Love Saves The Day

On December 6, 2022December 7, 2022 By thinkcarebelieveIn Healing & Empowerment, InspirationalLeave a comment

When we are out of balance, our bodies try desperately to signal us. We may get aches and pains that we cannot ignore. It’s our body telling us to stop and listen because something is out of balance.

Each item produced in a factory has an MSDS sheet disclosing any hazardous substances in a product and what amount of that substance has been determined to be an acceptable limit. Throughout each day, our bodies come into contact with so many things containing “acceptable amounts” of hazardous substances that a days worth of MSDS sheets would look like a mountain. Separately, most manufactured items are at tolerable limits but cumulatively we are being loaded up with toxins. (See this post on detoxing)

Cultural norms tell us to ignore our bodies and keep working. In fact, all around us are messages telling us not to stray from the path of being good consumers and to trust modern advice. Our bodies have evolved on the Earth, alongside plants and animals forever. We have been using them to bring ourselves back into balance throughout eternity and now fearful messages show up warning us not to trust natural methods. If we hit the pause button for a moment, one has to wonder… where does the path of distraction and consumerism take us and why are we so willing to follow it? Every holiday movie right now is urging us to find the real meaning of the holiday in our hearts, while bombarding us with commercials telling us to buy, buy, buy.

With faith the size of a mustard seed, these mountains will indeed move. In recent posts, we’ve been talking about the sacred pattern of the Flower of Life and how it contains the patterns and flow of all creation. When seeds germinate, including mustard seeds, they burst into life using the Flower of Life pattern. In fact, the DNA double-helix is part of the Flower of Life. The mountain moves because the energy of the mustard seed grows and flows outward via the spiral of the Fibonacci Sequence.

We recently discussed using the Flower of Life when praying for the betterment of someone else, or a situation. Someone may be just opening their eyes and looking around, wondering what the heck the truth is, not knowing where to start finding it and they have no clue whom to trust. When someone’s boat is stuck in the water like that, an ounce of compassion can go a very long way. Be the gift to someone’s parched Soul. Because we have been reminded of the cost of life and stared down the darkness, people’s eyes are opening wide. Their ears are sensitive. Lift them out with care and point them to what really matters. Speak to their Soul. Picture the Flower of Life rubber stamped on all stubborn situations to open them up to start the energy flowing. The word flow is in the Flower of Life because that’s what it does… it gets things moving and creates momentum in sync with Mother Earth’s rhythm. A return to the love of the Mother saves the day.

We’ve been compulsively stuffing things into our mouths and our brains because we are starving for the kind of beauty in life that feeds our Souls. We are craving the love and the hidden virtue that life promises. We yearn to express our Soul’s true essence. To experience the warmth of the Soul-song and be fed with the nourishment that reminds us of our true home, which is heaven. We have been eating the wrong things and stuffing ourselves with the too much because we are impatient to experience the kind of ornate Soul-beauty that we are beginning to remember… and no amount of consumerism is ever going to fill that need. We miss home desperately. We miss who we truly are. The increased Light and higher vibrations are causing us to remember the love, beauty and bliss… which makes us crave it all the more. Our Soul is calling us, and we must listen.

Campfire in the Snow

On December 1, 2022December 1, 2022 By thinkcarebelieveIn Inspirational, The Shift, ToolsLeave a comment

Frosty breath amid evergreen boughs dumping snow at intermittent intervals. Birds searching and scavenging the last berries. Small animals chitter. The soul-permeating sound dampened quietude that draws us outward. Smokey plumes rising from the campfire tickles our nose. We sit in an insulated wintry kingdom. The fire draws us near. Our thoughts meander through our internal landscape, echoing outward into the pristine undeveloped woodland around us. God’s strong presence soothes us like a whisper. The promise of a night spent softly nestled in Mother Earth’s embrace coccooned upon an insulated pillow of snow, warmed by our light within.

Our world right now can be likened to an austere environment from which we must find the inner light that produces the lens with which we view our outer world. With so much structure of our outer world crumbling away, what is strongly needed is our ability to create that which we DO want in it’s place, and that conception starts with what we desire in our hearts, and it comes into our world through our imagination.

