Faith & Hope: What Is Real?

Faith and Hope

I met someone the other day at a party who was in so much pain, it radiated from his core.

His mother had been a cult leader in the 1970s and today, he does not believe in psychics or healers or anything that can’t be proven. I understand the skeptics. To be honest, I’ve been one myself.

I’m the reluctant psychic, the person who never knows if “it” will work every time I sit down to do a reading. (But it always does.)

To explain this, you have to understand that I’ve spent much of my life desperately trying to hide this “gift” that I have. Because of personal insecurities, I never wanted to invite challenge from the skeptics.

So, of course, the week I started reading professionally, I was hanging out with a few actor friends, and one guy got wind of my new career and stared me down.

“What makes you so qualified?” he asked.

There I was…put on the spot…a deer in the headlights.

He shook his head, “Do you really believe this shit?”

I was terrified. What was I doing? Did I really believe it? Then, a calm came over me. A little voice said, be honest, tell the truth.

“Not really,” I responded.

It caught him off guard, but not for long. “Then how can you do this crap?”

“I don’t know,” I told him. “I don’t really believe it, I just know it.”

“That doesn’t make sense,” he responded. His arrogance was annoying.

“Most things don’t.” I stated as I leaned toward him. “You know what doesn’t make sense?” I asked. “What doesn’t make sense is that you’re an arrogant a**hole, and you’re going to be really famous for being an arrogant a**hole.”

I ran into him about a year ago. He’s a celebrity now. And yes, his character is a big, arrogant…you get the idea.

The only thing I can say for this guy is that he’s not afraid and never was. He’s confident.

But when I think of the guy I met at the party, he’s confrontational and afraid.

There is a BIG difference between these two people. One is scarred by his past. The other is congruent within himself.

Where am I going with this?

Well, the guy from the party thinks all psychics are bogus. He has all kinds of reasons for this. When I told him that he had a right to his opinion, he replied that it was reality, that he was rooted in reality.

What I find so sad is that the only way he can deal with his family scarring is to overcompensate the other way and completely deny the presence of anything he can’t prove.

It’s obvious that it’s about his mother, but he can’t see it. Ironically, as his mother converted hundreds of thousands of people to follow her channeled message, the one person who lacked faith was her own offspring.

My faith has gotten me through some pretty rocky times lately, and honestly, I do not know how anyone can survive without faith.

Family scarring is powerful stuff, and I’ll be writing more about it. Living without faith is a lonely business, and I can’t see living this way.

My message to you? Believe. Believe in something magical. And if you have trouble with it, think of something that inspires you. Right now, before you forget, make a list of ten things that inspire you. If you can’t think of 10, write five, or even, two.

Faith is the only thing that is real to me.

Fear: Ride The Wave

Waiting for the Wave…

A client phoned the other day worried about the business decisions he’d made. He was in upset because he’s been at a job that he termed “an under-earning situation.”

I reminded him that during the past year he left a 20-year marriage and was confused and disoriented when he first took that job. He did not make a bad decision, he made the best one at the time. Who he is today is someone that doesn’t fit there.

“What do I do?” he asked.

“Wait for the wave,” I said.

“Huh?”

I laughed with him. Sometimes, being psychic is a strange experience.

A few weeks ago, I was out with a few friends. We were chatting and then, out of nowhere, I turned to the bartender and asked when he was leaving for Fiji.

He shook his head and asked me, rather confused, “Do I know you?”

I had pulled an “oops.” Sometimes without knowing it, spirit talks to me and I think that I’ve had a conversation with someone, when in fact, we’ve never met. I try to keep this at a minimum to avoid freaking people out. I’ve learned to ask questions.

This guy was in a similar place to my client, Pete. He didn’t know what to do, if he should go. There were a few variables.

He was a surfer. I asked him what he did after he paddled out on his board.

“I wait for the wave” he replied.

I waited. He nodded and got it instantly.

Teasing, I said, “So you don’t wonder what you can do to make the wave come or if there ever will ever be another wave in your lifetime or if…”

He waved for me to stop, laughing, and then shrugged as he wiped down the bar. “It always comes if you wait long enough.”

When we are lost, the key is to wait it out. I’m not talking about doing nothing.

I’m saying that after we make our request to the universe to give us signs (and I often ask that they be billboards, so I don’t miss them), we have to wait for the answer…or the wave.

And here’s another part to the surf analogy: when you ride a wave, it’s the only zone you can be in at that time. You must be present. Your entire being must be in it.

We are always doing the best we can in any given moment, but remember this: even for a surfer, no one can expect to be in balance at all times. Life is about being out of balance and stepping back into it.

Remember that no matter what is going on in your life, you must determine where you are and how to get into the zone.

Are you:

Turning the board into position?

Paddling?

Are you too early? Are you unprepared?

Are you too late? Did you miss this wave?

Are you up? Did you catch the wave?

Wiping out?

Riding the wave?

In the barrel?

Coming to shore?

Here’s how to bring yourself into alignment no matter where you are:

Getting into position? You may be changing directions and not sure how to do this next part. This is change.

If you are paddling, focus on the next intended action. Keep paddling.

Scrambling for the wave? Slow down and take stock. Is the moment right? Check for typos, so to speak. Look for mistakes that make you look unprepared. If you feel a panic right now, you may be trying to gain momentum in something that’s not ready to happen.

Miss the wave? Forget this part. Don’t dwell on it. It’s wasted time. That was not your wave, not your moment. “If I had bought that property five years ago…” Well, you didn’t. Timing is everything. Again, accept that wasn’t your wave.

Did you catch it? Check within. Where are you? What are you truly feeling? Get excited. This is your moment. Try to relax. Often we confuse excitement with worry.

Wiping Out? Yeah, go ahead and chuckle. It’ll happen. Get back on the board and paddle.

Are you riding the wave? In the barrel? Smile, enjoy and have fun. Feel the exhilaration of this time. Be in the moment. You are in the zone. This is the reward.

Coming into shore? How will you step off your board? Will you fall? Crash into shore? Slide into shore? Go back out? Take a break?

No matter what phase you’re in, there is a different approach to each. It is easy to see that waiting for the wave is the place to do nothing but meditate. This is when the universe is going to send you someone or something that will get you up and running again.

And take heart. This is a cycle we’re all on. And once you know where you are, you can determine what to do. Each place has a very real action. Rest assured that you are in motion, even if it doesn’t feel like it.

Tori Hartman Spiritual Guidance

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