Who We Really Are ~ Our True Identity

Do you know you are a Divine Being? Did you know you are here purposely? A lot of people believe our life here on Earth is random, and we must play the hand we are dealt. A lot of people think that we have little choice except to react to what Life brings our way, and once our life here is over, that's all she wrote.

What if you started to look at our life differently? What if you started to see everything in your life experience as having purpose, reason, and a message? What if you knew, deep inside, that you are the Creator and the Creation ~ the script writer, the director and the actor? What if I told you that your thoughts, emotions and feelings all have creative power, and that when they are combined, you can affect your outer world and see different results?

Would it be worth at least taking a look?

All of us are Source Energy, which intended itself here and enlivens our physical body, to know itself in relationship ~ to other people, in challenging circumstances, through exciting conditions, it's all about knowing the Self. Source Energy, through each of us, is experiencing Life on Planet Earth, and as such we experience myriad situations and circumstances that invite us to look deeper. We are here to benefit from all that Life has to offer ~ Light and Shadow. If we look deeper, we can see new ways to empower our Selves and to transform our lives.

Life invites us to look deeper.

Life is conversation between us and that which intended itself here. Our life circumstances show us our end of the conversation. Look around ~ what do you see? What are you currently experiencing? Is it in alignment with what you believe you are offering on your end of the conversation? Is life mirroring back to you what you intended to put out? If not, you are invited to look more closely at what you are saying.

What is your Life mirroring? Are you living with a sense of peace, joy and harmony, or are you struggling with feelings of dissatisfaction or lack of fulfillment? Are your relationships supportive, nurturing and loving, or tense, conflicted and stressful? Is your career satisfying, exciting and expanding, or frustrating, tedious, and uninspring? How are your finances? Are you experiencing prosperity or lack ~ or somewhere in between? What about your health? Do you feel strong, vital and healthy, or tired, exhausted and lethargic?

We are empowered, and powerful, creators. Law of Attraction shows us where we are, where we want to be, and how to get there.

Tomorrow: The Law of Attraction

What will you choose?

Did you know that each individual's unique perspective is significant? Yes, your life experience is vitally important and integral to the evolution of all human-kind ~ your experience adds to the collective!

We are intended here deliberately and purposefully by a Creative Force ~ there are many names so pick whatever feels most relatable to you. That Creative Force is pure love ~ pure positive emotion that wants us to thrive and expand and prosper. Each of us is a Divine spark of that Creative Force, focused consciously in a physical body. We are co-creators of this experience of Life, along with this Creative Force ~ we are participants. There is only one of us here, albeit walking around in many different bodies of differing size, shape and color. We have a choice to actively participate or passively experience.

We are not intended here, and we do not come here, to live up to an arbitrary set of conditions and expectations determined by seemingly all-powerful institutions ~ we are intended here, we choose to come here, to have our own experiences, discern our preferences, make our choices, and expand the ever-growing Creative Force that is Life. Few of us were taught this, but many are awakening to the truth that we can do, be and have anything that we want, and it is our job to discern our preferences, usually through the contrasting experiences we encounter.

The contrast that this Earth provides is ideal for that purpose. When you know what you don't want, you can identify what you do want more clearly. So, there are no mistakes or failures ~ only opportunities for awareness, growth and new choices.

As co-creators, our job is to participate in Life and, through that experience, discern our distinct individual preferences. Through the expression of the desire for those preferences ~ whether through thoughts, words or most importantly feelings, or any combination thereof ~ that Creative Force then receives the essence of that desire, that choice, and expands to become and to incorporate that desire into the Infinite realm of possibility. This Creative Force benefits from our experience!

This is The Law of Attraction. Welcome to the Game of Life!

Louise Hay's Latest Work of Art!

At the wonderful age of 83, Louise Hay has done it again. Her latest book, “Experience Your Good Now! Learning to Use Affirmations,” is a handbook, a manual for creating and living the life you desire using tools already in your possession ~ your thoughts and your feelings.