It is the first day of December. The month that marks the transformation from dark to light. That means things will feel differently, as if we’ve been transported to a new land with new experiences. Our job is to anchor them in to our landscape, our life our world. It may feel a bit strange and awkward at first, but, let’s let our imagination take the lead for a bit…

Because of the Light, what if our world transformed into a landscape of intense beauty.

Because of the Light, what if our priorities changed and our compassion ruled the day.

Because of the Light, what if we ALL worked to make sure no being was living in lack, ever again.

Because of the Light, what if our DNA switched on new gifts that made this work simple.

Becuase of the Light, what if we remembered who we are and why we are here.

Because of the Light, what if we had the tremendous urge to inspire eachother to greatness.

Perhaps that is what the gift of rising with the Light is bringing us.

Exercise

Homework: What would you wish to create in your new landscape?

Possible answers: Wellness, beauty, wealth, integrity, lasting peace, joy and celebration, challenging work, rewarding pursuits, fulfilling hobbies, eternal friendships, strong families, inspired communities, honor, etc. Whatever you can imagine.

Imagine your new world.

Feel it as if it is here right now.

Tap out any doubts (EFT Tapping)

Use all your senses.

Believe it is here now.

Imagine a friend telling you how much they love being in this new world.

The feeling of celebration that strongly takes you over and brings tears to your eyes.

Thank God and the Universe for bringing it into form.

That’s it. Good job.

Perched Up High

On November 24, 2022 By thinkcarebelieveIn InspirationalLeave a comment

The Harvest Moon

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – 1807-1882

It is the Harvest Moon! On gilded vanes
  And roofs of villages, on woodland crests
  And their aerial neighborhoods of nests
  Deserted, on the curtained window-panes
Of rooms where children sleep, on country lanes
  And harvest-fields, its mystic splendor rests!
  Gone are the birds that were our summer guests,
  With the last sheaves return the laboring wains!
All things are symbols: the external shows
  Of Nature have their image in the mind,
  As flowers and fruits and falling of the leaves;
The song-birds leave us at the summer's close,
  Only the empty nests are left behind,
  And pipings of the quail among the sheaves.

Thanksgiving Blessing

May you always hold kindness in your soul, compassion in your heart, gentleness in your actions, truth in your words and wisdom in your thoughts, so that you may be effective and as a shining light wherever you tread.  May the effect of your touch be comforting and a healing to those who have a need.  May you hold goodness of all life in your being, then your journey through life will be worthwhile.

No matter where you are in the world

I give thanks for you

Because if it weren’t for you

I would not be here now

And there is no place I would rather be

Because my heart fills to overflow

For that which we are creating

Together as a family

Love’s surprising power

And the courage of the human heart

Creating magic and the miraculous

It is already so

God is Victory.

If I were a bird, perched up high, I would sing my most beautiful Soul Song, to remind Emmett how much he is loved.

Natural Gratitude

On November 22, 2022 By thinkcarebelieveIn Inspirational, Thought ProvokingLeave a comment

Nature exists in an interconnected web of balance. When something is affected in nature, the whole system adjusts to recapture balance. Let that be a nugget of wisdom for all of us to tuck under our hats for a rainy day.

A reminder that nature is our truest reality. All else is man made.

When we connect with the natural world, without all the noise and limitation of man’s world, we realize how truly limitless we in fact are. The correction comes in with a loving energetic flow. It has an intelligence and knows just where to go to achieve balance and harmony again. Everything in nature communicates on the subtlest levels and works in a synchronistic flow that only an ever-present loving guidance could achieve. That is our Mother Earth, and she is the commonality between everything and every person and system that exists in our realm, whether it is realized or not.

There is more light every day. Expect change. Expect Love to be involved to bring things back to balance. Expect miracles.

Gratitude for our abundant life-giving natural world.

