by Julianne Kulosa Julianne is a Spiritual Intuitive and Guide, empowering others to live a life of miracles and magic through trusting the power of love. Many of my clients share their challenges, burdens and suffering with me, be it external or internal, from the experiences life throws at them, the internal chattering mind, physical pain, or overwhelming emotions.
Despite the situation, the question is often the same: “When will this end?!!” This might also lead to the question, “It will end right? Things will get better?” While all our challenges are unique, the nature of them is completely different than in the past. We have an opening now, a new reality to step into. In this reality, anything that we do for ourselves, we do for the entire collective on the planet, not just now, but throughout all timelines, past, present and future. How amazing is that? Can you even wrap your mind around it? Taking a traditional perspective on our pain, suffering and challenges works as well as it does. We think, “One day, when I’ve overcome or gotten rid of this problem, then I’ll be happy.” In this day and age, the problems of the world require solutions outside of our traditional thinking. I know you want reassurance that it will get better, and soon. I know it not only can, but will. However, it is you and you alone that has the choice and power to have the experience that it will, and can, get better. Yes, sure, if you’re reading this you’re looking for me to give you the answer. My answer is that YOU have the answer, the power, the strength, the courage, trust, love, breath, the soul and spirit, to have anything that you want. It is your destiny, like it or not! Why wouldn’t you like it? Because your “get better” lies in the present moment of your experience. It’s not one day – some day, when my finances are handled, I have the perfect relationship, vibrant health, ideal weight, unending positive thoughts, everlasting joy, unbridled passion, cool spiritual experiences, superpower intuition, complete freedom to be, clarity of life purpose, or “add your own here.” You were born to thrive, and born to grow, expand and learn from any experience you are having. Can you imagine a world crumbling around you, pain and suffering all around you, death, destruction, even fire and brimstone, and there you stand, in the center of it all, in peace, in trust, with an open heart and truly knowing all is well? It’s time to let go of, or at least soften our grip, on the reins of what we think reality is supposed to be, feel and look like. Nothing, and I mean nothing, is the boss of you. YOU are the master of your reality. You hold the magic wand and elixir of everlasting life. It’s YOU! How do you get to the space of remembering that? By absolutely being committed to remembering and living the truth of who you are. You are not your circumstances, your pain, or your suffering. They call you to remember, just as a nightmare screams at you to get your attention so it can share an important message. If your circumstances don’t equate to your quality of life, what does? It is your consciousness, your state of being, that determines the quality of your life. It’s each choice in action that is aligned with your soul’s calling. Oh, don’t worry, you know your soul’s calling. It calls you to love, enjoy, bless, and appreciate. The other morning, I noticed I felt anxious upon waking. I did my simple practices, such as breathing in peace and breathing out blessings of peace for all. It took just a minute, and there I was, in peace at that moment. Know that things really are intensifying. It’s not just you. Whatever is personally happening for you, you can choose to breathe and know that there is a rapidly increasing intensity of the shift happening. Fighting against it, waiting for the challenge to be over, will not speed up your personal process. Changing the way you view yourself and your life is what is called for in this moment. This is the moment you’ve been waiting for. It calls to you again and again to choose a new way of being that transforms any circumstance in your life. That way of being is one of connection, love, abundance, peace and joy. In any moment, you can choose to say, “I am committed to this shift happening inside and around me. I choose to see myself and my life as a gift, as a game, as a opportunity to cultivate a new way of being.” I know, I know, you might be thinking, “How could you possibly see your pain, frustration, financial challenges, illness, anxiety, loss, confusion, or upset in your relationships as a gift?” There are some gifts that we want, and some gifts that we need. Anything that is occurring in this moment is a gift. How can you access the gift in your situation? By ACCEPTING it. Say, “Yes, thank you for this gift!” It doesn’t mean that you have to like it, or that you’re not disappointed, or that you wouldn’t prefer to have a gift you’ve been really wanting. It does mean that you say, “I accept this gift. I know that this is what serves me most right now, as crazy as I think that may be. I trust that this gift is one that serves my absolute highest good and growth, and is more powerful than I could ever imagine.” Once the gift is accepted, it can unfold its magic and miracles. It will call you to take actions that are for your highest good and well being, and the highest good of all people everywhere. The best gifts don’t always come in pretty packages. It is your conscious choosing to see all of your experiences as a gift, with thankfulness and gratitude, with trust, that can have you stand at the center of absolute chaos and destruction and feel centered and peaceful. It’s ok that you find yourself wanting things to be different, to be better. Please take heart that you have the power to do this right now, despite any circumstance. Accepting that this moment is your greatest gift, without trying to get rid of, fix or change it, allows movement in your life. Change occurs most easily when we surrender to what is occurring right now, when we choose to believe that right now is exactly where we are supposed to, how we’re supposed to be, and are divinely destined to be. It allows us to breathe and lighten up! May you be blessed with the joy, laughter, peace, relief and love that is accessible to you at any moment.
