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A powerful request to your Spirit Guides

“Inspire me with right action at the right time.” This is what I’ve been requesting from my Spirit Guides and Higher Self lately. It has become a mantra of sorts. At first glance, it seems like such a simple request. Nothing could be further from the truth.

What is “right” action, anyway?

Right action can never be defined from outside of our own unique perspective. It is action that supports not only our intention, but also serves our authentic self-expression and our spiritual growth. That’s a pretty tall order! Our “right” action will never be the same from one day to another, and it will never be the same as anyone else’s “right” action.

We have hopefully set intentions in our lives – for our spiritual growth, for our career, our finances, our family life. Our intentions direct our actions. They provide our Spirit Guides with a road map of sorts. The job of intention-setting is squarely ours, here in this physical dimension. If our intentions are fuzzy, right action will be hit or miss.

Authentic self-expression means that our actions let the qualities inherent to our Higher Self shine through. Our Soul has a purpose, which is not about what we do, but which energetic qualities we express through our actions and choices. It is about who we are being while we are doing.

Finally, actions that support our spiritual growth will teach us through their consequences. That means that right action can sometimes look like making a mistake, if we need to learn a lesson from that mistake. Right action can even look like making the same mistake a few times in a row, if necessary! Right action can create new learning, new ideas, new impulses, new expansion. Eventually, right action leads us into a new state of being.

What is the “right” time?

This definition is much easier. The right time is always now. If not, then it simply isn’t the right time! We may be inspired with a right action – to write a specific blog post, for example. But just because we feel that this a “right action” doesn’t necessarily mean that now is the “right time.” Perhaps we need to sit with the idea for a little longer. Perhaps the words have to percolate for a few more days.

But when the time is “right” for us, based on our request, we will know it. We will not be able to make excuses that allow us keep lounging in front of the television. There will be no room for procrastination. When “now” is here, we take action.

This simple request requires us to be powerfully anchored in the present moment. We may receive inspiration for an action. Rather than allow our minds to run off with the inspiration, spinning into dozens of different directions and maybe even jumping into execution …. we must stop. We must take a deep breath and tune in to the here and now. Is now the “right” time?

Similarly, we may find ourselves with ten minutes to spare in our day. (Hey, it happens occasionally!) We can ask for right action, right now. We could let routine take over, and make the customary run from our desk to the refrigerator to the couch … or we could be still for a second and see what inspiration comes.

Tomorrow morning, set one or two clear intentions for the day. Ask your Spirit Guides and Higher Self to inspire you with right action at the right time. Pay close attention, and see what may unfold. Leave your comment and share your experience!

Blessings,
Andrea

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How to deal with negative people

In the last two posts, I discussed the nature of negative energy and the Souls that have a negative energetic orientation. So how do we deal with these negative people in our lives? As Lightworkers, we attract them because we have the energetic resources they crave. And when they are in our lives, these negative people can become tremendously draining. They distract us from aligning with our highest path and purpose. They create negativity in our lives. They make us question ourselves and our good intentions. Here are some strategies on how to deal with negative people:

1. Acknowledge that the negativity is indeed coming from someone else. It’s not the most immediate consideration that comes to mind. Most of us Lightworkers are ready and willing to take responsibility for whatever is creating discomfort in our lives. But ask yourself whether it really is you – or is it simply something that you are being manipulated into believing? Ask yourself: “What if this isn’t coming from me?”

Negativity has a way of making itself known, but it may be subtle at first. You may feel as if something is just a little “off.” Perhaps you feel a person isn’t being honest or is subtly manipulating you, but you cannot rationalize the feeling. Honor your instincts. The mind is usually the last to recognize truly negative behavior.

2. Do not try to make negative people see the error of their ways! Do not do battle. Fighting negativity gives it power and strength. By turning negative energies into something that you must struggle against, you are giving negative people in your life all your attention. Energy follows thought. Remember that what negative people or Souls want are your energetic resources. The more you dwell on them and how negative they are, the more they receive what they want. This includes giving them energy in order to “help” them when they do not truly want assistance. If you are a service-oriented, helpful person (like most Lightworkers!), always remember that your job is only to open the door. If a person truly desires your assistance, they will walk through of their own accord.

3. Pay close attention to the “tapes” running in your own head over the situations created by negative people in your life. Some of these tapes may go like this: “I can’t believe how unfairly I’m being treated. How could he lie to me like that? Obviously he is terribly undeserving. I’m going to show him! I’m going to walk right up and say blablabla, because that’s what he really needs to hear. No, I’m going to do even better. I’m not going to talk to him at all anymore … let’s see how he likes that” and so on and so forth. See how much mental energy you are sending the other person?

