“An authentic experience begins with a vision experienced through the senses ending with emotion.”
from The Joy of Discovery
by Patrice Farameh and Valeriano Antonioli
Think about waking up each day with a vision for your life. Create affirmations to use as you are waking up. Activate all your senses and engage your emotions. Get excited about the vision! Energize it! You can create an ‘authentic experience’ just by building this vision. Happy visioning!
Rosemary
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Dear Ones,
Today is the day that you can start a new life. Every day is one in which you can begin anew. Whatever was bothering you yesterday is in the past – make new choices today.
Do you feel that way when you wake up in the morning? If you start your day focused on what is wrong with your life or what you don’t have, then you are gathering in the stale energy of yesterday and coloring your day with that staleness. Train yourself to have as a first thought each morning that you have much to be grateful for in your life. Think of something that makes you smile. Look at your new day through the lens of gratitude that you woke up!
Too many people are stuck in the ruts of their own making, lamenting the fact that life is so hard for them. They are choosing to be victims when there is no success that blossoms out of victimhood. If this describes how you have been in the past, make a decision to choose differently tomorrow when you wake up. You do not have to be the victim of the circumstances of your life, but you do have to be conscious that you are constantly making choices. If you feel put upon or filled with suffering then you are missing what is good around you and in you. Find one thing, that’s all it takes. Find one thing for which you can be grateful. It can be as simple as a friend or family member who loves you. It can be a pet’s presence in your home. It can be that you have food to eat for breakfast. Find that one thing, and your whole day will be colored with The Light.
Model this behavior for others. Find something positive no matter what is going on around you. Start playing the ‘At least…’ game. What can you find to say to contrast doom and gloom and victimhood when it feels as if you are surrounded by it? ‘At least the sun came up this morning.’ ‘At least both of my feet are working as I step out of bed.’ ‘At least we’ll have a great story to tell our friends after this is all over.’
Teach your children the ‘At least…’ game. Make it fun. Play this with your friends. See what you can find to say ‘At least…’ about. This creates an amazing energy of looking for something good to be grateful for. And Like Attracts Like. If you put some energy into gratitude, you will attract more things to be grateful for. If you can find something positive you will energize and attract more positive things into your life.
It’s never too late to change your ways. Start with how you think about your day from the first moment you are awake. Go to bed with gratitude for the day just ending and look forward to waking up to positive thoughts in the morning. The more you practice this, the more you will want to live your life this way. When you greet people with the smile on your face that this positive thinking will produce, you will find that they respond positively to you. If they are grumpy then acknowledge that maybe they are having a bad day and allow them the space to be where they are. That kind of response is not about you. Be generous enough to give people their own energies, their own feelings. But be sure that you do now allow yourself to be dragged into grumpiness because someone around you is having a bad day. Maintain your positivity.
Keep a Positivity Journal. Record positive thoughts – no complaints allowed! You might have heard of a Gratitude Journal. This goes beyond gratitude but certainly feeling gratitude is positive! Use this journal when you are feeling low to boost your thoughts back into the higher vibration of positivity. Don’t forget to be lighthearted – sometimes all it takes is a small chuckle and you can dispel negativity. Try this for this week, and see how you feel after a week of being Positive!
And so it is.
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“Knowing your life purpose means being clear about your big picture: what your life has amounted to so far and where things are headed. More than a set of core values or a worthy goal, your life purpose is your right life, your reason for being. Finding and living your life purpose is the single most important thing you can ever do.”
from Lifeprints: Deciphering Your Life Purpose from Your Fingerprints
by Richard Unger
Having just come home from a wonderful Life Purpose Summit with Baeth Davis I am fired up about the information available to us from our fingerprints, something unique and educational about each of us. If you know your Life Purpose, your ‘why’ and you are living your life in consonance with that Life Purpose, why would you turn over your power to someone/thing external? OWN your own power to live your purpose!
Rosemary
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Interesting analogy – early humans figuring out which foods to eat and 21st Century humans figuring out what truth is for them.
