What Brave Takes

Three days ago, I quit a job I loved for 23 years, and applied for voluntary early retirement effective immediately instead. This, at a time of pandemic and a shifting world order, where almost everything seems up in the air.

To outsiders, it seemed sudden and totally unexpected. To insiders -- which is just me and God -- it was just the natural, logical consequence of a long, silent process, which was only accelerated and triggered by an external event.

People said I was brave and had lots of faith, as if it was something only I and a few possessed by nature, when I have always believed that courage and faith are cultivated over long experience and practice with being centered and anchored on one's deepest soul and highest Self.

How does this practice look like? It starts with a carefully and consistently nurtured habit of Stillness. It is only when you have learned to be Still whatever the circumstances are that you can see clearly.

This "seeing" is not just seeing what is physically obvious and in hearing words that are said; it is a higher perception and awareness of truths in the patterns and the silent spaces between what are obvious. This is helpful in discerning the true state of things and what the real messages are, especially when there is dissonance between words and actions.

God speaks in between the lines of our daily mental and physical activities. The more one cultivates empty spaces in between these, the more insights and wisdom come. It can be called In-tuition, which is learning from within-- and Above. This Stillness is coupled with nurturing clear, strong and healthy Boundaries, which I wrote about in a previous post, Betrayal and Boundaries.

Over the years, it has just been clear to me what my priorities and values are, which are non-negotiable. Once I've made this clear to my self, all the rest are just matters of style and can be negotiable.

This is probably why people have always perceived me as calm and easygoing and generally pleasantly agreeable to most things. However, when my boundaries are breached, especially my core spaces of where my mind, heart and soul feel safe, then I can also promptly stand my ground and make clear, sober decisions without drama. In this particular case, after intensely consulting with God in prayers for a week before the decision had to be made, and reflecting on my own inner Nudges and insights over the past two years, the way through became clear when it was time to make a decision under pressure.

I just abided by Guidance I received constantly and clearly, which, on hindsight now, has to do with Boundaries, and, at a higher level, Honor -- "Do not participate in what diminishes you."

I share more of these essential #DiosaWays in Diosa 1.0: 8 Essential Goddess Ways to Your Royal Life, coming out very soon!

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Amidst all the changes and challenges that this pandemic has brought us, old ways obviously do not work anymore. It is time to level up to higher ways of thinking, being and living. It is time to rise up to our own divinities and stand in our Light as a collective.

As always, may you be blessed from reading this.

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