Magical Prelude to a New Beginning

In mid-October I attended the Crimson Circle’s DreamWalker Ascension Transistions Teachers Training held in Incline Village at Lake Tahoe, Nevada. I arrived in the late afternoon of the day before and once I’d check into my hotel, headed for the Lake with my camera to explore and take a few pictures.

My excitement grew and inspiration led the way as the woodsy warm air swirled around me on my short hike through the little park to the beach. With the sun fast approaching its moment of setting I was able to catch its fiery light dancing through the branches of a tall old pine to perfectly back-light the gentleman who sat on the bench enjoying watching the waves roll in.

The next day I started the Teachers Training that was the first step on my road to becoming a New Energy Teacher. This has been a dream of mine for some time now and my experience of those five days and what I came away from it having realized about myself and about my subject far surpassed anything I had imagined.

I’ve been in a long period, years now. of releasing so much that hasn’t worked for me for some time but without a clear sense of what to do or where to go from where I was. As I went through the training I realized that the sun that had been setting on my old life and old ways really was a prelude to a brand new day. As I shift my perspective to see what is before me now, no longer as an empty hole but as an opening, a space to be filled with whatever I choose, I see that all these endings are clearing the way for a multitude of new potentials awaiting me.

May the sun set gracefully upon you and may you rest in the beauty of its amen.

And so it is.

Basking

It is a new day. The sun shines high and bright in the sky, through the elegant geometry of branches and leaves. All is well in my world.

Time to shed the old and tired and embrace this gracious moment, basking in the golden rays that beam from the heavens. This is living. Right here. Right now. In this holy moment. Time is precious to me these days. Time, once my frantic foe, has become my faithful companion. Time supports me, serves me, bends for me when I engage it with my presence.

Today is Sun-day. In truth, every day is Sun day when I show up and let myself bask in these lovely moments that string together to create my life. Basking in the presence of All That I Am the sun shines from deep within.

Happy Sun Day!

Rays of Rainbow Life

I caught the sun shining one recent afternoon at just the perfect angle on my hibiscus plant, which has blooms in gorgeous coral-red flowers, perpetually, from early spring until the temperature drops each fall. I could see the rays of rainbow light through the lens of the camera though they were invisible to the eye.

It occurs to me how blessed we are every day and all the time by the nature of the world around us. It is so easy to take for granted the many blessings that fill each moment and yet I’ve found that stopping to take note and appreciate these simple ordinary miracles brings a new energy and perspective to my life experience.

When I choose to step out of the fray of activity and notice the workings of nature, the little things that are done by those around me that help make things easier or better somehow for me and the great gifts of generosity have been offered to me my life is instantly transformed. Allowing myself to notice the warmth of the sun, the beauty of the colors, the sweetness in the embrace of my beloved. Ahhhhh, this is living.

Glorious Sacred Geometry

 

My heart truly wants to create beauty; feel it, see it, sing it out into the universe in perfect harmony.

My heart wants color and light and glorious sacred geometry reminding me of the miracle of life in the physical body on this earth. Line, design and color combine in wondrous shapes, fluid and free like the mystical northern lights–the magic that is somehow created out of thin air but there nonetheless for anyone with eyes to see and receptive to beauty beyond belief.

Colors dancing, morphing, ever-expanding. Rainbows of universes stream from my mind. Captured on the page in words or images inviting the hearts of others to trip the universal light fantastic with me.

Learn To Trust

“Ultimately, we must learn to trust ourselves. When we do this intimately and intelligently, the world opens full of meaning before us. We find that we ourselves are the doorway to a fathomless understanding of the source of life itself. We need only to learn to walk through it.”

– James Thornton

Trust, like love and respect, is an inside job. Until we learn to trust ourselves we will continue to find people and situations in our world that mirror back to us the fear that we just can’t trust anybody.

Most of us are taught that we can’t trust ourselves. And in a sense it is true. If we don’t really know ourselves, how can we possibly make good decisions? If we don’t really know what is important to us, how can we make wise choices. So many of us go through the motions, attempting to do what we think we should, or what other people think we should and then find that we don’t or can’t follow through on whatever we said we’d do.

We may decide on a course of action based on the outcome we are hoping for but before we get too far down that road we either lose interest or give up because it wasn’t what we thought it was and isn’t taking us anywhere near where we intended to go. Maybe we continue with it anyway because we committed to it or promised. (I just noticed that if you put committed and promised together you get the word compromised.)

As we stop buying into what other people prescribe or what works for them and realize we each have our own way, our unique set of priorities, preferences and parameters as individuals, we are on our way to self-trust. Taking the time to first discover who we are, what is important to us and perhaps most importantly, what we enJoy, we develop a relationship with ourself that supports us in building confidence in our ability to choose those things that are truly appropriate and inspiring to us.

When we begin to trust ourselves our experience with everything and everyone in our life shifts, and as Goethe said, “… then we will know how to live.”

And, so it is!

The Power of Choice

I’ve been in the process of waking up to more of who I really am for many years, now. The art of living consciously includes making deliberate choices not only about what we will and won’t do but the way in which we will deal with the challenges that come our way.

When faced with something that triggers our fears of loss, being misunderstood, suffering the consequences, etc., many of us will find ourselves automatically reacting by holding our breath, clenching our muscles and beginning to spiral down to dwell in the dark and limited realm of the ‘worst that can happen’. We’ve been taught to expect disasters, buy insurance, hope for the best but prepare for the worst. Interesting that entire industries have been built around our fears that are backed up by plenty of ‘proof’ in the media and in our experience.

