Synchronicity

The Law of Attraction and Manifestation

Synchronicities, Healing and Awareness

With the closing of our reality program, many more clients/people sense the end of time. Along with that comes the overwhelming need to help others and thus evolve personally through that energy. This seems to be the way the program is calling souls home. At the end of the day, it's all a game of remembrance, created by the synchronistic movements of consciousness. Keep on attracting ... That's 'The Secret.'

Synchronicities are patterns that repeat in time. The word 'synchronicity' references the gears or wheels of time, though the actual concept of synchronicity cannot be scientifically proven. One can only record synchronicities as they occur and watch the patterns of behavior that create them. The concept of synchronicity is currently linked more to metaphysics, yet physics (quantum physics) and metaphysics are merging, thus showing their interconnection and how we manifest synchronicities in our lives.

Synchronicities bring people to Crystalinks ... which takes them on all sorts of journeys into awareness. Many people the numbers 11:11 or derivatives of it the number 1 and seek information about it. This takes them to my file 11:11 as on and on they go reading through interconnected files to understand their journey and that of humanity which is the focus of Crystalinks.

Synchronicities are people, places or events that your soul attracts into your life to help you evolve to higher consciousness or to place emphasis on something going on in your life. The more 'consciously aware' you become of how your soul manifests, the higher your frequency becomes and the faster you manifest positively. Each day your life encounters meaningful coincidences, synchronicities, that you have attracted, on other words created in the grid of your experiences in the physical. Souls create synchronicities, played out in the physical. It is why you are here. It is how our reality works.

We have all heard the expression, "There are no accidents." This is true. All that we experience is by design, and what we attract to our physical world. There are no accidents just synchronicity wheels, the wheels of time or karma, wheels within wheels, sacred geometry, the evolution of consciousness in the alchemy of time.

Not all synchronicities are positive. Do be careful. Sometimes they create major learning lessons. An example that many people experience is meeting or manifesting a lover by synchronicity, only to discover the person is wrong for them. Initially they think that the synchronistic experience, or person, represents the road they should take at that moment in time. This is not always the case. You can manifest negative people and situation, so take your time when you get caught up in synchronicity.

If you are dysfunctional, have emotional problems, and therefore are a drama person, your will attract and manifest dysfunctional people and events as reflections of your own inner turmoil. You need to realize what is going on within to manifest, attract to you, something positive outside of yourself. These people will always disappoint you, counteracted by your need to have the experience. Look at the underlying facts when the synchronicity occurs to be sure you know why you attracted that person or situation into your life.

Synchronicities may occur to make a quick point. Don't blow them out of proportion. You must look at the bigger picture of the synchronicity, think outside the box, (the patterns of reality) not at the actual experience.

You can consider an event synchronistic when an inner experience such as a dream, vision, or other form of deja vu, prepares you for the physical event.

Your soul is always multitasking to create new experiences for you. If you watch how you move through life, you will understand. Doing this allows many people to clear their issues by writing their story as a catharsis of their experiences here.

The higher and clearer your frequency and intent, the faster you manifest synchronicities.

Examples of Synchronicity

• You are suffering with financial difficulties, yet money for basic expenses such as rent, food, and utilities, always manifests. You begin to trust this. At first you thank the universe or god, then you realize you create this abundance. You are learning to watch how you manifest and why, watching yourself from outside the box.
• You have just received your last check from unemployment when suddenly a job comes along.
• You walk into a book store not knowing what to buy, and the book you need falls from a shelf and practically hits you over the head.
• You have been feeling ill with no clear diagnosis. You meet someone who knows a doctor or healer with the answers. All physical problems stem from emotional issues. Your soul will point out the patterns and hopefully the solutions. When the person is ready to heal, the doctor will be there. That person will often show up by synchronicity. This all stems from various levels of depression and self-sabotage stemming from one's DNA or life experiences that have worn them down. When you are confused and in emotional pain, you either have trouble manifesting synchronicities or they are major learning lessons.
• There is a sudden relocation which seems to be for one reason, but later you find much more than you bargained for as the synchronicities rapid occur as if a domino effect. For example, you relocate for a new job, then, as if by synchronicity, someone 'special' comes into your life. You and that person have attracted each other for experience, as all life is nothing more than that. In another case, the energies of the area hold something transformational for you, which is perhaps the reason your soul created the move in the first place.
• You finally end a bad relationship and immediately another partner comes into your life as if by synchronicity.
• You drive to a place where parking is "next to impossible" and someone pulls out of a parking spot or it is waiting for you.
• You meet someone who interests you and touches your soul. Through synchronicity that person seems to come into your life over and over again. You begin to feel a destiny with that person. You begin to think with your heart instead of your head. You connect with that person. In some cases the karma between the two people is positive but in many cases you have attracted that person into your life for a learning lesson whether you are aware of it or not.
• You feel depressed and can't find focus in your life. The next person you talk you says something that brings needed guidance. In a world of wounded souls, and evolving consciousness, answers to help and guide will come more quickly and from different sources than in your past. Learn from those who come along, but never become co-dependent.
• A well-known example of synchronicity involves the true story of French writer Emile Deschamps. In 1805 he was treated to some plum pudding by Monsieur de Fontgibu. Ten years later, he encountered plum pudding on the menu of a Paris restaurant, and wanted to order some, but the waiter told him the last dish had already been served to another customer, who turns out to be Monsieur de Fontgibu. In 1832 Emile Deschamps visited a restaurant with a friend and is once again offered plum pudding. He recalled the earlier incident and told his friend that only Monsieur de Fontgibu is missing to make the setting complete. At that moment a senile Monsieur de Fontgibu enters the room by mistake.

Carl Jung and Synchronicity

Synchronicities are meaningful coincidences.

Synchronicity is a word coined by the Swiss psychologist Carl Jung to describe the temporally coincident occurrences of acausal events. It was a principle that he felt compassed his concept of the collective unconscious, in that it was descriptive of a governing dynamic that underlay the whole of human experience and history, social, emotional, psychological, and spiritual. Jung believed that many experiences perceived as coincidence were due not merely to chance, but instead potentially reflected the manifestation of coincident events or circumstances consequent to this governing dynamic. Jung spoke of synchronicity as being an "acausal connecting principle" (ie. a pattern of connection that is not explained by causality).

Jung believed the traditional notions of causality were incapable of explaining some of the more improbable forms of coincidence. Where it is plain, felt Jung, that no causal connection can be demonstrated between two events, but where a meaningful relationship nevertheless exists between them, a wholly different type of principle is likely to be operating. Jung called this principle "synchronicity."

In The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche, Jung describes how, during his research into the phenomenon of the collective unconscious, he began to observe coincidences that were connected in such a meaningful way that their occurrence seemed to defy the calculations of probability. He provided numerous examples from his own psychiatric case-studies, many now legendary.

"A young woman I was treating had, at a critical moment, a dream in which she was given a golden scarab. While she was telling me her dream, I sat with my back to the closed window. Suddenly I heard a noise behind me, like a gentle tapping. I turned round and saw a flying insect knocking against the window-pane from outside. I opened the window and caught the creature in the air as it flew in. It was the nearest analogy to the golden scarab that one finds in our latitudes, a scarabaeid beetle, the common rose-chafer (Cetoaia urata) which contrary to its usual habits had evidently felt an urge to get into a dark room at this particular moment. I must admit that nothing like it ever happened to me before or since, and that the dream of the patient has remained unique in my experience." The Scarab represented Self-Generation, Resurrection and Renewal.

Who then, might we say, was responsible for the synchronous arrival of the beetle, Jung or the patient? While on the surface reasonable, such a question presupposes a chain of causality Jung claimed was absent from such experience. As psychoanalyst Nandor Fodor has observed, the scarab, by Jung's view, had no determinable cause, but instead complemented the "impossibility" of the analysis. The disturbance also (as synchronicities often do) prefigured a profound transformation. For, as Fodor observes, Jung's patient had--until the appearance of the beetle--shown excessive rationality, remaining psychologically inaccessible. Once presented with the scarab, however, she improved.

Because Jung believed the phenomenon of synchronicity was primarily connected with psychic conditions, he felt that such couplings of inner (subjective) and outer (objective) reality evolved through the influence of the archetypes, patterns inherent in the human psyche and shared by all of mankind. These patterns, or "primordial images," as Jung sometimes refers to them, comprise man's collective unconscious, representing the dynamic source of all human confrontation with death, conflict, love, sex, rebirth and mystical experience. When an archetype is activated by an emotionally charged event (such as a tragedy), says Jung, other related events tend to draw near. In this way the archetypes become a doorway that provide us access to the experience of meaningful (and often insightful) coincidence.

Implicit in Jung's concept of synchronicity is the belief in the ultimate "oneness" of the universe. As Jung expressed it, such phenomenon betrays a "peculiar interdependence of objective elements among themselves as well as with the subjective (psychic) states of the observer or observers." Jung claimed to have found evidence of this interdependence, not only in his psychiatric studies, but in his research of esoteric practices as well.

Of the I Ching, a Chinese method of divination which Jung regarded as the clearest expression of the synchronicity principle, he wrote:

"The Chinese mind, as I see it at work in the I Ching, seems to be exclusively preoccupied with the chance aspect of events. What we call coincidence seems to be the chief concern of this peculiar mind, and what we worship as causality passes almost unnoticed...While the Western mind carefully sifts, weighs, selects, classifies, isolates, the Chinese picture of the moment encompasses everything down to the minutes nonsensical detail, because all of the ingredients make up the observed moment."

Jung discovered the synchronicity within the I Ching also extended to astrology. In a letter to Freud dated June 12, 1911, he wrote:

"My evenings are taken up largely with astrology. I make horoscopic calculations in order to find a clue to the core of psychological truth. Some remarkable things have turned up which will certainly appear incredible to you...I dare say that we shall one day discover in astrology a good deal of knowledge that has been intuitively projected into the heavens."

