Wish you had more Time, Money, Health, Love, Support, Meaning, or Utter Bliss in your life?
These things flow in increasing amounts when you step into your Highest Calling.
It’s not scary. It’s not difficult. It’s just that sometimes our stories or misunderstandings about our Calling make it seem that way.
Know what you should know about your Calling. Check out these 10 facts right now!
New Transformational Workshop Starts March 16:
Calling In Your Calling
When you’re ready to discover your Calling and remove doubt about what you are here to do, join us for our 4-part transformational workshop “Calling In Your Calling“, starting March 16th.
This isn’t a boring class full of information only – it’s a package of powerful and practical insights, a personal reading to discover your own Calling, a one-on-one mentoring session to start to implement it, AND the healing to break through what’s been holding you back.
Commit to your Calling today. Take a step towards fulfilling it.
And stepping into it creates the greatest life you can imagine, flowing with wealth, wellness, and genuine happiness.
It is your Higher Calling. But if you don’t know what it is or how it works, you can spend your life chasing shadows and suffering.
Join us for a free talk on Friday, Feb 18, when we’ll share 10 important facts you need to understand about awakening your Calling and creating your dream life in a way that naturally makes a positive difference. You’ll be glad you heard this info!
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How are you like an SLR camera, and what does that have to do with living your best life? I’ll tell ya…
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Do you get up in the morning and do pretty much what you did yesterday?
Do you feel like nothing you try will change the outcome of your life?
Do you assume that what happened to you long ago has trapped you forever? (That’s a big myth!)
In the movie Groundhog Day, Bill Murray’s character falls into a time warp where no matter what crazy impulsive thing he does, even killing himself, he wakes up at exactly the same time on the same morning, over and over.
It’s a movie of course, and the sarcastic angry character eventually shifts from manipulating his environment for the sense of power and accomplishment to genuinely connecting with those around him, esp his love interest. And it happens because this crazy time warp forces him, out of boredom, to stop looking at the surface of things.
Last week a client told me the same thing–that her life felt like the Groundhog Day movie. Though she knew better, she observed herself every day repeating the same bad habits, the same shortcuts, the same behaviors that were keeping her stuck. She said she felt like she lacked the power to stop repeating them. “How can I break out of that?” was her question.
Good question.
Plain and simple, I find behavior like this happens when a person is avoiding their Calling.
It’s a very strong urge, the Calling. It is an instinct so strong we can feel it but not always put words and actions on it.
To block it off, to delay doing what you were born to do, to step out of your innate power, you need some serious firepower — lots of energy. The most concentrated energy we can muster is called up by our emotions. So the more stuck you get, the more frustrated and angry and grief-stricken and regretful and self-deprecating you get, the more you can “safely” avoid your calling. The more you can stay attached to those things that happened in your childhood, the unfairness of life, the jealousy, the things that keep you small. The more you can stay stuck.
BUT, Life is motion, and Life always moves forward. As time passes, you naturally forget broken hearts, negative comments, etc. To remember these things, you must think about them and drag in the energy of negative emotions to strengthen your connection with them. Otherwise, your connections naturally fade. To stay stuck in limiting habits, you need to generate negative emotion. Unfortunatley, the side effect of this avoidance loop is that you suffer. A lot. After a while, it feels awful and you would give anything to change it.
But suffering is not necessary. I remember when I was stuck in a similar place many years ago. I thought I would go crazy with how miserable I was, even I appeared to be living a fine life. ONE thing pulled me through to the wonderful place I am today. One thing. It was that small part of me that knew, I mean it KNEW I was supposed to be doing something else. Something greater. Something that made a difference. I had no idea what it was, but I hung onto that tiny bit of knowingness for dear life, and following it pulled me out of that misery and suffering.
Can you hear or feel that tiny part of you that KNOWS you are not doing what you were meant to do? Perhaps you even know what you are supposed to be doing, but feel helpless to break out of your current situation!
Are you ready to break free? Are you ready to let go of the draining dramas and the tiring tirades once and for all? The Global Institute for Awakening was founded to help you step into your Calling, the thing you were born to do. If you aren’t following your calling, something will feel like it’s missing in your life. You can win everything, get the job the spouse the car the house you desire, but something is still missing. When life doesn’t satisfy, you’re missing your Calling.
