THIS WEEK’S MYSTIC MESSAGE from The Divine Feminine: “Love Yourself”

December 27, 2010 — Rosemary

Dear Ones,

Be filled with the spirit of Love!  Love yourself.  Love the people around you. Love your Life.  Love the lessons that each day brings.  Make a decision to BE LOVE in the world.  Choose to spread the energy of Love.

Notice that we started with the charge to ‘Love yourself’ for all Love flows from Self-Love.  Make sure that you have dealt with any resistance that comes up for you when you hear that admonition.  ‘Love yourself’ is sometimes taken to mean that you must ignore other people or be self-ish in your dealings with them but we would tell you that loving yourself is the most loving thing that you can do for others.

If you would give until you are depleted of energy then you have nothing to give to the next person who might be in need.  If, on the other hand, you always take care of and love yourself, then your well will be full when you are truly needed to help others.  This is not self-ish.  This kind of self-love is the kind that allows you to be the most loving individual to others.

When your energy starts to flag, if you find yourself catching illnesses or seeming to be depleted or even depressed, ask yourself how you have been deficient in loving yourself.  Do you need to do something drastic to take care of yourself?  Sometimes this might take the form of a private retreat or vacation so that you can replenish your energetic connection to your True Self Within.  Sometimes it is as simple as an hour’s meditation or a long soak in a hot tub.  Do you need to work with someone to uncover your emotional needs?  Then make the appointment.  Do you need to start journaling?  Then make time in every day to do just that.

Perhaps you are just needing to get a good’s night sleep but other responsibilities are keeping you from that.  Decide what it would take to give that to yourself, such as spending a night or two away from home so that you can truly relax from responsibility, and then give that to yourself.

You know, deep inside yourself, what you are most yearning for.  Self-Love is deciding to give that to yourself.  Taking care of yourself and your inner needs is a part of realizing your mission on Planet Earth.  You came to the Planet to be an individual with a purpose to fulfill.  You cannot fulfill that purpose if your energy is spent on other endeavors.  Fill yourself up with the energy that you need.  Plan your day, your week, your month around making sure that you do not deplete your energy.  Eat, exercise, sleep, meditate, journal, take walks in Nature, listen to uplifting music, engage in a creative activity that feeds your inner being.  All of these should be a part of your daily life.  If you are putting off even one of these then examine your priorities.  Are you waiting for your schedule to free up some time so that you can do these things?  That will never happen if you are waiting for some external permission to include these activities.  Are you delaying because you feel over burdened with taking care of others? Then ask if your taking care of them is allowing them to blossom into their highest manifesting of Spirit energy on the Planet.  Also ask yourself if you have blocks or fears about stepping into the greatness that is yours to manifest in your lifetime.

Really, seriously examine your life and your priorities.  You must use every day of your life to further your personal growth.  If you keep putting off this work then look at the excuses you give yourself.

Today, as you read these words, make a commitment to yourself that you will start to look at your schedule with an eye to making sure that you are loving yourself first.  Program the rest of your time around those activities that feed your Inner Spirit.  The ‘you’ that develops from making this commitment will be the most loving, giving ‘you’ that you could ever offer to others!

And so it is.

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MUSE-INGS: “Seek the Light in the Dark Feelings” by Rosemary Bredeson

December 21, 2010 — Rosemary

Sadness?  Grief?  Loss?  Who wants to think about those things?

But, if we are committed to living a Conscious Life, then we must be aware of our feelings for they do represent important guidance for us along the path of personal growth.  How comfortable are you with those feelings in yourself? How about in another person?  Is it hard for you to experience another’s grief or sadness and really be present to them when they are feeling those feelings?

I know it can be hard to stay with what is uncomfortable but that great growth is the blessing in learning to do this.  There is always Light on the other side of that which appears to be darkness.  The Light is in there somewhere.  Searching for the Light requires that sometimes we must make peace with the darkness.  It is like allowing your eyes to become adjusted to the lack of light in a room. Once you have adapted, you can see far more than you could see initially.

