The Holy Spirit is encouraging you to consciously and fully embrace the leadership role you’re carving out for yourself. Through your focus, dedication, stability, and discipline, you’re emerging from the background and becoming recognized for both your competence and wisdom. Others are naturally attracted to your charismatic vibration and will follow your lead as they rightfully sense that you can be trusted.

The Holy Spirit is your guiding force as you motivate and inspire others. Indeed, the very word inspire comes from the word spirit, and means “to invite” or “to inhale” the Holy Spirit into your life and move you toward your creative and spiritual best. The Holy Spirit affirms that your assignment for now is to shine your bright light on the world and make no apologies for your enthusiasm or confidence as you lead others to higher ground. Be mindful, however, not to overdrive yourself and become disconnected from your source, or you risk getting burnt out. Enthusiasm is like fire and must be contained or it can consume you. The Holy Spirit’s message: “Lead with confidence.”

Congratulations! You’re finally “getting out of your head” and connecting more directly with your soul. The flow of communication between you and your Higher Self is strengthening daily, allowing you to directly access your Spirit Guides, Angels, and Spirit Teachers more readily. As your contact with your Higher Self deepens, answers will suddenly plop into your consciousness, like gifts from above. Your “aha!” moments will appear with greater frequency, like lightbulbs switching on in your head. Over and over, you’ll find yourself in the right place at the right time.

Under the influence of your Higher Self, you’re steadily becoming more spontaneous, dancing in synchronistic flow with life rather than swimming upstream against the current. Your Higher Self encourages you to unhesitatingly trust your vibes at all times. Surrender your ego to them, and allow yourself to be gently led, rather than yielding to old ways of figuring things out. You’re being gifted with endless spiritual direction and a deeper understanding of your soul’s journey. Remain in constant dialogue with your Higher Self, and ask it to override your limited perceptions and keep you on your true path. Then go with the flow. Your Higher Self’s message: “Listen to me.”

Your Joy Guides are tapping at your mind’s door, hoping to open it and free you from the corner any narrow or presumptuous thinking on your part may be unwittingly backing you into. If you fall into the trap of running on too many assumptions, or operating on unexamined preconceived notions, you quickly eliminate all your options, leading you to a “damned if I do, damned if I don’t” cycle of frustration.

Your Joy Guides playfully remind you to step back and notice where your “stuck” perceptions might be attracting such frustration. They remind you that you’re not stuck—but your thinking may be. Stop your mental movie and take a commercial break. It’s time for a fresh look and a new viewpoint on all things. The best way to achieve this is to treat yourself to a heavy dose of humor, and let it break through to your unbearable dilemma. Your Joy Guides’ counsel is, as always: “The situation may be critical but not serious.” Join them in reviewing the situation, and laugh your way forward.