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Where’s Your Web Anchored?

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"Web of Love" created by Claire Perkins, aka ArtfulAlchemist on Polyvore.com
“Web of Love” created by Claire Perkins, aka ArtfulAlchemist on Polyvore.com

On my morning walk, I noticed a spider had built its web from the back bumper of a parked pickup truck to the asphalt of the street below.

That spider’s gonna be mighty disappointed when that truck rolls away.

When your happiness, self-worth, safety or general well-being are attached to something “out there”, your chances of keeping them are tenuous at best. Everything “out there” is shifting and impermanent. At any moment it could roll away, just like the spider’s pickup truck.

The spider is resilient; he will rebuild. And you can, too . . .

But if you choose to hang your happiness or self-worth on outer circumstances being a certain way, or other people acting a certain way, I can guarantee you’ll be rebuilding your web daily – if not moment to moment.

It would be better to anchor your web in more permanent territory. And the only place you’ll find that is inside your own heart and mind.
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Today, notice where you’ve anchored your self-worth, well-being and happiness. Would it be in your best interest to make a shift?

May Your SOUL Burn Through Your SHOULDS

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My wonderful friend and awakening coach, Aliza Bloom Robinson, triggered this vision in my mind during a guided meditation last week.

As I drew the image in my journal, it occurred to me that the words SHOULD and SOUL are very close – just drop away the H and the D from SHOULD and you are back to SOUL.

I asked myself, what are the H and D? What do they represent? And what came to me was Having and Doing.

We spend so much of our energy on Having and Doing, at the expense of Being – and Being, it seems to me, is a purer expression of Soul. Somehow we measure success by, and place value on, how much we Do and how much we Have. But when that takes us away from our true Being and authenticity, the price of all that Having and Doing can be mighty high.

I am ready to strip away the H and the D – the Having and Doing – and get back to the Being that is my true Soul.

May the pure light of your Soul burn through all your “shoulds” and burn through all false and unnecessary Having and Doing, leaving a pureness of Being that is authentic and true to your Soul’s purpose.