When we are not embodied we live in a realm where we are pure soul energy.  In this environment we are never alone.  From the time we are formed from source energy into our unique soul form we are joined with a small group of fellow souls.  In this group we find those souls that we are most closely affiliated with – our soul cluster or soul family, if you will.  As we grow and learn we may leave this initial cluster group to join another group for developing our particular talents and do specialized “work”.  We primarily interact within these closely associated groups of souls.  These are the souls whom we would call our closest and dearest friends.  The souls with whom we have incarnated with most frequently are almost always from these familiar friends – so we know them well on both sides of the spiritual equation.

When it is time for us to select our next embodiment and the story that goes with it we will seek from this family group those to be “players” in the upcoming life journey.  Over many lifetimes we have come to play all the various roles in each others incarnations.  There are some occasions that the life lessons that are going to be learned may call for someone with specific skills from outside the group to assume a specific role.  Even in these instances many of the other players in the life will be from the core of soul friends.

In our initial soul family – as in any family unit – the members learn and grow at different rates.  Some gaining wisdom, skills and knowledge in some areas faster than others.  At a certain point in our learning evolution as a soul we may begin to spend less of our experience with our initial group.  We will move into working in closer alignment with those that are progressing at the same rate that we are – our learning path being more consistent.

The final group that we come to associate with as a soul is our advanced specialist group.  This group is smaller in number than our original soul family and may contain souls that we are not initially familiar with, but have common interest.  In this advanced specialized work the group will have a common core purpose and interest.  This common purpose generally is tied to forms of energetic work in manifestation and/or healing.

So as you move through this current life it would be good to look around and see who has come with you that you know on a deep soul level.  They may – or may not – be your significant life partner, but may be playing a different role in this life.  Likely those around you in this life you know as a soul and love deeply when you both are not incarnate.  Important information to remember when some of the life lessons they are helping you learn are not comfortable.

When you come across a soul friend that helps you remember who you really are at your core and reflects your light back to you in a way that awakens your awareness it is truly a gift.  That the light can bounce back and forth between you, broadening awareness, supporting growth, validating inner knowing and loving you deeply – not for who you are now – but for who you are forever – these are your true soul “mates”.  May you find such rich support in your life – may you find your true soul supporters. I am eternally grateful for the soul “mates” in my life who know me beyond the confines of incarnation.

In peace…………..Margie

As humans we have the tendency to identify all things by naming or labeling them.  We label the things in our world so that we can readily identify them and communicate about them in dialogue.  This makes moving through life easier, simpler – adds understanding and order to our world.

While labeling objects is a neutral act, we also have the habit of labeling emotions and in this process we tend to step away from neutrality.  When we encounter circumstances that cause an emotional reaction we tend to start differentiating by labeling the type of experience by how it makes us feel.  In this process experiences that evoke joy, bring smiles, elate us, make our heart happy, etc. we tend to label as “good” and conversely experiences that evoke pain, hurt, discomfort, shame, guilt, anger, fear, etc. we tend to label as “bad”.  In labeling our experience we start a valuing process that may give greater weight to joyful experiences and less value to difficult ones.

The human ego is by nature a pain avoidance system and as we encounter what we feel are painful circumstances in life we tend to label them and store them, hoping to not feel the discomfort again.  Unfortunately, stored emotions never resolve themselves and in the end must be exhumed, experienced, examined, learned from and ultimately healed.  The pain of emotional baggage can be stored out of our active consciousness, but still affects our lives and choices in many ways until brought to the surface and healed.  “Emotions buried alive, never die.”

With maturity and through actively seeking to take responsibility for our lives and our inner state of wellness a new approach may be found.  Once old issues are processed and the stored emotions released and any wounds healed, then a space is open for a new way to deal with the experiences that come into our lives.  In this new approach it is important to find more neutral language for what is occurring and to ask important questions as we move through the issue.

Rather than label experiences either “good or bad”, call them what they really are – learning experiences. In removing the polarity out of our language about what is occurring we can remain in a more neutral space.  Out of this neutrality comes the opportunity to ask what is being learned?, how can I resolve without storing for later?, what do I need to change?, what healing is needed?, how can I regain balance?, etc.  All the many questions that may need to be asked and answered to process experiences in the moment and not store for later healing.  Get to the heart of the lesson and move on.

