Staying in your place
Regardless of your age or station in life, there has never been another time like now. Your search for meaning and to know your place in the world is occurring amidst the greatest cycle of changes you have ever witnessed.
It is normal now, in this window of 2012 energy, to have a host of questions about what is really going on. It is also typical to wonder how you can find your perfect niche and thrive. You want to know how you fit in, and what you can do to adequately face the steady stream of challenges.
Checklist for Creating from the Driver's Seat
The following is a checklist for creating from the driver's seat during these chaotic times. Work with these ideas as often as you feel guided, inviting your higher wisdom to nudge you when you get off course.
1. Live life each day as fully as you can. Be grateful that you have the opportunity-being on Earth during this window of time-to witness and experience some of creation's most auspicious moments. Remember that you are an integral part of things. You are not simply a witness. Know that even your witnessing-the mere observing of the great shift unfolding-is part of the alchemy of these times. Decide you will take an active and conscious role.
2. Monitor your thoughts. Keep in mind how powerful your thoughts are in creating what happens next. This is true regardless of whether you speak the thoughts out loud. You are in a continual process of creating. Decide that you will do this with love. This means having compassion for yourself and others when the road gets rocky. It means letting go of the need to be right, to criticize, and to judge. No one is really perfect, yet there is a Divine perfection in all of creation.
3. Remember that there really are no accidents. Look for the higher purpose in things. When you cannot perceive this directly, trust that things often are not as they appear. Learn to look more deeply than you did yesterday, to question more from your heart, and to act more from a grounded sense of intuitive knowing. Remind yourself that you and others are evolving, and in doing so, you can learn from everything around you. Avoid the temptation, through your last breath, to become prideful and think you have all the answers.
4. Decide that you will see what is there. This means noticing how you feel, what you are thinking, and how you are responding to the happenstance of your world. When you notice you are feeling happy, allow yourself to acknowledge that joy and anchor the feeling in your heart. Get in touch with what brings you true joy and find ways to add to your joy. When you find that you are feeling angry, inquire within to discover the source of your anger, working intelligently with the feeling so that you do not allow it to poison the next thing you think, say or do.
5. Place your focus on what really matters. Stay on track with what matters throughout your day by learning to live as consciously as you can. Develop discernment and self-trust in your inner wisdom that will show you, step by step, what to pay attention to and what to disregard. Avoid obsessing on the minutia and pettiness that tend to dominate the ordinary human life. Come back to your centre often, allowing for refuelling and reflection. Allow the insights you receive from that place to guide your next steps."