But what happens when we want to make change, yet we suddenly feel held back by our own insecurities and doubts?
This is our ego working. It thinks it is protecting us, making us safe.
That is the ego’s job. It likes to plant the seeds of doubt “What if this doesn’t work out? What if I make a fool of myself trying something new? How about if people stop loving me?” It keeps us where we are, and with what we know.
That's when we slam the brakes on, and and before we know it, we’re stuck in a rut.
Factor in outside voices of family, friends, not so friendly “friends” and the news, and we really freak out!
Rather than second guessing everything we do, we need to keep moving forward. When we realize and accept this is the job of the ego (and we stay away from negativity in the process), we can then forge ahead.
This is the time for us to become bold and fearless.
Start a journal to find the pathway to your life. What moves you? What do you need to remove from your life? By setting aside time every day, even for just 15 minutes, we can then deal with our negative conditioning and fears.
Keep lists, clip out interesting photos, track what makes you feel excited and aligned, and also make note of what takes you off track. Find out more about yourself so you can manifest.
Start from the beginning of what Albert Einstein once said:
See it. Understand why. Believe it. Feel all the emotions.
Then break it down into life categories if that helps you.
Give in to your soul without thinking of the unknown, and listen to the whisperings of your heart.
This vlog is a continuation of my last vlog, “Albert Einstein and Manifestation,” which detailed the four principals to Manifesting Your Dream Life.
In this vlog, I’m adding organizing your vision into categories of your life, to make it manageable and doable. Looking at our lives as one clump can be overwhelming. By getting the granular details on paper for each category, (and breaking it down), we can see it, do it, and then go back and modify it as necessary.
I used the categories associated with the Feng Shui bagua, which include the following (feel free to change them to your liking):
Health: What are your foundations to reach optimal health and wellness?
Romance: What kind of relationship do you want and need, and what are your “must haves” in order to be happy and be the best partner you can be?
Creativity: What activities would you like to pursue to be creative? Helpful Friends: What is most important to you in a friendship? What activities do you like to do with your friends?
Career: What would you like to pursue to give back to the world and be on your path?
Learning: What interests you, and what would you like to learn more about?
Family: What kind of relationship do you want with your biological family? What about your chosen family? What boundaries do you need to put in place?
Abundance: What do you need to do to reach the level of wealth you desire?
Reputation and Image: What does the presentation of yourself say to the world? Is this the message you want to be sending out?
Once we break down exactly what we are looking for in each category above, we can then see how we want to live our lives. We can see it, make a plan, and then take action to live it.
Once we “live with it,” we can decide if it is aligned with who we really are. If not, we can tweak, change, or dismiss what does not work for us, and begin again.
As our lives change, and we change, we can re-organize and continue to grow, and become the best version of ourselves.
New Moon in Cancer occurs this evening at 6:57 P.M. EDT.
What does that
mean for you?
The new moon means new beginnings, a fresh start.
The Moon rules Cancer, focusing on what’s under the surface and our
subconscious, digging for meaning to come to the surface.
Cancerians go deep with their emotions and self evaluation for personal
growth. They are also empathetic, feeling others’ feelings. They can be
super supportive, but need take take caution in not internalizing and
taking on other people’s emotions. Cancerians can also take things way
too personally! They are leaders who get things done.
All in all, take this time of new beginnings, go deep, see how you’re
really feeling. Reflect on what is going on with others, using healthy
emotional detachment. And with all of this insight, go out there and
MANIFEST!
The difference between dwelling and ruminating on the past (and feeling like a victim), and being willing to get clarification (and expose our truth), is that the latter gives us peace.
Many of us don’t address things with others, as many of us have experienced being shut down when trying to discuss our truth with others. But the truth does not go away by ignoring it or shooing it away. It stays, and it gets stronger and stronger, as a callous on our foot does after we step on a splinter. And similar to a callous, our hearts and relationships can’t heal.
Talking through our truth allows us to come to an agreement and a reconciliation, and that strengthens trust. No matter how uncomfortable, reality is reality. We are not living in a perfect story, facades are shields trying to protect us from our pain. As we know, the human experience can be challenging, messy, ugly, painful, and heartbreaking. But that is only part of it.
Life is also beautiful, and once we get clarification, we come to terms with the truth, and we decide what to do with it. Whether we choose to look at it, address it, ignore it, or put a band aid on it, the truth will still be there.
Playing charades dishonors us, our relationships, and the truth. And from there, we can’t heal. Being in pain encourages us to go against one another.
We are all different, and we’re all impacted differently by the same situation. Opening up our mind and heart gives us empowerment. Remember, life is not a competition. We are all enough as we are.
Every opportunity gives us a chance for joy or growth, and from there we decide what to do with it.
