BOOK LIGHTS: from “The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living” by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Howard C. Cutler, M.D.

November 10, 2011 — Rosemary

“Now there are many, many people in the world, but relatively few with whom we interact, and even fewer who cause us problems. So when you come across such a chance for practicing patience and tolerance, you should treat it with gratitude. It is rare. Just as having unexpectedly found a treasure in your own house, you should be happy and grateful towards your enemy for providing that precious opportunity. Because if you are ever to be successful in your practice of patience and tolerance, which are critical factors in counteracting negative emotions, it is due to the combination of your own efforts and also the opportunity provided by your enemy.”

His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Whether it is an ‘enemy’ or a lack or a circumstance, the Dalai Lama’s words help us to see where to focus the gratitude in the situation after finding the compassion, patience and tolerance, especially towards ourselves. Whatever is going on with you right now is a rare occurrence in the grand scheme of things, so be grateful for the opportunity to learn that is provided by this situation. 

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MUSE-INGS: The New Consciousness and You

November 9, 2011 — Rosemary

Are you ready for the New Consciousness?  Gratitude and Compassion, based on the concept that we are all connected, that none of us operates on the Planet alone.  It is time for us to step up to this concept and to share it widely.

When you feel you are struggling with life, with certain circumstances or situations, with finances or work or relationships, can you have compassion for yourself and your struggles?  Maybe this is where gratitude starts.  Go gently with yourself in your troubles.  Make sure you are not beating yourself up or judging yourself to be ‘not good enough’ or spending your focus on the ‘why me?’ question.  Start by getting yourself into the energy of compassion toward yourself.  Then start looking for something to feel gratitude about.  Move from compassion to gratitude, even if, at first, you can only feel gratitude for the fact that there is a lesson to be learned in this situation, as there is in every situation.

Stay with gratitude.  Don’t let worry or fear or lack creep into you.  Keep gently bringing your focus back to gratitude.  And I’m not talking here about ‘I’m grateful that I’m not worse off or that I don’t have so-and-so’s problems’ – I’m saying find at least one thing that you can be grateful for in your life today.  Think of one person who loves you. Or one whom you love.  Think of the car you drive or the view outside your window or the rain for the flowers or the smile on your child’s face when they hit the baseball.  It doesn’t have to be something grand and it doesn’t have to be the same kind of thing that you’re upset about or missing.

Bring in the energy of gratitude and you bring in what you desire.  It’s pretty simple.  The converse is true, too.  If you cannot find anything about which to feel grateful, then the Universe has trouble connecting you to things that would elicit that energy in you.

I am sitting in my office in our beautiful home in Colorado Springs watching 13 deer cavort in the yard while the sun shines on newly fallen snow.  I am grateful.  For the deer, for the snow that will put the grass to sleep for the winter with extra moisture, for the sunshine that makes this day a bright one.  I am grateful that I am warm and comfortable inside as I work.  And I will soon be with my grandchildren so I am grateful for that opportunity to be ‘Grandma Mimi.’  And am I sad that I am leaving this home for a move across the country?  Not really.  I feel complete with this house and have released it to the next family to enjoy it. I am grateful for the time that this has been our home and I am ready to move on to the next phase of life.

What can you find to bring you into a state of gratitude?  Look around you in this present moment.  What do you see?  If you have been worrying about paying the bills or finding a job or meeting that perfect someone, can you find something that you DO have in your life about which you can feel gratitude?

Now how does this connect with compassion?  I believe we must come from a place of compassion for ourselves and each other so that we connect these energies in all that we do.  No one is disconnected from the energy of the human community, no matter what we might think or want.  When we start with that understanding then our choices in life become easier.  When we learn to have compassion for ourselves we will become more compassionate members of the human community and will have compassion for others.

Think about Compassion and Gratitude in your life this week.  How can you grow in your understanding of both energies? How can you share these energies with others?  Practice both and watch the Universe say, ‘Good for you!’

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BOOK LIGHTS: from “Color Healing: A Complete Guide to Restoring Balance and Health” by Lilian Verner-Bonds

November 3, 2011 — Rosemary

We are influenced by the distinctive vibrations that each colour possesses. Each colour in the spectrum vibrates at its own rate and these vibrations correspond with the body’s inner vibrations. Each part of the body resonates to a different colour. When we are ill or troubled we can use the appropriate colour to harmonize our vibrations and restore equilibrium.

