My Grandmother
Used To Say . . .
David van Zanten
ISBN: 978-0-473-20557-7
Copyright© David van Zanten 2010
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Contents
FOREWORD
Every journey begins with a single step
CHAPTER ONE
God and the Universe are absolutely benign
CHAPTER TWO
A place for everything and everything in its place
CHAPTER THREE
Waste not, want not
CHAPTER FOUR
You learn something new every day
CHAPTER FIVE
If a job is worth doing, it is worth doing well
CHAPTER SIX
Do the corners and the middle will look after itself
CHAPTER SEVEN
Summary
CHAPTER EIGHT
Watch out it doesn’t spring up and hit you
CHAPTER NINE
If you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all
CHAPTER TEN
If you want a job done well, you have to do it yourself
CHAPTER ELEVEN
What doesn’t come out in the wash, comes out in the dry
CHAPTER TWELVE
The person who has their health is a millionaire
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
I would hate to see you in a fire
Foreword
Every journey begins with a single step
Welcome to this, your journey’s initial step. You and your words share a great secret. Both have a power which is mostly hidden. Most people do not realise their inner power, just as the depth of meaning behind most commonplace sayings is also unknown. This book is all about some very special sayings.
We are all aware of sayings. There is one available for most situations but why do we have them? What is their purpose and where did they come from?
Many of mine came from my Grandmother. In reality my Grandmother had no intellectual property rights to them and many will be familiar to you. Their origin, like the origins of many other sayings in this book are lost to antiquity.
So why have them? In an advancing technological world sayings, parables, and words of wisdom – which is in fact what they are – offer us principles to live by, modes of thinking to employ and paths to follow.
My Grandmother used to say, “If a job is worth doing, it is worth doing well”. Life is worth doing well. After all, here we all are on this open stage endeavouring to do the job of living. The trouble with the game of life is that there are no clear rules and for many there are no clear objectives either. But is this true?
The principal problem underlying the lack of clarity in one’s life is twofold – a general belief that one is powerless to effect any change and, that those who do seek for the answers to life look too hard.
All through my childhood I would watch and study people. As I became a teenager I was continually frustrated by the number of strangers who would sit next to me and tell me their life stories. But when I was 16 I saved a friend’s life by being there for him to hear his life’s story and help him through his challenges and depression. I realised that maybe there was a point to me being here. However, my true search for more knowledge and true understanding didn’t start for three more years. I was 19 and experiencing severe depression through a series of stressful events. I remember imagining many different scenarios for a final solution. I look back now and am so thankful that I never acted any of them out as my search for answers, questions, knowledge and information about life beyond our three dimensions started in earnest from that time.
I read many books, studied ‘mystery’ schools and became a counsellor through the training of Ancient Healing Alchemy. This is a study of the energy levels and layers which surround our bodies. These layers, our aura, are made up of our belief structures and philosophies and they attract our life experiences. So I discovered that the answers to life’s questions and the reasons behind our current individual circumstances lie in us, in ourselves. Looking too hard is usually done by looking everywhere other than at oneself. The path of return, the path of enlightenment and the path of empowerment are all the same path – the inner path. For people who feel powerless it is obvious to see why the inner path is not even thought of. The truth is it is the only way to empowerment, to conscious control over our lives. Constantly seeking this elusive power by taking it from other people or waiting for it to come to us cannot ever work. We must see the power coming from us. All of us are connected to a universal force which is so immense and loving, but we don’t realise it is there.
Another of my Grandmother’s sayings was, “If you want a job done right you have to do it yourself.” The important word here is “if”. If you want your empowerment done right you have to do it yourself. Life isn’t a gravy train or a free ride. What mankind has been given since the beginning are principles, simple principles to live by which lead one to empowerment, responsibility and enlightenment.
“Life is simple but not always easy.” Most people don’t see the way to life as simple. Most of us also do not realise that we are connected to greater energies and that true power comes from within, not without.
Once you tap into the centre of your being, that which is connected to the universal, it raises your vibrational being into alignment. We all have access to this power whether we are aware of it or not but to be connected we must be conscious; conscious in our minds and conscious of the existence of this energy.
