MUSE-INGS: Positive Thoughts Bring Light into Your Day!

Call me a ‘Pollyanna’ but I do like to look at the bright side of things.  And I like the idea of making the first thought of the day a positive one.  Imagine that your day is like a page in a coloring book, waiting for you to pick up the crayons and fill in the colors.  What colors would you like to be there for you today?  Now think what it would be like if the only color you could use was the gray crayon – no sunlight yellow, no bright pink, no reds, blues or greens – just gray.  Wouldn’t you want to pull the covers back up over your head?

YOU create the box of crayons and the vibrations with which you color your day.  Which color will you choose?  Which positive thought do you want to focus your first energy of the day on?  Use these ideas as tools to lift your own vibration.  Go to bed with the thought that you will wake with something positive on your mind.  Remember that your unconscious mind doesn’t judge what you are picturing because it can’t tell the difference between the pictures you make up and the ones you really see with your eyes.  Why not make up some pictures of how you want things to work out for you today instead of making pictures of what you don’t want?  Let your unconscious mind store away the pictures of what you do want and it will work for you to make those happen.

This energy is at work whether you are conscious of it or not.  Knowing that you are attracting that on which you are placing your attention, wouldn’t you want to focus on something positive?  I’ve heard people question the Law of Attraction but that Law is at work whether you are consciously using it or not.  Think about it.  How many people do you know who have talked about some fear of an unwanted occurrence only to have that very thing materialize?  These people then say, “I always [lose, have a problem with X, don’t get what I want, etc.].”  They are then specifically energizing what they don’t want for the next time!

Become the one who can always see the positive side of whatever is going on.  Choose positive thoughts for the first thing in the morning.  Catch yourself speaking the negative thoughts that flit through your mind and move on to positive ones.  If you still struggle with something positive to think about, visualize something that feels good to you.  Consider decorating your bedroom so that the first thing you see every morning is something that makes you feel good.  Perhaps a picture of a loved one or a flower.  Maybe it’s your favorite painting or sculpture or work of art.  It could be as simple as having the window curtain open so you can look outside as you awaken to enjoy the beauty of nature.

Create your morning ritual around being conscious of thinking positive thoughts for the day.  The moments when you are just emerging from sleep are the most creative moments of your day – make use of these moments to bring the high vibration of creative energy to what you start your day thinking about.  If you have problems to solve, keep yourself in the creative mode rather than dropping down into suffering and victimhood.  You have control over these thoughts.  Steer them downstream so that you can go with the flow.  If you start your day focusing on negative thoughts, it will become harder for you to lift yourself up later in the day.

Set the intention when you go to bed that you will move your morning thoughts into the Light and focus on the positive!

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THIS WEEK’S MYSTIC MESSAGE from The Divine Feminine: Practice playing the “At least…” game!

Dear Ones,

Today is the day that you can start a new life.  Every day is one in which you can begin anew.  Whatever was bothering you yesterday is in the past – make new choices today.

Do you feel that way when you wake up in the morning?  If you start your day focused on what is wrong with your life or what you don’t have, then you are gathering in the stale energy of yesterday and coloring your day with that staleness.  Train yourself to have as a first thought each morning that you have much to be grateful for in your life.  Think of something that makes you smile.  Look at your new day through the lens of gratitude that you woke up!

Too many people are stuck in the ruts of their own making, lamenting the fact that life is so hard for them.  They are choosing to be victims when there is no success that blossoms out of victimhood.  If this describes how you have been in the past, make a decision to choose differently tomorrow when you wake up.  You do not have to be the victim of the circumstances of your life, but you do have to be conscious that you are constantly making choices.  If you feel put upon or filled with suffering then you are missing what is good around you and in you.  Find one thing, that’s all it takes.  Find one thing for which you can be grateful.  It can be as simple as a friend or family member who loves you.  It can be a pet’s presence in your home.  It can be that you have food to eat for breakfast.  Find that one thing, and your whole day will be colored with The Light.

Model this behavior for others.  Find something positive no matter what is going on around you.  Start playing the ‘At least…’ game.  What can you find to say to contrast doom and gloom and victimhood when it feels as if you are surrounded by it?  ‘At least the sun came up this morning.’  ‘At least both of my feet are working as I step out of bed.’  ‘At least we’ll have a great story to tell our friends after this is all over.’

Teach your children the ‘At least…’ game.  Make it fun.  Play this with your friends.  See what you can find to say ‘At least…’ about.  This creates an amazing energy of looking for something good to be grateful for.  And Like Attracts Like.  If you put some energy into gratitude, you will attract more things to be grateful for.  If you can find something positive you will energize and attract more positive things into your life.

