Magical, random spirit encounters can be a lot of fun!

Have you noticed signs giving you some insight, maybe through the perfect song on the radio…the animal that crossed your path…the lost object being suddenly found…the answer that dropped in your mind…knowing what your friend was just about to say…or that feeling of warm love surrounding you when you really need it?

Maybe you receive bits of insight from Spirit in meditation. Perhaps you’ve asked a question and the answer comes to you that day or a few days later. It’s wonderful to feel guided and hindsight allows you to connect the dots of why you’re being guided the way you were.

These are joyful spiritual experiences, but did you know there is so much more to receive from Spirit?

Do you yearn for an expansive two-way conversation with your spiritual guides, where you can ask any question and receive detailed answers? You can have a relationship with Spirit just as deep and profound as you have with your closest human loved ones. You can feel the unconditional, infinite love of Spirit that is a feeling beyond anything in this Physical World.

Your relationship with Spirit is meant to be like your relationship with other people. It’s meant to feel just as real!

Soul-based living is about seeing opportunity in everything.

Spirit advocates seeing opportunity in everything. They’re always looking at how situations may benefit an individual and group in the greatest possible way.

Call this optimism if you like, call this simply seizing the laws of the Universe and channeling them in your favor, but absolutely your most important mindset, especially in the middle of crisis, is to celebrate how a moment is energetically lifting you up and how you are energetically being supported in that moment.

Your most precious mantra to help you reawaken in the middle of crisis is:

“I choose to receive the most expansive insight into how this moment is supporting and lifting up my life and purpose.”

Let it be known that what is for your highest spiritual benefit is also for the highest benefit of the planet. Because highest benefit for all people is an interconnected experience.

Unconditional Receiving. We have been taught that receiving is not something you allow openly. You've got to give, give, give and only then you can receive. What would it look like for you to truly unconditionally receive?

The ultimate expression of manifesting is receiving everything from the Universe, without needing to give anything back in return.

You may say, “That feels uncomfortable.” I want to invite you to consider what your life would be like if you gave yourself permission to receive all the energy that the Universe has to share with you. Without:

• judging it,
• micro managing it,
• doubting it,
• going into the ‘should I’, ‘but’
• and then trying to equate what you need to give back to reciprocate.

What if you just simply allowed and received everything from the Universe…people, places, situations in your life, Spirit, God…just be this receiver. *What if your purpose was simply, ‘receiving’?

Everything is energy.

Becoming sensitive and aware of our energy is the first step. That can simply be noticing discomforts. The opposite of wellness and perfect health is where we can say we’re uncomfortable, there’s something going on that’s uncomfortable, we don’t feel in our greatest place, state of mind, body and emotion.

Discomforts are definitely something I was aware of early on. I faced many health challenges physically. In middle and high school is when my health challenges really started taking a toll. Every couple weeks I’d come down with something, have pain, and it was really debilitating. It included:

• My digestive system was upset on a daily basis,
• I got to a point where I was having fainting and dizziness every day,
• I had chronic: migraine headaches, fatigue, infections,
• Respiratory issues in my throat like bronchitis and tonsillitis,
• Hypoglycemia…

My mother had me go to medical doctors who did tests, MRIs, gave me medicine, and nothing helped. That was very defeating and I know a lot of people feel that way that go through severe health challenges. Many feel they’re not getting the help that they would ideally like to receive. Maybe something helps a little but not fully. Or maybe something they do with western medicine makes it worse. That happened with me with some of the migraine medicines that produced their own symptoms and side effects.

Gifts are everywhere. Do you see the gifts in front of you now?

The energy of this new year is calling us to receive the multitude of gifts for our life purpose.

Each gift expands us, opens us, allows us to be present as our loving soul manifests its reason for being on the planet at this time.

Then our question is more than ever, "How can I serve my soul's purpose by capturing and opening every gift in every moment?" This approach is based on the understanding that each moment is an opportunity to expand into and know our soul's destiny more deeply.

Each emotion, belief system, action and even physical manifestation are love notes from our soul helping us to make the best decisions and course changes to feel passionate and fulfilled inside as a result of more fully living our purpose.

We must embrace radical self-awareness to the point that we are aware of every dimension of ourselves in each life experience. By delving into radical self-awareness we can see our gifts more clearly, gifts that bring opportunity, abundance, healing and fulfillment. These gifts are within our emotions, our thoughts, our actions and how the universe responds to us, how people interact with us.