Today, I'm going to start off with a few announcements.
Yes, this is an extra blog for this week...specifically for Friday when I usually intend to post my YouTube videos. I have decided that the amount of pressure I've put on myself to keep up with posting two blogs and a YouTube video every week is a bit much. I knew I wasn't going to be able to keep it up once Baby Michelle is here but as I go into the more serious period of this pregnancy (20-26 weeks) I have decided to cut back. I've experienced a lot of fatigue and even some pain this week. That can make it very difficult to concentrate. The YouTube videos in particular are time consuming. I usually put them together over the course of three days. That is a lot of time. At the moment I am most excited about sharing the YouTube videos so I've decided that is a priority over the blog. I am also working on a very complex Tree of Life drawing that I hope to have done sometime prior to August which is a priority. I am not sure how much time I will have for art once Baby Michelle is here...and this drawing is for her. Every Wednesday I'll post a blog and I will post a YouTube video every weekend. The YouTube video may go up on Saturday or Sunday depending on how the rest of the week goes. This is completely based on my schedule and what I find easiest. For some reason I have no problem posting my Wednesday blog. Monday's are always hard. Friday is usually taken up by my weekly OB appointment...so the YouTube video ends up being posted on the weekend when I'm not competing with my husband for the internet connection. So, to reiterate...you can expect a new blog on Wednesday and a YouTube video to be posted with the background/added information on Saturday or Sunday. By far I am not done here. There is so much more I want to explore and say. I am very excited to share with all of you the newest phase in my life. New State Of Mind Part of this also comes from a new state of mind that I have. First, I have covered a lot of information in this blog over the years. A lot of information. I think that it's easy to see the evolution of my Path in these posts. They start off really confused and searching. Even last year, when I was trying to comprehend the symbolism of the Beast that showed up a lot in the movies I was confused and still fear based. Over the last year I have really blossomed. I have worked through major issues and hurdles. The last four years have been a heck of a learning curve and I've hit that phase where all of it was completely worth it. Each time I reach a new plateau of peace it amazes me. I share this journey with you not out of a desire to be a guru. I don't desire to have followers. There is a reason I don't provide you a way to contact me. I don't want you to look at me to save you or anything special...I want you to do the work for yourself. Read what I have to share and take what resonates with you in this blog and move on with your Path. Yes, it is a form of teaching but most importantly it's a form of *sharing*. I find this incredibly useful when working with people in the various FB groups that I am in...I can send them a link to a well written blog or a video. I don't have to go into a full description *every* time I am responding to a specific question. I still have a lot of information and insights that I want to share but the intent has, for the most part, changed. No Need To Save The World Part of this desire to take it easy and not push myself so hard with sharing content is due to a shift in my perception. This shift has been there for quite some time but I've reached the point where I understand it completely. I have absolute Trust in the Natural Order of Life itself...call it the One Creator...call it All-That-Is....The Force...God...or the Immaterial World. Whatever works for you to connect with an idea of a Higher Power. The need to save the world is an Ego Trap. Yes, we have all been taught and the burden was placed on the Millennial's to make this world a better place. Yet, one person alone cannot make this change and it isn't something that we achieve by 'doing' in the outer world or forcing our will on the outer world...but by transforming our inner state of being. We awaken to our gifts. To the fact that we are an Empath. That we can read others. That we can do energy work. That we can speak to or see the restless Spirits...or that we are healers. Then we feel this need to do something as a result. We feel we have been given this tremendous responsibility and there has to be this huge reason. Well, there is a huge reason but it doesn't have to do with the outer world. Everyone in this world has these gifts to varying degrees. I felt this way too...at my lowest point. I felt as though there was something I needed to be doing and I thought it was other oriented and that it was going to help save the world in some way. I felt as though it was this huge burden and that there was some force of evil holding me back...but I was totally wrong. There was something evil holding me back but it rested within my own mind... The need to make a difference in the world is a huge Ego Trap. The road to hell, as the metaphor goes, is paved with good Intentions. Hitler thought he was going to make the world a better place...so did Stalin and Mussolini. In their minds the best way forward was for them to reshape all of Creation into their own image. How very...Devil like...clearly they thought that their version of Creation was better then the One Creator's who didn't seem to be directly involved and seemed to be letting things go to hell in a hand basket. The Ego, especially as you start out on this Path, tries to distract you with anything that it can. The whole 'life purpose' and 'being here for a reason you must fulfill' nonsense is a huge part of that trap. I don't think it helps that society tries to reinforce that bull pucky. Feeling the need to convince others of the importance of the Path is also an Ego Trap. Free Will is sacred and out of the knowledge of that sacredness we must honor every person and their choices. If someone is meant to come to the Path they will reach places of information such as this Blog or my YouTube Channel...it cannot be forced. They will do a search and they will be lead by Spirit to the information that will serve them at the point of the spiritual path