We come into incarnation as a soul to learn some important soul lessons in each and every life chosen.  It is through the specific experiences that are encountered and how we process through them that the lessons are learned.  The soul will choose lives with a rich variety of life experiences for learning opportunities.  From a soul perspective all experiences contribute to the learning process and are all of great value.  So as we come to Earth we are actually coming to school – not for the education of the ego, but rather for the growth and development of the soul.  It is from this perspective that we can find great value in all experience and do so in neutrality.

In peace…………Margie

As I have traveled through my own life and worked with many clients it has become apparent that loving oneself is so very important and often so very elusive.  A lack of self love and self worth afflicts many of us and hinders our progress.  Often this damage to our self esteem and self image occurs in our developmental years as children.  When we are young we accept others opinions and assessments of ourselves as fact.  This may create wounds that are often hidden and never heal until  life presents us with opportunities to dig deep and seek healing at a very fundamental level.  This is a process that takes courage, time and focused attention to heal old wounds that allow a new, more accurate understanding of who we are and to know our true worth.

Years ago I was very actively engaged in my own healing journey and part of this process involved a deep meditation practice.  From this deep introspection and the wisdom that comes from quietude, I had a growing awareness that I had never really felt the emotion of love for myself.  It seemed strange to allow this thought to surface into my awareness.  Surely I had felt love for my children, spouse, friends, pets, etc., but I could not remember a time when I had felt the same emotion for myself.  Once this awareness was visible it needed to be addressed and resolved.  I had an old tube of lipstick and on the mirrored closet doors in my bedroom wrote the words “I love myself” in very large letters.  I knew that I would see this affirmation every day and asked that anything needing healing and resolution would come to the surface so I could properly address the emotions, perceptions, etc. that blocked my sense of self love.

Those words remained on my closet doors for a year, during which I had the courage to look into my past and examine the long held opinions and judgments (some I didn’t even know were there) that blocked my feeling love for myself.  It was a process that involved forgiving myself and others.  When we have the courage to turn the hologram of our lives around and around to see experiences from every possible perspective, new wisdom about our lives becomes available.  We come to realize that some of what we thought we knew wasn’t really true and that if we seek the highest possible perspective we come to know soul wisdom about our life journey and who we really are – and that changes everything.

Over time I have come to love and appreciate myself as a valuable part of the wholeness of creation.  The life lessons along the way have enriched me and made me stronger, wiser, more peaceful, caring and open to myself and others.  It is in healing our heart to allow compassion for ourselves that allows us to love others more fully.  It is only when we truly love and accept ourselves that we are able to truly love.

It is important to note that the ego can get in our way with its constant chatter and busy-ness – it usually wants to remind us of our failures and of others opinions of us.  But as long as you allow others opinions to be your way of measuring yourself you will always be undervalued.  It also wants us to be so busy that we have no awareness of what lays hidden beneath the surface.  So it is necessary to turn off the ego chatter, stop the busy-ness and dig deeper to find our self worth.  Please also know that false ego pride is not self love – and in fact it is only a cover to hide self loathing.

To genuinely love, value and respect ourselves is the foundation of all positive relationships.  It all starts with loving yourself…which enlarges your capacity to have love and compassion for others.  It opens your heart and lets your light shine brightly.  It is healing work worth doing for yourself and across the web of life all creation benefits.  By accepting and loving yourself fully, being what you are, who you are, your simple presence can make a difference for others.

In peace………Margie

Years ago when I was much younger I was fortunate to have a child born to me that loved to sing.  Her sister would be in school and she and I would have the day together and no matter what we would be doing she always would sing.  I remember her standing on the long bench seat of our car (pre-seat belt era), standing beside me, hanging onto my shoulder as we drove and she would sing.  She learned songs from her family, church, radio, records, etc.  Much time has passed and many experience have come and gone, some joyful – some not, and she is still a singer.

As I was pondering what to write about this week she came to mind with the memories of her finding her voice through singing and sharing it with those in her world.  It seems that it has been in part her way of finding her unique expression, connecting with others and even at times a way of finding healing and balance.  This clearly is not her only gift, but one that seemed to be so visible as to be an example of unique gifts.

