Clarity, Compassion, Courage: The Superpowers You Need to Evolve l 93

Welcome, dear friends. Welcome back to A Call for Love, and we are celebrating two and a half years of podcasting. I can hardly believe that I have sat here in front of the mic really sharing from my heart this message, a call for love. Today my message is shifting. There has been an evolution. So if you're new, welcome and if you're a longtime listener, I wanna see how this lands. Alright, to begin, I wanna share that what's been in my heart is I am in love with a new word. I know that sounds kind of silly, but I am in love with the word evolve. A lot of people talk about transformation, you know, uh, they promise transformation. I probably have said this as well, but transformation is big. It's dramatic. It's like a caterpillar turning into a butterfly, but in my experience. Growth is more natural. It's more of an evolution. That's what I've noticed in my life, and it's about gently peeling away the layers, letting go of these old beliefs and stepping into the next truest version of ourselves. We're always evolving. I just love the concept in the doda ching in verse 15. It reads, do you have the patience to wait till your mud settles and the water is clear? Can you remain un moved till the right action arises by itself? David G always used to say this, and I found it in the doda ching. It is so true because that's what evolution is about. It's about staying clear, compassionate, and having courage. When you evolve, when you are going through the evolution process of yourself, it requires compassion. Courage and clarity that often means patience. Patience, waiting until the mud settles in order for evolution to happen. And evolution is a natural process. We are naturally brought here. I believe this is strongly to evolve for our souls to evolve for. Humankind to evolve. Are we doing a great job? Well, that is a debate that we are gonna share for another time. But when you heal yourself, when you transform yourself, you transform those around you, and that becomes a ripple outward into the world. Alright, the exciting news for a Call for love is that i'm including a four series book club. Never done this On a Call for Love. If you know anything about me, I was a school teacher for over 30 years and I was a teacher librarian for seven of those years. I love books. I love writing. It's a huge, huge part of my life. In fact, I treat books like friends, and that is why I thought, why not have a book club? We're talking about. Evolving, evolving ourselves to step into the highest version of ourselves, and that is a continuous process, right? One step in front of the other moving forward. So I don't wanna give you all the details, but beginning next episode for four episodes, we're diving into a book, I'm separating it into four parts. And there will be an opportunity for you to join live I'm so excited. I've recorded the first one, which I was actually gonna share today, but I decided no, it needs a little bit of time to marinate and I really, really want to talk to you about this new message about how to evolve, empower, and elevate ourselves. That's where we're going to begin today. Because if you've been on my website, which is getting a lot of traction these days and it's being rebuilt, super exciting. I have had the message for quite a while awakened to peace, love, joy, and abundance. And you know what? I've evolved from that. It's good. We all want that, but you know what? I want more. I, I want the nitty gritty empowerment. Embodying that essence, elevating ourselves, evolving. These are action words. We are going to create the intention. Without the intention, It cannot come to life. This is what I'm talking to you here about today is the evolution of our soul, the evolution of our journey, one step at a time. The catalyst for this has been multifold. So transformation is like a aha moment. It's a catalyst for change and something happens like this is fast, it's dramatic, I've transformed. It's very, very in your face. Evolution is a little bit more gentle. Because it's more natural. And I also feel that when something's more natural, it's lasting. It's like taking one step in front of the other. And this evolution is noticing. So I came home from 10 days up north and. We have a WaveRunner. If you do not know what a WaveRunner is, it's a personal watercraft, like a jet ski or a SeaDoo. And I had an incident about a year ago where I was very scared on it. I was driving it. I turned too quickly. We spun and twisted and it was, it just scared me. And ever since then I've been very reluctant to drive the WaveRunner, the personal watercraft. And I decided if I want to move through this, I have to become clear. I. I have to become compassionate with myself, and I want to really find the courage. It came a day that we went on and my husband, Gord says, do you wanna drive? But it was very wavy. I said, well, that's not compassionate. That's not a good time to find the courage to really dive into driving the WaveRunner. So I, I declined. I decided to take those baby steps, go when the water was calm, start slow, and build up the courage. That's how I feel evolution is. It's building it up one step at a time with clarity, with compassion, with courage. These are my three C words. Clarity, compassion, and courage. Can you invite this in? To your personal evolution. When I think of evolution it's really an evolution. And an evolution refers to, so evolution is more outward and an