MYSTIC MESSAGE from The Divine Feminine: Are You Tribal?

September 27, 2011 — Rosemary

Dear Ones,

In ancient times people were not confused about who was in their tribe.  There were clear delineations between groups based usually on geography but often on attributes.  Tribal connections run deep in the human memory.  So who is your 21st Century Tribe?

Do you know who is your Tribe?  Do you immediately think of your nuclear family or the family of blood relatives?  These people might be a part of one of your tribes but you have many tribes of which you are a member.  Because people are so mobile at this time in history people are banding together to create tribes based on many myriad factors.

One tribe might gather around a certain kind of music.  Another around parenting children of a similar age or circumstance.  In many workplaces the coworkers have created a tribal feeling with each other.  Some neighborhoods have created tribes.  And international tribes are not uncommon with the ease of travel among many nations and even continents.

You might wonder why it is important to define a tribe.

At this time in your Planet’s history people need to band together with like-minded individuals so that they can support each other through the coming changes.  No longer will geography or blood determine the connections but it will be like thought and the energy of community support that will cause people to band together in a tribe.  Those who are on a path of personal growth will need to find others to connect with for support on the journey.  Those who have reached higher levels of consciousness will be seeking others at that level or above to join in the search for even greater awareness. People will not be able to stay connected with others who hold them back from or don’t support them in their spiritual growth.

It is time for every individual to examine what they believe and to determine the source of that belief.  If it is generational, as in handed down in their family from a generation of a past age, then it might be time to discard or dismiss the belief.  If it was generated in your childhood then you must reexamine that belief in the context of what you know now in your adult life.  If you are blindly following what someone else has told you is true then you must pause and examine that belief – is it really true for you at this time?

The Tribe that comes together around a commonality of ideas and beliefs will have similar vibratory frequency signatures.  This is the definition of ‘community compatibility.’  When someone of much lower or much higher vibration attempts to join this Tribe, the frequencies will be too far apart for everyone to feel comfortable and there can be discord.

Take it upon yourself to find your Tribe now.  Who is reaching as you are for expanded awareness?  Who around you is limiting themselves by thinking small-mindedly and refusing to grow?  With whom do you feel the most support and can you support them in their personal growth?

Who lights up your heart when you are with them?  Create a Tribe if you must, or join one that resonates with you.  It is important to belong to a community and this is the best criteria for determining that community.

And so it is.

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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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MYSTIC MESSAGE from The Divine Feminine: Feel Your Way to Empowerment

September 20, 2011 — Rosemary

Dear Ones,

Where is your heart today?  Are you following your heart where it wants to lead you?  Or are you following a quest for money, pride, acclaim, power?  We would tell you that your heart is the best navigator for your path in life.

Many will tell you that you must follow your mind/head, not your heart, but your heart is your connection to the greater source of energy in the Universe, not your mind/head.  Now we are not talking here about whims or infatuations or shallow emotions.  But if you really reach deeply into your heart you will start to understand that your innermost feelings are expressions of your innermost spirit in the world.  You will be led to express yourself if you are heart-centered.

Look around you at your life today.  How much of your heart is evident in the life you are living?  Are your goals coming from a place of understanding your role in the greater scheme of life on Earth or are you focusing on little goals of how much money you can make or the next promotion you can gain at work?  Are you surrounded by people who uplift your spirit when you are with them?  Are you living from a place where your heart can guide your daily choices?

The easiest way to access your deep heart feelings is to close your eyes, take a deep breath, and bring all your attention to the area of your heart in the center of your body.  Breathe into this area and allow images to appear in your inner vision.   Don’t judge what you are experiencing, for many of you expect this to be a certain kind of picture or sound or feeling but you must learn to allow the experience to unfold as it wishes to unfold.  Ask this feeling or image to share with you a message that will help to guide you today.  And then listen or look or feel until you understand the message.  It might be as simple as to ‘Feel today whatever you need to feel’ or ‘Look around you for ways that you can help others to feel better about themselves and their lives.’  Just allow the message to appear without judging what comes up.  And if you find there is no apparent message then rest assured that your unconscious mind has accepted what it needs to accept.  When you open your eyes embrace your message and move into the rest of your day.

There are people who have opened their heart to the world, not in a way that makes them vulnerable but in a way that makes them very powerful.  Open hearts allow love energy to flow outward and to magnetize the attraction of love energy to flow inward as well.  One who has mastered a connection to deep heart feelings interacts with other people in a way that is empowering to everyone involved.  Human beings are not meant to live soulless, heartless lives but often the media and popular wisdom indicates that this is not the case.  People in power often seem to have no ability to show compassion because they put some other value above an expression of heart values.  War does not arise from deep heart feelings but from a pursuit of something other than that which stems from the heart.  Abuse happens in society because someone has been cut off from their feelings and they allow themselves to act in inhumane ways.