they have reached. Perhaps they enjoy my epiphanies. Maybe I've laid out a path here that others can follow. That is my greatest hope. Yes, in some ways, it is true that you are meant to share information and help people...but too often the need to grow a business from doing energy work taints the work. Once it becomes revenue and your livelihood depends on it...the message can be harder for people to reach when they are most in need. Through these online groups and going to the Learning Light Center I learned something incredibly important. There are hints of it when you study these subjects. The fact Maslow believed the Self-Actualized person being only 1% of this population, for example, and Enlightened people being super rare. This is because a lot of people just aren't interested in this information. A lot of people are not willing to take a long hard look in the mirror at themselves. This is work...and it's not something that someone can give you. They want to fight something outside of them rather then turning to tame the beast within. I can give you all of the information that I have gathered about how I saved myself... how I reached this profound Sense of Peace and Harmony with Creation. Yet, it is up to you to decide and apply this information on your own. I have full and complete trust that this Awakening with so many people has already completely transformed this planet. We are going to watch the pieces shift into place and it will play out...but the change has already been achieved. The results of a good profound change always takes awhile to be seen in the outer world. More people will spontaneously Awaken as a result. There were just some who had to lift themselves up by the boot straps first...to kind of pull humanity upward and it had to reach a critical mass before it would trigger the Awakening in everyone else. The Proof Is In The Pudding I am currently reading Thomas Campbell's, "My Big TOE." (T.O.E. is an acronym for Theory of Everything). One of my favorite parts of his book is how he explains that it's the results...tasting the pudding...of our work that indicates it's value. Has the belief system or the things you have undertaken to further your spiritual path or further develop your consciousness brought to you what the Christians call the fruit of the Spirit or what the Buddhists would call Enlightenment? Have they eased your personal psychological/spiritual burden? Is there a part of you that says that you're a flawed being unable to reach that state of being...so why even bother? These are good questions to ask yourself. Comparing and Contrasting This last week was a trying one for me. I celebrated the anniversary of my daughter Lilith-Ann's death and I dealt with the fear of losing my mother who was fighting for her life in a hospital after a random car accident. I was profoundly shocked at how well I took all of it...these events would have torn me to pieces two years ago...but I was optimistic and hopeful. I was okay with the idea of my mother passing away. I had told her everything I had ever wanted to tell her in my life...that she's an awesome mother, that I am so thankful for her and she is by far my favorite person to reincarnate with! I knew I would see her again and that she is always with me in Spirit...even while alive I know I am not very far from her thoughts. In this contemplative mood sat down with my journals from 2014-2015. I was looking for the Past Life Reading I had written down in detail and the details about some dreams that I had at that time. I will share with you some of the information I found and the profound level of beauty that my Past Life Regression continues to have on me...like a time capsule where I continue to unpack the awesomeness of that experience. What really blew me away, however, had nothing to do with the content. Instead, it was the amazing amount of suffering that those entries contained. The darkness of my words were mind boggling to me...I remember thinking that way but it is so incomprehensible to who I am now I was dumbstruck by how much I have evolved consciously. Sometimes I look back at my entries in this blog from 2015 and I see the same thing...so much pain and confusion. Even in some of the entries from last year amaze me. The Path of the Seeker has not been a straight one...but a convoluted one with many dead ends. For me, the process of my transformation has been a little bit at a time. I find it a lot like the pile of rocks that I have dug out of my garden. One by one I pulled these bits of myself out of my mental garden that was preventing me from growing properly. I examined each (and if you know me...you know I love our mineral brothers and sisters- i.e. rocks!) and decided if they served me or not. When they did not I added them to a big pile but the process was slow. Now, going back and reading the way my mind worked back in 2014 and 2015 I feel extraordinarily grateful. The transformation is so complete and so profound that I don't feel like that person. That person, with that old habitual negativity that was suffering so much has passed away and I have been truly been reborn in Spirit. Like the phoenix I have risen up from that past into something far greater then I thought possible. The profound peace that I tap into every day in meditation...is beyond compare. I have defied the odds. I have seen miracles and the raw power of prayer. I am the person I always wanted to be...and every day is a chance to test this new state of being...to exercise patience, love and understanding with each and every person I meet. Choose Life I went to see my mother this past Monday. She is now home from the hospital after her harrowing brush with death and her miraculous overcoming of the ventilator. She has always been told that if she was put on a ventilator that she would never come off of it because she has emphysema. Yet, she did. I went to say goodbye to her on Friday the 23rd of March. I wanted to tell her that if she chose to go I understood. Her body is tired and she has live a full life. My Dad had lead me to believe that there was little chance of her coming back. While I was there at her bedside, however, she woke up and I knew she was going to be okay. She told me there was a point where the doctor told her the night of March 22nd, "You either go on the ventilator so that