 It is good to be grateful for roadblocks and detours, for these sometimes teach the lessons we most need to learn. Figuring out how to deal with these challenges on our path through life can be frustrating but finding the answers can be gratifying. If the purpose of being here as a spirit in a physical body is to learn lessons, then the seeming impediments to our progress can offer us new ways of thinking about ourselves and others. And, when we are most in need of help in surmounting the roadblock or traversing the detour, it is then we need to permit ourselves to reach out to others for help. That connection is part of the lesson—to learn that we are never alone and that other spirits, either incarnate or discarnate, are there to help us, to allow us to be inspired by their example or comforted by their kindness. Our challenges are blessings that allow us to grow; the strongest plants are those that break through the soil to grow and be nurtured in the sunlight. Namaste! https://www.tobiehewitt.com/contact.html to join my mailing list. (Art by Joy Argento; https://www.redbubble.com/shop/artbyjoy)
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 In meditation, to intone the eternal syllable “Om” is to allow one’s individual spirit to become one with the universal spirit. When we sit softly and quietly and breathe Om from the depth of our physical being, through our spirit and into the wider world, we accept both our limits and our limitlessness in the universe. We are a spirit in a body, limited by the physical plane on which we live at this moment, but still we exist as part of the limitlessness of the wider realities. Om is the sound, the basic note of the music that permeates every physical and non-physical facet of the All. When we allow Om to emanate from within our being, we join a larger cosmic chorus, singing in peace, joy, and love as one in the sacred now. Namaste! https://www.tobiehewitt.com/contact.html to join my mailing list. (Art by Joy Argento; https://www.redbubble.com/shop/artbyjoy)
 When you ask the universe questions, it is important to listen for the answers. We can ask “why me?” or “why is this happening?” but if we do not listen, if we do not watch for answers, the questions are meaningless. The spirits, teachers, guides, masters, and angels who are there to provide the answers do not necessarily speak to us as would our friend next door. Often we must discern answers that come in seemingly unexpected ways. It may be a phrase or word that repeats during the day or occurs simultaneously . . . we are reading a newspaper and see a certain word at the same moment it is said on the television or radio or even by someone else in the room. We may ask a question before going to sleep and the answer appears, often with great clarity, in the midst of a dream. Sometimes, the answer will appear before the question is asked on the conscious level. If we truly pursue an examined life, we must keep ourselves open to the answers we receive. Then do we live a life that is fully awake and aware. Namaste! https://www.tobiehewitt.com/contact.html to join my mailing list. (Art by Joy Argento; https://www.redbubble.com/shop/artbyjoy)
 How do we know if we are on the right path? Because if we are on it, it is the right path for that moment, in that moment. This may sound harsh to one encountering challenges that seem insurmountable, but truly, if you are in a given situation, it is because it is where you are supposed to be to learn what you need to learn. The best course of action to discern the reason for being on that path is to pretend to be a journalist and ask who, what, when, where, and why. Who am I and with whom am I supposed to be learning? What is it that I am supposed to learn/what is my purpose? When do I know that I am supposed to change direction? Where do I go from here? Why am I experiencing this situation? And, of course, you can ask “how?” How did I get here? You may find that your questions are different, but the important thing is to keep asking, and to keep listening. Socrates said, “The unexamined life is not worth living.” Examine your life with an open mind and an eager heart and you will awaken to the answers you seek. Namaste! https://www.tobiehewitt.com/contact.html to join my mailing list. (Art by Joy Argento; https://www.redbubble.com/shop/artbyjoy)
 There are many kinds of beings and entities in the universe, and spirit, either incarnate or discarnate, is but one. Angels are another. They are immortal beings who do not require the path of reincarnation. We are admonished to take care of others and tend to their needs because in doing so we may be caring for angels. While this may be true because angels can and often do take human form to accomplish a multitude of tasks—helping in the events of crisis, at the time of transition, for guidance, providing warnings, imparting a message from another plane of existence, or to save someone from a dangerous situation—it is equally likely that the being we are encountering is a fellow spirit, perhaps one with whom we may have agreed in the between time to encounter in this life as a test of having learned a needed lesson. This being can be a spirit who takes on the illusion of human form or even a fellow incarnate spirit. Not knowing with whom you are dealing, the best course of action is to treat people the way you would like to be treated—with kindness, compassion, empathy, and love. Namaste! https://www.tobiehewitt.com/contact.html to join my mailing list. (Art by Joy Argento; https://www.redbubble.com/shop/artbyjoy)
