Hello Tribe, I hope you are all well?

I have been in a patch of interesting energy over the past two weeks. Things from my past have been bubbling to the surface and I am extra emotionally sensitive and reactive. I can see a bright, brilliant future for myself and I so desperately want to move towards it post haste, but I feel like I’m being reminded of something crucial – there’s a time to accelerate and there’s a time to take your foot off the pedal and give it over to the Universe. I take a step and the Universe takes a step to meet me, but it’s not my timing, it’s Universal timing. Universe will take a step to meet me when it’s for my highest good.

As frustrating as it is, we are not often privy to Universal timing, to when the Universe is going to take that step to meet you. Waiting and having patience is hard when you can see and feel the end goal. I think, in general, we are programmed to push towards what we want. For me, I was supposed to host a workshop yesterday, but on Friday morning, I made the decision to cancel it because nobody had booked a ticket – not one! This is the second time I’ve tried to run a workshop and no one has been interested. I’m working hard, trying not to let that impact on my confidence.

But there are a lot of things happening around me at the moment – I am actively looking for a house to rent, a place to call my own, I am working through the emotions and the memories that are bubbling up from the past and I am taking steps towards my future. I’ve felt the need to push, and push hard and fast. As I’ve pushed, I’ve also felt the pressure rising. I found myself using words like; ‘I have to achieve it,’ ‘I have to be successful,’ ‘I can’t fail,‘ and ‘if I step back, then I can kiss that dream goodbye.’ Some examples – regarding my future as an entrepreneur and life coach, I want it so badly that to not push for it, feels a little like giving up. Regarding work, I’ve placed an insane amount of pressure on myself to hold space for everyone, to hold it together for everyone.

Even down to things in my life like swimming lessons; I have felt the pressure to keep going even though I don’t feel it’s right for me, or I can kiss my goal of swimming and snorkelling with the turtles goodbye. However, yesterday something beautiful happened. I listened to my intuition. I did not go to my swimming lesson, instead I chose to meet friends at the market. It was a beautiful moment of connection. I’ve never really experienced it with a group of people before; when we’re together, we are our own vibe and nothing can penetrate it. It’s like we become our own island. I chose to take the pressure off myself and nurture that. In doing so, our group ended up at the beach. What made it even more beautiful, was that we were graced by the presence of a huge turtle swimming just metres from us. We finished off the day with a beautiful crystal singing bowl exchange, sending love and healing to each one of us, as the sound of the waves kissed the shore in the background. I let go of the pressure and the Universe gifted me with such a beautiful experience.

If I had stayed in that pressure cooker – gone to swimming lessons and pushed hard on the workshop front – then I would not have had the opportunity to experience such beauty in yesterday. And yesterday, was exactly what my soul needed. I needed to fill my own cup and to allow others to help me.

As I’ve mentioned previously in this post, sometimes we need to take the foot off the pedal and allow the Universe to drive. It isn’t easy, because we don’t know when and where the Universe will decide to meet you. It isn’t easy because it requires us to step back and relinquish our grip on control. Often when we hit the accelerator and drive with a dogged determination in the direction we want to go in, we bypass all the other amazing opportunities, experiences, different perspectives and connections. Giving it over to the Universe requires trust, and trust is something that I think a lot of us struggle with – myself included. But when we remove the pressure on the accelerator, slow down and lift the weight of the pressure from ourselves, beautiful things happen.

If you read my blog post last week, I wrote about chasing your dreams. This week has been a reminder that there’s a time to chase and a time to stop and give it over to the Universe. Take the pressure off of yourself, take your foot off of the accelerator and stop. Allow the Universe time to take a step to meet you. Allow the Universe time to create beautiful things for you, to open up different pathways and different perspectives.

If you find yourself saying things like, ‘I want to learn this, but what if I’m terrible at it,’ or ‘I have to do this because this will lead me to my goal,’ or ‘if I don’t do it, I will fail.’ This is the language of pressure, instead try saying, ‘it doesn’t feel right, so I’m letting it go and taking another pathway,’ or ‘I can learn this because I deserve to do things that make me happy,’ or ‘maybe there’s another way to achieve my goal?’ Or even, just make the decision to step out of the pressure cooker and hand the wheel to the Universe. What beautiful opportunities might present themselves to you?