the true power of your true being newsletter

5 September 2008

Dear Reader

It has certainly been a while since my last newsletter. I left off in my last one with the words, "In my knowing, we have moved into the new world. The seeming chaos that we are seeing in the world at large today – the instability of the financial markets, the instability of our weather patterns, the apparent instability of our earth’s plates – are all symptoms of change... a destabilising and falling away of the old, to create space for the new to settle in. It is so clear to me, that we and our world are changing, because we are choosing differently, and so we are creating anew. The time is right. The time is now. We are on track. Trust yourself. Let go of the old, and follow your own inner truths."

I wrote that quite a few months back - in February - and I haven’t written since. No specific reason really, other than I haven’t felt that there had been anything to write about. But then a chat with a friend made me realise that there is a different angle to what’s been happening that I can share with you.

Mostly I have been too "busy" living life! But then there was also some old thinking going on. I had been looking at things from purely a perspective of "What have I actually done?" as in "achieved" When someone asks, "What’s your news?" I'd feel that I really didn't have anything to say because other than day to day living, and every day is much the same, I don’t have much to report. Hence my silence.

So let me let you in on my average week. We wake up when we feel like it. It’s been winter here so we’ve slept in slightly longer in the mornings but now that spring is here, we’ve found ourselves waking up earlier in the morning, ready and raring to go. Three times a week, I do a radio show and I love it! I joined Noosa Community Radio (www.noosacommunityradio.org) last July, having read in a local news article that it is run completely by volunteers. We'd only been here a few months, so I figured that it would be a good way to meet some new people. Then I signed up for the in-house radio presenter's course and have been doing my own radio show called, "Veronica’s Gems" since March. I love it!

Synchronicities have abounded with radio. I was asked if I wanted to co-present on a breakfast show. I said yes. At much the same time, I was also asked if I would do a movie review once a week for ABC Local Radio. Oh yeah! I love the movies too!

So quite a bit of my time goes to preparing my show and then presenting it. It’s not a talk show, but I do get to share much of what I would normally share in these newsletters and I get to talk it, which is fun for me and somehow easier. (See Latest News below on how you can listen to elements of my show). I would never have dreamt in a million years of ever getting into radio, yet here I am. Was it synchronicity that led me to reading the paper that led me to the radio station that led me into the training and then into presenting and now doing something I love? I’ve come to think that every single thing in our lives is synchronicity.

Perhaps that is why I’ve been feeling as if there is nothing to say when it comes to what’s been happening. The magic of synchronicity and all that I shared on The True Power of Your True Being classes have become so much a normal part of living. I even began to wonder at times whether my life might have become mundane only to find myself marvelling at how good it feels to be apparently "doing nothing" by old measures and thinking. But yes, synchronicities abound and I now think that everything that happens IS synchronicity – except that we often don’t realise it. Even the "bad" stuff.

Most of us have, for the most part, thought of ourselves as just 3-dimensional human beings but now we’re recognising that we are more than that. We now notice and know that we are intuitive, perhaps even telepathic or psychic to varying degrees. This bigger part of us with a bigger and broader perspective does its thing of arranging things to happen. We’re quite unconscious of it. Then when things work out how we want, we notice it and call it synchronicity. And when things don’t, we might not notice that in fact, it is synchronous because that too has been arranged by our bigger vaster selves to be just so, for reasons that we may not know until later and in hindsight.

Here’s one example. When we first moved here, I was totally engaged with the idea of creating a place where people could come and stay – a kind of a bed and breakfast, homestay, retreat type place. We were thinking of converting a shed that we have into accommodation and I had plenty of ideas of how I would run this "business". It would enable me to do some of the things I love – like baking! That idea only went so far. We had a building designer come out to take a look at the shed and he was excited about the idea too. Then he landed a huge project and was too busy to think anymore about our idea, and we put it on the back-burner because my partner started getting involved in other things that interested him and I started doing the radio stuff. The temptation would have been to force it along but we were enjoying ourselves doing other things! I now realise that if we had, it would have curtailed much of the freedom and flexibility that I currently have. I would certainly not have been able to do the radio shows. The magic of it is that we do do the homestay retreat - with friends who come to stay and friends of friends, some of whom we may only have met once before. It just didn’t turn out the way that we had expected. What's now happened is that I get to do both the radio and the homestay retreats, but I’ve not turned either into a job which I was heading towards with my initial idea.

The most amazing thing is that there have been moments where I've had the absolute knowing that my life has pulled elements of so many things that I love doing – some of which I used to do as a child but had forgotten – and brought it all together in a way that I could never have dreamt up for myself.

Doing this hasn’t been without its challenges. I’ve had to trust my intuition, my inner knowing. I don’t have an income stream in the traditional way that I’ve been used to. I don’t necessarily know where radio will lead me but somehow I know it will lead to something better and more magical. I see doors opening up as a result of it and I know it will happen when the time is right. My past mode of operation would have been to make it happen and to try and make it happen now. Now, I know that the time to take action is when repeated thoughts for inspired action hits. Things don’t always become obvious immediately nor are they always obvious in the moment. But that’s it; I am living each moment as it is and trusting and I could not have known before that I would find this a far more fulfilling way to be. Despite occasional blips, it’s become easier and easier to live this way.

Will I still be doing radio next year? I imagine so but perhaps I might not be. For now, I choose it and I choose it fully! I have been steadily learning that the new way of being is to follow my heart and to do so whole-heartedly. And what of income? I’ve been learning to trust that more too – that we will always be provided for and amply.

And who’s doing the providing? I used to say, "Spirit" or "the Universe" but now I’ve also come to know that in fact, it is me – that bigger vaster me that I call my Divine Self, my godself. It is me. At last, I've begun to truly understand what it is to be doing something I love simply because I love it. And as and when I become even more fully conscious, I’ll tell you! And how!

LATEST NEWS

VERONICA'S GEMS RADIO SHOW

During the radio show, there a couple of topics that I share every week. One of those is "Expression Matters" - stories about people who are doing things they love, being full expressions of themselves. The other is called, "Books Allowed", a book discussion where I share the key elements in a book and my own thoughts and experiences in relation to that book. If you are interested in listening to either of these, they are now available as podcasts. Simply go to: www.noosacommunityradio.org/podcasts.htm.

That's me for now. Catch you again soon!

Love