Get thee behind me Satan

I personally don't believe in Satan as the duality of God, but what if we swapped out 'Satan' for 'Fear'? What can we do to move beyond fear when it grips us so completely that we can't eat or even think straight.

Whether or not the fear is grounded in reality or is completely irrational it can stop us right in our tracks. It can prevent us from taking action, or drive us to take action for the wrong reasons. When we are in it's cold, clammy grip it is incredibly challenging to release it, but that is what we must do to claim our own magnificence.

There is a story about monks coming together for an event where they face all their fears. They must go through a large hall and cannot exit from the door they enter. There are only two pieces of guidance given to each monk on his journey through the hall of terrors: Keep putting one foot in front of the other and don't believe all that you see.

This is what we are called to do when fear grips us. Regardless of the apparent cause, we can turn our eyes away from the world of effects and know a higher truth. We are Spiritual beings, eternal and unlimited in our nature, as such we do not have to bound by appearances, no matter how real they look. Also we need to keep putting one foot in front of the other, continue to move forward taking the best action that we can in each moment.

Often our fear is simply our ego trying to keep us safe and out of harms way. As we journey on this pathway we are constantly becoming more and that change threatens that ego part of our mind that has done a great job keeping us small, limited and safe in it's own perception.

I also stay focussed and anchored in my spiritual practice. Even more meditation, affirmative prayer, visualisation, gratitude and self care to help me move through the appearance of lack or limitation.

So when fear takes your hand, know that there is a higher reality, that you will move through it and that you are one with the entire universal consciousness which always knows the answer. You simply need to quiet the chattering of your mind long enough to be still and know.

You are always guided and going in the best direction.

In Love

Juliet x

Actions equal results

If I stopped eating I could reasonably expect to whither and die. Why then do I expect to thrive and grow if I do not take nourishing actions in other areas of my life?

We take thousands of actions everyday, but most are re-actions, not positive pro-actions. We react and respond to life and do all that is called of us with little conscious thought. As I reflect on my goals, targets, ambitions and dreams I recognise that unless I take positive actions every day towards achieving them, then they will not grow, they, like me, will whither and die for lack of nourishment.

I learnt in my high school physics class that there is a reaction to every action. Each time I take an action step, regardless of how small, it will move me towards the results that I desire. Why then can I get lost in all the other busy-ness of the day and forget to take the most important actions that move me in the directions of my dream life?

There are as many answers to this why question as there are particles in the air. The REAL question is what will I choose to do differently each day to ensure that I do take the actions that will move me towards the life of my dreams?

I know myself well enough to know that once I commit to something that has an impact on others I will stick to it. Just like the blog and the radio show, I do them consistently because I know that other people expect delivery. With this awareness I see that I don't always make my deliverables as important as those for others. I now have a choice - continue undervaluing myself or recognise that I am the centre of my universe and if I don't support myself with actions that move me towards my goals, ultimately I will whither and die just as if I stopped feeding myself on a physical level. The care and feeding of my spirit is just as important as that of my body suitcase.

Take a moment now to think about this in your life. Can you take at least one action everyday, no matter how small, to move in the direction of your dreams?

I know you can and I know that you deserve that dream life.

In Love
Juliet x

How do you play your hand?

If life is a poker game we cannot control the hand of cards we are dealt. We do, however, have complete choice on how we play our cards and whether we bluff, play full out or throw in our hand as soon as we get a little scared. How do you play?

We have a choice.
We can blame the dealer for giving us rubbish cards, or our fellow players for being stupid or lucky. We can follow the leaders and claim the occasional win or we can fold and give up because it's not fair.
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We can take the hand we have and play it to the fullest extent of our ability. Sometimes we may win and sometimes we may lose, but what ever happens we know that we have done the best we can. We can stand up at the end of the game and know that in every moment we took responsibility for our game play, we made the very best of everything we had and regardless of the finally tally we can claim that we played the very best game we could with the cards the dealer dealt us.

Personally I would rather be steering my own ship than floating on the sea of life like a piece of flotsam. Each one of us has the opportunity to take charge of our thoughts and harness our emotions to empower our lives.

How do you play your hand?

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In Love
Juliet x

We seek the teeth that fit the wound

I constantly marvel at how our life contains perpetual opportunities for growth and learning. There are always fresh demonstrations of what we ask the universe for.

I have been asking the universe to help me heal the last vestiges of my money issues whilst also asking to move my global ministry to the next level. Not big asks you might think, just the average kinds of questions for a spiritual seeker.