In formulating his synchronicity principle, Jung was influenced to a profound degree by the "new" physics of the twentieth century, which had begun to explore the possible role of consciousness in the physical world. In 1945 Jung wrote

Physics has demonstrated that in the realm of atomic magnitudes objective reality presupposes an observer, and that only on this condition is a satisfactory scheme of explanation possible. This means, that a subjective element attaches to the physicist's world picture, and secondly that a connection necessarily exists between the psyche to be explained and the objective space-time continuum. These discoveries not only help loosen physics from the iron grip of its materialistic world, but confirmed what I recognized intuitively that matter and consciousness, far from operating independently of each other are, in fact, interconnected in an essential way, functioning as complementary aspects of a unified reality.

The belief suggested by quantum theory and by reports of synchronous events that matter and consciousness interact, is far from new. Synchronicity reveals the meaningful connections between the subjective and objective world. Synchronistic events provide an immediate religious experience as a direct encounter with the compensatory patterning of events in nature as a whole, both inwardly and outwardly.

Jung's Model

All synchronistic phenomena can be grouped under three categories:

1 The coincidence of a psychic state in the observer with a simultaneous objective, external event that corresponds to the psychic state or content, (e.g. the scarab), where there is no evidence of a causal connection between the psychic state and the external event, and where, considering the psychic relativity of space and time, such a connection is not even conceivable.

2. The coincidence of a psychic state with a corresponding (more or less simultaneous) external even taking place outside the observer's field of perception, i.e. at a distance, and only verifiable afterward.

3. The coincidence of a psychic state with a corresponding, not yet existent future event that is distant in time and can likewise only be verified afterward.

Two Fundamental Types of Synchronicity

1. One in which the compensatory activity of the archetype is experienced both inwardly and outwardly. [the event seems to emerge from the subconscious with access to absolute knowledge, which cannot be consciously known]

2. One in which the compensatory activity of the archetype is experienced outwardly only. [these convey to the ego a much-needed wholeness of the self's perspective, they show one a new perspective]

Essential Characteristics of the Synchronistic Event

1. The specific intrapsychic state of the subject defined as one of the following:

a) The unconscious content which, in accordance with the compensatory needs of the conscious orientation, enters consciousness [something is in our conscious]

b) The conscious orientation of the subject around which the compensatory synchronistic activity centers [something happens concerning what is in our mind]

2. An objective event corresponds with this intrapsychic state [may be literal or figurative correspondence]

a) The objective event as a compensatory equivalent to the unconscious compensatory content

b) The objective event as the sole compensatory of the ego-consciousness

3. Even though the intrapsychic state and the objective event may be synchronous according to clock time and spatially near to each other, the objective event may, contrary to this, be distant in time and/or space in relation to the intrapsychic state [as in telepathy, clairvoyance, etc.]

4. The intrapsychic state and the objective event are not causally related to each other [acausality]

5. The synchronistic event is meaningful [excludes some coincidence, but does not require the meaning to be understood]

a) The intrapsychic state and the objective event as meaningful parallels.

b. The numinous charge associated with the synchronistic experience [feeling of spiritual experience]

c. Import of the subjective-level interpretation [the content must reflect back on the issues of the individual]

d. The archetypal level of meaning [transcends the individual and implies absolute knowledge].

Princeton Case Study and Conclusions

A 2005 study at Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research Lab, suggested that there is a small, though statistically measurable link, between human thought and patterns that occur in random data sets. There is no evidence as to whether this is caused by individuals unintentionally recognizing complex patterns and then molding their thoughts towards an unconsciously known result or the thoughts of the individual are themselves affecting the random patterns in a manner of individuation. This study's results have not been replicated, and its methodologies are disputed. Since the theory of synchronicity is not testable according to the classical scientific method, it is not widely regarded as scientific.

Probability theory can attempt to explain events such as the plum pudding incident in our normal world, without any interference by any universal alignment forces. However, the correct variables required for actually computing the probability cannot be found. This is not to say that synchronicity is not a good model for describing a certain kind of human experience, but, according to the scientific method, it is a reason for the refusal of the idea that synchronicity should be considered a "hard fact", i.e., an actually existing principle of our universe.

Supporters of the theory claim that since the scientific method is applicable only to those phenomena that are reproducible, independent of observer and quantifiable, the argument that synchronicity is not scientifically 'provable' should be considered a red herring, as, by definition, synchronistic events are not independent of the observer, since the observer's unique history is precisely what gives the synchronistic event meaning for the observer.

A synchronistic event appears like just another meaningless 'random' event to anyone else without the unique prior history which correlates to the event. This reasoning claims that the principle of synchronicity raises the question of the subjectivity of significance and meaning in the sequence of natural events.

Correlation can also be described as an 'acausal connecting principle' and so has been proposed as an analogy to the phenomenon of synchronicity. Though correlation does not necessarily imply causation, yet, correlation may in fact be a physical property shared by events without there being a classical cause-effect relationship, as shown in quantum physics, where widely separated events can be correlated without being linked by a direct physical cause-effect.

Synchronicity has been proposed as a corollary phenomenon of the many-worlds or parallel universes theory of quantum physics, in that the subject is somehow 'navigating' to those particular alternate worlds that are correlated to their past history, among the myriad possible other worlds that are not as correlated to their past history. Although this idea has made it into the popular press, it is considered pseudoscience by most scientists as the parallel universe theory states that all possible futures exist simultaneously, therefore the subject indeed lives out all possible futures in parallel.

• As you move forward upon your individual path, you will notice the subtle changes occurring within your own bodies and energetic systems and you will marvel at the role of conduit you are playing. The energies flow through you at certain periods of each day and radiate out into the World around you. This then, is the contribution you are making to bring in the higher frequencies and in anchoring these upon and within the Earth, no matter the seeming chaos around you.

  Your work has shifted to that of co-creator of your new Age of Light. Your every thought, word and deed is being brought into higher expression as you surrender your human will to Divine Will and daily intend to align with your higher, more refined Self. We are happy to see that there is now more acceptance, tolerance and forgiveness of self and others as you realize that each has their own path to follow and you remember your own journey into becoming and encourage those around you to open themselves to their greater potentials.

  As the growth within those around you takes place, know that your presence amongst them is most important in the stabilizing and calming of the polarities that must be experienced within each individual and which is reflected in the outer World as shifting energies, as their alignment to a higher expression of themselves continues to take place. It is at this time that your continued intention to hold the Light and the highest vision for all is most needed. It can at times be quite challenging, for you are having to still experience the expressions of the old paradigm that have not yet transformed and you long for the outer reflection of the World around you to match the being of Light that you are.

  Be patient with yourselves and give nurturance as needed. As your bodies continue in their transformation, listen to your inner promptings. Rest when you must in order to maintain greater equilibrium. Many of you are requiring long periods of sleep and this is assisting in your recalibration. You are helping when you do this at the inner levels in so many ways and at so many different levels that you would be greatly surprised if remembrance of this came to you.

  The refining of your World and your physical vehicles will continue until all is transformed and you now know that your focus does make a great difference in creating the highest outcome. All that is required is that you live your life experiencing the greatest joy and laughter in the lightness of your being, with all shadows still remaining having no place to hide and therefore being brought into integration with all that you are, and all of it, ALL of it, Dear Ones, is now a stepping into a greater power. Well done!

  Until next week…

  I AM Hilarion

  ©2013 Marlene Swetlishoff/Tsu-tana (Soo-tam-ah) Keeper of the Symphonies of Grace

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Channeled by Holly Hawkins Marwood
Transcribed by Paul Marwood

GETTING TO KNOW YOUR LIGHT-BODY (Part 1)

(For the most benefit of this channeling we recommend you listen to the audio.) “Greetings dear Ones, We are the High Council of Orion.

As always it is a pleasure to connect with you beautiful beings of light.  And as such we would like to discuss this concept of light today. For at your core that is what you are.  And yet because your experience of your physical body is so dense, is so physically real it’s hard to understand that truly what you are is a beautiful being of light that emanates as such.

What we’re going to talk about today is giving you information that will allow you to turn up the dimmer switch if you will, so that your light can shine at its fullest brightness.  As it does it assists you in feeling at your optimal level, and it assists those around you to connect with that level of light, allowing them to shine brighter as well.

We begin today by asking you to be wherever you are, sitting or lying down listening to this message, if you’re in your car listen along but practice this when you are not in motion.  Practice this when your body can be sitting still, and your attention can be withdrawn within.

Drawing your attention inward, always inward to that central core of who you are, into your heart, and allow yourself those moments to really feel and connect into the place of your heart.  As you do, you can feel perhaps warm expansion, maybe movement in that area of your heart or heart chakra area.  Just allow yourself to release your conscious mind into the space of your heart, so that you can be in that place of beingness in your heart.

Once you feel established in that space of your heart as your center of experience, as we’ve said in previous channelings.  Moving your sensory receptors of sight, hearing, sound, taste, smell and beyond into that place of your heart, so you can be living and experiencing life from that place of you heart.

Some of you might see and experience colors that give you that indication that you are well connected to your heart.  As you do so what we ask you to do is just connect with the light of who you are.  Ask to be shown your light bodies, from the place of allowing and not efforting, and allow what it means to be shown your light bodies to show up in whatever way it’s appropriate for you in that moment in time.  For some of you you might see something behind your closed eyes, for some of you that showing up might be in terms to how you feel, perhaps you’ll hear something different in your ears.

But take a moment and ask to connect with the light being who you are at your core. As you do so, we ask you to scan your light-body and see if the brightness is equal in all areas within your light-body.  Does it feel that the light is shining brightly in all areas, or do you see some areas that might look as if the light was turned down there, or maybe even off?  Without getting into your academic mind of thinking of “Oh what might that be and does that mean I’m sick, or is there something there?”  If you see those darker areas, take that nice relaxed deep breath in for yourself, and as you do see the light expanding and infusing into those darker areas, and keep working with each of those darker areas if you see any.  Always emanating the love from your heart, the light of your light-body out to nourish in all directions your physical body and your light-bodies.  Take a moment and scan some more. Is the light shining as brightly as it could?

