Hedgy situation

Analysis of the week submitted by Sheryl in Berwick, Victoria, Australia.

Dream- My focus was on blue sky. I was flying with the current. I went up and down and flew over hedges with a sense of frustration.  They repeatedly appeared in my path.

Predominant Emotions- courage, determination, stubborness, ignorance, and fear.

Interpretation- Flying sensations remind how you value freedom.  You realize inner peace is within reach, but perceived reasons for melancholy distract you from new options.  Reflection will assist you to develop clarity and rise above what bogs you down. 

Hedges are like imagined boundaries you grow from within.  They represent restrictions and self-limiting beliefs that take root inside. You may seek to mitigate possible losses from a situation that keeps rushing back.  It may hit you like a shock of an electric current.  To evade or waffle what bothers you is an ineffective delay tactic.  What are you afraid of? Identify the root cause to rise above overwhelming emotions.

Reptition is a way the universe is drawing your attention to something. Either you aren't getting a valuable lesson or you haven't yet discerned an imbalance that requires a change of behaviour on your part.  You may postpone facing reasons for recent pain.

Note we're each on a path. Its normal to sense ups and downs.  This is your feeling gauge.  Feelings act as a reliable guide about what is working or isn't working in your life.  This vision invites you to give more serious attention to your life choices.  Reflect and review the implications of continuing as you have.  Obstacles suggest you may be misdirected, misguided or beating your head against a wall. Each experience is valuable.

When is it time to rethink where you are?

Some people might tell you anytime is the right time to do what you want.  Yet, if you listen to your gut, voices about responsibilities and commitments will echo that this isn't always true.  Its a kind of balancing game.  Which voices do you hear inside yourself?

Take a friend of mine, a home builder.  He is licensed and capable, but he's bored and senses he doesn't follow his true passion.  He told me he repeatedly took trade courses to expand his license, but his teacher refused to certify him.  He admitted being frustrated.  The man's teacher was convinced he would be exploited.  He admits his personality isn't aligned with the job.  He came to me expressing impatience for change.

The context of your situation always invites you to find blessings in your circumstances.  How often do you notice them? You may begin to recognize signs that are pulling you away from what you know.  If you ask yourself if its appropriate to rethink who and what you are, then this may simply begin with questioning what you do.  Remind yourself that;

1) You are always building bridges.  Everything you learn is actually preparing you for something you have not anticipated.  When you choose to value each experience for what it is and not where it may be leading, your perspective shifts to transform you.

2) Barriers in your perception appear.  When you sense what you do is incompatible with what you would really like to do, you realize discomfort can be interpreted as a positive sign.  Knowing what you don't want prompts you to explore and embrace what you do.  When you find reasons to doubt, judge or generate negative energy, these are barriers to how you really want to feel.  This brings you closer to the more inviting light.

3) The journey never ends.  The totality of yourself is something you piece together throughout your understanding of life.  To believe in possibilities, in positive outcomes and meaningful experiences, all helps define your path.  Some people assume freedom is frightening, that change is something to be avoided at all cost.  Yet, as you choose to think you have been grooming yourself for this moment, then you reframe everything and focus 'on the now.'  To choose to be humble and indifferent is the antidote for impatience.

What is the best advice you have ever been given?

As we evolve, grow and make different choices in our lives, memories of external influence can come rushing back to us.  No matter where you are and what you are doing, different people have helped you get to where you are right now. 

You may reflect on your parents, employers of the past or present, friends, strangers or people who have entered your life, stayed briefly and may no longer be there.  Each relationship offers lasting wisdom.  Some leave more lasting impressions.

Amidst all this, it is meaningful to ask yourself what is the best advice you have ever been given?  Who shared this wih you? What were the circumstances? How has your life evolved as the result?  Share your own personal story to inspire others and encourage yourself.

Helen Keller & 3 reminders to raise you up

Hellen Keller experienced an illness during infancy which left her blind and deaf.  She intially reacted to her circumstances wth anger, confusion and frustration.  She realized she seemed different than other people and assumed that silence and darkness were bad. 

As she began to face and listen her inner voice, she began to sense her fears were small and insignificant.  She stopped paying attention to beliefs that weren't to her advantage.  Like Helen, you have power to remind yourself how to raise your awareness:

1)  Uncover your own gifts and potential.  We each have a mind that can be educated, a hand which can be trained, and a path which is right to follow.  Only as you choose not to be controlled by negative emotions can you open up to inner treasures you overlook.

2) Tap into your true power.  Some people assume this simply means to have a dream.  Yet, the truth is found when you stop being ego-centered and self-absorbed.  To realize emotion distorts reality helps you transcend what isn't useful. Do you raise yourself up?

3) Value your imagination.  Your mind gives life to your beliefs.  In order to dissolve or release and unsuitable beliefs and create new ones, you benefit from exploring the power of your imagination to focus on the most meaningful concepts.  Insodoing, you develop the courage to embrace what matters and the determination to discard what doesn't. 

Realize the implications of your core beliefs

Each of us lives a life based on what we focus on.  This goes further than simply relating experiences back to a passing thought.  It can actually be traced back to core beliefs.  How well do you know yours? Are you aware your telepathic thoughts have implications?

You reinforce your reality both consciously and unconsciously.  You may find it easier to intuit core beliefs in other people.  Yet, as you begin to link behavior back to thoughts in others, you will gradually become less blind to your beliefs.  You will also begin to discern "positive" and "negative" only gain meaning when you get convinced you're dissatisfied.  To become more aware of why you reinforce this negativity helps shatter your illusions.

Let's say you feel as though you have recently faced an unusual number of unforeseen challenges.  How you react to each influences what comes next.  So, if your words and actions are reinforcing resentments, anger, bitterness, thoughts of doubt and failure, then your experience will reinforce this.  Do you connect events with your core beliefs?

Consider a man I know was excited to get married and felt devastated when his fiance broke it off less than a month before the event.  A number of issues surfaced during pre-marriage sessions with the minister, such as the bride-to-be was still married and had emotional  baggage from prior marriages she wasn't willing to work through. 

A week after the broken engagement, the woman returned to her estranged husband and demanded money from her ex-fiance to pay wedding bills. Now, the ex-groom-to-be paid the first half and then discovered some bills didn't exist (i.e. the wedding venue rental deposit had been returned a month before ex-bride-to-be broke engagement.) The ex-groom-to-be stopped further payment.  He blames the ex-fiance for strife and missing personal property and she blames his inability to communicate and listen for her lot.  Lawyers are now involved. As beliefs generate negative emotions, a situation can spiral. 

Clearly, dishonesty played a role in the disintegration of this relationship, but each person is accountable for his or her own actions which are themselves based on core beliefs.  How well you know yourself influences the kinds of partners you attract and the kind of treatment you accept.  To become aware of your own ideas and beliefs about love, trust, understanding, faith and other qualities, you choose experiences that can help you to remove your own blinders.   Do your core beliefs work to your advantage?

In other words, the life experiences you choose enable you to come face-to-face with how you judge yourself.  On a conscious level, you may not be aware of things like; low self-esteem, negative self-image, self-destructive behavior or self-limiting thinking.  A core belief stays invisible if you assume its a fact of life and not a belief about life.  Whether or not you are willing to acknowledge and deal with core beliefs determines whether your physical experience reinforces them or teaches you anything different.