This week the theme is getting over ourselves – to stop the self-sabatoge. Today’s throwback video continues this theme and addresses releasing blocks. It’s from about a year ago:
ROSEMARY’S INSPIRATION: What Are You Holding Back in Yourself?
October 7, 2014 — RosemaryMy “Two-Minute” Video for this Week: What Are You Holding Back in Yourself?
ROSEMARY’S EXPLORATION: Hostage Situation – Inside Yourself?
October 3, 2014 — RosemaryWhat part of you is holding another part hostage?
If that question is hard to answer, then try this one: What is Fear keeping you from doing in your life?
We have so many fears, many of them unconscious, and they can cripple our progress through life. Sometimes it is a fear of public speaking (have you heard that this is often greater than the fear of death?) or it might be a fear of spiders. Some have a fear of flying that keeps them from enjoying vacations to distant lands.
But most of the fears that I see with clients represent a conflict between a part that wants to step forward and a part that is afraid to do that.
It can be around any issue: a relationship, a job, money, family, taking a risk, making a decision. There is a feeling of wanting to move and yet, at the same time, a sense of paralysis.
Have you ever felt this way? Perhaps you are feeling this today around something that is going on in your life.
What have you thought about doing that you are not doing YET? What has been hanging around waiting for the perfect time for you to commit to it? Where do you want to go in your life that you have been afraid to move toward?
There is always some fear lurking in the issue when we feel torn about a decision or making a move in a certain direction. Sometimes the fear is that we don’t know what to do next. It might be a fear that we’ll make the wrong decision or choice and there will be consequences.
The part inside of you that is holding you hostage to a fear may not be revealing the exact nature of that fear to you. Often a client will come to me with one issue and the REAL issue is something behind the one they can see.
I spent a VIP Day with a client once who wanted to plan out her business and marketing as we discussed in her preparatory session. She came with calendars and plans in hand. What happened during our hours together, though, showed why she had been unable to get those plans organized.
There were family issues to be resolved before her unconscious mind would allow her to leap forward in her business. We spent most of the time working through the blocks and fears that had been lurking behind her indecisiveness.
After the work of clearing those blocks and fears, we sailed through the business part of the planning!
That is the power of CLEARING THE FEAR! When a part of you is being held hostage by a fearful part, you must learn what the fear is and how to satisfy the part that holds the fear BEFORE you can take the next step in whatever area of your life where you feel stuck.
How are you holding yourself back in your life? Have you identified the fear?
Move the fear out of the way so that you can move freely toward the life you desire!
ROSEMARY’S INSPIRATION: Ask “What’s Holding Me Back?”
June 10, 2014 — RosemaryMy “Two-Minute” Video for this Week: Ask “What’s Holding Me Back?”
PS: Did you get the word that my Possibilities Playshop has moved on the calendar? We have moved it to the Summer Solstice, June 21, 2014. Time: 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM; place: Severna Park, Maryland. Early-bird registration here
The Playshop is your opportunity to break through those blocks!
And if you are not in the Maryland/DC area watch for the opportunity to purchase the digital recordings.
ROSEMARY’S EXPLORATION: Blocked?
June 6, 2014 — RosemarySometimes the hardest thing to recognize is a block or a pattern that is holding us back from manifesting our magnificence. We don’t know what we don’t know.
So often clients come to me for help with a certain issue or problem in their life or business or relationship and the REAL problem is a block somewhere else. When that block is cleared, the other issues improve.
We don’t know what we don’t know because it is the unconscious mind that has so much power and it operates, well, unconsciously.
Be grateful for your unconscious mind. It keeps your heart pumping and your brain functioning and your lungs breathing and a whole lot of other processes operating in your life without your having to consciously make things happen. However, that same unconscious mind is operating in ways that can cause patterns and blocks that you might not know consciously, and might not have chosen if you did know, and you struggle with understanding why you can’t get things done or why you seem to be blocked from your successes.
Understand that THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH YOU! You are not broken and you do not need to be fixed.
But if you are feeling stuck or blocked or have patterns of behavior that you want to change but can’t seem to do this on your own, it’s a signal that you are ready to do some personal growth work. You are ready to leap forward and clear what is happening at the unconscious level so that you are free to move into your conscious choices, your conscious dreams.
Do you have a pattern that you have tried to change but willpower alone isn’t getting you to your goals? Are you stuck in ideas that maybe belong in someone else’s life or time but they are somehow cropping up in yours? Do you have trouble seeing possibilities because the problems block the view
These are signs that point to the way forward for you on your path of growth. Nobody moves forward without moving through obstacles. Some are small and others are huge. Sometimes the path is smooth and we lull ourselves into a sense of security about having ‘arrived.’ At other times, the path seems to us as if it is totally blocked, that there is no way to move forward. How easy it would be to turn around and go back to the comfort of the familiar, or to stay stuck and play the victim!
