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: Compassion and Karma

June 1, 2010 — Rosemary

“I don’t judge people!  Of course, I accept everyone just as they are!”

I know I used to believe that until I really sat myself down and examined the ways in which I really DID do the judging.  A lot of people who think of themselves as ‘spiritual’ find it very easy to decide that they know enough to judge others.  Maybe ‘judge’ seems like too harsh a word, but they do seem to strike the gavel and pronounce others to be good or bad, right or wrong.

I’ve written before about my mantra – Everyone is doing the best they can with the resources they have at any given moment.  I truly believe that now.  But the hardest person to apply that to – is me.  It was easier to adopt this concept when I was focused on everyone else.  I worked with the idea for years to make sure I was applying it in all cases.  I pondered those times when I really struggled with a particular situation or person to apply this, but it is true for everybody if you look at the grander scheme of things.

In life, there is always a big picture but we are so often focused on the microcosm of our own vision that we forget to step up above the situation and look from the eagle’s perspective.  What else can the eagle see from on high that we, with our limited scope, are missing?  This made it easier to see even those people who were doing heinous acts as the carriers of lessons for others.  And I had to separate the person from the acts.  It doesn’t mean that we ever approve of or even accept one individual hurting another.  But the person who chooses to hurt another is usually making that choice because they see no other choice before them.  We can be unhappy about that choice and do everything in our power to help someone who has been hurt, but are we right to judge other people?  Or is the extent of our purview to examine only the acts, the behaviors, and not the person?

I think this is where we get stuck because it feels so difficult to separate the two.  But if we look at the person as a baby, somehow we can understand that little babies are not born to commit heinous acts against another human being.  Every single infant is lovable because they are breathing the same air that we breathe.  They are embracing life on Planet Earth.  But a lot of things happen to that baby along the way and sometimes their thinking gets twisted.  Somewhere along the way they believe something or are taught something or they respond to some stimulus that sets them on a path that takes them where they might not want to go.  And then they get stuck and see no other way to go.

This is where the concept of compassion steps in.  It is easy to have compassion for a friend who is going through a serious illness or a breakup or a loss.  But how can we have compassion for someone who has chosen to do something we think is wrong?  That is where compassion is most needed, not to coddle someone or to excuse their act, but to look beyond the little scene in front of us and to take the eagle’s view of the situation.  When you begin to understand the Laws of Karma you can see that a person brings a judgment onto himself or herself when they make the decision to act a certain way.  Karma will take care of the consequences.  Karma is merely cause-effect in action.  When I hear people worrying because someone is getting away with something, I think about how no one can escape the Laws of Karma even if it appears that they have.  We might not see the consequence but we can be assured that there are consequences.

And so can we be compassionate about ourselves, too, when we slip up?  Everyone is doing the best they can with the resources they have at any given moment, even me.  When I learn to look around at my choices as stepping stones along the path of lessons we call ‘Life’ then I can be compassionate with myself as I hope others will be with me.  And I can look upon others with compassion, too!

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THIS WEEK’S MYSTIC MESSAGE from The Divine Feminine: Send the Judge on vacation and choose Compassion!

May 31, 2010 — Rosemary

Dear Ones,

When you think of other people, are you ‘thinking’ with your mind or are you reaching out to them with your heart?  When you have a ‘thought’ of another person you are actually reaching out, energetically, to them across the distance between you, whether that is across the room or across the ocean.  You might even be thinking of someone who has crossed over to The Other Side and you can connect with them through the veil.

Knowing that your thoughts are creating energy connections, why would you ever think ill of someone else?  How many people seem to believe that their job on Planet Earth is to be the judge of other people!  We want you to think about that – is it REALLY your job to judge others?  When you have looked for guidance about your Life Purpose, is the answer ever really ‘to be the judge of everyone else’?

What if your true job were to love everyone else?  We’re not saying here that you must LIKE every person that you meet or hear about.  But what if you were to hold them in the energy of Love so that they might have the best chance to make the most of their own life, free of judgment from you?  This is a spiritual practice that is worth cultivating.

