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Spark | by Suhailah is A Monthly Personal Growth & Transformation Newsletter providing you with tools and personal insights to help you feel better—and to feel, better. Let's embark on this journey of self-discovery together, embracing emotional and mental freedom.

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From me:

“Our existence is not arbitrary, nor random. It is not an accident, and it is not a mistake, and I believe we are here to create.” ~ Suhailah

“If you are waiting on God, I am telling you with my whole chest, God is waiting on you.” ~ Suhailah

“I don’t care what it is. I don’t care how many people are telling me how much I should be worried or concerned or afraid about something, I do not make decisions or take actions from a place of fear. Meaning, it will never be the thing that bullies me into making a decision or action.” ~ Suhailah

From others:

“If you take one step, God will take two.” ~ Old Church Saying

“An idea not coupled with action will never get bigger than the brain cell it occupied.” ~ Arnold Glasow

“The future depends on what you do today, not on what you dream about tomorrow.” ~ Paulo Coelho

“Do not wait; the time will never be ‘just right.’ Start where you stand.” ~ Napoleon Hill

“Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.” ~ Joel A. Barker

“Belief creates the actual fact.” ~ William James

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” ~ Will Durant

Centering Thought:
Action is the bridge between the vision I hold and the life I live. Each conscious step I take moves me closer to the destiny I co-create with Spirit.

Mantra this month:
I take inspired action with clarity and faith. Each choice I make is aligned, intentional, and alive with purpose.

This month is all about when thought turns into action. It’s about conscious choice making, inspiration, intention.

If you’ve been reading my newsletters each month this year and are aware that the overall theme for this year is rebuilding, you might be able to tell by now that each of this year’s monthly topics are building upon one another in a way.

So, after things like thought and imagination, inspiration and insight that we’ve covered so far, then doing something with those things – these gifts that we have been given to see and feel such things – would be the natural progression and so…LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION!

ACTION is the name of the game this month, and even in this famous phrase that we have all come to know…lights, camera, action…there is a progression. A natural order to things.

If I had to compare this phrase to the things that I’ve been writing about in this newsletter all year, I would say that “lights” in this saying is akin to having the insight and awareness to want to do something in the first place.

The “camera” part would be the way we get to see an image or picture of what we want in our minds through thought and imagination and then engrained through repetition and given a particular kind of energy through intuition – all topics we discussed in the progression of this year’s newsletter.

So action naturally comes next and last, like so…

Without Lights (Insight…that spark), the Camera (Imagination/Intuition) has nothing to capture.

Without the Camera (Imagination/Thought/Intuition), Action has no story to express.

Without Action, Lights and Camera never become the lived movie of your life.

So:
Lights = Insight / Awareness
Camera = Imagination & Intuition
Action = Intention & Inspired Action

So, you see even in cinema where this phrase originated and which is actually not so different than this thing we call Life, in that we have the opportunity to give our lives some direction, while we remain the star and invite other people into our experience like co-stars, ensemble cast mates, or background actors (also through thought, but really through vibration and frequency) – a progression is necessary.

In other words, even to create something that is otherwise “make-believe,” like movies, it still requires intention, to make choices that are conscious. This means we are aware of where we are, what we want, where we want to be, the story we want to tell, and so we do our best to make each choice and action in the story and movie align. And in real life, when we do this, we also let God, timing, Spirit, and all the other unseen forces step in and do their part to assist us.

Always and forever, we still have to do our part because it is our responsibility to be the shepherds of our own lives and destinies here in the physical, and take care of the gifts we have been endowed with, which usually try to express themselves through the dreams we hold for ourselves and our passions.

As I wrote that just now, I took note of the word “make-believe,” which I meant as fake or made-up, like how movies and theatre are not real, but the act of creating them and then us looking at and watching them is.

But let’s also look at these two words – make and believe.

