When your heart's desire is your true north, you feel energized, free, and aligned with your mission.
However, many of us were taught to deliberately ignore our heart's desire.
Me included - there was a season in my life that I forcefully ignored my desires. Why?
Feeling unworthy: Based on my perception of my Christian upbringing, I thought it was selfish to live from my desires. I was taught I could not trust my desires, as they would lead me to sin. I was not supposed to long for or ask for anything - that would be rude and ungrateful.
Severing connection with intuition: Because of that, I made a series of decisions that went against my gut.
For example - where I chose to go to college AND grad school that didn't feel quite right but had momentum behind them and made sense on paper
Following my ex when I didn't want to and doing a program I knew wasn't right for me because I was scared of losing him/us even though our time together had already served its purpose
Staying in a place and program even though I received DAILY messages from my gut saying "no, no, no!"
Slowly eroding the connection between my decision making and intuitive insight after years of ignoring my inner voice
Feeling stuck in depression: After so many years of not acting from my intuition, my body and mind started speaking more loudly through debilitating anxiety and depression. I regularly tried to convince myself I was happy by stating things I was grateful for. While I deeply believe in gratitude practice, I was using it as a bypass to ignore the action I needed to take in my life. I finally heard myself say out loud I was unhappy with EVERYTHING in my life. My apartment, my neighbors, my boss, my work, my purpose, my social identity, my body, my skin, my marriage.
Believing I did not deserve what I wanted: My therapist at that time asked me a simple question: What do you want? I just started shaking my head saying, "No, I can't have what I want."I believed I couldn't have what I wanted because of the decisions that I had made already - metaphorically aligned with the "sunk cost" phenomenon.
THE SHIFT
Re-engaging my intuition: But then in a moment of intuitive connection, I started engaging with chakra meditations. And my desires unfolded naturally. I started writing poems, dancing wildly in my kitchen, reconnecting with nature, and speaking my desires into existence.
I want to suck the nectar out of life. I want to live with so much adventure and joy and freedom. I want to experience deep and true love, travel all over the world to convene with mystics and artists of different cultures, be seen and known as my true self, and MOST IMPORTANTLY WAKE UP to the TRUTH. That purifying, exhilarating capital T truth of life.
Opening to my heart's desires: I wrote and re-wrote these desires. I felt the resonance of them in my daily chakra meditations. I EXPERIENCED them in my chakra meditations.
Ready to change: Then, I gained the CLARITY and COURAGE I needed to CHANGE some serious parts of my life.
I got a divorce, and committed to finishing my PhD then charting my own career after that instead of staying pigeon-holed into an identity we were creating that wasn't me.
Fast forward 3 years, my life is so beautiful - I am creating meaningful work, enjoying my job, living from my heart, BEING MYSELF in MORE CIRCLES, getting to spend everyday with the man of my dreams, and actively becoming the woman of my dreams.
ARE YOU LIVING FROM YOUR HEART'S DESIRES?
You may be feeling too tired or too busy to even think about your desires right now. Or you may be distracting yourself them because you think they aren't possible....or that you don't deserve it.
I have been there and can tell you when you do start to engage with your heart's desires, it means you release what is NOT YOU and BECOME YOU. It is the most freeing, energizing, life giving investment you can make.
It is an investment of 15 minutes/day and an ongoing choice to BE YOURSELF and continue moving in the direction of your heart's desires.
OUR INVITATION TO YOU
Me and my team at Paradigm Expansions have packaged our experiences + evidence-based strategies + accountability into a beautiful 30-day cleanse that will help you go from:
STUCK to CLEAR
Living according to others' expectations to BECOMING YOUR TRUE SELF
Out of sync between your head, heart, and body to ALIGNED and POWERFUL
Believing you don't deserve what you want to YOUR HEART'S DESIRES BECOMING YOUR TRUE NORTH
Join us in the 30-day cleanse - where your heart's desire becomes your true north.
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