​The recent snow here in Colorado has brought a blanket of stillness to the earth for several days just as we are entering this time of darkness during the year. The light of the sun during the day is less, and darkness of the night lengthens. I can feel Mother Earth breathe in for a peaceful rest, even as I hope to do the same.  

As we enter into the darkness of winter, we naturally experience a longing for inner peace. It’s time to turn inward in reflection and contemplation. This will help us to prepare for the return of the sun and the lengthening of days with insights that we can gain during this time.
 
But, as the holidays approach, we can easily be pulled from this quiet, peaceful time into the busyness of this time of year that is filled with shopping for gifts, visits with friends and family, cooking special foods, and joyous celebrations. 
 
It can also be filled with stress for many. The overwhelm of the season can leave us feeling defeated and irritable before we even start the day. Events from the past can come into our minds and steal our joy and gratitude from the present moment. Challenges in relationships may surface and the upset or anger can leave you exhausted. The memories of the loss of a loved may leave you feeling sad or depressed.  Even worrying about the cost of gifts can bring stress as we try to bring joy to others. 
 
What stress seems to be pulling you away from experiencing peace and love in this season? 

​With all of the hustle and bustle, it can be easy to get caught up in this stress and lose focus on the essence of this season –  a feeling of peace, joy, and love for yourself and others.
 
St. Hildegard shares her thoughts in Scivias that we can call upon to give us the strength to return to the essence of the season,  “You see a burning light which is of a great size, just as any mountain is high and great. The light is divided into many tongues at its top. In front of this light, there is a great crowd of people standing. The people are covered in light, and there is a brightly shining covering in front of all this crowd. This covering shines like crystal and it covers the people...”
 
Imagine that you’re being filled with this bright radiant light that shines with the strength of a great mountain that’s blessed with the unconditional love of the Divine. Take a quiet moment and slowly breathe in the warmth, light, and power. Feel how this dissolves anything that may be interfering with you experiencing peace and love this season. Breathe out and release those things that are obstacles. Return to the present moment and choose to feel calm, peace, and love.  

This is your True Self.  One that is loving, peaceful, and joyous.  Return to this place again and again this season. 
 
Check out the many resources available to support you on your spiritual journey in my Free Healing Library here.  

​It’s a wonderful feeling when we have hope for the future.  When we have a positive outlook on what arises in our lives. 
 
A sense of hope brings light into our lives. It brightens our day. Makes us feel lighter, happier, and peaceful. 
 
St. Hildegard, in Scivias, shares a vision that reminds me of how hope can brighten our lives, “…a flame of inestimable brightness suddenly descends from the opened heaven…completely with its brightness, … (making) things light with its rays. And while the flame radiates, … (it) bears the offering upwards invisible to the secrets of heaven... just as a person draws a breath inwards and then sends it outwards again.”
 

​This bright light of hope can help you to move through difficult times, bringing you strength in moments of darkness.  It’s such a powerful antidote to the feeling of despair.

​When you can cultivate a sense of hope, you begin to realize how you’re a part of a greater universe and divine plan. You come to find meaning in the pain and difficulties in your life, as you realize they may help you learn what you need to on your path in life. 
You experience that you can grow and learn from your painful experiences.  It’s not that they’re not painful while they’re happening.  They are!  But you gain wisdom and strength having lived through them. 
When you have a sense of this meaning and purpose in your life, deep within you know you cannot give up, but must find your strength to stay on your path in life.
But how do you cultivate a sense of hope, so that in moments of darkness, you can call upon this for support? 
 
When those moments arise where you feel like giving up, how can you dig deep and find the hope you need?
 
Here are 3 ways to cultivate a sense of hope that can support you in darker moments.

1. Be Grateful - By focusing on what’s good in your life and being grateful for it every day, you send your energy there.  You cultivate a sense of abundance and happiness and open a doorway to the Divine Source. 