Lilian Verner-Bonds

Use your intuition to choose a color then visualize yourself filled with that color.  Trust yourself to know which vibration you need even if you don’t know the ‘official chart’ because you know best what’s in your highest good in this moment.  Color therapy through visualization is a great, no-cost way to lift yourself into the Light!

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MUSE-INGS: Banish the Darkness!

November 2, 2011 — Rosemary

Have things ever looked so bleak that you thought there was no way out of the dark pit you were in?   Were you ever so low that you thought you’d never climb up?

When something happens or circumstances and people and situations seem hopeless we can easily let ourselves focus on nothing but the problems and the darkness that we feel.  It can take a Herculean effort to pull ourselves up out of that pit when the temptation to wallow in the darkness is so great because we just can’t muster the energy it would take to shift.  Or, worse, we don’t even believe that we can make a shift.

Often when we are wrestling with a problem we think that we must continue to focus on that problem, thinking about it, dwelling on it, talking about it, telling the story over and over again.  We begin to frame our life in terms of the problems and we sink more deeply into the darkness.

We can, however, take some action to lift ourselves up out of that darkness.  I’m not talking about sticking our fingers in our ears and saying ‘la-la-la-la-la’ until we can’t hear even our own thoughts, even though at times that can be very tempting.  But we can instead decide not to attach to thoughts of the problems.  If we keep thinking about the problem then we stay in the space where the problem occurs or occurred.  The solutions live elsewhere.  If we attach to the vibration of the darkness brought about by a problem then we cannot see into the Light that illuminates the solution for us.

The first rule here is to realize, ‘I am not my thoughts.’  Say that to yourself right now:  I am not my thoughts.  A corollary to this is: I don’t have to believe everything I think.

Too often we fixate on a thought, especially a thought about a problem, and we find it almost impossible to move our thinking off that point.  But it is never impossible to make that move, although sometimes it feels very difficult.  A slight shift in our thinking helps us to open the darkness a crack and start to see some Light.

Try it the next time you find yourself dwelling on a problem that you face.  Ask yourself what you would rather be thinking about than that problem.  Maybe it’s a person who makes you laugh, or a movie that you saw or a book that you read or music that you enjoy.  Just for a minute, allow yourself to think a different thought.

That’s all it takes to start the shift.  The problem might still be there but you have started the process of opening yourself to finding potential solutions rather than keeping yourself stuck in the problem thoughts.  Then it is possible for you to do the visualization to fill yourself with a colored Light that helps you to shift your vibrational level to a higher one than the level of the problem.  Now you are starting to reach into the dimension where the solutions lie.  Now you can be open to searching for solutions instead of focusing on problems.

We all experience darkness in our lives at times but to banish the darkness we must commit to ourselves that we will seek the Light and avoid attaching to the thoughts that keep us in the darkness.  Make that decision today!

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BOOK LIGHTS: from “The Camino: A Journey of the Spirit” by Shirley MacLaine

October 27, 2011 — Rosemary

“Then I remembered what a great teacher had told me about fear: ‘Never ask yourself what it is you fear — instead, ask yourself what it is that concerns you. A fear thought, put out, will return, because all energy returns to the sender. Any energy always makes a loop until it regains the source. A concern thought will return also. At that moment discern why you’re concerned.’”

Shirley MacLaine

The message from most traditions is to go within to gain spiritual understanding of what is happening. Spiral up above the problems. Seek guidance from within. Learn to live your Life Purpose so that you create a context for the lessons of your life. [And I highly recommend reading Shirley MacLaine’s book about her trek across Spain and the spiritual journey that it represents.]

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MUSE-INGS: Are you afraid of dying of embarrassment?

October 26, 2011 — Rosemary

We all have fears, don’t we? No matter how much we try to ignore or deny them, they are there.

I like to tell myself that I don’t fear but have faith instead. But, as I learned in my first hand anaylsis session, my Life Lesson is ‘Emotional Authenticity.’ So I’m being authentic here – I have fears.

Do you?

What are you really afraid of? For many of us in these times, it is a fear of being without money. Why have we joined together in this collective fear that money is the root of all life? Or maybe we have a fear of dying? But is dying really the worst that could happen? Of course, we don’t want to die but lots of people have done it and their spirit lives on. If we live our life around the concept of ‘not dying’ we don’t live authentically. We would never cross the street, or eat sushi, or shake hands with someone who might be carryi ng germs, or have a child or any other number of things that ‘might’ lead to death. And yet we do all those things, some even choosing to do more extreme activities carrying a high degree of risk of death, and we live or we don’t live. So is fear of dying really at the root of our deep fears?

