MUSE-INGS: Personal Growth is the Ticket to the Future

I’ve been ‘muse-ing’ a lot lately about the Path of Personal Growth. We all seem to be facing a lot of lessons, opportunities to choose growth or stagnation. It’s sometimes easier to think about staying where we are instead of moving forward. It might even seem as if the path of least resistance is to stand still.

But I have learned that the currents of change are rocking us. Standing still takes more energy than going with the flow. Moving forward is the energy that carries us while trying to stand still or, horrors!, to go backward, takes more energy.

What does this mean for the 21st Century human? It means that every moment is a moment of choice. At any given point we are making a choice about our direction.

Do you feel you are fighting the tide of change while just trying to hang onto what you have? Is it getting harder to stand still in your life? Does some part of y ou long for a change, even if you don’t know what that is? When fear of change has you in its grip, it’s easy to think that standing still is the choice that takes the least energy. But that is a fallacy.

Face the fear of the unknown. When the energies of Earth existence are carrying humanity forward, it is time to learn to trust that the Universe has a plan that is working out as it should. There is a greater intelligence at work. And we are all in this together. You are not alone in this moment of change.

Personal growth is the ticket to the future. The message of 2012 is to commit to this growth. How exciting to be on the Planet at this amazing time of Transformation! Your Soul asked to be allowed to be here. We live in amazing times. And we agreed to share the journey with each other.

In this Universe’s Plan, each of us has an important role to play. We grow into this role just as an actor grows into their part while the  director leads them. Are you willing to shape yourself into the person of that important role? Are you willing to do the work required?

We are promised that the resources will be there when we need them. Our side of the equation is to commit Time and Treasure, to ‘prime the pump,’ as it were. When we send a signal out to the Universe that we are truly committed to our growth, then everything else is free to flow to us. Everything that we need will arrive as it is needed.

How have you been trying to push against the current of change? How have you been trying to ignore the internal push to move forward? What circumstances, situations or relationships have you been unwilling to examine in case the guidance is to let them go?

THIS is the work of 2012. Be the seed that Mother Earth has been nurturing. Blossom. Push through that soil into the Light. Be the flower you were meant to become.

It is time to GROW!!!

And remember, the seed doesn’t do mind games on itself to try to avoid growth. It just allows the nutrients to come when needed and it blossoms forth to be what it was meant to be – no questions asked!!!

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MUSE-INGS: What is YOUR Reality?

Have you ever considered that maybe your view of ‘reality’ doesn’t match everyone else’s view?  And could there actually be more than one ‘realities’?

We see a lot of people in the current times declaring that they have a corner on the reality market and that those who don’t agree with them should just ‘leave the country’!  Hmmm….  How enlightened is that perspective?

The fact is that we are all on a trajectory toward a future that we co-create with the Universal Infinity, whether you call that partner God or The Universe or Spirit or Goddess or Source or any other name.  You don’t have to believe anything about this, just as you don’t have to believe in Gravity – you just operate and the Universal Force operates, too.  I guarantee that, unless you are on a spacecraft out beyond the Earth’s pull, if  you drop something, Gravity will take it to the floor!

If your reality is shaped by your experiences and your beliefs, then you can examine what you believe to be ‘real’ and change it, right?  This is the purpose of personal growth work – to examine what you believe and take charge of your thoughts so that you can create your desired reality in your life and the world around you.  If your unconscious mind controls the subconscious actions then wouldn’t you want to examine what those actions are being based on?

I work with a lot of enlightened entrepreneurs who have figured out that doing their personal growth work IS investing in their business.  If your business or relationship or life decisions are happening at the unconscious level because of beliefs that you hold from childhood experiences, then you might want to update those beliefs with up-to-date information!

And everyone around you has the same  dilemma – 21st Century choices can be based on early childhood misconceptions.  It is interesting, though, that sometimes those who hold most tightly to their opinions about reality are the ones who are most fearful of deep examination of the source of those very opinions.  They hide behind their belief that they know their reality and there is no need to question further.

But the explorer, the person who lives in the state of curiosity and inquiry about their own being and the world around them, has the richer life.  There is always something new to be discovered, something that might reinforce a belief or something that calls that belief into question. Either way, the explorer stays in the joy of discovery and excitement.

Decide to become an explorer, beginning with the inner exploration that is always a rich experience.  Reinforce or reinvent decisions based on the new information you have gained through a lifetime.  Do you really want your inner 6-year-old running your life today?

