Connected and Committed

tea leaves

your greatest value

Your greatest value to others is when you are joyful. Your greatest value to others is when you are connected. Your greatest value to others is to be radiantly healthy. Your greatest value to others is when you are happy. Your greatest value to others is to have and do all the things that are important to you. And as you are living that and vibrating that — then you are a catalyst that is inspiring others to an awareness of that.

Abraham-Hicks, 2/1/92

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Your greatest value to others, and to yourself, and to Source - cuz then everyone gets to play Kick the Can until it gets dark, and then we start a bonfire....

Thanks so much to Good Things Happen To Me for posting a plethora of Abrahamness for everyone to soak up and simmer in.

waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

I have no idea why I am such a whiney whiner at the moment, but I am. Could be the sub-zero temps inside at work, contrasting with the hotter-than-hades temps outside. Balance, moderation, please. The kicker indicator that not all is well - my shopping expedition to Whole Foods, there was no bulk oatmeal nor granny smith apples. None. How can that be? Where is my stuff? Waa-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a. My alignment must be way-y-y-y-y off.....

I wonder if it's because I didn't listen to any music all weekend. At all. Hmm....

Via magpie girl's site: here’s some ideas for dealing with the Small Bloggers Blues:

1. Take a break from your site meter.
2. Redefine success for yourself. List all things your blog does for you (fosters gratitude in your life, helps you hone your craft, organizes your thoughts…
3. Write yourself an affirmation. I like this one: “My story matters.”
4. Reach out to another small blogger. Take this feeling that you have about being discouraged or not “not mattering” and take it as a cue that you need to reach out to others who are feeling the same.
5. Join the SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL google group. (I’ll link to it when it is available.)
6. Follow a comment you like back to the commenter’s blog. You’ll probably find an inspirational read from someone who shares your values.
7. Tag your posts with your name (or nom de plume) and your blog name so like minded souls can find you.
8. Remind yourself that you are writing for an audience of one. Make yourself a sticker that says “I heart authenticity.”

I like this list. It contains wisdom gleaned from magazines targeted towards women for obsession about weight, and dealing with depression, with a cyber twist. Don't focus on the numbers. Get out of your head and into someone else's heart. Do it for you. Do it for you. Do it for you. Be yourself, and the audience will follow. Or not. It doesn't really matter, as long as you are having fun and the tool doesn't become the vehicle for your life. The idea is to get out there and live it, so you can benefit from reflecting on it. Commenting on someone else's blog will make THEIR day. Give the thing you want to get. There's more than enough to go around.

There. I still want my oatmeal and my granny smith apples, but I feel better about their absence.

the six Rs

Relax, recharge, reflect, refresh, renew, return.

-- Alan Cohen

it's great fun to watch

It seems like you really want different things, or are even choosing different paths. But when you both tend to your Emotional Journey, the Universe will cleverly give you both exactly what you want. When you tend to the Emotional Journey, this Universe has the resources and the cleverness to orchestrate for each of you what you exactly want even when you think they are opposites one from another. It's great fun to watch. --- Abraham

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I'm believing this more and more every day. And so I'll be seeing it more and more every day.

leaves

hubba, hubba

It's not the dazzling voice that makes a singer, Debra. Nor clever stories that make a writer. And it's not piles of money that make a tycoon.

It's having a dream and wanting to live it so greatly, that one would rather move with it, and "fail," than succeed in another realm.

You so have what it takes -
The Universe

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At which point, of course, Debra, failure becomes impossible, joy becomes the measure of success, and fitting into the jeans you wore back-in-the-day, inevitable. Hubba, hubba.

expectations

The majority have been programmed from their past experience to expect physical decline. And while it is something they don't want, they are programmed to expect it. And so, they're going to get what they expect. It's not that what they expect is the reality that everyone lives, but that everyone lives the reality of what they expect. --- Abraham

visualize the heck out of it

What you’re wanting to do is goose up your imagination. While your car and while your money is in a place you feel is safe, you are wanting to begin then to create scripts and scenarios where you have this magical car where everywhere it goes people’s heads turn because it is so beautiful and they seem to honor it in the way you do.

