About a year ago I started feeling like a place somewhere in the world was calling to me.  I didn’t hear this, I felt it.  Like a pulling, a yearning or a desire to go somewhere.  Some nights I would lay in bed and scan the whole world, piece by piece, searching for the place that was calling out to me.  I never found it, and never got any logical answers.

A few months later I was watching a TV show on a Sunday.  It was one of those house hunters shows where people are looking to buy a new house, narrow it down to 3 and then decide.  The town that the person was looking for a house was Princeville on the island of Kauai, Hawaii.  This town is near the coastal mountains called the Na Pali coast.  The view of the beach and mountains literally took my breath away.  I had never seen anything more beautiful.
The next day I spent many hours researching this town and island, finding out more about this place – it had truly captured my heart and my imagination.  That afternoon my husband came home from work and after having another stressful day announced that he was ready for a holiday.  “How does Hawaii sound to you?” I asked.  “Sounds great!” he said.  I made an appointment straight away with our travel agent, and a few days later we were booked in to go to Hawaii in July.

I had tried to book holidays to Hawaii in the past but it always came in over budget and so we never got the chance to go.  Our travel agent found us some great deals and we were well under budget!  Everything flowed so smoothly and easily.  Because my heart was longing to experience that magical mountain I had seen on TV I was adamant that we were to stay in the Princeville area.  Unfortunately because we were booking so late at the peak holiday season, everything my travel agent had access to was booked out on the north shore of Kauai, but after a few google searches I found something for 2 nights.

Our first day on Kauai (after over 30 hours of travelling) we were to hike up the mountain that had pulled me to her.  It was our only chance.  Due to a storm the year before, the road to the mountain had been closed because of a landslide, and had only just re-opened, but they had to do maintenance on the bridge, and were closing access again, and we only had one day to experience this hike.

This hike was one of the most physically taxing and yet most rewarding things I have ever done with my body.  I think I got my kilometers and miles a bit mixed up – so what I thought was an easy 2km hike in and out – turned out to be a very steep 2 miles in and out.  We didn’t pack enough water for the 4 of us, left the food in the car and underestimated the shock of the heat.  Despite that, we wowed at every glimpse of the view and when we descended to the beach, loved exploring the caves and resting on the beach.  We hiked back to the carpark and had an amazing swim in Ke’ke beach before driving back along the coast towards Princeville.
We stopped at a few caves and beaches along our drive.  I had taken my hiking shoes off and was wearing some sandals.  One of the beaches that we wanted to see was accessed by a steep sandy walkway with lots of tree branches underfoot.  I twisted my ankle.  I heard a loud crack and sat down straight away.  While waiting for my family to come back from the beach I sat on the edge of the track and saw my ankle swelling up.  First day of our holiday and I had sprained my ankle (luckily it was after the most important hike).

I iced my ankle for a few days and bought a pull-on bandage which I wore for most of the rest of our 2 week holiday.  This injury did not stop me from enjoying the rest of the holiday.  But what it did do was make me very conscious of every step that I took.  I made sure I was stepping firmly and intentionally.  It really slowed me down enough to appreciate every step that I was taking on the amazing islands of Hawaii.  I felt more connected to the earth with every intentional step.

We spent a week on the island of Kauai.  After our 2 nights in Princeville, we moved to the south shore of Kauai and 6 nights at Po’ipu beach.  On our last night in Kauai I was lying in bed almost asleep and had a vision.  The mountain of the Na Pali coast that had drawn me to her, was present.  I thanked her for everything that she had given to me, everything that she had helped me learn about myself.  I had a whole list of things that I was thanking her for.  Then to my surprise she asked me what I was going to give her in return, to repay her for everything she had given to me.  I was shocked!  What could I possible have that she would want?  I then looked down into my heart centre and noticed that it was full of large sparkly diamonds.  I reached in and pulled out one of the diamonds and I offered it to her.  She very excitedly and gratefully accepted this diamond and placed it inside of her – I then became her and she became me.  It was a truly amazing experience.