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by Julianne Kulosa Julianne is a Spiritual Intuitive and Guide, empowering others to live a life of miracles and magic through trusting the power of love. As you grow spiritually, returning to and remembering your true divine nature, you might be finding that you are becoming more sensitive to the energy, emotions and feelings of your loved ones, those around you and the world as a whole.
We are naturally very intuitive, psychic and connected with the world around us. As we step into this New Earth, choosing to consciously be a part of the shift in consciousness occurring on the planet, our intuition and sensitivity are increasing. This is something to celebrate! It can also be quite challenging. Years ago, I was getting the house ready for a party. I was in a great mood, but one of my housemates was very upset. I thought, “How can I have a good time when one of my friends is suffering?” I felt guilty at the thought. Isn’t that funny? We’ve been trained somehow that if others are suffering, we either need to suffer with them (disguised as “compassion”), or we need to save them or help them. I still have a strong pull towards this direction, especially with my husband. How can I feel and be aware of my loved ones upset and not get upset along with them or try to make them feel better? Taking this to a larger worldview, it is a challenge to feel the suffering of others, the anger or upset of others (such as around the presidential primary election), and to know the environmental issues at hand that are impacting our earth itself. The shift that is occurring is unprecedented because it is a shift in the consciousness of the entire planet. It is such an exciting time, and also a very intense time, as in many ways masses of people are experiencing a “dark night of the soul.” As a sensitive soul wanting to contribute to the well being of others, your job isn’t to try to help, fix, change or even uplift others. That might be a hard pill to swallow, yes? Believe it or not, your job is to be in joy and live in the integrity of your values. Whatever it is you think you can help others be, feel or think, your job is to live your truth. If your loved ones are suffering financially, you stand in the abundance that you are, feeling gratitude for all that you have right now. If they are angry or frustrated, you cultivate peace and forgiveness for yourself. If they are doubting themselves and their future, you trust yourself more than ever before. If you see your friend is unhappy with a situation, you choose to do what brings you the most joy. If you want to empower others, stand in your power. I know this is challenging, believe me. My intuition expresses itself most often in feeling, empathically. When my housemate walks into the room and is upset, I can easily find myself upset, agitated, angry or frustrated immediately. With no words exchanged, my energy has completely shifted. From that state, where I feel victim to my emotions, I am unable to be a loving peaceful presence for her, much less myself. My job in that moment is to acknowledge that I am noticing the shift in myself, and to cultivate love and compassion for my experience in that moment. We are not the parents of others, tending to the wounds of our children. Each person has their unique path, filled with the challenges and experiences that they were born to handle and move through. We are here to empower and support each other, not be the authority figure for another person's experience. They are going to suffer and make mistakes only they can grow, learn, heal and transform from. Gift them their path! See them as the amazing powerful souls that they are! How do you change the world? By adding what you are wanting to it. This is very different than fighting against or trying to change what you do not want. Add love. Add abundance. Add joy. Add vibrant well-being. Add passion. The truth is, these are all aspects of your true divine nature. Instead of looking for things to fight, fix or change, why not look for things that express your authentic nature? This is a different way of problem solving. The condition of the earth and all its inhabitants calls for a new way to solve problems, and this solution lies in our own consciousness. What are you wanting more of today? If you are wanting more peace, be peace. Bless all those you see with peace. Say to the cars that pass you by, “May you be blessed with peace.” Expand your light of peace and say to the check-out clerk, the mailman, your loved one, the politicians, the ones suffering, “May you be blessed with peace.” Let your sensitivity to the suffering of others be a reason to celebrate your own spiritual growth. Know that being the light that you are, the joy that you are, living your life in a way that expresses your greatest values, is your divine gift to a planet undergoing rapid transformation. by Julianne Kulosa Julianne is a Spiritual Intuitive and Guide, empowering others to live a life of miracles and magic through trusting the power of love. We humans, with our big brains, sure do like to make things more complicated than they need to be. That’s ok, as long as you know you things can get complicated out of the desire to have an adventurous and interesting life!
