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every challenge: love disguised
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The Sun is shining beyond the clouds.
In earlier postings I talked about “seeing through” the illusions that appear to us every single day. They look like anger, betrayal, love lost, being broke, business failure, sickness … fill in your own blank here with your current blinding and overwhelming challenge.
But I have a story I want to tell you about Love Revealed.
Years ago my son was certainly a challenge. On all fronts he was ‘trouble’ or so it seemed. At nearly every turn he was determined to go counter conventional and do it his way, which was not endearing to the whole of society or at times to us.
Yet, somehow, there was something within me that kept on not believing what he showed us. I’d say things to him like, “I believe in you”. “I’ll know it when I feel it”. Those small voices within me kept me in his game and see it through – even when I wanted to quite, resign, or bolt.
He has been one of my greatest teachers through the process that I call ‘evolutionary parenting’. For every time he would do something that was “not good”, I had to let go of whatever held me apart from just loving him. He constantly and consistently referred responsibility for my feelings right back onto me. I had to stop resisting his ‘behaviors’ and come into alignment with Love.
This is no small task when 7 highly degreed educators are sitting around a conference table pointing the finger at you as the responsible party for your 5 year-old’s behavior. In that moment I knew that he was teaching all of us. Just what I hadn’t a clue. However, I knew enough to trust that in the paradox and irony was buried Wisdom and Truth.
Now it is 25 years later. We have shared a very roller coaster journey together. Periods of not talking; periods of long talks. In more recent years as I’ve come to see more clearly. Through the illusions, I simply ‘held the space’ for him, refusing to take part in focusing on the appearance of his being ‘lost’. I simply held the vision of him awake, joyful, successful (in his own definition of it) and most of all happy. I stayed my focus of him right there.
This week we had the most amazing talk; just before we hung up after laughing and sharing for quite awhile, I had the most magnificent realization. I said, “Did you ever think we’d find our way here to this shared joy? What an extraordinary gift we have to awaken together. That all that ever was Real was the Love?” It was one of those replete moments. Full. Complete. Nothing to add; nothing wanting. We were in the Zone together. Illusion dissolved.
It was only ever a hologram of our co-creation.
So what’s your ‘challenge’? What is your Love/Joy in disguise? See it this way and watch it dissolve.
That’s the work. Just do it.
My son. The Avatar of Love. Bless you!
Thanks for reading,
Kath
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!
giving Thanks: every moment
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It’s Thanksgiving week. It pleases me that here in America (and Canada) that we actually have a national holiday put aside to give thanks. Although for the life of me, I dearly wish they’d cooked something other than turkey. Personal preferences aside, we honor that the attitude or vibration of appreciation and gratitude is part and parcel of a happy life.
Haven’t you noticed that people who are not focused in appreciation for what they have are focused on what they do not have? This is the old “glass half full” or “glass half full” attitude, a choice of focus which is wholly within our individual domain.
When you consciously begin to shift your focus of awareness to the fullness of having, the Universe by Law of Attraction begins matching your “full” and “appreciative” vibration with more things to feel full and appreciate. Pretty cool how that works. Don’t you just wonder and appreciate who set this up with such elegance?
So how do you go from the “I don’t have” attitude to the “I have and appreciate” attitude? Practice. Purposeful, intentional practice to apply the focus of your mind to loving, appreciating, adoring, thanking for every teeny tiny little thing that pleases you. Every moment of every day.
Start small. Declare your intention to see and appreciate this day/this moment. For example, you might want to start general if you’re experiencing some difficulties in your life. [This practice, I might add, will change everything else in your life so long as you're giving more "air time" in your mind to appreciation than the negative stuff.]
So appreciate the fact that the sun came up this morning! How we take that one for granted, eh? This a big WoW that goes unnoticed and unappreciated. This single phenomenon points directly to the overwhelming Well Being in which we live. As winter approaches, instead of the ordinary and commonplace complaining about the weather, why not try thinking along these terms? If it weren’t for the cold, apples, grapes, pears and many other foods we love would not be possible. Therefore, I appreciate the winter.
Not well? Then try appreciating the parts of your body that ARE well. If your left hip hurts, appreciate the right one which is happy and well. How about appreciating that your body has recovered from myriad dis-eases over a lifetime; and appreciate that. Your body turns your food into new cells everyday without nary a thought from you. Another big Wow. With respect to the human body, there are about a zillion big Wow’s. Consider a few of them. The number of chemical reactions, tiny synapses, and split second timing to move something, digest food, make love.
Got your eyes fixated on the political or economic scene? Well how about appreciating the abundance and community that you do have and experience everyday? The abundance of air comes to mind. None of us have to gulp it in the morning for fear there won’t be enough by 4 PM. How about the abundance of life all around you and including you. The flora, fauna, creatures of the sea? They live in community and do it well. Think bees, dolphins, ants….
