Tap into the oracle of your soul

An oracle may be seen as a trigger or source of Divine revelation.  Consider the medicine wheel.  It teaches four directions of inner power.  Harness them to rethink your dreams.  Reflect on the astronomical, ceremonial, cultural, and spiritual connections.

A medicine wheel is not a tool to increase personal power.  It connects us more strongly to the power of something beyond us, Higher energy or God. The four directions of such a wheel are emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual. Each one is an oracle of the soul.

As you sense vibes from a medicine wheel, you gain valuable insight into yourself.  You sense you create mental pictures based on your emotions.  You discern emotions more clearly and reasons why they spiral out of control.  Your life always reflects how you feel. 

Whenever your physical body goes tense, this signals you lose sight of what grounds you. Uptight feelings remind you the best thing to do is slow down your thinking, breathe deeply, or pray and ask spirits to help.  You are invited to pay attention differently.

As you learn to tap into the stillness of the mind, you begin to access your spiritual guidance system. Just quiet your mind.  Believe all is in reach.  Open yourself up.  Explore new directions.  Attune yourself to what you create, express and experience in the now.

How can success be everything you are?

The human personality evolves to crave security. This nurtures our desire for things, relationships and experiences. Being human in the physical world, we convince ourselves we need money to survive. If we don’t have what we think is enough, we sense we struggle. When the intuitve nudge is there, we are prompted to act. But, to do what?

To focus on what you usually do distracts you from where attention is needed.  Have you ever asked yourself why you behave as you do?You gain perspective as you take steps to learn reasons behind your impulses. Who or what has taught you to think? How does that shape your views of conformity and external approval? Are these your choices?

What if understanding yourself on other levels is part of a meaningful process?  What if clarifying your intention will bring new kinds of fulfillment? The key to security may ly in finding and creating new inner balance.  Discovering who you are and separating this from who you were, changes everything.  What do you have to lose, but debilitating fear?

As you realize what draws most of your attention, time and energy, you may begin to ask not only what you are doing, but why, to what end?  Could you live without some of your pursuits, beliefs and experiences?  You start to think there's more going on than you see.

If you begin to sense there's something about your choices, your life, that you're not getting, then you are finally beginning to ask the right questions.  To begin to question 'why you're alive' and 'whats your purpose,' leads you to discover what life's really about.  Everything you want to know is accessible.  You only see what you are ready to see.

Did it not occur to you that body and mind are not the only dimensions in life?  Maybe its time to think again, to think anew, to move beyond what you thought you knew for sure.

What if success is an illusion?

Let's imagine that nobody wants anything from you.  Reflect on this deeply for a moment.  Consider it a valid emotional and spiritual exercise, not a mindgame.  What kind of very real implications would this have on your life? your thinking? your assumptions?

Well, for starters, many things you were brought up to believe would seem deceptive or confusing.  The perceived demands and rules of family, school, social institutions, workplaces and communities would seem like you made them up.  Would you have thought you had such a  convincing imagination?  Would you have thought you were so gullible?

Take this perspective a step further.  Why is it you've grown to link "unhappiness" with not having, not knowing and not doing?  Why might you decide that other people and circumstances beyond your control must define your level of inner contentment?

To hit the nail on the head, why would you choose to believe success has to be something you're not? Why punish yourself with reprimands, challenges, blame, guilt, fear and similar feelings that are based on holding yourself back and perpetuating insecurities?  Somewhere along the line, you decided certain things mattered.  Why?  Who told you they should?  If you didn't choose to believe your shaky assumptions, they wouldn't matter. 

Every moment of every day is an opportunity to restructure your life.  In order to do that, you need to evolve to be willing to deconstruct your entire thought system.  Imagine what kind of life you would lead if you didn't need to feel motivated, if you weren't constantly working to achieve based on desire. Would you truly discover what is?

Consider a world where you produce outcomes in more subtle ways, and the outcomes themselves don't matter.  Consider a world where the thoughts of other people influence which events unfold and you can either follow the group, or take steps to help direct it.  Consider a world where top-down hierarchies dissolve, where power and knowledge exist in all of us. Wouldn't you choose to tap into it?  What if your mindset stands in your way?

What is it you want from yourself?

Change may seem threatening because you think it leads to the unknown.  Yet, what if the way to move forward and sense progress in your life is to be experienced by going backwards?  That is, what if questioning your assumptions about what is good for you, accepting you have other answers, is key to overcoming your misunderstandings?

To ask what you want from yourself may seem simple. Yet, when was the last time you asked and answered honestly? Are you able to cleaarly write the vision down in few words? You may be unaware that it is you who decides whether your dreams will dissolve and disappear.  And you're right, another way exists.  You decide the life you will create.

When you believe you have more to learn, more to get your head around, then its possible for your circumstances to evolve with you.  It may be that you do not understand yourself and your sources of motivation as well as you could.  Your goals grow from your self-knowledge.  What if you took steps to shed light on your real options?

1) Recognize you can consciously choose how to feel. 

2) Learn how to discern your the feelings of your essential self.

3) Let go of all goals grounded in fear, guilt or shame. 

4) Recreate your sense of self based on your true feelings.

5)  Accept you create your energy vibrations to convey messages from your soul.

Renew your sense of appreciation

At some point, each of us views the world through loving eyes of understanding and appreciation. Yet, as we grow, something changes inside us.  We develop a curious preoccupation with what isn't there.  The universe just brings more of what we focus on.

A restless voice inside may intensify, urging us to complain and fear what is suddenly perceived as missing.  This may highlight the body, reputation, bank account or health we don't have.  An attitude may sweep through you to include holes you start to see in relationships, in what you perceive as less-than-perfect abilities and situations. 

This change of heart teaches us we can consider any experience in at least two ways; as if you are blessed to live in abundance or, as if you have negative reasons to live in lack. What if you decided you would shift your view to sense benefits in every aspect of life?  What if you grew resourceful to use of what you have?  What if nothing is really missing?

As you choose to renew your sense of appreciation, you choose to experience and send out love rather than create and nuture fear.  You choose to transcend the limits of fear and embrace possibilities of unconditonal love. As you reflect, remind yourself 4 things:   

1) The Universe always gives you what you think you deserve.  What you experience can always be traced back to feelings you harbour about yourself on a subconscious level.  The better you get-to-know yourself, the more you will understand and the more informed position you will be in to choose whether or not to make changes.

2) Being faced with dark sides of your psyche is an invitation to grow.  To open a channel that invites all that is good toward you, it is necessary to be willing to learn lessons.  To sense awa and humble gratitude for everything you learn, to discern it is all part of a big pictre leading to greater balance, will change your life in meaningful ways.

3) You have infinite opportunities to love, give thanks and express graitude.  One gift you have is the ability to recognize what you don't need.  You can be joyful about what is going right in your life, about all the reasons you have to feel good. You can be grateful to seize opportunities and to foresee positive results.  It begins and ends in you.

4) Gratitude can become automatic without thoughts of benefits.  It may appeal to you to express gratitude because deep down, you sense, 'what goes around comes around.'  And yet, the restoative powers of gratitude don't have to be the primary motivating factor to express it.  You may simply express grateful because it feels right.