MUSE-INGS: Is This Mushroom Safe?

September 21, 2010 — Rosemary

Interesting analogy – early humans figuring out which foods to eat and 21st Century humans figuring out what truth is for them.

One way to extend this is to think of the early humans who ate the poison mushrooms.  I wouldn’t want to be the one who tested that!  But I don’t think this message is about eating poison mushrooms first – it sounds more as if we are being cautioned about eating the poison mushrooms that someone is telling us are safe to eat.

Think about ideas that poison a society but permeate it anyway.  Hatred.  Intolerance.  Injustice.  Ignorance.  Think about how easy it is to swallow that poison mushroom if someone you trust tells you it is safe for you to do so.  I think it’s time we stood up to our responsibility to be individual thinkers, to ask for evidence that a mushroom is safe or to eschew eating it altogether.

Every day, each of us is bombarded with ideas from many sources.  Do you absorb and accept every idea that is sent your way?  Do you believe everything that you are told?  I suspect not.  Who, then, do you decide you will believe?  Are you willing to find the original sources of the data, to do your own research?

I remember a paper I had to write in college, in a History of the Theater course I was taking to fill in my schedule so I had enough credits to live on campus after I had taken all the math courses I needed for my major.  My assigned topic was ‘Squire & Marie Bancroft’ who had lived in the 19th Century.  I traveled from Greensburg, Pennsylvania into Pittsburgh to find resources at the University library there and was fortunate enough to find primary sources, documents written by the Bancrofts themselves.  Unfortunately, they were written in French so I had to painstakingly translate them for my paper, but the information was invaluable because it came from the principles themselves and hadn’t been distorted by a biographer’s perspective.  [Aside: The professor didn’t believe a lowly math major could write such a good paper so he accused me of plagiarism!  I did prove the sources of the materials to his satisfaction and he gave me a good grade later.]

What are you willing to do to determine the veracity of what you hear?  Are you like a sponge, sopping up what is told to you?  Do you check a few sources to see if you can find corroboration or do you just listen to someone you think is giving you the whole story?  Do you know how to check inside for what rings true for you?

Living a Conscious Life requires choosing what you will believe and what you will question.  Check with your Inner Guidance before you accept any idea, even the ones I am writing here.  If you don’t know how to do this yet, learn.  Sometimes you need to meditate or take a nap or take a walk in nature before you can see clearly what you need to see.  Give yourself permission to do this before you commit to an idea or a project that doesn’t feel completely right to you.

You are moving along a path of your own spiritual journey.  You don’t have time for detours into someone else’s ‘stuff.’  Believe what is in alignment with who you are at your core, with the energy that carries you forward on your journey.  Don’t believe someone who wants you to eat a poison mushroom by telling you that it is safe!   Skip the mushrooms, please!

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THIS WEEK’S MYSTIC MESSAGE from The Divine Feminine: Be Your Own Genius!

September 20, 2010 — Rosemary

Dear Ones,

Ever since humans have been walking on Planet Earth they have been questioning the reasons for happenings around them.  You might believe that early humans were not curious but how do you think decisions were made about what to eat and what not to eat?  They came out of curiosity and someone tried to eat something.  They lived or they died, and the others learned what was safe and what was not.

Humans have a similar kind of curiosity today but the situations are more subtle than when they were looking for food.  Today, people are searching for simple solutions to complex problems, and so they look to someone else to tell them what is safe and what isn’t, what works and what doesn’t, and what is true and what isn’t.  People are giving away their power to the external source who tells them what they want to believe.  Unfortunately, many of those who are speaking out have not done the research themselves, as the early humans did.  These speakers are believing something told to them by someone else who supposedly did ‘research.’  This so-called ‘research’ might or might not have been valid or worthwhile but for every bit of research there is some audience who wants to believe the results and so in that sphere it becomes validated by acceptance and repetition.

Do you see how far removed people are becoming from the source of the information available to them about ‘safe or unsafe,’ ‘works or doesn’t work,’ ‘true or not’?  Decide today that you will become a person who seeks the source.  Don’t believe or accept on blind faith.  Check inside yourself for your own truth.  Just because someone says it is so does not make it valid for you at this time.  Even what we are telling you should be checked against your internal compass to make sure it is congruent with the direction in which your journey is taking you today.