I believe that we all come into the world with unique gifts to offer and it is an inherent part of our journey to recognize, develop and use these gifts to the betterment of our lives and those around us.  Our personal gifts may not be outward talents like artistic expressions, but may be in our ability to bring people together, to bring order out of chaos, to love and embrace people, build bridges, to have great dedication and commitment, to be the peace-maker, to have clear logic or a myriad of other gifts, traits and talents.  It is in the development and use of our gifts that we grow and become more than we were when these gifts lay dormant.  In recognizing our particular gifts we can come to love and honor ourselves for our uniqueness.  Perhaps even give up the notion that we must be like anyone else and give ourselves permission to be perfect just as we are.

My life, and perhaps yours too, has seemed to unfold in segments – childhood, then young married adult with children, to years of employment, then becoming an empty-nester, and now a self-employed healer / practitioner, wife, mother and grandmother.  While I believe we come with all the gifts, talents and inherent traits that we need to accomplish our life journey, they may not all be needed, used and developed all at once.  It is through the entire journey that the fulness of gifts become apparent.  Like a flower slowly evolving from bud to full bloom that our gifts open, develop and become fuller expressions of all that we came to know and develop in ourselves.  It is a process, it usually takes patience and time.

In choosing a specific life with it’s unique set of experiences we learn to call on the inherent gifts that we possess and come to use them to solve life problems or express our passion.  The most difficult experiences may force us to find strengths that we would have never known that we possess.  Through this process we grow and become – deepened, richer and fuller with each significant experience that life presents to us.  Without life experience in all its range of possibilities we would not grow and evolve into our fullest potential.  In having our particular set of unique characteristics we grow and become as only we have the potential to do.

Like my lovely daughter, we each possess inherently unique gifts, talents and strengths.  We each are an expression of Source energy experiencing itself through each of us.  It is not our job to judge or compare – it is our soul work to embrace, use, develop and be grateful for these gifts and use them for our good and for good of all humanity.

“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action.  And because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.  And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.  The world will not have it.  It is not your business to determine how good it is or how valuable, or how it compares with other expressions.  It is your business to keep the channel open.”  Martha Graham in a letter to Agnes DeMille.

In peace……………Margie

A friend of mine sent this to me two years ago and it resonated with me so strongly that I am including it as my post this week.  I seems to be in keeping with my last two posts on the topic of responsibility…….and hope.  I do hope you will enjoy -

Paul Hawken’s Commencement Address to the Class of 2009 University of Portland, May 3rd, 2009

When I was invited to give this speech, I was asked if I could give a simple short talk that was “direct, naked, taut, honest, passionate, lean, shivering, startling, and graceful.” Boy, no pressure there.

But let’s begin with the startling part. Hey, Class of 2009: you are going to have to figure out what it means to be a human being on earth at a time when every living system is declining, and the rate of decline is accelerating. Kind of a mind-boggling situation – but not one peer-reviewed paper published in the last thirty years can refute that statement.

Basically, the earth needs a new operating system, you are the programmers, and we need it within a few decades.

This planet came with a set of operating instructions, but we seem to have misplaced them. Important rules like don’t poison the water, soil, or air, and don’t let the earth get overcrowded, and don’t touch the thermostat have been broken. Buckminster Fuller said that spaceship earth was so ingeniously designed that no one has a clue that we are on one, flying through the universe at a million miles per hour, with no need for seatbelts, lots of room in coach, and really good food – but all that is changing.

There is invisible writing on the back of the diploma you will receive, and in case you didn’t bring lemon juice to decode it, I can tell you what it says: YOU ARE BRILLIANT, AND THE EARTH IS HIRING. The earth couldn’t afford to send any recruiters or limos to your school.

It sent you rain, sunsets, ripe cherries, night blooming jasmine, and that unbelievably cute person you are dating. Take the hint. And here’s the deal: Forget that this task of planet-saving is not possible in the time required. Don’t be put off by people who know what is not possible. Do what needs to be done, and check to see if it was impossible only after you are done.

When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is always the same: If you look at the science about what is happening on earth and aren’t pessimistic, you don’t understand data.

But if you meet the people who are working to restore this earth and the lives of the poor, and you aren’t optimistic, you haven’t got a pulse. What I see everywhere in the world are ordinary people willing to confront despair, power, and incalculable odds in order to restore some semblance of grace, justice, and beauty to this world. The poet Adrienne Rich wrote, “So much has been destroyed I have cast my lot with those who, age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world.” There could be no better description.

