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Nov. 9, 2006 |
Daily Soul Retreat at SoulfulLiving.com |
Vol. I, Issue 39 |
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Flowing Gently Down Your Stream
by Laura V. Hyde
 A while ago, I dreamed I was walking in a river swirling with rushing waters. I walked and walked before I realized I was going nowhere. I was walking upstream completely against the river’s powerful current. It seemed like a long time had passed before I discovered I was taking the hardest route. It finally dawned on me that if I would only turn around and walk with the river’s natural current my journey would become much easier.
This dream was symbolic of a relationship situation that was occurring in my waking life. I was determined to follow a course that was clearly not working, or, at least not working in the way I thought it should. My dream, marked with symbols of emotional and spiritual growth (moving water), signified that I was indeed going against the flow of life (river). It took the message of this dream, along with a few others, to drive home the obvious truth. Eventually, I realized it was time to surrender my thoughts, perceptions and feelings about what I felt I should do. For in my heart, I knew such resistance—as demonstrated by my dream—was going against what was in the greater good of everyone involved.
Daily, synchronicities are occurring. They are the guiding lights, the "thumbs up" from the universe that we are on the right track. In my first book Gifts of the Soul I wrote about this universal principle and shared how I’ve discovered (the hard way) that doing what I want is meaningless if it’s not in accordance with Spirit’s plan. Numerous times, I’ve started a new endeavor only to discover that I was careening down the wrong way on a one-way street. Looking back, I can see what happened; my will was going in the opposite direction of Spirit’s. And until I got my own ego-driven ambition out of the way I was blind to the fact that only Spirit’s plan works...
>>> Continue Reading "Flowing Gently Down Your Stream"©
Copyright Laura V. Hyde. This article was originally
published at our website, SoulfulLiving.com,
in Sept 2001, as part of Soulful Living's "Flow and Synchronicity" Issue.
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"To create a splendorous life imbued with healing colors and light, practice flowing gently down your river of life.
Be willing to surrender your will and align with the power of love."
--Laura V. Hyde |
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