Believe: Belief is not something tangible; it is something we get to choose inside of ourselves. I am going to believe this thing or not – we say to ourselves on some level even if we are not conscious that we have done this.

Although the world around us pushes so many things in front of us so relentlessly and absolutely that we start to believe everything we hear, or we take a partial story we only saw 15 to 30 seconds of on social media or in a news clip and accept it as whole, we don’t have to.

When it comes to ourselves and our own lives, at least, we can choose what we want to believe about what we are capable of doing and creating, even if our present moment “reality” looks nothing like what we envision, see, or imagine for ourselves.

“Make” as in to make something, is to form something. And we do this usually by putting parts together, combining substances, combining things. It means to construct and to create.

So “make-believe,” if we want to get literal with it, is putting things together to create belief. To construct belief. To construct a reality, if you will. And this is exactly what I mean about belief. We get to decide what those things are that we put together in our minds and hearts and spirits to create our beliefs, and then use that as the foundation, platform, and springboard to create our lives. To give it some direction, and to do so with clear intention.

Rebuilding and creating anything can’t happen without belief and then action. And to me, this is where a lot of people fail or falter to have their dreams realized. Their visions come to actual life, always remaining just a dream. Later believing that life treated them unfairly or that it just wasn’t their fate or destiny to have certain things happen. But there was never any conscious action towards the thing when it was time to do so. And so they were never truly playing the game of life to begin with.

If you are waiting on God, I am telling you with my whole chest, God is waiting on you.

We’re not ever in the game, not ever on the playing field, if we don’t take action when our intuition tells us to. We’re just the people watching others take theirs from the stands. And this doesn’t feel too good when life starts to pass us by.

When it comes to things of the spiritual and more esoteric nature, I think that the idea of “manifestation” that has become really popular over the past couple of decades has confused a lot of people. They literally think something is going to fall out of the sky, through the ceiling, and into their lap with no intentional and conscious action on their part.

Obviously, I whole-heartedly believe in the power of using our thought, imagination, and beliefs to create (or manifest) the things we want or I wouldn’t be sitting here writing of these things all year, and some of last, in this newsletter. But 100% of the time action is also needed, and this includes readiness for what we are asking for and want.

Even if the car of your dreams landed at your doorstep for free, you’d still have to probably register your insurance, fill it up with gas or electric power to drive it, prepare a space to park it, and have a driver’s license to drive it. – Action.

Even to win the lottery if you don’t like to or want to work, or just want a whole bunch of money all at once, you have to go buy a ticket first, then go claim it when you win, and also prepare a place to deposit your winnings. – Action.

To collect an inheritance, you have to handle the paperwork (like probate), claim it, prepare for any financial or legal steps, and get ready for what comes with the money or property. – Action.

So unless you are a ghost with no physical body, nothing happens without action. And even ghosts, if you believe in them or have experienced one, sometimes make the floors and doors creak. They take action too!

I am big on action. For years, a little too much because it was the only way I knew how to “make things” happen and get what I wanted. My approach then was born from a survival mechanism. It’s the regulation between the Prefrontal Cortex and Amygdala (our ability to let the thinking brain guide the emotional brain) that helps with decision-making and emotional balance that was at play here.

Neuroscience shows that when the prefrontal cortex regulates the amygdala, we shift from reactive survival mode into conscious, intentional decision-making.

And so over the years through my spiritual as well as healing journey where I have addressed and healed a great deal of my early life trauma, and have gained an increased level of self-awareness, I’ve learned how to bring this into balance and put the “conscious” part before the action so I no longer put the cart before the horse in this way. I’ve learned to regulate my nervous system enough where what you’ll never see or find me doing these days is taking action when I am in fear. Unless my or someone else’s literal life is on the line in that instant, it won’t happen.

I don’t care what it is. I don’t care how many people are telling me how much I should be worried or concerned or afraid about something, I do not make decisions or take actions from a place of fear. Meaning, I can move with fear or when I am afraid or a little scared of the unfamiliar, but it will never be the thing that bullies me into making a decision or action. - I hope this distinction is clear.

