Blissings Issue 1
Follow Your Bliss:
The feel-good path to your dreams
By Miriam Evers
If you want the experience of living, fully and
joyously, in each moment, then follow your bliss. It’s what
we are meant to do – it is why we are here.
Bliss is that “high on life” feeling when
everything flows effortlessly. It is that feeling we get from watching
a magnificent sunset exploding with a burst of red and orange colours;
or watching sunbeams dance merrily on the water; or that peak experience
when two bodies come together as one.
Following your bliss means listening to your heart
in every moment, in every aspect of your life - your relationships,
your finances, and your well-being. The more we flow with life,
the more confident and loving we are, the more we have access to
infinite possibilities. Making the decision to follow your bliss
is the beginning of expansion in every way.
Like most good advice, following our bliss sounds
simple, but it’s hardly easy. We all find ourselves constantly
forced to choose between what we should do and what our hearts are
telling us to do. That nagging little voice of ego or social conscience
in our head speaks loudly reminding us of the promises and commitments
we made to others, of the things we need to do to maintain the status
quo. So we do the right thing - the shoulds and musts, only to discover,
somewhere down the road, that our over-committed life leaves us
feeling unfulfilled and depressed.
Joseph Campbell, the famous philosopher, said, “When
you follow your bliss... doors will open where you would not have
thought there would be doors, and where there wouldn't be a door
for anyone else.”
I’ve been a follow-your-bliss coach for the
past few years and still I get tested; still I get torn choosing
between my mind or ego thoughts and my heart’s desires. Recently
a friend approached me and asked me to speak on her radio talk show
about what I do – which is help people to create a life that
honours their hearts desires.
I was torn. How could I find the time to prepare
for the 13 teleclasses that I had already committed to as well as
a talk show? The classes that I’d been running for the past
six months were born out of a commitment to follow my bliss; they
were incredibly successful, and yet in order for me to say yes to
this new door opening before me I had to say no to something else.
What to do? What to do? I decided to follow the
direction my heart was guiding me in and I postponed the next session
of teleclasses and said yes to my talk show friend. Suddenly everything
my friend and I needed to make our ideas happen came in a rush.
Doors we didn’t even know existed opened and connections were
made; our creative energy rose higher and higher. We excitedly expanded
our plans – the talk show could be a weekly program carried
on radio stations across Canada. High on life we surged with ideas
and energy; it felt like bliss.
Following my bliss always feels the same way; it’s
a life-giving feeling that comes from making a heart-driven choice.
Right about now you might be thinking: “I haven’t
a clue what my bliss is!” You’re wrong – you do know
because we all have an Impeccable Guide that - in every moment -
is communicating to us what our hearts’ desire; you only have
to pay attention to your intuition (your gut feeling). Tune in to
what your gut feeling is telling you to do, where it wants you to
go, and whom it wants you to see.
Again, the key to following the path of bliss is
simple; it’s just not easy. It requires you to tell yourself
the truth about how you FEEL- absolutely and fiercely. This takes
courage and practice.
Consider the following powerful questions -
• Is what you are doing right now adding to
your life energy or dragging you down?
• Do you make decisions from inspiration and joy, or from obligation
and fear?
• In this moment are you standing in your power or are you
trying to please others?
Living a life of fulfilled happiness means listening
to your heart in every moment, in every aspect of your life - your
relationships, your finances, and your well-being.
When I’m teaching others how to achieve their
bliss - on the air, through my teleclasses, or by personal coaching
– I am flowing with life; I feel confident and loving and full
of the infinite possibilities of a blissful life.
Bliss is the place where we connect with the pure
positive energy of our Source, the home of our True Self. If you
want the experience of living, fully and joyously, in each moment,
then follow your bliss. It’s what we are meant to do –
it is why we are here.
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