What Life Wants

How Much News Should You Watch?

 

When you are trying to become more positive in your daily life, it helps not to dwell on the negatives going on in the daily life of the world. On the other hand, what happens energetically halfway around the globe affects what happens in your personal space as well. Butterfly wings... remember?

As a member of the human race, it is good that you stay informed about what happens with other members of your global community. But try not to judge events strictly on the basis of your own experience. It helps to remember that what can appear to be a negative situation to you may, in reality, be a catalyst for major improvement in someone else's backyard.

With so many news networks on television, you could be watching worldwide events unfold 24 hours a day, if you chose. And while genocides, revolutions and bombings energetically affect the entire world, you do not want this vibration blasting at you day in and day out... a never-ending cycle of violence.

Your personal revolution is taking place on the inner planes at the moment. As you raise your vibration consciously and frequently you, too, affect what goes on everywhere else. The butterfly effect works both ways.

Except that cable news is not reporting on the progress you are making.

The proof of your accomplishments will be seen in the happiness you feel and in the sense of adventure that makes you want to be a creative partner in the dance of Life.

So glance at the news headlines, peek into current events, but try not to get emotionally sucked in to those particular whirlpools. The people involved are working through things as best they can. These are not your battles to fight.

The bonds you are breaking are those of your own making and you are almost home free. Just like the butterfly yearning to break out of its cocoon, you are ready to test your wings and fly into the next stage of your life.

Up, up and away......

Getting Your Second Wind

 

Normally on weekends, you like to relax a bit, do some reading, make your grocery list and catch up on your sleep. For the past month, however, your weekends have been taken up with a lengthy project that involved new learning and, thus, required a great deal of mental focus. No downtime, in other words.

Weekend after weekend, you kept at it. And just at the point when you were so weary, you weren't certain you could keep up the pace, you finally saw the light at the end of the tunnel. And surged on ahead with renewed energy.

Abraham-Hicks might say you were so close to your vortex that you were drawn right in and the rest was easy. Others might say your endorphins kicked in or you had a confidence boost when you realized how close you were to completing the work.

Another explanation is that you felt a burst of euphoria, which raised your vibration, which allowed you to align with your Higher Self, who then became the "wind beneath your wings."

The main point is that you did not give up on your project, you did not find excuses to stop working at it, and you did not complain about the extra work it entailed. You just did it.

Climb every mountain... until you find your dream.

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PS from Barbara: Here's the finished product this post was all about. I now have a Kindle e-book on Amazon.com: http://tinyurl.com/altkeyguide

WOOHOOOOOOOO!!!!

The More Things Change...

 

On Thanksgiving you visited a new reincarnation of a familiar restaurant in which you had enjoyed many previous family meals. And although the name had been revised, the location new, and the decor definitely more modern, the holiday menu was almost identical to the one you remembered. But you had been hoping for more.

Your local homeowner association almost folded for lack of interest, but at the last moment, a new group took on the responsibility for keeping things going. New blood, new action, one might have thought. But no, everything, including the dues, remained exactly the same. You had been hoping for more.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Where do you think the real "change you can believe in" will come from? All you need to do is look into a mirror or your own heart for the answer.

If you wish to revise any aspect of your life that feels repetitive or under-performing, perhaps it is time to search out new ideas and new understandings of what you want and need. Same old, same old just deepens the rut under your feet. Step out of your old shoes and dance bare-footed into your future.

It is time to shed the worn, outdated facets of your life and embrace a new adventure.

The Universe is tapping its toe, waiting on your next move.

To Thine Own Self Be True

 

You cannot end run your Higher Self. You might try to rationalize your less-than-stellar behaviors, but your inner discomfort tells the true story.

Owning up to your predicament is the first step to wholeness. Forgiving yourself for taking your eye off the ball is the second. Making restitution is the third.

Before you can release the old and move on to the new, these things must be attended to.

Ask your Higher Self for help and then work as a team to correct any imbalances that are holding you back from feeling whole and free. This means economic imbalances, relationship imbalances, health imbalances... anywhere you are not allowing complete well-being to be the rule rather than the exception.

Find ways to connect with your Inner Being as much as you can, through whatever higher vibration methods work for you: meditation, music, nature, deep breathing, journaling. This will keep your personal energy higher so that your behaviors do not slide down into the Bog of Past Patterns.

Call upon the Divine Aspect of your Being to guide your physical life and then choose to operate from this center of truth, wholeness and well-being. You have taken enough detours. It is time to go straight to the heart of things.

What Do You Want Most?