Humanity is coalescing. It is reconstituting the world, and the action is taking place in schoolrooms, farms, jungles, villages, campuses, companies, refugee camps, deserts, fisheries, and slums.

You join a multitude of caring people. No one knows how many groups and organizations are working on the most salient issues of our day:

Climate change              Poverty

Deforestation                Peace

Water                          Hunger

Conservation                Human rights…..and more

This is the largest movement the world has ever seen.

Rather than control, it seeks connection. Rather than dominance, it strives to disperse concentrations of power. Like Mercy Corps, it works behind the scenes and gets the job done. Large as it is, no one knows the true size of this movement. It provides hope, support, and meaning to billions of people in the world. Its clout resides in idea, not in force. It is made up of teachers, children, peasants, businesspeople, rappers, organic farmers, nuns, artists, government workers, fisherfolk, engineers, students, incorrigible writers, weeping Muslims, concerned mothers, poets, doctors without borders, grieving Christians, street musicians, the President of the United States of America, and as the writer David James Duncan would say, the Creator, the One who loves us all in such a huge way.

There is a rabbinical teaching that says if the world is ending and a Messiah arrives, first plant a tree, and then see if the story is true.  Inspiration is not garnered from the litanies of what may befall us; it resides in humanity’s willingness to restore, redress, reform, rebuild, recover, re-imagine, and reconsider.

“One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice,” is Mary Oliver’s description of moving away from the profane toward a deep sense of connectedness to the living world.

Millions of people are working on behalf of strangers, even if the evening news is usually about the death of strangers. This kindness of strangers has religious, even mythic origins, and very specific eighteenth-century roots. Abolitionists were the first people to create a national and global movement to defend the rights of those they did not know. Until that time, no group had filed a grievance except on behalf of itself. The founders of this movement were largely unknown – Granville Clark, Thomas Clarkson, Josiah Wedgwood – and their goal was ridiculous on the face of it: at that time three out of four people in the world were enslaved. Enslaving each other was what human beings had done for ages. And the abolitionist movement was greeted with incredulity. Conservative spokesmen ridiculed the abolitionists as liberals, progressives, do-gooders, meddlers, and activists. They were told they would ruin the economy and drive England into poverty. But for the first time in history a group of people organized themselves to help people they would never know, from whom they would never receive direct or indirect benefit. And today tens of millions of people do this every day. It is called the world of non-profits, civil society, schools, social entrepreneurship, and non-governmental organizations, of companies who place social and environmental justice at the top of their strategic goals. The scope and scale of this effort is unparalleled in history.

The living world is not “out there” somewhere, but in your heart. What do we know about life? In the words of biologist Janine Benyus, life creates the conditions that are conducive to life. I can think of no better motto for a future economy. We have tens of thousands of abandoned homes without people and tens of thousands of abandoned people without homes. We have failed bankers advising failed regulators on how to save failed assets. Think about this: we are the only species on this planet without full employment. Brilliant. We have an economy that tells us that it is cheaper to destroy earth in real time than to renew, restore, and sustain it. You can print money to bail out a bank but you can’t print life to bail out a planet. At present we are stealing the future, selling it in the present, and calling it gross domestic product. We can just as easily have an economy that is based on healing the future instead of stealing it. We can either create assets for the future or take the assets of the future. One is called restoration and the other exploitation. And whenever we exploit the earth we exploit people and cause untold suffering. Working for the earth is not a way to get rich, it is a way to be rich.

The first living cell came into being nearly 40 million centuries ago, and its direct descendants are in all of our bloodstreams. Literally you are breathing molecules this very second that were inhaled by Moses, Mother Teresa, and Bono. We are vastly interconnected. Our fates are inseparable. We are here because the dream of every cell is to become two cells. In each of you are one quadrillion cells, 90 percent of which are not human cells. Your body is a community, and without those other microorganisms you would perish in hours. Each human cell has 400 billion molecules conducting millions of processes between trillions of atoms. The total cellular activity in one human body is staggering: one septillion actions at any one moment, a one with twenty-four zeros after it. In a millisecond, our body has undergone ten times more processes than there are stars in the universe – exactly what Charles Darwin foretold when he said science would discover that each living creature was a “little universe, formed of a host of self-propagating organisms, inconceivably minute and as numerous as the stars of heaven.”

