Weather Report...

Each day is a challenge, you know. A challenge to walk straight and tall whatever the "weather" is around you. The emotional "weather" you step into wherever you go affects you. Just how it affects you is up to you. Hold your understanding close before your mind with each step. Feel your own self-love, compassion and understanding and others will feel 'something' when you come around. If you ever have a doubt around this, take a moment to consciously remember and connect to it. Then you can step back into the 'fray' in a strong and confident way. The more you do this, the less the "world" will affect your moods. Namaste

Response-ability

There are many who get so caught up in the terror of life, who are so afraid to live, who feel they can't make changes in their life, that they decide to leave life. These are the ones you cannot help, except to give them loving energy and hope they can accept and feel it. The archetype of the Tormented Young Man or Woman is rife, in the society of the West particularly. Their angst seems unrelieve-able, and indeed it is because they are so caught up in the storm and don't understand there is no help to be found outside themselves. This combined with their unwillingness or inability to take responsibility for their own condition makes their life something to be despised and thwarted, by them, at every turn. The Understanding or belief that you ARE in control of what goes on within you is not something the average person, cut off from Source, can grasp.

Only when connection with The Source, Universal Oneness, God, something Greater Than Self, whatever you would call it, is known, only then can responsibility for your inner self be taken. For without this connection, there are no assurances, no energy, and no support for the awakening of a person.

Awakening the ones ignorant of the light within themselves, is a gentle, passive process which may or may not flower in their life. Never have attachment of what someone else is manifesting in their life, even when it affects yours. The only thing in your control is you, your responses and reactions and how you manifest your own life. Manifest ways in which you will be protected from the fallout from another's life choices by, say, an umbrella of Love. Then carry this umbrella of Love everywhere with you... Maybe galoshes of Love as well! This energetic protective 'clothing' will work wonders for you. Just imagine that anything that comes your way energetically that does not serve you, is reflected in a loving way back to the sender and transmuted so that it will serve them for their highest good.

Sometimes you believe that "for my highest good" could mean something "bad" and that you should just accept this. Do you realize that if you BELIEVE this, then this is what will happen? Why not change your belief to "...highest good..." equals joyful experiences?

There are so many deeply embedded negative beliefs that it will take conscious effort to turn yourself around. However, it CAN be done and is a very real and close possibility in your life. So get on with it. Begin loving your life and all the people in it, granting understanding for where you and others are in this moment and forgiveness for any 'fallout' from yourself or others.

You have the power, accept it, work with it, change your perspective, and the puzzle will come together on its own.

Namaste

Monday Morning Guidance

There are times when life seems to drag along with the weight of responsibilities hanging on. This feeling will be paramount and overwhelming and can engender a kind of panic over how to do it all. You can't do it all. Unless, that is, you are grounded spiritually. Over time, you will notice, if you have a daily dharma, things will seem to flow more effortlessly that you imagined they would. A solid foundation built by feeding your spirit a little or a lot every day gives power to your strengths and abilities. You are then able to approach your life and responsibilities from a standpoint of strength and confidence. In this strength and confidence you will find ways to be and do and how to determine what NOT to be and do.

Some things that had once been so important now seem unnecessary and only add superfluous work to your life. These things have no real value in themselves for your life, they only hold you in the past and retard your forward motion. Sometimes they will be physical things, sometimes habits and behaviors, but always they will be hereafter unsatisfying for you. One example is wine. This habit has been a part of your life for a long time and has attached to it the memory of escape and release from daily stress. You notice it is not working anymore, don't you? Having a glass with dinner is fine, in fact anytime you have it is fine. Except -- you are noticing how you feel - how you are unable to be wholly present with something you want to accomplish, aren't you?

It is just like when you gave up the other substance so long ago because you knew you wouldn't progress under its influence. Same with alcohol, your body cannot tolerate it as well anymore, not that it ever really did. You are advancing energetically and spiritually and your body has to go with you on this journey. Be aware of what compromises its well being and pay attention and do something about it, or stop doing whatever it is.

Be strong, decisive and determined about this and you WILL receive great benefit. Namaste

May 11, 2006

Sometimes overwhelm is all I see...

I am in the process of letting go of material attachment -- those parts of me that are afraid of the unknown. I mean, without material attachment, what is there? Those deep parts of me are frantic to keep me in attachment and dancing so fast there won't be time to do the spiritual practices that would allow me to move on. I must be patient with myself, see the bigger picture, where my progress is ever forward, slow but steady and sure. I must take a step back and look at it all from the bigger perspective. Then I will see how far I've come and be able to relax into the process without pushing or pulling.

It's an Amazing Life!

I was thinking about the movie "It's a Wonderful Life" and all its implications for me...

The movie of my life would be "It's an Amazing Life" because when I play the movie in my head, I shake my head. There have been some truly dreadful periods to get through and I did indeed survive and grow.

The best part is how synchronistic my life has been. Whenever I truly needed something or someone, it or they showed up in my life. I have never had to go hungry or sleep outdoors (except on camping trips) and I have always had Love, even when I didn't know it. I have many gifts and I am able to share them.

So many teachers are out there for us these days, when we are ready we just need reach out our hand and pluck one from the bookshelf or the CD rack. I love audiobooks and just finished listening to Richard Gere read the latest from His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Double Bonus! I highly recommend it to all and sundry, it is wonderful and enlightening. It is "The Universe in a Single Atom : The Convergence of Science and Spirituality""
and you can get it here.

Other teachers who are also highly entertaining and therefore easy to listen to or read: Wayne Dyer, Carolyn Myss, Deepak Chopra.

Namaste to you, RoHun