It’s the same with feelings that we might be tempted to judge as ‘dark.’  When you stay with that feeling, keeping your eyes open and seeking what is available within the feeling to help you grow, you will become immersed enough for your vision to clear and show you the lesson.

A good friend will be present with you when you are feeling these feelings.  A really good friend will hold you in a healing space and help you to stay in the feeling long enough to learn the lesson.  The temptation to joke or lighten up the mood takes us away from the honesty of what we are feeling.  And honesty is the necessary quality in order that we might go deeply enough into our feeling to learn the lesson that lies there.

Can you give yourself permission to be honest with yourself?  Can you suspend judging yourself and those around you for feeling what feelings are coming up?  Learning to recognize feelings and to work with them becomes a part of the process of personal growth.  A very important part.

Feelings emerge from a place deep within us.  Often feelings look as if they are about something going on around us at a particular time.  But sometimes those feelings are attached to something from the past and we are fooled into thinking that they belong in the present moment.  If you have suffered a hurt in the past and something arises that brings up that past hurt, you might be tempted to react as if the past and the present events have merged into one.  This can increase the feelings so that they are no longer appropriate for that one moment.

Losing someone can be linked, in the unconscious mind, to previous experiences of abandonment and the feelings of loss can be increased because of this linkage.  Becoming conscious of the source and depth of our feelings puts on in a place where we can be effective in learning from the entire experience.  If we know that there might be something in the past that is still begging for our attention so we can learn the lesson then we owe it to our self and to our personal growth to stay with that feeling until the lesson is revealed.

But all of this does not mean that we must wallow in sad feelings and cling to them while ignoring the life around us.  As in all things, we must find balance in our lives.  Clinging to feelings without doing the processes of working with the feelings, learning the lessons, is a form of self-centeredness that can drive people away from us.  Feeling the feelings, working with them, moving forward in our personal growth – this is the path with the most reward.  For when we choose to actually DO the work of growth then we can move through and beyond the feelings that we are feeling.  It is in refusing to do the work that we become stuck.

Decide today to choose growth over being stuck in your feelings!

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THIS WEEK’S MYSTIC MESSAGE from The Divine Feminine: “Let your Feelings be your Teachers!”

December 20, 2010 — Rosemary

Dear Ones,

Do you have sadness in your life at this time?  Are you feeling sad or do you know someone who is sad?  We would have you examine sadness in your life for the lessons contained there.

There are many reasons that a person feels sad and identifying a source of sadness is important in learning what the lessons are.  Are you sad because a friend is ill or dying?  Are you sad because things are not working out the way you had wanted?  Might you be feeling sad because you have lost something or someone?

Sadness usually accompanies the grief of a loss in one’s life – the loss of a friendship, a job, a financial situation, or a dream.  Most often the loss is the loss of what might have been.  Have you lost a pet recently?  Pets are the models for humans of unconditional love.  When one loses a pet one loses unconditional love that might have been there for that pet owner.  Has a relationship ended – through divorce or death or a parting of the ways?  Have you moved to a new home and lost the connections, the familiarity that you once had?

Think of sadness and loss and grief in your life as doorways to personal growth.  When you lose something that you value you are given a chance to move through a doorway into something new.  If you are feeling sad because you feel lack or a feeling of ‘if only things were different’ then look around you to see ways in which you are missing what IS present in that moment.  Sadness can sometimes take you away from gratitude for what is available to you but sadness should never be ignored.

Western culture sometimes does not allow people to sufficiently experience their grief, their sadness about a loss.  When someone dies, the workplace often expects a person to ‘buck up’, grieve for 3 days, and then return to work as if their loved one hadn’t just departed.  Human feelings go beyond the 3 day window allotted to them.  Grief is not something that can be expunged because society is uncomfortable with it.  Sadness is not weakness.  These feelings are very real, and very important to one who is on a path of personal growth.

Allowing yourself to feel your feelings, to be in touch with what is truly going on inside you, allows you to make informed choices about your life.  If you try to choose only those feelings that are socially acceptable you do yourself and your journey of personal growth a disservice.  Right now, in this moment, give yourself permission to feel what it is that you are feeling.  Can you get in touch with your inner self enough to know what you feel?  This is an important exercise in growth.

