Yes You Can!
By Jean Walters
more at: www.spiritualtransformation.com/blog/
This is a blog: Here is an example of what you will find on this blog.
How do You Listen: With Your Head or Your Heart?
The greatest problem with allowing your mind to be fixated with worry thoughts is that they act as barriers to the elevated vibrational messages of your Higher Mind, otherwise known as your intuition. Spirit is in constant communication with you but you may let the distractions of the ego override this guidance.
The ego wants to keep you small and under its control. Whereas Spirit holds no limit and anything is possible Spirit does not fight; it waits. Perhaps when you are done struggling and in your exhausted state, you will be still, open, and receive.
When you have an idea to hold an amazing seminar, paint a beautiful picture, redecorate your house, travel to a distant land, write a poem or run a marathon, what comes next? Do you check out travel agents or marathons or go to the paint store to start the process? Or do you begin the battle with your small-minded training – you are not a good enough artist or runner. Or you are too afraid? Hence you give in to the internal conflict and time waster of the egoic mind.
A better way – open your heart (feelings) to communicate with Higher Mind. Set the environment to do this. Be quiet or play light beautiful music. Soothe your soul. Walk quietly in nature, breathe, journal daily. What does the Universe want to tell you today? Open your heart and mind to miracles. Miracles are natural. They happen all the time – daily.
Every minute you cultivate communication with your Inner Guide (Higher Mind), your rewards are exponential. This communication is natural. Babies and animals do it automatically. Perhaps we have looked with our physical eyes too much and gotten hooked into the chaotic energy of the world, and now it is time to turn inward to discern the truth. Set your earthly tasks aside and listen. You will be nudged, guided, awakened.
Set your fear and inadequacy thoughts aside and absorb the love. Turn off your head; listen to your heart. Your consciousness will elevate; your guidance will grow in volume. You are capable of great things. Your heart knows the way; your head just thinks it does.
Finding Your Way during Transition (Change)
Emily came to me because she was depressed and anxious. She had lost her job (down-sized) and felt like a ship without a rudder or a port. Truthfully, it was not a great job – answering phones, some computer work and record keeping. It wasn’t inspirational or particularly fulfilling, but she did get a paycheck.
As I got to know Emily, she admitted that she never had a passion for anything, or a career vision, or something she was driven to do, but she always liked helping people. She also had a strong spiritual connection and found comfort in solitude.
Those were the two things we decided to build on…. quiet time and helping others. First to deal with depression, Emily had to come to terms with the idea that losing her unfulfilling job was not a great deficit. Her greater loss, in her estimation, was not having structure in her life. She felt lost without a plan or a place to go to implement it. The disposition of the paycheck was really more about the cultural idea that to be paid money for what you do equates having value. Yet, on investigation, there are other ways to be paid that do not involve money. This is what Emily was about to discover.
Thus, Emily started listening to her heart and she took action. She had always enjoyed working at the community food pantry handing out groceries to people in need. And they were so appreciative. So she upped her hours at the food pantry. Then she found another charity that assisted young girls obtain party dresses so that they could attend school dances and proms. She helped this group get organized and devised efficient methods to serve more young ladies.
Plus, there was the bookstore that needed help and Emily loved books. It seemed Emily’s niche was in discovering community needs and filling them because next she volunteered at a home for older folks and visited weekly with some of the residents. And they loved that!
In a few months Emily’s anxiety about “not working” and her depression over not feeling valued was gone and in its place was a radiant woman with a beautiful smile and a heart filled with joy. The weight she had lost due to worry was being replaced slowly and that was a good thing.
Emily knew she had been guided to her new life and the structure she needed was of her own making. Tuesday and Thursday she put smiles on people’s faces as she handed out broccoli and turkey at the pantry; Monday she helped at the “prom dress” charity; Friday she visited the older adults and so on. In the middle of all this, she took up yoga, and spent time in quiet at the local chapel.
The last time Emily we visited, Emily beamed brightly, ”I have the best job in the world and my payment is personal fulfillment.”
This story is excerpted from Jean Walters best-selling book: Be Outrageous: Do the Impossible - Others have and you can too!