MUSE-INGS: ‘Why? Why? Why?’ by Rosemary Bredeson

Remember the two-year-old asking, ‘Why? Why? Why?’

Why do you suppose that question was so important to that little mind?

I wonder if the question was deeper than we thought.  Why is the grass green?  Why is there a snake swimming in the water?  Why is it thundering?  Why can’t I have a pony?

Every two-year-old has no problem coming up with an exhausting [for Mommy & Daddy!] list of items about which to ask, ‘Why?’  Maybe we get so tired of asking that question when we’re two that we exhaust ourselves and forget to keep asking as we grow older.  Or Mom & Dad get so exhausted that we figure we’d better quit to keep the peace.

But maybe it’s time to reinstate that question but ask it of ourselves instead of our parents. Why am I choosing to do this?  Why do I believe this way and not that way?  Why am I acting like this?  Why am I voting this way?  Why do I drive the way I do?  Why am I eating this? Drinking this?  Thinking this?

What if we continued to ask ourselves ‘Why’ questions all throughout the day?  This just might lead to a deeper connection with our inner self and our behaviors.  Every decision would then become a conscious decision.  Every emotion could be examined in the moment to get to the feeling behind the emotion and possibly to the belief behind that feeling.  Every interaction with another person could be informed by our understanding of why we are interacting in a certain manner.  This consciousness might even lead to an apology or a change in behavior in the middle of the interaction.

And what about the answers that we don’t like when we ask the questions?  Why don’t I like this person?  Because they remind me of my 4th grade teacher who was mean to me for a whole year.  Wow!  Wouldn’t that be a revelation?  And the poor person who in the 21st Century had nothing to do with that teacher was suffering because of an unconscious resemblance!

Much of what we do, say, believe comes from our unconscious mind and it can stay unconscious as long as we choose to ignore it or to avoid examining it.  This is not conscious living.

So decide today to start asking yourself ‘Why?’  throughout the day.  Be as relentless as you were when you were two years old.  Ask ‘Why?’ and then ask the ‘Why?’ behind that.  Keep going until you feel your have reached your ‘aha.’  The first answer might not be the most meaningful.  The two-year-old inside you knows to keep going, that there is always another layer to the question and to the answer.

And no fair answering your inner two-year-old with ‘Just because!’

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THIS WEEK’S MYSTIC MESSAGE from The Divine Feminine: “What’s Your Big Question Today?”

Every one of you has a question or two about your life on Planet Earth that it is difficult to ask.  For some of you it is the proverbial ‘Why am I here?’ question.  For others, it is something like ‘What happens when we die?’  And then many of you wonder about all sorts of ideas that have been proposed that you do not feel have been proven to your satisfaction, like the existence of Life elsewhere in the Universe or the actual origins of the chemicals and minerals of the planets or the nature of animals or other living things on your planet.  Questions abound when the thinking mind explores the world around the person.

The danger comes when a person stops asking questions because of one of these two reasons:  they stop being curious and thus choose not to explore, or they believe that they have all the answers and thus do not need to ask any more questions.

Do you fall into one of these two categories?  Do you sometimes get tired of the ‘not knowing’ and wish you had all the answers?  Or do you sometimes get tired of always finding another question to ask?  Or both?

Believe this, Dear One:  you are a questing being.  Your soul incarnated in your body so that you could ask questions and learn the answers which would lead to more questions as you explore the world around you.  You chose to incarnate on Planet Earth at this time so that you could learn all about 21st Century Earth and her peoples, the environment, the societies, the ideas, the poetry, the art, the cuisines.  You incarnated in a particular family so that you could learn all that that family had to teach you.

Let’s talk about that last sentence for a moment.  Have you wondered why you were born to the family you were born to?  Maybe you grew up feeling like an outsider, or maybe your mother gave you up for adoption and you were raised by some other family.  Do you have an answer for why you were born where and to whom you were born?  Examining this is a part of growing into who you incarnated to be.  Why those particular parents?  Siblings?  Why that school/philosophy/religion/neighborhood/country?  There are lots of aspects of your early life that you can examine to understand more fully how you have been shaped by those very aspects.

