11.24.2010

Who Are You?

In a fascinating channel titled "Energetic Consciousness", Kryon offered the following:
Let me give you something to think about. I'm going to ask a question right now. It's going to be a rhetorical one. Who are you? I have old souls in front of me and reading this. There's a woman in the room who won't wear red, and you know who you are. I'll tell you why. Because it got you killed! Because that was the color of the plume on your helmet, warrior. Because you were the captain and the enemy before you in that battle knew if they would take you out, your whole regiment would be in disarray and that's what happened. Wearing red not only killed you, it killed everyone around you! You'll never wear red. You just don't like the color. It's just not for you. You shun it, don't you, old soul? Therefore, as you sit here, who are you? Are you the warrior who got killed, or the woman in 2010 who won't wear red?
We are both - and neither. We are the sum total of all of our experiences as a Soul, and all of that information resides energetically in both our DNA and in the Akashic records of the planet. And it affects us subconsciously, if we allow it to.

Whenever we aren't being aware of the Now moment, we're living from the information of our past. That information can serve us in achieving what we want, or it can be a detriment, keeping us from what we want. In either case, it's just a habit of thought, and thoughts can be changed .. and so can habits! It all starts with awareness. Awareness allows us to see or realize that a door is there. Intent to make the change opens the door, and inspired action moves us through the door. Change is on the other side!

I was reminded of that profoundly this week when my daughter-in-law showed me some sale literature for a set of dishes that I've been wanting. Even on sale, the price struck me like a tidal wave of energy. My immediate (and I have to admit, typical) response wasn't to thank her for doing research and offering this opportunity! instead my immediate (and typical) response was "hooo! that's expensive!" Which for me translates to "can't afford it." It's a well-ingrained habit for me to think of things as "can have" or "can't have" based on cost. "That's affordable" but "that is not". It's a habit I'm focusing on breaking up, and these types of reminders come to me often, allowing me to see what's on the other side of the door, if I choose to look. It takes awareness, and - thankfully - it only took me an hour or so to reflect back and become aware of that automated response, how effectively it keeps me from the things I want, and to shift the energy around that habitual thinking.

In pondering that automatic response, I realized that I view money issues completely differently than I view love issues. For some people it's just the opposite. You might be one of them! Maybe you have plenty of money but love seems to elude you. For me, it's the opposite, and it goes like this: I never concern myself about the love that surrounds me. I know, deep in my heart, that my husband, my kids, my family, my friends, and my pets love me deeply. Nothing they do shakes that belief in me. It simply doesn't matter to me what they say or what they do, I never question the love that I hold for them or the love that they hold for me. Simply not an issue. There is always "enough love" in my life. But with money, I question it all the time.

Questions pop into my head about money constantly .. like "can I afford that?" "did I earn that?" "do I deserve that?" "how will I pay for that?" I tend to have the same judgements about others "how do they afford that?" "did they earn that?" "do they deserve that?" It's almost insidious how often I am aware of money, generally the lack thereof. Yet I never question love. In my life, love is, money (for more than what I consider the essentials), generally isn't.

Clearly a shift in belief about who I am regarding money is in order! When I can see money flowing to me as automatically and absolutely as love flows to me, money will no longer be an issue. Does it matter where, when or how I got into this lopsided relationship with money? Not to me! All that matters is that I become aware of my habits of thought as they occur, and consciously shift my thinking until I see the manifestation in physical reality of that shift. I don't doubt the process, and I hope you don't either. It takes diligence, but the rewards are great.

Soo .. who are you? Can it even be defined? Maybe the question would better be asked .. Who do you want to be? .. and how will you become that?

11.19.2010

Compassion with Wisdom

Let a man know academics to the max; let him know all the lists; let him wallow in the years of training. But if he does not have compasion, he is just a small noise in the wind of life... and has learned very little about God.

~ Kryon, from The Secret to Mastery, May 2010
Have you noticed how many things are happening globally that are awakening compassion in the masses? Maybe you are one of many who are feeling, deep in your heart and in your soul, a crying out for an end to humanity's suffering, or indeed to all suffering in all kingdoms on earth. It's a vital step in the evolution of consciousness that compassion be embraced as a way of life.