There is much that we could say about what happens when one does not connect with their deep heart feelings but we would rather you see that all around you – your work or business, your relationships, your life in general – benefits from your deepest connection to your heart.  Reach out to others from a place deep within yourself and your deep connections will support all that you desire in your life.  Reach into yourself, identify your feelings and live them in your outer life and you will experience a richness in your life that will have you wondering why you weren’t doing this all along!

And so it is.

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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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MYSTIC MESSAGE from The Divine Feminine: Think New Thoughts!

September 13, 2011 — Rosemary

Dear Ones,

The measure of a person is not meant to be their business success or financial worth and it is not meant to be judged by others. Each individual must determine for himself or herself whether or not they feel that they are ‘measuring up’ to their life purpose, their reason for being on Planet Earth today.

How often do you ask yourself what your contribution to the growth of human consciousness has been today? Have you helped someone reach for a higher understanding today? Have YOU reached for a higher understanding today? What ideas have you spent your precious time researching or pondering or discussing? What new thoughts have you been evaluating? Whose spirits have you spent your energy uplifting today?

These are the activities of someone who is living their life purpose and contributing to the growth of human consciousness. Are you incorporating these activities in your day? And how do you evaluate your day? Are you valuing the time you spend pondering big questions or exploring new ideas, or do you only value the time in which you are being ‘productive’ according to society’s views?

When time is precious to you you realize that you have no time to waste on activities that do not advance all of humanity. Small thinking limits you and all those in your sphere of influence. Backward thinking, that is, embracing and idolizing the thinking of times past without updating that thinking to embrace new aspects of thought, holds back the advancement of all of humanity and serves no one except those who delight in having power over those who choose not to evolve. Be very careful not to contribute your energy to the efforts to hold back the advancement of human knowledge and consciousness!

Know that you can advance all of humanity by having one new thought and spending time pondering that thought. You create a new pathway in your brain when you have a new thought. You strengthen it when you think of it again, when you ponder that thought. The thought generates an energy, and that energy radiates from your electric brain into the collective consciousness and others can pick up on that thought and advance it. This synergy of thought pulls all of humanity onward in the growth of consciousness.

You might be wondering why this is important but we would say to you that it is the only thing that is important. Humans are designed to grow, to think, to think new thoughts, to wonder, to ponder, to cogitate. When people agree to stop thinking for themselves, when they decide to be only the followers of thoughts that are planted in their consciousness rather than to explore ideas on their own, then they are choosing to halt the advancement of all of human consciousness. Why do people choose to do this?

Out of fear. Fear is the reason that people hold back and ask to be told what to believe. People are afraid they will be disconnected from their tribe. They are afraid that they will be alone or unloved or even harmed if they disagree with the leaders to whom they have given their power. And people are afraid that, if they venture into the unknown they will lose their value to the group.

Many people refuse to dissent because they want to belong. This ‘herd mentality’ takes the entire tribe over the precipice into the space where they have no power to influence the outcome of their situation. It is important that you, as you learn to live a conscious life, decide that never again will you remain a part of the herd.

Step out and think the thoughts that take you into virgin territory, into the arena of new neural networks in your brain. Dare to explore ideas that those around you might be frightened of or might even disdain. Be fully human and test out new thought for yourself. Be fully human in the 21st Century and blaze a trail to a new consciousness. Everyone hearing these words has the potential to be this trail-blazer!

And so it is.

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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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MYSTIC MESSAGE from The Divine Feminine: Are You Open to New Thought?

September 6, 2011 — Rosemary

Dear Ones,

How do you treat the children in your life?  What is your attitude toward them?  The children with whom you associate are your lifeline to the future of your family, your society and your culture.  Are you planting seeds of greatness in those children or are you trying to make them smaller versions of you, in all your limitations, beliefs and past-focused thinking?

Children are brought into the world to be the way-showers of the succeeding generations.  They are not intended to become younger versions of their parents but many parents attempt to do just that.  How much freedom did your parents give you to grow and to become what you would?  Have you ever longed  for the opportunity to stretch beyond the vision that your parents might have had for you, or for themselves, to see what lies beyond what you could see?

This, then, is the gift that you can give the children in your Life.  Not just the ones that you have born in your body or sired yourself, but also those who are stepchildren, nieces and nephews, neighbors and godchildren, friends, family, children of the world.  Give the gift of a dream to the children who are on Planet Earth today.

