EXPLORATION: Gratitude and Loving Yourself

In this season of Thanksgiving and holidays we focus on being grateful for the blessings in our lives and for the people who are sharing our journeys with us.  But have you taken the time to move into gratitude for yourself?

What traits do you have that you can feel grateful for?  What aspects of yourself do you need to learn to love?  Gratitude for yourself in all your parts is the first step toward loving yourself.

Most of us find it very easy to be grateful for the friends we have in our lives.  Some of us can be grateful for our families, or at least some family members.  But what about YOU?  We are so good at analyzing ourselves and finding fault when we would give someone else a lot more leeway.  Have you ever felt self-critical?  Do you catalogue your mistakes or the things you wish were different and focus your energy on these things?  Do you find it easier to focus on what you don’t like about yourself rather than those aspects that you do like?

If you answered ‘yes’ you’re not alone.  But consider that every single aspect of you is important to the WHO YOU ARE at this time in your life.  Every bit of you is lovable, whether you believe that at the moment or not.  WE asked you to come to Earth to be a part of the process of the unfolding of the Plan of the Universe and you agreed to join us.  Thank you.

So if you are perfect right now, in this present moment, and your role is to learn lessons and to help everyone around you to learn their lessons, then every thing that you have done and every aspect of who you are contributes to all of the lessons being learned.  Just as you are grateful for those around you, be grateful to yourself for being just what you agreed to be.

Everything that you see as a fault in yourself has some purpose, even if you don’t understand it at the moment.  If you wish to change something about yourself, then change it.  But do so from an energy of gratitude for the lessons that you have learned and from the space of not needing to be that way in the future.  This is a much higher energy than to be in disgust or frustration with yourself!

Each of us is on a path of personal growth if we are living a conscious life.  We are constantly moving forward by assessing our lives, changing that which we wish to change, lifting our awareness to higher perspectives and moving on to the next level of being.  We are learning lessons all the time.  Whatever we see in ourselves is serving a purpose or has served a purpose on our journey.  Being in gratitude for ourselves is the starting place for loving ourselves.

Accept yourself and every moment of your life up until this point.  Every backward glance over your timeline can carry with it an appreciation for all that you have learned.  Some lessons came clearly and easily and others were difficult or tedious to learn.  You might still be in the midst of some tough lessons or you might be in a more peaceful moment in your life.  And every single lesson has brought you a step further on the path of personal growth.  Every aspect of your person has been a loving contributor to every lesson.  Be grateful. And love every aspect of yourself.

Loving yourself is not just an emotional thing.  It is an important step along your personal journey.  I declare today ‘Love Your Wonderful Self Day’!  I love you just as you are.  Now take that to the mirror and say, ‘I love you!’ to the reflection you see there.  And express your gratitude for at least 1 part of you.  Smile.  Congratulations!

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MUSE-INGS: Bring Your Dreams into Your Now

So much of what we are surrounded by these days seems to draw our attention to what we lack and what we ‘need’ to fill that space of lack. Just watch commercial television for a few minutes and you will be convinced that you ‘need’ that beer to attract the sexy girls, that drug to feel happier, those clothes to feel good about yourself, that cell phone to be ‘cool’ and the list goes on and on.

And then there is the fear-mongering that leads us to be fearful of everything including being ‘not enough.’ We are also told to fear foreclosure, terrorism, the loss of a job, the loss of a relationship, the loss of beauty, etc. How are we supposed to overcome this constant bombardment that tells us to focus on lack?

First, avoid those commercials! We rarely watch commercial TV but saw a lot of commercials during the American football playoff games. In another week we’ll be watching the Super Bowl with its extremely high-priced commercials telling us what we lack. [ I actually love the commercials that are done especially for the Super Bowl as they often tell stories and are very creative, but they do want us to feel that we’re not good enough unless we buy their product.] News broadcasts also seem to want us to focus on the stories with the most sensational happenings which lead us into a focus on what we don’t want. Maybe we should also stay away from the news. [I do.]

