A Mother’s Love

Whether you have ever parented a child or not, you are a Mom.  There comes a time in every woman’s life when she discovers that she is the ultimate mother of her own body and soul.  It is during this beautiful discovery that she can shift from placing everyone else’s needs above her own to fully understand why that emergency oxygen mask must cover her own mouth first.  It’s true when they say we can’t give what we don’t have,  and the more we humbly and faithfully we love ourselves first, the more love we have to give the world.

I was given up at birth for adoption by a woman who carried me to term so gently and lovingly that I was born with no deficiencies, addictions, or disabilities.  How does a woman carry a baby like that for nine months and then give him/her away at birth?  That is a mother’s love.

Later I discovered my records had been misplaced or shuffled in with others at the agency, and now I have no way to discover the identity of my real mother to even thank her for that ultimate sacrifice and let her know things turned out well.  Meanwhile, I was raised by loving parents who adopted me immediately.  A woman unable to have children of her gave me all she knew and all her love until her death when I was 30.  That is a mother’s love.

Helping my husband to provide for his stepchildren and assist in raising them to the best of my ability taught me much about the other side of the experience.  While they already had a mother, I gave them the only kind of love I knew in whatever capacity they would allow me.   I may never know what if any impact I had on their lives, but I do believe I made some difference, good and bad, intentional and unintentional.  That is a mother’s love.

With my adopted mother gone and my stepchildren grown, I’m now a single 47 year old woman redesigning the next season in my life.  I look in the mirror and see the results of how I have parented my own self up to now.  I am met with a mixture of satisfaction and desire to improve, and a sense of peace in the love I have developed for myself of late.  Healing old wounds and forgiving (mostly myself) have really improved my self-esteem.  One day at a time I continue to encourage myself but in a gentler way than my warrior-take-charge attitude of the past.  That too is a mother’s love.

Happy Mother’s Day and remember to give that mother’s love to yourself first.

Namaste,

Sheryl Sitts, Chief Inspirational Officer

Journey of Possibilities

Grief – An Important Expression of Love

This has been a week of loss for me.  One person I love dearly passed away and then we celebrated the life of another and committed his ashes.  Although I know their spirits now soar in a beautiful space, I am sad.  I miss enjoying them here with skin on!   In this age of technology, knowing that I cannot pick up the phone and hear their voice is a constant reminder that they are no longer here.  Feeling their absence through their loved ones leaves a profound void in this place where there energy once radiated.

When we experience loss, there are a myriad of feelings.  Although the most commonly expressed appears to be sorrow through many tears, there is a joy beneath our sadness.  There would not be tears without love, and the more tears and sorrow we feel, the more love was present.  Beyond that, we exchange much more love as others who care reach out with comforting words or touch.  We gather to share memories with others we love and have not seen in a while, and we even meet new interesting people who also cared for our loved ones while hearing aspects of their lives we didn’t know while they were alive.  At the foundation of everything in our awareness for these days is a river of beautiful love.

Often when we feel sad, we’re tempted to push it aside or get busy and not feel it.  It’s hard to feel sorrow, yet if we don’t it will simply become stuck energy somewhere in our bodies that make us sick later until we release it.  Why not view grief as a testament to the beautiful love we have explored here and express it freely as such?

Feeling emotions is quite possibly our greatest human gift.  Think about it: we do not feel unless we care.  (The opposite of love is not antipathy but hate, making even hatred a face of love.)  Grief is love missed.  What could we possibly do that is more beautiful than feeling and expressing love?  Could someone please pass me another tissue?

Namaste,

Sheryl

Are You Telling Your Dreams, “Maybe Tomorrow”?

Last night, I pondered what major part of my life I would need to bring in line to better fulfill my life purpose (from Ask and You Will Succeed, a great read by Ken D. Young).   As I held a clear image of myself living the professional and personal life I envision and saw the gap between the now-me and the then-me more clearly, I caught myself writing, “I will…and I would,”  and then I GOT IT!  Every aspect about which I keep saying I “will” instead of I “am” is keeping my dream in the future rather than today, only to wonder why it wasn’t materializing.

Our human mind is so complex we can actually be moving forward and holding ourselves back at the same time and not even realize it.  We really want to be lean but then we believe we dislike exercise and healthy foods, so we yo-yo for years.  We really want a happily-ever-after intimate relationship yet we stopped believing they’re even possible, so now we don’t fully give ourselves to a relationship anymore.  We want a successful business and yet push money away by believing people can’t afford us, don’t have any, or it will somehow corrupt us to have more money.  We are in essence creating a wonderful nature party in our dreams only to have our guests arrive to a TRAIL CLOSED sign while we wait inside wondering why they haven’t arrived.

