MUSE-INGS: “Make sure you are moving TOWARD something!”

April 12, 2011 — Rosemary

We are always avoiding pain but does that give us enough impetus to keep going after the danger or pain is over?  I think of the wealthy people who are motivated by avoiding poverty.  The farther from poverty they get the less motivated they can become to make money and they lose it/go bankrupt.  But then they become motivated to make money again to avoid poverty so they make lots more money.  This is a cycle with people who are motivated to move away from the pain of poverty.

When we follow a pattern of avoiding pain we must be careful to shift our gears to moving toward something instead of always moving away from pain.  Notice that the ‘moving away from’ energy diminishes the farther one gets from pain.  But what takes over?  Where is the motivation after the pain is no longer a problem?

The person who would live a Conscious Life knows what they are moving toward.  There is a desire to expand awareness, to grow in Consciousness, that keeps one motivated to learn more, to experience more, to continue to grow.  There has to be an attachment to that movement forward to carry the person into further growth.  It cannot be only about avoiding pain.

Too many people have been struggling in their lives to ‘keep up with the Joneses’ and so they have struggled to maintain a lifestyle that is not in alignment with their income or life purpose.  These people have been trying to avoid a negative comparison with someone else.  Or they have believed that they are entitled to have whatever their neighbor has and they want to avoid embarrassment.  But living in a way that is based on avoiding the pain of embarrassment does not move one into higher consciousness.  This choice does not expand consciousness or awareness.  It is actually a limiting energy because it is based on a comparison with someone else and a desire to avoid coming up short.

What is your motivation in your daily life?  Are you constantly taking action to avoid pain or do you move toward pleasure?  Might there be a balance that is needed in your life?

Looking at what motivates you can give you some real insights into your own value structure.  If you are constantly avoiding pain without deciding what you are moving toward then examine your value structures to determine what really matters to you and what it is that you desire to bring into your life.

You will not be living your life to the fullest if all you do is make choices to avoid the next pain!

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THIS WEEK’S MYSTIC MESSAGE from The Divine Feminine: “Pleasure and Pain. Pain and Pleasure.”

April 11, 2011 — Rosemary

Dear Ones,

Pleasure and Pain.  Pain and Pleasure.

These are the two main motivators.  People are motivated to move toward Pleasure and to avoid Pain.

Think about this in your relationships, in business and in life.  Are you offering the other person pleasure in their interaction with you?  Are you offering them respite from their pain?  Or are you bringing something else to the relationship?  Are you increasing their pain or diminishing or blocking their pleasure?  Likewise, what are they bringing to you in the relationship?

Lab animals are studied in psychology laboratories because it is so easy to introduce pleasure and/or pain into their environments.  But human beings are not lab animals.  There are huge differences, the main one being that humans have more control over their environments than lab animals have.

So humans can choose to avoid pain or to seek pleasure.  And these choices can be made consciously or unconsciously.  One doesn’t have to think too hard or too long before removing one’s hand from a hot stove.  But in other situations there can be nuances and rationalizations and multiple sources of conflicting information that make choosing a direction or a next step more difficult.

In some abusive relationships a person may not be willing to assess the situation in the present and may be influenced by past energies, experiences or even past lives.  In some cases, especially in business relationships, abuse can take a very subtle form of discounting, ignoring, dismissing.

Every individual deserves to be treated as a valuable person with ideas to contribute, thoughts that are worth considering, feelings that are to be included, whether the relationship is business or personal.  Every person deserves to be in relationships that do not bring pain to them.

We acknowledge that sometimes there is disappointment or discomfort in a relationship that is growing/evolving, but that relationship should not be the direct source of pain, such as mental, emotional or physical abuse.

And so individuals who would live a Conscious Life must be looking at what is motivating them to take the next step or to avoid taking a step.  Is that step being taken to avoid some pain?  Or is it being taken to move toward some pleasure?  And if the answer is to avoid pain, then there must be some positive motivating force, some pleasure, to move toward after one has accomplished the avoidance of the pain.

Ask yourself which is your biggest motivator and then use that information to set up ‘motivating milestones’ for yourself.  Have you gotten stuck somewhere in your life?  Are you wishing you could move forward but, for some reason, are not able to?  Are you confused about which direction to take and the confusion is paralyzing you?

Your usual motivators may not be strong enough to get you moving from where you currently are.  Get help identifying what energy is holding you back.  Clear up the blocks.  Gain clarity about the direction you really wish to pursue.

And THEN get motivated and get going!

And so it is.

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MUSE-INGS: ‘Mirror, Mirror, on the wall…’ by Rosemary Bredeson

April 5, 2011 — Rosemary

How many times have we been the mirrors for the projections of others?  And how many times have we projected our stuff onto someone else?