But, if you are reading these words, then you are called to continue forward on your path. Take a step in the direction of your dreams. If you feel blocked, if you stumble, rejoice that you are growing. There are ways to see beyond what is holding you back. There are tools to help you and people to support you in your growth.
Find the help that you need. But don’t go looking for the steps AROUND the blocks! They won’t get you far.
In these days of the 21st Century we don’t have time to delay. We are called to live our Purpose. Staying stuck or blocked doesn’t accomplish that.
Be who you REALLY are. Ask for help if you need it. Move through the blocks and grow.
Blocked? You can choose not to be!
ROSEMARY’S INSPIRATION: It’s Time to Release the Blocks
October 22, 2013 — RosemaryMy “Two-Minute” video for the week: It’s Time to Release the Blocks
PS: Are you waiting to hear from The Other Side? Maybe your next step will be revealed. Are you looking for advice from beyond the usual? Join Rosemary for a Conversation with The Other Side at 7:00 PM Eastern, November 1 – All Saints Day. If you are in Maryland, join us in person. Or, join us by televideo conference or simply by phone. Learn more here.
ROSEMARY’S INSPIRATION: Energy and Freedom
July 9, 2013 — RosemaryMy “Two-Minute” video for the week: Energy and Freedom
PS: My Conversation with The Other Side this Saturday, July 13, promises to be another great evening. For a sample of the depth and detail of the messages you can expect to hear, I have posted some samples on my website: Sample Messages. Go to the link to hear and see how this works and how you can benefit with messages from The Other Side! Attendance is easy from anywhere in the world!
MYSTIC MESSAGE from The Divine Feminine: Clear the Fear!
August 1, 2011 — RosemaryDear Ones,
We are concerned about the effect of the energy of Fear on the physical bodies of our children on Earth. All of you are subject to occasional fear but we are seeing that the amount of time many of you spend feeling fearful has been increasing over the past decade and your bodies are showing the effects of this period of fear.
We would wish for you to find a way to surrender to the Power of the Universe to create the energies required for the Master Plan to unfold. Those who would keep you in Fear are trying to change the Plan to one of their own making. They cannot succeed unless they obtain the compliance of a vast number of human beings. Do not be one of those compliant beings.
Look around you at your life and create lists of what you see, categorized by that which you love in your life, that which you like and would like to keep in your life, that which you absolutely need in your life, that which you cannot change in your life, and that which you would like to change and can change. Some items and people will fall in multiple categories in your lists.
Now look at these lists and ask yourself where fear has kept you from creating the life you desire. Can you see the influence that fear might have had over your life to date?
Notice that there are others who feel they can lead you where they want you to be if they make you fearful. How much of your life is because you have allowed yourself to be led into this kind of fear?
Step up above your list so that your mind can expand into possibilities that you have not yet considered for your Life. How might you change your lists if you can access the Field of All Possibilities for yourself? THIS is the place from which you can make the most informed decisions in your life.
But it may not be easy for you to reach beyond the life you see into the life that can be. Consider that you may have a distorted vision of what is possible in your life. You may have blocks that need to be cleared, limiting beliefs to be released, fears that no longer serve you and must be removed.
Just as you must periodically visit the eye doctor to have your vision checked and, perhaps, to get a new prescription for your glasses, you must also periodically check your inner vision for distortions and change the lens through which you view your life.
This is the process for releasing fears that hold you back – clear your vision so that you can understand that the distortion you perceive and fear as a saber-toothed tiger is a limiting belief that you have the power to change. New vision helps you to see clearly the possibilities that lie before you.
Remove yourself from the grip of fear by clearing the blocks that stand between you and your breakthrough!
And So It Is!
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MUSE-INGS: What Are You Waiting For?
October 5, 2010 — RosemaryI really hear this message! It’s so easy to procrastinate, to put off bringing in or doing something that we REALLY want and the excuses we use can be pretty lame. How often have you done this yourself? I know I’m guilty!
When I move to the right house, when I have the right partner, when I have $X in the bank, when I get a new job… It goes on and on. There are so many good reasons to postpone doing something. And yet if we are thinking about doing that ‘thing,’ whatever it is, there must be some energy available to it in the moment, some energy to support the thought. Thoughts are things, right? And thoughts, as everything, are made up of energy. So it follows that there’s some energy there.
In 1974 I was waiting to move into the perfect house on the water before getting pregnant, but finally decided that I wasn’t getting any younger and that maybe I had the wrong priority. We ended up finding the perfect house on the water the same weekend I got pregnant with my daughter and moved in months before the birth. Funny how that seems to work, isn’t it?
