warm on his skin and he guessed it must still be about 28 degrees.
Momentarily he paused at the sound of voices and laughter, but quickly realised they were coming from a nearby balcony. A slight wind rustled the palm trees above him as he walked. With every step he took, he felt even more energy flowing through his body. His esoteric energy pulsated outwards from his body, almost touching the air and trees.
He was becoming so aware of everything around him. He thought about a quote he read once by the physicist, Dr. Nikola Tesla who said: “If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.”
At that moment, he wasn’t just thinking about energy, he was experiencing it flowing in his body.
“Am I about to discover the secrets of the universe?” he wondered.
As he continued to walk, a feeling of limitlessness came over him as though he were connected to the wind, the air, to everything around him. He thought again about his questions and considered that, once he’d asked them aloud, it was as if a doorway had opened up and he’d entered a new reality.
“Questions really do control our lives,” he thought.
He considered the inner voice. It was not like the feeling of intuition – it was more advanced than that. It wasn’t an external voice; it spoke on the inside. In that sense, it was more like a thought but it registered differently from most of the thoughts he had. It came with force and demanded his attention.
“Relax,” it told him, “you are safe. You have asked to know more about life, and now you shall experience more. I will show you the direction you are to take in your life, reveal to you the truth of your soul, the truth of the ages. You asked, and because you asked, you shall receive.”
Tears welled up in Ethan’s eyes as he felt the power of the universe flowing through him. The connection he was experiencing was to everything around him. He felt as if the trees and the birds spoke to him. He drew closer to the sea. He could hear the waves softly crashing against the rocks on the beach, their watery reach caressing each stone as the wind ushered them gently towards the shore. The moon’s reflection rippled on the surface of the water, its white shadow waving majestically on the surface of the sea, wrapping itself around the twisting of the gentle waves, which ebbed to and fro. Although the night air was warm, the breeze from the sea was refreshing; it hung in the air, and was like the breath of a kiss touching your lips before the kiss itself.
He sat on a bench on the promenade and stared out to sea. He was aware he was in the presence of something truly special. Every movement of the sea moved within him, massaging his soul. His muscles relaxed to the point where they felt as soft as down. The light of the moon reached out and touched his heart with a gentle caress, which seemed to whisper, “I am with you and within you.” The night air felt as though it was him, as if the universe and he were merged into one. As though he were watching a movie, he stepped outside the moment and observed himself experiencing what was happening.
“What is happening to me,” he asked?
The question prompted a conversation between Ethan and his inner voice, which he came to know as ‘I’, the inspiration within him.
“You asked a question and I am answering you.”
He thought of a quote by the internationally renowned author, Dr Wayne Dyer: “Prayer is when you talk to God; inspiration is when God talks to you.”
“The question you asked me was, ‘surely there is more to life, than this?’ So now you are experiencing that ‘more of life’. You will begin to know more of yourself, know more of your true nature. I will show you the way to fulfilment in your life. Your job in life now is to inspire others to reach their true potential, to become more of their true selves. I will show you how and I will show you the way.”
The same power that he had used to focus his mind on achieving all those goals was beginning to communicate with him. He was having a conversation with his inner voice, the ‘I’.
“Why am I feeling so unfulfilled?” Ethan asked.
“Because you have forgotten who you actually are. You have been lost in the creation of other people’s dreams and realities instead of the creation of your own reality. You have searched for happiness and fulfilment in material possessions and achievements, and you have found it’s not there. You have lost yourself.
“You have so much power within you. Let it out. Express who you are. Express yourself. As you let your light shine, your life will change in ways you never thought possible. Stop living someone else’s life. Stop trying to keep up with the Jones’ and live your own life.”
“Who are you?”
“I am your inner voice, the inspiration within you, call me ‘I’.”
“Am I imagining this?”
“You tell me. What do your feelings say to you? I am your voice: all you have to do is listen. From this day forward, your life will never be the same again.”
“What do you mean? Who are you?”
“I am the wind. I am the sea. I am the moon. I am the air. I am the sky. I am night. I am day. I am you and you are me. I am your thoughts, feelings and actions. I am all there is and all there ever will be. I am your guide: trust in me. You live your life logically, analytically, only allowing yourself to have what the mind can imagine.
“I want to give you so much more in your life; an experience of true fulfilment. I want you to leave your current work and do something that will help millions of people to achieve their true potential.”
“I can’t do that: I can’t walk away from €250,000 a year income.”
“Trust me. Everything will be taken care of for you when you trust and have faith in yourself. Leave your current work now. When you do, I will show you the next step to take… You are to become a messenger of the truth. Why would you worry about money when there are acres of diamonds and more riches and treasure within you than you could imagine? You are all born as unique diamonds. No diamonds are the same. No two people are the same. When you become aware of who you are at a deeper level and begin to live your life from that place, everything changes.”
In that moment, Ethan made the decision to trust his inner voice. On his return to Ireland, he exchanged his job for an entirely new path in life. Gone was the annual financial package worth €250,000, replaced by an expectation that he would receive wondrous new gifts and, most importantly, fulfilment in life.
When Ethan made that decision to trust his inner voice, he could never have imagined the journey it would take him on. He had experienced so many highs, but also many lows. When he trusted his inner self, his ‘I’, completely, he experienced great results. But when he tried to achieve with the old version of himself the ‘Me’ it would end in disaster. Ethan didn’t know what was going on, it was as though part of him was struggling not to be left behind.
