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Happy new week everyone!
I am actually writing this up on Friday this time because I have a jam packed weekend coming up. Not any one thing, but lots of appointments which will distract me from this. lol
This has been the first time in a long time that I've had a whole weekend book up on me like this and I love it.
I had a very special moment yesterday that I wanted to share with you. To preface this story though, you need to know that for me, doing this work, it's a rare thing when I don't ending up feeling like a friend with whoever I read or do reiki for. Especially my regulars. I like to say that all of y'all talk to me about things you would never tell your bartenders if you went to the bar. (That's only a slight exaggeration.) That kind of trust creates a bond.
So to the younger ones of you who come to me, I end up feeling like the Auntie, the ones of you who around my age (33 for the 21st time), I end up feeling like a friend or sister, and the ones who have more experience in life than me, well....I just feel lucky and honored that they want to interact with me for a reading.
Now that you know that, I'm going to add to your information about me this: I was never physically able to have children safely. For me that was a big loss because I dreamed of having 5 children when I was younger. It literally took me decades to come to terms with that.
Several years ago, 2012 or 2013, I had a reading from some students at the Boulder Psychic Institute, one of the things that was brought out in that reading was that I would have kids but not biologically, children of another kind. Even at that time, I could see that in my work and my clients because I have always tried to be genuinely helpful, even from the very beginning of my career in this field.
Having that background information, I had a younger person come to me for a reading, and then decide that they also wanted me to mentor them privately. In fact, this person is the reason I put mentorship services on my web-site originally. We had mentorship phone calls regularly for several months. During that time she started calling me Mom, saying that I was her mom when it came to understanding spiritual things. I took it as an honor. Then she just sort of fell off the radar for a while. (In this line of work, usually if someone falls off the radar for a while, it's a pretty good bet that they're doing well.) There was the occasional text but no more mentoring for the last year or so. Yesterday we had a phone call because she wanted to book a birthday reading. I got to hear about all the things that she's doing in her life and in her work. She's not doing the same thing I do for work. Many times people who are very intuitive aren't called to do this as work, and that's ok. The work that she is doing though, is having a profound impact on multiple families and individuals. After hearing about the exciting things she is doing in her work world, I mentioned how proud I am of her. She's come a long way from our early psychic mentoring days.
That was when they told me: "I couldn't have done it without you, Mom." As they elaborated on that a little bit, I almost started crying.
I always try to think of the effect that I'm having on my people. I'm always hoping to impact them in a way that it will create a positive ripple effect. That the decisions and the attitudes that they have when they are finished with their time with me, will be such as to make them a positive influence on the people around them.as well to create that ripple effect wherever all my people are in the world. I always thought that I would never know about the ripple effect and how much impact it really had or hadn't made in the big picture. I thought that would be nothing that I could know until after I pass, and maybe in my life review it would come out.
Really I still only just got a glimpse of it in that conversation. I got enough of a glimpse of it to know that it's happening. Having that little bit of validation really felt sweet to me.
Sometimes clients are challenging, in this industry just as much as any other. I can honestly say that I have the best clients in the whole wide world. And I can also honestly say that mixed right in with those, are a handful of ones that started off very challenging to work with. Over time I've seen every one of them become a delight to work with. It's been my humbling honor to witness the journey.
This person that I mentored was never at that challenging level, but it didn't matter. They reminded me yesterday, without even trying to, that there is a bigger picture, and that I'm contributing to it by everything that I say or do. It's not always easy to hold good energy for people. Sometimes I have to remind myself of the ones who seem to have transformed very slowly before my eyes into someone who is peaceful, and in touch with themselves to keep my patience. That's one of the reasons that I don't want anyone to put me on some kind of platform in their mind.
I'm just a human. I can be impatient and frustrated and even depressed sometimes. We all can.
Having that little glimpse of a ripple effect though, wow, that reminds me just how much it's all worth it, and just how much each of us finding our own peace, finding our own love, brings peace and love to those around us.
Everyone who is in chaos just wants to find their own peace and their own love. What if they just don't know how yet?
I guess I have rambled a little bit all over the place here today. But I think the bottom line is that someday, a long time from now, I want someone to inscribe on my tombstone "she was the grandmother to many who sought and found their own peace and their own love."
That would make me happy.
Each of you are navigating your journeys here on this planet in amazing and wonderful ways! Thank you so much for allowing me the honor of crossing paths with you as we do! I appreciate each of you. :)
Peace,
Amista