As you find those areas, see the volume of the light being turned up, maybe gather some light from an area that’s quite bright and bring it to that dimmer area, and keep working with it till you feel it holding.  Always allowing yourself to breathe those relaxed belly breaths. Observing that your shoulders are dropped and your body is relaxed.

This is an act of love, this is an act of allowing and not efforting, and when you feel the light balanced as you scan around your body, through the light-bodies, and feel that light starting to grow and expand so that your light-body begins to become larger in all directions. You can use your breathing to allow it to expand, by breathing in more light through your inbreath, and as you breathe out see that light expand out.  Just feel what that feels like with your consciousness centered in your heart, being connected with your light-bodies, seeing and feeling that light-body that extends up above your physical body, beyond the edges of your physical body on the sides and front and behind you and below you.  This experience in the moment allows you to transcend the limitations of the physical body, and allow you to enhance the reality of living beyond the five senses.  It allows you to move closer to that experience of oneness.  For oneness is lived through the heart and the light-bodies.  What we ask you to do is just sit and feel and experience the light of who you are in this moment in time.

We will leave you with this thought and this feeling, and we encourage you to sit and be in this moment for as long as you can, immersing yourself in that expanded feeling, and we will continue on with this experience of working with your light-body in our next message.  Breathe in and feel the light, the light of who you are and feel the joy in that expansiveness.

Be Blessed.

We are the High Council of Orion.”

The High Council of Orion has taught us the 111™ Activation to help you with connecting more deeply with your heart and Soul, assisting you to move forward in your journey at this time. More information about this is here.

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• Nothing has put your progress back where Ascension is concerned, and all proceeds in an acceptable way. Somewhere along your path and not too far into the future, your civilization will fully ascend as planned. At that time you will have achieved a point of critical mass, and it will not depend on anything else for its success. So it is now up to you to create the circumstances by which it can be achieved, by keeping a powerful focus on all that you desire. Do not lose sight of the fact that all of the time you are creating your future, and many parallel worlds. Be sure of what it is you want and place your intent upon all that is pure and wholesome, and for the betterment of all.

  Following your upliftment you are now more powerful than ever, and with the subduing of the Dark Ones little stands in your way to the fulfillment all of you had been led to expect. The world as you know it is still of the old paradigm, and has little to offer now that you have turned your back upon it. It is you however who are calling the changes, and much has already been put in place to bring about a succession of announcements, that will ensure you know that the New Age has begun. The world is in a turmoil but events planned will bring about peaceful solutions, and where needed will be backed by us. We certainly do not intend to disappear from sight, as our future is very much tied up with yours.

  We of the Galactic Federation of Light are as busy as ever, as many issues concerning the changes are being sorted out. This means liaison with our allies to ensure that our plans are going to deliver what we need. Our craft have successfully kept a nuclear war at bay, which has threatened on more than one occasion of late. Such ideas no longer have any place in your world, and is the weapon of your last cabal who have been disempowered. In time all types of warfare will cease, and total world peace will be declared. Many industries connected with such activities will have to turn their hand to more useful and peaceful needs. There is no need to worry about the future job situation, as people will not suffer as a consequence of changes, as prosperity will take care of their needs.

  You will be taken out of your poverty and lack, and become part of a society that will share abundance for everyone’s needs. Simply go with the flow, and know that your frustrations and disappointments will soon fade into the background. You are so far along the path to full Ascension, that it is absolutely assured to be your greatest experience so far. Afterwards you may well consider your mission to Mother Earth and duality to be complete, and return to your home planet. It will be your choice that will decide your future, and many will continue their journey with Mother Earth. The cleansing of Earth is beginning to start in earnest, and we are now active in that respect.

  You will certainly begin to see more of us in your skies, because as threats against us are eliminated it will be safer for us to show ourselves. We want to leave you in no doubt as to our presence, and then First Contact will become more likely to happen. It will of course be done with the correct protocol that acknowledges the leaders of your different nations. It is not an issue we wish to force, but it is our strong desire that it shall not be put off for too long. Together we have so much to do and already know those of you who are suitable allies to participate in the changes. For this reason, some of you have already visited our ships several times, but we erase the memories to avoid an over reaction on your part. When you have other earthly responsibilities, we do not want you to become distracted and ignore them. There will be plenty of time for such things in the very near future.

  We share your vision for the future where your civilization will co-exist with us as One. Where your understanding of life and its true purpose, will lead to the removal of all barriers that have been keeping you separated from each other. Already we see how you are beginning to see yourself in others, realizing that in essence you all have the same desire for peace and happiness. You can enjoy the differences in each others life styles, and in art you see a true expression of the inner person. Forget color or race, politics or religion as in time none of these will stand in the way of a great coming together. Ease of modern travel and communication have already drawn you closer. For those of you who believe in the truth of reincarnation, it is so much easier to accept what we have been referring to. You know that each of you have had lives in many different cultures, in many different countries as part of your evolutionary development.

  Realize that duality is all but at an end and that you volunteered to have experience within it, and it can rightly be viewed as an experiment. It has never been your true reality yet some people have got so used to it, they are reluctant to give it up. The familiar is always going to feel comfortable, but duality and the 3rd.dimension have served their purpose and are now breaking up. It is true however, that those who wish to remain in a similar existence will have their wishes granted. God has given you freewill and will not take it away from you. Only you will give it up as you progress through the higher dimensions and become a pure Being of Light. Then you will become at One with All That Is and serve the Will of God.

  At present you are but an aspect of your real self, and understandably do not grasp what a wonderful powerful soul you are. Your potential is unlimited, and the first step back to a recognition of it comes with Ascension, and your return to full consciousness. Think big as you go through this year and know that it will be quite remarkable and exciting. You will as you might say ” come of age” and the past will quickly fade into the distance, and no longer have any pull upon you. So let go and put all of your energy into helping bring the changes into manifestation. Be Love incarnate and forgive all of those who have entered your life with darkness, and give freely of your love. It is the only way to release yourself from your past, and step fully into the Light.

  I am SaLuSa from Sirius, and overjoyed at your intent to push forward, and not waste your energies on what has now moved into history. The future belongs to you, so make sure it is what you truly desire.

  Thank you SaLuSa
  Mike Quinsey.

  http://www.treeofthegoldenlight.com/

Alien Contact ~ The Return Message

Close your eyes and you will see clearly. 
Cease to listen and you will hear truth.

Be silent and your heart will sing. 
Seek no contacts and you will find union.

Be still and you will move forward on the tide of the spirit. 
Be gentle and you will need no strength.

Be patient and you will achieve all things. 
Be humble and you will remain entire.

~ Taoist meditation ~

"Greetings, Beloved Family! We come to you with messages of the utmost importance, for it is that you and your World are on the brink of another great shift. It is to empower this potential to the maximum degree possible that we invite you to join with us, and we shall indeed give you the explanation herein.

"First, however, we shall address two other topics of great importance. You are aware of the many different stories circulating on the internet, and we wish to remind you that among them are varying degrees of Truth - everything from complete Truth to complete lies. It is up to each and every one of you to discern what is truthful for you, but be mindful of what you call the 'wolf in the clothing of the sheep.' There are some who are skilled at deliberately presenting false information appearing real (F.E.A.R.), and there are others who unknowingly do so. This is why I have chosen the excerpt which accompanies this message, so as to remind you of that which we are preparing to be accomplished in the nearest possible moment!

"The advice which accompanies this is to be in the Highest State of Love, and to let all of your discernments emanate from that place. It is far more productive, in this 4D Golden Age, to envision and focus upon what you call the positive creations, rather than continuing to be caught up in the 'don't want' negative ones. So, for example, look for news of peaceful expressions and events and rejoice at those, rather than dwelling on the horrors of violence and war! This is how you create Peace on Earth, which is your Divine Heritage!

"You have the awareness that the new energies are accelerating, not only time itself, but also the time which it takes to manifest everything!!! Thus it is that we, Beloved Family, have 'Golden Opportunities' as never before to bring forth all of the loving and joyful potentials that this Golden Age is here to give to us! We shall be in further discussion of this when we gather on 1-22, and I invite all of you to join us on this free teleconference call!* With us shall be a special guest speaker, who is St Germain!!! He now has a most special message and invitation to you all:

"Beloved Family, I come here to stand with my Brother, and with all of you, who are in Truth my Brothers and Sisters in shining the Light of Freedom for the World!!! And it is that we are at a most exciting moment to further all that you have been waiting for in this - specifically the official announcement of NESARA and all of the great Abundance it brings to everyone on Earth!

"Yet, there is still preparation to do, but we have an opportunity to accelerate this in an exponential way! We have told you many times that President Obama is of the Light. Yes, we do know that he has sometimes seemed not to be so, but this is only because we have advised him to play the game, as it were, so as to seem to be furthering the agenda of the dark hats. The reality of this wisdom is now coming forth, as these ones are being exposed and arrested.

"Obama's inauguration is on Monday, 1-21. We urge you to watch it if at all possible, and to invite everyone you know to do the same. It is to feel the energy of his Love, and to radiate Love back to him, which is the primary mission, so that he will beam forth the Highest levels and amounts of this energy!!! It will also serve as a message to the darks hats - a message which is an invitation to join us in the Light, or to 'stand down,' because the Light has prevailed!!!

"I assure you that I am with Obama constantly as he prepares for this event. You will hear from me, even as he speaks, for he graciously and gratefully accepts the inspirations I give to him! Some of you may even see me standing with him - as to whether a few or all will do so 'remains to be seen.' I am open to all possibilities! Nevertheless, I will be there, as will all of us who come from the Higher Dimensions! Yes, Ashtar and his ships will be there in huge numbers as well, in order to provide the necessary security, as well as lending their loving suppport.

"I encourage you to attend this magnificent event as it occurs,** or to watch the film of it later, and to send your loving and supportive energies to Obama and to all of the White Knights who have made this great day possible. For, this is truly the official inauguration of the Golden Age of Love, Freedom, Abundance and Peace on Earth!!! Namaste!"

