Spirit woke me last night (or so I dreamed) and asked me if I had started my gratitude list yet. I told Spirit that I had been working on it for days, just for Thanksgiving alone.
I dreamed for awhile that as I was compiling my list and in my dream many of you were walking through the room (that I was dreaming in) and saying "Hi" to me. This caused me to start writing each of your names down on the list.
I shared with Spirit that I would be writing a list for days if I listed one by one the amazing people that have come my way over the past year, just since last Thanksgiving. I shared with Spirit my gratitude for each of you. I could feel my heart grow in my dream.
Spirit said ... "whether they have been a cameo presence, a constant visitor or if they are a daily experience in all of your moments and reasons to be, let them know you value them for who they are".
I then woke from this dream and more fully realized my immense gratitude for the people that have come into my life just since last Thanksgiving Day. I am writing this with a tissue in hand ... using the tissues to dry my tears of joy.
If you receiving a gratitude statement in the form of an email you have created beauty in my life by sharing your love with me. I am so very blessed by the presence of you in my life and I would like to thank you for your presence in my dreaming and awakening of GRATITUDE.
There are hundreds more that have walked a ways with me who did not receive this in the form of an email. To those if you know me and your heart beat a bit faster during the time that you read this blog entry, I am grateful for you too.
Gratitude is the elixir of happiness and it is a complete healing balm.
Friday, November 27, 2009
North
Of all of the medicine pieces that I have gathered together over the years; feathers, rocks, shells, crystals, an assortment of totems and talisman and other random tangible tracers of time and place, perhaps the most important one is my compass. I am not short on sacred medicine pieces, I have a full supply. I want to call myself a Spiritual Pharmacist and I laugh as I wonder if I am some form of a sacred medicine hypochondriac.
During the Spiritually dry spell in my life when I acted more like a rock than a sponge, when I allowed an entity other than Spirit to try to define me I took down my altar and I hid or cloaked my goods. During that time I forgot for a vital second who I was and then choose to continue to forget for awhile longer. I maintained contact with one piece that seemed to hold me to my truth. That one piece was a compass, a cheap plastic and aluminum fifty cent piece sized compass.
I was lost.
I called on that compass hundreds of times to simply line me up with the direction of “North”. “North” is the direction of all directions. I believed that somehow if I knew where North was I would be able to get back on path somehow. Some days all I needed to know was that North was “that way”. Other days I would stand in the direction facing North and ask that “the direction of all directions lead me”. There were days when I would have to stand with the compass and make sure for certain that the needle lined up perfectly with the capital “N” placed at quarter mark in the circle.
One day long after I was found, I looked at my compass that sat front and center at my altar … my prayer space. It sat with a number of other sacred items and I realized with great gratitude that it was “North”, the direction of all directions that placed me at center. “North” and all of the directions that co-create center with the “North” brought me home again.
Here is a suggestion … the next time you are out shopping for a new crystal or talisman, scavenging the shore lines and the hillsides for a stone or rock or the next time you need connection to Source go to a local sporting goods store and buy a compass. It’s hard to find a good cheap compass but it is worth the money to have one. You would spend $25 on a nice crystal, spend $20 on a good land compass.
Take the compass home and stand in your yard or on your deck or balcony. Lay the compass flat in your palm and spin around in circles until you line up that needle with the direction “North”. When you find “North” look out into the northern realm of your life and say thank you. Turn to the “East” and look out into the eastern realm of your life and say thank you again. Repeat this with “South” and “West”. Yes there is an order to follow while calling in the great circle around you.
When you have completed your gratitude circle of the four directions, don’t forget there are a few more. Look up into the vast sky realm of your life and say thank you. Look down and imagine that you can see the molten core of our Mother Earth realm and say thank you.
Now take another moment or ten, to connect to all of these directions “N, E, S, W, above and below and call in the energy of this sanctuary that you have just built. Call the energy in to the seventh direction. This seventh direction is the direction that takes you within. The direction of within is centered in your heart and soul. Your heart and soul is centered in all of these other directions. When you are at the center realm of your life say thank you to yourself.
During the Spiritually dry spell in my life when I acted more like a rock than a sponge, when I allowed an entity other than Spirit to try to define me I took down my altar and I hid or cloaked my goods. During that time I forgot for a vital second who I was and then choose to continue to forget for awhile longer. I maintained contact with one piece that seemed to hold me to my truth. That one piece was a compass, a cheap plastic and aluminum fifty cent piece sized compass.
I was lost.
I called on that compass hundreds of times to simply line me up with the direction of “North”. “North” is the direction of all directions. I believed that somehow if I knew where North was I would be able to get back on path somehow. Some days all I needed to know was that North was “that way”. Other days I would stand in the direction facing North and ask that “the direction of all directions lead me”. There were days when I would have to stand with the compass and make sure for certain that the needle lined up perfectly with the capital “N” placed at quarter mark in the circle.
One day long after I was found, I looked at my compass that sat front and center at my altar … my prayer space. It sat with a number of other sacred items and I realized with great gratitude that it was “North”, the direction of all directions that placed me at center. “North” and all of the directions that co-create center with the “North” brought me home again.
