Author, Hypnotherapist, moving keynote speaker, coach and lyricist, Anita Pathik Law, writes about Living The Power of Our Way and Power of My Way community news, music, resources, and articles on spirituality, consciousness, transformation and business. Our focus is on raising consciousness and building bridges of higher understanding within self, in relationships, in business and leadership, and across cultures and religions, thus, ultimately creating a positive connection into the collective consciousness. Anita is the host and gifted moderator for Conscious Dialogues, where we attract thought leaders in the fields of spirituality and business and engage in interviews and multipanel dialogues open to the public.
Can you...will you give life to love today in thought, emotion and action and be a steward to the embodiment that is wishing to take place within you?
Love is the bridge to healing, creativity and prosperity. Intuitively you--we--know this is true, yet we still observe (and at times, succumb to) the pull towards much that is contrary (to love) in both thought and behavior.
Opening the pathways for love to guide you into a consciousness that is welcoming and inviting requires a letting go...an unfettering from that which is contrary and defeating to you leveraging the power that is inherent with you.
This allows for passion to fuel creativity from an inspired place; replacing unconscious patterns of belief and thought that use lack and desperation as motivation for the ego to take the lead.
The moment we make a decision from a place of fear or lack we plant a seed that we may not really want to be planting.
You cannot heal what you have come to hate and change what you have come to blame.
Over time, you have likely noticed how (and/or what) conditioning and experiences have influenced how you see yourself and what you feel capable of and worthy to receive into your life in both form and in substance.
What blocks or hinders you from being a welcoming place for receiving what you truly were made to receive, giving what you were designed to give, and creating what you were made to create?
Are you ready to rock your own world (in a good way) by simply re-kindling the most powerful guiding force in all of creation?
Is Love the Foundation for Your Sense of Identity?
This is an important and revealing question. Before asking it of your own sense of self and identity, invite the most pure and powerful energy of compassion to flood every bit of your consciousness, mind and body.
You may actually find yourself reflecting on a mixed response..."yes and no."
Why is it that words and opinions spoken from judgment, anger, and even insecurity can still make such a mark on our sense of self? Why is the acceptance of others-as evidence of one's worth-still so important, and so impactful?
Imagine being completely stabilized and grounded in a perception of yourself that was DIVINE IN PERSPECTIVE.
What would be made more probable in your experience?
What hurts and stories would you be able to transcend through this expanded understanding?
What would you be able to receive more of, give more of, and create more of?
What would no longer have power over you because you were living from a more aligned perception of your value, worth and the purpose you are here for?
Love opens pathways to creation of the highest kind, healing beyond your wildest imagination and prosperity and abundance beyond what anything contrary can even imagine, let alone allow into ones experience.
It is not an idealistic idea or assertion...it is our greatest potential...your greatest potential.
Can you...will you give 8 hours of your time and energy (ok, a little more to work with the hypnosis and healing audios out of class) to transform your inner and outer reality?
Aren't you ready?
The other day I shared a huge wake-up call I had a while back when I was complaining to God about a few things (forgive me, I was feeling a little taxed...)
Anyway, I'm in meditation, just whining away and I hear (really loud!)...
"If you want God to give you the time of day, maybe you should consider giving God more time each day."
Wow..simple, to the point and WOW.
It is when I do give more time to Source (especially in love) that creativity flows, blocks are released, inspiration comes.
AND...always, there is a decision asking to be made...
Like one of the Declarations I shared with you a few months ago and...
I'll email you The Declaration tomorrow...here is a portion of it.
"Creator, I declare that am ready to receive the dream you have for my life and I commit to unwrapping the many gifts you will gift me along the way.
I will be open to the learning and wisdom that comes from perceived failures and mistakes.
I will be present to the many ways you speak to me, nudge me, and at times, provoke me to move towards a higher vision for my life and all you have planned for it.
I know that when I am present to receiving this level of Divine Communication, you will speak to me through my own resonance and curiosity, through beauty and inspiration, through intuition and joy, and through synchronicity and trust in Divine emergence and the perfection that is unfolding…
I know that any sense of discontentment is merely a sign of my SOUL UNEXPRESSED, and I take 100% responsibility for my own happiness and fulfillment.
I surrender my human desires for a commitment to serve the greatest good by being a model for what is possible when I tune into, and turn towards, a Higher Will for each and every moment of each and every day. Your will, God, is what I wish to align with."
Every step towards greater alignment with our soul’s path requires some sort of shift towards greater embodiment.
Allowing and inviting LOVE to lead and inspire you into an elevated consciousness will open you to the thoughts and behaviors that contribute--and open pathways-- to increases in prosperity, health and creativity.
Whether in perspective (HUGE!!!) or in behavior, I can guarantee some profound change is on the horizon.