We feel what we feel. Having the courage to speak up, we can be who we are in the best version of ourselves. The truth shines light on everything, including our magnificence.
Suppressing emotions, and not allowing them to flow through us, is unhealthy. The same is true with anything that’s “stuck” within us, and causes emotional, mental, physical and spiritual disease. Dis-ease keeps us in a perpetual state of unease and discomfort. Our emotions are gifts and tools from your spirit to enable us to navigate life. According to the book “Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue” by Neale Donald Walsch, there are five natural emotions: Grief, Anger, Envy, Fear and Love. Below are brief descriptions, explaining how they serve us, and why we should not suppress them.
Grief Grief is natural emotion after suffering a loss. It can be a physical death of a loved one, an end of a business venture, a dissolved marriage, an estranged family member, an injury that affects our physical abilities, unrequited love, or a loss of money. Life situations can result in many of these losses happening at once. Grief can also be more subtle, such as losing a sports game or a piece of jewelry. Grief hurts, sometimes agonizingly so. Grief can occur when we need to say goodbye to something or someone, when we don’t want to. Leaning into grief and allowing the sadness to flow through us freely, allows emotions to guide us through the process of mourning. If we don’t allow this very natural and healthy process to happen, momentary grief can turn into chronic depression. Depression can destroy hope in the lives of those experiencing it, as well as those around them.
Anger Anger is our spirit telling us to set boundaries. It is telling us to say “No” when we sense something, or someone, is crossing a boundary. It is living in our Spiritual Sovereignty (click here for more on my post of Spiritual Sovereignty), and remembering it is not only okay, but many times necessary, to say no. When we suppress our natural anger (which signals something is crossing a boundary), then the anger becomes rage. Ongoing rage is dangerous, and can be even deadly.
Envy
It’s natural to feel envy. Envy tells us what we want by seeing it in another. By allowing the emotion to flow and signal our desires, it gives us the opportunity to see what we need for ourselves. This can create action. If we suppress the feeling of envy, and don’t take action, it becomes jealousy. Jealousy is a very unnatural emotion, and can be extremely damaging to our relationship with ourselves and others.
Fear The purpose of natural fear is to give us protection. Caution helps keep us safe and alive. Gavin de Becker wrote a book “The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence,” which proved that when people did not listen to their natural instinct of fear, they became victims of violence. Listening to the feeling of “I shouldn’t get on that elevator,” or “something didn’t feel right about being alone with this person” can keep us safe, secure and alive. If we suppress our natural fear, it becomes panic. Ongoing panic keeps us in a perpetual fight or flight response mode, not allowing us to relax, stay safe and enjoy life. This will negatively affect us, physically and emotionally, and will affect people in our lives as a result.
Love When love is allowed to be felt, expressed and shared without embarrassment, inhibition, manipulation or conditions, it is the strongest connection we can have to another being. When we are taught to love conditionally, with rules, and not openly, our feelings become suppressed. When we are not able to express our love limitless, we experience possessiveness, one of the most unhealthy and dangerous emotions that can destroy relationships and trust. We hold onto others in an unhealthy way, not allowing them to have their freedom to love in their own right. We are then unable to feel satisfied with what we are given by another. This negatively impacts ourselves, and others, in shared intimacy.
I will end my post with, “Be you.” Allowing our emotions to flow through us, (as the water does in the picture above) gives us a real sense of how to respond to a situation. As in the picture, no matter how we react, the rocks will still be there. We can flow over and through the rocks, or allow the rocks to create a dam. When we stop allowing personal, and outside, judgment from creating suppression, natural emotions flow without shame. Then we all benefit by becoming more of who we are, healed.
The Judgement card represents all of us being judged, and that we can
redirect our karma as soon as we set our intention to do so. We are not
defined by our mistakes, but the decisions we make every day. We can
redirect our lives and the judgement we receive.
If this is you, you can make things better, believing in yourself. Put
yourself in a position to make amends. If this is someone you know, give
them the grace, space and support so they can feel your belief in them
to turn things around.❤️
I hope this brings you a message that you needed to hear today. If
someone you care about needs to see this, please pass it on.
This card is from one of my favorite decks, Golden Art Nouveau by Giulia F.
Massaglia.
The King of Cups represents someone who is mature, emotionally intelligent and gives great advice. He is wise and diplomatic.
If this is you, your guidance is needed, so let someone you know who is struggling that you are there for them. If you need guidance, this represents someone in your life who can help you, so go ahead and ask them for help.
The King of Cups will be there for you and guide you in the right direction 🏆❤️
I hope this brings you a message that you needed to hear today.
If someone you care about needs to see this, please pass it on ❤️
This card is from one of my favorite decks, Golden Art Nouveau by Giulia F.
Massaglia.
