My spiritual path
So now you know the events that led me to make the big decision to change my careers and become a healer. Now let's look at my spiritual path - by the end of it you'll probably see how this all relates.
My spiritual path
As I said previously, I was born and raised a Catholic. For the most part, I believe in a lot of the teachings of the church. However I do have fundamental issues with its view on certain issues. E.g. its stance on homosexuality. What ever happened to "treat thy neighbour as thyself"? Hypocritical. Let's not even mention pedophilia. No to euthanasia? If the person made the choice, it's their choice. That's the law of freedom of choice isn't it? The church was all about looking after the poor and downtrodden. So why did the leaders of the church live such lavish lives?!
Anyway, there was a time in Uni where I was really questioning my religion. At that time I had met a fellow student who recommended that I read a certain book about Christianity. I read it - and it raised a lot of good questions. However, at that time I think I just fell back into Catholicism because I couldn't be bothered to really spent too much effort to think of anything else... so the attendance at Sunday masses was (and still is) a regular occurrence.
A number of years passed since then and I just went happily on my way... When I was transitioning between my previous 3 jobs, I had always asked and trusted that God would put me in the right job for me at that point in time. When I was trying to leave one of the law firms, I had applied for a job at Google. I was so so close to getting it as well but ended up not being chosen in the final round. I was gutted at that time and had to go back to the drawing board. Now that I look back, I was glad I didn't get that Google job. I wouldn't have been able to do as much as I wanted to and wouldn't have had much visibility into the cool products that Google created - that was left more for the engineers and for the US guys to deal with.
At that time, I was desperate to leave the law firm. The culture was incredibly toxic, I became increasingly negative, and once one of the partners that I had a really good relationship left to go onto greener pastures, the rest of it went downhill. At that time, I was in the final stages of negotiating for a role in an insurance company, and I knew they wanted me. They had offered the job to me and at that time, I prayed and asked for something to happen the next day which would make my decision whether to accept or not. That came by way of a phone call from another recruiter telling me that this law firm, one I had my eye on for a while for being "different", wanted to interview me.
Lo and behold I ended up going to an interview that day, and told them I was offered a job somewhere else so they should make up their mind quickly. Let's just say I ended up being offered and accepted that job instead. My heart was never really in insurance and I was just going to accept the other job our of sheer desperation. However with this law firm, I had the opportunity to expand and grow my technical skills as well as trying to have a stab at aiming for the small business community, something I was quite interested in at that time.
So then after a year there the glitz and glamour wore off and I began to sink into a terrible state. I'd cry at work because the work ethic was crazy, not to mention I felt like I was forced to be someone I wasn't, and I wanted out. Fortunately (or unfortunately), I ended up losing my job there and fell into a depression - but that only lasted 2 weeks because I hated feeling like that :P After that, I got myself better and was referred a job by one of my previous bosses. I applied and went through all the interviews but there was something nagging me because my experience during the interview process wasn't the best, and I was afraid of going to yet another place that I didn't like.
Given the insane pace of the interviews, I decided to pull out of the interview process and ended up being interviewed at a competitor. After I pulled out, I was phoned by the Australian head of the first company and asked why I had pulled out because he thought I was a fantastic fit. I told him my concerns and he said he would give me time to mull over it but didn't want to shut the door on me. He also left open the door to me meeting with me next time he was in town, so I took up the offer for a meeting (and of course by that time I was well on the way of proceeding to the final stages of the other interview as well).
Anyway, to cut a long story short, I received offers from both companies. I was incredibly torn between the two - they were so different but I had a niggling feeling that the 2nd company wasn't the right one for me. I had asked for a sign as well about which way to go... turns out a friend of mine worked at the second company and told me I wouldn't get the work life balance that I wanted. That meant I took the 1st job and really, it has given me a lot of opportunities and flexibility to grow the role and make it my own. This role certainly boosted my self esteem and I have definitely learnt a lot from it.
So, in the meantime, given that I'm a single lady, I joined a social club for singles last year in the hopes of meeting my soul mate. Whilst that hasn't happened yet, I did meet a specific person who it turns out now happened to be the person I needed to meet at that point in time... someone who would be the beginning of opening me up to this new way of thinking in a spiritual sense.
At that time, I was desperate to leave the law firm. The culture was incredibly toxic, I became increasingly negative, and once one of the partners that I had a really good relationship left to go onto greener pastures, the rest of it went downhill. At that time, I was in the final stages of negotiating for a role in an insurance company, and I knew they wanted me. They had offered the job to me and at that time, I prayed and asked for something to happen the next day which would make my decision whether to accept or not. That came by way of a phone call from another recruiter telling me that this law firm, one I had my eye on for a while for being "different", wanted to interview me.
Lo and behold I ended up going to an interview that day, and told them I was offered a job somewhere else so they should make up their mind quickly. Let's just say I ended up being offered and accepted that job instead. My heart was never really in insurance and I was just going to accept the other job our of sheer desperation. However with this law firm, I had the opportunity to expand and grow my technical skills as well as trying to have a stab at aiming for the small business community, something I was quite interested in at that time.
