I’ve lived the past few years of my life caged with ideas about who I must be… given the kind of work I do. The VisionForce work goes deep, and awakens people’s hearts and minds at a profound level, resulting in many people having what they’d call “spiritual experiences.” Many have placed me in the category of Spiritual Teacher, and then measure me by who they think a spiritual teacher should and should not be.
I never set out to be a spiritual teacher, and I don’t regard myself that way. People do have every right to hold my life, relationships and organization to very high standards, and I invite that. However, it’s taking me months to unravel the threads of expectations others have of me that I’ve taken on as my own.
What if my professional work and my organization were a reflection of who I am and what makes me most happy? What if I fully surrendered my ideas of who I should be and what my business should look like–surrendered them to God? Not to an external being, but to… destiny. That’s not the right word. What if I simply relaxed into the flow of what speaks to my heart, to what moves me, to what lights me up personally?
I’m fortunate enough to have many close allies, who are much like spiritual teachers to me, who’ve been encouraging me to journey further down this path. It’s ironic… for this is really what lies at the heart of my work: being true to one’s self. It’s integrity.
Having integrity in relationships and in business is that much more difficult, I am realizing, when there are misalignments with my integrity with my self. It’s that much harder to maintain external integrity, when it’s missing within. And then maintaining external integrity can feel like a burden, a chore, a duty–rather than a natural expression of truth and integrity.
Buckminster Fuller’s thoughts on integrity impacted me deeply when I attended Money & You a few weeks back… I highly recommend the course. (Interested parties should contact me, as I might be able to work out something special)
The rebuilding of the MichaelSkye.com site is an expression of me turning back inward to honor myself, to be true to myself, to stand for my own happiness. I’m excited to build my life again… I’ve got an amazing life right now, but it’s mostly an expression of my service to the world and to others with little sign of Michael Skye, the individual, the person, the man with a personal life… a man who travels, plays, explores this beautiful world.
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