The uncurious mind doesn’t bother to explore these questions but one who would grow, who would develop, experiences a certain curiosity about their origins that helps to elaborate on their understanding of Self.  Did you ever wonder about your rebellious or non-rebellious nature as a young person?  What do you suppose that was about?

You rebelled against what was helping you to define yourself, or you chose not to rebel in obvious ways because you chose to adopt what was being presented to you.  The process of growing up is a process much like shopping for a new outfit of clothing.  You try on several to see if they fit, if they are comfortable, if they present the image you wish to project and to see if they are appropriate for who you are in that moment.  When you are growing as a person you are exposed to many new ideas, philosophies, possibilities and you try them on for a fit.  Some you discard, some you adopt and some you modify.

This process never ends.  As long as you are breathing you are exploring the wonder called ‘Life.’  Adopt a curious attitude about what is around you.  Examine it and yourself for ways that you can grow.  Learn from everything that happens or appears around you.  And enjoy the process!

This IS Life!

And so it is.

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MUSE-INGS: “Power is a loaded concept!” by Rosemary Bredeson

We often think of power when we think of governments or titans of business or the power of the strong over the weak.  But I like to think of power as electricity, the power that runs the computer or the dishwasher, the power that enhances the usefulness of an appliance or a person because they are plugged into the source.

Where does your power come from?  Are you constantly looking outside yourself for validation or energy or acceptance?  If so, are you giving away your power to others?

I know it is not easy to admit that we are giving away our power but it happens all the time, and often in subtle ways.  If someone is really bugging you, do you let it eat away at you all day?  That’s a form of giving away your power.  How about a romantic partner?  Are you holding in your feelings and going along with what they want instead of standing up for yourself or speaking your mind in the relationship?  This is another way that it is easy to give away your power.  How about at work or in your business – are you constantly deferring to others rather than standing up for your opinions and backing up your own suggestions? You give away your power at work, too.

There are times in every parent’s life when they choose to give power to the 2-year-old tyrant because the parent has become exhausted by the tantrum.  Admit it, you’ve probably done this once or twice if you’re a parent.  And if you have a pet, you have probably, once or twice, given them an extra treat when they whined or performed or begged, right?

What about when you didn’t vote in an election and were disappointed in the result – did you give away your power then?  Have you stood by silently and allowed one person to tell a joke that offended someone else in the group?  That’s another way of giving away your power.

There are so many situations in your life that give you an opportunity to claim your power as it comes from within you or to quietly allow that power to drift away from you.  We do it with our parents, our kids, our bosses, our mates, even our pets.  But the most insidious giving up of our powers comes when we fail to examine our beliefs, our own thoughts.  Sometimes we give our power up to a belief that has been handed down to us for generations because we never stop to examine that belief and to question whether it is actually true for us today.

Have you ever seen a family of doctors where the family belief is that all the male children become doctors?  Or ‘everyone in our family is a lawyer/farmer/accountant/teacher/whatever’?  And how often is there a child in the family who has amazing talent as a dancer or a painter but they allow that to be a hobby because they feel compelled to become a doctor or a lawyer or a teacher?   They give away their power to the belief that came from outside of them.

When I work with clients we often uncover beliefs that they aren’t even aware they are carrying but that cause them to give away their inner connection to their power because they’ve never examined that belief before.  Ask yourself if there are any beliefs about power or your inner power that you can examine and maybe choose to change.

Beliefs are powerful things.  Make sure you are choosing consciously to believe what you believe.  Examine the source of your beliefs, especially around power.  It is a good thing to be in touch with your inner power.  This is not the same as exerting power over the powerless.  See if you have any hidden beliefs around this issue that might be holding you back from manifesting your Life Purpose on the Planet.  This exercise could turn your Life around!

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THIS WEEK’S MYSTIC MESSAGE from The Divine Feminine: “Find Your Source of True Power!”

