In addition to reminding you that Awakening to Purpose is beginning in just one week (at www.awakeningtopurpose.com) and sharing some exciting news from one of our Power of Our Way Community members, in the next post, I’m also sharing a short article inspired by my 16 year old, Anna Devi Smith, who, in all of her wisdom, gave me an incredible gift yesterday.
Article: From Hopeless to Centeredness – a Journey Back to TRUTH
After a long weekend of beautiful and healing prayer, ceremony, and a sense of accomplishment with some very important commitments with my next book, I received a phone call yesterday that left me feeling discouraged and a little hopeless – initially.
After a good cry and an amazing coaching session with my 16 year old daughter Anna (pronounced Ah-na), I found myself in an entirely different perspective. Amongst the wisdom she shared with me, one thing stood out the most.
She reminded me that every time she has been told “she can’t” she has brought all of her focus to what will be possible after her goal has been reached – all of the other benefits she can possibly project. She also said that anytime someone says something you know is right and true for you isn’t, or if something doesn’t work out in the way you wanted, that you are supposed to use these opportunities as motivation to work harder and stay focused.
She gave me several ideas I honestly had never thought of and said to me, “Mom, you are so close. You can’t give up on what you know is right. This is your destiny. You can’t let anything stop you!”
She then Googled me and began to show me all of the ways I show up in other people’s lives. When I said, maybe I should have made other things a priority (like security and safety) she said, “Are you kidding? Look around you. Look at how many people are happier, me included!”
FROM BURDEN TO BLESSING
One of the most life altering moments we can experience is the moment we shift from a perceiving life’s curve balls as burdens, to trusting that every “bump in the road” is delivering blessings – if we can stay present and in this consciousness of faith. Within all perceived burdens and hardships are keys that will unlock the doors to the mysteries of your existence and the contributions you were created to make. Until you can shift from seeing life’s trials and tribulations as blessings, as opposed to carrying them burdens, the higher purpose of your life, and the wisdom provided through the hiccups experienced along the way, may remain hidden.
One of the most significant moments when I experienced this shift from burden to blessing, was in 1997, when, in an immediate response to me acknowledging my gratitude for things I had previously held as resentments, caused an instant healing from a deadly disease (no exaggeration). A year later I met and ultimately married my husband and songwriting partner, Brent Law. Today, only 13 years later and after big changes spiritually and professionally, I can honestly say that life continues to deliver me validation that I am on the life path I was destined for.
I may not always appreciate all that life doles out in the moment, but I can honestly say I trust that I am ALWAYS being nudged towards a deeper sense of my purpose and Divinity with each challenge and every blessing.
The Universe awaits this shift in us all and is fully present to the moment when we decide to initiate a commitment to stay awake to this discovery.
When the shift occurs, it is as if it activates all of the people, inspiration, opportunities and resources needed to fully live out your life mission, and to come into the next level of your own awareness. Talk about a magic button! It may not be as easy as you would like, and it may be very different than your picture of your desired future (as was my own Awakening to Purpose), but it will reveal the magic that has been lined up for you all along!
A higher awareness can move you from resentment to gratitude in a split second. I can recall several radical moments when my human resentment shifted into Divine gratitude and the trajectory of my life immediately changed. I’m sure yesterday will prove to be included in this naturally and Divinely occurring phenomenon!
Gratitude becomes a welcoming place for more blessings and clarity. Direction becomes simplified as a result. The treasures you seek are within. You were born for a reason. Your life has revealed those reasons in more ways you can imagine.
If deeper meaning desires to be experienced, if joy is dreamed of but not lived, if your TRUE sense of purpose is escaping you, if clarity is what you seek and direction is what you want, today may bring you an answer to a prayer you may not even realize you have been praying.
Awakening to Purpose begins on March 30 and guarantees you a process and a collective experience that will reveal your bigger “why” and will make sense of every single life experience you’ve had thus far. Register today at www.awakeningtopurpose.com
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