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Blog entry
16 May 2012 - 6:08pm
Okay, so I must be in a very happy, talkative mood today....but I just have one more thing to say because I have been noticing a theme today.
A couple of days ago, I know there were some posts about protecting the site from ill words etc. I didn't partake in the discussions because I was dealing with my own issues. But today I have noticed that it has changed from the site to people. Why is everyone attacking one another?
A couple of days ago, I too did the same thing! I heard that the 15th was going to be a powerful day, and it was! I also heard that we are going through a lot of clearing issues in our emotional and personal life to prepare for the eclipse on the 20th! So this strange energy that's out there, maybe around a few more days!
So for me personally, I am going to try and think before I speak! Ask the question, do I really mean this? Or is there something else I need to address? If its something else, then let it go if you can. If we do say something hurtful, maybe we can take it as a personal feeling of that person, but not take it personal!
Also, because I'm in a good happy mood-I give you the invitation to attack me! Say anything you would like to me so that you can get through those clearing blocks and feel better! Because I will not take them personal!! (so bring it on)
Much love to everyone! And I hope everyone has a better day then it has been! :)
And here is an instant flashback to the 80's!
Just shake it off!
Blog entry
16 May 2012 - 8:07am
Written by Me
posted Jan 8 2011
Hi friends.
I thought I would share something I feel is very important to all of us, personally, in a time when there are sooo
many earth changes, energy shifts, emotional and physical challenges brought on by the last two mentioned.
Just to name a couple of things that are affecting everyone.
And, add to that the climatic conditions causing widespread havoc and disaster in different areas of the world.
Some caused by snow, some caused by extensive rain flooding cities and towns here in Australia.
In my home State of Qld. to be exact.
It is very easy dear friends to become overwhelmed by all of this as we get bombarded by daily news around the
world of something or another that is either changing, getting destroyed, nature suffering because of chemicals,
unexplained beachings of sea mammals, thousands of birds falling from the skies to their death, poverty increasing,
well, you know it all by now. Frustration can easily rule our lives if we allow it to.
After pondering all of this as I rest on my bed with my two little ones snoring gently beside me,
I thought hard and long about what can we do about all of this. I looked around my house, I looked at one of my
babies who suffers from skin conditions, and I looked at my swollen red legs thinking that I had overdone it by
not putting them up enough during the day. I thought about how I could have bought the Alloveen special
shampoo for my little Charlie earlier than today so that his rash could have gotten better sooner. I had been
giving him the occasional cortisone tablet from the Vet . The Alloveen had worked wonders tonight - his rash
had subsided and he was sleeping peacefully without licking his paws a lot. I apologized profusely to him for
not buying it sooner calling myself a bad mother.
I know that I am not really, but I was so "choked up" about all the suffering going on around me just a few hours
drive away. Devastation like we have never known before. I thought to myself " now people here will know, just a little,
what the people in third world countries cop a lot of their lives, except they don't get the help that us westerners do."
They most certainly do not get the immediate aid that we do, nor the cash handouts or food drops and clean water
delivered. A lot of human suffering happens for example in Africa on a regular basis, but the world is so used to it
that the Western countries hardly bat an eyelid.
This brings me back to why I am writing this blog. What came to me this evening is this :
" The best that we can do for the world is to take care of ourselves, our famiies, our own communities
if we can, and the world we have created for ourselves."
Creating a loving, caring, and cherished environment where we live is important to our own health, happiness and
well-being. Taking care of our own patch, including our beautiful nature of course, is one thing that we can have
control over. Overwhelm can take over if we start thinking "how on earth can we help all of those people who need help."
If we have control over our own lives, this forms a sound base for our thoughts and our emotions to become stabilized.
Our energies are put to creating the world that we want to see and have for not only us, but our future generations as well.
The earth is a big planet and every square inch of her is important. Your little patch of garden is very important to mother
earth because she can feel every bit of love that you put into it. And your house too, because your home and what
energies you put into it is anchored into mother earth as well.
Every bit of tender loving care is felt by our mother earth.
So I guess the main point I am making with this blog is to share that I think as long as we take care of us, our family
including animals, and our own environment is going a long way in helping to balance the energies of earth.
We also feel that we can control something in our lives as it is not possible to change the whole world at once.
We nurture us, therefore we nurture mother earth. We nurture our gardens, therefore we nurture mother earth.
We nurture our children, therefore we nurture our future generations. We are in control of ourselves and our own
environment - what is more important than that?
~~~~~~~~~~~** Shared with Love, Tara **~~~~~~~~~~~
Blog entry
15 May 2012 - 7:27pm
“Fear less, hope more; Eat less, chew more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Love more, and all good things will be yours”
Swedish Proverb
Blog entry
15 May 2012 - 6:43pm
I once read an article in "Body, Mind, Spirit Guide" that suggested that when we are feeling badly, we should think about three things that we were blessed with during that particular day, or in other words, count our blessings. We could also do this each night before we fall asleep. The three things that we think of can be anything from how we helped someone or how someone helped us, something good that happened during the day, or simply being grateful for having a roof over our head, a warm bed to sleep in, food in our stomach, clothing to clothe our body, transportation, etc.
Whenever I do this, I find that I have a hard time limiting my list to only three things. I end up with a long list of things that I have to be grateful for. I have learned that I am truly blessed with a lot in my life.
I have found that if I make it a practice to do this on a daily basis, it helps quite a bit. For one, it lifts my spirits, because it transforms my thinking away from the negative to the positive. Secondly, it changes my focus on what I lack to focusing on the abundance that I already have to be thankful for in my life. It makes me feel more thankful for even the seemingly "small" things in life. And lastly, it makes me realize that even if I am feeling badly, things aren't really that bad in my life. I have a lot to be happy and thankful for.
What three things do you have to be thankful for today?
Copyright 2012, http://www.beyond3dbooks.com/counting_our_blessings (the website link that this material came from)
Blog entry
15 May 2012 - 1:15am
May 14, 2012
Missing Our Old Habits
Enduring Discomfort
by Madisyn Taylor
Sometimes when we break a habit or addiction we
find ourselves missing it like a dear friend.
Whenever we make the effort to free ourselves of an addiction or a habit we no longer need, we are
often surprised to find ourselves missing the old pattern as we would a familiar friend.
This sounds counterintuitive, because we think we should instinctively gravitate toward that which is good
for us. And yet, it makes a lot of sense when you consider that we humans are creatures of habit.
This is why we gravitate to people and places—and patterns of behavior--that make us feel comfortable.
Therefore, many of the habits we form are not conscious and are based instead on learned behavior from
role models who were not always making the healthiest decisions.
Most addictions begin as a way of avoiding feelings that are extremely uncomfortable, so it makes sense
that stopping the addiction means, for a time, a fair amount of discomfort. The same, of course, is true of
habits that we have developed over time that we are ready to release. Just knowing that this is hard, and
having compassion for ourselves as we work through this process, can help us to stay the course when we
feel the urge to backtrack. It’s also helpful to remember that in time we will establish new, healthier patterns,
and the yearning for the old ones will disappear. Eventually, we will instinctively reach for things that are good
for us, and the longing for positive change may form the basis of a new habit.
The only way to get to this new place is to endure a time of difficulty, which is a challenge we can confidently
handle if we remember that it will lead to the change we seek in our lives. Our bodies, hearts, and minds
always need time to adjust to a new way of doing things, but they will adapt, and even become our allies,
if we remain true to our vision of a new way.
http://www.dailyom.com/articles/2012/33389.html
Love and Light ~
Blog entry
14 May 2012 - 1:20pm
Well, upon reflection, i now realise that i have been Given a
very nice 'Brucie bonus', by being directed here, from the
ExtraTerrestrials website...
For i have been suspended by them, for speaking Truth...
Fortunately, it has always been easy for me to Accept & Let-
go...
So i am able to join you here without carrying unnecessary
'baggage'.
I am now aware that this enforced change, is akin to being
ejected from the confines of a puddle, only to find one's self
residing within an Ocean...
As Lightworkers.org has a membership of ten times greater than
ExtraTerrestrials.
I shall do my utmost to swim Peacefully, within the Ocean, i
am now residing within...
And to raise my literary standards, in order to more easily
fit into this Higher school of Learning.
Many thanks for reading. :-)
Blog entry
14 May 2012 - 12:08am
I wrote this story the day before my spontaneous spiritual awakening.
I woke up this morning with the message to share this story here in LW.
Maybe it will help someone let go of an issue that no longer serves their highest good.
To all mothers out there,Happy Mother's Day!
This includes our beloved Mother Earth!!!
To both my moms, Happy Mother's Day.
I love you both so much.
Sharing in Light and Love
: )
marie
When I Was 37 I Found Out I Was Adopted.
Posted August 24th, 2011 at 5:06PM
The year was 2001.
Before the attacks, when things were different.
My mother was 85 at the time and lived with me and my now ex-husband and our two kids.
She was not feeling well that day, had what seemed to be the flu, and I went to check in on her before bedtime.
She lived in the garage apartment and I will always remember her delicate smell.
You know when you walk into a place and your sense of smell identifies that person?
After she died that June, I would often go into her apartment and sit there, still smelling her Channel # 5 perfume, wishing I could hear her voice one more time.
On that evening, as I went to check on her, she was laying on her bed and she turned to me and said...
" The baby had our eyes, I couldn't let the dark nurse take her."
I thought to myself my mom had finally lost it.
She had a bit of dementia and sometimes would say strange things.
Maybe she had been watching her "telenovelas",(Spanish soap operas), and she was mixing real life with tv life. "What are you talking about mom?"
It was then she turned to me and with clarity in her eyes said, "The baby was you."
WHAT???WHAT???WHAT??? My brain wigged out. WHAT??????
My world turned upside down, inside out, it crashed.
"You were a baby left at the hospital, your birthmother was 15, maybe 16, and she left for Europe the day after you were born."
I freaked out and wanted to know everything but she couldn't answer anymore.
Maybe wouldn't answer anymore.
I ran as fast as I could and called my uncle, Tio Claudio, in Argentina.
He was 81 at the time.
"Tio!!!" I screamed into the phone, " Mom says I was a baby left at the hospital!!"
"What? What did she say?"he screamed back.
"She says I was a baby left in the hospital and my birthmother was 15 or 16 and she went back to Europe the day after I was born!, is this true?"
His answer I will never forget... "Let me get back to you on that!" he said.
And then he hung up.
I had my answer.
I don't remember much that night, except my husband saying that being adopted did not change who I was. I will always be thankful to him for his kindness and support and understanding.
He is a good man and a great father to my babies.
The next day I spoke to my godmother.
She confirmed what I had been told.
I asked her why hadn't anyone told me?
Her answer was simply that they had forgotten, once I came to the family I was theirs.
Now the truth is this...I never felt I was in the right place.
I never felt connected to them.
I felt their love and I loved them and knew they loved me, but it was like I was a round peg in a square hole.As a child I was so different.
As a teenager I always felt so alone.
Really up until that day I never felt I belonged anywhere, I felt constantly lost, searching for I don't know what.
It all made sense that day.
I wasn't damaged and unable to feel connected to them, the biological connection was not there and somehow I always knew...
I went to Argentina after my mom died that June to scatter her ashes, where my dad's had been scattered when he died in 1970, and I was able to find out more things.
Cool amazing things about my birth.
Apparently my mom and dad had my brother 8 years before me and were unable to conceive.
My mom went to my brother's pediatrician and told him she wanted a baby girl with hazel eyes.
Like theirs.
The pediatrician said a girl would be no problem, but the color of eyes was more difficult.
He doubted it would happen.
I guess the majority of Argentinians have dark eyes?
Forty seven years ago, in Argentina, my mother, an extremely devout Catholic, told the pediatrician that yes it would happen.
She then went home and started putting pillows under her clothes!!!!
Basking in the beauty and love that the world gives expectant mothers as they start to show their pregnancy, she added pillows and waited.
And when she was nine months full of pillows, the pediatrician got a call from a hospital that a baby had been born and left at hospital by her birthmother.
I was born a month early, in winter, and my birthmother was 15, maybe 16.
I was a low birth baby but healthy otherwise.
No body knew what they were going to do with me...but the pediatrician saw me and he knew.
He knew to get them.
You see my eyes matched my mom and dad's perfectly.
Exactly.
Mom and dad came, saw me, my mom took off her pregnancy pillows and they took me home.
The doctor forged my birth certificate.
It sounds amazing, I must be making this up.
But I am not.
When I went to Argentina that June, I met the doctor.
Sat across from him.
He told me the story.
He also told me that when he got to the hospital to check me, my birthmother had left.
Went back to Europe.
He told me my birthday was not what I had been told all my life.
He did not know my birth day.
That is the date he wrote on it because that is the day they took me home.
The day my life started.
He told me shortly after my birth the hospital had a fire, and even if there had been any records of my birthfamily, they were destroyed.
He doubted there was anything though, he filed the original birth certificate with the courts.
For years he said he wrote letters to my mom after we moved to the US.
He said he was fascinated with the story of me, it made no sense to him, a man of science.
"How did she know?", he asked me.
How incredibly blessed am I?
I am the luckiest person I know.
Not only was I born a month early, in the sixties in a third world country, to a 15/16 year old birthmother, but I was born into a family that took care of me.
Loved me.
I am healthy.
My dad went to the store and bought a heater.
They kept me in my room with the heater on at all times.
They would wear masks so I wouldn't be sick.
If the sun was out they would lay me in the sun on the upstairs patio.
My family was able to bring me to this amazing country, where I got a college degree, and am living a full,full life.
I have two incredible kids.
You know...that day when I found out it wasn't a telenovela, I had a choice.
Two roads, like the letter Y.
I could chose to feel like I wasn't good enough for my birthmother.
My birthfamily.
I was Discarted.Unwanted.Unloved. Damaged. Thrown away. Abandoned.Bad. Worthless.All horrible words.
Or i could chose to be Blessed.Lucky. Loved by two families.Having two mothers.Having two fathers.Being doubly loved. All positive words.
I chose the positive road.
The one that says, it doesn't matter the circumstances of your birth.
Your birth is your birth.
Your life is what happens afterward.
I chose to live my life, and be the best I can be with my actions,try to do no harm, irregardless of who placed me on the starting line.
Thank you to my birthmother, maybe birthfather too?.
I could never have done what you did.
I could not have given my son or daughter to anyone.
I am too selfish I think.( They are my babies. Mine.)
Maybe too weak.
But you! You did what was best for me and your love for me gave me an amazing new life.
I love you.
And thank you mom and dad, you manifested me with your faith, into your lives.
You gave me amazing opportunities.
I love you.
So that is the story of my adoption.
If it helps one person pick the road I picked, then the pain and loneliness of 37 years,of not fitting in, is more than worth it.
You are not your birth, you are your life,and how you live it.
I think my Creator has big plans for me in this life.
I hope I can make all my parents proud.
Thank you for reading.
Blog entry
13 May 2012 - 2:57pm
Rock Bottom.
When you have reached rock bottom
And you`re at an ‘all time’ low
When friends have all deserted you
And there`s just no place to go.
When the whisky bottle in your hand
Not longer takes the pain
Your will to live has lost the fight
And wont come back again.
When loneliness entwines your soul
And bitter thoughts run free
When tears no longer fill your eyes
And you curse sweet memories.
When you sink deeper in the mire
And the devil hears the call
When it seems there`s only one way out
And that`s to end it all.
It`s then that you turn to Jesus,
And you offer Him your soul,
And you say “Please save this wretched life,
Dear God, please make me whole.”
And you`ll feel His arms embrace you,
And His warmth come flowing in,
He will lift you from the darkest depths
And pardon you your sin.
Geoffrey Kennell©
Teaching
13 May 2012 - 11:06am
The heart rises to join with its Beloved,
No longer separate, it has found its way home.
THE HEART'S JOURNEY
Julie Redstone
http://www.lightomega.org
Let Thy wish become my desire, let Thy will become my deed;
let Thy word become my speech, Beloved,
and let Thy love become my creed.
Let my plant bring forth Thy flowers, let my fruits produce Thy seed.
Let my heart become Thy lute, Beloved,
and my body Thy flute of reed.
A Sufi Song
Beloved Ones, the heart's journey is one that can be taken by anyone at anytime of life, day or night, in the morning or evening of life, in the heights of success or in the depths of emptiness - the heart can be turned to as the foundation for a new beginning and a new way of life, no matter what has taken place before. For love is not a matter of having to learn something that one does not know. It is a matter of remembering something that has been covered over or forgotten.
Remembrance, more than anything else, depends upon desire - upon wanting to discover the hidden depths of one's being and inner connection with the Divine so that it becomes clear, and bright, and tangible - so that it becomes as real as the most intimate part of oneself. Often, the connection to the deeper strata of love has become buried in worries, or sorrow, or in concerns for the future or the needs of the present. Then, it feels as if there is no time for love, no room for love, and that one must wait before involving oneself more in the inner life.
This beloveds, is an illusion. For there is no separation between the inner life and the outer life of the kind that was once thought solid and clear. What happens outwardly has everything to do with what is maintained inwardly, and what creates a surrounding environment that is filled with grace and blessing is the inner state of being ready to receive grace and blessing, of turning toward the light and of opening the heart with gratitude for what will come. Without this, there are only the residues of the struggle for survival. There is only the pain of feeling alone in the world, having only oneself to count on. Without this, there is the continuing sense of separation that has fueled the alienation and sense of isolation of modern man.
But this is no longer necessary, Beloved Ones. For a veil is being lifted from the collective eyes and heart of humanity so that what seemed entirely real and necessary before, no longer seems so, and what seemed vaporous and unreal before, suddenly moves into the realm of possibility. The removal of this veil is a function of the earth's transition into greater light. And, indeed, the light that is infusing the very cells of the Earth's physical body is changing all things that are embodied as well as the consciousness that they hold. For this reason, it is a time of awakening, a time when more can happen, even for those who feel they have left their hearts behind - even for those who feel their hearts have dried up due to pain and circumstance. This is because the heart's capacity to respond to new hope is always present. However buried it may be, however much darkness may still remain, it is only the willingness to contain more light that is needed in order that more light be present. And with greater light, the heart can open again like a flower that has been closed for a period of time due to conditions of lack of light, that suddenly bursts into bloom.
Even a small prayer that the heart be opened can be a sufficient beginning to allow the inflow to begin. Even the smallest of breaths, asking that love fill the heart, can begin the stream of energy that will altogether remove the hardened places of inner being. It is a matter of knowing that it can be so. It is a matter of willing it to be so. It is a matter of trusting that it is so.
The current of light that is everpresent at this time, brings with it a quality of upliftment that has not been present before. It brings with it the intuitive knowledge that there is hope for overcoming the limitations of darkness and despair that has not been possible before. And with this new hope and upliftment comes a need to make a choice regarding the willingness to trust once again, to come alive once again, to let love and life flow so that the entire psycho-physical organism can be restored to its essential grace and purity. Some may still feel that this is not possible, given all that has gone before. But the light that is here and is true can heal all that is wounded, can bind up all that is broken, and can restore the heart of innocence to those who seek such restoration.
In place of cynicism, let new hope be present. In place of doubt, let the willingness to trust, however tentative, be present. And in the place of the belief in one's own incapacity to do more, feel more, grow more, believe more - let it be known that the possibility for growth is never ending. For life and growth are perpetual, no matter what choices one makes. And even if there is a choice in the present to remain closed and to remain self--protective in order to decrease the possibility of disappointment, even then life and growth will flourish, and will make out of the present decision, something that can give rise to new possibilities.
For this is the nature of hope, Beloved Ones. It is not based on how we feel or choose to feel. It is based on the nature of life itself and on the current that moves through life. It is Life that creates hope, and that even out of cynicsm, doubt, despair, or suffering, can make all things new.
Blog entry
12 May 2012 - 7:59am
A thousand little deaths take us with every passing season,
Like every Autumn, the leaves come off our branches, the water comes out, the damn slowly giving way,
Pure rage is reserved for the righteous, for the cause of compassion,
Least our anger consume the light of life within us, and those around us too,
Sadness likewise, though both can fuel the passions,
Forgetting is really remembering, child like simple joys, the flame within, taste, colour, sound, movement, words, people, love,
hidden beneath,
also hidden layers of greif,
and deeper and closer to the child, hidden innocent passions falsely named sin,
Which we damn, and deny to stop more greif getting in,
When life topples our balance, a relentless reminder of our hidden layers, nothing but pure belief, pure life, ourselves can restore what is lost,
Only the lifeforce within us can shake off the man, and the tired bitter eyes,
A circle complete, without form, to which we all slowly spiral home,
A single path, a thousand little deaths under the relentless rain of life, till we reach the mother of creation, Ma’at, an open space filled with all possibility, all thought, like the night sky is filled with our dreams –
to become once again innocent, undefined, pure, one with the night sky, and all things, wings unfurled, arms wide open.
Story
11 May 2012 - 8:12am
Living Joy and Harmony - a beautiful message from The Crystal Team channelled through Lindsay
"Living in joy and harmony is the simple act of breathing in the joy of life, of this adventure, of this experience that your soul decided upon at this exciting time here on this Earth right now.
Joy of life, joy of seeing the simple yet complex beauty of nature, of seeing a sunset or sunrise, of seeing those beautiful colours reach out across the sky and the earth, joy of seeing the sun sparkle on the water, joy of seeing children laughing, joy of being with your family and friends, the joy of shared experiences in this spiritual existence.
The joy of walking on a beach and leaving your footprints in the sand, the joy of a hug with a loved one or a friend, joy of eating fruit and vegetables straight from the garden, joy of hearing the birds sing and seeing them swoop and fly with their own joy. Joy of hearing music and letting its sounds wash over you, cleansing inspiring, relaxing or uplifting you. Joy of feeling the warmth of the sun on your face, of sitting and taking in the breathtaking beauty that nature has produced for your enjoyment.
Can you see how many of these simple joyful experiences are linked to your beautiful planet, your home, your shelter and your provider? For when you work in harmony, when you appreciate the Divine Plan, the order of life, the bounty that Mother Earth has provided for you, when your energies link into the powerful energies of Mother Earth – how can you not feel joy at this wonderment, this amazing cycle of life, this creativity?
So link in to these wonderful energies and breathe in the very essence of joy and feel a deep gratitude for all that is available to you. Share with your friends, your family, your loved ones, the marvel that IS and aspire to live your life in joy and harmony with all that is.
With our great joy and love… The crystal Team"
Have a Joy-filled day, with love and blessings from
Lindsay and The Crystal Team
www.lindsayball.co.uk
Blog entry
11 May 2012 - 2:35am
~**~ In The World And In Ourselves ~**~
~**~ Feeling Fed Up With Humanity ~**~
From time to time, we may all feel fed up with humanity, whether it's from learning about what's going on around
the world, or what’s going on next door. There are always situations that leave us feeling as if people are simply
not capable of behaving in a way that is coming from a place of awareness. Often it seems as if people are actually
geared to handle things in the worst possible way, repeatedly. At the same time, none of us wants to linger in a
judgmental mood about our own species. As a result, we might tend to repress the feelings coming up as we
take in the news from the world and the neighborhood.
It is natural to feel let down and disappointed when we see our fellow humans behaving in ways that are greedy,
selfish, violent, or uncaring, but there are also ways to process that disappointment without sinking into despondency.
As with any emotional response, we honor our feelings by feeling them fully, without judging or acting on them.
Once we've done that—and we may need to do it every day, as part of our daily self-care—we can begin to consider
ways that we might help the situation in which humanity finds itself.
As always, we start with ourselves, utilizing our awareness of the failings of others to renew our own commitment
to be more conscious human beings. We are all capable of the best and the worst that humanity has to offer, and
remembering this keeps us in check, as well as allowing us to find compassion for others. We may find ourselves
feeling compelled to serve people who are suffering injustices at the hands of other people, or we may begin to speak
out when we see something that we don’t think is right. Whatever the case, the only thing we can do is pledge to serve
the best, rather than the worst, of what humanity has to offer, both in the world, and in ourselves.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~* )O( * )O( * )O( *~~~~~~~~~~~~~
http://www.dailyom.com/articles/2008/13750.html
Story
10 May 2012 - 7:51pm
YOU Have a RESPONSIBILITY
Message from Ascended Master, Lady Nada
Channeled by: Julie Miller
May 10, 2012
A beautiful day it is when opportunity presents itself to speak to all of you through this chosen vessel. Blessings of pure love and delightful light are being bestowed upon each of you reflecting my own pleasure and joy to be with conversing with so many wonderful souls.
Regardless if you are male or female, it is imperative that you know yourself and come into perfect balance with all that you are. This does require you to face any of your resentments and bring them forward and to communicate through prayer and manifestation to the ones who caused you any perceived resentments. Release each one to the universe and free yourself from carrying the burden further, and welcome harmony in its place. Through your prayers and manifestations by working through your Christened Self dear ones you will learn to forgive. Yes, it is imperative to forgive those who have caused harm and more so to forgive yourself. Free yourself from any lingering guilt that the words and actions has had over you for so long. There is no better time than the PRESENT to heal and nurture yourself.
There a good many of you that are striving for altruistic service. Once you have reached the state of altruism then you can continue to fulfill the mission that is uniquely yours. I see some are wondering how do they know they are being altruistic. The answer dear ones is quite simple, is when you are no longer aware of the CHOICE of being selfless. I will explain further; I am implying that the accepted progression of your life is continuously selecting the love of God, the service of God incarnate. Part of what I am suggesting here is to be aware of yourself, of what gives you pleasure, learn what are your rights and partialities; then make a conscious choice to relinquish that part of yourself as a step on the path of altruism which at some point is required to be chosen. Dear ones, as soon as you have reached a happy and harmonious place within your balanced mind, body and spirit, you are no longer aware of selecting among the Self, your Real Self, and your forgotten Non-Self.
Dear ones when you are able to work within your Christened Self, you then are fully functioning automatically as the hands, heart and head of your guides and of the many teachers who visit you to help you along your journey when there is a need of their service. When they come to you dear ones, they are supplying you with their energy, their love and they are bringing forth God’s love to guide each of you into the transformation of your ultimate perfection. The cultivation of yourself into mastering all your characteristics is a masterpiece dear ones, quite similar to when you nurture and care for a beloved flower or plant into full maturity – it blooms and responds to your care and love. You also will respond positively to your own love when you learn to nurture yourself with care and compassion.
I do see so many dear souls reaching and yearning for something more even though at this time they do not quite know what it is they are seeking. There is a restlessness about these dear souls and they are able to feel the strain of day-to-day living becoming increased and harder to operate at a balanced level without losing their tempers. If you are one of these dear souls, this is a good time to be very keen to your feelings and learn to control your emotional self and recognizing the importance of observing every thought and every reaction that you have. What is then required dear ones is for you to think about what caused those thoughts that caused an impulsive and unwise reaction. It is important when you are thinking about why you reacted a particular way because a reaction is normally an automatic response to what is going around you.
Dear ones each of you are responsible for ALL of your reactions and actions regardless of the circumstances that you have found yourself in. Once you step in to participate, you become responsible for your actions and reactions. All feelings and emotions that arise as a reaction are yours dear ones. Realize dear ones what you feel, no matter of what you think has caused them to exist is really Self-Made. No matter if what you are feeling is loneliness, frustration, boredom, doubt, happiness, love, satisfaction and there is more to add – UNDERSTAND that you produced these feelings and in addition you produced the circumstances that would initiate you to meet any emotional challenges. Dear ones you really need to end blaming others for the status of your emotional and mental states. Responsibility is required for what you feel, and for what you do especially during the acceleration of any emotional excitement that is done without thinking prior. When you are able to remain calm under these kinds of circumstances, and then allow for mindful and thoughtful comprehension of the complete situation, then you are able to deter from any additional grief for yourself and whoever else is involved. I suggest to you dear ones, when you are confronted with a situation that has the potential of triggering anger and frustration, try stepping back and question yourself about why you are feeling angry or frustrated. Take a conscious effort to think the situation completely through and discover on your own which part of the situation you are responsible for creating. Understand dear ones, if any circumstance affects you afterwards, regardless if it is a good or bad effect, know then you have truthfully aided to develop the circumstance that quickened the response that you feel from within.
One of the main reasons you remain in the physical realm is so you can learn to be responsible for all things you have developed and created. God does know your heart and what it is you wish. Dear ones, it is time to understand it is the opposing person or adversary that influences and controls the many dear souls who easily give up their personal responsibility. When the opposing person is able to coerce you to give away your personal responsibility, then this person has won. At this point you no longer give thoughts to you actions because you will believe the person who has won will take care of you and protect you. This then can foster into further beliefs that you are no longer required to worry about the state of your world or how your actions or inactions affect all that has participated and those closest to you at times are also affected. And it is at this point dear ones when the opposing person no longer has concerns of you because you have given your Inner-Power to them.
Dear ones in this present day, it is time to be thinking for yourself and being your own person. When you find confusion in front of you all you do dear ones is discover with great effort and honesty why it is you feel confusion. When you take a step back, what you might find yourself doing is looking at unrelated situations that are apparently all connected to all that is you and to what you are feeling. Dear ones you must comprehend that YOU have inside of you ALL the potential to express and create from your Christened Self. This is earned through responsible and loving action on your part. Don’t allow the opposing person to continue keeping you in state of negligence. The longer he or she has this power, the longer it will be to see your Christened Self’s potential. It is unnecessary to follow any one religion or teaching as long as you resonate and find yourself in the words, and wisdom that is being expressed. Inside you dear ones, is all that is required to manifest your Christ Self into your very being. Coming home to this potential and very likely possibility starts with you taking affirmative action on making big changes and choices. Take back the power that you easily gave away at any time during this journey you have been walking. It is your power to take back. Understand what this inner power is and how important it is for your overall spiritual and physical health.
It is okay if others that are part of your social group do not understand your spiritual endeavours, what does matter is that you do. Be respectful of what they do not understand, and love them for their differences. There are still many dear souls who do not accept the idea of Angles or other Divine Spirits as being God’s Messengers or Guides. The messages that are given from these beloved ones, even through me are implements for yourself and for many others to help you gain a broader perception of your conscious wakefulness. Dear ones before we depart today from our conversation; learn to be patient, kind and to forgive those who have ridiculed you. Understand that their unaware state is showing forth in an immature behaviour and all action is noticed by God. You are advised to remain true to who you are. Always remain unassuming in the company of those that do not understand, and love them unconditionally knowing God does love you, and God does love all your brother and sisters equally. Lessons must be learned and some lessons take time to rise from, but eventually all of you will rise and reach the fulfillment of your Divine Soul Mission.
I have COMPLETE faith that each of you will discover and for some re-discover their inner-power and I KNOW you will find a way to reach and to work within your Christ-Self and make this a daily practice. My love for each of you dear ones is always eternal.
I AM Ascended Master, Lady Nada through Julie Miller
Blog entry
10 May 2012 - 2:36pm
As all of us continue to grow and expand at at our own pace eventually we start to understand and grasp who we really are.
I call it being "more than".
Of anything I could have imagined in my life,being here right now conscious of what is happening on Gaia, is so much more than...
More than I thought myself capable of imagining.
And once we start to remember who we are, we start to realize the enormous potential that is within us.
Unlimited potential.
And yes dare I say, power?
Unlimited power.
The power that is within us.
The power to create.
As my expansion continues, I find my self remembering other times when I had power.
And I didn't always use it for good either...
I did some very dark things by abusing the power that I had.
And I also did some very good things with that same power.
But the rememebering of dark times has brought out the fear of letting the power get away from me.
It made me realize I am afraid of being powerful.
Afraid of what I might do.
I have experienced how easily that power can get away from you when you are human...
What if it happens again?
My heart just laughs at me.
Does your heart ever do that to you?
You ask a question and it laughs back,as if saying, no worries,it is taken care of.
My heart knows that this is a fear that I carry with me from many lifetimes...
And my heart knows it will work itself out because there is too much light here now for these issues to continue forth.
Gotta let them go.
Just like everything else I have let go.
Getting easier really.
Becoming a pro at letting go.
And I am ready to let this fear go.
It implies I am not good enough.
Not trustworthy.
All of which is not true.
So I let it go.
And I will continue to remember who I am without the fear of abusing my knowledge.
I will accept who I am and continue to spread the Light.
As we all do.
Have a beautiful day my Light Family.
In Light and Love
Shine on!
: )
marie
Blog entry
10 May 2012 - 12:28pm
Hi everyone!
It was another beautiful sunshiney sort of day today as I went into deep think mode again,
while walking to the shopping centre this morning. The pathway along the main road is
lined with little alcoves of small parks, or nature strips that are full of native Australian trees.
My thoughts went to the many things that we go through as humans and I compared these
to Nature, and especially the trees, as they also have consciousness. Our trials in daily
life, when you think of the interconnectedness of ALL life, could also impact on trees and
perhaps their daily trials as well.
I know this may sound completely silly to anyone who has never communicated with trees
and Nature, but I can assure you, they have a wonderful way of communicating with us
in the same way that we use telepathy with our friends. So, after admiring these gorgeous
gum trees as I continued my relaxed stroll, I tried to imagine what could possibly BE a
trial in the day of the life of a tree! I looked up and smiled at them and could see that a
tree avails itself to all animal and bird life, without conditions. It serves as a home to many
varieties of birds, and then at night to the possums and koalas, if it is a eucalypt gum.
Knowing that trees have beautiful energy, and that includes healing energy, they must also
contain a lot of love. They, like all nature in all forms, come from the same Divine Source
as humans, so perhaps they also contain emotions like compassion, happiness and joy,
sadness, etc. So I could imagine them feeling happy within when birds fly onto their
branches to rest and even share a song or two! And, also share in the mother bird's joy
when her babies hatch and start chirping for their food. I can also imagine trees being
concerned that an old branch might not hold long enough for the baby birds to grow up
and fly off.
These could be just a small number of trials that trees go through. Appreciating them
enormously is our way of saying 'thank-you, I love you' and I am sure they feel it.
Just as I was wondering, on my walk, if trees knew what I was thinking about them, for the
first time on my walk along that path, a gum leaf slowly drifts down and lands on my chest.
I looked up and laughed at the synchronicity. Such a simple act of a leaf falling at that
precise moment..........was pure joy!
Love and Oneness, Tara *~~
Blog entry
10 May 2012 - 5:46am
Hey Dearest Lighty Friends,
Better start praying for humanity, I'm about ready to chuck the biggest hissy fit this earth has ever seen and I'm taking no hostages lol. Right now, I'm trying with all my might to hold myself together - I've just had 'one of those days'.
First, a flat tyre on my car, okay handled that alright. Then Lil Dibs (aka Lil Diablo) my cat, came limping inside, her paw bleeding. Trip to the vet, two stitches and $150 later, she's fine and resting.
Thought I'd bake a quiche, got it all prepared ready to put in the oven - the element has gone on my stove. Great - patience beginning to wear thin at this point in time. Went to answer the phone, stubbed my big toe on the coffee table, split the top just about right off it, blood everywhere - so I'm now hobbling around with a whopping big bandage on my toe - by this time I'm feeling very sorry for myself indeed.
But the pista resistance - would have to be, when I just went to have a shower, to discover I have no hot water - my bloody hot water system just decided to shit itself. FFFFFFFAAAAAARRRRRRCCCCKKKK!!!!!
So consequently, I'm now going to my 'panic room' - my little hidey hole amongst the rafters in the attic - where I can scream and shout and nobody will hear me - I shall be there until I compose myself once again lol. It might be some time - so I had better take some supplies.
Nobody told me there'd be days like these - O well I guess they are sent to just try us.
Much love and happiness to you all - I hope you are all enjoying a better day than I am atm heehee.
Ish )O(
Blog entry
9 May 2012 - 1:49pm
Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want. Margaret Young
Teaching
9 May 2012 - 9:56am
Awareness offers choice; Choice offers the way of return.
LOSS OF ALIGNMENT WITH LIGHT
Julie Redstone
http://www.lightomega.org
It sometimes happens that alignment with light becomes shaky and difficult to maintain, and it is in such circumstances that the energy of darkness gains a foothold within consciousness to draw one even further away from light and God. This movement can be perceived as a 'downward slide' into depression, hopelessness, separation, and a loss of the experience of Divine reality. Its hallmarks are the following sequence:
discouragement>>>self-pity>>>isolation>>>abandonment>>>rejection of God's reality.
The 'downward slide' can be noticed once one has a developed sense of its presence, and once one determines to not allow the insidiousness of self-pity or the sense of isolation to take hold without accompanying awareness.
Discouragement as a feeling is clear. Self-pity, less so. For feelings often seem inevitable, and in the place of physical, emotional, or mental pain, it is often difficult to remember that there is another way that one could feel. Nevertheless, feeling sorry for one's predicament or feeling that such emotions are inevitable can be part of the downward slide into loss of alignment with light.
