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EXPLORATION: How’s Your Health?
October 31, 2012 — RosemaryI’m writing this as I sit in a doctor’s office while my daughter sees a surgeon about having her gall bladder removed. It’s sobering to see your loved one in pain.
So I’m thinking about the pain that so many people have, every day, because their health isn’t what they would like it to be. Not just physical health, but also emotional health, mental health, spiritual health. It’s so important to be healthy on all levels that just focusing on the physical doesn’t lead us to the life of our dreams.
What’s the last thing you did for your emotional health? Are you looking at your life for keys to the blocks that you are experiencing? Have you mined the past on your personal timeline to learn the lessons of your experiences? Are you developing new tools for your responses so your knee-jerk reaction isn’t where you get stuck when something happens in your life?
How about your mental health? Have you examined the tapes that play in your head for their source and to decide whether to keep them playing or to change them? Do you know what negative thoughts are popping up and keeping you from growing into the person you were meant to be? Are you holding yourself back from your greatness because you think you can’t be great?
And your spiritual health is most important because the beliefs you hold affect all the other levels of your being. Your beliefs affect your thoughts which generate your emotions and, finally, present as physical health problems if you haven’t cleared them. Oftentimes, beliefs come from our childhood or our family tree or our environment [society, teachers, churches, etc.]. They have not been generated consciously but are sourced in the unconscious mind.
What do you believe about yourself? Might there be a belief that ‘Everyone in our family gets arthritis by the time they are 50’? How about ‘No one from this neighborhood gets to go to college’? These unconscious beliefs operate to restrict us whether we are aware of them or not. Have you examined what you believe and made a conscious choice about holding onto that belief or releasing it?
At the physical level, you must choose to live in balance with all of your other levels. Are you eating in a way that matches your beliefs about food and its sources? Are you making physical choices based on unconscious emotions or thoughts that conflict with what is best for you? Do you ask yourself questions about your life and its balance when something presents as out of balance?
Many people can look at stress in their life and see the imbalance that is caused there. Too many believe that they can’t do anything about stress. But what they are really saying is that they don’t know what to do about the stress that they can’t change.
Things happen. We react. Then we choose our response to the event. That’s what life is.
And if we can’t change the things that happen, then we have to look at our reactions and our responses. This is the first place to build up our took kit so that we can live a conscious life and choose wisely our responses to events. This FOLLOWS doing all the other work to bring our beliefs, thoughts, emotions into balance.
When I spend a Muse Day with a client, where we have a whole day together to clear blocks and make plans, we often spend most of the day on the clearing blocks part of the agenda, checking in on the spiritual, mental and emotional levels. Creating a plan for the actions to take in the physical plan is often the easiest and quickest part of the day because we’ve brought every thing else into balance before we start the planning.
Trying to plan without the balance brings frustration and much harder work. Trying to deal with dis-ease without finding the source of the imbalance makes the task much more difficult, if not impossible.
Our daughter will be fine. She’s been working through many levels of what is happening. I’m sorry she’s going through the proverbial ‘2 by 4 to the head’ experience but haven’t we all had some of those? We learn!
And I hope that you, too, will examine the levels of your being for where imbalances live. Clearing those can really help you move the pain out of your life!
PS: This Friday, November 2, just in time for All Souls Day, the Day of the Dead, you are invited to a Conversation with The Other Side! I’ll be bringing in the Energies, Loved Ones who have crossed over, Angels, Spirit Guides, all manner of extra-dimensional beings during this time when the veil between the worlds is at its thinnest! Join me! Learn more here!
VIDEO MYSTIC MESSAGE: The Steps to Balance
October 30, 2012 — RosemaryHere is your Video Inspiration for the week:
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“Are You Flipping Out Over Something?” A Commentary by Richard
October 25, 2012 — RichardWe are adding a new feature to the Mystic Messages Blog with the change-over to my weekly MuseLetter which is replacing my Ezine. Now on Thursdays, in place of what I used to publish as Book Lights, my partner, Richard, is offering a commentary on my weekly Mystic Message and Inspiration.
From Richard—
I was particularly struck by the topic this week: Flip-Out. In fact I too often find myself flipping-out and almost always over very small things. Computers suddenly running slow, or even worse, crashing for unknown reasons; a lost item, like keys; a negative checking account balance when there should be plenty of cash available; a credit card that inexplicably fails to work (and this is worst if it’s a client’s charge that won’t go through!); the dog’s 2:00 am need…the list can be nearly endless! Are these life and death issues; of course not. But in our hustle-bustle lives they do add fuel to the fire of an already hot burn life-style that keeps pace with a 21st Century clock!
