Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Choice
Today, I am thinking
about limitation and choice. Having no choice is the epitome of limitation. Yet
I can also see how we sometimes view making a choice as limitation. If we choose
A, then we cannot experience B or C, or so we think. If I choose to eat cake
for dinner, I am unlimited. If I choose to eat a balanced diet, then I am
limited. Yet if I eat cake for dinner all the time, I gain weight and am not
happy with this result. Furthermore, we frequently add the belief that there is
only one “right” choice so we had better choose correctly! This leads to a constant
state of indecision, an unwillingness to commit to anything and feeling stuck.
Binge eating, binge spending, grabbing all the “good” we can get before it is
taken away again – patterns born of limitation and a fear of choice and
commitment. However, I can choose a different perspective. What if choice is
not a limitation but a means of creating action. If I choose to walk out the
door, then I must act upon this choice to have it manifest. I have to get up
out of the chair and walk out the door. And by going through the door, I open
my life up to the Universe that is waiting to greet and support me. So if I
want to live my life Bigger, I embrace my god-as-me ability to take action in
my life and thereby create all the desires of my heart. And I make all my
choices from my open heart. I AM God in Action. And so it is.
Friday, March 22, 2013
Joy
Ever since last week
when it was brought to my attention, I have been thinking a lot about how I
have limited joy in my life. I think the way the belief goes is “If I don’t let
myself feel joy and happiness too much, then bad things won’t happen.” Kind of like
a Zen-like voodoo spell. This has been my definition of balance, that to
guarantee my safety and to feel secure, I must sacrifice joy. So seeing as conscious
creation is a natural extension of the joy I feel, is it any wonder that I have
ended up with a lackluster life? I like my life, kind of like I like French
Toast, but I have not been in LOVE with my life and excited by my life because
I have not let myself fully feel the JOY of life. In addition, I have noticed
several instances over the past months of hearing about “offers” and “opportunities”
that I decided must be scams because they were “too good to be true,” i.e. that
their possibility was more than my mind would allow into my life. ENOUGH of
this!!! I AM open to All Possibility. I AM Joy and Freedom and Balance and Flow.
I love my life and allow the fullness of joy to fill my being!! And so it is.
Thursday, March 21, 2013
The GPS of the Mind
GS: There are no guarantees in the mind. The mind
likes to leap off from the present moment and project probabilities which may
or may not be accurate depending on your choices in the present moment.
However, the mind does not make these choices nor does she direct your energy.
You can plug a destination into a GPS and the GPS can recommend a route but the
GPS does not see the present moment. The GPS
has been programmed by past experience. The GPS cannot see the school bus ahead
or the slippery road or the detour. Use your present moment to guide you. Use
your open heart to make your choices. You intuitively know your route much
better than your programmed-by-the-past GPS mind does. Trust this process.
Trust your course. Allow the Universe to come up to meet you halfway and
support you in your creation. In the open heart is your gateway to the safety
of love. You are god in action. Choose your actions and watch the Universe
respond with a multiplied force of love in action back to you.
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Trust
GS: Allow your energy to flow. This energy is a part
of you and your ability to allow it the freedom to flow within your being is
directly proportional to your ability to consciously create. Hyper-vigilance is
not necessary and comes from fear. Allowing comes from love and trust. It is
the mind that worries and plans. It is the heart that allows energy to flow.
Your thoughts have no effect on your energy except to limit your ability to
recognize it. But thoughts do not destroy energy. They do not have that
power. Limiting thoughts merely serve as
blinders. You think you are in a desert and are thirsty. In actuality, you are
in an oasis full of lush plants and deep wells. But your limiting thoughts only
see the desert and ignore that what you desire is all around you. Take off the
blinders and open your heart to the energetic bounty that is a part of your
very being. The Universe rejoices with your participation and engagement with
all the Universe will offer you. There are many heart opening lessons at work
in your life right now not the least of which is trust. You have asked. Trust the
Universe to answer you and to give you the support and opportunities that are
all around you but that you have not until this moment allowed yourself to see.
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Precipice
GS: You are on a precipice. You are always
on a precipice. Your life can go into a thousand different directions on any
given day. You never know what tomorrow may bring. You look for certainty from
the events that happen around you. You will never find certainty there.
Certainty is not an event, it is a state of being and can only be found inside
your open heart. From there, the radiance of your being shines forth as
strongly as you will allow and this light is your certainty. Shine your light
and you can be certain that the Universe will answer you back with equal
radiance. You give to and receive from Universal energy in a continuous flow, a
circle of communication, a supply of love and support that is never ending.
Relax your battered mind and feel the knowing inside your heart. Blessed be.