​2. Practice Positivity – Negativity is everywhere and can negatively affect you more than you may realize.  Distance yourself from negativity.  Take responsibility for your own thoughts and strive to see the good in a situation. When you have a positive outlook on life, you see obstacles as opportunities for growth and are able to experience joy for others’ good fortune.   

3. Celebrate – Take time to celebrate a moment of accomplishment and meaning in your life.  I believe it is important to celebrate something daily! Maybe you finished that project that you have been working on for many weeks.  Maybe a loved one was accepted into a desired course of study. Or a friend started that new business venture. Take a moment to honor and celebrate this moment of excitement and joy, bringing light into your life.  

Take time to cultivate a sense of hope in your life today.  Then in those inevitable times of darkness, you’ll be able to tap into this wellspring of strength.
 
You’ll be better prepared for those moments that arise with a feeling of despair and be able to dig deep within to find the sense of hope you need for the future. 
 
“Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.”
Thich Nhat Hanh

Check out the many resources available to support you on your spiritual journey in my Free Healing Library here. 

​As Mother Earth continues to breathe in with winter drawing near, we can gather in our own healing powers of Viriditas from the summer’s greening life energy. It’s a time for us to slow down and become more peaceful.
It’s a perfect time for us to find some space to care for ourselves. How do you do this at this time of year?  

​In Scivias, St. Hildegard shares a vision of what I imagine as the Divine Mother with great wisdom who comforts us with her loving arms during times when we need rest and support. 
 
“Imagine a woman of great size. Then imagine a bright light which is as white as snow and as transparent as crystal. The light makes the woman bright...she reflects that light upwards to the mysteries of heaven…there is a most beautiful maiden whose head is uncovered, showing her black hair. This maiden is clothed with a red tunic which flows down to her feet.
 
And you hear a heavenly voice speak, ‘This flower… is the mother and flower of roses and the lily of the valleys. O flower, …you will be comforted at the proper time.’ ”
I invite you to close your eyes and imagine that this great woman is embracing you in the comfort of her arms as Divine Mother. Feel her filling you with her compassion and peace.  Relax and rest within her arms allowing the bright warm light to flow through you.  

As you’re held by this imagination and return to your daily life, consider how you may continue to care for yourself.  Bring this same feeling of comfort and warmth into your life regularly, using all of your senses, as we move into the season of winter. 

Here are some of my favorite ways to do this:
 
 1. Savor the smells and tastes of the season – Some of the favorite scents of the season - cinnamon, vanilla, and orange - can be enjoyed through essential oils that are diffused in a room, steeped in warm water as herbal teas, or baked in a favorite holiday food.  Take time to savor the delicious scents and flavors.  

2. Gaze at the dancing light of a flame – Sitting in front of a crackling fireplace with a cozy blanket wrapped around you and a cup of tea can rejuvenate your soul.  Aren’t able to make a fire right now?  Then, light a beeswax candle and let the aroma of honey fill the room as you pull that blanket tighter.  

3. Experience the joy of song – It’s a wonderful time to lift your voice in song or play your favorite instrument and let the beauty of music comfort your soul. 

​4. Feel the refreshing, cool breeze -  Bundle up and take a walk outside, letting the cool autumn air caress your face and fill your lungs.  Return to the warmth of your own home, feeling invigorated and alive.   
 
Take the time to care for yourself in your favorite ways throughout the upcoming holiday season, allowing yourself to be comforted and at peace whenever you need it. You’ll then be rejuvenated and able to more easily share your gifts with the world. 
 
Check out the many additional resources available to support you on your spiritual journey in my Free Healing Library here. 

​As the splendor of autumn begins to pass and winter draws near, Mother Earth breathes in. She draws back everything that has streamed out during the summer. Her energy moves inward, and she grows quieter. 

​The air no longer feels ripe with the greening life energy of the natural world and the sweet-smelling fruits of late summer. It’s a time that we need to increase our inner strength and light to carry us through this journey into the darker time of the year.

​How do you gather your inner strength for whatever comes into your life? 
 
