I can remember a time when my whole view of life was a "I have to". I have to wash the dishes, I have to do the laundry, I have to go to work, I have to do this or that. You get the picture. Life was a series of drudgery and chores. I felt like this is it, a never-ending list of got to do it.
Then one day I had a message, or revelation that changed everything, I heard God or Source of All mention that "I didn't have to". He gave me the word "Perspective". I have often for years heard words or received visions and dreams. So, I was listening and went and looked up the word perspective. Perspective in art is the art of drawing solid objects on a two-dimensional surface so as to give the right impression of their height, width, depth, and position in relation to each other when viewed from a particular point. That is not what God was talking to me about. Instead, it was perspective to my particular attitude, the way I was regarding my life. He was basically saying, why don't you count your blessings instead. I thought about how I had a choice, a chance to shift my way of thinking into a new way of life. So, I decided to try out "I get to" instead. So when I awoke in the morning, I thought about my new day and my new perspective. I get to breathe and live and have my being another day. I get to get dressed and collect the laundry, wake the children, get everybody ready with breakfast for a new day, and then we all get to go to work, some to school, of off to do chores. At the time I was in a job that I had been complaining about and it shifted my whole life, because I realized my job was a blessing and "I get to", helped me be grateful I had it. All of a sudden everything became easier and my outlook on life more promising. What is it in your life that leaves you feeling like "you have to"? Can you shift your perspective and find a new view, one that leaves you feeling good inside and full of gratitude? After all we are the creators of our lives, so let's paint a beautiful picture, one where we want to say, "I get to". Leave me a comment and tell me what's you're have to and how you can shift your vision. I eventually left that job, not because I had to, but because I saw opportunity to grow somewhere else, and then that job also fell away do to Covid, but again I saw it as an opportunity for growth. It eventually led me to a deeper appreciation of my art and talents and the people and circumstances of my life. Today I get to live in Oaxaca, Mexico and new opportunities are coming my way. Have a beautiful day, Be Liquid Love and Flow where You Need to Go Johanna
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We have a floating house on Lake River in Washington State. We as in Ernie and me, my husband of forty-two years. Living in a floating home with the Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge as my backyard did wonders for my spirit. It began to heal my heart and allowed me a new freedom in my art.
The wildlife, the reflections of color and light from the river, spoke to me in deep vibratory ways that I began to express through my art. I call these the "Blue Years" as so much of my art was blue. It's as if the color blue was trying to tell me something. Since blue is connected to your throat chakra the message I was getting was to speak and share my art and truths. Today I am living in Oaxaca, Mexico. For two years by the ocean, the sounds of pounding surf brought more healing. Puerto Escondido has such magical energies. I began to feel alive and expanded with joy. My dreams opened and I experienced visions. During this time, I had three near death experiences, that really shifted my own spiritual perspectives of life. While the ocean is nice, and I loved Puerto the heat was a bit to warm, so, we moved to a small town on the outskirts of Oaxaca City a small town with dusty roads and burrows braying, dogs freely running around, big trees grace the old roads and there is peace in my heart. The colors of Oaxaca fill me with joy, the big puffy white clouds, the purest blue skies, the kindness of the people and art is everywhere you look. It's been three years since art flowed freely from me, but it's beginning to bubble up from my soul. Since 2005 and really even earlier I started feeling angels and higher energies speak to me and through a vibrational knowing, visions, and dreams lead me to study the Power of Quantum healing, and the Positive Power of Sound Therapy and Crystals. I am being led to create art that is illuminated with my very own energy frequencies and is encoded... with the healing vibrations of light and love. What does that look like, I'm not sure yet, but let's find out! Follow my journey...on Instagram. @johannaleelarson_artwork and Facebook What would happen if you turned off the noise, turned off the television, stopped the I have to do's (work, dishes, laundry, etc.) stop listening to what the world says you should be, should do, stop the madness of being on the ever revolving hamster wheel and instead (one of my most life changing words) make a choice to go within? What I can tell you from my own experience is it gets really quiet, and in the quiet you are able to hear the still small voice of your creator, the internal guide of your sacred divinity.
I began to hear this voice but for the longest time didn't recognize and resisted the guidance. I have flowed in visions and would often awake to in the earliest morning hours from dreams, ideas, creative words of wisdom, ceremonies of initiations, wild imaginings. My journal would come out and I would record and think deeply of what it all meant. |
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