What do you think would happen, Dear One, what do you think the result would be, if you refocused all of the energy that you have been exerting on trying to be good enough, to being happy instead?

The thought of being overwhelmed Dear One, the anticipation of not being able to handle it all, can actually be more stressful then the stress of doing all that you need to do.

So what can you do to reduce the stress?

Eliminate the anticipation of failure.

• Instead of telling yourself “I can’t”, tell yourself “I can”
• Instead of telling yourself “it’s going to be a nightmare”, tell yourself  “everything is going to work out for the best”
• Instead of telling yourself  “I don’t have all the answers”, tell yourself  “I know all of the answers will come to me”

And believe it.

Life is stressful enough, Dear One.

There really is no need for you to continue telling yourself things that are only going to add to it.

Do you want to know how to be loved the way that you want to be loved, Dear One?

Love yourself well.

Show them how it’s done.

You want things to be different, Dear One?

Do something differently.

That’s the secret.

Tell everyone.

Only the truly brave are able to recognize their mistakes, misjudgments, and misconceptions, learn from them, forgive them, let them go, and continue on with their journey – whole – without leaving a piece of themselves behind – without paying the price of regret.

Please remember, Dear One that regret is a choice, not a necessity.

Everyone makes mistakes.

But not everyone is brave enough to learn from them and then let them go.

Are you?

(You should know that we believe that you are.  But all that really matters is what you believe.)

If you want to create real, lasting, meaningful change in your life, Dear One – you’ve got to work from the inside out.

Doing it any other way will only exhaust you, and create frustration, anxiety, worry, and heartache, or generate temporary results at best; an experience that we are sure  you already have firsthand knowledge of.

So, how do you do it?

Shift your mindset and prioritize the creation of internal beauty, balance, bliss, and abundance over the creation of all of the same in your external world, and you will be on your way.

Allow yourself to relinquish control, Dear One.

Allow yourself to bond with your own heart.

Allow yourself to feel its beating.  Allow yourself to feel its wanting.  Allow yourself to feel its passion.   Allow yourself to notice its subtleties – when it is happy, or glad, or giddy, when it is questioning, when it is certain, when it is emotionless, when it is filled with joy, filled with regret, filled with sadness, filled with love.

Allow yourself to feel it all Dear One.  Allow yourself to want more for yourself than just the absence of discomfort, the absence of pain, the absence of desire.

Please do not make it your hearts ambition to feel as little as possible Dear One.

For that would be as great a loss as choosing to close your eyes forever after witnessing only one sunrise.

The unexpected, the mysterious, the miraculous, is so much less miraculous Dear One, when viewed through the eyes of spirit.

And the ordinary, the everyday, the simplest, smallest acts are so much more so.

Trust, believe, connect, keep an open heart and an open mind, and you’ll feel us with you every step of the way, Dear One.

Don’t, and we’ll still be with you, only you just might not be able to feel it.

The energy that creates worlds is within you right now Dear One.  It is flowing to you, flowing through you, flowing from you.  Whether you choose to believe it or not, whether you are conscious of it or not, whether you choose to acknowledge it or not, you are swimming in it, interacting with it, and creating with it, every minute of every day.

And yet you are acting as if all is ordinary, unremarkable, and routine in your world – you are behaving as if something miraculous is not happening to you, right now.

Well you should know Dear One, that it most definitely is.