Is it a particularly male thing to flip-out over small things? Rosemary goes through life at a pretty calm clip; her life is just as complicated as mine. She writes and speaks this week about a “Toolbox of Resources.” Well, I’m a pretty resourceful guy; I’m on the journey with her. And yet my fuse is so much shorter. But I’m ready to learn these lessons; the 2×4 upside the head is beginning to hurt, get through to me!
I am examining my tools and resources. In the last few months I have rediscovered the Tao, the ancient Chinese philosophy known as The Way. I have read fairly extensively about Taoism, studied it as part of my seminary program, practiced off and on through authors such as Mantak Chia, studied and memorized sections of Lao-Tzu’s Taoteching, consulted the I Ching, and practiced Tai Chi. And recently I found an excellent Qigong instructor who has brought me back to this Way. And there are some significant tools and resources to be found here.
Managing my “flip-out moments” is certainly a skill I am working on. An emotion I frequently reach for in these moments is “anger” in its various forms. I can too easily flash to a white heat over some relatively small irritation. I cool quickly and then realize the exaggerated reaction as an unproductive response to the situation. And I ask myself, “why the unbalanced reaction?” And, “why the wasted energy?”
The Chinese Masters identify anger as one of the obstacles to finding The Way. In addition to wanting to reduce my expenditure of energy on a wasted emotion, I want to overcome this obstacle. And, oh by the way, mastering anger will go a long way toward improving my environment!
In the Taoist traditions negative emotions, like Anger, can be transmuted into their corresponding virtues; in the case of Anger the work is to transmute it to Creativity or Resourcefulness. Wow! What if my wasted anger energy can be channeled into creative energy? What a concept!
This is not as easy as it sounds, however. But in my mind it is clearly worth the effort; I choose creativity over anger, calm over flip-out, any day! Rosemary mentions meditation as an approach to “hit the pause button” in the midst of over-reaction (or better yet before the reaction even occurs!). Qigong is often referred to as “Meditation in Motion” and I am finding this practice is a way to pull my energy and my resources, my consciousness, into the present moment when I can be fully aware of my environment, my reaction at any given moment to the environment and to then respond appropriately. When I am very, very present I can actually catch myself on the verge of anger and quickly seek a creative response, diverting the anger into resourcefulness! I have a long way to go to catch myself every time, or even often! But it’s good work for the journey!
Guys, Rosemary has many ways to channel the flip-out mode into presence of mind. Her toolbox is filled with fun things and even some neat toys! Sometimes it may seem easier just to go with the reactive emotion of the moment; but too often the consequences of the easy route bite painfully.
Flip-out reaction or creative response? The choice is yours if you are willing to do the work!
INSPIRATION: Are You Flipping Out Over Something?
October 24, 2012 — RosemaryIt seems today as if there is always something to ‘Flip Out’ over! What has you feeling this way today?
I sometimes hear clients longing for simpler lives or less stress or at least less drama in their lives, but they are really wishing for something to change about their circumstances without a thought to how they can change themselves.
Flipping Out happens when we don’t have enough resources in our tool box to deal with what is happening in our environment. If you can reach into your Resource Tool Box and pull out just what you need to do in this circumstance, then you just do that and there’s no need to get too excited. But how often are you perfectly prepared for exactly what is going on?
Let me say here that I am not talking about going into denial and pretending that nothing big is happening! Sticking your fingers in your ear and singing, ‘La, la, la, la!’ won’t manage the stress of the circumstances, although, I admit, sometimes that seems like an attractive behavior choice. Denial invites the Universe to keep bringing the lesson to us, over and over again, with perhaps more severity each time until we learn what we are to learn.
What tools have you been developing to prepare you for whatever might come your way? Are you on a path of constant personal growth, seeking new skills, finding new opportunities to explore ideas? Are you committed to your own personal, spiritual growth as a journey of exploration? How you answer these questions will determine how well you can handle what happens around you.
Just as an athlete doesn’t wake up one morning and decide to win a gold medal in discus throwing without training for that exact sport, so, too, must you train for the circumstances that haven’t yet come into your life.