Learning this is easy, understanding it should also be easy, so where does it become complex? We make it so by thinking only of ourselves as separate beings. We must focus on the whole. The ‘whole’ refers to all of humanity connecting and flowing this energy out into the world, our world. If we don’t think of the whole, then we tend to focus on just ourselves, the separate self. Self creates disconnection and fear, which makes our lives difficult and empty. As most people focus on themselves they make a habit of it, their frequencies lessen and they live unconscious and complex lives.
My Grandmother and her sayings will surface throughout this book. In fact most chapters are dedicated to one of her sayings at a time, including the ones already mentioned. I hope that her wise words and principles highlight the simplicity and longevity of simple wisdom. Her sayings were given to her by her Grandfather and these sayings will be familiar to many of you. They are but simple truths, words and principles known by mankind and shared from one generation to the next to help the recipient simplify their life.
The main theme or focus throughout all of the chapters is ‘responsibility’. You are responsible for your words, thoughts and actions and as such are totally accountable for all the events in your life concerning you. This focus on one’s own responsibility is so difficult to take on board for most, being that it is the antithesis of their life’s philosophy. We become so inured to attributing blame for the events and circumstances in our lives that the idea of accepting total responsibility for us is too big an idea to grasp. We will look into this theme throughout the book, with the intent being that by the end your views on individual responsibility will be clearer.
Chapter One
God and the Universe are absolutely benign
Having built up my Grandmother we will not, however, start with one of her sayings because although I agree that a job should be done well, it is important to preface the following chapters with the above principle I learned during my years as a counsellor. God and the Universe are absolutely benign.
This must be the starting principle as it represents the dynamo or source energy for all things. This is the power we are all connected to.
Benign means “of kindly disposition”. In the context of how this applies to our lives God and the Universe must be seen as a total and complete energy or force. This force is always there, that is, we are supported in life constantly. This force is available for any purpose towards which we direct it. Herein lies the truth that so few are aware of – we direct it.
Energy will always follow thought and because of this we continuously create our own lives.
“As we think so we become”,
“conceive, believe, achieve.”,
“If you believe you can, you will. If you believe you can’t, you won’t. Either way you are right”
All of these very common sayings try to imbue us with this simple principle or fact of life, that it is we who create our lives. Comprehension of this fact, that energy will always follow thought, is resisted by most people as it demands responsibility of oneself. Being responsible for your thoughts every day, all day, is the only way to consciously create your world, your experiences, your goals, your life. To be less than diligent is to unconsciously create your world, your experiences, your goals, and your life.
So, life is about choices. Whether you choose to consciously or unconsciously create your life is your choice. In either option energy follows thought, that is, the benign energy is always there to flow wherever you direct it.
The energy, your god, never limits the supply of itself to you, to all of us. It is limitless, always available. What we choose to use it for, whatever we want to create, is up to us – entirely up to us. Scary thought!
Nature follows this pattern, this principle, completely, of energy following thought. The seasons always happen, plants grow, life constantly evolves and expresses itself through the abundance of mother nature.
The best example of energy following a thought pattern is in Kerlean photography. Kerlean photography is a form of x-ray photography that is able to capture lines of energy that are beyond our normal visual spectrum.
Photographs were taken of the end of a bare branch at the start of spring. To the naked eye it was just that, a bare branch, but the photograph revealed a leaf, a perfect leaf made up of energy lines for all to see. Within a few weeks a ‘physical’ leaf appeared exactly in its place. Nature ‘thought’ of the leaf, projected the leaf and as a result attracted enough of the limitless energy to create it physically. A simple principle applied simply by nature.
The 21st century – a title that conjures up potential, newness, expansion and a touch of mystery. Computers are linked with all of our most recent past and our future. They also present an excellent analogy as to limitless benign power.
Computers via the internet can take us to depravity, enlightenment, education, humour, sports, violence, etc, at the touch of a button. Whether you choose to lie about yourself in a chat room, view pornography or learn to make a bomb, is a choice you make. You could also choose to follow sports, read book reviews, view empowerment websites or generally educate yourself positively. All of these and much much more are available. In its own way it is limitless, it will manifest for you whatever you concentrate on and it does so without judgement – therefore it is inherently benign.
God’s energy does not come with a censor’s warning, it just comes in response to our requests. (Remember, the majority of the world requests unconsciously.) The end result of unconscious patterns being fulfilled is for life’s patterns, your life’s pattern, to be repeated. Our subconscious mind takes on habits and therefore projects habits. Whether they be positive or negative is not judged by your subconscious either.