Here is a suggestion … the next time you are out shopping for a new crystal or talisman, scavenging the shore lines and the hillsides for a stone or rock or the next time you need connection to Source go to a local sporting goods store and buy a compass. It’s hard to find a good cheap compass but it is worth the money to have one. You would spend $25 on a nice crystal, spend $20 on a good land compass.
Take the compass home and stand in your yard or on your deck or balcony. Lay the compass flat in your palm and spin around in circles until you line up that needle with the direction “North”. When you find “North” look out into the northern realm of your life and say thank you. Turn to the “East” and look out into the eastern realm of your life and say thank you again. Repeat this with “South” and “West”. Yes there is an order to follow while calling in the great circle around you.
When you have completed your gratitude circle of the four directions, don’t forget there are a few more. Look up into the vast sky realm of your life and say thank you. Look down and imagine that you can see the molten core of our Mother Earth realm and say thank you.
Now take another moment or ten, to connect to all of these directions “N, E, S, W, above and below and call in the energy of this sanctuary that you have just built. Call the energy in to the seventh direction. This seventh direction is the direction that takes you within. The direction of within is centered in your heart and soul. Your heart and soul is centered in all of these other directions. When you are at the center realm of your life say thank you to yourself.
Law and secrets ...
"The LAW of Attraction" and "The SECRET" are great additions to the "New Age" bookshelf.
The Law of Attraction brings the information to the masses that thoughts are things. It is basic knowledge for those who know that "you are your thoughts". If thoughts are negative your surroundings will be negative and if thoughts are positive your surroundings will be positive.
The Secret has given millions of people a permission slip to start heading towards the light. That in itself has been of great benefit to us all. Looking back to the release date of The Secret, it provided a push in momentum for the shift that many of us are witnessing and are so grateful for now. More and more people are accepting of the light and many more people are living in the light.
Last night in a lucid dream I heard "THE LAW and THE SECRET only worked then". Of course I wondered what that message was about so I asked. I was told that the terms are too strong. The Law enforces demand and The Secret implies that it is not common knowledge; therefore many people will still naturally resist this information even knowing innately that it will serve their highest good to know it. Some people are not connected to their innate ability.
My thoughts of this dream after awakening connected me to the control of organized religion. Religion was created by the ruling forces of the growing world to control the masses. Laws were created to restrict the greater number of Spiritual practices held sacred by the people. These laws were created in secret meetings by secret societies, held with such secure measure that many people didn't even know the laws until after they had broken them. This was the development of CHURCH and STATE being one.
Back to the dream, the final message in the dream was this "there is no need to place laws on this movement ... it is a cooperative. there is no need to whisper any of it ... just speak the words softly in a clear voice." That message left me with the feeling and the greater understanding of what this movement is all about. It is about LOVE, just love.
I don't want anyone to think I am being critical of Ester Hicks or the creators of The Secret. I have followed The Law of Attraction for years, I own most of the Abraham-Hicks work, and I have seen Ester Hicks channel Abraham... amazing!!! I receive the daily message in my email box every day.
I watched The Secret twice and I am grateful when I acknowledge its powerful and precise messages. I didn't read the book and I have recommended it as required reading to many, many people just beginning their Spiritual growth.
Written November 13, 2009
The Law of Attraction brings the information to the masses that thoughts are things. It is basic knowledge for those who know that "you are your thoughts". If thoughts are negative your surroundings will be negative and if thoughts are positive your surroundings will be positive.
The Secret has given millions of people a permission slip to start heading towards the light. That in itself has been of great benefit to us all. Looking back to the release date of The Secret, it provided a push in momentum for the shift that many of us are witnessing and are so grateful for now. More and more people are accepting of the light and many more people are living in the light.
Last night in a lucid dream I heard "THE LAW and THE SECRET only worked then". Of course I wondered what that message was about so I asked. I was told that the terms are too strong. The Law enforces demand and The Secret implies that it is not common knowledge; therefore many people will still naturally resist this information even knowing innately that it will serve their highest good to know it. Some people are not connected to their innate ability.
My thoughts of this dream after awakening connected me to the control of organized religion. Religion was created by the ruling forces of the growing world to control the masses. Laws were created to restrict the greater number of Spiritual practices held sacred by the people. These laws were created in secret meetings by secret societies, held with such secure measure that many people didn't even know the laws until after they had broken them. This was the development of CHURCH and STATE being one.
Back to the dream, the final message in the dream was this "there is no need to place laws on this movement ... it is a cooperative. there is no need to whisper any of it ... just speak the words softly in a clear voice." That message left me with the feeling and the greater understanding of what this movement is all about. It is about LOVE, just love.
I don't want anyone to think I am being critical of Ester Hicks or the creators of The Secret. I have followed The Law of Attraction for years, I own most of the Abraham-Hicks work, and I have seen Ester Hicks channel Abraham... amazing!!! I receive the daily message in my email box every day.
I watched The Secret twice and I am grateful when I acknowledge its powerful and precise messages. I didn't read the book and I have recommended it as required reading to many, many people just beginning their Spiritual growth.
Written November 13, 2009
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