​Spring Break brings up different images for each of us, depending on where you are in your life's journey and how much connection you have to school schedules. (Baby meme courtesy of Google!)

When I was in high school and college, Spring Break offered a chance to pause before the end of the school year, to catch my breath and catch up on all the assignments that needed to be completed! For many of my friends, Spring Break meant a week of partying, whether at the beach or staying home, a chance to let their hair down and play.

As a working mother with young school-aged children, Spring Break meant a week of juggling daycare and babysitters while trying to meet regular work deadlines. Now at this spacious point in my life, Spring Break offers extra time with my family when they're out of school, while I continue working from home.

My husband is a teacher, and I believe teachers need the break from the students and packed schedules as much as the students need a break from school! This week is usually when he tackles many of the indoor and outdoor projects at home that there haven't been time for during the school year. And so there has been a lot of activity at home this week! New appliances, new furniture, a new water softener system being installed... I am blessed with a husband who can install, build, or fix just about anything!

As I reflect on this week In my meditation time this morning, I treasure the moments of Ordinariness that I have been fully present for over Spring Break.

One Day Is Here!
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Vivienne Gerard – Teacher / Scribe / Healer / Guide / Lover of Souls and Humanity 
Clearing Past Patterns to Co-Create an Empowered NOW
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​In my walk outside with Star, I was simultaneously listening to the birds calling to each other as they do when spring arrives AND watching my dog bury his nose in the snow that still sits here from two days ago. Our weather forecast for tomorrow shows 2"-4" of more snow arriving!

Such contrasts playing out through Mother Nature today... this weekend... this year.

After my meditation this morning, I pulled a card from my Osho Zen deck, to see what wisdom my Infinite Soul offered in the present moment and I received this beautiful word - Ordinariness.

Osho says it perfectly and so I share his wisdom here with you.

"Sometimes it happens that you become one, in some rare moment.

Watch the ocean, the tremendous wildness of it - and suddenly you forget your split, your schizophrenia; you relax. Or, moving in the Himalayas, seeing the virgin snow on the Himalayan peaks, suddenly a coolness surrounds you and you need not be false because there is no other human being to be false to. You fall together. Or listening to beautiful music, you fall together.

Whenever, in whatsoever situation, you become one, a peace, a happiness, a bliss, surrounds you, arises in you. You feel fulfilled.

One Day Is Here!

Vivienne Gerard – Teacher / Scribe / Healer / Guide / Lover of Souls and Humanity 
Clearing Past Patterns to Co-Create an Empowered NOW
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​I trust you are well!

I am joyously awaiting the first day of my first 8-week group program, Awakening The Guides!

We begin on Monday, March 12th by exploring this idea of Self - who we are in relationship to others. In this time of Pisces, bringing our attention to our individual roles within the Collective Consciousness of Humanity, there could be no more appropriate way to begin our journey.


Traditional Marketing...

As I prepare the foundation and the space for those who are already gathering energetically and physically to be in this community, the "marketing" or "promotion" of this program has been a topic of much exploration in my meditation time.

In college, I studied business management and communication. My "old" corporate and non-profit career was based on fast-paced development and marketing roles. In the consulting work I also did after I left my last full-time position, I was involved in many launches of programs and events. So I am familiar with the traditional launch process where there is pressure put into the communication with potential participants to "hurry up and make it into the space before the doors close!" 

Usually this involves multiple emails that increase in intensity and quantity leading up to the event or program, with greater and greater pressure on time and deadlines so that we are not "left out" or "excluded."

I experience this myself often when I sign up for a webinar or live call that sounds interesting to me... but in which they are usually selling a program at the end. And then my inbox fills up with 5, 10 emails from a person I don't know, urging me to hurry, hurry, hurry before I lose the opportunity to spend time with him or her!

​These marketing tactics are repeatedly used because they have proven results. People sign up because they don't want to miss out.

What I have found in my own journey, though, is that I often don't go back to listen to the content or do the work that was involved in the offering! 

I was usually more caught up in the benefits that were being sold to me as a result of the program. And in my desire to reach those benefits, I would hurry to pay for the program but never really buy in to the work, the participation that would be required for me to receive or achieve those results.

I spent the money but I never really invested myself in the experience.

So, I sit here today, knowing that is the strategy that would likely bring in results. 

And I have no interest in playing that game!


The Experience...

​In my meditation time this morning, I kept seeing the image of a cruise ship about to leave port.

For those who have been on cruises or know friends who have been on cruises, there is indeed an urgency to make it to the dock to be checked into the ship... because the ship is leaving on its adventure whether you are on it or not!

And because of the thrill and the joy and the excitement and the pleasure that you expect to have on the cruise, you don't want to miss that deadline of the ship leaving. Because you know that if you miss the ship, it's going to take a lot of coordination, hassle, and money to try to fly to the next port to catch up!

And you'll miss all the fun that happened on the first day of the cruise - like when you're waving goodbye to the people running to the dock who didn't make it to the ship on time!

