We tend to bounce between two extremes.  On one hand, we want the easy way: please, just tell me what to do!  And on the other hand, we excel in making everything so hard that we never get anywhere.  A vicious circle.  Fortunately an alternative point of view is available.

The Difficult Path is the path where you are willing to find the middle ground, the point where there is no resistance to moving forward but you also do not find yourself  sliding off into the other side of the easy-peasy fix of instant gratification.

I call it the Difficult Path because at first glance you don’t immediately know the answer.  You will need to find within yourself the necessary motion to move beyond “I don’t know” into a process of reflection and consideration where you allow your knowing to make its way into your awareness.  This is difficult because you will find other flows — like your ego — which will push you to take the easy way.  This path is difficult because, instead of being distracted by these contrary flows, you are going to need some time to allow the answer to come to you.

The Difficult Path requires that you show up in your own life and take a hard look at yourself.  You look where you can.  You ask: Am I perpetuating self-deception at some level?

The Difficult Path also requires that you commit yourself to noticing where you push yourself beyond your truth into punishment for not being perfect.  And it takes time to learn to trust yourself to realize the difference between too much and too little.  The hard part is that as you move along your path, this middle road shifts and will not be in the same position even from day to day.

The Difficult Path lets go of the demand for NOW and focuses instead on the feeling of truth in this moment.  The push of NOW can override your sense of truth.  Noticing where you push yourself will help you realize when NOW becomes the domineering captain of your ship.

The Difficult Path can be lonely and the rewards intangible.  But when you allow yourself the opportunity to explore and reflect, you open a gap between your experience and blind reaction.  The gap allows you to focus on the possibility of your choice while encouraging you to create a new way of BE-ing.

Today is not about getting IT right.  Today is about what is truth for you now.  The Difficult Path follows this truth and helps you find IT within your heart and the actions of your life.

The affirmation of the Difficult Path:

I claim my Difficult Path as my flow of truth,

releasing what no longer serves me,

embracing All in balance with my BE-ing.

We are complete.

In Joy!

Cheryl

In Joy!

Cheryl

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Your Spiritual Journey:  your search for balance with All That Is.

Your Spiritual Journey is a process, a quest to become more aware of and to expand personal understanding of both your spiritual nature and your physical nature.  And this personal journey is framed initially by this question:

How to fully live as both physical human body and

divine nature at the same time?

However, in a more compelling way, your journey must also become a yearning to put your learning and answers to this question into action, helping you claim your highest expression within the truth and balance of All That Is.  Your Spiritual Journey is both thought and action, heart and mind, and always an effort to understand your challenges and embrace the best you can be.  Much more about experience and commitment than goal or purpose, your spiritual journey is your life lived to its fullest.  There is no difference between life and spiritual journey, they are one and the same.  With each step on your path, you claim your journey and live your life, knowing that in each moment you embrace your process as a way to make sense of your experience.

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By writing space, I mean the heart and mind space I enter as I begin to formulate and welcome the approach of the flow of energy which comes with each writing project I engage and embrace.   Much like doing an Akashic Record Reading, this space envelops me and I envelop it, standing witness to its flow, giving attention to what I do not know.  Sometimes the flow is clear, sometimes it stands just on the edge of my awareness waiting for the moment to move forward — usually when I let go of trying to make it be what I think it should be.  I hold this space and it holds me.  In awe we regard each other, in awe we step together down the path that lays before us both, ready to be and become in the moment of the creating, humbled by the journey, in joy with All That Is.

In Joy!

Cheryl

Love is the focused attention of All That Is towards your highest expression.

As an affirmation for today:

I claim love for myself and for all BE-ings, infinitely and eternally.

I am Love.

I feel Love.

I share Love.

In Love and Light, I am complete.

In Joy!

Cheryl

Affirmation for Today:

I stand in Awe.

The infinite and eternal Universe is my foundation and my source.

I stand in Awe.

In Joy!

Cheryl