BOOK LIGHTS: from The Law of Attraction is NOT a Secret

“What would happen if we allowed ourselves to take the time to just ‘be’?  Would our world stop or spin out of control because we slowed down for a bit?  No, of course it wouldn’t.  There wouldn’t be any dire circumstances from allowing ourselves to be, to take a break from activity and hustle and bustle for no reason other than to enjoy ourselves.  There would be no negative repercussions from sitting down and relaxing with the knowledge that we are comfortable with who we are and what we want.  In other words, we don’t have to feel bad about feeling good!”

by Anita Wheeler

I highly recommend finding some time to just ‘be’!  You might have to do as I’ve done and leave the house for a couple of days so that you’re not distracted by all the projects waiting for you to complete them.  Or go to your local coffee shop, have a cup of [fill in the blank with your favorite beverage] and look off into space, watch the people walking by on the street, read a trashy novel.  Of course, if you can get away to meditate and walk in nature you’ll benefit even more, but the exercise doesn’t have to take money or much time.  Just give yourself the gift of time to just ‘be’!

Rosemary


THIS WEEK’S MYSTIC MESSAGE from The Divine Feminine: Redirect the Conversation.

Dear Ones,

Instead of having conversations with people around the current situations on Planet Earth, especially in the United States, we would have you redirect the conversations to specific steps that people can take.

First, people need to go inside their hearts and find the space of peace, of centeredness that is their Being.  They must breathe into this space for a moment.

The next step to take is to step up above the situation being discussed and to see it from a Higher Perspective.  Why would the Universe allow this situation to exist? What good can come from this situation?

Having a perspective on the positive possibilities that exist in the situation, each individual must then ask, ‘What is mine to do about this situation?’  Each must be patient for the answer to this question might not become obvious immediately. If the answer is not clear then one is to take no action at that time.  This includes continuing the discussion at hand.

Sometimes the next step is to educate others.  This can take the form of more discussion, the suggestion of reading material, or a sharing of knowledge and resources. People are very emotional and are especially clinging to their fear of coming changes because they have been told to fear the very possibility of change.  Yes, it is the mere mention to some that things might change that drives them into panic.

Consider the source of this panic.  It is not the possibility of catastrophe that has them so panicky – it is the possibility that things might change.  Even if they are uncomfortable with the way things are currently they have been trained to approach all things with fear, especially a change from the ‘status quo.’

This tactic has been used to control human beings since the first hierarchical structure was put into place.  If one person can put another person (or group of people) into the energy of fear, then that person gains control by offering to protect people from that which they fear. The original source of the fear may be fabricated, but it does not matter to the unconscious mind of one who is fearful.  They long to have someone to protect them from that which they fear.

Now go back to a conversation about what is happening around you and notice that fear can lead to anger looking for someone on whom to place the blame for this fearful state.  People settle on blaming whatever they are told to blame.  (Remember that in their fearful state they are easy to control and to lead where the controller wishes.)  When you find yourself in one of these conversations be careful to avoid becoming a controller of others.  Share what you know and invite the others to go inside themselves to find their own empowerment.

It is only from this place that true change, in the direction of the evolution of human consciousness, can take place.

And so it is.

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MUSE-INGS: What You Give, You Receive

Each of us CAN have a great impact on the world around us but it is so easy to become insular and forgetful of our place in the greater scheme of things.  Sometimes it feels as if we are alone, sometimes as if the crowds are crushing us, and sometimes we can feel both at the same time.  Yet we can choose to ‘be peace’ in a particular situation and to reap the benefits of that.

It is true that we receive as we give out.  What we give we get back multiplied.  This applies not just with money but with words, with energies.  We treat someone nicely and they treat the next person nicely, and the next person we encounter treats us nicely.  It is very simple, really.