Women and men who decide on a public persona, carefully crafted to project a certain image, may be doing a disservice to themselves by sometimes denying their feelings and refusing to examine those feelings for the lessons that are there.  Is this how you operate?

Feel what you are feeling and stay with that feeling until it reveals to you what you can learn from it.  Are you feeling grief about a loss?  Stay with that feeling of grief so that you can move into the energy and then, ultimately, through it.  Are you sad?  Are you angry?  Are you frustrated?  Are you feeling something that the world around you is uncomfortable with?  Then find a way to process that emotion so that you can learn from it.

Journal.  Meditate.  Speak with someone else about it like a friend, confidant, counselor.  Write a letter to yourself from that feeling.  What does the feeling want you to know?  You might want to create a ritual around your feelings so that you can preserve the learnings while letting go of the necessity of holding onto or stuffing/hiding those feelings.

Allow whatever you are feeling to be a teacher for you.  When you have learned the lesson you will no longer need to hold onto the feeling.  Now is the time to do the work to feel the feeling and grow from it!

And so it is.

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MUSE-INGS: “Breathe. Focus on the Light. Breathe Again.” by Rosemary Bredeson

December 14, 2010 — Rosemary

Sounds pretty simple, doesn’t it?  So is this all it takes to live life with gusto?

The answer is ‘yes.’  Isn’t that wild?  Everything in your life doesn’t have to be perfect.  You don’t have to have the perfect partner, job, home, health.  You just have to breathe with a focus on the Light.  I have a friend who is losing her sight and she has the most amazing ability to smile and joke and talk about clothes.  I just love being around her because she is living life with such gusto – without sight but WITH gusto.  Think how much easier life is for us with our eyesight intact and yet SHE is living with gusto.  Are you?

It’s a decision.  You can choose how to look at your life.  You can feel sorry for yourself or you can look for something about which you can feel gratitude.  You can say ‘Woe is me’ or you can say ‘Whee!  Ain’t life grand?’  Which will you say today?

Remember that life isn’t about what happens to you.  It’s about how you respond to what happens to you.  When something seems to trip you up how do you respond?  Do you look for the opportunities in the situation or do you whine?  Does whining ever get you what you want?  I believe that opportunities abound for us to grow and to explore and to learn but whining and feeling sorry for ourselves keeps us blocked from the growth, exploration or lesson.

In my life I am all about learning the lesson as quickly and easily as I can.  I try to avoid 2 by 4s to the head so I constantly scan the horizon looking for lessons.  I want to live life with gusto so I am grateful for the opportunities to learn that I discover along the way.  I smile so that I might lift up another person’s day.  And in that experience I find I am the one who is uplifted.

Think of the cultures who enjoy life with a richness and fullness to that enjoyment.  The Italians, for example, have a wonderful saying – ‘Dolce far niente,’ which means ‘How sweet to do nothing.’   Sitting with friends, enjoying some wine, doing nothing.  It all adds up to living life with gusto.  Do you give yourself permission to do nothing?  Are you taking time to really enjoy yourself?

You don’t have to take a big vacation or be doing something spectacular to be excited about your life.  Take pleasure in the little things in the moment.  Enjoy the bite of food that is in your mouth.  Smile at the person you are passing in the corridor or speaking with on the phone.  Look out the window and enjoy what you are seeing.  Choose in this moment to relish whatever the reality of this moment might be.  Be grateful that you can breathe.  Be happy that there are other people around you who are in your life for a reason.  Enjoy the moment without judgment or perfectionism but just as this moment is unfolding for you.  This is what living life with gusto means.

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THIS WEEK’S MYSTIC MESSAGE from The Divine Feminine: “Are you living life with gusto?”

December 14, 2010 — Rosemary

Dear Ones,

Life is to be lived with great gusto! Where is your enthusiasm for your life? Are you starting and ending each day with gratitude for your blessings or are you focusing on what is not working for you or on what you lack? It is difficult to find the gusto if you can only see what is missing in your life.

