Finding Your Next Step Blog #13
Feeling like it’s time for a change? When life makes us stop and think: “What is my next step?” Maybe a change is needed in our career, location, in a relationship or we feel like something or someone new is coming into our life. The great thing is when that feeling starts to bubble up in us, our God Self (inner self) already knows the answer and is bringing it into our life.
“What is my next step?” kept bubbling up for me years ago. I wanted to make a change in my career. I had been doing counseling and officiating weddings for a long time and I wanted to have more time to do weddings, readings, go on retreats, and study.
I started by sitting in meditation nice and grounded and neutral and began to ask myself what I would like to create in my life.
I made a list of what I would like from my career: to help others, to work my own hours, travel, have wonderful friends, make good money, be successful and be able to go on retreat and study. Then I visualized a beautiful pink rose out in front of me with a nice long stem grounded to the center of the Earth. I visualized myself in detail in the rose doing all the things I had written on my list. Seeing myself happy joyous and fulfilled. I ask for a blessing from the Supreme Being and seeing the rose filled with gold and beautiful colors, I then visualized cutting the stem of the rose and released and let it go to out to the universe to be manifest.
The next day while meditating, I kept hearing a hawk calling. It was so loud it sounded like it was in my apartment. I opened my bedroom blinds and there sitting on the fence was a gorgeous American Kestrel Falcon. He was just sitting there looking at me, so beautiful with all his incredible colors; rust, blue, brown, white, black and gold. I know that in animal medicine, hawks and falcon are the messengers of God. It was such a magical moment. I said hello and got a telepathic hello back. I asked if he had a message for me and I just waited for a moment and then felt him saying “You are right on track!”
I took him showing up as a validation. Hawks are one of my totem animals that seem to show up at important times in my life. Often I have been blessed with wild animal encounters that were such a miracle for my growth and awareness. From dolphins, whale, turtles, red tail hawks, hummingbirds, butterflies, frogs and dragonflies. The day I made my list and released it, the kestrel came and the opportunities started to flow in. I would check back to my list, to know what was the new and what was old for me. Often times when we are making a change, the old will show up first to find out if we’re really complete with the old.
I received quite a few wonderful offers: to be a director for a spiritual retreat resort and another was to run a health and beauty center, but I had done both of those in the past. It felt like both were the old for me and my list helped me to see that.
Then an offer to work as an advisor/rep came my way and hearing about it I thought; I wasn’t sure if it was for me. As I meditated about it and went back to my list, to my amazement, it was everything I wanted to create. It was the new for me.
Every day for 30 days, the Kestrel Falcon had landed on my bedroom patio fence as if he were cheering me on. The day I decided to take the position, he landed on the fence for just a moment and flew off like his job was complete. Giving me a well done! Such a miraculous gift!
Are you looking at: "What is my next step?"
Start by grounding yourself, getting nice and centered and neutral.
Make a list of what you would like to create for a happy healthy life.
Recognize that some goals have been completed and a new chapter in your life may be starting.
4. Have confidents that as you look for answers to the question, they will appear.
5. Follow anything that raises enthusiasm or passion in your heart. Like painting, planting a garden, taking a class, writing, meditating or something totally new.
6. Keep releasing old pictures from others, the goals and fears they have for you that do not serve you anymore. Like my mother the Astrologer used to say: “Your age is only a number, don’t let anything stop you, always follow your heart!”
7. Then visualize a beautiful rose out in front of you with a nice stem grounded to the center of the Earth. See yourself in detail in the rose doing all the things you have written on your list. See yourself happy joyous and fulfilled. Ask for a blessing from the Supreme Being and see the rose filling up with gold. Then visualize cutting the stem of the rose and release the rose out to the edge of the universe where it will be manifested.
8. Daily, ask questions of your God Self and be open to listen and hear the answers. Call in your totem animals and let them be your support.
9. As opportunities flow in, check back to your list. Look for the validation where ever it comes in and trust and follow your inner guidance.
10. You will know just what to do and the actions to take to create your next step.