On a grander scheme, if we meditate on Peace and Love, we enhance the energy of those vibrations.  There are studies showing the impact a group of meditators can have on the crime rate of a city, and it takes only 1 % of the residents meditating to have that positive impact.  If you and I agree that on a certain day we will focus on Peace for 5 minutes, imagine the impact we could have.  What if we each got 10 people to do that, and each of them got 10 people to do it, too?  We could have an impact.  As a matter of fact, I think I will propose this project on Facebook and choose a time, such as the Spring Equinox or Summer Solstice, where everyone can pause for 5 minutes and focus on Peace for Planet Earth.  If we all did this, and invited our friends to join us, we could have a rolling 5 minutes of Peace around the Planet for every time zone just as the Equinox or Solstice peaked.

So what can you do every day to participate in sharing the frequency of Peace and Love in your immediate world?  Can you greet people from a place of acceptance in your heart?  Can you drive your vehicle with tolerance and love toward others on the road?  How about picking up the telephone and calling someone just to let them know you were thinking of them with love or fondness?  How about, instead of raging at someone who has made a mistake or who has frustrated you today, you choose to take a deep breath and then create in your mind a reason why they might have done that and forgive them?

It doesn’t take long before acting this way becomes a habit.  You can shift your automatic pilot to react with peaceful feelings if you become aware of your instinctual reactions and pause before you act on them.  Learning to ‘hit the pause button’ is the first step to Conscious Living.  Focus this week on catching yourself about to slip into some negative energy and refocus that energy in a positive direction.  Wouldn’t you expect to have a positive week if that’s what kind of energy you put out there?

As a caveat, please do not equate a week of ‘smooth sailing’ with no glitches to be a positive week.  Those are nice, but Life brings with it many challenges, big and small.  It is not about what is thrown at us, but about how we respond to those challenges that make us evolving, conscious human beings.  Choose to respond in a positive fashion and others will react to you this way.

As an example, I had a frustrating visit to a 5-star hotel in California this week.  It started with my entering my assigned room and finding it already occupied, including dog!  There were several other mishaps and frustrations but I tried to maintain a peaceful attitude and asked specifically for the remedies I expected, all the while being friendly to the staff with whom I was interacting.  In every case they took care to offer me more than adequate recompense.  I suspect that if I had stormed and screamed they would not have been so generous.  And others who had problems were reluctant to bring it to the attention of management, but this is not spreading peace because they were feeling extreme frustration and anger.

So choose how you react to what comes to you in Life.  And choose that that reaction be one that spreads the vibration of Peace and Love around you.  The Planet will thank you and you will receive the benefits.

MUSE-INGS: Eat, Drink and Be Conscious

The children.  They should always be our concern when we are making decisions.  As any real estate agent will tell you, families with children are considering the number of bedrooms/bathrooms they need for the kids, the schools in the area, the protection of the yard for playing outdoors, where the parks are, how close to the road is the house, and lots of other factors.

But it seems we live in a crazy world where the food that goes into their bodies isn’t anywhere near as healthy as it should be.  Breakfast foods that aren’t really food don’t prepare the children for a good day of learning at school.  McDonald’s meals might not provide the healthiest balance of ingredients that they need.  Many kids refuse to eat the foods that Mom & Dad know they should eat.  What can a parent do?

It seems to me that everyone can only do their best.  Offering fast food only occasionally if at all is a start.  Buying fresh food choices and teaching the kids to prepare food introduces them to a future of healthy eating.  Your little one might really enjoy some one-on-one time in the kitchen with you as you prepare a meal together.  Some kids would love to help out but the folks are tired and just want to get the meal over with so they lose an opportunity for togetherness in the activity.

Sometimes kids are kept out of the kitchen to be out of the way for their own safety.  I used to worry when I heard that my little girl was peeling carrots in her Montessori classroom but she showed me at home, standing on a chair at the sink because she was so short, that she could safely handle a peeler and a carrot.  She learned to cook standing on a chair by the stove, with me close by.  Bring a child into the kitchen with you and teach her to use a recipe to prepare something delicious.