It is my pleasure to review this latest gem of a book, which I received free from Hay House, Inc. This book is entails more than affirmations. It is a cathartic tool for deep and profound self-inquiry, to plumb the depths of Shadow and roust our self-defeating beliefs and thoughts out of their well-ensconced hiding places into the Light, toward ultimate healing. Through beautifully crafted checklists for each subject of inquiry (aging, relationships, prosperity, health, etc.), Louise helps us to see the origin of these seeds of self-doubt and self-loathing. When we gain clarity with regard to how we got where we currently are with our bodies, thoughts and beliefs, we then feel empowered to reorient the path of our life and identify how we want to think and feel. The exercises outlined mid-chapter provide a therapeutic approach to realigning with our authentic self by acknowledging the old perspective, thereby making it easier to craft our new perspective.

In her wise and intuitive way, Louise then provides affirmations that one can use to connect, through the heart, with that which one desires to experience. Through these affirmations, especially when used consciously and deliberately, we can experience immediate results through our shift in perspective. Healing can occur “in the blink of an eye,” when these tools and affirmations are used in a “now” moment ~ “I release all age-related fears now.”

The comprehensive “treatments” at the end of the chapter are a sublime way to ground the new perspective into our bodies and thought processes.

Louise Hay has cemented her place among some of the most brilliant teachers in our history ~ Florence Scovill Shinn, Ernest Holmes, Neville, and James Allen, to name a few. She continues to bring us new and fresh ways to enhance our awakening, and this book is a chain of pearls of wisdom, there for our path of discovery if we will only ask for assistance.

In celebration of the release of Louise Jay’s new book, Hay House is offering the chance to win a spot on their I Can Do It! At Sea Caribbean Cruise, January 28 to February 4, 2010. You can learn more about Louise’s new book, and enter to win a spot on the cruise, by visiting www.ExperienceYourGoodNow.com.

Best wishes, and enjoy Louise’s latest book!a

Goal-Setting and the Law of Attraction

It is Spring here in the northern hemisphere, and nature is lifting her beautiful head after a particularly active Winter. The trees are budding, tulips, daffodils and crocuses are blooming, and the energy of new growth and myriad possibilities is a driving force for all living things. In addition, we recently entered the New phase of the Moon, which means that we cannot see the Moon at this time ~ it is in darkness, since the Moon herself emits no light and is only seen when she is reflecting light from the Sun. A New Moon always represents rebirth, new beginnings, and new cycles. Potential!

This particular New Moon is in the Zodiac sign of Aries. In brief, Aries is about confidence, assertiveness and independence. It represents the Self, and our conscious will.

With the New Moon, and its position in the sign of Aries, this is the perfect time for goal-setting and formulating new ideas and projects! The darkness, in this context, represents the Void ~ the amorphous world of thought, from which all creation is birthed. This is an ideal time to look inward, connecting energetically with your creative potential, to identify what you desire to bring to Life in your experience.

Once you have identified your objects of creation, you can use the Law of Attraction, and the potent inner technology that we all carry in our bodies, deliberately and consciously, to enLIVEn your creations and, eventually and inevitably, witness them coming to fruition in this physical realm.

This is a lengthy blog, so get comfortable! Find a cozy, quiet spot, have your favorite beverage on hand, put your feet up, and prepare to activate your goals!

Who Are We to Create in the World?

Each of us is Source energy. Each of us is Source, focused in a physical body, for the purpose of knowing its Self, in relationship with that which, for the purposes of this discussion, we will call “other.” “Other” can be persons, material goods, conditions, circumstances, identities or titles (mother, father, sister, friend, teacher, pastor, boss, etc.). Through relationship with other, we experience our Selves in the scenario we call Life. As a result of this experience, we discern preference. Preference gives way to desire, and desire summons Life force, the creative force. The summoning of Life force is what creates more life! More discernment, more preferences, more creations. If we did not experience desires, we would not summon life force, and one could then posit that life would very quickly cease to be.

So, the question really is who are we NOT to create in the world?

To iterate, each of us is Source energy, focused in a physical body. The portion of Source that is focused in this physical body is relatively small, in comparison to that portion of Source that resides in the non-physical realm. Yes, the portion of Source energy that enLIVEns your physical body is an extension of a much larger, broader, expansive Source energy “body,” which remains in non-physical.

Houston, We Have Lift-Off

To illustrate this relationship, I like to use the analogy of the relationship between NASA and its exploratory vehicle, the Space Shuttle. Each of us is like the Space Shuttle, an important part of NASA, launched from home base on its exploratory mission, tasked with a specific goal (in this case, experience Life in relationship to “other”), and sending intelligence back to home base.

