MUSE-INGS: Focus on the Joy!

How easy it is to focus our attention on the things that need to be fixed or on the painful things that we wish were different!  We can get so caught up in wishing something would change that we forget how powerful we are to change how we think about a situation.

My wonderful Mom, Gloria Robertson, always saw silver linings.  One of her favorite sayings was, ‘Everything always works out for the best.’  And the other thing she said often was,

‘As a rule, Man’s a fool,
When it’s hot he wants it cool.
When it’s cool he wants it hot,
Always wishing what is not.’

My Mom was a very wise woman.  We spend so much time wishing things were different when really the only thing we need to change is how we think about things.  I remember my Mom, towards the end of her life, deciding that she would only worry about those things that it was in her power to make different.  She had an appointment with her doctor who asked her what had changed because her health had improved.  She said, ‘I’ve adopted a new attitude – NMP.’  When he asked what ‘NMP’ stood for, she answered, ‘Not My Problem.’

It is very freeing to look around and decide what is ours to work on and what is beyond our control or what belongs to someone else to handle.  And it is very empowering to take charge of those things that ARE our own to deal with.  Not everything around us requires that we take charge of it.  Not everything is ours to handle or to fix.  Sometimes another person needs to learn to help himself or herself.  Sometimes someone else needs to learn a lesson by handling something their own way.  Sometimes ‘good enough’ is okay – it doesn’t always have to be perfect.  Sometimes another person just wants to be left alone and it needs to be okay with us to allow that.  And sometimes another person needs company and we need to be beyond ourselves enough to see that and to offer the company without judgment.

Look around you today and see if there isn’t some joy to be found in every conscious moment.  What can you do to make yourself smile?  Is there someone you can help?  Is there some situation that you can laugh at?  Can you laugh at yourself or do you always take yourself terribly seriously?  Is there an animal to watch?  A flower to notice?  Music to enjoy?  What can you feel gratitude about in this moment now?

Adopting the attitude that there is always some joy to be found will bring happiness into your life.  And if you are truly struggling to find something about which to feel good, then get out your sense of humor and remember a time when you laughed and laughed at something you thought was hilariously funny.  All you need to do is remember and you will be smiling again.

Keep a stock of funny movies or joke books or funny emails that you’ve received and get them out when you truly cannot find anything to give you joy.  One joke, one laugh, is all it takes to shift your energy.  One look out the window and you will find something to delight in, no matter how small it might seem.  Remember, that if you spend all of your energy thinking about what you don’t want, the Universe won’t know what to bring you from the list of what you DO want.  Energize the aspects of this moment that you want to magnify in your life.  Experience delight and you will have more delight.  Focus on joy and you will have more joy in your life.  That’s how things work!

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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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BOOK LIGHTS: from “2012: You Have a Choice! Archangelic Answers & Practices for the Quantum Leap”

“Many have prophesied about this time in our collective history and many have polarized according to their beliefs.  Some seek rapture, some seek war, others seek Nirvana and many just hope the status quo will continue!  By embracing the truth that all six billion are sparks of the Divine and all six billion paths are perfect, it becomes evident that each person will experience these culminating times in whatever manner they choose to call forth.”

by Sri Ram Kaa and Kira Raa

I choose to call forth an expanding ray of Light onto the Planet that will be a co-creation of all Conscious Beings who can contribute their own Light to the ray.  It will be beautiful and magnificent and amazing!  As are all of you!

Rosemary


This Week’s Mystic Message from The Divine Feminine: The Children are the cosmic beings – listen to them!

Dear Ones,

Can you hear the winds of change blowing through the world in these days?  There are so many changes coming that you will start to see people being thrown off balance by what is happening around them.

The cries of those in need will become louder and the boasting of those who have more than they need will turn to compassion as they start to see themselves as connected to all others.  Oh, we know that there are some who are unable to experience compassion but most members of the human family are, by nature, compassionate people who have been trained into selfishness by society.  In most societies on Planet Earth there is a sense of connection, with nature, with others and with the cosmos as a whole.  The cycles of nature on Planet Earth are understood by most of her peoples.  The understanding that what one individual does affects all others is widespread on the Planet.

