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Reflections On Our Shared Journey By Sue Frederick

In a dream...
I’m standing to the left of a splendidly tall, ancient wooden wall filled with intricate deeply-carved Sanskrit letters. These letters fill lines and lines of the entire structure. I can’t read what the ancient writing says, but I’m compelled to understand its meaning. I move closer and run my fingers across the carved Sanskrit. Behind the great wall is a deep valley of green forest expanding as far as I can see. The forest is silent and motionless yet stunningly grand. It feels untouched by time and human existence.

    “What do the carvings mean?” I ask out loud into the vast emptiness. From behind me a voice says softly, “When we take the human incarnation, we’re meant to move forward toward the light, to the soul, and not to dawdle or get distracted.”
    “How?” I ask.
    I am turned around to see a deep, endless tunnel opening right in front of me. The tunnel appears to be vast and limitless. From behind me a cat comes bounding out of nowhere and into the vast tunnel. At first, it runs forward powerfully and with purpose. Then, it slows down and stops and begins licking itself – sitting in the middle of the tunnel. It sees something small on the ground and knocks it around. The once powerful cat now seems confused and directionless, not moving towards the end of the tunnel – focused only on the details.
    I wake up.
    Am I like the cat, I wonder? Am I dawdling, getting distracted, focused on the details, and licking myself when I should be moving forward? I vow to hone my work more powerfully to show clients that their life stories are only the outer expressions of their soul’s intended journey – to use their gifts and pain to make the world a better place.

I vow again to remind people that their career choices can’t be made from the influence of trends, fads, opportunities, or what others are doing. Their choices must come from the inner knowing, the intuition of the true naked self they came to share with the world. And from the knowledge that true abundance and success only come from aligning ourselves with this naked work - the work that lines up with our pain, gifts and dreams.

This is my true work – to share this knowledge of the soul’s intention with others. It always has been - even though I buried my gift for many years trying to fit into conventional ways of making a living, trying to be accepted by others. (The cat licking itself in the tunnel….)

Yet I’ve always had this great gift, the missing filter, the dreams that take me directly to other realms for knowledge that I’m blessed to remember when I awake. All of my life, when I’ve met people, I’ve seen them doing things, careers, that they’re not yet doing.

For more than 50 years, my logical, linear, left hemisphere battled for dominance over this intuitive, all-knowing, wise right hemisphere that longed to meditate and dream – marinating in the knowledge of the other realms. Now they’ve made peace with each other, and as the right hemisphere slowly takes dominance, I am allowed to see more and more of this information – being trusted to share it accurately with clients and students.
What’s your story? Who are you really? Who is hiding inside of you? It’s time for all of us to come out of the closet and own up to who we really are. We’re needed now to be our true, wise, intuitive selves as we guide humanity through this pivotal point in our evolution. Are you a healer who feels energy pulsing through your hands and yet you make your living as a lawyer? It’s time to own your truth. By not following your gift, a life is wasted. As money scares you into playing it dumb, please know that money follows only your true work. When you’re on your true path, everyone around you feels that vibration of sacred alignment. You attract whatever and whomever you need.

I can’t tell dreams from truth... I’m staring at a lake, a pool of vast deep water, still and glistening. Is this a dream or not? I’m under the water, swimming in a stream that is effortless, at home like a place I’ve always known. I never want to leave this water. There are levels of it, like tiers that I swim up and up to get to the top of the endless pool. At the top, I emerge from the water feeling completely at peace and refreshed, and someone is standing there to meet me. He tells me sweetly that I can’t be here yet, that I have more work to do. I argue with him. I’m crying when he taps me on the shoulder, and I wake up. All day I can’t shake the memory of the pools. I feel the joy of the water rushing over me. I smell it, hear it, taste it. Can I go there tonight in my sleep or is an invitation required?

I am meditating on a client’s path before our session. I see that he’s an earthy Taurus on an expanded 5 birth path. I ask what this client needs to hear to move forward to his highest potential. I see images of an attractive man with great material successes, surrounded by cars, homes and trappings of success. Yet he is careening into the abyss of addictions - sex, and alcohol. What does he need from me?

The words come: Reconnection to his spiritual path, a reminder of the soul’s intention to teach and inspire others. He came to experience the greatest passions of human existence - but got sidetracked into meaningless details and addictions.

I write it all down - making a note to myself to be relentless in reminding him of his soul’s journey, of waking him up to save his life. At the end of the session, he says; “This is just what I needed. I don’t want to hide anymore.”

Months later, he tells me he’s become a corporate consultant who specializes in helping employees with addiction problems. He’s also getting a “Doctor of Divinity” degree so he can make his living as a spiritual counselor. His enormous passion for his new direction fills me with happiness – lights me up. I say a prayer of gratitude.