And if I find myself in that place, a place of fear (I can mentally and emotionally scan my body and register to see if it is there), I will wait until I’m not before I make a decision or take an action. Even if it takes days or weeks to do so.

Because as much as action has movement in it, this is also not about trying to force things to happen because I’m afraid that they won’t. It’s not about survival because I have too much faith in God now, and also too much confidence in the fact that I am here in this world for something. Our existence is not arbitrary, nor random. It is not an accident, and it is not a mistake, and I believe we are here to create, not to just keep doing what has already been done before.

So our dreams mean something, our wishes mean something, our visions and the visions we hold for ourselves and this world mean something. Or we would not have been given the gift to receive and see these dreams and visions in the first place.

It’s about riding the flow of inspiration. And so this is about when thought transforms into action as we take steps and watch ourselves meet – oftentimes something greater than we could have imagined – our own destiny that we co-created with God, the Creator, All That Is, and we greet it with a…“hello there, nice to finally meet you.”

September is one of these transition months, and it is strange in a way. If you are in education, or have children, or are going off to college or university, or are into American football season (the NFL), this month feels like the beginning. The start of something new, brimming with potential.

And even though we’re nearing the last quarter of the year in October–December, it’s still not close enough to the end where we feel like it’s over and a done deal or that we’re ready to give up on our goals for the year. For many, these goals started with new year’s resolutions back in January left abandoned or undone sometime between then and now.

So it almost feels like the last leg of some unspoken race to a finish line where people feel there’s still time to get some things done if they lock in and stay focused and really disciplined for these last few months of the year.

So that’s all I’m suggesting for this month. Let’s lock in, stay focused, get disciplined towards the things we say we want to create and rebuild for ourselves and this world and take some intentional, conscious action towards those things.

I know in these newsletters these topics I choose and how I lay them out in writing about these untouchable things like insight, imagination, intuition, belief (and now action) feels arbitrary in how they are placed or released month after month, but they are not. They are meant to be clear and sequential, and they mirror how we actually experience growth as well: awareness → vision → choices → action → outcomes. – So even how I decided to create this newsletter this year on the theme of rebuilding was intentional as I took inspired action to do so and stick to it each month. – Action.

I heard that today, September 7th, is a total lunar eclipse and a full moon and that it signals a rebirth, among other things. To this end, I hope that this issue of Spark has ignited something in you that helps you remember who you are, what you are capable of, and that it is never too late to start something, finish something, and to take action. To birth or rebirth something.

Also, that as spiritual as we might be we are also human, and so we literally don’t have all the time in the world. No pressure.

Lights, Camera, Action! Let’s begin. Let us rise.

Have a beautiful September.

~ Suhailah ❤️ 💫

Pause and Act:
Take a quiet moment today to bring one vision or dream to mind. Instead of asking if it can happen, ask yourself: What is one small, intentional step I can take right now to move this forward?

Write it down, then take that step before the day ends. Action, no matter how small, is the spark that keeps momentum alive.

I don’t usually connect all my work in one place, but with this month’s topic and this years theme, it feels right - I’ll also be doing more of this moving forward. My book, courses, this newsletter, and my podcast all come from the same place I’ve explored with you this year: insight, imagination, belief, and action brought to life. Everything I create is designed to meet you where you are, whether in business, personal transformation, or how you show up and lead, and it’s all built and delivered in the frequency of love, unity, and service. My purpose here in this lifetime is to help others remember who they are and what they came to create. And then to provide examples and tools to help them do it. And so here I stand, as a Wayshower, in action. If anything resonates, click HERE to explore my company website and learn more about what I do, or click HERE to see everything at once. Feel free to share with anyone who might find it useful. Also, a reminder that my Grow with Me by Suhailah podcast is available on all platforms including these:

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