It is only in those societies that have lost sight of this connection to others where you can see the individualism that prevents human consciousness from expanding.

But we would speak to you today of the coming changes, that which you who are on the path of Conscious Living can look forward to.

People all over Planet Earth are feeling the coming changes.  Earthquakes shake the physical world but the energetic world is also being shaken up.  Light is beginning to form in places where before there was darkness.  Those who wish to resist change are starting to become enlightened about the need for change.  You will first see this in how the children of the Planet are being treated.

The children alive on Planet Earth today are a special breed of the New Human.  They have an intelligence that defies your intelligence testing and analysis.  They are cosmic beings who have actively chosen to assist Planet Earth in her evolution toward expanded consciousness.  Look at those who have been born in the last 20 or so years as the ones who will carry changes through the coming times and into the future.  These children do not communicate well with those who are older because it is as if they come from a different planet.  In fact, they do.  These children were born on the former Planet Earth but are truly here to be inhabitants of the coming, energized and expanded Planet Earth.  Only those adults who are able to expand into the new consciousness will be able to keep up with these children.

It is precisely because these are New Humans that your medical and educational and societal systems do not work appropriately for them.  These children do not need to be drugged – they need to be protected as the super-sensitive beings that they are.  They are not to be confined by structures created for a society of hundreds of years ago – they must be supported and listened to as they are the ones who understand the coming energies from a cosmic perspective.

Listen to the little ones.  Ask them questions about what they understand.  Listen to the questions they ask and help them to explore answers, for the answers you might have given 20 years ago will no longer serve.  Spend some time with young people even if they are not blood-related to you, for you will certainly learn from them.

And then decide to open your horizons, expand to become a conscious cosmic being yourself.  You can do this by being open-minded.  Connect with others and understand that all are one, there is no separation.  This is the most important message for the coming changes – there can be no isolationists.  All are connected.  All are One with the Source.  It is the children who know this.  Listen to them.

And so it is.

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.

THIS WEEK’S MYSTIC MESSAGE from The Divine Feminine: You impact the Planet – speak Peace!

Dear Ones,

The 21st Century represents the dawn of a new era in the evolution of human consciousness.  For previous centuries the individuals have been learning about their own lives and what is required of them to grow and survive on Planet Earth.  In the 18-20th Centuries people traveled farther from home and learned about other cultures to a much greater extent than had been previously possible, except for a few explorers.  In the 21st Century, the entire Planet is connected via airwaves and computer networks and satellites.


An individual can no longer consider himself or herself to be a separate entity, one who can make choices without affecting the rest of humanity.  No human being is a totally separate entity.  In fact, no one ever has been, but the connections have not been as vast as they are in the 21st Century.

Each individual must consider the repercussions of every action that they take, not only on their immediate environment but also on the Planet as a whole and on all the other peoples of Earth.  Every step upon the Planet leaves an impact.  We are not talking here of just the environment as Nature and soil and air and water.  No, we are talking as well about the energetic environment on Planet Earth.  When a person or a group of people engage in activities that stir up hatred and dissension that energy has a ripple effect around the Earth.  And when a person or a group of people engage in activities that generate peace and love that energy, too, has an effect around the world.

Imagine that you are one individual who can affect the energy of the entire world with your thoughts and actions and the energy that you generate.  Why would you then generate negative energy, or hatred, or anger and let that energy move around the Planet affecting the whole world?  But if you focused your thoughts and activities on generating peace and love and acceptance and tolerance, imagine the impact that would be felt around the Planet.

Do not think that one person can have no impact on all the others on the Planet or on the Planet herself.  Think of those individuals who have single-handedly led groups of people into slaughtering other groups, or who have created economic conditions that caused the death of many people.  In the 21st Century there are those who are having such an effect in their countries that many people are dying because of politics or the exercise of power or the greed of leaders.  If one person can have a vast effect in the negative sense, then the laws of energy would indicate that one person can also have a vast effect in a positive way.

Be that one person yourself.  You do not have to be in the news programs.  You do not have to be or become famous.  You do not have to be wealthy.  Focus your energy on being peace and love and acceptance and tolerance, to those immediately around you and in a general sense toward the whole world.  Your example will inspire others. When you treat those around you with these energies they will, in turn, spread that vibration of energy to their circle.

