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relaxing into well being: a story part 2
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Last June I wrote Part 1 of my “Relaxing Into Well Being” story. To refresh your memory you can read it here.
Suffice it to say that I had reached a turning point, a fork in the road, maybe even a wall. It was definitely a low spot.
I had been working, doing, efforting with all my might to bring Applied Spirituality™ to the world. Blog posts on two blogs, articles, speaking, seminars, courses in technology to learn social media, marketing and on and on and on.
Why? Well because that’s what we do. At least that’s what my Dad and Mom and Gram taught me to do. “Give 110% and the world will notice your efforts.” I, of course, bought it hook, line and sinker. So from a young age, I learned how to work, effort, and push myself – nevermind how I feel. “That’s life
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After 30 years of working so hard, I’d finally had it. After 30 years of learning how the world works, writing the cosmology of Applied Spirituality, and after teaching people these same principles, I realized it was time for the physician to heal herself. It was time to practice what I preached. Yes, this is embarrassing, but hey. It was time I – here it comes – APPLIED everything I knew. There. I’ve said it.
It was a dramatic decision made with much internal angst. Mind against Knowing. If I don’t keep working hard, it will all fall apart. If I keep doing what I’m doing, I’ll get the same results. What to do?
Surrender. Then I realized: focusing my energy through my mind was the doing. That is how we create.
I also realized that throughout my lifetime I’d probably sent up enough “desires” for the Universe to fulfill 10 lifetimes. If I could learn to relax and allow my Good to flow in, it just might be easy and OMG…possibly fun.
This defined my challenge for the coming months. Could stop all my physical doing? Could I learn to deliberately and intentionally focus my mind into Well Being, allowing my Good, my Inspiration, and Life Force to take me into the Stream and let it carry me into the future? Could I Trust that much?
With the old way no longer an option, the path of focusing my mind into Well Being became my daily task of “doing”.
It was not easy. My human mind waged a tremendous battle. Even though I had resolved to take the road less traveled, minute by minute my mind offered up unrelenting warnings, fears, doom, gloom and GUILT. This will never work. Have you gone mad? And on and on and on.
Yet, too weary to go back to what I’d been doing; I persisted. Either what I know to be true is True; or it is not. Here’s the acid test. I will either sink or swim and perhaps even fly. So I stayed the course.
Someday soon, perhaps, I share the whole story with you. For now let me report that after 6 months of staying the course, learning to focus my mind into Well Being, things are MUCH BETTER.
I’m happier. If the energy focusing effort didn’t produce anything other than that, that would be enough! Externally I am amazed at how things are coming to me with ease, serendipity and inspired action. People show up differently around me; and people and events that were common place irritations no longer are in my sphere.
I’m here to tell you that the world works by vibration and by vibration alone.
Mastering my focus has been the single hardest thing I’ve ever undertaken with myself in my life. This process of taming the incessant chatter of my human ego mind and clearing out all the stories (that were never true) has taken me on the E-Ticket Ride of my Lifetime. Yes, it continues, and the views from the higher elevations are pretty darn Good. What is more…there is More!
I invite you to follow me! Only you don’t have to invent the wheel like I did.
On Tuesday January 17, 2012 Renita Kalhorn is my guest on A New View of Life Radio Show, which can be heard live at 6 PM EST. Renita is a “performance strategist”. Actually she’s pretty darn smart, because she knows that if you know how to focus into Well Being, everything else comes. Renita has made the mind mastery aspect of personal development or spiritual awakening or life transformation- call it what you will – her specialty.
Lucky for us. Make sure you schedule this in. You will be glad you did, for everything we create comes from our ability to focus our Source Energy flowing through us – the way We want it to; not the way the ego wants us to.
See you there!
live christmas everyday: it’s sustainable
Posted by: | CommentsSeasons Greetings Everyone,
Christmas is all about Jesus’ message of Unconditional Love. Hanukkah is a celebration of hope. KWANZAA is a celebration of right being and well being. The Winter Solstice honors the ground of Well Being in which we live. It’s that time of year when holidays give us permission to open our hearts to express in community by way of gifts and words, food and song, the Love that we actually feel in our hearts. The Holidays allow us to hope for More and Better in ourselves and in the world and give us an excuse to open our hearts which has an expansive effect on our minds. The feelings of Love, hope, joy and appreciation change our minds allowing us a glimpse into a higher perspective – at least for a short time. The object is to sustain those feeling the other 364 days of the year.