you live or you die. The choice is yours." That's one way to face your worst fears. She thought the ventilator meant life support and death. When I gave birth to and lost Lilith-Ann I faced all of my fears but I fell apart. She has handled all of this with so much grace that I am in awe of her. She has lost her ability to drive, my dad literally took away her keys, because her health is just too poor to take the risk. She is willingly giving up all of the things that she has told me for years defined her...her lifestyle and she is doing it with such gusto that I can only be grateful because they are changes I have seen she needed to make for years...but nothing could force her to make these choices. That is the power of Free Will. She told me that she surprised herself by choosing life and then she told me, "Always Choose Life." What a profound statement. I too had come to that point where I chose to Live. For me, that point on the path was far more subtle. I have to admit that it was only within the last few months that I really 'got it' and that shift has been profound. I will have to cover this topic and along with what I think is it's cause more in depth in an upcoming blog. As I explained, I thought once I really owned the experience of Oneness...once I started to see the One Creator in all beings, in all things...I thought that was the end. I really thought, when I started my journey on this Path that you reached Enlightenment and that it was time to bust out of "Prison Earth". These are the stories you get told by so many Spiritual charlatans. Only, I had pledged to be with Ross the rest of our days here. I couldn't imagine leaving my friends and loved ones. So, when I had the dream about Oneness and that something bigger then me acknowledged that I had passed that test I didn't know where I was supposed to go from there? I thought that was the entire point and reason for the experience of life...to realize our Oneness with the One Creator...but life ground on and I was aware I am still here for some reason. I was puzzled, though, what was the purpose of remaining here? Where was the great epiphany for having reached this level of understanding? Did I really need to be incarnate anymore? Where was the benefit....or as we like to say when striking a business deal, "What's in it for me?" I was still seeking to find what my purpose was in all of this...what I could do to help save the world which so many in the Media (whether it's Fox News or the L.A. Times or the Gaia channel) believe is circling the drain...but as I said that was just an Ego Trap I needed to wake up from. The Greatest Service The greatest service that we can do is to choose to live for our friends, family, neighbors and the world. By remaining and serving as an example to others. The profound shift I saw in my mother this past week was merely evidence of what I have talked about before...just by being fully present moment by moment we trigger changes in others. The huge difference between the day before and after I sent out my prayer request for my mother (against my fathers wishes) was amazing. Over fifty of my friends and family prayed for her...and she did the impossible...she came off of that ventilator...and she's a living miracle. I've seen other miracles on this journey. Those stories have been told in previous posts. The most unlikely random things have happened that have transformed people's lives for the better. Being an example of how one person can do this internal work, attain this level of peace and then watch miracles unfold around them...is the greatest service I can do the world. We have a subtle influence on every person we encounter. Our loving actions can transform someones day or their entire life. What may be a small gesture on our part sends out tremendous ripples throughout creation. In business they have a saying. One bad experience breeds 100's of bad impressions. That applies to human beings as well...expressing love and understanding to one person (or that you just give a shit by acknowledging them as a human being that has infinite value) causes them to go out and transfer that love/understanding to everyone they meet. I have to tell you, it doesn't require any work on my part at this point...yes, the transformation itself was work. There was a point that required mental elbow grease...but at this point...it all flows...obstacles that would daunt me before just melt away into nothingness. Each time something is blown up to be a big deal...the issue is resolved effortlessly...I've just learned it just takes faith, trust and patience on my part. Conclusion I recently shared the dreams that I had with you...the one where I meat Jesus in the Garage and the One Creator 'removed the car trailer' from the garage of my house. Little did I realize that he house across the street really belonged to me. I didn't realize it then but it was a new state of mind that had been prepared for me. Now I'm dreaming of living in a new house where things are being installed. I realize now that this is a New State of Mind- a New Mansion as it would be called in the Bible. A deep peacefulness where I just mind my own business, continue to follow through with the motions of the life I have chosen...primarily that of motherhood...and stop worrying about the rest. I let the rest of it go... Trust and patience. Those two words would have irritated the heck out of me four years ago. Of course, I had no one to tell me they were sending me love or that I need to trust and have patience. That everything was okay and that there is a divine order and that miracles are possible. I didn't have anyone to role model the behavior and attitude that I have come to appreciate. Our first reaction to the unknown tends to be to fight...to resist...to take action. Yet, that shows a deep lack of faith...and a tremendous amount of Ego to think what we will to happen is all that is...even if it negatively affects others. That only through our own personal will power and limited vision would be the way to 'fix' things in our life. If I were to sum up my newest state of mind in the most generalized way possible it would be..."To be fully present in the moment so that I can choose to respond in the most loving matter to uncertainty, chaos and attack because I trust in a Higher Power." Jesus had this trick