"So You Have Heard the Call … What Next?"

Have you felt the stirring within, calling you to awaken and live a life of higher vibration and consciousness? This episode of Sacred Spaces dives deeper into what it means to respond to the call of your Higher Self. 

Angela shares insights on moving beyond the initial awakening, facing your shadows, and discovering the gifts hidden within. 

Drawing on the wisdom of timeless authors like Viktor Frankl, Joseph Campbell, and Jamie Sams, this episode explores the steps to living authentically, finding your unique value, and joining a collective of awakened souls to serve the world. Isn't it time to do more than hear the call?

Linked Episodes: 

• S1 Ep 13: The Freedom to BE Me - Answering The Call to Authenticity
• S1 Ep 15: The Call - A Meditation
• S1 Ep 20 Conversations That Matter - Up Close and Personal - My Story
• S1 Ep 22: Conversations That Matter - Up Close and Personal - My Story - Things Form and Fall Apart. 
• S1 Ep 24: Conversations That Matter - Up Close and Personal - My Story - Out of Shadows - Letting My Light Shine

Music - Sunlight over tranquil waters - CharlVera on pixabay music

Chapters

• 1:03 Recap of The Call and the Awakening Journey
• 2:58 Beyond the Call: The Inner Journey
• 3:38 Why Honouring the Call is Challenging
• 4:22 Facing Our Shadows and Their Lessons
• 4:54 The Wounds We Carry and Healing Them
• 5:48 The Gifts Hidden in the Shadow
• 6:27 Transformation Under Pressure: Becoming the Diamond
• 7:33 Living Authentically: Adding Value Through Alignment

Transcript

In our last episode, ‘The Freedom to Be Me - Answering The Call to Authenticity’, I shared with you about the call that has been issued to us all to awaken into living life in a higher vibration and consciousness. This is the call to the Dream Weavers, the Truth Seekers, Light Workers, Wisdom Keepers and Soulpreneurs! More and more people are responding to the call of their Higher Selves. 

Making the choice to honour that call has meant for me, to live a life of purpose and meaning. There are a plethora of self-help books published and marketed via online courses and content on the topic of purpose and meaning. The books that are truly excellent and speak with humility and integrity to the significance and authenticity of living a life of value that for me, top the list are Jamie Sams - Dancing the Dream; Viktor Frankl’s ‘Man’s Search for Meaning’; Joseph Campbell’s ‘Man with 1000 Faces’. Other favourites - any of Brene Brown’s work; Elizabeth Gilbert; Oriah Mountain Dreamer, Saran Ban Breathnach come to mind. 

These timeless classics illustrate a similar consistent theme and message. To live a life of purpose and meaning is to answer to the call of one’s own inner Soul’s urging. Philosophical this may be. However it is the experience of anyone who authentically lives out their unique purpose and the value that they have to offer the world, which incidentally is one definition of freedom, that in so doing, there is so much more to merely heeding this call, responding to and creating a vision and dream for one’s life. 

Joseph Campbell illustrates the step by step process that is involved in the ‘hero’- being me, being you - embarking on the journey of self-discovery in answering our Souls call to be and to live authentically. 

It is not enough however to answer the call. That is only the first step. The balance of the journey to living life with purpose and meaning whilst reflected in how we engage with others in their view of the world, is first and foremost the journey within. It is for this reason that most people who hear the call, who have a dream and a vision do not get past the idealistic nature and emotional attachment to and of their vision. In so doing they stay ensnared and trapped by the existing paradigm and version of how they see themselves and their world. 

Honouring the call, is probably one of the most challenging quests that any one person can embark upon and yet why do so few people engage and invest in their true passion and calling? 

Because we have been desensitised in a world of quick fix, instant gratification, 30 second views on a mobile phone of a web site, article, piece of music, when we do not achieve instantaneous enlightenment we move on to yet another book, another fix, another form of addiction so that we avoid the very thing that scares us the most – facing the man or the woman that we see in the mirror. 

Prisoners of our own making 

Honouring the Call requires that we come face to face who we are, who we have become, who we have believed ourselves to be – in light and in shadow. It requires an HONEST appraisal of where we stand with ourselves, delving into our deepest fears, the so called ‘negative’ aspects of how we show who we are to ourselves and others.  How can we know our light when we avoid, suppress, ignore, and negate our shadow. 

And why do we do this? 

Because there are wounds there, there are emotional scars, events, people and places where we have been harmed, hurt and where other people’s stuff has been inflicted upon us. And, we have accepted these events, viewpoints and projections as truth of who we are. To do the inner work, to delve too deeply into our shadow, for most causes us to relive events that we have buried in all forms and manners of avoidance and addiction. Our senses are dulled, we live cauterised lives, half existing, afraid, angry, resentful, filled with regrets of what coulda, shoulda woulda been and wasn’t; trapped in ‘when we’ … all symptoms of living a life in the shadow of the potential we were born with, prisoners of our own making. 

The gifts hidden in our shadow, and those gifts that have emerged out of the shadow when doing the work, one after the other come together to make up the very essence of the jewel that is you and all that you have to offer your world. The Native American Indians believe that every person on the planet has a path of beauty that they can choose to follow. They too have rituals and traditions that facilitate the movement through the shadow so that the warrior / maiden / the one who walks in balanced medicine shields can emerge healed and whole, adding his / her / their gifts for the benefit of the tribe and for the whole of humankind. 

Diamonds are formed under immense pressure – all of the attempted quick fixes will not bring anyone to a point of the freedom to walk in beauty, to live a life or purpose and meaning. 

The search for meaning is within, not without and is made visible by the pressure (like the diamond) of true transformation. And, this requires surrender, willingness, courage, determination, tenacity, alignment, reflection, awareness and most of all action. For when one does the work, faces oneself fully, realistically and with a loving self-acceptance of who we really are in our shadow, it is then that our light becomes truly visible to ourselves and others. It is my belief based on the work that I have done with me, then the alignment between our true natures, our Higher Selves and who we are;  what our vision of and for our lives can become real. This is what for me, it means to live authentically! 

Living authentically is all about value – the value that each one of us has to add in being in alignment with the reason why we have been given unique gifts, talents and strengths which are needed in the world. These are the means through which we truly are able to be in the energy of service in action. 

And, then what? 

Once you have answered the call and searched within that part of you that is holding, like the earth holds the diamond - your purpose, your unique value that you have to offer the world – It is time to emerge and find others who too have not only heard their call, they have honoured and answered it too. 

Our world needs you to choose your own inner hero; your path of beauty and freedom by finding and living your truth. Isn’t time to do more than hear the call …