When the doctor says, ‘There’s something of concern going on here,’ or you get the phone call that, ‘There’s been an accident,’ how will you respond?
I pray that you never hear those words but it could be something else that throws you for a loop and the resources must already be available to you or you will find it more difficult to cope.
So what are you doing today, this week, this year to expand the tools in your Resource Tool Box? Are you taking a class? Working with a coach/counselor? Reading self-help books? In a group with speakers who teach you tools? Attending seminars and conferences with content-rich programs for personal growth?
This is not an activity that can be postponed indefinitely! Now is the time to prevent Flip Out!
Learning meditation can be a great start. Breathe, hit the pause button, take a moment to collect yourself. Allow thoughts to arise but to keep flowing onward, without attaching to the thoughts. Give yourself permission to focus on your breath and to let go of thoughts and emotions that come up for you. Give yourself permission to simply BE.
Sign up for a class on a psychological or spiritual topic that intrigues you. Read a book that someone has recommended to you. Find a group of explorers that you can join to study new ideas. Work with a coach who can help you to develop the tools that are best for you.
Fill up the Resource Tool Box and you’ll be ready if and when something happens. Won’t it be nice to have the confidence of knowing that, even if you never need to use the tools, you won’t have to resort to ‘Flipping Out’?
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VIDEO MYSTIC MESSAGE: How to Avoid Flip-Out
October 23, 2012 — RosemaryYes, I have modified my FREE weekly Ezine to include a video message of inspiration. I am posting these videos here on the Tuesdays following their publication in my Ezine, the MuseLetter.
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MUSE-INGS: Personal Growth is the Ticket to the Future
October 17, 2012 — RosemaryI’ve been ‘muse-ing’ a lot lately about the Path of Personal Growth. We all seem to be facing a lot of lessons, opportunities to choose growth or stagnation. It’s sometimes easier to think about staying where we are instead of moving forward. It might even seem as if the path of least resistance is to stand still.
But I have learned that the currents of change are rocking us. Standing still takes more energy than going with the flow. Moving forward is the energy that carries us while trying to stand still or, horrors!, to go backward, takes more energy.
What does this mean for the 21st Century human? It means that every moment is a moment of choice. At any given point we are making a choice about our direction.
Do you feel you are fighting the tide of change while just trying to hang onto what you have? Is it getting harder to stand still in your life? Does some part of y ou long for a change, even if you don’t know what that is? When fear of change has you in its grip, it’s easy to think that standing still is the choice that takes the least energy. But that is a fallacy.
Face the fear of the unknown. When the energies of Earth existence are carrying humanity forward, it is time to learn to trust that the Universe has a plan that is working out as it should. There is a greater intelligence at work. And we are all in this together. You are not alone in this moment of change.
Personal growth is the ticket to the future. The message of 2012 is to commit to this growth. How exciting to be on the Planet at this amazing time of Transformation! Your Soul asked to be allowed to be here. We live in amazing times. And we agreed to share the journey with each other.
In this Universe’s Plan, each of us has an important role to play. We grow into this role just as an actor grows into their part while the director leads them. Are you willing to shape yourself into the person of that important role? Are you willing to do the work required?
We are promised that the resources will be there when we need them. Our side of the equation is to commit Time and Treasure, to ‘prime the pump,’ as it were. When we send a signal out to the Universe that we are truly committed to our growth, then everything else is free to flow to us. Everything that we need will arrive as it is needed.
How have you been trying to push against the current of change? How have you been trying to ignore the internal push to move forward? What circumstances, situations or relationships have you been unwilling to examine in case the guidance is to let them go?
THIS is the work of 2012. Be the seed that Mother Earth has been nurturing. Blossom. Push through that soil into the Light. Be the flower you were meant to become.
It is time to GROW!!!
And remember, the seed doesn’t do mind games on itself to try to avoid growth. It just allows the nutrients to come when needed and it blossoms forth to be what it was meant to be – no questions asked!!!
PS: On Wednesday, October 24, 2012, I’m offering a 2-hour workshop on A Meta*Physical Checkup. Space is limited! You can register onlin: Click for Details.
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MYSTIC MESSAGE from The Divine Feminine: Be the Seed and GROW!