Career Intuitive Sue Frederick’s work, described as a “breath of fresh air” and “an enlightened new perspective,” has been featured in The New York Times, Yoga Journal, Natural Health, and Fit Yoga, and at venues like The Crossings Retreat Center in Austin and Naropa University. She’s the author of Dancing at Your Desk: A Metaphysical Guide to Job Happiness; and Top Ten Reasons to Stop Facing Reality. For more information visit: www.BrilliantWork.com; email Sue@BrilliantWork.com or call 303-939-8574.

A Message From Beyond By Sue Frederick

It’s 2 a.m., and I’m sound asleep when suddenly there’s a strange and very large man standing right beside my bed – about a foot away. He’s wearing jeans, a dark t-shirt, and an unbuttoned flannel plaid shirt. He’s not trying to scare me; he’s just casually standing there looking at me – rather sweetly.

But he does scare me; It’s the middle of the night and I don’t know him. As all of this information processes through my sleepy brain, I’m already screaming “Who are you?” and struggling to sit up in bed.

Now my husband, our two kids, the cat and the dog are all wide awake – yelling, “What’s wrong?” and making lots of commotion. But I don’t notice them, because I’m still seeing this man beside the bed – quite clearly – even as I sit up, and even as my husband turns on the light. Only then does the stranger very slowly, lingeringly, cell by cell, vaporize in front of me. There’s a slight crackling sound as his form disappears before my eyes.

“It’s just a dream. Go back to sleep,” My husband, Gene, announces. But I can’t go back to sleep. I can’t believe he wasn’t a real flesh and blood person standing there.

“You didn’t see anybody standing by the bed?” I demand to know. But Gene is giggling – laughing at me. “Sue you need to be nicer to these spirits. You invite them to give you messages for clients, and when they get here you yell at them.” He’s laughing as he turns off the light and slides back down against his pillow – snoring peacefully within seconds.

I am wide awake and confused now – pacing in the bedroom, opening closet doors, checking hallways. Certainly this man was real flesh and blood, a burglar, are the doors locked? I saw him so clearly!

I never get back to sleep that night as I run this image through my mind over and over. I’m used to precognitive dreams, yes, and even seeing the quick flashes of spirits with their messages for loved ones. But this was something else… this was right out of Star Trek. This was a solid apparition complete in flesh and blood - and only inches from my face.

In the morning it’s back to being mom, making breakfast, driving the kids to school, and then a phone session with a new client from New Orleans named Elizabeth. Before the phone session, I meditate on her life and career path – which I pick up from the vibrations of the numbers in her birthday. I can see how powerful she is – a large and magnificent spirit here to do something great. I’m excited to work with her.

Later as we’re talking, I can tell she’s fallen “off-path” – not quite living up to the big work she came here to do. She’s running a business that’s frustrating her, and there are other disappointments weighing her down. Her voice sounds tired.

She tells me the story of losing her young daughter to a terminal disease 20 years earlier. “I lost my faith in life then,” she remembers. She tells me about meeting Jim, a man with a large spirit and generous heart who became her best friend, mentor, and business partner. Together they discussed the big questions of life: Why are we here? Where are we going when we die? Is there an after-life?

These discussions comforted Elizabeth because she wanted to know that her daughter’s spirit did indeed exist in an after-life - where she might find her again someday. Elizabeth and Jim make a promise to each other. Whichever of them dies first will return with a sign to show the other that there is indeed an after-life.

Tragically, Jim dies of a sudden heart-attack not long after they’ve made their promise to each other. Elizabeth waits and looks for a sign, but sees nothing. This saddens her deeply as she tries to live with the belief that there is no afterlife, no spirit life – just this seen “reality” that we exist in day-to-day. This weighs on her – causing depression. What purpose is there in this meaningless existence, she wonders?

While Elizabeth is telling me this story, I’m jumping off my chair saying, “Wait, wait… let me describe Jim to you.” I describe the man standing beside my bed who I can still see in great detail… down to his large belly and grey hair. I explain how kind and good he seemed – not trying to scare me – but putting tremendous effort into materializing before my eyes - so that I would not forget him, so that I would not go back to sleep, so that I would remember to tell Elizabeth when we talked in the morning. I can feel the great love he has for Elizabeth, and the energy he has poured into getting this message to her.

As I tell her this, I can hear she’s crying… “Really, do you believe that?” she asks me tearfully. “That was really Jim?”

I can feel Jim beside me now urging me on. “Elizabeth, if I can tell you anything that I know is absolutely true – it’s that Jim desperately wants you to know there’s an afterlife, and the spirit world is real.” She is sobbing when we hang up.

Weeks later, through a strange series of events, I meet Elizabeth in person. She tells me how important the message from Jim was, and how it’s reopened her ideas of what life is about and why we’re here. “I’m getting back in touch with my spirituality,” she tells me.

I’m very relieved knowing that this powerful, beautiful woman, on an important journey in this lifetime, is back “on-path” - realigning her life and work to be more meaningful.