The trick here is mental discipline. Stop those thought patterns. Turn your thoughts to the present moment, because chances are that the present moment is actually quite lovely. The present moment often has very little negativity contained in it, unless we are dealing with the negative people in that very moment. But most of us spend tremendous amounts of time dwelling on these people – and so they become a true obstacle, a negative force in our lives. Turn your thoughts instead towards what brings you joy.

This is another area where a regular meditation practice comes in very handy. Check out my video series on meditation to find out more!

Remember that negative people thrive on the energy we send them. Stop sending them energy, and the negativity will initially increase in an effort to regain our attention. This is the part where we have to be extremely disciplined. Continue to pay no attention, and the negativity will cease. This is not easy, but negative people often seem to disappear of their own accord when we no longer give them attention.

4. Focus on the resolution. Negative people are in your life. Let’s say that you have a manipulative, controlling boss. If you focus on this obstacle, you give the obstacle your energy. Can you instead imagine a situation where the obstacle is resolved? Can you focus your attention past the obstacle towards the resolution? Imagine if this person had no power, no control over you whatsoever. Imagine if they had no impact. Yes, this is your boss. Does that mean she has to affect your level of happiness and satisfaction? Negative people only have the power, the control, the impact on our lives that we allow them to have. So focus on the resolution of the situation. What will that be like?

5. How the situation is resolved is, as always, not up to you! Your job is to focus towards the positive resolution of having successfully dealt with the negative people in your life. You can direct your energy towards the negativity that is your boss – or you can focus your energy on a new work situation with a fantastic boss who appreciates and supports you. The “how” of that situation is not up to you. If you’re guided to apply for a new job, you should of course do that. But the intention is set, and the Universe will conspire to assist you.

Sometimes we have no idea how a situation with a negative person could possibly be resolved. If this is a family member, a spouse, or parent, we can’t simply walk away! Again, the “how” is not up to us. Miraculous things happen when we focus away from the problem and towards the solution.

6. Ask your Spirit Guides and Angels to transmute all negativity within the relationship to Divine Love before releasing it back to Source. This includes both the negative energy coming from the other person and the negativity the situation is creating within you. This is a powerful prayer request! We don’t want the negative energy affecting us. We don’t want it in the world affecting other people, either. We also don’t just want to send it away – we want it transmuted to Divine Love. Then we ask that it be released back to Divine Source.

Many Lightworker Souls will try to undertake this transmutation themselves. Hand it over to your Spirit Guides and Angels instead. Turning negativity into Love is energetic alchemy. Do not use your own energy to do this, because that would involve receiving that negativity first. Once again, your job is to set the intention. The “how” of this alchemy is not up to you.

This practice alone is incredibly powerful and effective. You may want to ask for assistance with this transmutation every morning, if you live with a negative Soul. Or perhaps you may want to ask before every interaction with this person. Miraculous shifts occur when you ask for this assistance!

7. A lot of people will visualize a white light around them for protection and so forth. Again, this is an act of resistance. By saying that we need protection, we are giving negative energy power. We don’t want to protect ourselves – we want to disallow the energy in our lives. It’s a subtle difference of intent, but it makes a huge difference. So if you surround yourself with white light, do so with the intention of disallowing all negative energy from entering your auric field.

From time to time, Lightworkers will ask me what they can do to turn negative Souls back to a path of Light. Remember that a path of Light is always available to everyone, no matter their current energetic orientation. But we cannot make someone else’s choices for them, no matter how much we love or care for them. The best we can do is live our Light and set a shining example. In order to do that, we must disallow their negativity from our lives. We can in many ways energetically “starve” them of our attention so that their only resource is to receive energy from Divine Source. But we cannot make it our life’s work to “save” or “turn around” negative people and Souls. This would be a distraction from our own highest path and purpose, and this is exactly what negative forces on our planet are after! This is, perhaps, the greatest lesson for Lightworkers on our planet today.

How do you deal with the negative people and Souls in your life? Leave a comment and share!

Blessings,
Andrea

Do you want guidance, or a guarantee?

Lately, I’ve come across a scenario that so many of my clients seem to be faced with that I thought I’d address it in a post. Here’s the situation: We ask for guidance around our purpose. And we receive a vision – a big vision. The vision may be so big and sweeping, it leaves us shaking our heads in amazement. A multi-million dollar retreat facility. An international franchise. A spiritual healing modality (yup, that one’s mine … check out www.soulrealignment.com). How could we possibly ever get there? How could we achieve all that? So we ask for more guidance – what do I need to do to get there? Where should I start?

