MUSE-INGS: Live Your Values Consciously! by Rosemary Bredeson

November 30, 2010 — Rosemary

It feels as if we are frequently being asked to ask ourselves, “What really matters?”  We get all worked up about something that bothers or frustrates or upsets us.  But if we pause and ask, “What really matters in this situation?” would we get so worked up?

It really does seem as if time is speeding up and that the days no longer have the full 24 hours available to us.  Does it seem that way to you, too?  Whether it’s the Photon Belt or the Earth’s rotation on its axis or some other reason, the FEELING that time is speeding up can lead us to making some decisions about  how to spend the time that we do have.

I know there are many days that I wake up with an expectation of what my to-do list looks like but I seem to get caught up in the drama of the day and often get pulled off that list to take care of someone else’s drama.  I’m sure that has happened to you, too, hasn’t it?  So how do we take back control of our own time?

The first step is to decide what our own values are.  Not what we wish they were or what we think they should be, but what we truly believe our values are, deep in our heart.  I learned some good exercises when I trained in NLP [Neuro-Linguistic Programming] that help to identify the values that our unconscious minds hold and they are often not what we ‘think’ our values are.  How can this be?  Our conscious minds use logic not emotion when coming up with a list of values but our unconscious minds develop the list from our emotional beliefs and understandings, of ourselves and of our lives.  The unconscious mind is focused on surviving the day, based on whatever it believes about our safety and security.  While one’s conscious mind might think that eating healthy foods is a high value, the unconscious mind might be remembering a time when food was scarce and created a desire to eat everything in sight in case there’s no more food to eat later.  One’s conscious mind might think that being with friends is the most important thing to do today while the unconscious mind might be craving some alone time.  The body might respond to this values conflict by creating illness so that the alone time takes precedence over the friend time.

Do you see how this works?  Have you ever experienced this seeming contradiction?  What do you do about it?

Well, as in most things, when living a Conscious Life, the first thing to do is to hit the ‘pause button’ and really look at how time is being spent.  Again, not in how you wish it were but in how it is realistically being devoted to activities.  Keep a time diary, in 15 minute increments, for a few days.  No judgments here, just record, from a curious, non-judgmental and accepting viewpoint.  Do you need more alone time? You might see you are pulling out of social engagements, always having a good reason but maybe it is because you have said ‘yes’ to something that your unconscious mind wanted you to say ‘no’ to.  Are you avoiding being with someone that you think you like but that you seem to have lots of reasons to avoid?  Maybe that person really doesn’t resonate with you but you haven’t yet figured out how to shift things so that you don’t have to spend time with them.

The list can go on and on, but the important thing to realize is that, conscious or unconscious, your values, what really matters to you, is driving your life at some level.  Even if you frequently make choices that contradict the values of your unconscious mind, you will start to find the debilitating nature of illness or accident or drama pointing the way for you to find answers about what you truly value in your life.

Doesn’t it make sense to do the personal growth work so that you can become conscious about your values and the choices that you are making?  Make a commitment to start this work today!

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THIS WEEK’S MYSTIC MESSAGE from The Divine Feminine: “Is Yours a Values-Driven Schedule?”

November 29, 2010 — Rosemary

Dear Ones,

It is time. Time for you to get serious about what really matters to you in your life.  Are you being consistent?  Do you say, for example, that family is important to you but do you spend all your time working?  Do you say that your personal growth is important but sports are taking up so much time that you have no time left to work on yourself?  Do you think that taking care of yourself is selfish and so you focus on giving to others until you are totally depleted and have nothing left to give, to others or to yourself?

There are so many ways that your life can reflect choices that do not seem to be consistent with what you believe to be your highest values.  We would tell you that time is speeding up, in ways you probably wouldn’t understand yet, but that you don’t have time to ‘play dumb’ with the time that you have.  In any given day your needs must be met in a shorter period of time than you used to have to focus on yourself.  There are many demands on your time and the days actually do seem to be getting shorter, not just in daylight hours in the Northern Hemisphere!  So let us tell you why it is so important that you take time for yourself, every day.

