MUSE-INGS: Choose Beauty

August 22, 2012 — Rosemary

Do you judge yourself to be beautiful or not?

And why do we need to judge ourselves?

It’s funny, isn’t it?, that we allow the outside world to tell us what is beautiful and we can’t ever measure up to it. Even the fashion models that society says are beautiful claim THEY aren’t that beautiful if they are not manipulated by airbrushes and PhotoShop to look as they do in the ads.

I wonder when we stopped looking for beauty within ourselves and projected the search into the mirror. Have people always defined beauty this way?

When my husband and I took a vacation to Mexico several years ago, we stayed at a European resort where there was only one other American family. The rest of the guests were from Europe where their definition of beauty seemed to come from someplace other than the fashion magazines from the US. On the beaches we saw women of all ages enjoying the sunshine with their families at complete ease with their bodies, no matter what their age or dress size was! What a concept! We Americans are so uptight about how we look that we forget to be comfortable in our own skin.

I decided then that beauty is an inside job. Of course I had always heard about not judging people on their looks and I did look at the person inside. But could I apply that to myself? Could I see myself as beautiful no matter what the mirror said? And how could I project a beautiful face if I was worried about how I looked?

Now we are being guided to allow the energy of acceptance and love to decide how our face projects beauty.

Practice looking in a mirror and changing your thoughts then noticing how your face reflects those thoughts. If you think, as you go through your day, about what your face is telling the world about how you feel, you might start making different choices about hanging on to feelings that are not representing the beauty you wish to present outwardly.

Think about how we smile and coo at a cute, innocent little baby. Then think how pinched we get when we are ticked off at a circumstance or another person. Your face is reflecting this energy.

Now think about how the Dalai Lama is always smiling. He has a lot to be angry about, but he chooses happiness.

Our qigong instructor teaches about the ‘feeling state of the Divine.’ She has great access to this state and is always chuckling, like the Dalai Lama. They know something about beauty!

Commit to being beautiful today! Think thoughts of love and acceptance. Start with loving and accepting yourself. Then stay in that energy as much as you can. If you feel your face pinching up, look for the peace and love that will transform you. If you feel yourself sitting with anger or hatred, look for the energies that will put a smile on your face.

You are always at choice when it comes to which feelings you will hang onto and which you will let go of. Make the choice to BE BEAUTY in the world!

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MYSTIC MESSAGE from The Divine Feminine: Are You an Explorer?

March 20, 2012 — Rosemary

Dear Ones,

Reach out. There are so many people on Planet Earth who are waiting for you to show up to be a partner to them in their life. You must reach out to them.

If you are asking how to do this then you are probably not yet playing in the ‘big playground of Earth.’ You must learn to reach out to others who are not in your normal or everyday life circumstances. Where do you spend your time? Are you reaching beyond the borders of your small world into the greater world outside? If not, then this is the time to do so.

For some of you, this means reaching outside your own city to visit nearby towns. For others, it is nearby or distant countries or traveling around the world. For some, it might be to reach out through the 21st Century airwaves to people around the world who are connected through cyberspace. And for some of you it is the small step with big impact – reach out from your home or office to connect to others who live not very far from you.

When humanity calls you to expand your consciousness it does not mean just to meditate and to think. It also means to reach out beyond the border of your own energy field to connect to other people who need to see your facial expressions, to shake your hand or give you a hug, to feel the energy of your smile and your intelligence as they interact with you. And there is also a gift to you in creating these interactions, for you will receive the benefit of their energy, their smile, their intelligence.

Too often we see people choosing to stay in their insular circles, allowing into their space only those who think the same way, believe the same things, view the world through the same lens. But your personal growth requires that you constantly try on new ideas, accepting or rejecting them on their own merits, but exploring them for how they can help you on your journey to higher consciousness. If you consistently isolate yourself from perspectives that differ from yours you will not be stimulated to grow.