Given through Susan Leland, January 18, 2013. © Ashtar On The Road Publications 2004-2013. All Rights Reserved.

* "Ashtar Teleconferences," www.ashtarontheroad.com .

**The live public swearing in ceremony will begin at approximately 11:30am, Eastern Standard Time, on January 21, 2013. News coverage of the events of the day will begin earlier.

EXCERPT FROM ASHTAR'S 1-8-13 MESSAGE

"Now, we have a lot in store for you, a lot of changes, yes! All of the changes which have to do with the improvements in your financial system, to make it as good as gold, are coming, and they are coming forth very rapidly, as these Beloved News Masters have stated.*

"St. Germain is in charge - he has been since the beginning!Regardless of what reports might have been coming your way, you can count on the Count, because he’s got everything flowing in exactly the right ways, in exactly the right moments. He is taking care of financial business, yours and everyone’s, in ways that are higher dimensional, as is only appropriate. Now, yes there are still some clones and holograms and 3D programs and so on and so on - they are echoes, they are done creating any kind of additions to the 3D financial structures which have enslaved the world, up to now.

"He has the capability to see the entire elephant all at once. You will recall that quite often we have used the elephant as an example of such an enormous being, and with so many areas or parts, that it is difficult to see the whole elephant at once. But trust me, St. Germain has that capability, as do I, and all of us who are still residing in slightly Higher realms than in those which you have come to. It’s all happening, and it will be in the sequential flow that St. Germain has set up and is carrying through. Certain things have to happen in order.

"Now, we want to clarify one thing before we move on. You have the Trust, the World Trust that St. Germain has set up in his bank, we will call it the 'World Trust,' although that name can be used for the other part that we’re going to discuss very briefly. But when we say the World Trust we say that there is money there for all the World, everyone in the world – every man, woman, and child – and it’s lots of money! Everybody is going to receive from his bank, and it’s all supported by gold and other precious metals.

"Don’t worry, nobody is going to arrive on your doorstep with what you call a block, or a brick, of gold – yes, there will be electronic accounting for everyone and ways to access your funds that will not require you to carry a bag of gold coins or, for instance, a brick or block, or whatever, if you are going to buy a large item. There will be currency which is at par to all other currency, because gold is going to be at par worldwide, and so will all the other precious metals.

"Don’t panic about that, all we are saying is that the commodities market is not going to exist the way it does now. Do not feel that you have to run out and buy some gold right now. You are going to get plenty of gold, or we should say, its High Dimensional representation. Before that happens, there will be the funding of the Humanitarian Trusts, sometimes also called the World Trust. They are Humanitarian Trusts in the sense that there are certain people who had an opportunity, and those who seized the opportunity, or shall we say, acted upon it – jumped in, because it resonated with them, and they will be receiving special funds, rather large amounts, to fund Humanitarian projects.

"Now, that is a word that - again they could say, 'World Projects,' or 'World Improvement Projects,' or 'World Healing Projects,' but 'Humanitarian' is the word. It’s not just for the human kingdom, it’s for everyone; it’s to clean up the air, the water, the soil, it’s to make everybody from Mother Gaia’s Kingdoms enjoy absolute health, and high-vibrational Joy! This is the mission of those who are in these programs, and yes they will share with Humans, and they will fund projects, huge projects, to bring about these changes, partnering with us and our technologies.

"That which you see in the mainstream news media, a lot of it, is just hyper-fear. We will be putting out information that you can read, and you can go to Tara and Rama’s website* and read the information there, and there are others who are messengers who are getting the Truth! Because they are actually able to filter out that which is not Truth, and it is our fondest advice to you, because we love you so much, and we feel as though you have quite a bit to do, so we are advising you not to spin your wheels on things that don’t sound or feel truthful, things that don’t resonate, and that have any fear contained within them.

"That’s pretty broad, but that’s why we say to check in with your Hearts, let that LoveLight pour in - put it in the Light, and see how it holds up, and if it doesn’t quite look high vibe, full of the energies of Love, you might just want to let it go. Now, we are going to tell you something else, and that is that being a Golden Ager means that you have access to a whole goodie bag of gifts, talents, wisdom, and dreams come true. So stop thinking, 'Oh, I’m just dreaming, that will never happen,' or any of that stuff -you’ve got to reinforce your Mastery!!!

"You’ve got to say, 'I Am Divine, and I call forth (whatever it is), and so it is!!!' You don’t have to be specific. Don’t get caught up in expectations. We’re telling you the basic steps that St. Germain has put in place that are on the timeline for receiving your Abundance. Oh and there’s one other thing - I am so excited to be here! But I need to also mention NESARA. NESARA will be announced. The Humanitarian Trusts will be funded within a very short time of NESARA’s announcement. The disbursements from St. Germain’s bank to every man, woman and child will not, as it is seen in this moment, happen as fast as the Humanitarian fundings, but they will happen!

"Alright, that’s what being a Higher Dimensional Being is about! And when we say these changes are taking place behind the scenes – well, you just heard some of them – so when you get an email or a telephone call perhaps from a friend asking if you’ve seen the latest on the internet, remember to check it out for yourselves and be discerning, and remember the order: NESARA first, then the Humanitarian Programs, of which there are many, many, many, and many, many dollars will be coming forth to jump start these projects of every kind. You will have opportunities to participate in them in your community or even Worldwide if you want!

"Make a list of one or more places in the World that need changing, from your perspective, and put some of your energy, put your Hearts into that, because that, Beloved Ones, is the continuing, ongoing Mission of Ashtar on the Road, and we are all dedicated and committed to being here in service with you, and that is what, if you want to call it future, that is what the future is!!! But it’s all done on the timelines of the Golden Age!

"So we have a lot to look forward to in the sense of calling it forth. Don’t wait for the future to come to you. Bring yourselves to the future by calling forth, with all of your loving energies, all of the changes which are the lifestyle of 4D and higher! And that, Beloved Ones, is a monumental Mission, but we have to tell you that, together, it’s done!!!

"Thank you all for being with us! And so it is! Salut!"

Given through Susan Leland,
 www.AshtarontheRoad.com

The Fear Factor

Daily Inspiration

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself!” That quote from President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 1933 inaugural address is probably the most famous quote ever spoken about fear.

Today, I’d like to address this powerful and inescapable part of our shared human experience because, no matter who you are or where you’re from, you’ll definitely come face-to-face with fear sometime. Some people fall to their knees and become immobilized when confronted with fear; others find a way to mine their fear for added motivation and energy.

Before we get into the specifics, let’s first define our term. Fear is actually a state of mind that, in turn, creates both biological and psychological reactions. It’s loosely defined as an intense feeling of concern, dread, panic or anxiety about something real that’s about to happen or something that you imagine may happen in the future.

There are basically two very different types of fear. For the sake of simplicity, let’s call them real fear and imagined fear. Real fear is anything attached to an actual concrete event. For example, you have a fear of flying and are about to step onto an airplane for a long flight. With imagined fear, using the same airplane example, you’re terrified to get on the plane because you fear it will fall from the sky and crash. In both of these situations, fear creates an unsettled and panicked mindset that produces a myriad of physical and emotional reactions.

Fear is such an ordinary human experience that we tend to have a lot of fears in common. Some of the most common fears that people share are included below:

Fear of flying
Fear of public speaking
Fear of heights
Fear of the dark
Fear of death
Fear of failure
Fear of rejection
Fear of spiders and other critters
Fear of commitment
Fear of the unknown
Fear of being alone
Fear of financial problems
Fear of getting seriously ill

As I stated earlier, fear is actually a state of mind. In this way, fear is fundamentally and intimately tied to the self-talk that goes on inside your head. If you can change that internal dialogue, you can diffuse your fear.

For example, there’s a behavioral therapeutic approach to managing fear, anxiety and phobias called Systematic Desensitization. It operates under the simple premise that what has been learned can also be unlearned. With the help of the therapist, you’re gradually taught to incrementally confront your fear with the use of imagery, relaxation training and other techniques.

Fear is also the trigger for the infamous fight-or-flight response in humans. The flight-or-flight response propels people, when confronted with a situation that causes fear, to either dig in and make a stand or turn tail and run for the hills. However, with fear, there’s also a third option that many people experience: They become paralyzed and aren’t able to act at all.

One of the keys to living a happy, healthy life lies in learning how to deal with fear. Depending on the extent of the fear and how debilitating it is, you may need to see a professional therapist for help.

In most cases, however, most of us find a way to push through those things that scare us without professional assistance. For the sake of brevity, I offer you a simple four step process using F.E.A.R. as an acronym:

1. Face it head on
2. Evaluate the irrational thoughts creating the fear
3. Attack those irrational thoughts
4. Re-approach with a new mindset

As the late Dale Carnegie once said, “You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.”

What is fear preventing you from doing or accomplishing in your life?

Wishing You Great Health,
Dr. John H. Sklare

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Do not suppress it - that would hurt you inside. Do not express it - this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it. --Peace Pilgrim

How to Transform Negative Emotions
--by Viral Mehta, Original Story, Sep 19, 2011

It was a cold night in a wooded area, extremely dark, with no moon in the sky. I must've strayed off of the path at some point. I shuffled my feet around, trying to feel for the smoothness of the trail. But there was just wet grass. The moment I realized I was lost, there was an immediate surge of fear. In situations like these, where we suddenly experience an intense emotion, we often find ourselves facing a storm of "what-if" scenarios: "What if I don't find the trail? What if I can't find my way back? What if I have to be outside in the freezing cold all night?"

Before we know it, we are feeding these negative thoughts, which in turn strengthens the emotional response, and the vicious cycle intensifies. The problem isn't in the thoughts themselves, or even in the emotion. The word emotion comes from the Latinemovere, meaning to "move through or out." So in its original form, there isn't any trace of clinging to, or rejecting, these movements. But instead of allowing emotions to move through and out of us, we often feed them with negative thoughts and end up giving them long-term residence. In short order, the guests take over the house, leaving us reeling and unable to truly be in control.

