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Journey to Courage

 

It takes great courage to get to know your soul. This is because, once you do come to know it-and engage its power and live according to its authority-the divine itself will come to call. Once you are conscious of your soul, you are likely to be ‘called.’ Facing that call also requires courage because it can take you to both intensely light and intensely dark places.” ~ Caroline Myss

June is the Journey to Courage!

Courage, I have learnt, is having loyalty ourselves, loyalty to our intuition, loyalty to the Divine Timing that shows up in our lives. Loyalty turns into honoring ourselves, our hearts, our love.

Courage does not mean the elimination or absence of fear. There may be many times when we must do the thing we are being called to do feeling the fear.

Courage, I have learnt, requires some inner work. The work involves learning and practicing the principles of discipline, commitment and self- responsibility.

Discipline - doing with faith, patience and consistency.

Commitment - making a firm decision to be disciplined. 

Self-Responsibility - taking full responsibility for the part that we play in our lives, owning the choices and the consequences that come with the choices that we make

Many times we outsource our power and responsibility, giving others agency over our lives. Not even being aware that we have given away our power because we don't even believe that we have the power to start with.

Courage, like a muscle, must be used, it has to be part of your daily living, start with the small things and build up.

make choices from love, intuition, courage & patience

Peace

You Can Have it, But Don't Be It

 your follower count does not define you. your occupation does not define you.your net worth does not define you. Mitchell Clark

When you have "IT" whatever "IT" is, you can acknowledge it and let it go.

If you ARE it, you can change it. - yuh dig?

In this world it is taught to us that you are what you have and who you are.

You are this - rich, poor, alcoholic, teacher, lawyer, activist - this is how you are defined, but there are different states of being, the states of being come and go.

It is not absolutely immutable.

Look out, see what is, maybe understand why it is that way but do not ever feel trapped by it.

Give yourself the room to know that things can change at any time, everything is temporary

Do not feel that "IT" is bigger than you.

Whatever drama you created, and the beautiful thing is whatever you create, you have the power to make another choice.

Peace

It's Question Time During Meditation

 "I have no fear in seeing myself, knowing myself and seeing myself"

Good Morning World

Question time during meditation 

Am I doing my best?

Am I doing the best that I can?

What would my best look like physically?

Am I doing my best financially?

Am I doing my best spiritually?

What would my best look like?

Peace

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Fear and comparison will have you manifesting things you really don't even want

 Fear and comparison will have you manifesting things you really don't even want - Turtle brezee

Manifestation, I have learnt is the creation of circumstances in your life from your thoughts. It starts with your thinking.

Thoughts, words and action must be in alignment for the manifestation of your desires to become a reality. It matters not whether your thoughts words and actions are forward thinking, positive, full of fear, full of doubt, full of love. That is the law.

That is how important your thoughts and words are - the actions follow on from your thoughts.

Watch your life to see what you are manifesting based on what you are thinking

Fear can manifest through your fearful thoughts.

Doubt can manifest through your doubtful thoughts.

Comparison with others can manifest so many unhealthy feelings and actions.

Abundance can manifest through abundant thoughts.

Many of us are afraid to think big thoughts, successful thoughts to dream big, in the fear that what we desire will not manifest. and what happens is that our words and actions remain out of sync. There can be no manifestation happening when we are out of alignment.

Take the time to look at your desires and dreams, then take the time to determine whether your thoughts, words and deeds line up to match.

Keep in mind to expect the unexpected, the how is never known. God and the Universe specializes in the unexpected and surprises. More times than not, these surprises will blow out mind.

What are you thinking?

Peace

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Letting Go is Not Passive

 A common fear is that letting go might make you passive. We are often so driven by our pain and fear that it is hard to conceive of any other way of existing. The reality is that letting go will not make you dull, and it certainly will not turn you into a pushover, what it does do is reconfigure your mind so that you are no longer carrying the heavy weight of the past into the present. Yung Pueblo

Keeping something/someone in my mind that we believed hurt us, did us wrong, misunderstood us  and rehashing it over and over again has been a pattern and habit of mine for a long time. I even made up stories about how a situation was supposed to go after it had long past. 

Have you found yourself doing that at all? (Don't judge me if you haven't?) 

I found myself going through a mental - what could have been? Formulating what I would say "the next time I lay eyes on that sucker!"

All of those actions became not only futile, but harmful to me- body, mind and soul. Holding on to the harmful past seeped into my psyche.

The alternative was letting go. Surrendering to the fact that the past is gone and the future is not here yet.

Letting go of wanting the past to be different

Letting go of adding guilt to myself

Letting go of judging myself and others

remembering that the letting go was not a reflection of me giving up, it was always an opportunity to focus on moving forward with a valuable lesson in tow!

What are you still holing on to?

Peace

Pay Attention - There is More Happening Here

 Focus on why it bothers you, not what they said. It’s not that triggers are bad, they actually give us an opportunity to observe and reflect, which enables us to heal. Healing happens when you're triggered and you're able to break an old pattern, and start a new habit. The Oracle Reads You

Life, I have learnt, is so accommodating to us, even when our lives seems so absolutely crazy and disjointed. Why? Life is always giving us nudges, clues, guidance and most of all love.

