Connected and Committed

more Joan

But isn't it helpful to have the intention to stop?

It can be very useful, but like everything else, it is ultimately beyond your control. There is obviously tremendous power in the mind, and there's no reason not to use it, if you can! I saw the power of intention when I studied martial arts. We had to break boards by punching them. If you visualized your punch going through the board, it did. Amazing! And then, if you imagined hurting your hand, sure enough, the board didn't break and you hurt your hand. Intention can be helpful! But, here's the catch: despite my best efforts to visualize my hand going through the board, sometimes I visualized the opposite. It wasn't in my control! It seemed like it was when my intention matched what happened. But the truth is that intention, like everything else, comes out of nowhere. But that said, the only way to play the game is to play the game. In a sense, we have no choice except to pretend that we're making choices. And in that play of apparent choosing, intention is extremely useful.

Susuki Roshi often cautioned being idealistic and having "gaining ideas." And yet at the same time he also said, "In some sense we should be idealists; at least we should be interested in making bread which tastes good and looks good!" Of course! We naturally want to produce good bread, metaphorically speaking. Doing your best, working to improve, training hard, visualizing success, utilizing intention, and taking care of business are in no way antithetical to deep realization. There seems to be a natural aspiration in us that wants to heal, clarify, repair, correct, and improve. That aspiration is part of the functioning of life. There's nothing wrong with it. When we know that nothing matters, we also know that everything matters totally, but not in the way we first thought it did.

The secret is to realize that "I" don't really know how healing should look, or how long it should take, or even what constitutes health, sickness, success or failure in the larger scheme of things. True healing always begins with the ability to embrace what is.

So, if you are punching boards, by all means do visualize your hand going through the board, if you can. It you're trying to stop an addiction, by all means do visualize success. But if the addictive activity recurs, which it may, don't get caught up in stories about how "you" failed, what a terrible person you are, how hopeless "it" all is. That kind of thinking is all part of the addiction. Just recognize (if you can!) that whatever happens could not be otherwise. The battle is all in your head. Relax. Enjoy the show.

morning traffic

the package deal

The best way to get what you want is to help other people get what they want.

-- Source unknown

it's a banner day

It doesn't get any more beautiful, any more magical, any richer, or any easier, Deb, than things are right now.

Until, of course, you start expecting it to.

At which point, I hope you have a really good broker.

Expectation summons legions,
The Universe

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Expecting, Deb, almost always includes physically preparing for that which you now expect.

take a look

What you find tells you what you are looking for.

-- Alan Cohen

holy moley macaroni

When you manage to stay connected to your Energy stream, you always win. And you know what, somebody else doesn't have to lose for you to win. There is always enough.

-- Abraham

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Holy moley macaroni. I'd been thinking about the concept of claiming what is mine by birthright in terms of self-enhancing beliefs, and was given an opportunity by my casting director to apply that knowing just a little while ago.

The instant I decided that I would embrace and run with that opportunity, at least three circumstances in my life shifted, some of them dramatically, right there in front of my eyes.

Whoa.

This shit works, people.

And it is SO TRUE. There is always enough, there is more than enough, for everyone.

it was simply there

At the moment when I met my therapist--which happened "accidentally," I wasn't looking for a therapist--at that moment, I knew I was going to sober up. I had no doubts. It was totally clear to me. I've tried since then to reproduce or manufacture this kind of doubtless certainty, and it can't be manufactured. It emerged out of life itself. It was simply there. In fact, it almost seems like in that moment, my sobering up had already happened. Would I have stayed sober without my therapist? No way to know. But I can't really explain why I stopped. Or why the person sitting next to me in the bar never did.

Is wanting to know also an addiction?

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Hi, my name is Deb, and I'm a reason-aholic.

more Joan

An addictive habit is an old familiar pattern that we have learned. It happens automatically. Some feeling or thought arises, and suddenly we want a drink, a cigarette, a sexual encounter, or our favorite train of thought (maybe dreaming about what we will someday become, or thinking compulsively about all the ways we've been mistreated and victimized).