I think that when we are drawn to physical places it is because we have something to offer.  We become one with the land – we take and we give – in a perfect circle of life experience.
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When I told a friend about this experience she commented that surely I would be back to this place again after such a strong connection with the land.  I agreed with her at first, but then I wasn’t so sure.  Maybe this is all that the mountain and I needed from each other, maybe our connection and our exchange was the purpose and we won’t need to do it again.

​I woke this morning with a sense that everything had changed.
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Last week I was questioning everything.  It was a type of existential crisis…. Wondering what the point of life was, being around people who had a specific view of life and knowing that their view (which is the view of the majority) just wasn’t a good fit for me, but having no idea what was a good fit for me.

This type of self reflection and enquiry is not new for me, but it took on a new perspective, coupled with lower back pain which I have not experienced for many years, I knew my foundations were being rocked and challenged and a new way would become clear for me soon.

I connected to the flow of my life this morning.  I usually see this as doors opening wide, and a stream or flow of energy that is MY life force, coming from MY soul and from MY source energy (which originates from the one source/flow that we all come from).  Normally I feel this flow strongly and just work on opening the doors as wide as they can go so I am open to every opportunity that comes my way.

This morning was different.  The doors opened wide but there was no flow of energy, no movement, just an empty space.  I stayed in this space, watching and waiting, and after awhile a new “flow” or energy came from my heart space and started to flow into the space. 

Everything has changed. 

The way we thought our lives were playing out may no longer be the case.  There were so many new “things” ahead (I can’t make out any details, just a sense that this is all brand new, and my mind won’t be able to comprehend or make any sense or have a frame of reference to the details), and there was a very powerful new flow, slow and strong.  Just like Aladdin entering the Cave of Wonders for the first time, we could feel overwhelmed at what is presenting itself to us as it is the first time we have ever seen or felt anything like this before.  But we will be guided to what we need to pick up and experience in this new world.
 
I feel that we just need to step onto our life raft that is floating in our flow, and let it carry us to the opportunities that await us.  It is no use forcing or pushing or controlling anything in our life anymore.  This might still work for some people but for many others who have opened their hearts to the higher energies and processed their denser vibrations/past events/emotions etc, there is a newness that we won’t be able to get our little logical minds around. 

Maybe the last few weeks have been challenging for you as more past emotions came up to be processed, or maybe your goals just aren’t working out like you had planned, or maybe you just feel like you don’t fit in your current life anymore.  This could be because this new energy or your life flow was starting to build.

I don’t know what happens next, but I feel comfortable knowing that we just have to have faith and trust in our OWN inner knowing to guide us through this change and into the next step.

It also feels exciting.  Change can be scary, but this feels like the type of change we have all been waiting for (maybe even praying for).  The type of change that is going to rewrite our futures and give our hearts everything they have every desired (note: this may be very different from what your minds have desired, feel the difference – the heart usually doesn’t want new cars, bigger houses or more money!).  The heart usually wants peace, belonging, fulfillment, service, empowerment, freedom, flow, ease, joy etc.  I think this will be easier for us to obtain now. 

As with every change there will be steps forward and steps backwards, confusion, and some angst.  Spend as much time as you can with your inner wisdom (meditate, deep breaths, relax, have fun, laugh and play) and you will feel that you are being guided to exactly where you need to be, when you need to be there in this new energy, new life flow, and new world.

Back to normal.....

It is a phrase that we use often.  When things start going crazy, a bit unexpected, or we are enduring an event or issue, then we seem to crave and hope and wish for the time that "everything goes back to normal".  But this is actually an impossible wish - we can never go "back", and there isn't such as thing as "normal" in a healthy multi-dimensional life.

Instead, what we are really craving is a feeling of balance.

However, we confuse balance with control.  We feel that in the "normal" way of life, we have control over our lives.  When something large or unexpected happens we feel out of control and don't like the direction we are headed because it is full of the unknown and most of us fear the unknown because we don't know if we will have control over the outcome.