Following your Calling allows you to live the life of your dreams — full of health, wealth, wisdom, peace, love and joy – while making a big difference in the world.
I invite you to make a decision today to give up the distracting disempowerment and say yes to your Divine gifts. To let go of the painful routine that is knowable and predictable and to say yes to allowing the Universe to blindly guide you into bliss. To stop doubting and start trusting. To stop ignoring your gifts and acknowledge them. To stop depriving yourself of your lucrative dream life and start nourishing yourself. Make the decision today. Find that tiny bit of knowingness inside you that says you were meant to do something else, something greater than this. Write your decision on paper. Write supporting statements of intention. And when you mean it, the Universe will answer you.
We’re combining workshop classes with breakthrough personal work & healing work to disconnect those old connections that hold you back and align you more fully and easily with your innate Calling and divine gifts. ”I Am My Calling” not only gives you the information, but helps you cut cords, break habits, and transition into implementing it in your life!
Ever long for relief from a gift that feels like a curse?
Got an intuitive idea for a business you know can work… but on the other hand, don’t believe it can happen?
Know inside you are called to do something creative and wonderful, but you are afraid to step into it?
Feeling a calling… to… do… um, something… but not sure what?
We are each called to a greater expression of ourselves, but without some important information about this process, your calling can instead create pain, misery and depression. Sign up for our email list so you can listen Wednesday to find out why that happens and how to reverse the pain and thrive with your calling.
Discover the simplest way to answer your deepest yearnings, know why you are here, and live a life of meaning, fulfillment, and purpose. Best of all, discover why 2011 is such a great year to strengthen your commitment to your highest calling and step into it!
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Date: Wednesday January 26, 2011 Time: 11am Pacific/2pm Eastern US Speaker: Daria Boissonnas, Founder, Global Institute for Awakening
It’s been splashed across the news recently that the sun is no longer actually in your astrological sun sign — the one you look up in the newspaper — and hasn’t been for centuries, due to the tilting earth. Moreover, Babylonian astrologers apparently removed a sign from the zodiac. Should it be in there? Should your sign really be where the sun is located, a different sign? After all, that’s the definition of a sun sign.
Tune in today at noon Pacific/3pm Eastern as Daria Boissonnas, Founder of GIA, interviews professional astrologer and ordained minister Patricia Selmo. They intend to answer these questions and more, spell out the different astrology systems clearly, and make it all so simple you could explain it to your dog.
Join us by making sure you’re on our email list an hour before the call. Just sign up for the free offer at the top of this page (you don’t have to download it if you don’t want to.)
If you miss the call, we will send around a link to the audio for you to enjoy any time.
Date: 20 January 2011 Time: noon Pacific, 1pm Mountain, 2pm Central, 3pm Eastern US time Register: sign up for our freebie at the top of this page at least one hour before the call to get call-in information
About Patricia Selmo
Patricia Selmo is a former Aerospace Engineer turned Interfaith Minister, Life Coach, Astrologer and Energy Healer. She has over 20 years of experience facilitating, coaching and managing professionals in the corporate environment. She now uses a unique combination of Spiritual Counseling, Ancient Wisdom (or Astrology) and Modern Science (Quantum Physics) to help people who are stuck or wanting more out of life to align with their soul purpose, connect with their Source and live an abundant life – on their own terms! You can find Patricia at http://www.TheBlissfulSoul.com
About Daria Boissonnas
Daria Boissonnas has been obsessed with mysteries of the Universe since she a child. One day in 1997, she heard the first inklings of her higher calling, left her job as a corporate marketing exec, and began investigating and practicing energy healing, much to her surprise. As she walked her healing path, she discovered she had a gift for healing groups and for helping people awaken to their greatest potential: to know and use their innate gifts and calling to create permanent positive change in the world. Today she leads the Global Institute for Awakening which provides the practical steps and wisdom for their many members to fulfill their highest calling in a way that fully supports them. Enjoy GIA’s free Trail Guide to Awakening goodies for you at http://GIawaken.com.
Contained in that tiny seed is the complete pattern of the full, complex plant in its greatest fruition. All the fullness of its potential beauty and delight and glory and gifts for the world is already there. All the information it needs to fulfill its pattern and potential is there. It lacks nothing in its essence or core pattern.
I also guarantee that a more powerful potential outcome than you can even imagine is in that seed, too. It’s merely not realized in the physical world… yet.