And that in very extraordinary circumstances it always remains beautiful. And, as you play the game in your imagination so that the game begins to feel so familiar to you that even you are not sure if it was something you imagined or something you remembered or something you are actually living, you will begin to notice that everything in the Universe responds to it.

When you put that kind of vibration around your portfolio or around your beautiful car then anything that is not in harmony with it cannot touch it.

Does that mean you can be responsible for the turns in the market? How do you think the turns in the market occur? Only most of them occur because mass consciousness is taking some form of action, but one who is connected to the stream and flowing energy is more powerful than a million who are not.

So in your clear-minded session of visualization, you can actually turn the market in favour of your portfolio. Do you see what we’re getting at?

And then watch the stockmarket shows. It is great fun to watch them scratch their heads. In other words, “What in the world is happening? It is nothing we understand!”.

Well, you do.

So you are hearing us? Take the action that produces the soothing. Once you are feeling better, visualize the heck out of it.

Abraham-Hicks, Los Angeles, CA, 8/1/98 “Why he buys high and sells low”

iron gate

stamin

corridor of joy

The certain pathway to all things that you want is through the corridor of joy.

Most of you say, “when I get that I will be joyful.” And we say, until you are joyful, you will not get that. You must start with the decision, with the determination, with the insistence, that, “I will not settle for less than feeling good."

--Abraham-Hicks

radiate your joy

Questioner wants her lover to materialize - Abe says you have to want to feel good more than you want him to materialize - if you wanted to feel good strongly enough you would refuse to look around and see that he hasn’t come yet - you would instead find things to think about that feel good.

Questioner - (paraphrasing) I DO want to feel good and it’s not important whether anyone else is around, but somehow it’s nice to have them around.

ABE - The reason you want others around is that it is WONDERFUL to radiate your joy and see another benefit from it. Most relationships are not used in that way. Most people use their relationships to buoy them up when they are down. Rather than saying I WANT you as my object of pure positive energy. I want to spend my life flooding joy all over you, instead most say ‘Well, in sickness and in health, no matter how bad we ARE together, ’til death do us part, we’ll hang in there together. We’ll BE there for each other in case something goes wrong.’

And that is NOT who you are at all. Who you are is an energy flowing being who looks endlessly for objects of attention.

--Abraham-Hicks

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This has been buzzing around in the backyard of my mind all day today.

Radiating one's joy, and seeing another benefitting from it. Wanting to spend your life flooding joy all over someone.

Looking for an object of attention to whom one can radiate joy.

And having the energetic profile in your vibe of a person who fits that description, the kind of person who could accept your joy, not be overwhelmed by it, who would know instinctively what to do with it, and getting into that profile so much that it doesn't matter if they are physically next to you or not, when of course they show up.

THAT. is. way. cool.

for and against

Many people are wanting to fan your flames of discomfort, because they believe that "you're either with us or against us; if you don't stand in the same disgust and horror that we are all standing, then you are not with us." It's hard for people to understand that you can not agree with them -- and not be against them. That you could be for something without being against something else. --- Abraham

paint

back in the saddle again

sit up straight

I've never been good about sitting up straight - my posture sucks, and I will pay for it one day. Even when meditating, it's difficult for me to give in and allow my energy pathways to line up, just because I'm being stubborn.

But not last night.

Last night I was sitting in a circle with people of a common purpose and common goals, led through an opening and closing meditation during which my spine slid right off the back of my chair and was ram-rod straight the whole time. Whoa. And in between the two meditations, I felt powerful. At ease, and powerful. I can't wait to see what happens next time.

it is not yours

You own what you own by virtue of your love and caring for it. If you do not love it, it is not yours.

-- Alan Cohen

get busy, moving in the direction

If you can see it in your mind, Debra, it's real. And if you can consistently hold onto that image, if only when you visualize each day, the hard part is done.

All that remains is merging the two worlds together, the present and the one you've imagined, which is my part. And you can best help me align circumstances, coincidences, and chance encounters by getting busy, going out into the world, and moving in the general direction of your dreams, even if only to do what your peers might do, who know not of life's magic.

But you know the truth, Debra. You know how life works. Do not waiver in your march. No matter how humble your steps, this is how I will reach you. And as you witness one dream come true after another - first the small ones, then the big ones, then the huge ones - you'll remember why you were first drawn to the jungles of time and space... if you haven't already figured it out.

