For those of you who follow how the stars in the heavens affect your inner pulsations and energies, this is a difficult time with Uranus and Pluto in a direct square. Often this results in a flash of change through a flash of catastrophe or a flash of insight like an Aha experience. This is like the Tower card in the Tarot.
What is useful to remember is that following the Tower is the The star which is all about renewal.
First destruction or revolution and then rebuilding anew… stronger, better, with more clarity.
This process has been ongoing for a year now with two previous meetings of these planets coinciding with challenging events in our society and culture and there are four more to go over the next two years… this process is necessary; like forest fires bringing new growth and prosperity in nature, so can these traumatic and insightful shifts offer opportunities for growth and change to your societal and personal structures.
I have been in a process of deep renewal that has felt like living within the Tower card for the last two and a half months. It has been a powerful experience to see through the fear, difficulty, and challenges to identify the irrepressible seeds of new growth in my core self. This process has brought to me a revolution of my core being…. how I respond to the pressures of society, group expectations, my perceived internalized values, and my personal needs; how I view my place in the world; what I perceive to be my core strengths and my core limitations; and what is the focus of my life-soul-plan. For me, this has been a mixof painful release, letting go – like a weeding out of misbeliefs and mis-directed strategies and a healing attraction, health promoting, and strengthening of my true authentic self and inspiration. I have been living through the energies of a mix of the Tower and the Star – destruction and renewal.
If you have been experiencing this too, then you are aware that to move through this process with the least amount of pain and the highest degree of renewal: What matters is how you respond to the catastrophe or insight.
The process of meditation, and mindfulness can guide you. Accepting truth while simultaneously letting go of misbeliefs takes a willingness to focus your mindful attention and observation upon yourself.
That which causes you fear may be the key.
Make an effort to understand whether the fear is something dangerous that you must fight against or a sense of not knowing, a sense of something unfamiliar that may indeed portend a cleansing away of debris and inauthenticity and a deeper connection to your true self.
Be kind to yourself, kind and loving. Embrace the change, go with the flow, see the beauty and the gifts in the shifting internal landscape. This will offer you that sense of peace so that you can experience the power in the renewal and the beauty in your authentic self.
Connection to spirit is the most useful tool at this time. Spirit in any form that has valence and meaning to you.
The following phrases can be helpful. Jot these down to remind you of the positive power in your shifting environment. Tether yourself so that you can feel the strength of the tree, rooted, and the height of your spirit. Even if you are feeling pulled at your very roots like the image of the Tower know that Renewal follows and allows a rebuilding process that makes you truly stronger and more flexible.
May you live in interesting times (Robert Kennedy, 1966 originally attributed as a chinese curse but this is not corroborated in Chinese studies)
For those with much to offer, much is expected. (To those whom much is given, much is expected. John F. Kennedy)
Be Grateful for the problems you have, See what gifts are set inside of them. My own inspiration.
In the center of health is heal… pay attention to how you focus your energy.
The opposite of evil is live. Shifting your perspective helps, heals, and creates connection.
Fear and love cannot take up the same space, choose love, choose joy, release fear and insecurity –> this allows you to live free, to call the renewal to you. This moves you away from the pain of the destruction, the despair of destruction toward revolution and renewal. This is the pattern of scientific, social, and personal revolutions – paradigm shifting-that creates self, relationship, and society anew. Namaste. in love and light, bg
“Be like a tree” when under stress. Allow your roots to dig deeply into the earth and ground you. Allow your branches, and trunk to sway with the pressure of the wind. Know that your center is strong and holds you stable as you flexibly respond to the assault and pressure of the storm. In this way you will find peace and resilience, inner knowing, strength, security, and flexibility so that you are not torn asunder and bereft.
“Be like water ” when in danger or working with tender beings. Gently yet with perseverance flow, guide, assist, and lightly wash away that which does not serve yourself or others. In this way you will find peace and resilience, inner guidance, clarity, strength, security, flexibility, and truth so that propaganda and ill-will cannot affect you.