Consider the oyster. If a grain of sand were never introduced into the oyster to become the irritant around which it forms a protective shield, there would never be a pearl to give to the human who enjoys it.

Ideas that can be discussed and explored without judgment or vitriol allow you to become the oyster creating the pearl of wisdom. Listen for the bit of truth in an irritating statement from someone else. Decide consciously if there is any merit or if you must reject the entire idea because it does not resonate with you or it is based on misinformation. Examine your own beliefs – do they need to be changed, updated, modified for today’s reality?

This, Dear One, is the life of the Spiritual Explorer. Others around you are also exploring, some more elegantly than others. Some like to hear their own ideas repeated and repeated without examination, merely accepted as whole fact, and those people do not like to have evidence presented that might contradict their idea or cause them to re-examine what they believe. Conversing with these people is like putting the grain of sand on the outside of the oyster and waiting for the pearl to appear. (It won’t.)

But there are many others around you who would welcome the opportunity to have honest discussions that can be explorations of ideas so that they can expand their awareness, their understanding and their consciousness. You must learn who these are and engage.

You must, also, learn how to have discussions without judgment and without anger, attack or belittling. Allow others to have opinions but be strong in your values so that you can assess what you are exploring from a point of higher consciousness.

You will benefit from stepping out of your normal space and becoming an explorer.

And so it is.

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THIS WEEK’S MYSTIC MESSAGE from The Divine Feminine: “How to have a good day – smile for no reason!”

March 14, 2011 — Rosemary

Dear Ones,

We are ready to give you a little nudge to move you in the direction of Conscious Living.  How conscious do you feel you are these days?  Are there blind spots in your focus?  Are you extending your consciousness into all areas of your life or are you only being aware in certain circumstances?

Now is not the time to play the ostrich.  You cannot bury your head in the sand and expect to live fully on Planet Earth at this time.  The Mother is asking you, begging you to participate.

Every day invites you to recommit to living a Conscious Life.  Every morning, before your feet even hit the floor, start the energy of gratitude flowing in your heart.  Be grateful that your mind is intact and that you are opening your eyes.  Think of something, no matter how small or large, that you can use to really ramp up the gratitude in your heart.  Focus on that energy for a few minutes.  Then watch it grow until it encompasses you and the coming day.

Only then do you open your eyes, so that you see through the energy of gratitude when you look at every event and situation in your day.  Create a smiling face, whether you feel like smiling or not, because that energy will magnetically attract smiles to you.  Think of something that you can do for others today and allow that energy of giving to flow through and in you.  Think of someone you love and tell them so as soon as you are able.

Then put your feet on the floor.  If you have ramped up your energy like this before you even get out of bed then you will have a good day.  Notice that we didn’t say that everything will go your way, because that is not the definition of a ‘good day.’  But no matter what happens, if you have gratitude and generosity flowing in your heart on any given day, then there is nothing that can be thrown at you that you cannot handle, that you cannot learn from.

Try smiling for no reason.  Smile at the person pumping gas next to you.  Smile at that grumpy person in the store.  Smile at the person that you work with who seems to always be in a bad mood.  Just smile.  Watch how magnetic that smile can be.

Start the day this way and commit to yourself that you are going to be conscious throughout the day of your thoughts and actions.  Are you choosing to act from your authentic self?  Are you being conscious of your choices?

Start the day with a smile of gratitude and then be aware of every choice throughout the day.  You’ll go to bed with a smile on your face that night!

And so it is.

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MUSE-INGS: Smile and the World Smiles with You

October 26, 2010 — Rosemary

Seems we’re always getting messages about being happy.  Why are so many people feeling unhappy if it’s just a decision that we make?

Maybe the word ‘just’ holds the clue in the sentence above.

Making a decision to be happy seems counter-intuitive to what our society tries to make us believe.  Think of advertising.  ‘We’ll be happy if we just _________’ – fill in this blank with the product being advertised.  Or we convince ourselves that there’s just one more thing to acquire, one more person we need in our life, one more achievement we must accomplish, and THEN we’ll be happy.  This keeps ‘happy’ just outside our reach, because there’s always one more product, perfect person or achievement before we can REALLY feel happy.