The Universe and Mother Earth agreed that you were needed on Planet Earth at this very moment.  You agreed to incarnate, under the conditions you chose, to fulfill a mission on Earth during your lifetime.  You agreed with other beings that you would all be on Earth together and that you would assist each other in fulfilling those missions by being the person you agreed to be.

NOW is the moment.  TODAY is the day.  Do you feel that you are being the person you incarnated to be?

When you are focused on urgent and important activities you might allow yourself to get distracted from what really matters to your Inner Being.  Are you so busy that you are not being ‘you’?  Are you so distracted that you are feeling disconnected from your purpose?  These are the signals that you must take control of your choices on a daily basis and line up your energy with your values.

Have you ever examined your values?  Not just what you think you should write on a list that someone else might read, but we are talking here about your deep, essential core values, the ones that drive your life.  Your unconscious mind is operating based on a structure of values that might not match that list you would show to another.  It is a good thing to periodically examine the list that your unconscious mind adheres to.  It is also a good thing to think about what you would like your values to be and to examine your daily expenditures of time to see if they coincide.

Many people slide through their days taking care of urgent things but never getting to the items that feel important to them.  Are you one of these people?

And what value structure are you using to decide what is important?  Is it truly your own or have you adopted someone else’s list without questioning if this is in consonance with your own values?  This is easy to do, especially when you are in relationship with another person or people.  But it is essential that you pause and study how you are spending your time.  Are you giving an amount of time to what really matters that matches its value to you?

Think about these things as you go through your day today.  Who decided what is important for you today?  And how much time do you have for what is really important to you?  Take time for yourself, for apportioning your time according to your values is a sign that you are living a Conscious Life.

And so it is.

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MUSE-INGS: It’s always about the energy! by Rosemary Bredeson

November 23, 2010 — Rosemary

People seem to be growing more sensitive to energies and noticing the energy of a group can really be a protective measure.  I’ve noticed that some groups seem to shift energies from comfortable to dynamic to uncomfortable [for me] and sometimes it’s hard to pinpoint what is happening. Groups of 3 people can have a dynamic based on who wields more power in that trio while huge groups of 200 can have an amorphous energy that feels benign in the large group but contains many subgroups that have their own dynamic.  Have you seen this in the groups in which you participate?

When you are sensitive to the energies around you, you might find yourself gravitating toward those people and groups whose energy patterns are compatible with yours.  You might also find yourself moving away from groups, even those you have been a part of for a long time, when the energy feels as if it has shifted and no longer supports you or your personal growth. This is happening for a lot of people with churches and organizations that, at one time, served them but no longer do so.

People grow.  At least, Conscious People grow.  For those who are pursuing a life of evolutionary consciousness, many groups complete their purpose in a person’s life and that person must make a choice about whether to continue to associate with the group or to move on.  This does not always have to be painful or difficult or done in anger or sadness. This is just the path of an evolutionary person.  Just as you do not stay in grade school for your whole life, some associations complete their usefulness for your personal growth and you ‘graduate’ from them. The graceful way to leave these groups is to bless them on their own way while accepting that your path parts from theirs on the journey.

Have you ever seen someone stay a part of a group only to criticize and complain about that group? Doesn’t that make you wonder why they stay a member?  And what about families that get together for a holiday celebration but the individuals can’t wait for the so-called ‘celebration’ to be over so they can go to be with their friends?  At times, a group or even a family no longer supports one on one’s journey.  It might take a lot of energy to move out of a familiar group or to decide to spend less time with a family that makes one feel uncomfortable.  One alternative to leaving is to see if the group is willing to shift its energy into a space that feels more comfortable to the person considering leaving.