Considering our human propensity to stay in the familiar, and seek a sense of predictability and certainty in our lives, we can have compassion for the resistance that is likely to come up.
The mythologies and “mistakes” you must reconcile are not always easy to confront.
The BIGNESS you are being called to step towards can feel overwhelming.
Parts of you may feel like they are competing with other parts of you.
And, you are becoming more aware of the opportunity to move from a "Conceptual Understanding" of Prosperity and Abundance into an "Embodied Awareness."
Yesterday, I had the honor of delivering the Sunday Message at Unity Church for Creative Living In Jacksonville, Florida...the message was on Love, Faith and Willingness.
Here are a few highlights of this talk...and an invitation to join Anita Pathik Law and The Power of Our Way Community LIVE for for an upcoming virtual message at www.powerofmyway.com/sundaysoul.html
"People who get comfortable of mind and intellect get dull, people who get comfortable in their spirit miss what they are created for. They were created to magnify the glory of the world, not simply to reduce in size and fail to reflect that spirit."
Over the weekend I had the occasion to catch a compelling, tear jerking speech by Newark, New Jersey Mayor Cory Booker addressing the 2012 graduates of Stanford.
In the comments found on the you tube site, I was a bit perplexed that even one graduate found his words to be irrelevant to them. Call me naive, but I was also shocked at a number of comments that appeared to be flavored by racism and political and social views that can often cause a blanket dismissal of receiving anything of value from someone who holds different ones.
Maybe it is that many of Stanford's college graduates have not yet bumped into the world unsheltered or maybe it is that they have not yet needed or found within themselves a spark that they will need to both carry and cultivate in a world that offers no guarantees of happiness, peace, fairness, success, or ease...
Cory Booker spoke about those who have found themselves embracing discomfort and making the courageous choice to keep going, in spite of the lows that can sideline a passion and dedication to live a life grounded in a conspiracy of love, not just for self but for all.
He spoke of courage, love and faith through a reflection of stories from a cultural history many would rather forget and a present that many don't want to see. He spoke of unity and service as a mission, not just a dream.
The quote at the top of this article is one you will hear as you watch this powerful plea, not just to 2012 graduates, but to all people of every nation, race and creed. As he spoke the words, it was as if he knew exactlty what I (and many others) needed to hear.
I realized that I had been shrinking, or as he stated, reducing in size and questioning something I have known since I was a little girl; what I was created for.
I realized that in the past I I have felt indebted to people and communities that didn't really support a deeper essence and expression from me. Of course, if I choose to be 100% responsible, this was merely a reflection of feeling indebted to a part of myself that does not really value who I am, what I do and therefore, the gifts I have been given.
And, I apologize. I apologize for discounting the gifts I have been given (whether recently or a decade ago!) by not seeing them as worthy, valued or valuable and for settling as a result. I apologize for continuing down paths that are just not mine to take anymore and being unwilling to take ones that have not already been cleared for easy navigation!
When I said yes to a higher calling, I left a very successful and financially rewarding but spiritually vacant career. After my first two years in business, I made another shift and all but stopped working in corporate and government settings. I stopped saying no and finally began saying yes - not to a personal desire as much as to a calling to live a life many would judge as insane and at times, completely irresponsible.
Taking time off this year was not much of a choice and it "appears" that much of what I have contributed and created over years of dedicated work and service was lost in the process. I say "appears" because appearances do change, in an instant, and are not always based in fact. And boy am I living, breathing proof of that!
As Booker said (amongst dozens of golden nuggets), "He who has a heart to help, definitely has a right to complain."
Well, I have a heart to help. As much as the who, how and through what is a mystery, I have a heart to help and serve in the ways I have been created for. I have a heart to change what needs to be changed and I pray to God I have a heart to never change what is mine to do and who I am (in God's eyes), absent of being influenced by anything external to me.
But, complaining without the willingness to take action--even difficult action--is a waste of precious energy I am just now getting joyfully reacquainted with.
Do take note of any agitation you experience because it is a call to make a change and it may not be the change that seems to be most obvious. Challenge your judgments and fears. Be willing to dissect and re-write the story that seems to define you and open to writing a revised version.
Be aware of sedentary agitation, as Booker speaks to in this speech, but don't necessarily ignore or attack what agitates you. Instead, go deep into conversation with your Source and ask where you are being asked to seek a deeper truth and clarity. Decide who you are going to be, regardless of all of the invitations to be something you won't really love or be proud of, and BE IT, regardless.
It takes courage and guts, resilience and discipline. It takes energy and failure and learning from every single interaction with aspects of ourselves we don't always embrace, let alone like.
