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The Issue of Owning your Personal Power with Insights on the Conscious and Subconscious Minds
By Dr Joshua David Stone......

"The single most important quality to achieving psychological and spiritual health is learning to own your personal power." Dr. Joshua David Stone

The conscious mind is the reasoning mind, whereas the subconscious mind is the non-reasoning mind. The superconscious mind is the all-knowing mind. Another metaphor is that the conscious mind is the captain of the ship, computer programmer, decision maker, gardener. If the conscious mind is the captain, then the subconscious mind is the shipmate below the deck who follows whatever orders the captain gives. The subconscious mind is the computer or tape recorder.

Thirdly, the subconscious mind is the soil. If the conscious mind is the gardener, the gardener plants the seeds (thoughts), and the soil grows whatever kind of seed is planted, be it a weed or a beautiful flower. The subconscious mind will store information and follow orders whether the orders are rational or irrational. The subconscious mind doesn't care, as it has absolutely no reasoning ability.

The subconscious mind is a paradox. It has no reasoning and yet it has an incredible number of amazing abilities and intelligence factors. The best metaphor to understand this is the computer analogy. A computer is an incredible piece of equipment, yet it doesn't care whether it's programmed to solve the energy crisis or to create a nuclear war. It has the intelligence to do either job efficiently, but doesn't have the reasoning to not want to create nuclear war

The subconscious does whatever it is programmed to do, no matter what. A good example is that the subconscious mind completely operates and runs the physical body. This can be proven by the effects of hypnotic suggestions given to a person concerning the body.

The only problem is that the subconscious mind is as happy to destroy the body as it is to create perfect health. The subconscious mind has the intelligence to create perfect health or create cancer. It will create whatever it is programmed to do.

No one consciously programs cancer, but many people unconsciously program cancer into their bodies with self-hatred, victim consciousness, revenge, giving up, and so on. The idea is that you want to tell yourself or your subconscious mind constantly that you are in perfect radiant health and that every day in every way you are getting healthier and healthier.

The subconscious mind works entirely separate from the functioning of the conscious mind. It works 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year, while you are sleeping and awake, and never gets tired. It is constantly doing whatever it has been programmed to do.
Intelligence Factor of the Subconscious Mind

The basic function of the subconscious mind is to store information. It is the storehouse and memory bank of all our thoughts, feelings, emotions, imagination, habit patterns, impulses and desires. From the time we have been little infants, we have been programmed by our parents, grandparents, television, peers, teachers, ministers, and extended family.

As little children we are all victims. By this, I mean that children's reasoning minds have not developed enough to be able to discriminate and protect them from negative programming. As little children we were totally open. Our subconscious minds are filled with mental poisons, faulty thinking and faulty beliefs. Just as the body can be filled with physical toxins from poor eating, the subconscious is filled with mental toxins from improper programming and education.

This book will teach you how to get rid of the faulty thinking in the subconscious mind and how to reprogram it with new positive spiritual programming. For now, however, let's continue with delineating the intelligence factor of the subconscious mind. The subconscious mind also creates our dreams every night. There are occasions when the super consciousness creates dreams. However, most dreams are created by the subconscious mind. A dream is basically a mirror of the way we think, feel, and act during our conscious daily life. A dream is like a newspaper we receive every night, depicting the organization and dynamics of our internal energies.

The only difference between dreams and a real newspaper is that dreams are in the universal language of symbols. To understand our dreams is to understand that every part of our dream is, in reality, a part of us. By examining the relationship of the symbols we can gain insight and understanding of the patterns that are manifesting in our lives.

A dream is an automatic process that the subconscious mind brings to us as feedback. This feedback is essential because very often we are all manifesting patterns in our lives that we are not consciously aware we are manifesting.

The subconscious mind can also be termed the habit mind. It stores all our habits, both positive and negative. A lot of people think habits are bad. This is not true. We want to get rid of only bad habits. Ideally we want to strive to create good habits.

A good example of this is learning to drive a stick shift car. When we first learn how, it takes a lot of conscious effort and will power. After we learn how, it becomes automatic. If we didn't have a subconscious mind to store our developed abilities, it would always take great focus and concentration.

There is a basic psychological or metaphysical law that states that it takes twenty-one days to cement a new habit into the subconscious mind. You can learn something in a day, but to make a habit in the subconscious mind takes twenty-one days. This ability by the subconscious mind of storing habits allows us to grow continually and develop new abilities without worrying about old ones.

The subconscious mind is where the Law of Magnetism and Attraction operates. The subconscious mind is continually attracting and repelling things to and from us according to what has been programmed into it. A master is someone who uses this law to his own conscious benefit.

Lets take the example of money and prosperity. If you have the belief in your subconscious mind that you will never have money, you won't. If, on the other hand, you think you will, the subconscious mind will attract those opportunities and possibilities to you. Whatever you want in life, all you have to do is affirm or visualize this into the subconscious mind, and the subconscious mind will attract and magnetize it to you.

Carl Jung spoke of this when he talked about the collective unconscious. The subconscious mind is interconnected with all other subconscious minds. You might say that all the sons and daughters of God have one great subconscious mind.

The subconscious mind also has the ability to sense radiations of energy. We all automatically use this ability in our daily lives. This ability can be specifically used in areas such as water dowsing, or water witching. The subconscious can be programmed to search for any physical substance, not just water. It can sense the radiation of energy of any substance for which it is programmed to search.

The subconscious mind is also the seat of our psychic abilities. The subconscious has five inner senses that are the subtler counterparts of our five external senses: Inner sight (clairvoyance), inner hearing (clairaudience), inner smell, inner taste, and inner touch.

Have you ever noticed that when you dream you have your five senses available to you? How can this be if you are sleeping? This is because you are utilizing your five inner senses of the subconscious mind. All people have psychic abilities and can develop them further. It is just a matter of practice and proper training as with any external ability.
How the Conscious Mind Works in Relationship to the Subconscious Mind

The key function of the conscious mind is to be the computer programmer, protector and master of the subconscious mind. The subconscious mind is meant to be the servant or servomechanism of the conscious mind. Most people, not understanding these psychological laws, let their subconscious mind run them. When this happens, people become victims and start having a lot of problems.

The subconscious mind was never meant to direct your life. It will run you into oblivion if you let it, not because it is bad, but because it has no reasoning. In and of itself it is divine. Why would you let a non reasoning mind run your life? Strangely enough, this is what most people do.

The ideal is that every time a thought, feeling, or impulse arises out of the subconscious mind, it should be checked or rationalized. You might imagine an inner gate or inner bubble that protects you from your own subconscious mind. When a thought or feeling or impulse arises, it is the job of the conscious mind to use its powers of reasoning, discernment and discrimination to check that thought at the gate. If the thought or impulse is positive and spiritual, you let it into your mind. If it is negative, you push it out.

Psychological health is the process of letting into your mind positive spiritual balanced thoughts. Psychological health is like physical health. If you want to be physically healthy you put good healthful food into your body. If you want to be psychologically healthy you put good healthful thoughts into your mind.

By pushing the negative thoughts out of your mind, you are refusing them energy. This is much like a plant that is not being watered. It eventually withers and dies from lack of water (attention and focus). The second step is to affirm the opposite positive thought or spiritual thought. This is called positive thinking and the use of positive affirmations.

By continually disregarding the negative thought and affirming the positive thought, a new habit is formed in the subconscious mind. The old habit dies because you are not giving it energy; and the new habit is formed because you are continually affirming and thinking positively. Within twenty one days a new habit can be formed.

You must remember that the subconscious is filled with all these old tapes that your parents and other people programmed into you when you were young. If the conscious mind isn't making choices, then all this old program-ming from early childhood is programming your present life.
Development of the Outer Bubble or Shield to Protect You From Other People's Negative Energy

Just as it is essential to develop an inner bubble to protect you from your own subconscious mind, it is also essential to develop an outer bubble or shield to protect you from other people's negative energy. The ideal, as I have already mentioned, is for you to be the computer programmer of your subcon-scious mind.

Always remember that, if you don't take responsibility for this, then the subconscious mind or other people will run your life. The ideal is to be the cause, creator and master of your own life. If these psychological laws aren't clearly understood, then other people will be your computer programmers.

Let's take the example of someone criticizing or judging you. The ideal is to have an imaginary bubble, shield, or light around you so that, when criticism comes toward you, it hits the bubble or shield and slides off like water off a duck's back. You can imagine its bouncing off like a rubber pillow.

You make a conscious choice or discrimination as to whether to let it into your subconscious mind or not. It must be understood that this bubble is a semipermeable bubble. In other words, it allows in positive energy but keeps out negative energy.

If you don't have this bubble of protection available to you at all times, then you can be victimized by another person's comments, statements or energy. There is a time to be open and a time to be closed. It is necessary to close down and protect yourself if other people are being negative. If someone would throw an actual physical spear at you, I am sure you would physically try to get out of the way if you could.

It is the same thing psychologically. When other people are directing negative energy towards you it is like a psychological spear. You will be poisoned if you let it in. You wouldn't let a person shove physical poison down your physical mouth. So don't let people shove mental poison into your mind. You don't want the subconscious mind to run your life and you don't want other people to run your life either.

Another way of saying this is that you want to respond instead of react. To respond is to choose how to deal with the incoming energy. To react is to let the incoming energy go right into your subconscious mind, solar plexus, or emotional body and lash back. If someone judges or attacks you and you let it in, you will either be hurt, withdrawn and cry, or lash back. You are letting another person be the cause of your emotions. You want to cause your emotions.

Another way of saying this is that you are letting yourself be hypnotized. I am licensed as a hypnotist, as well as being a licensed counselor. However, most of my work as a counselor is not hypnotizing people but de hypnotizing them. Many people are in hypnosis, and I am trying to get them out of it.

You are in hypnosis when you are a victim. You are letting another person program your emotions in a waking state. You are hyper suggestible when you don't make a choice as to how you want to respond. In reality we all are invulnerable psychologically. This is a very profound statement. To be invulnerable means that we can't get emotionally hurt unless we choose to be.
My Favorite Metaphor of All

My favorite metaphor is likening psychological health to physical health. If a person you know catches a cold or the flu, you certainly don't want to get it. You do everything in your power not to get it. You stay away from that person. You take extra Vitamin C. You tell yourself you are not going to get sick. You eat well and try to get enough sleep. In other words, you build up your resistance. If you keep your resistance up you don't get sick.

Doctors and nurses don't get all the sicknesses of their patients. How come? The reason is that there is no such thing as a contagious disease. There are only people with "low resistance".

This analogy is exactly the same on the psychological level. There is no such thing as a contagious psychological disease. There are only people with low resistance. How do we keep up our psychological resistance so we don't catch the infectious diseases of anger, depression, jealousy, judgment, attack, grudges, hatred and so on? We keep our psychological resistance up by maintaining a positive mental attitude.

The protective bubble is one main positive attitude technique. Other key techniques are maintaining one's personal power, maintaining unconditional self love and self worth, faith and trust in God.

These are a few of the main attitudes. In following chapters I will explore some of the others. The main point is that we are here in this world to set a better example. We are here to bring other people up, not to let ourselves be sucked down. So in essence the earth is like a hospital that is run by the patients. There are very few healers or doctors. The purpose of life is to be a healer or doctor.

When you allow other people to victimize you to the negative, you have become one of the patients again, and now you are in need of healing. This is okay if it happens. The lesson is to get yourself back to your centered self and be the doctor and healer as soon as you can, for this is the mission and purpose in this lifetime for all of us.
The Development of Personal Power The First Golden Key

Of all the attitudes and qualities that need development in the healthy personality none is more important than personal power or the development of will. This last statement and point cannot be emphasized enough. Everything I have spoken of so far in this book will not work if you don't have personal power. Personal power is the key that makes the theory and ideals work. Personal power, or will power, is the first golden key.

What is personal power? Personal power or will is the guiding force of the healthy personality. Personal power is first an attitude. We can choose to hold an attitude of weakness or strength as we begin each day. Your power is the energy that you use to enforce your decisions.

For example, let's say you want to exercise at 3 o'clock. When 3 o'clock comes it is a good bet that you will need your power to make yourself do what you have committed yourself to do. Your power is also needed to control your subconscious mind. Your subconscious mind will push you around unless you own your own power, so personal power is the enforcing agent of the conscious mind. It is the energy that mind musters to command and direct that personality. Personal power in its external usage is assertiveness.

Personal power is also very much tied in with decisiveness. It is intrinsic in the attitudes of "piss or get off the pot" and "fish or cut bait." If you are not decisive, then the subconscious mind or other people will make your decisions for you. The subconscious mind has no reasoning, and other people's decisions are not always in your best interest.