Crazy kid,
The Universe

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And when you know, Debra, would you please clue us in so that we can finish the documentary?

all you have to do

The Universe is not discriminating about the rightness or the wrongness of your request. It is here to accommodate all requests. All you have to do is be a Vibrational Match to your request, and the Universe will yield it to you. --- Abraham

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This is where the feeling part comes in. So interesting that this doesn't get stressed in The Secret. Oh well. It's out there nonetheless. Resistance, resentment and regret - get rid of them, and you are golden.

I have some awesome pictures from a walk I took yesterday with a new friend - thanks, M! But I can't load them onto my blog because my cable modem is still blinking that sad blinking light. Maybe tonight. Maybe tonight.

tweaking

At the heart of every condition is a vibrational pattern—a rather minor tweaking of vibrational patterning (sort of like the hub of a wheel) can affect tremendously out there on the peripheral of this big wheel… A little bit of tweaking on the emotion can make big differences in the way the physical manifestation occurs.
--- Abraham

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I'm here to say that tweaking is a wonderful thing. Baby steps and tweaking - it's the one-two punch of a lifestyle that continues to blow me away.

access denied

So the universe is playing an interesting game with me, or I am playing an interesting game with myself, one of the two. My cable access went on the fritz on Tuesday sometime before I got home from work, and due to my blossoming social life, I'm not able to be home to greet a technician until Friday evening or Saturday morning. Which is fine, except for that addiction to instant cyber gratification thing. The pull is so strong I even took my laptop to the local library that first night, thinking they had wireless - they don't. I needed cat 5 cable to plug into the table that is wired into their network.

If it weren't for access at work, I would be going through withdrawal symptoms, and it wouldn't be pretty. Or would it. Maybe my eyes and my neck and shoulder muscles are trying to get my attention. Maybe this is a very good thing, and I'll be a better woman for it. Maybe I'll cancel my cable altogether.

Nah.

splendor

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Writing in *Poetry Flash,* critic Rusty
Morrison speculates that "the sublime can only be glimpsed by pressing through
fear's boundary, beyond one's previous conceptions of the beautiful."
That's a good theme for you to experiment with right now, Aries.
According to my reading of the astrological omens, you're very close to
making contact with splendor you'll remember all your life. (And I
don't use that fancy word "splendor" lightly.) You'll need a lot of playful
courage to make the boundary-crossing. But I know you can do it if you
keep heading in the direction of what's scarily meaningful.

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How did he know?!

all that jazz

blow your beautiful mind

Good, so now you know what I mean when I say that even as you would ideally imagine every conceivable detail of your heart's desire, don't attach yourself to those details, only to the bigger pictures of wealth and abundance, friends and laughter, health and harmony, thereby leaving me the wiggle-room I need to blow your beautiful mind.

Attached to you,
The Universe

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even when there isn't any of it

And no photographs taken with the aid of flash light, either, if only out of respect for the actual light - even when there isn't any of it.

--Henri Cartier-Bresson

photography is....

In a portrait, I’m looking for the silence in somebody.

--Henri Cartier-Bresson

on a roll here

Almost all of you, right from the beginning, relative to self, were taught that you are inappropriate beings, here to prove worthiness to something that moves around so much you can’t even really figure out what the rules are — because everybody has a different interpretation of what’s right and what’s wrong. So, we could put it very simply: The only thing that has been getting in your way, the only thing that has been holding you up, the only thing that has been troubling any of you, is one thing: you have not been appreciating you. You’ve been looking at you, seeing lack and vibrationally closing down the Energy that allows you to get what you want. That has been it.

Can a person who doesn’t appreciate self suddenly start appreciating self? We don’t think so. We see, every time you try, you fall back into these same old ruts. Every time you try to get outside of yourself to look at yourself, what you see is the same thing you’ve sort of trained yourself to see. That’s why you’ve said and you have heard others say, “I can’t see myself as others see me.”

Well, you do see yourself as some others see you. In other words, everybody sees you a little differently depending on where they’re vibrating. A connected one thinks you’re magnificent. A not connected one doesn’t think you’re so magnificent — but it doesn’t have anything to do with you. It has to do with where they’re vibrating as they are perceiving you.

