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Taking Personal Time Doesn’t Mean Slacking Off
Published on 25 May 2010 at 11:19 am.
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Filed under Courage Series,Personal Development Strategies,Spirituality & Inspiration.
I haven’t been blogging a lot this month because I haven’t felt like it. Last month I launched my new Courage program to powerfull support people in learning how to transform fear into faith, trust, and courage. Ya know how they say that you teach what you most need to learn? Boy, am I taking my relationship to faith, trust , and courage to a new level as I am walking this program personally!
In fact, for the last several months of creating this program, I have felt like I have been walking through a fire initiation in my own healing journey. I use the reference of a fire initiation to mean a cleansing period of letting go. Whenever we raise our vibrations and reach into a higher consciousness, there is a releasing of ways of being and doing to make space for the newness that is asking to emerge.
For the last two months I have been shedding a ton of old beliefs about money, fears, health… working with some healers including my buddy Ann Taylor, my mastermind group, and close friends. It’s been very intense.
In this space I’ve been in, I’ve been letting balls drop and pulling waaay back in my usual busy day of doing. In fact, I have felt like a slacker. Yeah, but I have soooo many things to attend to! has been my argument to resist slowing down and not feeling guilty.
There have been times when I have focused only on the day’s priorities and invested most of my time and energy on introspection – meditating on my deck, listening to CDs and DVD’s, doing some writing, taking walks in nature and resting because I have been feeling exhausted.
I have had to remind myself that when you are making internal transformational shifts, you are moving a lot of energy and you need to create space for integration. And I have been committed to shifting from ego and fear-based action to inspired action that feels spiritually guided so I am dancing with the Universe rather than charting my own path and walking alone.
It has felt really weird to be doing so much less than I am used to without feeling guilty. And yet, I can sense something really big happening.
I am reminded by a friend who says that the Universe is working 95% on your behalf to bring you what you desire and that is for your best and highest good. Your job is to show up 100% for your 5% and when you are in harmony vibrationally with your desires, meaning you are a perfect vibrational match, then things flow quickly and easily.
She also says that the most important relationship to cultivate is the one you have with God/Source/ The Divine and your soul. Why? Because the ESSENCE of who you really are is SOURCE energy and when you are connected with God, you walk with faith, trust and courage knowing that no matter what happens in your life, you are ok and all is well.
Today, I have a nudge to do a little work and take the rest of the day to be with Source and I am not feeling guilty. I know that the time invested in my transformation and healing will help me to show up to the “what’s next” that is calling me forward with greater faith, trust , and courage. And I also know that we are all connected in consciousness.
What I do for me today, I do for you. My step is your step as yours is mine.
I’ve written that these are incredible times on the planet. Despite all the upheaval you are witnessing and personally experiencing in your life, it is important to remember that sometimes things must fall apart before things come together and to come together is a new, fresh way that is of greater service to your life journey and path as well as for the world.
And I remind you that when we get scared the tendency to constrict, fight back, push through or withdraw are some of the ways we react to uncertainty and change. Doing battle is the old way of handling change. Surrendering to “what is” and releasing resistance and judgments is the pathway through every life situation, no matter what that situation is.
So, if you are feeling a DIVINE nudge or pull to step back, decompress, play….and it is in the middle of your “work day” and you can let a few balls drop, do it. Surrender. Do it for your SELF and do it for the world. Give yourself permission to say YES to your heart. These times of self-reflection and renewal are all part of the journey of life to support you in showing up to be your best .
I sure hope this has been making sense 
Have a great day!
Blessings,
Lorraine
www.powerfull-living.biz
sandesh on 26 May 2010 at 4:24 am: 1
hey do not dump the people who have stayed by you allthru.listen to you coach but do not give up the hard work you have done to maintain those realtionship which have been your and there hardwork together which has brought you till hear.
if you practice just what you have written you will be out of the situation .
lorraine on 26 May 2010 at 6:48 am: 2
I do practice what I have written as well as usingthe support of my networks and community Sandesh.
There is a shift happening that is inviting us all to walk through our healing areas differently than we did before – to be inviting grace into the journey so that it is not all about “hard work.”
Deborah on 26 May 2010 at 7:26 am: 3
I get it. Thanks, that is just what I needed to read today.
lorraine on 26 May 2010 at 7:39 am: 4
I’m so glad Deborah!
I love when that happens – when I receive an answer or validation just when I need it. That’s the Universe winking at us with a smile.
Lola Fayemi/Aligned & Thriving on 26 May 2010 at 7:45 am: 5
Hey Lorraine
It’s been a while since I’ve passed by here and boy am I glad I did!
I hear ya 1000%. In fact I could have written this post! Hehehe
The programme is truly awesome, I am getting soo much from it so you are definitely doing more than enough.
It feels good to see you that you are going through the same things as us too. I haven’t done much ‘work’ for days now and have got so much insight about unconscious beliefs about work and long-standing patterns of overwhelm I continuingly find myself in and sooo much more.
It’s definitely not about ‘hard work’ for me because I don’t want it to be and so the programme is definitely helping me to uncover the inner blocks to an easier life.
The process of uncovering is chaotic at times but thanks to my ever awakening courage, I can and am doing it.
Thank you for just being you!
Lots of love
Lola x x x
lorraine on 26 May 2010 at 7:52 am: 6
Hey you sweet woman
Funny, I hesitated writing this post and it wanted to be written!It’s been a wild ride so far and still going. I feel like a stranger in a strange land in new territory of being and I am so curious about where I am being led while my emotionas and thoughts are all over the place.
I’m walking the program right with you and glad for the company!
You rock woman. It sounds like you are just where you need to be and your courage continues to inspire me.
Much love,
Lo
Bella on 26 May 2010 at 10:15 am: 7
Lorraine,
Your post was exactly what I needed to hear. What a blessing. I, too pull back and go within for clarity, peace, love and comfort. I may go to nature or just enjoy a meditation. My best friend would say “Buffy, you can’t push a rope.” So true to this day when I want a certain outcome that is not “outcoming!”.
I now wake each morning and say to the Universe, let me live your way. Let me hear the messages I am to hear today loudly. Let me meet whom I need to meet today for their good and mine. Let it be said let it be done.
Miss you,
Bella
lorraine on 26 May 2010 at 3:10 pm: 8
Nicely said Bella
I had a nudge to share this post and the reminder to lighten up and let go for all of the structure, pushing, have to’s just add more stress rather than flow. I’m still finding my way with this way of being and I am getting in the swing of it.
Always a pleasure to hear from you Bella. I’ve missed you too.
Maria Triano on 26 May 2010 at 11:44 pm: 9
This, too, explains where i am, Lo! (now i know why my ego has been working over time…haha!)
Thank you, dear, cherished, mentor & friend,
Maria
lorraine on 27 May 2010 at 8:01 am: 10
Seems many of us are here Maria
And walking though these periods always leads us to the Light!
We are both students and teachers. Thank you for being a great teacher for me.
Hugs,
Lo