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06 Mar 2017
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Imagine Nation

“If I could tell the world one thing

It would be that we’re all OK

And not to worry ’cause worry is wasteful

And useless in times like these

I won’t be made useless

I won’t be idle with despair…”

~ Jewel, Hands

Here in The Great Turning, the predominant emotion is often fear — the same energy as excitement. What we feel is a matter of interpretation.

It’s a time of incredible expansion, according to every cosmic weather report I’ve seen: an opportunity to compost our “harrumphitude” concerning Trumpelstiltskin (thanks to “mythic news” weaver of context Caroline Casey for these deLightfully winnovative words). If you have skin in the game vis-à-vis Trumpelstiltskin, this is the ripe moment to play your Trump card.

A Subtle Shift Makes the Diff

The key is our collective readiness and willingness to segue from living in Alien Nation to co-creating a global heart community, Imagine Nation. The shifts are subtle yet substantial: from thinking we’re alone to realizing we’re all one.

In Alien Nation, self-flagellation is popular. “I’m the only one I know who can blackball myself in my own community,” a woman despaired recently, explaining how, in angrily speaking her mind about an issue vital to her, she piqued the one person who might have proven most helpful, had she spoken with Spirit Tongue. I empathized, as I’ve often carried my own whips, too. Practicing self-love is the hardest task most of us will ever master.

Yet it’s so apparent that everything is vibration: while food shopping in a happy frame of mind at my local organic grocery, trading quips from old Monty Python routines with the customer in front of me at check-out, I was bowled over when the young cashier offered, “Would you like me to burn you a CD of their skits?”

True Happy Hour

A New Yorker cartoon shows a man standing in front of a sandwich board outside a bar. The board reads:

Happy Hour: 6-7 p.m.

Are you truly happy? Hour 7-8 p.m.

Have you ever been happy? Hour 8-9 p.m.

Wish you were home with your cat. Hour 9-10 p.m.

Would we need “Happy Hour” if we genuinely understood how to be happy?

When 9-1-1 happened in New York City, I penned, This IS A Test. A still-relevant excerpt:

“This event is a volcanic eruption, and in hindsight, the rumblings many of us have been experiencing the past few weeks presaged it. Several players on the path have been sharing stories of total strangers (as well as of acquaintances and friends) suddenly, savagely and inexplicably dumping truckloads of mental trash on them. Everyone has been feeling ‘the quickening’ of these end times, but, since we’re at different stages in our growth, those who have no context for what they’re experiencing also don’t know what to do with these volatile energies. The anger’s been leaking out, and finally, here’s the explosion.

“It is, in a very real sense, a planetary birth process. Something old has to die in order for the new to emerge. We are all learning how to transform the war within ourselves into spiritual warriorhood.”

Radical Evolution Redux

We don’t need tosh everything we disagree with; we can compost hubris into humus (another subtle shift). Rather than radical surgery, we can perform a Trumpectomy using radical evolution.

We’re all members of the surgical team now; all cells in the body of Gaia, our Mother. Malignant cells have lost the ability to cooperate with other cells for the greater good of the whole. Yet cancer does not arise in an instant; it grows over time. If we plunge ahead intent only on annihilating the cancer, we also destroy healthy cells, and possibly the entire body of humanity and all other species. By excising what no longer serves the collective, we can return to high health.

As the old evanesces and the new ripples into being, we build the Imagine Nation of the One Heart, where we are each re-spected (seen again), re-sponsible (able to respond), re-cognized (known again) and re-warded (honored) for our gifts.

After all, Earth is simply “heart” with “h” at the end: the ∞th letter of the alphabet, infinity, the secret of happy, the beginning of home.

About the Author:

Amara Rose is a metaphysical “midwife” for our global rebirth. She offers spiritual mentoring, e-courses, a CD/mp3 of the journey to awakening, and an inspirational monthly newsletter.

Learn more at LiveYourLight.com. Connect with Amara on Twitter and Facebook.

02 Feb 2017
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Pax Gaia: Putting All the Peaces Together

“Only now can we see with clarity that we live not so much in a cosmos (a place) as in a cosmogenesis (a process) — scientific in its data, mythic in its form.”

~ Brian Swimme and Thomas Berry, The Universe Story

Environmentalist James Lovelock proposed that the Earth is not only alive, but innately intelligent, regulating the conditions that allow life to exist. Now we’re learning how to co-exist — not only with our global siblings, but with our Mother. Our ancestors grasped this connection organically: they knew they were kin to Gaia, because they had a direct daily experience of how the land produced their food and materials for shelter.

Divorced from our origins, we’ve fallen into the sleep of self-forgetting. Lynton Caldwell, who helped write the U.S. Environmental Protection Act, said, “The environmental crisis is an outward manifestation of a crisis of mind and spirit.” Wrapped in our smart phones and iPods, living at 110 decibels, we’re anesthetized against an undefined yearning, what Teilhard de Chardin called “almost a sensual longing for communion with others who have a large vision.” Having lost touch with the wilderness within, we savage the Earth and each other in an effort to combat our loneliness.