NASA represents the huge portion of Source energy that remains in the non-Physical realm ~ home base, if you will. When the Space Shuttle is launched from home base to carry out its exploratory mission, it is a small piece with a huge team (NASA) that remains behind, with its broad, expansive, abundant perspective and power ever at the ready. When the Space Shuttle identifies a need, NASA is there to assist from that broader, more expansive perspective.

When the Space Shuttle is in orbit, in outer space, NASA doesn’t say, “Okay, orbiter, you’re on your own. See you when you get back.” No! NASA is always there, always communicating, always ready with assistance and encouragement.

The Universal Law of Attraction, In Brief

The Universal Law of Attraction (for it is, indeed, a Universal law) is a very simple, straightforward formula:

1. Ask for what you desire. We do this in a variety of ways, all of which influence, affect and constitute our vibration, which is the language through which we speak to Source.
2. The answer is always yes! (This is Source’s part in the formula.)
3. Allow your object of creation to manifest in the physical.

There are many ways of asking ~ through contrasting experience (you experience what you don’t want, and instantly identify what you do want, on the subtle, energetic level), through prayer (and there are several types of prayers), through direct experience (“I like that, I want that!”). Regardless of the asking mechanism, the Higher Self, the part that remains in the non-Physical realm, immediately becomes that which we do want, and vibrationally goes about pulling together all the people, circumstances, conditions, etc. that are in vibrational alignment with that-which-we-do-want.

Then it is our choice to stay in alignment with our desire, or to experience resistance to our desire.

Ask and Ye Shall Receive

As we experience life here on this planet Earth, we come to realize that we live in a Universe based in contrast and polarity. Everything in this Universe has its opposite counterpart. Neither is good or bad ~ “good” and “bad,” “positive” and “negative” are labels of judgment that each of us assigns subjectively, as a result of our own individual filters. Each thing just is ~ it would not exist without the benefit of its opposite.

As we continue to accumulate Life experience, we learn to discern our preferences, and just through having a preference, we are asking.

Communion with Source ~ Asking with Deliberate Consciousness

Now we come to the heart of this discussion, the purpose for this paper. The previous discussion and analogies present the perspective that we are here in this physical body on this physical plane deliberately, consciously and purposefully. You are not here randomly or by accident. Since you are Source energy, you intended your Self here now.

You intended your Self here now. That is how powerful we are. And we can use that power deliberately, consciously and purposefully to craft a more pleasing, joyful life experience.

Are We There Yet?

I want to now discuss what I believe to be the most effective, streamlined way to do that.

This blog may be lengthy, because I am still getting clear on the mechanics, the relationships, the logistics ~ how it all works. “We teach what we need to learn,” so I’m learning right along with you!

But the actual creation process, utilizing the internal technology that we all hold within our physicality, takes only a few minutes. You can take longer if you want to, if you are enjoying how it feels as you go through the process. You will see how it really is all about feeling good.

Now that we know the formula, and have a clearer understanding of our relationship with Source, we can begin creating now deliberately with clarity and purpose.

Communion and Creation

We have identified something particular that we want to experience in our Life ~ our goal ~ whether it’s a relationship, condition, material possession, circumstance ~ whatever. Now, find a quiet place where you will be undisturbed for at least 5-10 minutes ~ longer, if you have it. Get into a comfortable position, whether you are sitting up or lying down. Close your eyes and get comfortable. Take several deep, long breaths and feel your body relax. You are now releasing resistance in your body, and getting your Self into a more peaceful state of Being..

Once you feel that Peaceful state, bring your desire into your mind. Do you see it as a picture in your head? If it’s a relationship, see that person physically with you. If it’s a career or business, see yourself in that setting. If it’s a material possession ~ a home, a car ~ see yourself in that setting.....

See yourself there now.

Now, here’s where it gets fun. With your eyes closed, what do you see? What do you smell, taste, touch, hear? What are the feelings associated with your desire?

Do you feel the wind in your hair? Smell that “new car” smell? What do you hear, see? Are you on a multi-lane highway, or a quiet country road? Driving down the Pacific Coast Highway, with the ocean view? Or driving up Route 1 in Maine, with its lovely, quaint coastal villages and harbors. Do you smell the sea? Hear the gulls? Feel the salty air on your skin? Are you on a country lane? Can you smell the earth? Are you passing horse or cattle or dairy farms? Can you smell those earthy, potent animal smells? Can you hear the birds ~ crows, chickadees, geese?

