Happy September!

As you enter this month, you may have a clearer vision for yourself and your goals. August was here to support opportunities for reflection and reprioritizing as needed. Any new clarity you have received with a refreshed perspective and sights for moving forward this month will call for your stamina to see your clear vision through. 

You might be able to feel your desired result coming closer to you. Maybe it's recently arrived, or the next step of the vision has revealed itself. Perhaps you aren't sure how it will come to fruition, but having the endurance to hold your vision and see it through is yours for the taking this month and the rest of the year.

Finding your flow is a significant part of stamina. The technical definition of stamina is "the ability to sustain prolonged physical or mental effort." Endurance is achieved through the sustainability of life's natural ebb and flow. You don't start out running a marathon from the start; you build up to it. You train your muscles and body by slowly stretching its capacity by building up to the goal, which requires a lot of stamina. 

So just like a physical goal, there is mental, emotional, and spiritual stamina. Training is needed as you build up to having the energy to sustain yourself long term once you step fully into your desired result. I bet you could look back now and see the muscle building to get you to your current situation. Did you see it as such, though? Or were you hard on yourself that you haven't achieved where you've wanted to be yet? 

When we shift our perspective of ourselves and our journey, we can see how every challenge, every delay, and every lack of action is part of the muscle-building process, either mentally, physically, or emotionally. Each phase drops you deeper into clarity on what you want/need, why you want/need it, and specific skills required along the way to fully attain your goal. 

And as with many other areas of your life, you might notice there is no stopping point. The journey always continues. Maybe you finally landed your dream job, and the stamina is needed now to stay on top of the skills and necessary communication to keep you going daily. You find the love of your life and then realize all of those past dating experiences trained you to better communicate in your new relationship to experience the continued intimacy and fulfillment you seek within yourself and with someone. You land the financial success you were seeking, and now you can see the challenges you faced prior were skillsets you were learning to maintain and protect your newfound assets. 

Stamina will be crucial in whatever phase you are in your journey. Perspective will be another critical element because you are already living a part of your vision. After all, what you are doing now is contributing to the alignment of the result you seek that will still require effort once you achieve it, as well as long after you reach it because a new vision will present itself. 

Burning ourselves out was never and no longer is a sustainable way to live. It serves no one to push yourself to a point where more time will be required to recover than if you took breaks to build up the necessary muscles to experience fulfillment at each step, not just at the final goal. 

Another aspect of achieving the clear vision you have will be receiving it once it does arrive. If you don't feel comfortable receiving a compliment, feel guilty when someone makes you dinner because you didn't feel you contributed, or aren't appreciative when someone does help or provide for you, you could be creating a disconnect from the result. If we don't know how to regulate our nervous system to feel safe enough to receive what we say we want, it will be more challenging and take longer to fulfill our goals. Working up the stamina to receive what is in your life with grace and gratitude will help your energy align with the people, places, and situations needed to draw you closer to the vision you have for yourself or to realize it's already within you. 

To help with stamina and revitalizing life back into your vision, the stone of the month is Red Jasper. 

If you have found yourself in a phase of burnout and questioning the next steps or are unsure where to start, pick up Red Jasper to help regenerate gentle energy to help you get off the couch to inspired action. This stone is incredibly grounding as it works with your first chakra. Your root chakra is what enables you to bring your visions to life. Its grounding and red jasper will help remove or bring awareness to your fears that might act as roadblocks to the next level you are reaching. Red jasper will help transmute your sluggishness and enliven you with a more joyful, positive attitude. 

The red/brown color of Red Jasper helps connect you to nature which ultimately is organizing your plans. The more you connect with this stone, therefore nature, the more stamina you will gain to endure the natural ebbs and flows of life. 

When you work with Red Jasper, imagine yourself with roots coming out through the base of your spine and traveling into the earth. Red Jasper will help you connect more deeply with seeing your roots traveling down, grounding your energy to feel stable. Breathe in the power of the earth, allowing it to activate all of your chakra centers. Release any stagnation of the body into the ground on your exhale and allow nature to transmute the stagnant energy into life-giving, endurance-driven energy into your energy field. Enjoy and Happy Manifesting!

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