I am reminded of a Bible quote, “I will keep thee in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on Me.” Me is Well Being. All That Is. Source Energy and yourSelf.
Not just on Thanksgiving, but today starting right now, begin to shift your focus of attention to seeing and appreciating how Full you already are. Make lists when you can. At stop lights look around for things to appreciate. In business meetings look for things you love and appreciate. And do this as a waking meditation all day long. I am charmed by that one’s smile. I appreciate this one’s wit. I love the color blue.
Thanks for the green light.
Thanks for the red light.
Thanks for this car, the highways, the people who made all this happen.
Thanks for the flat tire.
Thanks for the sun, egg, breakfast burrito and everyone who had anything to do with making it.
Thanks for what is becoming our new reality.
Thanks for my connection with Source.
Thanks for Universal Laws.
Thanks for my being a part of all this Creation and my contributions to it.
Thanks for ever little thing, both positive and negative, for without the contrast I could not wish for more and expand God Itself.
I’ll leave you with this. I often think about the moment when we’re passing from this physical reality back into Well Being. A ReEntry Angel escorts you Home. In your debriefing they ask you, “What were your favorite parts? What did you love most?” I started doing this one day and literally couldn’t stop. Here were a few of mine: I love flannel sheets. I loved skipping. I loved whipped cream…. now you go and make your list.
I appreciate each of you who are a part of the Applied Spirituality Community. You have no idea how much I celebrate you! But I hope you can know even a little how I adore you and appreciate your participation in expanding yourSelf in Life and allowing me to be a part of your becoming.
It’s truly my honor and pleasure.
I truly Love You; and I do mean You
Kath
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.
Send love to water in Fukushima nuclear plant
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"Gratitude" vs "I kill/hate you" Crystals of Water
Dr. Masuru Emoto, Messenger of Water and author of the book, The Hidden Messages in Water has issued a request from each of us as a citizen of planet Earth to focus our Source Energy of Love and Gratitude towards the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Water. If you really want to help, this is the most effective and efficient method as a vibrational being to focus and direct your Energy right now. He has asked that at noon in your time zone that you pause in your day in a prayerful attitude and send this prayer:
“The water of Fukushima Nuclear Plant, we are sorry to make you suffer. Please forgive us. We thank you, and we love you.”Please say it aloud or in your mind. Repeat it three times as you put your hands together in a prayer position.
Please offer your sincere prayer. Thank you very much from my heart. With love and gratitude,
Masaru Emoto, Messenger of WaterWe all co-created this event through human-ego mind, we are that powerful. Let us become now that which we really are: powerful Deliberate and Intentional Creators with our focus of Source Energy, which is Love.
Here is Dr. Emoto (click to watch)
If you miss the noon hour, no matter. Do it whenever and as much as you allow.
Thanks for reading!
Kath
think a better thought NOW
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Find a Better Feeling Thought photo courtesty wikipedia.org
I’ve been having some interesting conversations lately. With what is going on in Japan, the Middle East, and whatever else pops up on the news, I see folks focused on what was, what could have been, what should have been – wasting a whole lot of Source Energy focus feeling bad, negative, blaming, judgmental, and in fear. This is a waste of focus of Source Energy though you if you want to make a difference.
It’s difficult to get the human mind ego (i) to let go of old habits of thinking. “Well, it’s true,”they say. And so what if it is? The acid test is does it make you feel good whilst thinking about it or focusing on it? If it does, keep on doing it. However, most of these things don’t make us feel good as we look at them, dwell on them and witness them. This is purposeful. These events give us a contrast to launch a new rocket of desire for what we do want to witness, experience, see manifest.
Right now, in this moment is the only place where we ever live. We don’t live in the past (except in mind focus) and we don’t live in the future (except in mind focus). Right now, this moment is all there is…really. And right now is where all our power of focus is concentrated and we get to choose what we will focus on.
You can choose only now on what you want to focus. You can choose only now how you want to feel. You can choose only now what you want to experience next. You can only do that right now. When you truly understand how powerful your focus is – focusing Source Energy that creates worlds through you, then you begin to understand that it is very beneficial not just to you, but to whatever “cause” you feel passionately about to clean up your thoughts and take conscious control over your NOW focus.
Certainly there are things going on right now that are giving us powerful contrast. Use the contrast only so long as it takes you to launch your new rocket of desire: safe hydrogen fuel, peace in the Middle East, a hydrogen fuel cell vehicle…whatever it is that the contrast has inspired within you. Then turn your focus NOW towards what is wanted, not what is or has been. Lamenting, commiserating, endless ruminating on how bad things are is a waste and misuse of Source Energy. You are not only keeping that reality around longer, you’re making yourself feel bad in the meantime. So does it help the folks in Japan if you feel bad, too? No. It prolongs their situation.