These are not the pretty things we like to ponder but there are the gems of some real growth in considering these questions.

When you are told that your issues are about something inside you rather than about the other person, how do you react?  Do you first go into disbelief and then justification?  ‘What do you mean it’s not about them?  They’re being ridiculous, an idiot, unkind, outrageous, ________[fill in the blank]!’  Of course we want it to be about them because it is much easier to consider ourselves to be victims than to own responsibility for what is happening in a relationship.

Let me say here that I am not talking about abuse.  This is never acceptable.  But when you feel that you are the victim of abuse you must ask yourself what you are to learn and sometimes the answer is that you must remove yourself from the relationship.  When you make the abuse about either your own inadequacy, such as creating an excuse for why you might have deserved the treatment you received, or when you make the abuse about the other person and you don’t take action except to get angry or fearful, then you have given away your power to an abusive relationship and you are not owning your opportunity for personal growth.

In every relationship there are many opportunities for growth but we tend to want to romanticize our romantic relationships or make family relationships about what happened in the past.  Sometimes in friendships we have expectations that are not realistic or, on the other hand, we excuse behaviors in our friends that we wouldn’t tolerate in our partners.  We get our boundaries all mixed up about what is mine and what is theirs.

It is important to examine our relationships for where the healthy boundaries are.  Know what is yours and what is the other person’s.  Not clear?  Then work on this with someone who is not emotionally charged in the relationship so that you can become clear about where the healthy boundaries lie.

Think of every relationship as a mirror that your inner Self is holding up to you so that you can see in that mirror the work that is ‘in your face’ today for you to work on.  And then do the work.

Remember that an issue is probably not about you unless it is pointing you in the direction of a lesson to be learned.  Honor those lessons by allowing the relationship to be the classroom in the School of Life on Earth and learn the lesson without becoming defensive or retaliatory.  Lessons in relationships can help both the individuals to grow.  And if you feel that you cannot grow in the relationship, then re-examine your reason for staying there.

Sometimes the healthiest boundaries come from creating great distance.

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THIS WEEK’S MYSTIC MESSAGE from The Divine Feminine: “Relationships are merely mirrors???!!!”

April 4, 2011 — Rosemary

Dear Ones,

When a person struggles with intimacy issues or with issues within an intimate relationship that issue has nothing to do with the other person or even the relationship.  The issue is an inside issue of being honest with and trusting the Self. The relationship is merely the crucible, the classroom, in which one is being given the opportunity to learn the lesson.

People often project their issues onto the people or the world around them.  Others feel the ‘attack’ and react to that with defensiveness or retaliation.  But projection implies that a person’s Self, inner being, is looking for a mirror in which to see that issue.  If someone else projects onto you, see that as their opportunity to learn a lesson, regardless of whether or not they take that opportunity to learn it.

Where most people get tripped up is in reacting to the projection as if it had something to do with them.  It doesn’t.  And the sooner one learns this the easier one’s life will be.

Other people are on the Earth for 2 purposes: 1) To learn their lessons [foremost]; and 2) To help you learn yours.

That is the simple reason for having a lifetime in the School of Earth – to accomplish those 2 purposes.

And, yet, most people spend most of their time reacting to someone else learning their lessons or to ignoring actively the learning of their own.

The Earth is a lovely home in which to be home-schooled.  Lessons abound in every situation.  Everything in the environment is placed there to help you learn.  It is a wonderful setup for personal growth and Soul Evolution.

Yet most humans spend their time resisting the lessons, railing against their environment [and situations] or numbing out to avoid personal growth.

What a choice!

Choose the lessons and Soul Evolution.  You’ll be much happier in your Earth Environment!

And so it is.

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MUSE-INGS: We’ve All Been Waiting for You! by Rosemary Bredeson

March 29, 2011 — Rosemary

So many people seem to be struggling with Life these days and this message tells us that we need to focus our energies on living our Life Purpose.

It’s true.

Struggles come from a conflict within us about how the world works and what our role is in that world.  Sometimes it’s just a shift in attitude that can help us get into a more comfortable stance within a situation that hasn’t changed.  And sometimes shifting our beliefs can bring solutions into clear view that were totally obscured before then.

I remember my mother saying that she was ‘too old to change’ but then she ‘changed my attitude.’  Actually, that’s the place where real change takes place:  in our attitude, our beliefs, our thoughts.

More and more of the clients I am working with are perplexed about their life purpose and they seem to be seeking confirmation of what they have been feeling but maybe not believing or understanding.  I find that often a simple change in perspective can help someone make a profound shift in their life and how they feel about that life.  Is that where you are?