Once you remember that you get to choose how complicated anything in your life is, you can then choose to simplify any situation. Simplicity brings with it a peacefulness, a satisfaction with your present moment, and a natural state of gratitude for all the “little things” life offers you to enjoy and appreciate right now. This simplicity is important in our spiritual practices. We do need to choose to be awake and live our lives consciously as souls having a human experience. Without this conscious choice, most of us operate on automatic about 90% of the time, caught in a whirlwind of tasks that don’t bring us joy and unending mental chatter that pushes us to worry, doubt, stress and think we need to work harder. Instead of making our spiritual practices yet another responsible task we should be doing, our challenge is to live in a space of remembering and embodying who we authentically are. Any practice that truly supports this is the practice for you! Admit it: you actually know who you are. Anytime you feel stress, anxiety, doubt, frustration, anger or fear, it is reminding you that you have forgotten your true nature. Not to worry, that’s the deal we made when we chose to play this game of forgetting our eternal divine nature and then remembering! So, what’s this 3-step process to living a life that you love? It’s one I highly recommend trying, even if just one day a week. 1. WASH CYCLE When it comes to washing clothes or dishes, we don’t try to “get rid of” the dirt. Within our own lives, we tend to think of things we need to get rid of, such as certain behaviors, thoughts or situations. When you wash your clothes, you simply put those dirty clothes in some water and detergent. Then you let the process occur naturally, as the water and soap clears away any dirt on the clothing. So, in our spiritual practice, we simply immerse ourselves in that cleanser and water. Choose your detergent When you wake in the morning, set your intention. Before you even get out of bed, ask yourself, “How would I like to feel today? What would I like to cultivate and embody?” These are high vibrational states of being that resonate with and exist in your true authentic nature. Declare that the intentions you make are in service to the highest and best good of yourself, the universe and all of humanity. Here are some examples: I intend I am abundant. I intend I am vibrantly healthy. I intend I am joy. I intend I am grateful. I intend all that I do is in the highest service to All. I intend I trust myself. I intend I am peace. I intend I am more loving and compassionate than ever before. I intend I am open to receive. I intend I am divinely guided. Add the detergent to the water Now that you’ve stated your intention, preferably out loud, it’s time to add that to the water, to the space of your heart. By doing so, you infuse that intention with the pure essence of your divine nature. Your job in this moment of the process is to cultivate that intention in your heart. It’s easier than you think, as natural as mixing cleanser in water. Because you ARE your intention, you can consciously BE that intention within your heart at any moment. Still in your bed in the morning, begin with the breath. Your breath is the movement of the wash cycle. Take a few natural conscious breaths and place your hands on your heart. Breathe into your heart for a few breaths. Now state your intention. Breathe in that intention. Breathe in peace. Breathe in trust. Breathe in surrender. You are unique, so how you get to that experience of embodying your intention might take some experimentation beyond the breath. For example, is there something in your space that sparks that intention, like the peacefulness of the quiet morning or the abundant possibility that a new day holds? Is there something physically in your room that you feel grateful for? Gratitude can bring you immediately to the space where all your intentions live. Is there a memory you have in which you were in the space of love, trust or vibrant well-being? Again, remember that this process is easier than you think. It can literally take just one minute. Add Your Clothing You’re in the space now of being your intention, so now any experience, thought or feeling - any clothing - can easily be added to and cleansed in the wash. Now that you are living, breathing and being the intention you’ve set in this moment, in your bed, you are ready for your day with clean clothes on. 2. RINSE CYCLE The rinse cycle is a such a magical cycle, really! You’ve infused yourself with your intention and breathing into your heart-space, and now you get to bask in the watery life-affirming flow-state of your heart, filled not just with your specific intention you’ve set, but all those yummy juicy states of being that you were born to experience. Living the life you love, loving yourself and bringing that love to all that arises! Being in your heart creates a natural clearing and cleansing of the dirt and stains, without the forced need to scrub and stress about what you want to get rid of. All you need do is allow your heart-based intention to expand its light throughout your body. There’s nothing to do. Just imagine, breathe and trust this is so. 3. REPEAT Your day contains lots of clothing that will be added to the wash again and again. Notice there is no dry cycle in this process. That’s because all there is for you to do is to put those clothes into the wash cycle. The Repeat part of the process is your most powerful spiritual practice. Throughout the day, you’ll want to check in on any dirty laundry that might be piling up. If you’re new to this, you could even set an alarm on your phone to remind you, such as once an hour or a few times throughout the day. When that alarm goes