This is the first of three articles about a new offering I call Find Your Voice | Stand Behind It | Change the World. This article addresses the first part about finding your voice.
Not being in touch with your own Voice—which is your Essential Self expressed in form—is the source of all feelings of alienation, self-doubt and aloneness.
The voice that sets you free is your own voice. It is not the voice of the latest online superstar.
It is the voice of your Essential Self.
It is the voice of your Spirit, the voice of the Light that moves through you, the Divine substance that you are in reality.
You see, when you know that the voice within you is an infinite source of wisdom, love, and direction, your commitment to doing whatever is necessary to cultivate that voice becomes your primary life purpose. All the other goals—the book, the business, the relationship– become secondary because they emerge from your deep inner awareness—from the deeper reality of your Essential Self and you ability to give it Voice.
From the time we are born, we are more or less encouraged to disconnect from our Essential Self and to follow the rules and beliefs of others.
So the disconnection from our Soul Words or the voice of our Essential Self starts early.
A pattern that always emerges from this early disconnection from Self is that you keep searching for something outside yourself to fill the empty place of inner disconnection. The belief that your answers come from outside yourself is also the cause of feeling alone. You block your own connection with Source by believing this.
And on a more practical level, the result is being disconnected from the voice of your Essential Self is stress. It is stressful to not allow the fullness of your Being to be expressed in your life.
No one else’s voice is your voice.
I am in no way saying that other evolved soul’s cannot help guide you to the doorway of your own inner wisdom. Yes they can. However, today there is a ‘feeding frenzy’ happening where many go from one amazing new teacher to the next and never stop. The search is always external. The Internet makes this possible. The good part of this is that spiritual wisdom is reaching many more people. The down side is that it is tempting to keep looking for the next shiny object rather than to go within.
I want to support you to believe—to truly believe—that what you are looking for is within you.
The voice of your Essential Self won’t just suddenly emerge. You must give it parentage.
Here are some proven ways to do that:
- Keep a spiritual journal—where you articulate your experience of your own Spirit—your insights and aspirations.
- Meditate and contemplate the spirit you are—your eternal, non-physical Self.
- Be in nature—Nature vibrates at the frequency of your Essence.
- Be alone—learn to feel lonely without adding some story to it.
- Avoid using the Internet as a distraction from being with yourself.
- Retrieve the child who went mute.Her energy and her voice is part of your greater voice.
Freedom is when you express and manifest your Soul and Spirit. When you allow spirit to come though you into form. When you find your voice and stand behind it, this sort of freedom becomes a way of life. Wouldn’t that be fantastic?
