The Power of Listening with Your Heart

by | Jun 8, 2020 | 2 comments

I’ve been staying mostly silent and listening a lot these past several weeks.

I wasn’t listening when I heard, “Take a month off and pause Lorree.”

At the time I thought it was a nice idea and then the next morning I discarded it as not possible. 2 days later I had a random rash on my front and a pain in back ribs.

So I stopped and listened because my body made me by contracting Shingles and popping a rib.

I’m listening to what’s transpiring in the world, listening to my ego, and listening with my heart and soul.

What I keep hearing is, discern for yourself Lorree, don’t just believe someone else’s beliefs without checking in with your own wisdom.

Truthfully there are so many things I don’t know and may never know the truth. I am trusting this whole strange, surreal experience is unfolding according to a divine plan I don’t have privy to knowing by design.

Trusting my intuition has been a muscle I’ve had to build over a long period of time.
As I slowly grew out of being in the fear vibration and learning to trust myself and the messages I receive I have learned to be able to detach from other points of view while listening, honouring and respecting them.

I’ve learned to be able to have compassion for those in pain and not attach to their pain as this doesn’t help them. I know I have to focus on myself first before I can give out any more.

I’ve also realized how good I have it, and I’m educating myself on my privileges so I can be a true voice and ally for all those who do not have such privileges and deserve to have them.

This is an age old wound that has to heal so we can all be free. I know it starts with me.

The healing of this wound is a work in progress for all of us.

For my whole life I thought it was the coolest thing to be able to communicate with a wisdom that was not physical, the spiritual realms.

I was too afraid to say this openly as I thought others would laugh at me and call me crazy.

My assumption of others judgements over me stopped me from exploring this. I allowed it to stop me from feeling worthy that little ole me could have such a gift.

I’ve also learned there are very dark energies that exist, much darker than I ever thought could be true. I am not scared of them as I know where there is one there must be an equal amount of the other so there are also very light energies that exist.

As I become more connected to the light I will be faced with the dark and I have. Maybe not what others have experienced, but what I needed to experience.

The main reason I had to take a pause is to learn to protect my energy. I was not protecting myself near enough that I needed to and I was losing my energy.

So much of the self-care I was doing was being given out more than I was receiving. This is a common thing so many of us do and don’t even realize.

I now am very conscious of my energy and frequently call my energy back to me and send others energies back to them, with love. I have a protection ritual I do in the mornings and before I sleep, and when I forget I can tell.

I can actually feel the difference in my body when I intentionally do this, it is helping and I believe I had to learn to practice this so I could continue to follow my path that is calling to me.

During this time of pause and reflection I have explored what I have always wanted to do on an everyday basis and was too afraid to say it out loud.

So I play, imagine, dream and believe in what else is possible to allow my soul to come out of her cage.

I have always been very drawn to nature, as so many of us are, mother nature beckons us to play with her. To listen to her messages of wisdom.

I am very grateful to have a beautiful backyard with a lot of green space and I’ve been spending a lot of time there.

I feel the wind, witness the lightening storm, soak up the sun, revel at the moon and stare at the trees mesmerized.

I see and hear a variety of birds, I love them. I watch squirrels with their babies, and rabbits hopping around. We had a dove nesting in our bush, then she left her egg and the next day it was gone. We have saved some baby birds, one died and the other two went on their way.

I am witnessing the circle of life in all things and I’m learning to communicate with nature on a deeper level.

Shamanism is to connect with the spiritual realms through nature with ceremony and ritual in order to heal and receive wisdom to share, and to honour nature and spirit.

This has always enticed me and I’ve felt a strong connection when I’ve taken part in any kind of shamanistic ceremony.

Again, I didn’t feel worthy to do it on my own but I am committing myself to studying this more in depth in the coming months.

I’ve always loved music, singing and playing but felt unworthy to do these things without someone else who would guide me. I’m also committing to creating music with my drum, my voice and whatever other instruments that come to me.
I even wrote a song; now to create the music. ????????

I did take a music course over the winter and learned about the healing of sound vibration and how to share music with others to heal and empower. There are many studies done proving drum circles heal people.

I am still shy about this but I’m growing so watch for more sound and music healing coming.

This Cardinal has been hanging around my house a lot ~ Our Purposeful Journey So I practice and play and I’m noticing a connection.

This weekend has been a beautiful example.

A cardinal has been hanging around our yard all weekend.

I had a beautiful fire where I saw what I believe to be fairies showing themselves to me because I asked them to.

To test my nature spirit connection I asked to see a monarch butterfly today, we haven’t had one yet but today we did.

I saw it as soon as I came out and thought, well that’s a butterfly but not a monarch, but didn’t it come closer to me so I could see it indeed was, she was more yellow but definitely had the monarch markings.

I also connected with the tree you see in the picture below where I share the message it gave me when I asked.  I did ask its permission to take its picture and share this with you.

That’s another thing I’ve learned, it is very important to be respectful of other energies, asking permission and sharing with the intention to help others is the honourable way to share nature’s wisdom.

So this all ties up to the Soul Adventure cards I drew a few days ago and I’ve been sitting with them, not feeling the message, and today it all came together.

Soul Adventure Game Card Reading

I am Belief, with my Grounded Me (my deep connection to the earth, my body and environment), therefore I am Receiving messages from spirit through nature.

My inspired action is to be still and observant and listen to the messages I receive.

Then I flipped my decks over and I got this message:

Soul Adventure Game Card Reading on the Flip Side

 

I am Worthy with my Self-Love Me, therefore I am Visioning myself fully connected in my power.

My inspired action was to share myself with you so if you have read this far thank you.

If you scanned to this far that’s OK, I’m sure you got what you needed and if you feel incomplete them go back and read to find what you needed to know.

The reason why I am sharing this is to inspire YOU to go within, listen with your heart, not with your mind.

What adventures is your soul calling you to take?

Message from a Tree

Tree Message:

Stand up tall and strong, fully being YOU with your light and dark in full view.

Own who you are, you are a piece of source creator, infinite and ever changing as you experience life.

Engage with all life around you and within you.

 

Thank you tree for your wisdom, just when we needed to hear it.

Blessings and Namaste my friends.

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.

Numerology 9

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.

2 Comments

  1. Lynn Bland RFP, PhD, LPC

    You, my friend, are so amazing and beautiful. I am blessed to know you and have had the experience of feeling your loving energy personally.
    Namaste~
    Lynn

    Reply
    • admin

      Thank you Lynn, I really appreciate your comment and feel blessed to have met you too. I’ll never forget our time spent together. Namaste, Lorree

      Reply

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