If they are your children, what model are you giving them?  Are you continuing to expand your own horizons, continuing to learn and explore new ideas, trying new experiences, meeting new people?  Isn’t this what you would wish for your children to do in their own lives?  You must model this for them.

Do you find yourself always correcting your children, or holding them up to some standard, perhaps the one to which your parents held  you up, and judging them to be somehow deficient because they don’t meet those standards?  Do you feel that you always know what is best for them without allowing them to speak and to discuss their feelings with you?

We ask all of these questions of you because the way that you treat the children in your life demonstrates how you treat the new ideas, creative solutions and novel products or processes that you encounter in your life.  If you treat your children as the teachers that they really are, coming into the world with fresh new ideas about things you considered fixed in concrete, then you can grow through your experience of the world through the eyes of the children.  If, on the other hand, you believe that you have all the answers and they have only questions, then you rob yourself of the delight to be had in seeing through children’s eyes the wonders that are around you.  You cheat yourself of the possibilities for growth t hat are inherent in having young eyes size up a situation with a fresh perspective.  You deny the world the ‘new’ and condemn it to repeat the errors of the past, limiting the thinking of those who might, instead, expand thought into new realms of consciousness.

New ideas are brought to human consciousness with every minute of human existence.  Those who refuse to consider that a new idea has merit doom humanity to live in an unconsciousness that is filled with darkness, with little hope of the Light.  But those who are willing to be led by the children with new ideas, new thoughts, new beliefs are assisting all of humanity in the evolution of consciousness and will find themselves living an expanded life.

Listen to the children.  Suspend your limited thinking and expand what you believe so that you can see a new reality.  This is the excitement of the times.  This is the gift of the children to the adults of th e world.  Step into the wonder with them and let them hold your hand to lead you to more Light.

And so it is.

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MUSE-INGS: “Just BE Who You Are!”

August 31, 2011 — Rosemary

Be true to who you are.  Be your authentic self.  Just be you.

Does that concept confuse you?  Who ARE you, really?  Do you know?

It seems that we are supposed to know easily just who we are.  We can define the roles that we play: wife, mother, sister, grandmother, teacher, student, friend, etc.  But, does that really address who we are inside?  Who we were born to be in the Universe’s great scheme of things?  I think not.

So how do you answer the question of ‘Who are you, really?’

Try right now, for a few minutes, to come up with a good answer for that.  Don’t answer with what your roles are, or what your job is, or what your task for the day is, but really examine your inner being for some guidance here.  You are, of course, all of those roles, and all of the jobs and tasks, but there is something behind all of that that is very important for you to discover.

Who are you, really?

If you play with that idea, and catch yourself defining yourself by external measurements, then you will, at some point, start to get deeper answers that become more meaningful to you.  Are you hearing something about being a Being of Light?  Are you a Beacon?  Are you a Touchstone for others?  Are you a Giver?  A Listener?  A Timeless Spirit with a Gift to Share?  Who are you, really?

The possibilities are endless but they are not the same as ‘wife, mother, teacher, sister, etc.’ are they?

Bring your attention to how it feels as you explore who you really are.  Are you feeling confused?  Frustrated?  Angry?  Elated?  What are you feeling?  This will give you a clue about how close you are coming to the true answer to the question.

For many people, the answer to ‘Who am I?’ brings with it a feeling of the immense size of that answer.  And with that feeling of immensity comes the doubting energy that says, ‘Who do you think you are to be something that big?’  Am I right?  Did you hear that voice or something like it?  Well, let me tell you that that is not the voice of your inner self assisting you in accessing your authenticity, for who are you NOT to be that big?

The Universe and Mother Earth conspired to have you exist on this Planet at this time for the purpose of assisting the unfolding of the Universe’s Grand Plan.  You must step into your power, be the ‘who’ that you were born to be, so that you can fulfill your part in this Plan.  Who do you think you are to deny the Universe and Mother Earth your participation in this unfolding Grand Plan?  Aha, we have you there, right?

Thinking small and playing small do not serve you or anyone else.  Be the person you were born to be.  And do not worry about what you are to do.  ‘Being’ is more important than ‘doing.’  The ‘doing’ must follow from the ‘being’ who you are.

And Joy, a deep, abiding, inner sense of Joy, is the promised reward.

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MYSTIC MESSAGE: from The Divine Feminine: “Joy — the Reward for Being Who You Really Are!”

August 30, 2011 — Rosemary

Dear Ones,

Joy is a gift that you give yourself when you do the inner work required to experience personal and spiritual growth.  Think about how important it is to do the work, constantly and devotedly, to live a Conscious Life.  You cannot take ‘time off’ from this work.  But it does not need to be tedious.

