I had a challenging day. Today was the day I learned whether or not I reached round 3 of the next top spiritual author competition. I didn’t make it through and I was surprised. I thought that I had done enough work to promote my message and I spent many hours on my book proposal before submitting it. Why couldn’t I be happy that I was one author out of 2000 people that had made it to round 2? Quite frankly, I had my heart set on advancing to round 3. So I cried some tears of self pity for a very short time. I looked up the 25 authors who had made it to round 3 and made some mental notes to myself. These 25 people have a visible web presence and it appears they have been at their respective crafts for a while. They have been working at this longer than I have. I entered this competition on a whim. Now I have to dig deep and create my long term vision and validate myself at this point. I have to have a stronger belief in myself. This situation just reminds me to dig deep, trust in my heart what I know to be true and give thanks for the opportunities that come my way…The stories you make up about why things happen the way they do are more detrimental than your actual reality. This much I know is true. If I beat myself up and make up a story as to why I did not advance to round 3, this surely does not serve me. If I trust in my dream, I know that this door closing will mean another door opening. Sometimes all that you can do is connect with spirit and trust in that connection. The ego gets a little bruised by life but aren’t we all needing to let go of our ego these days….until next time love yourself!
It’s all about alignment…
When I talk about alignment, I am talking about what things do you need to do, what steps do you need to take with regards to your own personal alignment within yourself. What factors are required for you to thrive? What is your best environment with regards to work? What does it look like? What are you doing? What is your favored environment in terms of the people whose company you keep? Are you in a big group of people or are you with just a few? If you had a day to yourself, how would you choose to spend it? Deep within ourselves, lies our most suited path of alignment. This is your deepest knowing. Checking in with yourself from time to time will help you connect with your deepest knowing. Another term for this is your inner voice. Everyone has an inner voice. It is built into our DNA in the form of personal consciousness. When your personal consciousness is aligned with divine consciousness, then you are a perfectly tuned instrument in the orchestra of your life. When things are feeling off track in your life, chances are you are not in alignment in some way to whatever process you are currently working in or with. Ask yourself ‘how can I be more in alignment with this personal experience right now’? Check in with yourself and you might be surprised to receive an answer. Knock on the door and it will be opened. The more you can live in alignment with who you really are the better your life will get. It’s like the pistons all line up when you are in alignment and they are firing to full capacity…Aligning your personal will to divine will is the key to having all your pistons firing but this does not happen without knowing your self first…You have to detach from your previous experiences, your attachments, and your personal history and get clear on your own personal alignment. What is most important to you and what do you want your path to be? How can you be of service in the world? Where can your light shine brightest? It’s all about alignment in the end…Love and happy July long weekend to everyone, Robin
Trusting that you are held by a higher power…
When life gets challenging, I sometimes default to a fearful stance versus a trusting stance. I always have to remind myself that I don’t have to be in control all the time – control is an illusion anyways…Whenever you come from a place of ego, you are automatically susceptible to feeling fear and distrust. These are two things that the ego thrives on. When you find yourself coming from a fearful stance, look behind that. Why are you not trusting that you held by a higher power? Why do you feel that you have to run the show and if you don’t that things will fall apart. Feel the freedom of viewing things from a different perspective – one that feels more relaxed and easy versus pressure filled and intense. Take a moment to connect in with yourself; from that place of connection you can sense deep inside of yourself that everything will be okay. You have to live your life from a place of trust versus a place of fear. If you are unsure of what direction to take regarding a decision you need to make, take the time to get quiet and don’t rush a decision until you feel that centred place inside of yourself. From that centred place, you can make a decision, trusting that you are held by a higher power…and that takes the pressure off your egoic self that you have to be in control all the time…