When compassion is touched in a human heart it can cause great emotional pain. But it doesn't have to. Just above the painful feelings that arise when our compassion is touched is another type of compassion. We call it compassion with wisdom, and in this compassion there is no pain. There is understanding that what is unfolding is perfect in every way, that the event was orchestrated with purpose. That those that need to feel the pain will do so, as a way to open the door to compassion. But once the door is opened, the pain can be released.

Compassion with wisdom is an awareness that, from the outside, can look like a lack of caring. It can look like you don't care because you may "feel" nothing at all. Nothing could be further from the truth. You actually do feel something, but rather than pain what you "feel" is a deep abiding understanding that all is well, no matter how it appears. Compassion with wisdom is the ability to see beyond pain into the reality of the event. Compassion with wisdom is a paradox, a contradiction between appearances and reality. Only you can know what you are experiencing, and that's an important point - being strong in your own knowing that you are experiencing not a lack of caring, but a deeper, more profound understanding of caring.

Humanity has suffered enough, the time of suffering is past. Know that suffering is simply a way to open the door to compassion, and once opened, we can let suffering go. Use it to begin to see events from a higher perspective. One person standing above the fray with wisdom allows others to do the same, even if that person says nothing at all. Letting pain and sadness go is a service you provide first to your Self, yes, but it has far-reaching implications for all of life on Planet Earth.

So if an event grabs you in the heart, has you reeling in emotional pain or agony, just notice. Don't dismiss the feeling if it's there, feelings are real. Your feelings are real. So feel what you feel .. then let it go. Allow the pain and/or sadness to be transmuted by grounding it into the earth or releasing it into the ethers. Simply breath and allow the pain to subside.

Your willingness not to dwell in the painful feeling is what allows it to be transmuted, and transmuted not just for you but for others. Once in a place of calm, if you are inspired to action, then act - you will likely find that you have been inspired to action for something rather than against something - and that can make all the difference!

11.14.2010

Like a Kid in a Candy Store

The real treasure in this moment is always to be found in the awareness of this moment, not in the content of our experience. So it's not that important if something you like is happening or not. Discovering this simple perspective is like discovering you live in a candy store: Everywhere you turn is another goodie! Beyond that, is the recognition that this endless supply of goodies is what you really are.

You are not the content of your experience; you are the awareness that brings life and joy to every experience.

Talk about not having to worry about what happens! Nothing that happens can change what you are, and what you are is the biggest treasure. It is hidden in plain sight, right in front of you, always in the experience you are having right now.

From "That Is That" by Nirmala at endlesss-satsang

11.10.2010

Embracing Wholeness & Money

Within your experience many of you “lack” much of what you desire in terms of material things, and the financial resources to choose and create lifestyle experiences which you feel strongly would bring you happiness and peace.

In this enlightening time, it’s important to begin to qualify your sense of lack by questioning how this relates to the innate Oneness you now believe IS.

I challenge you in this way because you are ready.

For in Oneness you are not separated from anything.

Archangel Michael / Meredith Murphy
In our world of duality we've often separated spirituality from money. So much so that over lifetimes of experience many of us have accepted a belief system that keeps the two separated. "If we're truly spiritual we can't be wealthy" and/or "if we're wealthy we can't truly be spiritual". These are things that we sometimes think, or behave and react as if they were true.

But in truth, there is no separation, as we are beginning to get very clear about. There isn't any need to come up with reasons why we deserve to have our desires met, the reason already exists: we are worthy because we ARE. That's it, end of story.

Or is it? .. If we know that we are innately deserving, why don't we live in a world in which everyone thrives, including us? This channel from Archangel Michael through Meredith Murphy (reproduced in full below) speaks to that very issue. May it help you discover new and powerful ways to relate to money in your own life, so that you can create for yourself that which you desire .. and so richly deserve! Thank you for sharing it with us Meredith!
The Implications of Embracing Wholeness & Money

Message from the Archangel Michael
Channeled by Meredith Murphy | www.expectwonderful.com

Telepathic Transmission 19 October 2010


My beloved ones! I greet you now in an entirely new location in time and space...and in greater awareness of the Unified Field which you are and which is an extension of you. Today I wish to share with you some of the amazing liberty available to you in this innate state of being; wholeness.

