The answers are always available

Recently, I learned that two people I cherish in my life have been diagnosed with serious stages of cancer. If this happens to someone you know, you will choose to view such news in your own way.  Coping, accepting and seeking to understand are phases people will often go through.  Healing begins with choosing new ways of thinking inside yourself.

I find it remarkable how the universe evolves to remind me of what I am really thinking inside and what I believe matters.  For example, while recently participating in a training workshop with a group of women I have known for a few years, it was brought to my attention that many of them are actually cancer survivors or in remission now.  Some volunteered their stories to the group.  Others were talking amongst themselves during tea break.   It was as if my mind was seeking answers and the universe was responding.

One sentiment that echoed from each woman was that the diagnosis of illness was a wake up call to take charge of her life in a different way.  They shifted their attitudes from a focus on longevity to a focus on making the most of what time they had been given.  It was a matter of taking responsibility for their state of mind and physical body or, acknowledging the cancer was a symptom of imbalance or how they had been living.

Many people will not recognize that the answers they seek are always within reach.  They may attribute their state of mind, emotions, body or spirit to something other than the truth.  If you do not recognize what you see or experience, you may attribute some experience to something other than what it is.   Life is an exercise in self-definition.  You learn from other people what you are really thinking but may not yet grasp or admit.

Stay in touch with who you are

Analysis of the week submitted by Anonymous in Melbourne, Australia.

Dream- I was making my way up an incline of cobblestones. I leaned intermittently on two umbrellas that I used as canes.  One had a crooked handle and the other one was straight.  Although folded, both umbrellas appeared colorful.  I sensed I was learning to stand on my own two feet and foudn myself able to walk without them.  My sisters looked down on me as they waved from a wooden balcony.  I veered off down an alley which was out of their sight. I sensed my dad.  He was facing obstacles in a rock cave.  I saw two boulders and a three-dimensional rectangle of black onyx in his path.  He found ways around them to reach the light at the end of the tunnel.  I floated outside but saw inside.

Predominant Emotions- insecure, growing confidence, supportive, resilient, and spirited. 

Interpretation-  You are moving toward what you perceive as naturally-occurring within yourself.  This requires that you acknowledge what you are not and accept your state of being.  As soon as you call something into your life, the opposite will appear as if to prepare you for different experiences.  They simply reinforce what is. 

This process reveals how you are open to confronting your own feelings and letting your emotions come to the surface.   Open umbrellas often symbolize protection or that you shield yourself from discomfort.  You are realizing you have no need to lean on others for help as much as you did.  External approval matters less than learning to trust yourself.

To cross a road represents your willingness to approach a crossroads in your life.  You have options to join the familiar or choose not to conform.  The more you explore your unconscious, the more you raise your awareness and expand your mind.  Your soul journey is teaching you how to discern illusions and also to heighten your hidden abilities.

Inverse what seems upside-down

How often have you felt as though things are not unfolding as you had imagined? You may have read about the law of attraction yet, your life experience has not proven to you that you get what you think about. Think again! Inverse what seems upside down.

In Neal Donald Walsch's book, Happier than God, he reminds human beings of a simple thing: opposites attract. How does this apply to your life? Well, if your current mindset or conditions are not what you think you desire, then you begin to realize you have to think about what evokes discomfort in order to evolve to another place.

This is not to say that you must experience what you do not want as some kind of penance to work toward what you do.   Such cultural ideas are conditioned. Punishment or suffering have no relevance to the underlying reality.  If you have two magnets, to draw the positive force toward you, you require a negative force to balance it out.

Similarly,  you may have been telling yourself to make different life choices, to slow down, take better care of yourself, but you keep putting this off.  Then, when your health suffers, you may say, 'this is not what I asked for!'  or 'I am getting to those changes.'  Your conscious awareness is not on the same wavelength as other parts of you.

And yet, what you asked for is already on the way.  You go through a process to create the life you desire. To draw your attention to what matters, your physical and emotional body go to great lengths to motivate you to do what you choose to do.  Every choice you make is a step toward alignment on energy levels you do not yet consciously grasp.

3 Ways to revisit secrets to success

As you move through life, you create different versions of success.  You speak with people who live their own perceptions of success or, talk about what they have yet to do, which will represent what they are after.  Yet, how often do you encounter people you view as successful who believe they did nothing to experience this? What would you say?

1. Make your own luck happen.  When people are not ready to take responsibility for their thoughts, they blame success or failure on a person or curiosity beyond themselves.  Yet, if you take the view you create your life, then your perception changes.  You recognize the level of your own forgetfulness.  No thought  your imagine is impossible for you to reverse.  What you have or acquire is not who you are.

2. Believe helping others helps you.  This explains the  belief that encouraging others is also encouraging you and helping you get ahead.  To goes beyond visualizing enables you to zero in on the power of energy.  The nature of energy you channel in a particular direction is as influential as the intensity of giving and any focus outside yourself.

3. Realize self-mastery begins with autosuggestion.You may choose to assume success is the result of personal initiative or collective effort to redefine existence for Humanity.  You may also choose to expand and personalize the scope of your own initiatives.  Clarify where you are.  Be as detailed as you can and then manifest it.  Practical instructions are unavailable to guide your choose-your-own life adventure.

How do you get from thinking to doing?

You have done it.  You have come to conclude what you are doing right this instant does not reveal who you really are.  This is a stage in your awareness. How do you get from thinking about something to living it? Share a step in your personal process.