And this isn't just a vague take-it-or-leave-it kind of desire. It feels like an irresistible, compelling force. It seems like something we must have or do, like our very survival is at stake. And is some cases, as the addiction progresses, we will do amazing things to satisfy it. We will drive for miles in the middle of the might to buy cigarettes, and we will keep smoking even though we are dying of emphysema. We have to do it. Or so we think and feel.

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The same thing happens with so-called awakening. There are moments of clear seeing, and then the old view comes back and seems to overwhelm us again. Empty, spacious awareness appears to contract back down to the tight little reactive capsule of "me," the character in the story. How does that happen? How does it shift? Is there any choice involved?

This is a question to live with. Watch and see, moment to moment, how these shifts occur, between clarity and mind smog, between freedom and compulsion. Taking the smog personally, or viewing it as an obstacle, is just more smog. Simply be curious about the whole movement--the flip back and forth--see it, observe and investigate it. Don't settle for anyone else's answers. Look for yourself.

To whom do these apparent flips occur? Is there some individual who owns these experiences, who has them? Or is that merely an idea, a mental image, a sensation?

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I was struck with these passages while reading yesterday. They seem to have some keys to unlocking self-limiting beliefs, and instituting self-enhancing ones in their place. And this is a very good thing. Obviously they can come and go, and there is little that I have to do with it other than hanging on to a story about them. The story is much easier to drop from this vantage point.

so need to hear this today

There is a big mix out there, and there's lots of different things going on, and there is not one way that was intended to be the right way.

Just like there's not one color or one flower or one vegetable or one fingerprint. There is not one that is to be the right one over all others. The variety is what fosters the creativity. And so you say, "Okay, I accept that there's lots of variety, but I don't like to eat cucumbers."

So don't eat cucumbers.

But don't ask them to be eliminated, and don't condemn those who eat them.

Don't stand on corners waving signs trying to outlaw the things that you don't like.

Don't ruin your life by pushing against.

Instead, say, "I choose this instead. This does please me."

-- Abraham

buses

Have you ever gotten word that your child's school was closed, and the temperature was 41 degrees outside?

Well, that happened to me this morning.

I blinked at the auto responder email in my inbox--"this does not compute" sounding in my brain.

What in the world?

So I verified. Yes indeed, there were several school districts here in the hinterlands of the metro area who share the commonality of dirt roads where buses would not travel well because the ground is still frozen, and the now-frozen recently-melted snow on top of that frozen ground would make those buses slide like huge hippos on ice should they attempt such a thing. That's the theory.

It reminded me of a morning way-y-y-y-y-y back in 1987 in South Carolina where I was teaching at the time. The news was broadcast that there was no school that day because a dusting of snow had accumulated and the overpasses in the area would be treacherous for the buses. I was astounded, being a girl from northern Minnesota, where school in my day was rarely called because of weather. Delighted, but astounded.

Buses control the world at the moment, is the lesson I'm taking away from all of this.

And yes, that looks funny with only one "s". But I'm sticking with it, since the dictionary says it will approve of either.

self-enhancing beliefs

I'm rereading Awake in the Heartland by Joan Tollifson - found it a few years ago in the awesome metaphsyical bookstore in Portland on NW 23rd, and have had a hankerin' to dip into it again. I'm staring down the barrel of my self-limiting beliefs, who's days are numbered, and Joan's words are like ambrosia for the process. Everything is a story, and when approached from that perspective, coupled with the feelings nudge I get from my inner being who just ain't goin' there when I believe those crazy things that loop over and over again in my head, well, it's a done deal.

Rather than play symbiotic footsie with self-limiting beliefs, I am now host to the self-enhancing kind. About a year ago I went through this process withering the power of lack in particular, so I'm looking forward to seeing what happens this time around.

Some choice passages from Joan:

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It is painful, and yet, there is always something I love about withdrawal. It is the stopping. YOu finally stop running, and you sink in. You meet what you've been running from. You don't move. And it feels like a huge relief. Like some enormous noise has stopped. And you're just here.

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To the mind, "nothing" is a terrifying idea....and so, we pull back from bare presence. We keep very busy. We avoid this terrifying nothingness that lurks just under the surface of everything. We avoid silence. We avoid gaps in the conversation. We turn on the radio or the TV. We read books. We have "meaningful" careers. We raise families. We go on vacations. We chase gurus. We drink. We smoke. We consume. We talk. Anything to avoid this dreadful nothing.

