What’s strongest in my spirit right now is trusting that everyday moments are enough.
Enough to be in the fulfillment of my soul’s expression.
The perfectionist tendencies in me still need reminding. There is no “wrong” way to walk my path. It’s my path. I’m the only one walking it.
So how could I do it wrong?
Fears and doubts arise to challenge this, of course. The part of me who is so certain that there is something else I should be doing, being, or having. Searching for the “right” and special moment, action, spiritual practice, or manifestation of achievement. It’s very dramatic, flashy, and strict.
Completing overlooking the everyday moments I’ve come to trust as the many pieces of the mosaic that my soul is designing.
Which brings me to this —
Insights
I'm taking an intro to learning experience design (LXD) right now, and loving it. In essence, LXD is about creating engaging and inclusive learning experiences for learners, whether in formal education, work environments, or informal settings.
A core piece of this is "learner variability.” The recognition that each of us learns in our own way, so the task is to design the experience around the learner, not the other way around.
The parallel hit me immediately. I believe we each have a unique soul design wanting to be expressed. Themes we are exploring and opportunities to remember ourselves at a soul level through these themes. If that's true, then life is already designed to call forth and hold our soul's expression.
Built around us, not something external we are meant to conform to, go find elsewhere, or walk without partnership with our soul.
So when that part of me is searching for the "right” and special thing, it’s anxiously, and sometimes desperately, trying to force and control the design. And that's backwards.
Our soul holds the blueprint and is guiding us along it in the everyday moments that build on each other. Holding us even when we feel afraid, uncertain, and get dramatic.
Because that is what seamless design does. It can be invisible to the eye when done well, allowing us to have our experience of learning. It doesn’t require the dramatic moments to prove it's working. It's already holding you — now— so subtly that you might miss it if you're still searching for special.
June Spotlight
Here are the resonate resources I’ve spent time with this month:
Take what resonates. Leave the rest.
Closing Reflection
This letter arrives on the summer solstice (in the northern hemisphere) — an auspicious time. A doorway opening for enhanced soul alignment, abundant new beginnings that have been stirring for awhile, and releasing what no longer resonates to create space to receive.
How is your soul's design inviting you to welcome the Solstice energies?
If you’re ready to attune more deeply to your soul’s design, I’m here.
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