Taps On the Shoulder: How to Transform Unwelcome Life Events Into Your Greatest Gifts
By Fiona Miller
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Fiona and those who have contributed their stories to this book have no doubts, they say YES! From personal experience they know that there is always a valuable gift in an unwelcome event– even though it might look impossible at the start. Often it is a priceless gift that is only realised when you fully embrace the challenging situation and take purposeful, heart-centred action.
This self-help book blends deeply personal, transformational stories with uplifting messages from Spirit to inspire you. With guidance it encourages you to be proactive and become a detective in your life…look for clues and ask searching questions. Then, after questioning is complete, to discover how viewing your challenge with ‘new eyes’, followed by heart-centred action, leads to a powerful shift and priceless gift.
The priceless gift? You’ll say good-bye to the heartache caused by the unwelcome situation and be more closely aligned to your true self. Then, in your unique way, you’ll bring more joy, peace, love and understanding into your life and the lives of others.
Make time now to discover how the people in the book really did receive priceless gifts from their taps on the shoulder… and how you can too!
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Taps On the Shoulder - Fiona Miller
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INTRODUCTION
Opening Thought from Spirit
'Welcome!
This is a book about alignment with your true self and with Spirit. It is about aligning with your truth so you can be the divine being that you really are - so that you can be of service to not only yourself (your soul) but to others on the planet, and so that you can raise consciousness throughout the planet.
You cannot do this without first raising your own consciousness. You will need to commit to raising your vibration so that it radiates peace, harmony, love and oneness.
When you do this, you will support the new systems that have to arise during this coming age. It is a new golden age of oneness and harmony. Humanity is ready to say 'goodbye' to dualism, despair and competition.
We are all divine beings! We have chosen to be born in this time of transition, this time of transformation. You can be part of this transformational process if you choose. In so doing, you will choose to let go of the past and move into the future. You will choose to re-align with your true self as a divine being, to change your vibration.
The information in this book will support you in making your own shift so that you can support the planetary shift that needs to take place.
Mother Earth has been making this need for a shift in vibration known over recent years and will continue to do so. Heed her signs. There are more earthquakes, tsunamis, tornadoes and natural events to be felt, as well as man-made events.
These events are occurring to support humanity in making the shift to higher consciousness. They are the catalyst to propel you forward, if you choose to. If you choose not to move forward, these events have the potential to generate fear within you. Fear is entirely optional, and always has been.
This is a time to be alert to everything around you. Pay attention to taps on the shoulder. Embrace them as gifts, catalysts for change. Throughout this book you will see how events that looked like disasters became vital catalysts for change in people's lives.
Above all, be creative in this time of change. Let go of control and step into the field of the unknown - the field of possibilities.
This book will show you how to accelerate your own evolution. We are all evolving. Evolve with intention and you will find more peace, harmony, love, support, freedom and oneness than you ever dreamed possible.
Release the old energies, as Mother Earth is doing through natural disasters. Releasing the old is necessary for welcoming in the new higher vibrations.
You are connected to Spirit. You are immensely powerful when you acknowledge this divine connection.
This book is about ending the search without and learning to trust what is within. You will learn how to connect and align with Spirit and find your own answers. You will develop your inner strength and energy, and you will love yourself from within.
Finally, you will discover that what you have always yearned for can always be sourced from within, from Spirit.
Peace and inner strength will align you with the love of humanity. That love will support you when you are being of service, when you are contributing to the greater good, to the well-being of humanity and the planet.
You must be connected and aligned to Spirit so that you can move forward with confidence and with peace in your heart.
It is hoped that this book will inspire you to pay attention to the taps on the shoulder in your life. When you do, you will be letting go of the old and stepping into a new way of being.
How joyful to embrace your vibrant divine self! How deeply satisfying to contribute to a more sustainable world - one that is lighter and brighter and will support generations to come.'
The Life Event that Prompted this Book
It was 12.51pm on February 22nd 2011…the floor beneath us rocked and our half-empty coffee cups were thrown to the floor. The building groaned as we looked anxiously at each other: was the ceiling going to fall on us? Was the building going to survive the powerfully shake?
The shaking stopped. Silence.
I was crouched under the café table along side my friend and other bewildered customers. We quickly and silently made for the door. We were relieved to be on the street. Within minutes there was another big shake followed by clouds of dust. The church on the corner was shaken and fell. Little did we know that the two cathedrals in the city of Christchurch had also fallen.
We stood in the street, stunned, as the immensity of the earthquake sunk in. Around us people stood dazed or anxiously texting their loved ones. There were no replies, the lines over-loaded.
Cars crawled past us. People walked purposefully and sombrely home. Was there a home to return to? Was there a family waiting there?
My friend Pat lived nearby. I borrowed her bike to get home. I pedalled and pushed it - it was the only way for me other than walking. I was in shock; stunned, fearful.
I stumbled past collapsed walls and twisted buildings, roads wrenched open, massive fissures, bridges jerked into the air, flowing water and sewerage. Liquefaction (silt) spewed from the bowels of the earth. All I could think of was, ‘Are my loved ones safe?'
Finally I arrived at my son's house. What a relief to see my family! They were shaken but safe, already sheltering in a small tent in the garden of their badly shattered home.
The three weeks that followed the massive earthquake in Christchurch on February 22nd are etched in my memory. During those days everyday life, my usual safe routine, was gone.
Our community had no water, power or sewerage and only intermittent phone coverage. We gathered together. Strangers and neighbours alike supported each other.
