THIS WEEK’S MYSTIC MESSAGE from The Divine Feminine: Focus on the Beauty of the Moment

Dear Ones,

We are pleased that so many of you are taking time to ‘smell the roses,’ as the saying goes.  It is so important for the human soul to take time to enjoy beauty, to be present to the beauty that is surrounding life, and to share beauty with others.

When you are immersed in your work or your problems to the exclusion of what is around you then you are not living a fully human and conscious life.  There is beauty in every moment, somewhere in your vicinity.  Look for it.  Is it the magnificence of the sunrise or sunset?  Is there a beautiful hummingbird at your window feeder?  Can you see a child’s perfect smile or hear an older person’s knowing laugh?  Is there a color nearby that looks beautiful to you?  Did you hear music that you love or see someone who made you smile or enjoy your pet today?

You do not have to look far to find beauty.  But what if your attention is focused on what is NOT beautiful around you?  What if you are struggling or looking at clutter or tired of drab surroundings?  What can you do?

Do you realize that to live a Conscious Life you must be the one who chooses where to focus your attention?  Just because something pops up in your awareness does not mean that you must linger with that thought or focus all your attention on it.  This is the first lesson in stilling the mind for meditation.  It is not that you must expend effort in trying to keep thoughts from arising in your mind, for your mind’s purpose is to bring thoughts into your conscious awareness.  Rather, it is your lesson to learn to allow the thoughts to drift through your awareness without your attaching your awareness to them.  Just as you allow clouds to drift across the sky, so can you allow thoughts to drift across the sky of your mind without trying to cling to them or hold onto them in your awareness.  Letting go of thoughts so that they can drift through your consciousness allows you to deepen relaxation into the meditative state.

When you are not meditating, you can choose whether or not to attach your focus to the thoughts that are drifting through your consciousness.  Ask yourself, ‘Is this thought that I am having the one that I wish to focus on?’  If the answer is ‘No’ then shift your focus.  If you feel that this is too difficult for you to do, then look for the beauty around you.  Hold the thought in your mind with the awareness of the beauty that is there for you in that moment.  Allow both thoughts to be in your awareness.  Can you find a way to understand, in that precious moment in time, that whatever problem you have in your focus is counterbalanced to some degree by an element of beauty that also exists in that moment for you?  This is true in every moment, no matter what the problem is that you are facing.

Beauty is important in life so that you can see beyond the troublesome energies that try to bombard you.  The media, the naysayers, the negative commentaries, the news – all are trying to get you to focus on something that drains your energy and takes your focus away from beauty.  But you are conscious human beings.  You have the ability to choose where to place your focus.  You can seek beauty where other forces would have you see only negativity.

There is tragedy in the world.  There are uncomfortable things to see and experience.  But there is also always beauty.  Watch a raindrop slide down a windowpane and wonder about Nature rather than curse the thunderstorm.  When you are feeling lonely go out and smile at a stranger or two.  There is beauty in the faces of other people if you but look for it.

Surround yourself with beauty in your home.  Is there a peaceful place where you can enjoy looking around you?  Have you created a haven of beauty that allows you to shut out the outside world?  If not, create that haven as soon as possible.  Use Beauty to create peace for yourself.

And remember to look for the beauty in every moment, even if it is just to look in the mirror and see the perfect human being gazing back at you!

And so it is.

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MUSE-INGS: Oh, how tempting a tantrum can be!

Aren’t there times when you would really like to throw yourself onto the floor and bang your fists while kicking your feet and screaming at the top of your lungs?  Who of us hasn’t seen a little one doing just this and envied them their ability to drop down to the floor in the middle of a department store and let their feelings out?

I remember stepping over my daughter when she threw her tantrums, allowing her to cry herself out.  She got so smart that she would move to a room with a carpet on the floor so that she wasn’t throwing herself down onto a hard kitchen or foyer floor where the tantrum wasn’t so comfortable!

But most adults have eschewed such behavior.  Or have we, really?  Maybe we don’t get down on the floor but do we shut down and ignore others when we are doing our ‘adult pout’?  Do we ‘accidentally’ say or do something that causes hurt to another when what we really want to do is throw ourselves on the floor and scream at the unfairness of it all?