Normal = known = control = a feeling of balance

But we should be aiming for a change in perception to:

Trust in our life's flow and trust in the unknown (without controlling anything) = a feeling of balance

There is a part of us that likes to protect ourselves from perceived harm (some might call this the ego part of us).  When a situation with an unknown outcome comes into our lives, our protector/ego parts get very distressed, because it can't do its job as well as it normally does.  This causes stress as we fight with our life's flow to tighten the reigns and force life to give us more of what we already know works for us.  To be faced with the unknown is very tricky for most people.

​When we fight with (try to control) our life's flow then we cause our own suffering.  It is like trying to row a boat upstream; exhausting and pointless.

Everything happens FOR us and not TO us - this is what flow means - we are guided to/given situations in our life from our higher self aspects to expand our awareness of ourselves, to help us make new choices that we may never have made before, and this creates a new reality of our lives and of ourselves.  This is a life well lived.

It is why the unexpected events with the unknown outcomes make life so fulfilling.  We find out more about who we are through these events and this is the blessing of life.

The unexpected/unknown give us an opportunity to grow, learn, evolve, transform and embrace life in way that we have never been able to do before.

Most people will tell you that the most difficult and unexpected/unwanted events in their lives turned out to be turning points that ended up bringing them a future full of joy that they couldn't have imagined previously.  But the suffering through these unexpected/unwanted events (illness, divorce, retrenchment etc) is just that the unknown is not embraced as a wonderfully creative part of life.  If we work with the unknown we will find balance at every moment.  If we fight with the unknown then life will end up being a hot tricky and uncomfortable mess!

To work with the unknown requires a pretty big shift in mindset.  We have to let go of a logical way of thinking, stop thinking about what should or should not happen, stop labelling events as right or wrong.  This can challenge everything we previously believed about ourselves and our lives.  The past needs to stay in the past and we are given the opportunity to wipe the slate clean and make new choices in every moment - not based on previous outcomes - but based on how we feel inside in each and every moment.  We can then guide ourselves through the unknown by working with the unknown, embracing the unknown and recognising it for the creative force that it is in our lives.

It is not easy to change all of this over night, but if you are going through an unexpected life change or any kind of challenge, letting go of control and letting the unknown carry you forward can alter your experience of the event and lead you to the creative outcome that was waiting for you all along.

I have long spoken about how in my experience, putting up boundaries, barriers and protections in your life can be a disempowering practice.

I know this goes against most spiritual teachings which teach that protecting your energy and placing boundaries is a good thing, and sometimes for a short term it can be necessary, but long term it is not healthy and does not allow you to evolve and transform.

When you feel that you need to place boundaries around you and “protect” yourself from what you perceive as harmful, you are making these choices from a fear based perspective.  And yes, in the 3D world there are things that are harmful.  A more empowering practice is to place your focus inwards.  To only concern yourself with your own energy, your own needs, your own wants and desires, from a divine self-love perspective.  This is not selfish when perceived from a space of self love and nurture.  Because when our needs are met from a deep divine place, then everyone else's needs around us can also be met.  When we are respectful of our own needs then we are automatically respectful of the needs of others, and this creates a wonderful loving society to exist in.

A lot of inner work needs to be practiced before you can then project this deep self reflection out into the world.  But when you are able to do this you no longer need protection from anything.

This is because two things seem to happen. 

You are so aware of your own energy and your own desires and needs that you start to create your own reality from this space of deeply knowing who you are.  Some may call this New Earth or 5D consciousness – and in this space there is nothing harmful and nothing that you need protect yourself from.

The second thing is that you are so connected to the real authentic inner you (soul/higher self) that you literally shine an energy so strong from you, out into the world that nothing can penetrate this to convince you that you are less than you know yourself to be.

These are practices and ways that we can all aim for.  It takes a lot of self reflection and breaking of old habits and trusting in your divine inner self and soul searching to be able to reach this state, but it is possible.  Just knowing what to aim for can pull us all towards living life this way.  When we each create this new reality within us, it becomes a reality outside of us as well.