What if we all, collectively, made a decision that we are going to feel happy RIGHT NOW, in THIS moment, with whatever we have, whoever is in our life, and whatever we’ve done so far?  Think about the energy involved in making that collective decision!  Imagine if we all looked around at each other and smiled from that place of a decision to be happy!  Wouldn’t that be a great feeling?

OK, so this sounds impossible, but is it, really?  I think about what it felt like when almost 200 people created a healing chi field of energy in Colorado Springs and then listened to the qigong master telling us to ‘feel the inner smile.’  We were only standing in a hotel ballroom with our eyes closed, but happiness was there in that moment.  And it felt good!

Maybe it is too much to expect that every single moment will feel like a happy moment but every time we become conscious of the present moment we can feel happy about something in that moment.  I remember my parents standing in the middle of Wilmett Road watching our burning house.  It seemed like such a huge tragedy, and I was thinking of my melting prom dress in my bedroom.  But Mom & Dad laughed about how the neighbors were bringing him martinis and her iced tea!  They kept saying, ‘Everything will be okay.  Things always work out for the best.’   How could anyone look at a burning house and find anything to laugh about?  Yet my parents laughed about iced tea and martinis!

There is always something around to make you smile.  If you are willing to open your eyes until you find it, you can have a glimmer of a smile form on your face.  Then share that smile.

One surefire way to feel happy is to help someone else.  When you move your focus from what’s wrong with/miserable in your own life and instead focus on helping someone else, you distance yourself from the energy of lack and want and connect yourself with the energy of giving.  There is a higher vibration in the energy of giving to others and this will ‘feel’ better.

The Law of Attraction says that we attract what we focus our attention and our thoughts on.  It’s pretty clear that if you are focusing on what you lack, what is not working in your life, then that’s the energy that you are sending out into the Universe.  When you shift your thoughts and attention to what makes you feel happy, you will attract more of that into your life.  It’s really very simple, even if it is not so easy.

So make a decision today to send out the energy of happiness.  Share your smiles.  Every time you catch yourself thinking about what makes you unhappy, shift your focus.  Even if you have to smile first and shift your thoughts afterward, it’s worth a try, isn’t it?

I’ll hold the intention that you will have happiness inside you today so that you can smile as you read this!  Happy smiles to you!

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THIS WEEK’S MYSTIC MESSAGE from The Divine Feminine: Practice playing the “At least…” game!

September 27, 2010 — Rosemary

Dear Ones,

Today is the day that you can start a new life.  Every day is one in which you can begin anew.  Whatever was bothering you yesterday is in the past – make new choices today.

Do you feel that way when you wake up in the morning?  If you start your day focused on what is wrong with your life or what you don’t have, then you are gathering in the stale energy of yesterday and coloring your day with that staleness.  Train yourself to have as a first thought each morning that you have much to be grateful for in your life.  Think of something that makes you smile.  Look at your new day through the lens of gratitude that you woke up!

Too many people are stuck in the ruts of their own making, lamenting the fact that life is so hard for them.  They are choosing to be victims when there is no success that blossoms out of victimhood.  If this describes how you have been in the past, make a decision to choose differently tomorrow when you wake up.  You do not have to be the victim of the circumstances of your life, but you do have to be conscious that you are constantly making choices.  If you feel put upon or filled with suffering then you are missing what is good around you and in you.  Find one thing, that’s all it takes.  Find one thing for which you can be grateful.  It can be as simple as a friend or family member who loves you.  It can be a pet’s presence in your home.  It can be that you have food to eat for breakfast.  Find that one thing, and your whole day will be colored with The Light.

Model this behavior for others.  Find something positive no matter what is going on around you.  Start playing the ‘At least…’ game.  What can you find to say to contrast doom and gloom and victimhood when it feels as if you are surrounded by it?  ‘At least the sun came up this morning.’  ‘At least both of my feet are working as I step out of bed.’  ‘At least we’ll have a great story to tell our friends after this is all over.’

