As we leave 2009 behind and move into the magic of 2010, we will continue to use our imagination to create that which many of us want to create—a world filled with peace, joy, abundance, love, and acceptance, while still being an exciting, dynamic, and wonder-filled place to be. That which we can imagine, we can achieve.
With thanks to radiointernetsite for this composite of John Lennon music and images with lyrics.
12.31.2009
12.29.2009
The Challenge of Seeing Ourselves as Equal
From the "Declaration of Independence" of the United States, adopted July 4, 1776:
Think about how you feel when you see a destitute man on a street corner, unbathed, unshaved, perhaps emaciated, perhaps begging for a handout, perhaps unable to make eye contact with other humans. What's your reaction? Pity? Hope? Appreciation that "there but for the grace of God go I"? Do you ever, in any way, look at such a human and see a powerful creation of god, or feel a connection in spirit with such a person?
Think about how you would feel (or perhaps have felt) if your most trusted, admired, cherished, human being were to come and visit you in person. Would you see them as equal to yourself, or would you feel small in comparison?
Think about how you would feel if an 'other worlder', or alien being, were to land in your back yard in their splendid space vehicle. Would you feel equal to said being? Would you listen in reverence and awe? Would you subjugate yourself to them, believing that they are more knowing, more powerful, more deserving than you? Would you be afraid, thinking that they have some power over you?
Do you see 'teachers' as higher, better, smarter, more powerful .. and 'students' as lower, lesser, dumber, less powerful'?
It's an interesting phenomenon that goes on in human beings. Sometimes we feel superior, sometimes we feel inferior. Sometimes we get pretty righteously indignant about how superior we believe we are. Sometimes we get frighteningly powerless at how inferior we feel we are. How often are the times when we 'feel' completely equal to another? Not better, nor worse, but honoring another, and honoring ourselves, as equal expressions of a universal whole?
We each have so much to experience with each other, and learn from each other. Truly, in all senses of the word, we are the same. Exactly the same. And yet .. completely different. We each are creations of the One, Prime Creator. Just as a cell in the human body divides itself to become two of the same rather than two halves, such is every creation of god a complete representation of the whole. And yet different.
Those differences are important, even crucial, to the expansion of consciousness, to the growth and experience of All That Is. And yet we want to label each other as good or bad, see each other as better or worse, more powerful or less, more deserving or less.
As we move forward into our future I hope we will more and more and more realize how very much alike we are, begin to really accept each other as equals no matter what we look like, no matter what we do, no matter what we think. I hope we'll stop feeling inferior and giving our power away, and stop trying to feel superior—or even just feel better—by taking power from others. We really, truly, are all in this together. And what a wonderful thing that is!
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.The United Nations, in December of 1948 adopted "The Universal Declaration of Human Rights", the first Article of which reads:
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.How amazingly easy it is to accept that we are all equal as an inspiring phrase, yet how challenging it is to accept in practice.
Think about how you feel when you see a destitute man on a street corner, unbathed, unshaved, perhaps emaciated, perhaps begging for a handout, perhaps unable to make eye contact with other humans. What's your reaction? Pity? Hope? Appreciation that "there but for the grace of God go I"? Do you ever, in any way, look at such a human and see a powerful creation of god, or feel a connection in spirit with such a person?
Think about how you would feel (or perhaps have felt) if your most trusted, admired, cherished, human being were to come and visit you in person. Would you see them as equal to yourself, or would you feel small in comparison?
Think about how you would feel if an 'other worlder', or alien being, were to land in your back yard in their splendid space vehicle. Would you feel equal to said being? Would you listen in reverence and awe? Would you subjugate yourself to them, believing that they are more knowing, more powerful, more deserving than you? Would you be afraid, thinking that they have some power over you?
Do you see 'teachers' as higher, better, smarter, more powerful .. and 'students' as lower, lesser, dumber, less powerful'?
It's an interesting phenomenon that goes on in human beings. Sometimes we feel superior, sometimes we feel inferior. Sometimes we get pretty righteously indignant about how superior we believe we are. Sometimes we get frighteningly powerless at how inferior we feel we are. How often are the times when we 'feel' completely equal to another? Not better, nor worse, but honoring another, and honoring ourselves, as equal expressions of a universal whole?
We each have so much to experience with each other, and learn from each other. Truly, in all senses of the word, we are the same. Exactly the same. And yet .. completely different. We each are creations of the One, Prime Creator. Just as a cell in the human body divides itself to become two of the same rather than two halves, such is every creation of god a complete representation of the whole. And yet different.
Those differences are important, even crucial, to the expansion of consciousness, to the growth and experience of All That Is. And yet we want to label each other as good or bad, see each other as better or worse, more powerful or less, more deserving or less.
As we move forward into our future I hope we will more and more and more realize how very much alike we are, begin to really accept each other as equals no matter what we look like, no matter what we do, no matter what we think. I hope we'll stop feeling inferior and giving our power away, and stop trying to feel superior—or even just feel better—by taking power from others. We really, truly, are all in this together. And what a wonderful thing that is!
12.28.2009
Powers of Creation
In this fourth, and final, installment of Steve Rother and the group's December 2009 Beacons of Light, the group talks about the problems that arise when we stop following our heart, stop creating. In a way they are asking us to expand ourselves out of the boxes that we've put around ourselves and each other, to continue to question things we have always taken for granted, to use our creative power to manifest lives that are both joyful and fulfilling.
When it feels like that in your life, stop and take a moment, however brief, to re-member how far we've come as individuals and collectively as the race of man. We've come a long way, and the future that we've been imagining and building for lifetime upon lifetime is in sight. When you think about all the lives and all the experiences that have led to this moment right now, celebrating becomes the most natural and fun thing to do. Enjoy!
Powers of CreationSometimes it doesn't look like there's a whole lot to celebrate. Sometimes it feels like we have to generate the enthusiasm that will allow us to celebrate.
First of all, you are creators—each and every one of you have the abilities of god within you. Most of you do not know it, because you are wearing a veil that keeps you from re-membering your own true nature, your own true abilities. But what is the need to create anyway? Why do you need to create?
We tell you, you do not. But it is your nature, and at any time or point you block your creative expression in any way, you will block your own god-self. You will block your own energy, and many times this force of energy going out can be reversed and the energy starts moving inward instead of outward. This exact scenario is what causes many of the energy allergies we have talked about and many of the physical setbacks experienced.
You are pretending to be human in that structure. Yet you are the most magnificent creators and the most magnificent beings to be able to hold the thought in your head for only seven seconds and have it manifest. No, it does not manifest in seven seconds, but it is created in seven seconds. If you hold that energy and vibration, it will show up in your energy field and it will show up very quickly.
We are telling you that the overlaying of time is going to start to have a new meaning for you. We hope that you start to play with this and push the boundaries of things that have always had very clear boundaries—time is time. You have atomic clocks that keep exact and perfect time, yet two years ago you had to sneak in an extra second just to make it work.
The whole idea of time is changing, because the rotation of the inner Earth is changing. This is not a mystical thing. It is simply that the core of the Earth is changing its rotation. It rotates at a different rate than the surface of the Earth. This has also increased and created the illusion of time on planet Earth. As that spin rate starts to change, you will start to see behind the veil a little bit more on this illusion of time and you will find new ways to use it. Play with it. Celebrate it, and above all celebrate your increments. Celebrate those times that have special meaning. Celebrate together.
When it feels like that in your life, stop and take a moment, however brief, to re-member how far we've come as individuals and collectively as the race of man. We've come a long way, and the future that we've been imagining and building for lifetime upon lifetime is in sight. When you think about all the lives and all the experiences that have led to this moment right now, celebrating becomes the most natural and fun thing to do. Enjoy!
12.27.2009
Everybody or Nobody
We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.Born in 1895, Buckminster Fuller was a man ahead of his time. As far as I can tell, he was more interested in how we be as opposed to what we do.