Monday, March 18, 2013
Vulnerability
I have
been thinking a lot about vulnerability and authenticity since watching the
Brené Brown interview with Oprah yesterday on Super Soul Sunday. If you are not
familiar with Brené, check out her talk on TED from a couple of years ago. She
also has several books, the newest of which is just published and is titled “Daring
Greatly” and is about vulnerability. According to Brené,
vulnerability=authenticity=open heart. What I have been studying recently talks
about how an open heart is necessary for the conscious creation process. From what I understand, being vulnerable is
feeling our feelings and being emotionally honest. It seems like there should
be a place for this in conscious creation. I believe that our feelings are our
barometer for our belief systems. Feelings occur when a belief system is
triggered. Where we fall out is identifying with our feelings instead of using
the feeling as an indicator to examine and shift our beliefs. So we stomp
around saying “I am angry” or mope around saying “I am sad” instead of looking
inside to see what we believe about ourselves and the world that causes these
feeling to occur. Feelings are not bad – they are our gas gauge, our
thermometer, and they give us information that we can use to create our lives
more consciously. By not acknowledging
our feelings, we build stories of blame and shame that we continue to identify
with so we do not notice the pesky beliefs we have that would bear more
fruitful examination and that can be shifted to beliefs of our own conscious
choosing that serve us better. The other really interesting point she brought
up is that, in addition to not wanting to recognize the “bad” feelings, we also
limit our access to the “good” ones such as joy and love. There are many
beliefs around “don’t care too much or you’ll be hurt,” “waiting for the other
shoe to drop,” and variations thereof. She calls it dress-rehearsing tragedy.
Here is a pattern that I can recognize. And the belief system behind it
certainly involves trusting and knowing from our open heart. So. I see and feel
my feelings and thank them for their service. I am willing to see the beliefs behind
these feelings and shift them to beliefs that serve me better. I am the power
of creation and I allow All Energy to flow through my open, authentic heart. I
am the knowing that comes from the source of my being. I am the freedom of
feeling joy and love. And so it is.
Thursday, March 14, 2013
Swing Batter!
I
am feeling feisty today. Life is throwing me a few curveballs AND I am choosing
to stay in conscious creation. Okay Universe, throw me a ball. I have a bat! I
can hit it out of the park!! Hey batter batter, swing batter!! I have been
thinking about the issue of responsibility, or even
better, the joy of responsibility. I really love the idea of
linking joy and responsibility!! Takes me back to the old chestnut that
responsibility is our ability to respond. When I look up the etymology of the
word respond, I find it comes from a Latin word that meant “to answer or
promise in return.” Responsibility is our Universe-given right to play with the
Universe. The Universe promises to support us in our creation and we promise in
return to act on those curve balls and spit balls and fast balls that the
Universe is so fond of – otherwise known as Opportunities!! What a wonderful
world we live in that we have the privilege and honor to co-create with the
Universe.
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
My Open Happy Heart
Much of what
has come into my awareness lately has to do with achieving, maintaining and
living in a happy open heart. What does this mean? What does it feel like if
you tell yourself “Go into your heart”? We know we are in our head when we hear
worries, plans, internal conversations, chatter. How do we know we are in our
heart? By the absence of these mind things? Try it now. Go into your heart.
What do you feel? My heart feels like a deep pool of water inside a silent
cave. Cool, peaceful, serene. Now from this place, ask yourself “What makes me
happy?” For me, being in the woods, playing with my pets, having a deep
conversation with a friend, playing the flute or piano, listening to music all
make me happy. So many images fill me. Now, from this happy open heart, all
possibilities lie before us. Decisions made from this still place inside us
always benefit us. Increasing our joy in life expands our happy heart and increasing
our happiness in our heart increases the joy in our life. From our happy heart
we make the world a better place. This is my firm choice and commitment, to
live my life from my open happy heart. I will let the Universe deal with the
details.
Friday, March 8, 2013
Should I have bought that?
GS: Your guilt has to do with your inability to feel
deserving of all the desires of your heart. How can you manifest these
things in your life if you do not feel deserving? Drop into your heart and feel
the magnificence of your being-ness and then ask yourself how this glorious
creature cannot deserve all the wonders
that life has to offer. You are glory beyond measure and are capable of having and
experiencing anything you choose. Quit defaulting to the passive choice, to the
one that requires least effort so that you do not have to actively choose.
Release your fear of being wrong. You are never wrong and all your choices
exactly reflect your intentions as they are directed by your conscious mind.
Your unconscious mind only comes into play if you abdicate your conscious mind
to it. You are a most glorious creation of you. Remember this throughout your
day.
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Making Lemonade
So, this weekend was dark and scary. But on Monday I faced
my fears, took action and turned my world around. Life works when we can perceive
obstacles as opportunities, when we trust that all things work together for our
good and that the Universe is a safe place because we choose to make it so. One
of my favorite Course in Miracles quotes is “In my defenselessness, my safety
lies.” When I am open and trusting, when I make my choices from my heart
instead of my head, the world is a magical place and the energy of life flows
smoothly. Another of my favorite CiM quotes is “Giving and receiving are the
same.” The energy exchange we have with each other and with the Universe is an ever-continuous
circle of flow when we allow ourselves to give and receive freely. May today
and all days be blessed with our knowledge that we are the perfect manifestation
of god in action.
Monday, March 4, 2013
Panic!
GS: You are in a panic because you do not trust. You
ask but do not receive. You are waiting for the world to respond when all that
is preventing the reception is your own unwillingness to receive. Traumatic events serve to open us so that we
can let in more love and light but are not the only way to do this. You can
choose the opening without the trauma but oftentimes are not inspired to do so
without a Universal nudge. Trust that you are the creator of your life and that
you, the Greater you, knows what you are doing and is supporting you. All is
always well and it in only the mind with its trivial thoughts that instills
panic and worry. Feel the peace and calm of knowing who you are and trust this,
trust yourself, trust the process and that you will know what to do in each
moment. Trust and open to receive the answers that your asking is creating.
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