So I have two questions for you all: First, can you feel your body?

Stop for a moment. Feel your body. One septillion activities going on simultaneously, and your body does this so well you are free to ignore it, and wonder instead when this speech will end. Second question: who is in charge of your body? Who is managing those molecules? Hopefully not a political party. Life is creating the conditions that are conducive to life inside you, just as in all of nature. What I want you to imagine is that collectively humanity is evincing a deep innate wisdom in coming together to heal the wounds and insults of the past.

Ralph Waldo Emerson once asked what we would do if the stars only came out once every thousand years. No one would sleep that night, of course. The world would become religious overnight. We would be ecstatic, delirious, made rapturous by the glory of Goddess. Instead the stars come out every night, and we watch television.

This extraordinary time when we are globally aware of each other and the multiple dangers that threaten civilization has never happened, not in a thousand years, not in ten thousand years. Each of us is as complex and beautiful as all the stars in the universe. We have done great things and we have gone way off course in terms of honoring creation. You are graduating to the most amazing, challenging, stupefying challenge ever bequeathed to any generation. The generations before you failed. They didn’t stay up all night. They got distracted and lost sight of the fact that life is a miracle every moment of your existence.

Nature beckons you to be on her side. You couldn’t ask for a better boss. The most unrealistic person in the world is the cynic, not the dreamer. Hopefulness only makes sense when it doesn’t make sense to be hopeful. This is your century. Take it and run as if your life depends on it.

Paul Hawken is a renowned entrepreneur, visionary environmental activist, and author of many books, most recently Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming. He was presented with an honorary doctorate of humane letters by University president Father Bill Beauchamp, C.S.C., when he delivered this speech.

……and the message applies to all of us.  In peace………….Margie

In considering the topic of life responsibility I became aware that there is a broader view of responsibility that I could address.  While we certainly are responsible for our individual lives we are also part of a whole and our area of responsibility reaches beyond our personal lives into the world / universe at large.

While incarnate we live on a small planet in a large universe and at all times we are connected to oneness across an energetic web of life manifesting. We have been incarnating on Earth for eons of time as we and the planet have worked through an evolutionary process – the evolution of consciousness.  At this time in planetary history we have reached the end stage of this developmental process.  We have arrived at this end stage in a time that could not be called a “golden age”, but rather we find ourselves in great disruption and polarity.  Since we are here on the planet at this significant time it seems apparent that we have come to witness this final phase of a process put in place long ago and in which we have much invested.  We are here to participate and to have a ring side seat.  As such we cannot be passive by-standers.

The question seems to be is can we understand our responsibility to step into our new level of consciousness and empowerment.  Can we disengage from the negativity of the past and from the negativity that is going on around us and move into the next higher vibration and ground it into the planet?  Can we own that we are the ones to throw off the darker forces of misuse of power, greed, and hatred and create the peaceful, loving, supportive environment that reflects our true nature?  Can we make amends to the planet and restore balance with sustainable choices that will ensure human and planetary longevity?

It all starts with our own lives and our personal choices.  We live in a time when the world is connected through telecommunications of every kind.  We do not live in a vacuum, but must view ourselves not only as global citizens, but as part of the universal community.  As we make choices in our lives it must be from an expanded perspective that includes the knowing of how what we do affects others worldwide.  We are each part of the problem if we make choices that negatively affect others anywhere in the world.  Humans are the only beings on the planet that will take more than they truly need and when this occurs there is an imbalance created – somewhere else there will be others who have less than they need because of it.  The planet has enough to sustain us all – but we have the responsibility to choose wisely – knowing the difference between want and need.

We live in a time of great potential for humanity and we each are here at this time by our choosing.  We have come to join together to assist with the expansion of awareness and to move humanity to a higher level of consciousness.  We each have gifts that assist in this process and it is by the collaboration of many that we can move to our highest potential.  And in this process to connect in a very conscious way to the Universe that celebrates life and sustains us all.  We each have a responsibility to live our lives in a way that supports this potential for all humanity and to have our lives be a blessing to all we touch.

