Good morning.
I want to swing back around now, in month four for me, and remind us that I began this year with a clear intention: to work every single day to put into play the power of the mind. To test out the concept that our thoughts form our material world.
I am 100% certain that this is a truth, not a concept.
I can report that the work is not easy. It is literally day by day, hour by hour. Reminding myself to drop the old habits, creating awareness when they come into play. Do I let myself off the hook when I’m tired or frustrated? When I’ve had enough of the world? I try not to. The whole point really is to get rid of the garbage and replace it with good choices, powerful choices.
We really are habit and routine-oriented creatures. I find myself throwing my little temper tantrums when I want to react a certain way, feel I’m entitled to act a certain way and yet know it serves no purpose and brings me down to the low energy at ground zero.
I suspect this is the work of a lifetime, not just a year, although I am definitely feeling things shift. I am making decisions and trying things that make me nervous. This is always good, to step outside the bounds of the known into the unknown. It’s always the place of our greatest growth.
I’m holding my third small class this morning, in spiritual wellness and psychic (medium) skills. I’m thinking about expanding this into something larger … lectures? Maybe a book tour when the little thing is done. I like the idea of as many folks as possible starting to learn the truth of their existence, how to manage their energy and how to really step into life.
There are simple realities around who we are as human beings. There are realities around the connection between your thoughts and emotions and your biology. Yet, we don’t know them in this part of the world.
Folks, spirituality is not special, it’s not an esoteric idea, meant to be talked about over there by people wearing Birkenstocks. Although I guess everyone wears Birkenstocks now, so maybe that’s not the right association.
Spiritual wellness has nothing to do with a set of beliefs. It’s not religious. The fact that you are mind, body, spirit is not the least bit dependent on your believing or not. It’s the facts of life, baby. And the sooner you get with the program, the better your life will be.
The first and maybe hardest thing you have to come to terms with is that you matter. You, alone, separate from your role as dad or architect or auntie or whatever, you are here with reason and purpose.
I remember when this realization entered my life. It was a long time ago, 1987 to be precise. I was in the hospital after a bike accident and all these people were calling me and visiting and bringing gifts. I can still remember very vividly thinking, wow, I had no idea that I mattered to so many people.
This is the story that gets played out after we die and everyone goes to our memorial service and talks about how awesome we were. I always imagine the spirit of the dead person standing there listening to all the stories, seeing all the tears and thinking, what the hell? Why didn’t they tell me all this when I was alive?
The Catholic church taught me that I was a bad person. As kids we had to sit weekly in a creepy dark box confessing our sins to the creepy, no doubt child molester priest on the other side of the wall. It was horrifying. I remember thinking I really haven’t done anything all that bad … so I made stuff up. How great is that? Lying about sins I didn’t commit.
School sets us up, by quantifying everything, to feel like failures. It was never a case of like, OK, so you’re not doing great at math, but look at your history! Wow, you care about the past! Let’s explore that!
No, it was, you better get that math grade up!
No individualization, no opportunity to go to the depths of your curiosities, no chance to learn free from the bonds of grades, standardized tests and competitions.
I think the best thing we could do when babies are born is step back and say, I can’t wait to find out who you are! Let the new human reveal themself by giving them space to be.
Each of us came here with a seed of divine inspiration, a road map for our life here. We pile on all these misguided human constructs and 20, 30, maybe 60 years into the project we’re lost. We’re afraid to step into the truth we’ve been carrying our whole lives. Constrained by fears like not having health insurance or not being able to afford a vacation next year. If I leave this job I hate to do the thing I dream of doing … fill in blank reason why I can’t. We have a whole bunch of reasons to talk ourselves out of really living.
Life is such a blip. Most of us have always had enough freedom to chart the course our soul has always wanted. We tend to build our own roadblocks then blame other people when things fall apart.
The first and very most important part of any spiritual trip (I’m so freaking tired of the word journey) is stepping into your Truth.
Here it is: you are a beloved child of this Universe. You are created of the very same cosmic energy as the Creator. Your life here matters. You have infinite power to chart the course of your life. Of course there are practical constraints, but it’s possible to express your truth (and do your spiritual work-outs) even when you are living within certain parameters. There is never not a time when you can be attending to your spiritual wellness. Sometimes you life will hold lots of space, other times not. That’s OK.
From the day you got here until the day you die the questions are always, what is the purpose of this incarnation? How do I know what I love and then how do I manifest that in the world so others will be inspired?
In-spir-ation. Drawing spirit in and then breathing it out. That’s breath. That’s life.
It’s not a big ego trip, that you matter. You just do. Your life matters. The Creator knows this, your soul knows this. Your dog knows this! Now it’s your turn.
xomo
I saw a phoenix rising in the sky on the train back from NY the other day. 🪄
Figure it out, embrace and live your truth-
Act now! Operators are standing by…!
❤️💕
I SO love this! I think most of us can totally relate to what you have written.