In all things patience, action, attitude and intention matter. Feel the joy in every moment and your heart will sing, Namaste, in love and light, bg
I am excited to share about a new book out there called I Believe: When What you Believe Matters! by Eldon Taylor. What I like about it is that it offers lots of studies and examples of how your beliefs drive what you create. It has a lot of the great tools found in Esther Hicks’ books but with a scientific component that really brings substance to the material.
Everyone is extolling praises for this book, including famous personalities such as Lindsay Wagner, John Gray, Ph.D., James Van Praagh, Larry Dossey, M.D., and Stanely Krippner, Ph.D. I know you will find this book valuable, both personally and for your own business.
The information in this book is consistent with the information you find in my writings about the importance of congruence in your thinking and actions and mindfulness.
I Believe: When What You Believe Matters! reveals the importance of choosing your every life belief and the effects these choices have on the quality of your life, impacting areas that may surprise you in ways you have not thought of. Eldon Taylor even shows how these belief choicepoints can influence how long you will live and how your DNA expresses itself. Your belief paradigms affect what you will allow yourself to see and hear; each belief effecting many consequences.
He talks about it like a spider web that continually builds upon itself often trapping us where we don’t want to be.
I hope you get a chance to check out this new book. It’s got a lot of great stuff in it about how your thinking defines your being. It’s like a type of spiritual sociology. Enjoy, bg
Being a spirit-human, challenges you in the realms of faith and fear. Fear is what drives your lower chakra survival mentality. Faith is what drives your upper chakra thriving spirit. This is Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs Pyramid (1954, 1990) and the idea of moving from Me through I to We in how you perceive your power, relationships, and environment.
You see/experience what you believe, and you believe what you see/experience. Fair enough.
If you feel fear but desire to shift into faith you need to activate your upper chakras and balance your lower chakras. You can do this through intentional action. In order to shift your perception, you have to move out of fear-based, survivalistic, limited resources perspective into a joy-based, thriver, perspective of faith. Faith being the knowing that you will be what you desire if you do not get in your own way with fear.
Faith, love, joy expand your experience; these expand your access to creation in the positive, seeing collaborative solutions, and recognition of your full power.
Fear, hate, and despair limit your experience; these diminish your access to creation in the positive, cloud/impair your vision, and reduce your recognition of your power and solutions.
Try this simple exercise to feel the difference.
frown.
breathe shallowly
look for every possible negative attribute or impediment to your desire
read about the many tragedies and heartbreaks in making changes
greet others with a negative attitude certain that they will work against you; redirect yourself to the (-)
at the end of 24 hours of this set of actions, note how you feel – you will notice you feel constricted, fearful, small, discouraged, heavy, tired, fatigued, and isolated – you may want to eat sugar, drink alcohol, or pick a fight with our children or partner.
Now, try this simple exercise to feel the difference
smile.
breathe deeply
look for every possible positive action or path to your desire
read about the many joyful and heart-filled experiences in making changes
greet others with a positive attitude, certain that they will work to your advantage; redirect yourself to the (+)
at the end of 24 hours of this set of actions, note how you feel – you will notice an expansion, a sense of courage, feeling bigger, joyful, light, energized, and connected – you may want to eat fruits and vegetables, whole, healthy food, to juice, eat protein, and drink water; you will have more energy to understand our child’s or partner’s needs and feel they are present for you and you are more available to them.
Faith or Fear, the choice is yours.
The outcome is defined by which you choose – which outcome would you prefer to create? in love and light, bg
Maslow, A.H. Motivation and Personality. NewYork: Harper, 1954. Gineris, B. Turning ME to WE: The Art of Partnering with Mindfulness. Charleston, SC: Createspace, 2013.
Love, Acceptance, and Negotiation…turning Me 2 We… The idea is that fighting against yourself or others removes what is necessary to flow through challenging times. The energy of fighting shifts you away from what you need, away from your sensory guidance system; removing fight from your vocabulary helps you to access precisely what you need when you need it, so that you can shift out of any painful situation to find peace, your soul-utions, and balance.
If the challenging situation is an addiction to substances, experiences, or people in an unhealthy way – then these actions help you to remain in recovery. 4simple phrases to return you to balance and remain in recovery. Recovery is a journey rather than a destination.