The trick is to pay attention and surrender. Pay attention to your own life, your own guidance. It is very easy to get caught up in what others are saying, telling you, want you to do. When we do that we miss our own Divine Guidance.

When we resist the signs, the lessons take longer to be learnt and life will keep at it until we pay attention.

Every single hurt, every mistake, every setback, every tear is a tool. They provide us with information and guidance. It really is up to us to decide how much time, attention and action that we want to spend on the feedback life is graciously giving us.

When we have a pain - Life says "pay attention"

When there is a heartbreak - Life is saying "time for focusing on yourself and what you are attracting - a long winded way of saying "pay attention"

When there is loss - Life is reminding us that everything is temporary - another version of pay attention

Pay attention - let me guide you.

Pay attention - feel your feelings

Pay attention - there is more happening here

When we pay attention to life, we experience its fullness.

Peace

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Learn How to Be Still

 Learn How to Be Still - Rev. Deborah L Johnson

Learning how to be still has been in a lesson in more than just patience, but also of trusting myself and trusting the process.

Learning how to be still came with the bonus of learning how to surrender. Surrender does not mean giving up, it means knowing that whatever happens that I will be ok.

When we have asked the Universe for what we desire, when we have prayed, when we have declared it to be so,- Get still.

What  I would do before learning this lesson is fuss, worry, continue to look for signs and get involved in things that are not my business. These actions were not only stressful, lacked faith and trust of the process, they delayed manifestation.

Get still through patience, through meditation, through affirmation, through mama beads, through loving yourself, through rest. Get still and get out of the way.

There is nothing more to do after you have given the task to the Most High

Peace

What Do You Do In the Pause?

 

That moment of pause, without judgement, is a game changer. Lee Ann Rimes

There is a moment between when we think the thought and action the thought that came to us.

There is a moment between when we think and when we speak.

There is a moment when we get still before we take off.

This is what I call "The Pause"

The Pause has all types of messages, knowledge and guidance. The Pause allows a breath to be taken.

How many times have I done something and then think - why on earth did I do that? The pause allows us to eliminate that question from our vocabulary.

For me, it is usually when I am not mindful or paying attention that I react before pausing.

It can also be when I am in people pleasing mode, in fear mode, in judgement mode.

Take a breath - the breath is a pause. The breath leads you to your inner guidance. your inner guidance then leads you to an action or inaction which is for your learning or your growth or both.

Breathe before you move.. this is the pause.

Ask yourself with a pause. What’s good for me?

Sometimes our process needs to pause -  rushing around all the time can be exhausting, when we are exhausted we may miss things, make hasty decisions.
Sometimes we need to put ourselves on pause.

Take a break. Pause collect your bearings. there is enough time. Stillness is never wasted.

Peace

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You are the Co-Creator of Your Experiences

 Creation  starts with "what words will I choose" Carolyn Myss

We are always creating. Creation starts with our thoughts and flows into our words.

What we think and say forms part of the life we create. It really is that simple.

Have you ever been in a situation where  something happens and the first question asked to you or you ask to someone else  "what were you thinking?"

Creation starts with self knowledge and self awareness. Our choice to know ourselves, our decision to use what we have been given to create the life we want. Our mindfulness in being aware of what we are thinking, doing and saying all supports the creation of the lives that we live. 

It takes practice to become self aware, to become mindful, to choose our words and responses. 

There are some words I have been practicing for years to  eliminate from my vocabulary, words like "but, try, blame and entitled"

Those words I have learnt drain my power.

When someone shares guidance and I start with a "but" I check myself It is usually the start of the justification of why I cannot or will not follow the guidance.

Using the word "trying" often is often me adding in a hidden disclaimer that it may or may not happen. At least I tried. Rather than, let me just do my best.

What Did I Learn?

Pay attention to the thoughts you are carrying around.

Be mindful of the words that you speak - especially about yourself. Many times we unconsciously put spells on ourselves. We place ourselves in a box or put limits to live down to.

Become aware of what you are creating with your responses to those around you.

Ask yourself - what words am I using that prevents me from moving forward and seeing this situation differently.

Peace

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What Are You Basing your worthiness on?

 still equating achievement with worthiness? Sheri Salata

What did I learn today?
You can’t patch your Soul’s truth together with only workshops & a wardrobe, & identity choices.
You’ll likely spend half of your life focusing on that.
Composing. Polishing. Packaging.
Facing outward, even though it’s all inward.
Eventually, you’ll stop looking out there — stop in your tracks, or come to a slow grinding halt.
In the middle of the noise & the obligations it will dawn on you
(maybe right now)
that the real you emerges.
The real you emerges.
Because it’s already there — beneath beliefs, & untruths, &  fatigue, & stories you made up & stories you inherited &  wonderful experiments .
The real you emerges.
When you are courageous enough to be still. When you act on your inclinations. Your intuition. Your divine guidance.
When you Put your preferences on the altar of your life & say, “THIS. THIS is what compels me
The real you emerges
From lifetimes of living.
From the accumulation of your prayers.
From your gut.
From your gaze.
& the real you will surprise you — like God tends to do —
with it’s options for euphoria &  blazing vitality.
Incant it. Accept it.. Set the stage. Clear your calendar. For You.
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