Being honest with yourself, can you see a way in which you might still have some of the strategies you developed as a child working in your life today?  It’s easy to wish that the world was fair – which it is because we all get our share of lessons, some easy, some difficult — and that everyone around us treated us exactly the way we wished they would – which might be easier if we didn’t expect them all to be mind readers.  So what do we do if we find a coping mechanism at work in our life that we no longer desire to choose?

The best strategy to develop is what I call ‘The Pause Button.’  Can you learn to catch yourself reaching into your unconscious database and pulling out an inappropriate response?  Hit The Pause Button so you can be conscious about your choice of reaction/behavior.  This is what the old ‘count to 10’ maxim is all about.  Pause.  Reflect.  Act consciously.

As we move through life we are giving challenges to our personal growth and how we react to stimulus is one of the ongoing life lessons with which we must learn to deal.  What challenges do you face that you must find resources to handle?  Who in your life is bringing you practice lessons in finding your ‘Pause Button’?  And who knows exactly how to ‘push your buttons’ so that you find it nearly impossible to pause?

Challenges are with us.  Our response to challenges can change with each encounter.  Living a Conscious Life requires that we learn to grow through all our experiences.  We’re not allowed to throw ourselves onto the floor and do a tantrum anymore, even when that unconscious little child within is begging to be allowed to do just that.  Find another way.  Think about it now and tell your unconscious mind to latch onto the new, preferred response before it goes back to childhood memories and chooses that old strategy.  Plan to hit ‘The Pause Button’ when somebody pushes your other buttons.  Breathe and consider.  And make sure that your new choice isn’t just an adult form of that toddler’s tantrum on the carpet!

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THIS WEEK’S MYSTIC MESSAGE from The Divine Feminine: You Can Change!

Dear Ones,

We are poised to help you as you move through the coming days when things will start to change for you.  Is there something about your life that you wish were different?  You will be able to change that.  Is there something about yourself that you wish to change?  You will be able to do that as well.

Your life is Your Life!  YOU are in charge of your life.  If others are causing you to feel things you do not wish to feel then you must make a change.  Sometimes that change is to move those people out of your life.  If you are feeling that you have lost control of your life, then you must regain control by changing the way you think about yourself and your life.

Do not give your power away to others.  It is an easy thing to do and can happen unconsciously in insidious ways.  You can start by loving someone and wanting to be what they want you to be.  Then you make choices to ‘keep the peace’ rather than to confront them about something that is bothering you.  And then you think to yourself that you will change at some nebulous later date and bring up what is bothering you, but not just now.  It doesn’t take long before you have given away your power to another.

Notice if there is anyone to whom you have given your power.  Your partner?  Your boss?  Your child?  Your parent?  Your friend?  This is not a judgment, Dear One, this is a time for you to observe yourself in your current life.  And this is the first step toward living a Conscious Life – becoming the observer of your own life.  Observe yourself without judgment.  Notice your own choices and your own feelings.  When you can observe yourself without judgment you give yourself the opportunity to grow.  If you insist on judging then you will get caught up in the ‘shoulds’ and you will miss the possibilities.

Now, decide today that you will hold onto your own power to control your own life.  This is a decision you can make that has nothing to do with other people.  If someone says or does something that you do not feel comfortable with, you have the option of reacting to that with your own power.  Decide whether or not you will let that in.  And decide whether or not you will take action about the situation.  Give yourself permission, from your own internal place of power, to choose not to take action, if you wish.  Make sure that you are deciding from inside you.

We said that we would be there to help you.  If you wish to make changes in your life or in yourself, you have only to ask and you will be guided and supported in making those changes.

The world around you is getting ready for some major changes.  There will be power shifts in high places and individuals will be facing major decisions.  The energy of change abounds and so this is a good time to make whatever changes you would like to make as you will be supported in those changes.

Reach inside yourself and search for your own inner guidance.  When you decide to change, make the change that helps you to grow.  This is a part of living a Conscious Life from the place of internal empowerment.

You are blessed and supported!

And so it is.

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MUSE-INGS: What’s the lesson in the fear?

Fear.  That word seems to be popping up in all sorts of ways these days.  Be very afraid of illegal aliens, they say.  Be very afraid of the other political party [‘They’ are very scary!].  Be afraid of extraterrestrials.  Be afraid of the economy.  I could go on and on with the list, pulling stories just from today’s news.  [OK, I haven’t actually heard any extraterrestrial stories today!]