Step one is to find your way to balance. Step two is returning to balance. The Path to Grace is a journey that cycles between these two steps. Listening to your sensory guidance system, led by your spirit connection. Removing fight from your vocabulary and focusing on love, acceptance, and negotiation helps you return to balance and flow through any difficult situation.
Try these mantras to get you to and keep you on this Path to Grace.
Stop, look, and listen. It is the perfect mantra to create the neutral, present moment, open-minded perspective required for moving through roadblocks. Stop the harmful behavior; look at your thoughts, beliefs, feelings, and actions, to discern what may be underneath your resistance; listen to you heart, tone, whole language to comprehend an underlying covert message.
The attitude of gratitude. Identify the gifts of your history, your drama, and your shift into recovery. Reaffirm your choice for health. Focus on your strengths, reframe your limitations. The attitude of gratitude creates an inner structure of resilient positive self-esteem rooted in a solid foundation.
Focus on what you want rather than what you fear. This mindful mantra directs your attention to precisely where you have power. Things feared tend to be things unknown that are out of your control. An inner locus of control puts the resilience, power to create, and basic capacity to respond to whatever comes your way into your own hands, so that you believe, have faith and have evidence that you can create what you want.
Be the Change You Wish to See in the World. This is a phrase made famous by M. Gandhi. He was interested in major social change, but this phrase is just as useful in small social worlds. Act mindfully, show respect, be loving, and compassionate as a style of being in the world. Live your change in every cell of your being, allowing breath, faith, forgiveness, and lovingkindness to direct your actions and personal relationships, beginning with your relationship with yourself.
Keeping these simple mantras close to your heart and mind will increase your capacity for mindfulness; it will increase your experience of compassion, harmony, and balance in living, and keep you on the recovery Path to Grace.
When you feel like a failure as a parent, or have a challenging parenting situation,
apply the 12 step program
To shift your defeat, or discouragement to courage and healing:
1. admit you are not perfect.
2. recognize you are powerless to be perfect at all times with every child
3. connect with a higher power and engage that sense of spirituality to support you.
4. honestly reflect and identify the mistakes and flaws you bring to parenting.
5. humbly admit to your spiritual support, partner, loyal friend – your imperfection and reaffirm your commitment to do your best.
6./7. Reaffirm your trust in yourself and your team; Be willing and ready to shift out of the habits that do not serve you and embrace more effective styles of parenting.
8/9/10. identify injuries or mistakes you have made; say you are sorry to your kids for these mistakes; make a commitment to not do it again; stay connected, and repeat when necessary.
11. practice compassion, meditation, prayer and lovingkindness toward yourself and your kids.
12. be a helper to your peer parents rather than a competitor or bully; share your positive experiences with love.
How to help kids do better on tests.
Prepare: talk about what testing is and what it really means. Testing can help you know what you are good at and where you have limitations; allow the truth to be neutralized so it doesn’t get blown out of proportion.
Discuss (in communication, parents sometimes think that what they have to say is the most important thing – it matters, but what your child thinks/feel/and wants to say matters equally). Listen as much as you talk when discussing. Actively listen with your third ear to what is underneath, the meaning in the content and the energy of the words.
Deflect: shift energy away from competition, being best, pushing ahead, and any anxiety provoking thinking equation regarding the outcome of the test. From what you discussed in the above section you will have identified what may be causing fears or anxieties for your child – accept this, and neutralize it, sometimes neutralization means acknowledging that the thing feared may happen; talk about that and help your child understand that he or she has the ability to respond to that situation if it happens. This teaches empowerment and response – ability; this allows your child to accentuate his strengths and deemphasize his limitations.
Define – clarify what is involved in testing. Try to not say it doesn’t matter and try to not act like it is the most important thing; find a balance in how you encourage your child to do his best and be proud of what that best is. If your child really does have a learning special need – help with that. If she’s too revved up – teach her skills to bring to neutral or move into the next gear, which means to use the extra energy efficiently: Teach her now that it is her responsibility to manage her special character so she can use you to help learn how to do this. If he’s spacey and distracted – teach him to develop ways to get himself focused, or more revved up for the task: Teach him it is his responsibility to manage his special character, so that he can find a way to embrace the whole of who he is. He may find that special character and his solution to it, is what makes him unique and this will empower him.
