Do you think to yourself, “I work so hard to create a satisfying life…why aren’t I there yet?” Well maybe you are, and you just don’t see it, hear it, feel it, taste it, smell it…got the picture?
Probably not, since I just began with the end in mind. Let me rewind and start at the beginning…
Today was a stunningly beautiful day at the Secrets in the Garden Festival. In my opinion, this is a festival which joins many influential women, with some not so influential women, yet all women who have a passion for achieving their dreams and creating themselves a satisfying life. No woman “better than” another, simply women living a soulful life through connecting with each other, connecting with their dreams, connecting with their passions and pleasures. And when women get together to do this, magic happens. I see it in my Nia classes regularly, people make connections with their bodies, their souls and each other and little lights go on all over the place. Illumination point number 1!
So back to the festival…I had the pleasure of listening to 3 women speak, and it was quite fascinating that all these three women had similar messages. One of them Annette Stanton, even said in her talk…when you hear something 3 times, then you had better listen. Michelle Bridges being 1 of the speakers also recognized this point and her take on it was “what you resist, persists”. The message you need to hear, will continue to call to you and become louder and louder (and that loudness is not so pleasant, can be rather drastic in fact)... Been there, and know that one well, but that is another story. For me, the festival was a reminder of just how powerful the inner world really is. And when I say inner world, I mean that magical place inside us that loves to experience with all the senses, that place that really hears when we listen and truly sees when we look.
When we take the time to tune into this, we tap into our wisdom – a very useful start to creating a satisfying life. Then to take action on the messages we receive is the fuel we add to the fire of those heart’s passions. And that is such a simple secret to success…
Tune in and Take action. Illumination point number 1b! So why is it not being actualized for so many people?
Throughout our life, we are gifted with what I call Melting Moments. These are touchstone moments where it appears that this moment is so loud, so significant and so charged up, that it burns into your memory like no other moment. It is more obvious when you look back on it and sense just how powerful that moment was, because it is embedded in your psyche as an easily accessed file, that just seems to pop up to the front of your brain, when it is most relevant. If you subscribe to the teachings that all answers exist within, then this is a useful tool to have…Ask the question, let the answer arise. And I am not guaranteeing it will arise immediately, but I am saying that there are opportunities literally everywhere for your consciousness to be illuminated. Illumination point number 2
As an example, in this past month I have been acutely aware of my masculine overdrive tendencies affecting my life. So I have been asking for support to become more attuned to my feminine and flowing abilities. To cut a long story short, simply by being amongst women who have been where I have been and who are walking the path I am walking and sharing this so openly with the world, I recognized I am exactly where I need to be, doing exactly what I need to do, hearing just what I need to hear and taking all the necessary steps. I have been doing all the things the coaches are suggesting to do and each step I have taken has been in the right direction. That is what the feminine flow is all about – connecting with others and working with inner wisdom and intuition. TICK! It was always there, all it took was for me to take a soulful journey outside of my everyday grind and then acknowledge it.
There are so many reasons why people get stuck on the “Tuning In” aspect, or on the “Taking Action” aspect. In this day and age, with so many distractions, so many people in our lives and so many products being sprouted and spruked, it takes a lot of awareness and focus to remain attuned to the song of the heart and to continue believing in that. That is why we do what we do at Soul Nurturing. We want others to share the soulful transformations that we have experienced.
So many of us are trained to “use our head” and this over activity in the head, or rather the mind, is like a wet blanket on a fire. It is extremely difficult to get anything done when there is a whole panel of voices arguing their different standpoints (and you don’t have to have schizophrenia to experience this). It is also difficult to be present to enjoy a moment or to enjoy the beauty of your soul when you are in your head. The body is the vehicle for your soul, and it has nothing to do with your mind.
Make a daily practice of connecting with your body and your senses and ask yourself, “Have I created enough opportunities to listen to my heart?” “Have I taken a step to honour my heart on this day?” And then you will know that vision by vision, song by song and step by step, you will be living your satisfying life.
If you would love to explore personalised strategies for you to achieve more presence with your soul and its wisdom, email us and we will get in touch with you for a free introductory consultation on the phone. info@soulnurturing.com.au