For this week the theme has been about light and how we are being called to bring more light into the world. But first we have to FIND the light – WITHIN. This week’s “throwback” is about hiding your light, hiding from your own power, playing small! It is time to stop hiding and start bringing that inner light into the outer world!
So often we get stuck in a place where we’re feeling as if there’s something we’re missing, some clue that is just beyond our vision, some message that we just can’t quite hear. And while we seek the answer we forget to ask the right question.
Today, ask yourself, ‘What is my WHY?’ What’s your reason for the choices that you are making each day? Is that reason the same reason that you made that choice in the first place or has your ‘why’ changed since then?
For example, you might have chosen a job because you knew some folks who already worked there and you liked them. Now, though, you might have moved farther away or they might have left and you might have totally different reasons for continuing to work there.
Or you might have started a business because you wanted to help people and now that business isn’t supporting the lifestyle you desire.
You might have had kids and your ‘why’ might be something about providing for them but your choices were made at a time when they weren’t in the picture.
Looking at your ‘why’ is important for many reasons.
Your reason to get up in the morning has to be more compelling than rolling over and going back to sleep. Is that what you wish you could do every morning? Then maybe you need to examine your ‘why’ and make some changes in your life.
Everyone hits rough spots in life. Your BIG WHY keeps you going over those boulders in the road. If you’re not sure what your ‘why’ is you might find it more difficult to endure those bumpy spots.
And your ‘why’ can change as your life changes, as you grow and develop. What your ‘why’ was in your 20s might no longer be so important in your 40s, 50s, 60s. You might even find that your ‘why’ keeps expanding into a huge reason to get up every morning!
For example, I have a friend who feels her BIG WHY is to end illiteracy. She earns money, in a business unrelated to illiteracy, so that she can contribute to causes that help to educate populations around the world. Another’s is to help women heal their shame around childhood trauma. This might not be the immediate cause in which you see her involved but it informs what she does because it is based on WHY she does it.
So what is your WHY? What do you hope to accomplish in your lifetime? What motivates you enough to struggle through the tough spots and feel exhilarated at your successes? Can you see an expansion of your WHY as your personal growth has expanded?
I recently did an exercise to examine my ‘why’ by starting to look at what I don’t want, what upsets me. It really bugs me to see people believing that they are less than the Brilliant Light that I see in them. I want to help each individual to reach inside and find that Light that I can see and shine that Light out into the world. Because I see the dimensions that most others can’t access I can see how much that individual’s Light is needed.
And so my BIG WHY is to reach around the world and turn on that Brilliant Light Within individuals so that the Light can outshine the darkness. I help people access that Light and clear the shadows that they have been hiding behind and under. I am excited by each opportunity I have to help people, individually and in groups.
I know my WHY. Do you know yours?
Your life is all about connecting. You were born into a family or chosen by one. You have chosen friends and partners. You bore children or sired them. You have worked with people, paid some for services, gone to the doctor, bought groceries. Every thing you have done has contained an element of connection.
Do you love to walk in Nature? Aren’t you connecting with Mother Earth, with the plants and animals as you walk?
Do you go to a job? Eat in a restaurant? Go shopping? Get together with friends for lunch? Spend holidays with the family?
It’s always about connecting.
And how much time do you spend connecting with the inner you? Have you connected with your inner wisdom, your guides, your angels, your intuition? This is the most important connecting you can do.
When you connect with the inner you, you are tapping into your own power, your essence. When you have a strong connection to your inner wisdom, your guides, you gain clarity and confidence.
People today seem to be searching for connection but looking outside for a place to ‘plug in.’ The real connection that they are seeking isn’t outside; it resides inside. Are you one of the seekers of an outside connection or are you remembering to connect to the inner you?
You don’t need to have a great love interest to be connected. It isn’t having a great job or a best friend or a perfect family that will give you the feeling of connection that you seek. All of those connections might be nice, but the most important one is the one that reaches inside you, into the depths of your inner essence, and brings forth the passion, your purpose, your inner divinity and shares that with the outside world.
It is a tall order to make that inner connection and then to share what you find with the world. Your inner light shines so brightly that it can dazzle those who wish to stay in the dark. Your inner guidance will point you in the direction of manifesting your dreams. The inner gifts that you reveal when you reach inside might frighten you with their intensity.
Are you ready to connect?
There are many ways to do this connecting. Your inner light is always shining. If you feel disconnected it is merely a forgetting, not a true disconnection. Meditation, guided visualization, working with a counselor, journaling – all of these techniques will help you to make the connection.
Many of the clients I work with are seeking the wisdom that they cannot hear from their own guides. Often I speak what they think they have been hearing and the guides are using me to confirm the message. It is a matter of trusting what you hear.
Do you trust the inner guidance that you receive? This is the most important aspect to the connection.
If you receive guidance after you connect but you do not trust the message, you will continue to stay stuck where you are. And isn’t the point to move forward, to grow?
Trust me when I tell you that you will have the energy to grow, to move forward, when you are connected to that inner YOU. Your passion, your purpose, your inner wisdom – all are ready for you to connect.
Are YOU ready? Connect!
I have the privilege of working with the best clients in the world. They are each an amazing shining light, a beacon of hope and love to others. And yet I spend a lot of coaching time helping them to own their own brilliance, to ramp up that inner light and to show their inner splendor to the world. This is the essence of the coaching work that I do.
