[Musing from the Fire] Every Experience is a Wake-Up Call to Something Greater

Published: Wed, 06/05/13

New Musing: Every Experience in Life is a Wake-up Call to Something Greater!


"Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult-once we truly understand and accept it-then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters."

― M. Scott Peck

Wow, May was a powerful month for many!  I know that I have been moving a tremendous amount of energy moving in my life, calling me to grow in all my relationships and let go of patterns, beliefs and behaviors that no longer serve my creativity and highest potential in life.

So let's face it, sometimes Life just feels difficult! However our response...and beliefs about what is happening determines a lot about how we experience Life.  For example, if we have the belief that Life is happening TO us, rather than FOR us and our greater growth, or created by our Highest Selfs for our evolutionary fulfillment, we have a very different experience of it.  We begin to see it as a blessing.  We begin to experience it as a existential challenge that is summoning us to a greater expression and happiness.

For example... I pinched a nerve in my neck this week that went all the way down my arm and into my hand.  It is really painful and forced me to slow down, rest, take loving care of myself and get support.  Truthfully, at first I was pissed!  I had to let go and say no to a few opportunities and ask for help, which is sometimes hard for me to do.  And then I saw this as a great opportunity to practice the self-nurturing that I take a stand for in my own life and with my clients.  I cleared my calendar.  I booked a massage. I iced it and spent the afternoon in bed.  My body was saying, be gentle with me!

And the funny thing is. Once I did this, I had new clients and opportunities flocking to me.  Once I listened, took a pause and chose to rest--it allowed me to open up and receive which is an area of my own growth since I am much more comfortable in a giving role.  I demonstrated to the Universe that I appreciated myself, and took loving care and so therefore life takes care of me.  With loving support from my partner, appreciation in my business and much needed nourishment for myself.

How can you shift your perspective of what is happening in your Life and see it as an opportunity for growth?

Where is life nudging you to let go of something (or someone) that is no longer serving you in the highest loving context?

Where can you give that love to yourself?


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I just finished up my first LIVE virtual class - The Abundant Creative:  Ignite your Creative Power, Breakthrough Blocks and End the Starving Artist Myth Forever!    --part tele-course part online forum-- and I have to say, it was super fun and easy and I am so grateful to have connected with so many creative visionaries from around the world who are ready to take a stand to their relationship with money and end the collective myth in the lives by empowering their creativity and their relationship with $$!   

Stay tuned... if you are still interested in this course as it will be available as a home-study option and you can travel through the material at your own pace and still have access to the private online forum where creative revolutionaries from around the world are sharing their stories, challenges and breakthroughs when it comes to money and fully expressing our creative visions in the world.




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