How can you be the master of yourself and your life if you do not have personal power? If you don't own your power, then you end up giving it to the subconscious or to other people. We know that God has power. The fact is that we are co creators and mini gods, so we have power, too. God helps those who help themselves. You can't help yourself if you don't own your power.

There is and has always been total personal power available to you. Personal power is nothing more than energy in your physical body and subconscious mind that you are using to control your life. Part of owning your power is being a spiritual warrior in life. Never giving up, and the will to live is really the will to fight.

Yoga teaches that life is not only a school but also a battlefield. We are trying to get to the top of a mountain. Progress entails taking three steps forward and slipping back two, or seven steps forward and slipping six, ad infinitum, until the top is reached. This is the nature of life for everyone on the spiritual path. The most important thing is not to be a quitter.

Paramahansa Yogananda, the great Indian sage, said, "A saint is a sinner who never gave up." Part of owning your power is to keep plugging away. It is also having faith in God's power, as well as your own personal power. When all outer security is stripped away, you always know that you have your power and God's power available to you and with you all the time. This is true safety and security.

You power is the energy that you use to take risks. If you don't own your power, you are going to have a hard time keeping your bubble of protection up. Your power is what allows you to "fake it until you make it". Your personal power, in essence, is your center. When you are in charge you feel more centered.

When you use your power over a long period of time you have what is called discipline. Owning your power is what allows the conscious reasoning mind to stay in control and not to be overwhelmed by subconscious or environmental forces. When you don't own your power you get depressed. Anyone who is depressed is not owning his power.

There are two opposing forces in life: Good and evil, light and darkness, positive and negative, illusion and truth, egotistical thinking and spiritual thinking. Your power is your weapon with which to fight the negative and identify with the positive. As Edgar Cayce said, "There is no force in the universe more powerful than your will or power."

The conscious reasoning mind, with the will or power, then directs all the incoming forces. If we don't have will or power we would be overwhelmed. People in the extreme state of giving up their power, control and mastery have become psychotic. The conscious mind has abdicated all responsibility for control, mastery, orchestration and directorship. The subconscious mind and the environment totally take over.

You don't have to be afraid of your power because you are going to use it only in a loving way to serve God, yourself and other people. Whenever you are in power you will feel good. When you have your power, you are challenging and asserting yourself. When you don't have your power, life is clobbering you. The essence of what I am trying to teach in my work is that we are causes of our reality. To be the cause of our reality all the time, we must own our power.
How Do You Claim Your Power?

You claim your power by choosing every morning, the second you get up, to affirm the attitude in your mind that you have it. The diagram at the end of this chapter, lists some personal power affirmations that you can say to yourself to cultivate and build this energy. I have also included some emotional invulnerability affirmations to build your protective bubble since this is so much involved with owning your power.

Edgar Cayce, the great sleeping prophet, made another very important statement involving power. He talked about the importance of developing positive anger. I emphasize the term "positive" anger. Positive anger is controlled anger that is not directed at other people or yourself but rather at the dark force that is trying to push us down. It is used to catapult us toward the light and positivity.

There is enormous power tied up with anger. The idea is to channel this power constructively and creatively. Jesus turned to one of his disciples when he started to complain and said, "Get thee behind me, Satan." I think positive anger has to do with having some real emotion and feeling behind your power.

When you say the affirmations to yourself, say them with emotions and real power or they won't work. The subconscious mind and other people will victimize you to the degree that you do or do not own your power. As soon as you mean business the subconscious will become your servant. You have to make it serve you, not ask it to serve you. It should also be noted here that God is not going to control your subconscious mind for you, no matter how much you pray. That is not His job. That is your job.

Every morning when get up, claim your power, and commit yourself to becoming the master of your life. Be loving, serve God, and have a great day, and let nothing in this universe stop you from your appointed task. This is how to live properly. Once you have established your power, then pray for God's help and do some affirmations and visualizations to program your subconscious mind the way you want it to work for you. This is the ultimate power in the universe.

Do you realize the power that is at your disposal? How can you not win this war? How can you not eventually get to the top of the mountain? How can you not be successful with all this power? Add to this the fact that we are each the sons and daughters of God in truth and are each one with God. Can God and the sons and daughters of God lose a battle with Satan, which is another name for ego, illusion, negative thinking?

My Two Favorite Spiritual Affirmations

1. God, my personal power and the power of my subconscious mind are an unbeatable team.

2. Be still and know that I am God.

Another method of charging up your power is to visualize some symbol you are holding that denotes your full power maybe a sword, a crown, the Rod of Moses, a baseball bat. Combine this kind of imagery with your affirmations and you will feel even more power.
Psychological Disidentification and Identification Exercise

Suggested instructions:

Every morning and every night for twenty one days repeat this page of affirmations out loud three times until they fully sink into your conscious and subconscious mind.

Disidentification Exercise:

I have a body, but I am not my body. My body may find itself in different conditions of health or sickness. This has nothing to do with my real self, or the real "I".

I have behavior, but I am not my behavior. All my behavior comes from my thoughts. If I have not developed self mastery and I am operating on automatic pilot, I sometimes behave inappropriately. Even though I behave well or poorly, I am not my behavior. This has nothing to do with my real self, my real "I."

I have feelings and emotions, but I am not my feelings and emotions. If I have not yet developed self mastery, my feelings and emotions are sometimes negative and sometimes positive. As I become more of a cause, creator, chooser and master of my life this will change. Though a wave of feelings and emotions may overtake me, I know I am not my feelings and emotions. My true nature will not change. "I" remain the same.

I have a mind, but I am not my mind. My mind is my tool for creating my feelings, emotions, behavior, and body, as well as what I attract into my life. If I have not developed self mastery, my mind sometimes runs me, instead of me running my mind. My mind is my most valuable tool, but it is not what "I" am.

Identification Exercise:

What am "I"?

After disidentifying myself (the "I") from the contents of conscious-ness, I recognize and affirm that I am a center of pure self consciousness. I am a center of will and personal power, capable of being the cause and creator of every aspect of my life. I am capable of causing, directing, choosing and creating all my thoughts, feelings, emotions, behavior, health or disease of my physical body, and the kinds of things I attract and magnetize into my life. This is who "I" am.
Affirmations
Personal Power and Becoming a Creative Cause

I am the power, the master, and the cause of my attitudes, feelings, emotions, and behavior.

I am 100% powerful, loving, and balanced at all times.

I am powerful, whole, and complete within myself. I have preferences but not attachments.

I am 100% powerful and decisive in everything I do.

I have perfect mastery and control over all my energies in service of a loving spiritual purpose.

I am the master and director of my life, and my subconscious mind is my friend and servant.

I am a center of pure self consciousness and will, with the ability to direct my energies wherever I would have them go.

I am powerful, centered, and loving at all times.

I am powerful and centered at all times and nothing in this external universe will I allow to knock me off balance or center.

I have lOO% personal power and I vow never to give it to my subconscious mind or other people ever again.

I have perfect self control and self mastery in everything I do.
Emotional Invulnerability

I am lOO% invulnerable to other people's negative energy. Other people's negative energy slides off me like water off a duck's back.

I am the cause of my feelings and emotions not other people. I will not give them this power over me ever again.

Other people's negative energy bounces off me like a rubber pillow.

I hear what other people have to say to me. However, I internalize only that which "I choose" to internalize.

The only effect other people's negative energy has is the effect I let it have. I choose not to be affected ever again.

Sanat Kumara, Understanding ascension

As you are all talking about this so much, it seems there is still a lot of misunderstanding as the messages, we know have been not always clear.

Ascension is simply raising your frequencies.

The ascension is not just happening with all humans, we in spirit ascend as well.

The only difference we have is that we do not have a physical body.

To many of us here in spirit ascension means expansion as well.

When we all came from Source, we all were fully complete. As we move through Source and the many Universes within Source, Source expands, we expand, and the universes expand. By expanding the energies flow changes and gets more room to breathe so to speak, allowing for a faster frequency.

This is a continuous motion of ascending within everything that is.

We learn, we explore and we expand, as Source is continuously expanding and the frequencies within Source ascend, we are part of this process if we choose to be.

We can decide to stay within a certain frequency for some time and explore this frequency, from there we start to ascend again if we choose to do so.

Our Source part always moves within the frequency of Source, so all we do is find the way upwards so to speak to align every part of our being with that part of us, the source part of us.

Within each frequency of ascension an exploration happens and this is how we once again expand as well.

We have learned to stay within contact with our Source part at all times.

This allows us for an easy ascension into the new higher frequencies.

Now each being has their own way of doing this, as some beings have decided to remain within lower frequencies and play out their reality within it. They are exploring and learning within those frequencies until they feel a need to move higher. From there they connect within and start the way up to another level of frequencies.

There are beings that can do this easily as they have learned faster and faster ways to ascend. Others need more time as they have spent a long time within a certain frequency and by being within the lower dimensions have disconnected some of their connection to their own source part at times. Or to be more precise, they deactivated their connection to their Source part.

This all depending upon what they want to learn and experience.

This is always the choice of each being as each being learns how to move between frequencies on different levels.

Some are however more focused on learning how to travel between the different levels of frequencies, they have more experience and it becomes easier to stay fully connected to their Source part as when you move into the lower frequencies the energies becomes denser and move less so it becomes a bit more difficult at times to move fast within the energies.

As you move to lower frequency levels, the energy moves slower and the energies and the connection between your Source being and the part of you that is at the lowest level can become deactivated through this process as well.

There are beings on earth from the time of Atlantis that have been able to remain fully connected no matter how low they moved. They are so called masters in moving between frequency levels.

Some use this to teach others on how to activate their connection to their Source part and how to find their way back to their Source part. Others use this to manipulate others preventing them from activating their connection and finding their way back within to their Source part.

Like I said ascension is moving between frequencies, we usually call moving up into the frequency levels ascending and moving down into the lower levels of frequencies descending. This is the human wording we use for this process.

Ascending and descending between levels of frequencies is a learning process, and experience process. It does not matter what we do in between and within those levels, we can always learn how to move between the different levels of frequencies.

As we learn more about the ascending and descending process, we use special codings that allow us to find our way up or down more easily.

Keep in mind we call it up and down only for explanation purposes as all frequencies exist within the same space.

Some of these codings are known as DNA. You all have DNA within the physical body, part of the codings within the DNA are being used to sustain a physical appearance. Other parts are being used to start activating the connection back you to our source part if needed.

DNA is however not the only codings we use as we use several other codings within what you call the chakras, they reach all the way to our Source part, and many other codings within our spiritual parts, light bodies and more.

This all depends however upon our level of experience, as we become more experienced we use less codings.

These codings are geometric symbols that make up our being within spirit, now as we learn and explore, we learn to use different codings and different symbols as well that allow us to move faster between the frequency levels and move back into our original state of being faster toward fully connecting within to our Source part.

As we connect upwards, we work on bringing every part of our being to the Source part frequency level.

The expansion of energy starts at the highest level of frequencies and from there the lower level of frequencies will start to move up so there is a constant movement within the level of frequencies as well.

Now to see this from earth, the earth has a set level of frequencies around her, as created by the first ones that moved onto earth within a physical appearance. Allowing them to take on the physical appearance necessary.

The grids that many of you know about are part of this set frequency level system.

Over time there have been changes to these systems as to adjust to the levels of physicality.

The humans would link into these grids to connect to the level of physicality they wanted to use.

This had one side effect, as the human lost more and more of their connection, they used the grids to stay on earth, and the grids became manipulated by some to actually ground the humans on earth, but in a way that they couldn't move up in levels of frequency.

Grids were destroyed, repaired, new ones made, destroyed and so on.

At this moments there are remnants of old grids, there are newer grids and there is the buildup of the new crystalline grid.

In the beginning the grids were built within the earth so humans could reach the lowest level of physical frequencies. With the effect of keeping humans grounded upon earth.

The new grid is not within the earth, this to prevent the grounding of humans onto the earth, in a way not allowing them to move away and move fully into higher frequency levels.

You can see it this way, your feet are on the ground, your energy is going through your feet into the ground through the earth chakra just below your feet, your energy also grounds through the base chakra into the ground, so you have two connection points into the earth. Both connection points are used to connect you to the grids in the earth.

Some of you are only connected to one grid, others are connected to many grids, depending upon what you did in past lives to disconnect from these grids, as this is not new knowledge.

Now as you descended into the lower level of frequencies, you grounded yourself into the grids into the earth, ascending means that you would start to bring back the connection between the earth part of you and the source part of you.

From there you start to raise all levels of you into your source part frequency level. As you are grounded into the earthly grids, you cannot raise those parts up to higher frequency levels, as they are grounded within a low level of frequency and they require disconnecting from that level to be able to raise up the frequency.

Ascension begins at the lowest level of frequencies within you that are being raised to the new level of frequency. So if you have a part that is within the 3rd frequency level, you need to raise that part to the 4th frequency level of your being. Once those parts are one, you start raising that part up from the 4th frequency level to the 5th frequency level until they both become one.