Abandonment follows next, with the sense that God no longer hears ones prayers or calling out, and that God's love cannot be felt or trusted.
Finally, there is the rejection of God's reality, sometimes as a totality as in a loss of faith, and sometimes in the internal experiential separation which no longer allows one to feel the reality of God, even though it may be remembered.
The determination to not permit the above sequence to take place can be an effective means to counter the pull away from light and Divine truth, and such determination can grow stronger the more one cultivates it and the more one seeks the way of return.
Blog entry
9 May 2012 - 12:04am
by Belinda Burns
17 Apr 2012
Everyone has a creative side; it’s just that most of us don’t nurture it. As children we sing, dance, draw,
and dream of growing up to be a ballerina, a rock star or an artist. But somewhere along the path from
child to adult, we lose that imagination and zest. Weighed down by financial and family obligations,
deadlines and never-ending to-do lists, the joy of being creative is ignored or forgotten altogether.
Creativity makes you feel alive. Without it life can feel, well, boring. Being creative is about spending time
doing what you love, what you feel passionate about. It’s about expressing yourself and giving yourself
time to play and experiment. At the same time, creativity requires focus and, if you’re doing something
that you love, you’ll soon discover ‘flow’ – the experience of being oblivious to time passing, of being
set free from your ego and its worries.
Like meditation, the peace and satisfaction that creativity provides means that you can approach other
more mundane tasks with a fresh perspective. Jobs which once seemed arduous or boring may suddenly
be transformed by the knock-on effects of reawakened creativity, which allows you see unexpected opportunities,
inspiration, and gifts all around you.
1. Make time In an already packed schedule, this can be a challenge. Finding your creative side is a bit like
discovering a cherished possession that you thought you had lost. Set aside one evening a week or an afternoon
on the weekend to plan and embark upon this new journey. Meditating makes you feel rested, relaxed and calm,
and it can help you to connect with your subconscious desires on a deeper level. Or, you may find that your mind
prefers to be distracted with a book, music, knitting, or gardening. It’s amazing what thoughts pop into your head
when you unwind.
2. Take a real holiday - A routine is just one step away from a rut, and if you’re stuck in a rut, it’s hard to get a
sparkly new outlook. You don’t have to go somewhere exotic to feel the benefits of a break from your normal
activities. However, a full week – or at least four days off – significantly reduces stress levels and frees up creativity
and inspiration. If you can only afford a ‘stay-cation’, at least send the kids to visit their grandparents so you can sit
by the local pool and people-watch, or go for a bush-walk, and daydream.
3. Explore Keep a journal, writing down any insights, thoughts or feelings you have during this period of
self-discovery. Julia Cameron, author of The Artist’s Way, recommends writing three pages of random
stream-of-consciousness each morning as a way of clearing out the habitual thinking, worries and fears
that block your creativity. These exercises can provide clues as to where your passions and your creative interests lie:
* Close your eyes and think back to when you were a child. What did you really love doing? Finger-painting, collecting
shells, building models, or playing dress-ups with your imaginary friends?
* Think about well-known creative people who you most admire. What do they have in common?
Do they represent a movement, a vision, a belief, an industry? Are they authors, artists, actors, musicians or
dancers?
* Go around the house collecting your favourite keepsakes, items that mean something to you and say something
about who you are. Seeing these things together may reveal a hidden passion.
* Consider the kind of media you read, watch and listen to regularly. Do you love watching cooking programs?
Do you devour the weekend book reviews? What do you spend your time and energy on?
* For one week, scale back on a couple of chores, like ironing and vacuuming, to do something you just adore.
Julia Cameron calls this an “artist’s date”, a special time where you give your creative, sensitive, sensual side
free rein. Visit a gallery, paddle in rock pools, watch a classic old movie, or just go walking in a different part of town.
4. Identify the magic - Take stock, read through your journal and think deeply about the areas you have identified that
really make you feel alive. Pretend for a moment that the world is going to end in a year’s time – what would you feel
most compelled to do between now and then? Would you be desperate to act, sing, sail, write a book, blow glass,
paint, redesign your garden, learn how to cook Vietnamese food, speak Italian, make papier-mache, or study Ikebana?
Write them down as your personal ‘bucket list’.
5. Take action - This is the fun part! You’ve found your creative interests – several, in fact – now you need to pick one
and spend some time researching how best to make it happen. Should you join a class? Buy or borrow books or DVDs
from the library? Will you need equipment, like a camera or a pair of flamenco shoes? Most importantly, work out how
much time you will allocate for your new creative activity. Locking in a time slot and committing to it gets the project
underway. And as you tick items off your list, add new ones.
6. Avoid negativity - Creativity is also about what you choose not to do: reducing TV viewing, for example (or only watching
programs that inspire you) and choosing imaginative reading material, doing a jigsaw, or learning a language instead.
It means taking a long hard look at recreational activities that subtract, rather than add meaning to your life.
Drifting around the shops, playing video games and trawling gossip magazines may provide an illusion that you’re doing
something restful, but in fact they’re just numbing you.
7. Expressive scents - Essential oils have tonic properties that inspire creative thinking, as well as boost mood. Try these
oils in a bath or oil burner: sweet basil (relieves anxiety, clears the mind), lavender (to access your higher self), ginger
(soothing), black pepper (stimulates imagination), bitter orange (energising), or rosemary (eases nervous exhaustion,
improves memory).
http://www.natureandhealth.com.au/news/crank-up-your-creativity
Blog entry
8 May 2012 - 11:12pm
Do you have a winner's mentality?
I often advise people to put success pictures on the walls of their mind.
When you spend some time each day in quiet meditation, you can literally "create" a picture in your mind, of what you want your life to be like.
For instance, picture yourself in good health. Picture yourself with prosperity surrounding you. See yourself in your perfect relationship and in your perfect environment.
The person that can control their thoughts can control their life.
Things don't manifest overnight, but evidentially, what you can see you can be!
I visualized myself living in a home on property in Northern New Mexico for years. I never gave up the vision of living here. I would spend time sending those pictures forth, and then at the end of my time of visualization I would say, "This or something better comes to me now, easily and effortlessly!" When I look back at how this house virtually fell into my lap, I know it was because those thoughts and words were put out into the universe and they began to materialize.
One time a woman said to me, "This stuff doesn't work, I have been doing my visualizations and affirmations for two weeks and I still haven't gotten any results." I tried not to laugh, but inside I know I was doing so silently.
You get what you put forth, but not until the time is perfect for you. What you and I think might be the perfect time for something to manifest is not always the time when things are perfect for us. The universe unfolds exactly as it is suppose to unfold and at exactly the right time. In the meantime we need to practice gratitude for what we get while we are waiting for the "big" things we wish for.
When you find a parking space you wanted, a dress you wanted on sale for half price..a gasoline station open when your tank shows empty…talk about it! Immediately verbalize a big, "THANK-YOU!!" Tell your friends and learn to appreciate these little blessings. Cultivate the attitude of gratitude.
Look for the good in others and look for the good in yourself.
Never, never quit! You were born with all you need to become a winner in life. You can make it. You may experience a few setbacks, a few moments of doubt and confusion. These times are normal in everyone's life. They are normal times and they won't linger.
Where you are now, and whatever you are doing right this minute, STOP and say "I am not a quitter, I am a winner and nothing can stop me from the success that is rightfully mine!" Memorize that, and say it in the car on the way to work, say it silently when you can't speak it out loud. If need be, write it down over and over in a notebook until your believe it. When dark thoughts come to your mind, tell yourself "STOP" and change the subject going through your mind with your success affirmation!
What you want to happen for yourself, make happen for someone else. If you linger in self-pity that is exactly where you will stay. Find someone that you know that is down, and do something for him or her. Cut them some fresh flowers, bring them a candy bar, or call them and let them know you care and that you are there for them, if they need to talk.
We live in a self-centered world, where people spend too much time thinking of themselves and all their own problems.
I used to volunteer at a nursing home for older people. I found that there were basically old people who sat around and looked miserable and then there were those that looked forward to getting up each morning. There was a man there, who literally made the room he would walk into "light up." He was 95 years old at the time, and he would always inquire of the other people. "How are you today, June?" "How are you feeling John?"
It's not all about us, and the sooner we realize that and become the vessels of light we were created to be, the better the world will be for us and for others.
So my message today is picture your life the way you want it to be, and affirm those thoughts daily. Be appreciative of every good thing that comes your way, as little or insignificant as it may seem. Decide that tomorrow you will do something, no matter how little or insignificant it may seem, to brighten the life of someone else!
We are also getting back in life, what we send out. If you are not getting back what you want from life, examine your words, attitudes and gratitude behavior!
Blessings and Light on your path!
© Catrina Muhle
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Blog entry
8 May 2012 - 2:34pm
my fortune cookie from May 7th reads: You will soon witness a miracle.
Blog entry
7 May 2012 - 7:59pm
As I Began to Love Myself
– Self Love Poem by Charlie Chaplin
As I began to love myself I found that anguish and emotional suffering are only warning signs that I was living against my own truth.
Today, I know, this is “AUTHENTICITY”.
As I began to love myself I understood how much it can offend somebody
As I try to force my desires on this person, even though I knew the time
was not right and the person was not ready for it, and even though this person was me. Today I call it “RESPECT”.
As I began to love myself I stopped craving for a different life,
and I could see that everything that surrounded me was inviting me to grow.
Today I call it “MATURITY”.
As I began to love myself I understood that at any circumstance,
I am in the right place at the right time, and everything happens
at the exactly right moment. So I could be calm.
Today I call it “SELF-CONFIDENCE”.
As I began to love myself I quit steeling my own time,
and I stopped designing huge projects for the future.
Today, I only do what brings me joy and happiness, things I love to do and that make my heart cheer, and I do them in my own way and in my own rhythm.
Today I call it “SIMPLICITY”.
As I began to love myself I freed myself of anything that is no good for my health – food, people, things, situations,
and everything that drew me down and away from myself.
At first I called this attitude a healthy egoism.
Today I know it is “LOVE OF ONESELF”.
As I began to love myself I quit trying to always be right, and ever since I was wrong less of the time.
Today I discovered that is “MODESTY”.
As I began to love myself I refused to go on living in the past and worry about the future.
Now, I only live for the moment, where EVERYTHING
is happening.
Today I live each day, day by day, and I call it “FULFILLMENT”.
As I began to love myself I recognized that my mind can disturb me
and it can make me sick. But As I connected it to my heart, my
mind became a valuable ally. Today I call this
connection “WISDOM OF THE HEART”.
We no longer need to fear arguments, confrontations or any kind of problems with ourselves or others.
Even stars collide, and out of their crashing
new worlds are born.
Today I know THAT IS “LIFE”!
http://www.abundancetapestry.com/self-love-series-love-myself-poem-by-charlie-chaplin/
Teaching
7 May 2012 - 11:00am
www.shematrix.com
Many of us have found sitting in circle the deepest blessing and a welcome alternative to the squares and rectangles we normally inhabit. We have noted that so much of our life is box shaped; our houses and cities are aggregates of boxes - boxes that speak of partition, of category, of separation, of difference, of territory and all that comes with it. Sitting in circle is a step to coming home, space to be who we are in essence without labels, a space to acknowledge our humanity. The circle is the ground of being, the shape of the feminine.
16C solar system
The ancients viewed their world, the whole of life, as cyclical. They saw that all things grew, flourished, died and again re-grew. Life and death were continuously continuous. Like the moon and sun which die and are reborn, so did the seasons and all living things. The skies overhead circled and turned in in eternity and all was contained within the great spirit/mother/god who was all Life.
Triple moon painting
All matters divine relate to the circle; it is the primary shape of life. It appears in the ordering of the year, the swelling of a pregnant belly, the mystery of the moon, the marks in the dust of life-giving rain, the eternally returning cycle of fruit and fallow. We can see the circle everywhere in the patterns of nature.Mundane events were fashioned to mirror the ways of the divine. The first shelters, the early tombs and burial mounds are all round. The sacred marks on the landscape that defy our understanding are often round. Wells, vessels for food and water...these were also round...and as containers were all symbolic of the divine belly.
Rock carvings - Alice springs
Later philosophers conceived the whole universe as a circle. Like the ourobouros, the serpent swallowing its own tail, it became a symbol of the greater, of the ceaselessness of eternity constantly devouring and renewing itself. This understanding was reflected in the zodiac, the ritual dances tracing winding pathways to the centre and the architecture of the sacred. There is no beginning in a circle. No first or last. It speaks of infinity, wholeness and inclusion. There is no fixity except the centre stillpoint.
As a piece of sacred geometry it warrants our deepest contemplation and reveals itself as ever more profound.
Alchemical ourobouros
The circle has stood for the All, for Completeness, for Perfection, for God/dess. It is the sun, the moon, ...or the universe; and also the zero, .. and the void. It is the totality and the nothingness both...both fullness and emptiness. A circle can be the most sacred vessel or the most ordinary cooking pot, so intrinsically interwoven are divine and mundane. It is the ultimate container...nothing is outside of the circle. Life and death make a perfect whole.
We associate the circle with the magical, the sacred and the cosmic. Stone circles, crop circles and fairy rings; the cauldrons of old, the grail, the round table of Arthur; the wheel of samsara and the mandala or world map. And also these; the void, the black hole the vortex... Heaven as well as the Underworld. The circle encompasses paradox.
Crop circle July 97
In all myth and cosmologies the circle is at the core. And these myths tell us clearly that we are part of the wholeness of life, of everything.
We are not separate. We partake of and participate in the creation of the world. It is in constant renewal...without renewal, it would cease to be.
The circle is thus a cosmogenic gesture and in that, all circles are an acknowledgment of the act of creation.
Tibetan creation mandala
Our modern culture has moved from wholeness to division, from inclusion to exclusion; we hold creator separate from the creation. When we sit in circle we again are encompassed by the totality of nature in its original unity. We enter the zone of the sacred, touch absolute reality.
The circle is the omphalos, or navel of the world. It is the sacred site from which we can reach the gods. At the centre of the circle is the BINDU, sacred dot, symbol of the beginning of creation. Paradise is at the centre of the universe. We are at home in our centre.
The Neoplatonists said, " God is a circle whose circumference is nowhere and whose centre is everywhere."
Yoni yantra with Bindu
When we sit in circle, whether as sacred space or as a speaking structure for working within in a group, we are invoking a model of equal participation and responsibility for the whole. There is no hierarchy, no leader, no proper way to do or be. The circle is dependent on every part of it circumference for its strength.
We use the circle as a sacred place for experiencing and sharing the self and our essential humanity, and to invite collective wisdom. We make sacred consciously; a bubble between the worlds...a bubble of NOW...outside world time, sacred time. We engage in ritual to help create this sacredness. We call in spirit to dance in our seeing and our speaking, for the benefit of all beings. In the present, the here and now, we go INto the womb, the labyrinth the belly.
And in this timeless zone between the worlds, reached through the feeling body we touch the authentic, the deepest places of the psyche, the place of being, soul work.
Megalithic spiral
We each speak from our deepest place. We speak in I language. We take responsibility for what we experience as our own. Each one of us views life from a different place. And so we acknowledge difference with no judgment and make practice of listening from the heart. Circle helps us foster relatedness, inclusion, embodiment, compassion... It is both a void to pour into and a well to pour blessings on each of us.
Here there is life, death and renewal, all.
In this circular area of space with the candle at the centre we honour all that life has offered us and offer ourselves back to life. In return for help from spirit, we make offerings of ourselves, our authenticity, ..our hopes our fears...our truth. That is the giveaway. There is no question the journey to the centre can be tough. The labyrinth is traditionally fraught with perils.
And so the circle pours back into the earth.
Australian Bark painting
Whenever we sit in circle, whatever may have brought us to that place, we are also participating in the constant re-creation of the universe.
Teaching
6 May 2012 - 11:55am
Transparency
by Harvey Green
www.spiritjournalhawaii.com
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Transparency is living openly. One of the benefits a transparent lifestyle is the release of old inhibitions. Our fear of what others may think causes many of us to hide our motivation, to hide our actions, and even to hide the results. Often, to keep our secrets concealed we bury them beneath a weight of half-truths and outright deception. Because the inauthentic is counterfeit, it is impermanent, and requires constant reinforcement. Instead of being devoted to what is real and permanent, we become enslaved by frequently reinforcing the illusion of reality.
Why, when life is such an incredible adventure, would we choose to live it partly in the shadows? What do we think of ourselves that we would hide or distort our activities? Perhaps, a lack of transparency is not a matter of the quality of our lives but a matter of how we perceive our actions. It is an interesting phenomenon, when we are no longer critical of others they no longer appear critical of us. Not because they have changed but we have. The kinder, the more respectful, and the more attentive we are to those around us, the more interesting we become to each other. As a natural consequence, when we no longer fear the judgment of others, we will live more transparently.
There is a lightness about living transparently and a heaviness connected to a concealed lifestyle. A transparent existence is one filled with a feeling of freedom, and one in which we may spend all of our energies constructively. We cannot pretend to be transparent because the pretense becomes the illusion that casts a shadow upon our life.
We are so incredibly interesting, so worthwhile, so fascinating just as we are, we need not fear the criticism of others. We are also imperfect and herein we find our uniqueness. We are defined by our borders, our limitations, and without them we are nothing. When we think we must hide our imperfections, we are at the same time hiding our individuality. When we deny our weaknesses, we deny our strengths, and when we deny our borders we deny our existence. Life is for the living and it is so much more delicious when lived transparently.
We are children of Tender-Loving-Kindness, created in the image and likeness of our God, and there is nothing we can do to change this. We can for a time choose to hide our divine nature but the universe is relentless. Eventually we will surrender to the pull Godward and embark fully on the path toward our destiny. The road ahead is straight and illuminated by the light that penetrates the transparency.
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Harvey A. Green
Harvey served as a member of the boards of trustees for 12 years and Chairman of the Board for 3 years for the Association for Research and Enlightenment, the Edgar Cayce Foundation and Atlantic University. Rotated off the boards because of term limits. A spiritual healer, Harvey has been a member and Secretary of Ohana O Kokua (Family of Helpers) for the past 30 years. Harvey is a longtime member, trustee and chairman of the boards of the Association for Research and Enlightenment, the Edgar Cayce Foundation and Atlantic University. An international lecturer Green has lectured and conducted workshops on religion, mysticism, and the paranormal for the past 25 years. He has appeared as a guest on numerous radio shows and at several universities. His LIFE AND DEATH; THE PILGRIMAGE OF THE SOUL is a ground breaking work on immortality. Harvey is a spiritual healer and Secretary of Ohana O Kokua (Family of Helpers), a spiritual healing group. His LETTERS TO HIS BELOVED has grown out of his 30 year work with spiritual healing.
Blog entry
5 May 2012 - 1:24am
Happy Weekend Dear Friends ~ It's a GREAT time to spoil ourselves and do whatever makes us happy!
The gorgeous furry kids are dressed and ready for their walk along the waterfront.............
after their good night's sleep !!!
"is it morning already?" is the look on Ginger's face !
"Looks like it, Ginge, Mum's got that darn camera out already!!!!" pipes in Charles !
Enjoying the simple but fun things in Life ~ Off to have a coffee and cake after our walk.
Wishing you a day where you can do the things that make you
feel happy and content within !
From Me and the furry kids, Tara *~~
Story
4 May 2012 - 11:12am
Being hurt is only cause by the misunderstanding of the person or situation that has co created the experience that has led to this frustration and confusion. To really let go of that experience is by forgiving and understanding why it has caused these frustration and emotions in the first place. We are creatures that rapidly change our emotions, vibrations and thought. so in order for us to adapt and understand ourselves we must love and appreciate us for who we are as these creatures. The moment we all know who we are as a being is the when you can honestly start to understand and apperciate the other beings around you. When there is not a balance of thought and belief in a situation then right off the bat there will be disbelief in the thought or a thought of disbelief in that situation.
When i hear that a soul is suffering, I think of the frustration and misunderstanding that this being manifested and created within in them. they are choosing and unwillingly wanting to have this feeling of suffering because they are the choosing to either dwell or fixate on a negative or an unbalaced vibrational situation that has arisen in there path or heart. The start to trying to fix these unwanted and unbalaced vibrations is first starting to understand why these emotions and manifestions were created in the first place by accepting and loving the situation that your in now. Your the only one that can find the answers to your questions bc you are the creator of your own reality so therefore what you believe can possibly or be the answer that'll you have been looking for , To truly know who you are is by loving and appreciating who and what you are. You can find love in everything in this world by understanding and appreciating everything in this world. Sometimes the heart has to do what you can't. So if you are one the many who are asking "what is wrong with this world and why can't it change?", then you must be the change you wish to see in this world. The desire for things that are in our hearts was first created by manifestations we sought to be in our hearts. You choose what your mind thinks and what your heart feels, that is the beauty of creating your own reality.
I love you all, thank you for being you and never giving up on yourself!:)
Blog entry
2 May 2012 - 1:27pm
Welcome to Brenda's Blog
Channeled by Brenda Hoffman for www.LifeTapestryCreations.com
Summary of Brenda’s – April 30, 2012 – free, 15-minute, channeled “Creation Energies” show at www.BlogTalkRadio.com/brenda-hoffman: Your astrological beliefs and actions are shifting as are your other beliefs.
Brenda’s Creation Energies BlogTalkRadio show contains different material than that channeled for Brenda’s Blog even though both may be about the same or similar topic.
Title of last week’s “Brenda’s Blog” – her free, weekly, channeled blog for www.LifeTapestryCreations.com: “Angry, Snarly, Sad? YEAH!”
Dear Ones,
How do you readjust your actions so you can play during these intense energy bursts? How do you play when you are concerned about your financial standing or fading relationships?
We are fully aware that the Universes are asking the impossible of you. Yet, you continue to move forward at an amazing; sometimes even alarming pace.
Issues that would have forced you to contemplate and regroup for months or years in previous lifetimes on earth are processed in a few hours – and you move on. Two years ago, you could not have coped with the emotional/physical issues now happening to you daily.
Do you remember those psychological charts that displayed how depressed you should be given this or that change – loss of a job or relationship, a new home or any change that moved you from your knowingness into a new life – one small step at a time?
Your changes are no longer small. They are of gigantic proportions and occurring daily. Yet, you continue to move forward.
Now we are asking, imploring you do so with a giggle in your being. Are we asking too much? We are today, but not tomorrow. Your next huge energy burst is designed to shift your perceptions about the beauty and joy of your life.
Maybe you will wake with a smile on your face. But it is more likely that you will care less about the “ills” of earth, your job, political movements or ecological shifts – and more about the beauty of a tree. You will smile at the toddler who has difficulties running as fast as he wishes. You will laugh as you note the silliness of something you have done such as misplacing something only to find it in the freezer.
The next few days are your giggle respite. It is a time to return joy to your inner-being.
You have shifted many parts of your being. You have worked diligently to arrive at your current sense of knowingness. But by doing so, you have erased much of your joy.
You once were joyful about many things that no longer give you the same level of pleasure. You remember the joy you felt, but when you try to recreate that joy, your joy is flat – or nonexistent. You are a new person.
You have wiped your slate clean of most of your fears and shoulds. But by doing so, you have also wiped your joy slate clean. It is time to revisit joy as the new you.
What gives you joy now? How can you shift your life so more of your new joy is part of it?
Six months ago, receiving a work promotion was perhaps an extremely joyful thought. That same promotion now means little. Not because you have tired of your job or company, but because you are a different person. Perhaps mentoring a new employee gives you more joy than your title. Perhaps returning home to prepare a delicious feast does. It does not matter what gives you joy, only that you know that your joy has shifted.
Many of you have been concerned that you were of the New Age, yet not experiencing the joy promised by channelers and writers.
You had to become the “new you” before you could tap into your new joys.
As a child, you found bathroom humor hysterical. At what age did your humor shift into finding sexual issues funny? And when did that humor shift into political, geographic and economic arenas?
Please understand that your being has evolved since birth on earth in this lifetime at all levels. It just seemed as if you were the same person throughout because your friends and family shifted with you. Your New Age shift is different in several ways; not the least of which is that you are trail blazers so you do not always understand why or how you are shifting.
Perhaps you point out something to a friend and they return your joyous comment or action with blank eyes. Perhaps the jokes you found amusing just a few months ago are lifeless to you now yet everyone, but you, is laughing. Such is what we are speaking of.
You are returning to your childlike zest for life. You have moved beyond the adult humor and joy of the Old Age – into the childlike joy of promise. The next few days will bring your childlike joy to your attention in so many ways. Do not be surprised if you literally jump for joy at the beauty of a moment.
Your friends and family might question you acting in such a fashion. Where is your decorum? Where is your filtering system? Why are you acting so silly? And you will not quite understand why they are not as excited or excitable as you.
Will your friends and family shift their joy? Only if they move through the New Age processes you have completed.
You are the first level Lightworkers. You are the ones leading the way for other Lightworkers and pioneers who wish to follow. So your humor, your joy may not be understood by you or others in the immediate future. But, as is true of your changes in other areas of your life, you cannot return to the humor or joy of yesterday.
You are a new you – in all of your glory and joy. A joy that is about simple pleasures - not hoping others feel less than or controlled by you. So be it. Amen.
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Blog entry
2 May 2012 - 5:53am
I would love to share an amazing incidence that has happened in this last week.... Ashley & I have been making decisions of our journey & I have been very questioning on what my focus is to be at present on this journey we have chosen, so we both decided it was time to pack up our house & sell it now and become permanent travelling Gypsies, letting go of as many 3D energies as possible .... the night after we decided this was to be the way for us ,I had a dream and Ra confirmed in a dream that our mobile home was to be called "The Spirit of Ra" I woke up ,shook Ashley awake as I was so excited with his confirmation but what really excited me was the name he gave us to name our new home when we get it which will be after selling the home of course.
I was a little concerned that Ashley may wish for another name because after all it will not be just mine ,however Ra said in my dream to head it "The Spirit of R osalie A shley " because our relationship was perfectly divinely guided as our Initial are RA ,it really blew me away because I truly had never thought of that in the 19 years we have been together,lol.
We both laughed our heads off and Ashley loves it as much as I do, after all he said ,he has been a very large energy between us considering it was after I met Ashley 6 months that he heard Ra channel through me while I was sleeping, he spoke to Ashley, he was the fist person to hear Ra speak through me,lol, quite a shock to him as you can imagine after such a short time together with a deep man's voice speaking from me, lol.
In fact Ashley is the first person in my life who totally accepts all I am completely however from a regular guy who knew nothing about channeling was a very huge thing for him to digest,lol.
Now he just laughs and says well Ra is his only rival lol which is hilarious.
It has taken over 2 years since me Mother went home to even know what or where we are going so it all is happening at a very fast rate & hope ,no know the house will sell even though the housing market is not strong at present it does not matter to us as long as we have enough money to buy our Home on wheels & goodbye STUFF & Hello to our Gypsy life where he can sing his way around the country(his passion) and I can do Readings,Teachings, wring my books & Healing around the country & will be able to meet many that I have known within my Spiritual Family that I have never met, wish it could go over water,lol to meet you all but this makes us very happy & excited as you can imagine, thanks to technology with a roaming blog of our Journey to share with you all.
How amazing journeys can just manifest so beautifully with all the new energies afoot,always a silver lining around any clouds & so happy to have found it.
Hope you have enjoyed my sharing as I have known so many of you for so long its always good to share good news !!!!
Love & Blessings,Rosalie xoxo
Blog entry
2 May 2012 - 12:40am
I was single and alone during the time of the attack on the Word Trade Center. I was experiencing for the first time in my life being entirely alone. My children were either in school or living their own lives.
I still remember the paranoia that we felt as a country, after 9/11. We kept expecting another attack, and we didn't know when or where it was going to come from.
I remember one night I woke up and I was in a cold sweat. I thought, "What if we get hit, and I am in here all alone. What am I going to do?"
For the first time in a long time I started to get panic attacks at night. I knew that I was in fear, and I knew that it was ridiculous to feel that way, but I still had a time of not being at ease.
So during this time I shared that with one of the psychologists at work. She told me to come over to her house that evening for a group meditation. I was happy to go, I needed some help and I knew it.
There is nothing wrong with needing help. So many times people stay in emotional pain much longer then they have too. The reason is pride. I like the scripture that says, "Pride goes before a fall." So if you need help, drop the pride and ask for it and Spirit will send a worker across your path that is ready, willing and able to help you.
So, when we got there she asked each of us to close our eyes and picture our favorite animal. At that time I was into wolves. I loved them, I loved the fact that they mate for life, and I loved the fact that they always follow their instincts. I needed, at the time, to learn to trust my own instincts more. I noticed that whenever I didn't I got burned by life.
So, she walked us through taking a nice walk on a warm sunny beach with our Spirit animal. She ended the meditation by telling us that when we were in situations where we felt fear, from that point on, we could picture our Spirit animal walking beside us and being with us when we faced any fear or difficulty.
So today, if you are in fear, I ask you to close your eyes and picture your guide. It doesn't have to be an animal. It can be Jesus, or Buddha, a guardian angel or anyone that you find strong and protective of you.
Now, see yourself walking on a warm, sandy beach with that animal or person. In the distant you see something, as you walk on and get closer you see that it is the problem that is bothering you. It may be financial, emotional or physical. Whatever it is, picture it coming towards you.
Now, the closer it gets to you it notices that you are not alone. You have a friend, by your side and the problem takes note of that. You are walking tall, you are not lonely, you are not afraid.
The "problem" gets just so close to you and then it turns and runs away. You have successfully overcome all that was coming against you. You are not alone; you are never alone your Spirit guide walks with you, always seeing you through each and every difficulty.
At the end of that night, the Spiritual leader said to us, "Now be aware that you will be surprised in the next week how people will come up to you, at of the blue, and give you pictures or gifts depicting your guide. Don't say a word to anyone about this, so that you will know that you know that Spirit is with you! Be in a state of expectation."
Well, I want you to try the same thing, Beloved. Believe that you will receive a tangible gift from your guide from out of the blue. Let me know when you do!
I still have the beautiful wolf that my grandson gave me out of the blue, shortly after that meditation. He was at a flea market with his mother, and saw a statue of a wolf. He took his mothers hand and said, "See, that wolf? I want to buy that for MamMaw!"
My fear was gone, I never felt alone from that point on. If I was in a stressful job interview, or situation, I mentally saw my beautiful wolf by my side. If something tried to harm me and got too close, that wolf snarled back her lips and growled at "it."
Spirit loves to surprise us. Someday I will tell you about the time everyone forgot my birthday and how Spirit left me a super sized fortune cookie that said, "Happy Birthday!"
It was right on my desk, but the rest of that story is not for today! I believe in miracles, Beloved, and miracles happen each and every day! Never give up hope. You have a purpose, greater then you know, for being alive. You were sent to the planet with a gift, and your gift and the way you express it is unique! You are blessed!
Love, Light and Blessings on your path!
© Catrina Muhle
http://www.taosintuitive.com/
Story
1 May 2012 - 12:54am
Hello, and i must share with you a personal precaution.
I have walked into this realm we call earth. For all seems bad to me, so i never make a wrong.
I have been to hell, and ive dwelled there a life. If not for my salvation, best for you.
God or no god, duality does exsist. As i think the presence faulty it is so unfortunately.
I have seen hell rise from our soil, ive seen an angel destroyed and swallowed for our lives.
Lets assume a moment, life is but a game, this game all of us play. Real, yes however real we choose.
None the less this game we play now of duality, our challenge of mastery. And i must assume with my eyes from observations, we must play with our lives.
Afterall we are playing with our lives. While most think for the next paycheck to pay a bill i have sat through this one life observing, analyzing, problem solving for us, so we must move on.
We have done a poor job as a whole. Money is my great example. So many problems, if decency exsiste and you thought me not naive about hell and heaven, well we are on the same page.
Aliens, spirits, beings, orbs, anomolies, demons, angels. Set your mind at ease knowing your family, our humanity, your exsistance must settle down.
I do not wish for you to fall and be damned. To me damned is eternally unforgiven and even if i was forgiven id still shout this with all my must.
You all know in your hearts right from wrong. When we look for assurance we have become weak and temptatious, a playful mastery of duality.
I often ask the original creator, "why this duality still, the pain, misery, our societies".
But i must tell myself this in my truth, "would you really let humanity move on in such a delusional, searching place."
We must anchor our place. No one will live your life for you, save you. Help, sure but dont be foolish as this is but a self start gift for you.
Sorry for my ramblings, and yes, i love everyone, but why should i have to see people not understand what love IS, it is truly dissapointing.
If you think not strong enough, try telling people who have fallen that long plunge you give up. So silly.
And if you must, you may ask an angel to show you for your own thought into transformation. Its very real in any sense.
Blog entry
30 Apr 2012 - 9:27pm
I am an intuitive, but you could be one too. I believe that everyone has intuition. Wikipedia describes "intuition" in the following way:
"Intuition is the ability to acquire knowledge without inference or the use of reason."
The reason a lot of folks do not step out when they get a "feeling" about one thing or the other is usually because they "reason" it away.
To increase your intuition you simply have to learn to "listen" to it and then step out and act on it.
Reasoning things often gets us in trouble. We overanalyze things to death.
Reasoning things however, in our own lives, often gets us in trouble. We over analyze things to death. Our own lives are different then those we counsel or read for. I asked Spirit one day, why I could not intuit things in my own life as well as those in the lives of my clients. This was the answer I got; "Because if you knew everything in advance that was going to happen to YOU, you would avoid a lot of things that seem hurtful and are actually good spiritual lessons for you. The mountaintop experiences are fun, and full of joy, but it is in the "valleys" of life that you grow!"
Since the time I was a child I had to know "why?" I have been told it drove my parents nuts. They would tell me to do one thing or the other and I had to know "why" they wanted it done a certain way.
Over the years I have learned when we constantly have to know "why" someone did something or didn't do something our imaginations work overtime.
We start to ascribe motives to someone that may not have been there. Then we become "sure" that something is going on. We dwell on that thought. The thoughts we dwell on expand, and that is why we often find ourselves anxious and not able to sleep nights.
Or perhaps we have had some bad experiences in life. We may have something occurring presently that reminds us of something that happened in the past. We then start to believe that the same bad thing is going to happen to us, because "nothing good every happens to us." We think on that, and we think on it and before you know it we bring the negative energy to our situation.
One day I was thinking about something that a person around me was doing and I begin to think, "I bet they are involved with "such and such." The more I thought about that, the more I was convinced I was right. This was not, as I was to learn later, intuition. It was simply me expecting the same thing to happen to me that happened in my past.
Suddenly Spirit stopped me in my tracks when I heard these words, "This is not happening, you are imagining this due to the experience you had with "so and so." Let it go and as you quit throwing energy into those thoughts they will go away and the situation will right itself."
So I forced myself to go on with my life and not "camp out" there with negative thoughts.
Soon enough the situation righted itself, and I was indeed far off the mark with what was going on with the person.
It's a learning process. Life is this school and when the student is ready, as you have heard it said, the teacher appears. Sometimes, the teacher is YOU. When you step out of the situation and look at it as if you were observing someone else, you may think about the situation a whole lot clearer.
We can learn peaceful, serene living when we decide not to try and control situations by having to try and figure everything out.
We can rest assured that as spiritual beings our lives our being led by Spirit. No matter what happens it will all turn out for our good, if we trust in that Higher Power within us to not do us harm and have only our highest good in place for us.
Forget about it! It is all-good for us on our path, even when it doesn't appear to be so.
© Catrina Muhle
http://www.taosintuitive.com/
Blog entry
30 Apr 2012 - 10:53am
Hi everyone!
I love to laugh.........people I haven't seen for many years say they remember me
for my laugh. Laughter is such a wonderful release of tension, and also an expression
of sheer joy! But, we also use laughter when faced with overwhelming adversity.
I think it puts space between the problem/s that have just smacked us in the face,
and the possibility of collapsing in a heap!
In one of OSHO's books, he says that laughter "brings all of our parts together, making
us whole again." By our "parts" I take it that he means where our thoughts are at -
.......like worry about rising debts, the kids or partner or both, or anything that takes up
a huge chunk of thoughts throughout the day. Suddenly, something will make us laugh
and whatever was taking our attention away disappears so that we become whole again,
our awareness is back in the moment.
With the world going through many natural disasters, and with many countries still not
recovered yet, how on earth does one cope. Is it appropriate to have fun at times of crisis?
Maybe it’s one of the most powerful things we can do. It’s like raising a fist to despair
as if to say, “You can’t have me. I won’t give in.”
