Live Your Brilliance – A Series

My angels asked me to write my next book on - how to live your brilliance. Since my first book was The Art of Listening to Angels, I thought it best to follow their guidance.

So, I asked them, “What do you mean by living your brilliance? How are we supposed to do that?”

Know Yourself

They told me the first step is to know yourself. When you know yourself at essence, you know your unique gifts and how best to share them. You get to know yourself as love and express that love as only you can do.

Love Yourself

When you know yourself at essence, you can easily accomplish the second step on the journey – to love yourself. At essence, you are love. So to know yourself, you can’t help but love yourself.

Be Here Now

The third step amplifies this love. Be here now. Be present. Be Presence itself. Be. Be who you came here to be. Be love, here and now, in each moment. Feel it amplify?

As above, so below; as below so above

The next step lifts it to cosmic levels – it is understanding the wisdom of the Emerald Tablets – the hermetic wisdom of “as above, so below; as below, so above.” When you can see yourself as love and then love yourself fully in each moment, you will be able to see that you are mirroring the love of the Cosmos, and it is receiving and being birthed by yours. Powerful, isn’t it?

Oneness

The fifth and final step is to embrace Oneness in the same breath that you embrace your uniqueness – to see that the All That Is, is all there is – love – in its many unique forms – including you.

That brings you back to the first step to rediscover who you are, discovering and rediscovering in each moment the amazingly brilliant being of love and light that you are at core.

Now, you might be saying, “this sounds great, but what does it really mean for me? I can know all of this theoretically, but I can’t see me living it. I am way too flawed.”

I am with you on that. My “flaws” have been keeping me from living my brilliance. I procrastinate.  I feel I am not capable enough, not worthy enough, not whatever enough. I make up a lot of excuses for not being who I know myself to be and doing what I feel called to do. And yet, my very patient angels keep nudging me, keep sending me signs, keep loving me into the direction of my dreams, my visions, my purpose –to live my unique brilliance and do what I came into this lifetime to do.

It's all part of this journey called life. And we are in it together. We don’t have to do it alone. In fact, there are tools and practices that can help us on this journey.

What’s next

I will be sharing more in future blogs about how we can do this. In fact, there will be a series of blogs on practices to use to make these five steps for living our brilliance doable, feasible, and attainable. How does that sound?

In the meantime, ask yourself this – “What is my unique brilliance?” Let me know in the comment section below.

Gratitude is a Powerful Tool

Thanksgiving is this Thursday, but for me gratitude is not just for one day out of the year. It is a practice that has become essential to my well being, and I highly recommend it if it is not a regular practice for you.

It is easy to express thanks when someone gives you a gift, a compliment, or a smile. It is not so easy to remember when you feel left out, let down, or frowned upon.

I like to call upon the practice of gratitude whenever I am feeling a bit down or discouraged. I know that finding things to be grateful for, shifts my energy, opens my heart, and turns my frown upside down.

These days we have plenty to cause concern or upset. A minute of news can send my energy down the tube. I am sure you can relate. From war to politics to the economy to the environment, there’s plenty to cause concern - and rightfully so. Yet I know that my being depressed, upset, or angry is not going to help.

I choose to do what I can do. I ask myself if there is an action I can take that would help. If not, I turn within. I find a way to shift my energy. I know that at a minimum I won’t be bringing anyone else down by my energy. And as my energy shifts, maybe I will be inspired to do something that feels like a solution.

I find that as I begin saying what I am grateful for, new ideas pop in. Even if I start with something as simple as I am grateful for my breath, that can lead to gratefulness for my life, for lift itself. Each time I do it, I feel encouraged and inspired. I don’t always jump for joy, but I at least notice a faster pace to my step.

How can you incorporate mor gratitude in your life? What sense of gratefulness can you bring to your Thanksgiving table? Will you groan when someone asks everyone at the table to say what they are grateful for or will will you grin and say, “let me go first!”

I wish you a wonderful Thanksgiving week. And may gratitude be a blessing for you in your life.

Lilia Shoshanna Rae

Healer and Angel Communicator

Author of The Art of Listening to Angels

Trusting the Journey and Getting Help Along the Way

Is it just me or does your life’s journey often feel daunting? If you are called to make a difference in the world, I am sure you can relate. Sometimes our mission in life seems too huge. Sometimes it is the inner work that feels unnerving. Often it is a combination that accumulates into one overwhelming mass.

What helps me when I feel weighed down by life’s challenges, is to go within, get out of my head, into my heart, and open to my body’s awareness. I invite a sense of knowingness. What is my body telling me? What is my soul telling me? What are my angels and spirit guides telling me?

It is in the inner space that we can remember the truth of who we are and why we came in this body during these times of immense shift and change.

Most of my current challenges revolve around growing as a spiritual entrepreneur. I left a professional, salaried job to follow my calling and then discovered I had so much more to learn.

If you are a healer, intuitive, or coach, you know what I mean. You are answering a call and yet aspects of the work ask you to move out of your comfort zone. You want to share your gifts, but first you need people to know, like, and trust you before they sign up for your services. Imagine that!

I am in the middle of a big stretch, so I am definitely feeling it.

I know it’s a good stretch though, because it will allow me to connect with more people and let them know how I can serve.

I have asked my personal angel team a few times, “are you sure you want to me to do this?” They have lovingly nudged me forward each time. I know that it is part of my personal journey, what my soul came here to do in this lifetime, so I keep learning, stretching, and evolving in the direction of my calling.

Along the way, I have come to trust the inner promptings, the synchronicities, the signs moving me in the right direction.

What helps you when you feel challenged, stretched, or overwhelmed? Are you able to access your inner knowing? Do you feel the support of your personal angel team and spirit guides?

Comment below. I would love to hear how you are trusting your journey.