Pondering Life Questions With My Son…

The other night before bed, my 12 year old son asked me, “If heaven is so great, and you always tell me I’m a big ball of love and light that came from there and will return there after I die – then why do we come here? Why not just stay in heaven forever?”

Whelp. I guess he’s definitely my kid. At this point my husband would have said, “go ask your Mom.”

Why do we come to Earth? Perfect, let’s dive into this at 10pm on a Monday night.  I do love this question though and thought it worth sharing our conversation.

I began by explaining it’s my belief that it’s our Soul’s choice to visit Earth. I believe the larger aspect of us, which you might call your Soul/Higher Self/Awareness/Consciousness, chooses when to incarnate (I believe we incarnate for many lives), to which parents, which part of the world, and which circumstances. I like to think of it as going to an amusement park or choosing to play a game. But of course Earth steps it up a notch by being a wildly immersive, multi-sensory, all-inclusive game.

The game of Life.

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Know Yourself As The Observer

I often talk to clients about finding peace among all that’s going on “out there” and “in there.” Something to try:

If you could picture yourself as a bit separate from what’s going on around you.  A bit of an observer – noticing the emotions, thoughts, sensations, smells, and sights of all that whirls and swirls in your awareness.  Both inside and outside the body.

Take a moment to stand still.  Still the body, slow the breath, and feel the weight of your feet on the ground.  Notice that when you stop – life continues to proceed and unfold around you.
There is nothing you have to DO.  Life is unfolding FOR you.

Now let go and take a step further back in your awareness.
Who or what is the still presence observing all that’s inside and outside?  Who or what is observing the emotions, thoughts, images, people?

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How I Shifted From Anxiety To Intuitive Knowing

This is a little longer post, but there’s a message in it that I hope you enjoy.

We seem to live in a world of instant gratification, combined with a constant stream of suggestion and influence.  From Amazon to Instagram to InstaCart – we see image after product after lists of “10 Ways To A Better You…” An endless stream of THIS WILL MAKE YOU HAPPY. 

Think about all the information thrown at you in one day.  

Where does that stream of suggestions and news and ideas we absorb actually GO?  They take on an energy of their own and float around in our minds on an endless loop of INNER chatter.  Running in the background, behind the scenes, noticed and un-noticed by us. 

It’s no wonder so many people feel anxious and depressed. 

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Learn To Awaken & Trust Your Intuition

I’ll be teaching a 3 part class this Fall all about Awakening and Trusting Your Intuition.

Each of us has an inner guide – our Spirit/Soul/Connection to Source – and it often gets buried as our human mind and outside sources become our go-to navigators.  Rather than going within for peace and confidence and direction, it can become habit to do a quick Google search, read the news, ask a friend or family member, or read a book.  But we each have the gift of our own inner voice.  Have you been listening to yours?

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Guided In The Moment (And The Middle Of The Night)

I woke up to the sound of my husband snoring around 4:30am today (the struggle is real dealing with a snoring spouse).  I tossed and turned for a while and then just settled into my thoughts.  Although I wasn’t feeling anxious, my mind was jumping around a bit – thinking of different activities to do with the kids today, etc.  

After an hour I moved downstairs to the couch.  There’s something comforting about being able to lay and look out the window.  I closed my eyes and told myself to find the space of peace I find during meditation.  My breath slowed, my mind followed.

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Judge Nothing That Occurs

I know a lot of people reading this are like me, trying to balance kids’ schedules, work, Fall activities, and squeezing in time for yourself.  Life can get full.  And when we as humans try to hold it all together, it can be frustrating when things don’t go as planned in your mind.

If like me, some days you are feeling too human, and missing the peace that you know you truly are as a Soul, as Spirit, then try joining me for today in saying this to yourself:
“Today I will judge nothing that occurs”

I find that as I do this, it creates space in my inner world, followed by more peace in my outer world.  Without judgment, where do our thoughts go to?  It creates a space for your higher self, your divine nature, to have breathing room in your reality.

If we don’t judge what one of our friends or family members are doing, and just accept them as is, what then?  We aren’t allowing our minds to be clouded over with “what if” or “if only they changed, then I could be happy”.

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When Loving Is Tough…Shift To Neutral

While we are living our human life, we live in a world of duality. Light and Dark is an easy way to imagine it.  And we experience both sides.  Yet our core, never dying, expanded consciousness is pure Awareness.  Pure light.  

While on some level most know this to be true, what to do when you simply find it impossible to reach this level of light and love in certain situations?  Shift to Neutral.

Imagine a meter representing your state of mind.  To the left is your Ego self whose main emotion is: FEAR.  To the right is your higher self: unconditional LOVE.
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Stop it!

I listened to a podcast the other day where a teacher referred to a Bob Newhart sketch about addressing our fearful mind.  I love Bob Newhart and had never seen this video, but I thought it was worth sharing – for the laugh of course, and also for the bit of insight.

Those familiar with my writing know I focus on edging out our Ego or “small self” voice in favor of following our True Self or our “Expanded Mind” that never dies.  I just love the idea of saying “stop it!” to our repetitive, fearful, and useless thoughts.  What if today we just didn’t give those thoughts any space in our space?  Bob is on to something.  Just “stop it”!  Make it that easy.

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Let Go – You Are Right Where You Should Be

“We are only subject to a negative thought or belief if we consciously say that it applies to us. We are free to choose not to buy into a negative belief system.”
-David Hawkins, Letting Go

Try sitting a moment in silence and saying to yourself:  “Let Go.  Surrender to life’s natural, loving, flow.”

When sitting with that statement, notice (without judgement) what feelings arise in your body.  Relief?  Love?  Fear?  Guilt?

Letting go isn’t a passivity to life.  It’s not becoming a door mat.
Letting go is a shift in perception.  It’s living in state of giving and receiving what is yours – in the moment.  It’s living as the balanced observer of life rather than the victim.  It’s not about perfection either.  A part of us is still human, afterall!  Yes, I do get annoyed with my kids and my husband some days.  I’m just aware of when I’m doing it now.  It doesn’t overtake me.

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