Many will tell you that you must learn to separate the person from the act or behavior, and this is true, for good people sometimes make choices that you might wish they had not.  But instead of judging a person for that choice, what if you were to hold them in the idea of love, that perhaps they have learned from that choice and would not make the same one in the future?  Could you find a more compassionate space in your heart-mind then?

People around you are judging all the time.  They often think that it is their job to judge YOU.  What do you want them to use for criteria?  Is there any part of you that likes the idea of their judging you from their [limited!] perspective?  No one person knows everything that is going on in another person’s life, no matter how close they are with each other.  No one knows all the thoughts that go through another person’s head before he or she acts or chooses a particular behavior.  No one else knows what you were thinking when you made a decision.  Why do you suppose that you can understand enough about another person to make a judgment about them?

Try giving yourself a vacation from being The Judge.  See what happens when you catch yourself about to say something judgmental about another person.  Reach for the compassionate thing to say instead and see how you feel.

Expressing compassion for another is not only the wise choice to make, it also brings a benefit to you.  The energy of judgment is narrow and constricting.  The energy of compassion is expansive.  What kind of energy do you want to have at work in your body and spirit when you have a choice?  Choose compassion.

And remember that what you put out into the world is the energy of what you attract to yourself.  If you reach out with compassion to others you will receive that expansive energy of compassion back into your own energy field.

Ahhhhh, doesn’t that feel better?

And so it is.

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BOOK LIGHTS: from “The Journey, A Practical Guide to Healing Your Life and Setting Yourself Free”

May 5, 2010 — Rosemary

“What an irony!  I had spent a lifetime earning others’ love, approval, and admiration by giving, serving, helping, caring, and striving to do my best, even if it meant sacrificing my own needs and personal desires or goals, and even if it destroyed my health.  And here I’d discovered that this love and self-worth I’d been seeking had been there all along!  Nothing to do to get it – just be it, know it.”

Brandon Bays

You ARE Love!!!  All you need to do is REMEMBER!  When you hold onto that thought, your vibration automatically is lifted into the Love frequency.  Try it and enjoy!

Rosemary

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

May 3, 2010 — Rosemary

Dear Ones,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

And so it is.

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MUSE-INGS: What You Give, You Receive

March 16, 2010 — Rosemary

Each of us CAN have a great impact on the world around us but it is so easy to become insular and forgetful of our place in the greater scheme of things.  Sometimes it feels as if we are alone, sometimes as if the crowds are crushing us, and sometimes we can feel both at the same time.  Yet we can choose to ‘be peace’ in a particular situation and to reap the benefits of that.

It is true that we receive as we give out.  What we give we get back multiplied.  This applies not just with money but with words, with energies.  We treat someone nicely and they treat the next person nicely, and the next person we encounter treats us nicely.  It is very simple, really.

On a grander scheme, if we meditate on Peace and Love, we enhance the energy of those vibrations.  There are studies showing the impact a group of meditators can have on the crime rate of a city, and it takes only 1 % of the residents meditating to have that positive impact.  If you and I agree that on a certain day we will focus on Peace for 5 minutes, imagine the impact we could have.  What if we each got 10 people to do that, and each of them got 10 people to do it, too?  We could have an impact.  As a matter of fact, I think I will propose this project on Facebook and choose a time, such as the Spring Equinox or Summer Solstice, where everyone can pause for 5 minutes and focus on Peace for Planet Earth.  If we all did this, and invited our friends to join us, we could have a rolling 5 minutes of Peace around the Planet for every time zone just as the Equinox or Solstice peaked.

So what can you do every day to participate in sharing the frequency of Peace and Love in your immediate world?  Can you greet people from a place of acceptance in your heart?  Can you drive your vehicle with tolerance and love toward others on the road?  How about picking up the telephone and calling someone just to let them know you were thinking of them with love or fondness?  How about, instead of raging at someone who has made a mistake or who has frustrated you today, you choose to take a deep breath and then create in your mind a reason why they might have done that and forgive them?

