BOOK LIGHTS: from “The 12 Secrets of Highly Successful Women: A Portable Life Coach for Creative Women” by Gail McMeekin

October 6, 2011 — Rosemary

“You have to decide that you want transformation with your whole being.”

Gail McMeekin

This is the best quote about making choices in your life!  Decide.  Do you want transformation or are you satisfied with the status quo?  Do you want to keep growing?  If yes, then decide ‘with your whole being.’  Every choice you make should be like this.  Energize your choices with all your life force to propel you in the direction of your dreams. You can get there!

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MUSE-INGS: You Choose!

October 5, 2011 — Rosemary

Seems this message keeps popping up, doesn’t it?  ‘You are always at choice in your life.’

I used to argue with the Universe about this one.  ‘But what about [fill in the blank] where I don’t feel I had any choice?’  The answer always seemed to have been, ‘You could have chosen to do nothing. You felt that you had to make a choice because you didn’t like the consequences of not choosing or of choosing other options.’  That was correct.

So how in your life today are you making a choice that you don’t realize is a choice?  Look first at those things that you feel are ‘givens’ in your life, the things that feel as if they can never be different.  So often these are the places where we must begin to reclaim our power by observing the ways in which we take away our own ability to choose by refusing to see that we have an ability to make a choice.

Often the most powerful moments in a coaching session come when the client begins to see that they actually have a choice in a situation in which they were feeling trapped, believing that there was no choice other than the one they had made.  Opening up to the possibility that you have chosen something, that decisions you have made along the way have brought you to this moment, does not have to feel like a criticism or a judgment – it is really just an observation.  And it is an empowering observation.

Are you in a job that is not satisfying?  Didn’t you make the choice to accept that job?

Are you in a marriage that is not fulfilling?  Didn’t you choose to marry that person?

The list goes on, and what matters is not that you beat yourself up for making that choice, but that you see there are choices now that you can make to change things.  If you believe that you cannot leave your marriage, then you must realize that there are reasons that you are choosing to stay but that you CAN leave, you just choose not to [perhaps for some very good reasons, but you still have a choice].  Do you feel that you cannot leave your job because there are no jobs out there?  You CAN leave your job but you might like the paycheck more than the uncertainty of finding another job.

Owning your power to choose can make a huge difference in living a conscious life.  When you view your life as filled with choice, then you become empowered to grow, to move forward, to reach for your dreams.  If you continue to view yourself as the victim then you are stopped dead in the water, unable to muster the energy or the power to direct your path forward toward your dreams.

Which way do you choose to live?  Choose to be a victim and stay stuck or choose to see yourself as empowered to make choices and move in the direction of your dreams.  It really is up to you.

I remember a time when I was just old enough for my parents to leave me at home alone.  The family was going to visit grandparents and I wanted to stay home alone.  My parents allowed me to make that choice.  But as soon as they pulled away from the curb, I wished I had gone with them.  I think I was exercising the right to choose without thinking about what the consequences of that choice might be.  I was suddenly lonely.  But I had made my choice.  And I made a different choice the next time based on what I learned, the feedback I received after that first choice.

This is the cycle that is empowering.  Make a choice. Notice the results of that choice.  Analyze the feedback and decide to continue making that choice or to make a new choice.

You can change your life but only when you realize that you are able to make choices.

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BOOK LIGHTS: “Think and Grow Rich” by Napoleon Hill

September 29, 2011 — Rosemary

“The ‘Master Mind’ may be defined as: ‘Coordination of knowledge and effort, in a spirit of harmony, between two or more people, for the attainment of a definite purpose. No individual may have great power without availing himself of the ‘Master Mind.’”

Napoleon Hill

Creating your Tribe, or finding it, supports you and your growth because like minds can ‘Master Mind’ and help each other find solutions to life’s problems.  You want someone at the same energetic level of development as yourself to be assisting you in seeking solutions.  This is the best reason to find a Tribe, a group to whom you can bring your issues without fear of criticism and where you can find support in exploring your personal power as you grow.  If you can’t find an existing group to join, start your own!  Napoleon Hill saw the value in this in 1937.

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MUSE-INGS: Create Your Tribe!

September 28, 2011 — Rosemary

In Western culture we don’t often use the word ‘tribe’ to describe a group of people.  We talk about ‘community’ or ‘social group’ or some other collection of individuals, but maybe we should start saying ‘tribe.’  For don’t we all need a sense of belonging to some group or groups?