~ Buckminster Fuller
I have heard, though not been able to verify, that "Bucky" Fuller felt so akin to the planet and all of us on it that he would voluntarily clean up public areas that he found himself in, like airport restrooms. His rationale for this behavior was that we all live here, we all ought to be responsible for it. Whether he did or didn't do what has been attributed to him, it's a concept that I agree with, appreciate, and find worth emulating.
A New Way to Experience Responsibility
This post is a continuation of the information given by Steve Rother and 'the group' in their December 2009 Beacons of Light. To begin they discussed the coming three years, and what that will mean to us humans. I loved this comment in particular:
After talking about the coming three years (Countdown to Ascension), followed by using the tool of perception to view from the perceptive of our Higher Self (Two Tools for the Shift), the group talked about us developing a new relationship with responsibility.
The three years may appear like an airplane approaching for a landing. Two years of turning to align with the runway and one year straight on approach and landing.Exciting times ahead, don't you think?
After talking about the coming three years (Countdown to Ascension), followed by using the tool of perception to view from the perceptive of our Higher Self (Two Tools for the Shift), the group talked about us developing a new relationship with responsibility.
Responsibility
There is one other piece to consider as you enter this final quadrant. This quadrant of Earth will no longer support irresponsibility the way is has in the past. Even the word “responsibility” will start to take on an entirely new meaning for all of humanity.
The word “responsibility” has actually been a negative in your world, for the most part. Folks, when each one of you thinks about responsibility you do not get excited. Instead what happens when the word responsibility is heard or thought, is that you tend to shrink. We tell you that responsibility is the balance to power. You are creators already. Understanding how you can use those creative abilities and how you can do that on planet Earth in the physical body, in the situations and dramas that sometimes surround you, will be key to your life existence as a soul on planet Earth.
We tell you also that responsibility will be changed in many different ways. Many of your organizations—whether they are business corporations, religions, clubs or whatever brings people together—those are the areas that will now start helping to define what responsibility really is.
For example, if you have a business and need help, you look around, interview people and hire someone. You tell them what you will pay them per hour, week, month, or year, because we believe this is what your job is worth. In the future, what we are going to tell you is that even that will change. It will not be the job you do, but the responsibility within the company that you take will determine the pay for that job. A conscious corporation is focused on more than money because any entity of any kind—whether it be a collective or a single individual—will have to understand that it is now about working from the heart and not the head.
Many of your corporations have been working for one thing only, and that is for money. Money will always be a motivating factor. However, what will be understood is that by blending it with consciousness and love for your customers, it will bring more business and money than ever thought possible. These are the perception changes that are going to start shifting everything.
You are going to find out that responsibility and the word “responsibility” have new meanings, which when you hear them may actually start to excite rather than shrink your energy fields. You are going to find that all of humanity is working with a different area, so look in different parts of your own life.
Look in your relationships, what you do for a living, and your friendships. If you ever wish to have more power in an area, it is simply a case of taking more responsibility in that area. By doing so you are able to make space for that to happen not only in your own life, but in the lives of the other gods that are all pretending to be human as well.
It is no longer that you are separate in any way. We tell you there are many out there teaching that there are good people who are going to ascend, and bad people who are going to stay. We do not agree with that point of view, dear ones. This time either all of you go or no one goes, so it is now about helping everyone and being conscious.
It is turning around, seeing the neighbor who is driving you crazy and finding a way to say hello to him warmly and genuinely. It means finding a way to be responsible not only for who you are and what you do—but accepting responsibility for your own happiness. What about that, dear ones? No, that does not always seem easy either, but re-member it is perception. Do not give your responsibility to someone else.
Your responsibility has to first be you. Only then can you turn around and share that with other people. You generally experience the opposite of that on planet Earth right now. So, if you will reverse that which is currently in effect—if when you hear the word responsibility your ears will perk up—then your energy field will start to move. You will see it and be able to use it from a totally different perspective than you have before.
12.25.2009
Merry Christmas Everyone!
They were heard to exclaim as they moved without strife ..
Happy Christmas to all, and to all a Good Life!
Happy Christmas to all, and to all a Good Life!
12.24.2009
The Crystal Angel
Any spiritual teacher will tell you (and it's likely that you already realize) that people you come in contact with are mirrors for you. They reflect back to you exactly what you want to see in yourself. "How can that be, we ask? I did not ask for this [ insert horrible thing here ]! I would never have asked for such a thing!"
"How can I have asked for such a thing? Have I no compassion for myself?" you ask. And then you remember that no game is worth playing that doesn't provide a challenge. The game of Life on Planet Earth is an amazing and wonderful game, and as with all great games, is rife with challenges.
I want to take you on an imaginary journey so that you can see yourself, as a character within a play, how it's possible that we can choose and create even the most upsetting of scenarios.
The principle character in the following story is a woman. But even if you are a man, use your imagination and, for this brief journey, play along. Take a moment and pretend that you are playing a game of being a woman married to a wonderful man. This is a man you've known a long time, a man who means a lot to you, and who you know deep in your heart would never hurt you on purpose. Just imagine ..
Imagine that, in this story, your husband breaks a favorite piece of sculpture that you own. Suppose further that this is not the first thing of yours he’s ever broken. In fact, it seems like the more upset you get about him breaking things, the more things he breaks. It’s almost as if something inside him is deliberately breaking things just to piss you off! You can’t understand it, you don’t like it, and you’re so upset about this latest instance that if he does it again you just might hurt him. Badly.
Conventional psychology might call this "passive/aggressive" behavior, but for now, set aside any desire to label this in conventional terms. For now, you are simply frustrated and angry at his continual acts of carelessness that end up hurting so much.
What to do? Imagine yourself, your Self in Spirit, handing a beloved trinket to your husband and asking him to smash it into a thousand pieces.
Tell him you want to learn about not being so attached to 'things’ and you want him to help you get over it. "So here you go, husband of mine. Here is a piece of sculpture that I care more about than almost anything. I found it in a little shop in a precious little coastal town. It's one of a kind. It’s hand-made and irreplaceable. It’s my reminder of a time when things were grand and beautiful and peaceful."
"It’s going to hurt me a lot if it gets broken" you continue "but in that upset I just might see how things are not nearly as important as people. Please take it. Smash it into a thousand pieces so I can learn that which I have thus far been unable to learn. I may get angry with you. I may get really angry. Really really angry. Remember all those times previously when I asked you to smash things so that I could learn about unconditional love, but I didn’t learn it? I want to learn about unconditional love, I truly do. I’m getting desperate, and I think I need a really strong lesson here. I need to lose something that will really get my attention, really make me stop and look and think and feel. Something that will get me to look at my reactions. Please love me enough to do this for me, even knowing that I might hate you for it."
Imagine that this person in Spirit—the one who loves you more than life itself—looks at you, all the probabilities stacked against him, knowing that it’s more than likely that you’ll react as you did in the past, by getting hurt and getting angry, and he’s not so sure he can go through with it. But he knows that you are going to hurt even more if you don't eventually learn what it is you've said you want to learn.
He considers these different negative outcomes, but he also considers the one tiny but important potential that you might actually learn what you’ve asked to learn. He knows how long you’ve tried, how much this means to you. He also loves you so deeply that he’s willing to help you with this lesson, no matter what the cost to him. Even if it costs him his human relationship with you. He loves you that much.
Imagine now that you are back to your physical reality ...
So one day (just as you asked) your husband's human self mishandles your trinket and breaks it, right there in front of you. You yell. You scream. You cry. You throw a fit. You forget that you asked him to play the perpetrator of this crime. You are so upset you can’t think rationally. This was your favorite trinket! "HOW COULD YOU?!?!" you scream. "YOU MONSTER! I HATE YOU! I WISH I’D NEVER LAID EYES ON YOU!!"
On all levels of his being, all this gentle person wants to do is comfort you, to make it better, to sooth away the pain. But in the unseen part of his heart, the place where you aren't aware and neither is he, he knows that this is something you created for yourself, and that the only one who can solve it is you. If it’s even possible, he’s more upset than you are, because he knows how deeply hurt you are. But he leaves the room without so much as saying he’s sorry.