 

Whenever you think about what you do not want to see in your life, you automatically have more clarity about what you do want. By process of elimination you can begin to see your true desires and wishes take shape.

You know you do not want to remain in a highly congested area with a lot of road traffic. That helped you clarify a more country-type setting for your new home. You are not wanting to watch tropical storm news six months of the year. This pretty much eliminated low-lying, southern coastal regions from your wish list. So you had a new starting point for your "do-wants" which was inland, higher and outside a city.

Once you were aware of this much new information, you could refine your search... and your visualizing. Only now you injected more of what you wanted into the mix: a porch for writing, a cleared garden area, a mountain view, a free-flowing creek and lots of trees. With this much detail, you can (in your imagination) walk around your property, hoe dirt in your garden, write outdoors at sunrise, breathe in the clean mountain air.

You have a strong image to work with and you can feel its manifestation drawing closer.

You launch what Abraham-Hicks calls "rockets of desire" all the time, many times a day... particularly when you see something that displeases you or that could be better.

You have been watching election debates on television and it is becoming very clear to you who you do not want to see in the White House. Does this create a burning desire to expend energy on what you would prefer to see happen in national politics? To take time visualizing about it? To run down to someone's campaign headquarters and volunteer? No. But it does launch a rocket about understanding governance at the local, manageable, community level. Do you put lots of energy into this? Not yet. Your main focus is finding the community first.

Each time you assess something for its value, whether a food item on your grocery list, a means of earning income, or a presidential candidate, you either resonate with it or you look for something more to your liking. How many times a day do you make these quick judgments? Dozens? Hundreds? Most of the time you are not even conscious of the "either-or" decisions you make all day long.

So when a vision pulls itself together so clearly that you can see yourself in the picture, does this mean that you have become a "co-operative component" with the next phase of your life? Or is this just something you want badly enough, that you are able to maintain the thought in a stronger way than, say, salted versus unsalted butter?

What you want most is what you will see most... as long as you can hold the image and the feeling of already "being there." And when that image becomes a physical reality, you can switch your focus to another powerful idea. So yes, you were a co-operative component and, yes, you wanted it badly enough to hold it energetically in focus.

You just need to decide what you want most now and not allow distractions to deter you from the easiest path to reaching it.

The Basis of Your Life is Freedom

 

The "American Dream" was never about accumulating "stuff." The American Dream was always about freedom.

Freedom of religion, freedom of thought, freedom to expand the possibilities in your life, freedom to be your authentic self, freedom to explore new frontiers.

Also, the freedom to make "bad" choices and live unhappily.

Freedom is an energetic vibration, not an economic condition. As you raise your vibration, you will see that freedom is something you determine; it is never about "them," it is always about you.

 

A Thanksgiving Prayer for Spiritual Entrepreneurs

Let us give thanks for good news about the economy.
Let us give thanks that as we raise our awareness,
the state of the economy becomes immaterial.

Let us give thanks for increased cash flow in this fiscal quarter.
Let us give thanks that as we raise our awareness,
all aspects of our life flow perfectly in all seasons.

Let us give thanks for loyal customers of goodwill and integrity.
Let us give thanks that as we raise our awareness,
we understand that we attract what we are.

Let us give thanks for the holiday spirit that lifts us above our cares.
And let us give thanks that as we raise our awareness,
we can feel lifted up in spirit any time we choose.

© 2008 Barbara Casey

Zoom Lens or Wide Angle View?

 

When you take photographs for your blog or Zazzle store, you like to get very near to the subject, often wishing you had a better zoom lens for a closer study. You want to see into the heart and personality of the flower, tree or animal you are photographing.

Others prefer to take a landscape view, with many areas of interest blending to make a harmonious whole.

Both methods can produce thrilling pictures that make you say, "Wow!"

You look at Life much the same way: sometimes contemplating the overview from a comfortable distance and other times looking into every pore and wrinkle. Or through another's eyes into their soul.

Pulling back to a wider view gives you the perspective that a closeup cannot. Zooming in shows you details you would never see unless you made a point to do so.

You can alternate these methods to investigate specific relationships, career choices, dreams and visions, your spiritual progress. One method alone will not show you the whole picture. You need both perspectives to understand the truth of any situation in your life.

From a distance, your "cabin in the woods" vision looked like it belonged on one side of the Appalachian Mountains, with few neighbors and lots of privacy for writing. But no specific region called out to you. As you drew your focus closer to the implications of such a drastic move, the location of your vision shifted to the other side of the mountains, which you had been ignoring for the most part.

That closer look put you right into the picture of your vision. Ideas began percolating and you realized that you were zeroing in on the location of your next home, as well as your reason for being there.

