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.


MUSE-INGS: Lift your vibration and be a blessing!
July 27, 2010 — RosemarySometimes it’s confusing when we hear about ‘raising our vibration’ or ‘frequencies’ or other terms referring to measuring energy. People seem to throw these ideas around without definition or clarification.
Let’s look at the ‘frequency’ of something or someone.
Have you ever walked into a room and the occupants try to put on a happy face but you can sense that they have been fighting? Have you every felt someone’s anger even when their answer to your question about what’s wrong was, ‘Nothing’?
These situations are samples of times when you have picked up on the ‘vibes’ in the room, the vibrations created by the frequency of the emotion in the room. Just as a radio dial has numbers on it that indicate the frequency of a particular radio station, so your internal ‘radio’ has a set of frequency measurements that identify for you what the frequency is that you are sensing. The smile might tell you visually that everything is fine but your internal sensors are picking up on the energy that maybe things are not so fine.
Now magnify this example to everyone on the planet at a certain time. If everyone is feeling angry at once, the energy ramps up and it doesn’t feel very good, does it? If, however, everybody ramped up the energy of Love, can you imagine how good that would feel? If everyone in your vicinity were projecting the energy of Love at you, what would that feel like? Pretty darned good.
So now take this and extrapolate to Planet Earth and all her inhabitants. How would the Planet feel if everyone were thinking thoughts of Love and radiating that energy outward? Bringing it closer to home, how would your family feel if everyone were radiating the frequency of Love in your home? Now, since you cannot control everyone in your home, what if you were radiating Love and you were the only one doing so?
YOU could have a positive impact on your own home by radiating Love, even if your spouse or kids bug you or the dog is misbehaving or you are worried about paying the bills. Simply thinking thoughts of Love raises your vibration and everyone around you can feel it.
It is most important that you focus yourself on your role in raising the energy of Planet Earth in these days. Start within yourself and raise your own vibration with thoughts of Love. Radiate this outward and you will see a shift in the people around you. When they shift to a higher vibrational frequency the impact will start to be felt by the environment – plants and animals and the very air around you all. (Remember the room where the people had been fighting and how that air held memories of the lower vibrations?)
Everyone who is alive today is being called to lift the vibration of Mother Earth. Join in this effort by starting to raise your own vibration. Just for a moment NOW think of the energy of Love and how good it feels. A momentary thought like this will lift your own vibration and will radiate around you to be a blessing to all!
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