You, completely disconnected from Source, continue to lick your wounds. You have had this reaction before. Many times. In your heart of hearts, in the place you cannot see, you cry for both of you. You are hurt and so is he. The experiment didn’t work. You didn’t learn what you’d sought to learn.
On the spiritual level you contemplate this for a brief moment and then release it. You both did your best. You created a play and acted it out, and it didn’t turn out the way you’d hoped. But there’s always tomorrow, another day, another stage, another scene. You don’t give up. This is something you dearly want to learn.
You know about the unconditional love of Spirit, it’s Who You Are. You want to bring that feeling into your human incarnation. You make a pact with yourself to try again. Not today, that would be too soon. You look at your past, about how you’ve learned before, and you know that eventually you figured things out. Eventually you saw patterns, saw the consequences of certain thoughts and actions, and eventually achieved that which you desired to learn.
Days go by. You live your life in physical reality, still carrying around in your humanness a great deal of resentment about this person and what they did. Truth be told, that was about the last straw. You don’t know if you can continue to live with such an insensitive human being. "Doesn’t he know how much he hurt you? In the past at least he said he was sorry, at least he tried to comfort you. This time he didn’t say a word. No gesture, no remorse, no admonitions not to do it again. Nothing!" All these thoughts are running through your mind.
You are seething just under the surface, ready to lambast him at any opportunity. His fault. His fault. The whole incident was his fault. For awhile you continue to stew in your juices. You’re angry. You’re disconnected. You don’t hear the call of Source, even though it is gently calling you. It always is.
Days turn into weeks. As you begin to cool off a little bit, you get a little tickle of insight. Or maybe better said, you allow that little insight to come into your awareness.
An image from the past appears in your mind. It’s from when you were a little girl. Your brother broke something that you loved. You realize how upset you were, back then, and how you’ve carried that upset around all your life. Sure, you and your brother are civil to each other. Your families get together. But there’s always been a kind of tension between you, and you’ve never been able to figure out why. You sent yourself that image from the past, you just don’t know that you did.
All of a sudden, you realize something that you decided way back then, when you were a child. You decided that your brother did it on purpose, just to hurt you. This you clearly remember. You know that you hated him for it. As you grew up you tried to forgive him, but you never could. In fact, as you think about it, you realize that that hurt has been incubating inside you for many many years.
Inside this recognition, you suddenly begin seeing the different times that someone carelessly or purposely broke something that belonged to you, something that you cared about. You see image after image of things that broke and people you rejected because of it. And suddenly, out of the blue, you realize how much love has been lost over these seemingly insignificant losses of material things. You wonder at yourself that you never saw this pattern before. And then you realize that you had seen it before, you just never realized the significance of it.
You never saw the significance of it because you were looking at it through your human eyes, and not through your eyes of Spirit. Today, you saw those experiences through the eyes of spirit, and realized that you did. The eyes of spirit belong to you, but they don’t necessarily see what human eyes see. When you look through the eyes of spirit, you see things the way they were meant to be seen, in all their beauty and magnificence, in all their meaning, and with compassion.
An amazing thing happens to you inside this new recognition. You realize, in your heart of hearts, how dearly you love this human guy who keeps breaking things that are important to you. When you stop to really look, you realize that each time the thing that got broken was more valuable than the last. You realize that this is a pattern, and you realize that the pattern is escalating. You think about what you’d decided about people who break things that matter to you.
You know about focus, about how what you focus on is what you bring into your reality. You realize that you’ve been creating many, if not all of these circumstances. You think about how you’ve been asking spirit to make you more loving and less critical of others. You think about how you have wanted to be more like your dog, that little guy who loves you no matter what, who comes and wags his tail and licks your face and looks lovingly into your eyes even after he’s been punished. You remember wishing that you could love like that, love someone no matter what, because loving someone feels so good and hating them hurts so much.
Next you remember reading that your Inner Being guides you through the expression of your emotions. You recall that when you feel good you’re strongly connected to Source, able to hear the call and answer it, and when you feel bad you’re not so connected to Source, not so capable hearing the call or answering it.
And you wonder …"is it true? Is it really true that when I get so upset, so angry, so hurt, I cannot hear the call of Source, can’t see through the eyes of Source? Is it as simple as being stuck in a cycle of upset, and not being able to hear the call of Source? If it is true," you ponder, "what would happen if I stopped, right in the middle of that hurt, or upset, or anger, and listened, became cognizant of how I feel in that moment? Could I do that? Is it possible?" You determine to try.
Months pass. Life happens. Things come into your life and go out of your life. Then one day, out of the blue, when you are blissfully happy and thinking that nothing in the world could upset you on this day at this time … you hear a loud crash … and the tinkling of glass. Your heart leaps into your throat. You are struck with a feeling more than mere words .. "This cannot be good."
You begin to head to where the noise emanated from. But before you do, you feel a little niggling in your heart. You stop. You listen. You have this thought that says “He didn’t mean to. He really loves you. You really love him.” And you think “It’s true, he does, and I do.” This is followed by a whole series of thoughts, a conversation really, between you and you. The thought occurs to you to forgive him. Another thought occurs to you that you can’t. Another that you won’t. Another that you should. Another that nobody is going to tell you what to do. Another that you can’t possibly forgive someone who is breaking all the stuff you love. Not ever. More thoughts, more debate.
But an amazing thing is happening through all of this mental dialog, and the images and thoughts that pop into your mind, seemingly unbidden and in the twinkling of an eye. You haven’t blow up, even though you wanted to. You didn’t jump to the inevitable conclusion that someone was doing something to you. You didn’t rush off and spew venom helter skelter. Maybe you wanted to, maybe you still will. But you didn’t. You broke the chain.
Here’s a chain of thought and belief that has followed you for the greater portion of your life, and you broke it. Interrupted it just enough that, if you’re determined and if you’re willing, can be broken again and again. And some day, possibly soon - potentially even right now - anger might not be your first response. You feel calm in a way that you’ve never felt before in such a situation.
You head out to see what it is that broke this time. You are prepared. You might blow up, you might not. You might be calm, you might not. But you have a tool and you used it. You listened to the call of your heart.
Listened just long enough to interrupt the chain of habit, and that’s all that matters. That’s all that you need to do. Just interrupt the chain long enough to hear the call of Source, to see things through the eyes of Source. It’s a sweet call. It’s a beautiful way to see things. It’s a tool that is yours by birthright, and now you know how to use it. Once you’ve interrupted the chain you can do it over and over as often as necessary to create a new vantage point from which to view any situation.
Are you curious, in this very human story, what happened next? You might be surprised to know, or you might not, that the call of Source on this day, for this individual, was very strong. She proceeded to the front room where she saw her husband cleaning up what was left of one of her most prized possessions in all the world: a crystal angel given to her by her mother. It was her mother’s, and her mother’s mother’s before her. She had taken great care with it over the years. She intended one day to give it to her own daughter. When she saw what was left of it, her eyes welled up with tears. She couldn’t help it. First she felt sadness, then felt the anger beginning to rise.
And then she did a very difficult thing. She stopped, and she listened. Listened to her heart. What she heard in that moment will stay with her for the rest of her days, and beyond. What she heard was her mother’s voice, clearly, as if her mother were standing right beside her, though her mother had been dead for many years. She stood there, looking at the shattered pieces of a crystal angel and she heard her mother say “I love you.”
Overcome with emotion, tears streaming down her face, she turned to her husband. She saw the upset in his eyes, read the turmoil and the hurt that registered there. Knew that he was waiting for the inevitable tirade to rain down on him. In that moment, in that infinitesimally small flash of a moment, she understood in a way that no words could ever explain, what unconditional love is. She put her arms around her husband, held him tight and whispered “I love you.”
That was the last time she cried tears over anything that broke. In fact, for some reason that she couldn’t quite understand, broken things began to be really funny to her. She couldn’t help herself. Sometimes it angered others, when they would break something and she would laugh, but she couldn’t help herself. It just seemed like such a silly thing to get upset about, to throw away love over. Sometimes, when viewed through the eyes of Source, some things are just really really funny.