The Holidays entice everyone to participate whether religious, spiritual, secular, agnostic or atheist which points to the commonality of us all – we are equally endowed – each of us – with Source whose frequency is Love. This is who we all are at our very core essential Self. That’s why you see extraordinary acts of kindness and miracles around the holidays. We venture our inner state into the vicinity of Joy and Love where every possibility Is.
This holiday season no matter where you are or who you are with feel the vibration of Love. Make it your intention to feel what your Soul is feeling for everyone all the time – yes everyone! Allow your mind to follow your heart for this time; then make it your intention and resolve to feel this feeling and allow your mind to be changed by Love all year long. There is no downside, I promise.
Love is what sustains us. I love Us all so very much.
Kath
P.S. Enjoy the Video and mind the line..”My Mind’s Made Up By the Way that I Feel.”
11.11.11
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The day has arrived – a day every Light Being has long awaited on Earth; indeed every suffering heart has yearned and longed for. The 11:11.11 portal of Source Energy has opened onto planet earth making higher frequencies of Light and Love now available to each of us. Now though the processes of time, space and evolution we are able to remember that we are beings of Light and Love in a human format on Earth.
1st Corinthians 13 speaks of this this time to come on Earth. It has come today. I have rephrased it to assist you in understanding that then was then; but Now is Now.
1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not Love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, Mt. 17.20 ; 21.21 · Mk. 11.23 and have not Love, I am nothing.
3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not Love, it profiteth me nothing.
4 ¶ Love suffereth long, and is kind; Love envieth not; Love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
5 doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
6 rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
7 beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
8 ¶ Love never faileth: but whether there were prophecies, they shall fail; whether there were tongues,
they shall cease; whether there was knowledge, it shall vanish away.
9 For we have known only in part, and we have prophesied in part.
10 But when that which is perfect is come (11:11:11), then that which is in part is now done away.
11 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but now I become Man, I put away childish things.
12 For then we could only see through a glass, darkly, but now we can see face to face:
then I could only know in part; but now shall I know even as also I am known.
13 And now abideth faith, hope, Love, these three; but the greatest of these is Love.
This is the most sacred and blessed day for all of mankind. The Energies of Oneness with Source are now
available to every man, woman and child as together with Earth we ascend into the Consciousness of Oneness
with each other and God to create and live Heaven on Earth.
Rejoice and be exceedingly glad. Remember who you Are…Source Energy Itself on a joyous
adventure into Oneness. No longer do you have to die in order to live in Well Being; heaven is now
available right here, right now in the physical body by raising your human consciousness to reach the Mind
of God. Hallelujah!
eliminate “is”; improve possibility thinking
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Recently I began a program of brain muscle exercises. The point? To start using the incredible power of my brain by focusing consciously in more effective ways, of course. Just like doing curls to build the biceps, we can do exercises to build the brain for greater skill, flexibility and possibility thinking.
Oddly the first exercise describes eliminating the use of the word “IS” from language to encourage the brain to search for other possibilities. The instructions outline doing this for one hour a day for the first week, 2 hours a day the second week, 3 hours a day the third week and 4 hours a day the fourth week. Additionally you can practice this new skill by writing as well as language. I’m finding it helpful to do both. You’ll notice that I am doing it in this post except for the word “is” in describing the exercise.
Eliminating the word “is” takes the “absolute” out of what “is”…and expands the mind into possibility thinking, sending it searching for “more”. I’ve only been doing this for a few days, but I can tell you that I am find it challenging.
For example, instead of saying, “The car is blue.”You might rephrase it and say, “The car appears blue in the daylight.”
When we refrain from assigning absolutes values to things, we use our conscious mind to reprogram the unconscious mind so it has to acknowledge that there are other possibilities. Our minds become more receptive to new ideas and ways of thinking. We become innovative, more flexible and engage our creativity.
I would love it if you would do this exercise along with me for a month. If you are game, you have to do the exercises daily as outline above which means you need to consciously pay attention to what you’re saying in a very focused manner during that time. I found it helpful to confide in others who seemed eager to join in the game.
On a neurological level we are encouraging new neuropathways (new habits of thought) and increased communications between the left and right brain. The right brain is conceptual; the left literal to over simplify. For a really wonderful story about what lies in store for us in the right brain, read Jill Bolte Taylor’s book, My Stroke of Insight.