So what are you waiting for? And what can you do today, right NOW, to move in the direction of what you desire?
I have so many ideas floating around in my head for workshops, classes, teleseminars and all they are waiting for is for me to get them on the calendar. What holds me back? If I’m honest, it can be a fear of committing to the calendar. Maybe there is a little insecurity about, “What if I schedule it and no one signs up?” And yet is it fair to people who want to take the workshops, classes and teleseminars for me to withhold myself from them because of my ‘stuff’?
There are some magnificent artists who feel they aren’t good enough to sell their artwork, and yet the rest of us would love to purchase it, given the chance. There are some amazing singers who think it’s okay to sing in the shower but are afraid to share that talent in public. There are books and articles waiting to be published because the author judges them ‘not ready’ or ‘not interesting enough’ for sharing with others. I’m thinking that this becomes pretty self-focused — maybe we are given the talents and abilities that we have so that we can share these with others.
In many cultures, storytelling is an art and everyone is expected to share around the campfire or the town square. People don’t judge, they just share whatever they have to share. Can we adopt that attitude in our society? Let’s agree to just share, not judge or wait for the perfect time. We can agree to accept whatever the response is, without judging ourselves or others, and allow the impetus to come from within, to just share what is inside us. If there truly is a stumbling block, an obstacle, then we can decide to accept help, to do the personal growth work or the spiritual work, and then to move forward.
Take one step today. If you would like to examine the blocks or obstacles, then make an appointment with a counselor or coach and do the work. But figure out that one step and then take it. It can open a floodgate to the energy you were looking for to keep moving!
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Blocked? – Richard’s Commentary
June 11, 2014 — RichardIt was a bright, sunny day with low humidity and a light breeze – a lovely June day in Maryland. I stopped at the bank on the way home to get some cash for the farmers’ market the next day. Because it was a sunny, bright day I wore my new “reader sunglasses” – sunglasses with a bifocal area for magnification to aid these aging eyes when reading in bright light. I needed to take them off to see the ATM screen at the bank; I placed them on the handy ledge below the machine.
I was halfway home when I realized I wasn’t wearing my sunglasses – my route is shady and the light less bright. I quick search of my many-pocketed vest – my alternative to carrying a purse – turned up empty. Reverse, dash back to the bank – no sunglasses on the ledge. Inside the bank the teller I know by name is free – “did anyone turn in a pair of sunglasses in the last few minutes?” She looks at other tellers and in their lost-and-found area – “no, sorry.”
I am disappointed – mostly in myself. Why these lapses? And when will I listen to my unconscious mind, my intuition? You see, when I placed my sunglasses on that little ledge under the ATM I had a brief glimpse of forgetting them there – just a flash. And I may even have muttered to myself – “don’t forget your sunglasses there.”
If I listened to that voice my unconscious mind heard “forget your sunglasses there.” The unconscious mind does not process negatives. It only hears and processes positive statements – I learned this in hypnosis and NLP training when I went to a few classes with Rosemary when she was earning her certifications.
So, how am I blocked from listening to my intuition, changing my language used in “self-talk” to make only positive statement and become more fully aware, in every moment, of what is going on within me and all around me? And, what do I do about it?
Here’s what Rosemary writes in her post about this subject:
Be grateful for your unconscious mind. It keeps your heart pumping and your brain functioning and your lungs breathing and a whole lot of other processes operating in your life without your having to consciously make things happen. However, that same unconscious mind is operating in ways that can cause patterns and blocks that you might not know consciously, and might not have chosen if you did know, and you struggle with understanding why you can’t get things done or why you seem to be blocked from your successes.
Yes, that seems true for me and does explain the blockage to becoming fully aware so that sunglasses are not lost. Is there a solution to the blocks; a way to move into full awareness?
Rosemary writes: …if you are reading these words, then you are called to continue forward on your path. Take a step in the direction of your dreams. If you feel blocked, if you stumble, rejoice that you are growing. There are ways to see beyond what is holding you back. There are tools to help you and people to support you in your growth.
Another lesson, another growth opportunity. Is this what my lost sunglasses episode is telling me? Here you can imagine hearing a loud groan!
It was just about a year ago (June 28, 2013, as a matter of fact) that I wrote a similar post here titled “Awareness.” In that post I told the Zen tale of Nan-in and Tenno. The master, Nan-in, asked Tenno when he arrived on a rainy day to which side of the door he had placed his umbrella and clogs on entering Nan-in’s house. Tenno could not answer; he studied at the feet of Nan-in for 10 more years to become fully aware!
I guess this means I have another nine years to go, another nine years of practice and study and “lessons in lost sunglasses”!