I've had a couple spiritual/energetic shifts recently. My divine guides have been telling me to go with the flow and I get images and feel a desire to float on a raft on the water. It felt great to go tubing on the ocoee river a couple weeks ago. I recognized the metaphorical lesson from that experience while I was floating down the river and it started raining and the current was swift and we had to avoid downed trees on the banks. I need to not stress when I seem to not be going in the direction I want in life. I need to simply follow my divine guidance and do a little, easy paddling towards the direction I'm being guided to go and the rest will take care of itself. I have to just go with the flow more.
Part of this lesson I realize is getting over my fear of surrender. My ego wants to protect me from harm, but when I have a connection with my higher self and the universe, my divine guidance will support me and protect me from harm. I find myself needing to remind myself that "the universe has my back". I have to surrender control.
When my life feels scary or stressful or I'm feeling stuck or antsy, I know that when I use my head vs. my heart (my ego vs. my spirit) to analyze the situation and try to figure out what I need to do, I get stressed. It does not help me at all - it just makes me feel crappy (stressed, sad, depressed, miserable....). I am not going to get great, divine advice and guidance when I'm stressed or fearful. The ego is blocking my connection to the universe/my higher self/my intuition.
It's VERY hard when it logically seems like things aren't looking good or aren't going our way. But, we have to remember, our logic is so limited compared to what's really possible. One of the laws of the universe that I've learned and found to be true is that everything is limitless and possible. Happiness, peace, love, prosperity, abundance are all limited only by our beliefs (our logic). Based on what we "know to be true", based on what we've experienced and/or seen happen for other people, is NOT all that is possible. We have the capability to do things no one has ever done before, go places no one has ever gone before and follow a path, so unique, no one has ever gone on that path before.
We HAVE to surrender to our higher self's plan for us (which we may not be conscious of) because it only has our best interest in mind and will take us to places/levels we can't imagine with our limited beliefs/logic. Besides, that's the path we're going to follow anyway, so no sense fighting it along the way.
It's funny when I find things becoming more difficult than they should be, I have to stop myself and think, ok, obviously, I'm trying to go down a path that I'm not meant to be going down. How do I know this? Because when I just go with the flow, everything is so much easier!
I find it interesting that one of the common beliefs of our society is that success requires hard work. I don't believe that's true.
The only thing that's hard work is personal transformation/soul searching work. Once we've worked on ourselves and released the emotional/mental blocks and fear that prevent us from connecting with our higher selves, finding our life purpose, and then going with the flow, it is not hard work. It's not hard work to follow our life purpose. I'm not saying it doesn't require work (obviously you can't sit on your ass and expect things to come to you) but the work is something I find fulfilling and have a desire to do. I don't find it "hard".
I know some people struggle with taking action on their desires. This is because there is some kind of personal block you need to work through. I don't find it hard to take action towards my life purpose.
When I am taking action toward my life purpose, things FLOW! Doors open for me, people come into my life who want to help me. It's amazing! As long as I continue to live from my heart/love, things flow.
Incidentally, with the help of an intuitive coach, I discovered that my difficulty in letting go of control and surrendering to what is unfolding in my life, comes from a past life(s). I have felt a connection with the vikings and have seen images and others have seen images of me on a viking ship. I was told I was a viking ship captain and my spirit held onto the feeling of guilt and loss of control because the ship sank and I couldn't do anything about it even though I was in charge. I had a major release when I let go of this past (and current) life feeling of guilt and unhappiness for not having control.
This coincided with my guidance and images to float and go with the flow.
I surrender my need to control everything that happens in my life. I am going with the flow.
I'm not saying I don't still have the power to create/manifest the life of my dreams - my life purpose, but I can't do that if I'm living in ego (guilt, fear, control are all ego-related emotions). I have to trust that when I have a desire, I can manifest it in my life IF I follow my higher self/divine guidance and trust that whatever means to the end it guides me on, it will no doubt, produce the end result I desire - and usually a better end than I could even imagine.