But it’s not just food, is it, that is harming our kids?  We need to understand how complicated life is in this 21st Century.  We’re all breathing air that is less than perfect for our bodies.  We all have to drink water and we pay huge amounts to try to get healthier water that doesn’t have chlorine or fluoride or bacteria in it but that does have the minerals we need.  I tried to get an ice cream cone in London from an American chain and was told they don’t carry Rocky Road because the ingredients are genetically-modified, not allowed to be imported there.  How many food products are we eating that contain molecules of pesticide in them?  And we don’t even know the answer because we have no way to find out.

So Conscious Living would require us to pay attention to what goes into our bodies and the bodies of the children in our lives.  Do you know the source of the food you eat, the water you drink?  Have you paid attention to the air quality in your area?

For some people this will spur them into political action to demand that their environment and what they take into their bodies is as healthy as they can get it.  For some it will become a crusade to make sure that they and their family are careful about these things.  I’m hoping that some will think about areas of the world where the people are desperate for anything to eat or drink and where help is needed in meeting the simplest of requirements for life.

We in the Western World have the luxury of examining the chemical content of our food while there are many on Earth who would love to have that concern.  Let’s be careful about what we eat and drink and the air we breathe while we also do something about all those children who have nothing to eat, no clean water to drink.  Maybe we can achieve a balance so that this wonderful Mother Earth can provide sustenance for all her children, healthy sustenance that keeps them all alive and healthy and thriving to advance humanity into evolved consciousness.


MUSE-INGS: Hold the World in Love

Sometimes the hardest message about Love that we have to hear is the one about loving from a centered place that does not necessarily reflect what we are feeling in a certain moment.  Feelings can overwhelm us and when we are faced with a very emotional situation it can be extremely difficult to remember to project the energy of Universal Love.

The way to remind ourselves is to pause, take a breath, and notice how we feel without acting on that feeling yet.  Of course, if what you are feeling is fear of the sabre-toothed tiger who is bearing down on you, then you might want to run while you pause! But, even then, you will find that reaching into the place of peace and Universal Love within you and projecting that energy outside of yourself can calm the energy around you.  A friend encountered a mountain lion near her kitchen door and she went outside holding only Love and peaceful energy within her. She talked soothingly to the mountain lion while he looked at her.  The picture shows a brilliant light shining forth from the eyes of the mountain lion – an amazing photo!  My friend stayed in a higher vibration than fear and had a wonderful experience of close proximity with a mountain lion.

So what happens when we pause and breathe?  We then have time to move into the ‘observer mode,’ the place where we have the most resources for choosing a course of action.  When we can observe ourselves in a situation we can also observe possible outcomes of the choices we see before us.  If we stay in the emotion of the moment our vision is narrowed and we frequently can’t see multiple options from which to choose our next step.  And when we notice what is going on in our body in that moment we have even more information to work with.

Try this the next time you are interacting with someone, even if there are not intense emotions in the minute.  Take a second to visualize the Light and Love that is streaming into the top of your head from your connection to the Universal Source of Love and Light and connect with that energy in your Heart Center.  Then really look at the person, really notice them, really listen to them.  Notice how it feels in you when you do this.  This isn’t about bombarding them with Light energy, for that would be an invasion of their boundaries.  This is more like holding a space for them to be in connection with you in a bubble of this Love and Light.  They have the option of choosing to step into the bubble or to step away from it, but you are defining the vibration in which you wish to hold this interaction.  When someone chooses not to engage at this level of energy, that is their prerogative but you don’t have to step into a space that is not appropriate for you.

The person who is living the Conscious Life will practice always operating from this level of awareness and connection, with other people and with the Universal Source of Love and Light.  Imagine how peaceful the world would be if everyone operated in this energy.  You might not have the power to make the entire world enjoy this vibration but the world around you will certainly change when you are holding this energy in every situation!