How do you strengthen your life forces and immune system to sustain a healthy balance throughout the winter? 
 
St. Hildegard honored a sacred connection to the greening power, or viriditas, of nature that created balance, harmony, and vitality in life. She shared that if this connection was out of balance, then one could experience a drying up of vitality and illness could arise. 
St. Hildegard offered a variety of healing remedies and practices to strengthen one’s own healing power. One was the use of the healing gemstone of the emerald. She felt it possessed the healing power of viriditas, the greening power of the earth, and supported a return to health and balance from illness. 
The emerald, with its luscious green color, is a gemstone of the heart connected with compassion, love, and life force.  It’s a stone that will promote balance in all areas in your life – physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual. It can increase the energy levels in your body and enhance a balanced flow of energy between your upper and lower chakras, bringing a more peaceful and loving way of being in your life. It promotes removing any blockages that may exist and opening a pathway to living a life that is more harmonious, generous, and compassionate.  

In Scivias, St. Hildegard shares a vision of a tower that gives us an image of bringing strength into our lives with the greening power of viriditas in the gemstone of the emerald. 
 
“Imagine a large round tower which …has three windows near its top, and from these …such a bright light pours out…The three windows are decorated around their outside with beautiful emeralds. The tower is located straight behind you…You cannot be destroyed in any way because of its strength.”
 
You can imagine holding a large emerald from one of these windows in your hand. The light pours into this gemstone where all of the greening power of nature, viriditas, is concentrated. It’s the potent, divine life force that lives and breathes within all living beings, full of vitality, moisture, and fecundity.  It’s able to bring creativity and healthy abundance into the world, making all things grow, expand, and thrive.  
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Take a moment to breathe in this strength, letting it flow into your body and soul. You can know that whenever you need it, you can pause and reconnect to the strength of the tower with emeralds. You’re filled with light and vital life force energy. Ready to bring your gifts to the world! 
 
Check out the many resources available to support you on your spiritual journey in my Free Healing Library here. 

​We had our first days of snow come quite early here in Colorado this year – many days before Halloween.  As I watched the snowflakes fall peacefully outside in the bitter cold air, I warmed myself in front of the fireplace with a cup of tea and contemplated how through the seasons the Divine Mother calls us to awaken.  I hear her calling us to awaken to the imbalance in the world that has caused suffering. It’s time, time to bring it into balance.  The Divine Mother, with her healing and nurturing ways, shows us that we can find peace and an end to suffering. 

The Divine Feminine as Mother is accessible to all.  She’s nurturing, forgiving, sensitive, powerful, and intuitive.  She creates, giving birth to the new in the world.  She’s all-encompassing and all-embracing, reaching her loving arms out with compassion and strength, without judgment. 
 
I remembered the wise words of St. Hildegard from Scivias on The Queen of Peace, an image of the Divine Mother that came to her long ago. As I listened to these words once again, they warmed my heart and embraced the suffering I feel in the world. 
 
So, I invite you to do the same to access the nurturing and embracing compassion of the Divine Mother in St. Hildegard’s Queen of Peace.  You can access the audio recording here.  

Sit comfortably in a quiet location and take a few deep, slow breaths. Light a candle and breathe in the peace of the candlelight. Begin the audio and close your eyes, letting the following words from St. Hildegard of Bingen speak to your heart and mind:
 
“Imagine you are a woman of great size – just like a great city. You have your head crowned wondrously, and your arms are covered with the long sleeves of a tunic which glistens from heaven right down to the earth.
 
Your womb is full of holes, much like a net, and a great crowd of people are moving about in it. You do not have any legs or feet which can be seen because you are standing in front of an altar which is before the eyes of God. You have your hands stretched out around the altar, and you are looking most keenly throughout the heavens with your eyes.
 
You cannot look at your garment closely, except that you notice that it shines with a very bright peacefulness. Your breasts are surrounded with such splendor that they shine as a reddish dawn full of reddish lightning. And you hear various kinds of music being sung ‘as intensely as the reddish dawn.’
 