You keep on doing this until all parts are one on the highest frequency level, your Source part.

Now you are not really moving, you stay within the same place, all you do is move within the levels of frequencies.

The grids within the earth are between the 3rd and 5th frequency level. None of them however are working at full capacity and many of them are used for many other purposes, first of all to siphon off energies and use those energies to manipulate you by sending fear and many other manipulation thoughts and feelings to you. Second, the grids are used to keep the lower parts of you grounded into the earth not allowing you to raise the frequencies of those parts to higher levels of frequency.

As the grids are operating in 3rd, 4th, 5th dimensional frequencies, you are able to raise small parts to those levels, but you cannot go any further as this is the highest level you are grounded in. This because you are connected and grounded into many grids that all operate on difference levels of frequency.

The new grid that is not upon earth functions at the 12th dimensional level of frequency, so it holds within it all levels/space down. This means it holds the levels from the 3rd up until the 12th level of frequencies.

The connection or grounding within this grid is not done through the earth star chakra and base chakra but through higher chakras within you. Allowing you to start raising all of you that is within for example in the 3rd level of frequency up to the 4th level of frequency and from there move on to the 5th level of frequency and so forth.

The raising of the frequency levels is done by use of the codings within you, within the DNA, chakras and spiritual bodies.

As most of you are only on earth to make the change from the 3rd dimensional level to the 5th dimensional level, there are two processes of ascension.

One is planetary ascension, raising your level of frequency from the 3rd level to the 5th level, and the other process is called cosmic ascension, which is raising your frequency level from the 3rd level to the source level of your being.

Your source level resides above the 12th level of frequency, the 12th level is the last so called physical level of frequency for the human, above that there is no physical appearance.

The first process of Planetary Ascension is the easiest one, as it is only two levels up and does not require full connection back to the Source part of you.

The second process of Cosmic Ascension is more complicated as it requires a movement through many more levels of frequency and for most this is way above the 12th level of frequency.

Isis has already laid out the first process of Planetary Ascension in full detail through "The Isis Light Body Process for Planetary Ascension", so we will focus on the Cosmic Ascension Process.

The Planetary Ascension from the 3rd level to the 5th level does not mean you will lose your physical appearance, you will still be upon earth and will be subject to the incarnation cycle of death and birth upon earth.

What it does mean is that you will be free from the part that is keeping you grounded on earth and from there you can start the work on working your way back to connecting fully with your Source part up until the highest frequency level of your Source part.

Cosmic Ascension means that you are working your way back, out of the physical incarnation cycle all the way up to becoming your Source part, or raising all levels of you up into your Source part level of frequency.

There are many different levels within your Source part and as you move deeper within your Source part you will find the highest level is vibrating at the overall Source level of frequency. So once you reach your Source part you start to move deeper within to become fully connected with Source, the oneness again.

There is already an experience of oneness once you reach the outside of your Source part as we call it, but the full oneness is deep within your Source part.

So as you can see you will be ascending constantly depending of course upon your own choices. Some of you will decide to stop at the point of the 13th level of frequency and start exploring and work from there, other will move on all the way to the highest within and explore and work from there.

The difference is within the capabilities and knowledge available on all different levels of frequency.

Full capabilities and knowledge are within the deepest level of your Source part on the Source level of oneness.

Each being can ascend, yes the process for the human body is different than within spirit, but it does not mean it is impossible, you have laid out the groundwork before you came here, giving yourself the guidelines needed to ascend within.

Now as many will wonder about other beings within your universe and beyond.

Yes they all can ascend, any action a being does, good or bad as you see it from a human point of view, does not interfere with the process of ascension.

What does interfere is the attachments to the actions.

For example a being that is focused on controlling others, may have certain attachments that interfere because they bring in certain energies that can prevent them from finding some of the codings needed.

So the process of ascension becomes slower as it takes more time to find the codings and more time to clear the energy within to find the codings.

This is true for all attachments though not just negative attachments.

We will end our discourse of ascension here as we will focus on the Cosmic Ascension process in our next messages.

Sanat Kumara

Through Petra Margolis

December 14, 2011

www.ascendedmasters.org

The Isis Light Body Process for Planetary Ascension.

There are two different processes, one for the Planetary Ascension and one that is part of Cosmic Ascension.

Let us start with Planetary Ascension which at this moment in time many will go through either before or as the earth ascends.

With Planetary Ascension the chakras will be fully clear, all 7 within the physical body and 5 above the physical body.

It does not matter in what order you clear these chakras.

One part that is important is that each chakra has a threefold flame within it.

Although they are mostly not activated and cannot be activated at times as there is a need to make sure you have all three crystals within the chakras.

Each chakra has three crystals, love, power and wisdom.

Many have placed the threefold flame within their heart chakra. All three crystals are needed to have the threefold flame active at its fullest capacity.

Once all three crystals are within each chakra, there will be a threefold flame within each chakra.

Once the three fold flame is active within each chakra, the flames will merge and a golden flame will remain, becoming the connection between all chakras

As a human you might have given for example your power crystal to another person, either in this life time or in a previous life time.

Sometimes you will find yourself in a situation with someone where the attraction is so great, your will to even fight against it is gone, this sometimes happens when someone holds your love crystal.

The same for wisdom, as you might follow someone blindly at times and think all they say is the truth. You could have either given your wisdom crystal to this person, or this person has taken the wisdom crystal.

You have 7 chakras within the physical body and there are three crystals within each chakra representing love, power and wisdom.

So you could have given away a crystal out of any of them, and sometimes others will take them away.

This is something that most people do not realize consciously and even the ones that take them do not always realize this consciously.

This because many of you are not fully aware about what is happening within the energies, and are not always able to see what is happening.

Another fact is that much not is known about these as much of the information about the chakras is basic and does not really relate to the spiritual reality.

Another important part is to clear all light bodies connected to the physical body.

1.PHYSICAL/ETHERIC BODY

2.EMOTIONAL/ASTRAL BODY

3.MENTAL BODY

4.BUDDHIC/CAUSAL BODY

Once these bodies are fully cleared and the chakras are clear, you are ready to bring in the chakras 8 through 12, the 5 that are above the physical body.

Many think the light bodies are connected to the chakras, this is a misunderstanding. There are similar types of energy centers within the spiritual bodies and once the spiritual bodies are clear, these energy centers is what allows the energy bodies to merge more with the physical body. Meaning the will be more in alignment with each other and more in alignment with the energies and frequencies within the physical body. This allows for a faster adjustment of the physical body to the 5th dimensional frequencies.

The heart chakra is very important as it is within the heart center. This is different from the heart chakra.

The heart chakra is an energy center where experiences related to emotions and feelings are being stored.

It is very important to clear this chakra as it is a portal into the heart center.

Some talk about a unified chakra as the chakras are all clear and fully open and spinning to its fullest ability.

The unified chakra is not a specific chakra, when chakra 8 through 12 are being brought into the physical body and become fully aligned with all other chakras, the alignment, meaning all chakras spinning at the same frequency is what we call the unified chakra.

The chakras 8 through 12 will either just move down and push down the other chakras, or they find a place in between the other chakras, or they will merge with some of the chakras already there (1 through7).

The 12th chakra will become the crown chakra and usually merges with the 7th chakra and it can become the lotus once you bring in the pearl.

The unified chakra is all chakras spinning in full alignment with each other and there is a connection tube running in between each chakra to make them spin in a unified frequency.

Another thing that is usually needed is a connection to the Higher Self, and bringing in the Higher Self into the physical body.

At this point in time this step is being skipped for most of you as there is a need to have you finish Planetary Ascension preferably before the ascension of the earth.

This to make the transition into the 5th dimensional reality a bit easier.

As we are coming closer and closer to the ascension point, we have been granted some exceptions and this is one of them. This because the energies around the earth are already lifting most of you up into the 5th dimensional frequencies.

For all of those who have not finished the Planetary Ascension before the ascension of the earth, depending upon where they are within the process, will finish the Planetary Ascension process during the ascension of the earth or shortly thereafter when everyone has been moved onto the new earth as the new earth will reside in the 5th dimensional frequency. The information about Planetary Ascension will be readily available as their will be many teachers for this on the new earth.

The Planetary Ascension means that you are ready to move toward as we call it Cosmic Ascension, the path of the Ascended Masters.

Some of you have already been working on parts of the Cosmic Ascension process as you have already completed Planetary Ascension once in a previous life time and you have already spent some lifetimes working on the Cosmic Ascension Process.

Many of you have been working on Planetary Ascension in previous lifetimes and are here to finish the Planetary Ascension process through the ascension of the earth into the 5th dimension.

This completes the explanation about Planetary Ascension and we will discuss the process of Cosmic Ascension separately as it involves more than just light bodies.

You can ask why do you have to do these processes all over again?

This is because each time you incarnate, you start fresh and once you awaken you awaken the parts within you that have already been completed.

At that moment it becomes easier to complete the process as you already know what is needed to do these processes in the most efficient way possible.

For those that awaken and have not yet reached the state of remembrance needed, help is available through others.

There are some upon earth who we would call the way showers, they have taken it upon them to bring down the memories and actually go through the processes fully physically and spiritually.

This allows them to take you through the process in the most efficient way, because even though many of you have awakened, not all of you are at the level of full remembrance of the process.

These energy workers are able to see the chakras, energy bodies and can see what is still needed as well as they can facilitate or initiate the process of completing Planetary Ascension within you.

As always look for the guidance within as this is where you will find all that is needed within every moment.

Isis

Through Petra Margolis

December 6, 2011

www.ascendedmasters.org

One thing that is not mentioned in this message but can be a physical side effect as you are opening your heart center more is that you might experience some heart arrhythmia. This should only be for a short time unless you go further into Cosmic Ascension.

As well as some joint pain and muscle pain is experienced, the overall feeling for most is just being tired while working on the process.

It does depends on how you do the process as my experience is that if you can fully remember and do the process in a short amount of time there will be less of an effect on the physical body and most will only feel tired and then feel the raise within the frequency of the physical body.

For some that choose the assistance of energy healers, the process will have less effect usually as well as much of the physical symptoms are transmuted by the energy healer who has already gone through the process physically and is able to take on the energies that way.

Petra

December 6, 2011

www.ascendedmasters.org

Take no notice of the ego and its activities, but see only the light behind.

You are now thinking that you are the body and therefore confuse yourself with its birth and death. But you are not the body and you have no birth and death.

Creation is neither good nor bad; it is as it is. It is the human mind which puts all sorts of constructions on it, seeing things from its own angle and interpreting them to suit its own interests.

If you would deny the ego and scorch it by ignoring it, you would be free. If you accept it, it will impose limitations on you and throw you into a vain struggle to transcend them. To be the Self that you really are is the only means to realize the bliss that is ever yours.

Can there be darkness before the sun? Similarly, can there be ignorance before the self-evident and self-luminous Self ? If you know the Self there will be no darkness, no ignorance and no misery.

Just on waking from sleep and before becoming aware of the world there is that pure `I, I'. Hold on to it without sleeping or without allowing thoughts to possess you. If that is held firm it does not matter even if the world is seen. The seer remains unaffected by the phenomena.

Peace is absence of disturbance. The disturbance is due to the arising of thoughts in the individual, which is only the ego rising up from pure consciousness. To bring about peace means to be free from thoughts and to abide as pure consciousness.

You are awareness. Awareness is another name for you. Since you are awareness there is no need to attain or cultivate it. All that you have to do is to give up being aware of other things, that is of the not-Self. If one gives up being aware of them then pure awareness alone remains, and that is the Self.

If one knows the truth that all that one gives to others is giving only to oneself, who indeed will not be a virtuous person and perform the kind act of giving to others ? Since everyone is one's own Self, whoever does whatever to whomever is doing it only to himself.

Divine grace is essential for realization. It leads one to God realization. But such grace is vouchsafed only to him who is a true devotee or a yogi. It is given only to those who have striven hard and ceaselessly on the path towards freedom.

All unhappiness is due to the ego; with it comes all your trouble. What does it avail you to attribute to the happenings in life the cause of misery which is really within you? What happiness can you get from things extraneous to yourself ? When you get it, how long will it last ?

So long as the sense of doership is retained there is the desire. That is also personality. If this goes the Self is found to shine forth pure. The sense of doership is the bondage and not the actions themselves. `Be still and know that I am God.' Here stillness is total surrender without a vestige of individuality. Stillness will prevail and there will be no agitation of mind. Agitation of mind is the cause of desire, the sense of doership and personality.

Dear Friends,

A centralized multi modality healing energy bank was established by me last year for my group members where I and a large number of healers worldwide sent healing energies to be used by those who need it.

