Visionary Self Care
You may reject the visionary label - that's understandable. It's provocative and can be seen as hyperbolic, but it’s not. It’s literally what’s required.
We need to envision what we want before we can bring it into the world.
Visionary change in our society and our life has almost always begun in the creative fields. Many of you feel drawn to revolutionary changes in society and easily visualize how it could all work better for everyone.
It isn't necessarily just socio-political, it could be a more equitable vision for your family, child-rearing, education, body health - I don't know why or exactly how your visionary gifts present themselves.
I do know that you're here for a reason, and I want for you to hear that you specifically need to practice self-care as a visionary.
Patience and Faith
These are too closely related to not talk about them together. The creative visionary path can be vague and uncertain. There is no obvious route from where we are to where we want to be. The vision and work evolves as we heal and grow and change as people. As we can reach in deeper and higher, the scope of the vision and purpose can change and become larger - or conversely can narrow into a specific singular focus.
The deeper into grief we go, the greater the heights of joy available.
This is changeable work. It is a changeable purpose.
I feel like I've been on a spiral (or a slinky - lol!) for 30 years - revolving over similar territory, picking up the pieces of my lost and wounded self as I go deeper and deeper (or higher and higher - honestly the movement deeper and higher feels the same). With every pass I understand my self and my purpose and message more clearly. Every piece recovered makes me feel like I understand how all the different pieces work together.
But it is a process and it takes patience.
I've always envied people who seemed to know what they wanted to do from an early age. They seemed to be able to build a presence and a body of work for success much easier than those like me who were still searching.
Be patient with your yourself and your journey. You are doing sacred work just by being open to the discovery of different and previously dismissed paths of your life and saying yes to pieces of yourself that were earlier rejected.
Have faith that you are on the right path.
Have faith that there is only the right path. (Because what you do was the right thing to do at the time with who you were and what you knew.)
Have faith that even if you feel you are on the wrong path (or a path that isn’t working), that you have the power to choose a new path. Have faith that you are being supported and guided by your higher Self, by Beloved Presence, by Being.
Trust that They know you and They know the way and They are always on time.
Have faith that everything is unfolding as it should.
Even when you don’t have a fucking clue what’s going on.
I used to feel like it wasn't time yet, not yet, not quite, almost, just a little more and now suddenly I feel like I’ve missed my chance and there's not enough time left to do it all and make it real.
Beloved Presence says none of that is real. Everything is unfolding as it should and the timing is always perfect.
We receive the messages and understandings when we're ready for them; the books and articles and links when we need them; the opportunities when we're ready to grow.
Our mistake is being out of sync with where we are - not being present right here, right now. The visionary path is easy to understand and walk when we can be present and in a state of expectation that the Universe is reaching out to show us the way.
I ask for the messages to be loud, because I miss them, and need to them to be clear and direct and obvious. Sometimes I still miss them.
Be Gentle
Be gentle with yourself because no one teaches us how to live this way. No one teaches us how to use all our Presence and Being to find our Selves in the world and the Work that we will do.
No one teaches us how to rely as equally on empathic intuition and body sensation as we do logical rationality. No one teaches us how to make sense of these intense desires to share deep truths that we only partially understand. Be gentle with yourself.
Be patient. Have faith. It's all coming together.
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Be gentle with yourself because no one teaches us how to live this way. No one teaches us how to use all our Presence and Being to find our Selves in the world and the Work that we will do.
No one teaches us how to rely as equally on empathic intuition and body sensation as we do logical rationality. No one teaches us how to make sense of these intense desires to share deep truths that we only partially understand. Be gentle with yourself.