Doing the one next thing
Years ago, my living space was filled with too many belongings. My closets, cupboards, bookshelves and storage spaces were crammed with stuff, to the point I felt claustrophobic in my apartment. I wanted to clear it out but couldn’t raise the energy necessary for such a daunting task.Finally I couldn’t take it any longer, and putting it off was just making it loom even larger. So I gave myself permission to go slow and to take it one room at a time. I made a deal with myself that I would work on it each day. This was...
Accepting our intuitive gifts
When I began on my spiritual path, I wanted so badly to be clairvoyant and have visions. I prayed and prayed, but to no avail.About the same time, I started to receive unexpected flashes of insight. I would get a nudge about which way to drive to work and later find out from co-workers I had avoided a traffic accident. Or I would be drawn to hike a certain trail and encounter an animal with a message for me.I was so focused on being able to see, I didn’t connect these instances with my intuition.Then one day I went down to the basement...
Expanding our view of messages from guides
If we expect messages from our guides to come only during meditation or in a vision, we may overlook helpful information.Our helping spirits and guardian angels will certainly communicate with us through those channels if they know we are tuned into them, but not everyone has gifts of clairaudience (intuitive hearing) or clairvoyance (intuitive sight). Lucky for us, there are many ways of receiving information.Our guides choose unique ways to communicate with us, on frequencies and channels we’re attuned to.One of my angels frequently...
Asking a friend to reflect our inner wisdom
When we find ourselves at a crossroads in our lives or confused about a decision, asking a friend to witness our story can help us hear our inner wisdom. The clarity comes in part from stepping back and opening to a broader perspective to portray the full picture and in part from the nuances of relating our story.Rather than asking for our friend’s opinion or advice, we ask her to listen without judgment, to observe and reflect our truth revealed in the story.A good listener can tease out the threads of truth woven into our story...
Using the imagination to help manifest
Our imagination holds the power to help draw what we’re looking for into our lives. When we set it free and allow it to soar, it transmits our energy as a request to the Universe for assistance.To use your imagination as a tool for manifestation, begin by visualizing what your life will be like when your desired reality has manifested. Use your imagination to develop the scene and fill in the details.If you want to create a home-based business that will support you and allow you to leave your corporate job, you might visualize a typical...
Attending our own lectures
Last week I got uptight about my schedule for the next month or so. All the unknowns in my life were colliding, and I became tense. Then I had a breakthrough realization: I can’t predict my schedule this fall with any certainty until a key piece of information comes back from my mother’s doctors next week, so in the meantime, why not take a deep breath, relax and enjoy the chaos of the moment?And in the next instant, I thought, “Didn’t I just write about this in my blog?” I had. Two times that week. On Monday,...