During a conversation with several powerful lightworkers recently, I received a surprising new awareness: It’s time for lightworkers, healers, wayshowers, empaths and sensitives to stop worrying about whether or not their channel is clear.

I have long been aware that I perform best when I let go of my small self and its limited ideas. Instead, I open up to infinite possibilities and what’s been called “effortless knowing in the moment.”

I’m always looking for patterns, and a really big one came up recently for recognition and healing. In fact, it came up twice in a week, so I know it’s “up for me.”

“Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you. When I’m willing to let them change me, something happens between us that’s more interesting than a pair of dueling monologues.” —Alan Alda, Actor

Do you feel like you need more patience? I have discussed this with many clients over the years. And I have come to believe that a desire for more patience is actually a symptom of something else.

I’ve been pondering what it means to “feel safe” for a long time now. I know that we can feel UNsafe — physically, mentally, emotionally and even spiritually. I have plenty of experience with what unsafe feels like... But “being safe” and “feeling safe” may actually be two different things.

One of the words I am actively purging from my vocabulary right now is just, as in “I was just being me” or “I just wanted to say…”