NEWS FROM ROSEMARY

February 4, 2011 — Rosemary

Greetings from a lovely sunny LA!  I hope everyone in the snowy places is doing all right and staying warm!  We’re headed back to Colorado Springs Friday but I come back to LA on the 9th.  Already feels like home!  No snow to shovel!

Happy Chinese New Year!  And I hope you celebrated all the February 2nd holidays:  Imbolc [in the Southern Hemisphere it’s Lammas!], Candlemas, Groundhog Day [Punxsutawney Phil did not see his shadow!] and New Moon.  It was also our half-birthday since we both have birthdays on August 2nd.  Take time to celebrate SOMETHING whenever you can.

I hope you’re ready to earn your FREE personal power strategy session with me.  Remember that you only have to refer 2 new clients who have completed their paid sessions and you will receive a free session for yourself.  This referral plan is only in effect for a limited time so suggest to your friends that they schedule a FREE Get Acquainted Session with me to see if we are a fit to work together.

Back by popular demand: Conversation with The Other Side on Monday, February 28, 2011 at 7:00 PM.  It’s filling up fast and this might be the last one held in person in Colorado Springs.   Click this link to register.

Have a wonderful week.  Use the energy of this New Moon and the Chinese New Year to invite something special into your life.  Let the New help you to clear out the Old.

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BOOK LIGHTS: from “21 Days with Braco” by Angelika Whitecliff

February 2, 2011 — Rosemary

“No matter how broken or damaged the soil around us, we are indestructible seedlings that ever contain the template and capacity to come fully to bloom.”

from 21 Days with Braco
by Angelika Whitecliff

Nothing can stop us when we value our gifts.  We bloom.  Just like the little plant that grows through the concrete sidewalk.  It can’t not be that plant.

How can you develop your gifts and share them more broadly this week?

Rosemary
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MUSE-INGS: “Lift the Basket from your gifts!” by Rosemary Bredeson

February 1, 2011 — Rosemary

If I were to ask you to make a list of your gifts, would you be able to do that?  Right now, writing them down?  Or would you have to ponder this and listen to that little voice inside your head that puts you down for thinking that you are ‘gifted’?

You DO have gifts.  Not everyone is a Mozart but everyone IS the composer of their own life.  You string together the notes of the melody by the choices that you make every day.  Big and little choices.  Are they harmonious?  Or do they seem discordant at times?  The harmonious times are the ones in which you are living with and sharing your gifts so that you are in flow with the World around you.

I know people who have the gift of peacemaking – they are able to mediate disputes, to settle arguments, to smooth ruffled feathers.  How upsetting situations could be around them if they kept their mouths shut and refused to negotiate peace.  Others have the gift of being incisive and organized and they share that gift with others.  Still others are musicians who play for the joy of the sharing.

Your gifts don’t have to be shared in your occupation or your work. You don’t have to go into business sharing your gifts, although you can.  Sometimes your greatest gift is to be shared with the people who are closest to you, those you live with, your family.  Search your inner self and be honest as you identify, accept and value your own gifts.

Look at your childhood.  What talents and gifts did you display?  Were you always drawing pictures?  Maybe you are creative at problem solving rather than painting art.  Were you always building something, from blocks, your Erector Set, model kits?  Perhaps your gift is to be the architect of new solutions to old problems, building computers or software, building structure out of chaos.

I used to play Catholic priest.  OK, I was a girl and the Church wouldn’t ordain me but that didn’t change the fact that I was always the one who lined up the neighborhood kids and played ‘Communion,’ where I would give them Necco Wafers instead of the host.  I went on to be ordained but not by the Catholic Church and Communion isn’t Necco Wafers but I do feel I have a gift as a spiritual teacher.

In my childhood I also saw things that others couldn’t see.  This was the seed of the intuitive gifts that I now use in my work as an intuitive coach and medium.  Imaginary friends are glimpses through the veil between dimensions and indicate gifts of a special kind of ‘sight’ in kids who have these friends.  Our granddaughter, when she was a crawling infant, used to comfort the other kids at day care when they got upset.  The nurse at the center said they called Makayla their ‘little healer’ because she could calm a screaming baby with a look or a touch.  All this before she could even walk!  Makayla does have a gift of healing that was evident as a tiny infant.

So what is your gift?  What gifts do you have that you have been hiding under a basket?  Maybe it is time now for you to lift the basket and share your gifts.

