SimplyNumbers

Quote ~ Christina Feldman

What difference would it make in your life if you engaged the world with a conscious commitment to end sorrow or pain wherever you meet it? What difference would it make to wake in the morning and greet your family, the stranger beside you on the bus, the troublesome colleague, with the intention to listen to them wholeheartedly and be present for them?

Compassion doesn’t always call for grand or heroic gestures. It asks you to find in your heart the simple but profound willingness to be present, with a commitment to end sorrow and contribute to the well-being and ease of all beings. -- “The Buddha is Still Teaching”

Quote ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.

Working with new beginnings (part 1)

As January is the start of a new year, it's an excellent time for new beginnings. What project have you imagined starting, but have held off for one reason or another? Numerologically, now is the time to initiate your projects, especially as they relate to the needs of your heart.

If you're reading this in January, you may also feel compelled to review your life before moving on, or make major life changes. You may feel introspective in light of any intentions or resolutions that you've made. Perhaps, you simply have a few changes that you would like to integrate into your life now.

Reviewing your life is a powerful and healing process to undertake and you may wish to look to your Core Numbers to aid you in this process. They can help you to see where you've been fully listening to your heart, and where you might want to bring focus and energy to. Perhaps, you're not letting the world see where you shine? Perhaps, you can help others to shine! Find a way to work with the areas of your life that you may have neglected in the past, and you can begin to heal your heart. Your life will then begin to unfold in new and exciting ways.

It can also be powerful to work with your dreams, especially when you are pondering changes in your life. 2012 is a great time to tap into your dreams, as the Numerological theme for the year involves understanding the mystery of our lives. Working with dreams really can help you to learn about, and work with, the symbolism and imagery bubbling up from deep within your own heart and psyche.

However, if you haven’t worked with dreams before then the Tarot is a simple, fun and powerful tool to begin working with symbols and images. Utilizing the card that is related to any of your Core Numbers, especially your Life Path, can help you to learn more about your own personal story. The symbolism on each card is stirring, unique and powerful. In the next post, I'll post the cards and the Life Path they correlate to.

As you work with your Life Path Tarot card, the images on the card may reflect ideas you have about changes that you'd like to make, or even parts of dreams that you've been having. Spend enough with the card to learn how it fits into your life. Have fun with it. Draw it. Dance it. Act it out. Do whatever you need to do to express how the card makes you feel. See where the energy, and theme, of the card is in your life.

Find ways to work with what you've learned by working with your Tarot card, Life Path and other numbers to help guide you in any new beginnings that you've been planning. Don't be afraid to ask for help, or even lend a hand to others who are starting their own new beginnings.

Quote ~ GK Chesterton

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

Soul Chat Discussion links

Today, I'll be on Soul Chat with @psychicsandiee of Sandiee.com at 10 PM EST. I'm providing a rough outline below of some of the general topics up for discussion.

Ancestral healing articles: One, Two, and Three

Understanding Shadow: One, Two
People who write/talk about Shadow: Debbie Ford, Connie Zweig

Numerology and inner healing: One, Two

Ancestral healing workshops: Bert Hellinger (founder), Daan Van Kampenhout, John Payne

Shamanic practitioners: Sandra Ingerman, Shaman portal

Forgiveness: http://theforgivenessproject.com/

Pema Chodron & Tonglen

Projection: Wikipedia notes on projection

Welcoming 2012 (part 1)

You’ll likely welcome the coming new year with a few resolutions, as there may be some life changes you’d like to make. However, you’ll more likely stay committed to your resolutions with a solid strategy and outside support. One of the biggest issues for most people is thinking of a goal without anticipating potential obstacles, or making a detailed plan about what will be required to reach your goal. We don't think about what we'll need to do on a day-to-day basis to stay on track and stay motivated. Steve Levinson Ph.D., author of “Following Through”, simply says, “We fail because we don't follow through!”

Fortunately, Numerology offers support for staying true to your goals. A strong Numerological theme for 2012 involves learning more about ourselves, often through opportunities and transitions, which are aligned with the needs of your heart. By paying attention to your heart, and its innate inner wisdom, you'll have the ability to reshape your life. As your heart is connected to your path in life, you may wish to look to your Life Path and begin to see where it fits (or doesn't yet) into your life now. Aligning your goals to your Life Path can give you a better chance at success!

Curiosity is also a strong theme within the year. Be open to looking at your life as a mystery. Be curious. Learn to trust your intuition. Pay attention to gut instincts and feelings. Notice the flavor of your dreams. What does life want for you? What do you feel drawn to explore? What do you feel guided toward? What has your heart been calling for?