Living intention, rather than in tension

Yet despite pacific cultures, past and present, peace is not intrinsic to the human experience. Cultural historian Thomas Berry writes, in The Dream of Earth: “The universe, earth, life and consciousness are all violent processes… The elements are born in supernovas. The sun is lit by gravitational pressures. The air we breathe and the water we drink come from the volcanic eruptions of gases within the earth. The mountains are formed by the clash of the great continental and oceanic segments of the earth’s crust.”

So if life itself is born from struggle, how can we hope to be peace? By embracing the hermetic dictum, “As above, so below”: knowing ourselves as the universe, and beholding the cosmos in each individual. Blake put it more poetically: “To see a world in a grain of sand/And a heaven in a wild flower/Hold infinity in the palm of your hand/And eternity in an hour.”

Human and planetary survival now depend on a resourceful resolution of our antipathies. In other words, neither violence nor peace is the answer, but rather, the highest state of creative tension that we can hold as a species.

To create Pax Gaia, the Peace of Earth, we need to truly view Earth as a global village — biologically, geologically, theologically. Berry says, “The Peace of Earth is indivisible. In this context the nations have a referent outside themselves for resolving their difficulties.”

Now we’re getting juicy. Evolutionary emissary Jean Houston speaks of her tendency to “mythologize rather than pathologize… What often appears to be chaos is really cosmos in its most literal sense — world making and remaking.” How might we adapt this philosophy on a planetary scale, so that instead of seeing problems needing solutions, we seek the grander story, the connective tissue that unites the issue?

Tom Atlee, author of The Tao of Democracy, tells a fascinating tale of being part of a mobile community that reached consensus without making a decision. Somehow, the group “knew” how it was going to function on the Great Peace March of 1986. Much later, Atlee learned that this is standard operating procedure among the Iroquois: in the tribal council tradition, participants simply talk until there is nothing left but “the obvious truth.” It’s a bit like boiling sugar down to syrup, or an oyster spinning a pearl from the irritating grain of sand in its shell.

Thinking like a flower, not a tailpipe

How do we midwife the obvious truth? Atlee admits the Great March breakthrough came only after all the feelings, stories, and information had cooked awhile in group consciousness. “[It’s like] the necessary cultivation of the earth in preparation for planting, like making compost… ‘setting the conditions’ needed to help the natural truth emerge, that takes into account all the different pieces of the puzzle. The struggly, juicy work early on provides the nutrient base for the ultimate discovery of that big truth” — which is then birthed in “an ad hocracy rather than a bureaucracy,” to borrow Houston’s evocative phrase.

The more we can perceive ourselves as cells in the body of Gaia, ever-evolving, willing to leap creatively across chasms of confusion and miscommunication to form elegant, improbable connections, the greater the possibility we seed for creating the Peace of Earth, rather than the pieces of Earth over which various factions routinely fight. As the cosmic comic Swami Beyondananda says, “If we put all the little pieces together, pretty soon we’ll have one big Peace.” One planet, indivisible. It’s a thrilling concept, and a refreshing response to the disruption and divisiveness playing out in the wake of the 2016 election.

As one strand in the system grows healthier, the others must follow, since we are all interdependent. Kirstin Miller, executive director of Ecocity Builders, suggests we “start thinking like a flower, not like a tailpipe.” Devise ways to pollinate instead of pollute.

We might also invoke the essence of the creative commons license, which allows people to share their work as long as proper credit is given, and no third party profits. Our air, water, and land resources are all ripe for “creative commons” protection and usage.

And this kind of cultivation, at once mythic and mundane, will accelerate our global guardianship into warp drive.

About the Author:

Amara Rose is a metaphysical “midwife” for our global rebirth. She offers spiritual mentoring, e-courses, a CD/mp3 of the journey to awakening, and an inspirational monthly newsletter.

Learn more at LiveYourLight.com. Connect with Amara on Twitter and Facebook.

19 Jan 2017
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Be As You Are

You are enough

The Veil of Illusion

We spend many lifetimes often choosing to have a very tiny aspect of our consciousness incarnate into a physical experience in order to have the opportunity to bring more consciousness to all. Unhealed emotions are deeply embedded in the individual and collective unconscious. To heal something we need to experience it. This includes false beliefs. Things that we judge from the personality egoic mind as imperfection, from the perspective of the soul we can never be less than perfect.

We live in a reality of illusion, a constant dream state, behind a veil. This is part of the soul contract that we have agreed to when we decided to take part in this Earth School experiment. We created the illusion that we are Separate(ego). We place some of our consciousness into a physical body and focus solely on the physical reality. We agreed that we would experience a collective amnesia, we would forget who we are and through our life experiences we would have the opportunity to once again discover the truth of our divine nature. The reason we chose to spend time in this physical incarnation is that contrast of this sort does not exist in the spirit and other non-physical realms. We plan experiences in order to know ourselves as love, compassion, and deeply connected to Source.

