Have you ever wanted a “do-over”? Or resonate with the line from that Pink Floyd song: “no one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun”? Or even the old Talking Heads song “this is not my beautiful house! This is not my beautiful wife!” Well this is your chance. This is your do-over and a place at the starting line.
Friday is a big, beautiful, new beginning, a wonderful starting point, and today and tomorrow are excellent days to be planning how you would like things to be, the “ready, set” of Friday’s GO! What exactly do I mean? Well, remember those 3 Wise Men who were following a star? They had looked to the skies for their “sign” and interpreted it to know that a King was being born, the King of Kings, and so followed the star, this “cosmic sign” to find what they were looking for: the manifestation and incarnation of Love. What does that have to do with you and this Friday? This Friday we will have a solar eclipse of the New Moon at the same time Mercury goes direct (Mercury is representative of communication), with Venus in there for good measure, the heavens are giving us a “sign”. New Moons are good times to plant seeds, whether it is in the garden or in the figurative sense. Add a solar eclipse to that and you add a powerful statement to that or exclamation point to the brand new beginnings. So here’s your sign! It is time to put your dreams and desires out to the Universe. It’s your time!
With today and tomorrow being the “ready, set” days, this is where you give thought to what you want. What is YOUR heart’s desire? Not something that someone else wants you to be or do, or even suggested “you’d be good at this…”, but what is true and correct for you. This is about YOUR heart’s desire. Beneath all of the “could’ve, should’ve, would’ve”, what is it that you want for you? What do you want to experience or do in your life?
Think of and then write down 3 things that you would like to see and experience in your life this year. What would bring you the most joy? What would give you that sense of “having arrived”? What would you be doing if you woke-up every morning, totally in love with life and excited to see the beginning of another day? Excited that your dream is no longer a dream but the life you are living? THAT’s what I’m talking about; you being you to the highest and best that you can be and are!
On these “ready, set” days where you write down 3 things that you would like to experience in life, your heart’s desire, recognize where you are now and where you would like to be. Notice the difference. Feel the difference. How would it feel and look differently if you were living your heart’s desire? Focus on THAT feeling. Focus on what it feels and looks like to be where you want to be and keep bringing your attention back to that feeling space. If you’re over here, and what you want is over there, you need to keep putting yourself in the space of “over there” until it is as natural as and more real than “over here”. Make sense?
Okay, so here’s the exercise: write your 3 desires down. Notice the difference in where you are and where you would like to be, feel the difference, and keep putting yourself in the feeling space of what you prefer. Take time both in the morning and before you go to bed to spend at least 15 minutes focusing on this new feeling, the feeling space of what you prefer. When your mind kicks in with the questions and critical input about living your heart’s desire, thank it for sharing and let it know that when the time is right for critical thinking, that you will engage your brain, but for now you are in a creative space and need more room for free thinking. Let your thinking mind be at rest. This is the time for dreaming. So at least twice a day, set aside time to envision your ideal life, what that would look like and what would that feel like? Get as detailed as you’d like and allow yourself to fully immerse in this dream…the feelings, the colors, the smells, who is there with you? What do your surroundings look like? Really get into it and allow yourself unlimited freedom in the experience of dreaming your dream. Your job is to claim what you want and to think about it with such great feeling and appreciation that when you think about it you feel a sense of bliss and well-being.
Come Friday, the “Go” day, the only thing that you need to do other than to continue to visualize and practice your appreciation of being in your preferred state, is to take one baby step toward your ideal life. That’s all, one baby step. If it’s having a dream home, pick up a couple of real estate magazines to look through. If it’s starting a new career, go to the library and check out a couple of books on that specific career. If it’s having a new companion in your life, go somewhere that you’d like to go with your new companion, whether it is a park, the grocery store, a movie, whatever you would like to do with your companion, be willing to put yourself there on your own while allowing the space for someone to show up and fill that place. It doesn’t matter what it is, just be willing and take that one baby step towards the life of your dreams.
Along the way, as you continue dreaming, feeling and taking baby steps, you’ll be nudged by your intuition to go somewhere or do something that you might not otherwise do. Follow that inclination. It may just be taking a different route home from work, but pay attention and be willing to follow those nudges. As you continue to put yourself in the feeling space of your heart’s desire, things and people at that same resonance will be attracted to you. You might strike-up a conversation and find that this person shares your interests or has something to share with you that is a part of the puzzle which is your heart’s desire. Be willing to trust what shows up in your life and follow those bread crumbs along your path.
The only stumbling block that you will experience is your critical mind. The voice that wants to know “how” it is going to happen as well as gives you hundreds if not thousands of reasons why it’s not going to happen or why you don’t deserve it. First of all, the whole “not deserving” part is just crap that has been fed to us along the way so just go ahead and let that go, otherwise it’ll continue to trip you up and serves no real purpose other than holding you back, so drop it. Don’t give it any credence and after a while, that voice will go dormant. As far as the “how’s” go, that’s none of your business. That is the business of the Universe to answer the call that we put out. (By “Universe” I mean whatever name you choose to give to Divinity or “I am that I am” and All That Is, God, the Creative Life Force, etc.). It’s like Jesus said “Ask and ye shall receive”. Not ask, figure out how it will happen or how to do it and then you’ll receive, just “ask and ye shall receive”. Our job is not the “how” but the “why”. Why do you want this thing? What is it that you think in having this you’ll achieve? The reason we desire something is because we think that somehow it will make us feel good or better, so the only reason that we deeply desire something is for the joy that it will bring us.
So here’s the plan: focus on what you want and feel what that feels like. Focus, feel, focus, feel. When you notice yourself not feeling so good, re-focus your thoughts on how you would prefer to feel and put yourself in that feeling space again, and then every day take at least one baby step towards what it is that you are wanting. Keep your mind open as to the “how-to’s” because you know things always happen differently than planned, but be willing to be surprised at how even more perfect the outcome was by releasing the “how-to” and just allowing it to be.
Exciting times! So here’s your sign, you’re at the starting line! Focus, feel and allow. If you do this every day for the next several weeks, by the first of Spring you will have found dramatic changes in your life, all for the better.
So here we are….Ready, Set, GO!!
To your great health, wealth and happiness!
With Love, Always with Love!
Priscilla
