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Self Transformation

Are You Inspired By Your Own Life?

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I bet you never noticed whether you inspire yourself or not. Why not? Why do we always look at the lives of others for inspiration?

Notice your own path

Stop and see yourself as others see you. Listen to what they say about you and to you. Watch their faces when you interact with them. Notice how you feel when you’ve accomplished something. You’re doing so much more than you realize you’re doing.

Trust that your light is shining

Whenever you affect someone’s life, this creates a ripple effect because the person turns and to the next person offers a reflection of how you’ve affected him or her. Your presence goes on and on and affects many more people than you can imagine.

I’m a writer. But I truly have no idea how I am changing lives. Yes, there are “likes” on Facebook, and personal notes on occasion, but what I really care about is that someone has read what I wrote and was changed by it. I’ll probably never know how far-reaching that ripple is. But I know I am compelled to keep on sharing.

Shine your brightest light

What I can do is be the best me I can be. I continue to explore what calls to me and explain it the best way I can and let it go. I have grown by the doing. Others will grow by the reading. And still others will be affected by the resulting changes in us.

You can’t measure your brightness nor can you have any idea of what darkened corner your light will reach into. What you can do is shine your brightest. Do you best work. Be your kindest self. Express your best ideas. Do your best work.

And feel.

Feel the power of your own life

If you’re growing as a person, you’re inspiring others. If you’re enthusiastically going about your life, others will most certainly be inspired.

Make a list of what you have accomplished and the known effect it has had on others. Be inspired by touching even one person. Be inspired by the completion of a project, no matter how small it was, knowing that you did your best in the moment.

Look in the mirror and smile and know that your mere presence is inspiring.

You’re inspiring not because of what you do but because of how you are. When you are the best you possible, you are inspiriting.

Trust that.

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:
What is Self-transformation?
Where Do YouPlant our Stake
Our Work in the World
How do You Put your Spiritual Insights to Work?
The New Wave of Powerful Purpose
The Move From Inner to Outer Work

What is Self-transformation?

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I know the importance of self-awareness — the need to know our passion, recognize our gifts, understand our needs and define our core values. The better we know ourselves, the more aligned are our choices. But when I came across the concept of self-transformation, it called deeply to me. It’s so powerful and empowering. What is the difference between self-awareness and self-transformation?

To transform is to reshape

Transforming ourselves takes us beyond self-awareness.
It’s like being a potter, holding a ball of clay in your hand. You have shaped it to the best of your ability through your self-awareness; now you must take the additional steps to turn it into a cup or bowl or vase. There are the transforming steps. For instance, pottery requires steps like glazing and firing.

If I want to transform my life, where do I begin?

The first step is to know that you can. You can change anything — how you act, what you say, what you think. All of which shape your life experience.

Begin there. In particular, get rid of the beliefs of self-doubt and know that you can change, you can transform.

Let it unfold

Self-transformation. What does that look like? Feel like? Just be still and listen to the voice within and shape whatever shows up.

Begin with the work within

What calls to you? What do you want to learn, to explore, to try?

As I deepened my connection with the voice within, I could hear it and interpret it more clearly. It required stillness and receptivity on my part for several weeks before any direction began to emerge. Now the signs and ideas and opportunities are emerging clearly and rapidly.

What shows up, what evolves, what changes, cannot be planned for. It can only appear as it will. Work with what you are given.

Be willing to change

Your actions and choices will automatically transform your life. That means you make a choice, watch what shows up because of it, and choose and re-choose until you feel you’re closer to the right place, the center of your being, the core of who you are.

You’ll have to let go of some things, adjust others, and push through perceived barriers in order to achieve new understanding, move in new directions, rise to new heights.

What is your next step?

You embrace the concept of being willing to transform — to be responsible for your choices, to actively take part in deepening your inner life and broadening your reach. Be present. Be aware.

That’s the beginning of self-transformation.

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

Where Do YouPlant our Stake
How to Manage Your Subtle Energy
How to Hold the Space for the New Vision to Emerge
The Power of Positive Purpose
The Move From Inner to Outer Work

Our Work in the World

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Those of us who are spiritually active have very specific and powerful work to do. We have steadily worked to develop a highly conscious awareness. We look for spiritual guidance in the lessons of nature and embrace the on-going cycles of change. We understand our interconnection will everything. This inclusive consciousness gives us the ability and responsibility to promote and support positive change and we are greatly needed in the world of today.