So how do we turn this unhelpful pattern around? The key to any pattern is repetition. But in the case of such reactivity, this repetition is actually happening below the radar of our conscious mind. By the time a situation escalates to the point of emotion, we often find ourselves overpowered. The challenge, then, comes in sharpening our awareness so that we become sensitive to smaller versions of these same emotions.

Luckily, such micro-emotions bubble up in everyday experiences. Take an unrelated example. Say someone makes a snide remark in a meeting at work, and though it isn't a direct attack, I find myself a bit bothered. Just by having become conscious of that feeling arising, I put myself in the position to then see how it has started influencing me. What I'm thinking about is different, I'm no longer as attentive to the actual meeting and I'm feeling a bit resistant to other things that person is saying. All because of one small comment.

By consciously taking our attention to subtler levels of everyday experiences, we start to fine tune our awareness. We become increasingly awake to what's happening inside: perceptions, thoughts, feelings and sensations are constantly arising and passing. Luckily, this kind of attention is like a muscle: it gets stronger with use. The more we focus in this way, the more we start to see, but the real benefit isn't in just having more information.

The true value actually lies in understanding all the connections between these multiple aspects of our reality. We see that our interpretation affects how we feel and that, in turn, affects what we think, say and do. We start seeing the small ways in which we're "off," and more importantly, we experience their immediate effects. This becomes the basis for a powerful feedback loop and shows us where we have choice.

Initially, this choice won't shift things completely. But as we start to actually make more micro-decisions the momentum turns, and those everyday moments help in breaking our unconscious patterns. Perhaps before, that snide remark might've led to spending the next 10 minutes on coming up with a smart rejoinder. Then, it's down to two minutes before I realize what's happening. Soon, we find that our emotional reactivity has decreased, and we are catching things before they build up. Eventually, instead of getting lodged, these mini emotions flow right through us. As a result, we buy back our own time, as well as the space to re-engage with what's actually happening.

It might seem the antagonism that arises in meetings has nothing to do with the fear that arises when we're lost. But they actually share the same fundamental building blocks: a lack of deeper awareness, and therefore, an inability to make choices in how we respond. In the words of Victor Frankl, the great psychiatrist who survived the horrors of concentration camp: "Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances"

No one can take away that freedom, but no one can give it to us either -- we have to practice it. We can make every situation a gateway to shift our patterns, knowing that the effects of this change ripple beyond just that moment. Then, as we find ourselves facing a tricky situation, we recognize that experience as a series of smaller, consecutive moments, each with its own choice. When these choices become more and more conscious, the cycle of negativity never gets a chance to kick in and intense emotions don't get a chance to set up shop.

On that cold night, soon after I'd gotten lost, I experienced how this process played out. Though I have far from perfected the art, in that moment, the fear came and didn't find a lasting foothold. I soon found my way back onto the trail and also stumbled onto this little truth along the way: choice is the practice and its own reward.

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The education of attention would be an education par excellence. --William James

How to Trick Your Brain for Happiness

--by Rick Hanson, Greater Good, Sep 15, 2012

There’s this great line by Ani Tenzin Palmo, an English woman who spent 12 years in a cave in Tibet: “We do not know what a thought is, yet we’re thinking them all the time.”

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It’s true. The amount of knowledge we have about the brain has doubled in the last 20 years. Yet there’s still a lot we don’t know.

In recent years, though, we have started to better understand the neural bases of states like happiness, gratitude, resilience, love, compassion, and so forth. And better understanding them means we can skillfully stimulate the neural substrates of those states—which, in turn, means we can strengthen them. Because as the famous saying by the Canadian scientist Donald Hebb goes, “Neurons that fire together, wire together.”

Ultimately, what this can mean is that with proper practice, we can increasingly trick our neural machinery to cultivate positive states of mind.

But in order to understand how, you need to understand three important facts about the brain.

Fact one: As the brain changes, the mind changes, for better or worse.

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For example, more activation in the left prefrontal cortex is associated with more positive emotions.

So as there is greater activation in the left, front portion of your brain relative to the right, there is also greater well-being. That’s probably in large part because the left prefrontal cortex is a major part of the brain for controlling negative emotion. So if you put the breaks on the negative, you get more of the positive.

On the other hand, people who routinely experience chronic stress—particularly acute, even traumatic stress—release the hormone cortisol, which literally eats away, almost like an acid bath, at the hippocampus, which is a part of the brain that’s very engaged in visual-spatial memory as well as memory for context and setting.

For example, adults who have had that history of stress and have lost up to 25 percent of the volume of this critically important part of the brain are less able to form new memories.

So we can see that as the brain changes, the mind changes. And that takes us to the second fact, which is where things really start getting interesting.

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Fact two: As the mind changes, the brain changes.

These changes happen in temporary and in lasting ways. In terms of temporary changes, the flow of different neurochemicals in the brain will vary at different times. For instance, when people consciously practice gratitude, they are likely getting higher flows of reward-related neurotransmitters, like dopamine. Research suggests that when people practice gratitude, they experience a general alerting and brightening of the mind, and that’s probably correlated with more of the neurotransmitter norepinephrine.

Here’s another example of how changes in mental activity can produce changes in neural activity: When college students deeply in love are shown a picture of their sweetheart, their brains become more active in the caudate nucleus, a reward center of the brain. As the mind changes—that rush of love, that deep feeling of happiness and reward—correlates with activation of a particular part of the brain. When they stop looking at that picture of their sweetheart, the reward center goes back to sleep.

Now the mind also can change the brain in lasting ways. In other words, what flows through the mind sculpts the brain. I define the mind as the flow of immaterial information through the nervous system—all the signals being sent, most of which are happening forever outside of consciousness.

As the mind flows through the brain, as neurons fire together in particularly patterned ways based on the information they are representing, those patterns of neural activity change neural structure.

So busy regions of the brain start stitching new connections with each other. Existing synapses—the connections between neurons that are very busy—get stronger, they get more sensitive, they start building out more receptors. New synapses form as well.

One of my favorite studies of this involved taxi cab drivers in London. To get a taxi license there, you’ve got to memorize the spaghetti-like streets of London. Well, at the end of the drivers’ training, the hippocampus of their brain—a part very involved in visual-spatial memory—is measurably thicker.

In other words, neurons that fire together wire together, even to the point of being observably thicker.

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This has also been found among meditators: People who maintain some kind of regular meditative practice actually have measurably thicker brains in certain key regions. One of those regions is the insula, which is involved in what’s called “interoception”—tuning into the state of your body, as well as your deep feelings. This should be no surprise: A lot of what they’re doing is practicing mindfulness of breathing, staying really present with what’s going on inside themselves; no wonder they’re using, and therefore building, the insula.

Another region is the frontal regions of the prefrontal cortex—areas involved in controlling attention. Again, this should be no surprise: They’re focusing their attention in their meditation, so they’re getting more control over it, and they’re strengthening its neural basis.

What’s more, research has also shown that it’s possible to slow the loss of our brain cells. Normally, we lose about 10,000 brain cells a day. That may sound horrible, but we were born with 1.1 trillion. We also have several thousand born each day, mainly in the hippocampus, in what’s called neurogenesis.

So losing 10,000 a day isn’t that big a deal, but the net bottom line is that a typical 80 year old will have lost about 4 percent of his or her brain mass—it’s called “cortical thinning with aging.” It’s a normal process.

But in one study, researchers compared meditators and non-meditators. In the graph to the left, the meditators are the blue circles and the non-meditators are the red squares, comparing people of the same age. The non-meditators experienced normal cortical thinning in those two brain regions I mentioned above, along with a third, the somatosensory cortex.

However, the people who routinely meditated and “worked” their brain did not experience cortical thinning in those regions.

That has a big implication for an aging population: Use it or lose it, which applies to the brain as well as to other aspects of life.

That highlights an important point that I think is a major takeaway in this territory: Experience really matters. It doesn’t matter only in our moment-to-moment well-being—how it feels to be me—but it really matters in the lasting residues that it leaves behind, woven into our very being.

Which takes us to the third fact, which is the one with the most practical import.

Fact three: You can use the mind to change the brain to change the mind for the better.

This is known as “self-directed neuroplasticity.” Neuroplasticity refers to the malleable nature of the brain, and it’s constant, ongoing. Self-directed neuroplasticity means doing it with clarity and skillfulness and intention.

The key to it is a controlled use of attention. Attention is like a spotlight, to be sure, shining on things within our awareness. But it’s also like vacuum cleaner, sucking whatever it rests upon into the brain, for better or worse.

For example, if we rest our attention routinely on what we resent or regret—our hassles, our lousy roommate, what Jean-Paul Sartre called “hell” (other people)—then we’re going to build out the neural substrates of those thoughts and feelings.

On the other hand, if we rest our attention on the things for which we’re grateful, the blessings in our life—the wholesome qualities in ourselves and the world around us; the things we get done, most of which are fairly small yet they’re accomplishments nonetheless—then we build up very different neural substrates.

I think that’s why, more than 100 years ago, before there were things like MRIs, William James. the father of psychology in America, said. “The education of attention would be an education par excellence.”

The problem, of course, is that most people don’t have very good control over their attention. Part of this is due to human nature, shaped by evolution: Our forbearers who just focused on the reflection of sunlight in the water—they got chomped by predators. But those who were constantly vigilant—they lived.

And today we are constantly bombarded with stimuli that the brain has not evolved to handle. So gaining more control over attention one way or another is really crucial, whether it’s through the practice of mindfulness, for instance, or through gratitude practices, where we count our blessings.

Those are great ways to gain control over your attention because there you are, for 30 seconds or 30 minutes, coming back to focus on an object of awareness.

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Taking in the good

This brings me to one of my favorite methods for deliberately using the mind to change the brain over time for the better: taking in the good.

Just having positive experiences is not enough to promote last well-being. If a person feels grateful for a few seconds, that’s nice. That’s better than feeling resentful or bitter for a few seconds. But in order to really suck that experience into the brain, we need to stay with those experiences for a longer duration of time—we need to take steps, consciously, to keep that spotlight of attention on the positive.