In times when I have been faced with severe illness, it was laughter that really gave me
the space I needed, like a respite from suffering. I can laugh at myself when I am very ill,
but I could never laugh at the adversity of another human, or animal.
It's an inner release button for the person going through the ordeal.
Have you ever noticed your 'inbuilt mirror?' It is when you can hear yourself speaking
to another, and later think, "did I say that? that sounded really silly........." and that can
send me into peels of laughter.
Fun is important, and there are loads of examples of fun and laughter in spiritual traditions.
There is a Japanese proverb that says, "Time spent laughing is time spent with the gods."
In the context of what happened in Japan , this is particularly meaningful.
Laugh at something ordinary and every day. Laugh at your own routines. Laugh at your over
active imagination. Laugh at the absurdity of chaos. Laugh at the frailty of life.
Then surrender to new perspectives that only open up because you let the air out of your
nervous energy. Fun is a pathway to spirit, rerouted surprise, laughter’s short cut.
The spirit of fun in me greets the spirit of fun in you. LOL!
(the above paragraph taken from Soulseeds - Spirituality and Fun)
Love to everyone, Tara *~~
Teaching
30 Apr 2012 - 10:50am
The Valuing of Simplicity
www.worldblessings.com
Our lives are too busy because we value busyness. If we valued simplicity, our lives would become simple. This may not be apparent on a conscious level, but on an unconscious level our lives follow the Law of Attraction, they manifest what we think and what we desire or feel we need.
The valuing of busyness comes from many sources. They exist all around us in the reminders that it is important to seek success, and that what is outer is more important than what is inner. Nothing could be further from the truth – a truth that those who are close to the land and those who have been intimate with the ways of Nature have observed for centuries, namely, that there is an order to all things and we are most in harmony with ourselves and with life when we participate in that Divine order. This is an order that the plants know and that the birds know. It is an order that defines the rhythm of life.
Many have a fear of becoming simple – of letting go of the complexity and the trappings of life that are not really important but that we give importance to. There is the fear of being different; there is the fear of being alone and not knowing what to do with ourselves; there is the fear of losing money; there is the fear of appearing less intelligent. There is also the fear of dying which underlies the rest, for in some nameless place within, it can feel like if we stop running and creating things to do or being responsive to the things to do that someone else has created for us, we will experience the death of ourselves.
This is true, in a way, if the self has been defined in great measure by what is outer. Then that self, indeed, must die, in order that something new can be born from within. Here the cycle of birth and death is also part of the natural order of things. We let go of what we are attached to, creating a little death. We do this so that new life can be born.
The wish for simplicity and the desire to remove our feet from the treadmill of life must be strong enough to overcome the great pull of attraction that complexity and the outer manifestation of success has for us as a society. Sometimes this wish can be supported by a close friend who lives a different kind of life than we do. Sometimes it can be supported by going away on a retreat of whatever kind we are drawn to. Sometimes, it involves canceling everything else that we have planned for a day, a week, a month, or even longer, so that we can take stock of what is present and what is absent when we are alone.
In the end, our longing must often get stronger so that the pull of inner quiet and outer peace can become strong enough to pry our hands from around the straw supports for life that they are clutching, not even knowing that they are made of straw.
In the end, it is often longing alone that causes the heart to turn toward valuing simplicity, and toward finding the courage to take the first steps toward a different way of life.
Teaching
29 Apr 2012 - 10:24am
The intertwining of soul energies creates a dance of life
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RESONANCE - THE SHAPING OF REALITY
Julie Redstone
http://www.lightomega.org
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The patterning of energy emitted by each soul as a result of choices made in thought, word, or deed, brings into proximity energies from the surrounding spiritual environment that resonate with the energies being sent forth. This principle of 'energetic resonance' is magnetic in its effect, for the emitted energies, whether emotional or otherwise, draw to themselves corresponding forces in the spiritual environment which join with these to create a synergy that amplifies the energy in two individuals if we are speaking of a partnership, or in a group of individuals if we are speaking of a family, community, or larger collectivity.
Where this joining takes place for healing purposes, such an amplification or synergy in relation to the shared energies may be useful, since it more easily brings to the fore those healing issues that are shared in common. In a spiritual setting, it also enables two people or a group to receive more light than each could do on their own. However, when the emitted energies have a destructive intent and meet up with others of a similar vibration, the effect is more destruction since the cumulative effect of the energies is greater than the sum of the individual energies, taken alone.
This interactive patterning of energy is not something that human beings are generally aware of, yet it is something that will become more conscious as each soul comes to understand and care about the effect that they have on the surrounding environment. This level of awareness and of responsibility can only occur, however, when an individual consciousness feels linked to the greater whole. Such a perceived connection then motivates the further purification of each and every thought and action that would have a deleterious effect on that whole.
As long as human beings were not conscious of their effect on others and did not perceive themselves to be part of a greater unity, such an effect could be treated indifferently or carelessly. It is only when relationships are perceived in their full measure of interconnectedness, that the resonant patterning of energies becomes a primary means of regulating both what is shared with others, and what is put forth in order to attract the desirable to oneself.
From the standpoint of meeting those other souls with whom one most deeply resonates, it is necessary to first activate and send forth the soul qualities that one wishes to share, before others can be drawn into one's energetic orbit. The principle of resonance operates in this way: that one draws to oneself that which one resonates with as a common vibrational frequency. For this reason, each individual soul will seek, in the future, to become attuned more clearly and more continuously to the vibrational frequency that they are sending out, if what is desired is to draw to themselves those with whom they can share the greatest intimacy and the deepest experiences of life.
The idea that opposites attract also has popular currency today, and there is truth in this as well. However, relationships in which certain qualities are polarized on the human level, are generally ones in which the soul has chosen to amplify a particular quality within the self that has gone into dormancy or recession, and for this reason chooses a partner who will draw that quality out of oneself. This choice also takes place according to the principle of resonance, but under these circumstances, it is resonance in relation to a quality that is in need of engagement or enlargement that the soul, at its own level, has chosen to work toward in a particular lifetime.
Over time, each soul comes to be able to rely on its own intuition to distinguish more intimate soul friends from those who are less intimately connected, and this, too, is a result of energetic learning. For one's conscious self can distinguish through the shared energy that takes place, which souls are closest to one's own spiritual essence and purpose, and which are further away. These distinctions which are made more unconsciously at this time, will, as light increases, become more natural and frequent, and will draw to each soul the ones that each belongs with at the deepest levels of meaning and experience.
Teaching
26 Apr 2012 - 9:27am
Be still, and know that I am God. -Psalm 46:11
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BELIEF, FAITH, AND KNOWING
Julie Redstone
http://www.lightomega.org
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To know something, to believe something, and to have faith in something are all different things. They reflect degrees of involvement with knowledge that can vary from the most superficial awareness to the most profound perception of our deepest being. We can think something with only the surface of ourselves, and we can know something with the totality of who we are. How we know, and at what depth we know, determines how we live. For this reason it is useful to ask: How do we know that God is real? How do we know that Light is real? How do we know that the process of purification is real? These are important questions for us - questions that require reflection.
To begin with, let us ask: What is it to 'know' something? What is it to 'believe' something? What is it to 'have faith' in something?
We believe things with our minds. Beliefs are ideas. They are concepts. They give us a picture of reality that others can agree with or disagree with. Beliefs are thoughts that can be put into words and these words can be communicated to others. Beliefs, however, are not absolute truths. They are opinions about reality, not reality itself. In the realm of belief we can have our own opinions, others can have their opinions, and we can agree or disagree, remembering that the truth of our beliefs is relative.
Having faith in something is different than this. Faith, in a spiritual sense, does not have to do with relative truths but with absolute truths - truths that exist for all time. Faith relates us to an unvarying, underlying reality that we share in - one that we assume exists whether we believe in it or not. Unlike beliefs which are of the mind, faith is not just of the mind but of the heart as well.
Here is an example of the difference between belief and faith: We think something with our mind about God. This is our concept of God. We think, for example, that God is the creator of the Universe and that God must have had a reason for wanting to create the Universe, that is, that it was an intentional act. We can think that the reason for this act is unknown, or we can think that the reason for this act was the wish to extend love. Whichever we think, we are still in the realm of concepts. We are still in the realm of opinions.
Faith comes into play when we tell ourselves that our concepts are true - when we hold them to be true even though we don't have any proof that they are true. Then we have crossed the line. Faith is not concerned with proof. This is because faith is of the heart as well as the mind. Faith occurs not just because we think something is true, but because we want it to be true and our minds tell us that it may be true. Faith combines our heart's wish and our mind's belief into an inner affirmation that the possible is real. Faith is the affirmation of this reality.
When we have faith, we believe in the invisible. In doing this, our mind faces a clear choice between doubt and trust. Faith makes the choice to trust based on the joining of mind and heart. It makes the choice to suspend doubt and cynicism and to say "yes" to the thinking of the heart rather than to rational thinking. In place of rational thinking faith says: "I can believe in what I do not see, for it is not physical sight that gives reality to things but heart and intuition that gives reality to things." Faith is based on the willingness of the mind to side with the reality of the heart which holds that what is subjective can be equally real to what is objective, even though it may not be proveable in a physical sense. Love is like this, a subjective fact whose existence cannot be proven but whose reality is nevertheless very real.
Those who take exception to faith as a way of perceiving reality, often do so on the basis of scientific rationality. One of the most common arguments against faith is this: if you cannot see it, touch it, or feel it with your senses, you cannot know it exists. Further, if no one else but you can perceive it, then there is even less chance that it exists.
This is a very common argument against faith - one which requires proof in order to believe something. This argument is valid, but only within the realm in which proof operates, the realm of science, not the realm of life. It is valid within this realm because scientific thinking defines a methodology which is based on proof as a way of dealing with externally verifiable facts. But a methodology is not a cosmology - it is not a way of understanding life and how existence came to be. For this, something else is needed. Science as a methodology is only capable of understanding what is within its domain - the domain of the physical. This is important to understand. Science is not reality but a tool with which to explore a portion of reality. There are many other portions to which it does not apply.
Scientific reality or the scientific mind, for example, can have little to say about the phenomenon of 'knowing'. For 'knowing', unlike both belief and faith, participates little, if at all, in the mind. Indeed, if we say that belief is based in the mind, and faith is based in the joining of heart and mind, then 'knowing' can be said to be based in the body - in our very being itself.
Knowing is based on our experience of something. In knowing something, we do not think or speculate about it. We perceive it so deeply within ourselves as true that we don't have to discuss it, and no matter what anyone else says about it, it does not alter our reality. In this sense, we can say that experience just is. It cannot be proved or disproved. It can go to more and more profound levels of conviction, but it is generally only we ourselves who can testify to it. Our experience is the most interior, private part of ourselves - the part with which we feel the most certain because it lives within us at the deepest place.
To experience something is to know it. To experience something deeply is to know it with a degree of certainty that gives it more power and influence over our lives than other things. Here is a common example of our knowing something: When the sun shines on our skin we feel warmth. We don't need anyone else to tell us what we feel. We know that we feel something we call 'warmth'. In relation to the sun, we have an ease with our knowing since others share our experience and can understand it. But we can experience things that are just as real as the sun shining on our skin that others cannot see, and know them to be true with equally strong conviction. Our problem in doing so is that when others cannot validate our experience for us, we frequently invalidate it ourselves.
It is this way with the perception of God and Light. The experience of God and the energy of light can be as real to us as the warmth of the sun on our skin. Yet, because we are alone in our perception, it is often difficult for us to appreciate that we know something. This is complicated by the fact that it is also difficult for us to put such experiences into words because we don't have the language to do so. And so we try to do the best we can, knowing all the while that words are inadequate in communicating our experience to others. We know that the experience of God or Light can be felt in our bodies, and it is unlike thinking about something or having faith in it. This is what purification teaches us.
Here is the point that all spiritual life strives for and the point of purification as well: to go beyond both faith and belief into knowing - to bring each of us to the point of experiencing God in a way that is so real that it will be impossible to deny. All of spiritual life is directed toward this knowing. We seek it, we long for it, we search for it, and when we find it, it leaves an imprint on our soul.
In the realm of spiritual experience, there are many people who are afraid to know what they know. They may have had intuitions about things that are quite deep. They may have had experiences of God's presence that have come to them like a whisper or a gentle breeze that hardly lets you know it's there. Yet, because an experience doesn't last, they are inclined to say that it wasn't there in the first place.
Here is fear speaking - the thought of being seen as foolish or crazy. Within the spiritual realm, we can know something for a moment and it can change our life forever. Many people have had such an experience and have been afraid to claim it for themselves because of the lack of proof that it actually occurred. As a result, they let go of something that could have changed the rest of their life because they were afraid to claim it as real. The imprint of spiritual reality does not exist in time, it exists in depth, and if we claim our knowing, a moment is more than enough to convey to us the impression of eternity. This is how powerful spiritual reality can be.
Knowing something, then, can change our relationship to everything in our life, because it changes us in the deepest sense of who we feel we are. This is the goal of purification, to bring us into the knowing of Divine reality through our experience. This knowing takes us past faith and belief into certainty. It takes us past doubt and cynicism into certainty. It takes us past opinions, discussions, relative truths, and spiritual debates into a peace and certainty that nothing can eradicate. Knowing of Divine reality is the single most important event that can change a person's relationship to life. It is our future, and what lies before us as souls.
Blog entry
25 Apr 2012 - 7:39pm
Do you ever think, "Everyone is perfect, but me!" or "I cannot tell others what is really going on in my life, there is no way they would understand!"
Whether it is dependency of some sort, financial problems, relationship problems or health problems we often become mentally stressed and sometimes physically ill. We look around at all these smiling faces, masking their true feelings, and we are too prideful to let them know that we are not perfectly enlightened yet.
I say, "Get over it!" It's time for a reality check. Look around you and you will see that there are many hurting people. People are hurting and searching for a way to make the pain go away, even if it's just for a little while.
Things seem really tough for a lot of folks right now and basically all most people want is someone to just listen to them.
Read that again. I said L I S T E N.
A lot of spiritually compassionate people feel the need to offer advise to the hurting, or think of a way to solve the problem for them.
The hurting person just wants someone to listen. Most of the times they don't want advice. They simply want someone to listen and say to them, "I am here to listen if you need to talk, and I promise not to give any advice unless you ask me for it."
People are so lonely these days. I believe they are just aching for someone to try and understand what they are going through, without judging them.
I am noticing that a lethal mix of loneliness, fear and anger, coupled often with guilt and shame, often drives people deeper into addictive behaviors that "tempt" them.
Time after time people tell me that they fear admitting a problem to friends, families, co-workers, and even church members. Why is that you ask? I believe it's because the very folks we often look to for help often severely judge us and condemn us.
Last year a well-known psychologist from this area killed herself. She was also an alternative healer, and a highly enlightened spiritual leader. I have never seen such an outpouring of comments from people who had been helped by this woman. Many people said that her advice had opened a door to major change in their lives. No one could understand what could have driven her to kill herself.
I asked Spirit one day, "what happened?" This is what I received. "She was hiding behind a mask of pride, she was afraid for others to know that she truly didn't have all the answers. She thought that she would hinder the process of many of her students to let them know that she needed help herself!"
Being a wisdom teacher, an enlightened spirit, a lightworker or even an ordained minister is often a lonely walk. As a giver who gives of time, energy and wisdom we often find our emotions drained.
We need to find others across our own paths that are mature enough to see that no one is ever so enlightened on their path that they are content to walk it alone.
Why? I believe it is because, until we are released from these suits of flesh, we are still imperfect beings who need other imperfect beings.
My message today is that part of growing is learning to listen to others, and not seek so much to be served as to serve.
The second point is that we need to release our egos to the point we can say to another "I need someone to listen to me, I have a problem that I cannot solve alone."
Ego is present anytime we get to the point where we believe we are too "BIG" in the eyes of others to ask for help along our path.
Just for today try listening more then talking. That lesson was a hard one for me. I could tell what people were wanting to tell me or needing to tell me and I often cut them off in mid-sentence. More then once Spirit would stop me, and say, "BE STILL and BE QUIET."
There is a time to talk, and a time to let others talk. It is through listening more, and talking less that we truly begin to let go of our egos, and let things just be.
It isn't all about us. The sooner we learn that, and let go of our agendas, the sooner we can ascend to higher levels of Spirituality. We do not need to push ourselves in the spotlight; we can let Spirit do that when, and if, the time is ready.
Blessing and Light on your path!
© Catrina Muhle
Blog entry
25 Apr 2012 - 4:33pm
Welcome to Brenda's Blog
Channeled by Brenda Hoffman for www.LifeTapestryCreations.com
Summary of Brenda’s April 22, 2012 free, 15-minute, channeled “Creation Energies” show at www.BlogTalkRadio.com/brenda-hoffman: Your recent sadness, anger and fear are not a return to the Old Age. Those feelings are your physical Lightworker being shifting dramatically – birthing itself.
The Creation Energies BlogTalkRadio show contains different material than that channeled for Brenda’s Blog even though both may be on the same or similar topic as is true this week.
Title of last week’s “Brenda’s Blog” – her free, weekly, channeled blog for www.LifeTapestryCreations.com: ”Is Your Emotional World in Upheaval?”
Dear Ones,
Are you feeling unexpected anger, rage or sadness? You are birthing the new physical you!
In the past few years, you have experienced several physical shifts – but nothing as comprehensive as has occurred recently. Your internal physical form is shifting from that known by your scientists into a crystalline structure with different connections and abilities.
How will this shift change your physical being? Scientists and the medical world will not necessarily notice the difference in your physical being unless they are also Lightworkers. Do you remember stories of Native Americans not initially seeing European ships landing on American shores because Native American could not conceive of such an eventuality? So it will be for your doctors and scientists.
Even though parts of your physical being might shift a bit, the cellular structure shift we are discussing today will not become common knowledge for several years. The current human interior model required the study of thousands, if not millions, of humans. As is now true for those humans with achromatism (albino), the first Lightworkers will merely be noted as unusual.
Those of you at the forefront of the Lightworkers might be concerned that you will not receive adequate medical care because doctors will not understand the true you. Most doctors will not. But then, as your body shifts you will have less need of medical care.
One of the important tools in your New Age kit is the regeneration of your physical body. Perhaps that concept seems like a fairy tale, yet you fully accept that starfish regenerate parts of themselves.
Please know that your current medical beliefs continue to be a factor in your physical health.
Most of you Lightworkers remain too deeply enmeshed in your current medical model to allow yourself to heal or rebound from physical ailments – even though it is possible.
Today, we are merely reviewing your medical beliefs and informing you that your internal physical being is shifting dramatically.
Your friends and family are not necessarily shifting in the same fashion. This recent physical shift is part of your Lightworker lesson plan – it is not global. So even though you may feel uncomfortable emotionally, those around you may be quite joyful. Such a difference may make you believe that you are not a Lightworker or you have not accepted the New Age. The opposite is true.
In our Creation Energies radio show this week (www.BlogTalkRadio.com/brenda-hoffman), we likened your discomfort to the birthing process.
Perhaps you were extremely excited about re-entering earth in this lifetime – that is, until you were in the birth canal and shortly after birth. Both extremely uncomfortable sensations. In a similar fashion, your mother may have been excited to learn she was pregnant – until labor pains made her wish she had never thought of having a child. The earth birthing process is not a comfortable or even loving process. In a sense, it mirrors the belief patterns of earth – you will find joy after much pain. An interesting thought we will address in future messages!
We return to your emotional state as a result of your internal changes. Please understand that your physical body is trying to reject your physical changes. Your new cellular structures do not feel comfortable to your physical plant – they feel invasive.
Will your physical body reject your new structures? No – for this shift is an important part of your New Age/new earth role. But then, your physical plant will not adjust overnight. Have you ever been inoculated to protect you from an illness such as diphtheria only to become ill for a few hours? Such is the case now. Your body is protecting you and will continue to do so until your totality accepts the new you.
This physical transition is also part of your “learning to love yourself” lesson. Do you not allow yourself to be self-centered, crabby, exhausted, sad and so many other emotions when you have what you label the flu? Yet now that your entire inner-being is shifting, you expect yourself to be sunny and cheerful.
You will know if your recent mood swings are related to your physical shift if you ask yourself if it is so. Only you know. Perhaps you are depressed about other issues. Or perhaps there is a physical ailment that requires medical attention. You have to decide that for yourself. If the thought of taking medication or meeting with a doctor feels right, that is what you need to do. But if you ask yourself why you are moody and you see or sense a laughing bubble or entity, you know that you are merely birthing your new physical being. And as is true after human birth, the related bliss will soon occur.
How are you to explain this moodiness to those who are not experiencing similar shifts? That is your choice. You are a trail blazer. Just as family and friends often did not understand those who opted to live in the wild as they discovered the trails of the “wild west”, so too is it true for you.
Should you try to be more accommodating to help them emotionally? Again, that is your choice. But we will forewarn you that if you become too accommodating, your inner-being will scream for release from that care taking mode.
This physical transition seems convoluted and difficult does it not? Somewhat like pregnant women deciding if they are going to scream and rant during the birthing process or try to quietly accept the pain and fear. It is your choice.
Everyone who wishes to move into the New Age will eventually go through this cellular shift. But then, those who follow will have your loving support doing so.
You are at the forefront of an ongoing wave of physical change. Once your change is complete, you will have more skills than you now think possible. But know that others may not understand your shift for they have not yet experienced it. It is your choice if you wish to dull the pain with medication or denial.
If you are a Lightworker of the first brigade you are experiencing the pains of your new physical birth. How long will these feelings last? That is up to you. Are you nurturing yourself and accepting the shift? Or are you denying or fighting it? Allow yourself to be and it will soon pass.
Embrace the shift and you will sparkle from within. Negate the shift and you will feel dark and heavy for some time. So be it. Amen.
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Blog entry
24 Apr 2012 - 10:14pm
Positive thoughts produce positive lives. Negative thoughts produce negative lives. Positive thoughts are full of hope. Negative thoughts are always full of doubt and fear.
Some people are afraid to hope for anything positive occurring in their life. They have had so many disappointments and been let down by so many people that they really don't think they can face the pain of another disappointment. Therefore, they refuse to hope so they won't be disappointed.
I believe, from what I have learned in my own life, that avoidance of hope is a type of protection against being hurt. Disappointment hurts! So rather than be hurt again, many of us simply refuse to hope or believe that anything good will ever happen to us.
If we are going through negative times we might want to take a look at what has gotten us to the point of constantly negativity.
There is a root of each and every problem. Once we discover what the "root" of our problem is, we can literally grab the root, and throw it out of the garden of our life.
I went through years and years of depression. I got that way due to negative and unhappy situations that had occurred in my childhood. I had a dysfunctional parent, who was an alcoholic. For years, my whole life revolved around keeping secrets, and avoiding the embarrassment caused by the nutty things my parent did while stinking drunk.
I lived, at the time, in a small town in Texas, and my parent was known in that town, as the town drunk. I can remember, more then once, being made fun of for the way I was dressed incorrectly as a small child. By incorrectly I mean no socks with shoes in freezing weather, as I walked to school in a snowstorm with two to three foot snowdrifts.
I had encountered so many disappointments in my life, and so many devastating things had happened to me that I always expected everything to turn out badly, and because of that, they usually did.
At one point I experienced a spiritual miracle when I came to believe that a power higher then myself could restore me to sanity. For me that power was God.
I wanted more then anything for my life to change. I began to realize through study of the Word and the books of people I admired, that my negativism had to go.
I started looking at my life in a different way. It didn't happen overnight, but slowly each day I begin to release negative talk, and my negative beliefs, as I replaced them with positive ones.
I had a big breakthrough when I decided that no matter what happened I was going to believe that it was all working for my benefit. Even bad things turned around when I started looking at them differently.
For instance, I remember one day when I was working as a secretary to a busy doctor. I was not feeling well that day, and I just wanted to go home, put my sweats on and chill out in front of the television. I usually left at 5:30 for home. The doctor usually went out the door at 5PM and I would clean up after her, and make sure charts were pulled for the next day and then leave. This particular day she came to my desk and gave me an assignment to do something that she insisted had to be done by the next morning. Of course this was at ten minutes until 5:00 PM. I could feel my face turning red as I began to get upset with the situation. Normally, in the past I would go into a self-pitying, negative attitude. But now, I was a student learning to trust that "all things work together for my good."
If we do things the same way we have always done them, we are going to get the same thing we have always gotten in life. I decided to look at the positive side of it. Perhaps it was not safe for me to leave at the time I wanted, I reasoned. So I decided that I would simply do the work, without complaining, and keep a positive attitude about it.
When I did finally leave the office, I noticed the traffic on the way home was extremely backed up. Later I was to learn that a person had run the light, at the intersection to my home, and the person whose car they had plowed into was killed instantly. Had I left at my normal time that could have very well been me.
Through this lesson I was able to relax, understanding that a high power then myself was watching over me, and that all had happened as it should have happened that day.
At any moment, on any day, we have the ability to turn our lives around by the choices we make. We can choose negativity and depression or we can choose to think, "all things are working as they should and all is well."
We can change our depression and negativity, when we simply decide to stop feeding the negativity and dwelling in the land of unhappy thoughts.
It takes work, and it "takes guts to leave the ruts" but we can do it! Today we can choose happiness, instead of depression. It's our choice.
Blessings and Light on your path!
©Catrina Muhle
http://www.taosintuitive.com/
Blog entry
23 Apr 2012 - 4:29pm
On August 25,2011 in the afternoon, I was standing in my kitchen when all of a sudden I felt like I had a thread of Light.
It was going through the core of my body.
A very small thread,like sewing thread.
But my thought was it was Light.
I instantly realized I felt no fear.
This feeling was followed by bliss and feeling unconditional Love.
My first thought was...I have a brain tumor.
I have a brain tumor and something is touching something in there that is making me feel this amazing feeling.
A feeling I never had felt before.
But something about this did not ring true to me and since I had no fear, I set that thought aside,to be looked at later.
My next thought was...I have gone crazy.
After all the previous three years had brought dramatic ghanges in my life.
My 18 year marriage ended.
My business ended.
I lost the house.
Lost all my financial security.
AND was hearing things, seeing things, feeling things, dreaming things, my body was doing weird things...
So going crazy was logical, I had been telling my kids this for quite a while...your mom is going nuts...
I thought if this is crazy...I am ok with it.
Lock me up,as long as I feel like this I will be happily crazy.
But something did not ring true in my heart, I was not crazy, and so I let that thought go too.
As soon as I put those two fears aside, the small thread grew.
It now felt like a cable of Light running through me.
Like a fiber optic cable full of Light.
I instantly felt a connection to Father Creator and Mother Earth.
Like I was a bridge of Light between the two.
I felt I was without a doubt a spiritual being in a physical body experiencing life here on Earth.
A child of God.
A part of Source.
An aspect of the Creator.
My next thought was...I have shifted and connected to the grid!!!!! ( Fire up the grid as SensiPeter has always said...)
Now mind you I had NO IDEA what that meant but it filled me with joy!
I then saw my life, before it was puzzle pieces scattered everywhere, making no sense.
Now it made a picture which was beautiful.
It was my life.
I understood why I was a baby left at a hospital.
Why my dad died when I was seven.
Why my first husband killed himself.
Why everything had happened as it had.
I understood it all.
And it all culminated at this moment,with me standing in my kitchen.
The next thing that happened was that I understood things,things about physics and math that I didn't even know existed.
The space in between and such...
Things I did not learn in school,for those subjects did not appeal to me growing up,and numbers were not my thing...I was ADD and dyslexic.
My college dregree is in psychology and I had to take one math course to graduate, statistics,which I called sadistics because that course almost killed me.
I stood in my kitchen dumbfounded.
Picked up the phone and called the one person who came to mind at that moment.
My partner's sister.
She is an amazing acupuncturist and we had spoken about karma and such the last time we had seen each other.
I said to her... I was standing in my kitchen and I felt this thread of Light and then!!!!!...and I told her the whole story.
There was complete silence on the other end.
I remember thinking...she is calling the looney bin and they are coming to get me...
And then she said, " OMG! you have just had a spontaneous spiritual awakening,a kundalini awakening!!! I have been trying to experience that all my life!!!"
To which I responded...WTF is that!!!!!?????
You see I had no idea about any of THIS.
None.
Zero.
Zip.
2012 meant nothing.
Lightworkers didn't exist.
God was a little old man that sat on a throne...with angels playing the harp and singing...
I am not kidding you.
I was deep asleep.
Deep in the 3d world.
Fully immersed in the density of Mother Earth.
Forgot it all.
That was a wild day.
When my partner came home and I told him what had happened he freaked out.
Later I had a past life experience and he was part of it.
He freaked out.
He has been freaked out quite a bit since that beautiful day.
He is agnostic.
Has a masters in physics.
Funny hahahaha.
He is still asleep.
He now says I am his science experiment.
However he is starting to think I am not from around these parts...Duh?? You think???
The next day I went to brush my teeth.
Could not put toothpaste in my mouth.
For about a week I brushed my teeth with water, kinda gross I know, but there was something wrong with toothpaste.
Found out about fluoride calcifying the pineal gland.
Now I use fluoride free toothpaste and my teeth feel great.
My pineal gland is feeling pretty good too.
That happened eight months ago.
I found out about spiritual awakening on you tube.
Cried for hours when I read the signs of spiritual awakening and saw that I had like 36 out of 40 of them.
And here I thought I was going crazy...
Cried when I found Lightworkers.org.
People were writing things here that were what I was thinking and feeling and dreaming about!!!
I was not alone.
I will never be alone again.
I never was.
Since that day, my magical thursday as I call it, to say I have remembered a lot is an understatement LOL!
I have always lived a crazy fast life with many lives within it, and my awakening has been the same.
Crazy and fast.
And glorious.
And amazing.
And strange.
With much release and discovering.
Very tough at times.
And I am so thankful for all of it.
So today I share my story with my family because through me you too are experiencing my remembering.
As I want to hear about yours.
Facinated by it really.
All the ways in which we are all experiencing this time.
Today I want to remind you that what is happening IS real.
Our brothers and sisters are waking up.
Just as I did.
All the "hardships" that we are all going through are not in vain.
We really are making a difference.
We are grounding in the Light.
Strenghtening the grid.
It is a HUGE group effort.
The number of "groups of consciousness" involved in our expansion are beyond our imagination.
Do not doubt yourselves at this stage of the game.
You have done this before.
In different places.
In different dimensions.
In different ways.
Keep Shining.
Stay centered and go with the flow.
Feel what you are transmuting and then let it go.
Remember who you are.
Have faith in yourself.
Believe in your abilities.
Believe in yourself.
Do I miss the belief of God as a kind old man full of love, sitting on the throne with angels singing?
No I do not, for my Creator is limitless, as I am.
So much more than...
As we ALL are.
In Light and Love and Humble Gratitude to be here at this time with you all.
Have a beautiful day my Light Family.
You shine so bright!
: )
marie
Teaching
23 Apr 2012 - 10:03am
And the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters,
and God said, Let there be light... Gen. 1:2-3
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LIGHT AND DARKNESS
II. Free-Will
Julie Redstone
www.lightomega.org
At the dawn of Creation, it was God's plan, born out of love, to give to all souls the precious gift of freedom. This gift enables each soul to become a complete self with unqualified existence. Without free-will, existence would be qualified as choices would not be fully open. As such, souls would not be able to participate in the sacred Covenant with the Divine which involves the ability to choose God or to turn away - to choose to live in the presence of the sacred or to deny that presence. Free-will allows each self to become whole and to become whole in God.
Some have wondered whether such freedom is worth the extreme pain and sense of isolation that has been part of the human experience, for the consequences of human freedom have been both glorious and tragic. And yet without such freedom, we could not become the individuals that we are. We could not become a fully-formed self. In order for selfhood - the individuation of Divine consciousness - to take place, freedom had to be.
This gift of our own existence is a gift of Divine love. It allows us to shape our own futures and to choose whatever path we wish toward the Divine. We can also choose to turn away from the Divine, and yet there is an evolutionary 'pull' that calls each soul to the place of return. One cannot turn away from the Divine path without ultimately turning away from one's own deepest truth.
Historically, and especially within the western spiritual traditions, the path of return has been called redemption. Today, the redemptive path is also called purification - the means of returning to God's sacred reality. We choose this means when we embrace the light within us while acknowledging the darkness as well. We also choose this means when we embrace God's love as our own love for others. This movement of awareness allows the darkness within to separate from the light while we stand in the presence of trust and love.
The power of light is the strongest force in Creation. It can redeem all that is separated. It is the same force through which all of Creation came into being. To participate in this healing is to align with light and not darkness. It is to choose wholeness and love over all else that may claim one's involvement.
The process of purification is based on our desire to live in wholeness and to serve life and God in love and truth. Such a desire opens the way for light to begin to flow through us as we strive to become light. It leads to the overcoming of the power formerly given to darkness and separation.
The light that we choose is a Divine light that belongs to all souls. It has nothing to do with doctrine or belief and can be invoked, prayed to, felt, and participated in by anyone of any background. It is the light of our Divine essence as well as the light through which all things came into being. It is this sacred light that is the heritage of all children of God and the means for returning home.
Blog entry
23 Apr 2012 - 2:26am
Once again I find myself in beautiful Colorado and I want to share this beautiful place with with my Light family.
This place is truly magical and I feel so connected to the Spirit of Mother Earth when I visit here...
it seems the last four weeks have really drained me and being here is just what I needed to heal.
Remember that when the world gets to be too much, there is no better cure than Nature.
She really is just waiting to open up her arms and embrace us with her beauty and love and healing.
I hope you enjoy seeing this as much as I enjoyed taking these pictures.
In Light and Love and Humble Gratitude to be here to experience this Amazing Mother Earth.
: )
Marie
Blog entry
21 Apr 2012 - 12:20am
When the dark is at rest, the light begins to move.
~~~~~ The Secret of the Golden Flower
Just how do we deal with agitations of the dark? How do we make our way through the tangle of being
confused or sad or blocked in understanding a way to tomorrow? It seems natural enough to treat
our problems like an overgrown path and go hacking our way through, doing small violence to ourselves.
Yet this insight from an ancient Chinese text (above) implies something harder and simpler. It implies
that agitation itself is dark, that only when we can keep our hands off will there be room for light.
How many times have I examined and re-examined the words of another in my mind, growing dark vines
by going over and over what was said: What could it mean? What could all that wasn't said mean?
What must I now do in response or in non-response? The thought-weeds grow, blocking the light.
I laugh when I think of how many hours I have spent in my life weaving storylines that never came true
until, like weeds, they covered my heart. It is as if the light, in infinite patience, won't force itself into our
hearts. No, it seems to wait and wait for us to open, content to fill whatever small space we can clear
in ourselves.
It seems that agitations of the dark always cover over. For myself (author), I worker for years covering over
sore lesions of esteem with agitations of achievements. Only when I put the achievements aside did the
light begin to move. Only then did a Universal warmth reach my sore center. Only when I let the dark
energies rest did I begin to heal.
Suggestions :
* Consider something you are re-examining in your mind.
* Breathe deeply, and if you can, stop thinking about it.
* Let your breath part the dark thoughts, so the light of being can reach the
sore center that wants to be held.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~* )O( * )O( * )O( *~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Taken from: The Book of Awakening
by Mark Nepo ~
Blog entry
20 Apr 2012 - 8:24pm
My daughter works for the Office of Medical Investigations of our state. That means that when she is on call she goes to the scene of a death and pronounces the person dead, and investigates the scene to determine the cause of death.
On a metaphysical level, the death of people is very telling. I can say, with few exceptions, that the deaths she has investigated in the past year were not expected by the people who died.
I bring this up today because I wonder, if we knew that this might be our last day on the planet, what would we do differently? Would we eat a cookie, or a piece of chocolate? Would we allow ourselves to buy something a bit indulgent rather then telling ourselves, "I can't afford that!"
Often times we are so diligent in our strict adherent to discipline that our lives begin to lack joy.
One of the deaths my daughter went to investigate was a young man who had a stroke, out of the blue. He was apparently in good health. His weight was within the range of what we would describe as healthy. He rode his bike each day, back and forth to work. By the side of the bed was his food diary. He had written down each and everything he ate that week, and even that day.
In this, and other cases I have heard of, I couldn’t help but wonder if he had known he was dying that day would he have allowed himself one cookie, or a piece of really good dark Belgian chocolate?
I watch my weight, and I exercise, but I have come to the conclusion that this life is very, very short. I have resolved not to be a fanatic anymore when it comes to enjoying myself a bit more.
If I want a cookie, I will have one. If I want chocolate, I will not eat a whole candy bar, but I will indulge in one nice square of excellent quality dark chocolate.
