Saturday, August 31, 2013

It is a Conspiracy



The Spiritual "Conspiracy"

On the surface of our world right now
There is war, violence, and craziness
And things may seem dark.

But calmly and quietly
At the same time
Something is happening underground.

An inner revolution is taking place
And certain individuals
Are being called to a higher light.

It is a silent revolution
From the inside out
From the ground up.

This is a global co-operation
That has sleeper cells in every nation.
It is a planetary Spiritual Conspiracy.

You won’t likely see us on T.V.
You won’t read about us in the newspaper.
You won’t hear from us on the radio. We don’t seek glory.
We don’t wear any uniform.
We come in all shapes and sizes, colors and styles.

We are in every country and culture of the world
In cities big and small, mountains and valleys
In farms and villages, tribes and remote islands.

Most of us work anonymously
Seeking not recognition of name
But profound transformation of life.
Working quietly behind the scenes

You could pass by one of us on the street
And not even notice.
We go undercover
Not concerned for who takes the final credit
But simply that the work gets done.

Many of us may seem to have normal jobs.
But behind the external storefront
Is where the deeper work takes a place.
With the individual and collective power
Of our minds and hearts
We spread passion, knowledge, and joy to all.

Some call us the Conscious Army
As together
We co-create a new world.

Our orders come from the Spiritual Intelligence Agency
Instructing us to drop soft, secret love bombs
when no one is looking. Poems ~ Hugs ~ Music
Photography ~Smiles ~Kind words
Movies ~ Meditation and prayer ~ Dance ~ Websites
Social activism ~ Blogs ~ Random acts of kindness…

We each express ourselves
In our own unique ways
With our own unique gifts and talents.
“Be the change you want to see in the world”
That is the motto that fills our hearts.

We know this is the path to profound transformation.
We know that quietly and humbly
Individually and collectively
We have the power of all the oceans combined.

At first glance our work is not even visible.
It is slow and meticulous
Like the formation of mountains.
And yet with our combined efforts
Entire tectonic plates
Are being shaped and moved for centuries to come.

Love is the religion we come to share
And you don’t need to be highly educated
Or have exceptional knowledge to understand it.

Love arises from the intelligence of the heart
Embedded in the timeless evolutionary pulse
Of all living beings.

Be the change you want to see in the world.
Nobody else can do it for you.
Yet don’t forget, we are all here supporting you.

We are now recruiting.
Perhaps you will join us
Or already have.
For in this spiritual conspiracy
All are welcome, and all are loved.
The door is always open.

~ Brian Piergrossi


Friday, August 30, 2013

Making a difference

Listening to politicians’ nasty rhetoric, one might think that leadership has to be aggressive and confrontational, but consider this parable about leadership.
A student assigned to write an essay about an effective leader wrote this story:
“I’ve been taking a bus to school for years. Most passengers keep to themselves and no one ever talks to anyone else.
“About a year ago, an elderly man got on the bus and said loudly to the driver, ‘Good morning!’ Most people looked up, annoyed, and the bus driver just grunted. The next day the man got on at the same stop and again he said loudly, ‘Good morning!’ to the driver. Another grunt. By the fifth day, the driver relented and greeted the man with a semi-cheerful ‘Good morning!’ The man announced, ‘My name is Benny,’ and asked the driver, ‘What’s yours?’ The driver said his name was Ralph.
“That was the first time any of us heard the driver’s name and soon people began to talk to each other and say hello to Ralph and Benny. Soon Benny extended his cheerful ‘Good morning!’ to the whole bus. Within a few days his ‘Good morning!’ was returned by a whole bunch of ‘Good mornings’ and the entire bus seemed to be friendlier. People got to know each other.
“If a leader is someone who makes something happen, Benny was our leader in friendliness.
“A month ago, Benny didn’t get on the bus and we haven’t seen him since. Everyone began to ask about Benny and lots of people said he may have died. No one knew what to do and the bus got awful quiet again.
“So last week, I started to act like Benny and say, ‘Good morning!’ to everyone and they cheered up again. I guess I’m the leader now. I hope Benny comes back to see what he started.”
Remember, character counts.
Michael Josephson
www.whatwillmatter.com