One last item. Click here to read in greater depth the idea behind this exercise.
And if you haven’t heard Dr. Taylor’s talk at Ted.com…please enjoy it right now and be inspired. Your brain, your focus of Source Energy to be the Creator of your reality intentionally. Use it or loose it.
the physics of consciousness: Nassim Haramein’s theories
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When I set out to understand the efficacy of the individual within the world and how each of us can be happy, little did I know I was embarking on writing the cosmology of everything. I don’t have enough math or physics;but I have enough to understand that these are the basis of our world and humans. But now others with expertise in those disciplines are coming forth to lay down the science beneath my knowing. Yippee! I can’t tell you how exciting this is for me.
I have lectured on Well Being. I have lectured on how we are all natural creatures contained within this vast ground of Well Being. I have searched for words to explain and impart my knowing to others so that they might know how powerful they are in creating the whole of their own reality. I have studied nature directly and learned – maybe even remembered – that this is all True. So armed with an IQ just smart enough to talk to the genius; yet not so smart that I couldn’t speak with the rest of humanity, I’ve endeavored to find the words to reassure and remind the rest of us of how loved and supported each of us is in the Universe – God, if you will.
Mine has been an interesting journey of using limited science, immense knowing, and the generalist’s view of life on earth to communicate a higher Truth to the planet. Why? Because we live in fear and there is no need for it at all. We create it all her on Earth. All of it…the fear included, the lack included, the wars, the recessions, and the sickness….and if we but could remember that we are contained within and included in All That Well Being, perhaps we would remember Who We Are and live better and fearlessly.
I have bumped into resistance from science, because science couldn’t relate to words like love and knowing. I have encountered resistance in the religious communities, because they don’t include science. My knowing has always been that they are one in the same thing. That science is the language of God…particularly math and physics.
Nassim Haramein
At last some scientists are thinking outside the “science” box and doing their own thinking, just like Einstein did. Recently I came upon one such scientist, Nassim Haramein. Self taught, which I highly respect, he didn’t drink the kool aid currently being taught and set out to understand for himself – alone – much like I did. Don’t be afraid of the “science”, he has a way of explaining it in laymen’s terms. And besides if you listen with your knowing, you can feel the essence of Truth within his words.
I used to think Everything would all be explained by virtue of string theory. I now know that the answers are in fractals. Thank heaven for this Light Being, Nassim Haramein, who is following his own Internal Guidance. Maybe he’s Einstein come back to tweak his Theory of Relativity and finish what he started at the beginning of the 1900′s with an updated Unified Theory of Everything by proving we are a mathematical equation and not the dogma we’ve thought. And the Truth shall set you free!
Nassim’s website: theresonanceproject.org
Listen to his lecture:
a hero’s journey: your real life
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Everyone on the Hero's Journey
I’ve been busy discovering something new. Well, not exactly new, but certainly a revelation to me. Let me explain. Recently I embarked on an online marketing course. It is taught by really neat guy, Jeff Walker - an ordinary guy following his bliss. How his course came to my attention is known only to the Law of Attraction. But something told me to purchase it and take the course. Naturally my human brain thought the value to me would be the marketing knowledge I would gain. Not. I love how this works, it looks one way, but it’s really something else which is always about the Soul’s Journey of expansion. Anyway, he was talking about writing copy in terms of the “hero’s journey”. In that moment a shiver ran though me which is ALWAYS a sign for me to listen up. What the heck was this thing known as the hero’s journey?
I Googled around and easily found references to Joseph Campbell and his definitive work. How I got this far in life and never heard of this “journey”, well, I’ll never know. Of course I’d heard of “follow your bliss”…hasn’t everyone? Nonetheless I started reading the 12 steps of the Hero’s Journey. Suddenly I realized that I was on the Hero’s Journey. Holy Smoke! Then I realized that so was everyone else on the planet. We all are! Then I wondered where Applied Spirituality fit into that new view, and soon realized that AS is the very matrix on which the Hero’s Journey is played out; and it also is the means, methods and techniques to keep the hero moving forward on his/her path. Ta Da! Major Happy Dance!