Through these opportunities of contrast we are awakened to the deeper truth of who we are. By immersing ourselves in experiences lacking in compassion, we create an impetus to develop internal compassion. This is a life of learning through opposites, a path of profound spiritual growth. The soul plans may include handicaps, illnesses, limitations, physical accidents, drug addiction, homelessness, or many other types as challenges. All That Is benefits from the expansion that we create. So not only do we benefit from our own souls lessons, but we offer insight and inspiration to the entire Universe through this great work. As souls we do not judge. From a spirit perspective, all judgement is self judgement. This may be due in part to the fact that on a subtle level we are aware that we chose the experiences we have lived.

Enlightenment is self love. Along with forgiveness, gratitude is a sacred vibration. It immediately aligns us with a flow of All That Is. We express gratitude not to say that we are happy for our suffering but rather for the growth we have experienced. Stay in gratitude that you have been given opportunities to awaken to higher levels of consciousness. Many do not have this consciousness available to them. Staying in a state of gratitude helps the shift the focus to healing. The ongoing practice of gratitude has proven effects on the well being of the body including being linked with lower rates of heart diseases. Free will is always available to us at any moment that we chose that we no longer wish to move through the experiences that we set up to learn in the exact same manner as was written. We can do this by increasing our vibrational frequency.

Practicing compassion, gratitude, forgiveness and taking more loving actions towards others. In my belief everything has a higher meaning. I have learned to trust and surrender my limited understanding of the true meaning behind all of my experiences. I simply practice going with the flow. Knowing that in time all truth will be revealed. Our challenge is to find the beauty in the midst of all of our challenges. The true mark of an enlightened being is their ability to turn a negative experience into a positive one. Each of us has a divine purpose. Often the specific challenges that you planned will have a direct correlation with what we want to share with the rest of the world. I pray this week brings you closer to all that you desire to know.

Peace and blessings to All.

By: Ascension Lifestyle Contributor Hasnaa

Raised by two parents who are spiritual teachers, Hasnaa has been immersed in a world of mysticism, ceremony and celebration since before she was born. She is currently in training as a Priestess and has found her calling teaching others how to embody their higher self and their soul’s purpose. Born a clairsentient, she has learned the importance of living in alignment with one’s intuition and most authentic self. Hasnaa uses her etheric abilities to remind people of the vibrational, energetic nature of this universe. The key elements that differentiate her work from others include the depth of knowledge and experience within a diverse range of esoteric spiritual traditions and energetic practices. She is an experienced in metaphysics, universal law, spiritual law, ceremony, ritual, reincarnation and meditation. She specializes in helping people honor their soul’s highest purpose and their pre-birth plan. Hasnaa incorporates ancient knowledge as well as cutting edge information to intuitively create a program for her private clients that will awaken their potential and create deep transformational healing.

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19 Jan 2017
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Dancing with the Shadow

In the darkest days of winter, we celebrate the rebirth of light. With candles and electric light strings we bring comfort and brightness to the long, cold nights. Light and darkness – they cannot be separated from each other in a world of dualism any more than the positive pole can be separated from the negative pole of a magnet.

Over the past months, the polarization of our nation (and possibly our world) has gone to another extreme. Fear and rage have reached a fever pitch. Many of my friends who belong to minority groups are in panic about the near future for both themselves and their loved ones. Some are even striking out at their friends, blaming them for the horrors to come. Others are completely baffled by the violent response to the election of Donald Trump as the figurehead of the United States of America and the Supreme Commander of the most powerful, or at least the most expensive, armed forces on earth.

So where do we stand as travelers on a spiritual path? How do we move forward from here? Blessed are the peacemakers, but when you are dealing with bigotry and fascism there can be no compromise. Standing firm in our truth, we cannot accept any degree of degradation of and violence against women, immigrants, people of color, different religions, sexual identities or orientation. And in standing firm, we must be careful not to become what we reject. By hating those who hate, we add to hatred, obviously.

In the midst of an emotional storm, we all slip into the simplistic polarization of good versus evil. Then we either attack or try to run from whatever we perceive as evil. This is not necessarily helpful, but it is a physiological survival response that is hardwired into our central nervous system. Unless you have already attained absolute enlightenment, you will experience this. Period.

Don’t add fuel to the fire. Feel your feelings, acknowledge them in their full intensity, but choose your actions carefully. But don’t suppress your feelings, either. If you do, they will come out sideways, and usually at the most inopportune moment. If it helps to write a scathing letter, do so. Just don’t send or post it. Read it out loud with all the emotions behind the words, and then delete, burn, or tear it up. Scream into your pillow or at the stars. They don’t care. They love you anyway. Share your fears with trusted friends, if that helps, but be careful that you don’t catastrophize together.

