
A Different World @ MindSay 

So here it goes...
Disclaimer:
I don't intend to leave behind footprints for people to follow so that they could be a winner in life. On an uncharted territory myself, I'm sailing away from the safe harbour catching the trade winds in my sails to Explore, Dream & Discover!
Trust me, i feel like a newborn.
Tomorrow is my daughter's 31st birthday so thought I'd do a reading...and then I read a transcript from a Beacons Newsletter that made me have to stop and think about my family, and what's truly important to me. First I'll give you the reading if that's all you really want to check out, rather than the ramble that led, or should I say gently nudged, me in a specific direction so I would ask a particular question.
What's most important if there where nothing else, besides time? What I value most is my time. If it were lost to me how would I feel? That would bother me wouldn't it...If there were nothing else to value left - no "thing", no family...Time and perhaps health would be the two I'd value most....Now Spirit - what do I need to know about this?
My interpretation of the "answer";
You have received a reminder that you carry many special qualities and gifts...you have a unique mission and destiny - you have longed for the time when these qualities could be set free and you could boldly "walk with spirit" at your side. Behold your infinite connection with spirit is established, along with a sense of balance between the masculine and feminine energies of nature. A Synergy of the whole self is your gift and your inheritance.
Expect your troubles to be gently "washed away", earthly burdens lifted and your connection made solid and reliable. Be aware you are never alone in your healing.
In the Beacon an exercise or Lesson is suggested where a person spends a month trying to actively view their world from a different perspective, through a very simple technique.
Imagine there were no "things" left in the world to "value", that you had no family, no earthly goods or valuables...What if you had no job, no school, no community to belong to? What would be important beyond all of that? Can you even imagine it?
Beyond the sense of grief, surely, if you can take your imagination there for just a moment you might just catch a glimpse of what might still be important.
I did come up with an answer too, as you read above Time - it seems to me I would place a value on that...or that of all things that probably is what I value most. I love my mornings and have "guarded them" on and off for years. Just to ensure I had "time" to enjoy them...
My other answer was health - and in a lot a ways that is something I have an active role in, that I can participate in actively. Okay.
My partner addd an interesting perspective - he always does - I believe it's why we're partners...! He suggested Imagination - and I agree that is another truly valuable gift we have!
The exercise then suggests that as you go about your day to day activities, stop every now and then and ask yourself what is really important about what you're doing right then, about what is happening right then. About how you present yourself or represent yourself. Oh, and wait a minute - can I also suggest this is done playfully - not as "work" but imaginative play? With a playful attitude it's possible to get through the awkward feelings, just like kids do when they sqirm and giggle...Go ahead and laugh when you catch yourself "catching yourself" it's a hoot!
It's fabulous re-programming! It helps break old "patterns" of behaviour that "lock" us into ways of being instead of allowing us to be ourselves.
We are not our things, our work, our school, our House & Gardens wanna- be neighborhoods do not truly represent who we are. This is true for each one of us at varying degrees...my what a delicious way to help get new synapses working in the brain that might support a healthier way to look at our lives maybe even to make much better use of them!
Let's face it - the average person has plenty to offer in this world yet is often shunned because people can't look beyond stature or wealth or power or hallowed "letters".If there were more opportunities where people could contribute to society in some tangible way without being subjected to society's "programmed" judgments of each other's self worth, monetary, physical, spiritual or otherwise, I believe we'd see a different world.
Talk about learning to think outside the box!
But then that's just all about other perspectives...and I'm always interested in a variety of perspectives.
Life is your dance. Live Simply, Live well and laugh a lot! ;-)