And I see how much energy there is in the world that is trying to hold people back from their own greatness! It is sad and frustrating and anger-provoking when I hear/see this happening. So what is going on?
We’re told by our educational systems that we must toe the line, behave as we’re told to, be good little soldiers and follow orders. We study as we’re directed and we regurgitate the information that we have memorized. Then we go out into the world and get a job where our role is to make the boss look good. Occasionally someone turns to us and lets us shine our light, but just a little, not enough to out-shine anyone above us in the chain.
Entrepreneurs create a business to reach out to others, to make money and, we hope, to shine their light into the world. But do they really understand the role they can play in the overall story that is unfolding?
Our granddaughter is doing an assignment for her English class which is studying Romeo and Juliet. She has to create a mask that displays various aspects of herself – symbols of who she is, what she likes, what she enjoys doing, how she sees herself, something she doesn’t particular like. It’s been fascinating watching her do the self-examination required to create this mask and to hear the reasons behind the symbols that she has chosen. I applaud the teacher of high school freshmen who has given them this assignment. Makayla is creating, quite consciously, a representation of her persona as she sees herself today, and it is beautiful.
Ask yourself who you really are. What symbols would you use to display yourself to the world? And what are the masks that you wear to hide the real you from the rest of us? Are you playing small because you don’t want to out-shine those you perceive as ‘above’ you? Are you trying to shine your light and feeling as if there is always someone with a bucket of water waiting to put out your candle?
The changes that are happening around us are calling us each to determine and to live the life purpose, the soul purpose, for which we incarnated at this time. We chose to be here to take part in the changes that are occurring. We signed up to be agents of change and carriers of the Light while the winds of change are blowing across this planet. But we must grow in our own consciousness if we are to hold the hands of others and to help them to grow as well.
The way to accomplish this is to be who you are, the very Being of Light who lives inside you, who chose this time and this body and these circumstances in which to shine that light out into the world.
Watch the people around you who are struggling with circumstances and listening to the words of an energy I call ‘the contraction of consciousness.’ People forget themselves in this miasma of fear and constriction and horror. They lose touch with their own inner light and they blindly follow someone who feeds their fear to the point where they cannot see their own power to change. They give away their power to someone who will take care of the perceived enemy. This is not expanding consciousness. It constricts the person into a pinpoint of fear until they cannot see beyond that point, cannot expand their awareness to the greater picture, and they become brittle and break.
Be the person who lives in expanded awareness of the bigger picture. Know that you are a Being of Light who is having this Earth experience so that you can grow in consciousness and contribute to the growth of human evolution. Be who you are. That is all that is asked of you and that can be a tall order.
Be the Light.
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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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Mystic Messages 
MUSE-INGS: Shine!
April 11, 2012 — RosemaryIsn’t it interesting that so many Mystic Messages seem to be about the changes that are upon us and what our response needs to be? This is the 2012 Shift we’ve all been hearing about.
What’s important about addressing these changing energies is that we have an individual call as well as a collective one to be fully human and to be active participants in the evolution of consciousness on Planet Earth.
All of humanity will not act as one until each of us accepts that we are connected, that we are all members of the human race, not independent of each other. Quantum Physics is showing us, in no uncertain terms, that what happens to one electron is reflected elsewhere in the Universe in another electron. There really is no such thing as ‘isolation.’
The poet, John Donne, writing around the turn of the 17th Century, wrote
“No man is an island entire of itself ; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind. And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.”
From the 17th Century to the 21st Century, from the poet to the physicist, the message is the same. We are all one.
So now accept that you DO have a Light within you that is your Light, your Inner Splendor, the Light that is calling you to shine into the world around you. Your Light and the Light of all the others on the Planet are meant to shine as one bright Light of Humanity across the surface of the Earth and beyond. No one person is an island, in the darkness. Even if you sometimes feel as if you dwell in darkness, even if you feel that your life is filled with darkness, there is always a Light within you waiting to be released into the atmosphere. When you cannot access that Light within you, then allow the Light of others to light your path until you find the connection inward to your own Light again.
We seem to be looking to the outside for the Light. It is time to reach inside for your own Light. Shine that Light brightly and others will be drawn to connect with you. Lift the Light of Consciousness to higher levels so that you can extend your reach beyond what you thought was your ‘island’ and connect with others. This is the shift that the world has been waiting for.
As each individual takes responsibility for their contribution to the uplifting of Consciousness and to the increase of Light on the Planet, then we will see the shifts that we are hoping to see in the world. The outside does not light up the inside. But we can help each other find our own inner Light.
I believe that we are seeing a rise in the number of coaches and counselors in our Western Societies because we are reaching to others for help along our path. We feel the need to do personal growth and we recognize that the path is easier when someone ahead of us holds our hand to lead us. This is how I view my work with clients – I hold your hand while we explore your inner Light until you feel confident taking that Light and shining it brightly into the world around you.
Make sure that you are surrounding yourself with people who want you to shine your own Light. Do not listen to those who would shut you down or dim your Light. Do not give away your power to those who would criticize you or try to diminish you. You are the Light of the World and the World is looking for you to light your candle and hold it proudly high.
Let’s connect our Lights today and see how brightly we shine when we have millions of candle-power Lights beaming into the atmosphere!
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