October 16, 2012 — RosemaryDear Ones,
It is with the expectation that you will continue to grow that we share this message with you. You are as a seed that has been planted in the fertile soil of the Earth garden. The Mother Earth who loves you and who asked that you be planted on her surface gives you tender, nourishing care, with water and nutrients and Sunlight. You are held in the supportive hands that help you to grow.
Are you as committed to your own growth as Mother Earth is to supporting that very growth? Or are you willing to stay where you are, locked in the beliefs that have held you in place for so long? Now is the time to decide. Now is the time to choose.
Those who choose the path of personal growth will commit Time and Treasure to that path. Are you willing to join this group? Know that you will have every support, every resource should you choose this. Who will be your teacher, your guide, your mentor? Who will be with you on the journey as your cohort, your colleagues, your fellow students? Be wise about these choices!
For when you are on a path of personal growth you must surround yourself with those who are on a similar path. If you attempt to partner with someone who is not committed to their growth or who desires to hold you back from yours, then your growth will be stymied and you will spend your energy staying in place instead of moving forward. This is not to pass a judgment on others, but to encourage you to find people with whom you can share your journey who will support you. The others must find their own way.
Many of you may be examining relationships as you read this, wondering if these relationships are right for you at this time. Make the decision now, for it is time for you to propel yourself forward, and being connected to someone, some circumstance, some job or location, that does not support your growth is like having an anchor of concrete chained to your ankle. It is time to grow.
Are you afraid? Is it really the fear that you believe it to be or is it another, more subtle, fear that is holding you back? Examine your fears. Do you fear your own abilities? Your lack of funds? Your confusion about the next step? Or do you fear your own inner power? Your greatness? Your Light? Be honest with yourself.
Commit to your growth. Find others with whom to share the path. Find your tribe. And when you commit to your growth, add the commitment of Time and Treasure. Are you willing to spend your most precious resource, your Time, on activities for your personal growth? Or is this a priority that is left for when everything else on your to-do list is done? Are you willing to commit your Treasure, your money, to this task or are you only looking for that which you can obtain for free so that you are sending the Universe a signal that you aren’t totally committed to your growth?
Seeking growth does not have to require a lot of your Time or your Treasure, but your commitment must be backed up energetically with that which is important to you. Even if you feel you don’t have much money at your disposal at the moment, what are you spending that money on? Perhaps you feel led to support a charity or cause that moves you, or you have found a class you would like to attend, or a book you would like to read or a mentor with whom you would like to work? Learn to ask yourself if your inner guidance is directing you to make that choice. Perhaps you can hire the mentor and borrow the book from the library, or give a donation of time to the cause or charity while paying for the class you wish to take. Ask yourself WHY and HOW you are making your decisions. Are you constantly moving in the direction of your personal growth?
Avoid those who wish to go backward, stay in place, or to hold you back from your growth. There is no time now to slow down!
Choose to grow and you will have all the resources you require! Go confidently in the direction of your growth and you will reach your dreams!
And so it is.
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MUSE-INGS: What is YOUR Reality?
October 10, 2012 — RosemaryHave you ever considered that maybe your view of ‘reality’ doesn’t match everyone else’s view? And could there actually be more than one ‘realities’?
We see a lot of people in the current times declaring that they have a corner on the reality market and that those who don’t agree with them should just ‘leave the country’! Hmmm…. How enlightened is that perspective?
The fact is that we are all on a trajectory toward a future that we co-create with the Universal Infinity, whether you call that partner God or The Universe or Spirit or Goddess or Source or any other name. You don’t have to believe anything about this, just as you don’t have to believe in Gravity – you just operate and the Universal Force operates, too. I guarantee that, unless you are on a spacecraft out beyond the Earth’s pull, if you drop something, Gravity will take it to the floor!
If your reality is shaped by your experiences and your beliefs, then you can examine what you believe to be ‘real’ and change it, right? This is the purpose of personal growth work – to examine what you believe and take charge of your thoughts so that you can create your desired reality in your life and the world around you. If your unconscious mind controls the subconscious actions then wouldn’t you want to examine what those actions are being based on?
I work with a lot of enlightened entrepreneurs who have figured out that doing their personal growth work IS investing in their business. If your business or relationship or life decisions are happening at the unconscious level because of beliefs that you hold from childhood experiences, then you might want to update those beliefs with up-to-date information!