Throughout the year, situations may arise which enable you to structure your life in ways you’ve barely imagined. Again, look to find ways to align to your Life Path! Ideally, as opportunities develop, rather than holding back, you’ll be able to accept them as a chance to step deeper into the life you desire.

In order to take full advantage of your opportunities, you may need to let go of non-supportive habits, relationships or situations. This may involve taking chances and opening new doors. Or, it could be about simply trying to embrace your intuition and heart’s wisdom in ways you haven’t before. Following your heart, and it’s intuitive wisdom, can help you to thrive.

Before you make your resolutions, you should take time to do a life review. While your resolutions can be about eliminating certain things, you may wish to evaluate your life in terms of the things you would actually like to bring in. This is not necessarily about material goods, but about listening to the needs, desire and wisdom of your heart, and trusting your intuition. What does your heart need to feel balanced and safe? What has it been yearning for? What risks feel attainable?

Numerology and Inner Healing (2)

Numerologically, your inner desire (represented by your Soul Number) may be unfulfilled. In any pursuit of greater health, it is important to find ways to nurture and listen to your true needs. Pushing aside your inner wishes, hopes and dreams can be a source of conflict, stress, and tension.

When we believe in ourselves, we are better able to deal with stressful situations. When stress slowly drags us down, we tend to not take time out to relax and recover. We then slowly lose confidence in our abilities and let things slide. In attempts to lessen stress, we may ignore important aspects of our lives, because we don’t have enough time or space. As an example, we may not take as good care of ourselves as we should.

The Soul Number can be a great place to start as it indicates the views you tend to have of yourself. You may then want to look into the following questions:

• Are you neglecting who you really are?
• Do you share your interests and talents?
• Do you make time for your interests?
• Do you have a support system?
• Does who you are get in the way of solving or coping with personal issues?

Stress can come from many sources, but one of the biggest probably stems from trying to do, or take on, too much. How much is too much? It depends on where you are in your life, your skills, and your resources. Are there times in your life that you took on more than you could handle and then simply collapsed or let things slide, due to the stress? I believe your ability to stay balanced in your life is extremely important. This is another place where Numerology can fit into this complex puzzle. It can help to illustrate how you can best remain balanced during challenging or stressful situations.

Numerology and Inner Healing

The quest for healing can be about seeking out ways to bring about ways to live a simple, healthy, uncomplicated, and comfortable life. However, to truly heal we often must become more aware of ourselves, our actions, and the way in which we lead our lives. Utilizing spiritual tools, like Numerology, we can become more self-aware and begin our own personal healing.

However, there may be roadblocks in your path. You may have to do a lot of examining of your thoughts and your life. How often do we hear negative phrases, or stories, about how bad life is? After a while this information takes on more and more power in your life. Many of us have living and healing that we want to accomplish. If you want to heal, then it’s time take action. Roll up your sleeves and begin the work that you know you want to do, rather than giving a greater percentage of your power to the negativity in life.

True healing can only come from within you. Of course, we need to recognize that important health information can come from our inner voice, yet it can also come from the world around us, or it may come from the loving advice of friends and family. When you come to understand that changes need to take place, you will realize that healing involves doing. Our healing is about attending to our selves and our inner needs. But again, it's not about ignoring the world, it's recognizing that we need to address our own issues if we truly want to effectively be able to be of service to others or the world at large.

Numerology can help you to recognize your strengths and your weaknesses. Unless we embrace ourselves in total, we won't be able to claim our full power and step up to our true potential. Indeed, working with our own Shadow can be one of the most healing things that we'll ever do.

Next, we'll discuss how to work with your Soul Number to find ways to nurture and listen to your inner voice. After all, pushing aside your inner wishes, hopes and dreams can be a source of conflict, stress, and tension, which can prevent you reaching your goals and accomplishing the healing you deserve in your life.

Quote ~ C.G. Jung

No amount of skepticism and criticism has yet enabled me to regard dreams as negligible occurrences. Often enough they appear senseless, but it is obviously we who lack the sense and ingenuity to read the enigmatic message from the nocturnal realm of the psyche.

Seeing that at least half our psychic existence is passed in that realm, and that consciousness acts upon our nightly life just as much as the unconscious overshadows our daily life, it would seem all the more incumbent on medical psychology to sharpen its senses by a systematic study of dreams.

Nobody doubts the importance of conscious experience; why then should we doubt the significance of unconscious happenings? They also are part of our life, and sometimes more truly a part of it for weal or woe than any happenings of the day.

TED Talk - Kathryn Schulz - on Regret