You spread out your splendor as if it is a garment, and you say: ‘It behooves me to take in and to provide for.’ 

And then as if in a flash of lightning, a multitude of angels run to you. The angels perfect you by making various seats and steps on you for people to sit on.
 
Next you see some suffering infants near the earth, but in the air. They are like fish swimming in the water. These infants enter your womb through the many holes that are in it. You then sigh, drawing the infants up to your head where you breathe them forth through your mouth, remaining pure in the process.
 
Then a peaceful light appears to you. This peaceful light takes the suffering skin from each of the infants and throws that skin beyond life. You then uncover the peaceful light for these infants and cover them with a beautiful garment.”
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At the end of the meditation, sit quietly for a few moments. Then consider the following:
 
Where are you suffering in your life right now? 

• Name each area of suffering out loud.
• Write these on little pieces of paper and put the papers in a little bowl on your altar.
• Circle the bowl with your candle and then cover the bowl with a beautiful cloth, with the intention of transforming the suffering into peace. 
• Sit in silence for a few moments, letting the light of peace flow through you.

May the Queen of Peace embrace you and dissolve the suffering you’re experiencing!
 
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​One of my favorite artistic traditions comes from Japan and is called Kintsugi, the mending of broken pottery with gold. It reminds me of the deep wounds of the heart that we all have experienced in our lives.  Even though we’re unique as individuals in how our paths unfold and how we move through our challenges, all of us still experience wounds of the heart. 
 
A Kintsugi artist, instead of hiding or disguising the past that has caused the break in the pottery, transforms the piece’s damage and history into something beautiful. The piece of pottery glimmers with cracks that are filled with gold, giving the pottery an appearance that is unique to itself, unlike any other piece.  A creation of a glorious, new life! 

​What suffering, with deep wounds of your heart, have you experienced?  Have you suffered grief, betrayal, or jealousy? 
 
How do we make sure that our deep wounds of the heart don’t cause us to become hard-hearted or without forgiveness or compassion for ourselves and others?
 
How do we make sure the pain we feel doesn’t lead to feeling ill will toward another?  Keeping them at a distance as we struggle with trusting or connecting with others.  

How can our wounds of the heart be healed? Opening up to compassion, love and understanding.
 
In Scivias, St. Hildegard shared about the person we can become “…who is without any blemish of hard-heartedness, ill will, and unfairness.”  As this person, your heart is open and flows with love, empathy, and compassion, in and out like your breath. 
 
You accept others and yourself.  You forgive easily.  You are open to love. 
 
St. Hildegard also spoke about her vision of a person in sapphire blue who’s surrounded by light and warmth.  “Imagine a very bright light, and inside it there is a person who is the color of sapphire. This person is completely surrounded by a very pleasant fire of reddish color. The very bright light completely surrounds this fire of reddish color, and at the same time this fire completely surrounds the light. Both the fire and the light surround the person, existing as one light with one force of potentiality.”
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We can imagine this bright light and reddish fire coming to infuse the wounded cracks of our heart with warm, healing gold.  Our hard-heartedness melts away. We are able to, once again, feel love and compassion for ourselves and open our arms to let it flow to others in the world. 
 
 
Consider the following in your own life:
 

1. Where have you felt hard-heartedness, ill will, and unfairness toward yourself or another?  When did this start and why?

 

1. Picture molten gold that shines with a bright light and warm reddish color. Let your wounds that resulted in your hard-heartedness be filled with the warm, healing reddish-gold light.  You are being filled with compassion, love, and understanding.

 

1. Once you are filled with these healing forces, listen inwardly. Where are you called to extend this healing force in the world?  Where will it go? What will it do?

 
Hold these questions in your heart within your meditation or before bed.  See what bubbles up to help you to heal the wounds of your heart. 
 
 If you would like support to heal the wounds of your heart, I invite you to contact me for a free 30 minute initial consultation.

