Signs, symbols and coincidences.
Have you ever had one of those weeks where you wonder what on earth you are doing? Where every move you make, no matter how well intentioned, just seems to bounce on stony ground. When you question your very existence. What you are doing? If you’re on the right path, or heading in the right direction? Where you can see so clearly how things could and even should work but for some reason they just don’t? So, then you ask yourself if it’s just you? If no one else can see what you see does that mean that you are the one who isn’t seeing things as they are? That you’re just different, maybe even strange. At this moment do you let the thoughts running through your head drag you down and start to follow the crowd or do you accept that thats ok? That it’s fine to be different, to see things differently, to offer up your own perspective on things, even if all those around you think you’re bonkers. Being openly you is amazing, great, and fantastic and really, honestly, it’s the only way to go.
Like most of us, I’ve had moments in my life where being different has meant feeling isolated, wondering where my group of like-minded people were. Knowing I could fit in and adapt to new groups, new places but actually getting to the stage where I didn’t want to – where I wanted to stand and shout out ‘but this is who I am” and you know what, it felt amazing to do just that. To drop all the masks and let myself be me – bonkers, spiritual, earthy, compassionate, caring, honest, hopeful and without expectation and that’s just the good stuff…. You’ll have to wait to hear about the reverse side….
So why are we so afraid to just be ourselves? To follow our path. To let ourselves go where the Universe guides us? Years and years ago when I was learning massage to start my new life in my new business I clearly remember being guided to run a workshop about Angels, ok lets be totally honest about this I was very clearly asked by the Angels to do so. Surprised? Yes! Scared? You’re not kidding. But when I stopped to analyse the fear, it was all ego based – would anyone actually come? Would they think I was a total kook? Would I be able to give the information the Angels wanted? Thankfully once I had managed to move past that, to see it for what it was I ended up running two workshops both of which were, of course, fully booked. Why wouldn’t they be, my guidance was to do them so of course it would work. A large lesson in trust learned, I hope.
So what do you do when your guidance is to do something and it doesn’t work? You look for the signs, for the symbols that the Universe sends you, for coincidences. Are you being tested to make sure that your heart and soul are truly in alignment with this? That you do want this to work? Does following your path require a giant leap of faith? Or is your guidance in fact your own ego telling you to do this for some other reason. Have you spent so much time listening to what other people tell you rather than following your own judgement that you no longer listen to your guidance? If so, stop, breathe, ground yourself and look around you for the signs that the Universe will send you. That way you will know whether you are on the right path, sometimes it’s just a case of waiting for the right time too, for everything else to be in alignment. And that is another lesson.