One other thing I wonder about, is the following; would we treat other people kinder if we knew that it was going to be our last moments with them? How sad it is to hear of the passing of a relative or good friend that we were thinking of, but just never got around to calling? What if we lash out at loved one in anger and that is the last time we speak to them?
In many cases people will say, "I spoke with him or her, this afternoon and everything seemed fine. I am so glad that I got that last chance to speak with him or her!"
If you are like me spirit whispers in your ear from time to time, "Call "so and so."
In the past I would often blow that off, with, "I will do that tomorrow, I am so busy right now!" But seeing how folks react that have someone go unexpectedly, that they haven't spoken to in a while, has been a good lesson for me. Now when spirit whispers a persons name in my ear, I stop, and text them or call them immediately to let them know I am thinking of them, and I love them.
Life is to be joyful! Life is not to be full of self-punishment or self-indulgence, but there is a happy medium. We must have surprises, and allow ourselves to play and enjoy treats occasionally.
Think back on your happiest childhood memories, a lot of them include a special treat. Watermelon in the backyard during a barbeque, or s'mores eaten rather messily during a camp out with our familes, these memories often bring smiles on our faces when we remember those times of joy!
Discipline is good, but lets always remember that Spirit wants to lead us joyfully down our path, and if that includes a special treat now in then, we should go ahead and enjoy!
I resolve to make each and every day count, and to live each day as if it were my last, because who knows when it just may be our last?
Story
20 Apr 2012 - 6:24pm
Give THANKS for the Opportunities
Serapis Bey’s Weekly Message ~ April 20 – 27, 2012
Channeled by: Julie Miller
April 20, 2012
I primarily work in the capacity that helps bring balance and order when your own world and inner-self is faced with deep turmoil and chaos. It is through me dear ones that you will learn the difference between realistic rationality and ardent reactions; in other words, the Yin and Yang. When I am asked to work with you, I will show you as simply as possible either Yin or Yang, the opportunities presented to you to balance the inner turmoil that can often affect your daily living and in time have an effect on your spiritual health. Dear ones, with every experience you confront that seems to cause a great impact in a negative way, by being observant with constant effort and tenacity you can find and receive deep and perfect balance within your Self. When you are moving through the efforts to make this occur, you will eventually find if you are paying attention the growth that you have wanted to achieve into your Higher Self. It is the Higher Self, the soul self that yearns for the original push for that expansion towards Perfection. While on the search for balance, dear ones you will also notice you will have to dig into deep waters for that inner-knowledge that is lacking and in the ways of providing understanding. At times this is an uneasy process only because most of you are unaware of any understanding that you are possibly missing, until a time arises in a situation that causes you to sit up and question. During such times it is common and noticed that the confusion that occurs during such circumstances can be annoying and cause some frustration upon yourselves. Be kind to yourself and love yourself. This is all part of the challenge of knowing oneself. Don’t be hard on yourself for not knowing something. Learn to understand the meaning of why you are in need of a lesson at that particular moment. Through the understanding you will find relief from the confusion dear ones.
With each and every opportunity be thankful for the opportunities that have been presented to you that have led to growth in both your personal and spiritual life. It is your emotional attitude and feelings and the ability to be able to reason rationally that will serve you the best than any fit of anger or use of cold detachment. Regardless which of these out-of-balance responses you tend to use, they are there because you tend to deny the seriousness of the situation until you are nearly literally pushed against the proverbial wall. There is a middle balance that can be reached if you are willing to make the effort to reach it. Like anything else dear ones, it is up to you make the conscious choice of what you want to do at each moment. If you truly wish to find the middle balance or work on finding perfect balance, you will make the effort.
Without trying to frighten you, I will tell you now, each of you will face something that will be considered traumatic and difficult to what you think of using those words. This only means there will be big changes, challenges, lessons, and events that will take place over the next few weeks, months and even years. I am not going to forecast when exactly but only to tell you what you are doing now, will help you prepare for those situations when they do occur. Having the right attitude and learning how to cope with loving intent in all your actions will contribute in the ease of those situations when they do come. Taking heed prior to the arrival of any unexpected event might help you develop and move past the subconscious need to repeat certain experiences over again. You have already seen and done so much already. You know the lessons you learned already. No matter what your age or level of spiritual experience or achievement, there will always be something more to learn from and develop. Lessons, tests, challenges and so on occur all the time. There is never any grading done by me, by God or any other spiritual person that works with you. The only one who does the grading is you. I ask you to cease the unnecessary grading and love yourself throughout the journey you are on dear ones. Before you show others kindness, give yourself some. Do not deprive yourself of your own essentials for a harmonious living and life.
Each day is open opportunity to prepare yourself mentally with confidence, reminding yourself of your strength and courage. Providing yourself with love and compassion will aid in your unwavering connection to your God-Self that is a force of unmistakable strength and is there for you to access when you are in need of any thrust or boost during any chaotic moment that has transpired into your life. For any situation, find a way to stabilize your emotional state and bring an instant calm to your mind, body and spirit. This is something like reprogramming yourself as one does a computer when there is need to correct something that is no longer serving well or efficiently enough. Create a question and feedback scenario dear ones and use them as a guide to any possible outcome. When creating your feedback to the questions, think with truth and honesty what response for you that would be most effective for all that could be involved and that is from the heart that shines your God-Self.
Dear ones, a lengthy discussion is at hand today but an important one. No matter what the situation that has presented itself to you, ensure you call for the Light of God to protect you and guide you towards a plausible direction. By doing this, your focus is reinstated and your connection to yourself and God is reaffirmed. Believe and KNOW with absolute conviction that you can handle the situation that you will face. Believe and UNDERSTAND God will never give you more than you can handle. Trust in yourself and in your connectedness with God. There have been some instances dear ones when God Himself has carried his children through the hardest of situations. He never turns His back on you, no matter what some may think. In your belief of yourself, of God you will calm the fear-type reactions. You will have created and found techniques that will bring peace to the emotional tendencies that tend to overwhelm you normally. With the peace and calm you bring to any situation, your clarity will open and more rational thought patterns will emerge and give you a stronger ability to not only communicate with confidence but to be confident in all instances. Remember dear ones; we are with you when you call us to support you through any storm of any size. Even with the newly found confidence your energy can feel depleted. Call on me, or any Master, angel or guide. We will help provide that extra bit of strength you need to get through the toughest hurdle.
When scary situations arise, find a quiet place and ask yourself “What are the entirety of my choices?” also “What can I do that would be most effective for everyone, not only for myself?” There just might be some instances when you will have to reject certain possibilities by examining that would normally only work to bring out any additional unwelcomed circumstances. Definitely remove the possible need to scream or react in an undesirable manner. Such outbursts could easily compound any situation. Remember dear ones; calm and peace.
No matter what you know and believe you are never a victim. Every single experience regardless if they are thought as good or bad are there for reasons. It is you that have made choices and it is you that is the creator of your experiences. All the challenges that you have met thus far have come for your own growth. This may sound upsetting especially for those who have been through incredibly painful traumas at the hands of someone else. It still comes down to choice dear ones. And the ones causing the pain also had a choice to make. And both could have chosen differently.
I am here today through your sister to encourage you to prepare yourself for the possible “what-if” that will occur at some point. Pay attention to details to what is happening around you dear ones. By being able to prepare yourself ahead of time and you find yourself in a state or situation you have already chosen not to be in, you will have in place what you need to do to remove yourself by pulling yourself together rationally without panic or disorder. Your body will tell you with very specific signs when you are in a state of survival mode even from the smallest notion. The most important thing I want to stress on is to not shut down due to fear or overwhelmed emotions that will only deplete your lovely energy. Practice the techniques that are best for you for finding calm quickly and effectively during any emergency or situation. Look at the small irritations that cause high flare ups of tension and anger. When you feel yourself become heated and on the verge of spilling foul language and obscenities, catch yourself and stop yourself with the methods you found useful. Quickly look at the situation and realize YOU have POWER and the KNOWLEDGE to correct this before it becomes ugly. Find that balance you have painstakingly worked on dear ones. It will make you feel better and all that is involved feel better too even if they never admit it.
We will continue with our discussion next week through your sister. I am grateful and honoured to always work through her and to speak to all of you. Accept that my love and support will always be available if and when you require it. You only need to stress what you wish with the purest of intent and heart. Until next week I salute and bless you as you manoeuvre with great effort through your journey.
And so it is, Serapis Bey through Julie Miller
Blog entry
19 Apr 2012 - 9:49pm
While walking our path on our life-journey, we often get stuck. Being stuck is not fun. The universe has a lesson for us to learn. Sometimes in our stubborn desire to do everything our own way, we may find that we encounter the same unpleasant situation, in different forms, time after time.
We may get sick and tired of going around the same mountain, over and over and getting nowhere. It's in those desperate moments that we finally say, "Okay, this is not working for me. What am I supposed to be learning here?
We need to be careful what we ask for. If we ask for patience, for instance, we will surely find ourselves in situations that try our patience. Life is a school, and we are passing and failing in many area's each day. None of us has truly "made it." We can still learn more each and every day.
I find that moving through the area of "judgment of others" is one of the most trying of the life lessons. However, the goal is to get over our preconceived judgment of others that we were programmed with, through well meaning parents.
I noticed as I started trying to overcome judgmental attitudes that some of the very same things we judge others for, we do ourselves.
One day I asked Spirit, "Why do I do something myself, and think it's perfectly all right, but then turn around and judge someone else who does the same thing?" I begin to understand that I looked at myself through rose-colored glasses, but looked at others with a magnifying glass.
We tend to make all kinds of excuses for our own behavior, but when someone else does the same thing we are often merciless.
I began to notice that my judgmental attitude was often an offshoot of my own negative attitudes at times. I spent too much time, in the past, thinking about what was wrong with another person and zeroing in on behaviors that I found unpleasing to me.
In the journey of overcoming judgmental attitudes, I have found that it helps to force my mind to think on the things that I find positive about another person. As in most things it is simply a matter of changing our way of looking at things.
I was amazed that as I quit nitpicking, and instead thinking of good things that I saw in other individuals, I increased my positive relationships with other people. I attracted nice people, the nicer I myself became.
As I learned to give others the benefit of a doubt, they began to be more forgiving of my faults.
If the goal is to have abundant life flowing from me and to me, I must guard my judgment of others.
It feels so calming to just let others be themselves, without me judging them and metaphorically picking what I perceived to be the "Bad Fruit" off the tree of the lives of others.
As we become less and less judgmental others will benefit from being around us, but the truth is that we are the ones who benefit the most from non-judgmental attitudes.
Blessings and Light on your path!
© Catrina Muhle
Blog entry
19 Apr 2012 - 12:20am
~**~ Mother Earth looks Beautifully stunning today. ~**~
Another set of eyes will have a different perception.
Our inner and outer world is made up of how we perceive anything.
~**~ One person sees through eyes of Love ~**~
Yet another will see through eyes of hurt and despair.
When Love wins through all of the emotions we feel within,
We will see that Love is the energy that heals and nurtures
~**~ our entire Being! ~**~
The Power of Love over-rides all other emotions..........
When we stay connected to our spiritual essence
~**~ Our True Selves ~**~
Love ~ Tara *~
Story
18 Apr 2012 - 6:27pm
The PULSE of God’s Love
Message from Ascended Master, Lady Nada
Channeled by: Julie Miller
April 18, 2012
I come to your aid through communications on all levels and to nurture you regardless if you are male or female. It is only natural that through the work you move in and out from, from all the learning and growth of awareness, perception and expanded consciousness to have occasional moments of self-doubt. For some dear ones, this self-doubt can lead into a temporary blindness of appreciating your self-worth and that you have contributed so far. The energy you willingly share does become heavy from the various degrees of other people whom you are in contact with and where their energy flow is at. Through the many interactions, low riding energy waves and cords became ensnared and attached to your own energy field; causing the feeling of being pulled down. I ask you and tell you during such a moment; stand strong. Remember to call in the Violet Flame often and invoke your guides, make use of precious crystals, and find a means that helps you cope and relieve the pressure interactions and the reciprocated energies can cause. Most often, the ones carrying these energies are not aware, and do not mean to cause any amount of harm. Accept them, forgive and love them. Through them you are able rise, become stronger and even more in-tune with your own Oneness.
Remember dear ones the nurturing Mother of Creation lives in the male species as well as the females. When it comes to understanding there is no difference to what your exterior body represents. When you reach your higher self, you reach a higher understanding where there is perfect and total balance of self and harmony within the world which you reside. You will have flow and integration, the only difference you will find is the experiences you bring to share in order to aid in learning and in understanding of each other. By reaching the mothering and nurturing part of yourself, you are able to easily provide true, deep compassion and unconditional love. There is no room for the Ego to reside here, only love and an open mind. Each of you will reach the Christ of yourself when you are ready and have accepted and worked through every aspect of yourself and have become one with not only yourself but with God. True dedication and commitment to finding and delivering yourself in the highest of good in all action, thought, spoken word, written word, feelings and more is all relevant to fulfilling your spiritual cause and duty to yourself that will be amiably noticed by those that are closest to you.
Many souls who are here to guide, assist, and to teach more often than not find themselves repeating instruction, re-telling the same thing many times over. There is no right or wrong here, just means the garden you are trying to seed, just needs a little more time and patience. Try other approaches, methods that are gentle and useful for continued ministration. Sometimes the seed has to be planted more than once before a sprout rises and grows into a beautiful flower or harvest. This is a time to revaluate your own attributes, especially patience. There are dear ones some seeds that don’t grow when you want them to. They appear to have a growth expectancy of their own and do very little. When you must, step back and let your efforts be. Appreciate the effort you have applied in helping another person selflessly and respect and love yourself for the love and compassion you had shown. You will know when your efforts are needed again. The dear soul who you are guiding and aiding is doing their best to understand. Sometimes as parents, we must stand back, loosen the reins of our children and see where they roam and trust they stay on the path you have outlined for them. As guides, helpers, coaches, etc., it is important and okay to think of yourself as parent to another even if that other being is an adult such as yourself.
For every action you take to be of the highest of good, you must be working through and from your God-Self and from your loving heart. The path each of you has embarked upon is not to finding yourself dear ones, but to supply the needs of others in the highest purpose of your experiences and capability. And through this investigative part of your journey you will arrive at the truth of ALL that is. When you finally reach a pinnacle part of your journey where you no longer have needs or wants, and you can honestly think for yourself purely and with love, and think of how rich you are in the knowledge and understanding of God, then it is home you have arrived. This is the perfection to be seeking. Completeness in health, abundance in wealth and happiness do not necessarily bring you to the purest state of your spiritual existence. You have read much documentation of many deeply spiritual people around your world that are bearing the burdens of life and are subjected to poverty and have little or nothing. Additionally, the most spiritual persons have been known to have incurable diseases or with other ailments. What you can count in your pocket, change purse or bank account does not account to what is in your heart. The poorest of person, has been found to be deepest with spirituality and faith. You already know of two; dear Jesus and beloved Buddha. Let us not forget Gandhi, Mother Theresa and others who have been given sainthood throughout history. They knew they were looked after, their faith even through troubled times, never wavered. I ask of you dear souls, through the troubled waters you may find, hold fast and believe in the power of yourself and in the Might of the Lord and of God, your heavenly Father.
I have come through your sister today and through the pulse of God’s love that moves across the Universe throughout all eternity in ripples to express the summoning of the rise of your consciousness. To encourage you to capture the awareness that is right before you that brings truth to the life you casually move through. Go within and evolve yourself from the darkness and chaos and arrive in the light of God and of your own true heart.
The light that you bring, that glows all around you is infinite as the stars in the sky. When you arrive to the stillness of your mind through the heart that is filled with only unconditional love, meditate upon God’s love and move into His heart from the flow of rhythm that forever binds you everlasting to Him. Release all energy of the day and flow into the inner chambers of your heart dear ones; see your energy spiral like a beautiful and marvelous dancer in-tune with the lead spirit or body. God is with you at every step. Know in your heart if you cannot see the Light of God that God is always with you. Trust in what you know in heart of hearts what is true. And with that truth understand the same truth may be different for another person. Respect and love each other dear ones. Your paths and journeys may be different and there will be some similarities, learn to give and take respectively and with kindness. Underneath all the skin and bones, is the same beating heart that is forever connected to God.
And with that our discussion has come to an end. Reach for my Violet and Golden colour when you are in need to connect and for support and guidance. I will always outstretch my hand for you to take and love you each step of your journey.
I AM Ascended Master, Lady Nada through Julie Miller
Blog entry
18 Apr 2012 - 1:30pm
Welcome to Brenda's Blog
Channeled by Brenda Hoffman for www.LifeTapestryCreations.com
Summary of Brenda’s April 15, 2012 free, 15-minute, channeled “Creation Energies” show at www.BlogTalkRadio.com/brenda-hoffman: Many are now leaving earth. Are you mourning deeply – or not at all? “Shoulds” are judgements. Judgement is not part of joy.
Title of last week’s “Brenda’s Blog” – her free, weekly, channeled blog for www.LifeTapestryCreations.com: ”Are You Crossing Your Joy Bridge?”
Dear Ones,
You are letting go of so many pieces of your Old Age life. Some of you are excited to do so. Others feel as if parts of you are torn from you.
As you move further into this New Age, such shifts will become easier.
Moving into joy requires reviewing all parts of your being – including those no longer right for the new you. But by doing so, you might find yourself releasing pieces you believed were your strength, purpose or joy.
With bittersweet joy, you may be letting go of pieces and people you once thought would be in your current earth life forever.
Or you may find that those pieces or people you thought would leave becoming a loving part of your new life.
It is all very confusing. That which you thought would stay is leaving; and that which you thought would leave is staying. Your emotional world may be in an upheaval you did not anticipate when you accepted your New Age/new earth role.
Maybe you are wishing to return to what was. That is not possible. Like early United States pioneers, you have come too far to turn back and yet not far enough to fully reap the rewards of your new life.
You have many more skills than was true even a few months ago. But those skills do not yet allow you to create the relationships you are starting to crave. Such skills have to be developed.
You are beginning to experience joy through your manifestation skills – discovering that if you think of an object or activity it soon appears. But you have yet to master the totality of manifestation. Those objects or activities you are now manifesting may be surprising to you, but often forgettable because your manifestations are not “big” enough.
If you could created a two hundred room mansion by merely raising your arm, you would believe in your manifestation powers. Instead, you are creating the environment which will eventually produce a lovely home or finding the dress you have searched for. Not big, “CAN YOU BELIEVE IT!” manifestations. But little synchronicities that are starting to create the life of ease you dream of. A bit like Jack in the Beanstalk’s mother throwing out Jack’s magic beans because she could not envision the glorious rewards the beanstalk would produce.
Your magic beans are sprouting. And your mature beanstalk will be obvious in the not-to-distant future.
In the meantime, many of your loved ones are leaving earth.
Perhaps you feel that your magic beans hold no joy without that certain someone. Please remember that all entities are on unique paths leading to the same place – but not in the same way or time.
Of course, you pine for loved ones who leave earth – you are human. In truth, the New Age has expanded your humanness by encouraging you to feel more. That is the dichotomy of the pain you feel for loved ones who leave earth before you are comfortable with them doing so.
You are pining to interact physically with loved ones who left the earth plane. Such is not possible. No matter how many dimensional veils lift, your loved one will never again be in the same physical form in this lifetime. You can shift YOUR dimension to interact with them in a format comfortable for both of you – but your loved one cannot return to physical form without a rebirth.
Even though you have an earth body, soon – if it is not already happening – you will “travel” to other dimensions and interact with your loved one in an appropriate meeting place. You have the magic beans. You just have not yet allowed those beans to grow into the beanstalk that will transport you through the dimensional veils.
Your loved ones leave earth when it is correct for them. They do not do so to make you lonely or unable to cope. They continue to be with you in so many ways. You just cannot yet discern their new methods of interacting with you – but you soon will.
Is our discussion comforting for those of you who have recently lost a loved one? Most likely not. You cry and mourn and thrust your fists to the sky for taking your loved one from you. Not yet understanding that they wanted/needed to leave to fulfill their New Age role.
What if you depended on them for emotional, physical or spiritual assistance and their gift to you is allowing you to know that you no longer need care taking?
Even though pain and fear remain part of your emotional repertoire, both are now painted with less vibrant colors. Joy is the brightest color possible.
Will you grieve for years? Perhaps – but not likely. For as you become accustomed to your loved one’s transition, you will understand the beauty of that person knowing you were capable of living on earth without them. A bit like wishing your first grade teacher would follow you from grade to grade, only to discover that the information offered by your new teachers is more than your first grade teacher is capable of teaching you.
Does that mean that those of you who have lost a loved one will wake up tomorrow in joy because they have transitioned? No. But you will realize eventually that you are fully capable of living in joy without their physical presence. For trying to hold on to them emotionally is to reduce your learning during this wondrous transition.
Your loved one was not “bad” for you – merely a stepping stone to your glorious New Age being. Yes, you can communicate with them in your sleep and wake states – and you will do so more and more as you expand your New Age skills. But that communication in this lifetime will never again be physical. Nor will you find the need to rely on their wisdom more than your own.
It is perhaps difficult for you to read these words for the entity we are speaking of may have been the love of your life.
Your loved one has released you so you can move forward. In turn, they have released their earth body so they can move forward.
That is not to say you cannot mourn. Mourning is an emotion that is perhaps more colorful now than was true when it was a societal dictate. Cry for months if that feels right. Or go on with your life if that is correct for you. There are no rules for mourning or recovery. There is just you.
Your loved one left because it was time for him or her to do so. Nothing more or less. So be it. Amen.
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Blog entry
17 Apr 2012 - 11:17am
Aho
I am going to teach you something that your mother never taught you. She taught you, as a child, that
you were somehow responsible for making her happy. She used her happiness level to manipulate you
into doing what she wanted you to do. She put you responsible for making her happy. She said if you
do this and this and don’t do that I will be happy with you and love you. In this way she taught you that
other people can make you feel happy or sad etc. But this was a tactic she used artificially to make you
obedient to her, both to keep you safe from danger and also to benefit her life directly. Can you look back
on your childhood, on just about everyone’s childhood and see that parents do use this idea of making
mommy and daddy happy to control their children?
You choose if you are going to feel happy or sad. Or angry or frustrated or depressed or excited.
Nobody on this planet can MAKE you feel sad or happy. You choose how you are going to feel at any
given moment.
These are mental logical facts I am telling you here that apply to everyone.
You cannot make me happy if I don’t choose to be happy.
You can try to make me happy by making funny faces or telling jokes or giving me
things but until I decide to be happy? Nobody can make me happy.
You cannot make anybody feel a certain way.
You are not in charge of how I choose to feel.
That is my free will right to feel good or bad or upset or mad.
You cannot change that.
Neither can anyone make you feel angry or upset or happy or free.
You choose for yourself how you are going to feel from moment to moment.
I am showing you that you are in charge of you. Right now. Today.
YOU are in control of your own thoughts and feelings, nobody else.
Teach this to your children and change the world.
Shaman Elder Maggie
http://100shamandays.blogspot.com.au/
Teaching
17 Apr 2012 - 10:02am
Why You're not Happy ~ The Joy of Being Alive
by Georgia Simone
I wrote this while I was caring for my Father when he was dying of cancer.
I had just returned from a silent retreat, where my mind had had a chance to rest from
its incessant thinking. I took myself for a walk and dropped into awe at the beauty of the
summer’s eve. I walked and walked and couldn’t believe the beauty of everything I looked at.
Even the rows and rows of identical modern housing looked stunning.
And the sky! Well, the sky was breath taking.
Do you dare to love each moment as if it were your last?
Does your heart fill with joy every time you awaken to a new day?
Does your heart drop to its knees at every sunset, every song?
No grand activities are required to express your reverence for every moment.
In fact, it may be the simple and the mundane – imbued with a sense of awe and wonder –
that fills your life with joy.
If good things come to you, and your life is filled with blessings, then savour every moment –
but don’t overlook the joy of simply being alive.
No-thing is guaranteed. Every relationship, every experience, and every success
is an offering from life. But life itself is the greatest offering!
YOU ARE ALIVE!
Taste it, love it, honor it – for it could be taken away in a flash. Don’t lose yourself in plans
for the future, without first falling in love with this moment – right now. This moment, which
is life itself, contains within it the deepest fulfillment you could wish for.
And all it requires is for you to fall in love with it.
Discover the endless depth in gratitude – gratitude for life itself – and you will always be happy.
Happiness will hunt you down and invade you. It will break into every cell and never leave you.
Never stop loving. Love for a reason, for sure. But love without a reason too.
And say thank you for everything – even when it seems crazy.
If you’re not happy, it’s because you forgot to feel gratitude for every breath.
If you’re not happy, it’s because you forgot that to be alive is the greatest gift.
If you’re not happy, it’s because you forgot to fall in love with life itself.
You have the power to live a life of undying joy. Start now by saying thank you –
with humility and devotion – say thank you for simply being alive.
And then see if there’s anything you need to simply be happy . . .
http://www.lovemovements.com/why-youre-not-happy/
Teaching
16 Apr 2012 - 10:53am
Freedom from Binding Ego Tendencies: The Essence of Spiritual Liberation
by Timothy Conway, Ph.D.
www.enlightened-spirituality.org
Short of full spiritual liberation, which is operationally defined in the Perennial Wisdom Traditions as none other than the complete cessation of the “binding,” constricting ego tendencies of attachment and aversion(variously termed samskaras, vasanas, kleshas, nafs, sins, etc.), andcessation of the ignorance which creates a sense of a separate “me”—it’squite silly to pretend to be “fully spiritually awake” and really silly to seek abdication of one’s responsibilities under the cloak that “whatever happens is perfect, whatever happens is God’s will.”
Until the authentic realization of the “effortless state” of what Advaita Vedanta calls sahaja samadhi (natural absorption in/as the God-Self, with eyes open and hands functioning) or Ch'an/Zen calls anuttara-samyak-sambodhi (complete, irreversible enlightenment), one does well to make the supreme effort to “be good, see good, do good.” In other words, as long as you still take yourself to be the separate doer, and aren’t aware ofAtma (God-Self) or Tao or Buddhata as the sole Doer in everyone, then it behooves you to be a careful, compassionate, responsible “doer”!
Yes, all of this is a DREAM, conjured up in the heart-mind of the Divine Self, and made out of the Self’s luminous love. But we (the Divine Self in disguise) MUST ACT IMPECCABLY WITHIN THE DREAM. All the great “nondual” mystic sages of the modern era have taught this moral wholesomeness and they wonderfully exemplified it in their own lives—great ones like Ramana Maharshi, Anandamayi Ma, Ammachi (Mata Amritanandamayi), Meher Baba, Anasuya Devi, Narayana Guru, Swami Gnanananda, Nisargadatta Maharaj, Annamalai Swami, Hsu Yun, Hsuan Hua, Harada Roshi, the XIVth Dalai Lama, the XVIth Gyalwa Karmapa, Thich Nhat Hanh, Ajahn Chah, Shaykh al-Alawi, Thomas Merton, Henri Le Saux (Abhishiktananda), Seraphim of Sarov, Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneersohn, and many others.
As for these binding, heavy likes and dislikes (we’re not talking here about harmless preferences, e.g., preferring brown rice to white rice)—a good sign of spiritual progress is that these tendencies, these karmic habit-patterns of the egoic soul, become thinned out as one lets go, lets God. So, even if it seems that one can’t right now entirely drop certain “unwholesome” or “sinful” patterns of pride, anger, greed, lust, hatred, revulsion, apathy, disgust, envy, jealousy, shame, guilt, pettiness, and so forth, one can endeavor to have these patterns thinned out—letting them arise and pass away more quickly by simply seeing them off. One realizes, as the Buddha so often advised 2500 years ago about any body-mind identifications, “This is not me, this is not mine, this is not my Self.”
To illustrate: if one can let go of anger or greed or fear so that the emotion hangs around for only a few minutes instead of a few hours, or, better, a few seconds instead of a few minutes, that’s real spiritual progress!
Of course, the God-Self within, the Inner Guru, Atma, Tao or Spirit, may in certain periods of life set up very interesting “challenges” or “tests” to see if one is truly ameliorating or lessening the force of these egoic tendencies of attachment and aversion. Once one sincerely says “Yes” to the spiritual process of awakening to God-Realization, this “testing” or “quickening” process occurs quite frequently—especially in the presence of an especially powerful holy sage, who can serve as a real magnet to draw these tendencies from the subconscious to the surface so that they can be "seen off" and thereby released.
Hence, we can simply be the free Witness of the life-movie. We can relax and let the Grace and good times flow, being careful to insure that old selfish conditioning or ego-tendencies don’t distort or usurp the process.
May all beings awaken from this Dream to the clarity of the Divine “Lucid Dreamer,” the Divine Being-Awareness-Bliss Absolute (Sat-Cit-Ananda), the Infinite, Eternal God-Self.
Teaching
16 Apr 2012 - 10:38am
Turn Peace of Mind Into a Habit
by By Remez Sasson
www.successconsciousness.com
What do you prefer, a restless, agitated mind or peace of mind? Do you enjoy tension and mental unrest or do you prefer a calm and peaceful mind?
Peace of mind is conductive to better emotional and physical health, increased energy, stronger mental powers, improved memory and a better ability to learn and study. It also helps handling more efficiently the daily affairs of life, and stressful and difficult situations and circumstances.
Do you know that a stronger concentration ability brings deeper peace of mind, and a quiet mind strengthens the ability to concentrate? These two abilities are interconnected.
We live in a world where fear, strain and restlessness abound. You might think that there is nothing to do about it, and accept this situation as an inevitable evil, but you don't have to. You can experience inner peace even under stressful conditions and circumstances, but it does not come instantly. It is developed gradually through special training.
Just think how important it is for you. Become convinced of its importance, and decide to do something about it.
Study and practice concentration and meditation on a regular basis, and your inner peace will grow. Repeat affirmations about peace, and eventually your mind will accept them. Visualize peaceful circumstances, and envision yourself acting calmly in situations, which usually make you feel tense and nervous.
Daily practice will calm down your mind. This calmness will influence your inner being, your body, your circumstances and the people you meet. It will transform you into a peacefulness and calmness generator.
If you are afraid that peace of mind might make your life dull, uninteresting and boring, you do not have to worry about that. You can enjoy life with a peaceful mind. In fact you will enjoy it more, because you will experience calmness, happiness and inner strength. You will not feel threatened by anything. You will have constant inner joy.
You might need to give up some activities that agitate your mind, but the rewards are greater than the pleasure these activities cause you. When you start experiencing real peace, you will love and enjoy it. It will become more precious to you, than many other activities you loved and enjoyed until now.
You will be able to enjoy an action movie or a thriller, yet stay calm and relaxed. You will be able to enjoy a football game, while at the same time your mind is calm and unagitated. You will be able to enjoy food, physical exercises, your hobbies or anything else, without stress and strain.
Performing inner work, such as meditation and concentration, will ultimately turn peace of mind into a natural habit.
Think about all the anger, resentment, unhappiness, physical and mental tension, nervousness, strife and the waste of time and energy that results from lack of inner peace, and you will start to appreciate the importance of gaining real peace of mind.
Blog entry
15 Apr 2012 - 3:50pm
When we hold onto pain, resentment, blame, judgement & shame (and sometimes we do all this even unconsciously), we hold back our own spiritual & psychic development through being unable to forgive, release & let go.
The blocks stop us from being able to go up in vibration, which can even delay spiritual leaps & iniations that we could otherwise receive right now!
More than forgiving others, what is often hidden and still something we have difficulty with, is self-forgiveness. Many of us self-blame, and self-judge in ways that are hugely detrimental to our well being (& spiritual growth!)
Learning how to live in an imperfect world!!
As human beings, we are imperfect beings and unable to live in a state of being where we behave ‘perfectly’ all of the time – to ourselves and to others!
So as we (& everyone else!) is going to constantly err & make mistakes (!) - we can make huge leaps in our consciousness by taking on a practice of moving into a constant state of forgiveness.
This might look like us consciously focusing ourselves on staying open to forgiving ourselves and others – something like, ‘oh, yes, I’ve made a mistake & been very negative/ judgemental, forgive, forgive, or yes, that person seems to have been very thoughtless to me, forgive, forgive)
Having the intent to forgive
So how can we help ourselves with this? After all most of us wouldn’t consciously choose to hold onto blocks that are holding us back & preventing optimum spiritual growth!
Well, first and foremost, we need to have the intent to forgive. We don’t have to know how. And we can ask for help with this. The practice that I’m going to give you a little further on does exactly this.
A good way to start practising forgiveness is by practising forgiving things (& people) that we know we need to forgive.
Then when we notice that we are self-blaming/ judging, we can move into self-forgiveness.
After some practice (and this really is a practice, each time you do it, you will get slightly better than the time before – so if the first time you try it, you completely fail to forgive anyone, don’t worry! As long as you have the intent to forgive and use a practice like the one following, each time you do it, the grace of the Divine, will shift you slightly forward & each time you’ll get better and better, until eventually, you’re a pro!) you can really get into the intent of moving into a constant state of forgiveness. And eventually this is exactly what will happen! Because this is how our subconscious works! The first few times we do something, it has to be a conscious effort. When we’ve done it a few more times, we don’t have to think about it so much, and it gets a little easier. The hundredth time we do it, we don’t even have to think about it, it’s so smooth and effortless for us. The thousandth time we do it, it has become part of our behaviour, and something we do automatically. As you practice forgiveness this is exactly how it will be for you & eventually (and long before the thousandth time!) you will forgive someone’s slight towards you automatically, and will have moved into a constant state of forgiveness!
Help is there for us
Luckily for us, we have some amazing spiritual energies at our fingertips, just waiting for us to call.
This practice of the threefold flame given here, calls on the combined power of the Master Jesus, the Magdalene, and their daughter Sarah, they can help you exponentially, beyond your wildest expectations!
You don’t have to know how to forgive, but you can know that if you use this practice of calling on this holy trinity, they will overlight your process and help you move through the steps you need to – in order to bring about all the forgiveness & release that you need. Just be ready to feel into and sense what it is they have to give you, and in the days after you do the practice, look for messages by listening closely to what people say to you, or what you see on television and around you in your everyday life – the Divine communicates with us via signs from everything we come into contact with in our everyday life.
How to do the practice
You can read through the practice and follow it step by step.I would suggest you call in the energies using the mantras given. Using your own voice adds power and gives you a personal connexion to them.
I’ve also recorded an MP3 ‘coming into forgiveness’, http://www.sarayei.com/downloads, if you want to have something to follow which takes you through the steps of the practice, and you can also hear how the mantras are chanted.
I’ve been using this practice for 5 years now, and I can tell you that it’s helped me move through some very difficult times, when I’ve felt I was beyond help!
I hope that you too can experience the blessed peace and love that comes with this beautiful practice,
Bright Blessings!
Rachel Goodwin.
Forgiveness exercise -The Practice of the Threefold Flame
Close your eyes and allow your mind and heart to become calm.
Feel yourself breathing in calm, and breathing out any tension, do this until you feel ‘centred’.
Ask yourself X3, ‘is there anything or anyone inside of me that needs forgiveness’
Leave a silent pause for something to arise. Accept whatever comes up first.
Holding this issue in your consciousness throughout, do the following.*
First we’ll strengthen the solar plexus chakra using the Christ mantra.
This chakra helps us to be confident, strong & powerful within our individual personality through which our soul is expressing itself in the world. It has the will & strength to motivate us to do & say what we need to say, & holds our yang, masculine solar energy.
Allow any anger, bitterness or resentment to flow now, it’s there, accept it, allow it to be.
Chant Christ mantra X3, (or more)
OM JESU CHRISTAYA PARAMATMANE PURASHA AVATARAYA NAMAHA
(Om Yea-soo Kris-teye-yah Pah-rahm-aht-mah-neh Poo-roo-shah Ah-vah-tahr-eye-yah
Nahm-ah-ha)
(from ‘Healing Mantras’, Thomas Ashley-Farrand)
Now we focus on our heart centres & the infinite love within. Go to the centre, deep inside in your heart chakra, find the love, the fluidity, the ebb & flow of the tides of love, ceaseless, eternal, infinite. Here is all the love we need to forgive ALL that needs to be forgiven.
Feel the love in your heart centre, more and more powerful with each breath.
Chant Magdalene mantra X3, (or more)
OM MATA, OM MATA MAGDALENA, MATA JAGADAMBA
(Om Mah-tah, Om Mah-Tah Magdalena, Mah-tah Jah-gah-dahm-bah)
Now we call on the energies of Lady Sarah, who blend’s the Magdalene & Christ energies, but is also something more. Her energy is the energy of dynamic action, MANIFESTING these divine energies onto the physical, ‘bringing heaven to earth’.