When is the last time that you made a new friend?  Do you always hang out with the people that you’ve known since high school even though they sometimes embarrass you or don’t understand you or even mock or make fun of you?  Have you ever looked around your ‘group’ and wondered if there were any member with whom you could share your innermost thoughts, your desires, your wishes and hopes for the future?  Maybe it’s time for you to examine who your tribe really is.

I’ve been attending seminars and retreats lately with different teachers/mentors and I’m finding that I like the overlap of my tribe members at these gatherings.  We’re all seekers and we seem to be sharing the journey by studying with the same teachers.  It’s a nice feeling to be able to know that these folks understand my language, that they are asking themselves the same questions I am asking myself.  We have created a history together over time and we support each other in our successes and our trials.  We know healthy boundaries and we respect each other’s but we also know how to support and bolster and share suggestions that honor and respect the other.  The tribe knows how to work together while supporting individual choices and processes.

I was recently introduced to an amazing lady in California.  Margie is 91 years old and retired last year after working in the same place for 23 years.  That means she started there at age 67!  Her husband died a long time ago and she lives in a beautiful house on the ocean.  She told me about a neighbor who became ill with cancer and during her 2-year illness the whole neighborhood joined together to support the family.  The woman died at the end of the 2 years but the neighborhood has remained a close community of folks since that experience.  Margie honored the woman’s memory by continuing to be a part of the ‘tribe’ that she had created.

Where in your life is there the possibility of creating a tribe?  Is there a group of which you are already a member that you might start thinking about as a tribe?  And, conversely, is there a group that you have joined that no longer resonates with the person you are on your personal and spiritual journey?  Why are you staying in that group?  Are they really your tribe?

I think a tribe begins with just 2 people of like mind.  It is fostered by mutual support and caring.  Others gather because they resonate with the energy of the original 2 or 3 or 4.  And a tribe is created.

Pay some attention this week to the groups in which you participate.  Step outside yourself and observe if you feel supported in this group.  Are you the best you can be?  Are you relaxing and being yourself with these people or must you put up a façade to fit in?  Notice how you feel before, during and after being with this group.  Are you uplifted?  Do you feel you are growing through your connections?

Become conscious of how your body is giving you signals about the people with whom you associate.  You’ll know if there is an uncomfortable energy incompatibility.  And you’ll know if you are resonating with the group and want to spend more time with them.

Explore or create your Tribes!

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BOOK LIGHTS: “The Astonishing Power of Emotions: Let Your Feelings Be Your Guide” by Esther and Jerry Hicks [The Teachings of Abraham™]

September 22, 2011 — Rosemary

“The key to creating everything that you desire is to find a way to turn to the better-feeling, downstream thoughts, even when the current situation does not evoke it from you, and to use your willpower to focus your thoughts in the direction of your desire and who-you-really-are, rather than using your willpower to try to produce action against the Current.”
[italics are the authors’]

Esther and Jerry Hicks [The Teachings of Abraham™]

Use your feelings as a guide to what you truly desire from the deep place of ‘who-you-really-are.’  Downstream thoughts allow your desires to manifest and upstream thoughts fight against what is your true desire.  ‘Healing’ is upstream, focusing on the need to cure the disease.  ‘Allowing wellness’ is downstream, flowing toward the wellness with ease.  ‘I need to get money’ is upstream.  ‘I receive the abundance that I desire’ is downstream, moving toward the abundance with ease.  Deep inside you lie your heart’s desires.  Access them and allow them to manifest.  

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MUSE-INGS: Live a Heart-Centered Life!

September 21, 2011 — Rosemary

Living a Heart-Centered Life is not for the so-called ‘faint of heart’!  It takes a great deal of strength to listen to your heart and to act upon what you hear.  It takes an empowered individual to acknowledge the vision within and to live from that place rather than the place of expediency or what pleases outer values.

Empowered people know that power from within is much stronger than the power that is gained over another.  That is just bullying.  And an empowered individual does not operate just on power, but on a combination of inner power and heart power.  In the 21st Century world each human being is asked to evolve into the new human.  This new way of being present to life on Earth includes opening one’s mind to embrace the feelings that exist in one’s innermost heart.

