Soaring Into 2022
Here I am at the end of the first week of this new year, wow! It’s 2022 in full swing.
I am breathing deeply, inhaling the gratitude I feel for all the good, the bad, the ugly and indifferent, the joy-filled and amazing events of this past week, month, year. I am continually surprised at how easy it is for me to go from soaring to sunk, ecstatic to explosive, energized to dead battery. Do you ever find yourself like that?
A day starts so well planned. Stuff is getting done and then the proverbial – you know – “stuff” hits the fan. The day goes awry; physically, energetically, emotionally, and all you want to do is screech or cry, sulk and bake a pity pie?
Well, been there, done that!
Every one of those emotions and feelings has accompanied me through just this past week alone. Some I carried with me from 2021 (drat, sure thought I left them in that hole I dug for their funeral), others shocked me when they showed up with such power and persuasive strength. Like out of nowhere, they fired off a flash bang and there I was, flat on my fanny wondering WTH?
I think I was hoping to drift into 2022 in my wellness canoe and float right into the perfect year I have been envisioning. Maybe I let my guard down, perhaps I just didn’t think clearly, do enough ceremony, say the right prayers… oh heck!
What I found out for sure (and of course have always known), the best laid plans, right? Blah blah blah…
What I do know for sure, is that as long as I live, I am always going to be reminded that I am just a “sprout’, growing is part of this earth game, and that just as sure as I think “I got it”, Ha! The lawnmower shows up and mows over that great idea.
What I did learn for sure, (and will probably have to learn again and again), is that even though I think I have gotten it right, said the right words, listened with open ears, my filter is just that, My filter. What I say is heard through the listeners filter, what I hear gets filtered through mine, and it is always amazing to me how what I hear is so often not what was said and vice versa.
Ever sit and contemplate these things that make us go hmm?
What I will do for sure, is try more, keep doing me more, speak from my heart more, open the weave on my filter more to allow for a greater understanding of what comes through. Most importantly, as Don Miguel Ruiz so eloquently put it in The Four Agreements, I won’t take it personally.
In this new year, I will write for me and then set it free. I will speak from me and then let it be. I will love, unconditionally, me and thee. I will Get Off the Shelf (once again) and get back in the driver’s seat. I will pick up the mantra used by Sunny Dawn Johnston, and I will LEARN THROUGH GRACE AND EASE and stop learning the hard way.
What I wish for you all, for sure, is the absolute glorious best in all your endeavors. May this be the Year of YOU; You first, You matter, You can do it, You’ve got this, You go gang…You be You in 2022.
And MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU!
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Vicki Dobbs is a bold and adventurous warrior walking a path of heart to manifest spirituality in everyday lives. She opens existential gateways for individuals to face their challenges and embrace these tests as the great teachers that they are.
Her goal is to see everyone walk in beauty and balance every day of their lives empowered by the voice of their own authentic truth.
Through Wisdom Evolution and Sacred Wisdom Workshops, Vicki creates opportunities for others to make deep personal changes through experiential classes, ceremony, sacred art and story. She endeavors to inspire others to create their lives intentionally. Vicki is an Inspirator of everyday awareness, an Instigator of spontaneous stories and a Connoisseur of Creativity. Gratitude and grace sprinkled with humility and humor are the medicine she brings to the world.
As an Elder, Teacher and Entrepreneur, Spiritual Coach, Ordained Minister and Crafter of Sacred Art and Tools, Vicki perceives life’s journey as an ever-upward spiraling ascension of the human spirit leading her to wisdom, wholeness and authenticity.
Her experience includes being trained in the Harner Method of Shamanic Counseling and the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition of Cross Cultural Shamanism. She is a Graduate Teacher and Mentor with the Lynn Andrews Center For Sacred Arts and Training and has been the Administrator and Writers Guide for Writing Spirit, the School.
Vicki is also an Artist of the Spirit Certified Spiritual and Energetic Life Coach, a Graduate Mentor in the AoS program and a founding member of HeatherAsh Amara’s Warrior Goddess Leadership Team and Facilitator of the Warrior Heart Practice.
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