Know your child. Use your knowing to help him or her be the best he or she can be. Don’t worry about arena or group-mind. Trust yourself and your authentic knowing of your child to be the best judge for him or her.
Here are some simple biofeedback tricks: stare at your hand. Tense relax. Mantras. Song tunes for memory training.
Importance of sleep, eating, no stress, acceptance, and esteem: these are biological, emotional, and physical needs that when off interfere with your child doing his or her best. Do what you can to keep these in balance.
Hope this is really helpful. in love and light, bg
Trusting yourself is not only believing in yourself it is also listening to your intuition and sense impressions and acting with a sense of internal power. A common way you diminish self-trust is when you dismiss your inner knowing and listen to another’s interpretation to get approval. This is a risk in any student role.
In therapy, there is a saying that if you say I already worked that out or I already resolved that conflict you are possibly tricking yourself. It’s a sign of resistance, especially when said adamantly or defensively.
The key is to discern if your resistance to an interpretation is due to a true inner sense of truth or a deflection of the truth.
pay attention to your own charge (degree of intensity) regarding the issue, and level of repulsion to the idea
–> if you speak reactively, in an adamant, dismissive style it is likely that you are hiding the truth
–> if you are responding in a neutral style regarding how it just doesn’t feel right and you evaluate the information, then the other may be projecting onto you something through her interpretation.
listen in an interested, curious, unattached, mindful way to your teacher’s guidance
pay attention to his or her congruence in speech, action, and countenance
Be careful to not give away your power due to the other’s reputation or standing in a group – in other words don’t make your teacher into a guru – we are all walking through life with lessons to learn – when you give your power away to a guru, you interrupt your own energy flow toward your own lessons, gifts and path
I wrote a bit about this last year in this post https://instinctivehealthmedicine.com/2012/04/09/truth-within-inner-guidance-i/. I was reminded of this thesis over the weekend while attending an intensive Yoga workshop. Many of the participants were my teachers, whom I respect deeply. I love Yoga, and although I am a Yoga-neophite, I had decided the best way to learn was to stretch-myself (no pun intended) and do my best. The focus of the first day was to work on inversions and transitions between poses; focusing on the importance of transitioning into a pose not just the pose itself. I loved the idea behind it as it allowed for seeing the divine in the space between, something I am drawn to experience daily. I was grateful to pair up with my favorite teachers and found that my willingness to let go, play with the work, and surrender led me to a powerful shift in my practice.
On the second day, the focus of the work was to elucidate how, when, and where you feel blocked in a yoga pose, to surrender to the block, and allow a break-through. The poses that were being utilized to enlighten each of us were bent inversions so that arching, opening the heart chakra and pelvic space and lengthening the spine were paramount. Flexibility in your hips and shoulders are important to get a good back-bend; they are also the spaces in your body where you collect and hold hidden trauma both physical and emotional. This style of workshop offered a perfect opportunity to work-through an energy-holding leftover from earlier traumas, as long as the guest teacher could also provide a set of tools and a trusting space fo release.
Our guest teacher identified at the beginning of the workshop that she had not previously taught this particular workshop and stated in her opening mantra that it was important to not interfere with another’s lesson by showing them how to work through their blocks. Her remarks were incongruent with the presentation she provided on her website and the description of the class goals. As I sat preparing to risk and surrender to the lesson, two things stood out in my sense impressions: one, she was in a position of guide, yet identified at the onset that she was against guiding through blocks; and two, although she had an excellent reputation, this class was unexplored territory.
We worked through many different exercises to open shoulders and hips – paramount for backbends. The pace was quick and often we broke up into dyad partners to work on our assignments. This increased the opportunity for intimacy yet reduced a chance for clarification and guidance from the guest teacher. We felt at times like the blind leading the blind.
After much headstand and handstand practice, the guest teacher decided to use me as an example of how to assist your partner through what my gymnast-daughter calls a ticktock, and in Yoga is called Scorpion Vchikasana. For non-yogis it’s a handstand and then with great control you bend your legs over your head so your feet touch your crown.
This is a pretty awesome and advanced Yoga position.