Have a look at your life or maybe someone you know. Are there habitual patterns of success or failure that have appeared continuously?
“The circumstances in your life mirror your belief structures”. This principle was very helpful whenever I had a new client. I would try to get them to see that due to their belief structures they became a certain frequency of energy which was constantly broadcasting and thereby attracting circumstances and events and people which matched their belief structures. When one continually broadcasts the same message they create the same pattern in their lives. It was then hoped that repeating negative patterns could be seen by the client as a sign of the blockages to their life and their empowerment.
An example of one of the more common patterns is abuse; a person who has been abused and continues in relationship after relationship with abusive people. As you read this you may know someone like this or even recognise it in your own world to some extent. It is difficult for the abused person to picture a life that is different and so they live by the habit of abuse, thereby continually programming their life for more abuse. That is, they attract the sort of people who abuse others. People who break this cycle do only one thing. They change their thinking. They change the programme that they have always fed into their subconscious mind. They simply say, “I don’t deserve this any more. I desire another life.” They change their software. They have effected a simple principle to consciously direct the benign energies instead of unconsciously directing them.
To understand how the mind works it is helpful to picture it as a galley ship like the ones the Vikings had. The majority of the work that your mind does is done unconsciously or without thinking, by your subconscious mind. Just as the majority of work was done by the rowers in the galley ship. The rowers are given instructions and directions by the small number in power. These people decide where their ship is to take them and consciously steer the ship 24 hours a day. The steering part of our minds is called the selfconscious mind. It has the ability to direct our thoughts, our energies, and thereby create, maintain or change our habits. If we are not conscious it means that our selfconscious mind is not really active. Our subconscious mind will always row. Whether it rows in circles, continuously onto reefs or in a positive loving direction is the responsibility of your selfconscious mind. It is your responsibility and as such, your choice, to actually create the world that you want.
To summarise, you have a force, a power, a source of energy, available to you constantly. This energy has many names. The name that is used by the individual is of value to them and reflects their own philosophy or religion.
The light or power is always of service for you as it is benign. Whether you use it for good or bad, positive or negative, depends on whether you are conscious to it or unconscious to it. It also depends on whether you think of the whole, the totality of existence or of just the self.
Whether you think of the whole and connect or whether you think purely of yourself and disconnect is what creates the events and circumstances in your life. Life is simple if we are connected but convoluted when we disconnect.
So the concept is simple in words, but not easy in practice, as we so often lose focus.
How does one connect? We do this by being consciously aware of our words, thoughts and actions, of knowing that these shape us and attract our life to us continually.
How is it that we disconnect? We do this by slipping into habits which are of a lower frequency, thereby becoming unconscious.
Connection leads to empowerment of our soul. Our higher self begins to manifest more in our lives. Disconnection leads to sluggishness and a reduction in the development of our soul. Less light shines from us when we are disconnected.
So, let this chapter be the basis on which the wisdom of the other chapters is absorbed into and built on. We are all powerful and we all have guides trying their best to help us evolve.
Chapter Two
A place for everything and everything in its place
When we seek to consciously create our lives we will need to create order in our lives, our minds, our goals. “A place for everything and everything in its place” conjures up a tidy home, a tidy workplace, and a situation which guarantees that you will find it impossible to lose your keys ever again. But it represents much more than just tidiness, it represents a fundamental step to spiritual awakening and awareness. A bold claim for a statement which I am sure most of you have heard many times before.
We are often told and instructed to judge the book not the cover, the inner person not the outer casing, but in fact the outer is usually the true advertisement for the inner. I use the word ‘usually’ and not ‘always’ because many manipulate the outer to hide the inner to give an entirely different impression. For people though, generally their mental processes are reflected in their close environment. Just as their beliefs, self-esteem and life philosophies are reflected in their appearance. A person’s car, bedroom, work space, office desk, etc, directly reflect that person’s thinking. Many studies have been carried out to psychologically profile people into different categories based on the state of their working space.
This means that we can assess the working of our minds by studying how we place everything in our environment. This itself requires us to be conscious. To actually study our previously ingrained habits of work, study and thinking, we need to be objective. The moment you begin a conscious study of yourself you start taking huge strides along your path of spiritual awakening and empowerment. Keep it simple – where you place things in your environment reflects the workings of your mind.