I remember the dark years after my husband died when I was 29, and I fell “off-path” -- not doing my true work or being my true self. I’m deeply grateful for the people who nudged me back “on path” to the work I came here to do.

The only question to ask yourself is: Do I believe in the unseen realms or not? That question will get you to the core of your own personal journey and what may be stopping you from doing your great work or living your best life.

If you embrace the knowledge that we are made of energy, and all of us are spirits on a chosen path to do our unique work in the world and raise the vibrations of the planet – you’re on your path.

If you can’t say that you believe that, reach out and ask for a little clarification, maybe a message from beyond. There are lots of “sensitive” people around, like me, who are more than willing to give up a good night’s sleep - to help you find your way back home.

Career Intuitive Sue Frederick’s work, described as a “breath of fresh air” and “an enlightened new perspective,” has been featured in Yoga Journal, Natural Health, and Fit Yoga, and at venues like The Crossings Retreat Center in Austin and Naropa University. She’s the author of Dancing at Your Desk: A Metaphysical Guide to Job Happiness; and Top Ten Reasons to Stop Facing Reality. For more information visit: www.BrilliantWork.com; email Sue@BrilliantWork.com or call 303-939-8574.

Is Your Loved One Off-Path?

By Sue Frederick

    He’s got health problems that are getting worse by the day. He’s distant, grumpy, non-communicative. He hates his job and his unhappiness is spilling over into family life. The kids feel it. You feel it.

    Your partner is off-path and you want to help steer him back to his true self – to the work he came here to do. But how? You can barely manage your own career and taking care of the kids. And if he quits his job, you could lose the house.

    Consider the possibility that you two have a soul agreement. When you met and fell in love you were setting your agreement into motion. It went like this: “We agree that when one of us forgets who we really are and what we came to this lifetime to accomplish, the other person will remind the one who gets off-path. We agree to help each other keep on path.”

Now, here you are, living your wonderful life, raising children, buying houses and cars, getting benefits, and completely forgetting the great work that’s still buried in your soul – the work you came here to do. And everybody around you, on an unconscious level, knows it. Even the kids.

So little things happen. You get colitis, you gain 20 pounds, you have chest pains, or insomnia. Your soul knows you’re off track and that’s how it speaks to you. But you don’t listen. You go to your doctor who prescribes something to quiet your symptoms and you go back to work. At work you’re fighting with most everybody and the politics are “killing” you. At home, there’s no energy left for anyone.

Is there hope? You betcha…
Think of it this way: You may be playing the role of mother, father or bread winner right now. But that’s just a costume your soul is wearing for a few big scenes in this lifetime. The higher self came here to dance. The higher self came here to use its gifts and talents to make the world a better place – and to rise above the pettiness of our “pitiful” thinking.

Stop encouraging this “pitiful” thinking – otherwise known as “desperation.” Look at the depth and breath of your partner’s soul journey. Meditate on his life journey and ask to feel the vibration of his path so you’ll understand how to guide him through this transition. See his innate gifts, and help him remember what he came here to do. That’s how you would want to be supported if you were off-path. And that’s what you agreed to do before this lifetime journey began.

So let’s get to it. Try this daily affirmation: “I am helping my partner own up to his greatness and do what he came here to do. That’s our agreement.” Empower and don’t destroy. Inspire him to think of new solutions rather than sending negative thoughts or feelings his way – which will only hinder progress. Ask open-ended questions about dreams. Tell him he has a $5million gift from the universe but he must use the money to launch his career in a meaningful new direction. What would he do?

Be clear on your path and what you came here to do. Be a model of someone who is doing their great work in the world – using innate talents to make the world a better place (and create abundance).

Laugh together. In the worst of times we can raise the energy with our humor, gratitude and sweetness for each other. By doing this, we create new space for attracting solutions we hadn’t thought of. Remember, once he gets on his true path, he’ll have renewed energy for you and the kids.

Here are the questions to ask yourself:

1.    How can I help my partner own up to his innate gifts and realize that he must use them in his work to be happy?
2.    What were his good inner qualities that I fell in love with and how can we bring them back to the surface by finding the right work?
3.    What is it that I know he came here to do?
4.    Who was he when he was young and still dreaming?
5.    What birth path is he on and what does that mean for his career? (See articles on www.CareerIntuitive.org)
6.    What energetic cycle is he in right now and how do I help him move through it? (See articles on www.CareerIntuitive.org).
7.    Is my partner’s work helping the world in any way? If not, how can it be tweaked so that it does?
8.    What is the most powerful thing I can do or say to help him get back on path?

Author and Career Intuitive Sue Frederick’s work, described as a “breath of fresh air” and “an enlightened new perspective,” has been featured in Yoga Journal, Natural Health, Fit Yoga, and at venues like The Crossings Retreat Center in Austin. She’s the author of Dancing at Your Desk and BrilliantDay. For more info visit www.CareerIntuitive.org or call 303-939-8574.