You’re not alone if you feel like this past year was really hard. It has felt hard for almost everybody, including myself.
So let me start by saying to those who need it:
I’m so sorry it has felt so hard.
Whatever you’ve felt is totally okay.
Welcome all your feelings
With kindness.
You’re not doing it wrong.
You’re doing the best you can,
and it is enough.
It will get better.
And everything you learned
this year about yourself
and what’s important to you
can and will help you become more
focused and powerful and unapologetic
about creating what feels most important
and true for you going forward.
When faced with hard times, the important thing is to allow ourselves to be shaped and polished by them into the diamond we came here to become, so we can shine our light for ourselves and others.
As Rumi wrote: “If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”
But, honestly, and no offence meant to Rumi, I think it’s human to feel irritated by this process. Let’s be real. It’s not fun being sanded, shaped and polished. It’s not fun facing all our fears and pain and parts of us we don’t yet know how to meet with love.
So it’s okay to hate it. It’s okay to feel tired of it. It’s important to give compassion and understanding to those parts of ourselves that feel fed up.
But it’s also important to take time to sit and take a good look at who you’ve become through this difficult process and feel really fucking proud of your breakthroughs and growth. See how it’s shaped you into who you are becoming and celebrate that progress.
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Here’s an Exercise to Try:
Stand in front of the mirror, but go real close so you can only see in your eyes–the mirror of your soul–and ask yourself: what’s real for me now?
Then say out loud whatever feels true. Keep asking and answering until you feel like you’ve gotten to the heart of it. You’ll notice emotions arising when you begin hitting pay dirt, such as tears, or even anger. But keep going until it feels more calm and “absolutely true”.
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I’ve been doing this, not just in front of the mirror, but in my morning hour of meditation + my daily contemplative walks + my journalling. And what it’s shown me is that, even though this year was hard, it was actually the best year of my life so far.
Not because it was blissful! Nope. Cuz it wasn’t. Though there were many magical moments full of love and grace, the best part was that the sanding and polishing process removed all kinds of old parts of myself that I’m ready and grateful to release, so I can move through life with more love, kindness and grace toward myself and others. And that is where true freedom is born.
After the past two years of being part of this unique time on Earth, I’ve personally undergone a metamorphosis and am emerging with a new sense of what I’m doing here.
I’ve always been a wildcard. I’ve done so many things, people can’t put me in any one box. I refuse to live inside of anyone’s boxes. I believe life is about breaking out of those boxes to explore what’s really true for you. I know there are no limits except the ones we make for ourselves. I’ve proved it again and again by doing things others called “impossible”.
What’s true for me:
🔸️ I’m a powerful clairvoyant, channel and medium. I have developed the ability to put my human self aside to channel loving accurate guidance from The River of Life/Love where all genius and creation is born. Every year this ability gets stronger/more pure.
🔸️ I only desire to use this gift for one thing: to connect kind, driven leaders and creators with that River of Love and higher creation inside themselves. What we call genius is something we learn to allow to flow through us as an instrument of that River. And the higher truth is that WE ARE that River.
🔸️ The way we get reconnected to that River source is by emulating It, first toward ourselves, then toward others. That River is made of love and honest truth. We connect to it by learning to show unconditional love to our human self in a space of unrelenting honest self inquiry. This creates a space of inner calm/presence that opens the floodgates of our unique genius in service to others
🔸️ The real reason I do this work is because I care about kindness and I want to infuse more kindness into this world. When we learn to deeply love, support and understand our human self we automatically become kinder to everyone.
🔸️ I cannot stand to watch suffering of any kind. I am haunted by the pain I see everywhere in the world. My life is committed to doing what I can to lessen that suffering for others.
🔸 I know there is only one real way to do that. We have to learn to end the war and conflict inside ourselves. We do this by meeting all parts of ourselves with love and curiosity.
I intend to teach this for the rest of my life.
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As some of you may know, I’ve spent the past 1.5 years working full out on my next book, which shares the method and framework I’ve used to help hundreds of leaders/creators over the past eight years. I still have a ways to go, but I’m getting closer to done, and I really can’t wait to share it with you!
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What’s real for you?
Sit with it. Meditate on it. Walk with it. Journal on it. Look deep into your own eyes in the mirror and ask this question.
Go deep. And then go deeper.
Don’t stop until it feels absolutely true for you.
Then go forward into 2022 and manifest what’s real in your heart into your life and the world.
Let your diamond shine.
You’ve earned it.
Shawn xo
P.S. If you want more inspiration like this, follow my “What If” and “Moments” series on my Instagram page.
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