Creating My Heart's Desire!

I just LOVE Sonia Choquette! Right now, she is my most important mentor. Every single one of her books and audios opens up a new level of spiritual and practical realization for me and I can't wait to learn more! I just started her book, Your Heart's Desire and decided to do some of the required writing exercises in my blog. So here goes.

The first exercise has to do with acknowledging that we are all already Divine Creators. It asks me to recognize all the creative successes I have already had by listing all my greatest achievements from birth until present.

Here goes!

-Birth itself (given mom had a spinal tap)
-Lots of beautiful art projects throughout childhood
-An incredible imaginary fantasy life as a child
-An ability to enjoy spending time alone in nature
-Acceptance into competetive private schools
-A love of hiking (when I previously detested it)
-An incredible array of beaded art pieces during summer camps
-A fantastic costume from playing "Indians" as a child
-A book of stories about "Indians" as a child
-Elaborate stories created on the spot while playing toys with other children
-Horse riding award ribbons
-Competative sport tropheys
-Girl Scout Awards
-A voracious appetite for reading at a young age
-Lots of 4H projects
-Raising an incredible dog, lots of hamsters and parakeets
-A fantastic bedroom and house to grow up in
-Fun and creative birthday parties while growing up
-Opportunities to travel to the Caribbean for summers
-Straight A's at times
-Opportunities to have fun dancing in crazy nightclubs while underage!
-A summer in Russia as a Junior Foreign Service Ambassador
-Many opportunities to travel, including Italy, Austria, France, Germany, etc.
-A wonderful private college with a private dorm room with a computer (when computers were rare)
-A life growth opportunity by being a firefighter and EMT
-Published over 20 articles on Eco Consciousness
-Wonderful poetry and creative writing
-A semester abroad in London studying metaphysics and spirituality
-A several hundred page thesis project on Neo-Paganism
-Amazing skills as a percussionist
-Wonderful mind-opening experiences at festivals and spiritual events
-A summer in Fiji working in a US Embassy
-An undergraduate degree in International Studies with minors in Biology and Anthropology
-Moving to California!
-Immersing myself in hiking as a spiritual practice
-Part of a summer in Africa studying drumming as healing
-Lots of performance and teaching of percussion
-Facilitating women's spiritual gatherings and a retreat
-A summer in Mexico learning Spanish, having fun and studying farmers
-A Master's degree in Cultural Anthropology
-Opportunities to be a teaching assistant at many classes at UCSB
-An incredible dreamlife full of images and messages
-An amazing healing journey of classes, beauty and wonder studying dreams, symbols, stories through my Master's degree in Mythological Studies with an emphasis in Depth Psychology at Pacifica Graduate Instute
-A reactivation of my imagination at a quantum level while there
-Certification as a Massage Therapist and the opportunity to work with many doing healing work independently, at yoga studios, retreat centers, and chiropractor's offices as well as teach
-Certification as a Associate Polarity Therapy Practitioner and the opportunity to do lots of energy healing
-A wonderful affordable home in Santa Barbara which allowed me lots of time to grow
-A wonderful community in Santa Barbara with common interests
-Study of Nada Yoga and Hatha Yoga
-Study of African Dance
-An amazing work experience running an empire for an inspiring woman who changed my life
-The opportunity to plan amazing, luxurious events for the above mentioned Goddess
-An opportunity to manage Star Flower Essences
-Lucrative sales and modeling work in my favorite clothing store (at the time) Tienda Ho
-Teaching lots of chakra dance classes of my own devising with candles, masks, etc.
-Many paid performance opportunities as a firedancer
-Dozens and dozens of journals
-Participation in Heliopolis, an amazing performance troupe
-Amazing friendships with women who changed my life
-An experience living on less in my VW bus in the mountains
-An organic and gentle creation of my hoop company, Circus Hoops
-Moving to LA and living in a "dream home" on the sands of Venice beach