At first I didn’t understand how I could help. I watched divisiveness and negativity and hatred erupt, even in countries that seemed more tolerant and accepting of individual expression. It shocked and dismayed me and I felt truly helpless.

Join with others to change the group consciousness

As I began to join groups of people from all over the world who came together to vision and meditate for a common cause, to focus their group energy on a higher outcome, I felt useful. I felt needed. And I did more.

I now understand the power we, as conscious, caring individuals, have to change our world. Those of us who work with the express purpose of helping the world to move into a higher consciousness, are expanders of consciousness, changers of the group energy.

This of us who are using our spirituality to heal and whole, are finding each other online and in person. As we combine our collective energy, we bring peace and harmony to others. Since our work is on the inner plane it may not be readily noticeable, but people will feel it and radiate more wholeness in their lives. Their light will ripple out and touch the hearts of others and the world will change and heal.

We energy workers are a small percentage of the population and there’s much work to do. Collectively we are very impactful.

We hold the vision

As spiritually aware and consciously active participants in our world, we are charged with holding a vision — a vision of inclusiveness, empathy, and active caring for the well-being of the whole planet, not just our own personal life experience.

We learn to move beyond ourselves to think bigger, to see the overview, to pull others up so they can see new possibilities. We believe that we can heal and whole our world by changing the group consciousness around what is possible. And that work begins with each of us and our daily, individual, active spiritual practice, whatever that looks like to you.

What is our purpose?

As healers of the planet, our purpose goes beyond our own lives. We have to hold the light for those who are not yet in the place of understanding that we are all one energy, that we are interconnected, that we are the same. Our purpose is to hold high a light of collective consciousness and show others the path to feeling and knowing and immersing themselves in the oneness that we are. We are leaders and explorers. We are way-showers. We are teachers, and guides. We are consciousness changers.

We do our work by actively and consciously focusing positive energy, both in our individual spiritual practice and in like-minded groups. Our personal energy work makes a major difference in the world, but when we gather together and focus on the same positive purpose, we more greatly affect the group consciousness and that leads to major positive change in our world.

Do your consciousness work – daily

Do some form of purposeful energy work every day. Meditation, prayer, affirmations, visioning, hands-on service. Shift your own consciousness to become more inclusive, more empathetic. Broaden your experience of the glorious diversity around you. Look for the gifts others bring. Learn from them Love them. Send your soul out into the world to heal and whole.

Do the work, daily. Focus on the well-being of the whole world or focus on a specific cause. Work with the knowledge that we are all one energy, one web of life. As you work, watch for change and become more aware of the power of your own focused and purposefully intention.

That’s our work in the world. To shine light in the dark corners and show others a higher path.

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider
The New Wave of possibility
The Power of Positive Pursue
How to Hold the Space for the New Vision to Emerge
The Emergence of Collective Individual Spirituality
How to Embrace our Differences
The Core Value of Inclusion
How to Activate a Tree Messenger to Send Your Healing Energy into the Word.

How to Hold the Space for the New Vision to Emerge

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Those of us who want the world to be different have serious work to do. We have to hold a vision others cannot see. We have to believe in potentials others cannot even imagine. We’re energy workers. We’re spiritual explorers. We’re called to focus that new vision.

Overcome the limits of your Body Suit

We have to go beyond the limitations of our human minds. We have to do the deep work, the interconnected work, the “we-are-all-one” work. We begin our work individually and then join with other like-minded explorers and visionaries to add more power.

You know you want to change. You have a vague sense of the direction you want to go. The catch is we can only vision what we can think up. So we have to let go of our minds and move with our hearts, our feelings and our urges. We have to quieten our mind, still our expectations and simply hold the space for things to change.

Begin with yourself

Expand your personal spiritual practice. Create an altar, a shelf, a space upon which you place some reminders, some tools to help you deepen your spiritual experience. I have an altar I built in a Shamanism course. It’s includes some of my large collection of crystals and artifacts I found meaningful along my path.

