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Did You Over–plant?

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Fifty years ago I carefully planted trees in the front yard of my newly built house.  I knew how wide they would grow to be and I spaced them accordingly.  I thought I left plenty of room.

But today, that yard is crowded.  The sun cannot reach the lawn. One cannot see the sky.  I miscalculated.

Fifty years is a long time.  Things we planted along the line sneak up on us.  I wondered what else I over-planted and what I should do about it.

Beliefs get buried in the underbrush.  They get covered over by a new plant.  And yet they’re there, deep in the undergrowth of our life expression slowing us down, sending us in the wrong direction and no longer useful.

We have to weed out the old, unseen, no longer useful beliefs in order to let in some light.

One destructive belief I have to watch out for is around the concepts that are held about aging.  As a metaphysician, I believe my beliefs create my reality. So if I believe aging means deterioration, then that’s what I’m going to get.  And because that’s a common belief, deterioration is what I see in the seniors that surround me. I have to work very diligently, with persistence and constant work on my own consciousness, to cultivate the belief that aging means continued vital, active and meaningful participation in life.

Change your thinking, change your life.

Don’t let your expectations become limited

My life turned completely around when, in my early eighties, a friend asked me what I wanted to tackle in the next thirty years.  What would I do?  How would I serve?  That shift in focus totally turned around the life I was expecting and allowed me to evolve into an active, productive, still in service mid-eighties person who is actively spreading light in the world.

I had to weed out the old beliefs of the limitations of aging and replant my life with inspired passion, an altered focus and new forms of service. It has proven to be a beautiful illumined path.

What do you expect of yourself? Do you need to raise the bar?

If you could choose one thing, what would it be?

Let’s say you have an open field in which you can plant anything you want.  What would you plant?  How much of it would you plant?  How would you care for it?

I want to be in illumined service and as I’m not certain what that is supposed to look like I ponder the concept, explore my inner world, and stay open to the nudges and suggestions from my Invisible Self, the Great Mystery, the All–That–Is.  I listen.  I absorb.  I choose. I act.

My major crop is spiritual expansion.  My path leads me into deeper and deeper esoteric explorations.  My journey is personal, unconventional and adventurous.

Clear a space for “next”

How and why is your life crowded?  What valuable crops need more room to grow?  What beliefs do you need to water and feed and stake up?

I have cleared a lot of old growth from my inner garden.  I have one crop – exploring the invisible world.  All my choices are designed to cultivate and harvest that one crop.

What main crop are you growing and what do you need to weed out in order to allow it to grow?

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

Are You Adapting Fast Enough to Change?

Magic is Simply  a Change in Consciousness

Choices That Create Your Future

How to Explore Your Invisible Self

The Three-Year Promise

Don’t Get Lost in the Ritual

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I took a very detailed shamanic course for four months. It turns out that for me, it taught too much detail. I finished the course but I faded out at the end. It’s just how I am – not a detail person. The initial foundational work was a very positive experience. The technical detail, not so much.

However, I watched people in the course really getting totally caught up in the detail, the perfect procedure. They wanted to do it “right”.

There’s no right or wrong

There’s no right or wrong way to do anything. Results are achieved through your intention and conscious focus. Whatever results you get are perfect. However, you achieve those results is also perfect.

Are you caught up in doing it “right”?

We are wonderfully unique individuals. We are so unique that each of us does even similar things differently. And that’s perfect.

What if you just do it your way?  What if you do what feels right in the moment?  What if you trust your own intuition and instincts and simply hold the energetic intention of your purpose?  You’ll get the desired results because of your intention.

The results are all in the intention

As a Reiki Master Teacher, Fourth Degree, I learned and taught the concept of using symbols to send and focus energy. As a licensed practitioner in the Center for Spiritual Living, I taught and practiced affirmative prayer. Now I use intention and visualization to support energetic changes in the collective consciousness.

It’s up to you. Whatever you believe is the power becomes the power.

How to use intention for healing and wholing

I’m living in an 84-year-old body that’s always looked twenty years younger than it is. However, stuff happens and I’m actively doing self-healing on myself. I’m using a variety of methods. And they’re working.

Release the past. Do an inner visioning process in which you look for and release in your imagination whatever’s in the past that is negatively affecting the situation today.

Invite in the light. In your imagination, inviting light in through your crown or your chakras. It can be any color, just let that happen. Have the energy move clockwise or counter clockwise and see which feels right for you at that time. See the energy flowing through your body cleansing, opening, healing, putting in place, releasing, clearing out, soothing, repairing, replacing whatever seems to be misaligned.

The color of the light may change. The form may be liquid or smoke. Sometimes I feel a honey-like texture moving through me. My favorite is to put myself in a cloak of light with a hood that sends healing light into all of me. It’s your imagination working on the unknown in your inner self.

Ask for help. I have an interesting circle of spirit guides, animal guides, angels, fairies and elves and the Cosmic Mother. They each serve a slightly different function and help me with my vision journeying. They seem to have different functions and step forward to help depending on my question or the energy I desire to move. Ask for your spirit guides to appear and they will.

Believe it works. Trust whatever shows up. Do whatever you feel the urge to do. Know and believe that since we’re all energy, the concentration and focus of energy will create wholeness.

Allow for a shift that makes room for change. Change is a flow, sometimes rapid, sometimes slow. But it’s always happening. Give your wholing work time to work. And look for the subtle changes that appear. If the work is on your own body, look for and listen to and feel the changes that occur, and if necessary, do more energy work to guide the situation toward the desired outcome.