down, and right now I'm learning it...and I'm sure I'll continue to learn it and practice it with my kids....goodness knows what little bit I know about children I will need love and paitence. So, right now, at this part of my Path this is my focus and my current set of life lessons. When Jesus said, "Come to me all of you who are burdened and weary and I will give you rest. Take my burden upon you for my yoke is easy and my burden is light," in Matthew 11:28- 30 he was inviting us to be like him and through becoming like him we experience the fruit of the spirit. Dogma has made it so much less then that...saying only that we need to believe that he is God incarnate to be saved...removing all personal responsibility and the possibility of self-transformation. Such a waste, such shame and such a sin that those pastors and preachers are teaching people helplessness and disempowerment. I with the Grace of the One Creator have reached this point...it's a relationship based on trust that gives rise to a deep unshakable knowingness...I know this body is just a temporary physical vessel that my soul took up for the purpose of learning to Know Myself...and that even when this vessel dies and this life as Bridget is over...I will go on into eternity playing my part in this beautiful well orchestrated Creation. The proof is in the pudding...I've done so much work on myself, I have tended my mental garden to the point where I can now choose how I respond to each situation I encounter. I'm not perfect. I still need practice but I get it now...and I see a much large picture then I ever imagined in wondering the Path of the Seeker. There is so much space, time and love that I have no need for knee-jerk reactions. If an opportunity is missed I realize that it has happened for a reason and I'm still learning. Yet, I can see how far I have come and I can marvel at that...while looking at humanity with the hope and knowledge that I am not the only one...that there are others out there moving and evolving in this direction that will transform the perspective of the world. Do you choose life and love? Or... Do you choose death and a war against the world that consists of your brothers and sisters? Which path do you really think will bring you the most inner peace? As always you have Free Will and it is your choice.
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In the world, this week has been a tough one. The fear and anxiety in our nation.
In contrast, my life is becoming more of a reflective series of synchronicity and miracles. We had the presidential debates at the start of the week which had everyone very wound up (and was a draw with both sides proclaiming themselves the winner). Sadly, I feel that there was a lack of compassion with both candidates. Neither of them told the people in the different cities that are being torn apart with racial issues or that have been harmed by Terrorists...instead they used those examples against each other showing no compassion for the people in those towns. Of course, there was another police shooting of a black person that ended up in the news. The facts about that person are being ignored, that he was a refugee immigrant that the government tried to deport to his own country would not take back, the fact that he had a long criminal record, and that he clearly took a stance implying he had a weapon that he pointed at the police officer. The lack of compassion for police officers and the danger they put themselves in every day is sickening. Our nation is experiencing polarization, I could see this coming at the end of last year based on our movies. Batman vs. Superman. Captain America Civil War. People taking sides and battling out each other for no real reason. I had a dream that the emotional water of life was being polluted. I with a few other people took up places on black boulders in the ocean where we played our song to counter this flow of poison. The media continues to try to categorize and label human behavior in defiance of what psychology states that there are too many diverse people with too many experiences with too many different reactions to assign labels or categorize human behavior. This blog is one of the ways that I defy the emotional pollution that is the current media portrayal of the United States. So, today, I'm going to share the big lessons that I learned about the Law of Attraction. Being of Service I'm going to be blunt...if you don't dedicate yourself to service to others the Law of Attraction probably won't kick into high gear for you. You might find little things such as a parking spot near the front of a store that you are going to shop at...but the big changes won't happen. For me this is huge, and I don't see it included anywhere when it comes to the law of attraction. The reason that being of service is so important has to do with the multi-faceted system that we exist within. The creator- All-That-Is- is within every molecule and atom in this universe. Everyone and everything is a part of the Creator. Naturally, the Creator can't hate himself. Naturally, he wants all of his creations to continue to exist and love one another. Just as a mother or father wants to see all of their children get along...the Creator does not want to see any of its creations turning on each other to destroy one another. To really align with the nature of the Creator/God/All-That-IS...we have to dedicate ourselves to service to others. This is because by serving others we are in tune and alignment with God/The Creator/All-That-Is. The phrase in the Lord's Prayer says it perfectly, "Thy will (not mine) be done..." We have to put our warped desire to create on our own aside. We have humble ourselves before the Creator realizing that the Creations of the Creator/Great Spirit are perfect. This opens the channel for God/The Creator/All-That-IS to act in our lives...we move over so he can shower his love and abundance on us. At the end of the day the Creator of all...that is all...doesn't want us to suffer. Yet, we have to submit that we are not as good as creating as the Creator and release control over to God/The Creator/All-That-IS. We do this by being of service to others and to the Creator/All-That-IS. Here is a little prayer I said: "Creator, please let me be a vessel through which your divine light may shine for others. I