A few moments with your shoes can change your life. Your worn out boots can show you how you move through life. Your sneakers get tilted, scuffed and stretched out. Your slippers get pressed on, pushed on and shaped from your soul to your sole. Your shoes sit beneath all your movements and they form themselves to your gesture. Like jello in a mold, your shoes become just like you. Look at them and sense the trail of your activities.

Meditate on Your Loafers

You can even meditate on your shoes. You will find your strength, your fear, your power and your distortions all in the contour of the wear of your running shoes. What you will come face to face with in this process is the mold you press into the world. It is the default shape of your action. You can meet yourself more deeply by opening to the experience of what your worn out loafers tell you about yourself.

You can find great love and compassion for your journey, as you look at the shape pressed into your hiking boots.

As you meditate on your shoes you are exposing your unconscious, nonverbal patterns. It is a little bit like looking in a mirror. Your well-worn shoes reflect your life’s rhythms. Your shoes mold to the vibration of your path.

The wear of your shoes tells you where you have been. Not physically. Looking at your shoes won’t tell you that you went to Blockbuster to rent Moonstruck and then stopped in to visit an old friend who offered you butter cookies she just baked. Instead, the stretching and pulling of the fabric of the shoe will give you a feeling about how you stretch and pull in your life to make things go the way you want them to go. By opening to this feeling and loving yourself through it, your leather heels can offer a surprising healing.

Shoe Meditation:

Sit across from your most worn pair of running shoes or your oldest hiking boots or your most tattered pair of slippers. Just look at them for awhile. Look at them as if you have never seen them before. When you feel ready, follow these 3 steps:

1. Notice how intimately the life force within you interacts with the physical world through your shoes. Look at any points of wear, stretch or tug that are apparent in the shape of the shoes. Get a sense of how responsive the physical world is to your gesture.

2. Notice your body’s lines of force as they are written into your shoes. Become sensitive to the shape of your action as it is molded into the fabric of each shoe.

3. Love yourself through your shoes. You may see some asymmetries or distortions that remind you of aspects of yourself that you struggle with. Send yourself love by opening to these patterns and by simply loving your worn out old shoes. You may see aspects of your character that you love reflected in your shoes. Enjoy a moment of feeling those noble and brilliant qualities reflected in the artwork of your feet as they have created your shoes’ wear pattern. Sit for a while in the jello of your shoes. Love and appreciate the shape of your life-force-jello-mold.

Virtual Shoes

Now that you have spent a little time in love and acceptance of your human patterns by embracing the message of your old shoes, let’s make some new, intentional shoes. These shoes won’t soak up the influence of your unconscious patterns the way the leather and canvas did.

These virtual shoes offer you an influence of your choosing. You can create these shoes out of any material, any color and most importantly, any qualities you choose. And in the same way that you influenced your old shoes, your new shoes will influence you. You can make these virtual shoes of love or wisdom or prosperity. You can make them shoes of a specific skill, like slide guitar-playing shoes or French pastry baking shoes

As you have fun creating all kinds of new virtual shoes, you will find that certain ones feel like home. They feel empowering and comfortable. They lift your posture and tickle you into a smile. Those are the ones you will want to wear the most often. And unlike your physical shoes, which mold themselves to you the more you wear them, your virtual shoes will stay true to their nature. You will gradually gel into the shape of your virtual shoes as they influence you toward your desired qualities the more you wear them.

Wearing your virtual shoes, you will become more intimate with the nature of love or wisdom or prosperity. You will imbibe the lines of force needed for expert guitar playing or pastry baking or empire building. You will learn to know and love yourself as a musician or baker or entrepreneur. And the more these shoes wear you in, the more like them you will become.

Virtual Shoe Meditation:

To begin this process, notice an area of your life in which you feel an intense desire. It may be a spiritual desire. You may want to feel more connected to God or to feel unconditionally loving toward all beings or to live a life of joyful service. It may be an interpersonal desire. You can use your new virtual shoes to assist you in creating a loving relationship or to improve the quality of communication in your current interactions. If you are steeped in a material desire, your virtual shoes may hold the lines of force necessary for owning a vintage blues guitar or a professional pastry kitchen or a palace on your own tropical island. Once you have a sense of the influence you desire, get a sense of the shoes that embody that quality and sit across from your new virtual shoes and follow these three steps:

1. Notice how beautiful they are. Notice how good you feel when you look at them. If you don’t feel good when you get a sense about them (a visual image is not necessary) keep reconstructing them, reinventing them, recreating them until you really like them, until you get a feeling of ease and happiness and relief when you ponder them.

2. Notice how resilient they are. They are made of the stuff of the quality you chose, love, wisdom, prosperity, French pastry skill. No matter how you twist them or press on them, they spring right back into their true nature. These shoes reveal the joy in these qualities and they make the qualities easy to access.

3. Get a sense of putting these shoes on your feet and becoming one with the quality of the shoes. Realize that with every stretch and bump and pressure exerted by your walking you are being influenced toward unconditional love or prosperity. The shoes maintain their quality and you are being molded toward your desire.

Every morning as you choose from your physical shoes, look in your mind for a pair of virtual shoes to wear for the day. As you see your physical sneakers getting more and more like your feet, know that you are getting more and more like your virtual shoes. As you move through your day, feel your invisible footwear leading you toward your desire. See if your posture changes as you recall that you are wearing your love sandals. See if your outlook brightens as you stroll through the park at sunset in your prosperity pumps. By letting yourself be molded to the intention of your virtual shoes you bring yourself into greater alignment with your soul’s intention.

© Rebbie Straubing

You can receive Dr. Rebbie Straubing's Free e-Course, "7 Secrets for Manifesting Your Heart's Desire," at http://www.yofa.net

Rebbie is a workshop leader, Abraham Coach, and writer.

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