So what do you focus on instead? Focus on how you feel, what you do have in your life, and keep yourself in the space of gratitude and action based on living in the present moment. And BE who you were born to be so that you can fulfill your Life Purpose in this lifetime. When you know your WHY and you commit to being who you are, you have a lens through which to view your life that brings into focus the values that lift you up and that help you to choose what you will do in every moment.

Think about your purpose. Do you know your ‘why’? If you’re not sure, then make an effort to identify why you are living this life. Conscious Living is a choice based on a commitment to be awake and aware in every moment and to move toward greater consciousness and personal growth. Knowing your Life Purpose is an important part of Conscious Living.

What are your dreams? Your visions? The Mystic Message is not about giving up your dreams, but about holding them as visions that are with you in the present moment. This is why affirmations are written in present tense rather than in the future. Hold onto your visions as manifested in this blossoming present moment. Your dreams are your dreams NOW and if you focus on the dream as present in a ‘becoming reality’ sense then you are attaching the energy of presence to the dream rather than the energy of lack of the unmaterialized dream living in a nebulous future. Hold that dream in your own space so that it is not ‘the stick’s length’ away from you, which is where it will stay just like the carrot.

Be who you are. Commit to living your Life Purpose. Hold your dreams in the present moment. All of your energy can be focused on now and so can your joy.

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MYSTIC MESSAGE from The Divine Feminine: The Consciousness of Desire

Dear Ones,

Rather than focus on what you have or do not have in your physical reality at this moment, spend your energy today focusing on who you are and who you can become in this moment.

Too much energy can be wasted by wanting something one does not have, or by worrying about something that one does have, and that energy is no longer available for advancing one’s personal growth. Are you focused on getting more money? Are you dreaming of having more/bigger/better ‘things’ in your life? There is nothing wrong with dreaming but the energy is not useful if it comes from a place of lacking something.

The energy of lack creates more lack in one’s life. Wishing for something one does not have creates a distance between one’s self and what is wished for. However, if you focus in gratitude on that which is already in your life, and look to yourself to decide WHO you must BE to grow, then the energy becomes a magnet of gratitude and a commitment to the personal growth required to be the person who has the things/situations you desire.

There is a deep connection between who you are and what is going on in the outer circumstances of your life. This is not to say that everything that happens to you is your ‘fault,’ although there are some who are quick to blame or find fault or talk about ‘deserving’ a fate. But you are a perpetual student of life, whether consciously or unconsciously, and so everything that is going on around you and in you carries with it the lesson of the classroom of your life in this present moment. Everything is presented to you as an opportunity to examine yourself, your values, your desires within the context of the lesson to be learned.

Are you feeling that you lack something in your life, like money or a relationship or a job? Ask yourself who you are being as you ponder that lack. There are those who focus on the space between the jobs and those who focus on who they are as the next job is coming to them. There are those who focus on the space between relationships and those who focus on who they are in relationship to their own inner being as the next relationship is or is not coming to them. The focus becomes an energy of Self, of Purpose, rather than of lack.

Can you see that by putting your attention on what you don’t have you energize that distance between what you do have/who you currently are and what you desire? It is like a carrot on a stick. The donkey is always trying to reach the carrot it desires but the carrot always stays the distance of the stick’s length away from being reached.

Focus instead on who you are right now. Are you a grateful person? Are you caring for the possessions that you do have? Or are you neglectful of yourself and others in your pursuit of the next ‘thing,’ maybe even the next achievement? Are you actively working on your personal growth, exploring and expanding your consciousness or are you contracting into a position of ‘I know everything I need to know’ which sends out an energy that does not magnetize growth and expansion?

Hold yourself in a position of constant personal growth. Keep expanding. Explore. But know that you are enough, your life holds all the lessons for you in this moment that you are needing to learn. Explore from a position of seeking growth and expansion, not one of lacking something that you need.

The energy shift will, ironically, bring you what you desire!

And so it is.

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MYSTIC MESSAGE from The Divine Feminine: Dream the Fulfillment of Your Life Purpose!