Detox Tea

On October 22, 2022October 23, 2022 By thinkcarebelieveIn Inspirational, The Shift, ToolsLeave a comment

How to raise our vibration and keep it raised when things seem at their worst. First thing is to stop yourself from going into fear. Second, get in the sunshine and absorb some of the higher Light energy streaming into our planet right now. Third… do something positive to counteract the negative.

“Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the NOW the primary focus of your life.”
Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

If you are trying to effect change in your world, and are feeling disheartened, don’t give up. If you don’t have the answer and cannot come up with a plan… Do 1 small thing… either for yourself, for your neighbor, a friend or family member, the Earth… do 1 small thing.

“Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake at least you learn something, in which case it’s no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.”
Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

Maybe if we try a new perspective and think outside the box, things can seem much more do-able. Sometimes if we cut a big job into smaller chunks and assign teams to tackle them, we can get things done in a coordinated manner. So…. Make yourself a cup of Detox Tea.

Detox Tea

1 handful of Parsley
a pinch of chopped Celery
a pinch of Fennel Seeds
10-15 Cherry Stems
1 Dandelion leaf chopped
1 pinch Couch Grass (grows everywhere)
1 pinch Corn Silk (from Red Indian Corn if possible)
1 Blackberry Leaf

Make in a Quart jar.  
Steep 5 minutes, cool and strain into mug.
Sweeten as desired.  Enjoy.

Now, let’s check out my post entitled Hopefulness for some ideas to quell fear and raise our vibration as we sip our tea together. Maybe we can see things from a new perspective that isn’t so scary and gives us some fresh ideas.

“What a caterpillar calls the end of the world we call a butterfly.”
Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

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The Tao

On October 20, 2022October 25, 2022 By thinkcarebelieveIn Inspirational, Our Country, The Shift, Thought ProvokingLeave a comment

The Tao that can be spoken of
Is not the Everlasting Tao
The name that can be named
Is not the Everlasting name
The nameless is the beginning of heaven and earth
–Tao Te Ching, Lao Zi

The Tao belief is about living a simple and balanced life in harmony with nature. The word Tao in Chinese means “the path” or “the way.” The belief is that it resides at the origin of the Universe, and is the basis of all existing things. The benefit of exploring the Tao is that one can gain a sense of everlasting peace and happiness by becoming one with the Dao. The holy text of Taoism is the Tao Te Ching written by Lao Zi. It is focused on optimizing the Chi or the flow of life force energy that surrounds us at all times and affects health, wealth and happiness. In Chinese the word ch’i means “air” or “breath.” Some of the concepts are simplicity, wisdom, balance, humility, non-violence and conservation of action.

Dr. Wayne Dyer was a follower of the Tao and based many of his teachings on it as well as writing the book, Living the Wisdom of the Tao. Regarding the Tao Te Ching, he writes, “His lessons have helped me behave in less ego-directed ways, practice more selfless humility, live softer and with a kind of detached contentment. I learned the value of listening more and speaking less, and I notice nature’s inherent wisdom so much more.”

CS Lewis, author of The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe writes in his book, The Abolition of Man, “It is Nature, it is the Way, the Road. It is the Way in which the Universe goes on, the Way in which things everlasting emerge, stilly and tranquilly, into space and time. It is also the Way in which every man should tread in imitation of that cosmic supercosmic progression, conforming all activities to that great exemplar.” Lewis also associated The Tao with Natural Law and writes, “The Tao, which others may call Natural Law or Traditional Morality or the First Principles of Practical Reason or the First Platitudes, is not one among a series of possible systems of value. It is the sole source of all value judgments. If it is rejected, all value is rejected. If any value is retained, it is retained. The effort to refute it and raise a new system of value in its place is self-contradictory. There has never been, and never will be, a radically new judgment of value in the history of the world. What purport to be new systems or…ideologies…all consist of fragments from the Tao itself, arbitrarily wrenched from their context in the whole and then swollen to madness in their isolation, yet still owing to the Tao and to it alone such validity as they possess.”