As we visualize our dream and identify gaps between who we are today and who we must be for our dreams to come true, let’s begin with the aspects we recognize we’ve been telling ourselves we WILL do in the future.  We know if we want a different result, we must take a different action.  Why not move those to the top of the list and find ways to slowly begin those transformations?  Only then will we finally stop telling our dreams to come back tomorrow, and begin readying ourselves for that life today.

Namaste,

Sheryl Sitts, Chief Inspirational Officer

Journey of Possibilities

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What To Do When They Don’t See You’re Right

Last week I had a disagreement which has been nagging at my mind and heart ever since.  Someone asked me not to charge for something and I perceived they felt entitled to it, which I resented so I declined.  The situation quickly escalated resulting in everyone involved getting upset.  Who ‘won’?  Does it matter if we both somehow felt we were right?  This was all still fresh when I attended White Eagle Lodge this morning and heard what I needed for clarity.

All that happens here on this Earthly plane is merely to build us up as we strive to bring the Christ Light to all of humanity through increasing our own loving kindness.  Well, there was definitely nothing kind or loving about what happened.  I took the position of ‘being right’, and that only ever serves the ego.  Being right didn’t really matter anyway since we’d all lost there.  Had I instead taken a deep breath to return to center, and then offered what she asked with love in my heart, it would have worked out beautifully.  Sure, I may have lost a few dollars, but in the beautiful way the Universe works, even that would have come back to me tenfold somehow, but we would have all felt good from a more loving exchange.

Our need to be right only helps our ego feel better.  It does not build relationships; in fact, it tears them apart.  It does not build wealth; relationships ARE true wealth, in addition to being the cornerstone for any material wealth.  Most importantly, it does not feed the soul or raise our vibration in love; it keeps us stuck in a lower vibration where discord and fear-based negativity breed.

The path to happiness, as White Eagle taught, is a walk of love, compassion, and kindness.  Making another smile feels so good.  Bringing joy to a distressed person is immensely rewarding.  Knowing we are right and conceding to another anyway feels loving and rewarding!

So, although I have apologized for the other day, it still felt like no one came away from that any better for it.  That is, until now.  Really feeling how much better it is to be loving than to be right is quite a beautiful lesson,  and I doubt I’d have gotten it any other way.

Namaste,

Sheryl Sitts, Chief Inspirational Officer

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The Magical Player Piano

One weekend when I was little, we took a car ride that seemed to last forever out to visit my cousins in a neighboring city.  Although I’d been told there would not be any children there to play with, I was assured I’d find a wonderful treat awaiting me.  When we arrived I saw a beautiful piano and ran over to see if I could remember how to play Chopsticks after playing it with my kindergarten teacher at school.  As I tapped the ivory keys, my cousin took out a scroll of paper and loaded it into the front of the piano, anchoring one end on a clip and then stretching it upward and placing the roll into a slot.  I told her I didn’t know how to read the dots, and she laughed and told me to just press the pedals at my feet.  Soon a most complex, beautiful song began to play itself on the piano!  I was enthralled as the notes filled the house, and any time we visited them in the future I enjoyed the piano as much as I had that day.

This morning as I awakened to memories of my wonder at that magical piano.  I was surprised by the similarities of that piano to my own spiritual journey.  As souls, we choose the musical scrolls (life experiences) we want to have here for the evolution of our Spirit.  It matters not the song, only that we attend to the rich notes of that song in the most open and loving way possible, regardless of how we may feel.  We can add a note here and there any time we want, for we also have those ivory keys (our own mind) to co-create music.  Indeed, we can take control completely and bang out a very different song, but whenever we choose or are forced to let go, that scroll (our Divine Path) resumes.  If there are pauses in the song, we can ask someone to confirm and reassure us that all is well just as God is always there and our spirit guides and angels are only too happy to help any time we ask.

There is a Divine plan at work here, even and especially when we can’t see it or don’t understand the music that is playing.  Our role is as simple as a player piano.  In this concert, we are here to be willing participants and surrender the keys any time we catch ourselves overtaking the music.  Oh yeah, and our most important job is to enjoy this miraculous experience and love each other through the hard parts of whatever song is being played.

Namaste,

Sheryl Sitts, Chief Inspirational Officer

Journey of Possibilities

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Who Are You Really?

Earlier this week you were invited on our Facebook page to ask your Higher Self  (the Soul within you thru every human incarnation) to write your lower self (you in this lifetime & body) a note about Who you really are…without your looks, achievements, career, hobbies, desires, dreams, feelings, or history.  The root question was, who are you at the CORE and WHY do you believe you’re HERE? How did that go?  Any surprises?