Dear Ones,

What kind of planner are you? Do you write out specific goals and work doggedly to achieve them? Or do you have an idea and then ‘go with the flow’ to see where you end up? Do you share your goals and dreams with others or do you hold them as secrets inside yourself? What are your visions for yourself, your life?

Many people spend a lot of time lamenting what they have or don’t have in their lives when, if they spent the same energy thinking about what they want to have they could actually be moving in the direction of manifesting that in their life. This is the only useful aspect to developing dreams, visions and goals for any aspect of your life.

If you wish to lose weight, for example, yet spend all of your time thinking about how you don’t weigh the amount you wish you weighed, then you will always be striving for something that is distant from you. If you wish you had more money in your bank account you will be energizing the amount that is there [or not there] without energizing manifesting energy for what you want to have there. If you are constantly talking about wishing you had a relationship/job/business/friend//car/whatever that is not in your life at the moment then you are energizing the lack thereof.

Some people do not have dreams and visions for themselves. Or, if they do, they are nebulous and far away. We wish you to change that for yourself.

But don’t write down goals and then beat yourself up if you do not achieve those goals. Dreams and visions and goals should be constantly reassessed as new information and circumstances arise. The first step is to create the dreams and visions and goals that are in alignment with your Life Purpose.

Do you know your Life Purpose? Do you have a plan for achieving this? Have you examined the dreams you have for your life to check their alignment with your Life Purpose? This is the work of the world today.

Many are focused simply on what they are lacking: money, food, a home, a job. And there are many who are existing without these things. What if your Life Purpose were to make a lot of money so that you could support those who are needing help? Others need an education so that they can be self-sufficient but they do not have access to the education they believe they need. Are you an educator?

Sometimes dreams can intersect. For example, if you are one who dreams of owning a business and someone else who has a dream of selling their business, there could be a match up of dreams that would benefit both parties. But if you are constantly energizing the lack of the business you wish to own, and/or they are constantly energizing the lack of a buyer for their business, you could both miss an opportunity to realize a dream.

Do you see how this works? Create the dream, the vision for yourself and your life. Energize that dream by joining with it emotionally and mentally. Believe that that dream is realized somewhere in the Universe and you are getting closer to arriving at that dream. Welcome the dream. Be grateful for the manifestation of that dream. Feel what it feels like to be in perfect alignment with a dream you can realize. Stay in gratitude and see the dream as present in your own reality within the Universe.

And believe that all the resources that you need to realize that dream, like the person who wishes to help you achieve your dream while they achieve theirs, are actually present right now, ready for you to accept those resources and enjoy the dream.

Dream yourself into your success TODAY!!!

And so it is.

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MUSE-INGS: The New Consciousness and You

Are you ready for the New Consciousness?  Gratitude and Compassion, based on the concept that we are all connected, that none of us operates on the Planet alone.  It is time for us to step up to this concept and to share it widely.

When you feel you are struggling with life, with certain circumstances or situations, with finances or work or relationships, can you have compassion for yourself and your struggles?  Maybe this is where gratitude starts.  Go gently with yourself in your troubles.  Make sure you are not beating yourself up or judging yourself to be ‘not good enough’ or spending your focus on the ‘why me?’ question.  Start by getting yourself into the energy of compassion toward yourself.  Then start looking for something to feel gratitude about.  Move from compassion to gratitude, even if, at first, you can only feel gratitude for the fact that there is a lesson to be learned in this situation, as there is in every situation.

Stay with gratitude.  Don’t let worry or fear or lack creep into you.  Keep gently bringing your focus back to gratitude.  And I’m not talking here about ‘I’m grateful that I’m not worse off or that I don’t have so-and-so’s problems’ – I’m saying find at least one thing that you can be grateful for in your life today.  Think of one person who loves you. Or one whom you love.  Think of the car you drive or the view outside your window or the rain for the flowers or the smile on your child’s face when they hit the baseball.  It doesn’t have to be something grand and it doesn’t have to be the same kind of thing that you’re upset about or missing.

