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Anchoring in the New

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I don’t have to tell you how the earth is churning. How too many deaths, anger, hatred, fire, drought, flooding and more are both illustrating our latent fears and causing new ones. It is exhausting.

We are in the midst of an experience that is beyond us. We are part of a much bigger, grander picture that is rolling the energy of the planet over on its head, ushering in the higher dimensions. These changes are beyond the individual. This is a planetary shift, affecting the whole of this creation — the Big Picture. Earth as Mother, as Nurturer, as the Child of human creation.

Our Guides, Masters and Teachers have been helping prepare us for years. They have offered us the tools to see us through, while warning us of great environmental changes, viruses, and the 6th mass exodus. And here it is and here we are. How do we navigate our own needs, motivations and desires while we are steeped in a reality that is chaotic? Sometimes all we can do is wait for our turn. Timing is everything.

Each of us has our own personal needs, wants and desires. Our Heart yearns. Our Ego wants. We want to know when these needs will be met. “What am I doing wrong? Why can’t I manifest what I want?”

These times challenge our egos to their depths. Let us remember (or begin to know) the Truth of who we are — multidimensional beings who have accepted the unparalleled assignment of ushering in a new age for an entire planet.

At the most difficult trying times, send your blessings to the Earth for her life and soul. Trust Universal Light to continue to raise the vibrations of each and every one of us — gently — and in so doing, cleanse us all of our fear, illness and belief in separation so that we may remember our fundamental connections. And bless, too, humanity and the human spirit. Let us all hold the faith that we will find our way out of this chaos and advance into societies of respectful collaboration.

As always, we go back to our spiritual tools to help us clear, clean, align and still our hearts and minds. With that, I am offering a 5-week workshop, Anchoring Into The New, that will offer insights and practices to help navigate the chaos. Each week will delve into a different concern that prevents us from relaxing into the present moment, applying Eastern spiritual techniques and mind-body practices. The workshop runs on 5 consecutive Tuesdays beginning October 6th.  Please click here to learn more.

What Are Your Thoughts?

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The chaos in the world is starting to get to me. It’s hard to stay away from the news — something I have done for the last 30 years — but suddenly I can’t stop looking to see what new atrocity has occurred. At the core, I believe that this is a time when underlying emotions are rising to the surface to be seen, understood and healed. But, whew! It’s challenging to be confronted by so much all at once.

Look, we’re all human, and it is the human condition to have fears and emotions about everything, and to judge situations as they happen. However, it is inappropriate to let fear be the overriding emotion upon which we base our decisions in the now or our assumptions of the future.

The best way to be a positive contribution to our own lives is to examine our thoughts — all of them, down to the smallest reactions and the smallest inconveniences. We must learn to flip the switch from negative to neutral when reacting to a situation that is out of our control. We can be vigilant about our thoughts and projections onto other people and events. It is also important to be checking in with our own prejudices, judgments and minor aggressions.

We can choose to bring light into our lives regardless of what is happening outside of ourselves, even while staying compassionate and caring. We have so many luxuries in this country that others don’t have access to. And even when we are going through challenging, difficult, hard times, we must remember that things eventually improve and, as a country, we are still luckier than most. We are also conscious enough now to know that we are the powerful creators of our lives, and if we have created something we don’t like, we are equally able to create something new and different at any time.

Here is a practice that may help you make a simple shift:

Notice what your first thoughts are when you wake up in the morning. Where does your mind go? Do you wake up thinking, “Ugh, another day.”? Do thoughts of your day’s obligations spring to mind? Or do you bring back emotional turmoil from the day before?

How many days a week do you open your eyes and think, “Yes! I am so excited to do today!”?

Try this experiment for a week: notice your first thoughts in the morning, and see if changing any negative or low-vibrational thoughts into something positive effects your day. Notice if it effects your attitude. Notice if it effects your relationships.

Here are some practices to try upon awakening:

• Smile;
• Recite an affirmation (I am fond of the Access Consciousness affirmation, “All of life comes to me with ease, joy and glory.”);
• Think of those you love;
• Relish the miracle of your breath or the movement of your body;
• Think of something you have to look forward to;
• As you think of your daily To Do list, reframe it as things you get to do, not things you have to do.

Let’s continue to create the positive energy we wish to see and have in the world. The Aborigine saying comes to my mind, “Dream the world into being.” The fact that we are alive here and now means that we have the power to make a huge difference, even starting from a small spot. The world needs us all to wake up.

Judgment

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Excerpt dated 7/12/14

God watches us with love, and the angels care about us and know how hard we’re working and understand when we feel limited and they have no judgment at all. Nothing.
They just want to wrap themselves around us and help us remember that this is only as hard as we make it – and one of the ways we make it hard is by thinking we’re not good enough, doing enough, pleasing enough, that we have to feel ashamed of ourselves, guilty or judged – or that we judge ourselves.

That is a darkness that descends over us, that is a recipe for illness, it is heavy energy and it’s stress. It’s an internal stress that we don’t even recognize we carry because we carry it so often and for so long. It is unfathomable how much lack of judgment there is. We don’t even – we can’t conceive of it being gone, but it’s not a fifth, or sixth, or seventh, or eighth or ninth dimension reality. Judgment just isn’t part of that reality, its part of this reality.

Our minds can kind of get it, but conceptually it’s hard to believe or to even feel it. Pets do it a little bit better. You can see with the animals outside. They never ask why or judge a situation and take it for face value and respond. There is no bird out there that feels less than any other bird… a squirrel that doesn’t think he can gather nuts as well as another squirrel. It doesn’t exist.

Randi Botnick