pay attention

It began in the summer while leading a canoe trip with a dear friend. She had been embarking on a great personal healing journey and as we paddled and portaged, she kept finding the most beautiful feathers. I was a bit jealous to be quite honest. A few weeks later as summer turned its face toward fall, I also started finding feathers. One after another. Some days I would find three perfectly intact, beautiful feathers on the ground right in front of me. It wasn't that I was suddenly standing under bird nests; I was suddenly realizing important things about starting the next phase of my life.
Shortly after that, my boss, friend and mentor suggested I do a workshop on group leadership. The evening I got on the plane to travel from one coast to the other, I found a feather on the sidewalk, and another right when I arrived. I carried a deep sense of being in exactly the right place doing the right thing for the duration of the workshop.
That was two weeks ago. As I have been settling in to my new life post workshop, the feathers have declined. This doesn't mean that I'm no longer on the right path; I take the decline of feathers as a sign that I am better able to understand and trust my own sense of things and I don't need so many outward confirmations.
I feel better in my ability to read people and situations, I feel more compassionate, and all around me people are being generous and loving. This is why we need not take ourselves so seriously: if we follow the things that intuitively feel right, regardless of the judgement of others, we will find ourselves easily flowing into what we are meant to be doing.

Nobody said it was easy to get in touch with intuition, I'm just saying it is important to pay attention. Look, listen, breathe. What do you feel? What is your body trying to tell you? How do you know you've made a good decision? When things are going well, pay attention to your body and the people around you. When things are challenging and scary, pay attention. Your body already knows things your brain alone can't interpret.

When opportunity arises will you be able to follow your heart?

Forgiveness

If you can forgive yourself and recognize that imperfection is the perfect condition of being human, just do.
To stop and listen: just stop, just listen.
It is so simple:
the earth sings with love. YOU sing with love.

Listen to it, love moves through it. Act. Do. Be. You are not alone, you are loved.
Forgive yourself for wanting things, forgive others for wanting things. 

Forgiveness lives in our bones, it is deeper than language.

Do not deny yourself such healing.