In all things it is important that you learn to go inside and reach for your Inner Guidance.  You KNOW what is true for you, even if you feel you cannot be certain.  There is always a part of you that knows for sure.  Reach for that part.  Seek help if you do not know how to do this.  Get in touch with guidance for yourself, for there is a wealth of information available to you if you seek it.  Great thinkers throughout time have known this and have used their innate abilities to find answers to their questions.  They seek answers but look to themselves, their own research, even their dreams to find what they seek.  Many geniuses will tell you that it is in rest and relaxing out of the search that great ideas arise.  Why should you be different?

Are you one of those who think you have to be active all the time?  Do you feel you must be doing, doing, doing in order to move forward?  What if you could make more forward progress by resting, thinking about something else, engaging in a hobby, and then returning to problem-solving with fresh eyes?  Perhaps napping and allowing your unconscious mind to connect the dots for you would be more productive.  Maybe a meditation exercise would free your creativity so that you could return to your task with greater understanding.

These are suggestions for 21st Century humans to approach problem-solving and answer-seeking.  The early humans knew what they were about when they made their own observations.  Stop giving away your power as a thinking, creative person and do your own research, find your own answers.  Listen to others but do not be swayed to act against what feels true for you.  Do not believe just because others believe.  Be an individual, for you were brought to Planet Earth for an individual purpose.  No one else has the same roadmap.  Be careful about who you allow to drive your life!

And so it is.

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THIS WEEK’S MYSTIC MESSAGE from The Divine Feminine: Just for today – be happy!

July 19, 2010 — Rosemary

Dear Ones,

Happiness isn’t buying something or having something or achieving something.  Happiness isn’t having someone love you or having friends or not having debts.

Happiness is being a person who has decided to be happy.

Think about the moments you have had that have made you feel happy.  When someone proposed marriage.  When a child made you laugh.  When you received that gift you had been longing for.  When you graduated or were offered that job or got a raise.  You felt happy afterward but wasn’t it fleeting?  What changed about you that caused that happiness to linger within you?

Too often people are seeking happiness outside themselves.  They live the lie that ‘if only _____ (fill in the blank), then I will be happy.’  This exercise gives away your power to external events and does not bring true happiness nor does it make even the feeling of being happy last very long.  Happiness is not a response to an external event, although you might feel briefly happy when things go your way.

Think about how it would feel to wake up each morning believing that you will be happy JUST FOR TODAY.  You perform your morning ritual and notice that you feel like smiling.  Little irritations remain little – they don’t disrupt your entire day because you choose not to let them do so.  Someone does something that you don’t like but you get over it quickly.  The dog chews the newspaper but you decide to get your news online.  Spilt milk gets cleaned up with no consequences.  Can you see where your response to those irritants makes a difference in how you feel?  You CHOOSE your response, although the knee-jerk reaction might lead in a different path.  You can choose happiness.

Now you might be saying that those are all minor irritants. What about the big things?  But, what big problems are solved by choosing to feel unhappy?  If you have a financial problem, will feeling unhappy solve that problem?  If you are experiencing a relationship problem or a lack of a relationship, will feeling unhappy about that bring resolution?  If you are suffering a health problem, will feeling unhappy reverse the condition?  Think about how choosing to stay with the unhappy feelings does not bring you the resources you need to do problem-solving.

What if, rather than staying stuck in your feelings of unhappiness, you chose to take action? What if you started by deciding that you were not going to let problems take away the light within you?  The truth is that nothing external can take away the light from within you – only you can make a decision to put a barrel over that light and keep it from shining out from you.  Blocking the light doesn’t extinguish it so your inner light continues to shine, but you and others can’t see it.  So how about making a decision today to remove the barrel and find the light within?  Make a decision that the cup will be half full JUST FOR TODAY.  Decide that, JUST FOR TODAY, you will see everything as having a solution if you just stay open to the possibility that the problem can be solved somehow.

The energetic fact is that when YOU decide to stay open to possibilities then possibilities open up before you.  It is when you choose to be unhappy, to turn down that interior light bulb, that the dimness prevents you from seeing the possibilities that are just beyond your reach, waiting for you to reach out to them.  Remove the barrel and let your own light shine the way ahead for you.  You might be surprised by how good it feels to choose to feel happy, even if it is JUST FOR TODAY!

And so it is.

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THIS WEEK’S MYSTIC MESSAGE: Are you still throwing tantrums?

