The story of bottled water

The story of bottled water

Acceptance -More on signs

Signs are everywhere. They present themselves when we least expect them, lighting the way, telling us something, giving us inspiration. When we are on the right track, signs validates us and encourages us. When we are open, signs support us and help us be more connected.

Today I received a gift from a dear friend and colleague of mine. I set it aside before opening it so I could get ready for a session. Most times, in preparation for a session, I pick a label to place on the glass of water I provide for the person I'm seeing. The label or labels I pick are based on what I intuitively perceive as needed at the moment, be it clarity, love, breakthrough, etc. For this specific session I picked Acceptance. No other label seemed to stand out but this one, so I trusted it was the one needed.

Acceptance goes many ways, acceptance of other people, acceptance of ourselves, and acceptance of the lessons life presents to us. I work with many women which main issue is accepting their womanhood, their power. Accepting our womanhood may go against what we are taught, what our beliefs are or our sense of protection and preservation.

It was not after all my sessions were done when I was able to open my present. I opened the box, and inside, wrapped in delicate purple paper I find a pouch with a small ivory sculpture of a woman, a form of the feminine spirit, called Acceptance!  The artist of this sculpture, Maya Hill, creates representations of womanhood with inspirational quotes to help us awaken femininity and guides us in our path of discovery. For this sculpture she wrote: We need the strength to hold our whole humanity together.

This remined me of Christine Northrup's words in an interview in the movie You Can Heal Your Life, by Louise Hay:
"Whenever a woman gets healthier and happier, she heals the Earth. The woman’s body is a reflection of the Earth; and everything we do to take care of ourselves, to feel pleasure, to be joyous heals the entire planet"


Through this and other signs I recognize that Acceptance was not just for the people I was helping, it was for me too, for all of us, for humanity. Women have a significant role in helping and holding the world together and we need to recognize our value now more than ever.
 
I invite all women to explore and honor their divinity, to respect and love themselves deeply and continue exploring their power in womanhood.

Signs

It seems like sometimes I can't get the right answer when I ask my soul what my next steps should be. 
At times it's because I'm not in alignment with my purpose, other times is because I'm not supposed to do anything, yet other times I'm way too scattered. That usually happens when I let stress rule my life, my brain feels scattered and none of the things that I want come to me easily. I can't think straight, therefore I go around in circles unable to manifest anything. But once I relax and refocus, then things seem to fall into place and the signs become very clear. 


It is easy to get distracted and forget that, in order to manifest what we want, we need to do some of the work too. I'm not saying that we always have to work sooo hard in order to accomplish anything. Things can come easily. What I'm saying is that we need to remember to look for signs to guide us, we need to keep our goal in our mind, we need to experience this goal as if it's happening now, and we need to be proactive.


Getting signs means that the Universe is leaving us constant clues everywhere to guide us in the right direction. At times we don't see them because we are continuously rushing, but they are there.They show in the simplest things, like coincidences, for example, different people talking about the same subject in different occasions, or something making you change directions unexpectedly.  


One time I was walking to the store when my little credit card wallet fell off. Among the many things I had in it, only two things fell from inside when it hit the ground; a credit card and one of my  business cards. I took a moment to think why this had happened and why those two things. Do I need to get rid of them? I had just printed my business card and the credit card was relatively new as well.  Later that week I received two news; one was a notice from the credit card company that they were not going to continue providing services, and two, my dissertation was approved and I need to do my oral defense. What were the signs telling me? "Get rid of the credit card cause you won't be needing it", and "update your business cards because your degree is complete." How cool is that? It's not that I would have been able to prevent anything, it was just informing me of future events because I was open.


And like that, may more signs appear into our lives, subtle, gentle ones for us to recognize and be aware of. Certain signs just inform us about the future, others help us solve mysteries, and some put the pieces together. 
When I'm focused, I can pay attention to the signs better and they guide me as to what my next steps should be. I either get emails from people I haven't spoken to in a while, or a workshop to attend that will benefit me, or a book that I need to read to gain more information about a particular subject.


Signs help us. They are like gentle messages from the angels helping our human life.
I have so much more to say about signs. I'll dedicate future blogs to explain better. 
In the meantime, see how signs are present in your life as well, even if you don't understand their meaning at the moment, just notice...
    

Trusting

I was talking to someone about how we need to trust that everything has a reason. Even though at times I'm challenged by this whole "trusting" concept, it is a belief that has improved my life. Since I've been able to relax and not feel like I have to control everything, my life has become much more peaceful and happy. My old patterns pop in once in a while but only to remind me to re-center and take time to nurture this remembered ability.

This trust is what people sometimes call "gut feeling", others call it intuition, positive thinking, believing or just plain luck. Trusting is knowing that something better will come, that everything has a reason, that we are meant to have the best. This is not something easy to do, especially when painful things happen, when there are tragedies in the world, when things don't go our way. We have no idea how these events will help us in the future and that uncertainty can create fear. Fear is the opposite of trust. Fear is the opposite of love.

So many times I have resisted the events in my life, only to find out later that there was a very important reason for having experienced them. At the moment I didn't understand why those things happened to me. I was sad, mad, dissapointed. I resisted. Later in my life, I realized that without those events I would not be the person that I am now, and I could not be as compassionate and understanding in my sessions as I can be now. I was able to take those events and turned them into valuable lessons.

Trusting only works if we truly release attachments to the way things should be and we welcome the lesson of the moment. Without a preconceived idea of how the world should look like, we can be more open to what it brings, without judgement, without negativity, but with curiosity, acceptance and love.