It’s never too late to change your ways.  Start with how you think about your day from the first moment you are awake.  Go to bed with gratitude for the day just ending and look forward to waking up to positive thoughts in the morning.  The more you practice this, the more you will want to live your life this way.  When you greet people with the smile on your face that this positive thinking will produce, you will find that they respond positively to you.  If they are grumpy then acknowledge that maybe they are having a bad day and allow them the space to be where they are.  That kind of response is not about you.  Be generous enough to give people their own energies, their own feelings.  But be sure that you do now allow yourself to be dragged into grumpiness because someone around you is having a bad day.  Maintain your positivity.

Keep a Positivity Journal.  Record positive thoughts – no complaints allowed!  You might have heard of a Gratitude Journal.  This goes beyond gratitude but certainly feeling gratitude is positive!  Use this journal when you are feeling low to boost your thoughts back into the higher vibration of positivity.  Don’t forget to be lighthearted – sometimes all it takes is a small chuckle and you can dispel negativity.  Try this for this week, and see how you feel after a week of being Positive!

And so it is.

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MUSE-INGS: Lift your vibration and be a blessing!

Sometimes 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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THIS WEEK’S MYSTIC MESSAGE from The Divine Feminine: Help others and raise your vibration!

Dear Ones,

We wish you to be a blessing to those around you.  Do you think of yourself as such?  When you think of helping others, do you do it from a position of humility or do you consider your help from a position of pride?

Many people think that helping others is something that charities do formally.  Oh, they might occasionally hold a door for someone else but they don’t look for the extra help that they can offer.  It is one thing to hold the door for the person behind you but do you look around to see if there is another way to help or another person for whom you might wait while holding the door?  Do you notice the people around you who could use a little bit of help just to make things easier?

The sensitive ones among you live this way, totally aware of those around them and what help can be offered at any time.  Think of being sensitive to others’ needs as being tuned into the vibrations that another person is sending out.  If someone is struggling to carry a load of packages and drops one, they are signaling, in an energetic way, that they need to have the package picked up.  If no one offers to help then they must do so awkwardly and then try to regain their equilibrium.  If, on the other hand, you pick up on their distress and reach down for them to pick up their dropped package, you send out a vibration of Love, as shown by your assistance to another human being.

Notice that we did not say that you must feel ‘love’ for that other human being.  Rather, your assisting them comes from a heart-level vibration that is spreading the frequency of Love in the world.  Does this make sense to you?

Every action, every emotion, every thought has its own vibration.  There are very different frequencies associated with emotions such as Love and Hate.  There are very different frequencies associated with Helping and Ignoring.  The energy that comes from the Heart, such as Love and Helping energies, is of a higher vibratory frequency than the energy of Hate or Ignoring.  Your task as a person who is evolving human consciousness is to lift your own vibration at every opportunity.  The question to ask yourself is, ‘How can I raise my own vibration?’

Are you aware that every time that you make a choice to do something that comes from your Heart you are helping to raise the consciousness of all humanity?  As you act within the energy of higher frequencies you modify your own energetic field to resonate outwardly that higher vibration.  Everyone and everything around you benefits from this higher vibration.

Why is this important at this time?  YOU are important at this time because you are learning to lift your own vibratory frequency level and, thus, have an impact on your environment.  The natural environment that surrounds you needs this assistance.  The people around you need for you to do this.  Even situations, especially emotionally- charged situations, need for a higher vibration to lift them from the mire in which they reside.

In the 21st Century much of Planet Earth, including her inhabitants, suffers from neglect (at best) and intentional damage (at worst).  The environment is struggling to gain equilibrium just as the person who must awkwardly juggle packages while reaching down to retrieve a dropped package is struggling to do this alone.  The Planet needs your assistance and there are many other people in your environment who also need your help.

Think about ways in which you can help the Planet and her people, the oceans and ocelots, the forests and the fauns.  All about you there are vibrations of neglect and disharmony and distress and damage.  YOU, however, have the power to counteract these vibrations by radiating outwardly the energy vibration of LOVE.

Does it sound as if we are describing the so-called ‘tree huggers’ and ‘hippies’ of days gone by?  This is not what we are suggesting here, although there is nothing wrong with the message of Love that these folks shared. The important thing for you to understand is that everything is energy, everything has a level of vibration associated with it and we call this vibration that thing’s ‘frequency.’  All of humanity, all of the creatures on and in Planet Earth and the very planet itself are experiencing the opportunity to be lifted up in vibratory frequency so that Love can radiate through the world and other, lower vibrations, like Hate, can be transformed.  Radiate Love from your own heart center without judgment, without pride, without worrying about how it is being received and you will be doing your work to lift the entire Planet to a higher vibratory frequency.

In future messages we will talk about how important this is for the future on Planet Earth.