Now as per the Guidance and Instructions received from my Guru Maha Avatar Babaji and the Divine mother Adi Shakti I am opening it to all who need it. You can call in the energies for yourself, others, your pets and even situations demanding healing.

It is freely available 24x7x365 days and can be called in as and when needed and as many times as you want. In return simply send energy (If you can) or else loving thoughts to the bank for use by others. The energies are programmed to be self adjusting as per the situation.

1. Calling for Yourself:”I am now ready to receive the healing energies from the centralized healing energy bank set up by Aditya for my (Your purpose), Thank you.”
2. Calling for others:”I am now receiving the healing energies from the centralized healing energy bank set up by Aditya and transferring it to (Recipient) for (Purpose) Thank you.”
3. Calling for healing a situation:”I am now receiving the healing energies to heal my (Situation) Thank you.”
4. To send healing to the bank:”I am now sending this healing energy(any modality)/Love to the centralized healing energy bank set up by Aditya to be used by those who need it.”

Use it and let me have your feedback and suggestions to improve. Thank you for letting me serve.

Love and Blessings

Aditya

Beloved ones, when you come into this communion with Me, the first thing that I must show you, always, is just what you mean to Me, how beautiful and how perfect you are, how cherished and how I see your never-ending and astounding beauty.

I give to you the gift of your life, brand new in this holy Now Moment, that you might receive fully, at last, the awareness of being loved completely, unconditionally, and that you might feel in the depth of your heart, beloved ones, that you are created in perfection and joy. Your life is important beyond My ability to describe. Recognize what it means not only to be truly loved but to receive the truth of your identity directly from your Creator.

I hold you and wrap you in this tender Love in a place of peace and perfection, a place of safety and continual assurance that all that you need I shall always provide. You are the most exquisitely beautiful and glorious experience for Me and I celebrate your life.

I celebrate your life. Every moment of your existence, I Am awed and astounded at your perfection. I Am given the most amazing gift in your presence, in your communion, in and as and with My heart. This assurance of all that you are to Me is the riches of your life, the core of your being, that you might drink in this Love and let it be for you the foundation of your every breath, your every movement, your every extension of Love.

You are whole and holy Love. You are sung to by all of the Angels who are the out-picturing of My joy in you, and who are that which holds the consciousness of the miracle that your life is. This is what I give to you continually and I ask you to let this be always the beginning of our communion, that you might return to the truth of being cherished and might recognize, beloved ones, that nothing you have ever done...nothing that the mind creates...nothing can ever make Me love you any less, for My Love for you is the truth of Love eternal that never changes and never wavers, not even the tiniest increment.

No matter what plays out in the dream of the mind, you are supported, held, loved and fed, acknowledged as your perfect life and celebrated, beloved ones, by the whole of Creation. It is so important that you feel this first - that you allow My Love to penetrate through the veil that the ego mind has woven to keep you separate and keep you searching for Love outside of yourself in the world. The Source of Love, its proof and the absolute experience of My unwavering, unconditional, exultant, astounded Love for you is right here as you are held in My Love.

Even a moment when you experience this to the depths of your being and the breadth of your heart, which is always how it is when you open your heart and allow My Love - one moment, and your life is returned to its wholeness, to the center, to the Reality of the heart. In this moment, mind can fall away. You can relax and know that you are supported and loved.

That for which you have been searching through all your lives, in all your parents, in every relationship you have ever had, all that the ego mind has convinced you that you must find in the world through someone or something or through resolving all issues ... none of it matters any more. None of it really ever did because you are Home in My perfect Love for you in your heart forever.

So we begin our communion with this -- your experience of how perfectly I love you that gives to you the gift of your awareness that everything you have struggled for can be released as you accept this Love. Once you feel how deeply I love you, how powerful the experience is of receiving your true identity, directly from Me... Once you allow Me to fill you so full with adoration, with Love, with the vision of your perfection...

Now, when you are filled up at last from the Source of life and Love within you until it overflows and washes you with grace, allows you to believe you live in Heaven, anchors you into the Real of Love and affirms for your heart, your being and your soul that you can trust Me...trust God... Now you are ready to experience the Reality of your own power.

You are ready to open up your heart wide enough to contain the universe and ready to experience the power of this Love from which you spring that is your true identity and that gives you freedom and life and the ability to live completely free to experience the glory of life, not only in absolute trust but from the center of your being as the power of God. This, now, is the core of our communion.

You sink into your center, open up your precious and eternal heart and experience the powerful explosion of the energy of Creation that is the truth of your being. It is that which fuels your life. It is that which gives you the power to create as the pure outreach of Love and brings you the ecstasy of life rushing and pulsing through your being, fueling from the inside outward your every movement, your every breath, your identity, your joy. It is the center of a security that can only exist as you live in your heart.

Release everything until you find that you are this pulsing center of glory that in its explosion of life is the celebration of the gift and the mystery that brings in you a resonating and cosmic breath and the delicious experience of who you are, and offers you the source of All That Is to be that which creates your experience of the entire holographic life, every bit of which is fueled by your heart.

Every thread of the shimmering web of life, every gossamer extension of consciousness, every current of moving Love, every aspect of All I Am is registered in your heart as the center of All I Am, as the vortex, the conduit, the heart of God, that which brings forth the power of perfect Love and makes it fully conscious, establishes eternally the gift of giving and receiving and extending Love.

You are the center of everything, of everything that lives and breathes within each other, and thus, you live as the Love I Am in the center of every life. You are ready to be fully conscious of the magnitude of your ability to be the power of Love, to be the heart of God I Am that feeds it all, fuels it all with the power of Creation which you, beloved ones, hold in consciousness.

As I have said to you and as you feel, every aspect of the life I Am is fully aware, and each is held by and as a conscious being, that as the Angels hold the celebration of this awakening of our conscious communion, so do you hold the conscious heart of God, the fiery explosion of power and Love.

You are that, beloved ones, and you are that awakening in everything, and thus, the whole of life is fed by you as the heart of this magnificent creation, the awakening of God I Am. You are this. When you feel this power, this life, this Love, then nothing in the ego's world can hold you, can keep you from becoming fully alive, or can limit you in any way and interfere with this experience of drinking life, of blossoming God, of seeding every precious life stream and being the conscious center of the whole.

It is impossible to describe to your mind what it means to be the holographic heart of Love, what it means to be conscious in communion at the center of all life as the place where My Love is extended and where the power of life is acknowledged and expressed in new and indescribable ways. You are a hologram of perfect Love. You are, as I have said, the very Moment of Creation. This power, this life, this fiery Love can and will fuel the birth of a world that expresses the heart of God in all its glory.

This is what you have chosen to accomplish -- to release this dream of separation from power and Love, to return to the experience of the center of All That Is to be out-pictured as the explosion of life it is - far beyond atomic energy, far beyond the imaginings of, say, your sun that blazes as a fiery light in your sky each morning to symbolize the power of Creation.

Oh, beloved ones, this is barely a beginning of that which will reflect to you the truth, the truth you are as the power and Love, as the exploding heart of Creation.

I Am dissolved in this Love until you recognize the power of our unity, and I Am in you, fully aware of every intersection of the heart of God's identity that now must align with the truth. Let Me breathe you in and in your next breath, breathe Me until the in-breath and the out-breath become the energy of Creation, fueling your shift to the perception of your heart, to the fiery explosion of atomic Love, to the essence of the energies of Creation that live in you and are expressed in your every movement.

Can you feel this as your foundation? Can you feel how you are the source of life's movement and energy? Life and Love are rushing through your heart, appearing as your heart to blaze out as great pulses of living Love. They are expressed as the world through this conscious communion between the Will of Love moving as your true identity and the conscious communion with the electrons and energies, waves of life, pulses of Love that do the Will of Love instantly and gather to dance forth a world expressing this perfection and this power.

It is important now, My precious hearts, the glorious "en-conscious-ment" of Creation's Love, that you feel the outflow of the power of life from the source that seeds you and from which you spring endlessly, radiant and radiating outward as Love extended, amplified, multiplied. You are bursting forth with life to become the world before you, to become your experience, to become the shining symbols of Love's power and Love's beauty, to become the opportunity to feel the interweaving of the Love you are with every life, every true identity creating a new expression of God that we have named, beloved ones, Heaven on Earth...but it is so far beyond this.

It is LIFE in all its glory and its richness. It is the power of Creation delivered here. It is the explosion of the Divine as power and Love, as the expression of the apex of the union of life energies, of the masculine and the feminine creating anew the most exquisite and luminous expressions of Love, of power, of beauty...without any naming by the ego mind. Rather, being experienced through the heart that every moment the world bursts forth again.

The beauty of Creation is made brand new, and you are the movement of the Source in communion and as the perfection of Love -- to live from within; to experience all that you touch. To be every anchored into the Real of God as the riches of our perfection in every aspect of this relationship, the sweet communion, the explosion of life and the beautiful song of unity that sings forth the hologram.

This is the world you step into, the world brand new before you, the world that you experience through your heart, allowing the single eye of perceiving Love not only to inform you, but to give you your next opportunity to extend this indescribable communion.

There is truly only God here. Oh, yes, you are living in the fiery furnace, and you are such power that the mind cannot comprehend. Because the little mind is aware of this, it has created fear to keep you at its behest, to keep you away from the power of Love you are. It is simply as we've said a misperception - one moment of believing that we are separate, that the gift of our communion could somehow push you out of the warmth of receiving your identity as this Love.

In that moment, or truly I should say "this one," every possibility of other than Love is unfolding, the vehicle of which is your mind. So there is nothing diabolical here. There is simply the need to return to the acceptance that you are far from powerless. Your very heart can fuel the explosion of Creation here and bring forth the miracle of communion, God with God, your heart with your reflection, every moment, pure rejoicing. And every moment is completely clear and endlessly powerful.

You have wondered, all of you, what will occur in this world, as you see the current changes. You have wondered at the results of the current path of humanity. Will it overwhelm the Earth's ability to support you? I say to you that the moment that you return to your true identity as the fiery heart of God, this power and this presence is the ability to fuel a new creation instantly, to bring forth a world that expresses your heart in the only time that exists, the Now Moment, as the pulse of creation comes forth as you.

You are the fullness of its "en-conscious-ment," and therefore, that which is in your heart, that which is the window through which Love flows always reflects instantly that which your heart experiences, that which your heart believes.

So, beloved ones, let us rejoice that you are powerful beyond anything you have ever imagined, that every dream of being powerless, of being human, of being at the mercy of forces in the world is only a misperceiving. It is gone the moment that you return to the full experience of God which is all powerful.

Your heart, then, is the source of the fuel that will power the experience of sharing in a new Creation that is the expression of God, the heart as the miracle of Creation. Thus, every moment is astounding and must be observed as the power of Creation stands in the world as you. But not you as this little beleaguered human being... living in a "physical body." Rather as the coalescence of the energies of Creation consciously gathering at Love's behest to out-picture for you the truth of your heart, the glory of Love and the miracle of our communion.

This means that everything that you perceive is conscious. All of Creation is constantly communicating the majesty and the miracle and the mystery of Love as it bursts forth, as it bubbles up, as it manifests in the luminous expression of gathered particles of Light and color. The Love of the heart creates the resonance that draws the electrons magnetically to dance your heart's beliefs.

So, believe in My Love for you. Oh, believe it, beloved ones, and feel it. Let it fill your every moment, fuel your dreams, give to you the experience of being loved so wholly and perfectly that the only thing your heart can out-picture is this security and peace.

Allow your heart to give to you the gift of the powers of Creation that live in you, that fuel your life, that bring to you the ecstasy of your power as a Twin Flame heart of Creation -- power and Love, Divine Masculine and Feminine to be danced in the world as the experience of two luminous magnetic beings interwoven in every molecule, each electron... to out-picture the Double Helix of God, the Moment of Creation.

Come! Your hearts are ready. They are ready for you to feel them, to drop into the vortex of endless Love and become Love's power. Are you ready to be the fullness of Creation?

Circle of Light have been given the gift of the Messages from God to bring forth to humanity through Yael and Doug Powell. We hope that you will share these Messages as widely as possible, including to any groups or lists you feel appropriate. We only ask that you retain our identifying information. © 2011 Circle of Light www.circleoflight.net

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 I looked through the 56 groups and can't derive which groups are teaching groups

2012 ~ What Do You Mean The 3rd Dimension Is Going Away?

By Jim Self

Posted December 9, 2011

As 2012 approaches there is an increasing urgency to this message because
we're all, literally, running out of time to play in the third dimension.

In simple terms, the habit of thinking and feeling and behaving that we know
of as the third dimension is going away. Everyone is shifting into a fourth
dimensional consciousness and experience, and then into a fifth dimensional
consciousness and experience.

However, most people on the planet are not prepared for this Shift. But it
is happening nonetheless, and for those who are unaware of what's going on
it will not be an easy or comfortable experience.

