Kristen Taylor

"God will not have his work made manifest by cowards." ~ Emerson

So do what you fear the most but your heart speaks to the loudest. This is the time, when everything is falling away anyway to jump, without thinking, into the unknown your heart is leading you to. No journey worth taking is free of obstacles and difficulties. The safe road never made great men or great happiness. Happiness is not for the weak, but those brave enough to conquer the tallest mountains. After all, you never see unhappy people reach the summit of Mt. Everest.

I have been through many transitions in my life including currently. During these times you can feel like you are falling and that obstacles lay in your path at every turn. During these times, I love the quote:

"If you have a big problem in your life, all that means is that you are being a small person!" ~ T. Harv Eker from Secrets of the Millionaire Mind"

Meaning that if a situation seems big to you then it is most likely reflecting the size of your character. So grow your character, inner-strength, perspective, and inner wisdom and you will outgrow your problem. Anyway, that is not the purpose of this post.

I just got a flash of insight and wanted to share it with you immediately. A friend of mine was telling me about this psychiatrist in Hawaii. And don't quote me on all of this, I am not a detail person. It is the main idea of the story that is important. So, the doctor was employed at a major psychiatric institution for the criminally insane. He would review the files of all of his patients and would find the part of himself that would be capable of commiting the acts that his patients committed and would forgive himself for that aspect of himself. Confusing right?

Well, all the judgments we hold about other people are simply aspects of ourselves that we refuse to acknowledge. So all of the unspeakable crimes that occur *could* be committed by us as well if we were raised by different parents, were abused in such a way, tortured throughout live, born with different brains that didn't function as well.

So, in essence we are a whole of possibilities and just a large number of them will never be actualized...but there is the potential latent deep deep within. This doctor understood this and would heal and forgive himself for that potential. In doing so he also healed all of the patients on the ward without barely speaking to them.

So that got me thinking. What I am struggling with, millions of people are also struggling with. I am definitely not alone. It made me wonder if I am partly going through this same situation as a way to heal others by healing the blocks within myself. Sort of a virtual terminal for healing and freeing up blocked energy for the world.

Regardless of the theory I think it is important for anyone who is going through a difficult time to step back and find purpose and meaning in it. Things often, not always, happen for a reason and that reason is often bigger than just you. Heal and forgive, if not for yourself, then for those who are also struggling in a similar manner.

One of the most difficult things to do when you begin your spiritual journey is having trust in faith in something you cannot see and sometimes barely hear. Often we get ideas of where we want to be in life but we are too often held back by how we will get there. This creates doubt and fear exaserbated by our Limiting Beliefs. These things are, in essence, us trying to control how we reach the outcome and attain our goals. Sounds perfectly reasonable and logical right?

As a therapist, I was taught to train people to set larger goals and then break them down into smaller goals so they seem more attainable. That totally works for those just learning how to operate and control their own life. But then the training wheels have to come off and we need to just have faith and trust in ourselves and sychronicity. But 99% of people ride through life with these training wheels trying to control the path to their goals which can lead to frustration, stress, and feelings of failure.

A beautiful example of what I am talking about is a car navigation system. If you don't have one, get one, if you do then you know how glorious they are. Basically, you enter in your destination and the computer calculates the most efficent route for you to take. You start driving and the little voice, or arrows, tells you where to turn next. Once you start using a navigation system your brain can then run on auto pilot because the navigation system is telling you where to go. You never have to worry about HOW you will get to your destination and you can RELAX.

That is what I am talking about! Set your destination, goal, what you want and forget about HOW you will get there. Do you want a nice house but do not see how you will ever get a mortgage? Forget the HOW! Just set your sight on the house, be patient, look for the signs, connect with people, and talk about how you want a house. Life will truly take care of you. And when it seems like it is not working KEEP GOING! Remeber the Law of Opposites will give you the opposite of what you want first before you get to your destination.

Sorry for my lack of blog posts. I've been busy with a number of things including the new newsletter and getting ready for two Psychic Fairs that I am attending in two weeks. *eek*

I've also aquired an amazing new tarot deck and will be opening that service soon with a nifty discount for my newsletter readers. So if you've subscribed...stay tuned!

 There is a little known Law of Attraction principle called the Law of Opposites. In a nutshell, what it means is that before you receive your wish, what you are trying to attract, often the opposite of that occurs first.

If you are trying to attract love, often lonliness and isolation comes first. It is because of this a lot of people think LOA is crap and doesn't work. But it is just the way the universe works. Sometimes I believe it is it's way of torturing us or testing us...but, really, that is not why it happens.

Let's take this election as an example. We currently have one of the crappiest presidents in office in...well who knows when. His approval rating is in the toilet and many people blame the state of the country on him. Now, we have two presidential candidates who are using the craptasticness of the current president as a context for their own campains. The big message is "change" and each candidate is using it to it's fullest extent.

This is Law of Opposites in it's grandest form. In order for change to occur, to manifest what the country needs right now, we needed poor leadership. George Bush provided a perfect void for which McCain and Obama could attempt to fill. Without Bush, voter turnout would not be at the highest rate it is now, passions would not be ignited, people would not be giving the other initiatives the attention they need. Bush provided the context in order for change to occur.

Now, what opposites, negatives, uglies, are occuring in your life right now you wish to impeach and get outta there? Use the passion the country is now displaying in your own life. Afterall, that is why the opposite is there now. To get you off your butt and back in the driver's seat!