Bring in the energy of gratitude and you bring in what you desire.  It’s pretty simple.  The converse is true, too.  If you cannot find anything about which to feel grateful, then the Universe has trouble connecting you to things that would elicit that energy in you.

I am sitting in my office in our beautiful home in Colorado Springs watching 13 deer cavort in the yard while the sun shines on newly fallen snow.  I am grateful.  For the deer, for the snow that will put the grass to sleep for the winter with extra moisture, for the sunshine that makes this day a bright one.  I am grateful that I am warm and comfortable inside as I work.  And I will soon be with my grandchildren so I am grateful for that opportunity to be ‘Grandma Mimi.’  And am I sad that I am leaving this home for a move across the country?  Not really.  I feel complete with this house and have released it to the next family to enjoy it. I am grateful for the time that this has been our home and I am ready to move on to the next phase of life.

What can you find to bring you into a state of gratitude?  Look around you in this present moment.  What do you see?  If you have been worrying about paying the bills or finding a job or meeting that perfect someone, can you find something that you DO have in your life about which you can feel gratitude?

Now how does this connect with compassion?  I believe we must come from a place of compassion for ourselves and each other so that we connect these energies in all that we do.  No one is disconnected from the energy of the human community, no matter what we might think or want.  When we start with that understanding then our choices in life become easier.  When we learn to have compassion for ourselves we will become more compassionate members of the human community and will have compassion for others.

Think about Compassion and Gratitude in your life this week.  How can you grow in your understanding of both energies? How can you share these energies with others?  Practice both and watch the Universe say, ‘Good for you!’

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MYSTIC MESSAGE: from The Divine Feminine: Gratitude and Compassion – the New Consciousness

Dear Ones,

There is no one among you who has not been touched by another human being.  Nor is there anyone who has not touched another person’s life in a positive way. Even if you cannot think at the moment of someone else whose life you have   touched, they are there.

Did you smile at the mail carrier?  Did you help a lost child find their parent in the grocery store?  Did you put money in a charity collection box?  Did you send a birthday card or a thank you card or a sympathy card?

Every act of kindness that you have ever offered has been a touch of positive energy in another person’s life.  And you, too, have been the recipient of kindnesses from many other people.  Who smiled at you?  Complimented you?  Sent you a birthday card?  Bought you a meal?

It is easy to feel gratitude when you allow yourself to focus on what has come to you in your life.  It is easy to feel compassion when you see another’s need and decide to take what action you can to help alleviate that need.  Both of these energies will be needed during the coming times when every human being on Planet Earth will need help from another and will be called upon to help others.

Take time to connect to the feeling of gratitude when a kindness is extended to you.  Remember that energy of gratitude when you are wishing for something else or some other kindness to come to you.  The energy of gratitude is a great magnet to attract that for which you can feel grateful.  Where many people lose their way is in waiting for something to come into their life before they feel the gratitude.  Feel the gratitude first.  Feel grateful that that which you desire exists in the Universe in the form that is in your highest good and will come to you at the perfect time in the perfect manner.  Stay in gratitude rather than in the feeling of lack or wanting.  Trust that you are taken care of, that you have what you need in this very moment.  Feel gratitude for that circumstance that is bringing you lessons you need to learn for your own personal growth.

Does this mean that you must lie to yourself about your feelings if there is something that you are lacking?  No.  But it is your focus and your emotions that you can control.  Are you focusing your energy on that lack?  Are you feeling angry or sad or worried about the lack?  Then you are not in a receptive energy and the lack will be all that you can see.  But if you shift your focus to this present moment, to what you do have, and feel gratitude for what is going on IN THE PRESENT MOMENT, NO MATTER WHAT IT IS, then you are in the energy of receiving and the Universe can answer that energy by bringing to you that which you desire.

