Your Essential Self!

A question that I am often asked by clients is one that I have often asked myself and I think that it's an important one.
 
How do I measure my personal growth? How do I know when all the workshops and trainings and seminars and sessions I've been doing are working?
 
What I have found to be the most important measuring stick is trust.
 
I compare developing trust to a deep lake that is beginning to freeze over in the winter. When the weather first gets cold, you discover that you can walk easily on the mud that used to suck at your boots. Then the waters edge grows firm enough to support you.
 
That is what it is like when you begin to trust that your place in this world is secure and you learn that you are responsible for how you experience whatever occurs to you. You may notice that suddenly you are easily doing something that would have been a real stretch last year.
 
You begin to notice that certain fears that dictated your life last year are gone. Certain people that used to push your buttons can’t even find them anymore. You have grown. Your trust has grown. And so you step out a little further onto the ice. Yes, this world is here to support you, however you choose.
 
That support is always there. We are only able to step out onto the ice as far as our trust will carry us. Remember also that even though you are only able to step out so far, that the ice is also freezing in from all around the lake. That is the universe reaching out for you!
 
TRUST -To Rely Upon Sprit Totally!
-and because we ARE Spirit, this can also be
TRUST - To Rely Upon Self Totally!