 Everything and everyone in the universe is connected, one to the other. In joy and in sorrow, in plenitude or in need, we are connected and in that connection we have the opportunity to tend to others as we would want them to tend to us. When we reach out to others, we are, in truth, reaching out to an expression of ourselves. The person in need of a hug, the one in need of a nutritious meal, the one in need of a few cents in the check-out line at the grocery store . . . when we give to them, we give to the whole, of which we are a part. Knowing the need of another and addressing it is compassion. Perceiving internally the need of another is empathy. Responding to that need is acting in the realm of grace—giving generously with love, mercy, and goodwill. Namaste! https://www.tobiehewitt.com/contact.html to join my mailing list. (Art by Joy Argento; https://www.redbubble.com/shop/artbyjoy)
 The world is made up of many different kinds of people of various races, creeds, colors, nationalities, gender orientations, socio-economic and educational backgrounds, and other variables that contribute to the uniqueness of the individual. In a garden composed of many different kinds of plants and flowers, no one flower is better than another and no shrub thinks itself less perfect than its neighbor. Each has its being, its essence, and knows it is growing in the illusion of space and time in which it finds itself. It accepts itself for what it is and each draws in the nurturing warmth of the sun. So, too, we each need to accept ourselves and strive to be the best we can be in our patch of garden under the nurturing sun. Then, in turn, we need to accept others for who they are, without judgment, but equally in love and peace, like the flowers in the garden. Namaste! https://www.tobiehewitt.com/contact.html to join my mailing list. (Art by Joy Argento; https://www.redbubble.com/shop/artbyjoy)
 You are responsible for your own happiness and unhappiness. Obviously, the choices you make today will impact your state of mind tomorrow and perhaps for days and years to come. But, there are also choices you made before you were born here in this form, in this body—choices you made in the between time, between one incarnation and the next. In that between time, you were able to discern what you had learned in your previous life, take stock, and then select sets of circumstances in your next life to help your spirit learn previously unlearned or poorly absorbed lessons. In doing so, you decided on details of your life that would provide the lessons you need—where you would be born and to whom, your gender, socio-economic and educational factors, blessings and hardships. And yet, you retained freewill, so when you were born, you could precisely follow the path you had planned, not straying from the roadmap you had created, or deviate slightly or entirely. Lessons would still be learned, but perhaps not the ones you had selected for this lifetime. And further, in this life, because of your freewill, you are able to choose to be happy and relinquish what is making you miserable. It may take courage or hard work but it is possible—it is possible to be happy—it is your choice! Namaste! https://www.tobiehewitt.com/contact.html to join my mailing list. (Art by Joy Argento; https://www.redbubble.com/shop/artbyjoy)
 When we believe something, especially when many, many people believe the same thing, it becomes the truth and it is given power. Truth and the reality it creates are subjective. We create and change these over time. At one time everyone believed the earth was flat and that if you ventured to the edge, you would fall off. People believed that enslaving other people was an acceptable practice, thus subjugating one group to another. It was believed that tomatoes were poisonous until this was disproved as myth. When enough people say that something is so, and especially if they say it with great authority and loudly, it becomes so. We have the power to change a negative belief, a negative reality, into a positive one by simply propounding love, peace, and kindness with great authority, expressing that these are preferable to any negative ideas being expounded. It is thus that we can change the world paradigm to one of the greatest good for all. Namaste! https://www.tobiehewitt.com/contact.html to join my mailing list. (Art by Joy Argento; https://www.redbubble.com/shop/artbyjoy)
 The breath connects our internal world to the external world. When we breathe in negativity and then breathe out that negativity into the universe, we darken the scope that is the ambiance of our environment. When we absorb negativity and allow it to grow within, our perspective of ourselves and others changes. We become, in essence, the negativity we have absorbed, just as the food we eat becomes part of our cells, for good or ill. When we fill ourselves with love, peace, and joy, that is what we become and that is what we send out into the world. We can express this positive nature as acts of kindness and generosity, even in the simple act of speaking warmly to others and in small gestures of aid and peace. We can allow our positive energy to fill the world around us, filling the cells of the earth, so-to-speak, and thus not allow negativity room to enter. We can “be the change we want to see in the world” (Gandhi). Namaste! https://www.tobiehewitt.com/contact.html to join my mailing list. (Art by Joy Argento; https://www.redbubble.com/shop/artbyjoy)
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