Every breath that you take is a miracle of Life. You are living on Planet Earth at this very moment because your Soul chooses to have you experience this time, the place you are standing and the people around you in this present moment. How wonderful it is that you are even able to receive these words!

Give yourself permission to enjoy your next inhalation. Focus on your breath for a moment. In. Out. In again. Out again. Be grateful that you can breathe. Think of all those around you who are also breathing and be grateful that they are in your life. Even those with whom you are not well pleased are in your life so that they might help you to learn lessons so be grateful for the opportunity to learn.

Look around you today with a sense of wonder, of curiosity, with gratitude for everything that is around you. Smile, for your smile will raise the vibration of the air around you and will bring a higher vibration energy to all those who see you smile. Ask yourself what you can do to keep yourself comfortable while raising your vibration and sharing that higher frequency with the world. You might find that you are moving beyond your so-called ‘comfort zone’ to do this but you will quickly become more comfortable with a higher frequency energy and this will catapult you into higher and higher levels of satisfaction with your life.

Does this make sense to you? Lifting your vibrational level brings you more satisfaction with your life. Your life doesn’t have to change to be more satisfying – you do. And once you realize that this is true you will have more control over your life. Change how you see the world around you. Are you sorting for what is wrong or are you enjoying what is simply there? Are you focusing on lack or are you reveling in the gifts that abound? It is all about your perception of reality, for you create your reality with your attitude toward your life. Even if facts and data don’t change you can change your feelings, your attitudes and your perceptions.

Start by noticing your language. Are you celebrating with excitement what is in your life in this moment or are you allowing your thoughts to carry you away from the celebration that is available to you? How are you speaking about this moment? When you become aware of your language you can easily change what you are saying so that you language what you wish to feel. The half-empty glass can make you feel less celebratory than the half-full glass, so make a decision right now that you will see the glass as half-full.

Speak of higher vibration thoughts when you talk to others and you can help them to feel more excitement, too. Focus on The Light in the World, not on the darkness. Focus on what is beautiful and exciting and wonder-full in the world and your energy will be infectious. It is okay to infect others with enthusiasm and this happens naturally when you are living your life with gusto!

And so it is.

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THIS WEEK’S MYSTIC MESSAGE from The Divine Feminine: Do You Know Your Life Purpose?

October 11, 2010 — Rosemary

Dear Ones,

Where is your heart leading you in these troubling times?  Are you more worried about your pocketbook than about your Soul Mission on Planet Earth?  Are you struggling with temporal worries and forgetting about your Life Purpose?

Relax.  All will be well when you put your focus on being the person you incarnated to be in this lifetime.  You did not become a human being on Planet Earth to live in the 21st Century as a worrier.  Your Life Purpose is not, we repeat, NOT to fret about the future.  You are living in these times so that you can bring to the Planet all that you came here to be.  Life is that simple.  Life is also very complex.

Are you even aware of your Life Purpose?  Are you thinking that your Life Purpose is the same as your job?  It is not.  Are you thinking that it is something as nebulous as ‘to be a good person’ or ‘to do what I’m supposed to do’?  It is not.

Your Life Purpose is a very specific mission, a role you are to play, the person you agreed to be when you decided to live on Planet Earth at this time.  You and the others in your Incarnation Group decided that you would work to help each other learn the lessons that you came to Earth to learn.  Some of you agreed to be the good guys and some to do things that others wouldn’t like but that would assist them in their path of personal growth.  Your own path of personal growth demands that you focus on the WHO you came here to be but too many people are looking for the WHY they are here.  There is a difference.

For every person on Planet Earth the answer to the question WHY is ‘to learn what I came here to learn, to become who I came here to become, and to grow in my level of consciousness.’  That is the answer for everyone walking on Planet Earth today.  It is a simple answer and it indicates a complex life pattern.  Imagine if everyone around you were focused on what they could learn from every situation, instead of on gaining power, money, ‘stuff.’  Imagine how your personal interactions would unfold if you and the others were all seeking the lessons in the situation.  Now you know that you do not have control over what the lessons are for others, nor can you control how they approach a situation with you.  What you CAN control, though, is how you behave in a personal interaction.  You can control your focus.  If your focus is on what you can get out of the interaction rather than on the lesson to be learned, you might choose different behaviors.  Make the choice to raise your own level of consciousness and seek the lessons.  You will be rewarded by personal growth when you shift your focus in this way.