But it seems to me that there are so many ways to be fearful that it’s a chore to avoid fear.  I work very hard at it.  That’s not to say that I don’t sometimes experience fear, but I’m pretty certain there’s never been a saber-toothed tiger chasing me.  So why do we keep ourselves poised in ‘fight or flight’ mode, filled with adrenaline and cortisol, if there aren’t any tigers on our tail?

The stress of living in these days creates its own sense of a saber-toothed tiger chasing us through our lives.  We have constant sources of information being bombarded at us – radio, TV, conversations overheard in line at Starbucks, newspaper headlines on the street corners, internet headlines when we sign in to email.  Even if we choose not to listen to the news or to read the newspapers we can’t avoid hearing what’s happening and it’s always sensationalized, isn’t it?  So our primitive brains think this is the modern day tiger nipping at our heels. Stock market report? Tiger. Housing prices down?  Tiger. Job market tough? Tiger.

So what is a person to do who is trying to live a Conscious Life when they are constantly subjected to negativity?  The first thing to do is to figure out a way to de-stress your life and your body, starting with your thoughts.  How do you react to negativity?  If you take it in to yourself and embrace the negativity as the only possibility, then you have accepted that the field of all possibilities is very small.  What if you were, instead, to look at the negativity as the other side of a coin that has something positive for you to find?  What if the negativity could be observed without being taken in?  Pretend for a moment that you are surrounded by an air-permeable Plexiglas bubble through which you can see what is happening around you but where those happenings cannot penetrate your own private space.  This allows you to observe with detachment.  This also allows you to create the energy vibration of positivity within your own personal space so the negativity doesn’t lower your energy level.  When you’ve done this, you are free to look for the lesson to be learned in the experience.

Have you ever spent time with someone who is constantly focused on bad news or dire predictions or what’s wrong with their life?  Contrast that with how you feel when you are around someone who always sees the silver lining in the cloud above, or who likes people without criticizing them.  There is a huge difference in the energy of these conversations and you can feel that in your own body-mind.  We do tend to want to be with people who are uplifting, don’t we?

There’s a reason for this.  We are all striving in life to bring Light into our selves and our environment.  If you are reading these words, then you are someone who wants to be living a Conscious Life, not drifting through life without learning and growing.  In every moment there is something to learn, whether we are enjoying that moment or not.  There is always a lesson.  When we are feeling happy and joyful, we can look for the lesson to maintain that joy.  When we are feeling low or fearful, we can also look for the lesson so that we can find our way back to happiness and joy.  And as human beings we live in community so we are always hearing or seeing or being with others and their opinions and energy.

Think about the situations you experience in the coming days and notice how you feel.  What makes you feel good?  What makes you feel sad or low or angry?  What causes you fear?  When you can step out of your feelings enough to observe them then you can also see where solutions to problems lie.  When you are feeling happy and joyful look at the lessons that show you what you can replicate so that you can prolong that experience.  And look around you for ways to bring joy to others.  Sometimes thinking of others is all it takes to move one from fear to peace.

The most important thing is to be fully present to the moment that is NOW.   Are you being chased by a saber-toothed tiger or is there some other lesson to be learned?

And please let me know if there actually IS a saber-toothed tiger chasing you —  after you’re safe, of course!

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THIS WEEK’S MYSTIC MESSAGE from The Divine Feminine: Feeling fear? It’s only a signal to help you live a Conscious Life!

Dear Ones,

There is so much fear in the world in the 21st Century!  We are concerned that some of you know ONLY the feeling of fear, not joy or happiness or peace or contentment.  We wish that you could learn to dispel the fear that arises within you.

Here is why this is so important for you.  Fear is a very limiting emotion.  It causes you to create for yourself scenarios of disaster that have not yet occurred and your body and mind react to these fabrications of doom.  Your physical body must generate chemicals in response to the images that you conjure up in your imagination because that is its job, even though those images are imagined and not real.  Fear is a response to a stimulus, often coming from outside you but sometimes from thoughts of distress that you create yourself.  And there are many who believe that if they can keep you in fear of something [anything!] then they can control you.