Allow the storm to pass, and it will. Only if the mind insists on continued drama to maintain the high adrenaline levels it is accustomed to, will the storm persist beyond its natural function. Fear and rage are survival functions that have evolved to help us avoid or get us out of the danger zone. Prolonged beyond the immediate danger, though, they become hazardous to our health.

So when looking at our national and global situation, are we truly in the acute danger zone? – Climate change is real and well under way. It takes a very determined ego to deny that now. We live in an era of mass extinctions. Every day, species are disappearing from the earth forever. Fascist forces are on the rise. In the US we don’t like to call them that, but the use of government functions and forces to support the goals of mega-corporations is called fascism in every other part of the world. And now we let not just a fox, but an army of weasels, into the henhouse in Washington, DC. So things are not looking very promising in the near-term.

So let’s look from afar, not just from an eagle’s view, but rather from a cosmic perspective of the place and time we are living in.

Earth wobbles on a tilting axis as it spins around our ever-moving sun in one of the arms of a galaxy spiraling around a gigantic black hole at its center. The universe itself is expanding, so the galaxy, too, is moving in relationship to other galaxies and nebulas. It takes over 200 million years, give or take a few, for our sun to make one full turn around the galaxy’s axis, and even upon its completion, it is not where it used to be. Even if we could live that long, we would never end up in the same place twice. It is not possible. Our mind likes to use the past as a reference point to project probable outcomes into the future. But in truth, we have never been here before. Where we find ourselves right now is completely new and unprecedented. So we really don’t know, cannot know, how events will unfold. Only fear tells us otherwise.

We can insist on calamity and experience the situation as that. Or we can go with the flow and trust that there are forces at work in this amazing universe that are far beyond human control, and they drive evolution. Life itself is a force beyond our comprehension. Consciousness is not the thinking mind. It is much more than that, and it cannot be controlled by the mind. It is irrepressible and unique in each and every expression, not just the human being. Like energy, it can neither be created nor destroyed. It simply IS, changing its expression and form all the time.

I exist. You exist. One life or a thousand lifetimes exist within the eternity of consciousness like the blink of an eye. Evolution is patient and unstoppable. It is also not a linear process, apparently. Periods of mass extinction have come before, and they were followed by periods of mass proliferation of entirely new life forms. Whatever we are facing, it is not the end.

Armageddon literally means the lifting of the veil. Nothing can remain hidden. No more secrets, all shall be revealed. In that sense, we are right in the middle of Armageddon. Individually and collectively, our light as well as our shadow is being exposed.

What Donald Trump has brought to the surface during his campaign is nothing new. His speeches have not turned loving people into bigots. He has simply given permission for existing bigotry to become openly visible.

In all honesty, each and every one of us has a shadow aspect of our psyche that harbors prejudice and fear of the other. One cannot grow up in this culture without being exposed to this conditioning. Prejudice and bigotry can even be hidden under the guise of low self-esteem. Feeling less deserving of respect and dignity because I am a woman living in a man’s world, that is a form of bigotry. Feeling ashamed or superior because of my gender orientation, skin color, religion or lack thereof, is discrimination. Holding judgment against myself actually is more painful than others judging me. And we all were taught to do it. All of us hold some shame about being too much this, or not enough that.

We all have a shadow. This is part of the human condition while living in our physical world. Fighting the shadow means your thinking self is battling your feeling self. This is exhausting and unsuccessful. Projecting your own shadow onto a group of people who are different from you deflects your own pain but leads in the extreme to genocide and holocaust. One way or another, fighting the shadow turns into war on a personal or global scale. This war has been fought for as long as men have been able to throw sticks and stones at each other. It almost led to man’s self-annihilation. But somehow we managed to turn that page and start an entirely different story.

This new story is one of transformation, not just birthing a new child to the same species. At this point in time we are participating in something akin to the metamorphosis of a caterpillar into a butterfly. This is not a cognitive achievement. The caterpillar has no conscious control over the process. Instead, it allows the unfolding in complete trust. It carries within its body a chrysalis that is revealed as the caterpillar wriggles out of its old skin. Inside the chrysalis, the caterpillar’s structure turns into stem cell goo. Out of that goo, a new structure forms, miraculously. There was nothing visible in the caterpillar that would suggest wings. And yet, inside the chrysalis, the DNA gets activated to shape a creature of flight and light.

The planet and the human species are entering the chrysalis stage right now. Old structures are dissolving. The old ways of doing things are no longer working. Control is exposed as illusion. Worldly power fights back with all its might. But human might has no influence over cosmic arrangements.

The geomagnetic field of the earth is weakening. This is not a man made problem. It is part of the evolution of earth itself. Without the strength of the geomagnetic field, more solar and cosmic radiation is entering the poles and biosphere. This is an evolutionary challenge: adapt or die. When our spiritual teachers tell us that the energy on the planet is rising, it is not just a metaphor. This is a physical reality, and not one to be feared. On the contrary, this is what we have been waiting for.