One way to extend this is to think of the early humans who ate the poison mushrooms. I wouldn’t want to be the one who tested that! But I don’t think this message is about eating poison mushrooms first – it sounds more as if we are being cautioned about eating the poison mushrooms that someone is telling us are safe to eat.
Think about ideas that poison a society but permeate it anyway. Hatred. Intolerance. Injustice. Ignorance. Think about how easy it is to swallow that poison mushroom if someone you trust tells you it is safe for you to do so. I think it’s time we stood up to our responsibility to be individual thinkers, to ask for evidence that a mushroom is safe or to eschew eating it altogether.
Every day, each of us is bombarded with ideas from many sources. Do you absorb and accept every idea that is sent your way? Do you believe everything that you are told? I suspect not. Who, then, do you decide you will believe? Are you willing to find the original sources of the data, to do your own research?
I remember a paper I had to write in college, in a History of the Theater course I was taking to fill in my schedule so I had enough credits to live on campus after I had taken all the math courses I needed for my major. My assigned topic was ‘Squire & Marie Bancroft’ who had lived in the 19th Century. I traveled from Greensburg, Pennsylvania into Pittsburgh to find resources at the University library there and was fortunate enough to find primary sources, documents written by the Bancrofts themselves. Unfortunately, they were written in French so I had to painstakingly translate them for my paper, but the information was invaluable because it came from the principles themselves and hadn’t been distorted by a biographer’s perspective. [Aside: The professor didn’t believe a lowly math major could write such a good paper so he accused me of plagiarism! I did prove the sources of the materials to his satisfaction and he gave me a good grade later.]
What are you willing to do to determine the veracity of what you hear? Are you like a sponge, sopping up what is told to you? Do you check a few sources to see if you can find corroboration or do you just listen to someone you think is giving you the whole story? Do you know how to check inside for what rings true for you?
Living a Conscious Life requires choosing what you will believe and what you will question. Check with your Inner Guidance before you accept any idea, even the ones I am writing here. If you don’t know how to do this yet, learn. Sometimes you need to meditate or take a nap or take a walk in nature before you can see clearly what you need to see. Give yourself permission to do this before you commit to an idea or a project that doesn’t feel completely right to you.
You are moving along a path of your own spiritual journey. You don’t have time for detours into someone else’s ‘stuff.’ Believe what is in alignment with who you are at your core, with the energy that carries you forward on your journey. Don’t believe someone who wants you to eat a poison mushroom by telling you that it is safe! Skip the mushrooms, please!
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Dear Ones,
Ever since humans have been walking on Planet Earth they have been questioning the reasons for happenings around them. You might believe that early humans were not curious but how do you think decisions were made about what to eat and what not to eat? They came out of curiosity and someone tried to eat something. They lived or they died, and the others learned what was safe and what was not.
Humans have a similar kind of curiosity today but the situations are more subtle than when they were looking for food. Today, people are searching for simple solutions to complex problems, and so they look to someone else to tell them what is safe and what isn’t, what works and what doesn’t, and what is true and what isn’t. People are giving away their power to the external source who tells them what they want to believe. Unfortunately, many of those who are speaking out have not done the research themselves, as the early humans did. These speakers are believing something told to them by someone else who supposedly did ‘research.’ This so-called ‘research’ might or might not have been valid or worthwhile but for every bit of research there is some audience who wants to believe the results and so in that sphere it becomes validated by acceptance and repetition.
Do you see how far removed people are becoming from the source of the information available to them about ‘safe or unsafe,’ ‘works or doesn’t work,’ ‘true or not’? Decide today that you will become a person who seeks the source. Don’t believe or accept on blind faith. Check inside yourself for your own truth. Just because someone says it is so does not make it valid for you at this time. Even what we are telling you should be checked against your internal compass to make sure it is congruent with the direction in which your journey is taking you today.