This is different from what resides in one’s Heart-Mind Center, the new energy center that lies between the Heart and the Throat Centers.  The Heart Center itself contains the feelings that stem from one’s inner spirit wanting to express in the outer world.  This is where the feelings become the messengers of the spirit and each of us must pay attention to the stirrings we feel within us.

When you see injustice in the world, do you feel a stirring within you that calls you to some action against that injustice, even if it is simply to send helping energy to the victim of that injustice?  That feeling comes from a connection to your inner spirit and a sense of what energies are appropriate in the world around you.  When you feel a deep connection with another individual, what some would call a ‘soul connection,’ do you understand that this connection is a part of what being an evolved human being means in the present day?

It is time for all humans to wake up to the deeper meaning of the feelings within them and to eschew the shallow feelings, especially pettiness and small-mindedness, that lead people into decisions that do not advance the growth of human consciousness.  We are not automatons or robots.  We experience deep feelings and we have spirits within us that are here to express through our human lives.  We are all called to greatness that finds its expression through the choices that we make in every moment of our lives.

We can no longer turn a blind eye to what we see around us.  We cannot live as if we do not have these deep feelings in our hearts.  It is time to embrace what it means to be fully human, to have feelings that are spurring us on to express them.  Deep love, deep compassion, deep connection.  Our spirits are longing to express these.  Each of us is calling out to all others to understand that we are all One.  We wither when we do not feel connected to others.  We shrivel up when we feel that we are not loved.  We cannot survive alone if no one around us shows us compassion.

It is time to end all sorts of abuse in this world. It is time to end the senseless killing of animals and humans.  It is time to take care of Nature rather than to destroy it.  It is time to care for all of the children of the world for the future of the planet depends upon them.  It is time for religions and political groups and countries to find a way to live together on this one planet as heart-centered Earthlings instead of separate groups trying to exert power over others.

It is time for individuals to become empowered through embracing the deep feelings of their hearts.

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BOOK LIGHTS: “Out There” printed in Discover Magazine, October 2011, by Sean Carroll

September 15, 2011 — Rosemary

“On February 17, 1600, Giordano Bruno, a mathematician and Dominican friar, was stripped naked and driven through the streets of Rome. Then he was tied to a stake in the Campo de’ Fiori and burned to death. The records of Bruno’s long prosecution by the Inquisition have been lost but one of his major heresies was cosmological. He advocated that other stars were like our sun, and that they could each support planets teeming with life. Orthodox thought of the time preferred to think that Earth and humanity were unique.”

Sean Carroll

Is it any wonder that we hesitate to examine new ideas when being burned at the stake might be our reward? Of course, we are not usually physically burned at the stake in the 21st Century for putting forth a new idea, but we sometimes, at an unconscious level, fear that punishment, and for some of us, the social consequences seem just as dire. So choose to overcome the fear and explore. The Hubble Space Telescope has proven Bruno to be correct!

 

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MUSE-INGS: Pursue That New Idea!

September 14, 2011 — Rosemary

New ideas float around all the time. Sometimes it’s fun to follow a new idea to see where it leads. And sometimes the new idea challenges us to explore those values that we have clung to for a long time, believing that they represented the truth. What do you do when you encounter a new idea?

Our habitual patterns dictate how we react when we encounter something new. In the animal kingdom there is often a wariness of something new being introduced into the environment. Have you ever watched a cat when a bug walks across its path. It sniffs, it bats at it, it might pick up the bug in its mouth and carry it around for awhile. The cat is playing with this ‘thing’ as it figures out what it is and what to do with it.

So often we do not allow ourselves to ‘play’ with an idea, to ponder it for awhile and let it unfold and display itself fully to us. Have you ever rejected something new as a knee-jerk reaction before you’ve fully explored it? We have probably all done that once or twice! But what if we decide that we will not reject new ideas out of hand when they are presented to us? What if we decide today to give ourselves a chance to stay with an idea, to play with it as the cat plays with the bug, to explore or to ponder that idea until we have learned what we can about and from that idea? We might even go so far as to decide that the idea has merit and we wish to adopt that idea as being true for us at this time.

When we force ourselves to cling to old thought, old ideas because they are comfortable to us we narrow our vision of the world until we cannot see expansively into the realm of ‘the greater’ – that which is beyond our little truth and exists in the cosmos as a reality of greater proportion than our own limited perspective. What would we believe if all humans of the past several centuries had done this? We would not have our understanding of the heavens if Galileo and Copernicus and Kepler had not worked with new ideas to advance our ability to learn about the cosmos and we would not have the Hubble Space Telescope sharing new information about our origins. If Einstein had not developed his theory of relativity, or Newton his ideas, or any number of other scientists had decided not to explore down avenues that had no known conclusion, we would all be living a very different life.

