We all have a profound spiritual gift. We have something to offer that the world and the people around us desperately need right now. Do you know what it is?
One of the ways you can get in touch with this is to observe the uplifting effect you have on others when you when your heart is open. So… next time you feel open and on your game, check out the effect you have on the person or people around you. Not the effect of the things that you say or do. But rather, the subtle effect that your energy has on them.
Does it make them feel calm? Does it inspire them? Does it make them feel safe? Does it offer them hope? Does it make them feel loved? Does it nurture them. Does it make them feel grounded? Does it make them feel stronger. Does it help them feel more connected and in touch with things? Does it help them trust themselves and bring out their confidence. Does it make them smile? Does it make them feel heard or acknowledged? Does it make them feel like they are part of something? Does it add life and vitality? Does it help them enjoy themselves? And finally, does it bring out the best in them?
The Native Americans would call that “your medicine”. They would be honor, celebrate, and call upon it.
The Buddhists would call it your “dharma”. They would bow to it.
Can you acknowledge it in yourself? It is the natural intention of your heart. It is the innate blessing of your soul. Ever consider that you carry a natural blessing to others with you all the time? You do. All you have to do is let it out.
When you do, the world will be much better place- especially for the people around you.
To create the life you want, you need clear intention. This requires focus. You sometimes need to do some soul-searching to find out what is important to you. It has to be what is important to you now- not ten years ago.
As we grow, what is important to us changes. These changes sometimes manifest in “existential crises” such as midlife crises. The way to resolve an existential crisis is to redefine what is important to you. This allows you to focus and create something new. This can be done through a “rite of passage”- or consciously changing what your life is about.
Once your intention is focused, you need discipline. You have to hold that focus long enough to for it to manifest. If you let your mind and intention go all over the place, you will create random things for ourselves. By the time the things that you intended presents itself, you are onto something else and often do not even recognize it.
Discipline allows us to work with our intention long enough to unfold it. This is illustrated through a metaphor of shooting arrows. If you shoot your arrows in the same direction, it takes you further and further toward your goal. If you shoot your arrows in all different directions, they are not able to be as focused and effective.
So take aim and keep shooting your arrows until the thing you intended presents itself. Many people give up or get distracted right before what they want appears. Focus and discipline.
When I first learned to create things for myself, I tended to force things to happen. This was a huge improvement on being passive and feeling that things were happening to me.
But by forcing things to happen, we are limited to creating the thing that we have our sights set on. It is linear. “I want that job. I am going to make that happen.” When we do this, we push our energy out.
By creating an intention for what you want and allowing things to unfold, you open yourself to all the possibilities associated with that intention. There may be something more beneficial than what you initially identified for yourself. When we do this, we allow energy in.
Allowing things to unfold starts with clear intention. It has to get to the core of what you really want.
Then when allowing this to unfold you have to let go of the picture of what you wanted, so you can see all the possibilities that present themselves to you.
When something presents itself to you, it your responsibility (to yourself) to explore it. Possibilites or “doorways” will open themselves to you. You can poke your head in the door to explore it without fully committing or attaching to it. I call this “free flight.” If you see it is what you want, you surrender to it. If not, you move onto the next doorway that opens.
What possibilities are you presenting to yourself today? What doorways are opening? Are you allowing yourself to see them?
Saturday, March 20th is the Spring Equinox and the first day of spring. The Spring Equinox is celebrated by Native Americans and other earth-based spiritual traditions by doing ceremonies and rituals. The idea is to connect with what is naturally occurring with the earth and nature. You can then draw on that energy to create movement and change within yourself.
Spring Equinox is represented in the east in the Native American Medicine Wheel in the tradition that I was taught. It is the time of birth and new beginnings. Plants are sprouting and animals are giving birth. It is the perfect time to plant seeds for the coming year.
We can plant seeds for our lives as well. This is accomplished by becoming clear in your intent of what you want to create for yourself this coming year. Expressing your intent through prayer, thought, journaling, or meditation plants the seeds for your new life to grow.
This happens energetically at the spiritual level in that the power of your intent or thought focus will actually create and open the doorway for the thing that you want for yourself. This is some of what
The Secret and the
Law of Attraction talk about.
The Secret talks about the law of attraction having three steps to attract what you want to yourself: asking, believing, and receiving. Spring is the perfect time for asking and believing.
At the physical level, focusing on your intent and what you want helps you do what is needed to create it and then to recognize it when it presents itself to you.
Spring is in the air. Make sure you take the time to clarify and express your intention for the coming year. The energy to do so is all around you.
The Native American Medicine Wheel could be called the “wheel of life.” It shows the natural cycles of life. It uses the things in nature like the change in the seasons to teach how life works. The “East” on the Medicine Wheel represents springtime when there is birth, blooming, and new beginnings.
The
I Ching, an ancient Chinese text, states, “Man (and Woman) is as at the height of wisdom when all that he (or she) does is as self-evident as what nature does.”
Life has a way that it creates and unfolds things- a “natural state of being.” If we step out of our contrived world and tune into the natural way that things work, we can access what we want. Our intention and actions would resonate with the natural state of being, and the things we want would naturally unfold.
It’s not that life does not want us to have the things that we want. We have just been going about it in a way that has no place to plug in to the natural state of being. Our culture is no longer in tune with this natural state. In this sense, it is lost.
This is the value of using the Medicine Wheel, meditating, and connecting with nature. These things can teach us how the the natural state of being works, so we can align ourselves with it. We can then resonate with it and unfold the things that we want for ourselves. We can dance with all of creation.
It takes a while to get used to it. It will not feel like it is on our terms. This can be a bit frustrating at first, because we are used to wanting things on our terms.
So next time you want to create something, go observe nature. It can teach you how you can unfold it in conjunction with the natural state of being.
We all have a profound spiritual gift. We have something to offer that the world and the people around us desperately need right now. Do you know what it is?
To create the life you want, you need clear intention. This requires focus. You sometimes need to do some soul-searching to find out what is important to you. It has to be what is important to you now- not ten years ago.
When I first learned to create things for myself, I tended to force things to happen. This was a huge improvement on being passive and feeling that things were happening to me.
Saturday, March 20th is the Spring Equinox and the first day of spring. The Spring Equinox is celebrated by Native Americans and other earth-based spiritual traditions by doing ceremonies and rituals. The idea is to connect with what is naturally occurring with the earth and nature. You can then draw on that energy to create movement and change within yourself.
The Native American Medicine Wheel could be called the “wheel of life.” It shows the natural cycles of life. It uses the things in nature like the change in the seasons to teach how life works. The “East” on the Medicine Wheel represents springtime when there is birth, blooming, and new beginnings.
