Lost and Found
Angela Gagne is the founder of The Alchemy Village and cares deeply about helping others live their best lives. She lives in Corbeil, Ontario with her partner and 2 dogs. She loves her family deeply and spends time receiving guidance and healing from Mother Nature every day!
Hello!
I have been MIA from social media for the last few months.
I had to regroup, work hard, accept all of the gifts, losses and challenges that I have been presented with in the last few years. And I feel like I am on the other side of it all. And ready to share my gifts and my thoughts with you all again.
I have spent time with my amazing family and friends, my amazing partner Geoff (with whom all things make sense), my amazing mentors, and of course, Mother Nature. All of these people, places and things have all helped me heal in different ways and I am so very grateful.
I think I have done pretty f***ing well, all things considered, and I am grateful for the lessons that have brought me here to you today.
Things didn’t feel easy. But these hard things that I did and have gone through have taught me so much about my own power, my truth and personal resilience.
Speaking of easy. I believe easy is a choice. I think that listening in to your inner wisdom is the only way to find easy in your world. If it doesn’t feel easy. Simply ask yourself, how can this BE easy?
Listen to your inner guidance, pay attention to the things that show up around you, and how you actually feel when things do. Discern right then and there, is this true for me? does this feel easy? and then CHOOSE from that place. I realize this is not always easy. But one step toward what feels easy at your core, is a step toward what you truly desire, whether that be and object, place or feeling.
You are your own best advocate and counsellor. I truly believe this. I believe there are helpers in this world showing up to you as people, places, or things. But you, you are the power and the best person to decide what you want to see in front of you.
No one else is you, so no one else gets to decide what is easy, hard, or best for YOU, except YOU.
Pay attention to even the smallest signs and you will realize you can literally choose your path, your reaction to the world around leading to your own personal easy and the life that you deserve.
Say this 3 times: I choose easy, in whatever way it shows itself to me. And I follow THAT.
Period.
Ok, here is a story about choosing easy.
Lost and Found
Yesterday I went for a hike with my dogs. During my walk I lost the remote for my correction collar somewhere along the way. (Juno had chewed a hole in my pocket in search of treats and I didn’t realize how big it was). I had just bought the thing and felt a bit frustrated at the fact that I had likely wasted 200 dollars. If anyone knows me, or sees me walking the dogs on Macpherson, they know that my dogs are a-holes (hence the correction collar) and anything I can do to keep them from pulling across the road into traffic and other dogs is necessary (yes, I know.. take control of your dogs Ang… believe me, I have tried.. ask Karen..haha)
Anyway,
I saddled up the dogs this morning to search for the missing remote. I looked at the trail and coat of freshly fallen snow and decided that it would be unlikely that I would find it. I felt frustrated and thought, why can’t things just be EASY. (sound familiar?)
Instead of walking down the beautiful path in frustration and distraction, I chose to ask my inner guidance to show me easy and to tell me where and when to look for the remote. I immediately heard that this would be easy, and that it was in plain sight, hanging in a tree. I had a choice to believe what I heard or mutter on down the path with my head down spending the entire walk in a state other than easy.
I decided, what the heck. The answer came so quickly and felt so true, I decided to trust it.
I walked the length of the 5km trail trusting that the remote would show itself to me. I said thank you for how easy this is.
Occasionally, I would fall into a pattern of 'life must be challenging all the time or I don't deserve a reward'. I would kick a bit of snow around to see if the shaded snow contained my remote. Lesson: The handful of times I didn’t trust what I had heard I ended up kicking a stump, or for the most part... frozen dog poop.
The more I let go of everything else during my walk and just believed what I heard, I enjoyed my walk a lot more. So instead of looking down the rest of the walk, I looked up, up to the branches of the trees, up to the sky, the beautiful white flakes of snow falling all around me. Allowing myself the luxury of being in the knowing, the knowing that all is easy if we choose easy. The walk was beautiful, there were birds chirping, and the views were breathtaking. I likely would have missed all of this had I started my walk down this path with my original mindset of hard, impossible, what's the point attitude.
About 100 feet from the end of the trail, there is was.
Easy.
Hanging in the tree, placed with great care by another hiker who was like an angel to me in that moment, and possibly even the voice I heard at the beginning of the trail.
I was so grateful for this easy lesson. Sometimes losing allows for another door to open or another lesson to happen had you not lost that thing, person, etc.
Trusting your inner guidance. Trust that what you hear isn’t just your imagination running wild. Trust that what you imagine is actually truth. Imagine what the world would look like if we all chose easy, chose truth and most of all, chose love and gratitude for the lessons, big, small, easy or hard.
The lesson in losing is sometimes in the being found.
Here is a picture of the remote sitting in plain sight, just like I heard at the beginning of the hike.
Easy.
Angela Gagne