It doesn’t take long before acting this way becomes a habit.  You can shift your automatic pilot to react with peaceful feelings if you become aware of your instinctual reactions and pause before you act on them.  Learning to ‘hit the pause button’ is the first step to Conscious Living.  Focus this week on catching yourself about to slip into some negative energy and refocus that energy in a positive direction.  Wouldn’t you expect to have a positive week if that’s what kind of energy you put out there?

As a caveat, please do not equate a week of ‘smooth sailing’ with no glitches to be a positive week.  Those are nice, but Life brings with it many challenges, big and small.  It is not about what is thrown at us, but about how we respond to those challenges that make us evolving, conscious human beings.  Choose to respond in a positive fashion and others will react to you this way.

As an example, I had a frustrating visit to a 5-star hotel in California this week.  It started with my entering my assigned room and finding it already occupied, including dog!  There were several other mishaps and frustrations but I tried to maintain a peaceful attitude and asked specifically for the remedies I expected, all the while being friendly to the staff with whom I was interacting.  In every case they took care to offer me more than adequate recompense.  I suspect that if I had stormed and screamed they would not have been so generous.  And others who had problems were reluctant to bring it to the attention of management, but this is not spreading peace because they were feeling extreme frustration and anger.

So choose how you react to what comes to you in Life.  And choose that that reaction be one that spreads the vibration of Peace and Love around you.  The Planet will thank you and you will receive the benefits.

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MUSE-INGS: Spreading Love and Light to All of Humanity

March 9, 2010 — Rosemary

Humans are capable of so much love and devotion to each other that it is disturbing to see how many people are choosing a path away from that.  What has happened to cause us to lose our way to the Light?

I don’t have a simple answer to that question.  I am constantly amazed at the way that some people speak of others, the demonizing of those who disagree.  I work diligently to learn the truth of the news and am amazed at the lies that are perpetrated on those who are unwilling to work so hard to uncover these lies.  It amazes me that there are those who willingly repeat lies to unsuspecting folks who listen with a belief that they are being told the truth.  How much darkness is spread through lies?

And then I hear of efforts to respond to natural disasters that come from an outpouring of love for all humanity and I am encouraged that, while the media might give air time to those who spread lies, most humans on Planet Earth are of a compassionate nature.  How cold a heart must it take to turn away from a child in need?

I’ve heard the theory proposed that the bombing of a building in Oklahoma City years ago opened the heartland of the US and created an outpouring of love for that City and those who were affected by the bombing.  There was a tsunami that was devastating and again humanity came to the assistance of other members.  Earthquakes and hurricanes and typhoons happen and all eyes, hearts and wallets are focused on giving aid.

Perhaps these natural disasters are Mother Nature’s way of focusing our attention on the need for us all to agree that the peoples of Earth are really all one people.  And a natural disaster is a way of telling us where to focus our Love and Light at the moment.  We might wish that governments rushed to help human beings but in the end it is human beings who will step in when they can offer compassion.  Indeed, some governments do rush to help.  Some countries are founded on principles that the government works for the people, for the individuals who might need assistance and their response to natural disasters reflects this.

But the ultimate responsibility for each individual is always to ask, ‘What is mine to do in this situation?’ Whether that situation is in one’s own immediate life, one’s local environment, or on the world scale, the question is always, ‘What is mine to do?’

Leading with this question and really listening for the answer that comes from deep within oneself will lead to a choice to bring Light and Love to Planet Earth.  No one who truly asks with an open mind and an open heart will hear an answer that causes them to shut down, to bring more darkness to the Planet.

I like to believe that more and more people are asking and listening and hearing that they are to spread the Light of Love more broadly on the Planet!  That all humans are part of One Humanity.  That separation is not of the Light.  And Love enhances Love every time!!!

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THIS WEEK’S MYSTIC MESSAGE from The Divine Feminine: Can We Expand Consciousness in the Face of Disaster?

March 8, 2010 — Rosemary
Dear Ones,

We are pleased that so many people are discussing the advancement of human consciousness in these important days.  You will soon know why this is so important.