All you have to do is allow what’s in that seed — the inner wisdom and full innate pattern — to unfold. It already knows how to. It knows a zillion ways how to. It has the information. It has infinite potential. Your job is simply to assist.
To provide the most nurturing environment without suffocating or stunting growth.
To exercise and master your ability to help without slowing the process.
To build faith and trust in the seed’s potential and to step back and allow it to fulfill its greatest potential.
These are the seven steps of Awakening, which we practice each month here at GIA. They are so important, we’ve provided a free ebook with more details on how to do those steps! If you haven’t gotten a copy, sign up for it now at the top of the page.
Start now. This is the year for your success!
2012 is coming up fast. But people need you now. This is the year to learn to step aside, uplevel, and let the seed that is you unfold more quickly into its greatest expression. Here are three steps to get you going:
1. Let go right now and allow the seed to be settled by gravity into its best place. So often we are so obsessed with finding the “right” place or time that we never begin.
2. Step aside and let the rain soften the soil. Allow the sun to shine on the growing plant, whatever it looks like in its awkward youth. All you have is right under your nose… if you can see it.
3. Know that everything is best in the moment. Trust that everything IS in there already and can emerge. Trust that you have the power to help the seed within you. Trust that the inner pattern of the seed knows a million ways to emerge and flower, and it’s hard to get in its way. And trust that the rain, sun and other resources you need will appear as you need them. If you find yourself worrying or getting in the way, you can actively work on building this trust.
You are a powerful being, constantly growing and increasingly fulfilling your potential. May you enjoy many blessings on your exciting journey of growth this year!
May 2011 the year you finally truly sprout your true purpose to help Awaken the planet! What can you do to start right now? Take one simple step right now, in the next 10 minutes.
Have a few ideas about how to make the world a better place? Empower yourself to do that by learning to think waaaaay beyond the box — that is, to think like a healer.
Discover how you already have the ability to do the “undoable,” change the “unchangeable” and make the “impossible” happen.
You have a tremendous power within you — right now — to make a meaningful positive difference in other people’s lives. To move beyond problems to a place where they simply become irrelevant: to heal.
Join us as we celebrate our goal of bringing more healing into the world with our groundbreaking FREE interview series — “I Am A Healer”: 100 Inspiring Stories from Ordinary People Who Are Changing the World and How YOU Can Too. To listen, all you have to do is register. Then mark your calendar for Tuesday, November 30th at 11am Pacific/2pm Eastern.
It doesn’t take much to awaken your natural Inner Healer. Listen to this information-packed call led by Global Institute for Awakening Founder Daria Boissonnas, and expand your possibilities by learning:
1. What is healing? (It’s so much more than physical repair of your body!)
2. Why is every person on the planet a natural healer? (Just how are YOU a healer?)
3. What three main types or styles of healer are there? (And which is yours?)
4. WHat you need to learn to awaken YOUR inner healer and tap into your own natural abilities to make a BIG meaningful difference
Level: All — Explorers, Healers, and Leaders Format: Three teleclasses
Dates: Wednesdays, Sept 22, 29, and Oct 6 Time: 11am Pacific, 12 noon Mountain, 1pm Central, 2pm Eastern US Duration: 60 mins, but please leave 30 mins afterwards for finishing exercises & reflecting
Description: What really drives you in your heart of hearts, and how can you apply this knowledge in your everyday life? Uncover what’s been missing all your life and exactly how to find it.
Take a big step towards personal bliss and living with purpose! Join us at any time during or after the class to upgrade how you approach living your life.
Class 1 (live on September 22):
Learn what’s been missing when you’ve felt empty, and why most people can’t find it.
Discover what does NOT fill that void, and what does, and why.
Learn the single most powerful way to succeed at anything, and how to avoid the surprisingly common big mistake that zaps it. Learn the secret nobody else teaches to making this technique work brilliantly!
Take the first step to discover for yourself what’s been missing in your life.
Understand the mindset of the healer, why it’s the ultimate mindset of success, and begin developing it.
Instructor: Daria Boissonnas, Founder, Global Institute for Awakening
Price: $125 for nonmembers
(FREE for members this year, so join as a member for just $175 here!)