This is the energy required for the planet and the human species to go through their metamorphosis into the next higher state of existence. We cannot get there as long as we are fragmented and unaware, fighting the shadow aspects of our psyche or repressing them. We have an urgent invitation now to dance with the shadow.

What does that mean? We acknowledge the darkness as simply an absence of light, not as a force opposing light. The shadow is nothing more than a collection of all the fearful and unloved aspects of ourselves. Understanding and compassion allow us to love what seemed to be unlovable while it was hidden away in shame. Shame turns to rage because it is too painful to bear. Rage turns outward to avoid self-destruction. Bigotry is rage against the outwardly projected shadow.

If we follow shame back to its origin, we arrive at the early days of a little child who came into this world full of unconditional love that was rejected. For their own reasons the parent(s) and community could not accept or even recognize that gift of love. They were unable to reflect the necessary love and emotional nurturing the child required to develop a sense of security and trust in life itself. When security through unconditional love seems unobtainable, control and power provide a poor substitute.

Behind the façade of bigotry there is always a scared little child longing for safety and love. But admitting that makes us much too vulnerable in a world that is built on power, control, and survival of the meanest. We can heal this dilemma by embracing the unloved and scared aspects of ourselves first. When we can do that, we will recognize them in others, as well, and find it in our hearts to love them, too.

Compassion for bigots is not approval of bigotry. It is transformation of shadow into light. By loving all, even those who cannot love themselves, we raise the energy in ourselves and in the world. We can become the first butterfly-humans if we trust that love is the primary force in this universe and all possible others.

Do you have the courage to trust? Then take a deep breath and let go…

About the Author:

Shana Dieterle, PT, CST-D, is a Diplomate Certified CranioSacral Therapist, Physical Therapist and Light Worker practicing in Missoula, MT. She has spent her life studying and consciously experiencing being human through touch, motion, and deep listening. Nature is her source of joy, strength and inspiration. Guiding people back to the Inner Wisdom of their own essence is her vocation. For further information go to www.ShanasHeartofHealing.com

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06 Jan 2017
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Inner Space, the Final Frontier

“Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family.

Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.”

~ Jane Howard

In the 3^rd millennium, we’re designing ways to travel that weave us more deeply into life’s web. People are opening their hearts and homes to intrepid travelers from around the world. Airbnb is in nearly 200 countries and expanding by the micro-minute. FriendsinRoute.com caters to travelers over forty, with the same basic concept: stay in a homey environment instead of a sterile hotel, and learn about your destination from the inside out.

This Earth Trek might be the ultimate social network. Because we’re searching for something beyond simple travel comfort.

We’re all driven by a fundamental need to be heard, acknowledged and loved. One of the greatest challenges is remaining present, open and loving when the other party — often a family member — can rapidly reduce us to a needy, sensitive child. When another’s reality clashes with ours, we must find a way to bridge the chasm. And sometimes the people who share our DNA are harder to reach than strangers.

Photo By Alessio Lin

Awakening guide Gillian Macbeth-Louthan writes, “You are asked to become the healer, you are asked to become the scholar. You are asked to become all that you shirk. You are asked to redesign yourself in a collage of life imitating art. You are asked to step up to the plate and sup upon what is needed to be done, let it fuel your life force. Instead of allowing life and her daily deeds to suck all of your energy, allow it to give you increased energy from all circumstances that surround you. Stop whining about what has befallen you and see it as a heavenly helping hand, a piece of the soul puzzle you seek to fit the picture in your heart.”

That’s the ultimate cosmic kick in the root chakra!

Getting here calls for a subtle shift in perception and behavior: from require to inquire, from escalate to elevate, from accumulate to appreciate. As we cease consuming planetary resources and each other at the speed of greed, let go of buying more in favor of being more, we reclaim our true heritage as Earth stewards, heart stewards (Earth and heart are the same word; only the “h”, for Home, relocates). Then barrenness transmutes into bounty. Separation into synergy. Fear into faith. Longing into Love.

During this season of transmutation, as we reach out to build connections with our brothers and sisters in diverse communities
and circumstances, let’s remember to fill our own wells first, so we have enough overflow to pour ourselves into another’s outstretched cup.

We become self-renewing by gathering knowledge from our experience, forging it into wisdom in the alchemical fire, and serving as vessels to share the gift. Conscious evolution favors the curious and kind mind. Truth nourishes us in ways we might never have imagined. Synchronicity takes us by the hand and we laugh in child-like wonder as we witness Spirit-in-action, again and again and again.

This is how we “win” the space race: by boldly going where no one has gone before, deep into one another’s hearts. May you journey well.

About the Author:

Amara Rose is a metaphysical “midwife” for our global rebirth. She offers spiritual mentoring, e-courses, a CD/mp3 of the journey to awakening, and an inspirational monthly newsletter.

Learn more at LiveYourLight.com. Connect with Amara on Twitter and Facebook.

