'Dear Abby' has been a notable newspaper advice feature since the 1950s. That was then. This is now and we have our own, personal 'Dear Abby Gooch' at Rancho Santa Fe to help us focus on creating the lives we desire. Abby wants to answer a few, selected personal questions in her column from time to time. If you have questions about situations, personal growth, or anything really, please feel free to send them to abby@lifeforceconnection.com.
Chances are other people have similar questions and the answers will inspire and help.
-- Editor's Note
The joy of serving comes from love. Since you and I are one in spirit yet two embodied, the only identity difference is who we call ourselves. I am….lawyer, rich, poor, sad etc. It really doesn’t matter who you call yourself today because tomorrow it could be something totally different. I’m personally on an adventure to discover who I can serve, who I am and who I am here to be so people will receive the message of love I come to share.
I was talking with my mom this morning who reminded me that we are all in this together, all of us have a purpose. It is a matter of finding it by listening to our heart and dropping into our own core. Not someone elses’, but our own.
What makes you happy?
Do it!
I’m really just trying to get you in touch with your heart so you can feel your own priceless purpose. For me, I had to leave everything I loved (except my car) to find my own purposeful path. It just seemed too easy to live from my mind and so I had to step into my heart. From my heart, came my connection to my intuition. When I speak of “the mind”, I am referring to the constant mind-chatter or monkey-mind that creates the stories of our lives. Most of it is not even real and the few that are real are the miracles of our lives. The beauty of love is what creates. Serving with joy is a step in the right direction but the true manifestation occurs when a loving thought comes into your heart and you act on it!
Coming back from an amazing experience working with a client today showed me that what we have inside us is really the same as one another. Every experience can either bring us closer to God or further away . It’s all in how we choose to look at the situation.
The quickest way to to move into your purpose is to love yourself enough to follow your freedom. The feeling of freedom releases you from the chains of restrictions, judgments and pain. The freedom to be who you are. Love.
How does it feel. What would you do?
I woke up this morning with the angels speaking to me in more ways than one saying, “When your love is > greater than your judgment, you will be free!”
How to find safety within this freedom?
Speaking from experience, I first discovered freedom to be a very empowering experience, at the same time a very frightening one. With all of these choices, which ones should I choose? I would literally walk down a road and then at the intersection, not know which way to turn…hilarious, I know! I had to laugh too…!
The first thing to ask yourself is, where are you going?
And why?
The mind is like a very smart two year old. It needs instruction. If you listen to your heart and drop into your core, as I mentioned above, you will find your way. “Lost” is your feeling that you are not on a path that serves your highest good.
Stop. Breathe. Feel.
Step in the direction that feels best.
Every feeling has a purpose and a message. The key is to listen to your feelings and then move yourself to the highest vibration through your thoughts. For example, if you are feeling depressed or sad, you may ask yourself what that feeling is telling you. It may be saying that you need to get out of your current job and follow your passion, or maybe that you are lonely and need to be available for more people to see?
Our feelings are our teachers…
Feeling _______ is just the way that this part wants me to, what’s even more important than that?
Sadness
Love
Freedom
Joy
Peace
Happiness
Say “happiness” is your highest priority. Now imagine that you have a creative part of you that has an answer to everything. Ask that part to tell you how to create whatever feeling you want. What actions will you need to take?
To be happy you may need to move around and dance. Feel your body and then think about what career might fit your needs…!
This is called “parts integration”. Give it a whirl and you might just be able to be happy right now! The safety and love you are looking for is always inside you and I if we just listen to our feelings and trust the next moment to unfold perfectly for our best and highest good.
Bliss is in the moment, every moment.
Love,
Abby
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Abby has a number of upcoming events for you to consider attending.
Miracle of U Classes the 1st and 3rd Thursday of the month. 7-9pm. Begins Sept. 20th. Please call for details and location: 858-531-8434.www.lifeforceconnection.comwww.themiracleofu.comUsing Your Intuition In Networking-October 9th 2:00-6:00pm.
Please call for details.
From 7 to 8:30 p.m. the first and third Thursday of each month, she hosts Soulsisters and Brothers Circle - An awesome networking event where we get to know each other in an informal and friendly manner. All are welcome!
From 7 to 9 p.m. the second Thursday of each, she hosts Circle of Abundance. Come and experience the abundance of the universe first hand!
More events at: http://www.lifeforceconnection.com/calendar.htm
Abby's latest project is 'The Miracle of U', a compact disc series including partner workbook to serve as a guide to discovering one's true nature. Visit http://themiracleofu.com/ for more details.
Abby E. Gooch, Ch.T
Intuitive Success Coach, Inspirational Speaker
Life Force Connection
1687 San Elijo Dr.
Cardiff, CA 92007
858-531-8434
www.lifeforceconnection.com
Abby@lifeforceconnection.com
(858) 531-8434
More about Abby from Abby:
As a young child I felt the presence of God wrapping itself around me like a warm blanket, it was as if I was a part of something that it was bigger than me, yet I could hold it in my hand at the same time. It had no time or shape, it simply was. This presence was so loving that I knew I could do nothing wrong and that I was safe.
Held in the arms of love, I became more aware of this unseen presence called “energy.” I would feel it, notice it, but not really know what to do with it! J
I knew this was the answer to everything yet obviously got overwhelmed with it. Like everyone, I had a childhood, a story and have had many life experiences where I felt disconnected from my own Life Force Connection to God.
When I was 19yrs. old I got an inspiration to start a business…this business was to share the love, joy and freedom I felt in discovering more of who I was. It was infinite and seemed so easy! I don’t claim that I have always had it easy, but when I was centered in my heart, everything worked! I simply followed my intuition! I wanted others to see themselves in the same way and have what their soul wanted. Thus, the birth of Life Force Connection today!
As I continued to work with clients and develop my own intimate connection with God, I saw that I really could do what I wanted when I truly believed in myself and released blocks in my unconscious mind and body that kept me from being who I was. I studied massage, coaching, NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming), Hypnosis, Reiki, Psychic Development, you name it! I was determined to allow my spirit to fly! These modalities became the services I offered at Life Force Connection.
As Life Force Connection grew and took on a vision and life of it’s own, I began to see and feel myself drawn to more speaking. To reach and touch the heart’s of the world. It felt like a dream, yet the same passion was there as was for Life Force Connection. Almost like MAGIC, the right people were drawn to me, people would ask me what I did. I told them I wanted to be a speaker. Within a couple of months of thinking this thought, I was asked to speak at several organizations including, S.C.O.R.E., Women Helping Women, Women in Networking and North County Women in Networking. My passion grew of course….
Soon I was teaching Business, NLP and combined intuition classes at the School of Healing Arts and the Motivational Institute of Hypnotherapy. My heart expanded into what I really love, intuitive development for the soul, helping others see into their hearts, thrive and be who they are from the deepest inner self, to bring that Life Force energy to the surface where they get to manifest an abundance of love, money, happiness, health, wealth, and energy!
For a list of my classes, workshops and services, please click on Mystic Services and Upcoming LFC Events on the navigation bar above.
Love and Bliss,
Abby