IN WHOLENESS THE MIND HARMONIZES WITH THE HEART

During this past year, there has been a huge focus on re-orienting you to your heart. This was necessary for balance in the progressive movement toward wholeness. So many of you had for years lived primarily within your minds that re-orienting you to the heart was critical to facilitating a felt sense of Unity and the desire to BE-love. Now, beyond the 10-10-10 Stargate, we have emerged into a domain of wholeness. Within wholeness, we re-claim the vital and beautiful aspect of the mind, incorporating and aligning it in harmonious balance with the heart!

Mental focus is a requirement for clarity and function. It is not possible to have a productive and happy human life without learning to make peace with your mind. Your mind, and your thinking capabilities give form to your energy! They organize and synthesize your experience. The awareness you experience exists in part through your minds ability to discern what information to share and make present to you. As you cultivate your relationship to your mind, your mind, like a TIVO box on the TV learns what “programs” you prefer and starts to orient around your preferences!

This is the wonderful, adaptive and amazing powers of your mental faculty and your mind!

Thinking is an important and highly creative aspect of the human experience. Now that you have reconnected with an orientation to oneness, to unity and have opened your hearts to expect and flow and BE-love, your mind will participate in your creative life in an entirely new way.

OPENING OF THE NEW DOORWAYS TO PROSPERITY

Within your experience many of you “lack” much of what you desire in terms of material things, and the financial resources to choose and create lifestyle experiences which you feel strongly would bring you happiness and peace.

In this enlightening time, it’s important to begin to qualify your sense of lack by questioning how this relates to the innate Oneness you now believe IS.

I challenge you in this way because you are ready.

For in Oneness you are not separated from anything.

Separation exists only as a mindset, an emotional and even a mental habit or pattern. Belief in or living from a perspective of separation makes experiencing financial and material abundance or prosperity difficult to impossible for many of you.

The New Earth is not a place which simply caters to entitlement. Being Lightworkers does not mean that you suddenly become magnetic to things which are not a vibrational match to your emotional beliefs and patterns. You experience what is a match for your energy. You are not “rewarded “ in life for being Lightworkers.

The New Earth will not solve all of this by magically taking away the experience of money, nor by releasing you from the incredibly fun and joyful experience of aligning with that which you desire and discovering your POWER!

That would be insulting to you. And although you may say, “No, Archangel Michael, I would be relieved. Trust me—please just bring it on, that prosperity experience!” It will not come into your experience in this way.

Now that I’ve directly spoken to these lingering illusions, let’s explore wholeness and unity as it relates to money in some depth! I intend to share with you, to remind you of ideas that you may use to allow the true nature of reality to flow freely within your experience and loosen up and release your amazing energy!

{Smile.}

First of all, you are free and powerful.

You are one with All-That-Is and live as a particularized aspect of Source Energy or the Unified Field in the focus of this spiritual energy embodied in your human life experience.

To treat you as though you cannot master this is to deny your innate Divinity!

Creating Money and turning the Keys to Abundance on the Earth Plane is a shift which you can experience most easily in small steps. The part of you that embraces and nurtures a scenario in which there is a sudden shift and everything in your life in this way is immediately and suddenly resolved is a debilitating intention for most of you, and ironically puts an enormous amount of pressure on you, rather then improving yoru experience! Very few humans are able to align with such an enormous shift and change. It is far easier to make small changes, see movement, be uplifted and inspired and create again with this momentum, more.

I am here to encourage you to claim your power, which for starters means realizing if you are not yet experiencing material and financial abundance - and you wish to - then begin by considering you might revise your understanding of this from, "It doesn't exist," or "In the new earth there won't be any money," to something a bit more accurate in our Omni-verse comprised entirely of energy: You are not yet a match for what you desire.

You may have ideas how. You may have heard things and tried things. But essentially, if you aren’t living it, you don’t yet consciously know how to get in sync with it. So for starters, what if you realized this, with complete love and affection and instead begin to learn-remember-realize what will get you in sync? What if you acknowledged, that no matter how old you are, how enlightened you are, how many lifetimes you’ve lived, how spiritual or “good” you are that perhaps, there are some wonderful and amazing things you might learn (locally) or truthfully remember (non-locally) which would shift all of this financial stuff more toward what you’d enjoy!

I know some of you are already learning and practicing, and those who are have had moments of insight, moments of suddenly having more money, or things come to them effortlessly and freely even. [Maybe you've had] the experience of the floodgates opening when one comes into alignment with what they intend and create immediately in form...So you know what I mean.