Dear Ones,

There are movements underway to distract people from what really matters in the hearts of human beings.  Be careful that you are not the victim of disinformation or misleading information that might cause you to support a movement that is not what it appears on the surface.

People in power are afraid of losing their power.  Those who do not feel that they have power are afraid that the situation will never change.  There seems to be a misconception about ‘power’ and its source and we would instruct you about this.

True power comes from an inner connection to the Source of power in the Universe.  Human beings breathe Life into their bodies at the moment of their birth.  When they breathe Mother Earth’s atmosphere for the first time they are connecting to a lifetime on Earth that is in their soul blueprint.  From this moment of their first breath humans have a power source within them that connects them to their Life Purpose, their reason for incarnating on this particular Planet.  This connection allows a human being to live that Life Purpose and to be the person they came to Earth to be.

You have undoubtedly heard the phrase ‘Human Being, not Human Doing’ and that is a significant distinction to make.  You incarnated to BE the human that your spirit chose and to learn the lessons that your soul came here to learn.  The DOING part comes after you are in touch with your purpose.  You are not on Earth to DO but to BE.  When you understand this, then you can proceed to a deeper understanding of what the word ‘power’ really means.

Those who choose to interpret ‘power’ to mean ‘power over someone else’ are choosing a selfish path depending on doing something.  They don’t understand the concept of the human BE-ing nor do they understand the soul having lessons to learn and the spirit being an eternal part of the total human being.  These ‘power over’ folks are always seeking more people over whom they can have this kind of power.

Look at those who choose to deride the weak, the elderly, the youth, the different.  The reason that they are so convinced of their superiority is that they are seeking power over others and they are disconnected from an inner sense of innate power that comes from being a human being.  When one disconnects from one’s inner source of power then one can only look outside oneself for a way to feel powerful.  Thus, these ‘disconnected ones’ choose the path of exerting power over others.

They are pitiable creatures as they go through their lives seeking something, they know not what, that will make them feel better about themselves.  There is no contentment in finding power over others for this power beast is insatiable – there are never enough others to satisfy the hunger for more power.  And, therefore, they cannot ever be content.

On the other hand, those who find that inner connection to the source of Life will find their power comes from knowing who they are, knowing what their Life Purpose on Earth is and manifesting that purpose in the outer world.  These powerful people contain the power to make huge changes in the world if they so desire.  They are not easily misled by others, especially those who strive to have power over them.  The truly powerful do not fall victim to misinformation because they are willing to seek truth and they are unwilling to give away their power to another.

Most people fall in the middle of these two, forgetting that their power lies within and seemingly unable to fight against those who would wield power over them.  If this is you, then wake up to the truth that your power lies within.  Take off your blinders and see the others for who they truly are.  Seek information based on facts, not purposely misleading information or outright lies.  Find your inner power and live from that place within you.

Each of you seeing these words is a powerful person.  Reach inside and convince yourself of this truth.  Ask for help if you need for someone to hold the torch for you and to shine the light upon your inner connection to your own power.  The world awaits you!

And so it is.

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MUSE-INGS: “Make sure you are moving TOWARD something!”

We are always avoiding pain but does that give us enough impetus to keep going after the danger or pain is over?  I think of the wealthy people who are motivated by avoiding poverty.  The farther from poverty they get the less motivated they can become to make money and they lose it/go bankrupt.  But then they become motivated to make money again to avoid poverty so they make lots more money.  This is a cycle with people who are motivated to move away from the pain of poverty.

When we follow a pattern of avoiding pain we must be careful to shift our gears to moving toward something instead of always moving away from pain.  Notice that the ‘moving away from’ energy diminishes the farther one gets from pain.  But what takes over?  Where is the motivation after the pain is no longer a problem?

The person who would live a Conscious Life knows what they are moving toward.  There is a desire to expand awareness, to grow in Consciousness, that keeps one motivated to learn more, to experience more, to continue to grow.  There has to be an attachment to that movement forward to carry the person into further growth.  It cannot be only about avoiding pain.