07 Dec 2016
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Ways to Make You Love Every Bit of You

One of the first mistakes people make is searching for the happiness in the outside world instead of finding it within. Our dependency on other people’s opinion and the society’s pressure to fit into certain molds – can make us feel inadequate, lonely, and unlovable. What is worse, most people experiencing this stay quiet: they tumble through their everyday, never getting the love they truly deserve. No, this is not about romantic love: we’re talking about self-love. Feelings of unworthiness transfer to everything you do and their true danger lies in the fact they trigger a delusion they are a part of your identity.

Identity isn’t something that’s fixed and unchangeable. Our souls are fluid and fragile, constantly processing everything that’s put upon them and nobody is immune to that. Depending on the way a person has been raised and how the world shaped their identity, it can experience more or fewer difficulties to learn the essence of self-love. Sometimes, it is harder than one may think and while it’s easy to blame the world for it – you should take your share of responsibility. It’s easier not to do anything and indulge in self-pity instead of stop making excuses. Postponing this does you no good: start with three small steps.

The first step towards loving yourself is realizing you do have the right to be loved. Frequent disappointments in dating world can leave you thinking there’s something wrong with you. This attitude comes from not being at peace with yourself: you have to stop assessing your personal value through relationships with others. Instead of asking yourself – does he love me for who I am, try making it the other way around: do I love him for who he is? We often accept others’ love out of fear of loneliness. If it falls apart, stop blaming him or yourself. Some things aren’t meant to work out: what’s for you won’t pass you by. There is a higher force taking care of you.

The second step would be mapping out the reasons you feel bad about yourself. Too often we forget that the only thing standing in the way of achieving our dreams – are we alone. You have the power to change and you are in charge of your life. Life’s too short not the get the most of it. If you feel bad about traveling so little, figure out a way to save up some money and let the world lavish you with its beauties. If you have a weight problem that’s bothering you, take baby steps with workout regimes and healthy dieting. Try meditation: it is proven to rewire your brain and more importantly – it helps you connect with yourself and with higher forces. Align yourself with the universe. Only by being in harmony with yourself can you become one with the world. This feeling of peace and serenity will definitely shift your perspective about how you feel about yourself.

The third step is putting yourself out there. Expose your heart to new experiences. Do something you’ve never tried before, even if you think you are not going to like it. These adventures can reveal new sides of you that you didn’t even know they existed. They are the fuel for your transformation process as they push you outside of your comfort zone: it can be small things like signing up for a yoga class or doing something you’re scared of – skydiving perhaps? You are a unique living being that’s not taking the advantage of what the world has prepared for you. By daring to be brave and opening your heart to all kinds of love, you will learn to love yourself and accept the love you truly deserve.

Embrace the paradox that emerges from the following fact: you need to accept yourself, but you also need to be aware that only change is constant. Self-love is the cornerstone that makes you unapologetic about how you want other people to treat you.

03 Dec 2016
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Homecoming

Home. Except for love, perhaps no word in the English language conjures more evocative imagery. We crave the cozy, nurturing, roaring-fire scene depicted so effectively on film. Home houses our identity. It’s less about the four walls than what they represent: “the abode of one’s affections, peace or rest,” according to Merriam-Webster. At some point in our lives, many women (and men, too, if they will admit it) harbor a fearful fantasy of becoming a “bag lady/guy,” carting our belongings out on the street. We see the homeless and quake — “there but for the grace of God go I.”

What we’re seeking is a sense of security inside ourselves, a home within that can never be taken away. As national boundaries dissolve and corporations invite poets and spiritual mentors into their boardrooms, the hunger for this broader definition of home has never been greater.

From Me to We

Creating this inner sanctuary will entail a quantum shift for many of us: out of the competitive, “What’s in it for me” worldview into a more collaborative, compassionate perspective in which the operative question becomes, “How may I serve?”

For instance: as record numbers of us skate towards elderhood, home care has become a hot topic. What does this mean? On one level, “home care” is about providing caregiving in the home to enable our elders and homebound to remain in their comfort zones. But the larger view begs our attention. Before we can care for our home, we need to know it viscerally. We must embody the place of wholeness that wants to be born in us.

Our own bodies and the planetary body are inextricably linked. Anthropologist Gregory Bateson speaks of “the pattern that connects,” the common ground of our unity. We exist in relationship to everyone and everything else on Earth. What kind of home care is our aging Mother receiving? Maybe that’s the real key to conscious aging: caring for the personal and the planetary with equal reverence.

Living in Tune with Nature

In other societies, the old ones are the keepers of wisdom. So-called developing cultures that honor their tribal elders also honor the land in which they live. “Home care” is a unified practice for them, as indigenous as the planting and the reaping, as natural as celebrating life’s quotidian rhythms with ritual.

In this visionary view, we’re all caregivers — Earth stewards, some say. Home care for our elders is rooted in how we create home in our daily lives. What kind of home do we want to cultivate and care for, inside ourselves, interpersonally, and as part of the collective “home body” we inhabit?

