Lecture - Christine Goritchan

Sunday 29th June 2025

Taking Time for Your Life and Embracing Intentional Living

Thank you for inviting me again. So today has been a very interesting experience because, in getting ready to come and share some words from the Spirit world we just sit and ask what it is that I am meant to share with you today.

However, I decided that I wanted to try AI. I have never really gone there but I wanted to test it out. I am very big on connecting with the Spirit world because they know what it is that you are meant to hear and what you need to know today. Anyway, I gave it a try. So, there are a couple of paragraphs in here that did remain from AI. It was really very interesting but then Spirit stepped in and went no, so these are the changes.

So, the topic was Taking Time for Your Life and Embracing Intentional Living which is interesting. So, ewe start by setting the intention; the intention of noticing our life as we are currently living it. Literally pressing the pause button and taking the time to reflect. NO judgment. Just observation. And to explore the Five W’s – the Who the What, the When, the Where, the Where for of our lives. That sounds like a lot of work, but it is not. 

The impact of that can be and is quite profound and consequently, as a result, you will not only understand areas of your life that perhaps are not working as well as you would like them to be but also those that are working well. This is just as important as recognition of how well you are doing but also, where there may be some gaps missing from your life, gaps that need to be addressed.

So, most of us have an awareness on a day-today basis of what is not working for us, but we also have underlying patterns and ways of being that we do unconsciously –we are not aware of it, and they don’t serve us. B the thing is that we can’t understand why it is that I keep meeting the same type of person. Why is it that same type of things keep happening in my life?

And this time of our existence in our very busy world, for many of us our days are quite often distracted by full schedules, constant communications - oh my gosh the email list – and many demands so it is easy to lose sight of the most fundamental truth, and this did come from AI, “Life really is to be live, not merely endured.” And I thought that is so perfect for us to understand.

And then I was shown Neil Daniher - anyone here a football fan? 

Neil Daniher is an ex-football player whose ongoing battle with M.N.D. had instigated the Big Freeze. This is where everybody jumps into a big tub of icy water to raise funds. He has made such a huge impact, and he is definitely to be admired for his fortitude and his attitude. So, we all know it matters not the circumstance of our life, but it is how we deal with what life throws at us. So, we know that it is how we look at it, how we interpret it, how we embrace life. 

So, taking time for your life, and this is not a suggestion but a MUST. If right now, you are not particularly happy with where you are, if you feel that something is missing, something is not quite right which doesn’t have to be a negative, it is a sign from your Soul that something that is meant to be there is missing and for you to go exploring to discover what needs your attention then, you can pay more attention to these five W’s.

In doing this it is a call to reclaim ownership of your own life, ownership over your existence which only you can do. To bring meaning and joy into the ordinary and extraordinary alike and it is really time for each of us to explore that intentionally. As a result of taking this step, it is also about nurturing your own inner world. You feel as if things are working as they are meant to work because your outer world reflects your inner world, and it is important that you pay attention to that.

In saying that though it can and will change on you as your life dictates specific changes in directions and as you move forward on this journey. So, intentional living, that is designing your life so that it matters, is about making choices with purpose. It is defining fist what matter most to you and then arranging your time, energy and resources accordingly whilst being aware that the plan your human self-put into place doesn’t always go your way does it? Thanks to the empowering agenda of your own Soul through destiny and the experiences we are destined to have and to go through.

We are here to learn, to grow, to expand into the truth of who we truly are and so in some instances, it is about questioning what am I thinking or believing to have created this? What is the lesson that I am meant to be learning from this in order to be able to move forward. It is also trusting your own inner knowing that God, the Angels and the Universe really do have your back.

So, what are some of the aspects to be addressed in living intentionally. One of these is the value there is in slowing down. Every so often Spirit will give me a prompt, I get an image. In my home I have two doors where people used to come into my courses, clients one door, classes the other. Spirit put a padlock on those doors and whenever I get that padlock I now, it is time for me to pull back on the phone calls, the emails and ask what else do I need to know? What else do I need to be doing. So, slowing down and stepping off the treadmill has great value and here I got a picture of a little mouse running round and round a wheel and it just sits and is still.

Notice how you feel, where you are, when you do this because in slowing down, it allows us most importantly to reconnect with our selves. It seems that life has become so busy much more than it has been before. Rather than the noise of external circumstances, slowing down allows us to deepen relationships, not just with ourselves, but we can also enjoy unhurried time with our loved ones.

For me, a sacred time is 3 pm every afternoon except Sunday when I am here or somewhere else. That is the time when I sit together with my husband and our son, and we watch a movie. That is our quality time. It is sacred and nothing will change that.

We also get to enhance our creativity because we are all creative divine beings in our own unique and individual ways, but when we are not pushed by time constraints we can just sit and relax and allow that process to unfold. Slowing down promotes wellbeing and in making the decision to slow down, we allow ourselves the time to reflect upon our lives. It is most important to realign our lives when necessary and this is an important process to be integrated into our way of being. It allows us to ask ourselves where we might be out of synch with life? Where things might not be working well for you. Asking those questions, sitting quietly and giving it time so that you can understand what is it that you may have to do next, is another way of living intentionally.