It surprised me how many of my initial responses were about my education, family, friends, dreams, lifestyle, looks, etc.  Did you catch yourself doing that, too?  We sure can get caught up in all the distraction and busy-ness of Earth School, can’t we?  Anyway here’s my response as promised:

I am an old soul here for experiences that raise my consciousness and advance me in my Journey with the Divine.

How SIMPLE!  Was that anything like what you ended up with?  Amazing how all that we find so terribly important in our daily lives pales in comparison.  Thankfully we are evolving through our relationships, or we wouldn’t get anything accomplished once we got down here and lost ourselves in the hustle and bustle of these complex social structures we’ve created.  Isn’t it fun to get a fresh perspective on what really matters in your life?

That is what I do.  I help people get a fresh perspective on situations in their lives where they keep getting stuck.  If I can help you with that, please reach out.  I don’t give answers, only clarity to find the best answers within.  Have a great week!

Namaste and much love,

Sheryl Sitts, Chief Inspirational Officer

Journey of Possibilities

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Balancing The Heart and The Mind

How timely to finish reading the adventures of a young man faithfully following his deepest dreams in Paulo Cuehlo’s fabulous (and subtly, deeply spiritual) book The Alchemist just as we enter this powerful full moon in Virgo, sun in Pisces, and Mercury retrograde in Pisces.  This is a time for inner reflection and healing from the lessons we are gaining here in earth school through our connection with all of life…a time to really go into our hearts to heal and integrate our own Life Paths.

We get so caught up exploring the emotions of our hearts and the expansion of our minds that it’s easy to forget why we’re here.  As “spirits having a human experience” (de Chardin) we are clearly here for our own spiritual evolution.  In that great journey which lasts hundreds of years and many incarnations, we can really get so caught up in this incredible Earth School we may miss many of the great lessons themselves.  If instead we see our heart as the Divine Inner Compass, our mind as a Computer Processor, and our body as the beautiful living, breathing Vessel allowing us to have this experience, we can let our heart (compass) navigate us along the unique path for our own Highest Good without being so caught up in the why’s and how’s. The course of our Perfect Path has been lain, and our only responsibility is to follow it with much love and good intention in our hearts.

So how do we keep this heart pure and loving in the face of the challenging and sometimes truly horrific experiences we see and feel here?  It is NOT by getting as busy as we can trying to make a difference, although that is beautiful when done with a heart full of love.  It is NOT about the many, many ways we can busy or numb ourselves so that we don’t feel the experience, for emotion is the teacher that drives the soul lesson home within so we don’t have to go through it again!  It IS turning to that inner spark of God within us each day in meditation to lift up all our cares and the suffering of this world to the great Master Healer.  It IS spending time in quiet meditation connecting with the Divine as God speaks to us through our hearts.  It IS humbly, boldly following the Path before us without worrying too much as to why and how, those are not our concern in this moment.  It IS sending forth God’s Love and Light  to the world each day to strengthen and comfort all in need.  It IS silencing the busy mind of  getting itself lost in the past and busily troubling itself over the future, so that we are in THIS moment, grateful for all that really IS right here and now.

Mercury in retrograde for three weeks makes a real mess of communication and technology, and this is not a time to start new projects or busy ourselves.  Rather may this beautiful full moon Mother begin a time of greater inward reflection as we heal and grow along our life journeys.

Namaste and much love,

Sheryl Sitts

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Habits: Free Will in Bondage

Lately I’ve been discovering how I unconsciously push some people away when they get ‘too close’.  It’s actually much more complex than it sounds.  When some people get ‘too close’, my mind starts playing tricks with me about what they really want from me, how they’ll probably go away soon anyway, etc. until suddenly I’m withdrawing from a perfectly good friendship, romance, etc. for no reason at all!   It’s scary to me that I can do all of this now without even realizing what I’m doing.   What began in childhood (doesn’t everything?) to keep me safe then became an option in a couple of unhappy relationships and then a habit until now I’m not even aware that I do it.  Something that was once free will has over time become something that quietly runs in the background sabotaging my relationships.

This is only one example.  Whether it’s how we drive, what we eat, vices we try, the way we are with money, how we resolve conflict, or many other things, the same holds true.  There is an initial moment of consciousness when we freely choose.  If  it’s important enough, we’ll even get nervous about the possibilities and weigh out our options before we choose.  If our choice serves us well then, the next time we may more quickly return to the same choice.  After a few times, or when we’re too busy to spend time thinking about it, we may repeat the choice again after barely slowing down to weigh the options.  Before we know it, we’re still behaving that way 5…10…30 years later!  The situation has changed, the people are different, and WE’RE different, but we’re still doing that same old thing with no idea why or even that we are!  How much of our lives are run on autopilot?  And what does it take to get our attention?  Bankruptcy?  A heart attack?  Divorce?  Something else?