And everyone around you has the same dilemma – 21st Century choices can be based on early childhood misconceptions. It is interesting, though, that sometimes those who hold most tightly to their opinions about reality are the ones who are most fearful of deep examination of the source of those very opinions. They hide behind their belief that they know their reality and there is no need to question further.
But the explorer, the person who lives in the state of curiosity and inquiry about their own being and the world around them, has the richer life. There is always something new to be discovered, something that might reinforce a belief or something that calls that belief into question. Either way, the explorer stays in the joy of discovery and excitement.
Decide to become an explorer, beginning with the inner exploration that is always a rich experience. Reinforce or reinvent decisions based on the new information you have gained through a lifetime. Do you really want your inner 6-year-old running your life today?
Devote yourself to curious inquiry into new thought around you. Quantum Physics is now proving what we’ve known in Metaphysics for thousands of years. Aren’t your curious about that? NeuroLinguistic Programming (NLP), a technique I use to help people make desired changes, is based on quantum physics and neurobiology. Isn’t that exciting?
Who are you REALLY? What REALITY do you want to create for yourself? You have the power today!
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“How’s Your Health?” A Commentary from Richard
November 1, 2012 — RichardHere is this week’s commentary from my partner, Richard:
In her Video and Commentary this week Rosemary asks a broad question about health. On the surface this may seem to be a simple, straightforward question. For the most part when we think of our health we immediately scan our physical bodies for anything that may be signaling a pain or illness. But probing the question of our health is a much deeper subject than that first reaction!
We have four bodies, at least! And Rosemary addresses each of them in her commentary posted yesterday. For optimum health we need to “treat” each of these bodies and balance them. For men this can be a real challenge!
Last week I wrote of the emotional body and one emotion I am particularly familiar with, Anger! In Taoist philosophy the ancient Chinese identified five primary emotions and their correlating virtues. For example Creativity is the virtue corresponding to Anger. The other four emotions are Anxiety, Worry, Fear and Grief. Treating these emotions and moving them, transforming them to their virtues is the work we must undertake at the emotional level to achieve a healthy emotional body that in turn supports the physical body’s health.
Today let’s look at Anxiety, a serious emotion affecting so many of us in Western Society. Here in the US we are nearing the end of a polarizing National election. And in the Northeast US we are cleaning up and recovering from a devastating storm, Hurricane Sandy. This election cycle has seemed to go on forever! And with the long prediction of Sandy’s potential as an historic storm, it seemed larger than any storm could live up to; yet for many, it did! Just holding the energy of these two intertwined events is sufficient emotional strain to give the healthiest person a severe case of Anxiety!
What do we do?
Anxiety is often associated with our place in society, our standing within our family, group, tribe, nation, world. It is about who we are; it is deeply connected to self-esteem issues. Using the Tao as guidance, the emotion of Anxiety is associated with the heart and small intestine; it is the Fire Element emotion. The virtues that correspond to Anxiety are Connection and Joy, clearly virtues of the Heart. Moving Anxiety to Joy is a natural transformation as we work on our place within the human family, recognize the importance of that place, our being in that place and the Connection we have with others from that place. And once we have that Connection, deep Joy is there for us. The process here is remembering our own connections. “It’s a Wonderful Life” that famous Christmas Capra movie, is an excellent reminder of just how connected we are in this life and how vital to the overall scheme we are.
The process is reasonably simple: breathe into your Heart Center. Visualize a ruby red light streaming in to your chest to cauterize the wounds inflicted by Anxiety and transform those wounds to Connection and Joy. We are humans, a connected species. We live in groups and survive through cooperation and connectedness. Anxiety is created through our sense of
disconnectedness. Breathing the color Red in to our Heart Center restores this sense of togetherness in all of Life’s experiences.
My 15-year-old granddaughter just came down to visit and to apologize for her over-reaction to an incident around the dinner table this evening. I accepted and in turn apologized for my own over-reaction! It reminds me of our connection; our heart-connection. Family, friends and neighbors, communities, cities, states, countries…we are all connected. We can transform our Anxieties through remembering all of our Essential Connections and taking great Joy in those Connections!
PS: Tomorrow, November 2, just in time for All Souls Day, the Day of the Dead, you are invited to a Conversation with The Other Side! Rosemary brings in the Energies, Loved Ones who have crossed over, Angels, Spirit Guides, all manner of extra-dimensional beings during this time when the veil between the worlds is at its thinnest! Join me! Learn more here!