off, it’s time to check in to see if there’s a new load of laundry to do. Check-in What is my intention today and am I experiencing it now? Cultivate Your Intention Take some breaths and state your intention again. Remember, it’s just dirty laundry. The angst, problems, frustration or doubt is just a little dirty laundry that can be washed easily. Cultivate that intention in your heart just like you did in the morning, taking just a minute or so of your time. Then imagine your whole being is filled with the ever-expanding light of your heart. Remember that gratitude is one of the most powerful ingredients in your detergent. Take Action Intentions begin in ways of being in the world, in the feminine. Once we are in a state of being our intention, we then are open to seeing any actions that express that intention. This is the masculine, the “doing” part of our intention, so that we can experience the manifestation of our desires. It’s the choosing what outfit to buy, wear and what event you’re going to wear it at. Trust your heart and your intention itself to guide you easily to the actions that express that intention. If you’re finding yourself uncertain or doubting your next action, ask yourself, “Is this action an expression of my highest authentic intention?” Then return to cultivating that intention in your heart. Wash, rinse, repeat. Keep it simple, and miracles will unfold. Yep, that’s right, not only do you not need to dry your laundry, as the light of your heart will naturally do this, but you don’t need to fold it either! Bonus Cycle for that Fresh Luxurious Feel At the end of the day, when you’re relaxing and ready for bed, you might want to review the day and look for all the times your experienced the manifestation of your intention. It’s human nature to see the one stain left on that shirt after the wash. But hey, what about the sparkly clean shirt overall? Each time you wash, rinse and repeat, that shirt will get cleaner and cleaner. Your job is to notice and appreciate the clean clothes, not stress over the still-dirty ones. That’ll have you look forward to cleaning out your closet and even give your whole house a love-light wash and makeover! by Julianne Kulosa Julianne is a Spiritual Intuitive and Guide, empowering others to live a life of miracles and magic through trusting the power of love. The challenges in our own lives are no easier or harder than any other person's. It’s natural to compare our own journey to others. Unfortunately, when we do so, we either come up short or think we’re doing better than someone else. That’s probably one reason people love reality shows. In a reality show, the actors are meant to ramp up the upset, drama, trauma and emotion. We can watch a reality show and feel better about ourselves for a moment.
One way to step out of the comparing, judging and automatic responses to our experiences is by honoring our challenges as initiations. Throughout history, different cultures created initiations for spiritual growth. The most powerful initiations were meant to have a person confront their deepest fears. You might be sent off into the woods alone on a vision quest or put into a sarcophagus or grave for days on end. By confronting your fears, inner “demons” and death itself, you literally die a spiritual death and are reborn. In modern day, initiations aren’t so overt nor respected. Life brings these initiations regardless. Any change, especially sudden, is an initiation. The loss of a loved one, whether by death or simply ending of the relationship, the loss of a job, moving, or struggling financially are some obvious initiations we see in our lives and those of around us. We weren’t trained to embrace change, much less death. Yet this is what life brings us with the cycles of the seasons, with each sunset and each evening we close our eyes to sleep. I never really saw my life as a series of initiations, at least not in a profound way. Why? Because the obvious ones, the ones others would acknowledge as challenges in our culture, are not the ones I personally have had the most difficulty in accepting. Living on the streets pan handling, not knowing where I was going to sleep that night, was fun. Leaving my friends and moving back home with my mother when I was pregnant was scary but felt right. The death of my brother just before the birth of my son, and then the death of my mother soon after, had me step up to care for my loved ones and myself. I loved being a single mom and was proudly grateful for welfare while finishing up college. All those date rapes were par for the course. These examples are things we were trained should be challenging, maybe even wear as a badge of honor for having survived. Yet in those experiences I thrived, not survived. At the same time, the initiations I resist most and suffer over come in the forms that others wouldn’t see as difficult. You see, it’s so important to honor your personal challenges, especially by not comparing them to others. What throws your whole world into a tailspin might be a walk in the park for someone else. What may devastate another may feel like an easy shift for you. Maybe you felt a little sorry for me when I gave you that list, or that I am hiding from my own feelings? No need! My most challenging initiations seem to be those that I don’t think “should” be challenges. For example, I recently realized that I have not had a go-to-the-office 40-hour-work-week kind of job in almost 25 years. Good problem to have, eh? I know how awesome my life is, however, I also like to work hard and be busy. Five years ago, I was living in an amazing community of people and felt a great desire, with no real explanation, to leave. I sensed there was something more than the busy work I was