So, how do we actually do this? These are the three steps I recommend for taking in the good. I should note that I did not invent these steps. They are embedded in many good therapies and life practices.

But I’ve tried to tease them apart and embed them in an evolutionary understanding of how the brain works.

1. Let a good fact become a good experience. Often we go through life and some good thing happens—a little thing, like we checked off an item on our To Do list, we survived another day at work, the flowers are blooming, and so forth. Hey, this is an opportunity to feel good. Don’t leave money lying on the table: Recognize that this is an opportunity to let yourself truly feel good.

2. Really savor this positive experience. Practice what any school teacher knows: If you want to help people learn something, make it as intense as possible—in this case, as felt in the body as possible—for as long as possible.

3. Finally, as you sink into this experience, sense your intent that this experience is sinking into you.

Sometimes people do this through visualization, like by perceiving a golden light coming into themselves or a soothing balm inside themselves. You might imagine a jewel going into the treasure chest in your heart—or just know that this experience is sinking into you, becoming a resource you can take with you wherever you go.

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Benefits of Sustainable Living

10 Ways to Live More Sustainably

What do Natural, DIY bloggers talk about in the car? Usually stuff like this:

“How many simple sustainable living tips can you list? GO!”

It took only a few minutes to come up with this list of 10 ideas; some we’ve covered before, but they’re always worth mentioning again.

If you’re scratching your head about what living a sustainable lifestyle means and why it’s important, consider these manifest advantages.

Using less resources – The ability to be sustained in certain areas of life means that you’re not depleting resources. Whether you’re concerned with saving trees, using less energy, or saving water, sustainable habits will support these (and many more) natural resources.

Eliminating harmful chemicals in your home – When you begin “going green” or learning how to make more of your own products at home, you are reducing the chances that harmful chemicals will be present in things your family uses. Your family’s health is no longer compromised by chemical-laden products and the earth is protected from the disposal of these chemicals.

Saving money – Learning to live sustainably almost always results in savings. Sometimes huge savings! When you are relying more on yourself and less on large companies to provide life’s essentials, the profit-driven middle man is removed from the equation. A more sustainable mindset will also cause you to reconsider purchasing certain products or services you once thought were absolutely necessities.

Simplifying – Sustainability is about checking out the big picture. Do I really need this big house, or could we create a happy home in less square footage? Do I absolutely need a closet full of this season’s latest fashions, or can I be creative with a few wardrobe staples? Do my kids need a room full of toys, or could they survive on one toy chest full? Should we take a trip to the amusement park or spend the time planting our garden? These are questions that quickly come into perspective when your goal is sustainability. You need less, buy less, spend less, and ultimately want less.

Creating less waste – When you purchase less and make more of your own products, far less packaging is used. Have you noticed how companies go so overboard with packaging? Sustainability promotes using what you have until it can’t be used anymore, recycling, and purchasing used.

Increasing personal skills/knowledge – Living sustainably always comes with great lessons. Have you ever researched specific ingredients so you could prepare more healthful food? Or found and followed a great do-it-yourself tutorial? Your personal skills and knowledge base grow each time you take steps in sustainability.

10 Sustainable Living Tips

Compare this list against your curent practices and challenge yourself to tackle one at a time.
We’re depending on YOU to help advance the sustainable revolution.

1. Bring your own water bottle

I’m starting with one of the easiest things you can do to save resources, create less waste, and save money. If you’re still buying bottled water, take a trip to the store and check the oodles of great reusable water bottles on the market. We don’t go ANYWHERE without our BPA free Nalgene water bottles. Get into the habit of treating your reusable water bottle like your purse or your wallet. Make sure it goes to work, school, and around town with you.

2. Use handkerchiefs instead of tissues

I recently wrote about my transition to hankies and caused quite a flurry of controversy. The issue of germs becomes a barrier for some, but can be easily remedied by keeping clean hankies on hand and putting soiled hankies in directly into the laundry or a reusable wet bag to avoid spreading germs. This sustainable practice saves money, uses less resources, and creates less (germy) waste around the house.

3. Bring your own shopping bags

Don’t just take your reusable shopping bags to the grocery store…take them everywhere. Haul them to the Farmer’s Market, the Dollar Store, the hardware store, or even GoodWill. Have you seen the documentary “Bag It,” about the impact plastic bag usage has on the environment and our health?

After watching this documentary, Matt and I won’t even use the little plastic produce bags.

Make a small investment in a few shopping bags and reusable produce bags that will last several years, or better yet, make your own! How do I solve the problem of standing in line at the store and realizing I forgot my bags in the car? I have a set of Chico Bags that stuff into a tiny ball when not in use, and sit in the bottom of my purse so I always have them. Don’t carry a purse? Keep your bags in a place you will see them and remember to take them with you.

4. Reusable cloths instead of paper towel

We used to go through enormous packages of paper towel in our wasteful heyday. Those enormous packages have an equally enormous price tag. And it all gets thrown away! Ugh! Make a switch to reusable cloths…microfiber towels, cotton dishrags, or even old t-shirt squares. Keep a stack of towels in drawers or baskets around the house, making them easily accessible when family members need to clean up a mess. If you can’t commit to eliminating paper towels completely, hide your paper towels (so you’re not as inclined to use them) and see if you can get by without them for MOST things. Read more about using less paper products in your house.

5. BYO to-go containers and silverware

We haven’t actually tried this one yet, but are dying to see the looks on faces when we pull out our own to-go container for leftovers while dining out. Or what about busting out a set of bamboo silverware at an event where plastic is being used? We can’t think of any reason we wouldn’t be allowed to bring our own. It would create so much less waste, and you would have control over the materials your containers and silverware were made from. (I hate when a server puts my hot food into a styrofoam to-go container! Ew!) Trying this experiment might even give onlookers the courage to do the same.

6. Make your own cleaners

Large companies have duped us into believing we need a separate cleaner for every job in the house. Not true! We also don’t need to fill our home with cupboards full of harsh chemical cleaners. Making your own cleaners is so simple and fun we wrote an entire book on the subject. Natural ingredients can be purchased very inexpensively, and can be used for many purposes around the house. Family members with allergies, asthma, or other health conditions can benefit from chemical-free homemade cleaning products. Consider purchasing our book to learn how to make all your own household cleaners.

7. Make your own beauty products

Wouldn’t you love to have complete control over all the ingredients in your personal care products? Starting with a few simple products, like deodorant or shampoo, is a great way to get started if you haven’t dabbled in this sustainable area yet. It’s astonishing that the regulations on cosmetic ingredients still aren’t very stringent. Making your own will help you eliminate harmful ingredients in your products, save money, learn new skills, and simplify your products. Furthermore, if you make your own you can use upcycled containers, eliminating all kinds of waste from packaging.

8. Grow your own food

The more food you can grow, the more you can cook at home and preserve. It cuts down on grocery bills, increases your sustainability, and creates a wonderful sense of accomplishment at harvest time.

Growing your own food doesn’t have to mean becoming a small-scale farm. Grow herbs in the windowsill, or a few of your favorite plants on a balcony or porch.

9. Make your own condiments

A good rule of thumb: if it’s sold in the store, you can make it at home. Yours will be cheaper, made from ingredients you choose, and designed for your tastebuds. Your skills in the kitchen will increase, and your friends will think you’re genius. Get some tips at Nourished Kitchen for some great, healthy condiment recipes.

10. Become a one car family

We finally bit the bullet a few months ago and made the permanent transition from two cars to one.

Now that we both work from home it was a logical choice. Travel may require planning ahead and rearranging schedules, but being a one car family is a great lesson in sustainability. We’re saving gas, eliminating operational costs for another vehicle, and learning to plan ahead and run all our errands during one trip. I know owning one car would be more difficult for some families than others, but sometimes you never know you can do it until you try it. Consider biking, walking, or utilizing public transportation as other sustainable travel habits.

A Sustainable Living Challenge

This conversation is just beginning…

Are you already doing all of these things to live sustainably? If not, we challenge you to choose one (or more) that you can adopt – let us know what it will be.

What ways are you living sustainably that are not mentioned in this article?

The community depends on your input!

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Abundance is a fact of nature. It is a fundamental law of nature, that there is enough and it is finite. Its finiteness is no threat; it creates a more accurate relationship that commands respect, reverence, and managing those resources with the knowledge that they are precious and in ways that do the most good for the most people. --Lynne Twist

Living with Just Enough

--by Azby Brown, Original Story, Sep 19, 2012

By now we are all extremely familiar with the litany of challenges we face as a global species, the threats of scarcity which pit state against state and community against community, problems manmade and visible in nature: growing population, increasing urbanization, deforestation, damaged watersheds, over-consumption of resources, energy shortages, waste, pollution....All of us could easily add to this list. We know there will be no easy fixes, no panaceas, but nevertheless as we try to set priorities and search for the most promising ways to approach these problems, many of us find ourselves looking to different cultures and to earlier eras for inspiration. In this regard, the Edo period of Japan has a lot to teach us. We could in fact use it as a model of how to flip impending environmental collapse into sustainability, primarily by allowing a rich and insightful mindset rooted in centuries of experience and wisdom to guide our decisions.

The Edo Period began in 1603, at the close of 200 years of civil war, and lasted two and a half centuries, coming to an end in 1868 as the country opened to the world and was first exposed to the fruits of the industrial revolution. Most of what we think of as "traditional" Japanese design comes from this era, when shoguns ruled and society was a strictly delineated hierarchical pyramid with samurai at the top, merchants at the bottom, and farmers and craftsmen, the bulk of society, in the middle. During this time the population rose to about 30 million, roughly comparable to Canada or Peru today, and the city of Edo -- renamed Tokyo in 1868 -- was home to over 1.3 million residents.