My Grandmother’s saying has far greater significance than its face value interpretation. It represents order versus chaos. When our lives become chaotic we lose the ability to reason and to see clearly. We begin to react and then continue to react. We thereby lose control of our lives. There is one advantage and only one advantage of being out of control, of having a chaotic life, and that is to be able to say “It is not my responsibility”. This phrase is an attractive phrase to many and an all too familiar one to parents of teenagers. It means one can continue unconsciously steering their ship and thereby seem to use up less energy. One can also claim that it is not their fault when life doesn’t go well. After all, it seems like such hard work being eternally proactive or conscious. Probably the most damaging manifestation of losing control, of having a chaotic life, is that our connectedness with our higher self and our God is blocked or severed. This leads to a lack of energy and our ship travels in small pointless circles as we repeat bad habit after bad habit. To monitor all of our words, thoughts and actions 24/7 seems like such hard work. To be enlightened, to be empowered and to attract an abundant, fulfilling life of love and light requires nothing less. So when our lives are in order we are able to oversee and control. These basic functions, to oversee and control, allow us to reason and supervise our lives. True reason and control leads to true vision.
By true vision I mean intuition. Intuition is when one is truly connected, for an instant, to the one light or force which creates and sustains the universe. By connecting, we see clearly; we see clearly our strengths and weaknesses; we see clearly the path before us and our requirements, long in advance.
The quality of our vision determines the course of our progress towards liberation; freedom from chaos, darkness and confusion. Enlightenment is the result of continually seeing things as they really are, of classifying action, words and thoughts into real and unreal, constructive and destructive, empowering and dis-empowering. By classifying we put things in their true place. Again, we see clearly. To have true vision is to be free.
To create order in our mind we need to first physically change our environment and ‘force’ a change in our mind. This is a very wise step and one that is not immediately obvious to us as it is the reverse process of how your environment was created. Usually one’s mind, one’s philosophies and beliefs are behind the appearance of one’s environment. By reversing the process, we help create a new way of being.
So what does one do to create a better environment? Whether it be a personal environment, family, or work environment, the first step is to clearly see it. This is a conscious step. It also must be an honest step. Do not rationalise to yourself the existence of clutter or chaos, this is a delaying tactic by the mere ego of ourselves to prevent change. The ego personality side of ourselves likes to feel as though it is most important but in fact is the one thing that will quickly be altered if a change of environment is effected.
Have a look at your own home situation when there is stress. Whether it be work, relationship or health stress, the same result is that of clutter and a lack of cohesion in your environment. We always rationalise that the home, or whatever space, looks messy because of a lack of time but in reality we have created the clutter ourselves. The clutter matches our present thought patterns. By putting everything back in its place we force our thoughts and thinking processes back into a constructive healthy pattern. Make no mistake about it, you control your environment. When it is in order you will begin to change and more light will flow into you and your life.
You have the power to create your own environment and thereby your mind. This leads to empowerment and order. This gives great strength to your life. Your path of life then takes on a more dynamic feel. You start to feel as though you could achieve or, more appropriately, create anything.
So what have you created in your life so far?
Think about where you are right now and where you have been; the places that you have been to and the place or situation that you find yourself in now. They have been created by you and you alone. Of course, for most people, the places and situations have not been a result of conscious placement; rather, an unconscious process of steering their own viking ship.
All of this deals with the past, which cannot be undone. The future, now that is something we can all shape as per our requirements. Do you feel as though you are in your place of choice? The crazy irony is that you probably feel as though you aren’t, even though you have chosen your current life spot without knowing it. So if your current life is not as attractive as it could be, as you would consciously choose, then this requires two things – planning and action – which are covered in greater detail in Chapter 10.
The choice of the life we want essentially is based around freeing up the energy clutter in our lives by placing things in their right place. To illustrate the wasted time that results from energetic clutter I will share with you a small but recurring event which I have seen acted out in a family which I was close to for 15 years. At least three times per week every week for 15 years the male and female heads of this family would lose their car keys. This never changed over the 15 years. Every time that they would discover the absence of their keys they would get most upset and proceed to turn the house upside down. The recovery time was always about 10 minutes. Sometimes they would both misplace their keys but, just working on the minimum of one person, 3 days a week for 15 years, this equates to 30 minutes per week, over 25 hours per year, and about 50 x 8 hour working days for the 15 year period that were wasted looking for car keys. This scenario is common to many households and as such represents a brilliant example as to what can manifest when energetic clutter is present instead of a simple principle. In addition to the wasted time there was great stress. Stress in our lives blocks the creative potential of the mind. All this from losing keys, from not having a central and mandatory location for them.
