My Shift
I have recently agreed to be in the Irish Beauty Show. No not me personally, but my business, Ayurveda Ireland. I really had to sit with this decision because I’m not about make-up, perfumes and cosmetics. I was approached by one of the organizers to be part of the show to represent alternative therapies in Ireland. While I was happy to come on board for those reasons, it still made me think about the implications of what it meant to be in the show.
I signed up and agreed to the Irish Beauty Show when I was in the mode of making my business a success by what “I” can do to make it happen. Then one day, while meditating, it came to me….this whole thing about “me” making things happen could be setting myself up for stress, depression, frustration and burn out to name a few. This doesn’t mean I have to have this outcome, but it does mean that I am more prone to these health/mind issues when the “I” becomes the doer.
You’ve all heard the saying “If it is to be it is up to me”. While I agree with this statement in that I am the only one that is ultimately responsible for the success of my business, I think that people interpret this saying as they have to think of ideas and come up with ways of being successful (ego self). On the other hand, I believe there is a spiritual connection to the work we do and in keeping with the energy of that when we can place our ego self aside and realize that we have a choice to be the doer with the potential to create stress, burn out and whatever else comes with it, or we can choose to allow the flow of energy to give us inspiration to act upon what is being given to us on the day in the moment.
It has to do with me stepping aside and allowing my silence to lead me. This doesn’t mean that I am not doing anything, but what it means is that I become aware that the “I” acting in my body is either ego driven or divine driven. When I am acting in the divine driven self I am feeling the effortlessness of being and having doors open to me that I may not have been aware of if I was in my driven ego self. The driven ego self is busy trying to “figure things out” and “meet the next goal” of which needs to be attained no matter what. When driven by the silence or the divine, the ideas come from a space of stillness and not through effort. They come from a knowing space and not a lets try and see what happens space.
This may not seem concrete enough for a lot of people and I suppose it isn’t. But what I have realized is that what most people are doing is creating more health issues for themselves because they don’t see or even feel the connection between their acting in divine energy or them acting in the “I”. One of the great spiritual teachers of today, Eckhart Tolle, is a prime example of being in the flow and not acting as the “I” that needs to do everything. As he says, all answers come through the stillness and that stillness is our flow or connection with the divine energy that is within us. Eckhart didn’t set out to make millions, he set out to experience the stillness and what rose from that was this enormous platform for him to share what his truth is which isn’t based in the gain of his ego.
The only way of letting your self be in the flow of the divine energy is through meditation and through calming and quieting the thoughts in the mind. You won’t even be aware of the flow if your mind is going all the time. You may be able to grasp the idea of it, but in order to truly understand it there must be an experience.
“The greatest waste in the world is the difference between what we are and what we could become” Ben Herbster.
Being aware of the flow of divine energy and working to become aware of your involvement or connection with it will open doors and put you in an endless stream of heart opening energy. What comes from that flow is what is unknown and is what is so exciting to find out. Every day is an opportunity to experience the greatness of what your possibilities are.
After this shift took place within my being I thought that being part of the Irish Beauty Show wasn’t something I wanted anymore. Funny enough, I was contacted that day by one of the organizers and I explained that I would like to pull out. She reminded me that I had signed a contract and that I was bound by it. I realized that my own limiting beliefs may be holding back this opportunity for me and now I embrace the idea of being in an environment of people that may not have heard about Ayurveda. Though I don’t have products to sale to make you beautiful from the outside, I can be there in my stillness to see what the day may hold and choose to be inspired and blissful in my state of being.
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