doing within the community, so my husband, son and I moved. I became a stay-at-home housewife and mom. Little did I know I was stepping into the greatest initiation in my life thus far. In the past five years, I’ve tried to “keep busy”. I’ve done volunteer work, assisted friends in need, got my master’s degree and am always immersed in some kind of spiritual training. However, my son has also grown up completely, now age 20, and I’ve had more time on my hands then ever before. My life has been s-l-o-w. It was just after we moved that I was clear that I wanted to live day-by-day by my heart’s desire and guidance. I knew it was time to let my soul take the driver’s seat and put my ego safely and lovingly in the carseat in back. Boy, is this the most challenging thing to do! Keeping busy, responsible and productive is a big goal of my ego. “Doing nothing” equates to laziness, selfishness and feels pointless to my ego. Any of you who have done mindfulness meditation surely know this feeling or others that arise when you simply sit and notice the breath. Ramp that up full volume when you practice life as a mindfulness meditation! Yet it is noticing the breath that brings us to the perfection of now, where all the goodies live, be it in the emptiness or fullness of the outbreath or inbreath. Along your spiritual path, you come across the space between the breath, an initiation of the Great Void. It is here that you confront the intense emptiness mimicked by being in that pitch black space inside a coffin in ancient initiation rituals. You might feel a lack of direction, a lack of passion, boredom, anxiety or depression. If you surrender to it, it offers the opportunity to come to peace and compassion with all your greatest fears and inner demons. If you fight it, it only stays longer. I still discover myself fighting sometimes, using the Western methods of escape like shopping, eating, television, or just unnecessary busy work. I notice when I say, “Yes!” to that emptiness instead of thinking something is wrong, stopping to simply breathe in and out that breath of life that connects us all, everything opens up. When I fight it, any feelings of stress or anxiety only increase as I try to escape. Our personal initiations are uniquely ours alone, yet we go through them for the transformation of the entire planet. No matter how small or insignificant you might think your challenges are, they are to be honored as the powerful life-changing experiences that they truly are. Okay, I’ll share an example of something with you that you might think is silly and insignificant. I’ve got a thing about ants. Not spiders, not bees, not snakes, but ants. We go way back. When my son was almost three, I lived in an apartment that I should have known had an ant problem, as I noticed that ants were literally painted into the counters of the kitchen when I first moved in. One evening, I went over to my adorable son as he slept and noticed a trail of ants going across his pillowcase above his head. That was the straw that broke me, and I laid in a puddle on the floor crying, calling my friend for help. She came over and couldn’t help but start laughing, saying that it wasn’t as bad as I thought it was. Fast forward to our house now, where we’ve had ants take over the bathroom more than once. This past rainy season, however, I had an honest talk with the scout ants who just started coming out instead of trying to fight them. I let them know that I respect and honor that they need to live, but that if they show themselves to me, I will have to kill their queen, thus their entire colony, which I do not want to do. Did it work? Yep. The next day, the ants were gone, never to return. When it comes to what your greatest personal challenges are, you don’t need to fight yourself or them, tell yourself to toughen up, push through or get over it. Your job is to surrender into what you are experiencing, as challenging as that is to do. It is all coming up for you to bring to light the truth of who you really are and to be inwardly transparent and authentic with your feelings, needs, fears and desires. No other person’s opinion of your personal experience matters. Share when you feel safe to do so. You are not your experiences, nor are you your fears. You are a spark of the divine. You are the gift of the breath that wishes only to serve and remind you to breathe in life and breathe out that gift to others. Within Divine You is a love that transmutes even your greatest fears and challenges into the light. You are being called to slow down, to notice, and to feel your experiences. This includes when your notice yourself fighting, avoiding or escaping. If you hold the intention to simply breath and bring your own compassionate care and love to what your are experiencing, I promise it will shift. Ah, but not if you are doing it with the goal to make it shift, you see? Initiations call us to surrender to them completely. The goal for them to go away as quickly as possible reflects your lack of surrender. Look around you and within you and notice any initiations you are going through right now. Some might be obvious, while others are pretty easy to find if you simply look at what you want to get rid of, fix, fight, change, or avoid at all costs. What are you fighting or what are you feeling victimized by? You have called this experience to you - you powerful soul you, you shaman, you high priestess - to transmute it all with the power of your love and willingness to trust yourself, your process and the universe. It’s all part of the plan for your and the world’s highest and greatest good. Breathe and know that all is truly well, including when you scream that it is not! |
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