This can be a tall order but it can have dramatic results.  In some cases, just pointing out that old patterns have jumped up again and that perhaps they don’t belong in the 21st Century gathering can cause people to reconsider their behaviors.  Sometimes you can simply ask to be treated differently.  I’ve seen this work with people who tease and joke to the point of causing emotional pain to another but, when requested, stop acting that way.  It might be helpful to think ahead to a gathering where you anticipate feeling uncomfortable and ask yourself how you wish it were different.  Energize that different picture of the gathering, and believe that you can ask others to participate in the new vision.

And even if others don’t want to change the situation, it might be that gaining a perspective on what is going on helps YOU to change how you feel about the situation. Understanding the energy of a group and how it depends on the energy that you bring to it can give you new insights into your participation in that group.  Decide that you can shift or they can shift or you can drift away.

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THIS WEEK’S MYSTIC MESSAGE from The Divine Feminine: “What is the energy of your group?”

November 22, 2010 — Rosemary

Dear Ones,

When people gather together there is a new energetic created from the energies that each person brings with them.  Have you ever been in a group and felt one kind of energy and then moved to another group and felt another kind of energy?  This differential is created by the coming together of the individuals’ energies when the people interact.

Knowing that every group you interact with is creating an energy pattern by that interaction should stimulate your awareness of the energies that you participate in.  Examine how it feels when you are in the groups that you normally connect with.  How do YOU feel when in those groups?  Does it feel supportive? Calm? Energizing? Debilitating? Scary?  Sometimes one person can take control of the energy of a group and drag it into a direction over which the others have no control, and this doesn’t mean that that one person is necessarily the one who is doing all the talking.

Next time you are in a group, start to notice who is setting the energy pattern for the group and how does it feel for you.  Are you in a business meeting?  Notice who is setting the tone, the energy for the meeting.  Is it the speaker or is someone else in the room creating an energy?  What about a family gathering?  Next time your family is together, notice who sets the energy pattern for the family.  It might be the most silent of the members but everyone else is responding to their energy field.  Notice your social group the next time you are together.  What is the energy of this group, especially when they are relaxed?

Living a Conscious Life invites you to become aware of the energies around you at all times.  In examining the energies of groups, you must also look at your contribution to that group energy – are you participating?  What kind of energy are you putting into that group?  How are you feeling?  Are you holding back and letting others set the energy?  You are always at choice when it comes to the energies in a group.  You can put out the energy of the Light or you can hold all of your Light inside yourself.  You can join in with an energy that you might or might not resonate with or you can distance yourself from the group and the group’s energy.  In some cases, a group dynamic can shift with time and, while at one time you felt that you did resonate with the group energy, it has drifted away from an energy that you feel is compatible with yours.  This indicates that it is time for you to reconsider whether or not you wish to remain a part of that group.

Be proactive about examining the groups to which you belong.  Pay attention to the energies of the groups.  Many groups are shifting their energies at this time and you must stay conscious of the shifts if you are to get the most support from the groups of which you are a participant.  Family dynamics can change over time, too.  Be aware of the dynamics in your own family, or your extended or adopted families, and examine the energies as they exist in the present moment, not influenced by what has happened in the past.  Do you notice that people in the family seem to be holding onto patterns from the past without allowing themselves or others to grow beyond those old patterns?  Are people continuing to bring up events from the distant past so that those old energies become reignited in the present?  This can be a pattern in families, particularly those that don’t get together often and the holidays can often bring up old energies that have not been completely dealt with by the parties.

Make sure that you are living fully present to the moment.  Allow the past to be in the past.  Allow those events that have not yet taken place to exist outside the present moment and interact with others with the energies of the Now.  Pay attention to how you perceive the energies of any group that you find yourself in.  Ask yourself if this energy supports your personal growth, and if the answer is ‘no’ then remove yourself from the group, even if the group numbers only 2 people.  Protect your own energetic space.

And so it is.

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MUSE-INGS: “Be the Change” by Rosemary Bredeson

November 16, 2010 — Rosemary

I wonder if the recent earthquakes and volcano eruptions are symbolic of the changes we can be expecting among human societies soon?  I, for one, hope to learn to grow and change without cataclysm!

But how many of us are really open to change?  Do we embrace it or do we run from it?