​Challenges are a part of life. Whether we embrace them or try to avoid them, we all come up against roadblocks in our life from time to time. They could come from other people or circumstances that enter our path.  Or a tragedy or devastating event that brings us pain.  Or they may even be internal challenges – our own lack of energy or motivation, inability to focus, or limiting beliefs.  

​Often like a bolt of lightning, challenges come into our lives and jolt us awake. How can we learn to stay strong, instead of crumble under the pressure?  How can we learn to see the opportunity or gift that may be presenting itself within the challenge?
 
Obstacles that come into your path are opportunities for you to grow beyond your current state. To break through the ceiling of your perceived limitations. 
 
Yet they may be difficult to view this way when you’re in the midst of the storm and feeling trapped or ready to drown.  How do we transform them to help us move forward instead of being stuck in the current circumstances?  

Obstacles, if not overcome, can overwhelm and stop you from moving forward in the vision for your life’s journey.  They can keep you stuck, usually in fear, unable to take action in order to grow. 
 
St. Hildegard, in the second part of Scivias, shares a vision that we can use when coming up against challenge, “lmagine a very bright fire which is….wholly living, …and it is blazing violently... And imagine this flame lighten in color and give forth a bolt of lightning.”
 
And she continues, sharing how this bolt of lightning that may come into your life actually leads to a clearing and a cleansing of the air, “Behold, the air…– suddenly rising up, and the flame sending sparks into the air, thereby leading the air to perfection. The air sparkles and is put in order...”
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​And this even brings a gift, a new creative force into being, “After that, this flame sends forth some of its fire to a little clod of muddy earth which is lying on the ground. This flame makes this little clod warm so that a body and blood are brought forth. This flame breathes into this body and blood, and a person is brought forth. With this finished, the bright fire… brings the whitest of flowers to this person…”
 
Take a moment to look back into your life.  Where have you had challenges that now, you can see were creative opportunities for growth in your life?  What were the “whitest of flowers” or gifts from the situation? What do you appreciate now, looking back?
 
Be grateful for your own resiliency to come out of the darkness and grow! Celebrate – with joy and love – the you that has evolved through these moments! Offer appreciation and gratitude for the enduring light that shines in your life – the “whitest of flowers”, as St. Hildegard says.  

Now that you’ve considered the past, come to the present moment.  What obstacles present themselves to you today?  How can you see them as creative opportunities for growth? Let me offer some contemplative questions for you.

• Identify an obstacle that’s present in your life today.
• Consider how it began – when, where, how, why?  What triggered it? 
• How does this obstacle interfere with your path in life – your relationships, your gifts to share with others, your goals, your well-being?
• What creative opportunity is being presented here? Imagine what might arise in your life if you were able to transform this obstacle into an opportunity?  How would you be empowered to move forward?  What positive changes would arise? How would you grow?  Picture yourself already in this moment. 
• Ask your higher self or spirit guides for guidance in discovering the next steps needed to reach this moment beyond the obstacle. 

 
Use this practice for several days in a row and see what “whitest flower” arises in your life.
 
Check out the many resources available to support you on your spiritual journey in my Free Healing Library here. 
 
 “Instead of asking “what’s the problem?” ask “what’s the creative opportunity?” Deepak Chopra 

​The Universe supports you in ways that you may not even fully realize.  Yes, it does!
 
You may not realize this each and every moment in the day. You may even feel quite alone in the world at times.  

​But in truth, the Universe supports you each and every moment because you’re not separate from it. You’re one within it and it is one with you. That means that love, wisdom and peace that’s the nature of the Universe is also your nature.  And the support that is offered can show up in the world as angelic beings in many forms. 
 
It may be that sometimes you have certain people or events that bring something good into your life.  Or maybe you’re protected from something harmful that might’ve crossed your path. Or possibly you have an inspiration for an idea just when you need it most.
 
It might even seem that the Universe is conspiring to support you! 
 
Just ponder that idea for a moment.
 
The Universe is conspiring to support you! 
 
