The 3 o'clock wake up call?

I am what you might call a good sleeper. I maintain a regular sleep schedule and if I avoid sugar, caffeine and  alcohol, I sleep like a baby through the night. In our house, sleep is a precious gift that my husband and I both appreciate.
This summer we attended the I Can Do It Conference in Toronto put on by Hay House Publishing. The two day conference featured inspiring speakers who freely shared their wisdom, encouraging us to nurture our true spiritual nature and the unique gifts each of us has been given. Dr. Wayne Dyer is one of my favourite people and a fabulous, gentle teacher. In his presentation about manifesting miracles, he spoke about being awakened at 3:00 am. It is now habit for him to get out of bed at that hour and  work on whatever he's writing. He asked the audience how many people were awakened around that time and several people raised their hand. Dr. Dyer explained that it's a very spiritual time and being awakened is really being called to do this work in what is perhaps the quietest time of day. Of course it may not work for you if you have demands that require you to be asleep at that time but if you have flexibility, Dr. Dyer says that it's a powerful time and in order to maximize inspiration, he says to go for it and nap later.
This morning after about five and a half hours sleep, I was awakened and looked at the clock beside our bed. It was five to three and I thought what the heck let's see if this works. I came upstairs to my desk and two and a half hours later, I had accomplished quite a bit. It's a beautiful time of the day and now when I hear the subtle call of inspiration at 3:00 am, I'll answer.

Listen to the Music of Your Heart

Living up to your dreams is a challenging duel between your spiritual self and your ego. We all have an inner voice, reminding us of how we aren't worthy or aren't enough for the task. Our spiritual voice speaks in soft whispers, while the ego projects it's message in a loud voice. Like meditation, it takes practice to hear the spiritual over the ego; we have to listen carefully.

What do you want to attract into your life? What is your dream? Is it peace, joy, abundance, success? Whatever your true heart's desire, the ego wants to have its needs met first. What does the ego want? Well of course it loves instant gratification, it loves to be right, to feel special or to feel miserable. If the ego is always working to get its needs met and its goal is not in line with what we really want, our job is to acknowledge its need and work to calm the ego so we can be more alert and available to listen to our hearts desire, ultimately attracting what we really want.
We become attuned to the sound of our true self when we accept the ego and recognize when it is taking charge. It happens to me hundreds of times a day; I have to consciously remind myself that it is the ego looking for its fix and work to calm that sometimes overwhelming feeling. How do you do that? By choosing another feeling, one that has a positive vibration, one that's in line with what you really want.

We are all connected in this way: we have our spiritual energy, our true self and we have our ego, which is our protector, that's the good news....the ego does want to protect us and alert us to danger. I am grateful for the ego in that way however I appreciate that its need is great, in fact we can never satisfy the ego. As soon as we give it what it's asking for, it starts again. Really it's a bottomless pit of need whereas the spiritual energy is an endless supply of joy, peace and abundance. The way I see it, our job is to focus more on the spiritual or right brain and less on the ego or left brain.

Say for example you were overlooked on the guest list for a gathering somebody you care about was having. How does that make you feel? Well your ego says "what the?????, why was I not invited?" You feel miserable and you need to be right in some way. So your ego scans the situation searching for some way to ensure that you come out on top. Even when you find out that it was an oversight, your poor ego can't rest. It needs feeding, so you find some way for the host to be wrong and put the situation to bed. How does that bring you what you want, if what you want is peace, joy, success and abundance? Have compassion for yourself, your feelings are hurt temporarily, you will recover and compassion will change your vibration from a negative judgement about the other person to a positive feeling about yourself. You can't know why that situation happened, you can only be in charge of your response to it. Perhaps you'll start with a reaction from your ego, it's natural; your assignment is to shift from that emotional knee jerk response to one that opens your heart. Compassion for yourself is more powerful than judgement of yourself or someone else because it lifts your energy instead of depressing your energy with negativity.

It's all a matter of what you really want: remember the law of attraction will always bring you what you focus on, so focus on what you really want.