Are you wondering now what your Life Purpose is, the WHO you came here to be?  Ask for help if you struggle with this question.  Work with someone who can point you in the correct direction and help you to ask the appropriate questions.

The answers lie within you.  All power is there.  All the knowledge that you need resides within you.  The help that you might need is in connecting with the wisdom within.  This is where choosing the appropriate assistance is so important.  If you ask for help from someone who points you outside yourself for answers, then you are moving into the script for someone else’s lessons.  Find help from someone who resonates with your own energies.  This personal growth work is too important, especially in these days, for you to engage in efforts wherein you give away your power.

Claim your power.  Find a way to go inside to find your answers.  Work with those who believe in your empowerment and avoid those who would take it away.  And surround yourself with people who are focused on learning their own lessons.  These will be the support you need as you learn what you came here to learn.

And so it is.

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THIS WEEK’S MYSTIC MESSAGE from The Divine Feminine: Move beyond doubt!

September 13, 2010 — Rosemary

Dear Ones,

Where there is doubt, let there be Light, for the Light chases away doubt. Doubt comes from dark thoughts, from believing that one is separate from the Light. Doubt begins because a seed has been planted like a weed in a garden of Light. If the seed of doubt is watered and fertilized it takes over the garden, just as a weed does.

You must make sure that you are not watering and fertilizing the seeds of doubt that blow into your personal garden of Light. Sometimes these seeds come from society and societal beliefs, sometimes from people in your life. Sometimes they develop from previous life experiences that are not truly representative or relevant to your current situation.  Be aware that doubt is the enemy of enlightenment. Doubt chokes out the Light that is unfolding within you.

There is only one purpose in doubt – it points to the place in your life that is begging for attention. Do you doubt that you can be successful?  Then examine how you are limiting or even sabotaging your own success. Do you doubt that you can have healthy relationships? Then examine how you are not in a healthy relationship within yourself, or how you can be or become the kind of person/partner you wish to attract. Do you doubt that you can find happiness or even that you deserve happiness? Then examine your definition of happiness and ask if you are looking outside yourself for something that must come from within.

Do not doubt, Dear Ones, that you are less than perfect just as you are, for that which you might label as an ‘imperfection’ in yourself at the moment is merely the pointer for your current lesson.

Conscious Living demands that the individual live a self-examined life. To slide through life without honestly examining one’s inner existence, inner workings and the choices one makes leads one away from happiness and fulfillment. Human beings have an awareness of Self that can lead to extraordinary leaps of consciousness when they look for growth through that awareness and understanding. Many, though, choose to live in denial of their own power to effect the course of their lives, preferring instead to give away that power to external sources.

You are not a canoe with no one to paddle and steer, being carried through life by the flow of the river. No, you are the one with the paddles, choosing your life’s direction in every moment. You choose whether to go with the flow or paddle upstream. You choose how to avoid obstacles or go through them. You choose which branch of the river to follow when you reach a fork. Do not hand those paddles over to someone else. Do not doubt that you are in charge of the direction of your life.

You may not be able to control the weather or the obstacles in your path, but your life is not controlled by those. Your Life is how you respond to those things over which you have no control.

Never doubt that you always have choices about how you respond to challenges. If you allow doubt to control you, then you are giving away the paddles of your canoe.

Keep paddling. Open yourself to guidance. Look at challenges as information, as opportunities for growth, for there is great Light awaiting you on the other side of every lesson. Claim your own power and seek the Light. You will always be rewarded for making this choice.

And so it is.

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MUSE-INGS: Notice the Lessons

August 24, 2010 — Rosemary

Lessons.  Lessons. Lessons.  Did you ever wish for ‘recess in the School of Life’?