Our wish for you, Dear One, is that you be empowered to resist efforts to control you with fear and that you find a way to live in peace, harmony and contentment so that you can, instead, experience joy in your life.  This requires, though, that you learn to use the feeling of fear as a signal that you feel out of control about some situation about which you have expectations.  Think about that statement, for if you have expectations then you are creating possible scenarios in your mind and you are reacting to those imagined scenarios.  What if something else were to happen in the future, something other than the scary scenario that you pictured?  What good would have come from the fear that you generated for yourself?  Think about fear, whether you create it yourself or someone outside of you causes you to feel fear, as merely an indicator that you are to pause and become conscious about your current situation.  Remember, fear is an emotion created in response to thoughts, sometimes to thoughts of a future that has not materialized yet.  Your body only knows that fear means there is danger and its response to danger is to create the ‘fight or flight’ mechanism readiness in your physical body.  In the 21st Century, however, there are probably not as many life or death situations as there were millennia ago in human history.

Practice using the feeling of fear as a signal that you are to examine your current situation and the thoughts that you are having in that moment of feeling fear.  Are you fully in the present moment?  Or are you considering something that has not happened yet or that might or might not occur in the future?  Are you responding to an indicator that there is an action you must take now or are you anticipating a scenario that is not real in the present moment?

If you decide that you are truly in danger, then take the most appropriate action for that situation to remove yourself from the danger.  That is the purpose of feeling fear – an indication that there is something threatening you and you must take an action in that moment.  But considering your options and examining the perceived danger vs. the real danger is an important step in living a Conscious Life.  Are you reacting to a news report because there is an immediate danger to you in your current situation or are you reacting to an attempt to manipulate you into fear so that you will take the action that someone else wishes you to take, while they are hoping that you will not pause and consider the reality of the situation?  Move to safety if there is a tornado heading toward your home but don’t jump to a conclusion about a political situation because someone has told you a piece of information that might not be valid.

We hope that you can see the differences we have pointed out.  USE the feeling of fear to open yourself to wider vistas of possibilities and solutions, not to narrow down your thoughts to the single option proposed by someone else.  And do not be afraid to feel fear – it is a natural human emotion.  DO, however, choose to observe and examine the fear for its message so that you can keep from being controlled by that emotion.

Feel the fear and get the message being offered to you.  THEN take the appropriate action!

And so it is.

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MUSE-INGS: Conscious Listening

Music.  Interesting topic for the Mystic Message.  I must admit that I was wondering where that message would go with respect to what the kids listen to.  I guess my prejudices were popping up.

But how wonderful to use music as a springboard to discussion and sharing with others in our life!  All of Life is about energy and vibration.  The foods we eat, the colors we wear, whether we are feeling ‘up’ or ‘down’ are all relating to our energy fields and the vibrations in them.  Quantum Physics is telling us a lot about our environments from a vibrational standpoint.  I was a Chemistry major for a bit in college [couldn’t stand Chem Lab so ended up in Math – no labs!] and I studied the ‘new’ information available about atoms and particles like protons and electrons.  The information that has since been discovered [it’s been a lot of years!] gives us a much greater understanding of energy and the properties of atoms, including the particles smaller than protons and electrons.  And Quantum Physics tells us a lot about the effect of the vibration of our thoughts on the rest of the Universe around us.

When we start to understand energy, and one doesn’t need to be an expert in Quantum Physics to do so, we begin to see what effects different vibrations can have on the people and the spaces around us.  Have you ever walked into a room and felt the vibration of anger even though the occupants turn to you with smiles on their faces?  Can’t you feel that they were just fighting but have put on a face for you that doesn’t match their internal vibrational energy?  Now think about music and how you feel in a room that has had lovely high-vibrational music playing in it for awhile, classical or relaxing jazz or calming new age music.  How does it feel to walk into that room?  Have you ever walked into a bar with loud music that does not appeal to you playing over big speakers, with the occupants shouting to be heard over the music, bouncing off hard surfaces?  Doesn’t that feel a bit jarring?  Contrast that with the quiet music of calming vibrations in a fabric-filled room in a restaurant designed to encourage you to relax and dine at a leisurely pace – how does that feel?

At our house, we often leave relaxing music playing when we go out so that the energy will feel calm when we return.  This also helps the pets left in the house to relax while we are gone.  Sometimes when I have cleaning to do or organizing or some activity that requires me to be upbeat and energetic I’ll put on Golden Oldies that I used to dance to [many years ago when they weren’t Oldies!]  This energizes me into action.  The music I choose to listen to in the car is related to how I feel and what I need from the music.  It might be the 60s station on satellite radio, might be kirtan chants on CDs, or the 40s station to remind me of my Dad who played in a big band in the 30s-40s.