As people on Planet Earth begin to realize that there is something greater than their everyday life they will also start to look at each other with enlightened eyes.  Understanding that the greater is much greater than earlier perceptions would indicate gives one the scope to embrace all other humans with acceptance and an open heart.  Those who are getting a glimpse into the greater Light of expanded awareness are also feeling that expansion in their own hearts so that they can reach out from a place of Universal Love to others.

When there are big events like earthquakes and tsunamis on Earth there is more going on than the news stories portray.  Human compassion can be opened to reach out to those who have been touched by disaster.  But there is also an opening of the heart chakra of all humanity when so many are focused on one group of people.  It is said that there has been an ‘outpouring of compassion’ when thousands of people are affected by an event.  This outpouring comes from a unification of purpose, a desire to be of assistance, a concern for the plight of other humans.  These are all fostered by the Love of one human for all others at a very basic level.

Now we would tell you that there are some who are not moved by compassion in these circumstances.  There are some who see these situations as opportunities for making money, for exerting power and influence.  These people have lost the connection to Soul, to the human heart that beats in them and that was once connected to the Universal Love Source but whose connections they have worked to sever.  These people live in a bleakness that has drained the color from their existence.  Darkness and black indicate a total lack of light and color.  Light, brilliant white light, contains all the colors of the rainbow as any prism will show you.  Those who live a bleak existence cannot see the colors of light because they have shut their hearts and eyes to that color.  It is almost as if they must put on dark glasses to block the tiniest ray of light from their view.

But these people are in the minority on Planet Earth.  Why do so many give power to the few?  As we look upon the inhabitants on Earth at any given time we wonder at those who choose to remain in ignorance of their own inner power.

Each human being is born onto the Planet with a heart filled with Light and Love just waiting to be expressed within his or her environment on the Planet.  Even those born into uncomfortable situations are filled with this Light and Love at their birth.  They live a life that is waiting to unfold and to grow that Light and Love to the fullest they are able.  Childhood is a time of Lightness, of play.  Even those who have nothing according to material standards on Earth have a sense of delight at play.  Those who are hungry long for food but still know how to smile at a loved one.  And those who have plenty will laugh and play and love with abandon.

So what is it that shuts down this Light and Love that is within every human heart at birth?  It is not just the accident of circumstances, the childhood experiences, the schooling one receives that does this.  It is the conscious choice to select greed over Love, power over Light, to inflict harm without compassion for others.  When one can dispassionately kill or harm or deny care to others then one has stepped away from Love and Light.

But most people on Planet Earth have not moved so far from Love and Light that they cannot retrace their steps to offer Love and Light to others.  When Mother Earth offers an opportunity to expand the Love and Light within, as she does with every so-called ‘disaster’ of natural causes, then She is offering all of humanity an opportunity to open their heart and spread Love and Light around the Planet.  Every act of compassion increases the Love and Light available on Planet Earth.   Every disaster is an opportunity for the expansion of consciousness for all humanity.

Think on these thoughts.

And so it is.

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BOOK LIGHTS: From “The Journey” by Brandon Bays

March 3, 2010 — Rosemary

Here’s a long quote that describes well something hard to put into words:

“I felt as if my own awareness filled not only the room but extended boundlessly beyond, encompassing everything and in everything.  My mind became utterly still, completely thought-free, and it seemed as if we were all bathing, soaking in this presence of love.  We were steeping in Source.

“After a few minutes we opened our eyes, and as I got ready to speak, it occurred to me that this stillness is contagious.  If there is just one person hanging out in thought-free awareness, everyone ‘catches’ it.  I have since read a beautiful quotation by W.B. Yeats which expresses this perfectly:

“We can make our mind so like still water that beings gather about us to see their own images, and so for a moment live a clearer, perhaps even fiercer, life because of our quiet.”

Brandon Bays

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BOOK LIGHTS: From A Guide for the Advanced Soul: A Book of Insight by Susan Hayward

February 17, 2010 — Rosemary

“Of a certainty
The man who can see
All creatures in himself,
Himself in all creatures,
Knows no sorrow.

-Eesha Upanishad”

And this is the benefit of understanding the connection of all beings! Love yourself, and Love all others and you will know no sorrow. –Rosemary

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