Many of you have asked me of my trip to India and I wanted to thank you all for caring.
I have sat down many times to write of my journey there, but it feels like words are so limited when trying to explain the beauty of my adventure that took place. I thought I would instead share some insight of my journey.
India was a place to be, not a place of doing.
It was not a place to find myself or search… it was a place to experience the very being of myself. I met new friends that I assure you will be friends for life. Strangers that were never strangers…we all met together at a place in time that was… well…destined.
As some of you may recall, I planned this trip in a few hours. I just knew and then took action. It was only when I was on the plane that it hit me that I am going to India by myself to stay with a family I do not know…but there was a calmness when I let go of the chatter, and reminded myself this is a dream I have had for more than 20 years.
The over three weeks that I was there…I could fill volumes with my experiences. From supporting someone with experiencing the death of his love and witnessing his loss to keeping a secret as I helped a man in love plan to ask his girlfriend to marry him. He recited Shakespeare on New Year’s Eve and all of us were in awe.
Magic, pure magic every moment.
Yeah, I learned all about the cows, I see cows differently now. I laughed and laughed and cried and cried…every moment was filled with a sense of being that made the awareness so magical.
Nevertheless, I believe that experiences such as this simply heighten your awareness for the magic to be seen wherever you are.
We study things but rarely study ourselves in just being without the business of constantly doing. To sit with whom we are and the raw ideas of what we wish to enhance about ourselves… To ponder this without the chaos of the day-to-day…. To create more space to hear ourselves… To go to a place where you do not know what to expect, but trust, (even when you think it is crazy…but there is a calmness in your gut) where you can just be, because really what is the worst that can happen…Nothing! Especially when you are just in the state of being present. In this state of being present, what happens is you hear answers to the same questions that you have never heard before.
Studying oneself means to have an experience of you without an agenda, without the whole thing figured out.
Imagine…I go to India by myself…the logic was simply not logical. They sent me a picture of the driver, so I would know what he looked like when he greeted me at 4:30 am after 30 hours of travelling. With my dyslexia, I could not even spell the city I was going to or better yet pronounce it. Lol! But my being was so clear in knowing that I desired to be there… there was something more powerful than my logic…. the Voice in my gut said …”YES! Go for it!”
A whole book could be written just on the journey of getting to India. A small story I wanted to share is that in my rush to make plans, I realized last minute that my passport and plane ticket had two different last names. My logical mind slipped in and said – ‘This is a sign’… maybe you should not go on this trip after all. I said to Christina, maybe this is a sign to not travel like this. She basically said, “Yeah…it is a sign that you will need to have the right paperwork with you at all times.” She made copies of everything from my birth certificate, marriage certificate, name change documents and I brought them everywhere to explain.
OK…at every stop, every checkpoint, they needed that paperwork! Then on my connection going to India, the flight was delayed in arriving to London. I was running to catch my flight, and of course at the checkpoint I had to go through it all again and have them check my papers…again. I told the lady, I am going to miss my flight and I started with my movie of doubt and ‘signs’ that I am crazy to do this trip alone. In that moment, I took a deep breath and went to my feelings and felt the happiness to be on this journey of my dream coming true. I centered on “Everything will be great on this journey.” As I am in that space I hear the lady with my passport and paper trail in her hands saying… “I am sorry there has been a change, there is a message for me on this computer and we had to change your seat to 1A.” I said “Fine, whatever…I am making that flight!”
I was in my groove of focus of getting on that plane. It did not register to me, until I sat in my 1st class seat to India…that the message was you have been upgraded! Thank God I upgraded my thinking to the feeling of what I truly wish to feel. First class to India…WOW! I laughed out loud and thought of all our “Power Wishers” out there! Haha! How a moment of emotionally shifting can change the whole movie.
It is in these moments that we are creating our outside world. We are the director of our movie; this is always exciting to me because we can change our movie by changing our script.
Ahh, but we must take moments of just being to write our script…to know what we want written instead of having a script handed to us by others and we take it…
We stay so comfortable in our surrounding, which can be good…but this can also create an uncomfortable habit of resisting change.
Change is…and always will be a part of life. Try to stop it!
Therefore, we have to do things that support us to be comfortable with change, instead of waiting for a crisis to make the change. Be pro-active…change is always with us. It can be a dear friend, which supports us to be more of what we love about life.
We speak of law of attraction.
What is this?
It is always a mirror – a mirror of who we are and a mirror for reflecting the growth that we have asked for.
When we are present with just being, we create awareness, which creates more receptors to attract what we wish to create. The awareness becomes a stronger part of our energy. This is always the case. Our awareness of our self, our beliefs, of what we desire and unfortunately the awareness of what we do not desire…is what creates the energy of our attraction…the attraction creates our life.
When we do not take time to be or ‘study’ what we wish to create. Our habits (good, bad or robotic) support thought patterns that many times we are not aware of.
These thoughts especially when combined with emotions become “the main attraction”.
When we take moments to be present with just being… we can interrupt patterns that do not serve us and/or enhance patterns that do serve us. In moments of being present, we can strengthen feelings of what we desire more of.