Notice how you use music and how you could use music if you were choosing consciously.  Pay attention to the music choices that others around you are making, giving you a hint of how they are feeling or what they are, possibly unconsciously, needing from the energy of the music.  You might learn something about them that they would not verbalize or might not know themselves.

Conscious Living requires that we be aware and conscious of all aspects of our lives, even music!

Mystic Message from The Divine Feminine: Listen to the Music – Consciously!

Dear Ones,

When your heart is open to music, you are open to all of the higher vibrations in the Universe.  When you listen to music without opening your heart, you open yourself to a vulnerability to lower vibrations.  This is one reason that people who truly feel moved by the music they listen to can often more easily open their hearts than those who are not touched by music.

Now we know that some of you are wondering about the new kind of music that the young ones are listening to.  We would tell you that many of them are making themselves vulnerable to undesirable vibrations because of their music.  But many adults would throw out all types of the music the young folks enjoy even though not all are harmful.  The kind of music that makes them vulnerable has a message of lower vibration, frustration and anger and uses certain beats to move this message deeply into the young person’s psyche.  They do not realize that this is happening but it is manifest in them in a surliness and frustration that can turn to anger against those in authority.  Some of this music disturbs the brain waves of the youth so that they are vulnerable to the next encounter they have with someone else, whether that encounter is good or disturbing.

To recognize the effect of the music, listen for yourself and notice how you feel in your heart center of energy.  If you are disturbed, then the music is probably not the healthiest vibration.  Assess, though, whether your reaction is a dislike of the music or a genuine vibrational disturbance.  Then play some music that stirs you in a pleasant way and compare how you feel after that experience.  Do not use this as a way to try to change the young people in your life.  Rather, try to understand what they are experiencing and why they seek that experience.

Now try to find other examples of both types of music and notice how you feel with each.  A particular piece of music from a particular genre might have a different effect on you than another piece of music from the same genre.  Make a list of pieces of music that feel uplifting to you and create a playlist that you can use when you wish to feel uplifted. Make other lists of music that have different effects on your own vibrational level – those that energize you, those that make you feel peaceful and serene, those that assist you in meditation, those that help you think through problems clearly.  There are many ways that music can affect you and the same piece of music might fall on several of your lists.

If you have a young person in your life, take time to listen to some of their music with them. Ask them why they like a particular piece, how it makes them feel.  Share with them how you feel when you hear it, not to criticize or say that they are wrong for we want you to honor their honest feelings, but to demonstrate that different people can react differently to the same stimulus.  Then share some of the music from your list with them and ask them how they feel.  Remember to focus on the heart center.  Share how you feel when you are in the vibration of that music.  Make sure to use this opportunity to have an experience of sharing differences without criticism on either side.

This is a good exercise to do with a partner or loved one as a practice of sharing differences without criticism.  You might find several similar reactions and you might be surprised by differing reactions, even widely differing reactions.  Again, make sure that this is a sharing and that neither party is trying to influence the other.  Notice if there are compromises that can be reached if the two parties choices are very different.  Dinner music, for example, can be something chosen together to relax and aid digestion while each can listen to their particular preferences in their own cars.

Enjoy group experiences of music so that the heart centers of many can become connected in that vibration.  Concerts are so popular because many people are opening their hearts to others and enjoying the connections.  Noticing how music makes one feel is a part of Conscious Living.  We urge you to pay attention to the energy vibrations that you resonate with as a part of your growth in Consciousness.

And so it is.

BOOK LIGHTS: From “Notes from the Universe” by Mike Dooley

“It’s not possible!

You cannot significantly change your life, for better or worse, by manipulating the material world.  Not by working harder, not by studying longer, not by schmoozing, not by sweating, not by fasting, not by the hair of your chinny, chin, chin.

But change, great change, is inescapable, when you first begin manipulating the world of your thoughts, which weigh a whole lot less than material things, anyway.

It’s that simple.

— The Universe”

From Notes from the Universe by Mike Dooley

Change your thoughts, change the world.  That tag line has been on my business card for a long time but I’ve recently changed it to: Expand Your Mind * Empower Your Life * Evolve The World.  Every change we make has to happen in our thoughts first.  And then the impact is not just on us and our world, but on everything around us, the whole Planet.  Time to get in touch with what we’re REALLY thinking and believing, wouldn’t you say?

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!