So here is a process. Some say it is a trick that works. It’s not a trick. It’s a utilization of the Laws of the Universe. Remember that your goal is to find an object of attention that makes you feel good while you find it. Well, some objects are easier than others, aren’t they? Esther looks at her little cat, and she cannot feel other than appreciation for this pure positive Energy beast. You look at someone misbehaving, and it’s less easy to find appreciation. So what you are wanting to do is look for objects of attention to which you can flow an Energy of appreciation. Now, here’s the reason that this is sneaky. By choosing an object of attention that causes pure positive Energy to flow through you, guess what happens to the vessel through which the pure positive Energy is flowing? You thrive. When you try to look back at yourself most of you shut down, because you already have negative thoughts about self that are hard for you to overcome. So what we would encourage you to do, for about 30 days, is get your eye off of you and get yourself on a blitz of appreciation. Make a decision that you are going to do as much appreciating in any day as you have physical time and Energy to do.

Abraham-Hicks Workshop, 2/26/94

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Look at that date. 1994. And the message resonates like it was from this year, when Esther is in her prime, on a roll with a sense of humor and playfulness in her delivery of the message we all need to hear. LOVE THAT.

forgiveness redux

Questioner: I was reading something that Wayne Dyer wrote, that if you don’t get past forgiving and resentment, you can forget about getting to a higher spiritual level. How do you know when resentment is resolved, or how do you know that you’ve forgiven?

Abraham: We like to tease everyone, especially him, by saying you don’t have to offer forgiveness if you’ve never condemned to begin with. And the Source energy part of you has never condemned.

But let’s talk about this—you’re really going to like this … if the Source within you is one who loves, and that is the case, and you have yourself focused upon something where you’re feeling resentment or unfairness, injustice, and you’re all balled up over it, what that means is you’re looking at that situation in a way that the Source within you will not look. So the feeling of forgiveness is the feeling of relief you have when you start turning downstream and you start seeing it more like the Source within you sees it. So those are really accurate words because until you come into alignment with who you are, you cannot achieve that enlightenment. We want to remind all of you that enlightenment is not something like a college degree, that once you achieve it is yours forevermore; it either is or it isn’t in the moment, depending upon what you’re doing with your vibration.

So isn’t it logical that, since you are a lover when you’re loving, forgiveness isn’t an issue—it’s alignment. But if you are hating, now you’re upstream, and you’ve got to turn back toward love or forgiveness.

But we don’t like to use the word “forgiveness” because “forgiveness” sounds like taking something back. And you can’t ever take anything back. Instead, we would like to call it redirecting the vibration of your thought into alignment with who you really are.

And so your forgiveness—in essence, you weren’t so much forgiving someone for what they did as you were finding a way of looking at it that allowed you to align with the way your Source sees it. So interesting, because it feels like it’s about what somebody else did, but it’s not. It’s always about letting yourself be who you are or not.

You are a lover, and when you are not loving, you’re not who you are. And so, many would say that when you forgive, then you are who you really are. And we say it’s not forgiving that makes you who really are, it’s looking at it the way your Source energy looks at it that makes you the way you are. And you’re right—your Source energy will never condemn anyone.

– Abraham-Hicks, Buffalo, NY, 5/29/07

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Oh, how I love this. I sometimes stumble when I try to explain to people how forgiveness is a gift to yourself, a relief from maintaining that vigil of reproach and spikey weapons and ill will, the stuff that saps your energy and keeps you trapped inside a bubble of slime. Forgive and forget really means forgive and look over there for awhile instead. You don't really ever forget, you just decide to look at it differently, to save your sanity, such as it is, and in that is a sort of forgetting. At least not a constant deepening of the ruts on the ol' neuro pathways. It's posting a notice that this thing or this person no longer is going to occupy your thoughts rent free. It's just time to move on.

And that feels soooooooo good.

This watcher, this obesrver, this inner being, this higher self, who is always riding shotgun - once you look over, shake hands and re-introduce yourself (well, they always knew who you were, it's more for your latecomer benefit), and start looking at the roadmap together........you're on the ride of your life.

a liitle bird told me

I didn't even notice this little bird until I started messing around with effects in the photo editor. LOVE. THAT.

you're doing fine

And as long as your proclivity is downstream, you’re doing fine.