evolution is something, it's an inner journey. It's a turning inward, uh, deepening into our true self. And when we notice these two paths. Evolution and evolution. We are deciding how we're navigating through our experiences. We're know we want to take one step in front of the other to evolve our spiritual, soulful, human self combined. That requires turning inward. It's requires uncovering who we are underneath, beneath the layers of our social conditioning. And ultimately it is a sacred journey. I. It's a sacred journey inward. It's a sacred journey to peel back the layers of those illusions of who we were in order to step into our higher power and power ourselves into who we actually are. I say to myself, those old stories, I'm done with them. They're exhausting. They are boring. They're like somebody nagging in my ear enough already. It's time to step forward. It's time to involve. It's time to empower ourselves. It's time to elevate. This is not a selfish action. The more we step into our personal power, the more we. Really notice our soulful self, the better stewards of our life and the earth we can be. And that's the goal. As I said before, when we transform ourselves, we transform the world. So many people have said this. Dr. Wayne Dyer says it. You know, Joe Dispenza says it. David G, so many people say this in their own words because it's true. The simplest truths. Are the biggest truths Steven Mitchell's, translation of the Do Ching. He says, do you have the patience to wait till your mud settles and the water is clear? Can you remain unmoving till the right action arises by itself? I love this, and it deserves more attention when you think of mud. It really stands for our concepts, our judgements, our desires, our expectations, the illusions of our thoughts, feelings and sensations. The five sensations, hearing, seeing, touching, feeling, tasting. These all narrow and actually obscure our reality and in the Doda ching, it tells us to really notice this. It asks us to wait to find the correct action. Yoga star Ku Kani from potentially in the Yoga Sutras says, pause. Establish yourself in the present moment. Then perform action. This is the same concept and the most powerful concepts are said over and over again by our master teachers, both ancient and modern day. And that's why I share them because they're true and they work. Now, Steven Mitchell asked his old Zen master to comment on, do you have the patience to wait until your mud settles and the water is clear? Can you remain unmoving till the right action arises by itself? And his zen master said, our mind is like a glass of clear water. If we put salt into the water, it comes out like salt water. If we put sugar in, it becomes sugar water. If we put shit in, it becomes shit water. But originally the water is clear. No thinking. No mind. No mind, no problem. And that's the piece of evolution that I really love. This waiting, becoming clear. Finding the courage and navigating through compassionate moments is how we evolve. It's how we evolve. I was talking to my sister about this this morning and she was mentioning, you know, evolution for her. The evolution is not always plain. It's not always simple. It's often painful. It's can be very painful to evolve as a spiritual being, and that is something that we try to save others from, especially those people we really love. But that does not serve them very well. When we try to save others, we are actually preventing them from going through the process of evolution of their involution. You may know this story. It's a really powerful story and I love it deeply, so I'd like to share it with you, which it really brings to light what I'm trying to say. A man spent hours watching a butterfly struggling to emerge from its cocoon. It managed to make a small hole, but its body was too large to get through it. After a long struggle, it appeared to be exhausted. And remained absolutely still, the man decided to help the butterfly and with a pair of scissors, he cut open the cocoon, thus releasing the butterfly. However, the butterflies body was very small and wrinkled, and its wings were all crumpled, The man continued to watch, hoping that any moment the butterfly would open its wings and fly away, nothing happened. In fact, the butterfly spent the rest of its brief life dragging around. Its shrunken body and shriveled wings. Incapable of flight What the man out of kindness and his eagerness to help had failed to understand was that the tight cocoon and the efforts that the butterfly had to make in order to squeeze out of that tiny hole were nature's way of training the butterfly and of strengthening its wings. This story is from Paolo Colo and it Clearly shows us that with the struggle, I believe this to be true for me, and what I've seen from my clients is when we struggle, it builds clarity. It builds. Courage. It builds determination. It builds that desire to move past, often illusions, conditionings that we have met through our socialization. In order to move past them. Past them. There's always going to be obstacles when we decide that we want something, I feel it's like the universe says, oh, really? Do you really want that? Okay, prove it to me. Prove that you really want it. Because if we said, you know, I want a million dollars, I wanna go away. I mean, we would be all over It would be very scattered. But when we create an intention and we decide that we want something become very clear. And that's where meditation is very, very helpful