I believe that change is a good thing when it derives from expanded awareness, more intellectual examination of an idea, a consciousness that has evolved.  But the kind of change that follows a rush into fear or a determination to shut down a part of the self, especially if that part is the intellectual, thinking part, is a kind of change that does not advance humanity in its consciousness evolution.  When we are in a state of fear we have fewer resources with which to work than when we are in a more relaxed state of awareness.  And when we choose to stay in fear we give away our power to those who would take it from us.

This is the dynamic that bullies bank their efforts on.  Make us fearful and they can take what they want from us.  Big bullies on big playing stages can convince us to give up a great deal of our personal power if they can make us fearful enough.  The only way to counteract this energy is to stay in our own power, refuse to cower in fear, and retain a connection to our thinking self.

Have you ever seen someone in fear who seems to lose their intellectual abilities and be able only to focus on that which they fear?  I watched our dog, Tara, play with a mouse today and the mouse finally stayed cornered and shivering, essentially giving up in fear, when I blocked its path.  [Unfortunately, Tara was still in the corner the mouse had left, still trying to dig it out – hadn’t noticed the mouse was gone.  Obviously we need to get a cat!]  But the mouse probably could have gotten away if it hadn’t been intimidated by a small Lhasa Apso and a large human being.

We sometimes do the same thing that mouse did – stand in a corner, shivering and cowering in fear – when if we stepped up and figured out a solution we could get ourselves out of that corner.  This mouse scurried right by the dog who was continuing to dig for it in the other corner of the room.  Maybe all we need to do is to face our fears and then get in touch with our inner power to overcome those fears.

No one can take away your inner power unless you give it to them.  Remember that your strength does not derive from a gift from others.  Your strength resides in you and all you need to do is to remember that it is there.  When changes come, look inside yourself to see how you can best benefit from those changes.  Do not be in fear of change.  Use the energy of change to become more empowered.  You can change that which no longer serves you and strengthen your resolve in those areas that you do not wish to change.

You can decide what to do with change energy.  Decide to expand your awareness and advance the evolution of human consciousness.  Join the group or groups that support you in this.

As Gandhi said, “Be the change you wish to see in the world.”

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THIS WEEK’S MYSTIC MESSAGE from The Divine Feminine: Find that place of peace within!

November 8, 2010 — Rosemary

Dear Ones,

When there is strife in a culture then people lose their way to the Light.  Dealing with friction takes so much energy from a population that many forget how to be at peace within themselves.  We hope you learn that finding a place of peace within your inner being is the only way to reduce strife and friction in the world around you.

When is the last time that you felt fully at peace?  Do you remember how to arrive at that place whenever you wish?  If you do not know how to find a place of peace within you then you must first practice conscious breathing.  Start by deciding to breathe deeply.  Yes, it is the decision that starts the process.  Once you have made this decision you must focus all your attention on your breath.  Follow the in-breath down into the depths of your body.  Allow the out-breath to take with it any tension from your body.  Begin this process with a focus on relaxing your body before you try to still the mind and relax your mental processes, for it is by following your breath that you will reach a point where your thoughts can begin to release and ease.

After you have relaxed into your breathing you can create a visualization to help you find a place of inner peace.  If you do not usually see pictures when you do a process like visualization, you might try to create a feeling or a sound or some kind of sensory experience of a place that feels peaceful within you.  Once you have created a place to go to in your mind where you feel totally at peace, then you can return here whenever you are caught up in the feelings of friction that might surround you.

Sometimes it is just by knowing that you have an alternative to the world around you, even if it is created in your imagination, that can give you confidence in your ability to withstand the energies that bombard you each day.  For you must understand that you ARE being bombarded by all sorts of energies every day.  We are not speaking here just of the energies in the airwaves around you, although there can be ill effects to some sensitives from the electromagnetic energies that permeate the atmosphere.  We are also saying that each individual that you encounter in a given day is giving off an energy or energies, some of which are not in consonance with your vibrational level. When you are living a Conscious Life, you must become aware of your energy situation at all times.