Too many people have been struggling in their lives to ‘keep up with the Joneses’ and so they have struggled to maintain a lifestyle that is not in alignment with their income or life purpose.  These people have been trying to avoid a negative comparison with someone else.  Or they have believed that they are entitled to have whatever their neighbor has and they want to avoid embarrassment.  But living in a way that is based on avoiding the pain of embarrassment does not move one into higher consciousness.  This choice does not expand consciousness or awareness.  It is actually a limiting energy because it is based on a comparison with someone else and a desire to avoid coming up short.

What is your motivation in your daily life?  Are you constantly taking action to avoid pain or do you move toward pleasure?  Might there be a balance that is needed in your life?

Looking at what motivates you can give you some real insights into your own value structure.  If you are constantly avoiding pain without deciding what you are moving toward then examine your value structures to determine what really matters to you and what it is that you desire to bring into your life.

You will not be living your life to the fullest if all you do is make choices to avoid the next pain!

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THIS WEEK’S MYSTIC MESSAGE from The Divine Feminine: “Pleasure and Pain. Pain and Pleasure.”

Dear Ones,

Pleasure and Pain.  Pain and Pleasure.

These are the two main motivators.  People are motivated to move toward Pleasure and to avoid Pain.

Think about this in your relationships, in business and in life.  Are you offering the other person pleasure in their interaction with you?  Are you offering them respite from their pain?  Or are you bringing something else to the relationship?  Are you increasing their pain or diminishing or blocking their pleasure?  Likewise, what are they bringing to you in the relationship?

Lab animals are studied in psychology laboratories because it is so easy to introduce pleasure and/or pain into their environments.  But human beings are not lab animals.  There are huge differences, the main one being that humans have more control over their environments than lab animals have.

So humans can choose to avoid pain or to seek pleasure.  And these choices can be made consciously or unconsciously.  One doesn’t have to think too hard or too long before removing one’s hand from a hot stove.  But in other situations there can be nuances and rationalizations and multiple sources of conflicting information that make choosing a direction or a next step more difficult.

In some abusive relationships a person may not be willing to assess the situation in the present and may be influenced by past energies, experiences or even past lives.  In some cases, especially in business relationships, abuse can take a very subtle form of discounting, ignoring, dismissing.

Every individual deserves to be treated as a valuable person with ideas to contribute, thoughts that are worth considering, feelings that are to be included, whether the relationship is business or personal.  Every person deserves to be in relationships that do not bring pain to them.

We acknowledge that sometimes there is disappointment or discomfort in a relationship that is growing/evolving, but that relationship should not be the direct source of pain, such as mental, emotional or physical abuse.

And so individuals who would live a Conscious Life must be looking at what is motivating them to take the next step or to avoid taking a step.  Is that step being taken to avoid some pain?  Or is it being taken to move toward some pleasure?  And if the answer is to avoid pain, then there must be some positive motivating force, some pleasure, to move toward after one has accomplished the avoidance of the pain.

Ask yourself which is your biggest motivator and then use that information to set up ‘motivating milestones’ for yourself.  Have you gotten stuck somewhere in your life?  Are you wishing you could move forward but, for some reason, are not able to?  Are you confused about which direction to take and the confusion is paralyzing you?

Your usual motivators may not be strong enough to get you moving from where you currently are.  Get help identifying what energy is holding you back.  Clear up the blocks.  Gain clarity about the direction you really wish to pursue.

And THEN get motivated and get going!

And so it is.

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MUSE-INGS: ‘Mirror, Mirror, on the wall…’ by Rosemary Bredeson

How many times have we been the mirrors for the projections of others?  And how many times have we projected our stuff onto someone else?

These are not the pretty things we like to ponder but there are the gems of some real growth in considering these questions.

When you are told that your issues are about something inside you rather than about the other person, how do you react?  Do you first go into disbelief and then justification?  ‘What do you mean it’s not about them?  They’re being ridiculous, an idiot, unkind, outrageous, ________[fill in the blank]!’  Of course we want it to be about them because it is much easier to consider ourselves to be victims than to own responsibility for what is happening in a relationship.

