The Secret to Your Shine

When I began my work I was fearful and vague. I didn’t really understand my gifts, but I shouted I did psychic bodywork to almost anyone I met, believing I had a duty or contract to help them. In a few remarkable instances this went well, but for the most part I alienated the majority of my friends and virtually all strangers.

I spent many months confused and terrified by the negative reactions. I’d finally lit on my true work and path, but doors seemed to close rather than open. No one wanted me, and I was traumatized by the realization that other people couldn’t handle my light now that it was here.

Gradually I learned to be quieter, to hold back more, to judge if people were “ready” and to share in a way that was non-threatening. I felt smaller but more accepted, and that was okay.

And then, for the first time, I let myself be seen.

In my last newsletter I spoke of realizing the truth about what I do and how I help people. Since then almost every day has brought new clients, opportunities, and confidence to try things I never thought I could do.

I started out aware of my power but afraid of it, holding it up as a shield rather than an open door. I wanted other people to have a certain kind of reaction, and to give me permission to be a light before I would shine.

We are conditioned to believe that other people can’t handle it when we are bright in the world, and often we become defensive and judgmental in our attempts to defy them.

When I opened to the true service of my work, I recognized and was humbled by its core energy of compassion. I realized I don’t need other people to believe in psychics to share my light with them.

If I sense certain truths about me would overwhelm someone I honor their need and do not mention them. Psychic awareness is well beyond the comfort zone of many people, and it is fully understandable if they have resistance to a vital truth in my life. I am not holding back, I am holding space.

I invite you to open beyond the worry of what others think of you, into radiant compassion. People never react negatively to a bright light, rather they blossom within it and their own light responds. I’ve heard that the British government banned its soldiers from speaking to Gandhi because they would go over to his side.

We often spend so much time worrying about what others think we miss that they are desperate for the same energy you crave to express. Every person is a bright light, a bright star, seeking permission to shine.

The only way you can give this permission is by embodying it. When someone reacts negatively to something about you do not take it personally. Be compassionate with who they are, where they are, and demonstrate light in action. In this way you become their teacher, leading by example. Light does not need permission or to be acknowledged to shine. It does because it is.

As you practice kindness you radiate without thought. You become brighter, bolder, more confident, and doors open you didn’t know were there.

Each person is on Earth for their own process and evolution. Their path is not about you, and if you make your progress dependent on theirs, you limit yourself cruelly. The truth is no person or circumstance has the power to shut out your light. We do it to ourselves when we listen to the stories woven by fear.

Be kind. Each and every person is desperate for kindness. That is the light. That is your light. Whatever your great gift is in the world, it starts with compassion. Open to it and the world will open to you.