What’s the atmosphere like in your “office?” What sort of furniture do you see? Are there lots of windows? Is there a lot of light, or do you prefer a more subdued lighting concept? Can you smell coffee brewing? Is there lots of hustle and bustle in your office, or is it more peaceful and quiet? Do you keep a bowl of candy or mints on your desk? Is your chair upholstered in cloth or leather? Do you have a PC or a Mac? Is it on your desk or a near-by credenza? Do you have plants and photos, or do you prefer a more stark, uncluttered environment? Is there lots of wood, or do you prefer more metal?

Are you out to dinner with your Beloved? Is the restaurant setting romantic, candle-lit? Is there lovely music playing in the background? Can you smell the candles, the flowers ~ the food? What kind of restaurant is it ~ Italian, Greek, French, Thai? Are you holding hands across the table? Are you dressed up, or casually dressed? Is this the perfect end to a lovely day together, window-shopping and antiquing? Or is it a reunion after a long work day? Are you celebrating a special occasion, or simply reconnecting? What is your conversation like? Are you making plans for a future event? What do you see on the walls? What is the atmosphere like ~ light and airy, or subdued and intimate? Are you in a small town, a big city, near the water, in the mountains?

What does it feel like to be in your healthy body? Do you feel strong and efficient? What kinds of healthful foods are you eating? How does that apple, or peach or pear feel in your hand? Can you feel your feet planted firmly on the earth? Are your shoes on or off? Can you feel the grass under your feet? How powerful do you feel knowing all your systems in your body are working optimally, just as they were meant to? Are you going for a walk, or preparing for a 10K? Are you relaxing after a long day running after your children? Preparing a healthful meal with your family? Or maybe your favorite recipe and a glass of wine as you sit down to watch your favorite movie? How does it feel to have the energy to perform routine, mundane tasks yourself, contrivuting to your feeling of independence and competence?

What words would you use to describe the feel of your ideal home? Is it big and airy? Cute and cozy? Are there carpets, or hardwood floors? Are the lines clean and simple? Or do you prefer enhancements, like moulding and chair rails, wainscotting? Do you have built-in cabinets and shelving in your house? What are the bathrooms like? Marble sinks? Lots of glass? Big clawfoot tub and exposed brass or copper plumbing? Two sinks or one? Glass shower door, or shower curtain? Are your walls painted or papered? How many floors in your ideal home? Is there a porch? Are you in a house or a condo? What is the surrounding landscaping like? Are you in the city, a quiet suburb, or in the country?

You see the point. Engaging all your physical senses, through thoughts, plus feeling the essence of your creation ~ this is Communion. You are communing with your Higher Self, BEcoming one with your creation. This is a form of prayer, a highly effective form of prayer. The feeling is the prayer. The feeling is what determines the quality of the vibration, and the level of vibration. The vibration activates, if you will, the blueprint that you have selected for your creation.

Spend some time “there” now. Use your thoughts to access all your physical senses ~ create through Being, which is to say, through feeling.

Wrapping It Up

Now that you have spent this time creating, take a minute to take a few deep breaths and settle back into your body. How do you feel? Peaceful, or anxious? Happy, or uncertain? Little of both, maybe? That can happen, especially when we feel attached to the outcome.

What you’ve just done is you have tapped into the essence of the creation. You have just connected energetically with your creation. Now, the Universe, your Higher Self, is doing its part to connect your physical Life experience with everything that is in alignment with that creation. If you continue to feel resistance in the form of doubt, anxiety, worry, you are attached to the outcome, or more precisely, you are afraid that it won’t come to pass, or at least not in the way that you envisioned it.

Please understand that even before you sat down to participate in your role as a co-creator, the Higher Self that is connected to you already knows what’s going to make you feel good. Your participation as a co-creator ~ looking at details and characteristics and specifics ~ is to get you to the feeling, not to pick out the nuts-and-bolts, 2x4‘s and raw materials of your creation. It is to get you to the feeling, the feeling, the FEELING! The feeling is the activator code ~ the feeling is the hotline to 1-800-IAMSOURCE.

So you want to stay feeling good and peaceful. You want to release your attachment to the outcome. Feel that peaceful feeling again, and then access the feeling of gratitude. Gratitude is a feeling of the highest vibration. “Thank you for allowing me the gift of creation.”