because it. It asks us to get still and quiet in order to hear the whisperings of our soul. When we hear the whisperings of our soul, we can hear the messages and find clarity of how we want to move forward, how we are moving in that involution in order to become better. I would like to say people, I feel people is like the skeleton of our body, soulful people, soul spirits, how we evolve in our values, in our ethics, in our actions when we are squeezing out of our cocoon. That's a huge transformation. When we come out and fly, the evolution part, I feel is that cocoon, that building, that growing, that fighting, and then aha, the, the aha moment where you come out of your shell, where you come out of that cocoon and you come out with a, a defining moment that was a catalyst to get you there. I, led a chorus, which I will be making public in my new membership and I ask prompts to the people who join. And I would like to invite this here on this podcast. Of course, if you are walking or driving or doing something that is not safe, you can just answer it in your mind. You can press pause, answer it, and then play back. Or I invite you to write it down. Once something gets written down, it becomes power You have sent it out into the universe. It's already out there and you can't unsee what you've seen. You can't unhear what you've said. You can't undo what has been sent out into the universe, and that's why taking pen to paper. So powerful spirit has heard and if it resonates with you to write these down. So I'm gonna ask them to you just hold space for them and see how they land. Ask yourself, Where am I feeling pressure to change quickly. Where am I feeling pressure to change quickly. The wave runner for me was the perfect example. I wanted to just get on it, get going. Maybe that would work, but it wasn't working for me. I didn't want or need pressure. I was pressuring myself. For me, baby steps are more realistic for others, a fast, like just get to it works too. But notice where you are pressuring yourself. The word here is pressuring yourself. When you're pressuring yourself. it's forced and flow to grow. When it's flowing, it's a natural order and evolution to grow. next, What would it look like to evolve naturally? How would, how would you move through something and evolve more naturally with clarity, compassion, and courage? Once again, I will take the WaveRunner story going on a calm day. Saying I can do it. Like I finding the courage being with, somebody who supports me and says, yeah, you could do it. I'm gonna go from point A to point B. I'm gonna start slowly, then I'm gonna put my foot on the gas and I'm gonna increase the speed. That's how I'm gonna get over my fear and just move forward. To evolve naturally, to conquer that fear. And what parts of you are ready to be revealed rather than fixed. We're not fixing ourselves. We're not broken. Yeah. We have bumps. Yeah. There are roadblocks. Yeah. We're believing illusions that are not even true, that we picked up along the way, but where we are we ready? Ready to move forward to take that next step. I always think of like watching yourself walk on the beach with your footprints. You take one step forward, you take another step forward, you take another step forward, you take another and another and another. You don't feel empowered until you look over your shoulder and you see how far you've come when you look back. It gives you further courage to keep on taking those steps forward. That's evolution, through intentions for getting to your destination. As I leave you here today, I'd like you to think and ponder for a moment. Where in your life are you evolving? Where are you taking that next step forward? That's what a call for love is. It's noticing where you're living. Are you living in a, uh, state of fear, stress, anxiety? Those are not serving us. it's old. It's getting old. How do you wanna shift? When you decide what you wanna shift, then you can shift. It's a call for love. It's a call to step forward, one step at a time towards the destination, towards evolving your soul, to evolving yourself. As I said, when we. Transform ourselves. We transform the world. Be the change you seek in the world, and the world will change with you. One moment at a time, one person at a time. We can't blame others for holding resentment, anger, fear, judgment, If we are holding it ourselves, and that's the message here. We wanna notice where we're living. We want to evolve. It's an involution to evolve, empower, and elevate ourselves to the next level. There's so many levels, it's exciting. Think of it as a game. Where am I going next? Like when you plan a travel. agenda, where am I going next? How am I gonna move forward more in my life? And the beautiful thing is I do believe the universe wants what's best for us. Do we want what's best for us? That is the message. I thank you for listening here to a Call for Love. I really hope you join the book Club. It will be on for four episodes. I can't tell you the name of the book because it is a surprise, but it is a game changer. It's an oldie and a goodie. It's a great read, A fast read, really heartfelt, and you'll notice changes in your life. I. I spread it over the four episodes so that you could marinate in each message, and that's the evolution. It's the lasting changes. When you go steady, you make changes, changes that last, Everything clicks and voila, transformation. Always wishing you great. love, and joy from my heart to yours. Namaste.