Devote yourself to curious inquiry into new thought around you.  Quantum Physics is now proving what we’ve known in Metaphysics for thousands of years.  Aren’t your curious about that?  NeuroLinguistic Programming (NLP), a technique I use to help people make desired changes, is based on quantum physics and neurobiology.  Isn’t that exciting?

Who are you REALLY?  What REALITY do you want to create for yourself?  You have the power today!

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BOOK LIGHTS: from “The Mystic Path to Cosmic Power” by Vernon Howard

The Mystic Path calls for heroes.  To perform deeds of valor on the battlefield is not necessarily heroic.  Authentic heroism is inner action, unseen and unapplauded by men.  It consists in a willingness to wade, if necessary, through a thousand personal blunders in order to reach the next elevation.  The basic heroism is an agreement to higher truth.

Vernon Howard

You can be the hero in your own story without having all the answers and never making a misstep.  I love the idea of ‘a willingness to wade, if necessary, through a thousand personal blunders in order to reach the next elevation’!  That’s what writing our story every day entails.  A clean slate.  We learned from yesterday.  We move higher today.  We participate in ‘an agreement to higher truth.’  Get writing!

MUSE-INGS: Fill Your Coping Toolbox & Write Your Story

The fairy tale of today. What a way to look at the start of every day!

‘Once upon a time…’ conjures up stories of princesses and fairies and wicked witches and rescuing princes. Can I really write one for myself today?

The real truth is that we ARE writing this story every day, whether we know it consciously or not. How empowering it is to realize that we can write our way out of sticky situations as the author of our own fairy tale!

This does not mean that every day happens like a Disney movie, but, if you notice, the Disney movies do all have a dark moment, a character who tries to block the hero and heroine from having that ‘happy ever after’ ending. But, in the end, we are left feeling good about what will happen next.

This past weekend we had a harrowing experience when our daughter was struggling for breath and 911 had to be called. Thankfully, she is on a healing path now (after an ambulance ride and 8 hours in the emergency room) and the doctors feel they can control what is going on. But the moments could have been tragic.

My first reaction was not to panic, but to go to my hidden helpers in other dimensions: The Divine Feminine, Reiki Masters, Spirit Doctors. I asked them to heal her and surrendered the situation to them. I felt a huge sense of calm after this, which all happened in less than a minute.

This is not to say that the Mom in me wasn’t concerned, but I never lost the calm feeling. I moved into helping others through this moment.

I wrote the story for myself.

This is not something that happens in an instant because you wish you could do this. It takes practice and intention and work to access this state of consciousness. But it does come with the work.

And so, in other areas of life, you, too, can work on developing your consciousness so that the resources you have to call on can support you in the writing of your story. If your only option for a knee-jerk response is to panic, you will be less helpful to yourself and those around you. And the story will get written for you by default.

Take the action to write your own story each and every day. If you procrastinate on doing the personal growth work that allows you to develop new tools, your ability to handle the crises of life is diminished.

A fairy tale life does not mean that nothing happens that is difficult to deal with. Most fairy tales have some life-or-death moments in them, based on the archetypes that are represented. Each day we live in the 21st Century can have a life-or-death moment in it. A life can turn around in an instant and we can be called upon to reach into our coping toolbox to find the most appropriate tool to use. This is when you want that toolbox to be full. This is why it is so important to work on your own personal growth work BEFORE you need these tools.

Identify the beliefs that are blocking you from the life of your dreams. Work on the issues you are unconsciously giving power to influence your life. Take charge of those circumstances that you can change. Shift your thinking about those that you cannot change.

All the power rests within you to write the fairy tale story of your life for today. ‘Once upon a time there was a powerful person who opened their heart to share the Love within with the world around them.’ That’s you! The hero/ine of the story!

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BOOK LIGHTS: from “Wicked Appetite” by Janet Evanovich

Personally, I’m a lazy kind of guy, and leaving the door open on the mystical saves me work. I don’t have to stress my brain trying to explain the unexplainable. It’s magic. End of discussion.
 — Diesel to Lizzy

Janet Evanovich

I chuckled when I came upon this quote in a fun novel by Janet Evanovich. I never thought of believing in magic as being the lazy man’s choice but isn’t that wonderful? And it’s profound! So relax and believe in magic! Whew! You don’t have to stress your brain trying to explain the unexplainable. And you can retrain your brain by reinforcing the neural pathways that you WANT to have there!

Think Dreamy Thoughts!

MUSE-INGS: Think Magically!

Sometimes I wish I could ‘wave my Magic Wand’ and make all the difficulties of this life disappear! Wouldn’t that be nice?

But I guess I wouldn’t be learning these lessons if I weren’t encountering some difficulties. And I do accept that we are here to learn lessons.

