If In Role, I Embrace This One

We all have roles we hold in our world. Some we embrace and others we are striving to walk away from. So what has got me all juiced up? What has me rising each day ready to garb myself with its potent attributes and bring them forward into my day, my practice and my community? It is a role that I celebrate in you and in others in my life. The role of a Thought Leader. How do you know you are stepping out as a Thought Leader? There are some specific signs and indicators. You realize that since the day you were born you have been experiencing opportunities to practice for this role. There have been no life events that did not help you expand into it.

You find your path crossing with amazing mentors who are also Thought Leaders. They come along to model and guide you, to support you and to challenge you. Their lessons and gifts boost your comfort in this role more and more each day! You find yourself having conversations that feed your soul.

You are passionate about your work, your calling, your service to others. When you are in your groove it feels as though the Universe is rolling out the red carpet for you and making sure you have a venue, an audience and opportunities to share and create. You feel timeless and are filled with gratitude. You are motivated and feel the energies moving through you.

You are willing to take risks and embrace your failures as you know that these are the places where many of the biggest lessons unfold! Greatness is to be found here! As much as you love a successful endeavor and an open door, you do not fault yourself for the times things just did not take off or the door remained closed. If you have moved off course you trust your guides, intuition, and your gut to guide you back. You have learned to work with these important tools. You have learned to take away the gems and move onward.

These are just a few of the characteristics of a Thought Leader. It is a role that more and more will step into as our present bridges with our future. We are embarking on a time that requires this forward thinking to be married with forward actions. The roles of the visionary and healer of the past, while important and valuable for their time are shifting. There is a new way that the leaders, the healers, the shaman, the mystics, the teachers, the visionaries, and the thinkers are taking. Join us if you feel the call of this role. It may be the best of this lifetime, if not the most impacting.

Blessings ~ Lisa

©COPYRIGHT 2013 Lisa Meade

I Took The Time

We often forget that time is quickly passing. We fill our days with so many tasks and obligations. We meet deadlines, schedule appointments, work around meetings, calendars and more. The sun rises and sets around our scheduled time. And we forget to take time for us...time to be, to pause, to rest, to wonder. For most of the month of August I took the time; a three week camping trip with family and friends. Within this time there was rest as I lay on the sandy beaches listening to the waves rush up to greet me. I took the time to sit beneath the blanket of stars and call out to my guides and allies, sharing their essence and energies as they danced within my soul. I took the time to play with family and friends; laughter rolling from our bellies and stories building within the memories we were creating for our future delight. I took the time to hold my husband's hand as we walked on shaded paths with sunlight showering through the leaves above, listening to our footsteps climbing life's path together. I took the time to allow Nature to hold me; tenderly and gently She nurtured me back to strength, to fullness and to awareness. I took the time to be with my body as she relaxed and unfolded from the confines of schedule and demands; the most pressing appointment of the day being when and where to adventure today.

Oh the benefits of taking the time. It was handed to me not on a silver platter. It took organized intentional planning to create the space for it. It took compromise of my work, my commitments and my calendar. But within this negotiation I found the need and the waiting benefits and so I took the time.

Taking time for my body, mind and soul created more than one would imagine. It brought to my life abundance. It generated energies that were beginning to wane. It offered peace to replace the noise. It fed my soul with delectable nourishment that will sustain it in the weeks to come. It helped bridge relationships that had drifted. It connected spaces within that had been wedged apart.

We need to remember time is constantly moving forward. We need to be a part of that. We need to not let our obligations keep us from moving onward into the beauty and abundance that life holds for us. We need to make sure that with all of our time management we take time for our Self!

Blessings ~ Lisa

©COPYRIGHT 2013 Lisa Meade

Imagine This Dream

"My dream is to be a part of a movement of being kind to ourselves and to others and witness a generation of young people that no longer waste years of precious life on self-loathing like I have because they think they are un-beautiful."~ Jade Beall Photography Picture the day when the negative self-talk ends for all. Imagine the possibilities, the power, the joy and the beauty. Imagine the different way the world would appreciate, honor and operate. It is possible, especially since I know ANYTHING is possible.

How do we begin this? How do we create this new and exciting trend? How do we make it the next best thing, the must have, and the topic of every conversation? How do we make self-loathing and negative self-talk a thing of the past; soooooo yesterday?

We have to start with ourselves. We have to not just talk about it, but BE it. We have to model it, support it, celebrate it, encourage it and honor it. We have to cherish and require it. It can be what saves us. It will be what empowers. It should bring peace. Imagine!

The precious energies will no longer be wasted and instead flow into the positive realms, the healing realms, the growing and evolving realms. These barriers of good enough, pretty enough, thin enough, tall enough, small enough…these barriers would fall and instead we would see each others attributes that matter and have effective impact on our lives and on the lives of others. We would witness the compassion of others, the generosity, the grace, the authenticity … imagine! Imagine being so kind to ourselves and to others that negativity is hard to recall and instead we see the power in each soul, the beauty in each face and the joy in each body. Imagine!

Blessings ~ Lisa Meade

©COPYRIGHT 2013 Lisa Meade

The Essence Balance

Living a spiritual life is sometimes a matter of balance. It is often recognition of where we are placing our focus. It usually provides us with opportunities to check in with our intentions. For example, which force do we serve? Are we looking to give or to receive? Are we seeking approval and praise, or service and grace? One cannot serve both the ego and Spirit. When we are trying to maintain our spiritual life with grace and with service we find that a peace and a love surrounds us. This is not to say that we will not struggle or falter. It is not to say we won’t stumble or need to pause. But if we continue to keep our Self in balance and if we continue to look to our world for its beauty and love, the more and more we find alignment with Source and those around us begin to respond.

Our minds sometimes like to analyze things and if we are placing an unbalanced amount of energy and time pondering the places, situations, and people in our life that are not in alignment with our efforts, beliefs or practices we spend that energy. It no longer is available to us to use on what is in alignment. It becomes a choice. It becomes a distraction sometimes from the work we need to be doing or are being called to be in service to.

If we focus our attention on maintaining our balance we find a positive energy begins to flow through and around us and we want to be a part of it, more and more frequently. People will begin to recognize the difference in our being, our attitude and our actions. We begin to BE beauty, to BE love, and to BE peace. It is our very essence.

Blessings ~ Lisa

©COPYRIGHT 2013 Lisa Meade