Now take this attitude of gratitude and extend it to helping other people.  If you find compassion in your heart, true compassion and not pity, then you will be led to help others.  Be grateful for the opportunity to help other people.  Be grateful for the chance to share from the abundance that you have in your own life, even if you feel that you lack money or resources or food or the perfect mate or the perfect job.  You are breathing the precious air of Mother Earth.  The Sun is in the sky.  You are reading these words.  Find at least one thing to be grateful for and then give from that place of gratitude for the opportunity to give.

This is true compassion. This is what humanity is being called to experience and to share.  The evolution of human consciousness has reached the point where each individual must decide for himself or herself whether or not they are going to operate from the exquisite energy of gratitude and compassion or to choose to isolate themselves from the connection to other human beings and operate as if they live in a vacuum.

When you are faced with the choice, Dear Ones, please choose compassion.  Be a part of the elevation of human consciousness to higher levels than have been around you before.  Lift yourself as you help others and you will be a bigger beneficiary than the people that you help.

Gratitude begets more opportunities to feel grateful.  Think of this as sending thank you cards to the Universe before the gifts arrive!  And compassion begets compassion.  Give and you shall receive.

And so it is.

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MUSE-INGS: “I Choose Thoughts of Abundance, Prosperity and Freedom!”

Seems that money or the lack thereof is the topic du jour for a lot of us. I appreciate this message with a specific way to address our thoughts, especially if they are tripping us up. How many times did the words ‘abundance, prosperity and freedom’ appear in the Mystic Message? I like the idea of focusing on these concepts and how it feels to experience them instead of how much money is lacking or needed. Money seems to drain energy when it is thought about only as something that is needed and does not exist.

Money does exist. We won’t get into economics and policy here, but money is around. We spend so much time thinking about it but it is really just something used in an exchange for products or services. Money is not the same as abundance, prosperity or freedom, but we sure think it is, don’t we?

We have a friend who is divesting himself of most of his ‘things’ and he is experiencing a great deal of freedom, thinking about where he will rent a room so that he can do more volunteer work and meet more people. Another friend has rented out his own place to move into New York City to experience life there and to get his new business off the ground in a more fertile area than where he lived before.

And we are doing something similar, selling our house in Colorado Springs and moving into a rental near our family, letting go of a lot of the stuff we’ve accumulated over our 30 years together, including furniture. We’re simplifying.

With simplification comes a certain amount of freedom. With renting comes a freedom from worrying about the next repair and how much it will cost [it’s the landlord’s problem!]. With a move to be near family we will experience an abundance of joy at being able to participate more fully in the lives of our grandchildren and other family members. When our house in Colorado and our mountain property are sold we will have no more mortgages to pay each month.

Instead of thinking about the bills that need to be paid and whether or not there is money to pay them, we can shift our thinking to how free we will be as we move forward on our path. I think it is very important to note how the connection between our thoughts and our experience brings about what we focus on.

It is easy to focus on not having enough money. It is easy to say/think, ‘I can’t afford that.’ But notice that the guidance in the Message is very specific: shift that thought to ‘I am choosing to do something else.’ Maybe it seems difficult at first to shift your thinking but here’s one example: ‘I choose to pay for those things that I have already enjoyed in my life rather than to purchase something new at this time.’ This gets you into the emotion of gratitude for the fun you have already had as you anticipate having fun in the future and out of the ‘woe is me! I can’t afford to do that new thing’ mode of thinking. Freedom! And an appreciation for the abundance that has already shown up in your life. This will magnetize and attract more freedom and abundance in your life.

And all you did was reframe one thought into attracting that which you desire to come into your life!

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MYSTIC MESSAGE from The Divine Feminine: “Choosing to Pay the Bills? “

Dear Ones,

We are aware that many people spend much of their time worrying about money. Or should we say, the lack of money. We wish you to change your thoughts.

Money is not abundance or prosperity. Is it REALLY money that you lack or is it a feeling of freedom, abundance, prosperity? What is it you are really feeling when you focus on money or the lack of money?

You can take something whose only value is created when two parties agree on the value and make that thing the essence of your thoughts and, thus, your Life. OR you can change your thinking, control your thoughts, and focus on abundance, prosperity and freedom.