July 12, 2010 — Rosemary

Dear Ones,

When troubles come into your life, what do you do to deal with them?  Have you established strategies to cope with problems or do you allow them to take over your day, your life?  Have you thought about the coping strategies that you use and examined them for relevance in your current life or are you still doing what you did when you were a child, a teenager, or someone much younger without the experiences and the learnings you have gained over the years?

Think about that.  When your life is upset, by your own internal emotions or responses to external stimuli, or when external events upset your plans, how do you react?  Children learn very early in life to react to stimulus.  They learn to assess their situation and to figure out a way to get what they want or need.  A tiny baby craves attention and food and dry clothing and will do whatever it takes to get what they need in the moment.  A toddler learns to test the boundaries of their world by saying ‘no’ and pushing on the limits set by authority figures.  Older children learn to acquiesce when a tantrum won’t give them their desired outcome.

And some adults have never learned skills beyond what they practiced as teenagers.  Do you have some coping mechanisms in your skill set that are outmoded and inappropriate for your current life?

Look at some situations that you encounter in your daily life and then examine how you react in those situations.  Are you awake, aware, fully conscious of your response or do you act with a ‘knee-jerk reaction’ that might have been appropriate earlier in your life but might not be appropriate today?  Do you take time to pause and consider your response or are you consistently acting from habit not conscious thought?

We would tell you that most adults on Planet Earth are acting unconsciously in the 21st Century.  Most are using strategies that might have worked when they were 10 years old but that are no longer appropriate.  Have you ever seen an adult pout, perhaps in an adult way, when they do not get their way?  Have you ever caught yourself wanting to say something a 7-year-old would say in response to something upsetting?  That automatic pilot that searches your personal unconscious data base might not know that you have grown beyond the age where tantrums were appropriate, and if you are older than 2 and are reading this then tantrums are most likely not appropriate.

The person living a Conscious Life chooses very deliberately how he or she will respond to an upsetting situation.  It is impossible to remove all troubles or concerns from a human life so upsetting situations will occur.  You cannot prevent that.  You can, however, control your response to those situations.

The best strategy for responding to upset is to have considered this before the upset occurs, when you are calmly assessing your life and your responses to stimuli.  Think about situations in your recent past that have been upsetting to you.  Did you respond in the moment the way you would respond today given time to be calm and consciously choose your response?  Or were you on unconscious automatic pilot?  Program into your tool box a new response to that situation so that, if it or something similar occurs again, you can choose a different response.  Think about your overriding values and decide that you will respond to upset in accordance with what you value highly and who you wish to be.

This is especially important in dealing with your family.  You might be a different problem-solver at work than the person who deals with upsetting situations at home.  Examine this honestly for yourself.  Can you bring some of those business skills home with you?  When you are tired do you react to your children’s antics differently from the way you react when you are rested and relaxed?  Do they understand the difference?  Think about your spouse or partner and how you react to things that they say.  Are you choosing a conscious reaction or are you being a recalcitrant child throwing a tantrum?

Be conscious.  Choose your behaviors for you do have control over those.  Plan your response to things that don’t go your way.  You become a Peacemaker when you are not the one throwing a childish tantrum!  Live a Conscious Life and you will be teaching others how to be a Peacemaker, too.

And so it is.

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MUSE-INGS: Who did you come here to be?

July 6, 2010 — Rosemary

‘Robot Doing’?  Great way to describe ‘sleepwalking through history,’ as Sen. Byrd said.

It is so easy to sleepwalk through our lives.  Doing the next urgent thing.  Focusing on what has to get done today.  Creating to-do lists and getting satisfaction from checking off the items on the list.  We might get a lot accomplished but are we really ‘living’ when our days go from arising in the morning to collapsing at night without having taken time to relax, to go inside, to seriously consider the choices we are making?

Maybe being busy is a distraction from being fully conscious as a human being.  We can use the requirements of our to-do list as an excuse for avoiding the self-examination that a conscious life requires of us.  Sometimes that self-examination is painful, especially if we have been taught to judge ourselves harshly.  It’s easier to slide through our days being busy than to face something that feels uncomfortable to face about ourselves.

But maybe we need to do that self-examination in a non-judgmental way.  I like to go back to my mantra – Everybody is doing the best they can with the resources they have at any given moment, even me.  This might be the best way to set ourselves up for self-examination, to accept that, no matter what, we were making the choices to do or to be the best we could in a given moment.  The only moment that matters is NOW, this present moment, for we can begin to make new choices right now and in all the moments forward.  We can give up decisions and choices we’ve made in the past.  We can also give up worrying about the choices we will be making in the future.  The only moment that we need to fully examine is the present moment.