submit to you, knowing that you have the divine plan that I cannot see just as I do not know how many hairs are upon my head. You, Great Spirit, do know and I only wish that others come to know you through me so they may learn that they too can find peace." Let Go of The Outcome This is an extension of the last part...once we submit we have to let go of the outcome. This is so important because sometimes God will bring something far better into our lives when we let go. Yet, it is up to us to release the pain and expectations born of experience that we have carried in our hearts. As long as we carry that pain and those expectations into the future we will only continue to create the same outcome that we have experienced. We set the intention, "I would like X, Y and Z." Then we let go of the actual outcome. We are just putting our little prayer out there and then leaving the rest up to God. Then God, in infinite wisdom, knows that we are in a state of acceptance. Sure, sometimes what we specifically asked for doesn't happen....but when we release all expectations of the outcome...something better shows up. I sat down when I was done with all of my ex's and wrote a wish list for what I was looking for in a guy. Down to eye color. I'm not kidding on this one...there were over a hundred things I listed. Then I burnt it...I consider it a prayer and a wish that I offered up to God and that once it was done...if it happened it happened...and if it didn't it didn't...but I'd put that energetic state of anticipation out there. That's when I met Ross. He fulfills many of the qualities in that list...and some flaws that were definitely not on that list. However, he far surpassed any expectation I had for myself and had I not been in place where I was confident in being alone I probably would not have attracted him. I knew, however, that I had placed my order with the universe and I was confident that The Creator would provide. I know now that was a form of manifestation, but at the same time I didn't it all naturally. This is a natural process. What You Resist Persists This has been a hard one for me. Bashar says that all the things that are good that we want are trying to come to us but that we keep them away. All of things that don't serve us are trying to get away but we won't let them go. There is always a reason, some sort of way that a belief is serving us if we cannot let it go. Sometimes, for example when there is a change coming, it is out of a false sense of security that we hold onto limiting beliefs. I've had this huge thing with resisting fear, resisting feeling fear, or admitting when I'm scared or heeding what that might mean. I explained this in my previous blog. What I did was create a cycle. Things would get to a point where they were really really good. That's when I would start being afraid that things were going to fall apart. Then, sure enough just as I feared, something would come along and my entire life was torn apart again. This was symbolized in a dream one night, where a dragon (Fear) came to tear apart my life (albeit the life was in a virtual reality simulator so I wasn't really scared of it)...but instead of waiting for the destruction I went out to meet the dragon, he turned into a human and we had a discussion. Just realizing that I hold onto certain fears associated with the future, another pregnancy loss for example, and that based on my experience I cast those fears as expectations onto that future experience... leading to a self-fulfilling prophecy (a concept scientifically proven to exist in psychology)...has been wonderfully eye opening. I realize, those fears of the past are not something I want to project onto my future. I am starting to have that glimmer of hope in my heart again...and trust in the Infinite that what is meant to be will be through the hand of the Creator. As soon as you turn to face these fears...they dissolve and there is an expansive freedom. I realize, that I have been keeping that idea at bay...that it is my fear, because I experienced such tremendous pain in the past, that has kept me from moving forward. Now, I have been able to open my heart to the infinite possibilities that exist in that realm as I release the need to regulate and restrict by my past experiences. Fake it Until You Make It Now this one is a bit fascinating. A lot of people make manifestation a thinking activity. They say you first have to set an intention. They make boards of all of the things they want, they cut out images from magazines of what they want and they put them up on the boards. I heard one guy put a house up on his and then was amazed when he actually moved into that exact house many years later. He only meant to live in a similar house when he put it up on his board because as far as he knew the occupants of that house had been happy. He hadn't realized he moved into that exact house until he'd emptied out a box and sat in stunned silence at how amazing...and unintentional it had been...just a series of mistakes and coincidences that lead to him living in that house. Yet, sometimes it's hard to be in that receiving state. If we are in a low energy state where we are shutting out the rest of the world (I call it turtle mode) it is very hard to get back into the expansive mode of receptivity. What I've discovered is that you can fake it until you make it. When someone asks you how your day is...state that it's fantastic. Even if you're feeling terrible on the inside for some strange reason that you can't even identify...say that you're fantastic. Just by sending out that intention, in this subtle way, into the Universe the world transforms and begins to reflect back to you this idea. People react far more positively to people who say they are fantastic...than to those who start listing all of the woes and injustices that they have experienced. Then one day, without realizing the shift...you'll realize that your life is fantastic, that you are doing fantastic...and boom you're in that receptive expansive state of consciousness where the universe just starts flooding you with goodies. So, if you don't think you can get into that positive state...Fake it until you make it my friend. Don't let doubt enter (that little snake likes to block your goodies) but say this is my reality, this is my experience...and it will be... (Of