Chant X3
OM SRI SARAYEI NARAYANI NAMOSTUTE
(Om Shree Sah-ra-yei Na-rah-yan-nee Na-moh-stoo-the)
Now calling on Sarah’s energy, MAKE the dynamic act of forgiveness, for example you could say,
‘I forgive you, I forgive myself’ X9 (or more) to the issue and to yourself.
‘I unbind you from the fault, and so may I also be unbound by it’. Blessed be.
*if you find it helpful, you could imagine a triangle forming as you perform the mantras, with the Christ energy behind you and to your left, the Magdalene energy behind you and to your right, and Lady Sarah’s energy at the apex of the triangle, with you standing on the apex or slightly behind it, as you feel comfortable.
Notes
When practicing this, I see the Christ energy as yellow, the Magdalene energy as pink, and Lady Sarah’s energy as a bright green.
The chant to the Magdalene, is calling on her in her aspect of being Sarah’s mother, and also as a mother to the world, as she is working to birth the Magdalene flame into humanity.
Lady Sarah’s energy is at the same time, her own individual energy, (which I see as green), and also the energy she has received from her parents, the Christ and the Magdalene. These three energies exist simultaneously as individual layers of light, (yellow, green and pink) but are also one. This is Sarah’s energy as the threefold flame.
Sarah is the catalyst that alchemizes the energies and brings them into manifestation onto the earth plane. She ‘makes it so’!
The forgiveness exercise
This exercise creates a fusion of the male and female qualities which are needed to bring about dynamic acts of forgiveness in difficult situations.
If you experience any difficulties in feeling the quality of love in your heart centre when calling on the Magdalene, you could try visualizing the pink Magdalene flame burning in your heart centre, and breathe deeply into the flame, so that the light burns brighter, as if you are fanning the flame. Call on the Magdalene to help you really experience the energy of love in your heart. Then repeat the chant as feels right. Even feeling the energy of love just slightly can be enough to complete the act of forgiveness, and of course you can keep repeating the exercise until you feel happy that the matter is resolved within yourself.
When you are carrying out the exercise, just before you call on Lady Sarah, it can be powerful to feel the energy of the Christ, and the energy of the Magdalene, pouring into you from behind so that you feel yourself become the conduit of power.
When invoking Lady Sarah’s energy, you can imagine an intensely focused laser beam of light blazing fearlessly forward from the apex of the triangle. This beam is forging straight forward and lighting the path ahead, taking you into your highest potential. In this aspect Lady Sarah’s energy is symbolizing the new age of Aquarius, supported from behind by all those who have gone before, and taking us (humanity) to our new levels of vibration, to our ascension and evolution.
You are free to copy, distribute and display & perform the material presented here, as long as you give the author credit, & do not alter the work in any way without permission from the copyright holder.
© Rachel Goodwin 2012
Blog entry
14 Apr 2012 - 10:38pm
I went to the cinema today, just after midday. There were only two other people in the audience, so it almost felt like a private screening. Despite being a romantic comedy, the film made me cry a couple of times. Good, kind energy.
However, that is not what I wanted to share. I was particularly fascinated by my experience of being in the cinema.
It was a lovely sunny day outside, yet I felt very happy to be in peaceful, comforting safety of darkness.
I later shared it with my friend, who immediately suggested connection to memories of safety of the womb. That does seem logical and obvious, however I feel there’s more to this than meets the eye.
Please share your thoughts if you are guided to do so.
Love,
Oidin
Teaching
14 Apr 2012 - 11:11am
The Restless Mind - The Constantly Thinking Mind
By Remez Sasson
www.successconsciousness.com
The natural tendency of the mind is to be restless. Thinking seems to be a continuous and ongoing activity. The restless mind lets thoughts come and go incessantly from morning till night. They give us no rest for a moment. Most of these thoughts are not exactly invited; they just come, occupy our attention for a while, and then disappear.
Our true essence can be likened to the sky, and our thoughts are the clouds. The clouds drift through the sky, hide it for a while and then disappear. They are not permanent. So are thoughts. Because of their incessant movement they hide our essence, our core, and then move away to make room for other thoughts.
Thoughts resemble the waves of the ocean, always in a state of motion, never standing still. These thoughts arise in our mind due to many reasons. There is a tendency on the part of the mind to analyze whatever it contacts. It likes to compare, to reason, and to ask questions. It constantly indulges in these activities.
Everyone's mind has a kind of a filter, which allows it to accept, let in certain thoughts, and reject others. This is the reason why some people occupy their minds with thoughts about a certain subject, while others don't even think about the same subject.
Why some people are attracted to football and others don't? Why some love and admire a certain singer and others don't? Why some people think incessantly about a certain subject, and others never think about it? It is all due to this inner filter.
This is an automatic unconscious filter. We never stop and say to certain thoughts 'come' and to others we say 'go away'. It is an automatic activity. This filter was built during the years. It was and is built constantly by the suggestions and words of people we meet, and as a consequence of our daily experiences.
Every event, happening or word has an affect on the mind, which produces thoughts accordingly. The mind is like a thought factory, working in shifts day and night, producing thoughts.
The mind also gets thoughts directly from the surrounding world. The space around us is full of thoughts, which we constantly pick, let pass through our minds, and then pick up new ones. It is like catching fish in the ocean, throwing them back into the water and then catching a new ones.
This activity of the restless mind occupies our attention all the time. Now our attention is on this thought and then on another one. We pay a lot of energy and attention to these passing thoughts. Most of them are not important. They just waste our time and energy.
This is enslavement. It is as if some outside power is always putting a thought in front of us to pay attention to. It is like a relentless boss constantly giving us a job to do. There is no real freedom. We enjoy freedom only when we are able to still the mind and choose our thoughts. There is freedom, when we are able to decide which thought to think and which one to reject. We live in freedom, when we are able to stop the incessant flow of thoughts.
Stopping the flow of thoughts may look infeasible, but constant training and exercising with concentration exercises and meditation, eventually lead to this condition. The mind is like an untamed animal. It can be taught self-discipline and obedience to a higher power. Concentration and meditation show us in a clear and practical manner that we, the inner true essence, are this controlling power. We are the bosses of our minds.
Blog entry
13 Apr 2012 - 12:13pm
When we are feeling lonely, we have lost the idea that we
are all one and none of us are separate from the whole.
We all have days when we feel lonely, but the very idea of loneliness comes from the false notion
that we are separate and isolated parts in a world filled with other separate, isolated parts.
In truth, we can no more be separate from our world than a fish can be separate from the water in
which it swims. When we really begin to look at the boundaries we see as so solid, they prove to be,
in fact, quite porous. For example, it is not clear exactly where our skin ends and the air begins
when we consider how our skin is affected by changes in the quality of the air. When it is dry, our
skin becomes dry, and when it is humid, our skin becomes moist and supple.
By the same token, it is difficult sometimes to distinguish the boundary between one person and another,
especially when our actions tie us together so inextricably. Every move we make has an effect that touches
all the people around us. On an even more subtle level, when we share space with another person, we often
pick up on their energy, feeling how they feel and attuning to them, whether we mean to or not. This is what
we mean when we say a mood or a feeling is contagious. We cannot help but be part of the realities of the
people around us because we take form from the same energetic force, and this force unifies all life.
This force is the light that all the great mystics and gurus encourage us to move toward, and it is the light we
will dissolve into when we move beyond our individual egos.
If loneliness is a temporary condition based on an incomplete understanding of what we are made of,
we can think of its presence as a catalyst for exploring our ideas about reality. We can respond by
testing the boundaries we believe separate us from the life within and all around us. If we test them, we
will discover that they are not so solid after all and that we can never really be alone.
http://www.dailyom.com
Teaching
13 Apr 2012 - 11:24am
How to Choose and Benefit From Lifestyle Routines and Spiritual Practices That Are Best For You
By Roy Eugene Davis
Every person who is not yet spiritually awake consciously or unconsciously yearns to joyously exist forever. That realization is not only imagined as an ideal culmination of their long sojourn in space and time, they inwardly know that they are destined to have it because they are immortal spiritual beings playing a temporary human role. Because everyone will eventually awaken to knowledge of their true nature, I recommend that spiritual enlightenment be the primary aim in life and that we do all that we know to do to allow it to rapidly occur.
To continuously experience total well-being and progressive spiritual growth, it is best to choose routines of effective living and studies of higher realities that elicit rapid emergence of innate soul qualities and knowledge.
Choosing How to Live and Doing It Well
The Moving Finger writes, and having writ,
Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a line,
Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.
– Edward FitzGerald (1809 – 1883)
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Although our past actions cannot be changed, their effects may sometimes be modified or neutralized: physical distress related to poor health habits may be healed by implementing good habits; apologizing for inappropriate behavior or performing an act of kindness may heal a relationship; a personal or business project may be revised. Effects of recent actions which have not occurred may sometimes be prevented: a bank may be asked not to cash a check; a letter or memo may not be sent or may be intercepted or retrieved before it is delivered; a purchase order may be canceled. Anger, frustration, guilt, fear, thoughts or feelings of unworthiness, and disabling mental or emotional reactions to memories of unpleasant experiences may be neutralized by replacing them with constructive thoughts and feelings and performing constructive actions. They may be renounced (let go, released) by forgiveness (including oneself if necessary), insightful understanding, and growing to emotional maturity.
Lifestyle routines are actions, procedures, and activities we implement for our well-being and enable us to accomplish purposes of value to us and perhaps others and our environment. When choosing them, ask, “Will it be good for me and/or others and the environment?” Lifestyle routines should include personal hygiene, sleep, recreation, nutrition, exercise, work, choices of social activity, service or charitable activities, and continued learning for self-improvement and to acquire useful knowledge. Exercise your mind and brain by being alert, attentive, curious, innovative, and acquiring new skills.
Think, feel, and act as a free spiritual being expressing through your physical body. You will become more skillful and living will be more enjoyable when your knowledge and skills are used creatively and productively. Learn to easily have desires fulfilled, needs satisfied, and a continuous stream of resources and supportive events, circumstances, and relationships for your comfort and security. Be honest in personal and business relationships. Avoid relationships and activities that may cause mental or emotional unrest.
When you are becoming too stressed, tired, or overburdened, withdraw a little, rest, and examine your circumstances to determine if you need to change them or the way you view them. Other routines or projects that you want to include in your schedule of activities should be worthwhile and not distract attention from important matters or weaken or waste mental powers, vital forces, or personal material resources. Endeavor to do everything with specific intention. Don’t aimlessly wander or be easily influenced by opinions or behaviors of others.
Concentrate on essential and important matters; avoid being overly concerned about or involved with nonessential and unimportant matters. By working, achieving goals, or fulfilling desires in less time with less expenditure of energy, accomplish more or have more free time for doing other worthwhile things.
Choosing Spiritual Practices and Effectively Using Them
The devotee whose mind is disciplined, who moves in
the world with the senses controlled and is free from
attachments and aversions, is permanently tranquil.
That purity of spirit removes one from all sorrow.
[Self*] knowledge then soon prevails.
– The Bhagavad Gita 2: 64, 65
*Self English language spelling with an upper case S is used to indicate a person’s immortal essence (true nature), an individualized unit of the pure-conscious aspect of ultimate Reality, which, when completely realized (directly experienced and accurately known), results in spiritual enlightenment and liberation of consciousness.
In written Sanskrit, only lower case letters are used; meanings of identical words are indicated by how they are used in a sentence. Thus self or an equivalent word may be used for one’s essence and for an ordinary, egocentric sense of self-identity.
Effective spiritual practices:
• Calm and purify the mind. Mental impressions (memories) enable us to know our history, think, and reason. Excessive mental stimulation and/or confusion interferes with rational thinking and concentration. When the mind is calm, thinking is more orderly and powers of discriminative intelligence and intuition improve.
• Clarify awareness. Clarified awareness accurately reflects perceptions to the mind and allows knowledge of one’s essence and of higher realities to emerge. Distorted awareness causes misperceptions (illusions). Awareness can be clarified by regular super-conscious meditation and being super-conscious while engaged in ordinary activities.
• Arouse dormant soul forces. Much of the soul force of people who are strongly attached to or preoccupied with egocentric and mundane matters is usually dormant. Mental confusion, worry, stress, purposeless activity, excessive talking and eating, lack of sleep, alcoholism, smoking, addictive behaviors, and unwholesome living conditions weaken and waste vital forces. Dormant soul forces are aroused by aspiration to be spiritually enlightened, wisdom-directed purposeful living, mental and emotional calmness, good health habits, fresh air and natural light, meditation, devotional prayer, association with spiritually conscious people, and visits to places considered to be sacred or holy.
• Refine the nervous system and improve the brain’s capacity to accommodate refined states of consciousness. Specific meditation routines can refine the nervous system. Regions of the brain that process refined states of consciousness are more highly developed by meditative concentration and the constructive influences of super-consciousness.
• Allow our innate qualities, powers, and knowledge of our essence of being and higher realities to emerge. As units of the pure-conscious aspect of ultimate Reality, what is true of it is true of us. Knowledge of itself and its expressive processes that is within it and within us effortlessly emerges when our mind is very calm and our awareness is clear.
Spiritual practices include all that is done to clarify awareness, allow innate qualities and knowledge to emerge, and have our consciousness restored to its original, pure wholeness. When choosing your spiritual practices, ask:
• Have they been used and verified by several people who are now spiritually enlightened? Consider only what will be effective. Avoid opinions of unenlightened people and “new” systems that are aggressively promoted or are said to be secrets now offered to a few special applicants. Disregard unrealistic philosophical ideas and teachers and organizations that emphasize complete loyalty or submission to them and their practices. Don’t believe those who say they have the only way to spiritual enlightenment, their teachings are a special dispensation (a unique, revealed system of guidance for human affairs), or want you to be a dependent believer of their doctrines rather than to know the truth that can be revealed from within you. Acquire reliable metaphysical knowledge to be well-informed. Use your common sense, intellect, and intuition to know the truth about what you see or hear. Rational thinking can enable you to make practical choices. Intellectual discernment can enable you to more accurately determine what is true. Intuition (perception independent of the senses, mind, or intellect) is a direct way to know about something. Self-revealed knowledge is flawless.
• Are they compatible with my psychological temperament and capacity to practice them? Forms of prayer, meditation, mantra, affirmation, lifestyle regimens, and other practices should be easy to learn, pleasant to use, and produce satisfying, beneficial results. If you are inclined to be very devotional, avoid excessive emotionalism and improve your powers of intellectual discernment and intuition. If you are inclined to be egocentric, be willing to discard and outgrow that small, mistaken sense of self-identity. If you are inclined to be lazy, inattentive, or confused, learn to act with intention, be alert, and think calmly and rationally. If you are inclined to be aggressive and impatient, learn to relax, cultivate patience, and nurture Self-contentment, peace of mind, and emotional stability in all circumstances.
• Do I know how to apply them? … and will I diligently do it? Learn why the methods you are investigating or have chosen are recommended and how to apply them. If you know someone who has effectively used them, ask to be taught how to you can use them. When you are sufficiently informed, establish a regular routine of alert, dedicated, practice. A spiritual path is one of aloneness in the Infinite. Even if you have friends who share your ideals, your meaningful spiritual-growth experiences will be known only to you. Persist in the right way until you have the results you want to have.
Support intentional spiritual practices with a wisely chosen holistic (emphasis on the whole and the interdependence of its parts) lifestyle. Your spiritual growth will be much faster when everything you think, feel, act, and privately do supports your aspiration to be spiritually awake. Endeavor to have conflicts resolved, problems solved, ideal conditions easily maintained, and to harmoniously integrate the spiritual, emotional, mental, physical, and environmental aspects of your life.
The Enduring Value of Complete Dedication to Skillfully Doing What You Know is Best for You
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings.
– Cassius, a character in the play, Julius Caesar,
by William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616)
Dedication: To devote or designate for a special purpose.
Underling: Someone considered to be subordinate or inferior.
For one whose [spiritual growth] progress is fast
and whose practice is intensive [concentrated],
samadhi [transcendent realization] is near.
Progress is in accord with the degree of intensiveness,
whether mild, medium, or extremely concentrated.
– Patanjali’s Yoga-Sutra 1:21,22
External influences need not determine your decisions and actions. You can choose thoughts, behaviors, and responses to events and situations that will enable you to avoid misfortune while you are continuously having life-enhancing experiences. The most important, influential decision you can make is to be completely dedicated to doing what you know to be for your highest good—which is to be fully, spiritually awake.
Affirm With Conviction
I am completely dedicated to doing everything
I know to be for my highest good.
Teaching
12 Apr 2012 - 10:09am
Spirituality
as Common Sense
by Bro. David Steindl-Rast O.S.B.
www.gratefulness.org
The first question we need to ask ourselves is: What do we mean by “spiritual”? That is the decisive question. These are three terms that we deal with: body, mind, and spirit. All three terms are more problematic than we realize when we begin to think about them.
When somebody asks you, “Where’s your body?” you can point to it. As very little children you have already learned, “Where is your nose?” and then you put (with great delight from your mother) your finger on your nose, and then on your ears, and so on. We have been trained to know where our body is; we have not been trained sufficiently to realize that our body does not end with our skin.
So body, by and large, is not that much of a problem. Mind more so, but also not too much, because in everyday parlance we just lump everything together that isn’t body, and that’s mind. So that’s very simple; if it’s not body, it must be mind.
But when it comes to spirit there are all sorts of ideas in the air, and we have to be very careful. A safe approach with words like that is often to go back to the roots of the word itself. Spirit means “life breath” in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. As far back as we can trace, people speaking about spiritual matters used a term which in everyday parlance means “life breath.”
That helps us, because I would suggest that what I mean by spirituality and by spirit is “aliveness.” Aliveness is of one piece with life as we know it – with the aliveness that you recognize when you are breathing and when your body is functioning.
But it goes beyond that. This aliveness has degrees. Don’t you know people who are more alive than other people? Most of us would say yes: So-and-so is really alive! Well, does so-and-so have a higher heart rate, or a faster pulse? Maybe, maybe not, but that kind of aliveness is not to be measured by your bodily functions. There is something else that we are talking about here. But it is an aliveness.
What kind of aliveness is it; what are we talking about? Interestingly, sooner or later we arrive at the word “mindfulness.” In many spiritual traditions that word has been used, and you see, always then you are speaking about the mind again, but you are not speaking about the mind in its fullness. So this aliveness is a fullness of mind. However, we are immediately in danger of falling into a trap. Mind will then be spiritual, and body will be unspiritual. Many people fall into this trap, and this is a very dangerous trap because with mindfulness – that is, this aliveness – goes something for which we have no word, and which we should call something like “bodifulness.” But that suggests to you the opposite of slimming, and is not particularly helpful. What I mean by the word is a full, deep rootedness in our bodies.
Think of mindful people: They are rooted in their bodies. They are alive in their bodies. And it’s significant that we don’t have a word for that, that we just call it mindful. It indicates that there is something lacking; when a word is lacking in a language, there is some insight lacking – the insight that full aliveness is mindfulness and bodifulness, and it’s this full aliveness that we are talking about.
Think about a moment of greatest aliveness in your life, a moment of real mindfulness rooted in the body, a moment in which you were in touch with reality. Those are the degrees to which we are alive and spiritual in this world, the degrees of being in touch with reality.
T. S. Eliot said, “Humankind can not stand very much reality.” But we can stand reality in varying degrees, and the most alive ones of us have managed to bear more reality than the others. And what we want to do is become able to be in touch with reality, all of reality, and not to have to block out certain aspects.
The fuller our mindfulness becomes, and the greater we become alive, the more we realize how inadequate language is. So we have to do something, if we want to talk about it, that heightens language. And what is heightened language? The heightened possibility of language is poetry, and so I would like to share with you a poem by William Butler Yeats which hints at one of those moments. It sets religious experience in a context where you would not expect it. Most of us have our real religious experiences when and where we least expect them; and in environments where we expect them, we are usually disappointed. This is an autobiographical poem (“Vacillation, IV”), and it happens to Yeats in a London coffee shop. This is how he describes it:
My fiftieth year had come and gone,
I sat, a solitary man,
In a crowded London shop,
An open book and empty cup
On the marble table-top.
While on the shop and street I gazed
My body of a sudden blazed;
And twenty minutes more or less
It seemed, so great my happiness,
That I was blessed and could bless.
So what happens? He doesn’t even say anything about his mind or his thoughts; he probably didn’t think a thing at that moment. His body blazed with this vibrant aliveness of mindfulness, which is so much more than thinking. His body blazed! And we have all experienced that, or something similar. He says, “It seemed, so great my happiness, That I was blessed and could bless.” That he receives something that he calls blessed – significantly a religious term – and passes on. So something flows through him, and that is that spirit that flows through him.
T. S. Eliot says in “The Four Quartets,” also speaking about a peak experience: “music heard so deeply that it isn’t heard at all, but you are the music while the music lasts.” You are the music. That means you vibrate with that music, and even though you might just be thinking of some flute music or piano music that you listen to, it’s the music of the universe that you are vibrating to. It’s the music to which this whole cosmic dance dances, and that flows through you – and that’s your religious moment. And in that moment you know that you are one with all. You are the music while the music lasts, simply that.
And that is now the expression of a profound belonging. So when you are looking for your peak experiences, or your religious experiences, as you are scanning your memory, forget about all the other things you have thought here that sidetracked you – like “my body never blazed,” or “I don’t like music” and all the rest. But the one thing that you cannot dispense with is to ask yourself, “Where did I for one split second know that I belonged, and know it in my bones, that I was one with all, and all was one with me?”
That’s the essence, and that is a way of knowing. It’s the ultimate way of knowing, not limited to thoughts, not limited to feelings, not limited to any other way of knowing. It is the ultimate of knowing, and in this context I would like to share a second little passage. It’s from the Taoist tradition in China, about 2500 years old, in a translation by Thomas Merton (“The Joy of Fishes,” from Thomas Merton, The Way of Chuang Tzu , New Directions, 1965):
Chuang Tzu and Hui Tzu
Were crossing Hao river
By the dam.
Chuang said:
“See how free
The fishes leap and dart:
That is their happiness.”
Hui replied:
“Since you are not a fish
How do you know
What makes fishes happy?”
Chuang said:
“Since you are not I
How can you possibly know
That I do not know
What makes fishes happy?”
Hui argued:
“If I, not being you,
Cannot know what you know
It follows that you
Not being a fish
Cannot know what they know.”
Chuang said:
“Wait a minute!
Let us get back
To the original question.
What you asked me was
‘How do you know
What makes fishes happy?’
From the terms of your question
You evidently know I know
What makes fishes happy.
“I know the joy of fishes
In the river
Through my own joy, as I go walking
Along the same river.”
And that is common sense – common sense in the deepest sense of the word. It is a knowing that goes so deep that it is embodied in our senses and has no limits to its commonness. Everything is included: By your own bliss you know the bliss of the fishes and the bliss of everything there is in the world, because in that blissful moment you have reached the heart of the world – spiritual knowledge – if you want, common sense knowledge. The term, spirit, has been so misused that I would be perfectly happy to drop it completely, declare a moratorium on the word spirit, and use always the term common sense. In the contemporary parlance, that says it much better. It makes sense; it’s connected with the body through the senses; it’s common, limitlessly common.
And common sense is a basis for doing, a basis for action. In common sense, action, and thinking are closely connected. So common sense is more than thinking. It is that vibrating aliveness to the world, in the world, aliveness for the world, for our environment. And it’s a knowing through that belonging, and so a basis for doing, because to act in the spirit is to act as people act when they belong together. We all belong together in this “earth household,” as Gary Snyder calls it so beautifully, and to live a spiritual life means to act as one acts in one’s own house where one belongs together.
All morality that was ever developed in any tradition in the world can be reduced to the principle of acting as one acts towards those with whom one belongs together. And the differences between the different codes of morality are only the limits that we draw for belonging: “These are the ones towards whom you have to act morally, and the others are ‘the others,’ outside.” And when you really live with common sense, that has no limitations; you live out of a morality that includes everybody, and therefore you behave towards everybody as one behaves when one belongs. That is what Jesus meant when he said “the kingdom of God” – and any other term of that sort that you get from any religious tradition will fit in here.
Common sense rightly understood is authoritative. The question of authority is extremely important in this context of religion and spirituality, but the term authority has to be rightly understood, and it’s usually misunderstood in our time. Even when you go to the dictionary, and open it up to the word, you will normally find as the first meaning of authority something like “power to command.” That’s not the original meaning of authority; the original meaning of authority is “a firm basis for knowing and acting.” We use it in that way, too; if we want to know something about our health, we go to a doctor who is an authority. If we want to do some research, we go to an authoritative book. We look for a firm basis for knowing and acting.
And now you can understand how we get the power to command, particularly if you reduce it to a smaller sociological scale in a small community – a family or a tribe or a village. There may be a person who proves over and over again to be a firm basis for knowing and acting. You go to this old woman if you want to know how to heal your wounds – or if you want to know whether we should wage war against this other village or not – and she always gives you the right answer. So now, because she is a firm basis for knowing and acting, you put her in an authority position and give her power to command. That’s how it came about, and that’s how all our authorities can be traced back to having come about.
But the moment a person is put in authority, they normally do not like to let go of that power, even though they may no longer be a basis for knowing and acting. And that is how we get authoritarian authorities. The real genuine authority is so firm that he or she can afford to build you up; actually that is the only appropriate use for authority, to build up those under authority. The authoritarian authorities do not have this basis, and therefore have to keep everybody down in order to keep themselves up, and that is how you can distinguish. It’s the litmus test for distinguishing between authoritarian authority and genuine authority: If they build you up, they are genuine; if they put you down, they are authoritarian. It’s very simple.
When you really go back to what Jesus Christ set in motion, that is still reverberating through the world, it is an authority crisis. He was the kind of prophet that did not say, “I speak to you in the name of the highest authority, and here I come with authority to you.” He always appealed to the authority of God in the hearts of his hearers, and that is how he built them up. That’s why people said, “This man speaks with authority, not like our authorities.” And that got him into trouble, and both the religious and the political authorities had to clamp down on him because anybody who makes people stand on their own two feet is dangerous for those authoritarians. They did put him out of the way, but that kind of spirit, because it is the ultimate spirit, could not be killed, and still goes on today.
One more point I would make: If our aliveness is rooted in the body, what happens when we die? We don’t have to wait until we die: What happens when we get decrepit? That’s really what most of us are far more afraid of than dying. Dying is probably relatively easy; everybody has at least managed it somehow. But to live with this decrepitness, that’s really awful, when body and mind begin to fall asunder, as T. S. Eliot says. What do we do then?
Well, I’m at the age where one really has to begin to deal with those things. I can only give you some thoughts that I myself use for my own encouragement. I ask myself, for instance, don’t I know people who are very old and physically quite decrepit, and who are more alive than I can ever hope to be? In a sense, their aliveness is now no longer dependent on the body.
We have even in nature this image of the fruit: The bud and the blossom and the fruit are very much depending on the tree as they are growing. But then comes the point when the fruit is really ripe, and it just drops off the branch, and has its own life and it has the seed for new life. I don’t want to push the parallel too far, but we can see in human beings that this aliveness in the mind is something that is not limited by the body.
You can ask yourself, for instance: When I think of my friend, someone I really love – or think of someone you have never met, who lived hundreds of years ago and means very much to you – if I think of that person, I come alive. That’s the kind of aliveness that we’re talking about. Now you come alive in every way through something that is removed from you in space and in time, and yet it has this influence on you. You can only reach this friend with your mind right now, and yet that mind connection makes you really alive.
That mind somehow is life-giving also; therefore, I can very well imagine that when this life outgrows this aliveness – outgrows the limitations of the body – when this belonging gets greater and greater, that sense of belonging can no longer be limited to this one little body I have here, and then I have to somehow leave this body behind and all I have is that sense of belonging, but that is beyond time. It’s not afterwards. I do not expect to go on and on and on. Like before, I’m very happy that it’s over, that it’s a limitation, a conclusion. But there is something beyond life that simply lasts, that simply is, that I have, that belongs to me.
That would be one way of dealing with it. And all these things may seem to many of us to come so much from below, you know, working out and up there. Doesn’t this come from above? Haven’t we been told that God gives us life from above, and God is life, and so forth? Well, my answer is, I believe that myself, but how do you know?
This intuitional question – how do you know? – always leads you back to your own experience. What you don’t know from your own experience, you just don’t know. Therefore, you have to start from your own experience, and my experience tells me that when I am fully alive, in my best moment of total belonging – when my body blazes, when I’m totally belonging to everything – then I also belong to God and to that which anybody called God if they used the term correctly, that ultimate reference point of our belonging. Therefore, in the spiritual experience, in the peak experience, we have also the anchorage for our religious experience.
Br. David Steindl Rast
DAVID STEINDL-RAST was born July 12, 1926, in Vienna, Austria, where he studied art, anthropology, and psychology, receiving an MA from the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts and a PhD from the University of Vienna. In 1952 he followed his family who had emigrated to the United States. In 1953 he joined a newly founded Benedictine community in Elmira, NY, Mount Saviour Monastery, of which he is now a senior member. In 1958/59 Brother David was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Cornell University, where he also became the first Roman Catholic to hold the Thorpe Lectureship, following Bishop J.D.R. Robinson and Paul Tillich.
Story
12 Apr 2012 - 9:59am
Working As One - beautiful words from The Crystal Team channelled through Lindsay
Appreciation of Oneness in Golden Atlantis
“In this advanced wonderful civilization the way of life was determined by the appreciation of Oneness where everyone was aware of the bounty and wonder of Mother Earth, without her to sustain life the experiment would not be able to happen. Air is around in the universe and can sustain people who make the switch but not many people are aware of this or choose to use it. So even with that ability, air, breathing – the breath of life that provides the life force, the oxygen to boost your cells, provide energy and maintain the balance that was set for your body. Air alone will not sustain you. Mother Earth dear ones, is that treasure. Is there any coincidence that she is called Mother Earth do you think, because she is the mother of humanity, the matriarch who nourishes, tends, provides for and continuously looks after her children however they behave?
Some elements of your human race cannot or do not wish to see this connection for they feel self-regulatory and are concerned with their own needs and wants and it is these 3rd dimensional or low energies who are struggling most. Mother Earth, your provider, your shelter, your guide, your heart-beat, your protector, is moving up a gear, her energies are changing and those who live in the light, in appreciation of their Mother figure are raising their vibrations in alignment with Mother Earth. Like a mother lion who is ready to set her cubs out on their own or who is cuffing a disrespectful cub around the ear, so too Mother Earth is saying “enough now”. It is time for all of us to move ahead with the Ascension plan, to move on into the next phase of the Plan for all in this dimension, in this life experience.
Of course, dear ones, as those of you who took the opportunity to experience spiritual growth and life at this time, you have free will and the choice is yours. Should you choose to move into the amazing new life cycle you will do well to marvel at the fantastic changes to come and the new lifestyle to be experienced.
As we mentioned at the beginning, the Atlanteans recognised the creation that Mother Earth was providing, food, shelter, beauty, water, crystals, healing power, air quality, weather patterns, beautiful energies, all these essential and fundamental basics of life and so they chose wisely to work harmoniously, respectfully and with due consideration and reverence to the magnitude of what Mother Earth provided for them.
How much better, more empathetic, more powerful it is to work as one, to work as a team and give due consideration to all aspects for this can only produce the best results for all. Our beautiful bountiful planet flourishes when given care and attention, love and support, consideration and respect, for she is a sentient being. She feels the vibrations of all her inhabitants, she feels the negativity, the sadness, the grief, the greed, the discordant vibrations, the disorientation of those disconnected to their true source of love and Divinity.
She has her own ascension plan, dear earth beings, and this will now proceed on to the next level although of course it happens continuously, but there is a big change happening in these years. Your role, your place, dear Lindsay is to shine your light, to show another way of being.... and this will draw in those souls and show them an alternative thought process, an alternative route to take in this life time and they have the choice of which route to take for they have free will.
Nourishment and taking care of your body
The Atlanteans ate very simply; they ate mostly raw foods although they did have cooked meals especially at times of celebration. Their main focus on food was for nutrition and enjoyment, it did not make sense to them to eat or make foods that would be harmful to their bodies, their beings were finely tuned and would not feel well if food was eaten that was not in accordance with the best and highest good. Food was colourful, fresh, nutritious, and was eaten with enjoyment, gratitude and appreciation. Societies, and families joined together for meal times, to enjoy a break from the activities, to have a social time to spend time with the children and allow their bodies to enjoy, digest and benefit from the food, to restore them, to nourish on all levels and to be absorbed while the body was at rest. Thus the optimum value was gained from eating the food, socialising and resting. Matters were discussed but nothing too serious which might affect their enjoyment and digestion of the food for this was of paramount importance to them. Why would it not be, dear earthlings, for this is what nourishment and taking care of your body involves?
It was not necessary to eat vast amounts of food as the nutritional content was so high and so beneficial to the cells of the body and it’s DNA. Physically this maintained good health within the body, mentally, emotionally, physically and spiritually, for if the body is not receiving sufficient goodness or sufficient time to digest and absorb it, if the mind is not focussed on the body’s needs, then our physicality suffers and we are not working at our optimum. Once the body starts struggling, we are not as joyful, as happy, as able to get on with our lives and tasks and spiritual growth, our attention is focussed elsewhere and this does not serve us to be our best.
You are part of the Divine Plan
Children were taught from a young age to invest in the time and value and correct attitude to growing, producing, eating and benefiting from food and to be grateful to Mother Earth for her bounty, her generosity in providing the wealth, variety and abundance of foods to sustain them in this experiment or adventure of life.
And of course, dear ones, all the seeds to grow the fruit, the crops, the nourishment, the sustenance, the water, the balance of nature, the seasons, the beauty where did that originate from?
It is all provided by Source, by the Great Presence, by Oneness, by Love and balance and you are part of that process, you are part of the Divine Plan, you are part of this wonderful existence, this adventure called Life. What a wonderful gift this is, and to be here at this time of profound change, of positive shifts in Mother Earth’s ascension, what a wonderful time to be alive and be part of this amazing existence.
So relish this time dear ones, connect with Mother Earth, with her powerful abundant energies and give thanks and love for this opportunity to experience this in this dimension, here and now, as part of your total soul journey through time and beyond for this is a joyous, magnificent time to behold and to see and to be part of. Seek out the Light, the Love and the Truth and bask in the glory and the wonderment and enjoy your part in it.
From this time till next, with our love… your beautiful Crystal Team”
Channelled through Lindsay
Atlantean Crystal Master
www.lindsayball.co.uk
Story
11 Apr 2012 - 6:15pm
Make TIME to Care and Love Yourself
Message from the Creator
Channeled by: Julie Miller
April 11, 2012
Blessings to ALL my lovely sons and daughters. Before we begin our discussion, please embrace and rejoice in the love and unmistakable light that comes straight from my heart. All love from me and all the divine and spiritual helpers is always unconditional; there is never any need to second guess this fact beloved children.
I have come forth on this day to speak on many things. It has not only come to my attention, but I know of ALL that is happening in your world and what is happening across the globe. Today we speak, within your world – YOU. How you move within your world does have an effect on the rest of the world; something like a domino effect. Some situations can cause a bigger ripple than others. What is important to point out my beloved children are your reactions, your thinking, and your actions when something comes along to disrupt the perfect calm you have maintained for so long, or situation becomes out of control that has been managed decently up until now.
The many ups and downs you have experienced are not accidents even if there are ‘accidents’. You already know beloveds that EVERYTHING has a reason and purpose. I hear the term, “life sucks” an awful lot. It is a negative description that speaks overall about a situation or current experience that is causing deep frustration. Beloveds, I do know the painstaking sacrifices you have made to you children, family, and co-workers and so on. Some of the decisions you have had to make were not easy. I ask you, each of you to give yourself some credit. YOU deserve to feel your own love. I will speak plainly through your sister, “How in the world can you truly say you love another, when you struggle with loving yourself?” Take a few minutes, spare some time that is just for you. Quality time with oneself is up to the individual as long as it brings happiness and soothes the spirit, mind and heart. I hear many complain there is not enough time in one day for such time. I ask you to look again. When you really want to do something you always make time. Self-care and self-love is a primary necessity for your spiritual growth and development that will bring satisfaction to your personal endeavours.