"How can I have asked for such a thing? Have I no compassion for myself?" you ask. And then you remember that no game is worth playing that doesn't provide a challenge. The game of Life on Planet Earth is an amazing and wonderful game, and as with all great games, is rife with challenges.
I want to take you on an imaginary journey so that you can see yourself, as a character within a play, how it's possible that we can choose and create even the most upsetting of scenarios.
The principle character in the following story is a woman. But even if you are a man, use your imagination and, for this brief journey, play along. Take a moment and pretend that you are playing a game of being a woman married to a wonderful man. This is a man you've known a long time, a man who means a lot to you, and who you know deep in your heart would never hurt you on purpose. Just imagine ..
Imagine that, in this story, your husband breaks a favorite piece of sculpture that you own. Suppose further that this is not the first thing of yours he’s ever broken. In fact, it seems like the more upset you get about him breaking things, the more things he breaks. It’s almost as if something inside him is deliberately breaking things just to piss you off! You can’t understand it, you don’t like it, and you’re so upset about this latest instance that if he does it again you just might hurt him. Badly.
Conventional psychology might call this "passive/aggressive" behavior, but for now, set aside any desire to label this in conventional terms. For now, you are simply frustrated and angry at his continual acts of carelessness that end up hurting so much.
What to do? Imagine yourself, your Self in Spirit, handing a beloved trinket to your husband and asking him to smash it into a thousand pieces.
Tell him you want to learn about not being so attached to 'things’ and you want him to help you get over it. "So here you go, husband of mine. Here is a piece of sculpture that I care more about than almost anything. I found it in a little shop in a precious little coastal town. It's one of a kind. It’s hand-made and irreplaceable. It’s my reminder of a time when things were grand and beautiful and peaceful."
"It’s going to hurt me a lot if it gets broken" you continue "but in that upset I just might see how things are not nearly as important as people. Please take it. Smash it into a thousand pieces so I can learn that which I have thus far been unable to learn. I may get angry with you. I may get really angry. Really really angry. Remember all those times previously when I asked you to smash things so that I could learn about unconditional love, but I didn’t learn it? I want to learn about unconditional love, I truly do. I’m getting desperate, and I think I need a really strong lesson here. I need to lose something that will really get my attention, really make me stop and look and think and feel. Something that will get me to look at my reactions. Please love me enough to do this for me, even knowing that I might hate you for it."
Imagine that this person in Spirit—the one who loves you more than life itself—looks at you, all the probabilities stacked against him, knowing that it’s more than likely that you’ll react as you did in the past, by getting hurt and getting angry, and he’s not so sure he can go through with it. But he knows that you are going to hurt even more if you don't eventually learn what it is you've said you want to learn.
He considers these different negative outcomes, but he also considers the one tiny but important potential that you might actually learn what you’ve asked to learn. He knows how long you’ve tried, how much this means to you. He also loves you so deeply that he’s willing to help you with this lesson, no matter what the cost to him. Even if it costs him his human relationship with you. He loves you that much.
Imagine now that you are back to your physical reality ...
So one day (just as you asked) your husband's human self mishandles your trinket and breaks it, right there in front of you. You yell. You scream. You cry. You throw a fit. You forget that you asked him to play the perpetrator of this crime. You are so upset you can’t think rationally. This was your favorite trinket! "HOW COULD YOU?!?!" you scream. "YOU MONSTER! I HATE YOU! I WISH I’D NEVER LAID EYES ON YOU!!"
On all levels of his being, all this gentle person wants to do is comfort you, to make it better, to sooth away the pain. But in the unseen part of his heart, the place where you aren't aware and neither is he, he knows that this is something you created for yourself, and that the only one who can solve it is you. If it’s even possible, he’s more upset than you are, because he knows how deeply hurt you are. But he leaves the room without so much as saying he’s sorry.
You, completely disconnected from Source, continue to lick your wounds. You have had this reaction before. Many times. In your heart of hearts, in the place you cannot see, you cry for both of you. You are hurt and so is he. The experiment didn’t work. You didn’t learn what you’d sought to learn.
On the spiritual level you contemplate this for a brief moment and then release it. You both did your best. You created a play and acted it out, and it didn’t turn out the way you’d hoped. But there’s always tomorrow, another day, another stage, another scene. You don’t give up. This is something you dearly want to learn.
You know about the unconditional love of Spirit, it’s Who You Are. You want to bring that feeling into your human incarnation. You make a pact with yourself to try again. Not today, that would be too soon. You look at your past, about how you’ve learned before, and you know that eventually you figured things out. Eventually you saw patterns, saw the consequences of certain thoughts and actions, and eventually achieved that which you desired to learn.
Days go by. You live your life in physical reality, still carrying around in your humanness a great deal of resentment about this person and what they did. Truth be told, that was about the last straw. You don’t know if you can continue to live with such an insensitive human being. "Doesn’t he know how much he hurt you? In the past at least he said he was sorry, at least he tried to comfort you. This time he didn’t say a word. No gesture, no remorse, no admonitions not to do it again. Nothing!" All these thoughts are running through your mind.
You are seething just under the surface, ready to lambast him at any opportunity. His fault. His fault. The whole incident was his fault. For awhile you continue to stew in your juices. You’re angry. You’re disconnected. You don’t hear the call of Source, even though it is gently calling you. It always is.
Days turn into weeks. As you begin to cool off a little bit, you get a little tickle of insight. Or maybe better said, you allow that little insight to come into your awareness.
An image from the past appears in your mind. It’s from when you were a little girl. Your brother broke something that you loved. You realize how upset you were, back then, and how you’ve carried that upset around all your life. Sure, you and your brother are civil to each other. Your families get together. But there’s always been a kind of tension between you, and you’ve never been able to figure out why. You sent yourself that image from the past, you just don’t know that you did.
All of a sudden, you realize something that you decided way back then, when you were a child. You decided that your brother did it on purpose, just to hurt you. This you clearly remember. You know that you hated him for it. As you grew up you tried to forgive him, but you never could. In fact, as you think about it, you realize that that hurt has been incubating inside you for many many years.
Inside this recognition, you suddenly begin seeing the different times that someone carelessly or purposely broke something that belonged to you, something that you cared about. You see image after image of things that broke and people you rejected because of it. And suddenly, out of the blue, you realize how much love has been lost over these seemingly insignificant losses of material things. You wonder at yourself that you never saw this pattern before. And then you realize that you had seen it before, you just never realized the significance of it.
You never saw the significance of it because you were looking at it through your human eyes, and not through your eyes of Spirit. Today, you saw those experiences through the eyes of spirit, and realized that you did. The eyes of spirit belong to you, but they don’t necessarily see what human eyes see. When you look through the eyes of spirit, you see things the way they were meant to be seen, in all their beauty and magnificence, in all their meaning, and with compassion.
An amazing thing happens to you inside this new recognition. You realize, in your heart of hearts, how dearly you love this human guy who keeps breaking things that are important to you. When you stop to really look, you realize that each time the thing that got broken was more valuable than the last. You realize that this is a pattern, and you realize that the pattern is escalating. You think about what you’d decided about people who break things that matter to you.
You know about focus, about how what you focus on is what you bring into your reality. You realize that you’ve been creating many, if not all of these circumstances. You think about how you’ve been asking spirit to make you more loving and less critical of others. You think about how you have wanted to be more like your dog, that little guy who loves you no matter what, who comes and wags his tail and licks your face and looks lovingly into your eyes even after he’s been punished. You remember wishing that you could love like that, love someone no matter what, because loving someone feels so good and hating them hurts so much.
Next you remember reading that your Inner Being guides you through the expression of your emotions. You recall that when you feel good you’re strongly connected to Source, able to hear the call and answer it, and when you feel bad you’re not so connected to Source, not so capable hearing the call or answering it.