I was excited to experience what it felt like to get into the position; I knew that once there I could create a body memory so that when I practiced on my own I could correct it with clarity. I enthusiastically kicked up into a bent arm handstand, anticipating her to catch my leg and move me over into the bent inversion. Instead I heard a laugh among the participants as she grabbed it forcefully and rotated it inward, this jarring maneuver caused me to lose my focus and I fell right back down. My enthusiasm dropped. She said kick up again. I did, albeit more cautiously this time. Hopefully, I waited for her to gently move me over into a backbend, she did not, I held until I couldn’t any longer, fell down and kicked up again, waited, kicked up again, attempting on my own to shift the weight of my hips over my chest, and feeling a bit confused I fell back down. She said kick up again, come on. I stopped and looked up at her. I was confused as to why she was not demonstrating moving me over into the backbend. She looked at me and said what’s ging on? What are you feeling? I said I feel weak. She said well you are stopping yourself and referenced the cause as my inner negative dialogue. She said do it again. I dutifully reset myself and I slowly and perseveringly moved my leg up into a handstand: first one leg and then drawing my other leg to the handstand trying to stack my hips over my ribcage, still expecting her to assist moving me into position, I kept waiting for her to gently move me up into position and then stand in front to move me into the scorpion position….but nothing….dead space, my arms and legs over-worked…I came back down onto my mat, flat.
She moved away to the front of class, never having actually demonstrated moving me into position, and then looked back at me sideways and said, you are strong enough to do it, you are fighting yourself, you need to change your inner dialogue.
I felt a familiar conglomeration of disappointment, vulnerability, defeat, and confusion. Somehow I had been triggered. I felt a combination of having been tricked by her and an inability to stand up for myself and realign internally with my strength. How had I given my power to this guest teacher? I felt shamed by her in front of the class.
This was a powerful moment for me to deduce the etiology of my holding and my fear.
I had not heard any negative self-talk. I searched inside myself, what am I hiding from myself? What I noticed was a defense mechanism of holding and protection that increased the more I interacted with this guest teacher. What was that about? . In my head I was trying to make sense of what had happened and what to do next. Was she doing this on purpose to help me move through my block or was her action more sadistic and so recreating an earlier trauma that my personal intention for the class posed as an opportunity for release?
After reflection, and discussion with other students in the class, some of whom were new to me, my concerns about the negativity of the situation from the guest teacher were corroborated. Their observations were consistent with what I observed and felt. Her actions exacerbated my hold and blocking rather than assisted me to move through the physical block. This is the opposite of how the workshop was billed. I had a funny feeling from her, as if she was not really there, not really centered on the role of being a facilitator but rather focused on being an exhibitionist. Although some of my teacher-friends really liked her others later identified a similar set of concerns.
My holding was indeed an aspect of my trusting myself; my body clearly ‘heard’ that this teacher was not trustworthy, so surrender was unsafe at that time -> this was the me fighting myself –> I was trying and I was stopping myself. My mind was directing the trying and my body was directing the stopping. My ‘block’ or resistance was a holding within my body in response to her passive hostility. This holding did not develop in response to her. It pre-dated the workshop as a survival mechanism from previous trauma; it was indeed the thing I took to the workshop to work-through.
This guest yoga teacher had designed a class to learn how to work-through holding and physical blocks without understanding a fundamental component needed to complete the task; to surrender and allow – Trust is required. In order for a teacher to encourage a shift in holding within her student her presentation has to include a lack of aggressivity, and a consciousness of beneficence; she need not be a cheerleader but rather have an unattached spirit of generosity. This renowned guest yoga teacher gave mixed messages though her words and actions which created a lack of trust needed, thus she had set up a class wherein re-traumatization could and would occur.
The choice to shift and uplevel lies solely in the power of the individual. Trusting yourself, surrendering to your truth includes paying attention to when resistance is beneficial and a positive communication from your personal sensory guidance system. Timing to uplevel matters, allow it to be guided from within(yourself), rather than without (another).
Sheldon Kopp wrote: No meaning that comes from outside of ourselves is real. The Buddhahood of each of us has already been obtained. We need only recognize it – Thus the Zen Master warns his disciple: – If you meet the Buddha on the Road, Kill him! (Kopp, 1976).