And remember, as you will hear towards the end of this powerful tribute to all who have walked before and those who are yet to come, "when life has beaten you down so low...or you've done something wrong and are laden with guilt....or you lie in curled up in bed sleepless at night, courage is not a roar" (not always).It is "the small voice that says 'get up, take a shower, brush your teeth and go out there and love..."
Last night I danced alone in the rain, underneath a lightening filled sky, and dared the thunder nation to mess with me. Arms outstretched, I felt my clothing getting heavier and heavier as the rain soaked me to the bone. I raised my voice to the Divine Sacred and felt free of any inclination to be self-conscious or reserved in what I was saying or how I was behaving. The rain became my tears and my tears became the rain. I turned to each direction and sang the most powerful prayer that I know. Actually, it was already singing to me, I just simply opened my mouth so it could be heard. In that moment, I didn’t care who saw me, how I looked, or how I sounded. I was honoring the last sentence in a prayer (in the form of a declaration to pain) I shared with you a few days ago on the blog
“And with the sacred winds and the next blessed rains, may you melt into the earth and be reborn as something more beautiful than you know yourself to be."
After all, it was the first rain since writing the prayer and sharing it with you. The moment I saw the black clouds, I wanted to merge with them; become them in their power, freedom and unpredictability. Even as the last bit of blue sky was overcome by the storm clouds, there was nothing in me that wanted to take shelter or seek safety. In that moment I was neither afraid nor inconvenienced. As the wind ripped through my hair and the lightening lit up the darkened sky, I felt connected and alone all at the same time. In spite of it being Independence Day, I had been silently—secretly--praying for a storm. As lightening struck the ground behind me my husband smiled at me and told me I was beautiful. He didn’t look at me like I was insane, nor was he worried I would be struck by a wandering bolt of the magnificent currents of light dancing in the sky.
All he saw was beautiful.
As I thought of you, I heard myself saying, “Are you ready to dance with me?”
In that moment I was aware of both my power and my fragility. I felt a conviction to no longer tolerate what is becoming more unacceptable in my life experience, especially when it lacks resonance. But even in that conviction, there was confusion. This was the kind of confusion that is painfully aware of how much it fears the consequences of clarity. With clarity comes the impending call to surrender to evolutionary inevitabilities that feel threatening, especially to the ways we have come to identify and define ourselves, our worth and our purpose. In the potential dismantling of what has come to define just about everything (we have all been there) we cling to things that we don’t want to let go of.
Conventional Wisdom Would Say I Have Failed…
I once shared something my brother had told me about business. He said that if someone did not say “yes” to an opportunity to do business with me, whether it was registering for a class, hiring me for consultation, healing sessions or coaching, or giving a financial exchange for something available on the website, that no matter what, it would be the result of only one thing; that I had not communicated the value…or shared my value effectively.
From a spiritual perspective, one that includes surrendering to both a Divine calling and instruction, this is a tough one to reconcile. On one hand, I know that my hard work is not the source of my good, nor the source of abundance, or even my sense of personal value. On the other hand, I live in a world that tells us otherwise. On one hand, I know that my life and everything I have experienced means nothing to most, yet I am aware it means a lot to a few.
I have found myself frequently asking, “Why am I alive?” This is a deeper question than merely asking, “Why am I here?” It goes beyond the foundational importance of being aligned with one’s purpose. Like a sole survivor of a mass tragedy, it is a question that hopes to get to the root of the specific reasons one was spared from death or was granted a miracle. It is a strange and at times, isolating place to be. So much in the world seems irrelevant; wasteful of attention, time and energy. Other things feel obsessively important, regardless of any justification, evidence or traditional forms of support or encouragement.
All I know is that I made a few important commitments if granted the opportunity to truly live again, including teaching Awakening the Healer Within the second I was able. I do not know if you are one of the reasons I am here. What I do know is that I have been prepared in some very creative, unimaginable ways; not just in the last year or two, but throughout my entire life. This preparation has come through some wild and at times, crazy, out of the ordinary experiences, many of which will be shared during the upcoming Awakening the Healer Within Program at www.powerofmyway.com/awaken.html
No matter your intention or current level of commitment, I hope you truly take them in and receive value in a way that becomes demonstrated in your life and embodied in your awareness…rather than a nice, flowery idea or sentiment lingering in your mind.
Awakening the Healer Within is a journey that is worthy of our collective time, attention, intention and it is the living, breathing application of everything I am honored to share…because I can and because I truly know I was created to offer it. It is an imperative journey for coaches, teachers and healers and life altering for those who are committed to enhancing their lives interacting with themselves, their bodies, pasts, minds, and the world around them in radically different ways.
We begin Monday, July 9th. And, my sense is that the group that is coming together by Divine Appointment has not yet fully formed.
Only you can know if you are one of the ones we have been preparing space for all these years…
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