These gifts are meant to be given!  Thank you for sharing your gifts with the rest of us.

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THIS WEEK’S MYSTIC MESSAGE from The Divine Feminine: “Give Away the Gifts You Have”

January 31, 2011 — Rosemary

Dear Ones,

The energy within you, the gifts you have been given, are not for you alone.  You are meant to share your gifts with the World and especially with those who are close around you.

Do you mistakenly believe that you do not have gifts?  We would tell you that everyone who takes on human form on Planet Earth brings with them into this lifetime many gifts.  Are you not recognizing those gifts that are yours?

Start by looking at what other people value in you.  What strengths do you bring to your relationships?  What are people reflecting back to you about their relationship with you?  What are people asking you to do for them or share with them or advise them about?  The answers to these questions will bring you clues about your gifts and what they are.

Remember when you were a little child, what was your favorite game to play?  This, too, will give you a clue to your gifts.  What did you dream about becoming when you grew up?  What kind of books did you read or movies did you watch?  Can you look at your young life and see a pattern emerging that indicates what gifts you incarnated with?

The gifts you have are yours to share because you are a part of a Universal Plan that is unfolding as your entire Soul Group has requested it.  Each member of a Soul Group agrees before incarnating that they will hold a certain energy to support the growth and evolution of the consciousness of all the others in that group.  Throughout your life the contact with other members of your Soul Group may become stronger or it may lessen but you have agreed to be a part of the lessons that all members are learning.  They have agreed to help you to learn your lessons as well.

Your gifts are the parts of you that enhance the lives of others around you.  For example, one who has a gift of music must share that music and, thus, enhance the lives around them.  For you, your gift might be a gift of healing and you bring healing energy to those with whom you come into contact.  Perhaps your gift is the gift of making other people feel comfortable, and you will find that there are many opportunities along your path for you to do so.

Whatever your gifts are, make sure that you are sharing them.  If you are not sure what gifts you have, then work with someone who can help you to uncover them.  You have gifts – this is a certainty.  If you are looking for the gift of creativity and your gift is to hold the traditional form then you will not recognize or value your own gifts.  You must accept without judgment the gifts that are yours for they have a place in the grander scheme of Life on Planet Earth.  When you deny your gifts or refuse to share them then you are impacting far more people than just yourself.

Be open.  Be honest with yourself about your gifts.  Recognize, develop and share your gifts.  Your gifts are for giving to others.

And so it is.

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NEWS FROM ROSEMARY

January 28, 2011 — Rosemary

It’s nice to be back in LA. I’m attending Baeth Davis’ Claim Your Spotlight Program with a fabulous group of women who are looking to expand their experience of stepping into the spotlight of sharing their gifts.  It is a wonderful blessing to be surrounded by intelligent, caring people who are committed to manifesting their Life Purpose in the world.

Next week we’ll be at Marina Del Rey for Ali Brown’s coaching retreat.  All of my clients benefit from all of the coaching I am receiving because I share what I learn that can help them.  I hope you are stretching yourself and working on your own growth all the time.  That’s what we are put on Earth to do – learn lessons and grow in consciousness. [And Baeth would add – ‘and to have fun!’]

Did you look at the details of my referral program?  Remember that you can earn a FREE Beyond Coaching Empowerment Strategy Session by referring 2 people to me.  After they complete their paid sessions we will schedule yours.  Check out this link:  Referral System.

This ezine is going out on the 11th anniversary of my Mother’s making her transition to The Other Side.  Who have you lost that you’d like to connect with again?

Back by popular demand:  I am offering a Conversation with The Other Side on Monday, February 28 in Colorado Springs.  This might be the last one I do in the live format.  If you are interested in getting a message from your angel, spirit guide or a loved one who has crossed over, then be sure to register soon.  Spaces are very limited and they are filling fast.  Here’s the link to register:  Other Side Registration.

Hope you have a fantastic week!  Remember that there’s a New Moon on February 3rd so be ready to invite in something new to your life.  Be sure to use the old moon until then to help you release that which no longer serves your highest good.  Happy Groundhog’s Day!  Happy Imbolc!  February 2nd is a special day.  The days are getting noticeably longer.  Take heart – Spring is approaching!