Friday, August 23, 2013

Just Ask

Better to Ask than Assume

The late Bill Love used to tell the story of a psychiatrist, engineer, and doctor who got lost in the Canadian woods. Stumbling on a trapper's cabin but getting no response at the door, they went inside for shelter and waited for his return.
In the corner, on a crude platform at waist-high level, was a wood-burning stove. It quickly became not only the focus of interest for their half-frozen bodies but the center of their conversation as well.
The psychiatrist explained the stove's unusual position as evidence of psychological problems brought on by isolation. The engineer, on the other hand, saw it as an ingenious form of forced-air heating. The physician surmised the poor fellow had arthritis and found it too painful to bend over to fuel his stove.
When the trapper finally arrived, they could not resist asking about the stove whose warmth had saved them. "Simple," he said. "My stove pipe was too short."
I wasn't along for that hunting trip, but I've been where those guys were that day. I've tried to read someone's mind. I've seen motives that weren't there. I've walked into situations, caught a snippet of what was happening, and made a fool of myself by some badly chosen response. Or I've used a perfectly innocent slip of the tongue as my excuse to take offense. I can be a real jerk at times!
On occasion, the victim has been a stranger. At other times, it was a friend from church or colleague at work. Most often, it has been my wife or child.
Communication is a wonderful thing - when it happens. But there are so many barriers. Each of us brings baggage to every situation. Words can be vague or carry very different nuances for people from different backgrounds. Then there are the prejudices and blind spots all of us have.
Lots of confusion could be eliminated and far more progress made this week by following this simple rule: When something isn't clear, ask. Don't assume. Don't guess. Don't mind-read. Try swallowing your pride and say, "I'm not sure I understand. Do you mind explaining that to me?"
This simple strategy could save you embarrassment, time, and money. More important still, it might save one of your life's most important relationships.

Rubel Shelly


Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Waking UP

The Secret to Waking Up in the New Age
Written by Jafree Ozwald
www.EnlightenedMessages.com
"Being himself exactly the Supreme Being, but thinking himself to be separate from Him, (man) strives to become united to Him; what is stranger than this?" ~Ramana
Can you feel the shift? Yes, a massive positive change for this entire world is in the air! Everywhere you go there seems to be this feeling that something wonderful is happening to this planet and that the beings on it are truly waking up. Of course not everyone is always on board this enlightening train, yet there will be many jumping on the caboose when they see it really taking off! You may have noticed we are becoming part of a "green society" where the more alternate and environmentally friendly way is respected more than making money. Our society is realizing that the old conventional ways, that led to the poisoning of our air and the slow killing of our planet, are no longer an option. Something very conscious and deeply transformational is happening on a global scale and you are part of it!
As divine manifesting beings, sometimes all we need is a good excuse to start choosing to live a more spiritually awakened existence. I received an email this week that said we are officially entering the Age of Aquarius. Remember the old song "Aquarius" from the movie Hair in the 70's? In the song they sing, "When the Moon is in the seventh house and Jupiter aligns with Mars, then peace will guide the planets and love will steer the stars!" 
We are all being invited to shift our consciousness from being "me centered" to being "we centered". This your chance to have alot more FUN in your life and jump on board! This global awakening process is personal as well, for its about the realization of who we truly are. We are each divine infinite cosmic beings containing unlimited power and potentiality. To reach this deeper understanding of this truth, simply rest in the experience of profound inner peace. This feeling of true inner peace only happens when your paradigm is shifted constantly from "me" to "we".

If you stop and pay attention to what is here now, you can see that humanity is evolving at a much faster rate than even 5 years ago. We just cannot help but grow when even a few beings on this planet have realized this divine infinite sacred aspect within themselves. A new kind of human being is being born inside all of us. This is the dawning of the New Age; a time where each being will be attuned to the divine within, guided by intuition, and illuminating the world to be a brighter place from their own awakened consciousness. Only from a place of being more sensitive can we attune to the higher frequencies and discover a truly divine experience within and see the greater reason why we are truly here.