Laugh with me, will you? I mean I have literally not been able to see the forest for the trees for about 25 years. I just stayed on the path, developing Applied Spirituality through the course of living my life. I thought maybe it would be helpful to you to see your individual live from the 30,000′ level – you know, with some perspective. Wouldn’t it be nice to know when you thought you were hopelessly lost or a failure that you weren’t? Wouldn’t it be comforting to know that in the midst of your most confused or fearful place, that you were just simply at a certain point in your hero’s journey – all perfectly natural, on time, and part of the story? And isn’t it nice to know that Applied Spirituality provides the 30,000′ view right on down to the moment to moment tools and techniques to reorient yourself, choose a tool and move on through to revealing More of Who You Really Are?
I feel like I’ve discovered the wheel! I cannot tell you how relieved I am to have the bigger picture for my entire life. I thought you would too. So I’ve embarked upon a 12 part series using my radio show, A New View of Life to inform us of the stages of the Hero’s Journey. With each segment you’ll learn about that step which helps you see your own life journey with perspective. It also helps us see everyone else we meet on the same journey of Self discovery. We’re all in it together becoming More – bringing the Super Hero of us into this physical reality known as our individual, real world, everyday, ordinary lives.
And now I know what the phrase, ‘Can’t See The Forest for the Trees’ means!It means your so caught up and focused on the details of the drama, you don’t see the bigger picture…the adventure.
Hallelujah!
there is no death
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As I’ve been reading all the commentary about the disaster in Japan, it is clear that generally people think death is the ultimate punishment. “But they died!” Indeed, people die everyday; but there is no death. Life is a continuum and goes on eternally. In the Bible it says, “In my Father’s House there are many mansions” (John 14:2). This refers to states of Consciousness, Awareness. We return to Well Being from whence we came. To my mind, we high five each other and say, “That, was a great game!”
This morning I happened on a news item of a little boy, Colton Burpo, who had a “death” experience whilst undergoing surgery. He was 4 years old at the time. When he returned, he told of meeting his great grandfather, a sister who had been a miscarriage, and reports that Jesus had a smile that lit up the heavens. Some refer to this as heaven, I call it Well Being. It’s not just for the “good” people, but for everyone. Watch.
Many others have had this experience and come back to report the Truth of Life to the rest of us humanoids. I’d like to take it out of the religious context and put it into the natural context. Consciousness Is. Life Is…It is not a religious experience; it is a Life experience just as natural as winter becomes spring. As Colton describes heaven, we might want to rethink the death penalty. Maybe it’s the ultimate gift to send someone home…
Thanks for reading!
Kath
new dreams awakening, not yet emerging
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Magnolia Buds - not flowers yet
It is dawning another “false” spring day here in Ohio. There’s a blanket of snow on the ground, yet the first sight of daffodils poking through the ground can be witnessed. The trees have buds on them if one looks very closely. The elegance of the seasons moving forward in perfect order continues the eternality of Life. Our human minds want to rush forward and “do” – make things happen; but this is folly and wasted energy. It is not yet time.’
How many times in early March past have I put seeds in the ground, bought beautiful flowers and planted them only to loose them in the next snow? Countless. I learned there is an Elegant Timing with which I needed to align my human mind. After a few seasons I planted seeds in my seed trays and put them inside under a grow light so they would be seedlings by Memorial Day when it was time to put them into the ground for serious growing. So it is with new plans and dreams; they, too, have a natural timing as they, too, are funded by All That Is, Awareness, Life.
Learning to stay still and nurture these dreams even when the human mind is urging physical action is part and parcel of self mastery. This is aligning with Well Being. Knowing that all is Well, continuing to envision the new plans and dreams, dialing in and imagining every detail that we want to experience to perfection: that is what we “do” right now. The action will follow and we will know when it is time to act from the impulse and inspiration of Awareness. Then every action will be efficient and effective, rewarding and easy, elegant and effective.
Notice in the video the bears are awakening. The are not emerging…yet. Like the bear, you and I are natural creatures funded by Life. Allow Life to guide you to when, not the human mind. You’ll be astounded at the perfection and love, love, love the practical efficiency and effectiveness of All That Is.
letting go human mind; finding Awareness
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human mind says you are this; You are really That
Years ago when I first began my own transformation, I was told to “let go”. I wanted to strangle that person. Certainly, if I knew how to do that I would do it, right? Why would I hang onto something that caused me pain and suffering making happiness impossible? As the years went on, that question loomed bigger and bigger for me. How many times did I ask, “Oh, for Pete’s sake, won’t someone show me how to let go of what was, what is and this old, pitiful story?” I was sick of it; I was sick of recreating it…yet, the way to do that wasn’t clear until NOW.