Try this: for the next week, take a time-out from worrying about the economy, your teenager’s pierced body parts and the latest virus scare to live into the larger questions about the quality of life you’re choosing in every moment, by the way you live, by what you do and don’t honor. Does your definition of home serve you? Is it inclusive or exclusive? Will your practice of home care help create a sustainable future for us all?

Within a decade, for the first time in human history, the number of people in the world aged 65 and older will exceed that of children under five. If you’re not already among this exhalted majority, one day you will look in the mirror and see your grandmother’s or grandfather’s eyes. Will they reflect the wisdom of generativity, of the home that you carry with you always, as a turtle does, caring for it because it is an intrinsic part of you?

Native Americans call this planet Turtle Island. I imagine this is what they mean.

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02 Nov 2016
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Self Love Journey

This month we took a moment in the midst of the outer world of chaos to ask,

What is self love as it relates to energy medicine.

We are at the cusp of an energy revolution. We are entering the most intensified purification process the Earth and humanity has ever experienced. In every choice in life we must be mindfully aware of the ebb and flow of energy. Is it time to absorb energy, to dispense it or to conserve it? We are each filled with universal life force energy. This subtle energy that the ancient Taoist call Qi, is the essence of our being, our consciousness, our soul. As the flow of life force energy moves through our physical, emotional, and spiritual bodies, it can become unbalanced, stagnant, or blocked. Life force energy needs to be maintained in a balance of external energy output and internal energy production.

Your feelings will soon become your primary guidance system for navigating through your experience. We need a certain level of life force energy for our very survival. Our sources of internal energy come from channeling life force energy in the highest vibration. This vibration is that of pure joy, lightness, happiness, truth, understanding, and most of all love. It comes from the sun, food, the breath, sleep, exercise, experiences that uplift and nourish, recharging and a vast range of spiritual practices, such as meditation. Self care, self love and energetic boundaries are medicine for the soul. They are crucial to our well and no longer considered a luxury. The new currency is vital life force energy exchange.

A primary part of this consciousness shift is that we are increasing the vibration of our physical bodies to higher frequencies so that we can absorb more energy at the DNA level. Absorbing the wrong energy around us can deplete our ability to store internal energy. It is often necessary to clear out these energies before we can begin to truly tap into our own power. This may mean removing yourself from certain situations that feel depleting, letting negative relationships go, learning how to shield yourself properly, learning how to clear energy and most importantly learning how to cultivate Qi.

It is imperative to learn practices for how you want to manage yourself around energies that vibrate at a different frequency, one perhaps that is lower than yours. High vibration comes from a pure source that rejuvenates and creates energy without depletion. It is renewable and endless. It has the ability to heal and expand in ways that can transform all that comes in contact with it. We may see a glimpse of this energy in times of great joy. However unless we are able to change our vibration at the DNA level, it is most difficult to maintain.

Raising the vibration consists of clearing out dense energy that no longer serve us. It is the process of infusing our body with light. This can transform our physical bodies and elevate our consciousness. Learning to function as a multidimensional being, we can begin to step into our infinite potential. What I am speaking to is indeed a lifestyle change. It requires mindfulness with every aspect of our being including what we eat, who we spend time with, what we expose our senses to, how we spend our time, what we think, what we speak into creation and most certainly healing our emotions and forgiving our past. When you make a commitment to this process of Raising your vibration, expect to see dramatic changes. You may see all of your relationships transform. You may be surrounded by people who do not understand this process. You may feel compelled to move out of the environment that you are living in. You may feel confused and alone at times, questioning why you feel called to make such changes. It all depends on your own soul’s personal journey. The shift begins to happen on the very subtle etheric plane, the realm of thought and intention. Then with consistency and time, you eventually begin to see the fruits of the changes you made, manifesting into the physical realm, the realm of creation.

For me, this has been a five year process that required me learning to trust the urges inside of me that were calling me deeply into the unknown. For the most part, my primary support was all in the unseen realms. There were many times that I questioned and doubted myself as it would feel I had stepped into an entirely new world alone. However it is my purpose to serve as a teacher of alignment, ascension, the nature of this universe and ultimately everything happened exactly as it needed. Only now in hindsight I can say that with confidence. I can truly say there is nothing more beautiful than being alive and awake right now with this level of awareness. I have guided many people to transform their state of consciousness and their life circumstances from all walks of life because this is my highest passion.

Learning to find ease in every situation becomes a major tool in managing energy. We refer to this as the path of least resistance. This is a path of being true to yourself, listening to the heart, living in the now moment and following your bliss. This path is about trusting the divine plan and the perfect unfoldment of life’s greatest miracles. I teach mastering the art of allowing, surrendering to the flow and knowing that everything in the Universe is working to support your wellbeing at all times. I help people recognize the importance of divine timing and understanding that sometimes there are certain pieces that must line up before life can play out the way that it is destined to. Ultimately this knowledge is already present within each of us. This is the time we have chosen to awaken and full step into our divine nature. Be certain that this planetary shift is happening beneath the surface in ways that are beyond what we can imagine.