And you wonder …"is it true? Is it really true that when I get so upset, so angry, so hurt, I cannot hear the call of Source, can’t see through the eyes of Source? Is it as simple as being stuck in a cycle of upset, and not being able to hear the call of Source? If it is true," you ponder, "what would happen if I stopped, right in the middle of that hurt, or upset, or anger, and listened, became cognizant of how I feel in that moment? Could I do that? Is it possible?" You determine to try.
Months pass. Life happens. Things come into your life and go out of your life. Then one day, out of the blue, when you are blissfully happy and thinking that nothing in the world could upset you on this day at this time … you hear a loud crash … and the tinkling of glass. Your heart leaps into your throat. You are struck with a feeling more than mere words .. "This cannot be good."
You begin to head to where the noise emanated from. But before you do, you feel a little niggling in your heart. You stop. You listen. You have this thought that says “He didn’t mean to. He really loves you. You really love him.” And you think “It’s true, he does, and I do.” This is followed by a whole series of thoughts, a conversation really, between you and you. The thought occurs to you to forgive him. Another thought occurs to you that you can’t. Another that you won’t. Another that you should. Another that nobody is going to tell you what to do. Another that you can’t possibly forgive someone who is breaking all the stuff you love. Not ever. More thoughts, more debate.
But an amazing thing is happening through all of this mental dialog, and the images and thoughts that pop into your mind, seemingly unbidden and in the twinkling of an eye. You haven’t blow up, even though you wanted to. You didn’t jump to the inevitable conclusion that someone was doing something to you. You didn’t rush off and spew venom helter skelter. Maybe you wanted to, maybe you still will. But you didn’t. You broke the chain.
Here’s a chain of thought and belief that has followed you for the greater portion of your life, and you broke it. Interrupted it just enough that, if you’re determined and if you’re willing, can be broken again and again. And some day, possibly soon - potentially even right now - anger might not be your first response. You feel calm in a way that you’ve never felt before in such a situation.
You head out to see what it is that broke this time. You are prepared. You might blow up, you might not. You might be calm, you might not. But you have a tool and you used it. You listened to the call of your heart.
Listened just long enough to interrupt the chain of habit, and that’s all that matters. That’s all that you need to do. Just interrupt the chain long enough to hear the call of Source, to see things through the eyes of Source. It’s a sweet call. It’s a beautiful way to see things. It’s a tool that is yours by birthright, and now you know how to use it. Once you’ve interrupted the chain you can do it over and over as often as necessary to create a new vantage point from which to view any situation.
Are you curious, in this very human story, what happened next? You might be surprised to know, or you might not, that the call of Source on this day, for this individual, was very strong. She proceeded to the front room where she saw her husband cleaning up what was left of one of her most prized possessions in all the world: a crystal angel given to her by her mother. It was her mother’s, and her mother’s mother’s before her. She had taken great care with it over the years. She intended one day to give it to her own daughter. When she saw what was left of it, her eyes welled up with tears. She couldn’t help it. First she felt sadness, then felt the anger beginning to rise.
And then she did a very difficult thing. She stopped, and she listened. Listened to her heart. What she heard in that moment will stay with her for the rest of her days, and beyond. What she heard was her mother’s voice, clearly, as if her mother were standing right beside her, though her mother had been dead for many years. She stood there, looking at the shattered pieces of a crystal angel and she heard her mother say “I love you.”
Overcome with emotion, tears streaming down her face, she turned to her husband. She saw the upset in his eyes, read the turmoil and the hurt that registered there. Knew that he was waiting for the inevitable tirade to rain down on him. In that moment, in that infinitesimally small flash of a moment, she understood in a way that no words could ever explain, what unconditional love is. She put her arms around her husband, held him tight and whispered “I love you.”
That was the last time she cried tears over anything that broke. In fact, for some reason that she couldn’t quite understand, broken things began to be really funny to her. She couldn’t help herself. Sometimes it angered others, when they would break something and she would laugh, but she couldn’t help herself. It just seemed like such a silly thing to get upset about, to throw away love over. Sometimes, when viewed through the eyes of Source, some things are just really really funny.
12.23.2009
Your Reality
Recognize that your reality is not changed by changing the external things in order to get to the internal things. Your reality is changed by changing the internal things, which then affects the external things.From Spiritual Sovereignty by Lyssa Royal
~ Germane through Lyssa Royal
Two Tools for The Shift
In my post Countdown to Ascension I introduced the first part of the December 2009 Beacons of Light message from Steve Rother and 'the group'. That first part talked about the coming three years and how we're moving rapidly into the new world that we are creating.
This part of their message is about some tools that can help us get there. This mostly has to do with perception. We've heard for many years that 'reality is how you perceive it' and the group helps us understand how this is so, and how to use that knowing to achieve that which we wish to achieve.
So the tools are:
1 - Raise your level of perception.
2 - See the bigger picture (view from the perspective of Higher Self), if even just for a moment.
Abraham offers a similar way to shift perception, one I've discussed before, which is to find something, anything, to appreciate. In finding something to appreciate, no matter how small, you stop reacting and become conscious of what's going on around you.
By finding something to appreciate you are both changing your perception AND opening up to seeing the bigger picture. Finding something to appreciate moves you out of the negativity of judgement and into the softer, more open space of awareness. Standing in that place you have access to ways of being that are not available to you when you are caught in any of the myriad automatic responses that we humans have developed over time.
However you do it, know that whenever things aren't going as you wish they were, you can interrupt your 'programmed' way of being simply by shifting perspective. Use whatever method works for you, whether it's consciously breathing, consciously appreciating, consciously noticing, stopping thought for a moment, whatever—the method doesn't matter. The point is to find something that causes you to shift out of automaticity and into consciousness.
Don't get me wrong, automaticity is a good thing! Without automaticity we wouldn't even be able to get out of our chair! But we've created programs that run on automatic that we aren't even aware of, and we're working to break those up. The first and most important step is to become aware; becoming aware gives us the ability to see from different perspectives.
When we can see from different perspectives we find solutions that we didn't see, solutions we might not have even considered possible. Sometimes we get to see that what we thought of as a 'bad' situation really isn't, that it's just a step that's taking us to where we say we want to be. Sometimes we even start to see how and why we create the situations and experiences that we do.
If you look back in your life you'll realize that you've done perspective-shifting many times. The object now is to do it consciously, and do it often, especially when things don't seem to be going well.
Remember to have fun with this! This is your life we're talking about here, you have a right - even a responsibility - to enjoy it in all its nuances!
This part of their message is about some tools that can help us get there. This mostly has to do with perception. We've heard for many years that 'reality is how you perceive it' and the group helps us understand how this is so, and how to use that knowing to achieve that which we wish to achieve.
Two Tools for the Shift
There are two important concepts that we will address one at a time. These will be incredible tools for you to use during this transitionary period. One we spoke of before, calling it the 12th dimension. There are 11 different yous having 11 different experiences and one point of perception. That point of perception is your 12th dimension. What you have been unaware of at this point is that it is very easy for humans to shift that point of perception. By consciously shifting your point of perception, you can now receive multiple views of the same point that you have never been able to see before. This gives humans another vision—a whole other level from which to perceive in order to truly see themselves.
The challenge is that you are not accustomed to raising yourself to that next level, so the first tool we give you is raising your level of perception. If at any point you run across what you call the brick wall--where you are going in a direction and you know your heart is there but you just cannot seem to get any farther or you just seem to be blocked--the first thing to do is not judge it. Do not call it “good” or “bad,” because the moment that you do that brings it into the lower vibrations.
The moment you doubt yourself and say, “I must not be good enough,” or “I must not be spiritual enough to make this happen…” it lowers your vibration. In that instant you are in effect doubting god and you negate the entire process at that point. So, the first thing we ask you to do is not to judge yourself. We realize this is not always easy, but re-member how important it is and trust in yourself and in the process.
The second thing we would ask you to do is to take yourself into your own higher self, then look at the situation from that perspective and level of awareness. Look at what you could have possibly gained from this experience, or what can be happening to make this better because of the restriction. Why did you put that restriction there? Only by consciously choosing to view it from a higher perspective is that even possible.