And are you the one who is making the decisions about the direction of your life or are you allowing someone else to make those decisions for you?  It is time to take control of your life and you start with examining beliefs and thought patterns so that you can consciously align with your life purpose.

Do you feel you have an understanding of why you are on Planet Earth and who you are here to be?  Do you regularly spend time asking yourself about the important aspects of your life or are you waiting for some date in the future before you do that introspection?

The Divine Feminine are telling us that the time is now for us to show up to our lifetime lessons because others have been waiting for us.  No more delays.  No more procrastination.

People’s stories are making the news reports because they are learning or not learning their lessons.  Disasters happen.  People leave the planet in large numbers.  Life can change in an instant.  The time is now to step fully into the agreement you have with your soul group – to be who you incarnated to be.

Step up to the greatness you have within you.  You are a part of the Light of the Universe.  No longer will you be allowed to keep that Light hidden in the shadows.  Shine.  Shine brightly so that all may see that you are here in the fullness of your inner beauty and outward brightness.

We’ve all been waiting for you to shift into the shining Light that is your essence.  Shed that which blocks your Light from our view.  BE the Light in the World that we have been waiting for.

Thank you!

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THIS WEEK’S MYSTIC MESSAGE from The Divine Feminine: Why am I here? Who did I come to Earth to be?

March 28, 2011 — Rosemary

Dear Ones,

Time is speeding up for the humans inhabiting Earth in these days and it is important that you begin to live your purpose if you have not begun to do so.  Are you waiting for a sign that the time has arrived for you to live and work in alignment with the purpose that your soul chose for this incarnation?  This is the sign – we are telling you that the time is arriving when you will need to step up to your purpose or the others on the Planet will be forced to find someone else to help them.

Each of you was born with a direct path through your life that would manifest the purpose that your soul chose for you to support you in learning the lessons of this lifetime.  Some people are marching along the path of their life without bothering to look for the lessons and these people are disappointing the other souls who had contracts with them.  Do you know about soul contracts?

Before you came onto Planet Earth you met with a group of other souls and you agreed collectively that you would share the Earth experience with each other, each of you playing a role to support the others in learning their lessons.  Some of these souls agreed to incarnate as part of your family, others you agreed to meet later in your life, and still others were peripheral to your lifetime but would be affected by your choices.  Then you came to Earth and promptly had amnesia about who these souls were.  Sometimes you feel a sense of recognition when you meet in your physical life and sometimes you have no idea of the connection.

But you did agree to learn your lessons and to help others learn theirs.

So what has happened to your commitment?  This is why it is so important to answer the question for yourself: Why am I here?  Who did I come to Earth to be?

As you grow in Consciousness the answers appear to you.  Are you actively seeking these answers or are you putting this off until some nebulous time in the future?  Are you looking at the people around you as your soul group and asking yourself how you came to Earth to help them?  And is there a bigger role for you to play for the world at large?

Spend some time asking these questions.  Spend some time examining your life for the many ways that lessons have presented themselves to you.  Can you look back on experiences and understand what the lessons were for you?  Can you look around yourself today and examine every situation for the lesson being shown to you in that situation?

This perspective gives you a bit of distance from situations and allows you to learn the lesson and move on, especially from situations that are uncomfortable or even painful.  There is usually more to learn from stepping into a view above a situation than to stay stuck in the middle where your vision is limited or obscured.  Don’t allow yourself to be misled by those who would steer you off the path of learning your lessons, and they are around you.  There is no reward for living someone else’s direction for your life.  You have come to Planet Earth to live YOUR life, to follow YOUR guidance for your life, and to learn YOUR lessons.  Make sure that your focus is on what you are to learn and how you are to help others learn their lessons.

And if someone tries to make you live your life according to the way they want to dictate it, then ask yourself what you are to learn from the interaction, learn the lesson and move on.  Listen to your inner guidance about your life and you will be led to your lessons.

And so it is.

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MUSE-INGS: Are You Ready for Connection?

March 23, 2011 — Rosemary

When I had that dream a couple of weeks ago, I felt that it was an important one.  Now I see the message.

Our work in the world now is not just to try to avert dangers and disasters, but to choose the response that supports the evolution of the New Human when something does happen.

The Feminine Way is one in which we reach out to help because there is a need.  We treat others as our family.  We dispense with greed and look to what we can do so that all can survive.  This woman’s story shows a village that does just that.  Instead of hoarding there is sharing.  If someone is better off than another, they take the other into their home.

This is the best of humanity.  This happens around the world when there is a crisis.  Neighbors help neighbors.  Strangers help strangers.  People get a clear understanding that we are all one, we are all members of the same family, the Human Family.