As the world continues to wake up, the number of enlightened beings will naturally multiply and in time create a whole new world. This global enlightenment will create a foundation of peace for this planet for the first time in many millennia. Our planet is about to give birth to billions of heart-centered open minded people, and nobody is going to miss this massive enlightening ride! In order to jump on this global train ride to enlightenment sooner (than later), it’s imperative to learn how to find absolute stillness inside. This is the secret to waking up and experiencing this new age happening around you. Only when your mind is still and silent, like a lake without any ripples, can you truly see clearly. You will know things you could not know, see things you wouldn't see, and feel this sacred energy within everything and everyone.
"What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly." ~Richard Bach
When you find this silence and stillness within yourself, you will awaken others to their highest possible experience of life automatically. When you can find this simple enlightening stillness within, you'll be able to take on any circumstance life offers you with a peaceful heart and joyful mind. You will truly understand the vast unlimited potentiality you have inside to offer the world! Step into your greatest stillness and start meditation practice today.

Sunday, August 11, 2013

what I know for sure....

What I know for sure at this moment..... 
Everyone is doing the best they know to do.  Each day we are different based on our experiences and our knowledge.  In a perfect world, we would vibrate at a higher level as we make our earthly journey. In the real world we bounce like a ball. Sometimes we vibrate at a higher level and some days we hit a lower level.  The longer we stay at a higher vibration the less we go to a lower level and the easier it is to climb higher.

Staying out of judgment is crucial to staying in a high vibration. Knowing I am not who I was yesterday keeps me from the lower vibrations of guilt, shame and grief and lifts me to love, forgiveness and compassion.  It does not serve me to judge you or how you chose your journey.  I must love and accept your decision without judging it as right or wrong. It just is....


1. Positive thoughts are much more powerful than negative thoughts.

2. One positive thought can counterbalance many negative thoughts effortlessly.
 
3. We understand why one is comparatively weaker and helpless when one is in the consciousnesses of poverty, grief, fear, guilt, and so on, but miraculously powerful at higher consciousness levels.

4.It is senseless to go down to lower levels of consciousness from a higher level, no matter the reason, but it is a good idea to move from lower to higher levels of consciousness, no matter the source.

5.You can cancel out a negative thought you just had by placing, right alongside it, a positive thought.

The thought power of..      Is roughly equal to the thought power of 
1 person at 300                                90,000 people below 200
1 person at 400                              400,000 people below 200
1 person at 500                              750,000 people below 200
1 person at 600                              10 million people below 200
1 person at 700                              70 million people below 200
12 people at 700                             1 person at 1000


Levels of consciousness

700  Enlightenment
600   Peace
540   Joy
500   Love
400   Reason
350   Acceptance, merciful
310   Willingness ,Inspiring
250   Neutrality
200   Courage, permitting
175   Pride
150   Anger, vengeful
125   Desire, denying
100   Fear
75    Grief
50   Apathy
30   Guilt
20   Shame



Saturday, August 3, 2013

What are you becoming?


 In the transformation of the caterpillar into the butterfly, there is an important stage where the new cells of the butterfly awaken in the caterpillar body. They are so different from the caterpillar cells that they are initially attacked by the caterpillar's immune system. Yet they continue to appear anyway, in even greater numbers. In doing so, they find each other and form clusters (think communities and organizations, conferences, and calls like this). These clusters of imaginal cells form the body of the butterfly. When this process has matured, the caterpillar body becomes a nutritious soup for the butterfly's new wings. The chrysalis then becomes transparent (much as the internet makes for a kind of transparency today) and a butterfly emerges, a wholly different creature than the caterpillar.

We are at the stage in this amazing shift to a new era where the imaginal cells have been waking up for some time, but now they are finding each other, organizing amongst themselves and piecing together the new vision of what we are becoming. We do this in part by discovering what we are and by discovering each other.

I ask you each to consider what kind of "imaginal cell" you might be in the emerging era of the heart - what are you stepping into, what are you becoming, and what would you like to become? 