In this moment you can make a choice about who you want to be as well as what you want to do.  The two don’t have to be mutually exclusive, for who you want to be determines what you do, if you let it.  Decide who you are, at your core.  Go inside and find the person you wish to be.  What you do will follow from that.  The decisions get easier because you are led from within.  The values are clearer when you are coming from a place of being the Real You.

And in the context of preparing for the changes that are coming isn’t being the authentic human being that you came to Planet Earth to be the most important aspect of your life?  You weren’t born to ‘do’ something, you were born to ‘be’ someone!  Life on Planet Earth is requiring that we all determine who we were born to be, and to do this now.  The changes that are coming, into each life and into life on Planet Earth for all, will be facilitated by our determining our own inner needs, our own inner calling, and our inner voice that guides us.

But if we continue to fill our days with busy-ness we will have to, at some point, play catch-up with our inner work.  I’m vowing to do the work in a proactive way, not when it becomes a necessity but while I can have more control over my day so that I take time to listen to the inner proddings.

I’m a big believer in listening for the messages from The Universe before Spirit picks up a 2 X 4 and hits me over the head!  I hope you’ve learned about that choice, too!

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THIS WEEK’S MYSTIC MESSAGE from The Divine Feminine: “Are You a ‘Robot Doing’ or a ‘Human Being’?”

July 5, 2010 — Rosemary
Dear Ones,

Change is coming.  This is a theme that you are hearing from many quarters, but are you ready to change?

We are not talking about the simple changes that are indicated by external circumstances such as a move of residence or a new eating program.  We are also not referring to a change of jobs or partners. No, what we are referring to here is the kind of internal change that will be required in you as you are dealing with all these external changes in the world around you.

Preparing for change does not mean laying in supplies as if planning for disaster, nor does it mean worrying/fretting/creating anxiety over not knowing what is coming.  The preparations being required of you now are those that require you to examine yourself, your life, your relationships, and the details of your days.  These days of preparation are for you to go inside your own inner space and peer into all the nooks and crannies of your existence to decide if what you find there is something that you wish to keep within you.

For example, when is the last time that you examined your daily schedule to consciously choose what you do each day, what order in which you do those tasks, who you spend your time with, how much attention you give to your inner life, how much time you spend expanding your horizons with new knowledge, what food you eat?  So much of every day of human life can be spent moving like a robot that many people are being robots throughout their days, never stopping to become the examiner of what they are doing.  Are you a ‘human being’ or a ‘robot doing’?

Before you can grow and evolve as a human being you must first be conscious of the choices you are making at all times.  Examine the way in which you spend your time to see what it is that you actually value most, not just what you think you value or what you hope you value.  At every given moment you are making choices:  about how you are spending that moment of your precious life, about how you are speaking to another, what you are thinking or doing, and whether or not you are fully present to that moment or focusing on something in the past or the future.  You are always at choice.

So notice how you are making choices.  What values determine the choices you make?  As you prepare for change, are you eschewing that which really doesn’t fit the values you wish to focus on?  Are you looking for ways to grow and to evolve?  And are you valuing your own inner life and inner growth?

Some think that preparing to change is about the actual moving forward, like packing to move to another home.  But the real preparations must be made inwardly.

If, for example, you are ready to move to another house and have everything packed in boxes, ready for the movers, have you also examined how you feel about your move?  Is there any unfinished business about the home or neighborhood or town that you are leaving?  Have you even taken time to think about this?  This example shows how easy it is to be distracted by the external activities and to forget about the inner life and its needs.

Think about your life today and make conscious choices to be prepared for any changes that might be coming.  Get rid of the unnecessary and bring in what is needed.  Create a daily schedule that supports your inner life.  Make your choices from advancing consciousness.

Live a conscious life as a ‘human being’ not a ‘robot doing’!

And so it is.

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

June 28, 2010 — Rosemary
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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THIS WEEK’S MYSTIC MESSAGE from The Divine Feminine: Be Empowered and Collaborate!