For now, send out Love.

And so it is.

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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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MUSE-INGS: Pause and Make a Conscious Decision

It seems we are constantly being given choices about with whom to spend time and how we wish to spend that time.  There are so many opportunities for activities that we could be busy all the time, if we wished.  Many object that they don’t have a partner or they don’t have the money to do things but there are many activities that do not require money or a partner.  We are always at the point of choice about how we are spending our time.

We might have a job where the people do not feel supportive, but we are choosing to work there for the paycheck or the prestige or whatever the reason is, including that there are not very many other jobs.  Or we might be out of work at the moment wishing that we had a job to complain about but perhaps this is the Universe’s way to protect us from being around a vibration that is toxic to us and to our spiritual and personal growth.  Maybe you are in a relationship with friends, a partner, a family member and that relationship seems to drag you down or keep you from moving forward as you like.  Perhaps the food you are eating makes you feel heavier instead of lighter, and we are not discussing weight here, but how you feel, what your vibration is.

Consider that the vibratory frequency of Love is a high vibration.  It becomes a conscious choice for awakened individuals to move their own vibration to this level.  It doesn’t happen by accident for adults who are dragging a lot of Life’s baggage around with them.  And this level of Love vibration starts with loving oneself.

Is all this talk of ‘Love vibration’ starting to sound like the Summer of ’69 talk to you?  Think about what was happening then, beyond Woodstock and drugs.  There was a feeling that we all need a way to feel peaceful.  We need to learn to love each other and ourselves.  People were trying out communal living as a way to band together with like-minded individuals and create community.  We were all searching for something, at least, those of us who were alive then were searching.

Maybe we have become more sophisticated since then or maybe we have become distracted, but now we have an understanding about how to gain that peaceful feeling.  And we can create community on the Internet or at spiritual centers or by gathering like-minded people together without having to live in a commune.

We can meditate, individually or in a group, and raise our own vibration.  We can teach our children to meditate so that they have a tool to overcome the denseness of the world.  We can talk with others about loftier topics than the weather or the latest reality TV show.  These are all choices.  We can watch movies that make us feel good, whether with Netflix or On Demand or in a theater, and we can share the experience with others.  Book clubs abound now with people wanting to have discussions, to gather around a topic and discuss ideas rather than other people.

Love yourself.  Start there to focus on raising your own vibration.  Love yourself enough to pay attention to the signals that you intuitively feel about people, places, entertainment, food.  Open your heart to those around you, not to allow yourself to be demeaned or abused but to genuinely start with Love in your heart for ALL around you.  And then make a determination about how you feel in the presence of others.  Decide consciously whether or not to spend time with them.  Decide how you feel about a proposed activity – are you going along with the crowd or does it really feel like something you wish to spend your precious time participating in?  And then think about the food and drink that you put in your body.  Take a moment before you eat to really assess how you feel about ingesting that food.  Get yourself relaxed and peaceful before you eat anything so that you can be conscious about eating.

Try all this and see how you feel a month from now!

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THIS WEEK’S MYSTIC MESSAGE from The Divine Feminine: Wake Up and Uplift!

Dear Ones,

When hearts are full of Love then the choices one makes follow the vibration of Love.  We are not speaking here of only Love relationships; we are meaning that all choices in one’s life, from Love relationships to entertainment choices to food one eats.

Let us explain.  When you are in the vibration of the Love energy you will naturally want to choose to match that vibration in all that you do.  When you are with people who are also vibrating at the frequency of Universal Love then you will feel comfortable with them.  When, however, you are with those who are focused on greed or anger or hatred then you will feel the differential in vibrational energy and it will feel discordant, uncomfortable or even jarring to you.  This is why we repeatedly advise you to make conscious choices about those with whom you associate.

This is true of the relationships you have and of the workplace in which you work.  If you are in the company of those who cannot raise their own vibrations to the higher level of the Love frequency, then you cannot do it for them.  You must make a conscious choice about whether or not to continue the association.

You will find that the food you eat will gradually become food of a higher vibration, too.  You will find yourself wishing to eat foods that are lighter, less dense or heavy.  This is not to say that you will not desire a variety of food because there are times when your physical body requires a heavier vibration food to keep you feeling grounded and whole.  But as you work on yourself, as you strive to live a Conscious Life on Planet Earth, you will naturally find yourself desiring to eat foods that are as close to Nature as you can get them.  This means that you will look for produce that is fresh, has fewer chemicals, has been grown locally or near to your home.  You will be happier with lighter meals sometimes than perhaps you are used to.  And you will find that it is not a burden to you to eat this way – it will naturally follow when you raise your natural vibration.

