Your birthright is to express your true gifts. The activities you are naturally drawn to, and what you long to learn about or explore, indicate your birthright and soul purpose. The key is to follow the paths that you find fulfilling. Every human being is an aspect of the Creative Impulse that spurs humanity’s and the world’s evolution. Therefore, understand that being who you are is everything. It is what truly matters, because your role as a positive force in this world’s evolution is effective only to the extent that you have drawn down your soul and activated your true nature.
When you find your efforts repeatedly obstructed, it is because you are pursuing goals that are not right for you. Closed doors and rejections clearly show that your current approach is not for you. Conversely, when you make concerted efforts toward the activities that are your birthright, you will receive assistance to move ahead. This assistance comes in many forms: through dreams; through words not necessarily spoken to you but meant for you just the same; through strangers as well as through co-workers, family, and friends; through those who share your values; and through open doors. You will feel as if you have just emerged from deep waters you have aimlessly swum in for a long time. You will have broken through to a brightness and freshness that offer new vistas you had no idea existed.
Your soul is in partnership with the universe. When you sincerely seek to identify and follow your mission, you will receive assistance from many quarters. When we say that the Universe itself is available to help you, we include everyone who makes themselves available to answer your questions and reflect your thoughts back to you; we include the words you read and hear that especially resonate with you, finding deeper meaning in them; we include the images that speak to you; we include your dreams; we include physical sensations and emotional responses that evoke a heightened sense of knowing that something is right for you. These are among the ways the Universe conspires with your soul to guide you.
Sometimes things are really, really tough. There will be times when you find yourself in extreme circumstances, as the saying goes, stuck between a rock and a hard place. Examples include job losses and long periods of unemployment, during which you watch your resources dwindle to nothing; health crises that leave you unable to support and care for yourself and your dependents; or the departure of someone you depended on to maintain your financial stability. Add to this dismantling of your life the crippling losses of a beloved pet or a breakup with your longtime beloved. When your house is burning down, your only recourse is to surrender. I know you didn’t ask for this. You didn’t want it, either. Not by a long shot. Not ever. And you’ll be damned if you surrender. Until you can’t take it anymore.
But now that your house has burned down, and the resources you depended on to maintain the coherence and stable foundation of your life are gone, you are dependent on your wits and the kindness of strangers. And of your friends and family. And hopefully, there will be some kindness. In these times of extended crises, when we are stripped of our anchors, our comforts, and our very identities, the soul has an opportunity to assert itself in full-blown clarity. It’s hard to believe, I know, but when we are stripped down to nothing, that is when we can truly see, once we clear the terror from our eyes. And you will not clear the terror until you walk right into and through it. Let me give you some examples of those who worked with seemingly insurmountable life circumstances and a great deal of terror. Harriet Tubman, Susan B. Anthony, Martin Luther King, Jr., Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, and Mother Theresa. These are among the well-known who did not permanently succumb to despair but instead surrendered to the calling of their soul. They pursued their truths despite tsunamis of opposition and heaping platefuls of personal suffering of every conceivable kind, too painful to contemplate. And there are others—Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald, Chelsea Manning, and Chris Hedges. These outspoken truth-tellers faced ridicule and denunciation because they brought to light information—against the will of the powers that be—that the world community desperately needed to see. These courageous people could have continued to live their lives in relative privacy and quietude, but a calling greater than the peace and safety of their immediate lives compelled them. Your soul’s assignments will sometimes take you completely out of your comfort zone and land you straight in the middle of terror.
Your soul is an out-of-the-box thinker. When we experience terror, the choices available to us expand or contract depending on our ability to think out of the box and push back against the impossible. We can engage a higher level of consciousness, the consciousness of the soul, thereby gaining insight into new options. Your soul is an out-of-the-box thinker. Having traveled thousands of years through time and space and between, it has a perspective and problem-solving capacity that far exceeds the limitations of a frightened mind. When we reconfigure our thinking to include what we once believed possible, entirely new vistas open up. With the creation of a new paradigm and a new lens to look through, all previous paradigms are eclipsed and collapsed. We can now go to places we have not been before and find solutions that we did not know were available.
Human nature is to see only a very small part of the totality of what is going on at any moment. True, we can’t possibly see everything, but we can train ourselves to step outside the normal boundaries of how we respond so we can see more of the picture. Our capacity to see is often limited by our needs of the moment – whether they are physical, emotional, or survival-based. Many influences are always at work in any given situation. We can challenge and remove some of those influences. Some we can eliminate with ease, and some with effort. But once we remove certain influences, we simplify our situation. With expanded soul consciousness, we can train ourselves to hone in on the core issues in any given moment and, armed with this information, solve problems with relevance. We can deconstruct what is happening right now so we have a much better handle on a complex and often messy situation.
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