The wide angle view showed you the general concept, but it took zooming in to see that this vision had more layers than you originally thought. As you contemplate each layer independently, even more ideas flow forth. Pulling back to the bigger perspective shows you how the layers work together. The design of the whole is easier to see from this distance. But the manifesting will be accomplished through the vividness of the details.

You had an idea of the forest you were looking for... now you are getting to know the individual trees. 

When It Becomes Second Nature

 

When you are introducing a new discipline into your life (in your case, waking up to write at 6:30 AM six days a week) at first there can be resistance and even a struggle to keep things going. And then, somehow, you hit your stride and it feels natural to slide out of bed and start writing... even on a Saturday morning.

No more resistance, no more belly-aching or negotiating. It is now part of your normal routine.

Eating right and getting fit are two other disciplines that tend to require the same kind of dedication, until they are part of your daily experience. Why would you resist something that is so essential to a healthy life? Yet so many people do.

You are now also taking the time each day to commune with your Higher Self. You "schedule" your togetherness periods to make sure you consciously blend your energies on a regular basis. This is a new discipline and these formal sessions will be essential until you can more easily connect in oneness with your eternal Self.

Most people do not become whole - reunited with the Divine Aspect of their being - until they leave the earth plane. But physical death is not necessary to know peace within. Like any other new undertaking, it requires the discipline of practice.

Merging with your Divine nature feels like basking in sunshine, even though your outer world may be cold and stormy. It feels like Life coursing through your body, like love unlimited. In those few moments of togetherness, the dross and tedium of daily life fade away and the world is a glorious adventure-land that is yours to discover and enjoy.

So far, you are only getting snippets of this. When you can sustain the energy of your Higher Self within your body for longer periods, the beauty of Life is all you will see. Those tedious activities will be accomplished on time and in joy and this new higher-vibrating energy will feel natural and true.

This is what is meant by authenticity... living in the now with your eternal self. The separation is not natural; the unity is.

Finding Your Place in the Universe

 

You have recently been map dowsing, looking for the place that resonates as your next home base. This home already exists in your imagination, and you are 100% sure it is waiting for you in physical form. You can see your cabin, hear the rustle of leaves in the trees, smell the damp earth in your garden. Your new home on earth is merely waiting for you to tie up loose ends and hire a moving van.

You have another home in the non-physical realms. Most people would call it "heaven," a place you enter only after you depart this physical existence. Die, in other words. But that is only half the story.

You can be equally at home in a non-physical environment right now. You get glimpses of this "place" when you connect with the essence of your Higher Self. When you are one with the Divine aspect of your being, where else would you rather be? Your body remains here in the physical world, but your awareness reaches blissful heights that feel like "heaven." Stay there too long, and you are likely, in fact, to leave the physical life behind, peacefully and happily.

The eternal aspect of yourself is your true "home." Your eternal self is always aware of your oneness with All-That-Is. The longing you feel for home is this eternal place of belonging that you know is there waiting for you. And you can get there by merging your earth energy with that of your Higher Self... any time you wish.

You search for "home" in bricks and mortar (or wood) dwellings, but one day you will recognize that the walls around you are simply a temporary shelter from the weather.

Your home is in the heart of the Infinite and you don't need to map dowse that. You're already there.

Preparing for the Future

 

Do you squirrel away nuts for the winter season of your life or do you live by your wits alone? Each way has its advantages and disadvantages.

For much of your adult life, you were a single parent and most of the nuts were consumed along the way. Many of your contemporaries who did scrimp and save to set funds aside for retirement saw their nest eggs diminish when the stock market tumbled.

Living day-to-day, trusting in your own abilities and the universe's benevolence can be scary at worst and liberating at best. If you have family responsibilities, you have to hope that your mind stays alert and your creativity fertile. On the other hand, when life feels like an adventure every day, you rejuvenate more than you age.

When each day presents new possibilities for learning, for giving service, for creating on the canvas of Life, why would you want to sit on a pile of nuts? As long as your basic needs are met through pensions, part-time jobs or savings... do you really want to drag a heavy load from the past into your future?

As you age, simplify. Make day-to-day living manageable. Worry creates wrinkles; sustaining yourself feels powerful. Get fit to stay healthy. But even more important, exercise your talents.

Creativity adds to Life, yours and everyone else's. Whether it's jam recipes, poetry or carpentry... the joy of creation raises vibration and the creations feed the world literally and figuratively.

The bottom line? Setting aside a few nuts can't hurt... but stay sharp, alert and engaged in Life. You have much to do and more to offer.

Bring it on!