I speak for a moment here directly and personally to those who are honestly, deeply tortured by financial experiences in their life. Who experience profound stress, self-hatred and pain even based on their relationship to money. As a result, you often find yourself angry with those who charge money or seemingly “too much money” for that which you want. You feel critical and express negative energy to those who do this. You find yourself looking at wealthy people and finding all kinds of things wrong with them and I tell you my beloved ones: YOU ARE THAT. You are the wealthy person. Innately. So if you criticize them, you criticize you. And then, that part of you cannot come forth freely in your experience. It lurks in your shadow, angry and unexpressed. It comes forth in resentment toward those who are in the flow of prosperity or abundance—to one degree or another—and instead of observing and noticing how these people live as a way of learning what of that might speak to you directly and seeing how you might begin to live with a mindset more like theirs—you create a separation between you and them. And in this separation, you also separate yourself from your own financial abundance.

Years ago there was a great writer who spoke that you were meant to experience EVERYTHING which you were capable of appreciating. This is indeed true. This does not mean that since you have that potential, these experiences will flow to you without you coming into alignment with this truth. This again would rob you of your own power.

So let’s refresh our memory as to what we’ve re-memberd together and celebrated over this past year or so about our beautiful Universe! For hasn’t this past year revealed you and deepened your appreciation of some of the key themes of the Universe and indeed of the present human condition?

Unity. Harmony and Balance. Love. Oneness. Multidimensionalality. Completion. Divinity.

All of these qualities are innately YOU. And as many of your have experienced firsthand—getting into sync with these qualities; allowing them to flow into all aspects of YOU and your experience, has taken some major effort and has been physically, emotionally and mentally challenging.

You have to let go of a great deal to get there, don’t you? And you do this so well.

To extend this, the same is true with the quality of Prosperity. To claim the financial abundance which is yours, you have to let go of issues/contrary ideas you have with wealth. With wealthy people. With money. With charging money. With asking for money for your work. (OH MY!! Yes, I really said that!)

You see? So many of you don’t really like yourselves that much. You don’t realize that first of all money, is just a form of energy. It’s a resource. It’s just energy. And it flows and flows and flows into all kinds of situations and forms, and just like energy sometimes it gets stuck and that creates problems, and sometimes there is resistance to it and that creates problems. And as long as you trust it and use it and love it and play with it, and don’t hold on, but open to receive, and allow yourself to ask for it and want it, and let it flow freely without fear…it will work fine for you.

But you only get as much as you deserve. And guess what? YOU decide what you deserve. So perhaps you ought to do some serious internal inquiry as to why (if you’re not experiencing the prosperity you wish) you think for some reason NOW, RIGHT NOW you don’t deserve it.

And it will likely come down to either not loving yourself enough and/or not believing you’re enough just as you are and/or thinking you have to “do” something to make it happen and that “something” is always out in the future. It’s never now or here.

Well all of this is just getting you nowhere but unhappy.

So I ask you. May I please come forth and simply show you another way?

Open up some doors by making peace with money and everything about it. Make this as important as making peace with Unity. And Love. And Oneness. As sending energy to heal the Gulf of Mexico or support the Earth. I tease you with love my dear ones.

You react to these comments because there is still duality in your belief system! You still have some beliefs and patterns of living which are rooted in the concept of separateness and a “lack” of worthiness. Realize all the value judgement that exists still in your experience. There is a lot of it on Earth and it will take some time and some doing to release the charge of it by including everything in your experience as something you can love and appreciate, and realizing you are not separate from wealth! Or anything!

So for starters, let’s just be beginners.

LET'S MEET MONEY!

You’ve just met money for the first time. I am showing it to you. Look! Here is this amazing energy form which you can use to create things in your life! You can use it to pay for lumber for your new dog house. You can use it to buy a pizza. You can use it to create labels for your new essential healing oils. You can use it to buy a new computer monitor so you can write without your eyes getting tired. You can use it to pay for Lasik surgery so you can open your eyes underwater and see when you’re swimming!

Now, let’s consider the another side of the game! What would you like to do and be during the day? Do you want to read? Talk to people. Make things with your hands? Create rituals. Play with your kids. Would you like to learn how to heal broken bones? How to create pastries? How to advise people on making career changes. To help people as they prepare to die? Whatever you would enjoy learning, being, doing--imagine that being a way you receive money. IF you’d like to receive money from this. If not, imagine how you’d like to receive money. But be careful here—take small steps and don’t violate other people’s free choice. For example, decide what you’d like to do for work and if it’s with others in an organized setting, then ask to be guided to it and pay attention. Tell people you know what you’re looking for. Expect it to show up. Find ways to start living and being in that mode already.