Being conscious of your energy situation requires that you understand that everything is energy – your body, your chair, your computer, your thoughts.  Everything you touch in a day has an energy and you leave your imprint on that item as it leaves an energy imprint on you.  Every person with whom you come into contact is also creating/receiving an energy imprint in that interaction.  Adding this to the thoughts that you generate in a day shows how much energy is actually being inserted into your personal space.  When you listen to disturbing news or have a painful interaction with another person, or when you have a delightful exchange with someone you love, you are shifting your energy signature in the world to reflect that interaction.  Become conscious of this energy situation so that you can learn to clear your own energy and disconnect from someone else’s.  In this way you can avoid becoming a part of the strife or friction around you.

Learn techniques to help you with this.  If you need help, work with someone who understands these energy situations.   Go often to the place inside you where you can feel peace so that you can radiate that energy around you.

And remember to breathe!

And so it is.

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MUSE-INGS: Decide to Believe or Not – It’s up to You by Rosemary Bredeson

November 2, 2010 — Rosemary

How many times do we have to hear that we create our own reality with our thoughts and beliefs?  Isn’t this message getting a bit tired?

Unfortunately, we must continue to hear this over and over again because there is always another level to the work we must do to gain control over our thoughts.

Have you been working with this concept for a while?  I have.  I learned many years ago that the mind/body connection is very strong.  I had no idea that this was so until I examined some ways in which my mind was controlling my body – in an unconscious way – to my detriment.  I fixed that problem and became a believer in the power of the mind.

There are many books out there that talk about the power of the mind, e.g., Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill, a classic.  But the place where we must really begin is to understand that we CHOOSE whether or not to attach our energy to a passing thought.  Sometimes it’s easier to feel that what we think is the result of what is going on in our little world but the truth is that the cycle begins with our thoughts, beliefs and expectations.  We human are learning beings and we are constantly seeking opportunities to learn our lessons.  Whatever we are thinking is bringing the next lesson to us.  If we allow ourselves to attach to negative thoughts we stay stuck and often miss an opportunity to learn a lesson while we stay in the ‘woe is me’ energy.  People who lead fulfilling lives have learned that ‘woe is me’ energy does not propel them forward in their personal growth nor do the problems get solved with that energy.

Now I am not saying that a reaction to a particular situation might not come up as ‘woe is me’ but it is attaching to that thought, staying with that energy, that can paralyze us and keep us from forward progress.  What to do instead?  Recognize how powerful we are and catch the moment before we attach to that thought.  Think instead, ‘I am feeling put-upon and disturbed but I know that I have resources I can tap into to find a solution, or set of solutions, to this problem.’  Keep focused on moving energy THROUGH a situation rather than attaching and getting stuck IN a situation.

The beliefs of generations before us are instilled in us as if they are the Truth with a capital ‘T’ about the world around us and these can be trickier to dislodge because we have to unearth them as influential energies.  We don’t spend much time analyzing why gravity works but we believe that if we drop something it will fall to the ground.  Generational beliefs operate much as gravity does in our lives, but we must learn to analyze the source of those beliefs and choose to embrace or discard them from a conscious position.  Sometimes this requires the assistance of a counselor who can ferret out with us/for us where these beliefs are functioning in our lives.  The effect can be insidious but, once identified, can be dealt with very efficiently.

Understand your role in your reality.  Think empowering thoughts.  Work to clear limiting beliefs.  Identify the source of what you believe and make a conscious choice whether to continue believing that.  THEN you will be living a Conscious Life and your reality will coincide with what you desire it to be!

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THIS WEEK’S MYSTIC MESSAGE from The Divine Feminine: What is Your Current Reality?

November 1, 2010 — Rosemary

Dear Ones,

We are poised to help you with the changes that you need to make in the coming days.  We wish to help you see what the changes are that you must make if you are to grow as a human community.  Are you ready to make that growth happen?

