self-forgiveness and self-acceptance just as I am, and in time I have learned to love myself. I’m still on this healing journey however this year I’ve had some major shifts in this area of my life and feel truly worthy and deserving of this love for myself because I have freedom from the fears.
This is where the synchronicity comes in again.
It just so happens that this Friday, the day I fly to Egypt, is the 9 year anniversary of my grandmother’s passing, and it’s a full moon! You just can’t make these things up. I didn’t realize the mysterious alignment of these dates until just a few weeks ago.
In numerology the number 9 represents endings and completions and I have a strong intuitive feeling that this trip is going to be transformational for me as a new beginning.
The other day when I was dancing my grandmother came to my mind, she was dancing with me, and I know she is leaving me these breadcrumb signs to follow to complete this stage of my journey. I made a promise to her that I was going to end the cycle of fear she carried and commit myself to healing into wholeness.
I have no doubt that this is all happening for me, rather than to me. And unlike my grandmother, I will face my fears and take this trip and I will trust in the divine unfoldment of it all.
I am reminded that everything is always working out for me, even if it doesn’t seem that way and she is cheering me on all along the way.
These are the same phrases I spoke to the women when I was on stage just a few days ago and they echo loudly in my mind as the beautiful blessings of having the freedom to live my love story.
If you would like to experience the guided visualization for yourself listen to the audio recording so you too can be free from your fear story and claim your love story.
In my next blog I will share about my travel adventures so stay tuned, and if you would like to be notified when I share it you can join my email Love Letter list at the bottom of this page.
Until next time… thank you for being here.
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