Brittanica Encyclopedia gives the definition of natural law as “a system of right or justice held to be common to all humans and derived from nature rather than from the rules of society, or positive law.” The concept was contemplated in ancient times by philosophers such as Aristotle, St. Augustine of Hippo and St. Thomas Acquinas. Natural Law was debated throughout the Enlightenment and Modern eras and then evaporated in the early 19th century with a strong skepticism about evoking nature. It was revived again in the 20th century after the war with Nazi Germany. The need to challenge unjust laws inspired the desire to call on rules of right and justice held to be natural and given by God. And our country? Several of our founding fathers, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, John Quincy Adams, Samuel Adams and John Hancock wrote about the existance of natural law and natural rights. While they might not have all admitted that those laws stemmed from God, they all believed that natural rights came from those laws. What has changed so much in our society that has taken us so far from our roots? Changed so much that it totally departed from the original principles that it was built upon, based on natural law and natural rights? I’ll let you ponder that for yourself. I will close with one last quote from author CS Lewis, “Only the Tao provides a common human law of action which can overarch rulers and ruled alike.” And that is truly something of value in today’s world.

Here is a beautiful reading of the Tao Te Ching by Dr. Wayne Dyer. It is only a little over an hour long.

Worth Listening

Shine Brightly

On October 17, 2022 By thinkcarebelieveIn Healing & Empowerment, Inspirational, The ShiftLeave a comment

Give thanks for all the work you have done on yourself. It is paying off in numerous ways. Beauty has come into your life and with it, also magic. Will it last? The answer is yes. Trust yourself. Trust God. Think from your heart. Pull the Light into your body and carry it like the sacred torch bearer that you are. There is a momentum created on this wave of change and we have surrendered totally to that momentum. Our brighter reality is crystallizing into form and consciousness is continuing to rise.

Be open to a totally new life and beginnings. Let those who wish to play out their old dramas, do so and don’t get pulled back in. Rise above. Seek the highest and allow blessings to pour in.

As a Light Bearer for the planet, no matter what, be the fire of change and shine more brightly.

Just be Love.

Solving

On October 6, 2022October 6, 2022 By thinkcarebelieveIn Inspirational, Thought Provoking, ToolsLeave a comment

The answer is love. No matter the question, or the problem that needs solving, the real answer is always love.

At this time of truly being honest with ourselves, we step off the flat page into 5D living, to become a true authentic expression of ourselves. We cannot buy into any messages of separation or judgment in any form now. If we can rise up to see things from an eagle’s eye view, perhaps we could see that we are entering a new phase with a bigger, brighter perspective that allows us to navigate quite a bit better. Yes, we are still clearing out old emotional stuff and absorbing more and more light like a sponge. If you really feel into the light right now, you will begin to feel the bliss energies. This is part of the change that is going on within us, that broadens our outlook so that we may affect changes on a larger scale. The way we solve problems will undoubtedly change toward working together with a common aim.

We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break, our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature. -Abraham Lincoln

Systematic change happens when people form bonds over a common cause that they feel strongly enough to stand up for what is right. This all starts on a person to person level though. Usually problem solving has become a competition over whose solution is better and who gets the credit. But when the people who have skin in the game demand change, there can be no more fooling around. Problem solvers must join forces and see things from the same side and take aim at the problem together, instead of eachother. There may need to be some acknowledgment of how the problem got that way and some personal responsibility taken. Shifting to a common ground basis for problem solving requires that the better angels of our nature take over. When we can cease to take things personally and approach things with compassion, then compromise can occur and getting to the root cause of the problem becomes entirely possible. The key is understanding the other person while maintaining our own self-respect and keeping healthy boundaries.

When I became a Shamballa Reiki Master over 20 years ago, I was given the five principles of Reiki. I have tried to live my life by them. I’m not sure they have anything to do with problem solving, but I just thought I would share them.

1. JUST FOR TODAY I WILL TRUST. All things happen in accordance with divine will. I will listen to my I AM presence, my Higher Self, and allow my life and work to unfold within God’s plan.

2. JUST FOR TODAY I SHALL WORK HONESTLY. I love myself enough to know that my actions affect others. Doing one’s work honestly means being truthful to one’s self. If we create harmony in ourselves, we help to create harmony in the world. If we co-create love and balance, we will have it in our own lives. Mastery comes from honest effort in our daily lives.