When you choose an entertainment, you will want that to be uplifting as well as enjoyable.  This does not mean that all you must do is sit at home and read spiritual books.  But it does mean that the times that you choose to go out you will make a conscious choice about where you feel comfortable, rather than following whatever someone else suggests.  It means that when you choose to watch a television program or a movie that you will allow yourself to be led by your own inner guidance about what is contained in that program or movie and you will make a conscious choice about whether or not you wish to fill yourself with the images that choice contains.

You might be surprised that your likes and dislikes start to change over time after you commit to live the Conscious Life.  Your friends, associates and loved ones might also be surprised.  Are you ready for that?  Are you willing to possibly open yourself to teasing or even ridicule for choosing a lifestyle that supports your spiritual work?  We hope that you are, for when you wish to raise your own vibration you are doing so not only for your own good but the good of the entire Planet.

All humanity benefits from every human being who lifts herself or himself up to a higher vibration.  Mother Earth has been waiting a very long time for this shift in human consciousness and the time is now for individuals to wake up and uplift!

And so it is.

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BOOK LIGHTS: from The Law of Attraction is NOT a Secret

“The Law of Attraction truly is a science, whether it is based on physics or metaphysics.  It’s a science based on the energy produced by our thought processes.  It’s been proven that brainwaves produce energy which can be recorded by medical diagnostic equipment.  The energy produced by our brainwaves cause vibrations.  The Law of Attraction could also be called the Law of Vibration, since they are both founded on positive or negative energy or vibrations.”

by Anita G. Wheeler

The more we understand about the vibrations of our thoughts the more conscious we need to become about what we are thinking.  The Law of Attraction works no matter what we believe, so we might as well think about what we WANT to attract!
Rosemary

THIS WEEK’S MYSTIC MESSAGE from The Divine Feminine: Are your conversations from a Conscious Perspective?

Dear Ones,

Look around you at the people with whom you surround yourself.  Do they have a positive energy with them?  Do they think of possibilities or do they focus on failures, regrets and what might have been?  What do you speak of with them?  Do you allow the people around you to guide the conversation or do you participate or even steer the conversation to those topics that are uplifting?  Do you consider solutions or do you cut off discussions before solutions can be defined?

Think about the art of conversation and how you participate with others.  Think about the others and the kinds of conversations you have with them, individually and collectively.  Do you feel expanded by the interactions?  Can you see another possibility when you discuss an idea with that person?

It is time to take control of the conversations among people because rhetoric is replacing true exploration.  In many parts of the world people do not engage in conversation because all of their energy is going toward their survival.  The freedom to carry on a conversation goes along with having survival assured in one’s life.  Consider the societies where conversation is an important part of one’s day.  Sitting at the coffee shop or patisserie, around the water cooler in an office, over lunch with friends or colleagues, over a meal at home with the family.  What topics are discussed?  Are they ideas, philosophies, gossip, rants, complaints?

Ideas have a high vibration energy to them, as do philosophies.  When one stays with an idea it can stimulate thinking, mental activity and creativity.  A philosophical discussion can spur one into considering the field of all possibilities, thus expanding the horizons of thought.

The other topics above take one into a lower vibration and cause a contraction of one’s energy, often into an unconscious protective stance.  Gossip about others creates an unconscious fear of being gossiped about oneself.  Complaints cause one to focus on a problem and not on a solution.

You can always take a conversation and turn it into something of higher vibration by gently steering the discussion into higher planes, addressing solutions or ideas or taking a different, higher perspective on the topic.  When someone is mired down in a problem or an issue, it is often up to the other person to offer a perspective from the higher view.  One who is stuck in the energy of the problem may not have the resources to examine all the possibilities for solutions.  This is why it is often advantageous to discuss an issue with another person.

However, discussing an issue does not mean being wedded to the story to the point of staying a victim in the narrative.  Rather, it means allowing the other person to offer suggestions and really listening to those suggestions.

Sometimes you will be the person with the problem and sometimes the one with the solutions.  Are you willing to look at the conversations you have from now on from this perspective?  This is not about judging another person for their views or for getting into a problem situation.  This is your always coming from an open heart that truly wishes to help the other to find peace.

The other side of this is for you to embrace a willingness to really listen to others, to see that they might have another perspective to offer you, and to consider what is being offered.

The kinds of conversations we address here require that neither party devolve to name-calling, judgment, anger/hatred/violence.  We are addressing here conversations between two people who honor each other and who allow each person to have ideas that may differ from one’s own.  These conversations can result in true dialogue and personal growth for both participants.

Decide today that these are the only kinds of conversations you will have.  Decide today that you will minimize time with those who refuse to have these kinds of conversations.  Seek to be the peacemaker, for your own good as well as for those around you.  And solutions you haven’t dreamed of might appear!

And so it is.