-Living with my metaphysical teacher and friend Dawn, who changed my life
-The opportunity to develop my company into a sophisticated and profitable venture
-The opportunity to become a confident teacher for thousands
-The opportunity to create a staff and financially empower them
-Massage therapy jobs at spas and a job managing an accupuncturist's office
-A love of pink, finally!
-The Good Vibe Hoop Tribe -- a group of fabulous women dancers!
-Lots of amazing gigs with GVHT- Cirque du Soleil, etc.
-Lots of soul vision collages and life changing results!
-World travel to perform hooping with Anah, including Canada, Austria, Cancuun
-A love of being beautiful, feminine, costumes and sexy!
-Hundreds of hours hooping in nature at raves
-8 years of Burning Man and mind altering experiences
-Finding my own true Goddess self
-Transforming Circus Hoops to Dance Hoops to HoopGirl!
-Finding a passionate love of color
-Surviving Endometriosis (and two surgeries)
-Meeting Kramer!
-Moving to San Francisco
-A fantasy marriage at Burning Man and an epic marriage in Connecticut
-In laws and an extended family who love me dearly
-A husband who completely supports me in every practical way possible and adores me
-Exploding my business with a new website
-Getting performance residency at Ruby Skye and stepping into my own power as a soloist
-Hundreds of more performances
-Developing the courage to be different and love it
-Creating my teacher training program
-Teaching hundreds of teachers who believed in what I was doing enough to pay for it!
-Collaborating with Candice!
-Learning about Nia and getting a White Belt
-Meeting more amazing best friends forevers
-Creating a fantasy hoopdance instructional DVD in Maui
-Being in a Tv commercial in South Africa and London
-Getting paid to create another DVD by Universal Pictures and lots of travel to London
-Hundreds of amazing opportunities to be on TV, in newspapers, radio and magazines promoting what I love
-A awesome wardrobe of clothes and costumes
-Mind blowing electronic music and dance opportunities
-A wonderful trip to Hawaii and plans for more
-Fantastic performance opportunities with my husband
-A staff of teachers teaching all my classes!
-An amazing office manager holding my business together
-Presenting an an IDEA Fitness convention to a class of 80!
-Receiving hundreds of letters from fans telling me how I have helped change and inspire their lives
-Teaching hundreds of classes, chanelling my guidance with ease and receiving love
-Creating Level 2 teacher training materials by chanelling through my joy guides
-An amazing loft in SOMA and an awesome apartment in Cole Valley
-A nourishing personal hoop practice
-Exposure to amazing spiritual teachers, books, resources, events
-4+ years of Orin meditations
-A green thumb!
-Personal transformation through 2 years of blog writing
-Laughter Yoga Leader and Teacher Certification direct from Dr.Kataria
-A personal laughter practice
-A beautiful personal temple space in my home
-A mom who has supported me all my life and now lives only blocks away.
-A local network of resources, inspiring people and places
-A slower lifestyle with room for contemplation, creativity and spiritual expansion
-A new blog separate from the others for my spiritual work
-An incredible agent!
-Another instructional DVD project
-Creating an angels group and facilitating a learning event
-Registration in Doreen Virtue's Angel Therapy Practitioner Certification!
-A clear vision of who I am becoming and taking daily steps to get there!

And I am sure there is more... but heck, this is plenty!

Holy be-geezes! Reading over this whole list has flooded my whole body with energy and enthusiasm. I can't believe that I have really achieved so much in this lifetime. Honestly I have felt a bit scattered in the past, just doing one thing that seemed interesting after the next. Looking over the list shows me certain themes which have come back again and again. Imagine what I could do with even more focus :) Obviously I am  Divine Creator and Master Manifestor capable of doing ANYTHING I desire! Thank you, Sonia, for asking me to do this exercise. I can't wait for more.

Comments

[Andi Girl]

AWESOME! WHOOP WHOOP!!
You go girl.
You rock even more than I imagined...
Wow, never hear 'neo-pagan' anymore. (this is what I practice)
Beltaine Blessings!

thank you for inspiring me to write this list too.
ox