Do you know how often we choose to do or to not do something because we have a fear of looking silly or stupid or of being embarrassed? And haven’t we all lived through some embarrassing moment? I experienced this recently when I sat in line with hundreds of other cars waiting for the Whidbey Island ferry near Seattle. When it was my turn to board the ferry, my car wouldn’t start! Cars were having to move past me on both sides, someone came running to direct traffic, someone else came with a portable battery to jump start my car, and then it died again. This time they brought out the big cart to jump start my car and I had to drive it around [I,  of course, missed the next ferry] to charge up my battery and then demonstrate that I could turn the engine off and restart the car on my own. All this was happening on my way to the airport to meet my husband’s plane! I was on a schedule, I was experiencing car trouble in a very public way, inconveniencing others, and I was embarrassed.

But, I had choices about how to respond. I could have collapsed in shame and sat in my car and cried. I could have become angry and stomped around as if it were someone else’s fault. I could have thrown up my hands and walked away from the car [not that they would have let me do that!].  I could have driven away and decided not to take the ferry that day [and left my poor husband at the airport!]. All fear of being embarrassed, however, left when I decided to smile at the people who helped me, laugh at the situation, and do the best I could. I drove around and recharged my battery, demonstrated that it would start on its own, and made the next ferry with plenty of time to meet my husband’s plane.

For some reason, I surmised, I wasn’t supposed to be on that particular ferry or on the freeway a half-hour earlier or whatever. I may never know the reason I wasn’t supposed to make that ferry but my car, which had never given me a problem before and hasn’t since, needed to be the carrier of wisdom for me. And after that very publicly embarrassing moment, I know I don’t need to worry about public embarrassment causing me to die!

So if all fear is really a fear of a lack of connection to Source, then maybe the way to address any fear is to start by connecting back to Source Energy, the Universe, God/Goddess, Spirit. I learned from my little ferry experience that people were helpful, generous, smiling and sympathetic. Would I have had an opportunity to learn this without my experience? Maybe not.

The basic truth, that we  are all connected, to each other and to Source, means that everything that happens to us is within the context of our lessons on Earth. Every fear is a teacher. Let’s all help each other learn the lessons. Let’s remember that we are all connected. And let’s help others remember this!

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BOOK LIGHTS: from “The Camino: A Journey of the Spirit” by Shirley MacLaine

October 20, 2011 — Rosemary

“The Hopis said that from the last decade of the twentieth century and after the turn of the millennium, it would be necessary for man to ‘tie himself to a tree.’ In other words, ‘big wind.’ They said the weather would become unpredictable and would ‘cleanse away many things with wind and rain.’ They said we must each be self-sustained and go back to growing our food from Mother Earth. Above all, they said, man needed to go within himself in order to gain spiritual understanding of what would be happening.”

Shirley MacLaine 

The message from most traditions is to go within to gain spiritual understanding of what is happening. Spiral up above the problems. Seek guidance from within. Learn to live your Life Purpose so that you create a context for the lessons of your life. [And I highly recommend reading Shirley MacLaine’s book about her trek across Spain and the spiritual journey that it represents.]

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MUSE-INGS: When Life Isn’t a Straight Line

October 19, 2011 — Rosemary

Some times life isn’t a straight line but a spiral.

And there’s a big difference between going around in circles and moving through life in a spiral. The spiral is ever rising to the next level, a higher level. And there is movement forward at the same time.

Is there a part of you that is resisting these words? Are you feeling that you must move forward in a straight line in order to judge your movement as ‘forward’?

Stop and think about this for a minute. When you are seeking your purpose in life, your meaning, and you want to know your next step, do you really want to leave behind you all that you have done and learned? Of course not. But how do you move forward if you are constantly circling back into what you’ve known before?

This is why the spiral is the perfect image. You shift up to a higher level of understanding and expanded awareness and you look back over the experiences you have had and you gather the lessons from those experiences to add to your overall understanding of who you are and what you are about in this lifetime. Then you have more experiences, more lessons but they are happening within the context of a greater awareness and expanded consciousness. This keeps the spiral ever moving upward. This is living a Conscious Life.

