Recently I went on holiday and fell in love with the Greek Islands. It was one of the best holidays I ever had, until it was time to go home.
The last leg of my return journey was summarily cancelled as a result of the fallout of volcanic ash from Iceland. This is where everything became surreal – as if it was a dream that I was living.
Thankfully my experience was an interesting dream rather than a nightmare.
But first some background on what is happening to the world.
People are talking about 21st December 2012 being the end of the world. There are more and more books appearing on the topic, and everything seems to be getting more and more confusing.
Here is my version of the changes that we are experiencing:
Much of the fuss about 21st December 2012 relates to a Maya calendar that ends on that date. The Mayans were an ancient civilisation that lived in what is today known as Mexico and Central America. They were a highly evolved society at the time.
The Mayans believed that time binds the various dimensions of the Universe together. They used several calendars to explain the ties between the planets and our earthly existence.
The Mayans also believed that time
Can be measured
Does not stand still
Flows away from the past into the future
Is circular and cyclical
Is expressed by events that are repeated in different cycles.
The Mayans used three different calendars. The most significant one for the purposes of this article is the Long Count Calendar. This calendar was used to record past events and predict future events. It completes a cycle of more or less 5 125 years. This calendar ends on 21st December 2012.
Some doomsday preachers believe that the reason the calendar ends on that date and there is no new calendar to replace this one, is that the world will come to an end on that day.
Is it time to prepare for the apocalypse from Revelations? Wait for the next instalment.
Why is it that when we really want something, it takes ages to get it, even when we are impatient?
Why is it that some people remain stuck in for example a destructive relationship or a wrong job long after they have realised that it is time to get out?
Quite often we believe that we remain stuck in an undesirable position, when in fact we are still supposed to be learning from the situation. We are so focused on the end result that we completely forget to be observant. It is like being in such a hurry to get to a holiday destination that you miss out on all the scenery and interesting people that you rush past.
Then you reach the destination feeling exhausted, when in fact you could have had a leisurely trip.
One of my life themes is learning to deal with bullying. I have had to deal with this since birth, at work, in personal relationships and with friends.
As with any other victim, I took all this very personally and had no idea what I had done to deserve their treatment.
It took me years to discover the reason why I was bullied. Once I had mastered that, I understood what people were doing to me and why, but that did not took the pain away. I still cringed at every attack, and afterwards reminded myself that it was not necessary for me to endure this any longer.
Imagine my surprise recently when I was confronted in a confined space by a violent man and I barely noticed him. The incident stuck with me for days before I realised the significance of it.
Click here to read the full story of the encounter
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Love and Light
Elsabe
PS: I am a professional transition coach. I help individuals and businesses to achieve their personal and commercial objectives.
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We are weird creatures. We spend 1% of our time listening to the quantum vibration, 45% of the time creating our own stress and disappointment, and 50% of the time searching for a culprit.
There are at least three reasons why the Secret will not work.
The process of getting the Secret to work is quite simple: feel the quantum vibration, convert the vibration into a thought, express the thought in words and in action.
Step one is always perfect – we know when we feel the quantum vibration which creates the conditions for creation. After that the trouble starts – that is the trouble we create ourselves. We take one look at this perfect quantum vibration and we say “yes, but” and “what if”. By the time we have said that, we have already chosen how we want to let that perfect vibration materialise.
Then we spend our time and energy proving ourselves right, and we say the Secret does not work.
I was reading about survivor’s guilt and the part it plays in redundancy.
Whenever people are made redundant, there are big newspaper headlines that tell about fear for those who are leaving. There is a lot of finger-pointing and blame for the management of the company.
Quite often the atmosphere in the company is one of palpable fear, and during the process there is a definite “us and them” culture where those that remain behind don’t speak to those that are leaving.
The people who are made redundant, often feel that they are “guilty” if something intangible. Once they lave left the company under these conditions, it could take ages for them to recover their self-confidence and pride in their abilities.
From my own experience, I know that redundancy can be a spiritual and very enriching experience.
I have learnt over the years that redundancy is the Universe’s way to give us a nudge when it is time to move on and we choose to cling to what is no longer relevant or required.
Job was a man who suffered a lot in his life. It is interesting that when we work as an employee, we refer to our labour as a “job”.
On the other hand, a self-employed person is known as an entrepreneur (meaning “founder”). What have they found? Their life purpose? Their destiny?
One of the most powerful ways to “find yourself” is to be made redundant. When you are selected for such an experience, you can spend much energy trying to find someone to blame, or you can embark on a journey of self-discovery and find your true self.