We recalled quake stories, shared candle-lit meals, carried precious water for each other, offered shelter to the homeless and fearful, lent wheel barrows to shift liquefaction, and shared fresh produce from our gardens.
Neighbours put aside long-held resentments and connected with open hearts. During those three weeks, pent-up stressful energy was released, re-alignment took place and new connections were made. From adversity, community spirit grew…what a gift!
Over the days and weeks following this unexpected devastating event, I found myself constantly asking two questions …
‘What is Mother Earth telling me…telling humanity?
What is she asking us to pay attention to?’
Reflecting on these questions gave rise to this answer - Mother Earth is powerfully releasing old energies and raising her vibration, re-aligning; she is asking you and humanity to do the same.
This answer prompted the writing of this guidebook.
A guidebook to help you discover the gifts that accompany the unwelcome, often unexpected, events in your life. To help you release old energies and raise your vibration - to re-align with Spirit and embrace more of your true self, your soul; and in doing so to contribute to the raising of the vibration, the consciousness, of the planet.
What are Taps on the Shoulder?
The February 22nd earthquake in Christchurch was a life-changing unwelcome event, tap on the shoulder, for me and everyone in the city on that eventful day.
Taps on the shoulder come in many forms: illness, family or work-place disharmony, money issues, natural disasters, sense of ill ease. If you ignore or deny taps on the shoulder and don’t take action, they become persistent until they cause you to take notice.
For example, a minor medical problem becomes a huge one, a small debt becomes bankruptcy, a miscommunication becomes divorce, and a low-key natural event becomes a natural disaster (for example oil pollution, melting polar ice). When you do not pay attention, the cost to yourself and the planet is great.
Taps on the shoulder are there to guide you. They are your radar system, warning you when you are off course, encouraging you to make a correction. Taps on the shoulder are gifts, designed to bring you into alignment with both your soul and Spirit.
At first taps on the shoulder are gentle or subtle, and can be quickly dismissed or not recognised. The latter is highly likely when you rush around and are not in the habit of heeding your intuition, your body, your relationships to others and your environment.
Start creating an intention now, to pay attention to taps on the shoulder. Taking inspired action leads you to alignment and authenticity, to shining from within.
When you are true to your self - the person you are meant to be, a divine being - you are using your unique gifts and strengths. Your life flows...
When your life flows, you are in the positive high frequency energies of joy, love, peace, generosity, gratitude and harmony. And the whole world benefits!
Paying attention to taps on the shoulder keeps you:
Learning, curious and adventurous like a fearless child.
Raising your consciousness and that of the planet.
Flowing rather than stagnating.
Living and evolving rather than closing up and dying.
Respecting rather than abusing the planet.
Grateful; having enough rather than striving for more and more.
Releasing your low frequency energies.
Refreshing your attitudes, beliefs and actions.
Letting go and stepping into the field of possibilities.
Connected at every level, with Spirit, family and community.
Ignoring taps on the shoulder leads you to misalignment and dis-ease in your life and your relationships. Your connection with the following aspects of your life will be affected:
Spirit and your soul
Your physical, mental and emotional self
Your family
Your finances
Your work
Your environment
Mother Earth
When you embrace taps on the shoulder and invite them to become your friend and guide, you learn to ask, ‘What is this tap on the shoulder telling me?’ You begin to trust the answers you receive, and be guided by them.
Consequently you gain inner strength. You begin to feel strong even when everything around you is collapsing or in a state of turmoil - when the world you knew yesterday is not the world you know today. When the earth beneath your feet is shaking.
Taps on the Shoulder as Catalysts for Change
Natural disasters, whether they be earthquakes, cyclones, tsunamis, bush fires or floods have the potential to be transformational events, gifts. They force people to stop and get off the treadmill…move into the unknown.
I saw it in my home town Christchurch, as a result of the February 22nd earthquake. It was as if people were given a legitimate reason to stop, review their lives, take stock and embrace what was really important to them.
Over those weeks I got a glimpse of what living in the moment really means. I experienced the strength that comes from connecting to Spirit. I appreciated the value of relationships, the support and camaraderie that comes when people from all backgrounds work together on the ground.
I experienced the joy that comes from active involvement. I understood the value of being part of a community rather than living in isolation. I welcomed the peace and strength that comes from feeling connected at every level. And I found clarity: that's when you know what is important in your life, what really matters.
In the days, months or years following a disaster, natural or man-made, some people will get insights and learn lessons...some will make no change to their lives...others will make minor changes...and others will realign completely, recreating their lives so they can live and be more true to themselves.
Disasters – personal, regional, national or global - are taps on the shoulder. They can be catalysts for change. When the change is fully embraced rather than ignored, a silver lining will be revealed. Time may pass before the nature of the silver lining becomes apparent, but it will be there.
When you experience a tap on the shoulder the question to ask is,
What is my life telling me in this moment?
After asking the question, remain curious and open, the answer you receive will reveal your next step. That step is the one that will support you in becoming more aligned with your true self, your soul - more aligned with Spirit.
Learn from Taps on the Shoulder…your own
Your personal taps on the shoulder might manifest as health issues, relationship problems, work place concerns, financial problems. Or perhaps they manifest as more deep-seated concerns such as the loss of meaning in your life, or distress over humanity’s destruction of the environment. Perhaps you are experiencing even more subtle dis-ease.
Those taps on the shoulder indicate that you are out of alignment, not fully connected to Spirit. As a result, there is a level of suffering.
When you learn the lessons that these personal taps on the shoulder offer you, and you make decisions consciously with them in mind, you take divinely-inspired action.
You alleviate your