This is Rev.
Rachel Harrison and I'd like to invite you on a journey of exploration of your dreams,
Of your desires,
Of how you would like your life to be.
Find a comfortable place to sit or lie down and begin to follow your breath,
Relaxing your whole body,
Relaxing your whole being,
Leaving behind the worries of the world,
Leaving behind what we think we know,
What we think we deserve,
Who we think we are.
I want to invite you on this journey of self-exploration.
When we get so caught up in thinking that we have to please others,
We have to be what other people think that we should be,
That we should be doing or being something other than who we are,
I want you to reach inside and touch that place inside yourself that knows,
That has a knowing of your purpose,
That has a truth that connects to a higher power that can feel that you were brought here for a purpose.
You were uniquely given gifts and talents and abilities to come in this body with your purpose for happiness,
For joy,
For exploration,
For growth.
We were here to grow and expand.
We are the physical manifestation of spirit.
We can get caught up in this world where we think that what we have right in front of us is enough and it isn't about wanting some fancy life about being famous or having so much,
It's about having inner happiness.
It's about having inner knowing that you are fulfilling your purpose,
That you are connected to a higher power,
That you are healthy of body,
Mind and spirit and soul,
That you can let go of feeling responsible for the people around you and their happiness,
That you can follow your own path,
Your own way.
No matter where you've been in your life,
No matter how far you have gone,
How far off track you may have been,
Every day is a new day to start anew,
To find the strength of who you are,
To remember your purpose,
To remember why you were brought here.
You are a gift to the world and it's only human for us to go back and to be afraid.
It's only human for us to get caught in that part of ourselves that has listened to the voices of others.
We can find compassion and forgiveness and a tenderness knowing that they were sometimes just doing the best that they could,
But we don't have to live from or be what those voices told us.
You are here for you.
You are the manifestation of spirit on earth.
So what does that mean?
How do you release this place we are now that feels restricted?
Maybe you feel like you can't get out of a place that is hard.
The truth is we all have hardship.
We all have difficult times.
We can't know the way to go if we don't have something to bump up against that tells us this isn't right.
The pain is telling you something.
It's telling you something that is moving you to a new place.
The pain is offering you direction.
The pain is offering you freedom.
You don't need to hold on to the pain.
You just see the value of what it's teaching you.
Can you hear the guidance that comes,
Oh,
The still small voice that's so quiet?
Sometimes it whispers to us a direction,
A knowing,
A truth.
We haven't been taught to listen to these voices,
So we push them aside and we worry that we're not pleasing somebody else.
But I invite you to look within.
Allow yourself to believe that there is a guidance that is leading you to the greatest fullness of who you are.
Yes,
Our souls have to walk along with everybody else in this world.
There's billions of us,
But our path is uniquely our own.
Sometimes that means we have to make hard choices.
Sometimes it means we have to leave people and places and situations that we have attachment to.
Sometimes it just means that we need to learn to accept what is and to put our attention on our own growth,
On our own inner knowing of who we are,
So that we can better accept the world around us and stop grasping for a desire for change of others.
You can ask and want more.
The universe is unlimited.
There is more than enough for everyone.
And when we look and we start to see that there is a connection to a higher power,
That this vision that we see,
This world that we see is filled with so much suffering is actually what we choose to see,
Then we can begin to let it go.
We can begin to trust and have faith.
We can begin to hope for more.
We can begin to know that there is beauty and greatness available to us if we only ask.
We can choose to let go of anxiety.
We can choose to let go of worry and fear and release what we feel is ours to hold and hand it over to higher power.
You are loved and supported and guided.
You have a purpose.
And if you ever doubt that you are a beautiful soul,
I invite you to take another look,
To release the voices of others,
To release the past,
To be here in this present moment right now.
Right here,
Right now with me,
Can you feel your wholeness?
Can you feel that connection to the divine?
Can you begin to trust that there is more and you are deserving of so much more?
This is a time of dreaming and releasing and remembering.
This is a time of discovering and being willing to see the beauty of you.
You are here for a purpose.
You are the hands and the feet and the eyes and ears of the divine.
Your gifts are special.
You are a blessing.
Namaste.