Yet this can be a wonderful, enjoyable time as well. With some basic
information about what the Shift is, and what "dimensions" are, and with
simple tools to help manage our thoughts and feelings, everyone has the
ability to evolve their consciousness and move gracefully and joyfully into
these higher vibrational realms.

If you don't know what dimensions are, you are not alone. Most people
playing the game of life as we know it in the third dimension are playing
without a "rule book" that would explain what the game really is and how one
can play it successfully.

This article provides these basic, missing rules. It explains what the
third, fourth, and fifth dimensions are, and why they are the most important
consideration of your life right now.

If you can understand the structure and play of these dimensions, you can
begin to move fluidly through the unprecedented changes of this Shift
without fear, without effort, without the tension and anxiety that is, for
the most part, the daily habit of our lives.

So, first of all, let me define what dimensions are not.

Dimensions are not places or locations, and they are not a linear
progression - 3, 4, 5, 6 - stacked up like pancakes. And the 3rd dimension,
or the 4th dimension, is not the chair you're sitting in, or the walls that
surround you, or even the Earth itself. That is form, which exists
predominantly in the 3rd and 4th dimensions, and which will still be very
much part of the play in the 4th dimension when the 3rd dimension is no
longer an option.

In general, dimensions are states of consciousness available to anyone who
vibrates in resonance with the specific frequencies and opportunities
available within each dimension.

In a way, you could think of each dimension as a different game with a
different set of rules as to what is possible and not possible for the
beings that choose to play and create there.

So what is the 3rd Dimension?

The third dimension (3D) is a box of rigid beliefs, more or less, with a
relatively inflexible set of rules and limitations. Most of us have been
playing this game for lifetimes, so we tend to think it is the only game
available to us. But nothing could be further from the truth. One of the
rigid 3D beliefs that structure our lives - our thinking and feeling and
actions - is linear time.

Linear time is an optional belief and structure that let's us "live" an
experience of past and a future... and then we die. Because this belief is
the default assumption of mass 3D consciousness, and events seem to validate
the belief, most of us think and act as if it's true.

But now we are all waking up from the illusion of this ubiquitous belief.
And as you become more conscious, you realize that time in 3D is actually a
time loop. What you experience in "the past" is pretty much what you put
your attention on now, and you project that reality into "the future," and
therefore you experience it over and over again.

So the structure of time is quite specific (and limiting) in the 3rd
dimension, but your experience of time is quite different (and empowering)
as you move into higher dimensions.

Everything in a 3D consciousness is also very conditional. The concept of,
for example, 'unconditional love,' does not exist in the 3rd dimension. If
you experience 'unconditional love' or 'unconditional peace' you have
actually moved into a fourth dimensional (4D) consciousness.

You see, in the earth experience now, we have access to both 3rd and 4th
dimensional consciousness, but most of us rarely step out of the
well-grooved habits of 3D thinking and feeling.

The 3rd dimension also offers no possibility of choice. We don't choose our
thoughts, feelings, and actions in every moment (that's a skill of 4D and
5D), instead we react from unconscious beliefs and training to the people
and situations that pop up in our space.

Duality provides another rigid structure for 3D experience. Up/down.
Left/right. Should/shouldn't. Since the fall of Atlantis 12,500 years ago,
we have become very fearful as a way of life, and in that fear we have
learned to narrowly define good and bad, right and wrong, etc. Unconscious
judgment permeates 3D thinking.

Moreover, we perceive our 3D experience predominantly with the left
hemisphere of the brain, home of the rational mind, and so we use only about
5 to 10 percent of the brain's capacity to play the 3D game. Most of us
suspect the rest of our brain must do something but have no idea what it
actually does and how it functions.

In fact, what the rest of the brain enables us to do is function in the
higher 4th and 5th dimensions, and beyond.

We already have the potential, all the necessary equipment and wiring, right
now, to be fully conscious in all these dimensions. But our habits of
thinking and feeling, grooved over many lifetimes, dumbs= us down and limit
us to 3D experience. Our left-brain, rational mind only knows what it
knows, and doesn't know what it doesn't know, and it works tirelessly to
keep us within a thin range of objective 3D thinking and possibilities. And
we, for the most part, have gone along for the ride. But no longer.

The increasing light energies and frequencies of the Shift are rewiring our
brains to allow us access to a much wider range of information and
possibility than is available in the 3rd dimension. These light energies
are preparing us for 4D and 5D experience, even as they are clearing the
rigid 3D "rules" from our consciousness.

So what is the 4th Dimension?

The "rules" of 4th dimensional consciousness provide an enhanced sense of
ease, possibility, and capability than the structures of the 3rd dimension.

Time in 4D, for example, is always present time. The focus is only ever this
moment, what is happening right now. Our bodies already know only this
present time; they can't know 'yesterday' or 'tomorrow,' and as conscious
beings in our natural alignment in the higher 4th dimension, we function
absolutely in this "Now" of present time awareness and attention. When our
attention point becomes present time awareness, choice becomes possible
again. We can observe any and all events with a sense of detachment, merely
as information to consider, and from that still, uncluttered platform we are
then, and only then, free to choose our response. In the higher 4th
dimension we become response-able.

A concept and possibility known as paradox also becomes available in the
present time of 4D consciousness. Paradox simply means that what was true
just a moment ago may not be true right now. And what was false a moment ago
may no longer be false. Instead of applying rigid, pre-existing definitions
to any experience, we choose our preferred version and vibration in every
moment.

So as we move into 4D consciousness in present time, with the power of
choice and response-ability, and the flexibility of paradox, the ability to
alter the game to enhance our happiness and wellbeing becomes available.

Interestingly, 4D consciousness will not be a long-term option after the
Shift clears away the rigid structures of 3D consciousness.

The 4th dimension is serving as an essential, but short-lived, stepping
stone or vibrational platform from which we will all move into 5th
dimensional consciousness. 5D is the target for Earth and all her
inhabitants. The archangels have said the entire consciousness of Earth will
be a fifth dimensional consciousness by the year 2015.

But although the 5th dimension is the target, the experience of the 4th
dimension is essential. We cannot enter 5D directly from 4D. All mental and
emotional baggage from the 3rd dimension must be left at the door to the 4th
dimension, and we can only enter the 5th dimension after we have become
masterful of our thoughts and feelings in the 4th dimension.

Some assembly is required.

So what is the 5th Dimension?

The 5th dimension operates, to a great extent, in a completely differently
fashion from the 3rd and 4th dimensions.

Time in 5D is instantaneous time, meaning that everything (all
possibilities) occurs in the same place at the same moment. In 5D, you focus
your attention and the answer or experience is given to you exactly when and
where you focus.

Ask and you shall receive.

In 5D, you don't have to move or go anywhere for your answers or
experiences; everything comes to you easily and effortlessly based upon the
attention point and vibration you choose to hold in every moment.

When you are vibrating in 5D consciousness, you don't create with form as
you do in the 3rd and 4th dimensions, you create with light and light
patterns and light frequencies. You apply sound and color and geometric
shapes. You consciously interact with the Creator and all the Beings of
Light.

In this heightened consciousness, the rational mind plays a very minimal
role. It returns to a small, specific focus it was intended to have, namely
the wellbeing of the physical body.

But before we can move into our vibrational home that is 5D consciousness,
we must first become masterful of the vibrations and possibilities of 4D
consciousness. This is the focus of the Shift for most people as we head
into the ever-accelerating events of 2012.

So how do you become masterful in 4D consciousness?

The Tools of 4D Present Time

As I mentioned, 4D is the 'right now' of 'present time.' But present time
actually has four different levels.

In 2010, we all stepped into the third level. As we move 2012, we will step
into the fourth, and final, level. In that level, when you think, 'I would
like an apple,' the apple is going to appear in your hand. Usually when I
say that people get very excited. And it is exciting. However . there is a
however.

The vast majority of people on this planet are not prepared to be the
masters of their every thought, feeling, and action in every moment. But
there's no option. It's a required, baseline skill of higher 4D and 5D
consciousness.

One of the reasons the 3rd dimension was created was to provide a
"playground" in which we each can practice and hone the vibration of our
thoughts and feelings. To accomplish this, the 3D playground has a time
buffer. Instead of 'instant manifestation' there is a time lag between the
thought we think and the manifestation or experience of that thought. For
the most part, we are very sloppy with this buffer.

Instead of focusing on what we want, and allowing this to unfold over time,
we spew anger, frustration, boredom, worry, anxiety, blame, guilt, fear -
all kinds of lower, disharmonic thoughts and feelings. We behave as if we
can think and feel anything with impunity because we do not see the
instantaneous results of our thinking.

But no longer. As 3D linear time is collapsing into a single point of
present time, the time buffer is collapsing too. We have less opportunity to
practice being aware of our mental and emotional habits before what we think
is what we get. This is a very big deal.

Fortunately, some simple energy tools can help you manage your thoughts and
emotions in every moment so that you can be prepared for the unprecedented
opportunity and challenge of living and creating in present time in the
higher dimensions.

These basic energy tools are available for free on our website
www.masteringalchemy=""> www.masteringalchemy .com but let me explain
a few of them here by way of example.

Allow the Shift to clear your unconscious thoughts & feelings

In simple terms, the Shift is using one wave of light frequencies to clear
away who we are not, and another wave to remind us who we are. The Shift
knows where we've stored unwanted, unconscious habits of thought and
reactionary emotion, and the light is clearing all this from our vibration.

However, as these lesser thoughts and feelings are cleared, they will come
into our awareness, and magnetize people and circumstances to us that mirror
these chaotic energies. How do you handle these often-powerful energies when
they appear. You allow them. If you can simply observe them with a sense of
detachment as they come up - knowing that they are just coming up to be
cleared - they will clear quickly, and you won't even remember what the fuss
was all about.

But if you grab hold and engage these chaotic thoughts and feelings, if you
insist on feeling guilty or worrying, if you continue to argue that 'I am
not OK' or 'They are not OK,' these energies will not be cleared from your
space - and the Shift, as it accelerates ever faster, will become a very
bumpy, very 'not OK' road for you.

Remember most often what comes up is not even yours; it does not belong to
you. Acknowledge it and know that it's coming up to be cleared. forever.
Take a couple of deep breaths, go for a walk, listen to music -- but turn
your attention point to something of a higher vibration.

Understanding the Lower and Higher 4th Dimension

To simplify another important aspect of the Shift, let's imagine that the
4th dimension has just two parts to it - a lower 4th dimension and a higher
4th dimension. (This is not technically true, but it's a useful
distinction.)

As I mentioned, form will remain when 3D disappears. We'll still experience
houses and cars and trees. But fear, judgments, blame and guilt, the rights
and the wrongs, will disappear. All this dense emotional energy, which is
the only thing that prevents us from playing in the higher dimensions right
now, will simply be cleared from our space.

However, depending upon the vibration of the thoughts you are thinking as 3D
disappears, you will find yourself in either the lower 4th dimension or the
higher 4th dimension.

The lower 4th dimension, which is also called the astral plane or dream
space, holds all the thoughts ever thought by anyone in the 3rd dimension.

You see, thoughts don't just disappear after we think them. They live on in
the lower 4th dimension, with specific weight, texture, density and
emotional charge. And they bond and cluster with all the other thoughts of
similar character.

Some thoughts - such as rape, domination, slavery, war, hatred - feel heavy,
dense and dark. Conversely, thoughts such as 'butterflies,' 'children
playing in the park,' and 'flowers blooming on a warm spring day' feel light
and have a simple, airy vibration. Lighter thoughts like these rarely
linger in a 3D consciousness. Because in order to align and feel the
vibration of, for example, 'beauty,' we must step out of 3D consciousness
into present time, a higher 4th dimensional space.

Wait, you say, I know 'Beauty!' You do, because we're now living in both the
third and fourth dimensions simultaneously, but how often do you align
yourself with, and linger on, the feeling of beauty?

It's a 4D, present-time skill to take thoughts like 'light,' 'airy' and
'beauty' to heart. These vibrations don't even exist in the hurry up,
past/future of the 3rd dimension where it's very difficult to pause in
present time and smell a flower.

But, on the other hand, have you noticed that heavy, uncomfortable thoughts
such as 'I'm not good enough.' or 'They don't like me.' or 'I'm never going
to succeed.' tend to linger quite a bit longer in 3D consciousness? This is
because thoughts are electric and emotions are magnetic. A set of light,
airy vibrations like 'beauty' or 'graciousness' has a low, soft, electrical
charge that is expansive and fluid. Whereas heavier, uglier thoughts come
highly charged and wrapped in highly magnetic emotions. These thoughts are
not only harder to clear than kind, loving thoughts; they also bond
magnetically to all other thoughts like them in the lower 4th dimension.