Sometimes the lessons seem to be piled on top of each other, and at other times they seem to be so indistinct that they are almost impossible to discern.  It can feel exhausting to constantly be looking for the lessons.

BUT this is what makes Life so exciting, so fulfilling.  Everything that happens has a lesson somewhere inside it.  Are things going smoothly?  What’s the lesson in that?  Is there a bird in the yard?  What kind of bird is it and what is the lesson in that?  Are you late or is someone late for a meeting with you?  What is the lesson in that?

If we are constantly looking for the lesson, even in the little things in life, then we are not falling into the doldrums or panicking or getting angry.  We are simply curious about what the lessons are.

My mastermind buddy, Cass, and I were on the phone recently talking about new directions for our businesses when Cass watched 2 baby deer be born right in front of her!  How exciting to have the privilege to watch these new lives come into the world!  My observation was that the Universe was telling us that our new directions bring new life into our businesses – this scene was confirmation of all the energy of newness.  We both enjoyed the sign.

Where can you look for confirmation that you are on the right track?  What about indications that you might want to consider another avenue today?  What does the current moment have as a gift for you?

Start noticing.  That’s all it takes.  Noticing.  Notice the person in front of you at Starbucks.  Our friend in Malibu just noticed that it was Kevin Spacey!  Notice the person at the cash register in the store while you are shopping.  They might need a smile or a kind word.  Notice what the messages in Nature are for you.  Deer?  Rabbits? Bears? Dogs? Cats?  Don’t worry about what the books say – what are these animals saying to you today?  Pause and listen to the voice of Nature to get a message.

Where does it feel as if your Power is residing in your body today?  This is another way to learn the lessons of the moment.  Take a moment to feel fully present in your body.  What do you notice?  Can you find a spot that holds your personal power right now?  If not, then where are you hiding it?

These are the kinds of questions that can guide you through a day.  Are you in an uncomfortable situation?  Find your personal power in your body and put your hand over it.  If you can’t find it, then put your hand over your solar plexus.  Are you feeling confused about what to do next?  Look around you, take a walk in Nature.  What are the signs, the signals with messages for you?

Your lessons are why you are awake and aware in this present moment.  Notice.

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THIS WEEK’S MYSTIC MESSAGE from The Divine Feminine: Create the Life of your Life Purpose

August 23, 2010 — Rosemary
Dear Ones,

Every one of you has experienced hurt, elation, pain, joy, love, hatred, fun, ennui.  These are a part of the human experience.  Do you use these experiences to learn lessons or do you curse the darkness and forget to celebrate the Light?  How you respond to life’s experiences defines who you are as human being on a path toward greater consciousness.

Many people live in such great fear that they cannot see the Light when it appears all around them.  They are searching for the darkness, searching for that which they most dread, and it is as if they have blinders on, preventing them from seeing what is good and gentle and friendly in their environment.  It is very difficult to get these people to open up to the Light available to them because their vision is too narrow to embrace it.

There are others who allow Life to happen to them.  They are passively awaiting the next experience, wondering what will happen, planning to react but not making the effort to be proactive.  These people are suffering because they do not feel empowered to create their own life.  These are the ones who can be taught that they can take action to bring their Life into focus when they claim the power to do so.

Still others are vigorously fighting their own Life Purpose.  They are in denial about why they came to Planet Earth, who they incarnated to Be.  These people project onto others the lessons that are theirs to learn.  They work at their lives without finding any joy in daily activities.  They seem to run in the other direction from growth opportunities.  Some of these are so hardened that they deride others who are on a path of growth.  It is a difficult situation when one must deal with these people because they are negative in their perspective and they do not support the growth and progression of others if it interferes with their plans.

Those who are learning their lessons, who embrace the creative energy involved in making Life be a fulfilling collection of lessons, who seek to manifest their Life Purpose on Planet Earth, are the ones who can find joy even when Life looks darkest.  These are the ones who see other people as fellow journeyers, not as impediments to plans.  These people know how to smile from their hearts, and how to feel Love and to offer Love in their daily lives.

Which are you?  Do you recognize a part of yourself in these categories?  Do you see a past ‘you’ in one of them?