If you can open yourself to this idea, this possibility, the Divine oneness that you’re a part of becomes more apparent to you. You see that these moments aren’t accidental, but actually support and guidance coming to you. 
 
St. Hildegard shares in her 6th Illumination in Scivias how heavenly spirits are like a crown of light radiating to support us.  

​“Imagine….heavenly spirits on high…They are shining very brightly….they have faces that are like the faces of people. The looks on their faces appear as if they are pure water. (They) also have wings on their shoulders…The looks on their faces appear as if they are the image of the Word of God shining in a mirror….arranged in a circle as if they are a crown.
 
But all…are resounding with wondrous voices – accompanied with every type of music – all the miracles which God performed in the blessed souls.”
 
 
Imagine this crown of light that shines in the Universe for your own unique life – divine guides conspiring to support you in each and every moment.
 
And if you turn your energy and attention to this Divine support and presence, then they’ll even manifest more and more in your life.  One might even say miracles arise!  

​What if we were to expect miracles like these in our lives?  Expect that angels surround us and are available to support us if we simply ask?  How would that shift our view of our own life?
 
Moments of miracle appear in your life often. Cherish these moments no matter how small they are.  Don’t limit, in your thinking, the ways that you think miracles may appear. Open yourself to all possibilities. 
 
Miracles come to us in many forms.  They could be a healing.  Or a person who comes into our lives.  Or an opportunity that presents itself.  Maybe an adventure or an experience in nature.  Or many pieces falling into place in just the right way for you to take the next step. 


Put on your “miracle glasses” for a moment with me and look into your life’s journey so far.  When in your life did you have moments of support or goodness?  Where and how did those arise?  Who were the people, as angelic beings, involved who brought goodness into your day? 
 
When did you feel protected by harm that could’ve arisen?  Almost as if a circle of angelic beings were protecting you?

I invite you to explore this practice for the next week.  Each evening before bed, review your day.  Identify 5 ways that you felt supported by the Universe that day. Consider how that help arose.  Express your gratitude for these miracles – both big and small – that you received.
 
Check out the many resources available to support you on your spiritual journey in my Free Healing Library here. 

​All of us have people who come into our lives with messages for us. Sometimes they’re inspired teachers who we welcome into our lives as it’s clear they’re there to teach us something that we need in just that moment in order to align with the divine vision for our life.  

​Others come into our lives to help us learn something that’s needed but we don’t feel so inclined to welcome them with open arms.  The message they bring makes us uncomfortable.  We don’t want to see or hear it.  We want to hide.  Yet later, in hindsight, we see the importance of what that person brought into our lives and how it was needed at that time.
 
Who are the inspired guides who have come into your life to help you at just the right moment?  What did they share with you?  Was it hard to hear? 
 
Looking back in your life, how did that message change your path in life?  

​In the Fifth Vision of the First Part, Scivias, St. Hildegard speaks of the prophets who are showing us their signs. These prophets help us to see the direction we need to go.  They are messengers to guide us on our path.
 
Who are the prophets or inspired teachers in your life right now?  Who have come to guide you in the right direction?
 
St. Hildegard also had people in her life who shared with her messages that she needed to hear.  
 
One such confidant in her life was the monk, Volmar, who supported her in following her divine calling, even when she felt incapable of doing so at times.
It was Volmar who was the first person to validate her visions as divine experiences.  He recognized her rare spiritual gifts and became a good friend and mentor for many years in her life.
She shared her experience and her self-doubt with him, and he strongly encouraged her to write. Over 10 years, she shared her experiences in the text that would become her visionary work, Scivias.  Volmar became her secretary, writing down the words she dictated.  

He also encouraged her to campaign on her behalf to have her visions recognized by the Church as a divine message of God.  This led to Pope Eugenius III approving of her work and moving her forward into the public light as a spiritual and intellectual leader – something that was unheard of during these times, and even prohibited for women.
Volmar, St. Hildegard’s priest,  confidant and secretary, was in her life for over 60 years. 
St. Hildegard shows us how the steps on our journey can become a little easier to follow when we recognize those in our lives who come with important messages for us.