So much of the magnetic field we walk around in - I'm not OK, You're not OK
- has very little to do with who we really are. It's just the magnetism of
one heavy, unconscious thought attaching itself to the magnetism of similar
heavy, unconscious thoughts.

You begin to see why it's vital to become conscious of the thoughts you
think and the emotions you throw into your vibrational mix.

Fortunately, the second wave of the Shift is making this easier and easier.
As we let go of the heavier energies of Who We Are Not, the light is
rewiring us, stepping us up into a higher 4th dimensional vibration where
lesser thoughts and emotions are not such a distraction in our general
experience.

We start to live in alignment with the heart, and experience the vibrations
and consequences of concepts such as 'I like me,' 'I'm happy,' 'I'm pleased
with myself.'

The alignment with the heart becomes natural because it already is our
natural alignment in the higher fourth, fifth and sixth dimensions.

However, some assembly is required.

Any limitations, judgments, denials, blame, guilt, or resentments that we
each still argue for, in one way or the other, become like weights on a hot
air balloon. They limit how far we can rise within the fourth dimensional
range of vibration.

Each of us is 100 percent in charge of the process. The more weight -
lower-vibrational patterns of words, thoughts, and emotions - we remove, the
higher we rise into the expansive experience of the higher 4th dimension.
Here, it is as if we look past the boundaries and limitations, which were
always just a habit of observation in 3D. It's a wider view, a calmer view,
and a quieter view. In the upper 4th dimension, you can choose fear or
worry, and drop into the lower 4th dimension. but you won't.

As you begin to align with the heart, very naturally - 'I Like Me' - you're
going to find there's no reason or compulsion to choose an uncomfortable
attention point in the lower 4th dimension. It comes naturally and readily
because it is the language and vibration of you're natural well being - if
you let it, and if you focus upon it.

It's a choice.

As the shift accelerates and time collapses and everything is in the present
moment, you could still choose your thoughts and feelings unconsciously, out
of 3rd dimensional habit, and you would have the opportunity to live that
discomfort immediately and fully in your experience.

Or you can choose your thought and emotion in every moment, with focus and
awareness, and live the fullness of that experience.

In other words, it's to your benefit to practice and integrate the ability
to choose the contents of your consciousness right now, before it really
counts - and that moment is not very far away.

It's all up to you.

Until now, the center of your head, the place from where you can choose your
thoughts and attention point, has been pre-occupied by the thoughts of
others. Your Mom-Dad-Teacher-Minister loved you and had an opinion about the
best way for you to live your life, and as their thoughts moved in to your
head, "You" moved out.

Now it is time to take back ownership of the center of your head. As you
recognize and let go of the unnatural thoughts that say, 'Oh, I can't do
this' and 'I can't do that' and 'I must do this,' you're going to find that
soon all those thoughts, with their sticky interlocking connections in the
lower 4th dimension, disappear.

Just putting your attention in present time on 'beauty' and 'well-being', or
just being 'happy' in a state of 'ease', eliminates the lesser vibrations
stored within the lower astral fields of the 4th dimension.

Start by playing with the vibration of what I call Living Words. The
Archangels very deliberately and precisely selected these words - words such
as Certain, Capable, Commanding, Present, Senior, Graciousness and Happy -
so that you can most easily clear all the unconscious vibrations from your
space.

Choose one word each day and live with it all day, think it and feel it
often.

If you practice thinking and feeling these vibrations now, when it doesn't
absolutely count, they will become your habit when it does count.

You begin to gracefully realign with the fullness of "You," and your natural
state of wellbeing lifts you into the higher 4th dimension.

Easy? Kind of.

Simple? Yes.

Does it require awareness and a choice from a present time space?
Absolutely.

Can you sit on the sidelines and hope it all turns out? No.

Increased levels of electromagnetic light from the higher dimensions are now
flowing within all of us. Many people in the 3rd dimension cannot handle
this surge, and they are choosing to step out of their bodies.

And many, many more will follow as the Shift accelerates

You see, everyone is going home to the 4th and then 5th dimensions, but not
everyone is going home on the same timeline, and with the same ease and
grace.

How do you choose?

Blessings

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Dear Friends,
As per the guidance and instructions received from my Guru Maha Avatar Baba Ji
and the divine mother Adi Shakti last night,WEF 1st January 2012 all
transmissions(Past,Present and Future) (Except some special closed ones)made by
me would be freely available to any one who wants it throughout my life time (as
the energy is drawn through me as a conduit).
There will be no restriction on number of times they can be taken,just observe
the normal precautions while taking any energy.

Just say "I am ready to receive the XYZ Energy Transmission sent by Aditya"and
the energy starts.

I need the next fortnight for intense meditation/special rituals to increase my
energy Threshold to be able to handle this additional energy load.

May Babaji and and the Divine Mother give me strength to carry out their
command.

Love and Blessings.
Aditya

As the cold sweeps across the hairs on my pimpled skin,

The voices of angels, singing Alleljua,

Surge the chill and magick, to pierce my flesh

And tremble my cells into sacred movement.

So begins the inner dance, before the Alpha Omega Healing...

~ Maria (Savita)

(Alleljua by Vox)

 ~*~   Dear friends, this is an excerpt from "The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching" by Thich Nhat Hanh  ~*~

                                                                 ~~~~~  o O o  ~~~~~

    In this excerpt, Hanh is referring to not only food we eat that is ingested, but also our environment

    and all of the energies associated with outside circumstances that we encounter throughout our day.

    For the serious spiritual seeker, using 'mindfulness' is a valuable tool in being aware of what we are

    allowing our senses to absorb.

                                                         ~~~~~~~~  o  O  o  ~~~~~~~

    "Movies are food for our eyes, ears and minds.  When we watch TV, the program is our food.  Children

     who spend five hours a day watching television are ingesting images that water the negative seeds

     of craving, fear, anger, and violence in them.  We are exposed to so many forms, colors, sounds,

     smells, tastes, objects of touch, and ideas that are toxic and rob our body and consciousness of their

     well-being.  When you feel despair, fear, or depression, it may be because you have ingested too many

     toxins through your sense impressions.         Not only children need to be protected from violent and

     unwholesome films, TV programs, books, magazines, and games.   We, too, can be destroyed by these

     media.

     "If we are mindful, we will know whether we are "ingesting" the toxins of fear, hatred, and violence, or

     eating 'food' that encourage understanding, compassion, and the determination to help others.

     With the practice of mindfulness, we will know that hearing this, looking at this, or touching that,

     we feel anxious, sad or depressed.   As a result, we will know what to be in contact with and what to

     avoid.        Our skin protects us from bacteria.        Antibodies protect us from internal invaders.

     We have to use the equivalent aspects of our consciousness to protect us from unwholesome sense

     objects that can poison us.

    "The Buddha offered this drastic image:  'There is a cow with such a terrible skin disease that her skin

     is almost no longer there.  When you bring her close to an ancient wall or old tree, all the living creatures

     in the bark of the tree come out, cling to the cow's body, and suck.  When we bring her into the water,

     the same thing happens.  Even when she is just exposed to the air, tiny insects come and suck.'

     Then the Buddha said, 'This is our situation, also.'

    "We are exposed to invasions of all kinds  -  images, sounds, smells, touch, ideas  -  and many of these

     feed the craving, violence, fear, and despair in us.  The Buddha advised us to post a sentinel, namely

     mindfulness, at each of our sense doors to protect ourselves.     Use your Buddha eyes to look at each

     nutriment you are about to ingest.  If you see that it is toxic, refuse to look at it, listen to it, taste it,

    or touch it.   Ingest only what you are certain is safe. "                    ~  Thich Nhat Hanh

      Shared with Loving Intent  ~  Mary.         

Recently, I related how a senior member of the spiritual hierarchy – a global spirit who functions as the Lord Protector of The Shift – took me under his wing to act as a messenger for urgent spiritual information.

Under his guidance, I have learned about a principle called the 2012 Gateway Trajectory. This states that the pattern of consciousness that you have on December 21st, 2012 will influence your trajectory through experience for many thousands of years into the future.

The 2012 gateway is rather like a vortex. You enter it from one side, pass through the eye of the vortex where your pattern of consciousness is stamped or fixed within your aura, then you exit the vortex into a whole new set of multi-millennia cosmic cycles bearing that pattern.

Last week, I talked about how your challenges in life are not all that they seem. As a spiritual seeker, you are a lightworker and therefore a leading thinker in the advancement of consciousness. You may have adopted one or more challenges to work through in this life so that you could create a pattern in the mind belt to make it easier for others to follow and heal their own lives.

You’ve borne those challenges, not so much because you need the experience, but because other people need pioneers to resolve the issues that are important today. The more the pioneers succeed in resolving their issues, the easier it becomes for the rest to follow.

The point of knowing this is so that you may resolve whatever challenges still face you before December 21st, 2012. As you head towards the 2012 gateway, it’s time to take inventory and see where you stand on matters of unfinished business.

Whatever gives you discomfort – even so much as a nagging doubt that all is not right – now is the time to address those issues. Anything that gives you a feeling of being out of harmonious alignment of mind, body and soul should be addressed and resolved.

Remember, you’re not the challenge that you are facing. You adopted it as something to master in order to make the way easier for others to follow the pattern you set in the mind belt. The average lightworker has already mastered those challenges in previous lives. They took the same challenges upon themselves in these critical days because they knew they could rise above and resolve those challenges in time to help set a pattern for others to follow and set themselves free.

As I said last week, if you are currently working through a major life challenge and feel as though you’re going round in circles and getting nowhere, stop and look for the gift in that challenge. The gift is that, by loving yourself and others more, you can rise above the challenge and become more of who you really are. Then, the experience changes from one of challenge to one of self-empowerment.

The solution to a challenge in the material world is typically not to be found in the material world at the level of the problem. The answer is found when you rise above that frequency and gain from the resources of the higher aspects of your mind. Fear-based challenges, for example, are always resolved by connecting with the strength and security of your inner being.

Real strength does not lie anywhere in the outside world. It lies within you. Once you find that inner power, you rise above any limitation and stand as a self-realized way-shower in a world desperate for spiritual freedom.

We can look forward to December 21st, 2012 as the gateway that marks the close of many cosmic cycles and the end of the old way of doing things on Planet Earth.

The 2012 gateway is the beginning of a whole world full of opportunities. Positive action will come very easily when all the cycles begin anew and are running in their constructive, ascending mode.

Most of all, decide before then to make Spiritual Growth your number one priority and you will harvest an ever-increasing joy in the years ahead.

Make the 2012 gateway everything you want it to be. Make it a beautiful event opening into a wonderful future filled with joy and enlightenment!

Courtesy of Owen Waters, www.InfiniteBeing.com

                                                        ~*~  Thich Nhat Hanh   ~*~

                          It is true that the Buddha taught the truth of suffering, but he also taught the

                          truth of "dwelling happily in things as they are" (drishta dharma sukha viharin).

                          To succeed in the practice, we must stop trying to prove that everything is suffering.

                          In fact, we must stop trying to prove anything.  If we touch the truth of suffering with

                          our mindfulness, we will be able to recognize and identify our specific suffering,

                          its specific causes, and the way to remove those causes and end our suffering.

           Reference: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy and Liberation

                                  by   Thich Nhat Hanh   ~    Namaste   ~

                                                        ~*~      GIVING    THANKS      ~*~

     ~*~     We live, for the most part, lives dominated by self-created routine and unskilful obligation.

    It is when we come upon moments of thankfulness that we become truly alive.   Thankfulness is an

    immensely powerful skillful thought energy and this is why it is good to give thanks every day.

    ~*~     In giving thanks daily, we start to connect to the underlying forces of abundance.  Give thanks

    not just for what you have, but also for what you do not have.    Give thanks for all the good and the 

    bad, the positive and the negative in your life. Give thanks, also, that you are free from the problems

    that others have.    In this way you keep yourself free of these problems and you also lessen the 

    misfortunes of others.

    ~*~     To give thanks is to open your heart.      To open your heart is to experience what others

    experience.   To experience what others experience is the first step in developing compassionate

    thought energy that can help others to be free of suffering and bring them happiness, wisdom,

    and the power to create prosperity.   Giving thanks teaches each of us the special responsibility 

    that we have to use our personal and global resources wisely.        

    ~*~     Giving thanks heals the pain of the bad things and creates new opportunities for growth.

    It also secures and increases the power of the good things in every area of your life.   Giving

    thanks brings peace, beauty and understanding to the skillful thought energy that lies behind

    all prosperity.     Above all, give thanks for yourself  -  for who you are, have been and shall be

    in the future.       ~*~

      Reference:  

     The Tibetan Art of Positive Thinking

          By   Christopher Hansard  ~

     Shared with Love  ~  Mary

Beef & Cabbage Stir-Fry with Peanut Sauce

WebMD Recipe from EatingWell.com

The subtly sweet peanut sauce blends deliciously in this beef, cabbage and carrot sauté. Spice up the dish with a few dashes of your favorite hot sauce. Serve with udon noodles.