Be careful of your speech. Catch yourself before you utter the words that would counteract the energy of peace and love.  Notice how your speech patterns are reflecting the energy of peace and love.  Consciously choose to think and speak of these higher vibrations.

We do not say this only for the good of the Planet Earth.  There is a benefit to you as an individual as well, for the vibration that you cast into the atmosphere around you is multiplied and returned to you magnified – be careful what level of vibration you cast into the atmosphere!

And so it is.

NEWS FROM ROSEMARY: March 5, 2010

Spring is just around the corner and most of us are ready!  I look at the north-facing front yard that still has mounds of snow in it and think how lovely the grass will be with all this moisture.  And I love sitting on the south-facing deck in the afternoon to soak up the warm Colorado sun, waiting for the first blooms to appear.  [They’ll be awhile yet here in CO!]  I hope that you, too, are anticipating the new growth and the warm sunshine for Spring where you are.

With Spring come new opportunities for personal growth.  It is a great time to schedule a private session to clear out the old thoughts and beliefs, consult with your inner guides  and get ready for bringing in newness in your life.  This Spring I’ll be offering a new workshop, 7 Steps to Conscious Confidence: Clearing the way to make decisions with Full Consciousness and Great Confidence.  In this fun weekend you’ll explore the decisions you make and why you make them, clear the path for more conscious choices, and you’ll leave with the tools you need to have confidence in the choices you make in the future.  So if you’re not where you want to be in life, or you’ve been feeling unsure of choices you’re facing, then join us in Colorado Springs April 24-25, 2010 for a powerful weekend.  Details are at: www.rosemarybredeson.com

Another great opportunity for fun as well as education is the evening event, Conversations with The Other Side, being offered on Wednesday, March 24, 2010 at 7:00 pm in Colorado Springs.  Last month’s was a powerful event and sold out!  Space is very limited for this event so that each attendee can receive a personal message from an angel or spirit guide or a loved one who has crossed over.  Be sure to register early to reserve your space for this month’s offering.  Bring a friend with you.  Find details and register at:  www.rosemarybredeson.com

I’d be happy to offer a Conversations evening in Maryland during my visit March 30 – April 5 so if you’re in the Annapolis area and would like to host the event, please contact me.

Please leave a comment on this blog; we’d love to get into dialogue with you!

And be sure to check out Richard’s blog, www.MenAndTheGoddess.com.  Stop by and leave a comment there, too.

Hang in there!  Spring IS coming soon!!!

MUSE-INGS: Be an Explorer of Worlds Beyond the Known!

Whenever there is a discussion of the expansion of human consciousness some people’s eyes glaze over and other people perk up with excitement.  I’m not sure why we have such differing reactions to the subject.  I’ve always been curious about what’s beyond what’s known.

Maybe that’s why the space program has held such a fascination for me.  What’s out there?  What happens when we step off the planet?  I remember watching the early satellites pass overhead, Echo and Sputnik.  I remember exactly what I was doing when Alan Shepard took his first space flight.  These things pulled us out of our ‘normal’ reality into the realm of huge possibilities.  Years later I watched with bated breath as the first man stepped onto the surface of the Moon.  I’m still excited by the memory of that moment.

How often do we get to witness something that takes us far beyond our daily existence?  What are the possibilities that we miss because we have narrowed down our view of Life?

When we limit ourselves to what is known, to what is commonly believed, to what someone else tells us to believe, we narrow the field of possibilities to a very small field.  As long as we stay open and curious, the field of all possibilities stays vast.  What if our beliefs were narrowly based on someone else’s narrow beliefs?  How do we stretch our field of view?

The first thing we must do is stretch out of our comfort zone and into the space where all things are possible.  It is a conscious choice we make in every moment to cling to old beliefs.  Yes, it is conscious, because we are always at a point where we can choose to believe something different from our current beliefs.  New information, new feedback from an experience, someone else’s experience shared with us, and dozens of other ways can open us to a shift in perspective.  But we must be willing to look through different eyes.