This is where the problem arises. The guidance we receive is completely dissatisfying. We don’t even recognize it as guidance, because it seems so unrelated. Starting a book club won’t get us the big retreat center that is our final vision. Taking a class on energy work won’t take us on the international speaking circuit where we see ourselves. Picking up the phone, reading a book, doing a craft project, going for a walk … none of these things have anything to do with getting to our vision. Or do they?

As it turns out, we don’t want guidance at all. What we want is a guarantee.

We want to be given not just the next immediate step. We also want the next ten steps after that one. And we want to know exactly “how” these steps will help us manifest our final vision. We want to know that if we take action now, we will be sure to get to where we want to go. Oh, and we also want to know that our vision will, indeed, serve our highest good and that we will love ourselves and our life when we get “there.” And maybe we want all of that before we take any action at all.

In my most recent teleclass, one of the participants used the wonderful analogy of baking a cake without a recipe. We have a picture of the finished cake. It’s beautiful and looks tasty. And now the impulse comes: “Go get some flour.” And we say “Flour? Well, how much? And won’t I need eggs? And sugar? And an oven? Where am I going to get all that? Flour isn’t going to bake this cake. Obviously, I don’t know how to make this cake. Maybe this cake won’t even taste that good. I’m not going to waste my time getting flour if I don’t even know the recipe.”We may be given one piece of guidance after another. Our inner wisdom whispers “Go join that group” or “Go take that class” or “Write an email to so-and-so.” And each time we don’t understand what this piece of guidance has to do with our grand vision. We reject it and don’t take action. Or we take action … and when an immediate and recognizable “result” doesn’t appear, we are disappointed and abandon that particular path. Meanwhile, our Spirit Guides are scratching their heads. “Okay, so she doesn’t like that avenue. Hmmm, let’s see … what else can we come up with? Maybe she could try it this way …” You see, the guidance that we keep asking for will keep coming. And what we sometimes end up with is a giant mess of seemingly unrelated impulses and ideas. Or we tell ourselves that we’re not receiving any guidance at all. Either way, we are thoroughly stuck. We have no idea how we’re going to move towards our grand vision. Somewhere in the ether, I imagine our poor Spirit Guides banging their head against a wall.

Guidance will always come when we ask for it. If you ask for guidance on how to manifest your vision, you will receive it. It may not make any sense to you right now. It may not make any sense to you for many years to come. But you will receive something you need for your journey. That journey is not linear. It involves many detours. It may include some seemingly unproductive sight-seeing. It may include getting a little lost here and there. And in the end, every step on that journey contributes in a meaningful way to the vision you will manifest … and that vision may, in the end, be far grander, far more satisfying than anything you could have ever imagined.

Quite a few years ago, I became certified as a life coach. I was ridiculously unsuccessful at starting a coaching practice. But the instinct towards the certification had been so overwhelming, and I loved my training. I didn’t understand how I could have been so misguided. Then I found the intuitive work that I offer now, and felt immediately at home. Coaching had introduced me to the model of working over the phone or even via email with clients – something foreign to me as a bodyworker. Still, I thought for a long time that my coaching training may have been an unnecessary detour on my path. Now, years later, I’m coaching on intuitive development. It’s one of the pieces of my practice that I’m most excited about. And just this last week, I realize that intuitive development through Soul Realignment is perfect for – you guessed it – coaches! Could I have planned or foreseen this unfolding of my professional path? Definitely not. I’m still not sure how it’s all going to come together. But I’m sure it will.

Ask for guidance around the next step. Take action on the guidance that comes – the next impulse, the next bright idea, the next thing that three people in a row mention to you. Even if it seems to make no sense whatsoever. Take action, and enjoy the unfolding that comes with that action. And then ask for guidance around the next step … and so forth.

If you are waiting for the guarantee, you will remain where you are.

Blessings,
Andrea

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How To Eliminate Worry

We’ve set our intentions for the New Year 2008. Now that the holidays are over, we’re back from vacation into the every day rhythm of our lives. And right about now, our minds start to wonder – how exactly are our intentions going to become manifested? What changes will come into our lives? How will our loved ones react? What will our employers, our coworkers or our clients think of the changes we want to make? Before we know it, worry sets in.

Worry happens when the mind tries to resolve what is currently beyond its control. Worry is re-examining decisions we have already made. Worry is concern over choices that are still in our future. And finally, worry is our mind weighing in on decisions that are not ours to make to begin with. We can put a positive spin on this, and tell ourselves that we’re just preparing ourselves for future eventualities or worst-case scenarios. We can tell ourselves that we’re trying to learn from past choices, or that we are just concerned for our loved ones. In truth, however, worry removes us from our own present moment and distracts us from the choices that are actually currently before us.