This is not something humans have been trained to do, and it is not something you are all accustomed to doing. It is fairly simple, but you can all help each other tremendously by taking a step back and instead of reacting just take a breath. Move yourself to a higher perception and see the larger picture, even for just a moment. You will feel the difference. Even if you still do not have all the answers or do not feel all the energy inside, stop for just a moment. When you continue talking, your words will come out differently. You will feel lighter, as will those around you. Your channel will have changed, because your own perception now sees from a higher perspective than before.
So the tools are:
1 - Raise your level of perception.
2 - See the bigger picture (view from the perspective of Higher Self), if even just for a moment.
Abraham offers a similar way to shift perception, one I've discussed before, which is to find something, anything, to appreciate. In finding something to appreciate, no matter how small, you stop reacting and become conscious of what's going on around you.
By finding something to appreciate you are both changing your perception AND opening up to seeing the bigger picture. Finding something to appreciate moves you out of the negativity of judgement and into the softer, more open space of awareness. Standing in that place you have access to ways of being that are not available to you when you are caught in any of the myriad automatic responses that we humans have developed over time.
However you do it, know that whenever things aren't going as you wish they were, you can interrupt your 'programmed' way of being simply by shifting perspective. Use whatever method works for you, whether it's consciously breathing, consciously appreciating, consciously noticing, stopping thought for a moment, whatever—the method doesn't matter. The point is to find something that causes you to shift out of automaticity and into consciousness.
Don't get me wrong, automaticity is a good thing! Without automaticity we wouldn't even be able to get out of our chair! But we've created programs that run on automatic that we aren't even aware of, and we're working to break those up. The first and most important step is to become aware; becoming aware gives us the ability to see from different perspectives.
When we can see from different perspectives we find solutions that we didn't see, solutions we might not have even considered possible. Sometimes we get to see that what we thought of as a 'bad' situation really isn't, that it's just a step that's taking us to where we say we want to be. Sometimes we even start to see how and why we create the situations and experiences that we do.
If you look back in your life you'll realize that you've done perspective-shifting many times. The object now is to do it consciously, and do it often, especially when things don't seem to be going well.
Remember to have fun with this! This is your life we're talking about here, you have a right - even a responsibility - to enjoy it in all its nuances!
12.22.2009
Love Is
Love is stronger than fear, and Spirit is alive in all matter.From Stories of Initiation
~ RaHo Tep
RaHo Tep, The Initiate
through Suzan Caroll.
Countdown to Ascension
Steve Rother and 'the group', gave an especially powerful message in their December Beacons of Light. They covered a number of topics, all related and all relevant. It's a lot to tackle in one sitting, so I'm going to highlight different parts of their message over the next few days.
The first thing they talked about was the next three years, that being 2010, 2011, and 2012. We are 'on the home stretch' so to speak in creating our new world, all we have to do is be aware that we are, stay focused on how we want things to be, and use the tools that are being made available to us—tools that will both help us get there, and help us live in that new reality as we are creating it.
From the December 2009 Beacons of Light from Lightworker:
The group applied that phrase to the ascension, calling it "No one left behind." In our past, specifically Atlantis and Lemuria, we had the opportunity to move into a higher vibrational reality, but we didn't understand how important it was to include everyone. This time we're doing it differently. This time we understand that we are here to help each other, no matter who that 'other' is.
What that means is that this consciousness shift and the creation of a new earth isn't exclusive to those who know it's coming. Earth is the creation of each and every one of us, whether we are consciously aware of what we are creating or not. Not everyone will choose the higher vibrational reality, but it is our joint work to ensure that all know that they can choose, and that those who choose will be supported in moving forward, and those who choose not will be allowed to follow their path, without judgement, as well. [For more see my blog entry for September 5 entitled Differences between 3d, 4d, and 5d particularly the last section "You Are Not Alone".
I say it often and it is so true—we are all in this together. We always have been. There is no 'us' and 'them', only 'us'. And it's the responsibility of each of us to remember that. It doesn't mean we need to get all 'preachy' with each other. If it means anything, it means the exact opposite of that. It means that we begin to stop judging each other, and allow and accept each other—and ourselves—just the way we are. More on that tomorrow. Stay tuned!
The first thing they talked about was the next three years, that being 2010, 2011, and 2012. We are 'on the home stretch' so to speak in creating our new world, all we have to do is be aware that we are, stay focused on how we want things to be, and use the tools that are being made available to us—tools that will both help us get there, and help us live in that new reality as we are creating it.
From the December 2009 Beacons of Light from Lightworker:
Countdown to AscensionThere's another little piece of information related to this that the group has spoken of before. I relate it to a concept a few years ago in the US where we focused on ensuring that all children had access to minimum standard of education. It was called "No child left behind."
Let us talk about the overlay of time on your planet, because that is one of the critical pieces that all of you will be dealing with in the next three years. This upcoming time period is becoming very important.
As you know, we have been talking about the countdown to ascension for a while. In the beginning it started out as a cosmic joke. Part of the reason for that was simply that the year 2012 was thought for so long to be the end of the planet and the end of recorded history. Your intentions were to move all this into the next space—many of you have called it the fifth dimension, the ascension, or the new time on Earth. We have told you a bit about what that looks like from our perspective, for the path you are creating starts between your ears. You are the ones creating the path just before your foot hits the ground and you are certainly planning something very special.
But here is the interesting part. Your fears of the year 2012 were correct. In the original script of the Game, in the year 2012 for planet Earth would have been the end in a sense. It was written that Earth would wind down all of its life force energy between the years of 2000 and 2012. You would have started this process not only with confusion, frustration and anger on the planet on the part of individuals, but also with the Earth herself. She has been picking up on that vibration, absorbing it and having many more difficulties with weather pattern changes and seismic and volcanic activity. This has been especially evident in the middle of the Pacific Ocean where we predicted it many, many years ago. New Lemuria is rising and we are telling you that it is all starting to shift.
There is still a movement that will take place in the middle of the Pacific Ocean that will have a tremendous impact on the rest of the planet. It will open the new portals of creation, and at that time many of your own belief systems will have to dissolve. This must occur to be able to begin evolving into the next level, for you to support a life in this next level of existence. Now, what does that look like? Does that mean you are going to leave your bodies? Does that mean everything is suddenly going to be okay? No. Trust us when we say that the evolution of humanity does not work that way. You work very well with positives and negatives. The problem is that you have always called negative “bad” and positive “good.” As you evolve to this next level, you are going to realize that there simply is no “right” or “wrong.” There is no difference between good and bad. Instead, it is simply the way each one of you has perceived it and brought it into your own world that causes the seeming disparity. Much of the changes you are going to start to see will open up possibilities that have been closed to you before.
The Final Quadrant – A New Miracle
The three-year period 2010, 2011 and 2012 is the final quadrant of what you are going to experience on planet Earth in the old energy. Yes, you are looking for major movements, and you have seen some of this happen. It has been predicted from many different channels and in various ways; this information has come through and you are expecting it. Dear ones, it is that expectation that is causing this new evolutionary process to take place.
Let us explain from a different perspective. Many of you have asked us what exactly is going to happen in the year 2012. You humans, still to this day, have not decided what day this cosmic event is going to take place. Some of you think it is going to be on the 21st, on the winter solstice. Some of you think December 31st yet others of you think it is actually going to be on December 1st or December 11th and 12th. There are a lot of connections out there, and it really does not make any difference to us because humanity as a whole will decide that next key part. When you decide and focus on a single point of when that is going to be, the created energy from all humans will gather and focus on a single point. Miracles do happen and this will be the biggest collective miracle thus far in the history of humanity.
Originally we would have told you that what would have happened in the year 2012 was that when you finally decided on the day, you would have these wonderful parties and you would expect the ascension to take place during the parties. You would have big bonfires on the seashore, travel to the mountains, or wherever you decided to celebrate you would welcome in the new energy as the sun rose that morning across the sky. You would have a wonderful time, and the following day you would have climbed down the mountain or walked back from the ocean and gone back to work. But now there is another dimensional level that is starting to appear.
