 We are right in the thick of it. That magical time of the year when dreams come true and long held wishes solidly land and flourish. This is the time of manifestation magic. In the plant world, Spring is the prime time for planting seeds. In the Fall we enjoy a bountiful harvest. There are similar cycles in the realm of inspired human creativity. For us, Spring is a time of inspiration. It is a season of fleeting new visions and fresh inspiration. These seeds of inspiration are being planted within us by our own soul. When these Springtime impulses are recognized, embraced and nurtured, they naturally flourish and come into greater expression in the embodiment cycle that unfold in the Fall. Most people go through these yearly creative cycles without even knowing about them, much less consciously working with them. Attuning to these natural creative cycles involves going with a flow that is much greater than what we could ever hope to muster on our own. Embracing them is a powerful way to invite more grace and ease into you life. We are now fully immersed in the time of embodiment and manifestation magic. It is time to harvest what we have been nurturing in recent months. Working with these cycles is like learning to catch a wave at just the right time... and then letting the powerful force of the ocean carry you blissfully to shore. Catching the wave is way more fun than paddling all the way to shore on your own. Catching these waves of inspiration demands that we clarify where and how we are using our creative energies, rather than letting them be diffused and scattered. What new vision has been calling to you in recent months? This new vision may be a way of being that you are cultivating inwardly. Deepening trust, anyone? Yearning to express more loving kindness in your life? More calm and clarity? Or maybe the vision has to do with creating a new home that supports you more fully, or deepening authenticity in your relationships, or expanded service in your community. Whatever your inspiration is taking you, this is the season to name it and go for it. Take a moment to deeply consider what you are giving birth to this fall. My attention has been on self acceptance, vitality, and expanded service in recent months. People around me are focussed on embodying and manifesting these qualities and experiences more fully during this year’s embodiment cycle... Trust. Abundance. Love. Creating a Podcast as a platform for expanded service. Renovating a new home. Better Sleep. Once you have clarity about the nature of what you are embodying and manifesting in this year's creative cycle, focus with all your might on that inspired vision. Do not let yourself become distracted from this soul inspired creative work. All kinds of circumstances will come along to disrupt your flow and knock you off your board. Drama and trauma in your life, and in the world can easily get in the way. You may be distracted and overwhelmed by circumstances over and over again. Elections, natural disasters, and health challenges are distracting many during this year’s season of manifestation. In the midst of it all, this is the most important point to remember… Do not lose sight of the inner vision. Even if you have fallen in the water and feel like you are drowning. Do not waste the precious inspiration and soul momentum you have been nurturing (consciously or unconsciously) for months. You always have the power to refocus on what matters most and paddle like crazy to catch the next big wave coming your way. All Love, Ariana  We all love to dream. Imagining a better future for ourselves and our world is a powerful way to activate our innate creative potential. Maybe you’re imagining and working toward a new job, an inspired creative project, a cozy new home, or a more fulfilling relationship. Dreaming and working toward those dreams can be expansive, fun, and fulfilling. Whatever you're yearning for, here's an idea to consider that will make your dreams even more satisfying… It involves focusing on inner embodiment as well as the outer manifestation of your dreams. With this approach, you let go of focussing solely on the outer form of what you want and go for what lies at the heart of your dream. Inner embodiment is about developing the internal state of being you are really yearning for, rather than just chasing after the outer package that looks good and desirable right now. Our dreams are really avenues to experience new inner states of being. We often get this turned around, thinking we will feel content and satisfied if our dreams materializes. All too often the satisfaction we feel when a dream comes true is fleeting. And then we're off to chase another dream. Our inner state of being is what creates a rich and sustained state of fulfillment, whatever is happening in your life. If you learn to embody and more fully live the inner state or quality that lies at the heart of your dreams, outer experiences naturally come into your life that resonate with and express the new inner state you have embodied. If you want more abundance in your life, cultivate the inner capacity to give more abundantly. Give more time, more presence, more money… whatever you have. If you want to receive more, practice and embody the capacity to receive more. Let life in, all of it... the light, the dark and all the interesting shades in-between. If you want to manifest more love in your relationships…. become a fuller embodiment of love. As you do so you will naturally draw out more love in your current relationships and probably magnetize some new loving relationships as well. We are incredibly magnetic. We constantly attract what we carry within our psyches, whether it is conscious and unconscious. The undercurrents of your psyche will eventually show up in your life, even if you have spent years trying to deny, repress, or hide an inner conditions you don’t like. If you feel weak inside, you will, sooner or later, attract outer experiences that validate this feeling. If you feel strong inside, you will naturally attract experiences that validate this feeling. If part of you feels strong and part of you feels weak, you will experience a sometimes crazy making mix of experiences in which you feel both weak and strong. This is where most people live. Feeling unloveable? Experiences will come around that affirm this… no matter how much you tell yourself you are lovable. The undercurrents of our psyche are magnetic, even when we cover them over with a veneer of positivity and affirmations. Every part of us is magnetic. The life we are currently living is the life we have naturally magnetized from the inside out. It gets a bit tricky when you are on a path of growth and spiritual evolution. As you change inwardly, the outer life you have created begins to feel too small. Some days you feel like you are walking in shoes that are way too tight. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. With every step. That kind of pain just means it is time to dream bigger. It is time to dream of walking in shiny new shoes that actually fit and express your expanding inner radiance. The challenges come when all parts of your psyche have not caught up with the bigger dream. This is the time to work and grow inwardly to fully embody what you need to step into the bigger dream. So let yourself dream big. At the same time, put just as much energy into cultivating and embodying the qualities and ways of being that live at the heart of your dreams. All love, Ariana |
Ariana GarrettAn energy therapist, relationship and spiritual life coach, Ariana is a lover of love in all of its many delicious forms; self love, couples love, family love, community love and ultimately, the universal love that pervades all.
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