{"id":747,"date":"2012-06-15T04:29:22","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T02:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/otitijasmine.wordpress.com\/?p=747"},"modified":"2012-06-15T04:29:22","modified_gmt":"2012-06-15T02:29:22","slug":"soul-visionary-say-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.otitijasmine.com\/otitijasmine.org\/2012\/06\/15\/soul-visionary-say-what\/","title":{"rendered":"Soul Visionary? Say What?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">When I look at the soul, my line of vision splits in two: I see it as it is, and as it <em>could<\/em> be.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehiyl.com\/2012\/06\/new-day-new-page.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-789\" src=\"http:\/\/www.otitijasmine.com\/otitijasmine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/536398_390800864291352_1907636177_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"383\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.otitijasmine.com\/otitijasmine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/536398_390800864291352_1907636177_n.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.otitijasmine.com\/otitijasmine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/536398_390800864291352_1907636177_n-300x235.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.otitijasmine.com\/otitijasmine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/536398_390800864291352_1907636177_n-382x300.jpg 382w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Are you weighted down? You can be lifted up.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Are you wilting? You can bloom.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Are you cowering in fear? You can stand tall, bold and unashamed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Are you searching? You can discover what you seek.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Are you thirsting? You can be fully satisfied.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">What I do as a soul visionary is to visualise what we&#8217;re capable of when we let ourselves go. What&#8217;s holding you back? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Why are <\/span><strong><em><span style=\"color:#000000;\">you<\/span><\/em><\/strong><span style=\"color:#000000;\"> holding you back?<!--more--><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">We often feel we&#8217;re not qualified, or we need someone else&#8217;s permission, or we&#8217;re waiting for some sign that we have the right to want what we want.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I&#8217;ll let you in on a little secret: <strong>you already have permission<\/strong>. The signs are already there. <em>Open your eyes<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">The longing you feel to express yourself? It&#8217;s a sign that you should. The intense reaction you get every time you think of an issue that&#8217;s important to you? It&#8217;s a sign you can and should do about it. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">The gut instinct whispering you could launch that product\/service\/business? Sign and permission all rolled into one.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">The signs are always there. The <span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">permission<\/span> is always there. Maybe you feel you don&#8217;t have enough resources and so should wait until you do. Rubbish; what&#8217;s wrong with planting the seed now and watering it with something small every day? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">People start off at different stages depending on their circumstance, and waiting until everything&#8217;s perfect is a fruitless exercise guaranteed to drain your will and energy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">But what&#8217;s all this got to do with being a soul visionary? I&#8217;m <em>so<\/em> glad you asked.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">As a soul visionary, you see the big picture: your sizzling future, the reasons behind your wants and needs, the bases of your dreams and desires, <em>everything<\/em>. It&#8217;s an ability to open your mind&#8217;s eyes and let yourself see what&#8217;s possible if you allow yourself dream and imagine. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">It&#8217;s about tapping into the passion bubbling away in some part of you and letting it gush out to stir you up and turn you <em>on<\/em>. Ready to take on the world. Ready to live your dreams. So fiercely in love with your dreams that you can&#8217;t help <em>but<\/em> live them every day. Every single day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Will there be burnout? Yes.\u00a0Will you sometimes feel lost and afraid? Absolutely. Will you come close to giving up? Sigh; totally.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><em>But<\/em>. The great thing is there&#8217;s always the big picture to sustain you. There&#8217;s always fuel to feed your fire and keep you burning for success. The fuel could be anything: rest; nutrition; prayer; meditation; sound advice; unplugging; slowing down and taking a step back as you check in with yourself,<em> anything<\/em>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">It&#8217;s just important to remember that your need to recharge doesn&#8217;t make your will to succeed any less valid, it simply makes you human. And that&#8217;s totally okay.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><strong>&#8220;But what if I&#8217;m not a soul visionary?