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I learned a lot from people's questions and my responses. It was easy to see, in the others, the absurdity of the stories, the flimsiness of the imaginary webs that seem to bind us. Whereas when it was my own story, its apparent reality had a greater hold. So everyone was a mirror in which I could see the emptiness of all beliefs, and the absolutely undeniable radiance that is always here.

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I want to emphasize again that these [suggestions] are not intended as a recipe for enlightenment or as guidelines for a spiritually correct life. These suggestions are merely pointers to what is. You won't acheive anything by following them. There is nothing to achieve.

If you have been meditating for many years, I encourage you to recognize what never comes and goes, and to stop pursuing it in any specific or exclusive experience. If you enjoy meditating, by all means meditate. But if you are separating meditation from the rest of life, recognize that every moment is meditation. Give up the whole concept of "meditation." Give up attaching importance to any particular state of consciousness, however "enlightened" or "unenlightened" it seems.

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Your suffering is your own activity. It is something that you are doing moment to moment. It is a completely voluntary activity....You will continue to pursue every kind of means until you realize that all you are doing is pinching yourself. When you realize that, you just take your hand away. There is nothing complicated at all about it. But previous to that, it is an immensely complicated problem.

--Da Free John

ol' time religion

Every religion on the planet, and there are so many more than you are even aware of, has the potential of absolute thriving. But when you think that you must prove that you have the only one that is right—and you use your condemnation to push against the others—your condemnation separates you from your own Connection that, before your condemnation, you were finding in your own religion.

-- Abraham

ain't that a kick in the pants

Every thought, word and deed leads you to either richer wholeness or greater fragmentation.

-- Alan Cohen

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Oy.

That greater fragmentation thing, that just hits home for some reason.

A shattered windshield or window pane is such a great representation of how it feels to be so disconnected from yourself.

So watch those thoughts. I'm going to be with my next 30-day intention ride. Those thoughts lead to words and deeds. And we all know where they lead.

A life.

The greatest gift… the ultimate relationship

Do you know the relationship that you are all looking for? Do you know what it really is?

You want the relationship between you and you.

And when you meet a person who looks fondly at you, or who is appreciative of you, or someone you look fondly upon, or someone you appreciate, it just hooks you up to your Inner Being, which is what you want all along.

So the relationship you are all looking for is the relationship between you and you. And everything else is just helpful in that, really.

Don’t you find that interesting? That what you really want is a reason to vibrationally connect with who you really are.

And so, you ask so much of people because you say to them, "You need to be the one who causes me to feel good." And what we want to say to all of you is:

If any of you are without the relationship of your dreams right now, that’s a wonderful thing. Because now you have an opportunity to work on the relationship that really matters first and foremost. And then, in that connection, the relationship of your dreams will come.

But you are going to discover the relationship of your dreams is really your own Inner Being. It’s that infusion of clarity and confidence and wellness, that’s what you are reaching for.

And it is nice to have a human friend who holds you as their object of attention and adores you right into your connection. But we want you experience greater independence than that. We want you to say to your lovers, "I love you, but I don’t live for you. Because Source Energy flows through me. You are a catalyst to my well-being, but you are not essential to my well-being. Because I’ve got that figured out on my own. I have reached for thoughts that give me relief. And I have relieved myself all the way into my full connection of who I really am. And now we can just dance and play together."

Can you feel how you take them off the hook? In other words, do you know how many men would flock to you? (ALL OF THEM!) if they knew that you would allow them to be as they are and you would not hold them responsible for your happiness.

That’s what everyone wants. How much bondage is there in believing that your happiness depends on me, so I’ve got to figure out what you want, and stand on my head in all those different ways, and it’s not even possible!

The greatest gift you can give anyone is to be happy. And we will take that further. The greatest gift you can give to any partner, past, present or future is to be so connected with who you truly are that they are irrelevant to your connection. And when they are irrelevant to your connection, then you are going to have a really good time together.

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Amen, sistah!