Free will can only exist in this moment.  The past is history and we may not even see the future.  All we have is this very moment.  All our multitasking keeps us too distracted to be in this right-now moment that is our Divine gift.   We stay in autopilot.   We are the only ones who can make the conscious choice to live in this moment EVERY moment.  Anything else is robbing ourselves of a precious human birthright: FREE WILL!   Here’s to conscious living – right here, right now.

Namaste and much love,

Sheryl Sitts, Chief Inspirational Officer

Journey of Possibilities

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Feeling Stuck? How I Found My Groove

Boy did I get stuck in the final weeks of 2012.  As our energy levels were being raised further, I kept hearing how the old ways will no longer work and we must move into new ways of being.  We will be shown almost instantaneously whether we are going the right direction or not.  Believe me, I quickly realized I wasn’t!

The special event I’d created before Thanksgiving to carry me through the holidays was nonexistent.  I’m not talking about lower sales than I’d expected.  I’m saying I had NO sales!  I’d done everything as I had with successful events, so I couldn’t understand what was wrong.  This kind of ‘failure’ soon leads us into self-doubt, and when I continued asking Spirit for direction to co-create abundance, I was instead shown that I already had more abundance all around me than I appreciated.  My home was full of items I rarely acknowledged or enjoyed, and I’d resumed squandering money on take-out food and other things without even really appreciating the food, nutrition, or my body.  Going deeper into gratitude allowed me to see and release what I wasn’t really enjoying or appreciating, including many family heirlooms I’d inherited in the past.  I could sell these beautiful items to others who really would love them, best honoring them and myself in the process.  That’s exactly what I did,  and that money carried me through my difficult time.  To my delight, I’d learned about gratitude and abundance while also creating a wonderful new energy flow through my home rearranging and appreciating all I’d retained.  I was reminded that stuff has energy, and releasing excess and all that we don’t really love and appreciate can create space for fresh energy and a new flow to a place.

Back to my events and income generation…at a pivotal time in this process, I was guided to watch a special by Andrrea Hess that really resonated with me.  She discussed allowing more flexibility in our work to respond to the energy of the moment, and following Spirit guidance in every moment regardless of how  brain/ego may judge the messages we are receiving.  When I really opened after Andrrea’s webinar to seek deeper Spirit guidance about my events, I knew exactly when and were to create them and flow was restored that very week!  I share this with you as a woman with a graduate degree who spent much of her life learning the processes that lead to success.  It’s not easy to throw it all aside when Spirit guides us to do so, without any logical reason, and yet I’m here to tell you that is the only way to true abundant flow.  All this education is great once we’re moving int he right direction, but we must stay in Spirit guidance or manifestation will definitely cease…and these days it is almost immediate!

I hope that sharing these experiences might help you recognize some aspect of your life in which a bit more gratitude or Spirit guidance can really open you up to increased Possibilities.  2013 is really going to be an amazing year!!

Namaste and much love,

Sheryl Sitts, Chief Inspirational Officer

Journey of Possibilities

One Step to Instantly Increase Your Abundance

“When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”  Wayne Dyer

Radio announcing was one of the most fun jobs I’d ever had until corporate mergers and automation radically changed the industry and I left to reinvent myself.   I was sad for what I’d lost and even somewhat bitter for a few years.  One day, I finally realized that I’d actually had the opportunity to work in radio while it was live, connected to the local audience, and FUN!  That was something my predecessors would not get to do.  My perception changed from one of loss to one of gratitude!  I was thankful to have ever had that experience which many won’t have.

We spend a lot of time working to earn money to pay for things we already have, yet how often do we stop to truly appreciate them?  Do we really love everything that we spend so much time and money to buy, maintain, decorate, clean, and house, or are we just caught up in the routine of it all until it’s more bother than reward?   What if we sold or donated what we don’t want/need to recycle it back into the world for someone else to love it, and we actually committed ourselves to spend time/money only on what we really love?  This applies to work, leisure, home, romance, friends, possessions, etc.

Life is too short to spend energy on less than what we really love!   What else actually matters anyway?  If we love it (them), do we appreciate it (them) every day, or instead spend our energy worrying about how to keep it or get more?

Let’s try the trick I discovered about my radio career.  Let’s give thanks for having experienced all that we have to this point in our life, and then release our need to hold onto it or control our own destiny long enough to see what else the Universe has for us.  This shift immediately increases our abundance as we recognize all that already IS in our life,  choosing then to either continue holding and perpetuating that or releasing it for whatever else the Universe has for us, re-opening  the flow of energy in our lives.

Happy, abundant New Year, my friend!

Namaste and much love,

Sheryl Sitts, Chief Inspirational Officer

Journey of Possibilities

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