course, on a side note, if you say your reality is something bad- like nothing you do can ever go right, and you keep saying that to yourself and everyone that will listen...guess what!? That's going to become your life! So be mindful of your thoughts and definitions!) Synchronicity Amazingly, as I go through this lesson regarding Manifestation, I am not alone. I have a friend named Courtney who is also experiencing these events. In her life, she went in for a massage and ended up receiving information about the Law of Attraction. Specifically, this person told her to watch the movie The Secret. Not long after she went to Disneyland with her best friend and he too told her about the Law of Attraction! Talk about a message from the infinite! She had no idea that I had been talking about Manifestation at the start of this week...I hadn't sent her that blog...but somehow we were in perfect tune with one another. A few moments after she left because her shift was over a customer came up and we were talking about being positive. The next thing I know we're talking about the book The Secret and I told her about Courtney and that the Movie is on Netflix. What really got me, and I mean just made my mind explode, is that book and that movie came out over ten years ago. I remember my favorite Starbucks manager Wayne Newmark giving it to me to read...and I've watched the movie many times. *SO* many people are waking up right now. Even as it seems the darkest elements, those who choose the Darkness are becoming stronger and that they might wipe out the light...it's simply not true! The Darkness is just simply more noisy and attention getting than the light! The LIGHT is on the rise! You can't see it on the news but talking to people day to day *it is* HAPPENING! The Great Gathering of the Eagle and Condor prophecy is happening with the Dakota pipeline- From Native Hawaiians to Mayans- they are all gathering to protect Mother Earth! The media is not covering it at all! Conclusion We may not realize it but we are living in a very important time. What we align with mentally...whether it is the Law of Attraction and Positive Thinking that I'm reporting in my own life...or the media reports of such negativity... We are making a choice this year. I'm choosing to align with the light, submit and dedicate my life to being a reflection of All-That-Is and letting go of the reigns...instead I'm just letting the cosmic energy of love that is the most basic element of creation move through my life cleansing me and carrying me to the next stage in my journey. No expectations. No limitations. Infinite possibility lies before me. Plus, since it's been mentioned so much I'm going to watch the Secret on Netflix. I will include on here one of my favorite sections of a Documentary called Tuning In that I watched years ago that covers the Law of Attraction. It is strange that I've been working with these ideas for 11 years...and it is just now clicking. To Be Of Service One of the things that really struck me when I was reading the 7 paths of initiation by Jamie Sams was the necessity that an initiate wishes to be of service. In fact, along the path it is one of the most integral steps. I will be sharing the stories of my past lives that I have recalled (both in regression sessions and dreams) in a future blog that I have already written. One of the things that I discovered was how my soul valued the lives where I was a service to others. In the lives where I was self-indulgent and materialistic my soul didn't judge or regret them but there was the sense that they were not valued as much because there was no spiritual progress. To me, to really be a student of Spirit one has to dedicate themselves entirely to service. Now, that doesn't mean that we have to serve others in a spiritual function if it is a conscious choice to be so choosing to be a parent can be a form of service (not all parents provide the 'service' of parenting their children and, in fact, some fail to be the parent at all). Service can consist of many levels. So many people search for what they should be doing in life. People, especially when they have a profound Wake Up call (such as realizing that the Mandela affect is present in their lives) wonder what exactly they are meant to do. Well, Being of Service is what all of us is meant to do in our lives and it really isn't that hard. The first step is the golden rule: "Do unto others as you would have done unto you." Why I Prefer Service For me, personally, the greatest thing about the jobs that I have held for the majority of my time working is Customer Service. I love connecting to people and learning about them. Regulars in particular are very sweet and when they come into the shop every day or every week there is a relationship that develops. You ask about their kids or their husband. You know when their parents are ill or someone in their family dies. This loving relationship with strangers is a form of service. To some, in our materialistic world such an experience may just be the way they lay down the foundation for a Network. They can then use that network to the best of their benefit by developing relationships with people they want to do with business with in the future. For me, it has nothing to do with money or business. One time, I had a girl telling me how she was having a terribly hard time getting into the college she wanted into. I asked her how many she applied to and she admitted only the one. I challenged her to look into other schools, that clearly the one she was trying to get into wasn't meant to be given all of the challenges she had been handed. Getting into a college really shouldn't be that hard. Weeks later, she came to thank me profusely. She had been accepted by another college easily and it turns out that it was a better fit than one she had been so focused on. She had no one else in her life that would have pointed it out but, somehow, she wound up having that conversation with at 'lowly' customer service employee and it changed her life. To me, that is true service. Choosing Service As My Job If you asked me when I was younger if I would end up wanting to serve others I would say it's a crazy idea. I was very introverted and did not like interacting with people at all. Even now, it takes me a long time to recharge after a particularly demanding