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When life is beating you down, do you keep flailing away trying to make things happen? Or do you step back from the action and take a new look?

Our outer lives are reflections of what's going on within us.

If we're embroiled at a stalemate in the outer world, then perhaps it's happening just to show us that we're locked in a similar struggle inside. If so, the only way to break it for sure is to root out and address its cause within us.

It starts by looking at how you're experiencing the situation. What are the emotions you're drawing upon? What feelings are coming up? How is your intuition telling you to act?

I was wrong. It wasn't supposed to be this way. You know how. Me talking, you listening.

WhisperZone was intended to be an interactive community where those who are awakening could come together to explore their own inner processes and provide each other with mutual support.

Somewhere along the line things derailed.

A note from my friend St. Germain on Ascension and moving into the light was just posted. It reminded me of a conversation I was having with my Self this morning about initiating some new local activities.

The lawyer in me tends to look down the road for lurking dangers and find paths through them to a desired destination. It's a habit that puts me in conflict with my intuition and inner knowing, causing me to hesitate when the overall path isn't clear.

Anyway, after re-examining things from another perspective, I realized it was enough to just do it without first resolving all the other issues I saw cropping up down the road. Maybe they'll work out. Maybe they won't. But it's time to pull the trigger nonetheless.

I recently wrote an article for "New Age Retailer" (it goes to new age bookstores, gift shops, and other establishments) on how conflicting or unclear intentions can cause us to create something quite unintended in life. Here's a link where you can read it.

As I look around our world, things keep getting curiouser and curiouser. Just look at the news.

They just arrested an Ohio cop for murdering his pregnant girlfriend. That Hilton girl is going to get $1 million for her first interview about going to jail after thumbing her nose three times at a judge's order. Iran's surrogate Hamas has seized control in the Gaza, and Israel might be moving in. The Pope issued the 10 commandments by which to drive.

CNN's climbed up on its soap box, railing against our government's failure to protect our borders and the jobs of our middle class, all under the banner of immigation reform. Funny, I never hear them talk about the system that makes it possible for them to rake in millions convincing us our world is falling apart so we'll run out and consume until we drop.

Thanks to all who took advantage of the opportunty to get input on how they might approach some of their difficulties. It was nice to make a personal connection rather than always speak to a faceless crowd.

For the rest, maybe another time.

It does, though, raise one thought.

We all have struggles. That's sort of how life seems to be.

But why do we choose so often to face them alone, especially when we know there are resources we can draw on to make our efforts so much easier and effective?

How Do You Meet Your Struggles?

I'm speaking in general now and not about any of you. It's just that I see it in my practice all the time, with people waiting until things blow up in their faces before they'll even think about getting guidance.

Each of us has within us an inner vision of what we came to life to experience. It is revealed to us through our inner voice and the possibilities brought to our attention from which to carve our path.

Unfortunately, we're so caught up in the outer trappings of our egos, especially our fears and desires, that often we can't hear it and we're left in a state of waiting for something our gut tells us is coming down the road that we don't want to miss.

It's a matter of instinct inbred at our source.

Hearing an Inner Call

That instinct fills us with a desire to go our own way. We just don't see it yet. We know we will, but we don't know when.

If you want to go one way, and the world wants you to go another, which way do you go?

If you want to offer one aspect of yourself, and the world wants another (like continuing in a career or service that doesn't feel right to you any more), which do you provide?

Do you reluctantly give them what they want? Or do you keep looking for those who want what you want to give?

Have you ever stopped to think how much emotional baggage we carry around?

Now, I'm not suggesting that it's bad or anything like that. But THERE'S SO MUCH OF IT!!!! And for me, at times it feels awfully heavy.

I must be wierd. Not because I look at what's going on in me, and what that has to do with the life I'm living. But because I don't think it's strange.

Is everyone like this? Or is it just me?

Anyway, today I was considering this thing called mood. You know, that special attitude that happens when we're having a good day, or get up on the wrong side of the bed.

So, here I am, rather than planning my day first thing in the morning, I'm going on this wild goose chase to find out where mood comes from. Is it the result of the outer circumstances of my day? Or does it come about as a choice I make somewhere within me?