We want you to know Dear One that destiny, the universe, God, spirit, prana, fate, life force, serendipity, karma, whatever you want to call it, whatever you believe in, is absolutely, positively, without a doubt, not the most powerful force in the universe dictating the course of your life.

You are.

Accept this, believe this to be true Dear One, and you will be accepting one of the most powerful, the most precious, the most empowering gifts in all of creation – the limitless power of choice.

Don’t make a commitment to yourself that you are never again going to quit when things get hard Dear One – Instead, commit to always try and do your best.

Don’t commit to try to never again be afraid – Commit to trusting in well-being and believing that all will be well.

Don’t commit to try and never let anger get the best of you – Commit to always try to do your best to forgive.

Don’t commit to stop doing those things that you know do not serve you anymore Dear One – Commit to love, care, honor, and respect yourself, and those around you, to intentionally create the life you want, instead.

While both may inspire the same behavior from you, the results generated by each will be incomparable.

We promise you Dear One, that no matter what is going on in your life, that no matter what is going on within you and around you, that the second that you choose to put a smile on your face – the kind that blossoms in your heart, and grows and grows, and grows, up, and up, and up, until it pushes up the corners of your lips – things will start changing for the better.

You’ve really got nothing to lose.

Why not give it a try?

Just like you use your feet to move your physical body in the direction that you want to travel Dear One, we would like to encourage you to use your thoughts to move your emotional and spiritual body in much the same way.

If you wanted to go uptown to see a movie, you would not leave your home and start traveling downtown and assume that if you continued on in this direction you would eventually arrive at your desired destination, would you?

• If you want to be stronger, choose thoughts that make you feel more powerful, not ones that make you doubt yourself and your abilities.
• If you want to be braver, choose thoughts that ground you, not ones that make you feel out of control.
• If you want to be successful, choose thoughts that empower you, not ones that make you feel as if you are incapable.
• If you want to be desired, choose thoughts that make you feel desirable, not ones that make you feel insecure.
• If you want to feel more connected, choose thoughts that bring you closer to your source, not ones that hold you apart from it.

Like your feet, your thoughts are powerful conveyors Dear One.

So remember to choose them wisely and with great intention.

Praying for it to disappear Dear One, wishing it gone, hoping that it will go away and exit your life forever, will not make it so, will not bring you any relief, will not change anything in any meaningful way for the better.

But imagining your life without it will!

Can you see and appreciate the difference?

Your feelings are your best teachers Dear One.

Pay attention to them and you will always know if you are in place where you are allowing well-being or if you are resisting it.

When you are feeling good, when you are happy, grateful, joyful, loving, compassionate, graceful, peaceful or content, you are in a state of allowing.

When you are feeling badly, when you are angry, frustrated, jealous, irritated, insecure, resentful, bitter, judgmental, tense, you are in a state of resistance.

In any moment Dear One, you never need to look any farther than your own feelings to figure out if you are moving towards that which you are wanting for yourself or if you are holding yourself apart from it.

The universe has no ego Dear One — unlike you.

It has no physical, emotional, social, or financial agenda for your life either —unlike you.

The universe just tells it like it is, no BS.

You live your life, you make your choices, you feel, you create, you think, act, speak, you send your energy out into the world, and the universe reflects it back to you, plain and simple.  And it does so with no judgment, no agenda, no intentions, and no expectations.

What you put out there is what you get back.  That’s all there is to it.

So, the simplest way for you to know for sure Dear One, how you are flowing your energy, is not by trying to become more aware of the way that you are flowing it (although that is always a good thing to do)  —  it is by becoming more aware of what it is that is being reflected back to you.

Today we want you to count your blessings Dear One.

Why?

Because when you are counting your blessings you are not counting your challenges, your struggles, your heartaches, your disappointments, your fears, your pains, your mistakes, or your losses.

That’s why.

Do yourself a favor, and stop trying to make the right choice all the time Dear One.

Trust us.  The right choice is not the one you want to be making anyway.

Figuring out what is “right” requires you to be judgmental.  It requires you to look at a person, an event, a situation, and judge it as right or wrong, instead of just taking it for what it really is.

Judgment only serves to disconnect, to cut you off, to separate you from your greatest source of strength, inspiration, and joy — your connection to all that is.

So today, instead of trying to make the right choice Dear One, why not choose better than that for yourself, and make the loving choice, the compassionate choice, the honorable choice, the generous choice, the kind choice, or the joyful choice instead?

We can feel your impatience Dear One, your restlessness, your desire to move on from where you are now, to someplace new, to where you want to be.

We can see you searching, looking, trying, struggling, experimenting, stumbling around looking for the key to the door that you think will get you there.

Well, we’ve got some bad news for you.  No matter where you look, no matter how hard you try, no matter much you visualize it, no matter how much you want it, you are never going to find that key Dear One.  Ever.

Why?

Because it doesn’t exist.

The door is already open.

All you need to do is walk through it.