In all things it is important that you learn to go inside and reach for your Inner Guidance. You KNOW what is true for you, even if you feel you cannot be certain. There is always a part of you that knows for sure. Reach for that part. Seek help if you do not know how to do this. Get in touch with guidance for yourself, for there is a wealth of information available to you if you seek it. Great thinkers throughout time have known this and have used their innate abilities to find answers to their questions. They seek answers but look to themselves, their own research, even their dreams to find what they seek. Many geniuses will tell you that it is in rest and relaxing out of the search that great ideas arise. Why should you be different?
Are you one of those who think you have to be active all the time? Do you feel you must be doing, doing, doing in order to move forward? What if you could make more forward progress by resting, thinking about something else, engaging in a hobby, and then returning to problem-solving with fresh eyes? Perhaps napping and allowing your unconscious mind to connect the dots for you would be more productive. Maybe a meditation exercise would free your creativity so that you could return to your task with greater understanding.
These are suggestions for 21st Century humans to approach problem-solving and answer-seeking. The early humans knew what they were about when they made their own observations. Stop giving away your power as a thinking, creative person and do your own research, find your own answers. Listen to others but do not be swayed to act against what feels true for you. Do not believe just because others believe. Be an individual, for you were brought to Planet Earth for an individual purpose. No one else has the same roadmap. Be careful about who you allow to drive your life!
And so it is.
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“I’d spent two years trying to get into a relationship, and the next five trapped, clawing my way out. I obsessed until my head ached. Literally, it hurt. I didn’t know what feelings were. Whenever I said I felt something, people said, ‘Don’t feel that!”
from The New Codependency:
Help and Guidance for Today’s Generation
by Melody Beattie
Have you ever doubted your own feelings? Melody Beattie describes so well how we can be in situations that cause all sorts of reactions within us but people tell us not to feel what we are feeling! Don’t let that doubt about how you feel creep in. Examine your feelings. Feel your feelings. Get the learnings from them and then let them go. They are there for your personal growth. Don’t let others tell you not to feel what you feel!
Rosemary
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Doubt seems to have a lot of power in one’s life. It can choke out the Light that is unfolding in you, just as a weed chokes out the life in a garden. When we attach our thoughts to doubt we invite that energy to take us over. Have you ever followed a path of doubt so far into the darkness that you couldn’t see any way back to the Light? It’s easy to do because doubt in ourselves is so easily reinforced by others around us. Sometimes it is even planted by those who are supposed to be supporting us. Teachers set low expectations for a student who starts to believe that they will never be an academic success. Parents compare their child unfavorably to another child and create doubt about worthiness. Teenagers gossip about others and create insecurities in each other. Society says we must be beautiful, rich, thin in order to be successful, and we must drive a certain car, drink a certain drink, wear certain clothes to be attractive to the opposite sex. Who hasn’t doubted that they measure up to these rulers of society?
Doubt can be seductive in its attractiveness. What masquerades as humility, which we are taught is an admirable quality, can actually be doubt in our merit, our own self-worth. We are taught not to brag about our achievements or our good qualities but isn’t that a false modesty? Why is doubt a better choice than self-acceptance and self-confidence?
In a relationship, doubt can often create a chasm between people who have not developed healthy communication skills. One partner starts to doubt and holds back a part of self from the other. The seed of doubt grows with every thought, often way out of proportion to the original circumstance, but once it starts to grow it takes on a life of its own. Relationships can be ended because someone watered and fertilized a seed of doubt until it took over the whole relationship.
What can we do when we start to feel doubt? The first thing to do is to examine the source of the doubt. Did someone else create it or did we attach our thoughts to doubt as it arose in us? Sometimes determining the source is all that is needed to dismiss a feeling before it attaches and grows. If you are feeling doubt, ask yourself, ‘What is this? Is this real?’ We often react to something that is difficult to believe by doubting that it is true, without ever taking the time to ascertain the facts.
And if you are feeling doubt about yourself, your self worth, your abilities, then look at what is behind the doubt. Did it start in your childhood because of a belief you held at that time? Are you believing what someone else has said about you without checking inside yourself for your truth? Are you avoiding accepting your own inner greatness because you are afraid to claim it? Sometimes the doubt is not about worthiness but about the magnitude of your own worth in the world.