As long as you mostly want to feel good, you’re doing fine.

As long as you don’t take yourself and anyone else too seriously, you’re doing fine.

As long as you don’t stand in judgment about what anyone else is doing, you’re doing fine.

As long as you don’t try to hold one other person to your standards, you’re doing fine.

You’re doing fine.

--Abraham, San Diego, 3/10/07B

use them

Some of the things we have been taught are negative are actually our greatest strengths. The key for me was in shifting my perception of them and starting to really USE THEM in my life and work. We all have the power to reinvent our personal myths by transforming our perception of them.

-Keri Smith

exhaustion

"This is the portrait of one whose whole life energy has been depleted in his efforts to keep fueling the enormous and ridiculous machine of self-importance and productivity. He has been so busy "keeping it together' and making sure everything runs smoothly', that he has forgotten to really rest. No doubt he can't allow himself to be playful. To abandon his duty for a trip to the beach could mean the whole structure might come tumbling down.

The message of this card is not just about being a workaholic, though. It is about all the ways in which we set up safe but unnatural routines for ourselves and, by doing so, keep the chaotic and spontaneous away from our doors. Life isn't a business to be managed, it's a mystery to be lived. It's a time to tear up the time-card, break out of the factory, and take a little trip into the uncharted. Your work can flow more smoothly from a relaxed state of mind.

A man who lives through conscience becomes hard. A man who lives through consciousness remains soft. Why? - because a man who has some ideas about how to live, naturally becomes hard. He has continually to carry his character around himself. That character is like an armor; his protection, his security; his whole life is invested in that character. And he always reacts to situations through the character, not directly. If you askhim a question,his answer is ready-made. This is the sign of a hrad-person - he is dull, stupid, mechanical. he may be a good computer, but he is not a man. You do something and he reacts in a well-established way. His reaction is predicatable; he is a robot.

The real man acts spontaneously. If you ask him a question, your question gets a response, not a reaction. He opens his heart to your question, exposes himself to your question, responds to it."

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Osho Zen Tarot

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I haven't drawn an Osho card for awhile, and I think this is a fascinating one to show up on my doorstep. I have been having a ton of fun lately, so I can see why it might appear right now, but I also am receiving thoughts throughout my work day as to how perfectly my job fits my requirements for NOT overdoing it. I never take work home, I've never had to stay later than the usual hours, I don't let myself go there when something seems huge or ovewhelming at the outset, which it can since I'm still encountering new clients or new-to-me projects. I also think that the lesson of the interpretation is for me to remember, to burn into my psyche, that I want to draw to me someone who knows what to do with my feminine energy, someone who knows how to rest, how to be playful, and still know how to provide direction ala David Deida. I read today on someone's blog how his marriage failed miserably, how he wasn't able to apply what he teaches. Sort of like John Bradshaw being a terrible family man. Whatever. Based on observation, it would seem that great gifts for the world are often wrapped up in packages that we would rather not see. Not for me to reason why, just take the good stuff and leave the rest.

where's george?

I didn't see the red stamping on the bill at first--it was on both sides, and made the bill look fake. Ah, Where's George, that site where you can track where the bill has been. Not much message in a bottle with this one. It's traveled only 200 miles in over a year. From Ohio. Bummer. Makes me want to mail it somewhere to expand its story potential.

plank scale

juicy

sunflower

sense of completion

Finishing the tasks before you will give you a sense of completion. Knowing you are whole right where you stand will give you the truth of completion.

-- Alan Cohen

I did

I've lived where I am currently just under a year, and this morning discovered some of the loveliness that is the small preserved downtown of a well-cared for hamlet. Who knew there was a restaurant only a few miles away from me that serves organic food?! Who knew that there was a shop that sold vintage and new home/personal accessories that I could catch a buzz from via my camera? Who knew there was a farmer's market starting today - with a woman hosting a booth representing a vast array of natural products and food items from around the region, to whom I think I just might offer to write a newsletter for when I go back next weekend, getting her biz off the ground and all? Who knew there was all this resonating, synchronistic matter, just waiting for me to stumble upon and inhale it?