The years went on and I learned more about human mind: it’s complexity, it’s incessant yammering, it’s falsity. I realized that the human mind was like the tail that wagged the dog. It ruled me and each person I knew. In fact, ego mind ruled the world. We suffer from the biggest illusion – the first illusion – Separation from Source, so therefore, human mind has become our false god.
If we think it, it must be so. If I can think, therefore I am…bosh. Yet, when you’re undertaking to write the opus of how it all works (the Universe, the World and the individual), there are many paths all leading you to the same Truth. After the Buddha wandered the planet suffering and witnessing all the suffering, he finally sat down beneath the Bodi tree and …LET GO. He surrendered. He gave up (his questioning and ego mind). Then it happened. He realized his Oneness – he realized the Presence of Awareness – he realized Who He Really Was.
Sounds like most of us, doesn’t it? Wandering the world, suffering within the drama of the human mind stories we make up about everything. The ego mind is the ultimate master of illusion, which is necessary to play the game on earth. But to be free is to realize you are not the story, the fear, the sickness, the mind – but the Awareness that is funding all the forms.
In walks Lester Levinson in the 1960′s and more recently the Sedona Method via Hale Dwoskin. My years of wandering in the desert to find the answer to my question of how to LET GO are over! You stop resisting it and welcome it in. Then you simply notice that you are not the story, the sensation, or the memory (idea, thought or belief). Then you notice what IS Present…Awareness. Oh sweet relief. Asked and answered!
Allow me to introduce you to Lester who figured all this out. Then we’ll explore the Triple Welcome Method tomorrow.
I want so much for us all to be free from the lie of separation. We are One with our Source, Awareness, always have been and always will be into eternity…and even right here, right now. Remember these…
“Yeah though I walk through the valley….Thou art With ME!” That Me is the Awareness.
“I will never leave thee nor forsake thee?” That I is the Awareness.
“I and my Father are One.” That I is the Awareness.
“I will keep thee in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on ME.” I and Me is the IAM Awareness…You.
Notice today, if you will, that Awareness is breathing you; seeing through you; hearing through you; enlivening you – not your human ego mind.
looking for love in all the wrong places?
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What’s love got to do with…money, relationships, health, your experience of life? Everything. Anything or anyone who feels unloved isn’t presenting in the world in a nice way. In fact, evil is simply the absence of love. Illness is the absence of Love. Poverty is the absence of love. Why? Because Love is Source Energy, the Fullness of all that is Good, which is the True Self of all of us.
We all have “stories” about our lives. My folks didn’t love me; my spouse abused me; my family didn’t do this or that…and we carry these stories around like badges, recreating them over and over again…living the same experiences over and over again with different faces; but it’s the same old story. I didn’t get enough Love. In every act of everyday we are trying to “get” more Love. What’s weird about that is that we ARE Love and the place where we aren’t getting enough love is from our Self. We are Love; yet, we don’t know it; we don’t realize it, therefore we don’t have the EXPERIENCE OF IT, because we keep playing the same old tunes repeatedly searching for Love in all the wrong places: out there when it’s in here.
There is nothing you cannot let go of if you know how to “drop it”. You want a better relationship here and now, stop telling the story of how “unloved” you were as a kid. You want more Quality Life experiences right here and now; then stop telling the stories of your miserable low quality experiences back when. It’s history. It’s long gone. It was never Real; merely real.
Most of all, start loving yourself. Gather together all those unloved parts of you and bring them into your fold. They are like long lost children waiting to be heard, loved and honored in your inner world. When your mind is racing negative thoughts of doom and gloom, it’s those unloved, unrecognized and abandoned parts of you that are clamoring to be LOVED. And here’s the really Good News: once you love them, their stories dissolve. There is nothing on Earth that more Love won’t fix or cure. Nothing. For Love is the stuff, the glue, the common denominator of us all.
Love yourself first; then watch everything in your personal experience change.
Applied Spirituality offers a self-study audio course that will guide you back home to yourSelf where Love is right here, right now; it’s called You Are Enough...and you already Are.
Enjoy the song, Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places and imagine that the song is about you finding You.
Thanks for reading!
Kath