New Relationship to Time
There are still parts of you that will have to come back to this old energy, and yet other parts of you would have moved on very quickly to the new levels. The overlaying of time will have a different effect on all of humanity, because time itself will begin to be measured differently at that point. That is starting to take place even now. Over the next three years with this final quadrant of planet Earth as you knew it moves into this new realm. What happens is that you, the creators, are starting to get excited at the possibilities. So, even the scenario we have previously laid out is beginning to change.
The little gods of Earth are taking their creative powers back, and this will be of the first of your collective creations. These next three years will be the key as to what will happen when you come home from the party, and in what happens in the days that follow.
Fire the Hologram!
We have previously spoken of the hologram of Earth forming from your own thoughts. We have shared with you that you are god; therefore, when god has a thoughtit is like a beam of light shooting into space. You have a thought from one god, you have a thought from another god. If several of those thoughts are similar in vibration, then they meet in the same place. That is incredibly powerful, because matter is drawn to energy and forms around it creating that vibration in your world. The hologram is a large ball of energy waiting to be fired. We have called this hologram the Third Earth. Once fired it forms a hologram which is a three-dimensional representation of light.
We are using the word “light” slightly differently than you do, but you understand what we are talking about. This is how Earth formed in the first place. What will be taking place is now that you are moving, the energy of this third Earth--this hologram of light--will now come to Earth and help you over-imprint the original hologram of Earth, thereby helping to shift and change it from that point. Does that mean that there will be nothing more to worry about? Does that mean there will be no more negativity on planet Earth? That is what we ask you, because we have nothing to do with setting up this new Earth. This is entirely your design much the same way as the old Earth was.
Dream your greatest dreams, dear ones, for those dreams will make up the new Earth. Then be prepared to walk into a new life for that is surely ahead of you. This will not happen in a single day, but it will begin in a single day and that is the day you will soon choose. You are shifting this beautiful planet right in front of our eyes. You are changing it even though you cannot see your own creative abilities, even though you are blocked from seeing your own connection to each other and the other creators. But you are starting to work together in a harmonious vision of what humans want on this planet and that will determine the starting point of the next millennium that is to follow. That is what was actually predicted in the Bible, even though it was slightly twisted by many to mean something else. The direction of next millennium is determined in this final quadrant of 2010, 2011 and 2012.
The group applied that phrase to the ascension, calling it "No one left behind." In our past, specifically Atlantis and Lemuria, we had the opportunity to move into a higher vibrational reality, but we didn't understand how important it was to include everyone. This time we're doing it differently. This time we understand that we are here to help each other, no matter who that 'other' is.
What that means is that this consciousness shift and the creation of a new earth isn't exclusive to those who know it's coming. Earth is the creation of each and every one of us, whether we are consciously aware of what we are creating or not. Not everyone will choose the higher vibrational reality, but it is our joint work to ensure that all know that they can choose, and that those who choose will be supported in moving forward, and those who choose not will be allowed to follow their path, without judgement, as well. [For more see my blog entry for September 5 entitled Differences between 3d, 4d, and 5d particularly the last section "You Are Not Alone".
I say it often and it is so true—we are all in this together. We always have been. There is no 'us' and 'them', only 'us'. And it's the responsibility of each of us to remember that. It doesn't mean we need to get all 'preachy' with each other. If it means anything, it means the exact opposite of that. It means that we begin to stop judging each other, and allow and accept each other—and ourselves—just the way we are. More on that tomorrow. Stay tuned!
12.21.2009
A Message From Uriel
I thought this was an interesting little reminder from Archangel Uriel. It comes through Jennifer Hoffman at Uriel Heals:
Know that we are all healers, mentors, and teachers, while also each being clients, patients, and students. In other words, we're all in this together. Just because your business card doesn't say "healer" or "teacher", just because you don't have clients, patients, or students, doesn't mean you aren't doing essential healing work. If you are here on Earth at this time, hearing the call of your Higher Self, seeking expansion and growth, you are right on track. Be encouraged by that—just by being here and being who you are you are doing important work.
Don't assume someone isn't 'doing their part' because you can't see what it is. And by the same token, don't feel like you aren't doing what you came here to do because your way doesn't match what others think is important or doesn't fit their definition of healing. Only you can know what makes your heart sing. Only you can know what inspires you to action. Trust your own knowing, your own path, and your own expression.
The Gifts of ResponsibilityI want to add to this that you don't need to be a 'practicing' healer or teacher to be using your tools and doing what you came here to do. There are as many expressions of spirit as there are humans. Maybe your gift is through music, or through art, or through sports, or through being a loving and supportive friend or parent, or through the gift of laughter, or through running a business. Each being has a their own personal gift, and their own way of expressing it.
The human experience is a gift that each of you has been blessed with, which allows you to express your creative powers in unlimited ways. There are many levels of experience in your dimension, that range from fear to love, pain to joy, and every other aspect of the earth's limitless energy.
When you believe that what you create in your life is all there is to this experience, you ignore the responsibility you undertake as creators, healers and transformers of the earth and its ascension. This responsibility is written in your soul contract, where you have agreed to use your gifts to heal and ascend on a universal level.
Your soul contract includes the responsibility to work with the energies you have brought with you, using the gifts you have been blessed with. Their use expands beyond your own healing work, they are to be expanded into their highest possible expression in the third dimension, which happens when you are aware of the responsibility of multi-dimensional healing you have agreed to.
You lead two lives, and each has a dimension of responsibility. On an individual level, you are on your own healing journey in your soul's experience of the third dimension. But as healers and teachers, you are on a multi-dimensional healing path, an agreement to participate in transformation and ascension on a universal level. All of your work extends beyond the third dimension, as you are ascending humanity's place in the Universe.
If you are empathic you feel the energies of others and know their pain, which can be so strong that you feel you must shield yourself from it so that it does not interfere with your own energies. But you feel this energy because it is also within the earth's matrix and your responsibility is to bring the light of higher dimensions to transform it into joy.
As healers you help heal energetic imbalances and traumas. Those who come to you for healing are also awakening you to the awareness that these energies also need to be healed within the earth's matrix. Send the energy of each healing to the earth's energetic matrix, which expands your transformation work and makes it available to all of humanity.
Each of you is a divine messenger of Source and your presence on earth at this time evokes your energetic healing which is also the earth's. This is your responsibility as multi-dimensional healers, as messengers of the divine heritage you all share.
Do not get stuck in the pain or trauma, it is merely an opening for transformation, a reminder to you of your role in the ascension process. Stay within your stillness, and claim your dominion over lower dimensional energies as one who is responsible for their transformation.
As keepers of the divine flame for humanity, you can transcend any experience, heal any trauma and manifest the earth's highest potential. This is your mission as multi-dimensional emissaries of light and truth. Heaven on earth arrives through the work that you do, with each energy you transmute and every level of healing you complete.
Know that we are all healers, mentors, and teachers, while also each being clients, patients, and students. In other words, we're all in this together. Just because your business card doesn't say "healer" or "teacher", just because you don't have clients, patients, or students, doesn't mean you aren't doing essential healing work. If you are here on Earth at this time, hearing the call of your Higher Self, seeking expansion and growth, you are right on track. Be encouraged by that—just by being here and being who you are you are doing important work.
Don't assume someone isn't 'doing their part' because you can't see what it is. And by the same token, don't feel like you aren't doing what you came here to do because your way doesn't match what others think is important or doesn't fit their definition of healing. Only you can know what makes your heart sing. Only you can know what inspires you to action. Trust your own knowing, your own path, and your own expression.
12.20.2009
Feel What You Feel
Sometimes, in our search for our Higher Selves, for ascension, for increased vibration, even bliss, we tend to forget that Spirit expresses itself through us, the human being birthed into physical reality on planet Earth. Sometimes we don't honor that human self so much, but instead attempt to transcend it into what we think of as something grander, holier, or more profound.