3. JUST FOR TODAY I SHALL ACCEPT MY BLESSINGS. This means that I will look at my life and see what I really have. We are the light of God on the planet, allow it to manifest through you in truth, beauty, harmony, love and abundance.

4. JUST FOR TODAY I WILL BE AT PEACE. To be angry is to be controlled. Anger is limiting and brings imbalance. It must be transmuted into love and balance. Smile and receive a smile. Love will radiate love in return.

5. JUST FOR TODAY I WILL RESPECT ALL LIFE. We have been given everything we need to live in harmony and respect. Until we respect and love ourselves, we cannot respect and love others and be in harmony with the divine plan. Realizing all living things are really our brothers and sisters, we as healers are instruments of the divine plan, and must show others the way forward in love and compassion. The Earth is a living, loving being. By facilitating Mother Earth’s healing and wholeness, we ourselves become whole.

I don’t know if today’s musings are helpful or not. But I hope they inform and/or inspire. Your presence here on the planet during this time is no accident. You are needed and you are appreciated for every way you tip the scales of Light into the positive. I’m so glad you are here. The kindness you share, the love that is in your heart, the good work done by your hands. You are loved beyond measure. You ARE love. If everyone truly knew this, there would be very little blockages to solving problems together and perhaps less problems being created in the first place.

The Benefits of Good Deeds

On October 5, 2022October 5, 2022 By thinkcarebelieveIn Inspirational, Thought ProvokingLeave a comment

Referencing my post entitled The Four Lessons, which is about a man named Liao-Fan who lived in China during the Ming Dynasty. He wrote the book for his son, teaching him about the rewards of living one’s life with the purpose of doing good deeds out of kindness and with humility. The message he wanted to convey was that one could change one’s own destiny for the better living this way.

I know paying it forward and random acts of kindness have become a social media thing of recent years, but have you ever really thought about how it would feel if you could really change someone’s life for the better? We all know how it feels to inadvertently hurt someone, but do we all know how it feels to make someone’s day or week or year?

I’m a real fan of stealth kindness where I will leave something nice for someone to find, whether it be something painted, or something I came across in my travels and I’m just passing it along. When my kids were young, I made Angels from craft store goodies. Nothing very elegant, but they certainly were Angels. Then I put them in the most interesting places for someone to find, giggling to myself imagining how that person would come upon their new Angel with wonder. I know there are people who do much bigger things, and I give them credit. I guess it’s the fairy in me that goes for the little surprises. Every once in a while, I will hear or read someone say that they were the recipient/finder and it came at such an important time, when they really needed to know that someone cared about them. That is how we assist God and the Angels without even realizing it.

In the third lesson in Liao-Fan’s book, he states that it is not the amount of the donation that matters, but whether it is done with complete sincerity in their motivations that brings good fortune from heaven and the Universe. A donation of a large sum may only be half-full of goodness whereas that of a small amount may be completely full of goodness.

I think one of the most important side-benefits is the boost in vibration that one feels when doing something truly selfless for another. Doing it purely for the sake of it and expecting nothing in return. Liao-Fan says that when we do a good deed, it is good and genuine if our intention is to benefit others, and bad or fake if our intention is to benefit ourselves. He explains further that good deeds that spring from our conscience are genuine, whereas good deeds being done only for the sake of doing them are fake. If they are done without the expectation of anything in return, they are genuine, but if they are done with any selfish intention at all or expecting praise, they are fake.

I remember one Christmas when I left Angels for people to find. One friend was feeling very alone and she told me about the Angel she had found dangling from her front doorknob. It lifted her spirits and gave her the feeling of Christmas magic again like when she was a child. That is a definite smile-maker. Another time was a lady who had PTSD and she was being bullied by the community HOA. She found a carefully painted shell and rocks with hearts on them and wrote on the community bulletinboard how they helped get her through a very dark time and she treasures them still.

