Learn to Live Life in Harmony with Divine Flow!

Life works in cycles. Ebbs and flows, winter, spring, summer and fall, birth and death and as the river current surges towards the ocean there is no stopping the ever moving current of divine flow.

We are taught in our modern society to be efficient and stream lined and to aim unyieldingly towards our worldly success and accolades. I hear many people judging themselves as “lazy” and/or “failures” when their journey takes an unexpected turn or there is a delay/set-back in their plan.

Many times, our ego/ personality and our social conditioning set our plans and goals. The delays are caused by our higher selves to give us a chance to harmonize our intentions with our spiritual purpose and our hearts. It can be a purification process of sorts, urging us to slow down, re-examine, allowing us to be in step with divine timing to name some possible reasons.

About twelve years ago, I wrote a book.  I wrote it while building my coaching business, while going to acting class, while struggling with some health issues, while building a life in California. I was very ambitious and I wanted everything yesterday.

As many of you already know, I was born and raised in Germany and English is my second language.

I had a few of my friends give me feedback on the book. None of them were professional editors and since I did not have the resources to pay someone to help me and I really had no professional understanding of how the process of publishing works, I was thankful for the assistance received and deemed it sufficient.

After the third draft was completed, I set my eyes on finding a publisher.

I believe in setting intentions and smoothing the pathway, so I decided to take a “schematic” of the situation. (Schematic means taking an intuitive, energetic x-ray of a situation to determine if there are any obstacles present.)

I was shown a labyrinth on the path that I would have to find my way through before I would find a publisher.

A delay, oh no! I was not amused! I prayed for the labyrinth to be cleared and lo and behold my wish was granted and I found a publisher within a week

Happy ending? Yah, no…

Unfortunately for me (perception of self at the time), I signed the contract and the book got published. I was all gung-ho on promoting it and becoming a bestselling author when some dear friends who read the early manuscripts pointed out that the book was full of typos and some grammatical errors that made it seem very unprofessional. The publishing house had not edited it as promised and the whole thing turned out to be a bit of a scam.

I was ashamed and devastated and I aborted any efforts of marketing.
I just got my rights back and will most likely rework the manuscript at some point.

Had I gone through the labyrinth, the product quality would have been in the proper shape for a real publisher and would have probably saved me a lot of time.

Lesson learned? Sort of, but not completely.

The other day, I ended up in the void again, writers block and no real impulses.

Truth is, I was overworked and completely exhausted and I was in need of a rest.

That was, however, not in alignment with my plans and I was huffing and puffing the whole way.

Now, I intend to learn this lesson one of these days and vow to do my very best to surrender to the flow of life and to enjoy the journey a bit more even if it is not going according to my will.

Happy Holidays and an Amazing Blessed 2014

Instead of New Years’ Resolutions, I recommend Soul Resolutions this Year!

How many times have you committed to new year’s resolutions only to find that the new year has barely begun and by January 5^th, the 10^th or maybe, if you’re lucky by February 1^st, you have broken all of your promises to yourself. Looking ahead at every new year like a blank canvas, where all things are still possible and where you safely project all your hopes of a better future with more success, better discipline and all annoying issues resolved has become your yearly beacon of hope. 

Having failed, yet again, you sink back into your behavioral slump, maybe interrupted by a quick stunt in mid-June (just in time to get in shape for bikini season), just to wait again for the New Year to roll around with the offer of its immaculately clean canvas.

 If this strategy is not working for you, and really, as an old soul there is no shame in admitting that (you have been at it for a few thousand years), I recommend you change your approach.

A few years ago, I was caught in the vicious cycle of New Year’s resolutions myself.

Not too impressed by my progress, to say the least, I boycotted New Year’s resolutions all together, since they really always ended up making me feel horrible about myself. In the beginning, I just skipped them without replacement.

It was a relief, since I got to skip the whole self-loathing portion of the cycle.

After a while, I noticed the desire for self-improvement in certain areas nudge me first quietly than more noisily until I paid attention.

So I sat myself down to strategize a plan that would work in the long run.

One thing I knew for certain was that I did not intend to drag certain soul/karmic patterns with me for the next ten lifetimes.

There was the heavy burden of chronic soul guilt and the trauma from 1372 and the unresolved heartache with my twin flame and my rejection of earthly matters to name a few.

So I came up with some soul resolutions. I was going to take whatever steps necessary for the rest of this life to resolve as many karmic issues as possible and to put down the burdens and heal the trauma.

Good news, I can do the work throughout the year, as I become aware of it and if I miss a few weeks of intense application it doesn’t matter since I am working towards a larger goal.

Another benefit I found is that the soul resolutions don’t change from year to year like my ego/personality New Year's Resolutions did.

When I fall of the wagon, it is easy to get back on reminding myself that I am really already tired of these circumstances and that I do not wish to drag them with me into any future lifetimes!

If nothing else, I recommend trying a new approach. What do you have to lose?

Develop your Intuition… Continued!

I promised to continue the “Intuition Series”. I am currently working on that one.

In the meantime, here is one important step to add. Stay tuned for more to come.

It is important to have reliable resources to help us decode symbols that show up in our dreams, meditations and visions.

The Universe will communicate with you in a language that you can learn to understand. Don’t discard a vision just because you aren’t quite sure of its significance yet. Remember the saying, one picture is worth a thousand words. Be curious and play detective. The more you practice the more fluid you will become, until it becomes second nature to know what your intuition is telling you.

When it comes to symbols, we need to distinguish between personal symbolism and universal symbolism.

A personal symbol will only make sense to you.

For example, if you see a white cat in a dream or vision and you don’t recognize the cat, you would research the meaning of the color white and the meaning of cat.

If the cat turns out to be Fluffy and is your favorite companion in the world, the meaning changes dramatically. You have to ask yourself in the context of your vision, who is Fluffy? What are Fluffy’s characteristics? Is the information about Fluffy or is Fluffy being used as a symbol?

The same is true, if you’re shown objects, locations, situations that have a unique meaning to you.

Play with the pieces of the puzzle until they fit and you pick-up a resonance of truth and coherent meaning out of it.

Be willing to be patient and have fun with it.

One good website I recommend for decoding symbols is:

www.whats-your-sign.com

I suggest adding a few books that feel right to you, so you can compare.

More to follow on this topic soon.