This is a reflection on moving from doubt to trust and allowing guidance to unfold our true work and purpose. Your reflection at the end may be the reminder someone else needs today.

I’ve been guided the entire time.

I used to doubt my journey; I used to doubt my path. I used to question if I was doing the right thing.

I used to feel like I was doing the wrong thing all the time.

But time and time again I keep showing up, with doubt in my mind and uncertainty in my heart.

Blindly, I keep taking action into unknown territory; the unknown territory of myself where the only direction seems to be deeper in knowing myself and traveling higher in vibration.

The linear path I was once accustomed to is no longer visible. It’s no longer necessary. Instead, I walk the depths of the vertical path, both reaching down into the depths of my soul and up toward the heavens in vibration.

In this space, I don’t rely on the intellect; I solely rely on my guidance.

There is guidance beyond what we know and far beyond what is seen.

Guidance is the shared efforts of our spirit guides, higher self, our soul, and the spirit of our presence.

In presence, and only in presence, we are guided by an energy alignment that is unmistakable.

The energetic alignment into and of the present moment is not only the path we chose and the path which chose us; it is the impact our soul and our spirit are here to make.

The impact is our, your, and my life’s work.

This guidance shines from higher planes and holds out a helping hand through energetic imprints, insights, quiet whispers, and realizations that walk unexpectedly through the door of our awareness.

Every aspect of guidance flows into a beautifully streamlined course of divine will.

Formerly known as free will to a past version of myself, divine will is an anchor into majestic free will: the magic we are here to make and to experience.

There is only one path in divine will, the path of alignment. Divine will is an unwavering path one must walk because there are no longer any other routes to explore. And we do so proudly.

As I walk this path along with my own inner teacher, reflecting into my soul and pulling energy from non-physical into physical form, I continue to show up and do the work.

I now know it all unfolds step by step, somehow both with my knowing and without it. Work I completed months or even years ago knows exactly where to fit itself into my journey as I travel the path.

The actions build momentum, and the strength of my impact begins to ripple into humanity day by day, moment by moment. Let us remember: it ripples through my own soul, too.

I trust this path now. What I once doubted has become the only faith. The only definitive way I can see and feel direction is into my knowing and into faith. Trust at its highest vibration. Its truest definition. I swim in this.

I was taught by society long ago to put walls up to block the energetic hands of guidance and intuitive knowing of direction.

I’ve since ripped down these walls; it took many tries.

Grasping bricks with two hands and pulling concrete-bound rebar to the ground with bloody knuckles, crying on the floor through exhaustion.

I fought to allow guidance and support to come to me once again: guidance to my mentors, to the right people, to my learnings, to my divine will, guidance to my inner wisdom and uninterrupted intuition.

Guidance to deep knowing and to deeply knowing myself.

Guidance into the part of me that knows nothing outside of me matters anymore. Only that within me holds light. This light shines onto the world around me through my awareness. Just as nothing is playing on the screen until the projector starts, we are the builders of the scenes.

A personal purpose fills this once dark space where I sit. There is passion. There is belief in myself and my path. There is trust in myself that I not only know the way, I am the way. I don’t need light; I am the light.

I once worked hard to build the same walls I tore down with bare hands. It took me years, but I built them myself. I didn’t know I could have released the walls with just one thought. I didn’t know I didn’t need to bleed at all.

Tearing down the walls to allow guidance was only a battle to be fought within my own mind. It was a battle of trust, faith, and love vs. fear and illusion.

And trust, faith, and love won.

They didn’t win because they are stronger. They won because they are a part of who we are, a part of our natural self and state of being.

They are as gentle as the smell of a rose on a warm summer day. They are as present as the sky. They are as unwavering and as dependable as night and day.

Trust, faith, and love are not strangers at all; they are the wind that nudges the fall leaves gracefully across the street.

They have always been here the entire time. The rest were illusions I thought I had to fight and wrestle with.

-Lora Perry

This post is less about the walls we build and more about the constant, ongoing, dependable, and ever-present guidance we each have holding our hand as we travel not only through life but also through the SoulPreneur Journey. Sure, we build up walls and illusions all the time; it’s part of the human experience. It’s very common and natural for us to do this for all sorts of reasons. If we choose to, we can quickly break the illusions down. The pattern is to build and deconstruct constantly as we exist and evolve into new heights. This is a super power of our experience, to create and re-create. If we use it in our favor, it is painless. If we use it against the highest good, it is painful.

Less common is choosing the road of trust, faith, and love: releasing doubt and embracing uncertainty, falling in love with not knowing, and sticking to the path regardless of the illusions the mind tries to talk us into believing. We must trust that our guidance is there and surrender to it rather than trying to control. We must show up and take actions we feel inclined to act upon, even if we can’t see how it makes sense at the time.

There is an all-knowing, intelligent energy running through the universe, an orchestrated symphony. We were taught we must learn to play the instrument, but the truth is, you are the instrument, and your existence and presence alone come with the musical masterpiece you’re here to play. You already know the notes; you’ve just got to show up and play.

Take a moment and reflect on what you noticed within yourself by reading this. I’d love to hear your insights in the comments below.

Much love,

Lora