Here are a few ways to turn off the worrying thoughts that are taking up your valuable mental energy:

Ask yourself: “Is this a decision that I can make right now?” Sometimes we are so busy thinking about what we will do in two weeks or two months in some imagined scenario that we actually start losing sleep – all over something that isn’t even present in our current reality! But if we ask ourselves if this is a choice that lies before us right now, we can bring ourselves back into the present moment. The mind that is so busy worrying will turn its attention to the question, creating a space within which you can come back to your here and now.

Ask yourself: “What choice or decision can I make right in this moment that will lead me towards the desired outcome?” Sometimes there are in fact small things we can take action on. We can inform ourselves, do a little research on the Internet, or take some other small but necessary preparatory steps. And sometimes the best thing we can do toward the desired outcome is to get a good night’s sleep. If there is something you can do or decide right now, no matter how small – then do it. Make the choice that is before you. By doing what you can in the present moment, the mind is satisfied that its concerns have been addressed.Â

One of my favorite exercises is to take all those thoughts and concerns about the future, and imagine placing them all into a box – preferably one that I can put a lid on! I imagine the jumbled mess of thought patterns going into that box and sealing it tightly. Then I imagine handing the whole thing over to one of my Spirit Guides. I imagine asking my Guide to hold these thought patterns in trust for me until the time comes that I can act on them. I give the worry away, and know that these thought patterns will come back into my mind when the time has come to make actual choices about the issue that I’ve been worrying over.

Worry happens when we try to make choices and decisions that are simply not ours, at least not in this moment. Taking this perspective reminds us that the true power of creating our experience lies in mindfully addressing those choices that are available to us, right where we are, right now.

Blessings,
Andrea

How to turn regret into opportunity

I found myself in regret yesterday. In keeping with one of my recent posts, I decided to take a good, long look and simply sit with my regret for a while, without judging myself. As it turns out, my regret didn’t last very long! As soon as I surrendered into the feeling, a very distinct image came to mind.

The image was of a girl, sitting by a river and crying. She was crying after a drop of water she wanted to drink. It looked like a delicious drop of water, but she was perhaps distracted as it passed by, and she did not drink it. And now she is very thirsty, and crying after the delicious drop of water that is now far, far away downstream. She is oblivious to the wealth of water that is right there beside her in the river, constantly renewing itself and always available to quench her thirst.

Regret is attachment to what could have been, obliterating completely all that is available right now. Every opportunity that presents itself is no more than a mere drop of water in the river. No matter how important, how delicious and life-changing that one little drop seems to be – it is just a drop. There is a whole river of opportunity at our feet at all times. And at least some of what is available right now is bound to taste just as good. It might be a different opportunity from what we imagined. But that doesn’t make it any less sweet.

The way out of regret is to connect to the energy of the opportunity we feel we have missed. That opportunity may have represented success, or love, or abundance, or self-esteem. We may, for example, feel that we missed out on the love of our life, on a happy relationship. Perhaps we acted badly, and the relationship ended. The energy of the opportunity was about a fulfilling, loving relationship. By looking backward, we inevitably neglect the relationships right in front of us. We compare the people we meet to “the one that got away.” We place our attention in the past, instead of noticing who we are with and all that they have to offer. A loving, fulfilling relationship is simply not available to us, if we’re not actually there in the present with another person. And so the regret becomes deeper and stronger, and pulls us further into the past.

Instead, we can connect to the energy of what we want – a fulfilling, loving relationship – in the present moment. We can look for the new opportunities that life will inevitably bring to us. The idea that we may have missed out on “the opportunity of a lifetime” or “the One” is deeply rooted in a mentality of lack. The river of life is not stingy. There is nothing at which we only get one single chance in this lifetime. We will draw to us opportunity after opportunity to create what we need in order to grow, learn and thrive.

Regrets can be a valuable source of information. What do you regret? What is the associated energy? How can you create that energy in your life right now? Through this simple inquiry, we can turn the energy of regret itself into an opportunity for growth.

Any regrets? Share in the comments! As a side note, I want to offer thanks to my Guides for grabbing my attention with such a cool visual analogy. Good one, team! It definitely pulled me out of the little pity-party I was throwing for myself, silly girl that I was yesterday.

Blessings,
Andrea

This article was included in the Personal Development and Happiness Carnival at The Next 45 Years. Thank you, Alex!

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