For many of you, you have equated money with these qualities of Life. That is a false equivalent. Would you not feel freer without a mortgage to pay? Would you not feel more prosperous if you felt yourself making choices from a place of empowerment rather than from a place of lack (“I could do that but I choose something else” rather than “I can’t afford that”)? And wouldn’t you feel more abundant in your Life if you appreciated and cared for what is in your Life especially if you have only those things in your Life that you love instead of focusing on what you don’t have or dealing with /feeling burdened by the things in your Life that you don’t love?

You do have the power of choice when it comes to your thoughts. Even those thoughts that arise unbidden in your consciousness can be attached to or let go of – it’s your choice. Where you focus your attention is also your choice. The Law of Attraction states that you attract into your Life that which you magnetize with the energy of your thoughts. What have you been thinking about today?

Now if you are saying that your Life is a struggle to pay the bills then we would tell you to take heart and heed these words today. You are choosing to struggle. Let that go. You are choosing to have those bills in your Life today, perhaps because of decisions made when you did not have the consciousness and awareness that you have today. That is okay. Every day contains new lessons for you to learn and today is no exception to that.

Think differently about the bills you have to pay. Move into gratitude that you have always been making the right choices to learn the lessons of your Life. Rejoice in the empowered feeling of continuing to make choices. Even if your choice is about which bill to pay and which bill to delay, make a choice. You focus on what you don’t want [a consequence] and you energize that. Focus on feeling empowered instead of victimized and you will attract greater empowerment.

There is a difference between bringing your focus fully into the present moment and focusing on ‘what is’ instead of what you desire. There are two aspects to this that it is important for you to consider.

The first is that you must pull all your energy into this present moment because this is your Life. All you have is this moment.

But when you are in this moment thinking about what you don’t have, you steal energy from this moment, your magnetizing/attracting energy, and you give it away to the lack of what you desire.

Think instead of how it will feel when you bring what you desire into this present moment. Energize and ramp up that feeling. Add gratitude to that emotional experience. Smile – with your facial muscles and with your heart.

This is how you attract that which you desire.

When you focus on lack or on the difference between what is and what you desire you make yourself unhappy. When you live in acceptance of what is and an appreciation that you always have the power to change your thoughts – about what is and about what you desire – then you can live an abundant, prosperous, empowered Life in freedom.

We realize that this is a complicated issue but we invite you to start today practicing these techniques. Energize abundance, prosperity and freedom by thinking thoughts and feeling feelings of abundance, prosperity and freedom.

And so it is.

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THIS WEEK’S MYSTIC MESSAGE from The Divine Feminine: “What’s Your Magnet Attracting?”

Dear Ones,

What are the energies that you are putting out into the Universe to attract to you what is happening in your life? Do you worry about money? Do you fret about relationships? Are you stuck in a place that is uncomfortable and focusing on that discomfort?

Think of yourself as a beacon in the darkness. Whatever energy you generate with your mind becomes the energetic electromagnetic beam that radiates outward from you. As a beacon you are sending this magnetic beam out into the Universe inviting like energies to attach to the beam. What are you attracting?

Some people discount what is called ‘The Law of Attraction’ but this is a law of the Universe, whether you believe in it or not. Just as the Law of Gravity works on Planet Earth whether you understand how it works or not. We are teaching you that the Law of Attraction is at work in your life right now, no matter what you think about the Law.

Because you are a thinking individual your thoughts are energetically charged at all times. You are creating magnets with every thought. What were you thinking about just before your started reading this? Was it attracting what you want in your life or what you don’t want? When you become conscious of yourself as a beacon into the vast Universe inviting into your life whatever the energy of your thoughts attract, then you can see what is playing out in your life as a manifestation of previous thoughts.