Let me say here that I am not talking about abuse.  This is never acceptable.  But when you feel that you are the victim of abuse you must ask yourself what you are to learn and sometimes the answer is that you must remove yourself from the relationship.  When you make the abuse about either your own inadequacy, such as creating an excuse for why you might have deserved the treatment you received, or when you make the abuse about the other person and you don’t take action except to get angry or fearful, then you have given away your power to an abusive relationship and you are not owning your opportunity for personal growth.

In every relationship there are many opportunities for growth but we tend to want to romanticize our romantic relationships or make family relationships about what happened in the past.  Sometimes in friendships we have expectations that are not realistic or, on the other hand, we excuse behaviors in our friends that we wouldn’t tolerate in our partners.  We get our boundaries all mixed up about what is mine and what is theirs.

It is important to examine our relationships for where the healthy boundaries are.  Know what is yours and what is the other person’s.  Not clear?  Then work on this with someone who is not emotionally charged in the relationship so that you can become clear about where the healthy boundaries lie.

Think of every relationship as a mirror that your inner Self is holding up to you so that you can see in that mirror the work that is ‘in your face’ today for you to work on.  And then do the work.

Remember that an issue is probably not about you unless it is pointing you in the direction of a lesson to be learned.  Honor those lessons by allowing the relationship to be the classroom in the School of Life on Earth and learn the lesson without becoming defensive or retaliatory.  Lessons in relationships can help both the individuals to grow.  And if you feel that you cannot grow in the relationship, then re-examine your reason for staying there.

Sometimes the healthiest boundaries come from creating great distance.

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THIS WEEK’S MYSTIC MESSAGE from The Divine Feminine: “Relationships are merely mirrors???!!!”

Dear Ones,

When a person struggles with intimacy issues or with issues within an intimate relationship that issue has nothing to do with the other person or even the relationship.  The issue is an inside issue of being honest with and trusting the Self. The relationship is merely the crucible, the classroom, in which one is being given the opportunity to learn the lesson.

People often project their issues onto the people or the world around them.  Others feel the ‘attack’ and react to that with defensiveness or retaliation.  But projection implies that a person’s Self, inner being, is looking for a mirror in which to see that issue.  If someone else projects onto you, see that as their opportunity to learn a lesson, regardless of whether or not they take that opportunity to learn it.

Where most people get tripped up is in reacting to the projection as if it had something to do with them.  It doesn’t.  And the sooner one learns this the easier one’s life will be.

Other people are on the Earth for 2 purposes: 1) To learn their lessons [foremost]; and 2) To help you learn yours.

That is the simple reason for having a lifetime in the School of Earth – to accomplish those 2 purposes.

And, yet, most people spend most of their time reacting to someone else learning their lessons or to ignoring actively the learning of their own.

The Earth is a lovely home in which to be home-schooled.  Lessons abound in every situation.  Everything in the environment is placed there to help you learn.  It is a wonderful setup for personal growth and Soul Evolution.

Yet most humans spend their time resisting the lessons, railing against their environment [and situations] or numbing out to avoid personal growth.

What a choice!

Choose the lessons and Soul Evolution.  You’ll be much happier in your Earth Environment!

And so it is.

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MUSE-INGS: We’ve All Been Waiting for You! by Rosemary Bredeson

So many people seem to be struggling with Life these days and this message tells us that we need to focus our energies on living our Life Purpose.

It’s true.

Struggles come from a conflict within us about how the world works and what our role is in that world.  Sometimes it’s just a shift in attitude that can help us get into a more comfortable stance within a situation that hasn’t changed.  And sometimes shifting our beliefs can bring solutions into clear view that were totally obscured before then.

I remember my mother saying that she was ‘too old to change’ but then she ‘changed my attitude.’  Actually, that’s the place where real change takes place:  in our attitude, our beliefs, our thoughts.