So, the second step is clarifying your values. This will really help you. It was a big ah -ha for me. Asking yourself what you value most. Is it creativity? Is it family? Learning? Adventure? I remember seeing a couple of ladies at the airport, and they told me they were flying out because they wanted to go hot air ballooning and white-water rafting. Now these ladies were in their seventies. They wanted to experience more of life so, it is what floats your boat so to speak. Is it peace or perhaps something else. Give yourself time to connect to your top values and to reflect on how your current life aligns or doesn’t with those values. You may also have to realign those values into a different order.

I don’t know how many of you here have heard of Dr John Demartini. An amazing man. He is very big on values, and I am very blessed that he gave me permission for one to use one of his sayings to be published in my book. He says that “What you value most is what you put your attention to.” And quite often you are missing something very important, and you need to put it at the top of your list because, we cannot focus on everything, there is so much in our lives.

So much we have to look at, to work with, and we can’t fit it all in perfectly. We cannot give it all the same time but one of the biggest ah ha moments I got was in the early days when he got us to do our values and looking at it, wealth was a part of my plan. It doesn’t mean that I want to be a millionaire it just meant having the money coming in in the right time, in the right order, in the right amounts and keeping us living in a comfortable way of being. I didn’t have it on the top of my list anywhere and, really that’s not my most important value. It is family, it is community. So, it is figuring out what you value and where you are putting your efforts and time. Are you giving yourself time for that? Are you setting meaningful priorities for that in your life and identifying them. Remember, that not everything can be a priority.

And then there is creating space for what matters to you. Because we are so busy and one of the things that can happen is that we don’t give the energy we need to ourselves which is so important. But how often are you doing it? Are you helping others to the point where it is taking over your world? Maybe sowing a few seeds with them and then moving so, that instead of spending a lot of time with those who need help, you redirect them towards someone else who can help them further. Yes, we are very good at helping but we are not meant to be doing that all the time. You are just as important as everybody else.

Sometime doing it in a not so healthy way. I have a picture of my family of the journey I have had with them. It has been such a blessing, but it did take a lot of my time and, I was very much okay to give them that amount of my time. I’ve got this picture of my dad after he had a fall, and he was in the hospital. He wouldn’t eat so I had to make sure that he did. Now I was running classes, and I hadn’t had a chance to cancel everybody and there was no Zoom in those days. Anyway, we had a left-over muffin so tea on the way home from the hospital, was a muffin as I stepped in the doors to open up for my class that night. So, we do the hard things when we have to, and it is working out what that is for you.

And I was given the word resilient by Spirit. We have to learn to be quite resilient in all situations. Is life going to be perfect? Absolutely not! There are lots of ups and downs as we all know this, but it is how we deal with it. And then what is most important is the connection to your own intuition and to Spirit. You must trust what you are getting and if other people don’t get it, it is not our problem. We have done what we have done by sharing what we are getting and by giving guidance and insight at times, but we don’t do it to every Tom, Dick or Harry in the street. And sometimes, people need to hear the message a couple of times before they will take action.

So, we are spiritual being having an amazing journey. Both a challenging one and a rewarding one and our best way is to take time for our own life, to spend some time every day and Spirit uses the phrase “stay in the light” that is, paying attention to the messages our own body is giving us; the messages our own soul is giving us and the messages that Spirit is giving us. Now sometimes we get a message from Spirit, and it flashes past us, but we can say to them “hang on, come back, tell me again.”

In linking to the Spirit world, do we always get the answers we want? No. Because there is Divine timing and order to everything so we have to have patience and trust that it will come when it is meant to come. And it is always when we need it. And it always what we need. Not necessarily what we want it to be.

We also have the God given gifts within ourselves and this what Spirit wanted me to focus on as get nearer our time. We are all very gifted, we are all very talented. You are not meant to be anybody else. You are here just to be you. The Divine person that you already are. Now, we are a work in progress which doesn’t mean that there is a lot about us that doesn’t need to get fixed but, there are things that we can do, and it is really understanding who you are as a Divine being. These are some of the things that Spirit gave me; comprehension, understanding of who you really are, living and embracing that. We can do anything. We may not know how, but we can trust that the way will be shown to us. Accepting and exploring the gifts you brought into this world, some known and some yet to be fully recognized. What else is there? What needs to be fine tuned and what needs to be up-skilled. What else do you want me to know? These are the questions we need to ask, and we need to give them time to answer.

Taking hold of the reins. Are you being your own best friend? How are you acknowledging that? So, a personal action plan is to just reflect. Be kind to yourself. Be good to yourself. Set boundaries when needed and celebrate your progress.

So, taking time for your life is an act of courage and self-respect. It is a commitment to you. You are worth it. You deserve it. Not just skimming the surface. So slow down. Pay attention. Choose intentionally. Your time is your life, and I truly wish you all the very best. Thank you so much for listening.