Awareness is the key that unlocks the door!
Awareness of your imagination, with the emotional charge you give it, is what manifests your life.
I have been asked many times to support people with their sense of purpose.
I am so clear that your sense of purpose is merely a vehicle to be the emotional experience you wish to have of yourself.
What do I mean?
I believe we are here to have an emotional experience, an emotional expansion of ourselves. Life is an emotional experience! Everything you have created and continue to create is based on your emotions, which supports the foundation of everything in your life.
What if you your family, friends, work, hobbies and all your life’s experiences were created as an emotional playground to have the opportunity to explore and experience yourself emotionally?
What if one’s sense of purpose or mission is a vehicle for this?
So when one asks “What is my sense of purpose here?”,
I ask “What is the emotional experience you wish to have of yourself?”
Use this as the base to understanding your sense of purpose and use it as the vehicle.
Many times we are ‘doing’ and ‘achieving’ without being connected to the emotions that are aligned with our feelings.
Emotions are driving all that you are doing in life.
The feelings that have peace…. the feelings or emotional experiences that make us feel whole, ‘good’, peaceful…. this is where the meaning to your life is….
One may make choices based on what feels ‘right’…but sometimes what’s ‘right’ leaves you empty and with a sense of void.
I ask you, “Is the ‘right’ that makes you feel empty/void your ‘right’ or another’s definition of what is ‘right’ for them?
Ok…so I am not saying go to India or shave your head or quit your job or whatever…
What I am sharing with you is “What if?”
What if in your day to day life you could feel comfortable with what you perceive would make you feel uncomfortable in choosing a decision towards what you truly feel in your heart you desire?
What if…you could be comfortable with the momentary discomfort or change, knowing with total certainty that uncomfortable feeling is temporary.
What if the choice you made has comfort beyond what you could have imagined.
What if?
What if you could be comfortable with feeling a dream and taking the steps towards that dream knowing how to listen to yourself when those voices of NO/YES/NO/YES…don’t do it/do it are so loud?
When you know how be present…you also know where the voice is coming from…It could be a clear gutful NO or YES…great! Yes, that voice is coming from my intuition, I trust that. Or the voice of NO/YES could be the voice of bad habits of staying stuck in fear.
What if you fell in love and embraced it without all the reasons why it would not work?
Who would you be in love with today?
What if you followed your passion and create a career from it?
What would your work look like today?
What if?
What if you knew what you truly desire?
Ahh…the voice of our knowing gives us a sense of confidence to go for it.
So we have to create the space to hear the voice…to be.
Being present is where we hear our voice and then it is a voice we like and then we create habits to support that voice instead of shutting it down and saying we will get back to that ‘happy-dreamer’ voice later.
Oh yeah, ‘later’ can mean when you are ready to die, and then regret is the voice.
So funny to me…how emotions can be underplayed with little importance…I am not saying drama…I am talking emotions. They make us happy, sad, healthy, sick, passionate, numb…on and on. How are you going to pay little attention to how you feel?
Living life through your heart and listening to your brain in a way that supports your heart can be technical. Your brain has great information to support your heart and dreams… but how are you programming your brain to support you?
Who is in the driver seat…the brain or the heart? What if the heart is the driver and the brain is the gas.
Personally, I choose the Heart as my map and my brain as a support system to get me where I love to go.
What is the fear of not truly aligning yourself with the emotions you wish to feel with your life?
Or better yet, what are the joys when you have aligned yourself with your emotions in your life?
Sometimes we just do not know what we want to feel anymore and so we become robotic, we go with the motions and create comfortable habits. Habits can sometimes even feel like our emotions.
Then one day, usually because of a ‘crisis’, we ask ourselves questions that we had answers at one time but ignored and we cannot hear the answers anymore. We told that voice, “not now…later…later…”, and the voice of our true knowing quieted.
Yes, I am blessed in my work because I witness amazing people and I witness those that are so numb…and they remind me how easy it is to get there. I am reminded that I must always create habits to keep myself adventurous…explorer of my life…explorer of me…because really my life is an expression of me.
Now, there comes a time if we do not make habits in our life to support us to stay ‘awake’…
Awake – meaning having fun, trying new things, exploring, having a life!
One who is numb or ignored the voice of their heart…may start to ask questions…again usually at a time of feeling lost. But the answers are not heard right away, like before, then one gets impatient. Then there is a sense of feeling lost.
The ‘crisis’ that provoked the questioning is actually a gift. It brings you back into the entrance of your knowing voice and guides you back to a place that is clear and pure inside of you. If you allow the feelings to be felt, be present with the feelings…this is the entrance to where you can start to hear the voice again… loud and clear…. versus the chaos being the feeling or the voice.
Everyone bleeds red. We are more alike than different. We all wish to be celebrated, to belong, to be loved, feel love, love, be accepted, be joyful, be peaceful.
We all want to love all that we are and feel loved for just being ourselves.
What if you lived knowing with total certainty that you are love for who you are?