day of customers. Further, there are jobs that claim to be customer service jobs that are not. Anything entirely sales based is not really focused on the relationship with the customer. The moment I realized that I want to be of service to humanity is a crystal clear memory for me. I had returned to working at Starbucks, albeit at Albertsons, and I realized just why I liked the job before when I had worked for corporate Starbucks. I realized the real connection that it afforded and the ability to really take care of people. When people come into Starbucks having a bad day I make sure their drink is made especially good. In the very least, I am uplifting them at that moment. Over my years of experience I have witnessed that a drink made with love, with the intention of making another person's day better, can have that affect. I have also witnessed employees charged with negative emotions, who hate their lives, hate the job and think the majority of people in the world are 'dumb' make a drink and the customer complain that it tastes absolutely awful. In one case, a customer returned saying her coffee tasted like, "used cigarettes." Subsequently, customers will seek me out specifically to make the drink simply because they feel that I make it better even when I make a mistake with the recipe. Perhaps, as our intentions manifest more quickly the people with ill intentions will be made clear because their 'creations' will be tainted and detected by others in a more telling way. I have no ulterior motive, no sales gimmick, and I am not taking advantage of them. I am purely giving them the best service that I can give to them while striving to give them exactly what they want. I honor that they know what they want and do not try to persuade or argue with them about the small nuances. As long as they are happy with the final outcome the rest does not matter. Some people can't handle customer service. They become very negative and burnt out. They do not know how to recharge through their connection with the Universal Source ( I am not always the best at taking time out to do so) and become very bitter. There can be many downsides to customer service. I will not list them here. However, for me personally, the wonderful moments are what make it so worth it. For example, around Christmas I helped save a life. A man had a mysterious seizure that the doctors don't understand. I saw him fall, yelled for my co-worker to call 911 and ran to him. The store manager ran to him and having experienced something similar before told me to turn him on his side. Three of us, two of my male managers and myself got him on his side and held him there. Even in the fits of his seizure he calmed every time I talked to him. I told him that help was on the way and that everything was going to be alright. Despite how tense his body was because of the seizure he did relax when I said those words and did not attempt to go onto his back. When I did not talk to him he did try to go back to laying on his back and tried to fight us which might have killed him. The quick response we had to his seizure and calling 911 got him to the hospital in time. He was told that if he had gone back to his car, as he was attempting to do when I saw him fall over, he would have died. I did not have to think twice to go to his aide. Other customers stepped over him and still others, while the situation was going on, were ordering coffee as though oblivious. I found it heart breaking. Other people might have been afraid to get involved. I, however, after reading stories such as the Genovese syndrome. The Genovese syndrome was named after a woman was stabbed to death in the street with thirty-eight people watching and no one went to help her. One person only called the police after she was dead. There were a lot of reasons why people didn't get involved. Some expected someone else to call others while others were just too tired to deal with it and still others didn't want to be tattle-tales. Sadly, this is all too often the case. I have, personally, decided to intervene. I have decided that when I see a situation where someone is truly desperately in need. I do not look at homeless men wanting cash so he can get his next drug fix or a fake homeless person on a street corner collecting money to pay his bills with the guilt money from the wealthy to be truly in need. In our country, this has become a racket for people who don't want to get an ordinary job and too often the people are faking their poverty. Sometimes ordinary people are in dire straights and need a helping hand. For some reason some people are afraid to help and others just won't be inconvenienced. They will throw a few dollars a drunk filthy man holding a sign but when someone is bleeding on the ground dying they walk by without care. If I see a drunk driver I call the cops. I don't do it to get that person in trouble, not at all, I do it to save lives. Possibly the life of the driver and definitely the lives of people they could potentially hit. That, to me, is really being of service. Why I blog I write my blogs to be of service to others. I write them less for myself and more for other people I would be just as happy writing this in a personal diary. I had a dream, however, that impressed on me the need to share the information that I have found, what I have learned and the beliefs that I have with others. In the dream I was shown a very large warehouse. I knew that the different fascinating baubles and items were things that I had learned. But the warehouse was empty and lonely. I realized it was a shame to keep all of this to myself and that it would be of benefit to share it with others. Where is the fun in finding new exciting insights and points of view...or any form of enlightenment if you keep it to yourself? How does that really benefit humanity? That's the feelings the dream impressed on me and I realized my error. I have also seen so many negative people sharing their points of view. The Dark Age Christians who see the Apocalypse in every potential date of importance. The people who want to interpret any idea of something, from the Mandela effect to the end of the Processional Year, in a negative light. These people seem to want to call down the Apocalypse for no other reason than to punish other people. There are so many people who assume