From the heart,
Anodea Judith

You - a Magnificate Money Manifesting Machine

How to Create a Super Healthy Relationship with Money   By Jafree Ozwald  
www.EnlightenedBeings.com 

"Our relationship to money reflects how we feel about our power to affect the world. Since money is a mirror of our consciousness, the more comfortable we are with being powerful, the more money we are likely to create in our lives." ~Shakti Gawain
As long as you live in society, you will be creating some kind of relationship with money.  It simply happens, since money is such an integrated part of our lives, and we are deeply intimate with life, that we unknowingly have an intimate relationship with money.  It is in our attitude towards life, others and ourselves which hold the foundation for what your relationship with money will be like.  How you treat life is basically how you will treat money and how you'll be treated by money.  You may tend to ignore it, grasp onto it, avoid it, become obsessive about it, reject it, deny it's existence, or accept it and become a creative channel who works with it in a healthy way.  When you can understand what your current monetary relationship is all about, you have laid the first foundation to increasing your financial frequency to the next level.
One of the greatest things about money is it is limitless.  Everyday you are potentially a jackpot sweepstakes winner! There is no end to the amount of money we can give, create and receive.  Your bank will always accept the largest deposit that you can imagine, and they will be happy to add an infinite number of digits onto your account.  At our deepest core, our personal connection to money is therefore truly unlimited.  Every human being has the potential to become a gazillionaire if they deeply desired.  The only thing stopping us is the fear based feeling from the financial box we tend to live in inside our body and mind. 
Everyone is able to magnetize as much money as they can imagine because we were ALL born with natural unlimited manifesting powers. If you are human, whatever you think about is what you'll attract and create.  We are manifesting machines that cannot be turned off.  It may seem ridiculous or miraculous, yet manifesting is as normal as the air you're breathing and the sun shining from above.  If you consciously and continuously visualize yourself receiving large amounts of revenue, and are taking inspired actions that attract that, you will eventually create the financially freeing situation you deserve and desire.  It is just a matter of patience and persistence as to when it will manifest physically for you.
The biggest issue that most people have with money is they focus on the lack of it.  In the world of manifesting, it's not the lack of it flowing into their bank account that's the real issue, it's more about a lack of creativity, courage, love and that we have forgotten how extremely powerful we are when it comes to manifesting our dreams.  The Universe is always here and listening intimately to us.  It's tuning into what your relationship with money is right now.  It's job is to gives you feedback as to if you're full of abundance consciousness or stuck in poverty consciousness.  The quantum mechanics of the outer world is set to mirror what's showing up on our inner world.
One of the fastest ways we can shift into a powerful connection with money is recognizing when we are in poverty consciousness and immediately release it.  If we tend to defend our budget, deny that we are in debt, blame the economy for our lack, or point the finger at some financial crises in the past, we are not feeling the vibration of abundance.  The truth is that how we relate to money right now always depicts what our financial future state will be.  When we live in a limiting paradigm within ourselves, not being more creative and loving with the financial choices that we're making, we tend to remain in the same financial situation as before. When the relationship with money on the inner world changes to a state of deep gratitude and abundance, the outer manifestation very soon has to follow.
When we take the time to look intimately inside ourselves, we gain the power to create a life filled with divine unimaginable abundance and beauty. By looking inside, we reclaim our ability to shift out of any old subconscious program from childhood that may still be running.  Many of us often feel anxious, fearful, greedy or ambitious when we simply hear the word "money" or start thinking about our own finances.  As long as we have an unrelaxed relationship with money, and feel a sense of fear or lack whenever we think about it, then we'll continue to remain caught in poverty consciousness.  When we can stop worrying and start relaxing each time we think about money, we can find our real power of truly feeling abundant and naturally capable of manifesting all the money that we desire.
"If your problem has a solution then...why worry about it? If your problem doesn't have solution then...why worry about it?" ~ Chinese Proverb
The energetic importance around money runs deep in our western civilization.   We tend to collectively believe that people who are rich are continuously happy and free, while poor people are stuck, unhappy and truly unsatisfied.   Many believe that loads of money equates to total freedom, power, security and strength.  The intensity and prioritization that the world has placed upon money has created a deeply skewed delusion.  We have forgotten that money is here to serve us, and that we are not here to be a slave to it. Yet, as long as we are chasing after money to acquire more of it, hoping to one day have enough of it, we will miss out on truly enjoying how it's here to serve us now.