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BOOK LIGHTS: from “Infinite Life: Seven Virtues for Living Well” by Robert Thurman

January 26, 2011 — Rosemary

“When you give something away, you experience great karmic gain, since you have thereby not only helped another person, but also freed yourself from attachment to that object. But you engage in your act of generosity only with the other person’s well-being in mind.”

from Infinite Life:
Seven Virtues for Living Well
by Robert Thurman

One of the most important things we can learn is to give generously, not for a ‘thank you’ or even to focus on the ‘great karmic gain’ that is ours, but to give, to fill a need, to share.  On balance, though, we also need to learn to receive generously, allowing others to have the experience of giving to us.  When we live a Conscious Life, we learn how to do both.
Rosemary

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MUSE-INGS: “Greedy Hermit or Compassionate Conscious Being” by Rosemary Bredeson

January 25, 2011 — Rosemary

Well, I, for one, do not want to be a ‘greedy hermit’!

And, yet, sometimes it feels greedy to just want a little time alone when there are so many demands being placed on our time and energy.  How to strike a balance?

The first way to do this is to get in touch with what is going on inside you in this present moment.  Asking yourself how you feel, what’s happening inside with relation to outside, is an important tool to cultivate.  Oftentimes we go through our days on a sort of autopilot that keeps us from being really aware of the energies within and around us.  We plow through our to-do lists, going from one project or activity to another.  How many times have you said to yourself or others, ‘In a minute…’?  Can you find a way to pause and be fully present to this moment NOW?

When we pause and take a breath into this moment we are connecting with our body and our own energy and there is a lot of information available to us through this connection.  When we are aware, we can sense our feelings and the energies of those around us.  The more you practice this skill the greater will be your awareness of these energies.

For example, if you are blithely going through your day and yet a co-worker or spouse or child is struggling with their day, do you take time to notice?  Or are you so wrapped up in your own stuff that you are oblivious to that struggle?  It is not a judgment against you if the answer is ‘yes’ but this could be your wake-up call that sometimes you need to come up for air and, like a submarine’s periscope, scan the horizon for what is going on around you.

Do you participate in conversations or discussions without really listening to what others are saying, verbally and non-verbally?  Maybe you can start checking on yourself every so often to see where your attention has been and bring it back to connecting with those around you.

Watching your language, your tone of voice, making eye contact, your body language – all of these awarenesses can lead you to improving the connections that you have with others.  With more information about what is going on with the other or others, compassion can rise up in your heart and you can offer that energy in response to what is going on.  If you are clueless to what is happening around you, then you cannot connect to compassion.  And you want to.

Compassion is a very high frequency energy that is important to the world today.  The more we can share that energy the more the Planet can benefit.  One compassionate act can also bring others along with it.  The compassionate one can bring awareness to the clueless, can move the ‘greedy hermit’ into consideration of others.  Compassion can be contagious!  Wouldn’t you like to be the Typhoid Mary of Compassion?

Make a commitment to yourself that you are going to spread compassion this week wherever you find yourself.  At a gathering, look around for the person who seems lonely or alone and chat with them.  At home, look at the others in your household and really see them.  Ask questions and stay interested in their answers.  On the street or at the mall, try walking around smiling at people, saying, ‘Excuse me’ if you bump into them, or even if they bump into you.  Ask the server at the restaurant how they are doing and listen to their answer.  Spread compliments [heart-felt, please!] everywhere you go.  If you are looking for something to compliment you will not be focused on finding fault.

Become more aware of others and of what is going on inside you.  Awareness brings consciousness and compassion can spring from that.  See what it feels like to keep yourself in this high frequency energy!

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THIS WEEK’S MYSTIC MESSAGE from The Divine Feminine: “Are you a ‘greedy hermit’?”

January 24, 2011 — Rosemary

Dear Ones,

A Conscious Life demands that an individual be aware at all times of their thoughts, their feelings, the effect of what they are saying and doing on others, and the impact that every thought they hold has on the Universe at large.  One cannot live a Conscious Life while ignoring others around them nor can one choose to be a ‘greedy hermit,’ one who chooses to think only of themselves and to gather what they can to themselves without concern about the greater good of All or the impact to others.

This means that, if you wish to live a Conscious Life, then you must find compassion within your heart as you go about every decision in your day.

