Accepting the Spirit Force Within Me

Summary

Trista Signe Ainsworth embarks on a 100-day journey inspired by "The Infinite Self" by Stuart Wilde, exploring the spirit force within and documenting her experience in her upcoming book, with encouragement from her writing community.

Abstract

Trista Signe Ainsworth, a professional organizer, has begun a transformative 100-day journey that aligns with the teachings of Stuart Wilde's "The Infinite Self" and the writing of her first long-form book. This personal voyage is focused on recognizing and embracing the internal spirit force that fuels creativity and positive change. She expresses gratitude to her mentor, Henery X, and her supportive writing family at Illumination. Ainsworth describes feeling the spirit force during her morning walks and while engaging in daily activities like collecting sticks, which she sees as gifts of energy and light. She emphasizes the importance of internalizing the God Force for a proper harnessing of its energy and the need to remove negativity to allow for personal growth and the flourishing of ideas. The journey is also a call to action for her fellow writers to join her in this exploration of inner potential and creativity.

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Ainsworth believes that the journey she is undertaking is not just a personal endeavor but also a source of joy and creative inspiration.
She suggests that the God Force is not external but an internal energy that, once recognized and felt, can profoundly impact one's life with perception and goodness.
Ainsworth views nature as abundant and generous, offering tangible symbols of energy and creativity, such as the sticks she collects.
She posits that pruning negativity from one's life, much like trimming a garden, allows for new growth, increased possibilities, and a stronger inner strength.
Ainsworth is optimistic about the power of the spirit force within to transcend limitations, enabling individuals to follow their heart and create boldly.
She extends an invitation to other writers to partake in this journey of self-discovery and to share in the collective experience of tapping into the spirit force.

Accepting the Spirit Force Within Me

Day 1: Knowing that all that I need to create is already there

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At this moment, I am stepping into a 100 day journey. This voyage will take me through and beyond the 33 steps the book The Infinite Self by Stuart Wilde. Simultaneously, I am writing a piece for my very first long form book. Doing these projects in tandem brings me great joy. I am so grateful to Henery X (long) for encouraging me to write this book. My writing family here at Illumination is a creative force for good in this world.

As I set foot on this mysterious and glorious path, I will explore the idea of the spirit within all of us. This is the first step in the 33 steps to the infinite self.

The God Force is within. Internalize that God Force and accept that it is flowing through you. When you perceive God as a force outside of you, you can’t really use its energy properly. Once you internalize the force, and it is not just a vague intellectual concept of the God within, then you can move to actually feeling the God Force inside of you. At that point, a truly awesome power of perception and goodness enters your life.

-Infinite Self, Stuart Wilde

As I took my morning walk early this morning in the back garden, I started to feel this spirit force within me. I began to smile, to feel the joy welling up inside me, thinking about creating today. Each moment in the now presents an opportunity to reach into our inner spirit and create something amazing. Each and every second we are here to create. We have that power within us all along.

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I believe that this enormous energy and force within us can be felt if we focus on it. I felt it yesterday as I picked up sticks in the garden. Every day I like to take an afternoon walk and find the sticks that have fallen from the trees. They are gifts that have been given to me, so I say “thank you” for the abundance of each stick. I am amazed at the abundance of nature. Each time I walk around, I always find sticks. They appear everywhere to my delight. These sticks are bundles of energy. We create joyful sparks with them when we create fires in our fire pit. Those sticks warm us, they bring energy and light to us. They are gifts. Each time I find a stick, I feel the enormous energy in my inner being grow. It grows with abundance and light.

Spirit force within is pure emotion. It is the radiant glow we feel inside when we create an idea. As I walked yesterday I focused on the ideas that I am taking action on, ones that are inspired by the force within me. Ideas that seemed to come from nowhere, they came from that force. I felt a beam of light all around me as I pondered all of the possibilities.

Our beautiful inner light is what is at work when we choose to cut out the negativity from our lives and focus on the positive in life. This was illustrated to me yesterday as I chose to cut away dead branches and excess growth of some plants in the garden. When we trim away things in our lives that aren’t serving us, we create more growth. We create more possibility, we create more flow in our lives. Our inner strength can grow strong when those parts are cut away. We begin to free ourselves from thoughts and actions that aren’t allowing us to grow. Our roots are given new energy to spring forth and create from that spirit force.

I am beginning to truly accept and feel the spirit within me. The power to create and to go beyond limitations. To choose my heart and to go forward. To step forward boldly and set foot in the path. The spirit force is strong and powerful, it works for good and it works for all.

Do you feel the spirit force within you?

Trista Signe Ainsworth is a professional organizer with Joyful Minimalism. She helps working women clear the clutter, overwhelm and shame from their homes and lives so that they can truly live in joy.

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