Finish your visualization, your meditation, your creation with “This, or something better.” This is a great little phrase, crafted by Catherine Ponder, a 20th century inspirational author who has written many books on prosperity. “This, or something better,” tells the Universe you like what you have connected with and you are open to something even better ~ which, by the way, is probably what the Universe has in mind for you anyway.

The Bottom Line

In conclusion, let me end with something I read in Esther Hicks’ book “Money and the Law of Attraction.” I used to have the mindset that I had to control every detail of my creation, and my faith in myself and Source was lacking (no pun intended). When I read this simple explanation, I cant tell you enough how inspired I felt. It was, to quote Oprah, an “a-HA!” moment:

“Everything you think you want, is because you believe that you will feel better in the having of it. When you understand that you can feel better any time [through your thoughts and emotions]...that is true freedom.”

It’s not the thing I want ~ it’s the feeling that the thing represents for me! And I can feel that feeling any time ~ yes, I can, any time.

I released a whole lot of resistance with that one.

Now, just sit back, relax, stay peaceful, and watch what happens with your creation in the coming days, weeks and months. And keep your eyes and ears open for signs that it’s manifesting ~ you will be amazed, especially when you ask for confirmation!

Copyright © 2010 Higher Purpose Learning

"The Shift" by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

Recently I received in the mail a free copy of "The Shift: Taking Your Life From Ambition to Meaning" by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer. I had responded to a Facebook query regarding individuals who were willing to review new books published by authors under the auspices of Hay House. As a metaphysical teacher and Law of Attraction disciple, I am a long-time fan of Louise Hay, and as such I am always interested in the works published through Hay House.

I recommend this book highly to anyone who desires real change and transformation in their life. I especially recommend this book to anyone who is addicted to "doing." If your doing results in feelings other than peace, contentment and happiness, then you probably are experiencing some level of stress on the emotional, mental and physical level, and you probably are looking for a way to change that.

This book can help you with that.

I received this book at the perfect time in my own awakening and transformation. As of the end of February, I officially stepped into the "to" phase of transformation (the book is divided into four phases ~ "From," "Ambition," "To," and "Meaning" ~ and the feelings of clarity, peace, relief and optimism that I experienced while reading Dr. Dyer's words, are indescribable.

Each of us comes from a place whose essence is pure "Being." Yet, we live in a world that over-values "doing" and under-values "being." This contrast can cause a lifetime of pain, struggle, and illness. Dr. Dyer's book characterizes this contrast through personal and anecdotal examples of relatable life situations. I was able to see myself in his words, to measure the choicepoints that I have experienced in my own life, and to measure my progress (to use a very "doing" term) in my own deliberate and conscious inner transformation.

In my opinion and my experience, this book illustrates beautifully how to get back to our Authentic selves, and as a result, we can do, be and have a life experience of our dreams.

I highly recommend this book. You can find it at:

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Resistance: What Is It Really? Part I

One of the most challenging aspects of studying and implementing the Law of Attraction ~ for me as an individual and for my clients, Meetup participants, and SourceEnergyRadio.com listeners ~ is the aspect of resistance. As a new initiate into what turned out to be the most transformational Life Study path I had ever undertaken, I struggled with resistance from the very beginning (no pun intended). I asked myself, “If the Law of Attraction is about focusing on what I want to manifest in my life experience, why on earth would I resist what I want?” It was a concept that took some time to fully understand.

But I believe I’ve got it now.

An underlying tenet of the Law of Attraction avows that each of us is Source Energy (that creative force we call by different names according to our conditioning, such as God, Allah, The Great Spirit) focused in a physical body. That Source Energy part of me that is physically focused is still connected to its non-physically focused counterpart ~ and that nonphysical part of Source Energy that is me, is much, much larger and expansive than the “little” part that animates and enlivens my physical body.

Are you with me? If you are like me, you like analogies ~ it makes ideas easier to conceptualize and therefore integrate. So let’s use NASA to illustrate this relationship.

In this analogy, NASA represents the non-physically focused part of me ~ myriad pieces of equipment and resources and a broader, expanded perspective ~ and the space shuttle Endeavour represents the physically focused part of me ~ it contains all the technology needed to perform its mission, and has a more narrow perspective, to perform discrete tasks to complete this particular mission.