First we would have you consider what your reality is.  Are you stuck in beliefs that were formed by others before you or are you fully present to the current moment?  Your reality is created in every moment depending on what you believe about that moment.  Do you believe you are incompetent?  You will be incompetent in this moment.  Do you believe that the world is not supportive of you?  You will feel that you are not being supported in this moment.  Do you believe that other people wish to help you?  You will receive help.  Do you believe that the Universe is a benevolent place?  You will be the recipient of that benevolence.

Consider what you believe and shift your beliefs to coincide with your desires for the reality in which you exist today.  This is Step 1 in Conscious Living, back to the basics of creating consciously your own reality.

Next, examine your thoughts in every moment.  Are you empowering yourself with those thoughts or are you accepting the role of victim?  Are you understanding your relationship to the Universe as a whole or are you thinking that you are disconnected and alone?  To live a Conscious Life you must become aware of your thoughts.  Observe yourself thinking those thoughts.  This distance from yourself as the thinker allows you to perceive the unreality and false aspects of some of those thoughts.  Allow yourself the freedom to examine every thought you have in a given day.  What feeling does that thought generate?  What call to action is inherent in that thought?  Does it make you want to connect with others or to isolate yourself from the community?  Do you understand that there are thoughts that can have beneficial effects on your body but there are also thoughts that cause harm to your physical self?

Learn how much you can control your thoughts.  Just because many thoughts arise unbidden in your mind does not mean that you cannot control those thoughts.  It is not the rising up of the thought that creates discomfort in you – it is your attachment to that thought, your energizing of thoughts that do not expand you, that causes you distress.  Take charge of your thoughts.  Learn to observe and assess them before you embrace them.

This may take some practice for you but you will lead a more fulfilling life when you are not controlled by thoughts that cause you to contract rather than to expand.

Planet Earth has welcomed to her surface billions of people at this time who agreed to co-create the present day reality.  If you feel yourself disconnected from Mother Earth and/or from the others who inhabit her realm today, then you are stepping into a false existence that is not the true reality of 21st Century Life on the Planet.  Be responsible for your node in the network of the human community on Earth.  Own your role.  Participate fully in your own Life for you owe it to all other humans.

And you start this by taking charge of your thoughts and beliefs, something fully within your power to do today!

And so it is.

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THIS WEEK’S MYSTIC MESSAGE from The Divine Feminine: You can’t DO happy – you have to BE happy!

October 25, 2010 — Rosemary

Dear Ones,

Happiness comes from BEING happy, not from DOING happy.  And happiness comes from a decision to be happy inside yourself.

So many people are seeking happiness but focusing all their attention on what’s wrong with their lives and with the world around them.  Too many look at what is not right, according to their definition of ‘right,’ and decide that they are not happy with the situation.  And others feel so overwhelmed with life that they cannot even imagine feeling happy.

We want you to stop searching for happiness and decide that you’ve already found it.

What can you find right now, in this moment, to feel happy about?  If you can’t find anything when you look around at your life then picture something.  Find something to smile about.  Find one thing in this present moment that you can feel happy about.

Now, expand that feeling.  Happiness isn’t about having everything you want in your life and it isn’t about everything being ‘just so’ as you think is right.  So give up that aspect of your search.  Expand the feeling of one thing that you can think of to be happy about.  Extend that feeling around you.  Put your arms out and spin around slowly sending ‘happy energy’ into the room you’re in.  Just pretend you can fill it up with happy laughter.

And then laugh at yourself.

You know, human beings are pretty funny creatures.  Some people have hair growing in one place where they don’t want it but can’t grow it the way they want it elsewhere.  Some people have bodies they don’t like.  Some folks have crooked smiles that they share too seldom because they’re embarrassed that they don’t look perfect.  What is this all about?

People think of themselves as the physical being they see in the mirror.  They then think that everyone else sees them only as that physical being.  We would tell you that you are so much more than that physical body.  Those who really see you as a person see the energy being that you are who is capable of great love and great compassion.  Serious people see you as the Light that shines out of your eyes and the heart that you spread to those around you.  People who think deeply remember the time you helped them or comforted them or gave them sage advice.  YOU are the only one who sees yourself as the body that is reflected back in the mirror.  Others see you as so much more.  Are you willing to see yourself as others see you?