Perhaps the most important lesson to learn is that we HAVE a Magic Wand! Think how empowering it is to really trust that we can manage our thoughts and impact our world.

Now, I’m not talking about turning that guy who cut me off in traffic into a toad or stealing something I like from someone else. [And maybe it’s a good thing we DON’T do that on a whim!] But I do believe that our thoughts are powerful things, energized to magnetize and attract what they contain in their essence.

How many times have you thought about a person and that person appears or phones or emails? Coin cidence? I don’t think so! You waved your Magic Wand and they appeared!

Or have you ever had someone say, ‘Let’s go out for Chinese food!’ and you answered, ‘I was just wishing I could get that amazing spicy chicken dish at PF Changs!’? You think you want Chinese food, and someone picks up on that thought and suggests the very thing you were thinking. Could be spooky.

Now think about a time when you worried about something and then it happened. Have you ever said, ‘I just know that ___’ [fill in this blank: it’s going to rain, they’ll be out of that sale item, nobody will show up, etc.] and had that very thing happen? Have you ever heard yourself say, ‘See? I knew it would be that way!’?

One thing about the Universe is true. It operates the way it operates, whether you believe it or not. It’s like gravity. You drop something and it falls to the ground. Do you have t o believe in gravity? Do you have to understand gravity? Even physics professors can’t explain why gravity works but they know how it operates.

So it is really immaterial whether or not you believe you have a Magic Wand that is the aggregate of your thoughts. It operates that way.

The lesson is to learn to focus your thoughts on what you desire, dream, wish.

The new brain science findings tell us that we can shift our thoughts by noticing them, saying, ‘Stop!’ and then redirecting them to a replacement thought. The more you think a particular thought, the more entrenched that neural pathway becomes in your brain. This is why obsessing about a thought makes it more and more difficult to move off of that thought – your brain gets stuck in a rut! But if you are living a Conscious Life, you practice catching yourself in an undesired thought, you say, ‘Stop!’ and you move over into another neural pathway and re inforce the new one with the new thought. The more you practice this, the more deeply entrenched the desired thought [neural pathway] becomes in your brain, and the easier it is to get to the new thought instead of the old.

This is science, not woowoo. And it’s pretty magical!

I’ve worked with clients who struggle with shifting into this new way of operating, but, once they do, they are amazed at how much better life becomes. It’s not about changing the situations – it’s about changing how we THINK about the situations so the situations can change.

This is the fundamental lesson. You are magical! You have a powerful Magic Wand! And you can control the magic by controlling your thoughts.

Doesn’t that sound cool?

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BOOK LIGHTS: from “The Bond: Connecting Through the Space Between Us” by Lynne McTaggart

What we regard as self is only a physical manifestation of our experience, the summation of our Bond with the universe. Our interaction with our world is a conversation, not a monologue; just as the observer changes what he observes, that which is observed changes the observer. And as we now realize, these influences are not limited to those of our immediate environment or even to the earth itself but extend to the farthest reaches of the cosmos.

Lynne McTaggart

We are an active participant in the unfolding Universe – how exciting! And, yet, what a responsibility! Our thoughts create things, extending ‘to the farthest reaches of the cosmos.’ So be careful how you think about the circumstances in your life. What do you want the loving Universe to reflect back to you? Something to consider…

MUSE-INGS: You Are Here to Grow!

We’ve often heard that we are ‘Spiritual beings having a human experience, but what
does that really mean?

The human experience has many dimensions to it and we cannot fully participate
if we don’t appreciate this dimensional aspect. We are not our bodies – we are
much more than that. We are not our minds – we are much more than that. We ARE
our Spirit which is our essence, and our body, our mind, our body-mind reflects
that Spirit into the world.

Sometimes it is easy to get side-tracked from this truth by focusing on the
situations that our physical body is experiencing in the physical world. It
helps to understand that the experiences in our physical world are merely the
classroom in which we are learning our lessons.

So many people are struggling with financial issues today and thinking that
they must be deficient or lacking or inferior beings if this is the case. Often
there is a judgment that ‘I’m not good enough’ or ‘I’m a bad person’ because I
don’t have the money/success that I want. This is not the case.

You are the Spirit who is perfect. Your Soul has just chosen this time for some
tough lessons that require you to learn them from a position of financial
concerns.

Are you feeling lonely? In a job that doesn’t work for you anymore? Not living
where you want to live? Having relationship or family issues? These are
circumstances. They are NOT who you are!

And consider this. If your Soul is inviting your Ego to create these
circumstances so that you can learn a lesson from them, then doesn’t it make
sense that your Soul has only brought you lessons that you CAN learn, and all
the resources that you need to learn them?

