BOOK LIGHTS: from “Toward 2012: Perspectives on the Next Age”, edited by Daniel Pinchbeck and Ken Jordan, from the chapter, “Transforming Repression of The Divine Feminine” by Wahkeena Sitka Tidepool Ripple

Those of us awakening to the global situation are calling for transformation. But at the same time we fear the exciting potential this desired transformation will release in us. The change that must take place needs to occur within each individual.

 Wahkeena Sitka Tidepool Ripple

 

Have you noticed how often the ‘repression of The Divine Feminine’ takes on the guise of attacking women or women’s rights? Transformation must happen in the hearts of all of us, men and women, as we embrace BOTH our masculine and feminine energies and find their balance. It doesn’t have to be ‘either/or.’ It can be ‘and.’ This balance of masculine and feminine just might be the first of the shifts within us that will bring into being the New Human!

BOOK LIGHTS: from “The Divine Matrix: Bridging Time, Space, Miracles, and Belief” by Gregg Braden

I invite you to examine your relationships with the people who are closest to you. Next, acknowledge the traits and characteristics that irritate you to no end and just seem to make you crazy. Once you do so, ask yourself the following question: Are these people showing me myself in this moment?

Gregg Braden

Remember, those people aren’t there JUST to irritate you – their role is to help you learn your lessons, bless ‘em!

BOOK LIGHTS: from “The Divine Matrix: Bridging Time, Space, Miracles, and Belief” by Gregg Braden

“…we may not be as limited by the laws of physics as we believe. Perhaps things are able to travel faster than the speed of light, and maybe they can be in two places at once! And if things have this ability, what about us?”

Gregg Braden

Allow yourself to consider the possibilities that are beyond what you currently believe. You are never as small as you think you are. You are all-ways greater than you believe yourself to be. Grow in understanding. Expand your awareness. In other words, evolve. [Quantum Physics is helping to shatter old limiting beliefs and show us the new reality.] Let Consciousness be the next dimension that you explore!

 

BOOK LIGHTS: from “Money, and the Law of Attraction: Leaning to Attract Wealth, Health, and Happiness” by Esther and Jerry Hicks, The Teachings of Abraham®

If you will begin by identifying how you want to feel, or be, and let your inspiration to accumulate or to do come from that centered place, then not only will you maintain your balance, but you will now enjoy the things you gather and the things that you do.

Esther and Jerry Hicks

It seems we are always in pursuit of something but learning to center in our being allows us to reach that place of having our dreams and desires. The best way to start is simply to breathe. Breathe into your feelings, your being, your own center and you will be able to access the fullness of the experience of NOW. Then you can enjoy!

BOOK LIGHTS: from “The Soul of Money: Reclaiming the Wealth of Our Inner Resources” by Lynne Twist

Sufficiency as a way of being offers us enormous personal freedom and possibility.  Rather than scarcity’s myths that tell us that the only way to perceive the world is there’s not enough, more is better, and that’s just the way it is, the truth of sufficiency asserts that there is enough for everyone. Knowing that there is enough inspires sharing, collaboration, and contribution.

Lynne Twist

During this time of major change on Planet Earth, many of us are learning to redefine our relationship with money, time, resources and the concept of ‘plenty.’  I love what Lynne Twist says here: ‘Knowing that there is enough inspires sharing, collaboration, and contribution.’  We have seen what the culture of greed brings to society.  Let us commit to bringing the culture of sufficiency to our societies instead!

BOOK LIGHTS from “The Divine Matrix: Bridging Time, Space, Miracles, and Belief” by Gregg Braden

Regardless of how different they may appear from one another, every mind contains the pattern of the whole consciousness. And through that link, we each have direct access to the entire pattern. In other words, we all have the power to change the hologram of our world. While for some people this is an unconventional way to think about who we are, for others it’s perfectly aligned with their beliefs and experiences.

Gregg Braden

Think about the scope of the statement that Gregg Braden is making. Not only CAN we change the hologram of our world through our own consciousness, I believe we have a responsibility to clear our limiting beliefs and negative thoughts about ourselves and to live our Life Purpose so we can be who we came here to be and CREATE the hologram of which we are an integral part. What are you doing to answer the Call of Consciousness?

BOOK LIGHTS: from “The Divine Matrix: Bridging Time, Space, Miracles, and Belief” by Gregg Braden

“A long time ago, our world was very different from the way we see it today,” the wisdom keeper began. “There were fewer people, and we lived closer to the land. People knew the language of the rain, the crops, and the Great Creator. They even knew how to speak to the stars and the sky people. They were aware that life is sacred and comes from the marriage between Mother Earth and Father Sky. In this time, there was balance and people were happy.”   

 I felt something very ancient well up inside of me as I heard the man’s peaceful voice echo against the sandstone cliffs that surrounded us. Suddenly, his voice changed to a tone of sadness.    

“Then something happened,” he said. “No one really knows why, but people started to forget who they were. In their forgetting, they began to feel separate – separate from the earth, from each other, and even from the one who created them. They were lost and wandered through life with no direction or connection. In their separation, they believed that they had to fight to survive in this world and defend themselves against the same forces that gave them the life they had learned to live in harmony with and trust. Soon all of their energy was used to protect themselves from the world around them, instead of making peace with the world within them.”

Gregg Braden

Gregg Braden tells this story about his encounter with a Native American wisdom keeper he met serendipitously while hiking in New Mexico. What wisdom! We forget our connections are sourced WITHIN us. Learn to go inside, to tap into the wisdom that lies there, to trust your own intuition and you will find that we are all connected. This is why it is so important to live your Life Purpose – it is connected to all the others’!

 

 

BOOK LIGHTS: from “A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose” by Eckhart Tolle

“An essential part of the awakening is the recognition of the unawakened you, the ego as it thinks, speaks, and acts, as well as the recognition of the collectively conditioned mental processes that perpetuate the unawakened state.”

Eckhart Tolle

Decide how you will examine ‘the unawakened you’ so that you can move into a more conscious state and live an Awakened Life!

BOOK LIGHTS: from “The Law of Attraction is NOT a Secret” by Anita G. Wheeler

“How do you change an affirmation so it reflects the positive change you desire, without countering your belief system? You can accomplish both things and still create a true and positive affirmation by inserting the word ‘process’ into it. ‘I am in the process of creating a slim, trim body. I’m in the process of getting healthier and feeling great.’ That is a true statement which will encourage further progress, while putting the monkey mind to rest. Does it work? Yes.”

Anita G. Wheeler

Create affirmations for yourself around what you desire for your life and claim that, in this present moment, you are in the process of receiving that. This is true. It is real and it is in this moment. And then move into gratitude! [Thanks to my good friend, Anita Wheeler, for this great little book that de-mystifies the Law of Attraction.]

BOOK LIGHTS: from “Touching Peace: practicing the art of mindful living” by Thich Nhat Hanh

We all have the tendency to struggle in our bodies and our minds. We believe that happiness is possible only in the future. That is why the practice ‘I have arrived’ is very important. The realization that we have already arrived, that we don’t have to travel any further, that we are already here, can give us peace and joy. The conditions for our happiness are already sufficient. We only need to allow ourselves to be in the present moment, and we will be able to touch them.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Be in the present moment. Visualize yourself experiencing Peace and you will know that you have already arrived. Beautiful!