And it is not just the scientists who advance thought. The philosophers do it, too. What if the philosophers throughout time had not pondered the bigger questions for us? What would we believe today?

You might think that you are not a scientist or a philosopher, but you are. You are a human living in 21st Century Earth and you are therefore a co-creator of your reality. Your thoughts are things and become reality. Why would you choose to think the thoughts of days gone by simply because they are familiar and comfortable? Are you not curious about where new ideas might lead you? Do you have a desire to be a creative force in your own life?

Then allow yourself to ponder great questions. Read up on new thought and decide for yourself what you accept and what you question. Pursue that which you are interested in exploring further. Encourage those around you, especially the children, to be curious explorers of ideas. Challenge them to dig more deeply into an idea that intrigues them. Support your friends and family when they come up with something that is new to you. Foster the concept of research. Allow human consciousness to expand.

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BOOK LIGHTS: “Creating True Prosperity” by Shakti Gawain

September 8, 2011 — Rosemary

“Even though we may consciously wish to succeed, the inner child may sabotage any chance for success and power in the world because it feels it will never receive the nurturing and love it craves.”

Shakti Gawain

Whether we are offering nurturing and love to a physical child in the present day or to our own inner child who seeks what it feels it has not had, our task is to nurture and love the children. We must do our own inner child work to achieve success and we must help the children around us today to believe that they are worth listening to now, that they are worthy of nurturing and love, so that they can achieve the success they desire now and later in life. Listen to ALL the children!

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MUSE-INGS: Where the Children Lead

September 7, 2011 — Rosemary

Where the children lead, we must learn to follow.

It’s an interesting concept but we’ve heard it before. We also need to heed it now.

The children are trying to tell us something about the world in which they wish to live. Have you talked to a young person about the environment lately? They accept recycling as a way of life. They care about trees and forests and animals that are endangered. They care about football and baseball and shopping at the mall, too, but they are tuned into their environments and are following the intuitive guidance they receive about what will keep the planet safe for them to enjoy and what will destroy it.

Children also care about others. There are some amazing stories about young folks who hear about a problem, do a little research, start a lemonade stand or take up a collection, and do good works with what they have earned. These kids have something to teach us.

First, they listen. Really listen. And do we do that? Do we really listen to what is going on around us or do we leap to conclusions based on our pre-conceived notions or political perspective or religious views? Are we willing to ask a whole bunch of questions until we get enough answers to form an opinion, or do we form an opinion and stop asking questions?

When our granddaughter was 7 it was a national election year in the US and she listened to presidential debates with the candidates, asked questions, and then decided which candidate she thought would be the best president. She really did sit through long debates and ask cogent questions. [I found it hard to sit through those tedious debates!] But she was astonished to learn t hat she could not vote in the election because she was too young. She was outraged! I did take her to the polling place on election day so that she could wave a poster of her preferred candidate, about the only thing that a 7-year-old can do about an election.

But what was she trying to show us? She modeled how an educated electorate participates in a democracy. She took time to ask questions. She reviewed information. Do we do that? In how many situations do we do the research, ask the questions and, most importantly, weigh information before we form an opinion that a hurricane couldn’t move us to change?

What about the child inside of you? Do you listen to the voice of that scared, timid, insecure child or do you ignore the voice? Maybe there is a better way to work with your inner child than to try to shut him/her up. Perhaps really listening and then offering reassurance would lay to rest the fears instead of allowing them to operate within you at an unconscious level. With many of the clients with whom I work this is an issue where we focus the coaching. Buried inside each of us are the children that we once were, the ones who reacted to the parenting that we received, who were told a worldview to which they must subscribe. But also buried within us are the children who were dreamers, the ones who knew that this world could be a better place and who wanted to be the ones to bring that better world into existence.

‘You may say I’m a dreamer, But I’m not the only one.’ Remember that song – Imagine, by John Lennon? Let’s return to being the dreamers that our inner children were. Let’s allow the children around us to have and to pursue their dreams for a better world. Let’s listen, really listen, to the messages from all the children, inner and outer, as they lead us into that better world. And let’s commit to support the dreams that all people have.

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