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.

Unbury the limiting ideas that keep you where you are

Many people consciously repress thoughts and feelings that would cause them to alter behavior.  You may do this too.  You may sense thoughts that are incompatible or inconsistent with how you usually think or live your life.  As such, you are protecting the limiting beliefs that you hold and keep yourself where you are. What suggestions surface?

Your personal choices and experiences are grounded in your sense of limitations.  Many self-restricting beliefs go unnoticed.  Whenever you consciously dislike things, or sense and acknowledge discomfort, you are creating more of what you don't want.  Why is it you hesitate to open  up to experience or ideas that contradict your current beliefs? 

As you become more attuned to your thoughts, you will realize it is possible to create visions that are incompatible with how you feel.  You can decide it would be a good idea to go for a ride in a vehicle you have traditionally feared.  You can sign up to learn swimming, rock climbing, diving or any activity that forces you to take risks you have been avoiding.  If you decide to confront the source of your fears, whatever form they take, your mindset will begin to bring you different feelings and circumstances.

Realize your conception of reality is not reality.  Your beliefs are not reality. You imagine what you will experience before it happens and your assumptions are often unfounded.  You anticipate how you will feel based on conditioning.  You assume that you will feel pain when you stub your toe, and then you do.  You believe life must be better elsewhere and then feel unhappy wherever you are.  You imagine getting punished for a mistake and you're reprimanded.  You get what you ask for.  Will you let limiting beliefs get your goat? 

Consider if your life experience evokes mainly good feelings, and you encounter primarily encouraging and helpful people, then your beliefs would seem beneficial.  If you explore your subconscious with limiting belief though, you may perpetuate a vicious circle.

More specifically, if your mind dwells on reasons for poor health, complaints, reasons for dissatisfaction in areas of your life, sadness, doubt, cynicism and evil or negativity, these are signs you would benefit from examining the basis for your beliefs.  You are never at the mercy of events.  Real causes can be uncovered deep within your awarness.

Reach beyond what you know

Analysis on dream submitted by Anonymous of Melbourne, Australia.

Dream- I was levitating on my back asleep inside the middle of a transparent bubble. I wore a turquoise dress and the symmetrical bubble was surrounded by a similar, turqoise aura.  I peered outside the bubble through my third eye. From my parallel height, it was a world of jagged, rock points surrounded by glorious pastel colors on a moving horizon. A distance above and to the side of me, I could sense multiple moons.  I reached up to push through the bubble with my bare hand.  The bubble simply took on the shape of my fingers, but didn't burst.  As I lay my hand back down, a ball of white light emerged from my stomach area and passed effortlessly through the bubble up into an infinite abyss.

Predomiant Emotions-impatience, awe, restlessness, expectation, and liberation.  

Interpretation- You aren't willing or able to "burst your own bubble" because you have faith in your ongoing path.  Turquoise as a stone possess healing energy.  This color of aura often characterizes a spiritual teacher.  At soul-level, you bridge spirits of the Earth and the beyond, though you may not yet consciously recognize your true potential.

Texture of perceived surroundings and the nature of your perceived limitations are also significant.  You sense you move beyond them. As you intend to move forward, doing what you've always done isn't always appropriate or effective.  Stretch yourself mentally to tap into your deeper soul.  You can keep sources of assumed fear at a distance, yet the "point" is this doesn't enable you to dissolve and confront them as lessons require.

Hands highlight resourcefulness and ingenuity. as well as communication. If you've been having trouble "getting through" to yourself, then an alternative solution is on the horizon.  You visualize in full color because raising your vibration is having a positive impact.  As your consciousness speeds up, you shift your perception.  Time and space as you knew them change.  Be encouraged to "go with the flow" and evolve with the light.