Tell money you love it. And if you don’t love it, you’re disconnected from money somehow! All forms of separation in thinking and behavior limit your innate divine creative power! Money is an energy which allows you to exchange, affirm and create experiences you value! Money is another way you express appreciation for that which you value and which gives you joy! Like that beautiful haircut which makes you feel so handsome. Or that spa treatment that turns all of your muscles into noodles. Or that dinner with your daughter to celebrate her piano recital and treat her to a luxurious experience as she enters young adult hood. Or that animal shelter which helps to find homes for dogs--that you love knowing exists and want to make sure is thriving. Money helps you create in the world. It’s energy. Just like focus. Just like attention. It’s just energy.

So for starters. Make peace with money. Then make peace with people who make money. Make peace with people who charge money. And really really really make peace with people who make LOTS AND LOTS of money because it shows you that it’s an option if you want it—be appreciative for the idea! And begin to see if you can embrace the mindset of someone who has money. The freedom to make choices, to do things, to create things, to have experiences, to live with ease and focus on creating and expressing, on loving and learning, on understanding and thinking and inventing and transforming and KNOWING ALIVENESS! The sense of expecting to have the ability to choose freely more and more to your liking.

Take this seriously and begin. Accept that learning to master the keys to prosperity, and release all that stands in your way, is gonna take up your focus for a while. And it ought to. To get yourself to a place where that part of life is ironed out a bit is important for it will give you a platform which you all desire from which to create and express yourselves.

The size of this energy flow will vary. Some prefer more some prefer less. But most of you are still learning how to allow in what you prefer. And that, my dear friends, is what I’d like you to claim as the next theme for 2010 that you will master.

So Unity, and Balance, and Harmony, and Oneness, and Love and Alignment, and Expansion and Multidimensionality and Divinity are all extended by Prosperity and Wealth. And the other thing which is very very very helpful is physical well-being.

So you see? The New Human is emerging in a way you perhaps did not anticipate. Ascension is not a one-moment event. Ascension happens continually. It’s an ascending energy arc you want to be riding on, living on, attuned with, as often as possible.

The New Human has resolved the duality of the past. In the past spiritual pursuits were not very integrated with mastering commerce and money. Spirituality was pursued as though it was separate from money, and Religion was often the path, and yet that often was separate from any concept of energy. So much of the old paradigms involved separating things—sex from holiness, money from spirituality, goodness from financial aspirations. All of these old paradigms were based on separateness.

We’re all about ONENESS now, and inclusiveness and unity. Not because we think these are "nice" ideas, but because we know that reality IS one, interconnected, expanding, diversifying energetic field. So let's get on with mastering that which will allow each of you beautiful beings to diversify the Universe with the specificity which is yours alone! That's your role here--to create newness!

So the new human might meditate, get a facial, work with homeless people, drink martinis, live in a city, be divorced, channel angels, have memories of being abducted (willingly) on a spaceship for upgrades and teachings…the new human is as diverse and beautiful and complex and unique as the Earth is…

And all the ways you hope ascension will remove things that you have not yet mastered is also an old paradigm which says that you don’t have power and need to be rescued by something… and Ascension is not about rescuing you. It's about each of you finding your own limitless point of creativity and alignment and flowing it! And inspiring others by your example! And activiating their codes with your expansion. And collectively creating phenomenal, already unstoppable momentum!

It’s something you create. It’s entirely about YOUR AMAZING POWER! And finding it and flowing it and enjoying it!

Ascension is about Unity. And the entire experience is about a club which welcomes everyone, everything and all ways of doing it.

It’s a lot to get your head around, isn’t it?

That’s why you have a heart. It opens and lets everything in, very naturally. It’s made for it.

I will continue to remind you, support you, challenge you, in any ways in which you ask. I AM available to you in all-ways, and especially at this time, as it relates to work, love, money, health, hope, clarity, and ultimately energy!

The ascending energy will take you everywhere you want to go…but, you gotta ride it. You gotta let it surface things within you to clear the way for the new, really fabulous stuff. And you have to welcome it.