The next thing to do is to open our minds to accept that change is a constant in our lives and that change can bring with it fresh new concepts to ponder.  The more we try to hold onto old ways the more our lives stagnate and become less and less about growth and expansion and more and more about holding onto something that is going to change anyway.  The energy that it takes to cling to outmoded ideas drains our creativity from us and leaves us far behind where exploration and curiosity can take us.  This does not serve the expansion of human consciousness.

So each individual has a responsibility to all of humankind to explore ideas with a willingness to accept that their thinking might need to shift after that exploration. Think of yourself as an explorer of worlds beyond the imagination of the explorers of days gone by.  Columbus, De Gama, Vespucci were exploring the physical world of Planet Earth beyond what was known in their day.  We, in the 21st Century, have the opportunity to explore the world of ideas, of inner spaces, and of Outer Space.

How exciting it all is!

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.


Mystic Message from The Divine Feminine: Consider the Children; they are our future!

Dear Ones,

These are times when many are concerned about the children in their lives and it is right that there should be concern.  We are not wishing to scare anyone but the children of your times are not being given the consideration that they deserve and need.

Let us first talk about the environment on Planet Earth, for that is an immediate and desperate arena.  The human body was developed to exist in the purest of circumstances on Planet Earth.  The lungs were designed to breathe clean air, the blood circulatory system to handle impurities and to carry life to cells, and the digestive and elimination systems to take in healthy food while removing that which the body does not need or cannot process.  Even the skin has a major role to play in the healthy balance of the systems in the body as it is part of the system of eliminating waste and balancing the temperature of the body.

But the children of your day are being given food, air, water and earth to walk on that contain very unhealthy elements that are detrimental to their development as healthy human beings.  The air they are breathing contains many molecules that the lungs were not designed to deal with.  The foods they are ingesting contain chemicals that no system in the body knows how to handle.  The water they drink contains so many things that are not healthy that it is no longer the single most precious, life-giving substance they can take into their bodies.  Do not fool yourself into believing that the large companies that are in charge of these factors are concerned with the health of your children and grandchildren, for they have lost sight of the human aspect of their work.

Now we are not saying that every individual who works for these companies does not care about your children or their children.  But we are saying that in the aggregate these corporations have ‘forgotten’ that little bodies are affected by decisions about what the products contain or the effect a process will have on the natural environment.  Each person does a little job and may do it well, but when the pieces are put together the overall effect can be deleterious to the health of the next generation.

When politicians believe that air pollution is not dangerous they do so because someone has convinced them of findings that are misleading at best, perhaps even deliberately so.  When corporate heads are analyzing data they are looking at financial information, not at the effect their product will have on a 4-year-old who lives in your house.  These people are not ‘bad people’ but they are not concerned or motivated by the care and concern that you have for the children in your life.

YOU are the one who must be concerned about the children in your care or in your life.  What can you do to assist them in having the healthiest life they can have?  Why is this important?

The children who are on Planet Earth at this time are the ones who have Spirits that agreed to move the Planet through the coming changes and into a New Era on Earth.  These Souls know their work is global, not provincial.  They are concerned with all of humanity, not just their own neighborhood.  But to accomplish what they have come to Earth to do they must keep their bodies healthy enough to support their efforts. They require a healthy environment, good food, clean air, supporting energies so they can get good educations, and a loving, nurturing home environment to be allowed to grow into the person they incarnated to be.  Whatever relationship you have with today’s children, it is your work to make sure that each child has this support.

Do what you can to provide these requirements to all children on Planet Earth.  If you do not have children at your home at this time, help other people’s children.  Work for the good of children in other countries.  Make sure that young people have support and information so they can grow into healthy adults to accomplish their mission on Earth. Take care of Mother Earth for them.  Do what you can to reverse the damage caused by previous generations and others who have not yet been educated about the harm they are causing.  Figure out what is yours to do to support children.

Even if you have no children in your immediate arena, help the children of others.  Too many children do not have the support they need to become critical thinkers.  Too many do not have access to opportunities to express their own creativity, the artist within.  Can you support efforts to provide those opportunities?

There is much that can be done.  The children need your efforts.  Do it for the children and the future.

And so it is.