So much unhappiness is caused by things we can’t control.

We can’t control weather extremes.
We can’t control natural disasters. 
We can’t control world events. 
We can’t even control other people.

What we can be in charge of is ourselves.

That’s it. Just us. And often, this simple realization that we can be in charge of ourselves—not the weather, not the world, not even our family member or friends— is enormously freeing. 

This means it’s all on you: to punish yourself, fight with yourself, create all kinds of drama, distraction and disarray for yourself. Or to love yourself, fully and completely, exactly as you are. 

Nothing’s ever going to be perfect. 
That’s not what we’re here for. 

We’re just here to show up, participate, and love everything.
This includes ourselves. 
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Radical self-acceptance leads to radical acceptance of everything, which leads to profound and lasting joy. Of this, you are in charge. 

You Know Why You're Here

You’re looking for the nectar. 
But the nectar isn’t there, where you’re looking. 

The nectar isn’t in food, or alcohol, or sex, or fashion, or money. 
It isn’t in accomplishments or achieving goals. 
It isn’t about being better than others, or further along. 
It isn’t about being further on the path, or having more spiritual understanding. 
 
All the things you’re taught will make you happy, won't

The nectar, the feeling of happiness, the consummate joy that you seek, comes from only one thing.

It comes from helping others. 
It comes from knowing you are a part of. 
It comes from contributing to the whole. 
It comes from knowing your task and doing it. 
 
Each of you arrived in with a particular soul destiny. Not in this lifetime, but in all your past lives. In  each of your past lives, you did a good or poor job of remembering your task and completing it. The trick is, was and always have been learning to remember faster, so you can get on with your task 
 
Your task is to learn soul lessons, so you can elevate the whole. 
The whole is soul collective, and it is not just the souls on earth. 
We say again: it is not just human souls. 
 
Your task is to awaken in each lifetime, so that you will remember your task and your contribution. So that you will identify and see the challenge of each lifetime as a way of navigating through soul lessons. 
 
So then. Here you are in this lifetime, at whatever stage you are at, reading these words. The words are an invitation to remember. 

They are logos, words that have meaning beyond their meaning. 
These words invite you recall your task. 
These words invite you to begin your task. 
 
But I do not know what I am here for, some of you used to say. 
All in a dither of distraction. 
All in a dither of rejection. 
 
Do you see how today, in this time, that statement is no longer valid? 
 
The veil has moved, so the confusion brought on when collective soul was lit with such dim light… this is no longer. The awakening has come, and collective soul is lifting up and shining in a way it never has before. 
 
So, you do know. You have known for a while. You do know, and it’s there: your life task in all its glory. 

And there are no longer the problems in society that would make it difficult for you to do your task. In many parts of the world, you have absolutely freedom. Absolute freedom to return to you Divine work of contributing to collective soul. 

In some parts of the world, there are still some challenges, but as one begins so do others. The challenges drop away faster than you would imagine. If you begin, you create the path for another to begin. If another begins, the path is opened for you. So, begin. 
 
If you still think you don’t know your task, we would suggest you have not accepted the first lesson, which is that you are here for soul growth. 

Soul growth is not individual. 
The soul is collective.

So, when we say: you are here for soul growth, understand clearly. We are not talking about you or you or you. We are talking about You. Collective soul. You are here to work through soul lessons as a collective. 

This is what is happening now, and the momentum is beyond what you can understand yet. The world will not look the same in just a few generations. What you have been waiting for, coming down in all these lifetimes to be faced with only still the dim light and the hazy remembering. 
 
And now here you are: the light is brighter, the remembering is clear. 
You understand your essence. 
And yes, you remember your task. 
What you are here to do now, today, is to begin. 

Many of us are experiencing anxiety and fear in the face of world events. 

As sensitives and empaths, we feel everything so deeply. When we sense trauma and suffering, we want to leave, hide away, pull away from the rest of humanity to regroup our sense of self. 

But there isn’t any escape, is there? 

We can’t “go” anywhere or get away, as we might have decades or even a few years ago, to escape weather or politics or violence or even each other. Now, when we see a victim of anything—war, violence, illness, weather, misfortune—our Oneness shows us what this person suffers.

We are feeling what each other feels. 

Being able to feel this way—you feeling as the other—is the first step toward having a new spiritual view of the situation.

There is no place to go. 
There is no way to hide.
We are in this together. 
We are not separate, and trying to get separate is no longer a solution. 

Separation: hiding out, finding your quiet space, was the solution of the past. It was the sure bet for sensitives, introverts to regroup. 

But now, we’re invited to simply show up with full recognition of our Oneness. This is a new phase for humanity. It’s different. 

If you’re feeling unmoored, stressed, freaked out. 
If you’re feeling like getting separate isn't working any more. 
If you’re unsure, if you sense that things are building and you don’t know where they’re building to... well, you’re right. 