In working with clients I often tap into what they have been experiencing over and over again but from my vantage point above the situation we can explore meaning in a different context. The goal is to learn to step up and examine what is happening, what one is feeling, what an interaction is carrying with it, so that you can see from a new perspective the lesson that is to be learned.

With a recent client it was to see the perspective of her mother in the situation. With another, it was their child’s view that was clouded in the relationship. I also worked with a client to discover her Life School, Life Lesson and Life Purpose from a Scientific Hand Analysis and the answers helped her to understand what was going on in her life at the moment, gave the experiences a greater context.

We all want to have meaning in our life. We all want what we are doing and experiencing to somehow count in the overall scheme of things. But we can so easily get bogged down in the feelings of the moment, especially in relationships, that we play the same old tapes over and over again without making progress. This is when it is time to step up to a higher perspective, often with help, and see the situation from the place where the solutions live, rather than where the problem is the only thing you can see.

What will you do this week to step up above the problems of the week? Where will you go to find what you are seeking? How will you approach the experiences of the week so that you can see the solutions and not just the problems, enabling yourself to learn the lessons as they are presented to you?

Decide to make this a week of Conscious Living. See yourself on the spiral every day and look for the way ahead to take you to a higher level of understanding.

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BOOK LIGHTS: from “Get Your Woman On! Embracing Beauty, Grace & The Power of Women”, from the chapter “The Leap: From Confusion to Clarity” by Rosemary Bredeson

October 13, 2011 — Rosemary

“To practice trusting your gut, you’ve really got to take that leap and commit to yourself.  Take back your power and recognize that no one else can lead you to your life’s purpose.  Your field of possibility is endlessly vast.  If you feel stuck, you may be so focused on a challenge that you forget your intuition has the solution.  Step out of this cloud of confusion by tapping into your inner wisdom.”

Rosemary Bredeson

Know that your answers are accessible.  Trust that you can access them.  Ask for help if you need it so that you can get confirmation that what you feel in your gut is the answer for you.  Just practice! Although “no one else can lead you to your life’s purpose” I can help you discover your Life Purpose and uncover choices for your next steps.

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MUSE-INGS: If You Can’t Trust Your Own Gut, Whose Gut Can You Trust?

October 12, 2011 — Rosemary

When I teach people about using their intuition to live a richer life, I often find that a person has no trouble receiving the messages from their inner guidance but they aren’t sure they can trust what they receive.  Does this sound like you?

It’s easy to dismiss an intuitive ‘hit’ as coincidence.  It’s easy to forget that you ‘had a feeling about that.’  But when you practice listening to your inner self and really looking for guidance within, you find that you CAN trust the signals you receive.  Even those that feel ‘off the wall.’

What is it that you would like to ask your own intuition?  If you came up with a question like, “Who will win the next election?” or “Will my team win the game?” then you might be working outside the sphere that we are talking about.  But you might think about a situation in which you are uncertain which path to take or which option to choose.  Very often this is why people come to me for coaching – they are struggling with a decision or confusion and they are having trouble seeing the road ahead for them.

As an Intuitive Coach I can share what I see about the path ahead for them but I also like to teach people to access their own inner wisdom no matter what I see.  I ask, “Is this resonating with you?” because I want the person to practice checking inside for how this information feels when they take it in and try it on.  It takes practice to learn to trust that you can take action on what you are feeling inside.  This is why working with someone can help you to build confidence in your own ability to tap into the wisdom.

Each human being has been granted a strong intuitive skill but our education systems and often society itself move us into being good little factory workers and doing what we are told instead of learning to question and to trust what is going on inside us.  As conscious beings we must learn to trust what we feel inside even if it contradicts something we are told outside of ourselves.

But let me add a caveat here.  Many people have an inner voice that criticizes them or bullies them.  This is NOT your Inner Wisdom.  These voices that are not positive and uplifting and supportive are not coming from a higher place within you.  Lift your awareness above this voice to find the higher vibration voice of Inner Wisdom.  This voice will never make you feel small or lesser than or criticized.  The voice of your Inner Wisdom speaks in a very matter-of-fact manner and supports your growth in awareness and consciousness.  Learn to discern and then you can trust that inner voice.

Practice following your gut this week.  Notice how you feel when you do that.  Notice how you feel when you do not.  Have an intuitive week!

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