We step onto a path that determines our destination with a single statement. Often spoken without awareness, they give our live direction.
“I can’t draw” said when we are a child will keep us away from any adventure that takes us in that direction.
Today, I’m thinking about all the ways I’m hearing my young grandchildren define the paths they will travel and those they will pass by. I’m wishing I could shine a stunning, bright light on their possibilities, so they would dare to continue exploring what they are telling themselves they can’t do.
I know they would discover unrecognized interests, talents, and passions.
I know they are making their life smaller because of an experience that made them feel small. Embarrassed. Overwhelmed. Uncomfortable.
I know their statement is not necessarily so, and they are embracing a belief that will limit them in the years to come.
All this musing is making me ask myself which paths I’ve avoided because, at one time, I declared myself incapable of traveling them. My grandchildren are helping me see that my beliefs are very likely colored by my childhood perspective. Or how I viewed the world in my teens. What I believed about life in my early adult years.
And the wonderful thing about this time in my journey is feeling unencumbered by the expectations that used to push, nudge, and even hold me captive. I’m going to start being aware of what I say I can’t do. What a vision quest that will be! I’ll get to look more closely at what’s keeping my world small and see if that’s what I still want.
Maybe, this is the key that keeps life expanding. Growing, Intriguing. Instead of becoming a reflection of ‘what I can’t do’, I’ll be exploring uncharted landscapes of being.
Jeanne McElvaney Author Energy Healer
To sail into unknown possibilities and seek the amazing, there were explorers who had to imagine more than what they had learned. They had to believe the world wasn’t flat. That they wouldn’t fall off the edge if they navigated beyond what was familiar.
We are at such a time again. We’ve learned that time is linear. That each day is like a railroad tie, our lives chugging along a track that takes us into our future with a non-return ticket. But Quantum Thinking challenges this perspective. It declares there is no dimension of time. That we, in our infinite desire to manage our lives, have created the concept of moving along the track of life.
I know there is no dimension of time, but I’m like you… I feel more solid and secure when I have parameters in my life. It’s just that, I no longer see my experience running like a track across the expanse of my journey. I see myself traveling in a circle. And I get to travel the circumference many times over, getting better and better at finding my way.
Circles speak of timelessness. I get to embrace ageless health and well-being. In the circle I’m traveling, it’s never too late to begin or too soon to stop. There’s no pressure to experience life’s opportunities at any particular moment in my journey. I’m aware that each unfolding is coming at the perfect place in this arc without a beginning or end.
Cycles are reflected in circles. And I’m comforted knowing that the challenges I face now are part of my cycle, not who I am. In the cycles, I am learning, stretching, growing as the circle of life keeps taking me back to opportunities to express my potential.
The circle reminds me that all the information I need is available at all times, held within the flowing boundary. Nothing gets lost or caught in the uncomfortable corners of life. It’s all there, swimming freely within the circle I’m traveling as I seek my best self within the rhythm of the universe.
Quantum Thinking confirms we are creating our reality. I find that journey feels more encompassing and encouraging when I see my life moving along the gentle, feminine curve of a circle.
Jeanne McElvaney
Amazon Author / “Ignite Changes Using Energy”
Survivors focus on what their abusers are thinking and doing.
Healing takes us to thinking of what WE are doing and thinking
and wanting. Healing lets us create our experience
and future rather than reacting to what our abusers and life throw at us.
Persistence. I see that the people around me who have manifested their intention have persisted. Every time. No matter what. Against all logic. In spite of interruptions in their journey.
Those “lulls” used to stop me. Now I know they are question marks from the energy field. The question is… “Are you ready for this change? Because if you’re not, here’s your opportunity to go back to the way things have been.”
May’s collage had become a guiding light for her. It determined how she spent her time. Instead of watching a movie, she was more inclined to search the internet for inspiration or information about her art. Rather than cleaning the bathroom, she would go to her desk and add another layer to her existing project. She had fallen in love.
The shine in our lives is a reflection of love. When things feel dull or routine, it’s a sure sign we are afraid to be in love with the very thing that is calling us. Our passion won’t fit easily into our life when we take the first steps because it wants our time and attention. It doesn’t accept compromise. It calls on us to make new choices. Like falling in love with our soul mate, it pulls us away from the anchors in our life and asks us to soar.
As we fall in love with our passion, it can interrupt routines and relationships that define our days. May had less time for coffee with her friends. She cooked less and ate out more often. For the first time ever, she turned in her library book late!
But, when she stayed steady, when she let her love for collage blossom, the other parts of her life settled into a new routine that was comfortable and satisfying. May learned that love comes in many colors, each one equally wonderful. The love for her dog, husband, kids, friends, and family fed her spirit. The love she was experiencing with her passion was equally valuable. It flowed back to the people in her life bringing more joy and new conversations. It expanded their world as well as hers.
Like all of us, May didn’t know where her new adventure would lead. Our passion can’t have a destination because it’s the exploration of possibilities that has grabbed our curiosity and imagination. We can’t define where our journey will take us, but we can know that it is guiding us toward having more shine in our life.
If you have liked following May as she explores the practical, the magical,
and the energy insights for finding more shine in her life, join us at the Unwind+Explore Retreat the last weekend of April or check out my book, “Ignite Changes Using Energy” ~ Jeanne
Jeanne McElvaney
Author of “Ignite Changes Using Energy”
Events Coordinator of Unwind+Explore
In the uncomfortable time of being in a reality shift, May had opened up to insights rather than seeking the comfort of her old thinking. She looked for inspiration and serendipity. Along the way, she read an anonymous quote that catapulted her forward.
Writing the message on lots of post-its, she stuck them everywhere! She liked being constantly reminded when she looked in her underwear drawer, inside the refrigerator, on her nightstand, next to her toothbrush, while passing the hall mirror. At first the timely quote, “Creativity leads us to our truth,” felt like oxygen after holding her breath through a long tunnel. Then it had started dismantling her beliefs. May didn’t resist.
Until now, her truth had always felt solid. It was an inner library filled with books about the rules of life. It contained her truth-books about everything: colors, food, bruises, shoes, snow. And there were more that covered personal spirit, relationships, emotions, and possibilities. Every aspect of life came with a book that laid out the truth.
May first became aware of the way these many truths were markers she used to measure her life. She saw how she felt compelled to be in line with those markers. But then, one night, as another full moon filled the star-filled, early morning sky, May sipped her coffee while a new truth took shape. She could edit the truth-books in her life-library. The very thought amazed her! A new sense of freedom brought a smile that was still there when the sun greeted her.
That morning, May began reviewing her truths about her budding passion.For her, collage was about breaking up the expected and rearranging it so she could see beyond the obvious. Her creativity wasn’t about making something for others to see. It was a personal journey to find her own truths. It was a meditation that invited questions and led to answers.
Our truths are reflections of our experience. Most often, they settle into the core of our being where they guide our responses and choices. When we’re ready to make a change in our life, they will argue for more of the same. And we will feel stuck, in a rut, or going in circles. That’s when it’s time to take an open, honest look at the truths of our past to see if they are making our world shine.
Follow May as she explores the practical, the magical,
and the energy insights for finding the shine in her life ~
Next time: The Many Colors of Love
Jeanne McElvaney
Author of “Ignite Changes Using Energy”
Events Coordinator of Unwind+Explore