When you want to succeed at anything, the best advice is to find someone who has already succeeded, and do what they did! Transform yourself by resonating with each of our guests for 30+ minutes. We are pleased to announce our first two Healers are Bee Jimpson and Sheri McConnell!
Live your life from a mindset of possibility like our guests are doing. Let this new series further awaken your powerful innate ability to solve problems, think outside the box, operate authentically from the heart, and create BIG positive change on the planet!
Yes, this series means we are officially launching our membership Sept 1! Your chance to save $50 ends August 31 and will not be repeated. Make 2010 the year you expand your mindset and lifestyle to live with meaning, possibility, and joy. Check out our life-changing benefits here: http://GIAwaken.com/benefits, and sign up ASAP!
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Healer #1 | 13 August 2010, 8am Pacific / 9am Mountain / 10am Central / 11am Eastern US time
Bee Jimpson ~ The Next Sense
Professional Healer, Intuitive, and Intuition Teacher
Bee was raised in a culturally mixed home (Egyptian, Spanish, European and Quechua) in Argentina where traditional or folk healing was commonly used. It wasn’t until much later in her life, however, that she stepped into her own power as a healer. Today Bee travels the world to mentor other healers (including me) and teach people how to accept and truly use their intuition. Join us to hear about her powerful journey!
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Healer #2 | 13 August 2010, 11am Pacific / noon Mountain / 1pm Central / 2pm Eastern US time
Sheri helps women start and grow membership-based businesses to attain financial independence, so they can make powerful life decisions from a place of abundance and balance, not from a place of poverty, fear, doubt, and “what if”. As you might guess, she has recovered from being in that position too many times herself. Today, she is the author of Smart Women Know Their “Why” – A Guide for Discovering Your Life Purpose While Owning a Business So You Can Create Positive Change in the World (and Make Big Profits!) Join us to hear Sheri’s powerful story of healing and how she helps others today. (P.S. She is my business coach this year for the Institute.)
Join me at 11:30 Central time today for a chat with Sheri McConnell, business coach and CEO/founder of the Smart Women’s Institute for Entrepreneurial Learning. You can find her on the web at: http://www.SheriMcConnell.com/
You are a spiritual being of consciousness. Your Potential to help, uplift, and heal is unlimited.
On the other hand, you live in a world with limits, move around in a physical body with limits, and run your life with a limited, logical (emotional) mind. Your everyday life is very “loud” with deadlines, sensory inputs, and probems.
Your spiritual being is very “quiet” and subtle. It can be challenging to connect with, espeically at first. Your spiritual self can be easy to overlook or forget about in the daily bustle.
But some part of you knows there is more to life than you can see, buy, or measure. You can likely feel this part of you calling to you. It becomes particularly noticeable at times we humans tend to upshift our lives: during life crises, in your teens, around age 28-30, in our forties, and our mid- to late 50s, for instance. Here’s why:
Every single person on this planet has something important and unique to contribute to the world in a positive way. Whether you call that your life purpose, your spiritual mission or your blessing, you have a natural ability in some way to bring a better way of being, thinking, and loving into this world. You have a talent for helping people love to live their lives more. We each do this in very different ways, but we each have something crucial to contribute.
When you don’t get your gift or blessing out into the world, you feel a kind of ache. Some call this your spiritual calling. Whatever you call it, if you ignore it, it gets louder and louder until you respond. It may eventually cause extreme discomfort or crisis in your life until it triggers a response. Over the years, clients have described their experiences as:
Vague dissatisfaction or boredom, even though your life seems pretty darn good on the surface…
Feeling cut off, lonely in a crowd, like nobody understands you…
A constant search: new jobs, new classes, new schools, new locations, new partners…
An aching emptiness or longing, like a part of you or a close relative has died…
Continuous pushback from the world, nothing working out well, feeling like a mess-up…
Painful experiences like an accident, illness, death of a loved one, divorce, job loss, finanical failure, etc. that snap you out of your fog.
A feeling you should be doing… something… but you don’t know what.
This is your greater potential (some say your higher self) aching to be let out of its box, to do good in the world and help you live a meaningful life that makes a big difference. This is built into you. It is your nature and your birthright. And part of you always is aware of your gifts.
It’s Time to Walk Forward into Your Potential
Many us can hear our purpose and Potential calling to us, but too few know what to do about it. The soution is: walk your spiritual path. Get a move on. Allow your Awakening to unfold. Taking the leap will help you find that missing part of yourself. You will love the results.