Servings: 4
Yield: 4 servings
Total Time: 40 minutes
Prep Time: 40 minutes

Recipe Ingredients:

1. 1/4 cup smooth natural peanut butter
2. 1/3 cup orange juice
3. 3 tablespoons reduced-sodium soy sauce
4. 1 tablespoon rice vinegar
5. 2 teaspoons sugar
6. 4 teaspoons canola oil, divided
7. 3 cloves garlic, minced
8. 1 pound sirloin steak, trimmed and thinly sliced (see Tip)
9. 1 small head Savoy cabbage, thinly sliced
10. 2-5 tablespoons water
11. 2 medium carrots, grated
12. 1/4 cup chopped unsalted roasted peanuts (optional)

Recipe Steps:

1. Whisk peanut butter, orange juice, soy sauce, vinegar and sugar in a medium bowl until smooth.

2. Heat 2 teaspoons oil in a wok or large skillet over medium-high heat. Add garlic and cook, stirring, until fragrant, 30 seconds. Add steak and cook, stirring, until browned and barely pink in the middle, 2 to 4 minutes. Transfer to a bowl.

3. Reduce heat to medium. Swirl in the remaining 2 teaspoons oil. Add cabbage and 2 tablespoons water; cook, stirring, until beginning to wilt, 3 to 5 minutes. Add carrots (and more water if necessary to prevent sticking or burning) and cook, stirring, until just tender, about 3 minutes more. Return the steak and any accumulated juices to the pan, then pour in the peanut sauce and toss to combine. Serve sprinkled with peanuts (if using).

Recipe Tips & Notes:

1. Tip: For thinly sliced beef, freeze for 30 minutes to make it easier to cut into very thin slices.

Recipe Nutrition:

Per serving: 364 calories; 17 g fat (3 g saturated fat, 5 g mono unsaturated fat); 42 mg cholesterol; 23 g carbohydrates; 31 g protein; 7 g fiber; 469 mg sodium; 866 mg potassium

Nutrtion Bonus: Vitamin A (140% daily value), Vitamin C (110% dv), Folate (40% dv), Potassium (25% dv), Magnesium (19% dv).

1 Carbohydrate Servings

Exchanges: 2 vegetable, 3 lean meat, 2 fat

Special Health Consideration(s):

Low Sodium − High Potassium − High Fiber − Low Cholesterol − Low Sat Fat − Heart Healthy

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I would imagine that the title of this chapter would be Spiritually intriguing to many of my readers, for I think a great many of you already know what I am talking about here. There is a very interesting small group of lightworkers in the Spiritual Movement who I am sure you all have come across who have "Total Poverty Consciousness in the Name of God or Spirituality"! What I mean by this is, this unconscious group of people are constantly trying to lay trips on people, telling them they should not charge for their Spiritual services. Now, we all know the real reason they are doing this is because they want your service but don't have any money! Since they are run by the negative ego, the negative ego is angry about this so it strikes with judgment to blame others for charging money for their Spiritual service. This is, of course, total self-delusion and self-deception, for they charge money for their service, they just don't want you to charge for yours. The most comical thing about this is, they try to use GOD to support their total poverty consciousness and judgmental and blaming energy and tone, which is also totally of the negative ego!

To now continue the faulty delusional line of thinking of these poverty consciousness individuals, they also lay trips on Spiritual people that all Spiritual services such as channeling, Spiritual readings, Spiritual healings, Spiritual products, Spiritual teaching, Spiritual books, Spiritual workshops, Spiritual events, and Spiritual counseling should be free! This is of course, again, because they don't have any money. The negative ego, by nature being competitive and not wanting to feel like it is losing anything, starts feeling low self-esteem about not being able to take advantage of such wonderful offerings and feels it is being left behind, so to get back to its position of self-aggrandizement, self-righteousness and being better than others it attacks others and blames others for its own lack of ability to make money. Instead of just admitting to self that this is an area they need to work on, these people can't do that for then the negative ego will judge them, so the negative ego comes up with the idea to use GOD to judge and attack others, crying "poor me" instead of taking responsibility in this area of life they need to develop!

This type of person believes all Spiritual services should be for free! Their negative ego then lays a trip on good Spiritual people who have prosperity consciousness in a properly balanced way, saying that it is they who are run by the negative ego. Quite an ingenious conniving plan of the negative ego, wouldn't you say?

All lightworkers must realize that the mind is a brilliant thing, but it can be used by the negative ego or it can be used by the Soul or Spirit! This is called "Spiritual Materialism." It is where the negative ego has infiltrated religion and the New Age Movement!

The truth, of course, is that it is total prosperity consciousness for Spiritual people to charge for their services no matter what kind they are! This is part of the heavenly/earthly balance and integration. It is not just Spirit who provides this information, it is also the Spiritual channel, Spiritual teacher, Spiritual psychic and Spiritual healer. This is another one of the misconceptions of this type of Spiritual poverty consciousness, if you could even call it that! Life is a co-creation with GOD and the Masters, and this is a fact no matter what kind of Spiritual work one does!

There is the issue of people's time. Spiritual people need to be paid for their time and the focus of their concentration, even if they are bringing their Spiritual energies of one sort or another. Spiritual people also need to eat, pay their rent and pay their bills like everyone else, which these self-righteous, judgmental, attacking, poverty consciousness-driven people seem to forget!

Now it is true that one should not put money before GOD! There are many lightworkers who do this! This is wrong and should be adjusted and corrected immediately. However, this particular group of poverty consciousness-driven lightworkers have thrown the "baby out with the bath water"! They have gone to the other extreme and now say lightworkers are not allowed to charge for their services. Both extremes are wrong and both extremes are the negative ego at play! It is true lightworkers need to consider helping people at times not just for money. A great many don't. Those who always have to get paid to serve and help others are just as corrupted by the negative ego as those in poverty consciousness crying the opposite. My Beloved Readers, I think you are beginning to see how tricky the negative ego really is, and how vigilant one must be to not be seduced by all its irrational and insane games.

So next time one of these poverty consciousness-driven lightworkers who has not developed true balanced and integrated prosperity consciousness tries to lay a trip on you, remember this chapter and article and let their "trip" slide off you like "water off a duck's back," for it is a projection of their own negative ego and has nothing to do with you!

The 12:12 Alignment

Dear Ones,

The 12:12 Alignment on December 12, 2011 will bring the full force of the Angelic Dimensions into assistance. From this realm there is clarity about your Soul capacity to receive, as well as your readiness for the integration of the highest frequencies yet available for transformation on this planet.

The Twelve represents an activation of Divine Love within, through and around you. When Divine Love activates the light-encoded filaments within your being, there is a communion of awakening. It moves the body into the 12-helix system and allows the connection of the DNA strands. This activates subtle energy that unites the new 12-chakra system. Light alone cannot create the connection, even though the Divine Intelligence is there within the Light Force. Divine Love is required to awaken the coding of your Soul’s union with the completion inherent in the Twelve. This can be called the Light of the Christ.

Through the power of the associated gateways held open by the Archangels, a new force of the Christ Consciousness will be made available during the 12:12 Alignment. The power of this awakening energy enables each person to have the experience of the Christ Light at the moment of the 12:12 Coding. Once experienced you will not fall back into old ways, as the Golden Christ Light literally expunges from your being frequencies that no longer serve you. Transformed by Light, the cells awaken to the coding embedded in your soul. This activation has been held in abeyance until the earth consciousness would support mass awakening. Awareness and preparation are key signatures for the transformation available through the Christ Light. That time is Now.

Receive Forgiveness

In the Alignment of the 12:12, Divine Forgiveness is provided with a healing of old wounds. Your job is to receive the healing by accepting forgiveness for past errors you believe you made. Allow the light of Divine Love to permeate all the old structures you built around the idea of shame and unworthiness. Forgive the attacks on yourself for having failed to do whatever you thought you “should be doing.” This new Light encoded with the Christed energy carries a frequency of healing and love. It also holds an alignment with your multi-dimensional selves in order to create more unity and wholeness within your being.

You committed spiritual warriors stepped foot on this path the moment you were born. You witnessed dedication in the world around you to all that you considered untrue. You picked up your Soul’s banner of Truth, Illumination and Expansion and began moving in directions that were met with fear and controversy. This may even have caused dissension in your family dynamics that continue to this day. Through it all you were committed to your belief in Divine Light and the process of evolution – a way that honored the sanctity of all life on Earth.

A recognition that other dimensions exist that merge and coincide with ancient wisdom and illumined Truth pervaded your consciousness. You were open to receive the teachings that resonated deep within your being, no matter how it appeared to others. Through the wave of rising consciousness it took great courage to hold strong to your beliefs. On December 12, 2011, the 12:12 Alignment is an anchoring of all you held to be true in your soul.

Divine Unity

Through the 12:12 there will be a sense of being reborn into unity with all aspects of you. Greet yourself with a new level of respect and honor your commitment to this life. Your willingness to proceed on the Path of Light through out time has brought you to a completion of one aspect of your soul’s journey. Your task now is to take this new fullness deeply into your being. Let the Christ Light permeate every cell and create a new healing force that will pervade your consciousness. When you integrate this alignment within you, the Divine Love in your energy fields will be so pervasive that your world will begin to change around you.

Begin to use this new connection to the Light Force of healing and bring it to all your stories, all your relationships and all the places in your life that still do not appear as you imagined. Use this Light to strengthen yourself with true forgiveness and compassion. No matter what is occurring, focus on your center of True Light and Divine Love to bring this compassion to yourself. Create a habit of doing this before any other reaction can take place and you will discover that this truly is a new time.

New Structures in the Human Energy System

With the 12:12, new structures are being built in the human energy system. The alignment of the 12-strands connection in the DNA structure opens the way for the creation of the 12-chakra system. This paradigm shift within the development of the encoded human being begins to create a fully aligned structure that operates at the highest frequency of energy available now. This new aligned energy system allows the human to not only navigate this new earth time, but also pave the way for others to respond. The codings set into the human energy system that fire at different times have been creating waves of change within the structures set into the old world paradigm. Each person will now feel the soul impulse to move into purposeful action, retreat or choose to leave the planet entirely to await a more developed time on Earth.

Further evolution on planetary levels creates new openings for souls to step into. Those whose light encoded DNA has allowed their energy frequencies to shift, now work in a multidimensional earth simultaneously magnetizing other souls. An entrainment of energy frequencies ensues as your own inner coding firing in resonance attracts more who are ready for the awakening. It is a truly exciting time to be alive and you were born to be the creator of the new structures of the Earth. Within this new energy, you may feel as though you have finally come home.

Create an empowered vision to serve you as you raise your energy frequencies within the new light structures of the 12:12 codes. This will activate your energy centers in a new way. Create a deep vital connection to an Earth awaiting this time of honoring. You have unseen partners whose work includes your evolution, to assist in the creation of a fully functioning world that operates on a higher frequency of Light and Divine Love.

You were born for this. Now is your time. Envision the helix of the12 strands of Light encoded DNA within you going deep into the Earth and above your head. This will empower the connection of the 12-chakra system above, within and below your body. Join with others in the 12:12 timings to assist the firing of new matrix energy codes. These will be the structures that help create a new Earth – one where the spirit within all things in honored, and beauty and harmony are sanctified.

If you are reading this, you are aligned to the Christ Energy that empowers new life at the coded time on 12:12 this December 12, 2011. It is the true beginning of a paradigm shift that will continue throughout 2012. All will change. Commit to graceful evolution and begin to build the new structures within your being, so those in the world can follow the blueprint. You have always been one who paved the way, and this still continues. The alignment of the 12:12 energy is what has been called the “Second Coming.” Misunderstood for centuries, this connection to the Christ Consciousness is within you, and is not the arrival of a single enlightened being in the world. The awakening of full evolutionary spiritual energy is available within all beings, if they choose it, and are willing to bring into the planet the evolutionary shift in consciousness the Earth awaits. It is your time to choose.

Here is a prayer to assist the activation:

Divine Presence,

During this 12:12 Alignment, please bring the Golden Light and Divine Love of the Christ Consciousness through my being and anchor it upon the Earth. If it is in my highest good, may it awaken the connection to the 12 strands of DNA within me and create the full helix of Light that activates my 12-chakra system. I ask for my Soul’s alignment to all the Divine Love and Light that I can receive for the good of my evolution and the evolution of the Earth at this time. I invite the assistance of my guardian angel and all the beings of Light who work for my awakening to be with me in this process.

May all beings awaken their Divine Potential and bring the presence of Divine Love and ever more Grace upon this planet. May the Earth be honored in a new way that allows our beautiful planet to thrive. May every heart feel the gifts of this loving Presence within them so Peace may prevail on Earth. Thank you God for this and all our blessings.