What if, instead of imagining the worst, we looked for the gift, the benefit this situation is offering, with open eyes, an open mind and an open heart?

I’ve learned that much of what happens in my life has been generated by my unconscious fears. Fears can only materialize in my experience if I’ve made them matter/given them weight with my energy and attention to those fears. Lately, I’ve been asking myself, when met with these sticky situations that my body and being react to by going into the contraction of resistance, “Does this really matter to me? And, if so, do I want it to continue to matter?” Most times the answer is, no.

In the moment I remember there is some reason this is coming into my experience and that as I accept and appreciate it as a gift, presented to me so I can become aware of something about which I have been in the dark, my energy automatically begins to expand and spiral up and out and new possibilities based in love and joy are revealed.

The Busting Loose book and so many other wisdom teachings offer us these guidelines: stop judging and start appreciating, move beyond the illusion of controlling into the power of choosing, release resistance and open to allowing, let go of fear and embrace love.

Appreciation, Love, Choice, Allowing, Joy!! The light at the end of the tunnel beckons.

Busting Loose to Real Ease

After using The Process as prescribed by Bob Scheinfeld in Busting Loose From The Money Game for the past couple of weeks I’m discovering a new freedom in my everyday experiences. Things don’t mean what they once did to me. I notice more quickly when my energy is snagged on something that feels limiting and with a few simple steps, taken in the moment, I have been able to at the very least let go of the immediate charge and get back into a state of flow.

Some of the stuff that’s come up has been such a part of my normal experience, such a deeply ingrained pattern, I forget that it isn’t really who I am, just something I’ve done so much because I didn’t know how to change it, despite years of trying everything I could think of and quite a few “sure-fire cure-alls” that other people sold in the form of books, workshops or techniques.

What I am finding now is that having reclaimed my energy from old patterns that don’t serve me in living the life I’d like to today, I have become neutral to not only those things but the things I’d employed as coping mechanisms, or antidotes, or belief systems I’d bought into that are now completely irrelevant to me. This has all happened organically and without effort. It has taken me being willing, once more, to look at the things I’d given up on ever changing and reclaiming my energetic power from them.

I had an aha moment on awakening this morning, the light of awareness–beyond words–showed me how and why The Process works. It was one of those, “Oh, of course!” experiences that strikes a resounding chord that echoes through your being.

This is one of the most gracious “tools” for transformation I’ve ever discovered. Release is the first step on the road to to real ease.

Visual DNA

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If you click on the link above you can see my photo results from this fun ‘Visual DNA’ widget from Imagini.net. I couldn’t get it to post properly here, but the links will take you to the page if you’re interested.

I was able to post it to my Blogger Light In Motion blog if you’d like to see what it looks like on a blog.

I found it interesting to go through page after page of photo choices and see which ones appealed to me most today and then read the little write-ups about what that might mean. (I’ve always loved quizzes. I think it is the questions. I am naturally inquisitive. I even like the shape of the question mark. I find when I am asked, questions prompt me to deliberately consider things I may have taken for granted.)

I love the little collage my choices created, too. I’d like to frame it and hang it on my wall. Simple pleasures and the power of choice make all the difference in my life these days.

For the past several years I’ve made a collage on the day of the Aries New Moon, which was just a couple of days ago, as a way of visual intention setting. This year doing so didn’t appeal to me, so I trusted my lack of interest and let it go. I followed my inner promptings, instead, and by the end of the day realized I’d been presented with several opportunities to make choices that naturally supported me moving in new directions that I’d never have considered if I’d made myself sit down and make the collage.

I’m delighted to discover that my collage came about as a result of clicking a link from a friend. There was nothing to buy, no preparation or planning and I was able to create it in a moment of inspiration.

The words of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe come to mind:

“Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.”

And so it is.

Busting Loose~Practicing The Process

I’ve been practicing The Process as prescribed by Bob Scheinfeld in Busting Loose From The Money Game for a couple of weeks now. Every day brings new insights and deeper understanding of how the Human Game we all signed up for really works.

Several friends have also read it and we’ve been checking in with one another about what we are discovering about ourselves through this experience of consciously reclaiming the energy we’ve scattered across the landscape of our lives believing we were powerless to affect it, much less transform our perceptions and perspective to see that it was our own creation all along.

Expanding Into the New Energy

I just finished listening to the monthly shoud of the Crimson Circle. In it, Tobias spoke of the New Energy. As we continue to push at the limits of our reality, reality itself expands. In the New Energy we move from cause and effect, linear reality into a more wholistic way of being. New Energy is undefinable in our current way of knowing and communicating. So, here I am attempting to write about it.

When I think of expanding into the New Energy from the way I live today I think of moving from living in a way that has been primarily fear based to living my life as an expression of love, of joy, of possibility and celebration. I imagine engaging unlimited creative potential and playing with putting it into some fresh form. I imagine living in a state of joyful appreciation, enthusiastic, inspired and expansive. I imagine being under grace and open to consciously receiving the blessings that have always surrounded me in my life.

The photo is of a blown glass vase that was a gift from a friend more than twenty years ago. There is something about the shape, colors and design of it that has always thrilled me. I love that it is unique in all the world and, even after all these years, looks and feels fresh to me. Looking at it today I see the promise of New Energy that’s been sitting on my shelf all this time.