Compassion goes far beyond giving alms to the poor or volunteering at a homeless shelter.  Compassionate living requires constant attention to the people around you and those who will be impacted by your actions.  Are you throwing trash on the floor that someone later must bend over and pick up?  Are you expecting service from a restaurant worker and leaving a small tip or none at all?  Do you celebrate that a clerk in a store made an error in your favor on your bill, forgetting or ignoring the fact that that clerk must pay that difference out of their own pocket?

And how do you treat the people you live with?  Are you more courteous to your co-workers than to your family?  Do you excuse rude behavior at home because you are tired from working all day?  Do you have time for those who ask it of you, like a spouse or child or parent or friend?  Or are you constantly finding excuses to avoid giving your time to others who might want or need it?

What do your thoughts in a day say about your level of compassion?  When you pass someone in need, do you help or offer help or do you get angry at their being in your sphere?  What kind of energy are you sending out with your thoughts of and toward others?  How do you feel about debates in your society?  Do your decisions, about politics or contributions or choosing friends, come from a place of genuine compassion for others or do they stem from prejudices, fears, intolerances?

All of these questions can lead you to an understanding of how a person who is living consciously does not compartmentalize compassion.  When you choose a path in life that causes you to find fault with others, to criticize, to avoid interactions with those whom you deem unacceptable, according to some arbitrary criteria, then you are choosing a path away from the Path of Compassion.  You might not even realize that you are making this choice but moving through Life in an unconscious manner causes you to lack compassion because you are unaware of the needs of others.

Practice compassion in your Life.  Look around you with open eyes.  Evaluate what you are doing and thinking by expanding your awareness to all who will be affected by your actions and thoughts.  Really take the time to listen to others, to hear their hidden messages as they share with you.  Become aware of your voice, your tone, your look when you communicate with another.  Are you sending out the energy of caring and compassion or are you discounting that person?  Are you in a conversation listening to the other person or are you busy thinking about what you want to say, or what you think, or what all this means for you?

The ‘greedy hermit’ thinks only of what they want, what they think they need.  This kind of greed blocks the compassionate energy that all humans are born with.  Little toddlers will try to share or to comfort or to help.  When they learn to differentiate themselves from others they start to use the term ‘mine’ to try to define themselves and to learn where their boundaries are.  If raised in a compassionate environment, they will continue to share and to care about the feelings of others.  But if they are raised to grab all they can for themselves without regard to the consequences to others then they will learn to put on blinders and to shut down natural compassionate urges.

Model compassion for all around. Care.  Listen.  Share, especially yourself.  As you give this sharing energy into the Universe, the Universe will respond with the same kind of energy toward you.  Sharing keeps you from becoming a ‘greedy hermit’!

And so it is.

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NEWS FROM ROSEMARY

January 21, 2011 — Rosemary

Don’t you love the ways the numbers are working out with this year’s dates?  Today is 1-21-2011 [or 21-1-2011 if you’re a day-month-year place] and it just feels as if we have a lot of 1s representing new beginnings plus the 2s for partnership.  Maybe this is the year we’ll learn to get along together and collaborate.  Let’s all focus on ramping up that energy!

We’re heading to Los Angeles soon for several seminars, starting with Baeth Davis’ then to Ali Brown’s and finally James Malinchak’s.  Three weeks of learning great stuff to help me share my gifts with you and with the world.  I also share what I learn with clients so my small business owners and entrepreneurs get a lot of derived benefit from all the coaching I’ve been getting.  You can’t be a good coach to others if you’re not receiving coaching yourself! Hope to see you at one of these events or in LA if you’re a local there!

Have a great week and Be Compassionate!

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BOOK LIGHTS: from “Infinite Life: Seven Virtues for Living Well” by Robert Thurman

January 19, 2011 — Rosemary

“Think of how infinite you can feel while staring at the ocean, marveling at how those waves have continued tumbling ceaselessly, churning forth life for billions of years.  Or consider the profound sense of connection with all life you gain from gazing up at a clear night sky in the wilderness, marveling at the inconceivable profusion of stars in the vast depths of space.”

from Infinite Life:
Seven Virtues for Living Well
by Robert Thurman

How do you experience ‘the profound sense of connection with all life’?  Robert Thurman offers a couple of ways.  I look at people and their pets.  How easy it is to love and accept those fluffballs of fur and to feel that they are the ones connecting to us!  We are all One.  Remember that the astronauts who viewed Planet Earth from space for the first time saw one blue planet.  We are One with Mother Earth as well as with each other.  Let’s love all of us!

Rosemary

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