The result in general terms of not having a place for things and everything in its place is, quite simply, a lack of energetic flow. This becomes energetic clutter. Whenever energy is stymied or static there is chaos, darkness and confusion. Creativity and light cannot be present. The long term manifestation of this is quite horrifying, we become as stagnant or as stymied as the environment about us. Our minds slow down and we become reactive, not proactive, creatures of habit, mere laboratory mice running around and around our little treadmill – unconsciously.
For us to find, achieve and create our new world we need to start with an intensive inspection of our environment to locate clutter and chaos. As we improve the energetic flow in our lives the flow is mirrored by the improved communication in our minds and with those around us. From this flow comes confidence, creativity and, importantly, change. Change is good. It can be frightening but if we want to create a new place for ourselves this process requires, necessitates, change.
A place for your clothes, your pot plants, your shoes or just your china. These can easily be cleared from the clutter but often they are in fact the result of our own mental and emotional clutter which seems a lot more difficult to clear up, let alone recognise.
What makes it difficult for some people to have a clean house, living space or working environment? We all know people who have this seemingly mystical and much envied ability to be tidy (excluding those who hire housekeepers!).
Our environments or, more accurately put, our personal environments, are a mirror of us. They replicate or manifest our mind and sense of self in the physical world. We can ‘force’ our personal spaces to be clean for a brief time but this is where the difficulty comes in, it will not happen easily, effortlessly, nor continuously without a change to the order (or lack of it) in our minds. To order our lives and have control we must first order our minds.
Do you have a place in your mind for self belief, self review, an emotional checklist and a regular top-up of action plans and their progress? Having a place for these reviews is vital for a full-functioning life, a life which flows in the direction you choose it to.
For self belief list down 10 things about yourself that you are proud of. These are strengths to encourage and find good uses for. List down 10 things you are not proud of or feel are weaknesses. Seek to change these aspects of yourself. Believe in your inner light that wants to blaze strongly. It is ignited by your belief in yourself that you are special, that you are here for a reason.
Your self review follows on to check whether your strengths are in fact being used; whether your inner light is glowing brightly or is dim. Ask yourself whether your light shone today with the express desire to lighten up someone else’s life. Only in this way can we fully blaze ourselves.
“A lit candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.”
Checking on oneself in an emotional sense can seem rather strange. After all how often do you assess your feelings on the events of your life? Your feelings are a window to your development, or your pathway to self discovery. We are all on journeys to the enlightenment of our souls. Our feelings about events or people are clear markers as to where we are along the journey. For example, if every time you see a person of different colour your instinct is to pull back in some way then you will discover blockages to your empowerment, your enlightenment, that result from the lack of understanding that we are all connected.
Another example is from one of your most powerful senses – smell. Different scents place us in situations far away in time and distance, some good, some bad. Question these events and in particular the emotion surrounding them. What are they telling you? Have the bad events left a scar that hasn’t healed? Have the uplifting events shown a side of you that you have forgotten – a light that has not shone for some time?
Never be afraid or feel uncomfortable about questioning yourself. It is only through self observation that we can understand ourselves and then have the opportunity to move forward.
So, a place for everything and everything in its place, stands for the flow of life force in your life. Where there is physical order and emotional understanding there is the opportunity for rational decisions and general order. This puts us in control of our lives. Without these there is chaos and chaos begets more chaos. This places us in reactionary mode and consequently we stay where we are in terms of soul development.
Your environment reflects your mental and emotional processes.
Start now by getting a key rack!
Chapter Three
Waste not, want not
In the times before convenience stores, technology and all the other trappings of contemporary society, most resources were scarce. The adage from then – more than just a saying, it was the belief of all – was ‘waste not, want not’.
This simple phrase, which my Nana claimed was handed down from her Grandfather, is an easy one to understand in practical terms. The fact that we don’t adhere to it much is a sad sign of our times or maybe a sign of our comfort and opulence. How often do we darn socks, keep machinery going with age-old mechanical nous, or simply apply ourselves to reusing shopping bags? The reality is, we don’t as a whole apply the very worthy message inherent in the saying. This is not, however, a social commentary on the rights and wrongs of various actions by today’s ever growing human race. The saying has far more important implications for those who are seeking empowerment - those who wish to get off their dreary cycle of life – those who wish to find out why they are here.