So, even when Endeavour has lifted off from Cape Canaveral and is circling the planet or navigating toward the Moon or Mir, NASA is still aware of and intimately involved in every aspect of the mission ~ Endeavour is still part of NASA. Endeavour is always connected to NASA, and NASA is always there to keep the mission on track, with its broader perspective and ultimate understanding of the mission’s goals.

Does that help?

So each of us is Source Energy, stretching its connection to that part of us that remains in the nonphysical, in order to perform its mission here in the physical world ~ to experience Itself in relationship to the Other. The best way to know one’s self is in relationship, and the same is true for Source.

From its broader, eternal perspective, all is always well. The main goal of Source is life and life experience.

Life is about experiencing life, its ups and downs, joys and disappointments, peaks and valleys. This experience is incredibly important and valuable because it is through experience that we become clear on our personal likes and dislikes. And that is why this environment that we call Earth, is so perfect for creating! It offers all manner of experiences ~ what we, in our limited, personality / ego perspective judge to be negative (undesirable) or positive (desirable) ~ so that we can discern our individual preferences.

If we were not able to discern difference, we could not express a preference, and it is through that expression of preference that we vibrationally summon Source. Vibration is the language of Source Energy. And if we couldn’t vibrationally summon Source, then life would cease. So you can see why the entire Universe is built on our ability to express preference and therefore summon new life.

Once we discern what we like, we express that preference through our thoughts, our feelings and our words ~ and the part of us that remains in the Non-Physical says (in effect) “Yes!” and becomes instantaneously aligned vibrationally with our preference ~ it becomes our preference. This all happens in the blink of an eye, in a split second. And in that split-second timing, that which is focused in the Physical and that which remains in the Non-Physical are one ~ vibrating in harmony, recognizing its True Nature as that Creative Force that can have, do and be anything it can conceive and desire!

Folks, this is what is referred to as the State of Allowing. In that split-second timing, we are Allowing our True Nature. We are Allowing the process to carry forth the way it was always intended.

And just as quickly, our personality / ego jumps in with all the reasons why our desire cannot be, will not be, should not be, could not possibly be. It offers up all the doubts, fears, obstacles, proof why we should just forget our dream, settle for what is more likely, face “reality” and compromise ~ and it summons forth all those people who will give voice to those sentiments. “You have to play the hand you’re dealt.” “We weren’t put here to be happy!” “Life is hard.” “Who do you think you are, Jesus Christ?” “Prepare for the worst but hope for the best.” “What makes you so special?”

This, my friends, is called the State of Resistance. When we are focused on those doubts, fears, obstacles, voices, it ~ our desire ~ seems utterly unattainable. Then we start adding to it. “I must be out of my mind, I can’t change / manifest this situation / condition / relationship. I have no idea how to do that! I just have to accept that this is the way it is. Maybe I can get out of this relationship / situation and start over. ‘They’ never understood me anyway. Nothing ever goes the way I want it. It’s too big / hard / complicated / important, and I’m just one person . . . .” The list goes on and on ~ and you can probably fill in your own inner dialogue as well.

You see, when you know Who You Truly Are ~ really, really know your true Divine Identity as an extension of the Most High ~ these doubts, fears, and obstacles evaporate. You begin to see your Self from a Higher Perspective, a Soul Perspective. The personality / ego perspective is limited by its nature. The Soul Perspective is much broader and always in alignment with Source Energy. The personality / ego perspective gives credence only to that which it can detect with the physical senses. It is shackled by conditioning, training and indoctrination ~ it seems the more worthwhile path to “go along and get along.”

This is Resistance ~ resisting Who You Truly Are ~ and it feels really uncomfortable. You get that feeling in the pit of your stomach, and you start to focus on how you feel and now your thoughts are involved. Your thoughts are now focused on why you feel bad, and you start casting around your environment with your thoughts to identify reasons why you feel bad, and then you start building from there, adding more reasons to feel bad, until pretty soon, you want to crawl into bed, pull the covers up over your head and shut out the world.

So resistance means resisting your true divine nature, and that negative feeling you have in your gut is the tension between what you are currently focusing on, and your true nature which is still in the Non-Physical which said “Yes!” in that instant that you expressed a desire.

That is resistance ~ so what do we do about it? There is hope! Stay tuned . . .