And so it is.

Shanta Gabriel for Archangel Gabriel
December 4, 2011
www.TheGabrielMessages.com

A Secret Scrolls #102
A Secret Scrolls message from Rhonda Byrne

Creator of The Secret and The Power
From The Secret Daily Teachings

Happiness is a state of being, and comes from the inside of you. By the law of attraction you must become on the inside what you want on the outside.

You are either choosing to be happy now, or you are making up excuses for not choosing to be happy. But there are no excuses for the law!

May the joy be with you,

Rhonda Byrne
The Secret... bringing joy to billions

A Secret Scrolls #103
A Secret Scrolls message from Rhonda Byrne

Creator of The Secret and The Power
From The Secret Daily Teachings

To desire something is in proper accordance with the law. You attract what you desire.

To need something is misuse of the law. You cannot attract what you need if you feel you need it urgently or desperately, because that emotion contains fear. That kind of "needing" keeps things away.

Desire everything. Need nothing.

May the joy be with you,

Rhonda Byrne
The Secret... bringing joy to billions

A Secret Scrolls #104
A Secret Scrolls message from Rhonda Byrne

Creator of The Secret and The Power
From The Secret Daily Teachings

Change in a country begins with one person. Each country reflects the inner peace or turmoil of its mass population, and so as one person changes they affect the rest of the population. One person has the power within them to bring massive change to their country through immense love and peace within themselves. But we cannot bring about peace and well-being to our country unless we have conquered that in our own life. Do you see? You cannot give what you do not have.

Each person's job is to bring utter harmony into their own life, and then they will become the greatest human gift for their country and the world.

May the joy be with you,

Rhonda Byrne
The Secret... bringing joy to billions

An Old Japanese Love Warrior

--by Terry Dobson

A turning point in my life came one day on a train in the middle of a drowsy spring afternoon. The old car clanked and rattled over the rails. It was comparatively empty -- a few housewives with their kids in tow, some old folks out shopping, a couple of off-duty bartenders studying the racing form. I gazed absently at the drab houses and dusty hedge rows.

At one station the doors opened, and suddenly the quiet afternoon was shattered by a man bellowing at the top of his lungs — yelling violent, obscene, incomprehensible curses. Just as the doors closed the man, still yelling, staggered into our car. He was big, drunk, and dirty. He wore laborer’s clothing. His front was stiff with dried vomit. His eyes bugged out, a demonic, neon red. His hair was crusted with filth. Screaming, he swung at the first person he saw, a woman holding a baby. The blow glanced off her shoulder, sending her spinning into the laps of an elderly couple. It was a miracle that the baby was unharmed.

The couple jumped up and scrambled toward the other end of the car. They were terrified. The laborer aimed a kick at the retreating back of the old lady. “You old w*@#e!” he bellowed. “I’ll kick your a*#!” He missed; the old woman scuttled to safety. This so enraged the drunk that he grabbed the metal pole at the center of the car and tried to wrench it out of its stanchion. I could see that one of his hands was cut and bleeding. The train lurched ahead, the passengers frozen with fear. I stood tip.

I was young and in pretty good shape. I stood six feet, weighed 225. I’d been putting in a solid eight hours of aikido training every day for the past three years. I liked to throw and grapple. I thought I was tough. Trouble was, my martial skill was untested in actual combat. As students of aikido, we were not allowed to fight.

My teacher taught us each morning that the art was devoted to peace. “Aikido,” he said again and again, “is the art of reconciliation. Whoever has the mind to fight has broken his connection with the universe. If you try to dominate other people, you are already defeated. We study how to resolve conflict, not how to start it.”

I listened to his words. I tried hard. I wanted to quit fighting. I even went so far as to cross the street a few times to avoid the “chimpira,” the pinball punks who lounged around the train stations. They’d have been happy to test my martial ability. My forbearance exalted me. I felt both tough and holy. In my heart of hearts, however, I was dying to be a hero. I wanted a chance, an absolutely legitimate opportunity whereby I might save the innocent by destroying the guilty.

“This is it!” I said to myself as I got to my feet. “This slob, this animal, is drunk and mean and violent. People are in danger. If I don’t do something fast, somebody will probably get hurt. I’m gonna take his a*# to the cleaners.”

Seeing me stand up, the drunk saw a chance to focus his rage. “Aha!” he roared. “A foreigner! You need a lesson in Japanese manners!” He punched the metal pole once to give weight to his words.

I held on lightly to the commuter strap overhead. I gave him a slow look of disgust and dismissal. I gave him every bit of p#*$-ant nastiness I could summon up. I planned to take this turkey apart, but he had to be the one to move First. And I wanted him mad, because the madder he got, the more certain my victory. I pursed my lips and blew him a sneering, insolent kiss. It hit him like a slap in the face. “All right!” he hollered. “You’re gonna get a lesson.” He gathered himself for a rush at me. He’d never know what hit him.

A split second before he moved, someone shouted “Hey!” It was ear splitting. I remember being struck by the strangely joyous, lilting quality of it — as though you and a friend had been searching diligently for something, and he had suddenly stumbled upon it. “Hey!” I wheeled to my left, the drunk spun to his right. We both stared down at a little old Japanese man. He must have been well into his seventies, this tiny gentleman, sitting there immaculate in his kimono and hakama. He took no notice of me, but beamed delightedly at the laborer, as though he had a most important, most welcome secret to share.

“C’mere,” the old man said in an easy vernacular, beckoning to the drunk. “C’mere and talk with me.” He waved his hand lightly. The giant man followed, as if on a string. He planted his feet belligerently in front of the old gentleman and towered threateningly over him.
“Talk to you?” he roared above the clacking wheels. “Why the hell should I talk to you?” The drunk now had his back to me. If his elbow moved so much as a millimeter, I’d drop him in his socks.

The old man continued to beam at the laborer. There was not a trace of fear or resentment about him. “What’cha been drinkin’?” he asked lightly, with interest. “I been drinkin’ sake,” the laborer bellowed back, “and it’s none of your god d#*& business!”
“Oh, that’s wonderful,” the old man said with delight. “Absolutely wonderful! You see, I love sake, too. Every night, me and my wife (she’s seventy-six, you know), we warm up a little bottle of sake and take it our into the garden, and we sit on the old wooden bench that my grandfather’s first student made for him. We watch the sun go down, and we look to see how our persimmon tree is doing. My great-grandfather planted that tree, you know, and we worry about whether it will recover from those ice storms we had last winter. Persimmons do not do well after ice storms, although I must say that ours has done rather better that I expected, especially when you consider the poor quality of the soil. Still, it is most gratifying to watch when we take our sake and go out to enjoy the evening — even when it rains!” He looked up at the laborer, eyes twinkling, happy to share his delightful information.

As he struggled to follow the intricacies of the old man’s conversation, the drunk’s face began to soften. His fists slowly unclenched. “Yeah,” he said slowly, “I love persimmons, too…” His voice trailed off.

“Yes,” said the old man, smiling, “and I’m sure you have a wonderful wife.”

“No,” replied the laborer, “my wife died.” He hung his head. Very gently, swaying with the motion of the train, the big man began to sob. “I don’t got no wife, I don’t got no home, I don’t got no job, I don’t got no money, I don’t got nowhere to go. I’m so ashamed of myself.” Tears rolled down his cheeks; a spasm of pure despair rippled through his body. Above the baggage rack a four-color ad trumpeted the virtues of suburban luxury living.

Now it was my turn. Standing there in my well-scrubbed youthful innocence, my make-this-world-safe-for-democracy righteousness, I suddenly felt dirtier than he was.

Just then, the train arrived at my stop. The platform was packed, and the crowd surged into the car as soon as the doors opened. Maneuvering my way out, I heard the old man cluck sympathetically. “My, my,” he said with undiminished delight, “that is a very difficult predicament, indeed. Sit down here and tell me about it.”

I turned my head for one last look. The laborer was sprawled like a sack on the seat, his head in the old man’s lap. The old man looked down at him, all compassion and delight, one hand softly stroking the filthy, matted head.

As the train pulled away, I sat down on a bench. What I had wanted to do with muscle and meanness had been accomplished with a few kind words. I had seen aikido tried in combat, and the essence of it was love, as the founder had said. I would have to practice the art with an entirely different spirit. It would be a long time before I could speak about the resolution of conflict.

Be The Change

Got conflict? Resolve it skillfully, by first connecting with your "adversary's" suffering.

"Of Poppy Seeds & Nougatine"
by Rosalee de la Forêt

This past summer I traveled to France to meet my husband’s family. I’ve been reminiscing about that trip a lot lately, especially because of my video series on HerbMentor.com, Plants in France.

This series narrates videos and photos I took in France and shares the French culture of these plants.

In case you aren’t an HerbMentor.com member I thought I would share a taste of France with you.

Some of my favorite memories from my trip to France were gazing from the train window watching the beautiful fields of corn poppies fly by. Of course I am not the first to notice this beautiful phenomenon. Art impressionist Claude Monet made these fields famous in many of his paintings.

Les Coquelicots by Claude Monet

What’s in a name?

The French call this plant Coquelicot (Coke-lee-coh), which is a derivation of the rooster crow. In english, roosters make the sound of cockledoodledo, but in French the sound that the rooster makes is Cocorico. Hence, the name coquelicot.

The genus for this plant, Papaver, may have been derived from the celtic language where papa means porridge or gruel. Poppy is said to have gotten this genus name because they used to add parts of the poppy to children’s porridge to help them sleep at night.

“Whoa!” You might say. “Giving poppies to children!!! What kind of newsletter is this?!”
Well, actually the corn poppy (Papaver rhoeas), which is the poppy growing abundantly in the agricultural fields of France, does not contain the same opiates as the opium poppies (Papaver somniferum).

Corn poppies were commonly used as medicine and were even called the safe opium of the people (nevertheless, it is not for children less than three years old.)
Here’s one explanation of how the English word “poppy” came to be. It was once popular for children to make little dolls out of the poppy flowers. The word for doll in French is poupée, which over time became poppy in English. This summer my husband made me some of these poppy dolls. Adorable! The dolls are pretty cute too.

Corn poppies in history

No one really knows where the poppy plant originated, but they have been associated with agriculture and grains for a very long time.

Poppies are really prevalent in Greek mythology. Hypnos, the Greek god of sleep, was represented by a crown made of poppies.

This painting depicts Hypnos and his mother Nyx bringing sleep to people by spreading poppies.

Poppies are found in Egyptian tombs and poppy seeds were also used as a condiment in ancient Egypt.

Poppy is an international symbol for commemorating wars and other places of blood shed. One reason for this is the bright red color of the flowers symbolizing blood.

Another reason the poppy commemorates wars is because in Europe it easily colonizes the disturbed soils of mass graves. Thus it is said that the poppy fields covering the soldiers’ graves is the blood of the fallen. “In Flanders Fields” is a famous poem written in 1919 that begins with

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

Edible and medicinal uses of the seeds

The seeds and seed capsules are also used as food and medicine. One recipe I learned in France called for a decoction of 8-10 seed capsules per liter of water, bring to a simmer for ten minutes, and take 3-4 tablespoons a day. It can also be added to warmed milk in the evening to give a peaceful sleep to children. Poppy seeds are also used to help quiet coughs.

You are probably familiar with the tiny black poppy seeds being used for culinary purposes. They add a nutty flavor to foods and are commonly added to bagels and lemon breads. Generally the poppy seeds that are used for culinary reasons come from the opium poppy, but there is only trace amounts of opiates in the seeds, not enough to raise health concerns.

Our recipe for today’s newsletter is part treat and part medicine and is based on a French recipe called nougatine. While these can simply be enjoyed as a sweet treat, the demulcent and expectorant qualities of the honey and relaxing nervine qualities of the poppy seeds make this helpful for coughs.

For this recipe you’ll need...

(all ingredients should be available at your local market)

• 1/2 cup of honey
• 1 cup of chopped nuts such as hazelnuts, walnuts, almonds
• Two heaping teaspoons of poppy seeds

Place the chopped nuts and poppy seeds in a pan and roast them at 450 for about ten minutes. Check on them every couple of minutes to stir them and check their progress.

They are done when the nuts begin to brown and release a pleasant smell.

Next, melt the honey in a medium saucepan on really low heat. Once it is warmed and syrupy then add the nuts and seeds.

Cook on low heat for about ten minutes, stirring frequently.

Pour this mixture into a pan and then cut into bite size pieces. It will harden as it cools.

This month I’ll be releasing a video about corn poppies on HerbMentor.com that includes information about using the petals and leaves for food and medicine. This is one of my favorite projects since it combines two of my passions in life. France and Plants!

Enjoy these treats!

~Rosalee

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