When you make the commitment to live consciously you open yourself to the awareness of Life that starts within you.  Everything you do or think is then focused through the lens of the greater picture of how you live, what you choose and how you fit into the fabric of the Universe in a given moment.  Once you have learned the importance of becoming awake and aware at all times, you cannot go back to sleep.  Oh, you can choose at times to act as if you are ignorant of what we are saying, but there will always be a part of you that is longing for that consciousness of the greater import of what you are choosing and how you are living your life.

And Joy is the reward for living the Conscious Life!  This Joy of which we speak is the Joy that resides deep within you, that cannot be shaken by outer circumstances.  You will feel this deep Joy when you are staying awake and aware of the choices you make in a given day.  Noticing what is required of you by the others around you gives you a hint of the consequences of choosing to go back to sleep. People need for you to stay awake.  People around you have a need for you to be who you are, at all times.  When you find yourself believing that you must put up a false front for someone, question whether that person really needs to be in your life at this time.

Think about that.  If you cannot be yourself, your true, authentic, self, at all times with a person, then why are you in relationship with that person?  Time is speeding up for humans on Planet Earth at this time and there is no time to waste playing the game of being a different person for each other person with whom you interact.  Do you feel that you are walking on eggshells around a certain person because you cannot relax and be who you are?  Are you concerned about losing the love or respect of someone because you do not have the energy to keep up the pretense of being what they want or expect instead of who you really are?

Own your very essence, the true being that you are at your core.  The time for pretense has long passed.  Now is the time for authenticity.  Do you struggle with knowing who you really are?  Are you concerned that you have lost touch with your authentic inner self?  Then get some help in that discovery.  Go inside.  Consult with a guide.  Meditate or journal or work with someone until you know, with certainty, who you are.

For you are very important to the Plan of the Universe as it is unfolding.  The 21st Century is a time where this Plan is developing and expanding and manifesting the reality of the rest of the Century and you play an integral part in that Plan.  But first you must be clear about who you are.  Then you must be that and only that.

And we promise you that Joy is the reward you will receive for committing to be your authentic self in the World!

And so it is.

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MUSE-INGS: Clean the Lens or Change the Prescription!

August 24, 2011 — Rosemary

Relationships. Always a challenge. Always an opportunity. Always a potential source of joy.

Sometimes we think immediately of an intimate or love relationship when we hear the word, but we are in relationships with others whether they be long term, intimate or just the person who is the cashier at the grocery store. Do you think of relationships in this way?

When a grocery cashier seems to be having a bad day or appears grumpy, what is your reaction? Do you get grumpy in response or do you get understanding and sympathetic? When your child is angry and upset and possibly screaming at you, do you react in kind or do you try to look at things from their perspective? When your partner has upset you, are you in reactive mode or thoughtful mode to see what you are really feeling and which lens you are looking through?

I was working with a client recently and received this guidance for her: Give yourself permission to have the reaction but choose the best response. You don’t have to follow through with the reaction. You have options to respond a different way. It can be easy to keep going with the initial knee-jerk reaction but when you are living a Conscious Life you hit the pause button, notice the reaction but choose the appropriate response.

For example, those of us who are helpers tend to jump to help another when we perceive the need. But is this the best response? Are we looking through our own lens and not allowing them to have theirs? Our reaction might be to jump in and help but perhaps the best response is to support them in finding their own solution.

Or someone might be angry and our immediate reaction is to feel that they are angry at us. They might not even be noticing us at the time but we react to their anger without pausing to see if that is the best response for us to choose at the time. Maybe our Dad hit us when he was angry and the little child in us is afraid that will happen again whenever we are around anger. Or we had a lover once who shouted angrily just before they stormed out of the door, never to be seen again, and we are reacting with our fear of being abandoned again.

There is always so much more going on in any relationship than meets the eye at the surface of things. Allow yourself the freedom to take time to notice where you are in your own feelings as you relate to others. Are YOU having a bad day and the grocery cashier being slow allows you to vent your feelings on them? Is your partner really upsetting you or are you already upset about something and they are merely triggering your reaction?

Be conscious of your feelings. If you need to, then practice going inside to assess what is true for you in this present moment. Your lens has been created by all of your life experiences and it exists at an unconscious level within you. It’s not something that you can access through analysis or your mind. You must learn to feel your feelings and to express them appropriately. But this can only happen if you take time to do the inner work, uncover what exists at the unconscious level and bring it into your awareness.

The most important relationship you have is the one with yourself. Are you looking at yourself through a harsh, judgmental lens, created from your past experiences? Or is your lens foggy with misconceptions or blurry images that you haven’t taken the time to examine and clear up? Maybe the place to start is to work on this internal relationship first. Then you can change the prescription on your lens and see all your other relationships in a new light!

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