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When you decide to have an intuitive coaching or healing session, or any other type of mentoring that entails CHANGE in your life, you’re actually answering to the whispers of your Soul, which is guiding into taking the decisions and choices needed for you to heal, transform and evolve. Remember that you are a Soul having a human experience, and from the Soul’s point of view the final end goal it’s to express itself as the creator of your life, to find yourself as the Astrology Sun sign you came here to be in this lifetime, and follow your path. (Learn about the Sun’s teachings in this episode of my podcast The Phoenix Rising).
But, why is your soul’s path so important? who really cares?… well, your Soul does for sure! Let me explain better.
Your Spirit incarnates in a body to live a human life, because it wants to learn, evolve and, as I said earlier, express itself. So your Spirit comes with learnings and challenges, strenghts and weaknesses it’s coming with, therefore, there are certain experiences it desires to go through in order to… do you remember? 😉 yes!, learn and evolve! you got it! (This is all marked and very clear on your birth chart by the way!). On this account, your Soul has a path it wants to walk, it has a purpose. And why is it important to figure all this out and walk your soul’s path? Because when you start doing so it feels amazing! You feel joyful, hopeful, happier and motivated, and when difficult times show up you keep going because you know your North!
However, even when knowing all this, why is it so hard for us to take the steps necessary to align to our soul’s blueprint and its path? There are several reasons, that we’ll look into in this article, but first, let’s put this out in the open: CHANGE IS HARD. Period. If it was an easy thing to do we would have already accomplished all our desires: have the business we dreamed off, have a healthy body, be in a positive mindset all the time… but this isn’t the reality!. Even though we want something with all our heart we’d still have difficulty taking action.
I have identified 5 major obstacles that are stopping you from creating real change in your life to, therefore, live the life you aspire.
- Your survival instincts are kicking in. If there’s one thing that our ego doesn’t like it’s change, because it wants to keep us safe and alive. Change is unpredictable and is “risky” as we cannot be 100% sure of the outcome.
- You have fear. This is completely normal. We need to keep in mind that part of that survival instinct is the “Fight ot Flight” response. Fear is a result of this response as a way to stay “safe”. It can show up for different reasons, for example, you may feel unease to an unknown outcome: “I don’t know what’s going to happen if I change myself and my life”; or about losing someone in your life: “People won’t like me”, ” X person will leave if I change and I might end up alone”; or it might even be fear to leave your habits or you as you are right now.
- You’re self-sabotaging and this can also reveal itself through many facets. A way of sabotaging yourself can be when you don’t prioritize your well-being or desires and then say: “I’ll do it later” or “I’ll start that course (…change) when my daughter finishes school”, or “I don’t have enough money to start my side business”. These are all examples of some ways our saboteurs can play in our head. Self-sabotage is a vast subject that we’ll touch more on another time.
- You’re not connecting enough to your soul’s desires as well as your ego. In the world of Spirituality and Energy Healing many people label the ego as bad or as the enemy… I couldn’t disagree more! The ego is part of our Soul and we need it because it is through it that we have the human experience. The ego actually helps us move towards our goals and accomplish them because it likes to gain something more than just safety and comfort. Having something to desire is not evil nor wrong, it’s a big carrot that our ego will go for!
- You don’t know what to do, nor where to start. I get it, change can be confusing, to the point of knowing what you want today for changing your mind later on. Has it happen that you’ve taken a workshop or a course, and after finishing you leave inspired and with a clear vision just to go back to feeling confused and lost a couple of days later? Well, this situation not only arises to you! Most likely you shifted your mindset but when it comes to taking action, your ego tricks you by using confusion in order to avoid change.
Hence, what can you do to create real change? You need to take action despite being confused or scared. You can feel the fear and do it anyways!
This is a great period of time to take action and make choices! Be bold and brave because we have a lot of Aries energy available for us. Take advantage of it!
Remember you’re MAGIC!
Laura