I think it's interesting that they include "past, present and future partners" in this greatest gift thing. But it makes so much sense, seeing as we are all one, and our thoughts affect the rivers of energy out there, adding to what's flowing already. Adding to forgiveness and freedom seems like the ultimate fun thing to do, picturing in my mind what that stream of energy will do once it's out there, how it will affect the people involved, which I guess is everyone, but in particular allowing the past, and the future, and the present, to release from the bondage of disconnection--that's just freakin' cool.

a knee-slapper

As you choose the direction of your thought you choose the direction of your vibration. Now that’s what deliberate creating is.

Let's say everyday of my life I have been having experiences that made me shout what I preferred. And I am a worthy being that source adores, and source has heard my every utterance and all I have to do is find thoughts that leave me in a place of non-resistance, and all things I consider to be good flow into my experience.

If the struggle and hard work feels like the better approach, then go after it. If relaxing and allowing the well-being that is natural to you does not feel like you are deserving it enough, then struggle more and hold it off longer.

--Abraham

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You gotta love a non-physical entity with a sense of humor. One big reason I keep going back to their particular well. If it's not fun, it's not worth doing.

truer words were never spoken

Kindness is the highest form of intelligence.

-- Wayne Teasdale

deep exhale

The past three hours have been a cortisol-fueled parents' nightmare.

Little man started yelping in pain this morning, grabbing his left ear in agony. His pain threshold is quite high, so to hear him in this condition was a bit disconcerting.

Driving to the pediatrician's office after practically begging to be seen on a Saturday, then driving to the drugstore to get prescriptions filled, and then back home again was not fun. In even the slightest, remotest sense of the word. But his pain finally started going away, and he was a new kid in a matter of moments.

Now he's with dad for his regular weekend scheduling and where he can get his hands on his Playstation games. I'm confident he'll be fine come Monday morning.

Deep exhale....and off to do something nurturing for myself.

#6 - source

This is my attempt to render this image from a magazine from memory:

I didn't scan the photo until I was finished with the drawing.

This is the light that shone down on Arthur when he grabbed the sword from the rock.

Source energy.

still a maybe

To know, and not to do, is not to know.

-- Leo Buscaglia

#5

I don't know what these soul messages are saying. I'm just playing around with color and tonality and texture, as far as I'm concerned. It feels good to put oil pastel to paper and pull the colors that speak to me. That's it.

new do redux

This product, I can handle.

great and commanding moments

FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
Week beginning January 24
Copyright 2008 by Rob Brezsny

ARIES (March 21-April 19): "Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year," said essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson. That's my first suggestion for you this week, Aries. Now, while you're at the energetic peak of your astrological cycle, is a good time to cultivate a knack for identifying the specific gift that each day has to offer you. You will also resonate well with the cosmic rhythms if you make use of another
Emersonian gem: "Every great and commanding moment in the annals of the world is the triumph of some enthusiasm." Where does your purest enthusiasm lie? And how will you use it to fuel your ascent to a series of great and commanding moments?

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Oh, this is a most excellent question - where does your purest enthusiasm lie? It serves me well at this moment of focusing with laser-like precision on the slippery critters that are limiting self-beliefs. My enthusiasm definitely does not lie in perpetuating these beliefs any longer; rather, it lies in retiring them from their illustrious careers and putting them out to pasture.

And that great and commanding moments thing? Already this morning I've been marinating in several such sustained moments, glowing with the flow of doing exactly what it is that I should be doing--liasoning among groups of people who need some sort of connection that does't occur organically.

The magic is making a comeback.....

#4

My favorite one so far. I don't know what it means, and leave that to anyone who is called to give their inspired comments.

statistics, schmatistics

All those statistics that you are gathering about your own experiences and about others are only about how somebody has flowed Energy. It isn't about any hard fast reality.

-- Abraham

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Somebody focused a negative thought long and hard enough to make it happen in their reality. And then others focused long and hard enough to make it a part of their own.

I want to start my own statistic of how much fun I'm having, and how great life is, and what awesome people come out to play with me, and how quickly I allow my desires to manifest.

