The Beginning of Joy

Jan 19, 2011
The tide has shifted. The time of learning and absorbing has reached its high water mark and now you will find yourself engaged in the giving out and dissemination of the words that flow from who you are and what you have learned. This shift is causing a small misalignment, a bit of flickering of the light within you due to self-doubt and self consciousness. You know that you’re prepared but it’s still a bit daunting. You are aware of old patterns of introversion and you know how to push them out of your field. You have chosen to place yourself among those whose light, energy and determination match your own. Your challenge is to see that they do match your own, and that you are in fact among your peers.

You are remembering your experience at 17, traveling to Wise University, a place populated by valedictorians. And you felt less than some of those others who seemed so much more brilliant than yourself. As you progressed through the four years of your studies there, you found that yes, this was an exciting and challenging environment, and also that yes, these were your peers and you truly belonged among them.It is good for you now to remember this youthful experience and to know that the self-doubt you feel today will evaporate as is did before all those decades ago.

So you have chosen another exciting and challenging environment to play in. How to calm the flickering jitters inside you? Take time every day to center. Call on us, your colleagues, to be present with you for some small amount of time each day. Test and take you flower essences and perhaps the homeopathic remedies Silica and Gelsemium. They are your old friends, well-known and loved by you. Walk and breathe. Be determined to stay calm. And also accept that this shift within you will inevitably cause some heightened feelings of excitement and that is OK.

Beyond these small therapies there is a greater one. You know and believe that all souls are one, all created as droplets spun out from the ocean of the Great Creator. Each soul infinitely beautiful and precious. This is reality. No better, no worse, no higher, no lower. Just all of us creating our universe and our world from our soul-consciousness. Can you take your stand in that field of reality and hold firm? Refuse to budge from it no matter what your veiled mind may tell you? Each soul infinitely beautiful and precious. Can you see each person you meet as that? Can you see self as that? Can you smile at each person from your soul, pushing aside the veil for a moment, so you both can see the transcendent reality behind it? In this is the end of self-doubt and the beginning of joy.