Falling In Love With Possibilities

"Fall in love with the possibilities ahead. Let your hoped for intuitions be true until they are proved wrong."-- David Whyte from The Three Marriages: Reimagining Work, Self & Relationship. We fall in love with many things and people over our lifetimes; life partners, babes in arms, philanthropic missions, or soul-stirring songs. But what about falling in love with the less tangible? Have you fallen in love with your possibilities?

If you believe that anything IS possible, how can you not? Exploring those possibilities brings our passions into play. We can get excited about the impossibilities, we can get heated over the obstacles on our path, we can look beyond the can’ts or shoulds into the cans and the wills! We bring an energy to the proposition, we light fires beneath the potentials, and we breathe life into the callings.

Once we begin this process, our intuitions step forward bringing the lineage of our wisdom and life lessons. It shares with us the hunches and knowings. It awakens the fibers within our soul that are supporting guidelines we use to cross the chasm from unlikely to absolutely. Our intuitions are based only on our recognized insights and spirit's knowing. Those nudges of yes or gentle bracings of hesitations guide us gently down the path of what the next moment holds for us. But they are only as effective as we allow them to be.

If we are not in tune with our intuitions, what do we turn to? Many look to others for answers, but do those answers always fit your life story or do they fit someone else’s? Many stay stuck as they are too fearful or unsure of the steps that lead to all the possibilities. Some are so out of touch with their passions and inner fires that possibilities are challenged in making themselves known.

Do you allow yourself to fall in love with the possibilities? Do you grant yourself permission to dream big? Or do you keep yourself small and in a box, worried that you could become so great, so happy, so large, or so full that you would not know what to do?

Blessings ~ Lisa

©COPYRIGHT 2012 Lisa Meade

Small Steps of Honor

How often do you reflect on what you have to offer to others? For many the act of self-appreciation, putting value on your strengths and offering these up to others is a hard place to become comfortable in. Yet, each of us has been gifted by the Universe, by Spirit, by your Higher Power with a purpose in this lifetime. One purpose does not compare to another and one is not more valuable for we cannot measure or judge what is of more need to those around us. Once we can appreciate this fact we begin to look at our self-worth differently. We begin to recognize that our most effective way of honoring Source is through the understanding of our strengths, our gifts and our talents and sharing them with others or bringing them to our actions daily.

As we move into our comfort of this fact we begin to find grace and ease as we embrace the life designed specifically for us, not trying to duplicate that of another. We appreciate our individual learning style, our unique blessings we have to share, and our special relationship with life; our life, filled with our own powerful experiences, lessons and possibilities.

“Taking the first vulnerable steps into our own experience, no matter how small or hidden at the beginning, opens us to a more generous life, where what we have to give figures as largely as what we receive. We stop trying to draw infinitely from a finite world and begin to learn how little is necessary to live a life that honors the soul of the world” states David Whyte from The Heart Aroused: Poetry & the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America.

Finding fulfillment of body, mind and soul evolves from our opening ourselves up to this fact. We learn that the simple ways are often the richest. We see that less really is more. We understand that our personal path need not be measured by anyone else’s and we are at peace with this as we walk a path of honor.

Blessings ~ Lisa

©COPYRIGHT 2012 Lisa Meade

The Gifts of My Tools

As a shaman I use many tools in my services and practices. Recently I purchased a new deck of cards to be used to further my skills as part of a requirement with my work with my mentor and teacher. As I opened the fresh deck and sat with my cup of tea dreamily looking at each new card with wonder I remembered all the different times in the past that I have done this with other decks and even with other tools. My soul resonates with the possibilities. It feels as though every cell in my being is awake to the beauty and the energy unfolding around me. My mind trips away on the upcoming uses and explorations. My spirit sings! My most recent deck is The Anubis Oracle: A Journey into the Shamanic Mysteries of Egypt . The images are magical, the messages and descriptions have me lost in ideas as I enter into my shamanic thoughts and see the lessons unfold in a powerful and inspiring ways. I am learning without even applying. Just feeling the connection to the cards, to the guides on each, and to the images that surround them I am aware that this will prove to be so valuable to my work. As Robert Moss, author, teacher and visionary of shamanic soul care and dreams stated, “Tarot images can be mirrors for the self. They can also be windows to something beyond the present self. We may be able to look through the painted image of a card, into a scene beyond it. The border of the card became a window. When I look through that window, I might find myself glimpsing an event in the future, or the dramas of lovers or rivals, or the play of elemental forces, or the workings of spirits behind the curtain of the world.” What a sacred way of viewing the images on these cards; so widely expansive.

I have experienced similar reactions to other instruments I now have in my sacred tool larder. I remember the very first time I held and beat my drum. I had spent hours, days even, crafting this frame drum from scratch, the beater adorned with colors and decorative charms and feathers that hold strong meaning to me and my connection to my drum. The first time I used my drum in a sacred act, tears sprung from my eyes and my heart raced. To this day, when I hold my drum, it is with the greatest respect and admiration of the bridge it creates for me to spirit and my guides.

What spiritual tools do you have in your life that serve you to connect with source? How do you resonate with them? If you are needing to add some positive energy to your spiritual path and are looking for ways to connect with passion and delight, perhaps a new tool is just what you need. Ask your soul what it longs for, take a quiet walk and see what the Universe suggests, or talk to some of your friends and see what they connect with and how or why. It could be a rattle, a key, a charm, a pendulum, a crystal, a pose…You may be delightfully surprised at what crosses your path and how alive you feel when you utilize it in your spiritual relationship. Imagine the possibilities!

The Power of Dreams

“Dreams won't always take you on a straight path to destiny but they're usually related to what your soul wants for you. They'll force you to ask yourself the hard questions, they'll kick your ass and more importantly, they'll turn you on.”― Kelly Cutrone, If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You

What do your dreams hold for you? Do you wake up in the night wondering the connection in your dream time and your wake time? What is the meaning, what is the message? What is your soul whispering to you? What is it asking you to discover?

Do you carry your dreams into the sunlight, held within your heart waiting for the moment you breathe life into them? Do they get you all juiced up with the possibilities, the choices, the unfolding magic brought into reality?

Dreams offer us the many chances to look deeper into our being, to check in with our soul and visit the lessons unfolding. Asking those tough questions and sitting with the truth in the answers gives us openings to move, transform or release what is not serving us or even is tying us down. Sometimes those truth filled answers mean we must wait for the unfolding lesson, to take pause and let go of the need to control and just BE with our truth and allow our soul to heal, to expand, to connect or whatever else it leads us to do.

But these answers also can inspire us and get us turned on to the life meant for us to live fully. These answers bring us energy to move mountains, to create ripples, to whisper longings, and to discover the mysteries. You soul celebrates these moments as the dream now takes you to places you thought you could only visit in your dreams and now they are your reality! Magic!

I will forever look to my dreams for my questions, my lessons and my inspirations. I will face the hard questions and seek and uncover the inner truth. I will explore the unknown lands of my shadow, face the inner monsters, celebrate my greatness without shame and give of myself as I am called. Without my dreams, life would be very vanilla and I enjoy the abundant flavors I can dig into!

Blessings ~ Lisa

©COPYRIGHT 2012 Lisa Meade