At the beginning of the Edo period, the people found that they had deforested their mountains and were suffering from a cascade of ill effects, such as damaged watersheds and decreasing agricultural productivity. Most resources, such as iron ore and potential fuel sources, were scarce; firewood itself was at a premium. Even more significantly, there was very little arable land, and by the mid-18th century all the land that could be used for farming was already utilized. The period began with shortages and famine, but after two or three generations of wise regeneration, the large population was enjoying a quality of life arguably higher than in any contemporary European country. The forests had been saved, agricultural production had increased manyfold, and culture and literacy were on the rise.

Beauty depended upon how well a thing helped people fulfill a host of unstated requirements that lent life its meaning and purpose and helped sustain it indefinitely into the future.

The specialization that so distinguishes our culture and technology today -- the very productive mental tools we have developed that enable us to break problems down into elements that can be worked on in isolation -- would seem very odd, even incomprehensible, to a Japanese of the Edo period. True, the society was rigidly stratified and in that sense specialized, and people worked for years to master specific trades. A miso shop was unlikely to sell kimonos.

But the culture as a whole was pervaded by a sense of time in which outcomes were measured in centuries, and in which it was nearly impossible to plan even simple tasks without a broader awareness of chains of consequences that would emerge from one's actions, or of the origins, destinations, and connections among the people and things which supported human life like a vast web of interconnected spirit. As is the case in so many pre-industrial societies, people were trained from an early age to be generalists, to be multi-competent, and to always be aware of the big picture. Religion, particularly Zen Buddhism, but also Shinto and Confucianism, acted as a balanced bed of "common sense" which encouraged such thinking.

Through the influence of these values, reflected in both commoner's proverbs and in the writings of the cultured elite, problems were defined in such a way that the need for long-term thinking, conservation of energy and resources, the need to work with instead of against natural forces, and the importance of providing meaningful work for everyone instead of endlessly seeking to minimize labor, became requirements so well understood they rarely needed to be explicitly stated.

Consequently, a farmer planning an irrigation channel would find it impossible to do so without relying on his understanding of the forest, the seasons, and the wildlife that would be affected.

A carpenter planning a temple would begin at the mountain from which his timber would come, analyzing the wind and watershed there. A blacksmith forging a hoe blade knew that the fuel he gathered for his fire would remain adequate to his needs only if he did not damage the forest while gathering it, and designed the blade to be repairable and replaceable as well. By nature and by training, at every level of society individuals learned to identify important nodes amid the myriad relationships they encountered in the natural world, little fulcrums, so to speak, where applying the right amount of effort would reap the greatest mutual benefit.

Water and fuel were both precious, for instance, so Edo Japanese considered hot water nearly sacramental, transforming both tea drinking and bathing into important rituals; everything that produced and used hot water was designed to achieve the greatest economy of fuel and fresh water use. The visual appearance of these things -- stoves, kettles, bathtubs, cups -- could be robust, elegant, fantastic, or even all three at once, but if it did not also perform the "magic" of efficient and waste-free operation, of being either recyclable or able to be used for generations (and then recycled), it would be considered a poor design, an ugly thing to own and use. And this, I think is one of the best-kept secrets of traditional Japanese design: beauty depended upon how well a thing helped people fulfill a host of unstated requirements that lent life its meaning and purpose and helped sustain it indefinitely into the future.

In an environment such as this, what kind of thought had to enter the design process in order to produce successful designs, which would continue to be used for a long time? Of course the item has to perform the function for which it was intended. The material of which it is made must be abundant and collectable without using much energy besides sun, water, gravity, and human power. Wood, bamboo, straw, and earth satisfied these requirements best in most cases, and this was reflected in the low cost of most items. Similarly, the manufacturing process had to use a minimum of external energy.

Because of this, iron and steel were quite expensive, and used sparingly. Beyond these basic requirements, the economics of reuse came into play as a set of secondary virtues. In particular, because wood was relatively scarce and its cutting was carefully controlled by law, a design that allowed wooden material to be reused would be very attractive. I don't want to give the impression that traditional Japanese craftsmen and artisans consciously subscribed to a set of theories that promoted functional, sustainable design. Instead, the people who made these things were supported by a society for whom these values were givens. As designers, they gave form to their users' expectations.

This way of thinking was stimulated by the scarcity of resources during this period, but even without scarcity as a motivator, this kind of awareness can undoubtedly lead people to a better life. Can design alone lead to a sustainable society? Probably not. But it can affect what we want, what we find attractive to own and use, and help initiate positive shifts in attitude. Once we start expecting everything we buy and use to embody less water and energy in its production, to be made from abundant and renewable materials, to be easily reused, reconfigured, and transformed into new items when worn out, and to see all this reflected in its form and appearance, then we will have planted the seeds of an Edo-like sensibility.

Can design alone lead to a sustainable society? Probably not. But it can affect what we want, what we find attractive to own and use, and help initiate positive shifts in attitude.

There is more to it, however. Edo society was literate and informed, and one of the government's major roles was the protection of the environment, which it did through forestry ordinances, waterworks, and promoting good agricultural practices by sponsoring how-to manuals and almanacs.

This was not through altruism or for the spiritual advancement of the rulers, but to ensure the safety and security of the realm and the longevity of the regime. Intriguingly, government policy was most effective when the goals and principles were laid out by the central bureaucracy and each region was encouraged to develop local solutions. In many ways, this local thinking and responsibility lay at the heart of the success of the program to achieve self-sufficiency and sustainability on a national scale.

Though a very active national trade network existed, each of the dozens of fiefdoms into which the country was divided was encouraged to be as self-sufficient as possible. Each village in a fief was encouraged to do the same, as was each family in a village. The result was what we might call a "mosaic of economies," in which government and trades people were the most dependent on the cash sector, while villagers could meet most of their needs without every touching money, utilizing a "gift economy" in which surplus goods were circulated as reciprocal gifts until every household had pretty much what it needed. Ironically, most low-ranking samurai, whose fixed incomes --paid in rice -- failed to keep pace with inflation, found themselves increasingly dependent on the same "gift economy" system. Unable to buy enough to eat, little by little they converted their urban pleasure gardens into vegetable plots, and, forbidden from selling their produce on the market, secured what they needed by circulating their surplus through a network that included their neighbors and relatives.

Edo period Japan was extremely fertile creatively, and extraordinarily inventive. It was a nation of makers and inventors. The importance of the cross-fertilization and innovation that emerges when most people in society are designers and practitioners of crafts is often overlooked. In the case of Japan, every household could be expected to have expert weavers, masters of straw crafts, fermenters, carvers, horticulturists and gardeners. They used very little of what we would call "machinery," depending instead on hand processes; you might say that Japanese training and experience produced a quality and consistency of production using handwork that the West only attained with machinery.

Beyond this, the ethics of the professional craftspeople -- carpenters, potters, blacksmiths, papermakers, and dozens of other trades -- established a personal bond between maker and user, the former expected to keep an item in good working order for the duration of its useful life, the latter expected to show appreciation through small gifts and remembrances. The making of a thing in most cases was the beginning of a long-term connection between people, and that connection was cause for celebration and acknowledgment. If nothing else, our society suffers from a lack of this kind of connection, and the fact that many of us are now willing to pay a high premium to possess handmade items whose maker is known to us shows that the hunger for these connections remains.

Changing design sensibilities both reflect changes in values and encourage them. A shift in what people find desirable to own and use, like the one I describe, might seem radical or unlikely, but historically we have experienced similar conversions time and again. The shift to mass production and consumer society over a century ago, rooted in a new appreciation of machines and the machine-made, was as complete as it was unanticipated. At the same time it has never gone unquestioned, and handmade, locally produced items have never entirely disappeared. Most of us bought in to the mass-production aesthetic long ago, even if we are barely aware of it. Cars, iPods, furniture, appliances, kitchenware, tools, bathrooms -- none of them would look the way they do if what was once called the "machine aesthetic" had not been rendered approachable and familiar by good designers during the last century. Those designers cribbed a lot of their best looks from traditional Japanese design.

Those who know the story of the emergence of Modernism in art and design know that when Japan opened itself to the world in 1868, creators of every stripe in the West were stunned by what they saw, and every artistic field absorbed Japanese influence, whether it was composition and color in the visual arts, low rooflines and open space in architecture, or structures made of simple, unadorned elements in furniture. True, there were a lot of lessons Western designers might have learned at the time from Japan but didn't, such as energy efficiency, design for reuse, and how to use enzyme-based biological processes such as the ones which make traditional lacquer and washi paper possible.

But it was the Japanese who first taught us how to see beauty in function. I would like to suggest that we are on the threshold of a new aesthetic shift fed by an altered awareness of our dependence on the environment and the importance of healing and preserving it that will permanently alter our sense of beauty. It might be going too far to call this an "Edo" aesthetic, but the values embodied in Edo culture will undoubtedly form a large part of its DNA.

"Sustainability happens when species learn to feed each other instead of fight each other." A thoughtful, short reflection from author Elizabeth Sahtouris.

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 ~ LIVING MULTIPLE REALITIES ~ PART 2 ~ via Suzanne Lie ~

As channeled by Suzanne Lie PhD suzanneliephd.blogspot.co.uk

Mytre Speaks:

Gradually, the cloud of Akashic Records began to clear. We wondered if this clearing was because we were collecting the necessary information we needed for our Mission. It was when we touched the final energy pattern and found ourselves hovering over the beautiful, pristine planet of New Earth that I knew we had completed our history lessons from the past and were ready for the NOW.

However, the vision did not vanish, so we relaxed into the experience. Allow me to take a moment to explain how we “read” the Akashic Records. We opened the energy patterns of the Akashic Membrane. We always did this while holding hands and using our free hands to simultaneously touch the glimmering information pattern. Then, a scene instantly surrounded us. We could merely observe the scene and/or we could interact with it. This experience was very similar to entering a holographic program.

When we found ourselves in New Earth, we felt such joy and unconditional love that we could hardly contain it. Hence, we modulated our breathing to accept this higher frequency of reality. We had just come from experiencing Gaia’s many difficult years of tottering on the edge of survival. Then, to suddenly experience Her true Nature of SELF was overwhelming joyful.