It isn’t about politics or weather or war, although these are reflections of our collective inner change. It’s about the newness of Oneness. A new understanding in the human collective. 

Difficult and uncomfortable, now. 
Once we get used to it, a true evolution. 

Just as you communicate with the guides and angels, you can also communicate with your body. 

​We can connect in with every aspect of our body in meditation, right down to the cellular level. 

And, when we are in communication with the different systems in our body, we can ask them what they need.

Sometimes the responses are physical, sometimes they are emotional, sometimes they are energetic. When we communicate with our body, we can learn what our body needs to stay healthy, and to heal.

​If you aren’t sure how to do this, you might start by talking to your various body systems.

• Talk to your heart, both your physical and your emotional heart.
• Talk to your stomach.
• Talk to your brain.
• And so on, asking all your body parts.
• And so on, asking all your body systems circulatory, digestive, respiratory and so on.
• Then go deeper and ask the cells.
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"How are you doing?"
"What do you need?
"How can I help you?"
"How can I support you?"
These are the questions to ask your body.

You will be very surprised that your body has a voice, and that your body has many voices, and all of these voices are a resounding chorus, that will inform you completely of what changes or support are needed. 

Your body is not separate from you.
Ask it what it needs, and listen to what it tells you.

Sometimes we get overly excited at the start of a spiritual venture.
• We buy the book.
• We sign up for the class.
• We join the retreat.
• We reserve the event.
• We’re SO excited!

And then, when we enter into the experience, all the buzzy excitement and impulsive “yes, yes, yes” goes away. We suddenly don’t feel great. Our excitement fades.

We are faced with the fact that we are here to do our work, and maybe we don’t really feel like doing our work, after all. All the buzzy, excited “yes” of anticipation may turn to dread, overwhelm, even resistance or anger when we are faced with the actual book, class, course, retreat, program or event.

If you find yourself getting grumpy, wanting to quit, blaming the teacher, getting angry about a course or class, feeling like nothing’s working, feeling like it’s not a fit… take a look deeper.

• It's likely that you’re afraid of what you’re going to find when you enter in.
• It's likely that you’re scared of what you might discover.
• Or perhaps you are too busy, and what you really need is rest.

Soul work requires vulnerability. 
You have to let the Universe in, if you want to change.
Soul work also requires time.
You have to relax, be still and let things happen.

One book or class or course isn’t going to do the trick.
The best teacher in the Universe can’t solve your whole life.
No program will fix everything and make it all better.
It’s all a process.

Inner work can take years. In fact, for most of us it takes a lifetime.
So… Don’t look for the quick fix.
It doesn’t exist.

We open and expand at the pace we are ready.
There is no proper timing. There is only your timing.

Everything is a dream
 
Things seem different, don’t they? When you try to remember what the last years have been like, it doesn’t seem real, does it? 
 
You can’t quite remember, it all blurs together, you recall but not in detail. It feels like a dream, because you are beginning to exist in your life differently. 
 
Those of you who spend much time in journeying, meditation, prayer, yes and actually dreaming—you understand this sense of reality, the idea of real life, no longer having the sharp, jagged edges that it used to. 

The harsh light of day is softer. 
The suffering is there, but you are a little removed.
The ambition is there, but it is different—not as bright or needy or brittle. 
 
We say: rejoice that you have reached this place. This is what reality—the true reality—of living as a multidimensional being in a multidimensional multiverse—in other words, of living as one of One, really feels like. 

You have dropped beyond the veil, and this allows you to see fully the black/white, yes/no, right/wrong aspects of the dominant reality, the mainstream. And you see, from your place beyond the veil, that this view is incorrect. Immature or childish even. It doesn’t make sense, does it? 
 
And yet this is the world, or much of it, still. Even as you—and so many of you—have dropped beyond the veil into a new reality entirely.

We do not say ascension; this implies one being higher than another, or even spiritually better, and this is not possible. There is no hierarchy of souls. We say beyond, or shifted, or better still: expanded. 

You have expanded into your experience of yourself as a multidimensional being in a multidimensional multiverse—and yes, it all feels and looks and sounds like a dream because this is what it feels like to live in many dimensions at once. 

Everything happens in Now. You have heard this forever, but now you are feeling it for yourself. 
 
So how do you go from here, where everything seems like a dream, everything connected and blending into everything else, and you can’t quite put your finger on what is before it changes into the new what is? 
 
We say: don’t fight the river. Don’t push the Flow. 
 
Attend to your dreams. Allow the enchantment of nature. Allow the entrancement in the simplest of ordinary things. The emotions that roil and fume—do you see how even these are softer, your heart is bigger and more diffuse, there is less armor, and there is more love there? 
 
Let all this happen. There is nothing to do or see—even as you come out of  years of solitude, you will find that what you most longed for and missed—that is not what you want now.

Be in the dream, and know this is your new reality. Dream the dream—all of you as one of One dreaming a new dream. The old reality is fading. More changes are coming.