#2. “Intuition makes you feel uncomfortable; fantasy doesn’t.”
The other day, I was barricaded in bed like a mummy in its sarcophagus because my room felt like Greenland from the cold.
While deciding whether to get out of my improvised igloo, I started watching videos in the suggested section of YouTube. When I saw Oprah in one of the thumbnails, I clicked immediately.
Oprah was interviewing Caroline Myss, a stranger to me.
Oprah asked her how to know if she was on the right path, and Caroline replied, “You know you are on the right path when you don’t put yourself in a position to betray yourself.”
And that simple phrase blew my mind.
I started researching Caroline, and it turns out that she’s made the New York Times bestseller list five times. And that her specialty is mindfulness, spirituality, and mysticism.
And that piqued my curiosity, so I started watching all the interviews I could find of her.
As a result of spending the morning down that rabbit hole, I came across some great pearls of wisdom that I’m sure will blow your mind.
Here are three
1. On personal power
“When choosing what you do, you release your power to a target. That target can be a person, a thought, an attitude. It can be a memory.” — Caroline Myss.
We all have a certain amount of power within ourselves every day. And we give that power to the things we pay attention to.
That’s why Caroline suggests that we must be very conscious of what we pay attention to.
In the talk, she gave the example of a parking lot.
You can get angry about not finding parking, but if you get angry about it, you will be giving your power away to something that 1) you can’t control and 2) you will be taking it away from the solution: finding parking.
And this happens all day; we spend the day giving power to people who take it away from us, to memories that hurt us emotionally, to future fears that may never happen.
In short, we spend the day giving energy to getting angry with problems instead of finding solutions.
And then we are surprised to end up mentally and emotionally exhausted when we get home.
Lesson: attention is how you deliver your daily power. Spend that energy wisely on the things you can solve and avoid the things that frustrate you and are not in your control.
2. On intuition
In an interview, Caroline is asked, “How can you know that something is intuition and not fantasy?” she answers something that still resonates in my head.
“Intuition makes you fell uncomfortable, fantasy doesn’t.”
Caroline says that intuition is like a “Funky feeling” you get, for example, when you see a stranger and think, “I have to meet that guy,” you don’t know why, but something inside you pushes you to it.
And that feeling leads you to feel the giddiness of the first few times.
That giddy feeling you felt when you were young, and you wanted to ask that person you liked to the dance.
That feeling prompts you to make decisions and take actions that require courage to take or carry them out.
Life has shown me that success is often on the other side of that feeling of vertigo.
We often get scared and don’t take the step of faith. But when we do, the waters of the uncertainty open up.
That’s when all kinds of synchronicities begin to occur that produce the most amazing miracles we experience on an individual level in our lives.
Lesson: for the universe to open the waters for you, you must go into the sea. And to go into the sea, you must take a first step of faith. If you do so and overcome that feeling of vertigo and act with courage, you will begin to see the magic of the universe start to work in your day-to-day life.
3. On time.
“If God gave you a budget of a hundred bucks worth of energy a day, your job is to learn to become a responsible investor.” — Caroline Myss.
For Caroline, energy is the currency of life. Every day, you have a certain amount of that money (energy) and must learn to invest it wisely.
People usually invest that energy in paying attention to sad memories from the past to keep alive the memories of those moments they don’t want to get rid of or know how to process.
By investing our hundred dollar bills in the past, we only get the dividends of the sad memories we pay attention to. And those dividends translate into more sadness.
However, if you focus on investing that energy in your present, you begin to see reality with new eyes, and the dividends you will get from that investment will be the detection of new opportunities that will bring you closer to your desired future.
Lesson: your attention is like a watering can that waters with energy those things you focus on. If you focus on the flowers of the past that are dehydrated and dead, you will only get more pain. If, on the other hand, you water your days, you will live in the middle of a beautiful garden, and you will not think about the flowers of the past because you will be too busy smelling the new ones.
Live in the present, stop living in the winter of memories, and bring spring back into your life.
A virtual hug
AG
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