Teach your children the ‘At least…’ game.  Make it fun.  Play this with your friends.  See what you can find to say ‘At least…’ about.  This creates an amazing energy of looking for something good to be grateful for.  And Like Attracts Like.  If you put some energy into gratitude, you will attract more things to be grateful for.  If you can find something positive you will energize and attract more positive things into your life.

It’s never too late to change your ways.  Start with how you think about your day from the first moment you are awake.  Go to bed with gratitude for the day just ending and look forward to waking up to positive thoughts in the morning.  The more you practice this, the more you will want to live your life this way.  When you greet people with the smile on your face that this positive thinking will produce, you will find that they respond positively to you.  If they are grumpy then acknowledge that maybe they are having a bad day and allow them the space to be where they are.  That kind of response is not about you.  Be generous enough to give people their own energies, their own feelings.  But be sure that you do now allow yourself to be dragged into grumpiness because someone around you is having a bad day.  Maintain your positivity.

Keep a Positivity Journal.  Record positive thoughts – no complaints allowed!  You might have heard of a Gratitude Journal.  This goes beyond gratitude but certainly feeling gratitude is positive!  Use this journal when you are feeling low to boost your thoughts back into the higher vibration of positivity.  Don’t forget to be lighthearted – sometimes all it takes is a small chuckle and you can dispel negativity.  Try this for this week, and see how you feel after a week of being Positive!

And so it is.

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MUSE-INGS: Choose your focus – and laugh?

August 3, 2010 — Rosemary

Focus on the beauty?  Not so easy to do when things are looking bleak or when our attention takes us down a rabbit-hole into the space where everything is ugly.

But have you ever noticed how, when you DO focus on something besides ugliness, you can actually feel uplifted?  Have you ever been really down and had a little child come up and give you a hug?  There is true beauty in that hug, even if it’s full of mud or comes with a bouquet of weeds.  Or have you been feeling sorry for yourself, feeling lonely, and had a friend call out of the blue and invite you out?

We really can control our thoughts when we become aware of our power over them.  We all have knee-jerk reactions to situations or problems or even joy.  Becoming Aware [with a capital ‘A’] means learning to assess those knee-jerk reactions and making a conscious decision about how to act next.  A thought does not have to hold us in its grip without letting go if we choose not to allow it.

Sometimes thoughts do come unbidden into our consciousness but the important thing to learn is to process the thought and ask:

What is this?
Is this true for me now?
Is it in my highest good to hold onto this thought at this time?

Unbidden thoughts often stem from our insecurities and they masquerade as the reality of the moment but we must ask ourselves if they are actually true in that moment.  We can worry all we want about the next tornado or earthquake or hurricane but if the sun is shining now isn’t that what is real?  Isn’t that where we can find the beauty?  We can always worry about something that might happen but if it is not true in this moment then there is something else to look at, to think about, something else on which to focus our attention.

Look around you today and see if you are focusing on the thoughts that are uplifting or if you are attaching to those thoughts that bring you down, that distract you from the beauty of the day.  Even if you are wrestling with a problem today, can you find something of beauty to think of for a moment?  Scientists are now saying that smiling can make us feel happy – it’s not just the other way around!  Try looking in the mirror when you are focusing on problems and force yourself to smile.  I guarantee that you will either laugh at the way you look when you are worrying and/or laugh at the way you look when you force a smile.  That single laugh will shift your body’s energy and allow the Light to come through in that moment.

That is an important shift, for allowing the Light to shine also brings with it resources that better equip you to find a solution to your problem.  You are more resourceful with the Light in you than when you shroud yourself in darkness.

So go ahead and let your thoughts drift across the sky of your mind while you choose which ones on which to focus your attention.  And if you need help, remember to look in the mirror and laugh a beautiful laugh!

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