So then after a year there the glitz and glamour wore off and I began to sink into a terrible state. I'd cry at work because the work ethic was crazy, not to mention I felt like I was forced to be someone I wasn't, and I wanted out. Fortunately (or unfortunately), I ended up losing my job there and fell into a depression - but that only lasted 2 weeks because I hated feeling like that :P After that, I got myself better and was referred a job by one of my previous bosses. I applied and went through all the interviews but there was something nagging me because my experience during the interview process wasn't the best, and I was afraid of going to yet another place that I didn't like.
Given the insane pace of the interviews, I decided to pull out of the interview process and ended up being interviewed at a competitor. After I pulled out, I was phoned by the Australian head of the first company and asked why I had pulled out because he thought I was a fantastic fit. I told him my concerns and he said he would give me time to mull over it but didn't want to shut the door on me. He also left open the door to me meeting with me next time he was in town, so I took up the offer for a meeting (and of course by that time I was well on the way of proceeding to the final stages of the other interview as well).
Anyway, to cut a long story short, I received offers from both companies. I was incredibly torn between the two - they were so different but I had a niggling feeling that the 2nd company wasn't the right one for me. I had asked for a sign as well about which way to go... turns out a friend of mine worked at the second company and told me I wouldn't get the work life balance that I wanted. That meant I took the 1st job and really, it has given me a lot of opportunities and flexibility to grow the role and make it my own. This role certainly boosted my self esteem and I have definitely learnt a lot from it.
So, in the meantime, given that I'm a single lady, I joined a social club for singles last year in the hopes of meeting my soul mate. Whilst that hasn't happened yet, I did meet a specific person who it turns out now happened to be the person I needed to meet at that point in time... someone who would be the beginning of opening me up to this new way of thinking in a spiritual sense.
I had seen her at a number of events previously but it was only at the new years event this year that we actually had a proper conversation. Through that, she told me that she communicated with angels and that she did angel readings, and that she also was Catholic. That piqued my interest and I went off reading a bit about angels and found out (by asking.. which is soo damn simple), the name of my guardian angel. As soon as I knew, everytime I invoke her name, I get a beautiful sense of comfort, calmness, love and protection that surrounds me.
I spoke to my mum the same day that she made the comment for me to consider going down the natural therapies path about angels. Turns out, she had just purchased 3 books written by Lorna Byrne about angels. I read them all that weekend.
After that, my birthday came and went, and the female friend who I spoke to earlier this year did an angel card reading for me as a present. It was so accurate and I was amazed. So I thought I'd purchase my own set of cards (Daily Guidance From Your Angels by Doreen Virtue) and give it a shot. In the meantime, I was reading up on all these articles and books written by Doreen Virtue, was asking for signs from my angels, and was receiving a lot of signs (coins falling at my feet whilst walking, looking up and seeing a really bright shooting star (after asking for it), etc). The more I tried to contact my angels, the more I realised that the tingling sensation I felt sometimes around my shoulders and back was them. Not only that, I started seeing lots of colours when I closed my eyes and was beginning to pay attention to the 'ear worms' that I'd get every morning waking up. It all started to make perfect sense.
So now, most mornings I take out the cards and do readings for myself and a bunch of my friends. The majority of the times the card really resonates with the particular person. I hope that by giving each person a message that they find some comfort in it and it brings some happiness to their lives. For me, I've started a journal where I capture the messages I receive via the cards, the interactions I may have had with certain people and the dreams I have. Whilst the messages on the day usually do not make sense to me, they really do reveal themselves either throughout the day or sometime within the week.
Suffice to say that if you get an inspiration to do something, most likely it's your higher self or the 'other helpful beings' out there giving you a nudge in the right direction. For example, one of the messages I was receiving was about past life issues and I ended up chatting to a workmate who knew someone who could help with that. Needless to say I met her 2 weeks ago and she's already taught me a number of things! Things happen for a reason and this lady that I met is yet another teacher for me on this spiritual journey.
There is definitely something out there that is working in our favour and looking after us. Don't be afraid to ever ask for help, because you can get help for even the smallest things (e.g. I ask Archangel Chamuel to help me find things I lost and I usually find them within the next 5 mins of my request)! I'll go into a bit more detail about angels, chakras, ascended masters, ETs (yea you heard me) and the like later.
So now, most mornings I take out the cards and do readings for myself and a bunch of my friends. The majority of the times the card really resonates with the particular person. I hope that by giving each person a message that they find some comfort in it and it brings some happiness to their lives. For me, I've started a journal where I capture the messages I receive via the cards, the interactions I may have had with certain people and the dreams I have. Whilst the messages on the day usually do not make sense to me, they really do reveal themselves either throughout the day or sometime within the week.
Suffice to say that if you get an inspiration to do something, most likely it's your higher self or the 'other helpful beings' out there giving you a nudge in the right direction. For example, one of the messages I was receiving was about past life issues and I ended up chatting to a workmate who knew someone who could help with that. Needless to say I met her 2 weeks ago and she's already taught me a number of things! Things happen for a reason and this lady that I met is yet another teacher for me on this spiritual journey.
There is definitely something out there that is working in our favour and looking after us. Don't be afraid to ever ask for help, because you can get help for even the smallest things (e.g. I ask Archangel Chamuel to help me find things I lost and I usually find them within the next 5 mins of my request)! I'll go into a bit more detail about angels, chakras, ascended masters, ETs (yea you heard me) and the like later.