And that's where we get off track. We did not come here to transcend our humanness. We came here to be the human being that we chose to be, in every moment of every day. We came here to take Human to a new level of experience and discovery. To raise humanity to new levels, yes, but not to transcend human.
That concept is highlighted in this recent message from Story Waters at Evolving Truth.
Over the eons of time that the race of Man has been developing, we've experienced fighting with each other, we've experienced hatred, we've experienced lack, we've experienced uncounted numbers of atrocities that we've inflicted, one upon the other. There is no end to the dark side of mankind, of this we are well aware. So aware of it in fact, that we now try to pretend it doesn't exist.
Through what we think of as compassion we try to keep each other from experiencing what we think of as negative behavior, behavior that comes from 'the dark side.' Did you know that that actually isn't the most effective expression of compassion? A deeper expression of compassion is allowing others—and ourselves—to actually express the emotions that are there to be expressed. Emotions that, as a race, we have kept under wraps for thousands of years.
The time of burying our collective heads in the sand is over. It's time now to allow each other—including ourselves—to feel what we feel, and to stop pretending that we don't. To stop hiding from our feelings. Those feelings are what make Human Being what it is. It's time now for us to allow each other the freedom to feel how we feel and to express those feelings.
Kinda scary if you think about it, isn't it? to think about what might happen if we each allowed each other to actually feel, to actually connect with, to express, emotions that we've been hiding from for so long. At the game of hide and seek from our emotions we have no equal! But the way to our freedom as a race of beings doesn't come from hiding. It comes from seeking, from expressing, and finally, from accepting. It comes from being Who We Really Are, in all our upset—and in all our joy. Because sometimes it isn't just the negative emotions we hide from, it's the wonderful and loving emotions as well.
There's an interesting phenomenon that happens once a feeling has been experienced in all its richness, a magical thing that you might not be aware of. When an emotion is fully experienced, fully expressed, that emotion doesn't just go away, it becomes transmuted. Changed. No longer is it hiding in the deep recesses of our being pressing for release, causing havoc with our psyche because we won't acknowledge it. Feeling and expressing emotions is an important part of healing, and important part of being.
This is it, my friends. This is the lifetime where we get to experience, and eventaully accept, fully and completely, who we are and who we've been, so that who we are becoming is free to actually be. As long as emotions are roiling under the surface, unexpressed and unaccepted, we aren't free at all. As you are well aware, freedom doesn't come from without, it comes from within. And it starts with feeling what we feel and no longer pretending that we don't.
And that's where we get off track. We did not come here to transcend our humanness. We came here to be the human being that we chose to be, in every moment of every day. We came here to take Human to a new level of experience and discovery. To raise humanity to new levels, yes, but not to transcend human.
That concept is highlighted in this recent message from Story Waters at Evolving Truth.
The significance of becoming aware on all levels of what you are feeling cannot be overstated. What you seek, no matter what terms you may choose to express it in, is at its core a state of Self realization.This ascension, this raise in global vibration, isn't about finding Spirit and leaving to go experience Nirvana. We can do that instantly once we're dead! This ascension is about BE-ing the very human that we are: honoring it, loving it, appreciating it, and BE-ing that human. Which also means honoring, loving, and appreciating all other humans too, whether we agree with them or not. It's about discovering the truth about who we are, even when that truth is painful. It's about feeling what we feel and not pretending that we don't—which is something that we, as a race, have become very good at.
Whilst your realization may be your unity with all life, with All That Is, it is still a realization that births through the experience of You, and you are an experience of Self. You cannot take You out of the equation. You can not escape your Self and you do not need to. All that you seek is within You.
Over the eons of time that the race of Man has been developing, we've experienced fighting with each other, we've experienced hatred, we've experienced lack, we've experienced uncounted numbers of atrocities that we've inflicted, one upon the other. There is no end to the dark side of mankind, of this we are well aware. So aware of it in fact, that we now try to pretend it doesn't exist.
Through what we think of as compassion we try to keep each other from experiencing what we think of as negative behavior, behavior that comes from 'the dark side.' Did you know that that actually isn't the most effective expression of compassion? A deeper expression of compassion is allowing others—and ourselves—to actually express the emotions that are there to be expressed. Emotions that, as a race, we have kept under wraps for thousands of years.
The time of burying our collective heads in the sand is over. It's time now to allow each other—including ourselves—to feel what we feel, and to stop pretending that we don't. To stop hiding from our feelings. Those feelings are what make Human Being what it is. It's time now for us to allow each other the freedom to feel how we feel and to express those feelings.
Kinda scary if you think about it, isn't it? to think about what might happen if we each allowed each other to actually feel, to actually connect with, to express, emotions that we've been hiding from for so long. At the game of hide and seek from our emotions we have no equal! But the way to our freedom as a race of beings doesn't come from hiding. It comes from seeking, from expressing, and finally, from accepting. It comes from being Who We Really Are, in all our upset—and in all our joy. Because sometimes it isn't just the negative emotions we hide from, it's the wonderful and loving emotions as well.
There's an interesting phenomenon that happens once a feeling has been experienced in all its richness, a magical thing that you might not be aware of. When an emotion is fully experienced, fully expressed, that emotion doesn't just go away, it becomes transmuted. Changed. No longer is it hiding in the deep recesses of our being pressing for release, causing havoc with our psyche because we won't acknowledge it. Feeling and expressing emotions is an important part of healing, and important part of being.
This is it, my friends. This is the lifetime where we get to experience, and eventaully accept, fully and completely, who we are and who we've been, so that who we are becoming is free to actually be. As long as emotions are roiling under the surface, unexpressed and unaccepted, we aren't free at all. As you are well aware, freedom doesn't come from without, it comes from within. And it starts with feeling what we feel and no longer pretending that we don't.
12.18.2009
Expect Your Dreams to Come True
Today's message comes via our friend Maja at The Smiling Soul. Thanks for your wonderful and inspirational messages Maja!
Instead, continue to hold in your heart the knowing that all which you seek is being made manifest. Feel it as a knowing, as a done deal, and steadfastly refuse to allow yourself to slip back into the 'reality' that greets your human eyes in any moment in time. That moment is based on your past thoughts and beliefs—what you are building with your current thoughts and beliefs is your future. That future is closer than you think, far closer. But don't hold it out in your future, feel it in your Now. Lose yourself in the feeling of what it is like to live in the reality of that which you want. Remember to feel your way into a new world vision as well!
Refrain from trying to figure out how it's all going to happen. Simply luxuriate in the feel of having what you want, and allow the universe to fulfill those desires. Follow your impulses, intuitions, and inspirations, as tiny and fleeting as they might be. Who knows what you might set into motion with a simple smile!
Expect your every need to be met, expect the answer to every problem, expect abundance on every level, expect to grow spiritually. You are not living by human laws. Expect miracles and see them take place. Hold ever before you the thought of prosperity and abundance, and know that doing so sets in motion forces that will bring it into being.When Eileen Caddy says "You are not living by human laws" she's referring to the 4D/5D reality that we are creating. We live in that new reality when we focus outside of what we think of as reality. So when you happen to notice that that which you expect has not yet manifested, that is not the time to switch back into 3D thinking .. "I can't, it won't, it hasn't, when will it come, why has it not?!"
~Eileen Caddy
Instead, continue to hold in your heart the knowing that all which you seek is being made manifest. Feel it as a knowing, as a done deal, and steadfastly refuse to allow yourself to slip back into the 'reality' that greets your human eyes in any moment in time. That moment is based on your past thoughts and beliefs—what you are building with your current thoughts and beliefs is your future. That future is closer than you think, far closer. But don't hold it out in your future, feel it in your Now. Lose yourself in the feeling of what it is like to live in the reality of that which you want. Remember to feel your way into a new world vision as well!
Refrain from trying to figure out how it's all going to happen. Simply luxuriate in the feel of having what you want, and allow the universe to fulfill those desires. Follow your impulses, intuitions, and inspirations, as tiny and fleeting as they might be. Who knows what you might set into motion with a simple smile!
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