&#8221;<\/strong> Hire one! \ud83d\ude00 Coaches are usually the right way to go. Or connect with someone like me who&#8217;s all about it.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Seriously though, we all are on some level because we&#8217;re able to tell when we want <\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><em>more<\/em><\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;\">. More joy, more fulfilment, more passion. We know when we&#8217;re lacking or when we&#8217;re stifled.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Granted, you may not know <span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">how<\/span> to ask the right questions to get your answers and desires flowing, but you <span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">do<\/span> know how to root around in your psyche, yes? Sure you do. Oh you don&#8217;t? Allow me.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000;\">What&#8217;s important to you? <em>Why<\/em> is it important?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000;\">What are your values (e.g. freedom, abundance, security, etc)?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Are your dreams your own or someone else&#8217;s?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Are you listening to your heart or popular opinion?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000;\">How far are you <strong>really<\/strong> willing to go to get what you want?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">These are some starting points to crystallise the longings of your heart. It&#8217;s always speaking to you, always crying out to be heard. What will you do about what it tells you?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><strong>Act on it<\/strong>. In the name of all that&#8217;s dear and holy to you, ACT ON IT.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;\">It&#8217;s why you&#8217;re here. It&#8217;s your reason to live. It&#8217;s your essence as a person. Whatever your heart has to say is your own way of &#8220;putting a ding in the universe&#8221; like Steve Jobs did.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">The only question is, are you up for it?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Are you up for speaking your truth even if it&#8217;s not popular?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Are you up for stepping into your power and trusting that it won&#8217;t overwhelm you?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Are you up for swirling in your brilliance and light and knowing they can never blind you?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Are you?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Maybe you&#8217;re pumping your fists in the air and hollering, &#8220;Hell yeah! I&#8217;m ready to OWN this, baby!&#8221; Or perhaps you&#8217;re shrinking back, mumbling &#8220;Um, yeah. Sounds great. I&#8217;ll try when I feel ready and can handle it.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">For the fist-pumpers, rock <em>on<\/em>. No time like the present, aye? \ud83d\ude09<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">For those who&#8217;re shrinking back, <strong>don&#8217;t<\/strong>. Dare to dream. Dare to go for it. You&#8217;ll never be ready or able to handle it if you wait for the right things to fall into place first. You have to act before you feel ready. Act before you feel you can handle it. It&#8217;s the actions that prepare you and arm you with the tools you need to succeed, not the wait for some miraculous set of circumstances to make your vision viable.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">It&#8217;s just like learning a new language or an instrument, you know? You don&#8217;t <em>wait<\/em> to feel ready for it, you just dive in and start learning by doing. <strong>Learning by doing<\/strong>. That&#8217;s how you answer your heart&#8217;s call. That&#8217;s how you flex your soul visionary muscles. That&#8217;s how your nebulous dreams become tangible and achievable.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I currently live in Germany and am learning the lingo. As much as I like to kid myself that I&#8217;m badass at it, I <em>still<\/em> need to study and practise because anything you don&#8217;t use doesn&#8217;t improve. I gotta learn it by doing it and that&#8217;s really the only way forward. It&#8217;s the only way we can evolve as human beings in any area of our lives. Get <em>on<\/em> it, people!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">You&#8217;ll notice I asked a lot of questions and didn&#8217;t answer all of them; that&#8217;s where you come in. What are your thoughts on the unanswered questions? Do you think I&#8217;m just navel-gazing and talking out of my ass, or do you think they hold some truths?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Let&#8217;s open up this discussion in the comments below, lovelies. I&#8217;d love to get your perspective on this. \ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Image credit:<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.happinessinyourlife.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Doe Zantamata<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"geo-post-747\" class=\"geo geo-post\" style=\"display: none\"><span class=\"latitude\">51.045925<\/span><span class=\"longitude\">7.01922<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I look at the soul, my line of vision splits in two: I see it as it is, and as it could be. Are you weighted down? You can be lifted up. Are you wilting? You can bloom. 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