My Two-Minute Video for this Week: Connections for 2014
PS: Do you want to create some new connections in 2014? Come to my playshop, in person or by video link, and connect to a great group; and lay out your play script for 2014! January 25. Details Here
Dear Ones,
Life on Planet Earth has changed much in the last few generations. If you can imagine what life was like in the 19th Century and then through the 20th Century you can see the amazing shifts that have occurred in the daily lives of individuals around the globe.
Now look around you at the 21st Century. During these days you have more contact with others around the globe instantaneously than your predecessors were able to create across months, years or even lifetimes. This gives you access to ideas and feelings and cultures that may differ from yours in significant ways and allows you to consider possibilities that previous generations would not have been exposed to.
What will you do with this? Will you continue to stay in the box that earlier people lived in because they could not see beyond that box or will you expand your thinking into new possibilities?
This expansion is what is called forth in the energy of the new Century and 2012 is a pivotal point in that energy shift.
No longer can provincialism live because people and cultures are no longer isolated. No longer can one country operate as if it were the only one in the world because all other countries have eyes trained on the rest of the world. Events happening on the other side of the globe are instantaneously reported and therefore become a part of the consciousness of all. Happenings cannot be ignored for months or years because they occur at a distance – they must be faced and dealt with immediately.
There are advantages to this aspect of life in the 21st Century. For example, weather issues and natural disasters can be predicted and warnings can save lives. Victims can receive aid [and you can assist from afar] because you learn about a situation while there is time to do something. Countries can cooperate to respond to a problem or to work together to advance the interests of all without having to handle issues in isolation. And people can travel across the globe with ease and regularity to extend human contact beyond what was possible even 100 years ago.
Friendships can now span the globe. Families can live at a distance from each other and yet technology allows members to ‘see’ each other and to stay connected in meaningful ways that do not rely on letters that might take months to travel between them.
Each individual on Planet Earth in the 21st Century is a member of this connected community. Each person is a part of every other person’s Earth Family. Each has the support of the global community to explore and expand awareness through global connections. Students can easily study subjects that were not available to them for study in earlier generations. And all human beings can be students of human nature and evolution.
Consciousness does not expand in total oblivion of what is going on around oneself. Conscious evolution requires each person to learn about the world and to explore it. You are inhabiting one of the planets of the Universe. Learn what you can about that planet and the other inhabitants while you are all members of the Earth Community!!
And so it is.
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In Western culture we don’t often use the word ‘tribe’ to describe a group of people. We talk about ‘community’ or ‘social group’ or some other collection of individuals, but maybe we should start saying ‘tribe.’ For don’t we all need a sense of belonging to some group or groups?
When is the last time that you made a new friend? Do you always hang out with the people that you’ve known since high school even though they sometimes embarrass you or don’t understand you or even mock or make fun of you? Have you ever looked around your ‘group’ and wondered if there were any member with whom you could share your innermost thoughts, your desires, your wishes and hopes for the future? Maybe it’s time for you to examine who your tribe really is.
I’ve been attending seminars and retreats lately with different teachers/mentors and I’m finding that I like the overlap of my tribe members at these gatherings. We’re all seekers and we seem to be sharing the journey by studying with the same teachers. It’s a nice feeling to be able to know that these folks understand my language, that they are asking themselves the same questions I am asking myself. We have created a history together over time and we support each other in our successes and our trials. We know healthy boundaries and we respect each other’s but we also know how to support and bolster and share suggestions that honor and respect the other. The tribe knows how to work together while supporting individual choices and processes.
I was recently introduced to an amazing lady in California. Margie is 91 years old and retired last year after working in the same place for 23 years. That means she started there at age 67! Her husband died a long time ago and she lives in a beautiful house on the ocean. She told me about a neighbor who became ill with cancer and during her 2-year illness the whole neighborhood joined together to support the family. The woman died at the end of the 2 years but the neighborhood has remained a close community of folks since that experience. Margie honored the woman’s memory by continuing to be a part of the ‘tribe’ that she had created.
Where in your life is there the possibility of creating a tribe? Is there a group of which you are already a member that you might start thinking about as a tribe? And, conversely, is there a group that you have joined that no longer resonates with the person you are on your personal and spiritual journey? Why are you staying in that group? Are they really your tribe?
I think a tribe begins with just 2 people of like mind. It is fostered by mutual support and caring. Others gather because they resonate with the energy of the original 2 or 3 or 4. And a tribe is created.
Pay some attention this week to the groups in which you participate. Step outside yourself and observe if you feel supported in this group. Are you the best you can be? Are you relaxing and being yourself with these people or must you put up a façade to fit in? Notice how you feel before, during and after being with this group. Are you uplifted? Do you feel you are growing through your connections?
Become conscious of how your body is giving you signals about the people with whom you associate. You’ll know if there is an uncomfortable energy incompatibility. And you’ll know if you are resonating with the group and want to spend more time with them.
Explore or create your Tribes!
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Dear Ones,
There are many reasons that a person feels sad and identifying a source of sadness is important in learning what the lessons are. Are you sad because a friend is ill or dying? Are you sad because things are not working out the way you had wanted? Might you be feeling sad because you have lost something or someone?
Sadness usually accompanies the grief of a loss in one’s life – the loss of a friendship, a job, a financial situation, or a dream. Most often the loss is the loss of what might have been. Have you lost a pet recently? Pets are the models for humans of unconditional love. When one loses a pet one loses unconditional love that might have been there for that pet owner. Has a relationship ended – through divorce or death or a parting of the ways? Have you moved to a new home and lost the connections, the familiarity that you once had?
