We are the co-conspirator of our deepest dreams: you + God = solution.
If we desire a positive outcome, we must expect a positive outcome by believing the answers to our prayers are already here.
Spiritual truth tells us that every solution we seek is already completely resolved; the only barrier that exists is us.
A long standing dream of mine is to share the wild, far-fetched-yet-true stories of my life. As someone who is intimately intertwined with the spirit world, I experience phenomenons on a daily basis. While I made it my goal to use YouTube as a teaching platform, I decided that I could also express myself in a light-hearted, humorous way by telling stories that will uplift spirits, evoke laughter and inspire many to realize there is much more to life than what we see with our own eyes.
The first episode features a blind-date with a medium, and without spoiling the storyline, I’ll say a special visitor appeared who wasn’t initially invited. This unexpected guest teaches us the gentle, loving lessons that we need to laugh more, drop the harsh inner-critic and accept that we’re all doing “just fine.”
To get where we want to go, we must focus on how we want to FEEL.
We may not even know what we want exactly or where that direction takes us, but we do know how we want to feel, and that is something we can be certain of. It’s almost always the opposite of how we may be feeling now: unfulfilled, stuck, anxious, worried or fearful.
When our self worth is staggeringly lower than it should be, we will go out of our way to prove our worthiness by trying to please others, help them, care for them or worse yet, try to fix their problems. Anything to get validation will suffice. But our true worth will never be filled up in soul satisfying ways until we begin to glean our validation from within.
The only validation we will ever truly succeed in garnering is our own. And we will not feel worthy of any such validation until we turn to the true source, God.
God knows we are perfect, whole, worthy and lovable just as we are. And God also knows no ideal weight, or career successes or relationship will be able to make us feel worthy when we are already worthy without any of those things or achievements.
We often fail to seek help until our desperation reaches unfathomable valleys. It is then, and only then, that we become ready to ask for help.
Because I let my desperation act as my motivation, I finally sought help with food addiction and compulsive eating (sugar being the main culprit).
I finally admitted I was powerless over food and the role it came to play in my life. When I wasn’t eating, I was thinking about what I would eat. When I ate, I feared that it would cause an averse reaction from food sensitivities. It was a total mind game. And I was losing.
It is up to us to love ourselves, cherish our body (as a sacred temple) and heal our mind. No one will do for us what we cannot do for ourselves.
After a long journey battling poor health and low self-worth, I made the conscious choice to love myself, cherish my body and renew my mind with the power of love.
None of this could happen until I gave myself the space to put myself first and quit burning all my energy on helping, fixing or attempting to change others. At the end of the day, I could only avoid myself and carry on with a tired body and spirit for so long.
Never underestimate the power of forgiveness to transform your life. In fact, it’s one of the things that most often keeps us from moving forward in life and creating harmony in our bodies and minds.
Somehow it seems difficult for me to ascertain how much I need to forgive myself until an emotion within my body unfurls itself from my insides and releases itself in the form of a tear.
I stumbled upon a woman of sincere faith in the elevator of a nursing home this week; it wasn’t so much a stumble as it was a nudge. The elevator was going up; I was going down. I got on without the slightest clue that I was riding in the wrong direction. But God was only nudging me in the right direction.
GeorgeAnn had a red rose pin on her lapel; I knew she was someone I needed to meet. Along with pointing me toward a monastery in Littleton, CO and sharing endless facts about certain saints and sisters, she laid a wisdom nugget on me which I’m sharing with you.
It has been one year since I had the blessed opportunity to discover the true meaning of Christmas. I have always been aware of the “reason for the season,” yet it wasn’t until I stepped away from the truth that I truly realized the deeper meaning of the “spirit” of Christmas: the kind that dwells within all of us, every single minute of the day.
On my search last year to rediscover my spirituality, it occurred to me that no amount of seeking outside of myself would ever uncover the connection I craved. I had been studying Judaism for the better part of the year, and in doing so got further away from my own truth. It was as if I listened to everyone’s truth but my own. I have always studied religion and been involved in a variety of experiences outside of my own faith tradition; it was my way of understanding who I am by gathering a plethora of wisdom from throughout the ages.
Transformation invariably begins when we start to ask questions. These are the questions posed not by our Ego but our soul. I like to think of these questions as “whispers of the soul.” While they start out as faint whispers, if left unanswered can build up in intensity like a snowball rolling down a hill. There’s no stopping our soul from beckoning; we might as well turn toward it and listen.
