If you are living in South Africa at this present time, then the term load shedding will no doubt fill you with dread or panic. For some of us it is a time to reflect, to disconnect from the mainstream and to allow ourselves to remember what is important.

In writing this article I want you to think of the term as the most wonderful way that you can lighten and brighten your life. When you are ready to dump the burdens and heaviness that you may have been carrying, it opens you to a much broader perspective and trust me it is definitely worth the effort. Before you can see the merit in this concept, you will have to consider what in your life no longer applies. Basically ask yourself, what is it that I really want? Is my life really on track or have I convinced myself that the life I am living is the one of my heart's desire? You may find that the levels of contentment you experience are making it difficult for you to hear anything else other than , yes this is grand. But honestly, is this all you are meant to do? Is this the fullness of how you are meant to use your energy and gifts? Are all the relationships in your life up to the standard of your true heart's desire?

Some of us are quick to answer and slow to listen, but if you take some time to ask yourself these questions under the guise of living a life of impeccable truth to yourself and all you encounter, you may be surprised by your answers.  I  speak from experience as yesterday was a day of disconnection for me. I had a million and one things to do but nothing felt right other than the notion of taking a day out to just read and be. Rather difficult as you can imagine but seeing as I literally felt ill when I tried anything else, I complied with the calling of my spirit and so spent the entire day reading and meditating. My reward was that in the latter part of last night and early morning of today, I was taken on a journey of soul truth where everything that was cosy and known shifted and I was faced with one reality. My life is one of comfort and not one of my highest truth.  Now I have been living according to my purpose, but not to my fullness which means that I had adopted a viewpoint of smaller is better rather than the fullness which brings challenges and  growth beyond the spectrum of one's cushy comfy life.

The shift was upon me and I had a choice, sink into my habits and thus continue to exist at a lower field of consciousness where there is success and joy or rise to the higher realm where my truth opens me to more. On this plane of existence, I cannot make excuses and I cannot hide from the power of light that is in and around me and that desires to be expressed as I become more and more of an instrument of love, light and peace. Easier said than done as it is always excruciatingly painful to the physical body when you are called to alter your DNA and to expand into a greater state of being than before. Dying to your old ways and old self may bring you great discomfort but once you are born into the new, it is worth all the agony. As I am committed to living my best, I dove right in and allowed the metamorphosis to begin. Over the next 6-8 hours, I felt myself transported through realms and states as I looked at my life over the past 54 almost 55 years and decided that it was time to die to that self and to be born to the new. I allowed my guides to take me on a journey that brought me to tears and elevated my thinking beyond this realm and at times collapsed into a semi sleep state as the processes continued to work on my internal structure. Each time I awoke, new visions appeared and I felt myself dropping more and more of what limited me previously until I arose this morning at 8 with so much clarity about my life, my role in this world and my desire to live according to my truth.

I have shed my load of striving and having to create in order to be present. I have let go of my strategist that solves all problems and  finds answers to any and all situations and I am yielded now in the space of the knowing that Source has a plan and I, as an instrument of Divine light, am on a journey of fulfilling it. I didn't orchestrate the shift, I didn't work it, I merely allowed it and accepted that the time was right. How I knew it was time, was by the small voice telling me to stop and let Spirit have its way. And so I encourage you too, start looking at what is showing up in your life, what signs are your seeing? What synchronistic things are showing up and how are you listening to the call of your heart. Deep within you a truth lies dormant that desires to be born anew. Are you ready to get out of the way, can you let go of all of your plans and step into the void where all that is known is that light is greater than dark and that eternal means exactly that, everlasting, eternal, and never ending. You are that eternal light source, you are a being with immeasurable power and ability to form that world you are living in. Are you capitalising on this or merely playing in the mud. How about shedding your conditioning now and stepping out of a life of do's, musts and should's into one of endless possibility?

With Joy
Jânée

27 May 2015