So why is there so much greed rampant in our society?  Why do so many people forget that we are all one?  Why the subterfuge, the anger, hatred, judgment, intolerance of others?  And what would all the hate-mongers do if a devastating earthquake or tsunami hit their village?

I wonder.  Maybe this is the time that we can wipe out the separating forces with a tsunami of Love.  What if we decide that we will Love all others, no matter how different they are, no matter what they’ve done?  We will hold ourselves in so much Love that it pours out of us, without judgment or fear or hatred or anger or intolerance.  Maybe we can each commit to the concept of The Feminine Way, saying now, before we are the ones suffering a devastating disaster, that we will respond with Love if something like that happens around us.  Let us prepare ourselves to be a part of a community and a support of that community should the need arise.

My sister works in the disaster response world.  She would tell you to make the preparations that are prudent for everyone to make, whether the disaster be an earthquake, a tsunami, a hurricane, a blizzard, a tornado or just a power outage.  Check out the Red Cross website for info.  Take care of your family and household.  But also be aware that you are a part of the greater community.

If you have a Homeowners’ Association, get them to have a disaster plan.  Is there someone in the neighborhood who is on oxygen and might need a generator?  Are there elderly or babies who might need something that others can offer?  Does someone need dialysis and can’t get gas for their car to get to the appointments?  The Association could learn these things and prepare as a community for whatever might occur.

Thinking outside the box of ‘me, me, me’ enables each individual to grow as the New Human.

Maybe I had that dream as prophecy.  Maybe it was a message to all of us to think about what The Feminine Way really means in our lives.  And maybe it was a wake-up call to all of us to examine the ways in which we feel disconnected from each other so that we can find our way to connection.

Keep praying for the people in Japan and for the healing of all who inhabit our Mother Earth.

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ROSEMARY’S DREAM (from the Blog of February 28, 2011)

March 22, 2011 — Rosemary

I am walking through a scene of destruction.  Many women’s bodies are floating in a large pool of water, all face down so that I am looking at their backs.  Off to my right is a woman floating on her back with her mouth open.  She is groaning so I know she is still alive. Other women are tending to her.  I slosh through the water and the floating bodies to the other side and see women standing among the bodies to my left.  There is a woman next to me who is giving away containers of yogurt with different flavorings in them.  She says to eat them because they are the only food we have and we don’t know when ‘they’ will let us have more food.

I know that the men have killed the women.  There are no men in sight at the moment.  I am reluctant to take the yogurt because I am afraid it will give me diarrhea and that I’ll get dehydrated with no assurance that there will be fresh drinking water available.  I decide to forego the yogurt but am impressed with the way the women are taking care of each other.  There seems to be an apocalyptic energy of doom and yet the women are handling things, refusing to be defeated.

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This dream FELT apocalyptic, even prophetic.  But the Divine Feminine refuses to be killed.  They, the Divine Feminine, will prevail precisely because the Feminine Way is to nurture and take care of others as well as self.  Rather than hoarding the yogurt and saying, ‘Mine!’ while protecting it with guns, the women in the dream were sharing what they had and taking care of each other – The Divine Feminine Way to exist in community.

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MUSE-INGS: Create the Day You Would Like to Have!

March 15, 2011 — Rosemary

Quite frankly, I’m tired.  It’s been a very busy couple of weeks. I have a lot to do.  Sometimes I long for unconsciousness [or maybe it’s just that I long for sleep!].  But there is always a connection to be made when you are conscious of the need that all humans have for connectedness.

I recently bought some cosmetics at a department store and ended up having a delightful time chatting with 3 of the women who worked at the counter.  At dinner with a couple of friends, one of whom had her dog with her, the waiter got talking to us about his pets and how they had contacted him after their passing. [I had told him that I am a medium and that I often give people messages from their pets who have passed on.]  These connections were great fun and brought a smile to my face that answered the smiles of the other people.

It’s so easy to wake up every morning with the to-do list on your mind.  Or, worse, to start immediately addressing the problems that you have to solve that day.  It’s easy to jump immediately into your day without setting an intention and, yet, that is the most creative energy of your day.

You don’t have to wake up and compose a concerto but you can use those first waking moments of the day to create the day you would like to have.  If you set yourself in a grateful, giving, curious energy before you even get out of bed then whatever happens to you that day will be merely a lesson to be learned.

Tomorrow morning, wake up and tell yourself that you can gracefully handle anything that life throws at you!  Wake up and think about someone you can help.  Wake up and smile with gratitude for something in your life.  Then go out there and make it the best day ever!

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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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