Even if you don’t remember ‘asking’ [or attracting] what you have, you can probably remember thinking about it. Now, we are not criticizing you for the thoughts that you have had in the past, for you were learning about how the Universe works. You might have implanted beliefs and thought patterns from decades ago, or borrowed from your parents and ancestors, that you didn’t even know that you had accepted. But the fact that your thoughts from the past have created patterns in your present life does not mean that you cannot change those patterns NOW.

This is what you are called to do. Examine your thoughts, your beliefs, in light of what you are learning about living a Conscious Life. Can you identify patterns that are not supporting your personal growth? Do you have situations in your life that you must examine for what you can change about your thinking about those situations?

For example, are you worrying about something and not seeing what there is for you to do about that situation? Perhaps the place to start is to get control of your thoughts about the situation. Every time that your worry surfaces, shift to considering one action you can take away from that worry. This is not to say that you must escape into fantasy rather than face front on what is going on, but rather that you can think of one aspect of that situation over which you have enough control to take one action. Look for one benefit that you receive from that situation. This might be very small or seemingly insignificant, but what is the one benefit you can think of that you have derived or are deriving from being in that situation? Now feel grateful for that one benefit.

Gratitude will move you forward into finding solutions. The energy of Gratitude, when it creates the magnet of your beacon into the Universe, attracts to you more opportunities to feel Gratitude.

And if you cannot find one benefit in your present situation? Then be grateful for the knowledge that you are perceptive enough to know that you must take steps to change the situation. Again, let your beacon contain a different energy than judgment or frustration or disappointment or anger and you will attract different energies into your life.

Try this today with something that is troubling you. You will see a difference. Be gentle with yourself and practice being a Conscious Beacon so that what you attract is what you really want.

And so it is.

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Upstream or Downstream? Your Choice!

Dear Ones,

The energy of these days is spiraling upward so that more people are called to notice how they are feeling and what they are being called to do and to be. Have you paid attention to how you feel when you experience different situations? Do you tune in to your body when you are around certain people to see what your inner sense of the experience is telling you?

No longer can you gravitate toward those situations that you once thought were comfortable if you feel drawn to elevate your energy levels by making different choices. No longer can you associate with those people whose energy drains you or pulls you down when you feel as if you could be soaring with the eagles. No longer will you be living in a place where the energy is not compatible with the human being that you are evolving into when there are other places on Planet Earth that are more compatible with your new vibratory frequencies.

It is time for you to move forward in your personal growth. Is there a job, a relationship or a town that you must move beyond in order that you might continue your growth? What do you hold as a vision of your future and how compatible is the space in which you currently find yourself? What changes are you feeling called to make in your life immediately, not some day conveniently in the future?

Who are you shifting into? Where is your energetic pattern? What is the next level of growth for you?

All of these questions are important questions for you, for no human can stagnate where they currently are if they wish to remain a conscious human being. Those who choose to stagnate will actually feel as if they are swimming upstream. Those who choose to grow will be flowing downstream easily and effortlessly as they are carried by the current of 21st Century human evolution. Allowing the growth, the expansion to occur actually frees you to explore new ways of being. When you know that you can let go of old patterns of behavior then you are free to choose new modes of operation that bring you further development of the new human that you are becoming. Think of the animals that must shed their skins to grow and develop new outer bodies. You are like those animals. You must shed the skin of that which has been binding you to the underdeveloped you. Let go of that constricting shell and allow yourself to move freely as you develop the outer expression of the new ‘inner you.’ Feel how free you are when you are no longer confined to the boundaries that you previously thought defined you.

Now notice that you are attracting to yourself the kind of people who are also feeling free of restrictive boundaries and who are exploring their own personal growth experiences.

The more conscious of this growth you become the faster the growth pace accelerates. Your work becomes your play as you allow the expansion, rather than forcing or fighting that energy. The new you has its own new energy field. Everything around you will align to this new field. And everything that no longer resonates with your energy will fall away from you.

Relax. You are exactly where you are supposed to be. Each day is unfolding as it must to support you in your personal growth. Start each day with gratitude for the, as yet, unknown opportunities for growth and a curiosity about what those opportunities will look like. Enjoy the process!

And so it is.

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