that some date associated with a turning point in human history must involve a terrible calamity whether economic, political or environmental. I understand the desire for such things. There is an inherent mechanism within us to see humanity as a blight on the Earth. I have heard it argued that we are a disease that is destroying everything in our path. I do not believe that this is so, precisely, certain practices we have put into place have been allowed to go wild without human intervention. This has caused an unhealthy imbalance in the world. I believe this can be fixed. I believe the majority of people want to fix it but don't know how. If, in some small way, my meanderings through different thoughts about several areas of life somehow contributes to a solution I am happy to be of service in that function. I hope, that as Jamie Sams explained about the Whirling Rainbow Dream, I am helping to bring the idea nurtured by Dreamers, Seers, Sages and Shaman's for centuries into reality. I would far prefer to see humanity living in harmony with the Earth and each other than any doomsday Apocalypse. Unlike others, I do not look outside myself for the answers or to a savior to fix things for me. Instead, I believe in the idea that if we change ourselves we can become examples to others and in turn save the world. People will want to emulate a way of being that brings true happiness which very few people really come to know. The Servant Leader This is exactly what Yeshua taught when he said in Matthew 20:25-28: "Jesus called all the followers together and said, "You know that the rulers of the non-Jewish people love to show their power over the people. And their important leaders love to use all their authority. But it should not be that way among you. Whoever wants to become great among you must serve the rest of you like a servant. Whoever wants to become first among you must serve the rest of you like a slave. In the same way, the Son of Man did not come to be served. He came to serve others and to give his life as a ransom for many people." I do not believe that this should only apply to the clergy. I believe this should apply to any person given any iota of power in the world. Those who would not be the servant automatically fail the test of being a suitable leader. Those who would use power to dominate and gloat in their superiority over others should not be leaders and no one should give them the chance to be leaders. Yeshua said it so simply over two thousand years ago, how did we get it so wrong? Why do we give power to bullies, why do we seem to value them more, why reward the person willing to stab another in the back, and not the servant who has shown nothing but loyalty and faithfulness to their fellow human beings? Why isn't the spirit of the servant cultivated and upheld as the the prime example of how humans should behave in general society? Why do we reward the crooked and the one who will do anything to get to the top? Conclusion Being a servant is not easy. Sacrificing for others, going that extra mile when other people might not appreciate it in the moment is something few people can manage. That takes a lot of energy that might not be returned. However, it can also be returned on an overwhelming level. Just the other day, I worked to uplift every person I encountered and perhaps three out of forty did not respond in kind. Yet, in serving, even when unappreciated you can alter the course of another persons life. The manner of service does not need to be specific. You don't have to be a part of a clergy, a cop, a firefighter or in the military. You don't have to be in a prestigious form of service. The janitor, the cashier, the fast food clerk, and the local gardener are all just as valuable forms of service! You can always tell the people who are not sincere leaders or teachers. They do not wish to be of service. They are not humble, as a servant would be, and they make it clear they feel a form of superiority to those they lead. They claim to have all of the answers but no one, absolutely no one on this Earth today, has all of the answers. True servants and teachers know they do not know everything. They do not gloat about their own authority over their students. They admit that they are fallible. A true teacher/leader admits that they are learning as they go and that they learn from their followers. They admit that what they represent is their own point of view and beliefs that might not be the same for everyone else. In fact, good teachers and leaders admit that they learn from their students or employees. This provides a balanced exchange of experience that makes everyone wiser. I choose to be of service. I choose not to pursue just my selfish desires and things that benefit only me. I choose to do all that I can to uplift humanity, to help my fellow human being and I humbly acknowledge that I am learning just like everyone else. Not everyone is a studious as I am, but that's why I try to bring ideas down to Earth in simple plain English so that everyone can understand them in a easily applicable manner. That is why I love the job that I do and can't imagine doing anything else anymore. Humble, simple and pure. A customer not so long ago asked me what I was doing in a grocery store when I shared a nugget of wisdom and some information with her that blew her mind. I admitted it was odd but I can't see where else I would be...because where I am at I can be more of service to a random person in need then any organization that focuses on the information I talk about. I touch the lives of a multitude of people of very faith, background and ideology instead of just being an example to like minded people. To me this is a huge plus. I will end on this note...I appreciate the fashions of the Hijab and Henna tattoos. Hijabs remind me of the 1950's fashion of wearing a bandanna over a woman's hair. I commented to a woman who had Henna that it was beautiful and complemented her Hijab using the correct term. As she was walking out of the store she commented to her husband, "See, the world is changing..." She did not try to convert me to Islam. She did not try to tell me I need to obey Sharia law...she was just happy to be recognized, appreciated and accepted. Isn't that, deep down, what we all want? |
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