Happiness is like body image.  You look at the surface of your life and decide that you don’t feel happy about it.  But is that what your Life really is – what you see on the surface?  Of course not!  Your Life is the network of friends and family that you have created.  Your Life holds all the mystery of the unfolding possibilities that lie in front of you.  Your history is just that – history – that has contributed to the person you are in this present moment, but that history is not WHO you are NOW.

Focus on the deeper aspects of Life today.  Give yourself some breathing room.  Notice that other people don’t care if a hair is out of place and they won’t remember tomorrow what you’re wearing on your feet today, even if you agonized this morning over which pair of shoes you wanted to wear!  Be yourself for you are good enough just as you are.  You are a perfect person in this moment.  And there is happiness available to you if you pause and allow yourself to experience it.

Be fully present in this moment and find something to be happy about, even if it’s just that you are wearing matching shoes!

And so it is.

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MUSE-INGS: “Let’s Avoid Another Dark Age” by Rosemary Bredeson

October 19, 2010 — Rosemary

A Dark Age?  That’s an interesting thought.  And apathy would be the cause?

‘Hatred’ seems like such a strong word but it does seem as though a lot of people are busy hating other people.  Did you know that using the word ‘hate’ affects your liver?  Imagine how your liver would feel if you went around focusing your attention on hating others.  Not good.

So how do we make sure we are focused on the energy of the Light, on Love?  Do we have to go back to the days of flowers in our hair and bring back the flower children of the 60s?  OK, so some of us wouldn’t have to dip back too far in our own lives to find those children of the 60s, but is that what we’re being called to do?

I don’t think so.  I believe that within each of us there is Light.  Each heart wants to Love.  Each mind wants to explore, to delve into ideas, to be creative.  Each spirit wants to grow.  So if that is what is inside every human being, how do we get distracted?  By that something that is just beyond our reach, the next thing that we can reach for.  For some, it’s something tangible.  For others, it’s more ephemeral, but there’s something outside our reach that is drawing us even if we’re not sure what ‘it’ is.

And so we become focused on acquiring and forget to be present in the current moment.  We forget that human beings are connected to each other just by sharing the same air on the same planet at the same moment in history.  We forget that the energy of Love allows us to solve problems from a place where all possibilities exist, a place of expansion.  Have you experienced those moments of connection, of expansion, when you listen to a news story?  For example, some miners were trapped in a Chilean mine for 2 months and the whole world focused attention on their safety, on the families that stood waiting for them to be rescued.  People didn’t think about differences but about how they would feel if it were their loved one trapped in that mine.  The rescue was watched by millions around the world and cheered by all.  What an amazing thing that the whole world can look at that situation and bring people to a sense of connectedness with people who are different but who are just people, just like people everywhere.  THIS is what the power of the Light can manifest.  This is the power of Universal Love.

Do you ever find yourself saying, “I hate [whatever, whoever]?”   Do you think you can become conscious of your use of the word ‘hate’ and change it?  Instead of “I hate mushrooms” maybe you could say, “I prefer not to eat mushrooms.”  After all, what did a mushroom ever do to you?  Or, “I hate it when people are late for appointments” could become “I wish people were on time but, if they’re late, I always carry something to do, like make notes or read a book.”

Catch yourself energizing hatred in the world.  Are there groups of people that you don’t Love?  Do you really need to ‘hate’ them?  Are there folks that you disagree with?  Do you really need to ‘hate’ them?  As a society, we used to be able to ‘agree to disagree.’  Let’s return to that energy and allow others to believe differently without invoking the energy of ‘hate’ around the situation.  We don’t have to love what someone is saying but we can love that spark of Light that we know is inside them.

If we keep our thoughts and energy focused on Light, there won’t have to be another Dark Age!

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