The path to sacred lands goes through the valleys and over mountains
3 tips to stay connected to your heart's guidance
It had been a rough
day, and I had done a lot of work doing hotel prospections for future journeys
during these past days. It was high time I’d go to the beach and relax. So I
found myself in a van going to the coast of Chiapas, Mexico. A lovely lady was
sat just next to me as we were arriving in the small-time coastal town of
Tonala. She had told me that she’s a middle school teacher at the age of 71 and
still enjoying it, even though the kids were malcriados
, or ‘badly raised’. We were talking about my travels and
soon it became pretty clear that this wonderful old lady was a catholic, and
that she would love to visit the sacred land of Jerusalem. She had never been
out of Mexico, and prayed to God our lord ( mi
Diosito nuestro señor,
in her own words) that she would be granted the
opportunity to one day set foot on the holy lands of Jerusalem.
As we continued our conversation, I started talking about my many travels and in an attempt to encourage her to travel to Jerusalem, told her some ways to fly there for cheap. It seemed to dawn on her that she would actually need to travel there, through many cities and foreign lands, in order to get to her destination. I found it so beautiful to see the analogy for a life’s journey.
As we are all on a life journey (some have an idea of where they want to go and some don’t) it might bear a significance. Many times, our intentions to go somewhere or be or get something are like setting a course, yet we don’t know what will come on our path. It is also not necessary for a journey’s destination to have to be rigid. Imagine that this lovely elderly lady would undertake the journey to Jerusalem and find that it’s a hard place, and maybe she will miss her place of origin. Maybe she would find, in going away, that the holy land has always been right there where she grew up. Or that many sacred places exist in the world and she does not have to travel far to reach them. In a similar way, maybe she might find another elderly man while she spends a couple of days in Madrid on the way to Jerusalem, and madly fall in love with this widower who loves her with grace and passion. Maybe she might want to stay with this man for the rest of her life and find the holy land in a random place in Spain where they end up living and dying together.
It is good to set a course, and follow your dreams, but also to understand that your heart is the compass that is connected to all and will show you which direction to follow. It is still possible to walk east while your heart points south, yet the more you choose to follow your heart’s direction, the easier it becomes to hold that course steadily. After a while you don’t even need to check the compass anymore and just walk towards your goal because you have become so familiar with the ways of the elements around you, and how the omens show themselves. It is like becoming so aligned with the cosmos, understanding that everything is there to show you, that you just simply go with it. It is like understanding the simple physics of oneness, and that when you choose to walk the way of the heart, that all around you aligns to show you that way, any time. Simple. Like a tracker in native cultures, simply guided by the intelligence that exists in all, and being a part of that knowledge at the same time. It is like walking a path of inner discovery that aligns in the outside world, and gives us the chance to discover more of ourselves, little by little.
The beauty of this journey is that even though you might have a set destination, you never know which blessings are coming to you on the way there. Simultaneously it is also really valuable to hold a course towards a destination and not change directions the entire time, so balance is essential. It might not be straight forward at first to learn to manage that balance, therefore we want to share some small and practical attention points for helping you to adapt to another way of walking life:
Be unafraid to move through blockages
This might sound weird, but with awareness it can be very valuable to take choices that can seem unhealthy, unfriendly, or unreliable at first glance. During the whole process of life, whatever your course may be, your greatest asset is your own awareness. A lot of us have been indoctrinated by an old structure which stems from patriarchal ways of domestication and subordination. Because of this, many of the patterns engrained in our subconscious (and also in our bodies) are reflections of this. They can go deep, and sometimes go back several generations and/or lives. For this reason, with awareness and compassion, it is very valuable to allow them to be there to be observed. It doesn’t mean we have to act on them, they can just be observed, and if we do play them out, that is also nothing to be ashamed about. Give yourself the space to experiment with the old and the new, with your discernment and awareness . Find out what is really right for you , in your choice as a free and natural, cosmically connected being.
Understand that you are here to play
Life is a cabaret… This might sound silly, and in a sense it is, but it’s healthy to remember this is all a big school, and all of us are in it. The only difference with conventional education is that it’s free. Free in the sense that we are living in a free will universe , and that what we choose to believe is true. We truly are sovereign beings which create with lots of power. Just like a child creates a sand castle, we have the power of creation to mold our reality. As we are in essence spiritual beings coming here in a limited and dense 3D mirror, the material aspects of our manifestation are end results of an energy that is flowing through us. There is no need to look outside for spiritual connection, as the third dimension cannot be the beginning of our original nature, which starts in the etheric realms. Manifestation is more about going inward and being creative than struggling to make things work in the outside reality. As Bashar says: “you will be amazed by the synchronicities that will happen.” Of course it is also valuable to create a structure for your ideas or projects to manifest in this world with its (still) relatively slow and limited ways of societal structure. That is what our rational mind excels at. Yet the more people will reconnect to their innate comsic nature, the more our societal structures will become conducive and reflective of that state. Like this we will extend the playground and the mind will find rest in a new world where we can simply be in love.
And… Everything happens in the right time
The universe is always inside of us, and we are all a divine part of it. As is all of creation. The third dimension is a small part of creation. Be assured that the cosmic intelligence is working, and that it happens in mysterious ways. We might not see the benefit of a series of events while they are happening, but when we do, we can see and trust that all is happening for a reason. Maybe, for example, we really felt like eating in a specific family-owned place, or buying something we don’t think we need because the person selling it is a single mom who needs money to get food for her kids. Maybe our presence in a place we have never thought of going will open up something in someone that otherwise might not have been opened. Like this, all that happens carries within it a certain value, and even though this can be narcissistic from a certain point of view, it also is recognizing the intrinsic value of all the parts of the whole. It the same way a street dog might come and accompany you in the night to walk to your house, giving you the safety and pleasure to watch the stars instead of the fear that someone might try and rob you. And simultaneously this dog can express its talents of guiding you home through the dark and protecting you.
As all is carried by intelligence in every moment, and we are setting a course towards somewhere we want to go, or something we want to be, all that is aligns itself to bring us the things we need in the exact right moment that benefits all of existence . This might not be as you expect it, and as linear time is just an illusion, the manifestation of our blessings will come into the linear time scale often sooner than we think. Our rational mind cannot expand to the capacity to grasp that.
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