I'm considering options for my second round of a 30-day focused intention. One idea is to be hyper vigilant about what self-limiting beliefs are running me like the elephant in the middle of the room. I want to be so aware of these beliefs when they crop up, and so sick and tired of them cropping up, that I choose naturally to drop those stories and look elsewhere for my entertainment. I want to get so good at being able to decipher what event or outcome was predicated by which belief that I get bored with it all and take my power back from this slippery critters, go somewhere else to play.

I hope they're shakin' in their boots. Really, though, you guys can morph into something else in my psyche. I know that you served a purpose at some point in my life, and you're just trying to help. But the game has shifted now. New rules, new playing field.

New coach.

#3 - irritation

This would explain a few things......

30 day intentions

I'm having a great time with my 30-day intention, with the people who are doing it with me, with the realizations that are cropping up because of the focus, so much so that we are all looking foward to doing it again when this cycle is finished!

Today I put some thought into what my next intention might be, and it took awhile before something started cookin'. What is sitting in the hot seat at the moment is awareness of self-limiting beliefs. I'm not sure yet what I want to measure around that, perhaps being able to notice when they come up, perhaps writing them down and tracking what type comes up most often and under what circumstances, perhaps dialoguing with them is some form--written, graphical, verbal. All for the express purpose of divesting them of their power over me, possibly turning them into allies with new missions in tlife instead of standing vigilant against some perceived intruder. It's just us here, and we're in this together, guys. Can we be a team now?

I think so.

No mysteries

There are no mysteries, ever — once you understand these points:

*Well-being abounds.
*You are the natural recipient of Well-being.
*You get to ask — and Source Energy is answering — and all you need to do is be in the place of allowing.

Once you get those things lined up and you’ve had an opportunity to practice them, here and there, everything makes sense to you.

Everything makes sense in your life, and everything makes sense in the lives of those that you are watching. Because as you know their moods and attitudes, you understand exactly why things are turning out for them the way they are.

--Abraham

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So true, this wisdom. And thank the universe for setting it up so there are others around to help us see the truth in ourselves. Those logs in our own eyes get in the way, you know?

I'm chewing on the notion of regulating the flow of chemicals in my body, the ones that get released depending on whether or not I feel fight-or-flight, or something new coming down the pike that spikes my energy way over the normal level. Those chemicals flooding my system mess with my sleep and my well-being, and I've had enough of that. Give or take 10% above or below stasis seems like a reasonable state to maintain. Sugar highs and despairing lows aren't necessary to feel alive.

Well-being is.

Hugeness

Everything that is today could not be
if it were not for that
which was before.

-- Abraham

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This is chewable, for many moons, it's that deep.

icy sunrise

new do

decaf? pffffft

Approach everything you care about as if you really, really mean it.

And I really, really mean it, Debra.

The Universe
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Because it's far too easy for me to give you the whole enchilada, when you really, really mean it. And because life is far too precious, Debra, for half-ways, maybes, and decaf.

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Make it a Yes.

Maybes are really Nos in disguise.

And decaf, well, since I can't do high-test, I might let that one slide.

A little.

shedding old self

It feels like I'm shedding an old self these days. I'm not restless, just aware of something else coming into being, and the old self lying over there like dried up snake skin. Not useless, but beautiful in and of itself, for existing.

I have no idea what is on its way, and that is so cool. I've had my socks knocked off in the past by what I didn't know, and anticipating more of the universe's delecable ablitiy to give the perfect gift makes me almost giddy.

Bring it on, casting director.

that's what I do

True healers know that wellness is the order of the day, so they do not allow themselves, even for a moment, to see anything other than that. So, the power of the healer is in the power to influence the one who needs to be healed into a vibration that allows the healing that they are summoning. (that they could get, even without the healer, but they can get faster with a healer's influence)

-- Abraham

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Holding the space for someone who can't quite hold it for themselves yet--that's what I do.

Influencing into a vibration that allows the healing.

I like that.

All day long I feel sort of like Lucy in the Peanuts cartoon, interacting with people, assessing their vibration from my lemonade stand level of apparatus, holding the space for them to reach for a better feeling thought for some relief. I'd like to think that I'm a tad more aligned with my purpose than she is however.

And that's where the power is. Holding the space. Sometimes it feels like it wants to be held, for want of the ability in the other person. It just needs a little attention so it can get envigorated with energy and intention, and then it has a better chance of standing on its own someday, after the baby steps have been put in place and acknowledged.

