For anyone experiencing unemployment, feeling restless from unrealized potentials and lost dreams, or fighting mental exhaustion — take heart there is a way to reclaim your light.

As children we played freely without reserve.  There was no censoring of creative thought or act.  As a baby boomer we lounged on blankets under trees, having conversations with our baby dolls, Barbies and paper dolls. We’d weave together coloured cotton loops to make potholders or braid miniature rugs for our dollhouse.  Bursting into dance on the front lawn or practicing cheers to qualify for the Pep Club, we begged our parents to stay outdoors as late as we could, at least until the street lights came on.  Gardens and woods were a magical place of fairies, and fireflies.  Costumes for our backyard plays were made from housedresses Mom lent us, or Dad’s old white shirt rescued from being torn for rags.  Listening to our transistor radios, we’d use a brush as a microphone and sing-a-long to popular songs heard on American Bandstand.  We kept diaries, pressed flowers and wrote poetry.  Boys played cowboys and Indians, raced soap-box derby cars down the street, were members of the all boys club that sat high in a tree or played glorious pirates as they imagined themselves on Treasure Island.

What was your awe factor as a child?  What play-acting activities did you enjoy in those early years, that have not yet been realized in your life?

Slogging through years of disappointments, grief, loss of dreams, unfulfilled relationships, jobs not careers, and responsibilities of raising a family, causes our higher potentials to become buried then forgotten within our consciousness.  Inner light diminishes, because we forget.  We forget the energy we had as children.  It’s not too late, no matter what your age, to reclaim that light.  Letting life beat us down must be fought hard against with a higher power we all possess.  Depression is lack of action.  In the words of that great lyricist Dorothy Fields, “pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again”.

Are you attuning yourself to failure or success?  Whatever your current situation, you need to understand that change is a natural process.  The more you fight change, the more it will fight you.  If you surrender to the process it will lead you to an inner light of ascension; an ascension of understanding that you still have some work to do on this planet as it relates to the gifts you were given as a child.

How to begin:

Write down a list of all the things that brought you joy as a child.

How many of those joyful gifts can you segue into your present life now?

What imaginative ways can you think to live your passion?

Examples:

If you day-dreamed about being an actor join the community drama club.

If you wanted to be a doctor or nurse, take the EMT accredited training.

If you wanted to be a CPA let HR Block train you.

If you are a care-giver with natural empath tendencies, volunteer at hospice, Big Brother/Sister, elder care facilities, literacy training, or the local hospital.

If you wanted to be a musician or artist, there is no time like today to start lessons.  Don’t have the money for lessons?  Then ask someone you know with these gifts to mentor you!

If you wanted to be a writer, start writing about the intimate subject of you; your experiences; your lessons; your joys;-just begin.

Life as a child was a gift and remains an untapped potential in regaining our sense of true-born Spirit not yet fulfilled.  Share your gifts – what are you saving them for?

When you were born, you were born with a lightseed inside of you.  Let this light shine through your unique talent given to you at birth.

Inspire others – elevate the genuine philanthropy born to you.

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