I have thought for years that I would like to look up the company director who made me redundant after I had implemented a big project successfully. I would like to give him a case of his favourite whiskey, because if he had ensured my job safety, I would have disappeared into the oblivion of permanent employment. I owe him a lot.
Please leave a comment if you feel inspired.
Love and Light
Elsabe
PS: I am a professional transition coach. I help individuals and businesses to achieve their personal and commercial objectives.
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Frank Joseph said “Following a vocation, that inner call, is not self-indulgence or an excuse for laziness. Doing what one really wants to do is hard work, but it is self-fulfilling as nothing else can be. It is the ultimate key to personal happiness in the physical world.”
Most of us grow up believing that we have to work for another person. There is nothing wrong with that, as long as you live your life’s passion. It is possible to be a very competent employee and get great joy out of what you are doing.
But what if you do not live your life’s passion? What if you are one of the millions of people who get up every Monday morning and dread the week ahead because you anticipate so much stress?
If you are one of the people who spend all your energy on realizing someone else’s passion, then you are not living an authentic life. You are ignoring your inner voice and your passion.
If I ask what you would like to do with your life when you have all the time and money in the world and no restrictions, you will have an answer ready. We all know what we want to do “one day”.
But what if that is really your life’s dream? What if you spend most of your life dreaming and you only have a few years left for doing?
Oh, yes, I can hear you saying but what if I lose everything? What if it does not work out? What if I find that I was wrong?
Marianne Williamson said “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.”
So I ask you: what if you gain far more than you anticipate? What if you achieve your wildest dreams? What if you are challenged to achieve even more and to make an ever greater contribution to the world?
Living an authentic life means following your heart. Are you following your heart?
Please leave a comment if you feel inspired.
Love and Light
Elsabe
PS: I am a professional transition coach. I help individuals and businesses to achieve their personal and commercial objectives.
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L Scott Peck wrote a book called The Road Less Travelled. The first three sentences in the book read “Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it”.
Is your life difficult? If your answer is yes, does that mean you have not seen the truth yet?
We can actually transcend all difficulties in life. This is not just a philosophical view. This is a practical reality.
All our woes and troubles have one thing in common.
Think of all the problems you have in your life. Think of your sticky relationships, the conflict you have in your life, your health, your job – or lack of a job. Who is the one person that features in all of these situations?
Yes, you got it.
Does that mean you are a trouble maker? Of course not – unless, of course, you enjoy causing trouble.
The majority of people do not want to cause or have trouble. They just want to have a quiet, peaceful life with good health, great friends and abundance.
If only everyone else would do their share and work on the same agenda. Because if they don’t they cause you stress.
Guess what? They are not going to change. You need to change if you want to make your life any easier.
Let me know how I can help you with the change.
Please leave a comment if you feel inspired.
Love and Light
Elsabe
PS: I am a professional transition coach. I help individuals and businesses to achieve their personal and commercial objectives.
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This is a quote from the Wall Street Journal in September 2009: “A recent study reported that 52% of working French don’t sleep well on Sunday night. But work-related stress is not a French disease, and is ubiquitous and severe in all developed economies. In the U.K. and U.S. 70% of employees don’t sleep well on Sunday night either.”
That means probably about
• 19 302 500 French workers
• 98 413 700 Americans and
• 21 700 000 British people
spent their Sunday nights tossing and turning in September of 2009, instead of getting a good night’s sleep.
Were you one of these millions of people? How did you overcome the problem? Or is it still a problem for you?
When we do things that are against our true nature, it requires a lot of energy. It also requires our energy to flow in a direction that does not feel natural. Our bodies go into a state of heightened alert and all systems go on standby.
Imagine how your body would respond when you do a job that is against your true nature. Your body would be in a continuous state of heightened alert during the week. By Friday afternoon you would feel exhausted, for good reason. Your energy will have been drained from you.
Then you spend the weekend doing things you love and enjoy, and you “re-charge your batteries”.
But what happens on a Sunday evening? Of course your mind starts to work on the job that waits for you on a Monday morning. You send a message to your body that says “time for heightened alert again” and your body obliges and becomes tense again. You cannot have a tense body and relaxed sleep. The result is a sleepless night of tossing and turning.
How do you counter-act the stress that keeps you awake on a Sunday night?
Find you life’s passion. Start to live that life’s passion as if each day is your last day. Your mind, body and spirit will be in alignment. You will sleep like a baby. It really is as simple as that.
Please leave a comment if you feel inspired.
Love and Light
Elsabe
PS: I am a professional transition coach. I help individuals and businesses to achieve their personal and commercial objectives.
What is the one thing which is consuming all your energy at the moment?
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