June 21, 2010 — Rosemary

Dear Ones,

Do not be afraid of the changes that are coming to Planet Earth and her peoples.  These changes will all be for the good of humanity.  Do not, though, interpret this to mean that all humans will be happy about the changes, for there will be many who are disturbed.  But if you are seeing these words, then you will be a part of the waves of change that will bring a great improvement to human life on Planet Earth.

Let us tell you some of what you can expect.

There are many people who live their human lives seeking only self-gratification and wealth.  Everything that they do, even their emotions, are centered on what benefit they will derive and whether or not they can increase their wealth.  They lead their lives as if most of the other beings on the planet do not matter.  What matters is what they think, believe, want, desire, and have in the bank as resources.  These people have turned away from their own heart.  They might be a part of your own community, or even your social group or family.  They are at the top and at the bottom of the strata of societies.  These people will not be happy when they experience the energy shifts that are coming to Planet Earth in the coming years.

The others, however – those who are heart-centered and who care for Mother Earth and her peoples, the environment, the animals and the children and the land – these people will be pleased to find that Mother Earth is unveiling new ways to support her inhabitants.  Those who are able to understand that collaboration is the way of the future and that domination will no longer work on Earth will be a part of the revolutionary times that are rapidly approaching the planet.

We hesitate to use the word ‘revolutionary’ when we are not advocating that people pick up arms to use against each other, but ‘revolutionary’ is how large the changes will be.  No longer will greed get someone exactly what they desire.  No longer will the heartless be able to define life standards for those who live heart-centered lives.  No longer will those who choose power over others rather than cooperation be the ones who will be in power, for all concepts of power will be rewritten in the light of the new energies.  ‘Power over’ another is not the same as being ’empowered,’ and those who find their personal power from within themselves will be the ones who become the decision makers of the future.  This will drastically change the way things are accomplished in the Earthly realm.

Think of yourself and how you feel when you tap into your own internal power.  Now consider how you feel when someone exerts authority in the narrowest sense of ‘power over’ you.  When you feel empowered you are able to stand your own ground while at the same time listening to and considering what others are suggesting.  When you are more interested in exerting power over others, though, you choose not to consider those around you and you make pronouncements and issue orders.  The people of the latter belief will start to lose ground as ‘the powerful ones,’ for the energies that are coming in the shifts about to happen will only support those who know how to operate in cooperation with others.

Collaboration is the way of the future.  All people must learn these skills or be left by the wayside.  Businesses, families, social groups, educational institutions – all must figure out a way to support individuals who are personally empowered from within.  All individuals must learn to operate from their heart-minds, and must move forward considering the effect of their choices on the people and the planet around them.

And so, Dear Ones, we wish you to seek your own personal power within.  Choose to hold onto your own power.  Do not give your power away to others.  Find a way to clear the blocks to being an empowered individual so that you can magnify your gifts by collaborating with others.  The world will be a better place when you and the others have achieved this!

And so it is.

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THIS WEEK’S MYSTIC MESSAGE: What’s on your to-do list?

June 7, 2010 — Rosemary

Dear Ones,

How many items are on your to-do list at this time?  Do you have the items prioritized?  And what do you consider the most important item on the list – something for your work, your family, your finances?  Or your spiritual development?

Let us suggest that you consider your spiritual development as foundational to all your other values and priorities.  When you think about your work, do you think about it as something separate from who you are as a spiritual person?  It is not separate.  You are first and foremost a spiritual being having a physical lifetime on Planet Earth and your work FOLLOWS from this – it is not the other way around.  Furthermore, your spiritual work IS your work, so you really cannot separate the two.

Many of you reading this will think that we are talking about religion here but that is not so.  It matters not which religion, if any, that you choose to practice.  Your being a spiritual person is more about the eternal, timeless you than about what you do [religion].  Think of the essence of yourself as being the spiritual you.  You are timeless, eternal.  You are greater than any of the circumstances in your life at the present time.  You are greater than the people who surround you, who like you, love you, don’t like you, help you, hurt you, ignore you.  You are also greater than the job that you perform in the world.  Your work in the world is to further your personal growth, to expand the consciousness of the spiritual being that you are in your essence.

All of your other priorities flow from this work of personal growth.  The more you work on yourself, the more you are able to help others to do so.  A person who does not do this personal work cannot offer support to others who are doing so.  Have you ever met someone who is so self-absorbed that they cannot hear you and what you are saying to them because they are focused only on how they feel, what they want or what they think/believe?  These people are not living a Conscious Life.  They are not on a path of personal spiritual growth, and they cannot help you on your path.  If you are connected to someone like this ask yourself if this person is assisting you in growing or if your association is hindering you in your own growth.  Your growth in consciousness needs to be your top priority.

