Thinking about making a change? Find out what generates joy in your body.

Everything in your life is a symptom, not a cause.

What does that mean?

What you think about and focus on is what ends up showing up in your life. Are your thoughts focused on what you lack? Are they filled with fear and worry?

"I never have any money left at the end of the month"
"Why do things like these always happen to me"
"I don't enjoy my job"

It's been shown in studies that we learn the most when we are happy. This is how kids easily learn, through play, fun, excitement and joy. This is where your ideas are the most brilliant and clear and this is the energy you need to attract into your life the things you wish for.

As adults we tend to take the joy out of learning and every day experiences. Everything is so serious, we worry about money, work, health, friends, lovers etc. The majority of our time is spent focusing on the negative thoughts we carry and day by day we repeat 90% of the thoughts from the previous day.

For those who want to change what symptoms show up in their lives, a change of repeated thoughts, actions and emotions is needed. If you do not feel very joyous every day, change what you think of and focus on.

Lets say you are out of a job or not happy at your job and you want to change your work situation. Start by identifying how you currently think and feel about your work or lack of.

1. Mindfully observe

Using the principals of mindfulness, notice your work situation the way it presents itself today, with an open, clear, kind and curious attitude. No story, no judgement, no dwelling on the emotional upset that arises, just acknowledge what you experience.

Clearing out the resistance of what is, will lessen the amount of suffering you experience. The more you resist, the more you will suffer. "I'm out of a job" or "I hate how my boss ignores my suggestions" will turn into a sob story about what happens 6 months down the line if this situation does not change. Rather, looking at this from a clear, kind, open, honest point of view will help you maintain a clear mindset that is open to ideas and solutions.

2. Accept how you feel 

The moment you acknowledge that you are not content in your current situation, let go of the resistance. This will allow your mind to accept suggestions and ideas on how to change the situation. This also reduces your anxiety and fear, thus helping you reach a more balanced emotional response and helps you see the positive sides....this gives you a chance to change and more options to chose from on how to proceed.

3. "Brainstorm" using your heart

This means start listening to your body when it comes to listing what changes you would like to experience. Are you in the line of work you love, or would you rather do something completely different? In stead of using your mind, writing down what you "should" do according to whatever authority you look up to, be open to FEELING what you love to do. When we show courage and at least acknowledge that we are not entirely happy with our choices, we have taken the first step towards a more rewarding future.

4. Get inspired

If you are thinking about a big shift or change know that so many people before you have done what you are about to do. Read books, watch videos and inspirational movies. Anything is possible if you have the passion, clarity and focus to change something in your life. There is no need to reinvent the wheel, get some inspiration and even, help. Just make sure that the choices you make are according to your values, likes and dislikes, not someone else's.

5. Joy Joy Joy and Gratitude

Making a big change is often a result of a "train wreck" in you life. A big shift often follows a traumatic or in some way life altering experience, but... staying in that negative vibration, in that energy will not help you make the best decisions. With that mindset, our options are limited. Get joyful, find out what makes you happy, write a list of easy, fun things you can do every single day and commit to doing them. With that energy soaring through your body, inspiration comes easy and the right people, circumstances and opportunities will surface. Show gratefulness for every single little thing that shows up, in advance, during and after they occur.

What makes you joyful, grateful and inspired? Commit to raising your vibration to the energy of joy every day.

Are you a lightworker?

Have you ever felt like you are a lightworker? Someone who is here to help raise consciousness, awareness, or just in some way to help push humanity forward, into a new state of being? Do you feel like you are using your skill openly or do you feel like you are not living up to your own potential?

I do feel like this myself and it took me years to figure out what to do with that or how to be in the world. It wasn't until I felt that the burden was too heavy and I wanted to give up that I realised that I wasn't doing enough, I was feeling useless and like I had nothing to share.

I wanted to help, to share what I know and my experiences, to lift people up from depression, emotional trauma, emotional instability by sharing with them all the tools available that have helped me in my life, but since I didn't have a degree from a University, I couldn't get a job in a clinic, a hospital, a rehabilitation centre or in any other facility that works with people....due to a lack of a diploma.

I have 30 years experience with depression. Both with my own, treating my own depression and permanently curing it using EFT...on my own! In spite of that, I used the limiting belief I was holding on to, that I needed a degree from the University, to be able to help people, to stop me from doing my WORK. I am a lightworker and diploma or no diploma, my job here on this earth is to let my light shine.

This means that I had to let go of old limiting beliefs that kept me from working with people. Not doing my work pushed me into depression in the first place. Understanding that I am here with the purpose of learning to believe in myself enough to be able to let my light shine and help others has helped me to start to let go.

Fragments of this old belief still surface regularly and I challenge them one at a time. There is a reason for me having had the childhood that I had, that kept me from believing in myself. The reason is, I had to dig deep into my soul, recall my spirit and become present, focused and clear on my purpose, on what being a lightworker means, so that I could find the courage to do my WORK.

What is your challenge? What limiting beliefs do you have that are keeping you from doing what you were born to do, what you love to do....what, if you had the courage to admit it to yourself and others, you are innately good at...better than anyone else.

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