“One truth you must consider. You are only as expansive, successful, joyous, peaceful and free as you truly love and accept yourself.”
~ Joseph
This week I want to share several helpful perspectives, which may not seem related but I promise to tie them all together before this post is over.
Each one of these 5 points is worthy of a full post and they may receive that attention in the next few weeks. For now though, I will share these ideas so you can immediately explore what they have to offer:
1. There are no enemies. The only enemies are in your mind.
Today I have a special message just for you. Yes you, the person reading this. You might wonder, “How do I know you?
Well to keep this simple, let’s say I know you because you and I are one. We share the same collective consciousness. Our souls are connected. Our hearts have the same infinite love waiting to be expressed. We come from the same source.
I could go on but I think you get the picture. Beyond our separate stories there is so much we share.
Not only do I know you, I know what is possible within you. That is why I am writing to you today
This is not the time to timidly walk the planet in self-doubt. We as humans have spent too much time holding ourselves back.
We don’t question our thoughts and beliefs so they run us. What limits us, is not the outside world but the inside limitations we enforce with our thinking.
The ego has dominated the workings of humanity for most of our time on the planet. This ego force - and farce - has been the source of all human suffering. Yet this ego is but an imaginary mind creation set for self-sabotage, routed in the primal mind of fear and survival. It’s the juice of fight or flight.
Still we turn away from the inner knowing that invites us to be free of the thoughts and beliefs that hold us back. It seems we have become attached to the limits we think are ours. We won’t let go of our fears, the ones we don’t deny. They provide us an excuse, a way to explain our lack of commitment to anything other than just getting by. This is a path of mediocrity and we settle for that.
Have you had enough? Are you ready to set yourself free?
You come equipped with incredible inner resources. You are built for success. You have all you need to fully express who you are with passion and purpose.
All you have to do is open to the wise knowing within. This wisdom is available because you have these inner resources onboard:
o Your body is ready to guide you to greater health and well-being.
o Your mind hungers for more exploration and learning.
o Your hearts is full of loving kindness and compassion waiting to be expressed.
o Your intuition is whispering to you right now about how to live more fully.
o Your spirit invites you to expand almost constantly.
Are you open to this deeper knowing? Are you listening to the guidance provided to you whenever you tune in? Do you follow what you know inside is right for you to do?
I love living at the ocean. It feels as though I have come home. It has been a year this week since we took a chance and uprooted our lives by moving to the Oregon coast. In preparation, I quit my job, we sold one of our cars, filled a large rental truck to capacity and said goodbye to the great friends we made in Colorado.
My wife Bobbi, Pax our dog and myself headed out on the road late one afternoon for what we thought would be a two-day journey. Not long into Wyoming the rental truck hit some rough roads and began to rock side-to-side. I thought, “Holy Shit! I am going to dump this truck on its side and all our stuff we be scattered across Hwy 80."
Yesterday I was at a gallery and something connected about art and how it is a vehicle to deepen our experience of life and open our channel to our spirit. There was a painting of a crow sitting on a window ledge and looking at the sun; it was titled at the Edge of Freedom. It seems crows are symbolic messengers for both my wife and I. For years the intuitive has come to us in a variety of forms with crows high the list. Inner messages call us to leave old stuck patterns and limiting beliefs behind and instead move into the wonder of the unexplored richness of life. This message came home with clarity looking at that painting.
As I read what I wrote above I see by my words that what I want to say is that there is so much we can become aware of and know if we allow the messages around us, the images, and the metaphors speak to us in the inner language of the intuitive. Everything becomes more alive when we are open to see, hear, feel and sense the wisdom of the universe.
How do you make contact with the other world of knowing beyond your rational mind?
What kinds of messengers or metaphors are knocking on the doorway to your higher knowing inviting you to further awaken?
Where do you have stuck patterns or places in you wanting to come into full expression?
What parts of you are touched by images or intuitions that keep showing up and begging you to pay attention?
Where do you keep pushing away what you know is right for you?
How do you diminish your own power by holding out against you’re your quiet wisdom?
None of this is meant to judge but to invite. You are unlimited potential in waiting; you are the grace of light longing to be expressed.