Can you see whatever your work in the world might be at this time as an expression of your own personal spiritual growth?  It does not matter if you are working in an office with a lot of other people or working alone at home.  Perhaps your job is one that you hope one day to leave but, for some reason, you are still in that job.  Consider that you might be there because the circumstances or the people are offering you a laboratory, a classroom, in which you can learn lessons vital to your personal growth.  You might also be the vehicle through which others are learning their own lessons.

If you love your work, are you helping others because of your own spiritual growth?  Are others helping you to progress?  If your work is fulfilling, is it because it causes you to feel expanded, to feel your own growth through that work?  And if it is not fulfilling, what aspect is missing?  Could it be that you feel stagnant, that you cannot grow in this situation?

When you look at your family, are they supportive of your personal growth, the expansion of your consciousness or do you feel restricted by them?  Are you eager to share what you are learning through the lessons in your life or do you fear being rebuffed and thus stay closed-mouth or shut down?

Ask yourself how you feel about focusing your attention on your own spiritual growth.  Are you comfortable making this your number one priority?  Can you see how your work, your family, even your finances, are the result of your work on yourself and are not to be separated into compartments that do not connect with each other?

Now get your priorities arranged so that you can do that number one item on the list.  Focus on your personal growth first and you will be able to prioritize all the other items on the list easily.  Expand your own awareness and you will bring more resources to solving the problems inherent in all the other items on your to-do list.

Remember that you came into this lifetime to learn lessons.  When you focus on learning your own lessons, you increase the resources you have to share with others who are also learning lessons.  Fulfill your goals to expand yourself and all your other goals will be accomplished.  Make sure you do not put your own personal growth work at the bottom of the priority list – just get it done!

And so it is.

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MUSE-INGS: Pay Attention to the Signs

May 11, 2010 — Rosemary

Isn’t it easy to brush off the signals that the Universe is giving us?  How often do we ignore the signs or ask for guidance and then forget to notice the answers are right before our eyes?  I’ve been guilty, I admit!

There are so many sources of information around us that I think sometimes, when we get in information overload, we tune out the important channels of guidance available to us.  The news media outlets are too disturbing to watch.  Even the Weather Channel is getting to be more sensational about the weather, instead of educational about weather in general.  Every day the pile of mail we receive is filled with information for us to process.  How do we shut down the peripheral sources and focus in on the main event?

This is part of learning to live a Conscious Life.  Tune out the extraneous bombardment.  Focus on the important channels of information.  Decide what these are for YOU, for they might be different for each individual.  I have a friend who takes amazing pictures of cloud formations over Pikes Peak here in Colorado Springs.  She finds fantastic forms in these clouds that help her as she interprets their meaning in her life.  Others go for hikes in the beautiful mountains and see signs everywhere they look in Nature.  Another friend asks for guidance and then sees newspaper headlines or reports on television that speak directly to him.

What’s your source of guidance?  Have you ever paid attention to the signs that are around you?  What about the animals that you see in a day?  Have you asked yourself what you were thinking about just before you saw that animal?  Could there be a connection?

For me, a hawk seems to appear when I have just thought or spoken about something that needs confirmation.  The hawk means, ‘Yes!’  My sister used to pray to St. Theresa and she would receive a rose somehow, St. Theresa’s symbol.  What is your ‘confirmation sign’?  If you don’t have one yet, then spend the next several days paying attention.  Ask a question and see what happens around you.  Notice the animals that come into your life.  Look and listen for repeating patterns and see what they are showing you.

Meditation is a good way to open yourself to signals.  Try taking a few minutes to focus on your breath and then ask for your particular channel of guidance to be revealed to you, or that you be shown your ‘confirmation sign.’  Don’t worry if it’s not immediately apparent to you – it might be subtle and might take a few reinforcements for you to believe that the sign is real.  You might try drawing a card from an oracle deck or using a pendulum or some other dowsing tool.  Remember that dowsing is not just for finding water these days!

If you have a friend that you can talk to, share your exploration of the signs around you.  Maybe that special song from your youth will start playing on the radio.  Maybe a hawk, or coyote, or rabbit will cross your path.

And all you have to do is pay attention!

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