LIVING OUT OF YOUR COMFORT ZONE

So what has Mercury retrograde taught you about yourself? Mercury is becoming pretty popular, isn't it? This planet of communication, in perfect style of what it represents, truly brings about a different form of communication in your life once it shifts to being retrograde.

You can learn many things about yourself, when you are willing to invest your time and personal effort into growing in awareness. This period of apparently backward movement that is ending on February 11th was no different. Except that it was. Each such period is marked by other cosmic events taking place at the same time, and this one has asked you to look very closely at old habits and beliefs in your life that need to be absolutely released. This was a time that truly required you to look deeply: To make assessments of what you want to keep from old, belief structures, so that what doesn't serve you anymore becomes quite obvious. Have you paid attention? Did you listen carefully?

If you did, you might have observed some old fears, and compulsions that you have developed over time, because have been quite to the forefront of your daily experience. Yes, maybe you work too hard, and too much, trying to reach for an ideal that is in your head, and you're not truly assessing what your resources are, and where are your priorities?! You've grown accustomed to these compulsions, because they were fed by fears that you are so familiar with, and that you've lived with for a long, long time. But you know by now that these are no longer working for you. Not only that you know this, but you also know that you are living a life that is truly draining you.

The past 3 weeks have given you a chance to look closely at these issues, to make your contracts with yourself, and to start making changes. Visible changes that tell the world that you are no longer willing to just survive, but you are ready to live fully!

Have you been scrutinizing, and thinking critically about EVERYTHING that was presented to you in these weeks? Have you been willing to make changes where you were feeling challenged by the Universe to step out of your comfort zone? Then, you are going to see things rolling, and unfolding over the next 3 weeks. When you do the inner work, when you diligently apply yourself to meeting the changes that the Universe makes available to you, then you will feel in alignment, and you will see the results very quickly showing up.

If you felt resistance, and you dodged responsibility over what needed to be changed, you most likely felt uncomfortable all the time, and you still feel that something is left unfinished. If this is the case, just be honest with yourself in acknowledging that some things are challenging you, and that you truly have to get things moving. You will feel swiped by the energy that is flowing now onto the Earth, if you are continuing to resist. Learn to stop, be silent, and listen carefully to your inner wisdom. Get into a place where you can actually understand what you hear is coming at you. And most of all, be willing to accept change. Do not continue to resist by telling yourself the same old stories in your head. They can be quite entertaining, but they keep you in an old, and unevolved place. Now is the time to move forward! So GO. Go now! Open up to new opportunities in your life, and be prepared to LIVE!

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Last year marked a great change in our lives. Both Dan and I have noticed that we needed to make changes about our lifestyle, so that we could enjoy ourselves and what we create. Between working full time (and wanting to expand beyond that), being in part caregivers to a fully dependent elderly, and growing a garden, we wanted for things to change so badly. So, we tried to see what needed to be changed. What are our priorities? First, we realized that Dan needs a lot more time outdoors, working in the garden than working full time in an office, and even growing more business in the office. I was needing to meet my growing desire to learn more about nutrition and wellness, too. We also needed more rest, and more recreation. So how did we start creating that?

Well, Dan stepped down on the intensity he was putting into the office, and shifted his focus into incorporating more gardening, and learning about growing food on a larger scale. He is now a full time healer and a full time farmer. :)

I began taking nutrition and wellness classes, by enrolling into Health Mastery Institute. I am now a full time author/channeler and a full time student, too.
We are still responsible for taking care of some of the needs of Dan's mother, and we have started to increase our vacation/relaxation time.

Now, these last few weeks have been quite tricky. Mercury showed us where we're still trying to hold on to the same way of doing things that we were trying to release last year, and where some of our habitual ways of thinking and acting needed to shift into opening up more toward a different flow. Because of our willingness to change, we now have more things going on than ever, yet we feel different about our life, and much more fulfilled in our endeavors. How are YOU faring right now, dear friends?

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