The highest purpose of money is to help us let go of life and truly relax inside.  We can easily be generous with others, giving them plenty of our time, love, money and energy.  This is one of the greatest relationships one can adopt with money.  In order to enter this divine monetary garden, it may be helpful to know the reason money was first invented.  It was originally created as an easier means for the trading of goods and services.  You didn't have to carry a chicken under your arm all day if you wanted to buy some bread in town, and could simply carry a few small coins in your pocket.  Money was never invented as a means to gain wealth, or define how successful or unsuccessful we are, yet is a tool to make trading things and services easier. 
When we see money as this divine middle man, a sacred bridge or effective tool that enables us to trade for the things we desire, then we can stop grasping onto it and start appreciating it's practicality in our lives.  By being thankful for the money we do have, instead of thinking about the money we don't have, we begin creating an appreciative relationship with money and it's abundance begins to grow!  Through deep gratitude, we establish an even healthier relationship with money and will see how it becomes easier to manifest an abundance of it into your life.
"If only people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying. Would you sell both your eyes for a million dollars... or your two legs... or your hearing? Add up what you do have, and you'll find that you won't sell them for all the gold in the world. The best things in life are yours, if you can appreciate yourself." ~ Dale Carnegie  
As we learn and grow in life, getting to know ourselves, there comes a moment when we discover what a healthy relationship feels like.  We learn how to discern between what is serving us from what is hurting us.  We mature in our understanding naturally and learn how to trust in ourselves in the most intimate ways.  When we let this trusting intimate connection spread into how we physically interact with money, amazing things soon begin to manifest. From this courageous and trusting space, true financial freedom can be found!  All fears around money seem to simply dissolve and money becomes your true ally and intimate friend.  Once we find and create a solid trustworthy connection with the divine essence at the core of our being, then money simply becomes an energy source that enhances our lives.
It becomes evident that the more creative and inspired we can become, the more potential money can flow our way.  When this deep level of trust is merged with creativity and inspired action, it fully radiates from our inner world into our outer world.  Then, we can relax, feel supported by life, and experience the real divine abundance that is all around us and inside us.  We each hold the power to come into a deeper inner harmony with money at any moment.  We must simply allow our consciousness to expand, and feel the most abundant state is a living breathing potentiality in our future.  We must realize that all feelings of lack and poverty are saboteurs and let them go!  We must take full responsibility for our minds, realizing that the mind is the manifesting machine, creating every little thing we attract and see in our lives.
Most westernized people measure how powerful, successful and secure they are from the amount of money they have in the bank. They believe who they are is a success or a failure in life, based on how much they are making and how much is in their savings. This relationship with money is the most instable and insecure one of all, as the job or money can always be taken away from you at anytime.  Once we discover that which cannot be taken away from us, then we have found an unwavering security inside and experienced the real source of success.  Only finding that which cannot be taken away from us can we truly experience real freedom in our lives.
It's good to know that more weakness is created the more we depend on money for a sense of freedom and security.  The more we depend on our creativity and connection to our divine manifesting nature, the more secure and truly wealthy we become. If we continue to believe that more money equals more security, we must redefine where our source of real security if we want to be free.  We must find the real truth about our power, and release this idea that loads of money equals security and success in life. Often it is this delusion that starts creating feelings of a financial prison inside the mind.  The more attachment we have to money, the more it attaches itself to us.  By simply stopping our mind and discovering the source of real security, that manifesting potential energy which never can be taken away, we can get in touch with the source of unlimited unbounded abundance which is at the root of pure creativity inside.
It may initially take a lot to redefine our relationship with money in the beginning, yet taking those first baby steps are the golden keys to allowing more abundance to enter our lives. The secret here is understanding why and how you choose to define success and security the way you do.  What does it take for you to truly feel successful and secure inside 24 hours a day?  Have you ever felt 100% secure in your relationship with money?  If not, why not?  Question yourself, and find out what do you need to say NO to, so that you can say YES to relaxing deeper in your relationship with money.  Get really curious about these questions for this is a one way ticket to liberating yourself from any financial prison you may be stuck in.
Now, it is time for you to become a more powerful manifesting money magnet than ever in your life!!  This is your big opportunity to stop defining yourself as someone who has always struggled financially.  You can reshape your subconscious mind with a new set of beliefs which will empower you to attract as much money that you want in the bank.  You can train your brain to deserve to have total financial freedom.  You don't have to work harder in life in order to become more successful or stable. You simply can make smarter and healthier choices along the way.