When you attach yourself to thoughts of doubt you are moving yourself away from your own Inner Light and the source of Universal Light. Think about the story in the movie ‘Doubt’ where people acted on what they thought they saw, or how they interpreted a situation without really ever determining the facts. This path led to anguish in the doubters and choices all around that caused pain.
It is time now for us to commit to dispelling doubt because it doesn’t serve the highest good of all. If you doubt that something is true, then instead of feeding the doubt, determine the truth. If you feel that you are unworthy, if you doubt yourself and your abilities, then find a way to examine the source of that feeling and accept yourself as the Being of Light that you are. Choose what you will believe and choose to believe in yourself. Doubt arises only as a flag to get your attention. Resolve today to use it as such.
I believe in your Inner Splendor! If you still have problems with doubting yourself, then just remember that!
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Dear Ones,
Where there is doubt, let there be Light, for the Light chases away doubt. Doubt comes from dark thoughts, from believing that one is separate from the Light. Doubt begins because a seed has been planted like a weed in a garden of Light. If the seed of doubt is watered and fertilized it takes over the garden, just as a weed does.
You must make sure that you are not watering and fertilizing the seeds of doubt that blow into your personal garden of Light. Sometimes these seeds come from society and societal beliefs, sometimes from people in your life. Sometimes they develop from previous life experiences that are not truly representative or relevant to your current situation. Be aware that doubt is the enemy of enlightenment. Doubt chokes out the Light that is unfolding within you.
There is only one purpose in doubt – it points to the place in your life that is begging for attention. Do you doubt that you can be successful? Then examine how you are limiting or even sabotaging your own success. Do you doubt that you can have healthy relationships? Then examine how you are not in a healthy relationship within yourself, or how you can be or become the kind of person/partner you wish to attract. Do you doubt that you can find happiness or even that you deserve happiness? Then examine your definition of happiness and ask if you are looking outside yourself for something that must come from within.
Do not doubt, Dear Ones, that you are less than perfect just as you are, for that which you might label as an ‘imperfection’ in yourself at the moment is merely the pointer for your current lesson.
Conscious Living demands that the individual live a self-examined life. To slide through life without honestly examining one’s inner existence, inner workings and the choices one makes leads one away from happiness and fulfillment. Human beings have an awareness of Self that can lead to extraordinary leaps of consciousness when they look for growth through that awareness and understanding. Many, though, choose to live in denial of their own power to effect the course of their lives, preferring instead to give away that power to external sources.
You are not a canoe with no one to paddle and steer, being carried through life by the flow of the river. No, you are the one with the paddles, choosing your life’s direction in every moment. You choose whether to go with the flow or paddle upstream. You choose how to avoid obstacles or go through them. You choose which branch of the river to follow when you reach a fork. Do not hand those paddles over to someone else. Do not doubt that you are in charge of the direction of your life.
You may not be able to control the weather or the obstacles in your path, but your life is not controlled by those. Your Life is how you respond to those things over which you have no control.
Never doubt that you always have choices about how you respond to challenges. If you allow doubt to control you, then you are giving away the paddles of your canoe.
Keep paddling. Open yourself to guidance. Look at challenges as information, as opportunities for growth, for there is great Light awaiting you on the other side of every lesson. Claim your own power and seek the Light. You will always be rewarded for making this choice.
And so it is.
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Whenever there is a message about loving yourself, I wonder how many times we need to hear this! Love yourself. No matter what messages you receive, no matter what someone else believes and tries to get you to believe, no matter what has happened in the past, no matter what you have done – forgive yourself and love yourself.
Sometimes people hear this message and dismiss it because people do bad things, therefore they must be evil people. And I am not such a Pollyanna that I believe there is no evil in the world. But I learned an important message decades ago during my first retreat with Dr. Bernie Siegel. He had us all imagine we were holding a tiny newborn baby, looking into that innocent face. We all felt a wave of Love. Then he told us that that baby had grown up. Where is the Love?
