The Lost Art

The ocean in Vancouver.

After two weeks of craziness and the big move out to the coast I am finally here and settled in, in Vancouver. This place that I have found and will now call home has the most amazing feeling to it that I have ever felt. I have said before that I knew in my heart that this was where I needed to go and be but it was more than my heart that lead me this way. My intuition, a longing, and my higher self lead me to this beautiful city and place I now live. It was my listening and actually acting on what I was being told that made it all possible. I have talked before about different ways to receive guidance, help, and signs from your higher self and guides but nothing will help you if you do not learn to listen. Listening is a lost art for some but it is an art that we all must learn if we want to connect with our true selves and essence.

Everyone has an intuition and everyone has the ability to use it. In fact our intuition is the main way that our guides and higher self communicate with us. Actually listening to what your intuition, or some people call it gut, is tell you will get you to the places that you need to be and feeling the greatness that is within you.

 It took me along time to learn to actually listen to what my intuition was telling me, I would hear my intuition but I would not take note in what it was saying and I would barely ever actually do what it was telling me to do. I started wondering why I was in the place that I was in, even though I do not regret anything or anywhere I have been in my life, but I knew I was destined for more. I spent most of my days questioning decisions I had made and things I had done because I knew they were not in my best interest.

One day it dawned on me...Why was ignoring these feelings and senses that I had? Why was I not listening to my gut, when I knew it was leading me to greatness? I was not listening because I had lost the art of listening to myself, just like most people in today's society. I was a great listener when it came to others, it was what I was trained to do, but I had lost the art of listening to myself, my intuition, my higher self, and my guides. This was when I made a vow to start to learn the art of listening again.

I started off slowly with just learning to be alone with myself and listen to my thoughts. Then I graduated to listening to my thoughts in public settings full of commotion. Meditation became my friend and soul mate in any setting. Then finally I could hear my intuition and guides clearly in any setting. I had began a journey like none other.

I now listen to what my guides and what my intuition is telling me daily. I interact with myself in a way that is full of self knowledge and love for what I have to say to myself because it leads me to my greatest good. A great example of my listening is my move to Vancouver. My intuition let me feel what it would be like to be here; the high vibrations, the love, the energy of thousands of elemental spirits and then my guides/higher self told me it was possible if I took the steps they laid in front of me. So I listened and acted.

A hike me and bestie were guided to, and what a gorgeous view!

Learning to listen was the greatest challenge but the best challenge I have ever taken. I have stumbled upon places in nature that I would have never ever found without listening, I have become close to people that I would have never thought, and I have seen and ventured to places I only dreamed of seeing. Give your intuition a chance and get friendly with your guides. Learn the art of listening to yourself and see what adventures it takes you on. For more tips and guidance on this subject feel free to email me or message me on facebook.

Listening to my intuition lead me to this amazing meditation place.

Answers From a Stranger

With everything that has been going on lately I must say it has not been easy. There have been a lot of things that have come up that I am surprised have either resurfaced or even come up at all, but then again thats usually how it works. I have had up days and I have had down days. In the end all I could do was experience the feelings that were coming up and ground to get through them.

Since coming back this, what feels like, emotional roller coster has worn me out. As I said before the only way it seems like I have been getting through it is by grounding and feeling everything that has been coming up. It has been though. I have been exhausted, edgy, and feeling out of sorts. It was really starting to bug me that I could not figure out what exactly was making me feel so emotional as I have moved and left in the past and it has never been like that. I knew deep in my heart that moving to Vancouver was the right path, I knew quitting my job/field was what I needed to do, so what was going on?!

After spending an entire night, literally all night, sleeping and resting my systems from everything I decided finally to ask my guides and higher self during meditation what was going on (how I did not think about this before is beyond me). While meditating during one of my early morning meditations I asked repeatedly for an answer through out the meditation or some sort of sign, nothing came. I came out of my meditation a little disheartened and started my day still asking for some kind of answer. Lunch time came and I decided to go get a tea from my favourite little cafe in town. While waiting one of the barista's that knows me well from coming in all the time started to talk to me. Some how the topic of me moving to Vancouver came up and he started talking about how beautiful it was and everything else, I agreed. Then he went on to say that leaving sometime's is hard though because we focus on this will be the last time I will do this and that and the other, and we focus on the people/places that will be left behind. I again agreed with him got my tea and left.

A Card I Pulled After This Experience

While walking back to work I looked around me at the trees, people, and cars passing by and realized the conversation I had just had was the answer that I had been looking for. I was so caught up on the fact that I was leaving all this behind that I was actually grieving it like you would someone that passed away. I was forgetting about the fact that nothing will ever replace or take away the memories that I have here, and those memories are only memories, no matter if I stayed here the rest of my life I would not be able to remake them. I was forgetting all that I would carry with me from this place, as it has made me who I am. This made me feel more relieved and better than I had felt in the last two weeks. It was then I knew I was still going to have these feelings come up and would still need to feel and ground through them but I could also remind myself of all that will come with me to create even more amazing memories in the future.

Whenever we ask of guidance or help or are seeking answers in someway, there is this expectation that it is going to be instantaneous, but the guidance we seek comes to us when we are willing and ready to hear it and not a moment before. The answers we seek may come to us in a form we never thought of like from a stranger or a book. The help we request is always there you just need to be patient and willing to receive it . The universe gives us everything we need if we are open, at the right time, and if we ask for it.