The doctor is in. For a nickel.

The Evolution of a Dream

Dream is implanted into brain.

Dreamer becomes thrilled.

Dreamer becomes terrified.

If no action is taken, terrifying thoughts grow into flesh-eating monsters. Dream is considered unrealistic.

If action is taken, terrifying thoughts are revealed to be paper tigers. Confidence soars, miracles unfold, and dreamer begins to saunter.

Either way, Debra, nothing remains the same.

Yow,
The Universe

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Act, Debra! The difference it will make in your life is more than can be comprehended. But, of course, this is also true of inaction.

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A year from now, you're going to be 365 days older, and either you'll have dared to try something new, or you'll be 365 days older.

Which is it going to be, hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm?

Pinpoint aim

FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
Week beginning January 17
Copyright 2008 by Rob Brezsny

ARIES (March 21-April 19): I urge you to spend 2008 turning all of your pretty good but half-developed notions into a few brilliant, fully formed ideas. While you're at it, melt down your hundreds of wishy-washy wishes and recast them into three driving desires. This is the Year of Pinpoint Aim, Aries, also known as the Year of Lasering Your Focus and the Year of Seeing with Fierce Clarity. Psyche yourself up for a major campaign to cut the crap so the essence can shine.

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Dude, are you reading my mind?

This is a little scarey.

But in a good way.

I'm catapulting myself into the next step. Majorly cutting the crap, as you put it so well. Hopefully after tomorrow evening, I will be accepted into a course of study that will transform my life, taking my experience to heights that are only glimmers in my mere mortal imagination.

And that is way cool.

No thanks #2

Redbook sent me a complimentary issue in the mail, and as I was tossing it into the recycling, something on the cover caught my eye, and I decided to thumb through this women's magazine, something I only do when I'm desperate for input, like in a doctor's office. There I usually indulge in my weakness for People, but I digress.

Aside from Christine Applegate's reference to Michael Beckwith, there wasn't one thing in this publication that didn't shout, "You're not OK the way you are!" This isn't news, but it's good to dip into the cultural well every now and again to reinvigorate the natural defenses against the marketing monster. I don't need to buy anything, I don't need to participate in the Valentine's Day frenzy, I don't need to color my hair or make room for yet another tube of mascara, I don't need to see pictures of things I don't have that will make me think that I need them.

No thanks, I'm fine the way I am.

take your pick

Hostile people live in a hostile world. Peaceful people live in a peaceful world. What kind of world do you live in?

-- Dr. Peggy Bassett

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It's called living up to expectations.

Where is your address today?

2008 Tip for the Advanced Metaphysician

To begin living like you've never lived before, Debra, begin living like you've never lived before.

There.

The Universe

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Today, Debra, is good for me.

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Lol!!! I LOVE this.

To change, you gotta change.

To stop doing something, you gotta stop doing something.

Cross the line in your head, and just start somewhere. It will feel weird and icky and so unfamiliar.

But does familiar feel all that much better?

Didn't think so.

Giving not a fig

Today she decided to be suitably ambiguous, so you can think whatever you like about her (Amount of time scheduled for the opinions of others = Zero)

Story People

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Hmmmmmm.

People will think what they think, regardless of what you do or say.

So how about being suitably definitive in your stance as to who you are and what you prefer?

Forget about trying to squeeze yourself into an ambiguous suit. Aren't you tired of the decades of whittling down from your original square-peg goodness so you could fit into that round hole?

Enough costumes.

Shine, baby.

really, really fun

Every single person on the planet and every single Consciousness in the Universe has the same experience of being here and having a desire to be there. In other words, it is the promise of this eternal Universe… You’re always, always, always going to be on your way to something more—always. And when you relax and accept that, and stop beating up on yourself for not being someplace that you’re not, and instead, start embracing where you are while you keep your eye on where you’re going—now life becomes really, really, really fun.

-- Abraham

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I could feel that shift--yup, a definite shift, right there.

I get it now. I'm good. Really.

So up til now it's been about as much fun as I can stand.