Don’t leap blindly, of course. Leap wisely by learning about the journey and how to read the signs along the way. Do this, and you will see doors open for you. You can find a way out of your struggles and into the light again.
You might be able to muddle through this life puzzle, this natural process called Awakening. Or like I was, you may be really stuck and need some help. Even if you’re a muddler, some guidance and training can make the journey much clearer, easier, and faster. You can get that spiritual perspective from a mentor you trust, one who believes in you and who can support you advancing along your own path. Consider joining Global Institute for Awakening with an annual membership full of guidance and inspiration.
Because it took me so long to find this information and get going on my own path, I offer you everything I’ve learned so far, plus stellar supporting advice from experts in their fields, here at the Global Institute for Awakening. Take a copy of our free Spiritual Journey Wake-Up Kit with our blessings and no further obligation, in the header bar above. Check our articles in the Category section to the right.
Without your gift, the world just isn’t whole. Your spiritual being knows this and you can feel it. I know this, and I’d love to use my gifts to support you here.
Check back tomorrow for the final fact #5 about your Awakening: Success comes only from Awakening.
Have you ever felt frustrated that people aren’t hearing your message? Maybe, like the members and fans of the Global Institute for Awakening, you tend to be creative, visionary, or intuitive. You may work as a consultant, coach, teacher, or healer. You can easily see a higher-potential way of doing things… but the people you work with don’t always get it. Ugh.
From time to time it can be hair-tearingly frustrating to be out in front of the crowd, seeing what they don’t see… yet. It’s a wonderful gift to have the vision to solve problems, but sometimes it feels like a burden. Then again, you can’t give up. You can feel your motivation and mission bubbling up inside you, and you know you’ll be miserable if you don’t listen to it.
Instead of tearing your hair out, what can you do when you get frustrated — before you burn out? The #1 concept we teach here is that you can change the world by changing yourself. This is great news because truly you CAN ONLY change yourself. Here’s one way you can shift out of the frustration: retreat back to your favorite recharging place and contemplate your raison d’etre — your reason for doing what you do.
Knowing your vision, your message, your mission, and most importantly, your WHY, can carry you through your down moments. Knowing these four items will help you move FAR in life, and quickly. It will make it easier for you to help heal the world.
Here’s the core truth of this situation, and the key to solving it: when people you are working with don’t get it, some part of YOU actually doesn’t get it. Remembering your vision, message, mission and why helps YOU to “get it” again. It helps you remember why you are doing what you are doing. It pulls you out of the details and frustration and realigns you with the highest Potential of the situation.
If you don’t have these important points written out for your life, your family-raising, or your business, take a stab at them right now. Answer these questions:
Raise Your Sights: Your Healing Vision What positive potential do you see that precious few others can see? What change are you inspired and driven to make in the world? How can you see people as empowered in the future? What problem do you know you can solve? (As an example, I see people as powerful healers of themselves and others, and as having MUCH more ability to change their lives for the better than they think!)
Speak Your Truth: Your Healing Message What information do you want to share with people? If you could make people understand one thing, what would it be? (My message: “You are a powerful healer, and to change the world, all you must do is awaken to your potential.”)
Make It Happen: Your Healing Mission
How are you carrying this out in the world? Are you a painter? A journalist? A consultant? A mother? What do you do everyday to make your vision come true and communicate your message? (I’m clearly running a community of people who want to awaken their inner healer and change the world! I also have a private practice working 1:1 with powerful creatives who can heal the world.)
Motivate Yourself: Your Healing WHY
At the core of all these things is WHY you do them. It’s easy to step out of your ego and get going again when you think of the people you are here to help and the pain you can help them move past. It’s common to have different motivation in different areas of your life.
For instance, you may simply have been born with a gift or talent or insight that you love to share with others out of pure joy. If so, you are a Creative Healer, creating healing out of nothing.
Perhaps a difficult experience in your early life motivates you to help others solve a problem that you once had. If so, you may be a Wounded Healer, transforming your pain into so much more positive change.
Perhaps you are having fun mocking the establishment and helping people see the old, stuck ways are not what they thought they were. If so, you may be a Trickster Healer.