Many people suffer from a feeling of inadequacy, a feeling that they are small in this vast life. This sense of powerlessness probably applies to most people. Powerlessness or the belief that one can do nothing to change one’s circumstances, one’s cycle of life, comes directly from a complete, or major, lack of understanding of one’s self. In reality everyone, every single person, comes into their world with supreme gifts which are uniquely their own. These gifts, these talents, are the very activities that set us free. Think on your own life and of the dreams that you used to have, of the things that bring a smile to your face and joy to your life. You may be instinctively drawn to music. Nature could be what speaks to you in the clearest tones, physically or metaphorically. The animal kingdom might be where your heart is. Your gifts might be clairvoyant in nature, whereby you see beyond the normal spectrum of most people. Your gift could be clairaudient or clairsentient. Clairsentience is the ability to sense, to feel, the dimensions beyond the normal range. Commonly this manifests as greater intuitive power.
Another gift is communication. Whether one can communicate by the spoken word, the written word, other visual means, or by touch, it is all communication. We all know people who are better at putting their point or message across than others – this is their gift. Many others have the gift of healing. Healing could come through human touch, words or art.
Whatever your gift, it is something that you must find. In your heart you know what it is. Your gift could be practical or creative, either way you have in your grasp the very thing that can bring peace and abundance to your life. If you discover and develop your gifts you will not want, because you will have no lack; so don’t waste your gift.
Your gifts give you a channel to express yourself. They are your purest way of delivering your light to the world – through you. Picture this light or universal force as a blazing fire. You are connected to this fire by a portal, an opening. Most don’t realise this and as such this portal is ignored by living unconsciously, reactively and thereby getting stuck in unhealthy, repetitive cycles of imbalance. Becoming conscious, as you are now doing, you can be proactively searching for your own portal. This portal is limited in size by you and you alone. There is an unlimited fire of love and abundance always waiting for you. The key to expanding your portal is your gifts. The more you discover and develop your gifts the larger the portal and the more light you invite into your life. The light is always trying to get to you. Remember, the universe is benign, but you must be actively moving towards it. Your gifts are sparks from your higher force, your limitless fire.
As your sparks are fanned they grow into their own fires. You are then a beacon, a lighthouse in a sometimes very dark sea, for others. Your fire can ignite them and they in turn can ignite others and so on. This is the plan of the universe, so waste not your gifts, your talents, and you shall not want for light.
To assist you in your development, to allow your higher self to live through you more fully and thereby progress your soul’s journey back to the light, you are constantly given guidance, guidance which we almost always ignore and waste. Guidance comes in the form of discomfort and is an excellent principal which we need to understand and live by. To grasp this principle may be difficult as it revolves around certain assumptions or beliefs.
One must believe in one’s heart the information in chapter 1 that the universe is benign, that energy will always flow in the area upon which one focuses one’s thoughts. We must also understand that each soul has journeyed through many lifetimes, endured and learned much, with the express purpose of empowering. As the soul empowers it blazes with the universal energy to such an extent, such a power and radiance, that the person appears to glow. Many gifted souls have been recorded with light emanating from their bodies. These individuals have been deified as saints and messengers of whatever faith each culture believes in.
To blaze fully requires all of our energies to flow fully and freely about our bodies. When these don’t flow well they will create some discomfort and herein lies the beauty and importance of the saying. Wherever there is discomfort is a sign to us that the energies relevant to that part of the body are not flowing well. It means that we are given a clue that something is not working and thereby given the opportunity to seek guidance for it. If we listen to the constant guidance we can enlighten our soul much more effectively.
See your soul as an ovum of light, an egg-shaped radiance that is your potential. Each lifetime you try to remove the shell of your ‘egg’ to reveal more light. Unfortunately we each have bad habits, neuroses, errant belief structures and patterns of thinking and acting that represent our own shell, limiting our souls from shining forth, restricting the light from shining fully from us. Our bad habits, belief structures that limit us and negative patterns of thinking, create blockages. From these blockages come discomfort, so if we find the discomfort we can work backwards to discover the blockage that has created it. This leads to our empowerment. Each piece of ‘guidance’ that we follow through on helps us to remove the limiting ‘eggshell’ around our soul. So waste not the signs and guidance which show up in your life.