Empowerment is a big word, both literally and spiritually! Owning our power means the same thing for all of us. It’s living who we innately are – divine, powerful, creative and unlimited beings. How we own our power and become empowered though can vary for each person. I’ve been working with my spirit posse to make changes and live more as my innate self. To be more in alignment with the Divine. What I’ve found is that it’s not some hard, laborious process. Spirit has been showing me otherwise! In the last post I included a list of changes I have been making that are empowering me. Here’s the list with a little more detail…
- Not identifying simply with my physical body
We are not simply what we see in the mirror. We are more than this physical body. I’ve been exploring this more and had some experiences that helped me understand this. I’ve talked about a book I’ve read and have been working with called What is Lightbody. There is a Unified Chakra meditation that I have made part of my morning ritual. It starts at the heart and expands out, unifying different levels, like the emotional and mental bodies, into one field. At its largest, it goes out to the 14th chakra and to just below the feet (for frame of reference, your 7th chakra is at the top of your head, so this goes way above the head). This is a daily reminder that I am bigger than my physical body.
The last piece of this happened as I explored the power of our beliefs with health a few months ago. I was listening to You Are The Placebo. Something in it helped me connect the dots between things I already know into a bigger, deeper understanding. We as spirit are perfect, there is no dis-ease, no imperfections. In our physical bodies we can experience dis-ease. What I literally saw was the spiritual body, which is perfect, merge into the physical body (looks a lot like the Unified Chakra meditation!). If I identify with the spiritual body, that level governs my health and supersedes the physical level. To me that means anything going on with me physically can and will be healed. I have used this idea and visual when dealing with little aches and pains and other physical stuff I have going on. I’m noticing a difference. Less pain, less down time and more energy to do what brings me joy.
Last year, as I was watching The Moses Code, I had a flash of how big I really am as spirit. It made me gasp. I’m not talking big like my living room, I’m talking BIG, like miles and miles in all directions! Vast is a good word for it. I then burst into tears because it was so amazing! In seeing how big I really am, I also saw how small I am playing it in my life. How I am capable of so much more. That was a huge a-ha moment for me!
- Learning to relax and not sweat the small stuff
This has been an interesting one for me. As I was opening up my psychic abilities, people would say “the more you relax the easier it will be”. Talk about frustrating to hear! As a control-freak, I wanted to make it happen, NOW! But they were right! Once I started relaxing and having fun with my abilities, the more they opened up! This doesn’t apply just to psychic abilities. It applies to most, if not all, things in life. Control is a form of fear, which makes me tense and I pinch myself off from Spirit. The more I relax, the more I open up, the more I hear my intuition and spirit posse, the more things just seem to flow. I can see from a higher or spiritual perspective that a lot of stuff is out of my control or not worth my attention in the first place. This has freed up time and energy for me that I can use in much better ways!
- Getting happy, laughing more and finding ways to bring more joy in my life
Something I have been practicing more is asking myself if I am happy with what I am doing. Is this bringing me joy? If it is, then tally ho! If not, then what do I need to do to shift it so it does bring me joy. This is basically the idea of living in the moment. Enough of wallowing in muck on a daily basis. Let’s have fun and be happy now!
I am also playing around with the idea of heaven on earth. I believe it’s possible. How are my thoughts and actions supporting that? Ways that I do this are singing (even in the grocery store), listening to music, dancing around and just being my goofy self. I love to cook, so I make things that I love, then take the time to savor the flavors and how everything comes together! I’m taking time to connect with family and friends more. I laugh more. I find the humor in things. I ask Siri for a joke every day, then share it with my cousin, best friend and people I interact with that day. Now, my step-dad is even in on it and telling me jokes when I see him! I multitask less and focus more on one thing at a time so I can really put my energy into it. Spirit even gets in on the act by doing things that make me laugh. In fact, the other day I was wallowing in some muck and after doing a spirit animal reading for someone, I pulled a card for myself. It was the hummingbird. The message – joy, lightenup!
- Simplifying things
I have been finding joy and beauty in simple things like observing the seasons and how they change, sunrises, sunsets, throwing peanuts out to the birds and squirrels in the morning and watching them as I eat breakfast. I’m also looking at how to simplify my life. I’ve been going through my house and belongings – cleaning, organizingand letting go of stuff I no longer need. It even applied this to my hair! I was tired of doing it every morning and almost shaved my head! My hairdresser, the beautiful Nicole, helped me with a short cut that I absolutely love and have been getting a ton of compliments on to boot! It was very freeing and I feel sassier and spunkier than ever!
- Loving and accepting myself more
As I accept myself more and more and realize I’m beautiful in so many ways (this includes all the goofy, geeky, quirky things that I used to beat myself up about), I can relax and just be me. No hiding, no more feeling ashamed for what I think or feel. I connect more easily with others when I’m my authentic self and have amazing interactions. I feel more confident with myself, more radiant. I’m less critical of and gentler with myself, which means I’m also less critical and more accepting of others.
- No rules
I heard this recently and the expansive feeling of it blew my mind! It allowed me to give myself permission to blaze my own trail, to be fearless in moving forward in my life. This is really about unlearning and untangling myself from all the parameters, limitations, beliefs and patterns that never did work for me or once did, but no longer do. Just writing about it even ignites passion in my heart!
- Expressing my emotions more
Can you believe that as a child I identified with Donald Duck? He would get annoyed but hold it in, grumbling in his ducky way. It built up until he exploded in emotion, usually anger. I’ve known for a long time that wasn’t good, but I didn’t know how to express things like anger in a healthy way. My own journey these last 6 years has helped me with that. Abraham-Hicks really helped in this department too and I’m getting better and quicker at identifying what I’m feeling and dealing with it. Sometimes I can let the emotion flow right through, other times I still hang on to it a bit. Last weekend I held onto it and by the end of the day I was tired of feeling poopy. I’ve become accustomed to being happy on a regular basis, so now holding on to something like frustration feels tiring and yucky to me. Compared to the past, I’m not ashamed of how I feel, even if it is a lower vibrational emotion. It’s refreshing to not carry around emotional luggage that only weights me down on so many levels!
I’m adding one more thing to the list and that is turning within and having quiet time. It’s so important, especially if I’m feeling cranky or out of sorts somehow. Honestly, I can find 10 other things to do sometimes instead of getting quiet. But when I take the time to do it, I laugh at myself because I always feel better afterwards! Why avoid something that actually makes me feel better? Ego and fear thrown in with a little bit of laziness and procrastination. I’m more aware of this now and have been making sure I take even a few minutes, especially in the evening. It helps me unwind and relax and find resolution for anything from the day. Or I incorporate it into my morning ritual or while I’m out for my daily walk.
As you can see, these aren’t really difficult things! Spirit has been helping me see this. We tend to get so caught up in rules and make everything so complicated. They are saying to keep it simple. Laugh. Love. Get happy. Universal truths tend to be simple like that! This is what I have been learning and wanted to share. If anything resonated with you or sparked something within you, run with it! You can do the exact same thing, tweak it or just be inspired to come up with something else that works for you. There’s no right or wrong way, follow what feels right for you. Just keep doing things that empower you and help you to live as your authentic, powerful, unlimited self!