More and more of the clients I am working with are perplexed about their life purpose and they seem to be seeking confirmation of what they have been feeling but maybe not believing or understanding.  I find that often a simple change in perspective can help someone make a profound shift in their life and how they feel about that life.  Is that where you are?

And are you the one who is making the decisions about the direction of your life or are you allowing someone else to make those decisions for you?  It is time to take control of your life and you start with examining beliefs and thought patterns so that you can consciously align with your life purpose.

Do you feel you have an understanding of why you are on Planet Earth and who you are here to be?  Do you regularly spend time asking yourself about the important aspects of your life or are you waiting for some date in the future before you do that introspection?

The Divine Feminine are telling us that the time is now for us to show up to our lifetime lessons because others have been waiting for us.  No more delays.  No more procrastination.

People’s stories are making the news reports because they are learning or not learning their lessons.  Disasters happen.  People leave the planet in large numbers.  Life can change in an instant.  The time is now to step fully into the agreement you have with your soul group – to be who you incarnated to be.

Step up to the greatness you have within you.  You are a part of the Light of the Universe.  No longer will you be allowed to keep that Light hidden in the shadows.  Shine.  Shine brightly so that all may see that you are here in the fullness of your inner beauty and outward brightness.

We’ve all been waiting for you to shift into the shining Light that is your essence.  Shed that which blocks your Light from our view.  BE the Light in the World that we have been waiting for.

Thank you!

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THIS WEEK’S MYSTIC MESSAGE from The Divine Feminine: Why am I here? Who did I come to Earth to be?

Dear Ones,

Time is speeding up for the humans inhabiting Earth in these days and it is important that you begin to live your purpose if you have not begun to do so.  Are you waiting for a sign that the time has arrived for you to live and work in alignment with the purpose that your soul chose for this incarnation?  This is the sign – we are telling you that the time is arriving when you will need to step up to your purpose or the others on the Planet will be forced to find someone else to help them.

Each of you was born with a direct path through your life that would manifest the purpose that your soul chose for you to support you in learning the lessons of this lifetime.  Some people are marching along the path of their life without bothering to look for the lessons and these people are disappointing the other souls who had contracts with them.  Do you know about soul contracts?

Before you came onto Planet Earth you met with a group of other souls and you agreed collectively that you would share the Earth experience with each other, each of you playing a role to support the others in learning their lessons.  Some of these souls agreed to incarnate as part of your family, others you agreed to meet later in your life, and still others were peripheral to your lifetime but would be affected by your choices.  Then you came to Earth and promptly had amnesia about who these souls were.  Sometimes you feel a sense of recognition when you meet in your physical life and sometimes you have no idea of the connection.

But you did agree to learn your lessons and to help others learn theirs.

So what has happened to your commitment?  This is why it is so important to answer the question for yourself: Why am I here?  Who did I come to Earth to be?

As you grow in Consciousness the answers appear to you.  Are you actively seeking these answers or are you putting this off until some nebulous time in the future?  Are you looking at the people around you as your soul group and asking yourself how you came to Earth to help them?  And is there a bigger role for you to play for the world at large?

Spend some time asking these questions.  Spend some time examining your life for the many ways that lessons have presented themselves to you.  Can you look back on experiences and understand what the lessons were for you?  Can you look around yourself today and examine every situation for the lesson being shown to you in that situation?

This perspective gives you a bit of distance from situations and allows you to learn the lesson and move on, especially from situations that are uncomfortable or even painful.  There is usually more to learn from stepping into a view above a situation than to stay stuck in the middle where your vision is limited or obscured.  Don’t allow yourself to be misled by those who would steer you off the path of learning your lessons, and they are around you.  There is no reward for living someone else’s direction for your life.  You have come to Planet Earth to live YOUR life, to follow YOUR guidance for your life, and to learn YOUR lessons.  Make sure that your focus is on what you are to learn and how you are to help others learn their lessons.

And if someone tries to make you live your life according to the way they want to dictate it, then ask yourself what you are to learn from the interaction, learn the lesson and move on.  Listen to your inner guidance about your life and you will be led to your lessons.

And so it is.

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