So many revert to a panic mode when a difficult situation presents itself. It is important to recognize this as it happens and move through it as quickly as you can and get back to your positive thinking. Every situation you move through is easier when you are working within the right attitude. Getting angry and making use of profanity does nothing beloveds except drain precious energy. Acknowledge the anger for what it is, understand why you are angry and move on from it. Don’t let the anger of a situation get the better of you. Head on the anger with love beloveds; Love will always be your answer if you allow yourself to be absorbed completely by its incredible power. The sooner you are able to master control of your emotions and feelings when a difficult situation rises the easier and quicker you progress until it’s over and you will notice the strain that is usually accompanied is much less.
While working through a difficult and arduous time, your inner feelings are important. Don’t bottle up what is bothering you. It will only fester and poison your rational thought and spirit and can have devastating effects on your overall health. Beloved children, take heed to your thoughts and if they are filled with aggression, sadness, or other low energy feelings; find a constructive and harmless way to work through them. All that you feel is important to be recognized and accepted by you. You are filled with many feelings and emotions and each of you react and feel at different levels of stress, pain and circumstantial problems. Many of my children find it helpful keeping a journal, others run, walk, meditate, have a bath, start a creative project, the list of possibilities is endless. When you work with people either because of your occupation or your family at home, it is always a good idea to put your best intentions forward and always think from the heart with love.
Interactions with the various people you are in contact with can add stress to your day. Take your time. Think before you speak, even if you are speaking with someone who has rubbed you the wrong way. They do not know your shoes and you really don’t know theirs. Sometimes reactions, either through spoken word or from your body language can be interpreted on varying levels and degrees depending on the person’s sensitivity. It is important to be able to find your voice and say what you mean, but it is important to use tact. You are responsible for your actions. Causing another harm from the words you use is not an action that comes from your I AM Presence or Christ-Self. Every person you meet, your neighbour, the cashier at a grocery store, bus driver, etc., all are deserving of love, respect and kindness. No one likes being mistreated even if that person has been known to being unkind. Acts of kindness generates more love dear children and more love brings in more light and the loving beat goes on.
I will repeat myself here beloveds and remind you the importance of being kind to yourself and giving love to yourself first. I see how difficult this can be, but it does pay off. When you are filled with pure self-love you radiate this love and attract the kinder side of people. You have the ability to surround yourself with happiness, peace, bliss and harmony from the choices you make and the changes you are willing to take to get there. Moving through the changes can and will bring challenges that sometimes will be unwelcomed and some will be delightfully pleasant. Embrace each challenge and each change that is helping you bring forward the goals you have planned to reach. You are your own future maker; LOVE yourself and the path that is leading you to the contented happiness you are seeking. Go within for your answers and find peace of mind when you do.
My love is equal for each son and daughter. None of you have made mistakes; each of you has had to learn lessons and make important life changing decisions. Look at all the knowledge your lessons have given you and how much wiser you are. I see a few scowl and I hear the lowest of mumbles. You have persevered everything thus far and you will continue to grow and your consciousness will continue to flower and blossom. The learning of yourself and the world around you is never-ending; just as my love for each of you is undying.
I AM the Creator through Julie Miller
Teaching
9 Apr 2012 - 10:54am
Spiritual Integrity
by Dr Virgil Davis
http://dr-virgil-davis.wrytestuff.com
The Scripture says, “Whatever you do, work at it with your whole heart, not unto men, but do it unto God knowing that God will reward you" This means that whatever we do, we should give it our best effort and do it as if we were doing it for God. If we work with that standard in mind, I call this living through Spiritual Eyes…doing things with God as the focus…and in doing so, God promises to reward us.
With this in mind…how then do we define Spiritual Integrity? The dictionary defines integrity as “the quality or state of being of sound moral principal, uprightness, honesty, and sincerity.
Integrity is a value that is taught to you but also a value that an individual may choose whether or not to use or demonstrate. Spiritual Integrity then in this sense would simply indicate that you are demonstrating the value of Integrity with God as the focus.
Remember….God wants us to be people of integrity, people of honor, people who are trustworthy. A person who is demonstrating integrity is open and honest. This individual doesn’t have any hidden agendas or ulterior motives. A person of integrity also is true to their word they keep their commitments, and is accountable for their thoughts, feelings and actions.
Violations of integrity usually accompany the feeling of getting away with something. It is feeling relieved when you were not “caught" doing something that you know is wrong. It is feeling lucky to mistakenly receive an extra five dollars in change.
People of integrity are the same in private as they are in public. They don’t go out and treat their friends and coworkers with respect and kindness and then go home and treat their family rudely or disrespectfull. When you have integrity, you will do what is right whether anybody is watching or not. Remember…God sees all……
So how do we know if we are demonstrating integrity or not?…..
The following are just 10 common ways in which an individual is NOT demonstrating integrity:
1. Arriving late or not showing up at all
2. Talking behind someone’s back
3. Witholding information, distorting the truth
4. Failing to follow through on a commitment or promise
5. Parking in a handicap space
6. Taking two spaces in a parking lot
7. Leaving work early without your employer’s knowledge
8. Taking or using office supplies for personal use
9. Not returning borrowed items
10.Not paying people back
Every day our integrity is tested. If a bank teller gives you $100 extra dollars too much, are you going to have integrity and go back and return the money? Or are you going to say “Thank you Jesus, I needed that"!….Do you call in sick at work when you need to take care of personal business or are just too tired to go to work?……
When the phone rings and it is someone that you don’t want to talk to do you tell your child to lie and say that you are not home?…When you answer the phone and a telemarketer is on the other end do you tell them that you are not the person they asked for?…..All of these are what in our society we refer to as “White Lies"……Understand that in God’s sight, there is no such thing as a white lie vs. black lie vs. gray lie…they are all lies…and a lie is a lie…...
If you are not telling the truth, that’s being dishonest and sooner or later, it will catch up with you. If you lie about the little things, before long you’ll lie about bigger things.
What you sow you will eventually reap.
When someone gives you too much money as change, have the integrity to bring it to their attention…
If you need to take a personal day at work…let them know ..instead of lying and saying that you are ill.
If your phone rings and it’s someone that you do not want to speak to…simply don’t answer the phone if you are not in the mood for talking…but if your child happens to answer the phone and you don’t want to speak to the person who called..get on the phone and let them know that you can’t talk right now but you will call them back later…and then be true to your word…
If a telemarketer calls…and you are not interested..simply let them know that you are not interested…don’t lie and say that you are not the person they are talking to….remember “Through Spiritual Eyes".
With respect to our actions…remember Don’t do anything that you wouldn’t feel comfortable reading about in the newspaper the next day….
If your friends or coworkers were to be interviewed on television, would they say that you are a person of honor, somebody they can count on, somebody they can trust?…or would they say that you are the kind of person that would stab you in the back and are only out for yourself…..
God wants us to be people of integrity. If you don’t have integrity, you will never reach your highest potential. Integrity is the foundation on which a truly successful life is built. You will never have lasting prosperity if you don’t first have integrity.
There is a story about a wealthy man who had a friend who was a builder of homes. The builder was down in his business so the wealthy man decided to help him out by having him to build a home for him. He gave the builder a set of plans and a hefty check for 300,000. He then told him that he trusted his decisions and to do the best job that he could and if satisfied he would be paid well. The builder was very excited to receive such a large check but even more excited that he would be able to cut expenses which would enable him to keep a share of the money he had received. He went out and purchased the cheapest concrete that he could find as well as the cheapest lumber…while all the while thinking about the money that he was going to be able to pocket…he did the same thing with the plumbing and wiring…when it was all said and done he was able to pocket 40,000 thousand dollars without his friend knowing about it….he deposited the money into his personal account..After completing the job he called his friend to come to look at the completed job….His friend was quite impressed..on the surface the house looked great however…the corners that were cut made the house much less than what it actually appeared to be….the builder could not wait to see how much he would be paid for the job…after going through the home…the wealthy man turned to his friend and told him that he already had a beautiful home and handed his friend the keys and said welcome to your new home…..the builder nearly passed out…..any idea why?……
After 3 months the house began falling apart…then cracks started to appear at various places….then the plumbing and wiring went bad….it cost much more than the 40,000 that he had deposited…
If only he had been a man of integrity this would not have happened….
In closing I would like to say that it is sometimes easy to not be a person of integrity but we must make a commitment to ourselves…Don’t settle for being mediocre…strive to be the very best individual that you can be…not one who complains constantly and does only enough to get by…remember…you are representing the Almighty God. If you live with a commitment to integrity, happiness will be a natural by-product, because God will reward you far beyond your wildest dreams!….
Keep in mind that Integrity is doing what is right, not out of the fear of a negative consequence, but because it is what you know to be right…To do what you know is not right only cheats the Universe. And when you cheat the Universe, the Universe will cheat you…..
Living your life with integrity means that anyone at any given time could peek into your life and you will feel at ease..After all, there is nothing to hide and nothing to be ashamed of…You are simply living your life with integrity.
Dr. Virgil Davis is currently a full professor of psychology. Davis has published several articles and is co-author of the books "Understanding Psychology". (4 editions) Dr. Davis is owner of Davis Karate Studios, holds a 7th degree black belt in karate and is also a Reiki Master.
Teaching
8 Apr 2012 - 11:19am
EMBRACING THE SHADOW ...
altazarrossiter.com
Light and dark are frequently used to represent the basic polarity of good and evil. The shadow is the indeterminate space between light and dark where one shades into the other, the deeper the shadow the darker the nature of what lives there. The shadow is also a term that originates in Jungian psychology and which refers to a nebulous unconscious repository of what we fear and dislike in ourselves.
Wherever there is a shadow it is cast by something standing in the way of the light. The brighter the sun shines, the harder the shadows. And when the light is really bright it can be difficult, if not impossible, to see anything beyond the intensity of the glare. When we want to see clearly in bright sunshine we seek the shade to look out from, and if we can't find any we create some with a hand to the eyes. So our physical experience of the phenomena of light and dark is that we can see things more clearly by standing in the shadow.
This is an allegory that is very useful for the inner process. The more the light of the soul shines through, the clearer will be the issues that inhabit the shadow, but we have to stand in the shade in order to see these clearly. We have to stop looking the other way.
The trouble is when we look into our shadow most of us see things we not only wish weren't there, but often things we are thoroughly ashamed of. Because of the intensity of the shame our automatic impulse is to bury its cause so deep within that this can never again see the light of day. This enables us to continue living with ourselves, but the truth lurks somewhere within and we know it.
What lives in the shadow is everything that we reject about ourselves, everything we refuse to love. This is every aspect of our existence that fails to comply with the ideal social specification of the self-identity we claim for ourselves. We are terrified it will be discovered and cause our downfall. We pretend it doesn't exist, but we know it's there, full of resentment for its denial, that's why there's such a widespread fear of the dark. But deep transformation occurs when we embrace what we fear.
A spiritually intelligent perspective understands that the shadow is the facilitator of our growth. Its very existence is a sign that there is a purpose to our being here, that we have a job to do. When issues begin to surface out of the shadow it's not a sign that something is wrong, but quite the reverse. It's a sign that we are holding more of our light. The light is simply showing us where it is still blocked. We are being guided to the next step in the process of self-empowerment. Convention says we must find an answer so the problem goes away, wisdom says the problem is my friend trying to tell me something I'm reluctant to hear.
Whenever the possibility arises that something we've consigned to the shadow in this way might be revealed to us - or worse, to others - we are likely to experience the emotional responses of fear and anger. Owing to the supreme efficiency of our denial processes, we are normally in a condition of blissful ignorance of what's been hidden in the shadow. Our emotional responses can therefore be intensely reactive. This is the surest sign that we've uncovered an aspect of ourselves that requires understanding and compassion - something that really is me but which is incongruent with the self-image I hold.
The key to transforming all of the issues lurking in the shadow is the principle of presence. By staying present with anything that arises, remaining aware of our breathing and letting any feelings express we eventually feel the sadness locked into the part of ourselves we consigned to the shadow. We feel its mistrust, its fear and its abject loneliness. Simply allowing this to be is a process of acceptance, recognizing that it is all ok brings us a step closer to a realization of self-mastery. This is not necessarily easy, it takes courage and persistence.
From this perspective the shadow can be seen as the friend it truly is. It is only waiting for us to love it. The issues it will then show us are the keys to self-empowerment. This is its gift.
To be truly conscious we must embrace the potential of the shadow individually and collectively. For as long as we continue to deny it, it will keep manifesting destructively in an increasingly less convenient manner. The shadow provides us with the raw material and the opportunity to transmute fear into love. One of the greatest services we can offer is to engage with this process. Just opening up to the possibility that this is a valid assessment of the dynamic of the shadow is a huge shift out of the consensus rut. Giving intent to clear our shadow is the next step. Continuing this journey is to follow our own light, which will ultimately shine unimpeded.
... Explorer in Consciousness
Altazar is a personal development consultant, coach and facilitator. He works primarily with people who are seeking a greater awareness of who they are, particularly those who are in a position to impact the lives of others. He has an inclusive wholistic approach that recognises personal and professional development as two sides of the same coin.
Teaching
8 Apr 2012 - 11:06am
The Challenge of Accepting Our Helplessness Over Others
by Margaret Paul, Ph.D.
www.success.bz
Helplessness is a very difficult feeling. It can even feel like life or death tothose of us who were left to cry for hours as babies, with no one coming to help us. Because we were so helpless over ourselves as babies and small children, it can trigger feelings of panic. It's hard to remember, in these moments when fear is triggered, that as adults, we are not helpless over ourselves.
For many of us, the deep fear that got programmed into us as young children can trigger our wounded self's desire to control, when we feel helpless over another's choices.
What do you do when you feel helpless over another?
* Do you get annoyed and irritated with the other person?
* Do you get angry and blaming?
* Do you collapse into victim tears?
* Do you explain and defend, lecture or teach?
* Do you shut down, closing your heart and withdrawing your love?
* Do you acquiesce, giving yourself up to what the other wants?
* Do you go into resistance, doing the opposite of what the other person wants?
Why? What do you hope for in behaving in any of these protective, controlling ways?
* Do you hope to convince the other person to change?
* Do you hope to avoid the pain of helplessness, and the loneliness and heartache that you might be feeling in response to another's choices?
* Do you hope to feel safe, rather than anxious or panicked?
The basic motivation of the wounded self is to feel safe by trying to have control over getting love and avoiding pain. When someone does something that triggers your feelings of helplessness, loneliness and heartache, your wounded self moves into action.
THE OTHER OPTION
The other option is very challenging for most of us. This option is to fully accept that we ultimately have no control over others.
What would you do differently if you accepted this?
What I do is to move into compassion for myself - for the very painful feeling of helplessness. I hate this feeling as much as anyone, and I can't say that I'm always successful in not going into my wounded self. At times, when another's behavior is extremely painful to me, I still get triggered into my infant panic and want to control the other person. I find it very challenging not to be reactive when someone is violating or mean, or has betrayed my trust in a profound way. But I also know how important it is to keep working at it.
As soon as I realize that I'm being reactive, I move into compassion toward myself, lovingly helping my inner child feel the intense pain of helplessness, loneliness and heartbreak. I surround myself with the warmth and power of my spiritual Guidance, so that I'm not alone with these feelings.
At this point, I lovingly disengage from the situation. I'm generally feeling so sad that I need to be alone and cry. Crying helps me move the feelings through me so that I don't get stuck with the pain. Sometimes I need to do an anger process to further release the feelings. Then I do further inner work to fully accept that I have no control over the other person.
To what extent are your conflicts, fighting and disconnection the result of not accepting your helplessness over another? Take a moment to think about an important relationship in your life, where there is conflict and/or distance. Is this the result of not accepting your helplessness over others, and not being willing to feel this very painful feeling? You might want to consider learning to manage this feeling, rather than continuing to try to avoid it, in ways that create relationship problems.
Margaret Paul, Ph.D. is a best-selling author of 8 books and co-creator of the powerful Inner Bonding® healing process. Are you are ready to heal your pain and discover your joy?
Blog entry
8 Apr 2012 - 12:08am
What DO I do right?
" I don't 'like' you right, I don't 'support' you enough, I don't 'love' you" My days are spent thinking about you when your away and living each moment with you when you are here. After almost 10 years of being 'us' to hear things like that is... I guess heart breaking. You are my life, everything I do is because of or for you and the life we have built. To hear so often you don't feel liked or supported is something I don't know what to do with.
Story
6 Apr 2012 - 10:37am
A beautiful,short channelled message from The Crystal Team inviting you to reconnect to the Christ Energies at Easter Time.
"At this special time of the year, dear ones, we would invite you to reconnect to the Christ Energies as you celebrate your Easter Time.
The Christ Energies of love, gratitude, graciousness and honour of the experience you are having on this earthly plane right now. It may be difficult for you and we know for some it is a painful time, but we invite you to sit quietly and link into the glorious golden, shining, sparkly, shimmering light of the Christ Energies, feel yourself enfolded, supported, loved and held in these magnificent energies and see your aura aglow with the brilliance of this light.
Let it flow through you, dear ones, spreading out into your physical body and beyond so that not only do you benefit but all those around you and those you are in contact with can benefit from this glorious loving, bright energy.
And know that this energy is connected to Source, the provider of all that is and so remember that all is well and all will be well and enjoy your Easter Time and your Easter eggs with relish, joy and fun.
We are here for you, dear ones, you can link into our energies also at any time, so until time again, our greatest love.......The Crystal Team."
with love and blessings Lindsay
Atlantean Crystal Master
www.lindsayball.co.uk
video
4 Apr 2012 - 9:49pm
thank you paul williams, kenneth ascher and jim henson
Blog entry
4 Apr 2012 - 11:15am
Bringing Food: Making a Gift of Comfort More Meaningful
By Michelle Smith
www.spiritualityhealth.com
When we hear of a death in our family or community, we feel a powerful urge to offer comfort – and often, we do so by bringing food. In almost every culture, bringing food to the bereaved family is a gesture of support.
Yes, it may be quicker to pick up something already prepared at the grocery store deli. Prepared foods certainly do save time and energy, which we need when we are coping with loss. Still, the message of death is a reminder to value this moment and to appreciate deeply the gift we are for each other.
So, when you wish to offer comfort through the gift of food, consider clearing a bit of emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual space to give your attention and intention to the meaning behind the gesture.
A Ritual for Bringing Food
Your preparations needn’t be complex. First, gather your ingredients, cooking equipment, a candle, perhaps some ceremonial sage or incense. Arrange them on the counter and take a moment to feel grateful for all of the people and all the elements of the earth that came together to bring you to this moment.
Pause for a few breaths to ground yourself and become present. Feel your feet on the floor. Bring your attention to the center of your forehead. Place your hands on your heart. Call to mind the family or person for whom you are about to prepare this gift of food. Let compassion expand your breath.
Light the candle.
Here are some suggested words you can say silently or aloud.
Spirit of Life, who alone knows the timing of birth and death,
today I learned of the death of _______ and I feel sad for his/her family
(express your own authentic feelings here).
I know that we must all make this same transition and yet
the news carries with it the shadow of fear.
It reminds me that I too must die someday.
So as I offer a prayer of comfort for the people who loved ________,
who lost the one most dear to them,
I pray also for myself and those who may
one day have to carry on a while without me.
I come now to prepare this simple dish as a symbol
Of the comfort I hope to bring my friends
And as a Call to Life from my heart.
As you begin to prepare your dish—washing, chopping, mixing—you might say something like:
Spirit (Goddess, Dear Lord, or you need not address the Divine at all if that is not authentic for you), my friend feels lost in the sorrow of separation from the one she loves. May s/he have peace of mind, freedom from worry, anxiety or fear.
Placing your hands around or over the cooking bowl, name the feelings you hope they will be able to experience at this time: “May my friend have courage to embrace the sad mystery. May she have comfort.
May laughter return once more to her heart “.
As you put the finishing touches on the dish, call to mind your wishes for health and strength in your bereaved friend’s physical body: “May this food provide nourishment and stamina for the journey ahead.”
Acknowledging that change is constant can, in its own way, be a source of comfort, peace, and even joy. By expanding this simple gesture of support into a personal ritual, your gift of comfort can feel even more meaningful and bring comfort to your own heart as well.
About the author: Michelle Smith an ordained Inter-Faith Minister and Certified Life-Cycle Celebrant who helps people experience deeper, more meaningful connections in their families and communities through the beauty and power of ceremony.
Blog entry
3 Apr 2012 - 4:03am
I just read Yarra's blog and realized that I am living a very weird life.
I knew that ,for me, this last integration was going to be a doozy.
Between Mother Earth ungulfing me in love,my soul families uniting,my heart joining with my star families,and the sun doing what it does best,filling me with Light,this last download packed a punch for me,as it did the grid and all of us I think.
But this was a different sort of integration for me than in the past.
It used to be that I would get a download,especially during solar flares, get foggy for a couple of days, and then have those wonderful A-ha moments...and remember more.
After this last release and refill(as I call it),the integration was not as much mental as it was at a deeper soul level for me.
I now live in 3d world but I slip easily into 5d mode when the need arises.
When I am dealing with day to day business in 3d world I am in peace and happy.
But if a situation arises,like when I meet someone new, I easily slip into a higher consciousness.
I can't control this,it is another aspect of me.
It just happens.
It is like I become a Lightworker and I am no longer Marie.
But I am.
I become an observer in my own life.
Living and watching at the same time.
But my heart feels at complete peace.
It is really weird.
And then I am conscious of it.
That is even more weird.
I am the starseed in my own very weird movie.
The stuff that happens is wild.
Here is an example...I am talking to my new friend,telling her that I am thinking of starting a support group for those that find themselves in difficult times.
A group where people get together and share experiences.
People helping each other to get through these chaotic times really helps.
We are driving down the street and as I finish telling her this, a car pulls in front of us at an angle so we cannot get past.
License plate?
88-4444
8 and 4 are significant numbers for me.
Seeing them immediately took me to a higher vibration.
Very quickly.
Elevator went up.
I will be starting those groups in two weeks.
I think that a higher aspect of my conciousness joined me.
Something like that.
Not quite sure yet.
I think that as I bring more of myselves together,going between different realities will be easy.
Maybe I am starting to integrate the multidimensional aspect of myself.
This is an aspect of myself that certainly was not here with me before.
Also,I had a feeling of my body being too small for me yesterday.
I felt constricted,ready to burst out.
Am I finally starting to come out of my coccoon?
Or am I just now conscious that there is no coccoon anymore.
Or that maybe there never was?
Either way,this new aspect of myself makes for a very weird life.
And I decided that I am going to live it big.
As big as I can.
Not because I want to acquire things.
Not because I am looking for something outside of myself.
But because I love life here.
At this moment.
In this time here on Mother Earth.
Getting weirder every day.
But my heart is being filled with Light and Love and I am remembering who I am.
Who we are.
And that amazes me.
So if you find yourself living a twilight zone episode, don't worry I am right there with you.
Just as amazed as you are at the life in which we are living.
Just as grateful as you be be able to be living it here and now.
In Light and Love
Shine Bright My Light Family.
We are doing an awesome job of remembering.
: )
Story
2 Apr 2012 - 11:08am
Through the Storm into the Light - a message of support, love, encouragment and inspiration channelled by The Crystal Team through Lindsay
"We are so delighted to be able to share with you the next level or stage, as you may say, in the unfolding story of the Divine Plan. For rest assured, dear ones, things are changing and moving on a pace. Although at the moment some of you may be experiencing some difficulties, we hear the phrase “being stripped bare” arising quite frequently and for some of you this is indeed an experience you are going through.
As the earth’s energies change and the consequent frequencies of your atmosphere change in line with this, so too are you affected in both subtle and not so subtle ways. As you breathe in these changing energies, so too your body has to adjust to these different frequencies.
Imagine if you will, a big wheel that has been turning at a stable rate - with some minor adjustments – for some time and then, suddenly the rate of water turning the wheel becomes faster and not only faster but more turbulent and at times, the wheel has difficulty in maintaining its rate of turn because of the fluctuation of the water. So even the wheel questions its steadiness, its ability to continue for it has lost its point of reference and feels lost amongst the changing energies, the turbulence, the randomness of the energies, it cannot find a peacefulness or continuity in its purpose.
Choices are available for you
The wheel may choose to continue to do its best or it may decide to just stop for a while and let things pass it by until the steady flow returns. Albeit it can have no idea of when this will be or indeed if it ever will return to a normality or what that new normality will be like, for it is unlikely to ever be the same again. But the wheel can sense that it is ok to do either of these things that either choice is not wrong or right but that it can choose which option feels right for it.
And yet it still knows that there is a bigger picture, that this is a temporary change, a temporary disruption in the steady flow, for it has experienced times of turbulence before and is quite accepting of this. And usually the situation or energies will result in a smoother flow and all will settle down again. Indeed if it stops for a while it may even get a service, it may get cleaned and oiled and polished and again this could be a good thing.
Conversely if it continues through the storm it will know that this will only be temporary and that it is sometimes good to be challenged and struggle and battle to continue because it affirms one’s belief in oneself and in the world and there is a sense of achievement, of confirmation, of satisfaction is doing so and a great rejoicing when all is returned to normal.
So you see dear ones, that there are always choices and either one can be a good one for you to make because life does flow, it does reshape and it does continue and sometimes it can be better at the end of it. It’s a bit like a good spring clean for your beliefs, your soul, your intention, your connection and questioning and discernment are good aptitudes to have with you.
Adapting to the new energies
And the second way that the change in the earth energies can affect you all is that your body adjusts to these new energies – they have to be acclimatised into the inner knowing that is programmed into your cells, your cellular structure, your DNA, for all these things have been pre-planned, all aspects of the Divine Plan are ready to be unfolded and so your cells are waking up, reconnecting and saying ah! The Time is Here. We can reconnect to those Lemurian and Atlantean energies we can bring forth the wisdom, the ancient knowledge, the love, the learning, the community, the honour, the respect the joy, the Divinity that has been held for us since the Golden Age of Atlantis, we can reconnect to the feel, the joy, the support, the loving embrace of that time on Earth. And so as all these things are happening and your internal world and your external world are adjusting and adapting to the changing energies of Mother Earth so you are readjusting on many levels on many dimensions and on many planes throughout your current existence. So do not be afeard my dear ones because all is as it should be.
Take comfort in the knowledge that all things pass and at the end of this time all will be well. Mother Earth is clearing herself and this is necessary for her to do and this causes shakes and rattles and all sorts of external outcomes.
Hang on to your hats dear ones, enjoy the ride and know that we are here for your always, you can tune into our energies and gain strength and confidence, love and support at any time. Dig deep into the roots of your existence, sit back and smile at the turbulence as people do when they go white water rafting, enjoy the exhilaration of a fast bouncy journey down the river, laugh with your friends, smile and be joyful at this experience you have chosen and know that it is an important part of the process of the external changes going on around you.
Reconnect to the glorious energies of Golden Atlantis
Reconnect to these glorious energies of Atlantis, know that you have the ability and the choice to link into the beautiful, calm, peaceful, organised way of life that was both simple and yet very technologically advanced.
Can you recall the beauty of the crystals that were revered and respected, that supplied your power, your lighting, your transport and your healing? The crystals that helped with the growing of luscious nutritious crops that kept you glowing with health, can you see the beautiful light and colours radiating from the healing temples, how crystals helped children in all aspects of their development in the most glorious supportive way helping them to become the truly Divine Beings doing what they love most and contributing to the well being of their community.
Can you see the fields all aglow with light and goodness? Can you see and sense the wonderful energies of these graceful beings who all worked together in harmony for the good of all? Can you feel the love and respect they had for Mother Earth and all that she provides for them, can you feel the wonderful sense of community that existed in that time? A time of no crime, or no egos, of not working for material or personal gain but a shared time of joy and love and harmony, can you feel the joy of that existence, can you feel the joy of Mother Earth radiating light and love and happiness, joyfully providing shelter, a home, a base for this existence, rain, sunshine, abundant crops and beautiful sights, sounds and birds singing and sparkling rivers and beautiful woods and glorious sunrises and sunsets?
Can you hear the happy singing round the camp fire as people of all ages gathered to be entertained, to pass down stories and traditions to the younger ones, the singing and poetry and laughter?
Can you see and feel all of this, dear ones, for you can reconnect to all of this; you can re-connect to these beautiful energies, that harmonious way of life, that beauty and glory.
The Divine Plan
And as you read these words, as you connect to our energies through Lindsay, you will be strengthening your connection to Source, the provider of all things in your earth plane and beyond.
And as the great Divine Plan unfolds and moves forward – remember that you are part of this and have chosen to experience this. So whether you weather the storm, or take time out to refresh and renew yourself, you are all moving forwards with Mother Earth and so delight and relish these changing energies. From our perspective it is a glorious sight.
We are always here for you dear ones, so take heart and have a joy-filled day; share laugh with your loved ones and know that all is well.
With our deepest love…” The Crystal Team
Channelled through Lindsay
Atlantean Crystal Master A "live" version of this channelling is available for you to tune into and
experience the wonderful energies of The Crystal Team at www.lindsayball.co.uk
Blog entry
31 Mar 2012 - 4:22am
~ This is an excerpt from - Voice of the Avatar ~
" Why is man afflicted with fear and anxiety? Are we to search for the reasons outside us or do they
lie within us? The reason for the false emphasis we have laid on things of the material world,
ignoring things of the Spirit. The body that man bears is essentially the receptible of God.
It is a temple, where God is installed and where God is the Master.
It does not deserve all the attention you now pay to fulfil its urges, needs and whims.
It is equipped with very valuable instruments which can help you in your journey;
but, you seldom use them!
The senses bring you impressions from the outside world, but, you do not evaluate
these impressions by the touchstone of a clear reason or a balanced mind.
You do not proceed from one step to another in the march towards the elimination of
the ego and the emergence into the One.
City-dwellers are buffeted by storms of passion and emotion, and they are hunted or haunted
by phantom desires and wild imaginings.
They have neither the inclination nor the insight to dedicate their time, their skills
and their activity to Divine ends. "
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ o O o ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Blog entry
30 Mar 2012 - 4:50am
One of life's greatest tests is to show compassion.
When you begin to live your life from a place of holiness and bliss, compassion generally comes easiest when strangers are involved. Compassion flows instantly when you don't intimately know something; if you see the suffering of a badly wounded human, hear the bleating cries of a dying animal, see the broken skeletons of a forest torn from its roots, sorrow and a desire to help is almost always an automatic response. There is nothing wrong with this blind compassion; it comes from a place of innocence, where your soul is still a beautiful and trusting child. How could this sufferer have ever done anything to deserve such pain and heartbreak? How could this exquisite Being ever have done anything to hurt another? The latter question is perhaps best saved for another conversation, as it is a very convoluted and thought provoking topic on its own. Still, it serves to illustrate our point; when you see someone you are not intimately familiar with in this lifetime suffering in any way, you move to help them without thinking. It is instinctual, and generally unlocks with ease as you begin to live your live consciously.
Unfortunately, most of us do not live lives full of strangers. Most of the time, we are surrounded by people we are very close to. The longer you spend with someone, the more you learn about them--good and bad. Over the years, both their best qualities and their worst are highlighted. You might know someone who is a brilliant musician and a wonderful force of joy and laughter, but with time you may learn that they are incredibly disloyal or have a very difficult time keeping their promises. You may learn to love someone who is absolutely enamoured with you, who makes you feel Whole, but whom has a nasty habit of not cleaning up after themselves or who has a very unfortunate tendency toward racism. The examples could go on and on--no one is every entirely bad, nor entirely good. We all have two sides to our coins. And while this makes us unique and brilliant, it also makes it increasingly difficult for those who know us very well to have compassion for us.
When your best friend leaves you hanging, your significant other insults you, your parents belittle you, your teacher chides you... these are tests. Because no one can be perfect, and yet we still must have others in our lives. We are social beings, and indeed singular parts of one great whole. So how do you learn to see past these mistakes and heartbreaks? How do you learn to have compassion and undying love for someone, despite their flaws and wrongdoings? How do you still reach out, time after time, to show someone compassion even when you know their darkest and dirtiest secrets?
God does nothing without purpose. Our lives do not end nor begin without a plan set in place. Every moment is a part of our journey, a tiny, tiny thread in the greater tapestry of our soul's undying Life. And so there's no mistake that those who have made their way into your innermost circle, who are a part of the very same group of souls you originated with, have these flaws. You have your own flaws, whether you are aware of it or not. We are all flawed, and it is what makes us beautiful and what drives others forward. Because without these challenges, how would you ever grow? Without any differences and quarrels in relationships, how would you meet the people who truly matter most? How would you grow out of relationships that are ultimately toxic? And more importantly, how would you ever learn to live from a place of complete compassion?
It's not easy to show care and love to those who have hurt you. It's not easy to bend to the aid of those who are unequivocally, inevitably tied to you--because although they are the light of our lives, they are also some of our greatest challengers. They will push us to our limits, because they know those limits... and they know, ultimately, that we can overcome them.
I cannot give any clear, concise answer on how to overcome these struggles, because each journey is so unique within itself. But I promise you, my darlings, that if you are already here, reading this message... then you can overcome anything. Because look at what you have already conquered, and where you have ended up on the other side of it. There is always hope, there is always love, and there is always the Divine. Om namah Shivaya!
Story
27 Mar 2012 - 9:30am
Mother Earth - Our beautiful home
“Mother Earth provides us with food, shelter, beauty, water, crystals, healing power, air quality, weather patterns, beautiful energies; all these essential and fundamental basics of life. Is there any coincidence that she is called Mother Earth, because she is the mother of humanity, the matriarch who nourishes, tends provides for and continuously looks after her children however they behave?
Some elements of your human race cannot or do not wish to see this connection for they feel self-regulatory and are concerned with their own needs and wants and it is these third dimensional or low energies who are struggling most. Mother Earth your provider, your shelter, your guide, your heart-beat, your protector, is moving up a gear, her energies are changing and those who live in the light, in appreciation of their Mother Figure are raising their vibrations in alignment with Mother Earth. Like a mother lion who is ready to set her cubs out on their own, who is cuffing a disrespectful cub around the ear, so too Mother Earth is saying “enough now”. It is time for all of us to move ahead with the Ascension plan, to move on into the next phase of the Plan for all in this dimension, in this life experience.
Of course, dear ones, as those of you who took the opportunity to experience spiritual growth and life at this time, you have free will and the choice is yours. Should you choose to move into the amazing new life cycle you will do well and marvel at the fantastic changes to come and the new life style to be experienced.
Ascension Plan for Mother Earth
Mother Earth has her own ascension plan, dear earth beings, and this will now proceed on to the next level, although of course it happens continuously, but there is a big change happening in these years.
So, how much better, more empathetic, more powerful it is to work as one, to work as a team and give due consideration to all aspects, for this can only produce the best result for all. Our beautiful planet flourishes when given care and attention, love and support, consideration and respect, for she is a sentient being. She feels the vibrations of all her inhabitants, she feels the negativity, the sadness, the grief, the greed, the discordant vibrations, the disorientation of those disconnected to their true source of love and Divinity.
Be grateful and give thanks for her bounty, her generosity in providing the wealth, variety and abundance of foods to sustain us in this adventure of life. Appreciate the seeds to grow the fruit, the crops, the nourishment, the sustenance, the water, the balance of nature, the seasons, the beauty; and where did all this originate from? It is all provided by Source, by the Great Presence, by Oneness, by Love and balance.
You are part of that process, you are part of the Divine Plan, you are part of this wonderful existence, this life. What a wonderful gift this is, and to be here at this time of profound change, of positive shifts in Mother Earth’s ascension, what a wonderful time to be alive and be part of this amazing existence.
So relish this time dear ones, connect with Mother Earth, with her powerful abundant energies and give thanks and love for this opportunity to experience this in this dimension, here and now, as part of our total soul journey through time and beyond for this is a joyous, magnificent time to behold and to see and to be part of. Seek out the Light, the Love and the Truth and bask in the glory and the wonderment and enjoy your part in it.”
Thanks to The Crystal Team for this beautiful message channelled through Lindsay.
www.lindsayball.co.uk
Teaching
26 Mar 2012 - 11:17am
Soulful Transformation
Accept the gifts given to you
by T. Byram Karasu, M.D. in The Mystery of Happiness
http://www.psychologytoday.com
Soulful transformation is a type of alchemy. One part of it is within; the other part of it is in the outside world. The part within contains the emotions of love, caring, and attention. When these emotions encounter objects in the outside world (wood, metal, stone, paper), there occurs a soulful connection. When you make something new by combining your inner world's emotion and the outer world's resources—if you take pieces of raw wood and make a chair from them, for example—you will have transformed them into something useful.
You live among things; you possess and dispose of them. You adorn yourself with them, use them for protection and for transportation. You comb your hair, brush your teeth, and wash your body with them. You sit, sleep, and play on them.
