March 2006                                                                       Volume 1  Issue 3

The Health e-Newsletter

published by Diamond Integration Healing Arts

Welcome and thanks for being here!  I am Brad Gilbert, Master of Medical Qigong. My wife Lori Gilbert, Licensed Acupuncturist, is the editor and a contributor to our newsletter. 

This month's topic:  Following Your Life Path

Wow what a month! Have you dared something different yet? (see our February E-Newsletter for more on this).  Is your life waiting for you to happen?  

Here's a good question:
How do you feel when you go to work?  

Do you have to have a big cup of coffee? Do you grit your teeth as you walk in thinking, "God, why am I here!?" It does not matter if you are a top executive of a high-tech firm, or a part-time janitor for a local school, or even have a hobby that brings you some joy and passion.  If you are glad to be there, do your work, and satisfied when you are done, then you are probably "on your right path," doing the work you were meant to for your life.  This work may or may not have to do with your career.  I don't mean that you need to have no complaints, and that everything has to run perfectly. If that happened, you would be very bored and you would not have a chance for advancement or new goals.  If you are on your right path, or have your right work, you will be challenged.  We are here to learn a thing or two.  This is the Divine school of the physical. We are here to experience all we can being human. Your Divine Source wants you to be fulfilled, and participating.  Are you doing what you really want with your life?  If you are wasting your time then you are "wasting God's time." I don't believe that you will be punished (unless that is your belief), but you might get an etheric kick in the pants when you are not looking.   Spirit won't let you be lazy too long before you'll get a hint that you need to do something else.

The only way to find the life you want to live is to open the space to have that life right Now.  Do you want to have a life path that matches your career or is it something you might do on the weekends or in the evenings after your regular paying job?  Do what it takes to begin it Now.  We all have goals of "who we want to be when we grow up,"  but as long as our goals are about how it is could be some day in the future then that day will never come. That day of feeling what you want to feel when you get there has to be something you can feel now. Life is short, really, and you want to feel a certain way like be happy with who you are now.  Do you feel a great pull to do it Now?

For each of us, the clock is still ticking and we do not know when it will stop. Each person's life is only for a certain amount of time.  But in Divine time there is only Now.  Yes, there are things that need to be done - pay the bills, take out the trash, do the laundry. Do you hate these mundane things that need to be done all the time? I know, I have been right there too. However, you can turn life's ordinary experiences into a state of fulfillment, but you have to decide to do this. When you find that missing piece, your life path, the rest of your life can just fall right into place. Peace comes to you when you actively seek it.

Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, American author and publicist

Let me share with you this secret:

First, try this. Close your eyes and imagine you are doing exactly what you have always dreamed of. Are you a healer, an executive of a big successful firm, or a landscaper working with the soil between your fingers? What ever it is, you know that you deserve this and the people you help greatly appreciate what you have done for them. You go to the place where you do this work or play feeling fulfilled, useful, and complete knowing that this is what you have been looking for. You are now more satisfied with your family life, friends, and other commitments having this new avenue of expression.
All those things that you used to complain about, that did not work out, that were frustrating, are now in the background just working out so much better, with much less effort on your part.

So what is stopping you from having this? Does it seem to be negativity coming from other people in your life, or from within yourself even? Do you get a tightness in some part of your body when you think about manifesting your ultimate life? Do you think it would cost you to much to make it happen? Does your mind go numb, not sure how you could handle life actually going your way? Or, are you just not sure exactly what it is that you want to do, but you already know exactly what you don't want to do.

There can be a lot of ways in which you are blocked from your greatest potential. But with determination and some help from those who are good at guiding you in the right direction, you can make your dreams a reality. Just don't try to do it alone. We all need assistance sometimes, so be brave and get what you need to support yourself in this process.

The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
                                                             Eleanor Roosevelt