Ascension isn’t going to override your own belief system. Your belief system, will simply weigh down the arc a bit, and you’ll look up to see people riding high like you’d like. You can join them at any time if that’s your preference. Just throw a few things out of your “ship.” Lighten the load people. That’s all.

It's all yours anyway...in this amazing, endless wholeness.

{Smile!}

I AM Archangel Michael. You are profoundly loved!

www.expectwonderful.com

11.08.2010

Is Activism a Useful Activity?

"Is activism a useful activity?" .. That's a question I've been asking myself for many months, based on awareness of many things that are happening on the planet today. While I believed that I knew what the answer was, I was intrigued to see the article below, this week's channel from John Cali and Chief Joseph, about that very topic.
Is Activism a Useful Activity?

John Cali

One of our readers recently asked, "I am wondering if Chief Joseph would comment on whether he thinks activism is a useful activity."

Here's the rest of her letter:

"Regarding the channeled message (she's referring to this article, Fighting for Peace, 2006), I am wondering if Chief Joseph would comment on whether he thinks activism is useful activity. Activism for the environment, for progressive social change, for political change, in favor of the people rather than the handful of elites, etc.

"I sign a lot of petitions for what I consider to be worthy causes and like to think that it is doing some good. While it is, in a sense, fighting against the old paradigm that is so destructive to life on this planet, it is also working towards creating a better way, a better future -- even though change is very slow in coming!

"It would be helpful if Chief Joseph would delineate between 'fighting for' and 'fighting against.' And is perhaps a different effect created when we are acting out of love and concern, rather than anger and recrimination?

"Thanks for the wisdom you are imparting along to us. I believe I have had contact with Chief Joseph before, and his words were very helpful to me."

Here's Chief Joseph.


Chief Joseph

"Yes," is our one-word answer to that question. But there's more.

We outlined our position in that earlier newsletter our reader referred to. But we want to add a bit in response to several of her comments.

In her words, "Activism for the environment, for progressive social change, for political change, in favor of the people rather than the handful of elites, etc." is a good thing in our view. You're standing for something rather than fighting against something.

While that may seem to be splitting hairs, it is not. There is a huge difference between being for something and being against something. It's a matter of vibration.

Standing against something creates a negative vibration because you're focused on what you do not want. Standing for something creates a positive vibration because you're focused on what you do want.

Do you see the difference? You always get more of what you give your attention to, be it something you want or do not want.

Your so-called "war on drugs" is a perfect example of that. Is that "war" helping to stem the flow of drugs and the violence that goes with it? Just look at your daily news media. That war is a complete failure.

Our reader asked if we'd "delineate between 'fighting for' and 'fighting against.'"

We'd say take the word "fighting" out of the equation. Whether you're fighting for or against, you're still fighting. You're resisting what is, what you see as reality.

Instead focus not on the reality that exists today, but on the reality you want to create tomorrow. Then all your wars will come to a peaceful end.

As we said in that earlier newsletter:

"Get your own life in order first -- before you start protesting or marching against anything. When you are fully centered in that quiet place within, you are fully aligned with your higher self. And you will radiate an energy far more powerful than any other energy in your entire Universe.

"When you get to that place, you will be inspired to take action. But it will not be the action of 'fighting against' someone or something. It will be action deeply inspired by the certain knowing you are all one. In that place of knowing your oneness, your actions will always be inspired, and they will always be loving.

"Then you, standing alone, will wield far greater power than all the hordes of armies and governments who've ever marched through the pages of your human history."

That's the "bottom line" here today.

Copyright © 2010 by John Cali. All rights reserved worldwide.
I think it's important to note Chief Joseph's comment
When you get to that place, you will be inspired to take action. But it will not be the action of "fighting against" someone or something. It will be action deeply inspired by the certain knowing you are all one. In that place of knowing your oneness, your actions will always be inspired, and they will always be loving.
It's the inspired action that is so important. Each of us is on our own unique journey, and each of us has an important and necessary piece of the overall puzzle. It's our inspiration that leads us to providing that very special piece whenever needed and wherever we are. It could be as simple as a smile, as common as offering a comment, or as long term as a total commitment to some project - and all of those put together.

When you are listening to the guidance from within, acting with love and appreciation for all - whether others oppose you or disagree with you - that's when you know that you are on track with Self. That's when you feel the most invigorated, excited, and fulfilled, no matter what the eventual outcome.