The Universe IS a benevolent place. We are fortunate that we get to live on
Planet Earth at this amazing time of trans formation! All who live on the
Planet in this 21st Century are being invited into the process of the evolution
of human consciousness. This is a momentous occasion in the history of the
Planet!

What will your contribution to this process be?

That is really the question underlying all of your circumstances today. Will
you advance the evolution of human consciousness by seeking to rise above your
situation and learn your lessons? Or will you join those who choose to regress,
to retreat into familiar territory and ignore [or try to] the progress of the
evolution of consciousness? This choice is yours to make.

But I suggest that you decide to hang in there with the rest of us on the path
of growth, for we all agreed to support you, before you or I was born. ALL of
us are here to support your growth, even the folks who seem to be bringing you
pain!

If you need help figuring out how to extricate yourself from painful
situations, then ask for the help. Someone is standing by to be called upon to
help you. If you are eager to move forward and want to know the next step in
your personal growth, then look around for the help available to support you on
your journey. The help is here!

Join hands with the other Souls who want you to grow! It’s what we all came
here to experience in these times of transformation. Hurray!

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BOOK LIGHTS: from “Love, Soul & Freedom: Dancing with Rumi on the Mystic Path” by Denise Breton and Christopher Largent

Just as we’d throw the cosmic order out of balance if we only want yang and reject yin, so also we’d gum up the free flow of helping if we only want to be a have/helper and can’t abide the experience of have-not, of needing help. The helping universe requires both. To participate in that universe – to honor the two sides – we have to be willing to ‘cry out.’

Denise Breton and Christopher Largent 

In the cycle of every life there is a time for having and a time for having-not. It is our work to learn to be happy in both cycles of life, for if we can only find happiness in the times when we are ‘haves’ then we will spend periods of our lives depending on circumstances instead of participating in the lessons of that cycle. Be always in flow. Give help or get help, it is all a part of the ‘free flow of helping.’

MUSE-INGS: Step into the Flow

Sometimes I think we’re all striving to achieve something that will allow us to say, ‘I have arrived!’ when what we really want to do is be so in the flow that we are enjoying each moment too much to stop and ‘arrive.’

This is the journey we were born to experience. Every step along the way has the gift of a lesson to be learned, some more gentle than others. But always there is an opportunity to learn. If we resist, if we try to stand our ground in the face of the energy of flow, we spend all of our energy in futile resistance. [Just ask any Trekkie and you will hear, ‘Resistance is futile’!]

It’s easy, though, to move to the two extremes of the concept of ‘being in flow.’

For some, it seems easier to ‘go with the flow’ and relinquish all power to choose the direction of life. For others, there is an urge to constantly resist or try to ignore the energy of the flow, the ‘ostrich syndrome.’ Neither choice makes life the journey of fulfillment that it can be.

When, instead, we choose to determine our Soul Purpose and then to follow the path of fulfilling that purpose, we are participating in the flow of life.

No one’s path is the same as another person’s. This needs to be emphasized, especially when we get into relationships and try to make the relationship move as two people in lockstep trying to move forward as one. Each of us must determine our own path, our own cycle, our own rhythm. And we must take responsibility for taking the actions that keep us in flow with our unique path.

Giving over your power to another person, group, institution, church takes you out of step with your Path of Soul Purpose. Making a conscious choice, however, to join paths with others at certain points along the journey, is your prerogative. But th e choice must be a conscious one, not one in which you allow yourself to step onto someone else’s path because you are not seeking your own. Your Path is Your Path, based on your unique Soul Purpose and Soul Journey.

When your life cycle seems to be at an ebb it is sometimes tempting to allow someone else to take charge of the direction of your path, but this is giving away your power.

Face the direction of your dreams and you will see the Path of Your Soul Purpose unfolding before you. Step onto that path. Have confidence that, when you are moving with the flow of the cycles of your life, you will have everyone around you that you need, all the resources that you need, all the opportunities to learn your lessons.

And if you are unhappy with where you are at the moment, remind yourself that ‘this, too, shall pass’ as the new cycle will begin soon!

Most of the clients I work with as a coach are in some period of transition in their lives, feeling that there must be something more or that there is something that is just beyond their reach. Usually the work is connecting them to their guidance so that they can step out confidently, thinking only about the next step, what is theirs to do in this present moment. This is learning to get into flow.

Focus on the one next step along the Path. Know and recognize the Path of Your Soul Purpose, then follow it.

Go with the flow! But first learn the flow for you!

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