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July 2, 2012July 2, 2012

John of God – Abadiania Adventure June 2012, day 6

Wednesday through Friday are the days at Casa Dom Inacio when John of God, or Medium Joao as he prefers to be called, is in residence to provide a vehicle for the entities to engage the many who come for healing and or spiritual awakening. But that doesn’t mean “nothing happens” the rest of the week. Indeed, the entities live beyond concepts of time and space – their involvement and assistance continues through any opening given… like dreams.

Last night, I experienced a kaleidoscopic array of dreams. Interestingly, none of the dreams included me…it was more like I witnessed them from an observer’s perch. Some of them were physically violent. Some of them portrayed different eras – like living on a plantation as a slave during the days of slavery. Some of them depicted families engaged in emotional dynamics. Many of them were emotionally painful for the dream participants. And I watched, wondering why these images/feelings were being shown to me. Continue reading “John of God – Abadiania Adventure June 2012, day 6”

June 20, 2012June 21, 2012

Surrender Into Awakening – Change is the Catalyst

How many times have I thought: this isn’t the way I planned for this happen? More times than I can count. How many times did I resist an event or situation because it wasn’t going the way I wanted it to go? More times than I can calculate. Call it a confession if you will, but the truth is I am a rebel when it comes to change: I only like the changes I like, and the rest I refuse and refute as adamantly as a toddler balks at soggy spinach.

Of course, that doesn’t stop change. Change happens. Like the movement of water, always flowing to fill space, change is irrepressible. It may be possible to hold change at bay for awhile, but the pressure will build until the dam bursts and change breaks through… to evoke new, a different configurations to explore.

That’s what change is. It doesn’t care if it’s what we expect or if it’s what we desire. Continue reading “Surrender Into Awakening – Change is the Catalyst”

May 1, 2012June 30, 2012

Welcome Change – It’s How Life Works

One way or another, change happens. Change, as some philosophers say, is the only constant I don’t know about you… but with 59 years on the planet, I’m still coming to terms with this.

Let go and let God. Easy for someone else to say about my Life. I’m the one with the vested interest, and the uncertainty that — by the very nature of change has to accompany it — tends to make me a little nervous. OK, nervous is a euphemism. Anxious. Change makes me anxious. There I said it. The changes I like are the changes in which I am control. Like changing what I eat for breakfast. That’s a change I can embrace easily because the “unknown” factors are manageable to the part of my mind that craves predictability.

However, evolution requires change. Continue reading “Welcome Change – It’s How Life Works”

March 2, 2012March 2, 2012

Impatient to Awaken?

These days, the prophecies scroll through my inbox and Facebook wall: dates for “downloads” of a new frequency, days to gather for special focus to bring the “new order” closer, leaders of the movement offering “new” information on what’s to come…Does anyone besides me ever think, “Let’s just ready, get set, go!” Or am I the only one who feels impatient?

Impatience has been my traveling companion through Life for as long as I can remember. Sometimes an obstacle in my process and sometimes the trainer that pushes me to get it done, impatience is always my teacher. Teaching me the way around or over the obstacle. Teaching me how to create new solutions that work more effectively. Teaching me when my best solution is to let go and let be.

I first read the Hopi Prophecies in the early 1980’s…and then the Mayan prophecies in the early 1990’s. 2013 seems like “forever away” back in those days. Continue reading “Impatient to Awaken?”

January 27, 2012January 28, 2012

Creative Process and Perfection?

In the creative process, I think, there is no such thing as perfection. There are only perfect bridges.

Think about it. Have you ever had an idea – something that excited your interest and passion – only to discover that, when it came to execute, you couldn’t quite get a handle on how to do it? And the uncertainty resulted in non-action as well as a small sense of failure before you got well into it?

It’s happened to me plenty of times – that’s why I can describe it so easily. At a certain point, I began to ask myself, “Why? What was the internal pattern within myself that continually halted my creative process in its early stages?” And this I discovered: Continue reading “Creative Process and Perfection?”

December 22, 2011December 22, 2011

Make It Right, Then Make It Better – Awakening

Ho’oponopono means “to make right” in the language of Polynesia. To make right means to clear the attachments that hold us in hard feelings and harsh judgements – to bring our focus into the “field beyond right and wrong” as Rumi says. It is one process among many for opening the heart and mind to the Soul’s presence; the flow of love and authentic kindness to and through us.

In my Life, the desire to find a way through these sticky energetic entanglements into the clear field of connected Love is a driving force. Both personally and professionally, all of my experience tracks back to this intention – to embody the ability within myself and to teach the power of “making it right” with others. Over the years, I’ve studied and practiced and shared numerous techniques: self reflection and analysis, meditation, ho’oponopono, Law of Attraction, Course in Miracles, Shamanic principles and practices, prayer, making wishes… and on and on. Always with the singular intention of alignment with a state of well-being and Grace.

All of these techniques and philosophies work. Continue reading “Make It Right, Then Make It Better – Awakening”

November 30, 2011November 30, 2011

Lit From Within – Awakening

I’ve seen them. These are the ones who seem to give off their own radiance as though the sun and stars shine inside their words and eyes and actions. It doesn’t matter what is happening around them, they engage with an alert curiosity. Everything to them is interesting. When they talk, their passion for life is infectious; by osmosis, it seems, an eagerness for living spreads to anyone nearby. Often, they are the success stories of our culture, but it isn’t the light shined on them by success that drives them. It is that they are lit from within.

And I ask myself what inspired the awakening of the inner light within them?

In our western culture, we are raised to look outward. To build our hopes and dreams based on what we see in the world around us. To measure our successes by the approval of the world around us. To define our worth in comparison to the world around us. But these people who are lit from within…they found another way, another focus, another source for inspiration and desire to find and guide them. Continue reading “Lit From Within – Awakening”

November 4, 2011November 4, 2011

Memories – Law of Attraction in Action

Think about it. How much of our lives do we spend in the realm of memories? Chatting with friends or ruminating privately. Exploring with therapists the painful memories that stop us in our tracks when they surface or floating gently in recollections of laughter and love. If we are truly forthright with ourselves, I bet we’d discover the vast majority of thoughts and feelings we have are either about the past or referencing/comparing to the past.

Interestingly, the part of the mind that visualizes and ruminates can’t distinguish between the timeline of past, present, and future. It’s been proven through study after study. Continue reading “Memories – Law of Attraction in Action”

October 24, 2011November 1, 2011

A Fluid Mind and an Open Heart – Awakening

I wrote recently that remembering and awakening are the same. By this, I meant that the process of expanding consciousness, awakening, is as much — if not more — remembering who we are than becoming more than we were.

For me, this begs the question: what and when did I forget? In other words, are there clues as to what is relevant to remember? I asked this question in meditation, and the answer I got was: yes, remember a fluid mind and an open heart.

A fluid mind. I pondered the qualities of mind that moves like water, and I came up with this list: Continue reading “A Fluid Mind and an Open Heart – Awakening”

October 7, 2011October 7, 2011

Secrets And Conscious Awareness – How Life Works

Most of us keep a few. We call it our right to privacy or nobody else’s business. We tell ourselves it’s too complex for other’s to understand; perhaps we fear the judgement that accompanies the lack of understanding. Most of us believe we are successful at keeping some aspect of our experience a secret. It’s the nature of the belief that we are all separate, distinct and engaged only through the five senses of our physicality, that lends power to the idea that we can keep secrets.

The good news is: this belief is as accurate as the belief that the world is flat is accurate. The bad news is for the secret-keepers: in the subtle realms of emotion and thought, we are all connected; secrets are impossible. Continue reading “Secrets And Conscious Awareness – How Life Works”