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Falling Forward In Divine Timing

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Stacey MK

How many times have you Divinely been given a dream, a desire, or been shown a specific task to accomplish, but you didn’t even know where to begin? Or, you took a step towards a desired goal and achieving your vision and encountered countless obstacles, delays and detours that left you questioning what you were thinking?

As a sixth sensory being, we know that our best experiences and relationships and the road to achieving our dreams can be had by following our intuition and the promptings of our heart, regardless of whether we completely agree with it or are even consciously aware of where we are headed at that moment.

We have faith in our Higher Self, our Guides and our Angels who are guiding us along and illuminating our path on our journey. We trust in the Divine timing for the highest good of all involved, and we genuinely believe that no matter what, the Universe has our back.

It may not be until that one moment when the initial inspiration or task at hand has actually morphed into several major projects – whether it’s been several days, weeks, months or years – and you are taking those necessary steps that you realize you have completed an important portion of your ultimate vision. Divine inspiration is not always a step-by-step method to get you through a specific project but rather the complete unfolding process to achieving your grandest vision and dream.

Sometimes when we take a few simplistic steps to complete a singular project, and it becomes total frustration and fragments into many other segments over an extended period of time, that’s when you can see why the obstacles and the additional projects were necessary to encounter in order to complete the whole of the vision and to fulfill your purpose within its design.

Many times people think when something is Divinely inspired there will be no obstacles or delays, when in fact the opposite can be true. It’s called Falling Forward in Divine Timing. There are times during the process when you need to learn and grow or the other people you are meant to connect and collaborate with need to learn and grow and ultimately be ready and in position for the undertaking of their part in the vision as a whole.

When you feel the burning desire and passion in your heart to move forward regardless of what you are seeing around you, keep falling forward because the inspired idea is most likely a grand vision and one you’ll feel so blessed and honored to be a part of with Divine timing.

The Hundredth Monkey, Fact Or Fiction?

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Metaphors are a great way to teach an abstract concept. One popular metaphor is the story of “the hundredth monkey.” The story goes that in the 1950’s some Japanese scientists observed monkeys on one island learn to wash sweet potatoes before eating them. The behavior spread locally and, as the story goes, when a certain number of monkeys started doing it, monkeys on neighboring islands started doing the same thing, with out direct exposure to the behavior. The inference is that consciousness can grow and expand and have an influence on the larger population without direct contact.

Fotolia_4552907_Subscription_LApparently there is little truth to this actual story, and yet it is a great metaphor we can learn from and believe in. Another term that we hear is “tipping point.” It is a term used in sociology with its origins in physics. According to Wikipedia, it is described as “adding a small amount of weight to a balanced object until the additional weight caused the object to suddenly and completely topple, or tip.”

So here we are at a tipping point in our world. We have been told for decades that we are in an “age change,” shifting into the “dawning of the age of Aquarius” as we learned in song many years ago. The birth and growth of the Internet could be our tipping point…we have become one global family, over night really. But that great advance has come with a price…that we are as children in a family fighting for our rights to behave how we have always behaved, despite the way we now see others behaving. My way or the highway…but there is no highway off the earth at the moment, so the next big challenge is for us to learn how to get along with each other, to let others be the way that they want to be and know that it doesn’t take a single thing away from “my way.”

From earliest man we have feared people different than us…and fought them to protect our own kind. But now, for the first time, it is global and we are mentally overwhelmed at how many different ways there are to live as humans. This can cause us to be frightened to the core…or not!

So if we look at humanity as a whole, with one side fighting to the death for their way, and the other side hoping for, envisioning, praying for peace – to which side are you adding weight? With people able to express their thoughts now via social media, it “appears” as though we are more and more divided. But appearances are just that…they are not fact. The news media competes for your attention by stirring up your emotions…emotions of fear and anger at a survival level. I watch the news to remain aware of what is going on in my neighborhood, state, country, continent, and planet…well, in my universe. But I don’t let it take hold of my emotions. How do I not? Here are some simple steps I do and if we all did them, well, we might just be human/monkey #100! I believe it is so.

  1. Start each day with a quick meditation to listen to what your highest self has to say. That part of you is outside the fray of daily life so the information is on the positive side. If you don’t know how to meditate, there are about a thousand programs out there now, many of them free, so find one that appeals to you and invest a little time in learning this new skill.
  2. When you watch the news or read the newspaper or get a news feed online, monitor your emotional reaction to what you are reading or watching. If you find yourself having a negative emotional reaction (really hard not to), try to use that discomfort as fertilizer for a new idea of something positive you can do in your own community.       What we all see going on around the world is horrific, but I can’t let it take me to a horrific place…the only way men will ever put down their arms is if the consciousness of humanity moves past it. So I want to be on the positive side of that scale. I so admire our young men and women who are willing to put themselves in harm’s way for people they don’t even know…but I envision the day when they don’t HAVE to do that any more.
  3. Spend a minute or two every day in gratitude for what is around you. There is always something to be grateful for, even the smallest thing…like that it didn’t rain today, or it DID rain today (we live in the Southern California drought.)

So if you do these things, you will feel better…and the more people who feel better, the better the chance of the shift into a world free of war. Who knows, what if it turns out the hundredth monkey theory IS true, and YOU are the hundredth monkey!

I look forward to your comments! Write to me at: voiceofyoursoul@gmail.com

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