Even if, later on, you can't see what your contribution was from some inspired action, know that there was a contribution, and an important one. Even if, later on, for whatever reasons you wish you hadn't done something you were inspired to do, know that you followed your heart, your guidance, and that the true results may never be clear to you. All that questioning is just judgement and habitual ways of thinking that come from lifetimes of being human. Live in the knowing that following your inspiration is following your true Self, and as one of the New Humans, that's the most satisfying life available.

11.06.2010

The Importance of Being Aware of Your Focus

Imagine what would happen in the world if millions of people began to focus on what is right instead of what is wrong? You can be one of those millions today -- trust that this makes a difference. Your light and focus does matter. It will change your life, and your world.

~ Selacia, Council of 12
It seems like such a simple thing - Abraham talks about it all the time - focusing on what we want and not on what we don't want. But old habits die hard, and focusing on what's "wrong" instead of what's "right", focusing on what we don't want instead of what we do want (both personally and globally) is so ingrained in us that it takes an extraordinary effort of will and intent to focus on where we want to be, not where we've been.

We all know how important our thoughts are, and it becomes more and more obvious every day. So it becomes more and more important that we use our will and intent to continually re-focus our attention where we want it, not where we are necessarily used to putting it, or where it automatically goes. The power resides within each of us as individuals, in the moment, not in what we've been told or even in what we've experienced. None of that is present in the Now moment, all of that is brought into the present moment by us, by our memories, beliefs, and habits of thought. It's so simple! but not necessarily easy .. it does take determination! But the rewards are ever so sweet, and we have each experienced our power of choice in just such a way.

Along those lines is another reminder from Selacia, one that I think is particularly important as more and more new Masters are being born on planet Earth. We who have been here for a couple decades or more are in a bit of a precarious position. We're being asked to interact with our young ones in ways that we weren't interacted with. So we have to not only unravel our own training and habits, but do that while being responsible for bringing up our children differently, as if we'd already achieved that unraveling. This is, and has been, the goal for all of us.

But in our day-to-day efforts to negotiate the path of our third density lives, we tend to forget that there's so much more going on. We tend to forget that our children are great great beings in tiny little bodies .. as are we. We made an agreement (if not consciously, on other levels of being) to protect and guide these young ones in the ways of physical reality as they grow, while not stripping them of their multi-dimensional power - as was done with us. It is indeed a challenge to be the ones responsible to "cut the cord" of old thinking, training, and beliefs. But it's a task that we are fully capable of, as we continually work to consciously focus on what we want rather than what old beliefs and old habits have taught us.

Here's what Selacia had to say:

Shifting Your Source of Validation

... Consider for a moment your [need for] outside validation, and remind yourself of times when you still feel more comfortable seeking validation from others. Allow your own higher self to join you in a further exploration of how to liberate yourself from approval seeking. When you begin to recognize the patterns of approval seeking in relationships and your personal health, it is then useful to monitor similar patterns that may exist in other areas of your life. These areas include your work and your involvement in organizations.

As you perform your work, consider the times when you compare yourself with others to gauge your performance, success, or worthiness. For example, perhaps you measure your performance relative to how your colleagues or competitors are doing. You may think that you are greater than or lesser than others depending upon your salary, your title, and your ranking within your work environment. For example, a seminar leader may view success in terms of how many attend seminars, or based upon how much money is made. List some of your own work-related comparisons and a few of the ways they affect:

- your choices about work
- your negative self-talk
- your detours into nonproductive areas
- your motivation to be the best that you can be.
- your desire and tendency to seek approval from others

These patterns of comparison are established in your early training. At home, children learn to compare themselves with siblings and with other children. With such comparisons and other societal conditioning, young children begin to lose their inner connection with spirit, and hence inner knowing. They begin to doubt their own truth, and to seek validation from others around them.

~ Selacia and The Council of Twelve
As you're observing your own need for validation from others, have the intent to simply observe, without judgement. Judgement is never coming from Higher Self, but always from the voices within that we decided - for whatever reason at whatever time - to listen to. As we interact with our children, we become those voices in their heads. Is that what we want to do? Or do we instead want our children to question authority - even ours - and listen instead to their own internal guidance? As we continue to drop our own need for outside validation, we are less prone to force - accidentally or on purpose - the same validation on our children. In this way, the whole world - and all of the multi-verse - benefits.