And it gets better?!?!?!?!

a little bit more

Matter is the evolution of energy. First there is thought, then there is thought form, and then there is matter. Matter is only thought that has been thought upon by more.

-- Abraham

just pick a place, and start there

We really want you to not ever again beat up on yourself about where you are. It does not matter where you are. Everybody is in a different place and where you are is where you are. And the Universe knows where you are and knows where you want to be. There is no judgement about where you are. There’s no reason for embarrassment about where you are.

--Abraham

get out the 40-gallon containers

The world is awash in money! Do you hear what that means? It is awash in money. It is flowing for everyone. It is like Niagara Falls. And most of you are showing up with your teaspoons.

---Abraham

make it so

Now it’s time for you to start accepting that it is done.

In other words, “The financial institution has granted my request for a home loan. The school I have chosen for my child is fantastic. My body feels great. The money is flowing. My mate truly adores me. I have creations within me that are expanding. There is beauty before me. Every day of my life will be delicious. My future is bright. There is no such thing as decline. I am a vessel continually infused with powerful Energy. Well-being truly abounds. The earth spins in its orbit. The tomatoes continue to grow. My cells know what to do. My breathing mechanism is perfect. My metabolism is perfect. My elimination system is perfect. My blood knows what to do…”

--Abraham

hot pink and lime green

If you were to stay on a pitch of excitement it would wear you out, and so many of you vacillate back and forth from positive to negative because you don’t want to be worn out. But we say you can vacillate in your range of positive energy from ecstasy to peacefulness, from exhilaration to joy, from out of your mind outrageous orgasmic enthusiasm for life, to subtle appreciation of life. But you never have to fall onto the negative side of the equation in order to find that balance, you see. You can find perfect balance all within the positive range of things.

--Abraham

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Oh, I feel another soul message coming on.

if it could

No one experiences freedom until they stop pushing against others. The only thing that binds you is the pushing against that which is unwanted. And so, if a religion could just be excited about what it is, or a person within a religion could just speak with appreciation about what it is, without justifying what it is by pushing against everything else, then each religion, in all of its difference, could be just exactly what you're reaching for.

-- Abraham

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Lordy momma, what a world this could be.

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I am so happy and very grateful for:

1) Joining the 30-day intention group and meeting all the awesome people in it who inspire me every day with their intentions and how they live their lives;

2) Rediscovering pastels and allowing soul messages to flow through them;

3) Quiet time, to rest, recharge and come up with more wacked out stuff;

4) Homemade chicken soup in the crockpot - yum;

5) Being honored with the telling of other people's stories;

6) Alex, my new imaginary friend, who is hanging out with me for awhile;

7) A foot of snow, for its arrival and swift departure;

8) The lighter-than-air feeling of decluttering;

9) Every new morning and the opportunity to start all over again.

Containment

There is nothing missing. The emptiness is already full.

-- Alan Cohen

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The question is, are we getting quiet, still, non-doing enough to know it?

This is the greatest pull-the-tablecloth-off-the-table-without-anything-moving-on-top trick in the known universe. There you are, minding your own business, and shazam!--there you really are.

truth

This morning I was called to do another soul message. Before I sat down to pick up the pastels, I was feeling a tad on the agitated side. I was grappling with some shoulds and then allowing them to filter through me. Some inner knowing appeared and reminded me of where the shoulds were coming from, and that helped to let them go.

And then I started applying pastel to paper. The first version had the word Truth in the middle. That version didn’t feel complete, so I started over. This time I left out the word as a focal point, and just drew.

It makes me think of sap oozing from wood, like truths that keep bubbling up from our core. There is no end to the truths we may uncover, and there is no end to our wisdom around these truths. There is an ever so pleasant dovetailing, an intersecting between the two, when we are rested, when we are at our best, when we are who we really are, not the construct our culture would have us be. It’s a coming home.

Projection: The Enemy of Peace and Justice

Environmental destruction, racism, violence, injustice, war derive from a single source -- the human psyche. An activist who is not interested in psychological underpinnings is analogous to a botanist who is not
interested in biology.

--Jonathon Zap

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Hold up, dude.

This is huge.

Thank you, Rob Breszny, for including this in your latest free will astrology email.

This is huge.