Follow the Breadcrumbs: The Path of Magic.
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August 2016 was a rough month for me, full of serious growing pains, but I’ve had enough life experience by now to know these seasons of discomfort lead somewhere out of the darkness.
I sat with it because that is what I have learned to do these last few years, to really sit with the yucky stuff and watch it float by like the thoughts that pop up in meditation. Not attaching beliefs or judgments, but instead really allowing it to work its way through me.
Oh, and really being kind. Kind with myself even when it’s a challenge, because I’ve learned it passes, and I trust it gets better.
August was wrought with confusion; I spent most of that month questioning my spiritual practices and beliefs. There was annoyance towards some people, situations and myself. But, I kept prodding along, questioning, being curious and allowing.
Although in the past this statement would have caused me to cringe or roll my eyes, I ultimately surrendered. I decided to follow the breadcrumbs and go wherever it felt good, even if it didn’t make sense.
And then the magic started. September was my magic month.
Have you ever made a shift in your thinking, perception or belief, and then seen it start showing up in your life? For example, you decide to change careers, and next thing you know a workshop becomes available to you for that particular career choice?
That was September.
It began with my deciding to make changes to my health, and then Kris Carr showed up with a 21-day plant-based diet challenge. I signed up just like that, no hemming and hawing; it’s as if my fingers worked independently. So, I’ve been a practicing vegan for over 21 days now. And I feel amazing. For you it can be something else, I’m not advocating veganism, it’s just what I did.
Then I decided to go back to school — been working on it for the last 10 years — so I signed up, two days from the Spring Semester deadline, that too was met with little effort, like puzzle pieces linked together.
This was followed by a weekend workshop with Martha Beck, one of my teachers and mentors. That weekend was magic, and coincidentally the workshop was called Tracking your Magical Life. The overall message: track your wild life like you’re tracking a wild animal. Follow the things that make you feel joy for no reason other than because it feels good.
When you follow these track marks, even if it makes no sense, it leads to new tracks and the path to your magical life. It’s following your inner compass, your inner voice, your intuition, your light — whatever you want to call — it’s your guide. I believe it’s the part of us we lost track of after elementary school, or maybe even earlier. It’s a way to get back to who we really are.
It’s the guide to our purpose, because we all have one, and we are all here to partake in what brings us the most joy. Martha’s book, Finding Your Way in a Wild New World: Reclaim Your True Nature to Create the Life You Want, maybe of some help.
Sometimes that path isn’t clear and we feel we have failed, or maybe the path was clear once but now it’s not so anymore and we feel we shouldn’t change course. But that is the magic of our lives — we have the choice to course correct at any moment.
It’s simple, yet we make it so hard because of what we make things mean. What we decide we can’t do or have or be. The idea we’re too old, too young, not smart enough, or just a mom as I had often said about myself.
I ended September at an Elizabeth Gilbert talk on her book Big Magic — how appropriate. Again, it was not planned; it showed up in my line of vision, I followed the breadcrumbs and the magic fingers did all the signing up. She also talked about being curious and following the next thing.
She talked about a time when she was creatively blocked and couldn’t write, but kept being pulled towards gardening, so she gardened instead, and out of that breadcrumb came a book, The Signature of All Things.
I used to think it was baloney — the idea I had the power to change the course of my life. I had this engrained belief I had to wait for a big sign or someone else to give me permission. And then this magic September happened.
Two women I greatly admire confirmed I was on my right path by being curious, going where it felt good next, and encouraged me to stop thinking and instead look for the huge epic lighting bolt with a sign saying Here it is, your life purpose. Sometimes, as Elizabeth Gilbert said, it’s a scavenger hunt.
So my friends, notice the breadcrumbs, follow those trails, and enjoy it, because there is magic coming your way.
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Jenny Medina is a writer, blogger and an intuitive conversational healer. She is a Martha Beck trained Life Coach, and has studied and trained with numerous Shamanic practitioners in New York and Arizona. In addition, she has trained in psychic development and is certified in Ericksonian hypnosis. Jenny’s YouTube Channel is where she posts weekly videos sharing her personal life stories along with suggestions and resources on how to dig deep and live a self-actualized life with freedom and humor. Jenny lives in NYC with her two little spirit guides. Her interests include astrology/numerology, health/wellness, interior design, cooking, Yoga, and personal development. You could contact her via Twitter or Facebook.
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