Thought forms are like the wake behind a jet boat in the water. They create slip streams that others can “latch onto” like a life preserver. Someone in Japan is in need of a better feeling thought right now and perhaps reaching for it. You can provide that thought stream for them. This is how we are either part of the problem or part of the solution…not just in actions, but first and foremost by our thoughts.
Thinking the thoughts that they are having of doom and desperation only add to the “mass” of that thought. Creating a vision in your mind of what Good is coming, begins building the new reality right NOW. Reach for a better feeling thought; it’s uncommon but powerful…NOW. It’s all Applied Spirituality; but is it conscious and deliberate is the question.
Thanks for reading,
Kath
letting go ego not a part-time effort
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Recently working with several clients, it has become apparent to me that there is a point where people become very desperate to change their lives, but fail to realize that it takes a full time focus, sustained effort and single minded intent. Last fall I undertook such an effort and realized great resistance to it. These are the forces of inertia and momentum in a wrong direction.
Runaway thoughts have momentum just like a runaway train.
Momentum, of course, is a quantity expressing the motion of a body or system, equal to the product of the mass of a body and its velocity. In the case of inner work, the mass of body is the sum of the false beliefs that are active – what you are currently thinking and believing, therefore doing and the speed that you’re thinking them (automatically or consciously). The inner work is becoming aware of how these thoughts and ideas have automatic sway without conscious thought. The tail wags you. Slowing the momentum, then, is becoming aware of them and choosing a better thought; or stopping it; or becoming aware of it and “watching” it rather than acting on it…and then, letting it go. This is the process of slowing the momentum much like slowing a run-a-way train. Even when someone pulls the brakes on that train, it takes awhile for it to come to a stop. The intention and persistence to stay the course is required. Your full on willingness to not live the way you’ve been living, but to put your inner train on a new track.
Once the train has come to a stop, only then can you determine from a clear state how you feel and choose which new track feels best to you. This is the inertia, starting it up. Getting out of the old rut and creating a new track. In the physical mind you stop using the old neuropathway and create a new one. Habits of thought are beliefs that we have thought for a long time. They create a “rut”. If you’ve ever gotten your car stuck in a rut, one of the best methods of getting out of it is rocking the car back and forth in order to over come the inertia of being stuck. Back we let go of what’s been holding us and forward we are reaching for the new thoughts until that moment we gain the ridge of the ditch and we’re free. However, once again, this takes persistence.
The devotion to you is your commitment to your best life of being free of the pairs of opposites (bad/good) the duality of life; and knowing that you will enjoy enormously a life where you are aware of Who You Are – the Awareness, Itself, not the person in the play. Stay the course. Choose the way out, for there are many and Applied Spirituality is one. Then stick to it day after day and moment after moment. Soon, there will be a tipping point where you will have turned the train to it’s new track and have begun building momentum in that Good direction, free of the illusion of separation.
Listen to Letting Go from Lester Levenson Part 2
designing a mind, creating a new reality
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The deep freeze continues here in Ohio. I do love winter; the time when we go into our caves and dream of what we want next. This morning I came across a wonderful blog post by Don Tapscott in the Huffington Post. He writes about training our minds to expand so that we are more agile in the handling of multi tasks, mega data and technology. He suggests that children are already able to do these things, because they are using their minds in ways that we have not. Proof positive that the adaptation of the human body is a natural function resulting from our focus, our request to change.
Recently I spent time substitute teaching in the public schools and came away with a clear idea as to why our students aren’t doing so well when they are measured against other societies around the globe. They are not being encouraged to be who they are; they are asked to leave the best part of themselves at home; the atmosphere is one of fear and pressure; and they are not encouraged to have an original idea or thought. We do not encourage them to use their creativity, intuition, broader perspective, innate knowing and guidance. They are herded and made to memorize facts and data not encouraged to think for themselves or have an original thought; thus they do not become independent thinkers which is the prerequisite to innovation.
Within each of us is the potential to create anything we want. Don Tapscott speaks of the brains amazing plasticity and our ability to expand beyond what we are now. Well, of course! Another great source to read is David Shenk’s book, The Genius in All of Us. We need to set our children free in schools to be who they really are, the wondrous Creators they are. In order to do that we have to become unafraid and let go of our need to control them. They are not our clay to mold; they infinitely intelligent, wise and creative beings who belong to themselves, not us.
earthling’s quick start guide tip #1 breathe deeply, breathe often
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Since it is the New Year and we all feel more hopeful and eager to have a great year, I am going to provide here excerpts from The Earthling’s Quick Start Guide: Master Operating Your Unit on Earth (A Short Refresher Course in Applied Spirituality™) to support us all in having our very best year ever.
Some of the tips will come from the book and some from the online course that comes with the book. To all of us! A year of living in Well Being…
Your breath is the quickest way to recenter, refocus and reconnect with yourSelf. From the EQSG online self study course. This is an audio.
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