I did.

nudges 07/20/07

I am so happy and very grateful for:

1) Having a boss who is cool about working from home - thank you, thank you, thank you!

2) A beeee-ooo-tiful summer day with which to enjoy said working from home;

3) The cable guy who said he downgraded my service, but as of this writing, I am being charged for limited and receiving basic;

4) A son who is so lined up with who he is;

5) A man who lives in my apartment complex with a little two-year-old daughter. His patience seems infinite, his monitoring never wavers while she plays with other kids, and I salute his solitary duty;

6) A man who is taking his daughter on vacation after a long absence between them. I salute his intentions and his awesome parenting;

7) A man who was going to be taking his mother on a short vacation but instead found her on her kitchen floor, injured and needing intensive medical care. Love and light to both of them;

8) Creative juices when they flow--after they ebb in that fallow period;

9) Manifesting a great deal on my lease renewal on my apartment. They appreciate good tenants, and I appreciate good landlords;

10) An imminent financial transaction that will make eighteen years of socking away $60 a month the cumulative gift to myself that it is;

11) Technology that allows me to communicate and radiate out to people I've never met but feel connected to through an umbilical cord galaxies long;

12) Honoring my gut and saying, "No, thanks," when appropriate;

13) A free weekend.

soaker seats

If you've ever been to Sea World, you know that when
you go to see the performance of the killer whales (a
spectacular display of leaping majesty), the lower
down in the amphitheater you sit--the closer to the
so-called soaker seats--the more likely it is you'll
get wet. When you sit in the upper part of the
amphitheater, you have an entirely different
perspective of the proceedings. You aren't directly
involved, and you can see the whale beneath the
surface before it launches itself miraculously into
the air. You can see the moment when the body of this
enormous creature floats for a split second in the air
before the laws of gravity return it to its natural
habitat. And you can watch the disturbance in the
crowd below as soaked humans shriek, leap up, grimace,
and shake themselves off. It is possible from the
upper levels to observe the full dynamic of the
process--and not get the least bit wet. This is what
the watcher allows too. You observe and you understand
what's happening, but you don't get lost in the
emotional reaction.

When you engage the watcher, it's as though you are
split into two characters. The part of you that's
seated in the soaker section--we'll call him Hey!--is
getting totally drenched by the whale as it hits the
water. Hey! is experiencing the shock, the fear, the
frustration, and the discomfort of the soaking, but he
is also not doing what he would normally do: jumping
up out of his seat and yelling at the top of his
lungs. Meanwhile, the other part of you, whom we'll
call Be, is seated high up in the amphitheater,
looking down and watching the soaking as it happens.
Both parts are communicating with each other
throughout the proceedings. From time to time Be is
asking Hey!, "What are you experiencing right now?"
and Hey! is giving reports to Be of all the thoughts
and feelings that arise as he sits there in tension,
overriding his reflexive impulse to leap and shout. As
the water settles back down, Hey! discovers that he is
unscathed but for the wetness. With the assistance of
Be, he has put in place new conditioning that
contradicts the belief that to sit still and not react
as usual might be life-threatening. The old belief is
thus drained of its power.

So when you find yourself in life's soaker seats,
allow your watcher to head for higher ground and take
a look at things from that position for a while. It
will allow you to see the more complete picture. The
wetness--those emotional reactions--you are
experiencing is only the result of one of your inner
killer whales--your conditioned patterns--rising above
the surface and making a splash in the middle of your
life.

This is where it is absolutely crucial to remember
that the world isn't doing all of this stuff to you.
It's your show, taking place in your amphitheater. And
so when you shift your state--when you calm down, slow
down, and head for higher ground--so does your waking
dream because it always perfectly reflects your inner
state. This doesn't mean your life is completely uneventful.
There can still be lots of stuff happening, but you aren't
upset by it because you are able to look down on it rather
than getting soaked all the time.

Sarah Susanka - not so big life

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This is very interesting to me, this shapeshifting the watcher part of us. It's interesting because I have always known my watcher. I can't remember a time when my awareness didn't split off into two distinct regions. More time and energy than I would like was spent focusing on the soaker seat pespective from early on, but there was enough of a presence there from the upper seats that I have movies in my head of many, many childhood and adulthood moments, from outside my body, watching the memory from above. While it has occured to me that other people do not share this aspect of their psyches with me, it never really sunk in until reading this section of Susanka's work how many probably don't.