Be careful what you ask for!

Oh will I never learn? One email was all it took to completely unravel me.

This morning, in the 3 hours I have been physically awake I have journeyed through the entire gamut of emotions, starting at deep hurt with matching tears, through anger and rage with more tears, into the depths of rejection, unworthiness and unloveability, you guessed it, more tears. I then jumped into bit of self pity, some projected violence finally returning to deep hurt with a side of resentment. All the while acknowledging on one level that this was not based in reality and was totally being fuelled by my ego.

Enter the hero - Spiritual Practice

This is why I do my Spiritual Practice with total commitment and dedication. I know I'm not even at the bottom of the mountain of enlightenment and that the road is long and filled with many temptations to slip back to the comfort of 'them' and 'they did'.

I took up the position of my meditation (not quite the lotus but near enough for me) and tried to still my mind from all the chatter and the stories I was making up in my head. After several rounds of conversation I moved to the most effective mantra I have in my tool box for me (it doesn't have to be yours), "There is only one life, that life is God's life, that life is perfect, that life is my life now." This mantra encapsulates all that I believe and has been hugely powerful in my journey. So I got busy repeating it over and over. Gradually allowing all the other 'stuff' to subside, embracing the feeling of the words as they wrapped around me like a treasured fluffy blanket. And there it was. "We seek the teeth that fit the wound."

In that moment I was able to recognise that this WAS the answer to my 'prayers'. This was a direct delivery from the universe to allow both the healing of my money consciousness and the expansion of my global work. Even though I have travelled deeply into the recesses of my subconscious beliefs I still have greater depths to plumb. The awareness that these teeth had bitten deeply into the still held remnants of the wound entitled "what I believe about myself".

With that recognition I was able to set aside the drama of the morning and remember that I am Divine Expression, that the I Am is in me and that NO THING other than that is true unless I let it be true.
I also recognise that this has opened up a door for me to heal at a yet deeper level and in that knowing I can be grateful for that email and I can bless the sender with love, genuine, unconditional love and gratitude for being the actor in my play that could deliver these lines that would bring answers from the universe that I have called forth.

In conclusion I invite you to review a situation in your life where you are blaming, judging or separating yourself from people or situations that actually may be showing up as an answer to your prayers. You are the script writer, the director and one of the actors in the play of your life. As we move into remembering that, get still and quiet enough to hear truth and then allow our ego to take a rest, it is remarkable what we can discover, both about our lives and our selves.

In Love
Juliet x

To begin again

In the cavernous gap between this blog and the last one, so much has happened in my life that I feel I come to this page as a completely new person. My zest and inspiration for my life and my life's purpose is renewed to such a massive extent that I can hardly quantify it in words that could adequately describe the transformational journey that I have been on.

Enough to say I am back, things are changing and I am so grateful.

Thinking about beginning again and the process of renewal I am constantly amazed at how continuous the renewal process is. As I look out from my office window, the leaves are turning golden and slowly dropping to the floor or being caught up in the tumult of a passing wind, swirling and whooshing to some other destination, soon to be added back to the earth to fertilise to growth. Not once is a tree concerned about having the energy or resources to grow fresh leaves in the spring, there is no clinging to what is there now. The eternal circle of life is in perfect flow. The light holds a constant shadow of rain filled clouds and the clear blue sky of summer is a distant memory.

And so it is in my life. The time has come again to release the old leaves of the stories and beliefs that no longer serve me, to allow the eternal energy of creation to transform them into the inspiration for my new growth. The light in my spirit allows the cleansing flow of water through my body, releasing the tears of grief and change, making space for the new connections, fresh relationships and renewed love shared between my family and friends. The warm rememberings of summer, the fruits born of last seasons growth, still fill my belly and my soul with joy, peace and love.

This is the way of life, the eternal circle of all things, birth, growth and death. Death brings the opportunity of birth, the renewal into a new season, the transformation of the garden of our mind into the fertile soil ready for the planting of new seeds.

I recognise in my self it is all too easy to grasp and cling to what was, resisting the change that comes in every season of my life. For today I consciously bless what has been, I release it to the four winds and I open my heart and mind to the newness of my greatest yet to be.

I invite you to join me for the next season of your life, knowing that all things are abundant beyond our wildest imagination and that the universe is the wholesale centre of our life, where everyone of our needs is instantly met and we are blessed with all our hearts desires.

In love
Juliet x

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