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01 Nov 2016
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Surrender To Your True Potential

If we embrace nature as our reflection we can discover patterns that will give us insight to the process of human evolution. We know a flower has reached it’s full potential when it blossoms enough to fully emit a fragrance. When a flower is closed you will only get a hint of its allure. Imagine only being familiar with experiencing gardens filled with unopened flowers your entire life. You would have no idea how much more alive your sense of scent could be if all of the flowers had a chance to fully bloom.

This entire planet is a garden and we are the flowers. Many of us transcend without allowing ourselves to fully blossom. We all have different scents to emit but we have been conditioned to believe only a few fragrances are valid. We have created a global economic system based on the foundation of this idea. Now that this system is breaking down because it is no longer sustainable we are being forced to explore avenues outside of popular discourse.

When you have spent your entire adult life basing your self worth on a career that is quickly becoming extinct, you come to a new fork in the road. You have no choice but to re-evaluate your sense of self worth. This space can be very unnerving and exuberating all at the same time. It triggers a deep sense of cognitive dissonance that can potentially serve as a catalyst for your evolution.

This is the perfect opportunity to explore yourself outside of your mind and inside of your heart. The keys to your path of success can be found within your heart’s desires. We have been taught to neglect our passions for a “false” sense of financial security. Pursuing a career that does not satisfy the soul can lead to resentment and chronic stress. It is time to interact with the world in a more authentic way so we can experience a true sense of fulfillment.

To unravel this hidden part of ourselves we need to face the fears within our heart. We have allowed societal norms to influence and limit our perspectives. This has led us to become lost within false identities that are not aligned with our higher self.

Walking Through the Fear

Once you decide to align with your purpose, parts of you begin to die. Friends, jobs and many things you may have been attached to start falling away. Your comfort zone is slowly dismantled before your eyes. This is when the most strength is needed to keep moving forward. Fear is never the REAL issue when choosing to live from the heart, allowing fear to stop you from moving forward is.

Friends and family members will judge you for leaving your “safe” career behind and investing in yourself. They are only projecting their fear upon you connected to not having enough courage to do the same. You will have times where you will feel like giving up because things are not going your way. There will be times where your frustration may bring you close to a nervous breakdown. This is only because there is no way your mind can fathom how opportunities and support will show up in your life. Your intuition is the most accurate compass, not your mind. Love will always lead you back to yourself and your heart is the GPS to follow along the path of fulfillment.

01 Nov 2016
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Living In the Zone

Twice a year, approximately 70 countries worldwide create a collective illusion: saving time. We move the hands of our clocks, and think we’ve harnessed the sun.

Cultures that live in tune with natural rhythms do not alter their clocks, because clocks do not define their time. The seasons and the stars do.

“The stars want to see themselves!”

Thought leader Deepak Chopra, MD, once shared how he explained existence to his three-year-old granddaughter as they walked along the beach at sunset. Essentially, he told her she is made of starlight, and that the spirit of the stars is reflected in her eyes. Tara was silent for fifteen minutes while she digested this information. Then she said, “Nanna, look up!” When Chopra asked why, she replied, “The stars want to see themselves!”

Time is elastic. Athletes know this. When athletes move into the space known as “the zone,” time slows down. They see every move or play with perfect clarity, and execute the correct maneuvers as if in a dream, sensing the triumphant outcome. Something expands within them that translates into successful action.

How many people do you know who never seem to have “enough” time? We are each gifted with the same twenty-four hour cycle to use as we choose. People who are time-deprived are exhibiting one aspect of our pervasive scarcity consciousness.

How limits expand possibility

In The Energy of Money, psychologist Maria Nemeth writes, “Scarcity is a reality in the physical domain. As a minister friend of mine once told me, ‘It’s as though we got bored living without limits. We decided to incarnate — which means, literally, to turn into meat. We further chose to work with the limits of form, time and finite energy. This was to see how much of the divine we could bring into the mundane before it was time for us to leave.'”

As paradoxical as it may seem, says Nemeth, “We reach the infinite through living fully in the finite. The infinite is not reached by trying to ignore limits, as many of us try to do.”

And in Eastern Body, Western Mind, chakra expert Anodea Judith observes, “Manifestation requires an acceptance of limitation. A boundary allows us to contain, and thus collect and build.”

What “enough” really means

So holding the “both/and” is a prerequisite to freedom, whether from the constraints of the clock or the tyranny of the paycheck: We must accept limitation in order to transcend it. This is what zone athletes do.

As we set our clocks back an hour this Sunday (in the United States), let’s look out at the stars and remember what we’re made of. Recognize the expansive possibilities that exist within the limits of form.

There is enough. It’s just a question of consciousness. Choose to embrace the both/and, and you’ll grow with the flow!

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