Some things exist simply for us and would not exist independently of our need for them, such as cars, scissors, mirrors, chairs, beds, lamps, and curtains. We create these things for our own comfort, safety, and convenience. Treat these things with care, they will serve you better. A sharpened pencil helps you write more legibly, a dusted rug hosts fewer allergens, a polished table lasts longer, dried scissors don't rust, well-washed underwear won't irritate your skin, and a well-maintained car won't leave you stranded on the road.
Bottom of Form
Preoccupation with having possessions and acquiring more of them reflects a lack of depth. Rather, value what you have and take good care of those things. Having an appropriate attitude toward things generates a sensible philosophy of consumption. Accumulation of things undermines your sense of worth and generates a feeling of insatiability. Once you are trapped within insatiable desire, your spirit becomes stunted. Things can't fill the spiritual vacuum; if anything, they make the void larger. You can be fulfilled only when you are empty of the desire for more. Acquire fewer things and take good care of them. Every object that you have or make should be used as a vessel for service, even when it serves ourselves.
Every inanimate object is created, either through us or independent of us. You can see the Creator's fingerprints intertwined with your fingerprints. Therefore, you should treat inanimate objects with care and attention, if not awe and respect.
Blog entry
25 Mar 2012 - 12:29am
I am definitely feeling and seeing rainbows over Lightys today !!!
and.........the rainbows are spreading over us and all life-forms !!
Must be Spring in Heaven...............on Earth !!
Happy Rainbow People all over the World.....................
................ enjoying all their beautiful colors !!!!
Watch out when those Rainbows hit you - you may never stop smiling !!
Have a rainbow-type-sunshiney-smiling day ~ Every-One !
Blog entry
24 Mar 2012 - 6:57am
Sometimes finding the answer is as easy as taking a break
and stepping back from the situation.
Sometimes we can get so wrapped up in our thoughts that we wind up going round in round in circles,
finding it difficult to concentrate on things and, because we are so distracted, not really accomplishing
much. There may be signals—mental, emotional, and physical—that tell us we need to slow down and
relax. Since we are so involved in things that are external to us, however, we may easily overlook what
is really going on inside of us. It is during these times that we need to step back from the things that
ccupy our minds and take time out to connect with our inner self, giving our minds, bodies, and spirits
the time they need to reenergize and heal.
At first it may seem that by taking a break we may not be as productive as we would initially like.
In reality, a healthy period of rest is something that gives us a real sense of the unlimited nature of
our true potential. Spending a couple of minutes walking outside, doing a few yoga poses, meditating,
or simply becoming attuned to the rising and falling of our breath enables us to let go of our worries.
This act brings our focus back to the things that are truly essential for us, such as our sense of
oneness with the universe and our inner peace and well-being. As we begin to get in touch with this
part of ourselves, we will find that our usual everyday troubles and worries become less critical and
that we not only have much more room in our lives to really reflect on the issues that mean the most
to us, but we are also able bring to all the situations we encounter a much more positive and healthy
outlook.
Giving ourselves respite from our daily concerns is like giving a gift to ourselves.
By stepping away from the problems that seem to saturate our thoughts, we lessen
the weight of our troubles and instead become more receptive to the wisdom
and answers the universe has to offer us.
Teaching
22 Mar 2012 - 3:34pm
Be a Good Receiver
www.learnmindpower.com
Are you a good receiver? It might sound like a funny question but it is an important one that each of us should ask ourselves.
Strangely, most of us are better givers than we are receivers. We give to our children, our spouses, our friends, charities and, contrary to what we might think, most of us are actually very good at giving. But receiving; now that is another matter. We often feel subtly uncomfortable when receiving. Even compliments get deflected when they come our way. Someone pays us a compliment for helping them move or clean up the house and we say, “Ah, it was nothing.” Or someone compliments us on an outfit we are wearing and we feel inclined to mention how we bought it at a discount instead of simply enjoying the compliment and letting it nourish us. The compliment is a gift to us, and when we don’t receive it properly we are dishonoring the giver.
Receiving is actually harder to do than giving. Giving is easy, as there is much pleasure in giving, but receiving is an art that takes practice. To be a good receiver requires intimacy, allowing others in our life, however momentarily. It is always a pleasure to be in the presence of a good receiver, to enjoy the way they receive. Being a good receiver is honoring the giver and giving them back something.
Many relationships are suffering not because people are not giving to each other, but because they are not receiving from each other. We should receive the love, respect compliments, and acknowledge one another every time giving occurs. We should practice receiving all the pleasures that happen to us daily, not take anything for granted. Think of how many simple everyday gifts from life we are constantly being given: the beauty of nature, the sound of children playing, art, stimulating conversations. Are we truly receiving them when they happen to us, or are we busy, preoccupied with other matters, not noticing? We should master the art of receiving, be a good receiver and accept the gifts life offers us.
We are taught that it is better to give than receive, but this wrong. It is better to give and receive. Give and receive. If we think it is better to give than receive, this suggests that there is something wrong with receiving. There is nothing wrong with receiving; in fact we want to receive more, let life shower us with gifts, pleasures, joys, surprises, both large and small, and we want to show our appreciation for all these things. The more we can receive, the more we can give back, but the reverse it not true. Giving more does not necessarily mean we can receive more. We must remember that it is harder to receive than give, and work on this part of ourselves so that we become good receivers and givers, with both in balance.
Be a good receiver and let life’s many blessings nourish you deeply. Notice how much there is to receive and don’t be selfish or distracted; receive it generously and abundantly, showing your appreciation every opportunity you can. This gratitude will send out vibrations of energy that will attract even more blessings to you. This is the alchemy of mastering the art of receiving. This practice will nourish you well.
* So true, it is so much easier to give than receive. Balance is necessary in all aspects of our existence even with giving and receiving of anything regardless if its a compliment or a gift, or an answer to a prayer. I am very glad the Creator prompted me to another valuable article for me to grow on and to share to others.
Brightest Blessings,
Blog entry
22 Mar 2012 - 9:06am
You know, i've said before that i felt 'special' but i also felt 'chosen'. Out of all the people in the world Satan chose me. i was quiet, shy, didn't get in trouble, listened to my mommy, went to church, followed all the rules, i was a good Christian girl. i wondered if when i turned my back on God, if Satan was watching as the bible claims and if it made him happy or proud of me or something. But maybe because i was special and chosen and a good person, maybe all this meant that i would have a better place in Hell. i wasn't dreaming of a position of power in Hell or any sort of high ranking anything. i thought maybe i'd have sort of a nice place in Hell, away from everyone else. i thought i might be a favorite and i would be given preferential treatment. There must be a section in Hell for Satan's favorites, like Ricky Kasko or Richard "the Night Stalker" Ramirez. LoLoL
Don't think for a second that i ever thought i would find friends or love in Hell. i imagined that other people in hell, even the favorites, would be competitive and jealous, not friendly and accepting. As much as he felt like a friend, i knew that Satan couldn't be trusted and i knew he wasn't really a friend. Not now, not ever. i tried to convince myself that this was what the Bible said and i no longer believed in that crap but i still couldn't bring myself to trust him completely. i do not recall him ever telling me that we were friends and if he did i would not have believed it. i do not recall asking him if we were friends and i don't think i would have. It would have been redundant and more importantly, i wanted to believe that i was 'special' in some way. Part of me still believed he was evil and could not be trusted and there was always a part of me that suspected that all this was just my imagination because i was lonely and unhappy and desperately wanted someone of my own and someone to belong to. Even if it was my imagination, i liked the way it made me feel.
i did request friends. Of course i did. How stupid do you think i am? i am truly ashamed by this, so much so that i was going to leave this out completely but i don't want anyone to think that i couldn't make friends or didn't try or i didn't want friends because i had Lucifer. And i don't want anyone to think that Lucifer didn't want me to have friends. None of that was true. i did ask for friends and i did find myself in the company of someone who seemed to be making an honest effort to be friends with me. i tried to be a good friend, to be engaging and entertaining but too often we'd both realize that we had little in common. While i enjoyed their company, it does get tedious to listen to someone prattle on about thier boyfriends, talk about their 'best friend' or talk about make up, music, movies, siblings, parties or anything else that i could not relate to.
i didn't have a boyfriend so as i sat there listening to them talk about their boyfriend, inside i would be feeling jealous, angry or hopeless because i had no one. Sometimes i'd think they were being rude and inconsiderate talking about their boyfreinds when they knew damn well i had no one and then i'd feel guilty for thinking that and i feel guilty for being angry at them when i should have been grateful that they were talking to me at all. i tried really hard to be happy for them but really, how happy could i be? If someone you know won the lottery, you might be happy for them, you might even say, "They deserved it" but at the same time you know you'd be jealous and you know you'd say, "Why couldn't that be me?" All i could do was sit there and listen to them, try to hide my true feelings behind a fake smile. Sometimes they made it worse by introducing me to him. He would always smile and act friendly but then he would whisper something to her that i couldn't hear and then she'd laugh and say, "Be nice." He'd do it again and again and she'd laugh each time. Other times, i'd see them together in the hallway, the lunchroom or outside and they'd both be staring at me and laughing.
It also hurt to listen to them talk about thier 'best friend'. It reminded me that i was not their best friend and that i was nobody's best friend. i could not relate when they complained about how unfair it was that they were not allowed to stay out later or when they would complain about the parties their mom wouldn't let them go to while i never went out anywhere, ever. i stayed home all the time. i used to get so excited when there was something to mail because then i got to go outside and walk to the mailbox. i got to leave the house. i had someplace to go and it gave me a sense of purpose. It was really pathetic; Lord, i know. My friend would look through fashion magazines and talk about the make-up, clothes, shoes they wanted to get so they could look like the models. i didn't read those magazines, i didn't wear make up - i wasn't even allowed to wear nail polish - and the nice clothes they wanted only emphasized my shoddy, poorly fitting clothes. They'd pass the magazine to me so i could see the images of what they wanted to emulate and i'd nod and agree. i'd feel so detached from them and from society and of life itself. A lot of times it seems that this was the point where they'd realize that we had nothing in common and i had nothing to offer them. Sometimes, i thought i saw a glare of arrogance or disgust on their face. i wished that they understood that i also wanted to be pretty and to be liked and i didn't choose the way i looked and dressed. They'd talk about the movies they wanted to see, parties they went to or were going to and people they hung out with. i never went to movies or parties, i didn't have friends or aquaintences to hang out with. i didn't even recognize the names of the actors or singers they admired. i felt so stupid and alienated. i could only smile and nod. i couldn't join them or connect with them over anything.
A few times i was invited to join someone's lunch table and sit with their friends, be part of thier group. But when i looked at them, i saw they shared the same hairstyle, the same fashion, same makeup, the same shoes, the same mannerisms, the same catch phrases, the same problems and issues. i was so different and ugly. i had nothing in common with them. When we parted company, they would tell each other, "i'll call you later" or "i'll see you at your house/see you at my house" and things like that. Nobody ever called me. lol They didn't even know my phone number and there were times, they didn't even know my name. i would think, "Why would they want to be friends with me?" and i would wonder what they were up to and i felt guilty for being so ungrateful. Though they were hospitable i just didn't fit in. i was so different from everybody else, so abnormal. Sometimes i felt so awkward and embarrassed i felt like i was bleeding on the inside. i would quietly sneak away, i'd promise to come back but i never would and later i'd do my best to avoid them. They knew what i was up to. If i hurt anyone's feelings, i am truly sorry.
i grew to know enough people that i was able to play matchmaker and i would introduce unattached girls to other girls i had befriended and then abandoned or i would talk to them about boys that i thought they should like. i knew everyone well enough that i knew who would get along well with each other. i was good at this; so good that some girls befriended me just so i could introduce them to other people. i knew the girls in the popular cliques and i often talked to the boys that i sat next to or near in class. i became the person to go to if you wanted to meet someone else. i felt both important and used. Not useful, just used. A few times i was selfish and i wouldn't say anything because i wanted to keep certain people for myself. But ultimately i would give up because that was my "job" and nobody wanted me anyway.
My point is, you can't say that i didn't try to make friends or that Lucifer didn't try to find me friends, if that was the case, i don't know. And i want it to be known that was grateful to Lucifer and to everyone that came into my life.
Ricky Kasko: http://www.skcentral.com/articles.php?article_id=156
Richard Ramirez: http://www.skcentral.com/articles.php?article_id=301&c_start=10
Blog entry
20 Mar 2012 - 12:10pm
There are many who wish that our star families would come down and show themselves.
Believing that disclosure will usher in our new era.
Bringing with them amazing technology that will help all of us here on Mother Earth.
Healing our world.
Lately I have been thinking that it isn't that they will come down, it's that we will go up.
As we raise the consciousness of our planet, we are instrumental in the dropping of the veil.
I have a feeling that there are lots of lightships all around us,we just can't see them yet.
But we will.
But as we ground in more Light and Love,then we are the ones raising our planet up to meet our star families.
And what about those whose star families have been expanding the dark in order for the Light to expand as well?
The ones that have been interfering?
I think they too are attempting to ascend and raise their consciousness.
They are trying to remember as well.
They are in a very different place than our race, but they are doing the same thing.
Contributing to the expansion of Light.
So as we raise ourselves,we open the doors to disclosure.
And since Mother Earth has decided she is going up,we too have a choice to make.
Every soul here on earth can choose where they want to wake up tomorrow.
And if they want to meet their star families.
I choose to be in a place where there is abundance for all.
Where all souls relate to each other through the heart.
I also feel that we are so close to achieving our dreams for this beautiful place called earth.
We are letting go of any darkness in ourselves, so that we can expand into the Light.
And our star families are waiting for us to reach up to them.
They will not interfere.
We are the ones we have been waiting for to bring about diclosure.
Each of us, as we make personal decisions to continue on our path of remembering affect above and below.
We affect all dimensions.
And that is why so many channelings are starting pass on a sense of excitement in their energy of their words.
I know I can feel it too.
And I know that it is going to happen soon.
I don't know how.
I don't know when.
But it doesn't matter to me.
I will continue to spread the Light every moment I am able to do so.
I will continue to help the sleeping souls in any way I can.
I will continue to live my life in the Light so that others can see that it is possible.
And I will continue to expand my consciousness so that I can remember more...
These are just my thoughts of course.
My reality.
My experience in this great time of awakening for Mother Earth.
Yours might be completely different.
That is perfect.
Everything is exactly as it should be.
All is well.
Spring has come to our planet.
Life is about to thrive.
In Light and Love, keep reaching up,you will be amazed at what you find.
: )
marie
Teaching
20 Mar 2012 - 11:17am
The Power Of Living In The Now
By Chuck Danes
http://www.abundance-and-happiness.com
Living In The Now: You’ve heard it a thousand times. You’ve read about it for years. Most everyone has been exposed to the concept of living only in the present, without giving thought to what has happened in the past or being concerned about what may happen in the future.
As good as this advice is, we as humans can sometimes find it difficult to implement this ever so simplistic principle into our day to day lives. Simple, yes. Easy, no.
In fact, to many it may initially appear to be impossible. The key word in that statement is appear. Until you know how, it will appear impossible. But once you grasp this simple concept, once you are able to make the necessary shift in your thought process, and once you are able to understand how, fully accept why, and begin to learn to implement the awesome power that this principle holds, you’ll soon discover that your life will begin to change in a dramatic and seemingly miraculous way. Mastery of this powerful principle is essential in relation to your ability to change the circumstances that you are now experiencing as your reality.
But how do you get to that point? What steps are necessary to develop the ability to not be concerned with what currently appears to be huge insurmountable obstacles? How is it possible to be able to ignore the experiences that have previously created hardship in various areas of life in the past, and learn to effectively shut off the thoughts of concern that these very things might be repeated in the future?
These are questions asked by many. All valid and all seemingly impossible to master, until you begin to develop an understanding of how the human mind and the universe were created to operate harmoniously to bring about the events, conditions and circumstances that you experience in your day to day life. That understanding, combined with the knowledge of basic and simplistic universal laws that determine how and why things happen as they do, will awaken you to new hope and unlimited possibilities.
This understanding will allow you to banish from your mind, the illusions of fear, worry, and guilt, and allow you to begin to replace those counter-productive emotions with those that will better serve in bringing about your desired outcomes.
So, how do you do that?…
The process must begin, first of all, with developing an understanding of where these emotions and concerns originate from and why we feel certain ways about the various events, conditions, and circumstances that we experience in our day to day lives. To accomplish this, it is necessary to explore the inner workings of the human mind and develop a basic understanding of its operation, before you can effectively initiate a plan and begin to consciously make the changes that are necessary which allow you to begin attracting that which you want, and realizing how you have, to this point, been unconsciously attracting those things that you say you don’t want.
Once this basic understanding is mastered, the next step is discovering and developing an understanding of the ever so powerful, unfailing, and unwavering Universal Laws that determine each and every end result and which brings in to being the ultimate outcome of every thought, decision, action, event, and condition that we witness and experience in our day to day lives.
The third step is allowing the understanding of this new knowledge to permeate your innermost being, allowing it truths to become a part of you, which begins the internal process of allowing it to overwrite the self-limiting, counter-productive, and many times ill given advice that you have absorbed and established as truth to this point.
The fourth and final step is putting your newly acquired knowledge in to daily action and consistently and consciously applying each of the newly discovered principles acquired. The knowledge gained without proper application will be of no use to you. It is through the application of this powerful wisdom that you will begin to experience a life that you previously considered to be out of reach.
You’ll soon discover that the things that you, at one time, found to be a struggle will begin to fall into place with unbelievable ease. The once negative thoughts and emotions that at one point haunted you, will be replaced with feelings of well-being, understanding and profoundly empowering deep inner peace. The financial concerns that once haunted you will melt away and be replaced with a sense of assurance. The relationships that once seemed to be difficult or impossible will become effortless, fulfilling and satisfying. The physical health that at one point was a constant concern will almost magically be renewed and you will emanate vitality, happiness, and energy far superior to anything that you have previously experienced.
Will it take effort on your part to come to realize and experience these results? Yes. Will it require discipline to go within and make the changes necessary to begin to experience the things discussed? Absolutely. Will it be necessary to seek out and find the real truth concerning the life that you were destined to experience and created to enjoy? Most definitely.
Regardless of your viewpoint concerning spiritual matters these truths are set, unwavering, unbiased and totally without prejudice. These eternal laws work exactly the same for everyone whether you are young or old, black or white, Christian, Buddhist, Jewish, Muslim, Agnostic, or whatever other numerous labels man has contrived to place on the human population. It is these very laws that are responsible for creating the events, conditions, and circumstances that you experience in your day to day life each and every minute of every day, regardless of who, what, or where you are.
Your awareness of them or ignorance to them is of no consolation. You are creating something every minute of every day. With this being true doesn’t it make sense to discover the process that will allow you to begin consciously creating that which you want?
Your newfound wisdom will allow you to begin the ever important process of living in the here and now, which is precisely where you want to be.
Chuck Danes has been assisting individuals for the past 25 years in the areas of self-improvement and personal development. His passion is assisting others in becoming aware of and fulfilling their unlimited potential. He is currently assisting individuals worldwide with life changing tips, techniques and resources, through his site,
Abundance-and-Happiness.com
Story
19 Mar 2012 - 10:04am
The Joy of doing what makes your heart sing!
channelled from The Crystal Team through Lindsay
“The joyousness of doing what makes your heart sing: this is our message to you all the time. These feelings automatically send out ripples of joy, of lightness and of love into your aura. You then walk around spreading this joy and lightness with you wherever you go.
For it is difficult for us to comprehend that some people have what you might call a guilt trip, at doing what they enjoy, they struggle manfully to conform to what they feel is expected of them but who is imposing those restraints? We would like to offer another thought for you to consider.
Doing what makes your heart sing – how does that phrase make you feel – for feelings is what it is all about, feeling good, feeling happy, feeling grateful, feeling joyful, feeling excited when you wake up as to what you are doing today. These feelings automatically send out ripples of joy, of lightness and of love into your aura. You then walk around spreading this joy and lightness with you wherever you go.
Then you settle down to do that thing that makes your heart glow, those ripples intensify and grow brighter and stronger and more powerful so the area around you whether you are alone, in the house or whether you are with other people explodes with love, with joy, with intensely happy light and bright energy.
Do you see how wonderful this is?
Do you see how everyone and everything benefits from this?
For it is not only humans who benefit but we benefit too, our crystalline being, our essence delights at this as we see the ripples spreading out across the Universe, out, out, out and far beyond what you can see and imagine. How can you have a guilt trip about this, perhaps you should have a guilt trip about not doing it, but I only jest as we do not wish to add to your complex thought processes and cause you more worry – we just wish to show you how marvellous it is when you do that thing that makes your heart sing.
I am with Lindsay in her Workshops dancing around the room making sure you feel light and bright and I am clearing your energy fields as I dance around with a big smile upon my face. My essence, and as Lindsay calls me – my cheeky personality – is really a manifestation of my joy at this existence, this celebration of life, this sheer pleasure at all the joy-full feelings and experiences we can have in this Adventure called Life.
So please, dear ones, next time you feel like doing that heart singing thing, allow yourself the pleasure and time to do it for you are being of great service to yourself, to mankind, to Mother Earth and to the Universe. You are helping to manifest the Divine Plan on Earth.
You are helping clear Mother Earth, and assist her on her journey to ascension and you are being a great example to others to do the same, I think you have a phrase called “A win win situation” and this is truly what this is.
The Universe loves you and wants us all to be happy and joyful and spending time having fun is one step towards that achievement.
Think bigger with your thoughts, think out into the Universe and see the stars shining and know that all is well, that all is on track to completion of the old order and the manifestation of the new glorious life plan and you dear one are part of that plan that manifestation, so send out those ripples of joy, of light and love and brightness and know that you are doing a wonderful thing to assist bringing in this amazing new life, here on Earth.
So for now, oh beloved ones, we send our love and our thoughts of joy to you and will speak again soon”.
Channelled from The Crystal Team with great love and joy through Lindsay
Atlantean Crystal Master
www.lindsayball.co.uk
Story
19 Mar 2012 - 9:55am
Manifesting Joy – linking to the beautiful energies of Golden Atlantis
channelled from The Crystal Team through Lindsay
In the time of Atlantis people were encouraged from an early age to do what made their heart sing. Information was downloaded to children quickly – there was no need for them to sit at desks hour upon hour. They were encouraged to develop their uniqueness and individuality and to do what made their heart sing.
When you do this your vibrations raise, your resonance, your frequencies raise, your whole being sings with delight.
Why would you not want to be in this state of joy, of happiness, of creativity?
Why would you want to shrink yourself and to put yourself in a place that almost feels like a punishment when you can be in harmony with all that is?
This could be that your Atlantean energies are surfacing with the changing energies of Mother Earth and you feel the dissonance – is this all it is? Is this what it’s all about?
Story-telling and poetry
In Atlantis, those who were creative chose to develop those skills of poetry and story-telling to share round the camp fire and this contribution was valued as an important part of life. To entertain, to bring people together to celebrate their joy in this way; they were equally valued, encouraged and supported for their value was understood on many levels.
Communities working together
Those whose talents lay in making clothes were encouraged to develop their knowledge and creativity on a practical level to provide sustainable clothing, grown sympathetically with the needs of Mother Earth, and to develop new ways, new fabrics, new colours that fitted with the patterns, of life, the seasons and the ceremonies during the year.
We are seeing now with great delight how communities are starting to work together again, to take charge of their destiny, their energies and to realise the joy this brings, whether it is in getting together for a Town in Bloom competition or bringing communities together to “save their local town” from annonyminity and losing its essence to larger corporate businesses.
Lighting up the skies and creating a glow that extends far beyond our understanding
Bringing people together in this way unites them, it supports them in allowing all aspects of all people to come forward and shine, whether they do the planting, the planning, the tea-making – all are working to their strengths in a joyous way for the benefit of all. Anyone can join in and contribute, the shy are welcomed and make new friends, the leaders show their capabilities by organising in a gentle way and so on. The town benefits from an uplift of energy, colour and the vibrations are raised by the common joy of the beauty of nature. And so too, the MedMobs with people uniting in public places to concentrate their energies in peace, in harmony, where the power of a group together is greater than the sum of the individuals. We embrace all these wonderful changes and gatherings for, on a greater scale they light up the skies and create a glow that extends far beyond what our minds can see. They help to manifest the joy on Earth, bring in the new energies and manifest the Divine Plan on Earth. “
Channelled with great love from The Crystal Team through Lindsay
Atlantean Crystal Master
www.lindsayball.co.uk
Blog entry
18 Mar 2012 - 2:09am
Some twin flames aren’t here in this incarnation. That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t get married or have children because your twin flame (in the ethereal realms) wants you to experience everything that can bring you joy and happiness in this incarnation, as well as to learn as many life lessons to help your spiritual growth. He or she is still part of your soul group but decided not to join you in this incarnation.
Don’t take it personally! They’re still with you in heart and in spirit. It’s also important to remember that some twin flames remain on the other side to provide you with help and spiritual guidance.
Some souls decided to come here without them because they “heard the call” and they knew they were needed here in this incarnation. Please keep in mind that not everyone from your soul group will incarnate at the same time! My twin is on the other side helping to guide me. I've caught glimpses of her in visions and while I listed that I'm here for friendship, I know she wants me to find love and to be loved. And that will take a very special woman.
I created a free online dating website called in5d Connections where like-minded co-creators can find their soul groups and where those who are fortunate enough to have their twinflame on this side of the veil can find one another. This is part of why I incarnated here... to bring together like-minded souls and soul groups while helping to raise the planet's vibration. hopefully, you have already found your twin flame or will meet your soulmate in the near future. Just remember that not all soulmates incarnate together but that doesn't mean you shouldn't find love in your life!
Live life to its fullest. If your twinflame is on the other side, he or she DEFINITELY wants you to find L O V E in this incarnation!
Blog entry
16 Mar 2012 - 1:24am
Reading Dolores Cannons book, the latest one. She interviews people under hypnosis. They say some are alien beings who say Earth is a unique place because it is so easy to get caught up in the negativity frequency by default and to always aim for the light. I want to. Its hard for me, looking back on my life, its my biggest challenge and accomplishment. Also there will be a new earth with no more pain. I want to love more. I dont want to fear I wont make it to the new earth. Can I do this? Can I love more? Can I love instead of fear others? All the time??? Make it a habit??
Teaching
15 Mar 2012 - 6:08pm
Do you FEEL a strong pull on your heart-strings to begin a Mission Now?
Learn More about Project: Eagle Triad here:
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Commit to 15-20 minutes per day to Project: Eagle Triad
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...first you will fly, then you will soar...
Time to Get Serious
http://ashtarstrinity.sanandaseagles.com/channelings/time_to_get_serious.html
ASHTAR
Channeled Through Janisel
My Dearest Friends.... I come to assure you that things are as they should be. There are great amounts of energy bombarding your Earth at this time and everything is being greatly accelerated. NOW is the time for 'focus'. You who are the bridges between Heaven and Earth are the 'hands and feet' of the Command, so to speak. It is through you that much of our work is done. As I said, much has been accelerated and, although we wish you to remain in a state of joy and lightheartedness, it is now time to put your 'work' in its proper perspective and concentrate on the mission at hand. We are working very diligently to gather the Lightworkers together in order to prepare the general population for what is to come.
This means that each and every one of you are needed at this time to make a commitment in your own heart as to what role you will play in this. In other words, it is time to get serious. We are not asking you to give your lives over to the Ashtar Command exclusively, for you each have many missions and sub-missions that you are here to accomplish. What we are asking, however, is that for those of you who feel your connection to us to band together, so to speak, in order to establish and implement certain 'activities' towards the goals which have been set before us. You have shown that you can do this numerous times, such as in the planting of the crystals and the activation of the grid. This was an excellent example of the Unity we wish for you to achieve, and our heartfelt thanks go to all of you who have participated in this project. Rest assured there will be other projects we will ask you to work on. For the time being, we are asking you to continue in this Unity, and stay focused on the tasks at hand.
Do not let yourselves become 'bogged down' in the mundane affairs of your day-to-day activities. We wish for those of you who are aligned with the Command and its work to use this wonderful email forum to interact with each other in manifesting this bond of Unity. You are held within the gentle hand of All That Is and encircled with the energy of Unconditional Love of such depths that your present consciousness can not truly comprehend its magnitude. We of the Command and the Spiritual Hierarchy are working most diligently to help you and all mankind reach their full potential. As a 'return energy exchange', we ask each of you to now search your hearts and decide what it is that you are capable and willing to do in partnership with us. For you see, we are truly in a partnership in which each and every one must play their part. NOW is the time to begin. NOW is the time to decide your focus.
NOW is the time to dedicate yourselves to the work at hand. We need your hands, we need your feet, we need your voice, we ask your commitment. To paraphrase the words of The Most Radiant One, spoken so long ago, "it is time to be about the Father's business". There is no longer the luxury of time to be spent in petty pursuits, bickering, judgment, or anger. Your time, which we have worked towards for eons, is at hand. Know that, even though you may not see us in your skies, we are most definitely close to you, and send you our deepest blessings and love.
Your Friend and Brother,
Ashtar
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Here are more free links for your IMMEDIATELY NEEDED Lightworker Learning:
ASHTAR and The Ashtar Command
http://ashtarstrinity.sanandaseagles.com/pages/ashtar_command.html
MEDITATIONS
http://ashtarstrinity.sanandaseagles.com/meditations/meditations.html
SPACECRAFT in Art Throughout History
http://sanandaseagles.com/pages/spacecraft_in_art.html
They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles. Isaiah 40:31
video
13 Mar 2012 - 7:53pm
The first in a series of videos on adapting to the end of the Mayan Calendar and its attendant invitation to evolve consciousness.
Story
12 Mar 2012 - 5:18pm
Codes, patterns, sounds and vibrations-a powerful message from Starlite of The Crystal Team channelled
through Lindsay - Atlantean Crystal Master
“My message to you all dear friends is one of more scientific interest as I am from far, far away and almost galactic in my energy essence as you might see it. My essence is multi-coloured and multi-dimensional as I travel between times, space and there are no limits in this energy; it is beyond your comprehension.
And yet, it is a wonderful place to be, to see the stars alight and the planets rotating and your lovely planet Earth, as your home. It is all to the glory of what you perceive as God or The Great Presence.
Our energies can link and unite dear ones, because we are in essence all part of one and the same, your origins, your being emanated from here and will return here after what you see as your physical death on your Earth.
Reconnecting to your ancient wisdom
In linking together, we are able to down-load to you all necessary information for you to reconnect your memories to ancient wisdom that has been known and understood for eons of time. Information about codes, patterns, sounds and vibrations, that you know really, they are stored in your cellular make-up and because you are crystalline in essence too this enables your systems and memories to recall this information. You do not need to re-learn but may need prompts for you to recall it so we are able to provide this in different means for you.
There is too much information to down-load through Lindsay and you do not need it all anyway, but we are here to assist those of you with the knowledge of ancient wisdom to link into our energies and remember that information.
Settle yourself into life on Earth
Travelling through the stars and the sky is a magnificent place to be, you can link into those planets that you have experienced before and refresh yourself of how wonderful life is on the outer reaches of space. You have these links and some of you may find it difficult to settle into life on earth because you feel homesick but do not understand why or how this could be.
Rest assured, oh loved ones, that we do see you struggle, we do send you our love and reassurance that all will be well, that you can settle yourself into life on Earth by acknowledging this feeling but at the same time moving your energies into the earthly energies by involving yourself in life on Earth and realising the value of this experience, to fulfil your purpose here and know that it is just a part of your spiritual quest, your journey, something you desired to experience in this lifetime in this dimension, but it is not forever, and life on Earth can be a beautiful thing.
Open your heart to it, open your mind to it and be glad of the experience. Mother Earth will support you and nurture you, connect yourself to her wonderful energies and ask her for her support, her love, her nourishment and sit and feel your feet upon the ground, even when you are looking at the sky and the stars and know that all is well, you are loved and supported in your time on Earth, it will not be forever.
Codes and patterns as part of Universal Oneness
Our codes and patterns are very important to you in understanding the connection between everything, how all things scientific, mathematical and astrological are linked with the common purpose of Universal good, of Universal energies, of Universal Oneness. You are beginning to see connections and patterns and more information is being made available to you as science and religion – for want of a better word, reunite as they once were and are understood as being part of the spiritual dimension of life – so too the understanding of the codes and patterns will fall into place.
For it is not only humans who are all part of a Oneness, of a Unity Consciousness but so is the Universe, the galaxy, the stars, the planets are all linked by an order, a Divine Plan, a Oneness which is inter-dependent on another so the energies blend, you might say, to create an order, a system, a pattern that is self-regulating and when one aspect becomes out of order, the rest of the system must compensate or rebalance and this is not always for the best when negative energies create the imbalance. The adjustments may not be for the good of all.
Spectacular energy shifts
But, oh gracious beings, when the energies are of joy, peace, harmony, understanding, love, respect, honour, graciousness, then we are talking spectacular lights in the sky, spectacular energy shifts, and spectacular arrays of positive energy creating wonderful adjustments, patterns and changes for the very best for all.
Can you see how this works dear ones, can you see the joy and the light, lighting up the sky sending wave upon wave of gladness out, out, out into the Universe and beyond? The colours are beyond the words you have to describe them, the energies are pure and clear, it is magnificent to see and experience, so remember our wonderful earthly beings you are part of this brilliantness, you, are part of this wonderment.
Can you feel the difference, can you sense how powerful this is and you are doing your part in this? For each small part is a part of the whole and each small action is part of the whole and each small thought is part of the whole and know that we are here to help and support you in all possible ways.
Laugh and dance and share your joy for you are each magnificent in your own way.
Ask us for help, and we will send you love and comfort, happiness and joy forever, and always.
Thank you”.
Channelled from Starlite of The Crystal Team through
Lindsay - Atlantean Crystal Master
www.lindsayball.co.uk
Blog entry
11 Mar 2012 - 8:55am
“The air is full of souls; those who are nearest to earth descending to be tied to mortal bodies return to other bodies, desiring to live in them”
As i write this, i am acutely aware that i was a troubled kid that's why i include things like, "i was very ostracized", etc. Maybe i was like those lonely girls who invent an imaginary boyfriend to brag about to their friends. i guess guys do too, i don't know. And i did have considerable anxiety and overwhelming stress. Maybe my mind was fractured. i pondered all these theories at the time and i continued to ponder them now. It's hard because i can't talk to a professional about this. They will immediately diagnose me as crazy. And i have talked to Christians about this. They believe me. It's a question of logic vs faith and i don't know what to think.
i sometimes asked Lucifer how could i be sure that he was real and not a figment of my imagination or just some stress and anxiety induced halucination. He got angry and told me if that's what i wanted to believe then so be it. He'd quiet for a little while, maybe a minute or two. Then he'd ask me, "Do you still believe?" And the truth was, he was very real to me. Whether he was real or not didn't matter - he was real to me. To some people Jesus is very real. To others, that crazy guy down the street is very real. But the crazy guy down the street is not real to me because i don't live on his street and to that crazy guy's children, he's not 'the crazy guy,' he's Dad and they love him.
Before i stop typing for the night, i want to say that i have contemplated the possibility of schitzophrenia. i am not a psychiatrist and i'll bet you're not either. So what do we really know about schitzophrenia besides that they hear voices and i am spelling it wrong? i have looked up the symptoms online and i don't fit the criteria. i also have taken online tests and i have never gotten schitzophrenia as a diagnosis. In fact, i always score low to zero percent chance of schitzophrenia. Yes, i was hearing voices. Unfortunately, as i would come to find out in my 20's, i am also psychic and i can hear and speak to dead people. i have never ruled out that "Lucifer" may have been a lost soul or some soul on a lower level who still enjoys stirring up trouble.
Have you ever wanted to speak to the dead? Oh, my God, it's easy. Please, let me tell you how. First, clear your mind. Spirits hate excitement and frantic energy. Just be calm. Let your mind relax and go blank. i know you're thinking of your loved one and holding them in your heart. This is okay. A picture of them will enter your mind. They will look real and alive. There you go. You now have direct contact. i can't guarantee if or how they will speak to you. They might not, especially not the first time. When they do, you may hear thier voice. You may have a thought. You may see an image or a symbol. Have faith that it IS them.
i used to be a part of a dog forum. One of the member's dog had died and the dog's owner was distraught. i told her the above and she didn't think it would work - she thought i was a kook - but she decided to try it anyway. She saw her dog and the dog told her that it was safe and that it was ready to go. It also told her that it was sorry she was so sad and that it came around sometimes; it rattled the tags on its collar to let her know! The lady said that she had thought that she heard her dog's toenails and the unique rythem of its walk but then she would remind herself that the dog was gone. Not long after, her freind's dog suddenly died. For reasons unbeknownst to her, she told her friend that her dog was safe and happy and that he was playing with children. Her friend said that he loved kids and he loved to play with them. The lady from the dog forum said, "I did not know that." lol It was really awesome to know that i helped someone. i was so happy.