Looking for the lesson in your experience gives you the power to grow, the power to make the lesson the important aspect of this moment, not the circumstance.  Do you realize how powerful you can be when you can step up above a circumstance to see it in relation to a bigger picture?  This is how one learns the lessons contained in an experience.  Open yourself up to learning something from what is going on in the present moment, for Life is always about this present moment.  Worrying about tomorrow or yesterday drains your energy and takes you away from the lesson and the personal growth available in this present moment.

Allow yourself to focus on your growth, which supports your Life Purpose.  Allow this moment to be a gift for you, no matter what the circumstances are.  Are you ill?  What is the message in the illness for you?  Are you worried about finances?  How are you deciding that you lack support?  Are you feeling that things are going well for you in this moment?  What can you learn from that and who else can you help?

There is always a lesson for you.  Keep learning the lessons and you will keep growing.  Create your Life to be in consonance with your Life Purpose.  Be who you came to Planet Earth to Be.

And so it is.

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MUSE-INGS: Reach Inside and Remember Joy Today!

June 15, 2010 — Rosemary

The word ‘Joy’ brings up such wonderful thought-pictures, doesn’t it?  Think of a child and the Joy that child can find by delighting in such little things.  A small child doesn’t wake up feeling dread about the day to come.  That child is steeped in wonder as the day unfolds. Squatting down to watch some ants or a caterpillar on the sidewalk.  Blowing bubbles through a straw into a drink.  Running through a sprinkler in the summer or building a snowman in the winter. There is a certain Joy in being a carefree kid, isn’t there?

But then we lose that. We start school and worry about bullies and tests and book reports and best friends.  We’re afraid of the boogey man or the report card or the team coach. We start to live with disappointment and concern and fear and we forget how to be filled with Joy.

What happens to us? And who is there to teach us to go inside to find the Joy that puts all the outer circumstances into perspective?

I think we learn through the anxieties of adults around us that Joy is something that waits in the wings while we are living ‘life’ – standing by until there is a carefree moment again in which to experience Joy.  We’re allowed to feel that at our wedding, at the birth of a child, at a graduation.  But it’s reserved for big moments in our lives, not for everyday existence.  There is always something to do, something to get out of the way before we can relax and be Joy-full.

What if we decided to turn that all around and to seek Joy FIRST?  What if, right now, today, you decide that Joy comes first and then you’ll face everything else?  Do you think that you can do that?

If Joy is a decision, if Joy is something that you go inside to find, then why put off that search? What if, at this moment, you gave yourself permission to pause, to take a couple of deep breaths, to go inside no matter what is happening around you or what you have to face today, and you asked to connect to your inner Joy, even if only for a few minutes?  Why not try that right now?

It might be easier if you think of someone or something that brings you Joy and makes you smile, but it’s not difficult to find a moment of Joy inside.  And once you have touched it, bring that outside with you and look through the lens of Joy at what is going on, at what you must do today.

No matter what is happening, or how people are behaving around you, Joy is within you.  You ARE connected to Source, whether you are remembering that at the moment or not.  You can be busy and still have Joy inside you.  You can be happy and still have Joy inside you.  And you can be sad or upset and still have Joy inside you.

Too often we think that life must be a bowl of cherries all the time so that we can smile.  I’ve had people comment to me that we don’t understand because our lives are so great.  Yes, I have many blessings in my life but I’ve also had heartaches and problems. I just have chosen to define myself and my life by what is good about it.  I have chosen to meditate, to tap into something greater than myself so that my perspective comes from the ‘meta’ level, above the strife of everyday life. I see the patterns unfolding and I trust that the Universe has a Plan and that the Plan is unfolding as it must. And I remind myself that Joy comes from within.

You can reach that Joy no matter what your life looks like at the moment.  You are a timeless, spiritual being having a physical lifetime on Planet Earth so that you can learn lessons.  Some of those lessons are not as much fun to learn as others.  These lessons are a part of living a human life. But there is always Joy within you. There is always the spirit of the Inner You who remembers the connection to Source and to the Joy within.

Reach inside and remember Joy today!

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