Even if you are not a fan of cruise ships, the stories that people share of how much pleasure they experience while on a cruise, clearly conveys the feeling... the vibration... that we associate with a wonderful vacation. 

So... my "marketing" approach for the next week until this program begins is to tune into and expand the vibration of the experience itself... 

...To steady and expand the foundation of the experience so that as each individual arrives "at port, ready to step onto the cruise ship" and begin the adventure, your welcome and your path to follow is clearly guided.


The Awakening...

Awakening The Guides is already happening. ​

I am experiencing this higher resonance, this deepening connection to my own Spiritual Guides. More each day.

The field of healing is already expanding and calling in those who are ready to Awaken to their next level.

My "marketing" efforts are complete.

I trust that my Guides are connecting with your Guides, if this is the space your Soul is ready for you to step into next. And so your Guides will show you the signs, the nudges, the winks that your human eyes and mind might need as you feel into if this is a match for you. 

And then the choice is unfolding between your Soul and your human experience. 

If you are meant to play in this community, you will.

There are a few Gifts from my Soul to your Soul that I offer:
(if your mind is in resistance to you shifting, expanding, and changing in ways that might ripple out in your life!)

• The first is this beautiful song by Caspian that keeps playing on my shuffle, titled Waking Season. The song captures the resonance, the feeling, the sounds, the emotions of our 8-week journey.

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• The second is a guided meditation that I created at the beginning of this year, titled Claiming My Seat at the 2018 Roundtable. There is clarity and wisdom that every Soul can receive in this half hour of gentle guidance.

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• And third, if you have not spent time with me in person recently, there is healing that happens when we are present together. I am in full alignment with my Soul and Heart on Tuesdays at 5:55pm ET, when I sit and invite you to come play on SO's Soul Stories. You call in by phone or join me by video and we can chat about anything under the Sun or Moon. The words are irrelevant. It is the flow of Love and Hope and Laughter that offers the healing. The exchange is $22, which is the number of Mastery. I show up in mine and you show up in yours and we are present together. One person, 10, 20, 100... we are present together. Experiencing this hour tomorrow night allows you to feel into any next steps for your own journey. You can exchange here.

I may or may not send out my weekly newsletter on Friday. I am spending time with my beautiful friend, Andrea, in Indianapolis on Wednesday and Thursday, creating some of the content for Awakening The Guides. And then my daughter arrives home on Friday for Spring Break!

So, I am simply practicing being present and trusting in the perfect alignment of my own Flow.

May your week ahead also be filled with grace and ease!

SO much love from My Heart to Yours,

One Day Is Here!

Vivienne Gerard – Teacher / Scribe / Healer / Guide / Lover of Souls and Humanity 
Clearing Past Patterns to Co-Create an Empowered NOW
Join me on My Soul Journey on Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, and Twitter.

​"But as we are playing with time, space and the density of matter, the joy is in the contrast. ... Having a human incarnation and feeling the frustration of not understanding or remembering the greatness of the Soul. 

And then transitioning back to being a Soul again and going “Oh, man! How did I not understand that?! How did I not see that?! How can it be so dense to be a human?” 

So then we come back into another incarnation with higher expectations and bigger goals, convinced that this time we’re going to remember what it’s like to be in the higher dimension and how awesome we are as Souls! We land back in the human body and find that it’s the same density, the same heaviness, and the same contrast. Uggghhh…

And we transition back into the non-physical Soul again, saying “Awww, no, I forgot again?!” Then back to another human incarnation where we don’t get done what we think we’re going to get done… and then we’re back to being a Soul again, going “Awww, how did I forget?!” 

There’s this exciting, beautiful, powerful loop – Soul to human, human to Soul, Soul to human, human to Soul… And it’s just Extraordinary!" 

So for me to say that the contrast is going to end may feel like a spoiler for the Souls who came for that exact reason!

This is the funny thing about the twisting roads we take... the Soul already knows that at the end of the human lifetime, we return to being Love. Always.

Love already Wins and always Wins!

If we believe that to be true, then as Souls in human bodies, why can we not believe that we can create THAT existence here in the physical form also? 

On the last few Sunday meditations, I have noticed that I am guided to end the hour with two to three minutes of opening our physical eyes and integrating what the Third Eye has seen with what the human eyes see in front of us.

This integration practice is such a beautiful example of what I am describing in this letter to you. The Third Eye... the Heart... the Soul... KNOWS and FEELS what is happening on our planet. The physical eyes are simply trying to make sense of and decipher what we already know to be true inside.​

When we are children, we grow up wanting to change the world. Be famous! Make an impact. Leave this world better than it was when we arrived. 
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It is NEVER too late to change the world. And I promise you, it happens in every small moment where we each show up and act from Love.

Lose the fear and Expand the Love.... and YES, we change our world.

​​From my centered, steady, and ever-expanding Heart to Yours,
Viv

One Day Is Here!

Vivienne Gerard – Teacher / Scribe / Healer / Guide / Lover of Souls and Humanity 
Clearing Past Patterns to Co-Create an Empowered NOW
Join me on My Soul Journey on Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, and Twitter.