Creating a guru of another limits your and his power so that neither of you are allowed to uplevel into your most conscious selves. Namaste, in love and light, bg
Kopp, Sheldon, If you meet the Buddha on the Road,Kill Him. Bantam Books: New york, New York: 1976.
Peace comes from receptivity driving creativity – mind following heart:
11.T’ai. Peace, I Ching.
K’un(receptive) above, ch’ien creative) below
…Great approaches. Good fortune. Success.The image: Heaven and earth unite: the image of PEACE. Thus the ruler divides and completes the course of heaven and earth; he furthers and regulates the gifts of heaven and earth, and so aids the people. Wilhelm/Baynes, 3rd edition (1959, 1967, 1971)
The concept of heart guiding focus is a part of mindfulness, Taoism, Buddhism, and Christianity. The implication of the treatise to do the right thing as guided by god is a part of the Jewish, Islamic and Hindu traditions. The threads of rightness as proclaimed from the unification of earth and heaven, human and spirit, with the guidance of rightness from ones heart (spirit) rather than ones mind allows for ‘peace on earth as it is in heaven’.
Cues to the many threads of agreement are found throughout religious and spiritual texts if your willingness to look for agreement (collaboration and connection) overrides your desire to be right (competition and narcissism).
In order for Peace to be the defining force among humans, the consciousness of rightness must shift out of an adversarial Alpha-style of civilization to a Beta-style of collaboration. This is the effect of Turning Me (driven by competition and narcissism) to We (focused through collaboration and connection); rightness from a dualistic perspective, Kohlberg shifting to rightness from a holistic perspective of inclusion and care, Gilligan.
It is predicted throughout time by philosophers of various beliefs and in varied social-spiritual texts that to unite human and spirit, have the mind create what is known as truth in the heart. Mindful partnering is the way of upleveling consciousness and living in the light of universal spirit on the earth-plane so that all beings are upleveled together. The resultant style of interaction among spirit-humans is Peace.
This heart focused style of relating comes out of connecting and unifying rather than dissecting and dividing. The means of how you get to Peace matters; a means that follows mind without heart, leads to destruction rather than unification of heaven and earth, even if the intent of the actor is that of Peace. This mind separated from heart style is human thinking separated from spiritual truth. Non-violent actions and words lead to the opportunity to create unity, connection and put heart (spirit) in the driving seat. Violent words and actions, even toward an idealized goal or belief system, separate heart and mind and put mind in the driver’s seat.
The way to higher consciousness-living now, follows the I Ching hexagram 11. T’ai – Peace, receptive above and creative below. In every action let your heart lead; let your mind create what your heart (spirit) desires and knows as truth; see the other as yourself and your heart will be your guiding light in action. in love and light, beth
“Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.”
Lao Tzu
I have been working with the energy of time and dimension through my channeling processes and what I have discovered is that everything seen is created by the seer. This is an energetic concept not a concrete one. I see this as a way to assist you in the direction of how you want to be in the world.
Here is my example;
A woman goes into the store. While she is inside a second woman hits her car by accident, but she leaves the scene without leaving a note. A third woman observes the event and makes a decision to report the information to the owner of the car – the woman in the store. The woman exits from the store and finds the person parked behind her waiting.
The first woman goes to the driver and asks – may I help you are you okay? She is endeavoring to assist. The driver who had the information about the hit and run says “no I am here to help you – someone just hit your car and left the scene, I took down her license, make, and model of her car. Here is my information and I will be your witness – please go to the police and report it so that you don’t have to pay for something that is not your fault.” The third woman then leaves.
The owner of the car has a choice in response to her situation A: she can be angry and feel sorry for herself and wonder why is the world so against me, “why does this keep happening to me” in response to the car accident, which would deplete her energy and have it be vibrating at a very low frequency; or B: she can see the way in which she is protected and cared for through the experience of the help from the driver who observed and stopped to help her, “the universe is looking out for me”, which would raise her energy and uplevel it, moving it to be vibrating at a much higher frequency.
Which perception you choose, A or B in this above example, A: anger and negativity or B: gratefulness and positivity, defines for you the world in which you live.