Expand your spiritual practice. This is not a religious practice but a spiritual one. Make it your own. Gather in whatever calls to you regardless of its origin. Increase the time spent in contemplative practice, and consciously and frequently send focused energy to the well-being and healing of our world.

Expand your knowledge

To learn to connect more deeply with nature, I took two courses in Shamanism. And as I also wanted to connect more universally with like-minded people, I took a course in subtle group activism. There are a few like-minded friends with whom I have major conversations that inspire and motivate each of us.

Listen to the inner voice

I have opened myself up to a clearer interpretation of the voice within. I now am comfortable calling it channeling. I’m clear that there’s a deeper wisdom that comes through my writing than I seem to be aware of on the physical plane.

I’m often surprised by what I write. Is that my imagination? My knowing? My guides? Call it what you will, but there’s a knowing within you that will give you guidance and answers and direction. Listen to that inner voice and learn to interpret it. Follow your feeling and your intuition to your most powerful place of service.

Be open

In my inner work I often experience huge releasing yawns. Other times I experience deep sobs of recognition as I go exploring. Your own signals will emerge. Go with what resonates. Go with what calls to you. Be open to a sudden rush of recognition and follow that.

The world is changing and we are an integral element in that change. Do the work on yourself. Be receptive to the light of other consciousness changers and follow your heart. We can change the world. We are the world. We are all that is. Let’s evolve into a whole, inclusive, empathetic state of being.

To Sing a Deeper Song consider:
The New Wave of Positive Purpose
When Change is Hard
Be the Story you Want to Tell
The Emergence of Collective Individual Spirituality
How do You Put your Spiritual Insights to Work?
The Power of Positive Purpose

Be the Story you Want to Tell

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What does that mean, be the story you want to tell? If I want to see peace in the world, then my life must look and feel and be peaceful. If I want to see mindfulness in the world, then my life must look and feel and be an example of mindfulness.

Exemplify what you believe.

What story do you want to tell?

I had to stop and think what story I wanted to tell. Organically my story is about being in my 80’s and still being interested and interesting and productive. But that’s easy, because that’s who I am. If I were to choose a story to tell at this moment in time, it would about what I am coming to understand through my own spiritual exploration. My story would be about using group energy mindfully in order to heal our planet.

I’ve begun to develop projects that will pass forward my adaptation of what I’ve learned in several online courses. But my primary leap has been from passive observer to active caring for and sending energy to our planet. I am enthusiastically participating and effectively influencing the outcome of this organic and cyclical transition to the feminine and the chaos that surrounds it

How do you already express your story in your life?

I’m such a different kind of 84 year old that I have to go find my friends online and they’re all a lot younger than I am! What I already express in my life is a natural curiosity and an eagerness to learn — particularly in the area of spiritual exploration.

What do you need to change in order to deepen your expression of that condition in your life?

Part of being the story you want to tell is about doing what you need to be doing. Since my focus is healing on the subtle energy planes, I now spend more time mediating and joining my energy with worldwide group projects. Because my self expression is as a writer, I keep exploring, hearing what I am figuring out and inspiring others to examine and consider the ideas I share.

What changes will you make?

I’ve added several levels of conscious ceremony to my daily life. Using the concept of a Shaman Mesa, I connect with the directions, the elements of the world, and with the messages of nature. I have added an indigenous chant to my Transcendental Meditation.

A symbol of the web of life sits before the Buddha statue that reminds us to be still and go within. I have set up the tree outside my door as a messenger to the world and I daily send energy to troubled aspects of our planet.

These are all small things. Actions taken alone, in my home, that expand my awareness of our entire planet and help me feel that I am helping, participating in its well-being.

How do you become the story you want to tell?

As you become the story you want to tell through your actions and choices, observe how you feel. Notice the ideas that suddenly appear. The idea to create a Tree Messenger came in an instant but it built on ideas presented in a group environment that, for me, culminated in that particular action.

Each day I will review the signs and signals that have shown up and see how I feel about them. If they’re aligned with my values and the moment, I’ll take action.

How will you live the story you want to tell?

TO SING A DEEPER SONG CONSIDER:

The Move From Inner to Outer Work
How to Grow fromYour Inside Ou
The Many Faces of Your Calling
What if You Broke the Mold
How to Activate a Tree Messenger to Send Your Healing Energy Out Into The World