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What is your heart's vision?

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Your unique spark is needed in this world.

The world needs you, to be YOU!

Deep down, beneath all of the self doubt, confusion, expectations, to do lists and “shoulds”, exists the truth of your own heart.

However, it can be difficult at times to feel deeply connected to this truth.  In fact, as you navigate your path through midlife, you may reflect back and question if you ever really, truly knew who you were.

If this is the case, do not fret!  You haven’t done anything wrong.  You haven’t missed the boat so to speak.  You are not carrying the weight of this burden alone, I promise.

We have been playing this game, the billions of us that are here living this out together, for thousands of years!

Your life is this way by design, so take a big breath with me, and let’s get curious . . .

It seems to be an inevitability as we jump through the hoops life places on our path, that we suffer the forgetfulness of our own spark.

By virtue of being human, we seem to have agreed to step onto a path that would make us forget, simply to find ourselves in midlife awakening to a deep desire to find our way back to our spark again.

This is one of the great mysteries of life.  The mystery many have contemplated for thousands of years.  It is what I love to talk about, contemplate and philosophize over the most!

More importantly, it is my deepest desire that every one of us finds our way back to this spark so we can shine our uniqueness for one another brightly at this time.

What I would like to share with you today is this.  On a less mystical and more practical note, we were born into this world.  Then, as we grew up, we conditioned ourselves to “fit in” to the world around us.  Little by little, we learned how to play the role of the “good child” as we became who we needed to be in order to see love reflected back to us.

Little by little, we started to forget the truth of our own unique spark in favour of fitting in with the crowd.  We created patterns of behaviour to keep us in one another’s good graces.

The upside to this - we did what we did in order to avoid the deep pain of rejection.  In a way, it was an act of self love and self preservation at a time we knew of no other way.  We continue to do this for the same reason.

The downside - all of these well meaning patterns continue to lead us further away from the uniqueness of who we truly are.  The uniqueness that, more than ever, is truly needed to light up our world with love.

This week I’d like to offer you this.  Your mind may keep you in a state of confusion, talking you out of what your heart knows to be true.  Your mind may be soooo good at doing this, that you have no idea what your heart actually wants anymore.

The remedy to this - imagination.  Imagination is the medicine that helps you redirect your attention away from the tricks of the mind, away from all the patterns you’ve been repeating up until now, and allows you to see, once again, if even for a brief moment, the true essence of your Soul.

It’s common these days to create vision boards from the level of the rational mind.  Often these vision boards fill up with everything we think we “should” want - the car, the house, the perfect partner, the perfect job, the dream vacation, etc.

There really is nothing wrong in desiring these things!  We did come here to have some fun in this world after all.

But this week, let’s try something a little different.  What would happen if you used your imagination to create a vision for your spark?  If you imagined the brightest, happiest, most beautiful vision of your inner self?

What would that look like?

What is your heart’s vision?

With Love,
Kristen
​XO