I call it a blessing, then, to have this perspective at my disposal, now more often, than not. I can attribute massive swathing of old neurpathways to its presence, and my life has become less populated with killer whales because of it. But f@!k the soaker seats--I wanna get in the friggin' pool.

ferris bueller

All-time best metaphor for life. Enjoy this Australian rendition of wisdom to be gleaned from Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

perspective

Every time you want something and achieve vibrational harmony with it and allow it to come to you, you not only gain the satisfaction of having accomplished your desire, you also gain a whole new perspective from which to desire. --- Abraham

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Dude. It's difficult to keep this in mind before your world gets rocked the way you're holding out for, but it's so true. We are not the same person we were even yesterday. At least, that's what I'm holding out for.

At least now we've found the others

Being seen, and being heard - very powerful phenomenon, that feeling like an accepted member of a tribe. When those basic needs of food, clothing, shelter and being seen are taken care of, so much more energy is available to allow creative expression, however that manifests in any individual life:
mothering well, laying tile, applying paint to canvas, trouble-shooting the glitch on the computer, whatever.

And for us HSP (highly sensitive persons) intuitive introverts, actually locating this tribe to which we long to belong can be a demoralizing, life-long torture.

The tribal components that we need in place in order to feel seen aren't off-the-rack for us. The culture in which we swim doesn't support those components, so we must ferret them out for ourselves, tentatively poking our delicate noses in mousetraps and landmines all over the place.

We want to reach out and connect, and often attempt to do that with the extroverted, cast-iron nervous-systemed, non-woo-woo types who come across our paths at the various kinds of gatherings living an adult life involves us with.

Let's just say that these experiences are often less than satisfying, less than gratifying.

Less than.

So when one somehow does stumble upon a fellow tribe member, much less an entire tribe, it's basically like living out the story of The Saggy Baggy Elephant.

The relief and the rejoicing attendant with discovering other beings who "get" you without hesitation, who know exactly what it's like thriving in a culture that does not honor you, who speak your language--it's beyond description, although all of us attempt it because it's so amazing when it happens.

But in order to be seen, one has to show up. In spite of all the tripped mousetraps and exploded landmines, one must perservere to sing their song in the world. One must relay the message one was tasked with by the universe, or we all lose.

It's a Catch-22 of outrageous proportions, sort of like the Course in Miracles adage that it is a required course; only the time you take it is voluntary.

I ran across this manifesto of our tribe recently and share it here in hopes that it supplies the same relief and rejoicing for you as it did for me.

At least now we've found the others.

see what happens

Debra, I have it on good account that you will soon be called a number of unsavory names....

Lucky, blessed, chosen, gifted, destined, privileged, guarded, favored, special, and perhaps, most outrageously, "not like the rest of us."

I say we really give them something to talk about.

The Universe
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See what happens when you follow your heart, Debra.

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No shit, Sherlock :-)

birdhouse

She did it

Again.

This woman captures fully, whatever it is she is writing about.

And although I truly do like this piece as much as I have enjoyed anything else written by her, there is a truth behind it that saddens me. I don't know if she is describing someone she knows, and knows intimately, and guessing very well as to what is on his mind, and if it is such a situation, I feel sad for him as well, not being able to sever that tie to the anguish that accompanies whatever perceived pull and its attendant highs. The lows that follow are killer, dude, and you know it.

You know it.

not a conscious one

Complaining about anything, holds you in the place of refusing to receive the things you've been asking for. Justifying about anything holds you in the place of refusing to let in the very things that you've been asking for. Blaming someone, holds you in the place of refusing to let in the things that you've been asking for. Feeling guilty, feeling angry, it doesn't matter what you call it, it is a refusal, not a conscious one. You're asking; you can't help but ask. The Universe is yielding; it must yield. It's a big question, folks: why aren't you letting it in? --- Abraham

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It is a refusal, albeit not a conscious one. Oh, does that hit home. It's holding up my hand and blocking, saying No to everything that is lined up on the parade route just waiting, chomping at the bit, really, to get this particular part of the show on the road. Who am I to hold up the parade?

shake it up

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