For me, I do this because I can feel it bubbling up inside me. I know this is what I was born to do, and I feel a divine obligation and joy in fulfilling that mission and glorifying Potential in the Universe by reaching beyond my comfort zone for my highest Potential. My private practice comes from wounded healing — helping other high-level creatives, intuitives and healers deal with their gifts and successfully fulfill their big life missions.
I know you are a healer, full of solutions. Sometimes others can’t see them. Take a moment to step out of your ego and recharge yourself with your divine vision, message, mission, and reason why. Be sure to check out Sheri’s book while you’re at it!!
Watch this short but inspiring video (link below) about a fashion show for all abilities here in Madison, Wisconsin! When I was a kid, nonstandard abilities and states were considered embarrassing. Today we are increasingly celebrating their innate beauty and perfection.
How did the world change like this? By individuals speaking and acting from their hearts. One by one — and every one of them counted — family and friends of special people stood up out of compassion and love and said, “No, I love this person and will not send them away or look down upon them. They are a complete human being having their own life experience. I want them in school. I want them to hold a job if they want to. I want them to live to the fullest like every other human being.”
Never assume you don’t count. Your power to create change is much bigger than you think. When a group of people join together with a purpose, they start to build a certain consciousness. When enough people hold those ideas and that consciousness, it becomes available to the larger group, and eventually to all of humanity.
Here at the Global Institute for Awakening, we too are gathering those who want to build the consciousness of a positive future for humanity. Will you join us in changing the world? Check out our membership benefits here.
P.S. Right now you can join for $50 off while we are in pre-launch mode!
“What’s my purpose in life?” is a frequent question I hear. Based on many years of mentoring and healing, I can tell you this about finding your “thing” to do in the world: when you find your life’s purpose or mission, EVERYTHING about you and your past experiences will contribute to your doing it.
Things you’ve hated about your life or your body will help you. Experiences you wish you’d never had will enhance your wisdom and ability to help others. Things you thought were mistakes will become the source for powerful solutions. Trivial past events or facts will be helpful. EV-ER-Y-THING will count.
It makes sense that Awakening and answering your highest calling activates more and more and more of your core being. So the closer you are getting, the more your full range of abilities and preferences naturally comes into play. What part of yourself is missing from your daily activities?
Example: I started college as a mathematics major because I loved science but realized math was the ultimate language of the Universe. Though I eventually changed my major, Math has been key to the development of my spiritual outlook. Today, as a spiritual mentor, I simplify the nature of the Universe into principles and formulas that you can use to create an ideal life.
Example: I have always loved reading mysteries. Today I act as a spiritual detective, helping clients understand why things are happening to them and how to change them most easily. I find clues intuitively as well as by observing patterns in their bodies, language, habits, situations, behaviors, families, and more.
Those are just two fun random examples from my life, how about you? Think specifically of things you love doing that may be obscure, or you may have judged in the past as not allowable. Give yourself permission to be yourself. You’ll love the results.
Most of all, when you are in your purpose, you are in your greatest joy. Do you leap out of bed in the morning because you can’t wait to get going? Do you look forward to figuring out the next new thing for you? That’s what living full in your life’s purpose is like.
To get there, take an honest look at yourself and your life, likes and dislikes, what makes your heart sing, what turns pain into healing, and what combination of activities expresses every fragment of your being.
“Know Yourself” has been the first directive on the spiritual journey for thousands of years. It’s in fact number one in our seven steps for Awakening. Use the other 6 steps to support your implementing what you find within.
Bottom line: If it helps others and leaves the planet a better place while expressing your full being and bringing you previously unimagined joy, that is your life’s purpose.
Happy Friday! This sweet song has been stuck in my head all week… I especially love the last line:
“It’s hard to say that I’d rather stay awake when I’m asleep,
because my dreams are bursting at the seams…”
(The video has some great toys that date from my childhood, too, heh.)
What’s cool: This musician kept at his music-making art in his parents’ basement in a small Minnesota town, expressing his heart until… he had this huge hit. He inspires me to keep producing my art (writing), knowing that my intention to help the world will eventually allow it to happen. How can you keep at your creative outlet even though you’re not in demand… yet?
This weekend, may you get 1,000 hugs from 10,000 lightning bugs — or something just as enjoyable!
My four-year-old took me out for a walk today. She rode her scooter (no brakes–what were they thinking?!) I kept up on foot.