No acting required!
The fear of rejection from others, and the fear of being alone, sometimes may block us from hearing ourselves and honoring the person we truly know we are.
We sometimes confuse love with duty…. or making others happy so that they will love us in return, love becomes a business deal… Even if that love you are giving does not feel connected to what you truly wish to feel.
Love has honor, love has integrity and comes with responsibilities. It is a communication that has many facets; nevertheless, one must communicate and take responsibilities for the way one chooses to love. This can be done with honor and integrity.
In the end or in the all of it…this love you share is a pure reflection of YOUR very being.
We are never alone. Never. We may isolate ourselves even in the company of others because we abandoned the truth of who we are. But we are never alone.
Souls know truth.
This is something that cannot be escaped, just as you cannot separate yourself from you…some things just are.
The way I see it, you have no choice but to live a life with the emotional expansion and desire you wish to be.
To truly love yourself is the best way to honor the ones you love!
There is peace in this.
Because Souls have a knowing, there is a ‘feeling’….
When you are in alignment with your self as an expression of your truth with integrity, the outside world is less chaotic because you are anchored with the authenticity of who you are as you relate to others.
You are never alone.
With my being in India, I felt so clearly that ‘God / Source Energy’ is a partnership. We are always connected to this partnership for love, support and guidance.
We sometime wait for ‘God’ to show us, help us or say, “It is in his hands”, but this makes little sense to me because ‘God’, this ‘Source energy’, is our resource to receive from. It is within us, surrounding us, whether we are aware consciously or unconsciously. The LOVE of this ‘Source Energy’ is waiting for us to activate more of it with our asking and knowing that it is unconditional love waiting for us to consciously connect to. Consciously connecting to this ‘Source Energy’ is connecting to our unlimited Source Energy within us and activates the prayer answered.
We are given ‘Free Will’ therefore there cannot be interference from this ‘Source Energy’ unless we ask. This Source Energy knows we have all that is needed and more for what we desire. There is no worry from the perception of ‘God’ or ‘Source Energy’… because with the gift of unconditional love from ‘God’ / ‘Source Energy’…we have been given everything and with our asking we are activating to receive our gifts.
The energy of ‘Source Energy’ is always available for us to choose if we wish to access this partnership through prayer or ‘the ask’. It is like a bank account that has endless resources of money, but we have to ask for the withdrawal or else the bank would not know what to give us.
What if?
The bank account is our funds…not ‘Gods’ …because we already were given everything
What if?
We knew prayer or asking ‘God’ or ‘Source Energy’ creates an activation for us to access our ‘funds’ or better yet…our ‘gifts’…within our Source Energy…our access to make miracles true for our self.
We are accessing the bank account through asking with the awareness of knowing what we desire and believing that it is meant to be for us.
Ok…so what if you lived your life knowing you have access to a Source Energy inside of you that is endless with possibilities that you can choose to create as your life.
Your imagination and your thoughts are charged by your emotions and these feelings are your withdrawal slips. This is why the ‘study’ of being with yourself to know what you desire is so very important in shaping what you receive.
The world is your creation and everything that happens for you is based on your ‘asking’ with the emotions you have attached to your belief of yourself and what you believe is possible to receive, which you play with in your imagination. This is why I always say your imagination is REAL!
Bottom Line – READY
It really is all about love.
Love for yourself is what gives the feeling that you do deserve this endless ‘Source Energy’ that is your partner to have what you desire.
Love for yourself gives you the knowing that happy, joyful, peaceful, beauty…this is what I deserve.
We all have different expressions and definitions of love, but at the end of it all…
It is really about your definition of love.
Who are you as your definition of love?
Love from your deepest place of loving… embody your definition of love…
know that as you expand, so does love.
As you change, so does your definition of love.
As you forgive, so does your definition of love.
What if you love from your own pure definition of love and know that there is so much love to give and receive and trust that it can only go ‘right’ even if it seems all ‘wrong’? What if you trust completely that the chaos will pass and know that Souls know truth…that the love will expand?
Be patient…continue to expand your heart and mind and the ‘you’ that you love and all will be well.
You always have a new moment, a new hour, a new day, a new month, a new year.
A new possibility, a new opportunity always awaits!
A new choice… Choose love.
Know your own personal definition of love…and as you choose all of your life’s decisions, know that your soul always knows the truth… even if personalities clash.
And you are never alone.
Your responsibility to yourself and others is to choose authentic love…
this has the power to shift moments to miracles.
So, as for India…it was good. It was great. It was all I ever could have dreamed and more.
It was a beautiful land with the kindest of people…their kindness and nurturing is something that spoke to my soul to remind me that all is well.
India held the space for me that came home with me…a space of expansion of my soul.
To continue the journey…is even better.
The good news is this can be experienced anywhere, from India to your living room. Nevertheless, I wish for my children to share in this ‘space’ with me…so they will be going with me for a month this summer…let’s see how they feel about the cows. Lol!
May your choices be aligned with your wishes and may you know how deeply loved you all are…
Many blessings with love!
Missy
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