You just never know how something so very small can be a kindness that makes a world of difference to someone else. We should all try to emulate Liao-Fan’s teachings by doing good deeds that accumulate merit. If it were so, the amount of Light on the planet and within ourselves would increase and intensify, and that is a very good thing, particularly now.

Here are two sites where you can read and download Liao-Fan’s book for free:

Liao Fan’s Four Lessons

https://liaofansfourlessons.com/

How Assange Changed The World

On September 27, 2022December 3, 2022 By thinkcarebelieveIn Inspirational, Julian Assange, The ShiftLeave a comment

My pre-dawn chat with the Universe revealed some surprising revelations this morning. I woke up thinking about Julian Assange and the upcoming human chain events all around the world on October 8^th demanding his freedom (It was a huge success!) I began to wonder about the big picture when he released the truth about how loosely the US government was playing with their firepower. Like many of us, I had my head in my own little life, and I didn’t realize how Julian Assange was setting things in motion that changed our world.

My mind drifted. I found myself wondering, was Stella Assange, aware of the role she would eventually play as his wife and the main voice of the battle to free him? I’ve recently rewatched interviews with Julian before he published the leaked whistleblower information in 2010. He was confident and brilliant and nimble. Did Julian know when he published that video and those documents that his life would change so deeply? Did he have any idea back then that when he pulled the trigger, his life would never be the same? If he had any inkling at all, did he do it anyway because somebody had to shine a flashlight and show the people what a loose cannon the US government had become in the world. Anyone looking at the information he made public had to wonder what evil was running our country at the time.

I then thought of the impact on the US soldiers seeing that information. It must have sent them into cognitive dissonance and shook them to their very core. I was reminded of a sermon given by the minister of my family’s church about war. He examined what was morally and ethically right, the men and women who enlisted and served their country following orders that may have led to deaths, or those who avoided going to war completely. Both are right, said the minister, both are equally moral and ethical.

My heart led me to look back on 9-11 and wonder how deep the corruption and how far a corrupt government might go. I know my own son entered the military following that event and became deeply depressed after his service. There was a general malaise throughout our military as well as the rest of our country. But, what of those who were serving at the time when Julian Assange released those logs and documents and that video. What went through their heads when they realized how dark things had become… and just couldn’t do it anymore. In fact, I think the whole world must’ve stopped and took a sharp collective inbreath.

Personally I was embarking on life on the road in an RV when Wikileaks published the 2010 leaks. My life was about cutting and polishing rocks then and when I put down roots 4 years later, the world had changed. I felt the aftershock, but living off-grid with spotty WIFI and poor satellite TV, I just didn’t realize how the awakened world had become aware of what monsters, the wolves that ran the US, had become.

All these things caused people to change the course of their lives. On an individual basis, people had to assess where they stood, in the dark or the light. We were headed for a dark timeline, but individually, those carrying Light made a course change. Lightbearers connected with eachother and formed a network of Light. While the wolves were slowly beaten back to the shadows, and the story spinners spun their webs, those soldiers became Warriors of the Light, highly trained specialists with the skills of a surgeon. The methods of war had to change after Julian published the whistleblower information. People were aware now and it wasn’t okay to do anything close to the way things had been done before. This actually changed the trajectory of our country, and our world.

My mind turned to Julian as a family man. He and Stella married just last year while he was in prison. Their two beautiful young sons are growing fast. I wondered if Julian and Stella knew how hard a road lay before them as they made plans for the bright, loving future of their family together… but the wolves plotted revenge and Assange was arrested and buried under mountains of snail-paced legal proceedings.

And so here we are…

Those wolves never regained the upper hand. And with the influx of higher light on our planet, our laws have changed over to Divine Law. God has released his divine decree, we have the Divine Plan and the name of the game is that we’re on God’s timeline now. For the freedoms we all seek, whether we realize it or not, Julian Assange must be released. We are all Assange and we have all been slapped by the dark in some form. But The Light has won. It’s time to release ourselves from our own prisons. When we show up with our hearts activated and link arms, we are forming an intensified beam of Light that will act as a bolt of lightning that cuts through mountains of papers and sets them ablaze. Mother Earth says that Fall is a season of change… and change it will be.