After finding my MP3 player in my jacket pocket, I popped in an earbud and pushed play blindly. Ah, Timothy Ferriss’s The 4-Hour Work Week, a book that straightens out all your bad ideas about working for work’s sake and letting your job walk all over you. I’d had it on “fast”. Matched my pace.
Nothing is not spiritual. We all walk the same spiritual journey, though we choose different words to describe ourselves and what we find. Whether your approach to life is random, religious or atheistic, it’s the same journey, same experiences, same tasks, same discoveries.
Chapter 15 of Ferriss’s book is quite spiritual. After he spends most of the book curing you of your job and a lot of limited, passive thinking, he is then almost obligated to help you answer to one of the hardest, scariest questions on the planet:
“If you had all the time and money in the world, what would you DO all day?”
Think about it. (Oh c’mon, could you really do that for more than a month without getting bored?) Where would you live and how and with whom? What would you do to make a difference? What’s your favorite issue or personal mission? This book is full of resources to help you really do that.
If you’ve made enough spiritual progress to get a sense of yourself and what you were made or meant to do, then check out this book for laughs if not for perspective. It’s a fun read. Get a copy here through my amazon affiliate link (thank you muchly):
“My mission in life is to access God’s gift of creativity to inspire, to touch people’s minds, bodies and spirits with love and compassion — to make a difference in this world.”
— Donna Karan, Fashion Designer
Have you written out a life mission statement? Every person on the planet (including you) has a mission (which is ultimately healing) and a healing message. Notice that Donna Karan’s is not to make lots of money or live in a big house or make cool clothes for celebrities. Those are some of the things that happen as she implements her life’s mission. Your mission is bigger than what you do and even bigger than the results you get. It’s that thing that makes your heart sing.
How can you take a few minutes today to start writing and honing your mission in life? If you’re stuck, start with hers: it’s beautifully specific and general. Edit it to fit your life. Also jot down how you dream of fulfilling your mission. Your “how” will evolve through your life, but your mission will stay fairly steady. (Of course you will get increasing clarity on it.) Share your mission or dream in the comments below!
Happy new year! What are your goals and hopes for 2010? We at Global Institute for Awakening wish for the best and happiest for you and your spiritual journey in the new year, and we would like to share a powerful exercise for spiritual acceleration.
We’ve put together a short list of bullet points to help you in each of the seven tasks of the spiritual journey. (Be sure you’ve gotten a copy of our 7 Steps to Awakening kit, in the upper right corner of this website.) You can use this list as either an intention-focusing, manifestation tool or as a prayer. Or go through it as a prayer first, then as a manifestation/attraction exercise.
One pass through took us less than 3 minutes. To make a hugely positive impact on your year, mark your calendar to do this twice a day for two days in a row, or once a day for five days in a row.
1. As a prayer, begin with your favorite opening, or consider: “Dear God/dess, please open me to receive your divine grace and guidance right now, this year, and always. Forgive me my attachments and self-limitations, and please…” Then use the bullet points, beginning each with “help me to…
2. As a life-flow or manifestation exercise, watch your breath for a minute, relax and then begin each line with “I choose to…”
• lose all attachments to past events or things
• forgive all judgments of me, by me and by others, and to lose all attachments to those judgments
• lose fearing criticism or harm from others in the future
• lose the benefits I gain from carrying my past troubles around with me, and [please help me to/I choose to] find those benefits elsewhere
• lose all doubt, lose doubting myself, lose doubting my mission, lose doubting my guidance, lose doubting my abilities, lose doubting my power, and lose doubting God
• lose expecting and requiring the world go the way I think or want it to
• lose all fears that limit my healing effect on the world
• know myself wholly, as I am divinely known
• fully love and support myself, as I am divinely loved and supported
• know, trust, and step more fully into my spiritual journey
• fulfill my greatest potential for bringing genuine healing to the world and to myself
• build faith and knowingness in my innate ability to perfectly fulfill my spiritual mission
• appreciate the past and carry only its beneficent gifts with me
• surrender to my healing mission and allow it to guide me forward
“I give thanks knowing this is done. Amen.”
May these and other blessings come your way in 2010.
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Watch this short but inspiring video (link below) about a fashion show for all abilities here in Madison, Wisconsin! When I was a kid, nonstandard abilities and states were considered embarrassing. Today we are increasingly celebrating their innate beauty and perfection.