Well, back to being depressing. i saw this show one time, a long, long time ago. It may have been a segment on one of those shows like 20/20 or 60 Minutes. They profiled this guy who had schitzophrenia and not him but some scientist had invented one of those virtual reality glasses things to show what it was like to have schitzophenia, to see the world through their eyes. So this guy, the schitzophrenic guy, he tried it. In this virtual reality, he was walking through a store. As he passed by other people they would look up at him, usually they looked angry or suspicious, and they would say things like, "He's here" or "He's doing it again." One lady got up in his face and screamed menacingly, "AAAAAAAH!!!". In another incident, an employee of the store picked up a phone and while glaring at him the whole time spoke into the phone, "He's doing it again." There were other people and they all gave him dirty looks and said, the same things. He took medication and was stable but by the time this guy was done with his virtual reality trip he was really shaken up. i never had experiences like that. Also, i didn't start to hear a voice until i talked to it first.
When i didn't talk to Lucifer, he didn't talk to me. It was only when i asked a question or made a comment that i would get a response. i always initiated communication. This could mean that i had an over active, vivid imagination but i'm not convinced it was my imagination. If i was imagining anything, it was totally subconcious. Yes, i asked questions but the responses always surprised me. The only truth i can be certain of was i was very lonely and i desperately wanted to belong. It was very hard to look out at everyone else and see them having fun and talking and giggling with thier friends. i even envied their dramas. It is certainly possible that subconciously i was so desperate that i created my own imaginary friend and my own imaginary drama to go along with it. But there were too many things that i couldn't explain.
i found this site only a few months ago. A lot of what it says describes my own experiences. It also says that Satan/Lucifer/demons will communicate through telepathy. That's what happened to me. i still remain open to the suggestion that it may have been a 'lost soul' or someone from a lower level on the spiritual plane. It may have been my imagination, it may have been a demon but i am adamant that it was NOT schitzophrenia.
i debated over whether or not to post a link to the demonology site. i decided i would post it and everyone else could choose to look or not and draw thier own conclusions. But then, my internet connection kept disconnecting. i took that as a sign that i should NOT post the link. i don't know who was behind it - Satan or the Universe or some sort of do-gooder good vs evil force - but i think someone doesn't want me to post it. So i'm sorry but i cannot share the site.
Teaching
10 Mar 2012 - 12:05pm
A Brighter Tomorrow
by Owen Waters
www.infinitebeing.com
Heart-powered consciousness is humanity’s destination in The Shift to the New Reality. As people continue to have experiences of heart-centered consciousness, their everyday state of consciousness shifts more and more into the heart-centered zone.
As detailed in my book, The Shift, there is a yin and a yang to heart-centered consciousness. Heart-felt consciousness is the yin or exploratory stage, and can be observed as the phase of heart consciousness expressed, for example, by ecological enthusiasts or “greenies.” It is the pinnacle of the first tier of human evolution.
The next step opens the way to a spiritual transformation because the heart is a bridge between the first and spiritual tiers of human consciousness. When a person takes that one step further, into the yang or action-oriented phase of heart-centered consciousness, they experience heart-powered consciousness and gain awareness of the spiritual tier of human evolution. Heart-powered consciousness is where spiritual awakening occurs, changing the person’s viewpoint of reality permanently. Once a person sees and experiences this expanded vista of consciousness, it enhances their abilities for life.
After you have experienced such a spiritual awakening, you soon realize that unconditional love was always the only answer to all of life’s challenges. You gain an active sense of intuition so that your purpose in life begins to flow naturally through your inspiration and your actions. Synchronicity keeps appearing in your life as you find yourself in the right places at the right times, and the term “quality of life” takes on a deep and profound meaning.
How to Enhance Your Spiritual Awakening
The ancient Mayan calendars show that many different cosmic cycles converge and renew on December 21st, 2012. Many prophecies have indicated a period of chaos and confusion in the transition years leading up to this confluence of cycles in 2012. This is understandable as the old cycles are ending and many agendas of the Old Reality are rushing towards resolution and completion. Old issues, suppressed for years, are now bubbling up to the surface, demanding attention and resolution.
Today’s level of stress is likely to increase even more as 2012 approaches. The best way to handle such stress is to be centered and to resist the temptation to be drawn into dramas and conflicts. Most of such dramas are due to other people working through their “stuff,” and you always have the option to choose not to be drawn into them. Being in the now and focusing on what is – not what could be, or shouldn’t be, or what might be fear-inducing – provides the key to balance in a world full of increasing stress.
Daily meditation enhances your ability to become centered and free of stress. Regular, daily meditation deeply enhances your spiritual awakening.
A Brighter Tomorrow
Imagine what will happen when enough people reach heart-centered consciousness and start finding New Reality solutions to Old Reality problems. Imagine what will happen when enough people open their hearts to a caring sense of responsibility towards other people and towards the planet. Imagine how things will change when more and more people just say “enough” to the tired ways of the Old Reality.
The Spiritual Renaissance which has become apparent in the West will sweep across the globe in ways that match the diversity of the different cultures on Earth. In the New Reality, the search for a higher quality of life will replace the old search for a better standard of living.
Imagine what will happen when enough people are no longer willing to allow the rising toxicity in the air that they breathe, in the water that they drink, and in the food that they eat. Imagine when more and more corporations no longer support the blind pursuit of profit and, instead, support the new standard of “Profit with principles.”
When enough people reach heart-centered consciousness, we will see the day when public servants serve the public before they serve themselves. Alternative healthcare will flourish and become mainstream, bringing health and wholeness instead of toxic medications which only mask the symptoms of ill health.
In a heart-centered world, people will no longer feel alone in a crowd and communities will be built with an eye for beauty as well as utility. People will find the work which brings them the most joy. They will prosper, because that is what happens to people who love their work.
It is an easy prediction to say that a better world lies ahead, because happiness is a product of heart-powered consciousness, and heart-powered consciousness is the exact destination of The Shift.
Story
9 Mar 2012 - 6:38pm
Hello to you, it is I, Saint Germain to be here with you, to be with you all in resonance with All that is..
Each of you is here to be your own flavor of essence, your own way of seeing and being upon this Earth. Each of you has gifts to share with others and to speak from your own knowingness, in your own signature.
We wish to speak to each of you of the heartbreaks of your own way of doing things. Your way of being that you question. This causes you heartbreak or breaks, for you question yourselves, “Is this correct?” “What will others think or do by my telling or speaking my truth?”
DEAR ONES, IT IS TIME FOR YOU TO BE FEARLESS IN THIS. IT IS TIME FOR YOU TO BE FULLY IN YOUR OWN WAY..
The time now holds great discoveries for you. To come into new ways of being within your own beingness!
It is time to discover your way of doing things, your own unique way..
Sometimes it is the best way to find your own way by speaking it, by sharing it with others and to be in harmony with your essence while doing this.
To not judge yourself against another’s flavor, but to know that each is unique and yet to share the flavor, you end up with new masterpieces.
When you combine spices, you want them to be in their own signature, for if you blend them with others, they need to be the flavor you know you can count on. To say if you where going to combine cinnamon with anise, what if when you mixed it, it tasted like anchovies! This is not what you planned on!
We tell you this, for if you are speaking with others and you are in your flavor, strong with no doubt, it will mix better with others flavors, than if you changed mid stream to agree or felt pressure to change and do, then the mixture will turn out to be not what is expected. Your flavor got changed and turned into something else, like anchovies!
This also explains why, when you do change for others, you don’t feel very good. It is like a weight or something is amiss within you. You even feel that your isness has dimmed in some way..
To be strong in your flavor does not mean you are not open to change!
To be strong in your flavor is to commit to yourself!
To be strong in your essence is being open to the change within, not to the external. There is a balance in this, but first you must allow your specific flavor to be truly what it is, to blossom and be rich!
This will bring feelings of upliftment to you. It will allow you to be stable and to grow in your own way, allowing the other flavors to combine with yours in new symphonies! This helps All, this brings out others light and is needed here upon this Earth, so as to bring upliftment for all of you!
Be not afraid of your flavor, of your strength, of your special essence!
It is wonderful and complete and your own shinning light within you, each of you!
This essence is yours to be pungent, to allow it to ferment and grow strong within you.
Each of you is here and is needed. Each of you has the perfect combination within you to come into the most perfect song, your song.
Sing it wisely, without fear, but in knowingness that it is already perfect as it is, it just needs to be allowed this perfection, this harmony, this marinating within!
The step is yours to take to allow this now…
We greet each of you in the high heart of wisdom. All of us here as your friends. I and the Ascended Masters are one, as you are One with us..
Each of our flavors combines and yet brings something more to the universe…
Each taste is unique and yet all come into resonance of the whole, in this your isness is complete…
We send bounty and love to each of you! Allow your special flavor, your essence to sing, to shine and to be… it is effortless…
Allow others their flavors as well and know that as the combination of all is happening here upon the Earth.. As you stay true to your special flavor, it will combine with others and new tastes will be born here, born fresh and new and will bring peace to this world…
In Love,
Saint Germain
Ray Dawn
www.raydawn.com
copyright 2010 Ray Dawn all rights reserved
Feel free to re-post as long as credit is given to channel and her website is included, Blessings!
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8 Mar 2012 - 10:04pm
March 7
Concerning your heart is equally significant to concerning the world you are in. Your heart and the world outside are not divided. They are related to each other, they are one. Your outer circumstance is reflecting your inner heart. Caring of your heart means caring of your outer world, and vice versa.
March 8
Your inner girl needs your concern. She is your gentle part, emotional part, intuitive part, the suppressed part, the ignored part, the abused part. Love your inner girl, this makes your existence more whole. Please tell her, ‘I love you.’
March 9
Pressure and burdens are always on your shoulders. Your pain and hurt in shoulders and neck are reflecting your inner pressure. We angels are also at the side of your shoulders. Never be doubtful, voice out your burdens and pressure inside you, hand them to us, to lessen the loads which are useless and obstructing your development.
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6 Mar 2012 - 12:04am
Been some time since I checked in. I thought I would share this musical video while we chat.
We have the five year old princess living here, with her father. She catches the bus at 7:11 each morning, either myself of nanna wait with her at the end of the walk, the mutts watch the horizons for trouble.
She has a notebook to bring home and each day a indicator from her teacher what "kind" of day she had. Smiley face, good day. Frowny face, sometimes with an emphatic note, bad day. So much for an escape from duality. She gets a frown face that means she and I can't play outside, take the dogs to the park, you know: groove on the after school scene.
IN Kindergarden(!) she's been doing some scrapping. She does some with her father and Nanna around here too. I figure she needs a friend more than another authority so I try and stay out of having to be drawing lines in the sand. Setting policies, cause and effect. Sigh.
I sorta feel like a caterpillar inside the cocoon, except someone has painted a clown face on the outside and folks think I am still open for business. "Hey! I got some self-eating enzyme consuming me so I can be a new me...move on." Lol. Not really. But yeah, really.
I had an amazing and intense dream in which my deceased father was on the phone and he gave me a very specific date. That was it, then I wake up with my heart pounding.
Castles made of sand drift into the sea, eventually. And that's as it is. A tautology.
When I first pulled up that song to listen to I wept sweetly. I look at the little princess when she declares at dinner that "Mom is a loser." Fair play, I don't think much of the girl myself, but that is beside the point.
My heart breaks daily. And swells. All I can do is pour my love into the making of the sand castle.
BUT I cannot abide harsh language like I once did. It tears more than it used to, I get so tired of the gut punch reaction to being surprised how mean people can be to each other. I still have the ability, just not the desire.
OH I am well trained, the reaction to the reaction is into a prayer state, going to the "God place," more and more I just wanna reside in that way. At peace? That seems so much to ask...
EVERY blessed BODY has an axe to grind. The sparks fly, the edges heat...Where can a fella go that the debris won't hit? Inward, I suppose.
"If it makes you feel good, you can make them feel bad, it's an easy call."
Shine Bright.
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5 Mar 2012 - 12:41pm
A godless soul is free, while religious soul is deceived. ~ Unknown
i left off last time saying that i believed that God no longer liked me. i sincerly question if he ever did like me or if he even knew i existed at all. If God exists i would believe that he looks down at us the way we look down at ants. They all look the same; a bunch of useless idiots scurrying around doing who-knows-what and all acting like they've got somewhere important to go. That used to get me so mad. "You're antz!!" i'd yell at them while waving my hands around for emphasis, "What are you doing that's so important?!" There's a difference between being creative and imaginative and being a crazy person. i must have looked like a crazy person. Sometimes i'd see one proudly carrying a bread crumb or a leaf. For all the talk about how strong ants are for their size, i always saw them struggling along. Have you ever seen one ant try to steal another ant's crap? And then they get into a fight? Oh, man, that is so funny! i once saw an ant kill another ant. The other ant started rolling around like it was having spasms, then it crumpled up and died. The killer ant ran away. Later, another ant was walking along and happened upon the dead ant. It picked it up and staggered away with the corpse. i spent a lot of time staring at this tree that had ants crawling all over it. Sometimes i'd use a stick or twig to poke at them or knock them off the tree or i would dig up their ant holes. Once i took a popsicle stick and sliced an ants butt off. It kept running along as if nothing happened. i even saw it over the next few days, still going about its day like nothing was wrong. i wonder what's in that last phalanx, or whatever it's called, because whatever's in there this ant obviously had no use for.
i wonder if that's what happens when people say, crash or die in a car accident. Is God playing with our cars and *boom* smashing them together? Or does God poke us with his own version of a popsicle stick when people get cancer? It's nothing personal; we all look the same, like ants, and some of us just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Remember when people had all these so-called "weird" ideas about God? LIke if you lied God would cut out your tongue or if you missed Sunday mass he'd kill your crops? Or whatever they thought. i can totally understand them. As far as those ants were concered, i was God. i decided who lived and who got their butt chopped off. i suppose that when you live in a time when you must kill your own food, you do, in a sense, play God to the chickens in your coop or the deer in the forest. And when you're at the mercy of the sun and the rain to ensure a good harvest, the utter lack of control that you have over all this, what else can you think? There must be someone that is in control of this. That chicken certainly never asked to be killed. He just happened to be the one chosen. People must have reasoned the same in their own lives. But then our human brains also asked the question, "Why me? Why was i chosen?" Then with our ability to take anger and turn it into revenge and take revenge and twist it into justice we then followed justice with punishment. i'm afraid i'm coming close to a plausable theory of why we invented God. And if God was a man-made invention, then uh-oh. He's not real.
Back to my tale about me. So, God basically turned me into a barrel of shit. i was a pariah at school and at home. i was so unloved and unwanted it wasn't even funny. i turned to God but he rejected me too. i decided that i would turn away from God too. i stopped believing in God. What i mean by that was i didn't pray or go to church anymore. But then i would get scared and i'd silently pray, "i'm sorry! Please help me!" Sometimes it would seem that my prayer was answered and i would be so relieved and grateful but other times i would be ignored and i would feel so abandoned and alone and then i would question if God had really answered my prayers previously or had it just been a co-incidence? Maybe life just rolls along and whatever happens is going to happen with or without God intervening. There were too many unanswered prayers and too many times of being ignored. Hadn't God said, "Ask and ye shall recieve."? i never asked for this. So if i didn't ask, then it must mean that i was being punished. But why? Because i chopped off an ant's butt? i wracked my brain, trying to figure out what great sin i had committed.
i know when i was young and especially when i was part of a group, i made fun of people. i knew it was wrong but i did it anyway because everyone else was and i wanted to belong. But there were many times when i didn't participate. Usually because i had participated before but i saw the hurt in the other child's eyes or saw them cry. Sometimes they straight up asked me why i was making fun of them. There were times that i understood that making fun of people was more than just "wrong" or "not nice"; it hurt. i was always conflicted about this because as i said, on one hand yes, i did make fun of other people but i never thought of myself as being cruel or heartless; i was just going along with everybody else. And what about the other kids who also made fun? Why hadn't the same fate befallen them? Why were they spared and i was punished so severely? And what about all the times that i didn't join in? Didn't that count for anything? What about the time when i slept over my aunt's house and befreinded the girl that everyone hated and picked on? What about that?! Didn't that count for anything? And surely she wasn't the only one. Was she? Didn't my good deeds matter or was i being punished for those too? Maybe God secretly hated that little girl too and i pissed him off by being nice to her. i could almost accept my karma and my punishment for making fun of others by being made fun of myself so i would see what it was like. But my problem was, Why didn't anybody else have to face the same karma or endure the same or similar punishment? Everyone else just glided on through life like nothing ever happened.
i tried to think of other misdeeds i might have committed. i cursed but i did confess that the first and only time i went to confession. Quite honestly, even then i couldn't think of any grave sins that i had to confess. Cursing i readily admitted to but i couldn't think of anything else. After an awkward few minutes in the confession booth, i was forgiven and i could leave. Sadly, i could not figure out how to open the door. i thought i was supposed to push and when the door did not open i thought it was stuck so i tried to shake the door loose. Like a complete numbskull i stood there, the doorknob twisted to the "open" position while i repeatedly banged the door back and forth. Then i started crying and wailed that i can't open the door. Behind his curtain, the priest sighed and meekly said, "Pull." i was so embarrassed.
Other that cursing, i was usually polite and respectful of my parents. i got angry often but i had good reasons too. i did my homework, got good grades on tests and report cards. i bathed. i cried when i saw animals getting hurt so that meant i practiced sympathy. i didn't steal. i didn't kill anyone. i had stopped going to church but if God thought this was going to lure me back he was going about it the wrong way. i really didn't know what i did wrong. God just hated me.
Well, if God hated me, then not only was i not going to speak to him anymore or go to church but i was going to stop believing in God altogether. i was going to become an Atheist and Logic and Instinct was going to be my new religion.
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4 Mar 2012 - 10:38am
Powerful Karma – (Accumulated Energy) Clearing - channelled from The Crystal Team through Lindsay
Karma or as we prefer is an accumulation of energies from all past lives and this very experience you are involved in today. It can be a complicated aspect of your journey through time, in all its dimensions, or it can be viewed as an aspect that no longer has any relevance and can be released easily and safely at this time.
As Mother Earth changes her energies and moves forward on her Ascension Plan, so too are all those who choose to move along their own path and clearing accumulated energies will help you to move more easily and joyfully. It has taken many life experiences for some of you to experience that which you chose to experience when your agreements were made for this dimension, to experience aspects and life within a physical body. This naturally causes complications as looking after the limitations of a physicality add another dimension to the challenge.
Having free will is a further complication as is finding the balance between remaining in a state of grace and connection whilst battling the temptations of the lower energies, of the temptation of accumulations of false glamour, of your materialism, all distract your soul and your core being from the very essence of who you truly are.
Some of your life experiences were planned ones for you to learn from, others were of a deviation from the distractions of life on Earth, so all put together much energy can be accumulated that is carried forward into this life.
NOW is the very best, the most auspicious time to release those accumulated energies, to let them float away from you with love and joy, let them be released with laughter and joy, with happiness and gladness. Relish in the experiences you have faced, smile at the distractions you have got caught up in, forgive yourself and others for any events, thoughts, intentions and actions that have not been in the best interests of yourself, other people, other living beings and indeed your beautiful home Mother Earth.
For as you release willingly, lovingly and freely all those energies and thoughts, conscious or unconscious, known or unknown, understood or not understood, then you are relieving your cellular structure, your crystalline grid, your DNA, every single aspect of yourself up to the Light, up to Source, up to the God-Head for as you pass this accumulated energy up to the Light, it will be cleansed and cleared and showered with golden light of such sparkly magnificence, for God is the great forgiver, the great fount of love and delight and beauty, of peace and glory.
So those energies will be cleaned and polished and sparkled and energised and you will be filled with golden light, love and peace. You will be free to move forwards in alignment with Mother Earth to experience, enjoy, integrate and benefit from the new glorious energies that shine and shimmer, sparkle and glow and are accessible to all those who choose to join in this adventure.
So sit dear ones, make your connection with Mother Earth, know that she holds you in the safest most loving energies that you can imagine, so soft and loving that it is ok for you to let go of all accumulated energy that no longer serves you. Know that you are surrounded in beautiful gold light, protecting you and connecting you to Source, breathe deeply into the very core of your being, into your very essence and be willing to release all those energies from any time, past or present, here and now in this time frame, so that you can move forwards with joy and with ease.
Breathe deeply and imagine those energies releasing up into the Light, gently, slowly, lovingly, respectfully, rising out of your aura and being transformed into the light – all bonds, restrictions, ties, contracts, disagreements, vows, are now being softly and respectfully released with great honour and love. Know that you will feel lighter and brighter, that you will see your way more clearly, that decision making will be easier, that your loving essence will expand and grow and glow and shine and sparkle.
Congratulate your body, your mind, your heart and your soul for being ready to relinquish accumulated energies that no longer serve you where you are today or where you wish to be in the new era.
Settle your thoughts, your body, your heart, your mind and your soul, breathe gently and evenly and rest in this glorious energy of replenishment, of nurturing, of loving, of reaffirming, of supporting, being in the light and love of God, the provider and forgiver of all our experiences.
With our greatest love and respect….. The Crystal Team”
Channelled by The Crystal Team, through Lindsay
Atlantean Crystal Master
www.lindsayball.co.uk
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3 Mar 2012 - 3:26am
I have been lost in the physical world for a while now. I feel it so hard to balance both. If I have alot going on in the pyschical world I can get so wrapped up I don't feel my connections to my high self and to the goddess quite as easily. When this happens, after a few weeks or months (depending on how wrapped up I am ) I start to feel really bogged down adn depressed. I feel my energy change. I hate feeling my energy being so bogged down and convaluted with mudane worldly things. I am going to school for massage therapy right now. I started in january and have been doing really well with my studies. with school, house work and trying to be as present as a mom as I can be, I feel like my self and my spiritually are taking a back seat. How do I get my energy, my focus and my light back to a happier frequency? What is a easy mantra or chant that I can do in the mornings to align myself?
I feel like i am taking on the world.
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2 Mar 2012 - 11:49am
“When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.” ~ African Proverb
“Many people pray as if God were a big aspirin pill; they come only when they hurt.” ~ B. Graham Dienert
i wrote a big ass post about all the problems i had during Junior High school but i don't want to post it now 'coz it's just too long. All i'm going to say is that in Junior High school, i was a total outcast, a pariah. It was hard enough to fit in when i was shy and quiet but i had hideous acne, glasses, dry frizzy hair, clothes that didn't fit me, and shoes that often had holes in them. Being so ugly and different, i was the obvious choice for bullying.
As if school wasn't bad enough, i came home to more torment. My mother took great delight in yelling at me, calling me names and taking out her frustrations in life on me. She became emotionally and physically abusive. i felt like a punching bag (emotionally & physically). One day, she told me, "i don't like you anymore. i want you to get out." She actually expected me to walk out the door and never come back. She didn't want to feed me so i went hungry. i tried telling the school but they said things like, "What do you want me to do?" and said that my claims were "hard to prove" even though i had scratches and bruises, i was severely underweight, my clothes were too small, etc. The school always chose to look the other way. They looked the other way when i was bullyed and harrassed at school and they ignored the evidence of abuse at home.
i sincerely forgive the kids at school. They were kids; they were immature. And i was weird and weird is going to attract attention. i was weird in a negative way so i attracted negative attention. It's logical. i sometimes wonder - rarely, actually - but i wonder if anyone remembers me and if they do, do they feel guily or do they still laugh? i don't even remember their names. If they've forgot, that's okay. If they feel guilty, that's too bad. i'm not sorry but that's a shame for them. That's their guilt and not mine and there's nothing i can do for them. If they still think it's funny, that's okay too because i trust in karma and one day they will have to pay thier karmic debts. i honestly don't take any pride or joy in this. i know it will happen and when it does it's their debt to pay, not mine, and i am not responsible and there's nothing i can do for them. At the time, i did blame myself because i was creating all this negative energy and all this bad karma for everyone else.
i was tormented at school and at home and i was tormented when i looked at myself in the mirror. i would pray all friggin' day at school for everyone to just leave me alone. i came home and prayed that my mother would leave me alone. i prayed for healing of my disgusting acne and my poor eyesight. i didn't know what i did to deserve this. i begged for forgiveness for whatever i had done to deserve this punishment. i promised i would never do it again if only i knew what it was that i'd done wrong. My prayers went ignored. i thought maybe i was doing it wrong. i got on my knees and prayed, i went to church and prayed, i lit candles at church, i sent donations in return for favors to those religious places that sent me mail asking for donations, i followed their novenas that are "never known to fail". God never answered my prayers.
i became convinced that God didn't like me. i remember some boy at school telling me, "Your parents must hate you. My parents love me. They would never let me go to school looking like that." i've forgotten his name but i still remember what he looked like. i can still picture him standing in front of me, grinning, and i can still remember swallowing hard and trying not to cry. But he was right. i looked down and tried to look busy and disinterested. Then someone said, "Did you make the dog cry?" i felt like God felt the same way about me. God didn't like me. It made me angy because, really, did God even know me? As hateful as my parents are, they knew me. They lived with me. They had to look at me and put up with me every single day. Where was God? Where was God in my life? Didn't i always try? Didn't i always (or usually) try to be a good person and to do the right thing? There were many times where i could have did bad things. i had opportunities to hurt other people, to make fun of others. Sometimes i did and many times i didn't. i tried to be sympathetic. i accepted and tolerated my mother's rules, inculcations and punishments. i was not rebelious or willful. i should have been but i wasn't. i put up with a lot of shit. i thought things would get better. i thought when you were a good person, good things happened to you. i could not understand what was happening to me or why.
“You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.”
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29 Feb 2012 - 9:22pm
Just saying Good Bye to another cultural icon. Another demarcation of our lives.... for Americans, and the world where he played center stage as part of the crew of "The Monkees". I think I knew all his songs by heart, and probably drove my parents crazzzzy with the stereo blasting away back in the day.
I was 11 at the time when he hit the scene, and we or "many of us" anyway loved his energy, charisma, and cute appeal and his English accent too. He sure brought a lot of fun, and games~ music and songs. *Lightworker* I would say woow time flew by listening to all those records....
I guess Dave was done with this show, and wasn't hanging around for all the 2012 action. He was just monkey'n around....
Thanks Davy Jones. Thanks for making some Happy Days for us all on Planet Earth.
<3<3<3
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29 Feb 2012 - 4:10pm
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What’s done is done. The time and energy you spend complaining about it will get you nothing but a lot of frustration and negativity. What’s happened has happened.
Instead of looking back, fretting and arguing about why or how or who is at fault, look forward and consider all the positive possibilities that are available to you. If you’ve been wronged, don’t seek revenge.
Seek success, seek achievement, seek fulfillment, seek to take what has happened and turn it into a positive force in your life. Spend your time and energy not in looking back, but in looking ahead. For that is where you can make a difference. Learn from what has happened, allow it to inspire and motivate you in a positive way, and then choose to move forward.
See the value in the way things are at this moment, and see how you can make full use of that value. Let go of your attachment to what has already happened. And make room in your life to create the very best that can be....
Live.Laugh.Love.
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29 Feb 2012 - 4:01am
I think and I wonder how everybody is doing. Please everyone write down how you are doing. They just announced Oscar Winners. What was the movie that you liked this past year?
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26 Feb 2012 - 7:47pm
Your VALUES are Real, Not DECEPTIONS
Melchizedek’s Weekly Message ~ February 26 – March 04, 2012
Channeled by: Julie Miller
February 26, 2012
Welcome dear children to another beautiful Sunday. I AM appreciative of my time spent with each of you through our lovely vessel; your sister.
The likes and dislikes of the human mind does not determine good and evil; moral values do not develop out of wishful fulfillment or emotional frustrations. During time spent observing oneself, you must differentiate between what is value and what has value. You must be able to identify the connection between enjoyable undertakings and their expressive combination and heightened recognitions that bring about increasingly higher and higher levels of consciousness.
Something of significance gives meaning to an experience that adds value; it is the grateful awareness of values and Ideals. If you have an isolated and purely self-absorbed pleasure it may suggest an essential depreciation of meanings, an empty gratification that borders on comparative wickedness. Your values become observed when actualities are significant and spiritually associated, when such connections are acknowledged and respected by your mind.
Your values can never become motionless; your reality, your world requires change and growth. Any change without growth, the development of importance and praise of value, is valueless; thus having the potential of maliciousness. Your values are not theoretical deceptions; they are very real, but they always depend of the fact of connectedness of relationships. Your values dear ones are always both authentic and prospective – not what was, but what is and is to be. The association of authentic-ness and prospective-ness equals growth; it is the observed awareness of values. Your growth is not only progress. Your progress is always important and is relatively inconsequential without development and growth. What is considered the highest value of human life involves in the development of your growth and determining your values and progress in understanding the meanings that arise through lessons and challenges. Such experiences when utilized with your brilliant light filled heart that contains the purest example of love is the equivalent of God-Consciousness. You cannot necessarily cause growth to occur, but you can provide encouraging settings. Your actual growth is always unconscious, even for the physical, intellectual or spiritual. It is your love that grows and nurtures your growth. It cannot be shaped, fabricated or bought. Your growth dear ones, happens when you learn to love unconditionally; not only others this purely but yourself also. Your entire influence to your own growth is the utilization of the complete powers of your own accepted personality and living in pure faith and devotion of yourself and of God.
The devotion you exercise on the behalf of the great, the good, the true and the noble does not come without hardship or lessons. Effort is required when you ask for clarification of a spiritual vision or insight. The intellectual side argues against being removed from surviving among nonspiritual energies of sequential realities; just as the slothful animal way of thinking objects against the effort needed to fight with the necessity of problem solving.
Problems can arise within living spiritually when you are faced with the task of unifying your inner powers of your character in regards to love, health, mental and emotional efficiency. The goal to happiness occurs when the unification of the physical, mental and spirit are complete. Observe the full understanding what it means at the highest state of happiness. The highest state of happiness dear ones is intimately linked with your spiritual progress and growth. You will find dear ones that your spiritual growth which also leads to personal growth and development will bring lasting joy, peace which forwards all understanding that is needed.
Dear ones, your spiritual life speak of the presence of things; the mind discovers the existence of meanings; but your spirituality will experience a revelation of the truest of values of that not only resonate you but gives you direction and purpose. Living within the truth of your values and of your ever-loving unconditional heart brings forth the highest love of God into your unselfish self. If you can love your fellow neighbour or person, this must mean you have discovered what is of value to them. You can best figure someone’s values when you discover their motivation. Just as when someone irritates you, and causes you to have feelings of resentment, it is best to sympathetically try to discern their viewpoint and discover their reasons for the offensive behaviour. Once you come to an understanding you will become more tolerant and this tolerance will grow into acceptance, friendship and love.
Values are integrated into your very core dear ones. They can change as you change. Do not scoff the values that bring you deep comfort. Yes, you can adopt new ideals and incorporate them into your own set of beliefs and this is encouraged. There is much each of you have to offer each other just from what is of meaning and value to you. Being God-Like in your consciousness and adopting this persona into your everyday living dissolves the need to ridicule others for what is of value to them. Your acceptance and love of others unconditionally will appreciate what is being said. You do not have find resonation of the content being shared because each of you is so diverse, respect and gratitude will bring much comfort and contentment dear ones. Learning to get along and coexist will become easier when defensive barriers come down and more often and love is absorbed and shared on a global scale. Love dear ones, love everyone and love yourself with equal unconditional love. Each of you stems from the same Supreme Father, and He never chooses one over the other. His love is always bestowed upon each of you in equal amounts of brilliant light, love and compassion.
Today’s transmission was pleasantly enjoyed. I look forward to our next visit in a few days. Value yourselves with divine love and let your heart guide you dear ones. I have so much appreciation and love for you. Your journey will take you far if you allow it; embrace each step with thankfulness, as I embrace you with my cosmic presence.
I AM Melchizedek through Julie Miller
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24 Feb 2012 - 1:41am
Namaste again :)
I have been wondering for a while now, whether anyone else experiences what I have come to call 'dream flashbacks'? I could be doing absoultely anything, but usually it will be when I'm alone and relatively quiet. I will suddenly get a flashback to a dream, an image, the feel of the dream, the atmosphere. This dream is usually from YEARS ago and if I try to remember it a few days later I usually can't but at the time I remember the dream well and recognise it, no matter how long ago I had it. Sometimes it will happen every day for weeks, with a different dream each time. Other times it wont happen for months..
I've googled it and there is at least one other person online that describes exactly what I experience. Has anyone else ever had this?
hahahah! You wont believe it but I had one just then. Of a dream about being on a sports field with a pavillion on a sunny day, which I do remember having flashbacks to before. That was really weird!!
Secondly, how is everyone doing this past couple of weeks? I got ill, AGAIN, had such a high fever for three days, along with other cold symptoms and then the fever broke and I felt better. I went from feeling awful to feeling normal in about three days, with no lasting symptoms like a tickly cough or anything...
I happened to listened to a kryon channelling that mentioned three specific ascension symtoms.. dizzyness/off balance, sleep problems and lots of colds that you get over very quickly! That made me laugh! According to Kryon these colds and viruses are our bodies way of upgrading and changing our system and that is why we will never find a cure for the common cold, we almost need them in a sense. And it does make sense.. A lot of the time when I feel I am going through a period of great regeneration and purging I will get a cold afterwards and then I feel a relief. I really recommend Kryon (through Lee Carrol's) free audio recordings of live channellings. They really resonate with me, they do something to me when I listen, they feel so comforting, loving, humourous and empowering and I often end up shedding a tear or truth (or two)! https://www.kryon.com/k_freeaudio.html
I have been feeling very muddle headed and dizzy too since the cold (I've had ringing ears and been off balance for a while now but it got worse). I keep losing my balance or miss judging things, basically feeling like I have two left feet! My inner ears are quite rubbish at the moment apparently! To top it off I'm also feeling a bit spaced out sometimes, like I'm in a dream. I sometimes forget what I just did, what I'm doing, what I just said etc etc and I'm only 25! haha! I am not thinking linearly at the moment.
The only one I seem to be avoiding is the sleep one. (just had another dream flashback. To a waterfall/river type place, where I mostly played in the dream) Although to be honest I've probably had a sleep problem since I was 15 and got the internet! I feel more relaxed/alive/creative/calm and quite frankly happy after about 10 at night.. I like the feeling when I know everyone's safe and tucked up in bed and I find it hard to then sleep when I could be painting or reading amazing awe inspiring things about the universe. During the day I just don't feel the same! I worry though, that I do need to have a more natural sleep pattern. To unwind as dusk comes and then wake as the sun rises, it's healthier.. I think.. but then there are many disagreements about what is the right amount of sleep to get and at what time! Recently I read an article on the bbc saying that it might be better to get 4 hours sleep, have 1 or 2 hours awake inbetween and then another 4 as our ancestors used to do! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16964783
If you do have sleep problems I suggest eating tryptophan rich foods (turkey eggs, spirulina, tofu, soy, fish, nuts,seseme seeds, banana, almonds etc) the body cannot produce tryptophan and so has to gain it from diet. Tryptophan plays many important roles in the body but most importantly is the only substance that can be converted into Seratonin (happy hormone!) Before being converted to Seratonin, Tryptophan is converted to '5-hydroxy L-Tryptophan' or 5-HTP. Then 5-HTP can be converted into Seratonin. Seratonin is then converted into Melatonin, (the sleep hormone) which regulates the human sleep cycle, helps us feel tired at the right times, get to sleep and then wake at the right times and feel energetic throughout the day. So eating Tryptophan rich foods is very important to help start this chain reaction.
On top of this natural 5-HTP can actually be taken as a supplement and is considered a natural alternative to anti-depression, anxiety, ocd and insomnia drugs and natural cure for 'seratonin deficiancy syndrome'. I'm thinking of trying it, because have had a gut feeling that I am seratonin deficient and come from a line of seratonin deficient relatives. Mental health problems run in my family. Anyone tried it?
Well, I've rambled on longer than I thought I would! I will have to write another blog soon, and post some of my new painting ideas and about the film project my friend jess and I taking on and temporarily naming 'Project 2012' - a project that we hope will bring about some healings.
I hope you are all well, and even though there are these little uncomfortable bumps in the road at least they let us know we're still moving! I'm ready for a really exciting year! I have such a good feeling about what spring will bring :)
Love to all,
Dawn