It was with this brief experience that we were suddenly “logged out” of the Akashic reality and found ourselves in the Holosuite standing in front of our dearest friend, the Arcturian.

“I see that you enjoyed the end-goal of your Mission,” the Arcturian said with an energy that felt like a smile. I know that is a novel concept for a smile to have an energy field, but everything has an energy field – including smiles.

“Yes,” the Arcturian responded to my thoughts. “Everything does have an energy field. However, it is more correct to say that every manifestation has an energy field, as the energy precedes the creation. Therefore, let us begin our lessons by each of you feeling your own energy field.”

In response to the Arcturians request, Mytria and I released the hands that we had not even realized were tightly grasped together. When we did so, we instantly felt our energy field shift. We stepped apart a few paces so that we could focus on just our own energy field and discovered that we instantly felt like something, actually someone, was missing.

My old feeling of sorrow and guilt threatened to invade my heart again, and I felt a certain aloofness take me over. Once again, I was compensating for my loss with a low-grade anger that I had never realized I even had. I focused on understanding that hidden anger and discovered it was the mask for fear. As a warrior, fear needed to hidden by anger. I had not realized that I carried that habit into my daily life. Furthermore, I had not realized how frightening life was without my beloved by my side.

Mytria Speaks:

Mytre wanted me to speak of my experience, even though he could emphatically feel it. I too had to mask my anger that Mytre was taken from me just as I began labor with our daughter. We had had such deep intimacy in our Nature Home, and to have it suddenly taken away when I needed him so much, cut me to the core. I told myself again and again that he had to leave. My personal need for him was minute in comparison to the needs of our planet. Therefore, I had to stifle my true feelings, which created an invisible wall around me.

Only our daughter could penetrate that wall. In fact, she lived within it until she began to walk, which was amazingly soon. Then, I could only feel desolation and sorrow. All the grief of losing Mytre that I could not allow to surface while Alycia was in my aura came to the surface. Fortunately, the Priestesses of the Temple in which we lived all loved Alycia and wanted to share time with her. Thus my daughter was always loved and protected.

I realize that when I thought I had healed my sorrow, I had only covered it with dedication to purpose and I only allowed a few people admittance to my feelings. I was totally alone because I could not allow myself to feel how very much I missed Mytre. Fortunately, when I returned to our Nature Home and moved my life into the Core of the Mother, I began to heal. However, only my return to Mytre, my Divine Complement, could heal the wound of having, and then losing, that wonderful sense of completion.

Mytre Continues:

While Mytria was telling her story, I felt every one of her suppressed emotions, as well as my own guilt. However, I was able to work through the guilt quite quickly. This quick recovery gave me the confidence to allow all my emotions to come into my conscious awareness. With the return of Mytria’s unconditional love in my life, I was beginning to remember how to unconditionally love myself.

My thoughts were interrupted by the Arcturian saying: “Now that you have felt your energy when you are separated, allow your auras to expand until they overlap and flow into each other. Allow yourself to feel your two energy fields blend into one.”

Mytria and I stepped back together and resumed our pose of head to head, heart to heart and toe to toe. Instantly, we felt the bonding field of the unconditional love that we felt for each other. We both melted into the feeling, which amplified the energy field far beyond the confines of the Holosuite. We had been standing in this manner beyond time when the Arcturian joined our energy field.

“Within the deep love of your joint energy, I wish to give you each the memory of a Parallel Reality,” the Arcturian said telepathically.

Then the Arcturian softly touched me on my Third Eye. Instantly, I was swept away into the Parallel Reality in which I had chosen to leave Mytria in her Nature Retreat and returned to my duties as a Protector for our Pleiadian Colony. Therefore, in that reality Mytria and I only had a close encounter.

I made the choice to leave Mytria because I could not allow myself to follow my instincts and fall in love with her. Instead, I answered the call of what I had known as duty. By the time I actually met Mytria I had completely forgotten my encounter with her in the Womb of the Mother. In fact, I had forgotten all love and beauty in search of dedication and ambition. With that thought I jumped into the future in which I was an Admiral.

This life was not on a timeline that was preparing for our Ascension. It was not that that planet did not ascend because of my choice, but because I had left the stream of reality that was flowing towards Ascension. This stream of Parallel Reality was created when I left love. Hence, it was not a reality that was streaming into Ascension. Hence, I continually fought battle after battle. The only thing that changed was my military rank.

I was the same person as when I was young. I just had more responsibility and greater problems. I felt like as if I was a tool rather than a person. I had had many women, but nothing ever lasted or satisfied me for very long. I was very powerful and successful, but completely alone and devoid of love.

The Arcturian touched my forehead again, and I opened my eyes. I looked at Mytria and saw that she was crying. She had been there with me and felt my life without her. I threw my arms around her and hugged her so tightly that we could barely breathe. Then, my great warrior self began to cry like a baby while Mytria held and comforted me. I finally regained my composure, blinked my eyes and felt reborn.

Without a word, the Arcturian touched Mytria on her Third eye, and she went into a deep trance.

Mytria Speaks:

When the Arcturian touched my Third Eye I flashed into the Parallel Reality in which I did not let Mytre leave me to follow his military duty. We had just arrived at the Village from our Nature Home, and I had just started labor. I knew that he should follow his Commander, but I begged and pleaded for him to be with me, at least until the baby was born.

Finally, after many tears, he took me into the Temple and stayed with me during the birth of our child. However, he was not totally with me. Even while the baby was being born, he seemed distracted and a bit annoyed. I knew he was not annoyed with me. I was just a frightened woman having my first child. No, he was annoyed with himself because he had allowed me to convince him to abandon his duty.

He kept this energy field for the entire time we were together, which was until Alycia began to walk. I could no longer keep him from his responsibility, and frankly, I was tired of his halfway attempt at being loving. I had held onto him and played every guilt trick I had to keep him with me. However, we never returned to our deep intimacy again. I had not respected his Soul, and he could no longer trust me.

He started to stay out late and see other women. Finally, when he had another opportunity to go into battle, he welcomed it. So did I. Meanwhile, our society was falling apart. The temporary energy shield that the Arcturians had given us was starting to collapse. The Arcturians had created this field to stave off the Draconians until we could transmute our reality into the fifth dimension.

Because I had made a selfish and frightened choice, I had moved into a Parallel Reality in which selfishness and fear ruled our world. I knew that we would all die, or worse. There was nothing I could do. I had chosen to be so weak that I could not get by on my own and was left alone with that weakness.

When the Arcturian again touched my forehead, I collapsed to the ground, too weak to even stand. Mytre lifted me up onto my feet, put his hands on my face and looked into my eyes as he said:

“That is NOT you. That was a reality in which you left your SELF. YOU did not choose that reality in this life. Instead, you have remained the incredibly strong and powerful person that you were when we first met. Since then, my beloved, you have grown from a courageous young woman into a High Priestess of the Sacred Fire. I am honored to be your Mate.”

I did not cry. Through Mytre I could feel who I truly had become. Through his eyes I could see the courage and dedication that I had never recognized within my self.

The Arcturian Speaks:

Do you both see how a Parallel Reality sprung up when you made the “either/or” decision of leaving or staying? In the Parallel Realities you just viewed, you made different decisions than in this life, which bi-located you into a slightly different timeline. People can also chose a timeline that moves them into a happier and more fulfilling Parallel Life.

A tree has many limbs. Some of these limbs are strong enough to survive any storm, yet some of the limbs will fall away from the trunk. Your Soul creates and chooses many Parallel Realities to give itself the greatest variety of experiences. Each Parallel Reality is created when you make a life-changing, either/or decision.

On the other hand, in Alternate Realities, you chose to express different components of your complex persona so that you can live many versions of your Self in one timeline. For example, in one of Mytre’s many Alternate Realities he is an artist and in another he is a healer. In one of Mytria’s Alternate Realities she is a warrior and in another reality she is a wife with eight children.

When you place your primary Point of Perception within a fifth dimensional expression of your Multidimensional SELF, you can view and/or experience all your Parallel and Alternate Realities within the NOW of the ONE. You enter into these realities, just as you entered into the Akashic Records. Do you have any questions for me?

Mytre Speaks:

Of course, the Arcturian knew that we would say no, but It was giving us a chance to transition from our former emotional states into the Flow of life on the Motherships. As the Arcturian expected, we both shook our head NO. Instantly, we were beamed into our Quarters. We went straight to bed and we fell into a deep sleep.

If it's to be, it's up to Me

It comes from within to change your life!

BY: Lee Papier

Whatever you want in life, it starts with you.

Nothing external affects you unless you choose to let it.

We are blessed with the freedom of choice and the co-creative ability.

Before we see something on the outside, we have to create it on the inside.

The inner-self creates the realities and outcomes that we have in the physical world.

So what are your belief systems, thoughts, feelings and vision?

Whatever you consistently focus on is what you create in your world and outcomes.

So if you want to change your results in life, it starts with your inner beliefs and values.

Do you focus on positive acknowledgements about yourself?

Do you consistently focus on positive outcomes and possibilities for your life?

Do you do this for others?

This is the only way to transform your life.

You must create a positive self image, have positive self talk and positive thoughts, which creates positive feelings and leads to positive actions and outcomes.

It takes the same amount of energy to be positive as it does to be negative.

The difference in quality of life, attitude, health, relationships and success is HUGE!

‘The quality of my life is directly related to the quality of my communication with myself and with others.’

Everything starts with you. You are the source of your life.

To expect things to change on the outside, without changing things on the inside is insanity.

‘For things to change, I must change.’

You always have what you truly want.

When you really want something you do not stop until you have it.

Any ‘story or belief‘ that people, situations or things hold you back are self imposed limitations and delusions.

All the blessings of life are available to us this very moment, right here, right now.

The choice of how good we choose to make our lives is up to us.

‘If it’s to be, it’s up to me!‘

Make your life a masterpiece.

Lee Papier writes the "Have a Magnificent Day" blog on Beliefnet.
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