The more you feel that the world is against you the more you feel negative, defeated, lonely, and lost; and the more you feel that light and goodness is all around you, the more you feel the gratefulness and the joy.
Seeing your life from a bird’s eye view is not just seeing the big picture and how things are related, it is also the idea of looking at it with the concept of positivity and spirit, wisdom and an integrated spirit-mind-body knowing.
Eagles and Hawks bring messages from spirit in the Native American traditions. Doves are a sign of Peace and are also considered to carry the presence of the Holy Spirit to a situation. Athena had an owl on her shoulder so that she could see what others were hiding which allowed her to see true wisdom, in the Greek and Roman (Diana) traditions. Birds are connected to spirit.
Seeing from a bird’s eye view offers you a broader and fuller perspective so that you can choose to see the gift being presented to you in your situation.
The world you live in is based in the how you perceive events. And you perceive events based on your paradigm.
Connect to and choose the paradigm that love, peace, joy, gratefulness, and compassion are everywhere and that you are intimately connected to the universe in a powerfully spiritual way. Do this and you will see and experience a real change and uplevel in consciousness everywhere you look. Just like when you learn a new word and all of a sudden you see and hear it being used everywhere.
Shift your perspective to a bird’s eye view and sees through spirit’s eyes. You, me, and the world are truly beautiful from that perspective. in love and light, beth
I have been doing some research on Taoist principles for a new book and I have found some amazing, powerfully enlightening information.
Taoism perceives that the originators of civilization itself are people of higher knowledge attained through extradimensional awareness … all successful original cultures are initiated and guided by people in contact with the Tao or Universal law. Thomas Cleary
It is Cleary’s contention that from this Taoist vision, “Taoism is not, as usually thought, a product of Chinese civilization. Rather it is the other way about – Chinese civilization was originally the product of Taoism in the sense that like all successful original cultures it was initiated and guided by people in contact with the Tao or universal law.“(The Book of Balance and Harmony, Cleary, 1989) What a powerful concept and a perfect focus for renewal and transformation.
Thomas Cleary in his book of the translation of The Book of Balance and Harmony (1989) identifies that the Taoist movement called the Complete Reality movement was created to distinguish a practical understanding of Taoism as it had been lost over time. Cleary writes that ” ironically, one of the most comprehensive descriptions of Taoism … can be found in a Buddhist text, the Avatamsaka-sutra or Flower Ornament Scripture,” which he said is “held to contain the totality of all religion:”
The various methods and techniques of the enlightened adept to worldly conditions in order to liberate people. The enlightened provoke deep faith by being in the world yet unaffected by it, just as the lotus grows in water yet water does not adhere to the lotus.
With extraordinary thoughts and profound talent, as cultural leaders, like magicians the enlightened manifest all the various arts and crafts of the world, like song and dance, and conversation admired by the people.
Some become grandees, city elders; some become merchants, caravan leaders. Some become physicians and scientists, some become kings and officials….. All-sided goodness abides by reality, not in a country. Cleary, The Flower Ornament Scripture
What I love about this is how it gives a prescription for how to live in these times.
It is about how to trust your inner knowing, your internal guidance sensory system and connect to a higher wisdom and light so that you can identify and act from a universal law or truth rather than propaganda or third dimensional pulls toward power over others to feel successful.
The ebb and flow of nature and the return to balance is the way. Living in that way, guiding your actions to be in connection to that is the highest form of instinctive medicine, balance, and harmony.
Focus on what is and the light allows that to be what is produced or created, rather than a disconnection from self, an embracement of self in harmony.
One way to find your way back to balance is to pay attention to where you feel discomfort and that can give you a clue to where you are out of balance.
You may also feel, hear as another speaks or the world shifts to attend to a lack of congruence or harmony. This is the best way to avoid following propaganda rather than the truth.
Trusting yourself, your internal sensory guidance system includes intuition and connection to extradimensional experience through mediation, visualization, and dreamwork.
Let love and your heart center be your primary, strongest guide. Through this pathway you may find renewal and transformation in this new time of higher light and higher consciousness.in love and light bg
destruction or revolution and then rebuilding anew… stronger, better, with more clarity.
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