It seems as July ends and August begins, I am hearing over and over “to Trust!” In this day and age where we are inundated with so many opinions in our daily lives, it sometimes takes us away from our core truth detector and sends us into an unbalanced emotional state. Let’s face it, our world of community is chaotic! The energy can feel frazzling. In my opinion, the stability of the media is gone and the ability to gather an opinion from them is compromised. Gone are the days of objective reporting. Now it feels more like an effort to convince our perspective than providing a myriad of facts so you can decide truth for yourself. Where do we turn for truth? Even in this one example of deciding our truth, we might want to recognize that nothing outside ourselves tells us what is truth. We can gain trust by paying attention to our inner truth detector ultimately. How does truth feel for you? Mine feels inside my heart, clear and without objection.
Where do you go when you need to sort through the confusion and chaos? Usually to truly connect with truth, we go somewhere quiet so we can be with ourselves and immerse in something that makes us feel balanced in perspective. We often turn to nature, a massage, nap, exercise, read a fictional book, watch a funny movie to name a few. When we do these things, we seem to get messages, sparks of inspiration of some sort that shifts our thinking and triggers our heart and feels important and truthful. But ultimately we slow down and move away from the confusion. If we are successful, we reconnect with our heart and what we believe is important. We walk away with different priorities and set out on a path to change our ways. But unless you learn to connect with what feels true inside yourself and run influences in life through that truth meter, you end up in the same place of confusion, eventually. That too is reality, because we are constantly learning and growing in life. But ultimately, it isn’t the massage, book or walk that gives you truth, it is you turning within to connect with what feels truthful. Knowing how your body communicates truth to you can change your life and put you in the drivers seat of your life and development.
So where does trust come in? Well, we all have had bumps in our life that we didn’t see coming, that affect our ability to trust our inner truth meter. So it too confuses us along the way. When we are in the unknown territory of learning, incidents happen, that is just life. It is important to reflect back on the time when we made our decision and we remember that warning or ill feeling we ignored. We missed it, but reflecting helps us to learn to acknowledge and trust those messages moving forward. Telling your victim story repeatedly without reckoning to move forward in a positive way, allows the victim to continue. Giving the need to blame something outside yourself more power than your own learned wisdom, determines the course moving forward. Trust can only be developed in knowing within yourself what truth feels like and exercising that knowledge in your decision making.
The past 4 years I have been studying with the Indigenous Medium, Shawn Leonard. He has given me simple tools to help me fine tune my ability to connect with people who have passed or as he says, gone home. Meditation, saying prayers for empowerment outloud to my spirit guides, ancestors and the creator (or God.) These tools have opened me to visions, hearing, smelling, feeling (physical and emotional) and “just knowing” abilities to develop in delivering messages from the other side. It has been a huge lesson of trust which continues with each reading. Shawn himself and other mediums I follow, after all their years of experience still talk about how hard mediumship is because you have to follow the crumbs spirit sends and trust it enough to share it. I have two methods I can trust to deliver these messages. 1 being trusting my inner truth meter and 2 being brave enough to share whatever message I receive that feels truthful, to the person the message is intended for and await their response of validation. That takes trust. Trust and truth go hand in hand in life, this is just one example. My final point is, you have to go within to find truth in situations. Healthy healing activities you seek are tools to get you there. You can turn outward and get 1000’s of opinions. But unless you put each of those opinions inside yourself to see if they are true or not, your path in life is determined by others, not by authentic truth. Turning within continues to strengthen your truth meter and refine your consistency. And yes, you will hit and miss, but humility is a valuable tool to get you to go back and fine tune your truth meter as well. Everything is a choice. And we do get triggered. You know the old saying “sink or sail”, course correct is the hoped end result. And every life lesson hopefully makes you better, stronger and more confident. I myself am in the middle of gaining trust in my mediumship right now. For me, it is like stage fright before a reading, but immense joy after to have helped someone with their pain of loss. When the challenges present themselves, I go back to the drawing board, get quiet, review the incident and try to correct course moving forward. Every reading I get stronger, but every reading requires blind trust. I am narrowing the window of self doubt and building my trust in truth. It feels like a big life lesson, important to the core of human existence and survival.
Let’s draw a card and ask what everyone needs to know to grow their trust in truth – I will just respond with resonating points from the book guide from the Wisdom of the Oracle deck by Collette Baron-Reid. I drew the card “ Time for a Nap”. The essential meaning is: rest, rejuvenation and renewal. Temporary non-action, allowing dreams to arise. The Oracle’s message is: Nothing is as important as rest, detachment, and neutrality. The overly busy mind can block you from inner wisdom if you don’t step back, take a seat, and rest. Be willing to let dreams surface and ideas flow through you, absent any force or conscious direction, as you observe without engagement now. In relationships: Withdraw from action in your relationship, and give it a rest so that your love and connection can become rejuvenated. If you are not partnered, it’s good to take this time to know yourself. If you are partnered, relax and just be with your partner. Prosperity message: A great time to take a break from your busy schedule and allow yourself the opportunity to step back. Put plans on ice, dream, imagine and let go of attachments. After a break, you might want to make some changes. Epiphanies have an amazing way of arising when you take your focus off your to-do list and allow yourself to rest.
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Love, peace and light, Susan