Who’s bringing the message that you need to hear in your life today? 

Listen with an open mind and heart to what comes. These often are messages from the spiritual realm, bringing the news you need as guidance to align with the divine vision in your life. 

I would be honored to be a guide in your life. Check out the many resources available to support you on your spiritual journey in my Free Healing Library here.  

​You’ve been given a great gift, an incredible gift – your life – but what will you do with this one, precious life? 
Do you know?  Are you clear? 
If you enter into a deep space of listening you can hear the Divine’s highest vision for this precious life you have. Be open for what will come into view, trusting and sensing that the Divine will show you. 
This visioning isn’t simply visualizing what you may want within your life.  Visioning is something much greater.  We open ourselves to being a vessel or vehicle for manifesting the highest divine intentions in our life – this great gift we’ve been given.  

St. Hildegard shared, in her 4th illumination in Scivias, a vision that we can see as a metaphor for aligning with the radiance that we are as divine beings.
“The setting sun and the setting stars should not be bright in my tent, but angelic glory should be. The foundation of my tent ought to be made of topaz, and its structure should be made all of gems. Its stairs ought to be made of crystal and its floor should be gold. I ought to be a companion of the angels since I am the living breath which God sent into dry dust. I ought to know and understand God.”
And yet, she too had moments when she experienced obstacles on her path.
But alas! My tent is full of eyes which are able to see everywhere... I have been attacked and plundered with the eyes and …..completely torn….I was led into another place which lacked any beauty and honor …Those who had seized me, struck me with blows…

​Sometimes we experience obstacles where we lose touch with the vision for our life.  We may feel we’re just drifting along in a vast ocean. 
Sometimes this is a moment of pause in our lives as we shed what we need to – maybe our limiting beliefs and false ideas about life. It’s part of our transformation as we await the emerging of a deeper dimension of our being. 

​Other times, we lose touch with the vision for our life and we drift along, attached to our limiting beliefs and false ideas.  We convince ourselves we don’t have time to align with our higher vision.  Or the money.  Or the skills or ability.  Or something else that stops us.
We lose touch with our spiritual nature, leaving us fearful, frustrated, or bitter.  We may desperately try to control the external world in order to find security and a glimpse of happiness.
We’ve lost touch with the divine vision for our own unique life. 
If we can catch ourselves in this downward spiral and enter into a space of deep listening, we can become aware that we’re surrounded by unconditional love.  Our being lives within this unconditional love if we can simply open ourselves to experiencing this. 
It’s in this state, we can offer questions to our spirit guides.  Questions that come without an attachment to a specific outcome or judgment of an answer. 
As we listen inwardly, we begin to hear at deeper levels what we’re being called to be in this lifetime and what we need to embody to realize it. 
 
When we begin to understand our purpose for being here, we can start to open ourselves to the Divine’s vision for us and our own unique path for unfolding that vision.  

In this work, we become more aware that we are spiritual beings, not separate from the Divine, and that our unique and divine vision is within us already.
 
Michael Beckwith, spiritual leader and creator of Life Visioning, offers these questions to access the power of visioning in your life. 

1. What is the highest vision for me (or this project/group)?
2. What must I (we) become to empower the vision?
3. What must be released?
4. What must be embraced?
5. Is there any other information that I (we) need in this moment?

Bring these questions into your contemplative practices this week to support you in aligning with the divine vision for your life. 
 
“I believe that you’re great, that there’s something magnificent about you. Regardless of what has happened to you in your life. Regardless of how young or old you think you might be. The moment you begin to ‘think properly,’ this something that’s within you, this power within you that’s greater than the world, it will begin to emerge. It will take over your life. It will feed you. It will clothe you. It will guide you, protect you, direct you, sustain your very existence. If you let it..” – Michael Beckwith
 
Check out the many additional resources available to support you on your spiritual journey in my Free Healing Library here.