Tomorrow: Resistance: What Do I Do About It? Part II

The Bugaboo and The Still, Small Voice

This morning, on my way to my office, I was contemplating the topic of my next blog. I've been feeling the compulsion to write again ~ the desire seemed to have abandoned me in the last 3 months or so ~ and I had an idea that was percolating as I sat in the traffic, listening to the windshield wipers as they swept away the autumn rain. The topic was there, just beyond my reach, and that was my signal to step back and let Spirit bring me the topic.

I checked me email, as I usually do, and read an email from a young woman that I am getting to know. She is one of the sweetest spirits I've encountered on this path, and I can see the heart shining through her eyes, even as she is addressing this situation. She is dealing with a condition in her life that is no longer serving her, and desiring change in that area of her life. Do you have something that you are transforming in your life experience ~ whether it's health, finances, relationships, career? Does it give you a sense of powerlessness ~ "I have success in other areas of my life, why not this one?" I call it the Bugaboo. Do you have a Bugaboo?

Struggle, frustration and confusion are the hallmarks of a Bugaboo. Bugaboos say to us, "You can't change me, this is how it is, this is how it's always been. Just learn to accept me the way I am. There's no use even trying. I'm here to stay."

Some of us concede defeat to the Bugaboo. We don't know yet how powerful and strong and inspirational we are. We've been taught, "Life is hard," "We weren't put here to be happy," "You've got to play the hand you're dealt." We look around at the Others and what we see pretty much mirrors these platitudes.

But the Bugaboo has its opposite ~ as does everything in our YOUniverse. Everything has its opposite. Every subject is two subjects ~ the subject and the opposite of the subject. Lack and abundance. Light and darkness. Health and illness. Up and down. In and out. Past and future.

The opposite of the Bugaboo is the Still, Small Voice. All of us have the Still, Small Voice. Without exception.

The call of the still, small voice ~ the voice that is your Inner Guidance, the voice that is your Guardian Angel, if you will, saying, "Stay with me, come with me , follow me. I remember Who You Really Are. We'll go into this new experience together. I know all 'that out there' seems real to you, but I promise you it's not, it's all an illusion that we can change together, by staying focused in this direction. This way, come this way. Stay with me, stay with me . . . ."

Yes, the voice is small and quiet, and that can be misleading. You believe that if you are "doing it right," the voice will be loud and booming and you will be over-run with confidence. But that's a misconception. There is a reason it's called the still, small voice. It's still, and small, and quiet so you will stop and strain to hear it ~ you will purposely, deliberately and consciously stop and strain to listen. That's how you know it has your attention. Have you ever met someone who spoke in a low timbre, and you had to focus to hear them if you wanted to communicate with them? I have ~ my teacher, speaks that way. I have to turn my left ear toward him, and I have to focus and be present to hear what he's saying. That's the way with the still, small voice, too.

Doubts are normal, they are present, but they are not important. They are like loud, boisterous, obnoxious children, shouting and clamoring and causing a ruckus to keep your attention. You know the old saying, "The squeaky wheel gets the grease." It's easy to focus on them because they are loud and in your face. But that doesn't mean they are more important or meaningful or powerful. There is much more power in the Still, Small Voice. See how powerful it is, that you will stop and focus deliberately and be present? You hear the low murmuring, under all the din and the cacaphony, and it's always there, whispering and murmuring, until one day you finally say, "Do you hear that? What is that sound? Shhh, shhh, shhh, everybody, listen, what is that?"

We can change those conditions in life that no longer serve us. Focusing on how you want to feel is how you change direction and how you arrive at your desired destination. When you listen to the Still, Small Voice, you feel peaceful, calm ~ all is well. When you listen to the Bugaboo, you feel just the opposite. "Be still and know . . . ." In the stillness is the peace and the change you are desiring. "Our ships come in over a calm sea."

For many years, you were focused in one direction ~ hello, Bugaboo. So you had momentum going in that direction for what we would call "a long period of time." And now, you are changing your focus toward another direction. The Bugaboo protests, loudly and often. The Still, Small Voice whispers, and beckons gently. It's only a matter of choice, despite how "real" and intense it all feels and looks.

Let your feelings guide you, they will not steer you wrong. Your feelings will tell you whether you are focused on what you desire (relief, happiness, peace) or what you do not desire (chaos, pain, struggle, suffering).

Which will you choose? That will determine your experience.