One Thing You Can Always Count On….Change

by Lorree | Jan 16, 2019 | 0 comments

Happy New Year to you! This time of year is when most of us think about what we want to change and make resolutions that usually don’t stick. Ugh! I feel like it’s a setup and I try not to make them just because it’s a new year.

When I think about changes I have to laugh at the irony of them. We cannot avoid change it’s going to happen whether we like it or not. It’s something you can always count on.

On one hand we want to change to improve our life in some way and when we attempt to make the change we are all gun ho let’s do this! ……..

and then we fizzle out internally and/or externally with some type of pitfall or roadblock that conveniently comes up.

What’s that all about?!

We are up against our internal system that is operating from programs that aren’t going to just change like that! Their role is to keep things the same old same.

Then there’s the change we don’t want and most often don’t expect, life transitions such as relationship issues, death, illness, accidents, job loss …. these can also be the above pitfall or roadblock.

When these changes happen we are in upheaval, we are usually trying to get life back in order as quickly as possible and we ask questions such as:

Why did this happen? and How am I going to get through this?

When working with the laws of the Universe the Whys and the Hows are not for us to know …. they are questions that are not going to give us many answers anyhow and actually can keep us stuck in the situation longer.

A better question is: What am I supposed to learn here? or What am I not open to seeing? Changing our perception of a situation can change everything!

Then journal, meditate or go for a walk and reflect on these questions and wait for the answer to come to you.

Yes, wait.

I know you want to know right now but that’s not how the Universe works. In order to receive new insights and gain clarity, we must drop our judgments of the situation the best we can (or at least set them aside) and observe what shows up. So be a fly on the wall of your thoughts and feelings and see what your best next step is. When we can be open we can receive the answers.

So speaking of the best next step, that’s how you do it, one small step at a time, not knowing the end game because you’re still in the learning and growth process of this change.

Patience is very helpful here and trusting that you are exactly where you are meant to be and you will be shown the way if you are receptive to it.

Ask for Universal support and use your intuition to feel into what is the best next move and then take action.

Making changes that are permanent is more successful when you do them in small bite-sized steps. No fast and big changes or you most certainly will have a better chance at failing.

The last tip I will give you is that if you are looking to make positive changes in your life is before you begin ask yourself these questions:

Why do I want this change in my life?
How will I benefit from it in the long run?
If I have tried before (I’m pretty sure you have) what happened that caused me to be unsuccessful?
What are the specific pitfalls and roadblocks that came up or I can anticipate may come up?
Am I ready for this change?
Who will support me with this change and keep me accountable?

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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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