We judge others. Let’s admit that. Some of us try very hard not to do this, but, at some level, we do it, even unconsciously. And once we are in judgment it is difficult to find the Love.
This kind of Love is not conditional on behavior that meets our standards. No one must work hard to earn this Love. There is nothing to do that changes someone from unlovable to lovable. Every human being on Planet Earth was once that tiny, innocent baby, lovable because it was born. Sometimes, when someone has done something that hurts us, it is hard to remember that we once loved them or that they were once that lovable baby. This kind of Love is a decision, not a sweet emotion or infatuation. This deep Love comes from a place within us that knows the truth of our very existence – that we are timeless, spiritual beings who are having an experience of Life on Earth. When we remember who WE are then we are free to share Love with others.
All Love starts with Self Love. Really listen to that statement. All Love starts with Self Love. The Self within you is the radiant presence of the Divine, your connection to the Source in the Universe, to Spirit. Self Love starts here. And this kind of Love demands that you accept yourself, with all your warts and foibles and the lessons you are in the process of learning. That Self within loves you unconditionally!
Accept that you are lovable. To believe otherwise is the true self-absorption of the ego! Love your Self. Then love yourself. Do you want to change? Love yourself enough to do so. What parts of you do you accept no matter what others say or believe about you? Accept them. This is only about YOU and your eternal Self. Others don’t define who you are at your core. You are lovable because you ARE.
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Mystic Messages 
MUSE-INGS: Positive Thoughts Bring Light into Your Day!
September 28, 2010 — RosemaryCall me a ‘Pollyanna’ but I do like to look at the bright side of things. And I like the idea of making the first thought of the day a positive one. Imagine that your day is like a page in a coloring book, waiting for you to pick up the crayons and fill in the colors. What colors would you like to be there for you today? Now think what it would be like if the only color you could use was the gray crayon – no sunlight yellow, no bright pink, no reds, blues or greens – just gray. Wouldn’t you want to pull the covers back up over your head?
YOU create the box of crayons and the vibrations with which you color your day. Which color will you choose? Which positive thought do you want to focus your first energy of the day on? Use these ideas as tools to lift your own vibration. Go to bed with the thought that you will wake with something positive on your mind. Remember that your unconscious mind doesn’t judge what you are picturing because it can’t tell the difference between the pictures you make up and the ones you really see with your eyes. Why not make up some pictures of how you want things to work out for you today instead of making pictures of what you don’t want? Let your unconscious mind store away the pictures of what you do want and it will work for you to make those happen.
This energy is at work whether you are conscious of it or not. Knowing that you are attracting that on which you are placing your attention, wouldn’t you want to focus on something positive? I’ve heard people question the Law of Attraction but that Law is at work whether you are consciously using it or not. Think about it. How many people do you know who have talked about some fear of an unwanted occurrence only to have that very thing materialize? These people then say, “I always [lose, have a problem with X, don’t get what I want, etc.].” They are then specifically energizing what they don’t want for the next time!
Become the one who can always see the positive side of whatever is going on. Choose positive thoughts for the first thing in the morning. Catch yourself speaking the negative thoughts that flit through your mind and move on to positive ones. If you still struggle with something positive to think about, visualize something that feels good to you. Consider decorating your bedroom so that the first thing you see every morning is something that makes you feel good. Perhaps a picture of a loved one or a flower. Maybe it’s your favorite painting or sculpture or work of art. It could be as simple as having the window curtain open so you can look outside as you awaken to enjoy the beauty of nature.
Create your morning ritual around being conscious of thinking positive thoughts for the day. The moments when you are just emerging from sleep are the most creative moments of your day – make use of these moments to bring the high vibration of creative energy to what you start your day thinking about. If you have problems to solve, keep yourself in the creative mode rather than dropping down into suffering and victimhood. You have control over these thoughts. Steer them downstream so that you can go with the flow. If you start your day focusing on negative thoughts, it will become harder for you to lift yourself up later in the day.
Set the intention when you go to bed that you will move your morning thoughts into the Light and focus on the positive!
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