Cue the Inner Voice

What Message Are You Sending the Universe

Why are human beings like this?

We willingly do all the shit that is bad for us – smoke, drink, eat fast food, sleep with strangers, ingest chemicals…

and forget about the stuff that is good for us… move your body, eat healthy, meditate or pray… It feels good, too. (do me a favour and just nod, yes)

As I mentioned in my VBlog update today, it’s been WEEKS since I made time for meditation.

Why is this important to me?

Well, I’ve discovered that unless I sit still,
slow my head down,
shut my self talk up – I can’t get clear.
Clarity evades me. I can’t focus. My mind races. I feel disorganized. I can’t write. I can’t hear my intuition.

So, today was reconnect day.

I went to my favourite spot on the hill overlooking the water (next time, I’ll take my camera) to meditate. It’s my routine… powerwalk to the hill, meditate, powerwalk home. My body and brain love it.

I sat on my favourite bench, got comfy, straightened up and breathed deep.
I listened to the birds and the grasshoppers.
I let the wind blow away any worries that were clinging on my back.
I let the sun kiss my shoulders and my cheeks.
And I just breathed deeply.

I said my thank yous
for birds singing and ears that could hear them
for legs that work and a healthy heart
that I could smell the buds on the trees and the dust on the cedar trails.

Meditation has become such a useful ritual to me that within minutes, I was in it. Deep.

And then… clarity.

One of the tricks to meditation is releasing the thought with ease – so you don’t get hung up on the regular thoughts that pummel you (don’t forget milk, soccer in six hours, pay the lawn guy, I want to buy new pots for my garden).

Then, a story idea came to me. And I said internally, not now.
And a money making idea started to blossom, and I released it saying, I’m not ready… just wait.

I was saying I’m not ready because I didn’t feel relaxed enough.
My breathing wasn’t quite deep enough,
I had many thoughts still coming in and out that I was trying to let go of…

But I was saying to my inner voice, to my intuition…
TO THE UNIVERSE

I’m not ready. Wait.

If you’re a believer at all in the laws of the Universe, in prayer, in asking for what you need and being open to receive it, you’ll know that all you ask for will be answered.

And my observation was that in my effort to be -
‘just so’
‘perfect’
‘absolutely ready’
- in my effort to ‘get it right’ and maintain control,
I almost missed the message.

One of my greatest life lessons has been: When G-d, or the Universe, or your intuition talks -
CATCH IT ON THE WHISPER. Don’t wait until it’s screaming at you.

I caught it. Like a lightening bolt to the cranium. I heard it. And I’m ready. There’s no need to wait.

I’m ready.
I’m listening.
I’m open.