The Art of Re-inventing Yourself (published in An Alternative Voice, August 2016)

The Art Of Reinventing Yourself The art of reinventing yourself is less mysterious and more practical and fun than most people realize. This art gives you the ability to go with change whilst finding your inner stillness, all the while life seems to be hectically racing around you. What is true freedom? It is the ability to make real choices; to choose to do and to be anything that your heart wishes to be. In courage of all consequences, both intended and unintended, you trust in your heart that you are ready to take responsibility for your all choices. That is true freedom. And that is the art of reinventing yourself. We live in a world that finds it difficult to reinvent herself. Whilst technological advances race ahead it is as if we are in a spiritual time warp. That is to say there no shortage of spiritual light bulbs going off, there is only a shortage of ways of meaningfully implementing them. We are all powerful beings. We are all at the centre of our universe. We are the eye of our own storm. The calmer we are the stronger the storm around us at times seems to be. But that is all the more compelling to be in your own energy, and having your direct connection to source. This is the way we reinvent ourselves through the ages, over many lifetimes and incarnations. We cannot change through attaching to ideas and concepts that promise us salvation, because they can deliver such things no more than a stone can produce blood. Of course we cannot avoid change – we cannot escape the up and down movements, the figure-skating, and sideways mobility in every direction, all encoded into the fabric of time. Life is change and change can set you free. We can be in our power, the calm eye of the storm, where the heart leads us on the trail of our soul’s purpose. However there is a sacred, calm presence that sits in the middle of your being, all in the presence of turmoil all around it. Even a Tornado has stillness at its centre, just like your sacred inner essence. This part of you is immune to criticism and emotional hurt. Thanks to your inner calm, instead of being tossed around, you actually have the power to move others! You can move others to their own light. Being inside the eye of the storm without getting caught up in it – that is our highest way to be. To be in the know of infinity and the mystery of all that it yields is our highest destiny. The “world” we experience is not out there, but in here. We are each responsible for what we create in our own individual story of life. This is why is it so important to be an individual today, capable of your own original thoughts. The ancient Shamans, spiritual leaders who lived close to nature, knew that millennia ago, as they had some of the best tools in dealing with change. One such tool was the Medicine Wheel. It recognized that life is constantly changing. And hence when you can see yourself in the wheel, the four elements of creation (Fire, Water, Earth and Air) you can synchronize with the universal patterns. The Medicine Wheel is a tool of reinventing yourself and being in the flow of change. It means being in harmony with the universe. We learn to adapt this powerful tool in everyday life, in the book “The Art of Reinvention”. It will be a tool to becoming an authentically powerful human being.