Think of sadness and loss and grief in your life as doorways to personal growth. When you lose something that you value you are given a chance to move through a doorway into something new. If you are feeling sad because you feel lack or a feeling of ‘if only things were different’ then look around you to see ways in which you are missing what IS present in that moment. Sadness can sometimes take you away from gratitude for what is available to you but sadness should never be ignored.
Western culture sometimes does not allow people to sufficiently experience their grief, their sadness about a loss. When someone dies, the workplace often expects a person to ‘buck up’, grieve for 3 days, and then return to work as if their loved one hadn’t just departed. Human feelings go beyond the 3 day window allotted to them. Grief is not something that can be expunged because society is uncomfortable with it. Sadness is not weakness. These feelings are very real, and very important to one who is on a path of personal growth.
Allowing yourself to feel your feelings, to be in touch with what is truly going on inside you, allows you to make informed choices about your life. If you try to choose only those feelings that are socially acceptable you do yourself and your journey of personal growth a disservice. Right now, in this moment, give yourself permission to feel what it is that you are feeling. Can you get in touch with your inner self enough to know what you feel? This is an important exercise in growth.
Women and men who decide on a public persona, carefully crafted to project a certain image, may be doing a disservice to themselves by sometimes denying their feelings and refusing to examine those feelings for the lessons that are there. Is this how you operate?
Feel what you are feeling and stay with that feeling until it reveals to you what you can learn from it. Are you feeling grief about a loss? Stay with that feeling of grief so that you can move into the energy and then, ultimately, through it. Are you sad? Are you angry? Are you frustrated? Are you feeling something that the world around you is uncomfortable with? Then find a way to process that emotion so that you can learn from it.
Journal. Meditate. Speak with someone else about it like a friend, confidant, counselor. Write a letter to yourself from that feeling. What does the feeling want you to know? You might want to create a ritual around your feelings so that you can preserve the learnings while letting go of the necessity of holding onto or stuffing/hiding those feelings.
Allow whatever you are feeling to be a teacher for you. When you have learned the lesson you will no longer need to hold onto the feeling. Now is the time to do the work to feel the feeling and grow from it!
And so it is.
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Mystic Messages 
ROSEMARY’S EXPLORATION: The Power of Connection
January 15, 2014 — RosemaryWho are you, really? Are you connected to your inner essence or are you going through the motions of your daily life, waiting for ‘someday,’ or retirement or the kids to leave home? Are you truly connected to your Life Purpose? Do you feel you have a connection to inner wisdom and guidance when you have a question?
‘Connection’ isn’t just about the electricity that flows through your house, waiting for a lamp to be plugged in and connecting. Sometimes we can fool ourselves into believing that we have to do something to get connected, just like that lamp.
But the truth is that we are always in a state of connection. All we have to do is to remember that this is so.
You are connected to your Higher Self at all times. Do you take advantage of that connection and access the wisdom that is available there?
You are connected to Source Energy, the energetic flow that is the source of abundance in the Universe.
You are connected to the Angels and Spirit Guides who can help you in your life but they are waiting for you to invite them in, to remember your connection.
And you are connected to other people through the cords of connection that have been established throughout time. Some of these connections are working for the highest good of all involved and others are drains of energy that aren’t supportive of your personal growth. Do you know how to determine the difference and what to do to disconnect the energies that don’t sustain you?
Connection is an energetic that, at its highest level, we all seek. We want to feel connected to others, to our guidance, to Source. In seeking we sometimes forget that it is not to be found outside ourselves, but to be remembered as an inner truth.
Are you seeking Connection? Are you feeling disconnected or connected to energy drains instead of supportive energies? What are you going to do about this?
Let 2014 be the year that you decide to connect to the parts of yourself that you have disowned, have disconnected yourself from. Decide to connect to the energies that support your personal growth this year. Find experts who can help you connect/disconnect as you need.
Start with connecting to your inner guidance. How do you do this? Meditation is a good way to start. Get still and listen to that inner voice.
Pay attention to the signals you receive from your intuition. Journal and allow yourself to write whatever wants to flow through your pen. Take a class that gives you an opportunity to make the connection to inner guides, your Higher Self.
Sometimes you are connected to energy that drains you. Learn how to disconnect or find someone to help you disconnect the cords that are holding you back from growth. Connection is as much about connecting to the energies that are supportive as it is about disconnecting from those that are not. You might need expert help to detach from energies that you aren’t conscious of being there. You will feel free when you have taken care of this.
Connect to like-minded people who support you along your path and with whom you can share your gifts to support them. This is not the time to be isolated from what is going on around you. The world has fewer boundaries than it used to and you are called to reach across the miles to those with whom it is time for you to connect. With 21st Century technology you can stay connected around the globe. It is no longer necessary that you find a tribe with which to connect in your own back yard.
Most importantly, connect with your higher purpose, the reason you are living this life on Planet Earth. Discover your Life Purpose and commit to it. When you connect to Purpose you feel fulfillment and joy. You will find your days opening before you with wonder and light. And you will be connecting to the other souls who have been waiting for you to show up and connect.
Do it now!
PS: Do you want to create some new connections in 2014? Come to my playshop, in person or by video link, and connect to a great group; and lay out your play script for 2014! January 25. Details Here