You want to know how to turn things around, Dear One?

Well the truth is that you don’t actually need to.  You can keep right on heading in the direction that you are heading and still end up exactly where you want to be.

How?

While your experience of creation may feel like a linear one to you, we can assure you that it most certainly is not.

By changing your perspective, by changing what you give your attention to, you will change the road before you, you will change what lies ahead.

Focus on the darkness and the decay, and your path will grow darker.  Focus on the light, the beauty, the possibility, the growth that you see, even if it is just the smallest little bud, and your path will begin to grow brighter and more full of life right before your eyes.

You don’t need to exert the (potentially considerable) effort that it would take to fight the momentum of what is and turn yourself around.  Instead save that energy and use it to focus on the path ahead, and trust that when your stay on the lookout for that which is wanted, over that which is not, that it will always, always, always lead you in the direction of your gaze.

What are your intentions for the day, Dear One?

What is it that you want to create, to experience, to put out into the world today, and what is it that you are hoping to get back in return?

It’s an important question for you to answer, consciously, intentionally and from the heart.  Because if you don’t, your ego, your habits, your patterns, your emotions, that unrelenting voice in your head that thinks it knows it all is going to answer for you.

And if that happens, do you think you are going to be happy with the response?

“Obstacles” don’t exist, Dear One, to test you, harm you, inhibit you, or throw you off course.  Their purpose is not to challenge you, mess with you, piss you off, or annoy and frustrate you.

Truth is, Dear One, that what you perceive as obstacles are simply aspects of reality that you have either:

• Never encountered before, or
• That you have just not figured out how to handle, manage, or engage with yet, in productive ways.

For example, fire, Dear One, is not an obstacle that is put in someone’s path to burn then.  It is simply another reality of your physical world. If you were to encounter it for the first time, without knowing what it was, it could appear dangerous, and it could cause you and those around you great harm.  When approached without understanding and skill, about what it is, its properties, and how to best interact with it, (and how best not to) it can be a significant threat.

But fire is not a challenge, Dear Child, it is not an obstacle; it is a tool, an element, an energy, that when understood, holds great potential for those who become knowledgeable about what it is and how it works, and learn how to interact with it and use it, safely.

Try and see all of the other elements, the obstacles in your life, Dear One, in the same light, in the same vein, with the same curiosity, and your whole world might begin to feel a whole lot less treacherous, and a whole lot more promising, manageable, and full of potential.

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You don’t only hurt when you are injured, Dear One. You don’t only feel discomfort when something is broken.

Sometimes you hurt because you are in a space that no longer fits you, that is too small for you, that you have outgrown.

This may be one of those times.

How do you know?  If you believe that feeling better will require you to move backwards, to undo something that has already been been done, to take back something that has already been said, you know.

If that is the case, Dear One, don’t try and fix it.  Don’t try to stop it, bandage it or cure it.  Don’t spend your time running around looking for a remedy that will help you to restore what was, that will allow you to move yourself back into the place that you were before, back into that space that felt safe, familiar and comfortable to you.

You don’t belong there anymore.

Just let it be.  Allow yourself to feel the unease, to feel the tension, to feel the discomfort that comes from being in a place that doesn’t fit.  Allow it to inspire within you a desire to move forward, from where you are now to someplace new, to someplace larger, more spacious and wide open.

And then when that inspiration strikes, when you see an opportunity that will allow you to move ahead instead of back, take it.

Yes, sometimes you hurt because you are injured and you need to retreat, rest, and allow what was to be restored.

But only you can know for sure, if now is really one of those times.

It can be far too easy to forget this, Dear One, so today we are going to remind you;  Your body is a temple.

It is the sacred space that houses your sacred soul.

And it should be treated as such.

What does that mean?

It means that a even little (and especially a lot of) destruction is NEVER acceptable within a sacred space.

It means that under no circumstance is it ever acceptable to intentionally cause harm to a sacred space.

• A little (or a lot of) fun is absolutely acceptable.
• A little (or a lot of) risk is absolutely welcomed.
• A little (or a lot of) experimentation is absolutely encouraged.

But intentionally harming a sacred space, your sacred space, is never a good thing to do.

This can include harmful acts of physical, emotional, or spiritual destruction.

Honor your body as sacred, Dear One, and you will be amplifying its ability to serve as an expression of divinity in your life.  Ignore this truth and that expression will be significantly dampened.

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