Offer gratitude

We have no idea what’s ”out there”. Only 5% is in our conscious mind; 95% is unconscious. Gratitude helps you become more aware of the subtle changes that are around you. When you wake up in the morning, offer thanks to the invisible world for your safe keeping and the dreaming insights you received. At the end of each day, count your blessings and offer gratitude to the Great Mystery. As wholing occurs, continue expressing your gratitude.

Wholeness is our natural state

Encourage your own wholeness. Encourage the wholeness of others, of the planet, of communities. Do it energetically in any manner that calls to you. Intention is key. You can do your world-healing energy work alone or in “like-intentioned” groups.

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

 Find and Use Your Power Within 

The Shedding of Your Skin

How do You Put your Spiritual Insights to Work? 

Video: Deepening Our Connection 

Podcast: 45-How to Become a Mindful Presence

Take Time to Contemplate

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We need time to let it sink in. We need time to let an idea simmer before it emerges. We need time to capture that idea that just popped into our head. If we are over scheduled, we don’t have time for life to emerge.

I’m not a phone person

My understanding is that the majority of people spend every unscheduled moment checking their phone. What if you had great spaces of nothingness in your day?   Moments in which you look out the window, or sit in the sun, or watch the clouds shift their shape? When was the last time you did that?

Cultivate your relationship with yourself

Rather than working so hard to connect with others, what about connecting with yourself?  What if you daydreamed?  Took a chair nap?  Learned to play your musical instrument better?  What if you wrote a song or a poem?  Or drew a picture?  All of those activities create space for your inner self to emerge and be captured in a form you can recognize.

I journey, I journal, I write posts like this to figure things out. I meditate. I do Chi Gong. All are activities of inner stillness, of quiet, waiting for the knowing, the clarity, the direction that we all receive from deep inside.

Simply look within

Stop. Stop reading this for a moment and close your eyes and listen. Notice your breathing. Notice your thoughts. Allow both time and space to move your attention into the Great Mystery, the All That Is. And simply float. Feel like you are lying back on a soft cloud lazily watching the world below you. Feel you. Hug yourself. Still your mind. Find the Nothingness.

Stay there. In that place within.

If there’s a message, take it. If there’s nothing but serenity, accept that.

Contemplate

Observe. Reflect. Listen. Stop your mind and just be present.

You can plan specific times in your day for your inner work, or find places in your day when you simply pause, breathe and are present. Observe how you feel, what you see. Encourage and establish stillness within before your return to your day.

Explore silence, stillness, awareness, feelings, being. All are experiences that come from contemplation.

How and where will you add more moments of contemplation to your life?

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

How to Explore Your Invisible Self

How to Nourish Your Inner Fire

What Seeds Are You Planting For the Future?

How to Draw Power and Guidance from Nature 

Video: Power Journaling

Podcast:   40 – Who Do You Want to Serve?

Are You Adapting Fast Enough to Change? 

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Watching the Nature Channel made me think about evolution and how or if we are adapting to our own world fast enough to survive.

To adapt, we must modify and adjust

Our grandchildren are facing an entirely different life experience from ours. Whatever stage we’re at, we have to adjust to what’s going on in the world around us and we may have to modify both our responses and our expectations.

My mother won the right to vote only twelve years before I was born. I was in my 40’s when the women’s rights emerged. The AIDS epidemic also appeared around that time and the age of computers began.

Today, I’m behind. Even though I’m far ahead of most other 80+ year olds, I don’t text well and there are some programs like Instagram that I haven’t used. And yet I have an active website, and I publish ebooks and posts and make podcasts and video blogs. I love to use Skype and I made friends all over the world using the internet. I consistently take online courses.

But a whole world of technical opportunities is going to pass me by. These will be the foundation for the younger generations.

So I do what I can, adjust to accommodate the new technology and keep moving on.

To evolve, we must change and transform

In the US election of 2016, I was shocked to realize that nearly half the population had an entirely different view of life than I did. Having lived and thrived on both coasts, I had little experience of the “conservative” mentality.

It’s very disconcerting to think you might be wrong. It’s humbling to realize you’d isolated yourself from some of the prevalent feelings of your country.

But we’re talking about adaptation here

I’ve moved into my highest forms of energy work to help change the collective consciousness. That’s all I know to do. Thanks to the internet, I connect with people from all over the world who are holding our planet and her people in light and love. We believe our energy will create positive change as the awareness of the group consciousness is raised.

To adapt, I must modify my beliefs and expectations

I work to move from knowledge to understanding and from understanding to positive action. I’m not drawn to be involved in local politics but I can sure send money to causes I care about. I have an active online voice, and I can and do vote.

I continue to adapt my outlook and understanding through the topics I choose to write about and the ideas I share on my blog and vLog. I participate in world healing online events. And I keep an open lookout for other ways I can help lift world consciousness into one of being a global transformational community.

To evolve, I must examine my beliefs and expectations

I recently did some inner work to uncover my next steps. My calling is extremely strong. I must continue examining and exploring esoteric concepts and figure out how we can adapt them to our lives, if we so choose. Do the inner work you need in order to solidify your calling and purpose for this moment in time.

How are you adapting?  How are you evolving?  Will you become extinct or will you thrive in the new environment?

I’m pretty certain we both have work to do.

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

The Shedding of Your Skin  

Be the Story you Want to Tell 

Your Gift to the Future 

Choices That Create Your Future

35—How to Hold the Space for Change.