In peace…………..Margie

Over many years of doing my own inner work, and in doing inner journey work with clients I have come to know that while we are pure soul energy, prior to incarnating, we have the opportunity to view and select the next life we shall come into for learning and experience.  This place of life selection is often described as resembling a movie theater which allows souls to see themselves in future life options – playing different roles in various settings.  With a clear understanding of how they want to grow and learn next, and with the assistance of guides and teachers, the soul will make a selection from the choices offered.  This process is repeated in the life between lives for each incarnation journey.

While life events, race, culture and geographic location are all part of the selection process, these are not the only considerations and choices to be made by the soul for incarnating.  Once the general life experience is chosen, the next consideration is to the specific body, mind and personality that will be chosen to use in the next life.  All of these are carefully considered and chosen to benefit the soul on its path of growth and development.  On one inner journey into the realm of my soul I was asked about the selection of my body for this current life.  My soul told me that the selection was based on the body / mind’s ability to handle large amounts of mental complexity.  The mind had to be visionary and be able to hold and understand layers of multi-dimensional information.  The body had to have a nervous system that could support overall health even when exposed to large amounts of distress and discomfort.  The body had to be sturdy and the mind keen.  For each incarnation careful attention is given to both the life events and the body/mind/personality in the selection process.

As my clients have shown me and as I have seen of my own past lives – there are many life stories and each have varying degrees of difficulty or ease.  But in each life the soul is learning and growing, even though the egoic, time bound mind may not be aware of what the soul agenda is for the life.  The ego often gets frustrated when the life doesn’t unfold in the way it thought would be most ideal.  In times of great difficulty the ego often falls into negativity and victim mode – blaming others for all that has befallen it in the life journey.  It is in the understanding that the soul pre-selected the life and its experiences that makes it possible to move beyond victimhood into acceptance, healing and understanding.

In knowing that the soul wanted this particular life journey it becomes important to accept ultimate responsibility for what has occurred in the life.  Transcending beyond any bitterness, negativity, blaming, etc. and into the seeker wanting to know what the soul was learning through these specific life experiences.  It is in this looking for the story behind the visible story that is revealed the truth about life purpose.  The ego views a successful life experience on very superficial values – in understanding soul purpose we can come to know the true worth of the life and all its experiences.  We can even become grateful for all experiences that have made us who we are.

Inherent in responsibility is the sense if important obligations, duties and even accountability.  There is no greater need for responsible action than in our own life and to the soul purpose for being here incarnate.  We have all chosen to be here at this time, place and circumstance and for significant soul reasons.  Our responsibility is to expand our awareness, discover who we really are and why we are here and manifest soul purpose in the world.

In peace……….Margie

As humanity became more immersed in the societal structures that have become the world environment that we live in today, we progressively became disconnected from the natural world.  We began to view ourselves, somehow, as the users and dispassionate observers of nature – as separate and apart from it.  Ancient traditions knew, understood and lived lives that were not separate from nature, but knew that they were a part of the natural world.  In a world that knows and values such interconnectedness it was impossible to be only a passive observer.  They knew by the power of their intention, observation and action they played an integral  part of the planet as a whole…..and accepted their place and responsibility in it.

Our modern environment has created a sense of separation – man vs nature, you vs other, outside of us vs inside of us, them vs us, etc.  This has contributed to much of the chaos, destruction, war, etc that is so prevalent on the planet today.  A return to a healthier understanding that all things created (including us) are from the same source – the driving force that moves through all creation.  In such a world paradigm we can come to honor, respect, value all of life.  However, it will only be by the power of intention that we can move to this higher plane.

Intention may be defined as a plan of action – a focused design – an aim that guides – action – an objective, purpose or goal.  I would suggest that these words only describe a portion of what is needed to truly achieve the outcome by setting an intention.  Successful intention needs three elements to be truly effective – thought, emotion and feeling.  Without all three elements the success of intention work may be less than desired.  Each element works energetically to draw the desired outcome to us.  If thought = emotion = feeling, then our world mirrors the effect of our intention.  So it is not enough to simply think you want change – you must be able to incorporate more of yourself in the intention.  This involves adding the power of emotion and then feeling it in your body.  By example, if the intention is to live in a peaceful world, then it is necessary to formulate it into thought (a clear vision) and add the element of emotion to that desire, then feel and hold the feeling of the peaceful world in the body/mind.  This is the most successful way to achieve the desired outcome of intention work.

In the Hopi wisdom they eloquently remind us that each time humanity strays from the natural laws that affirm life in this world, our choices are visible in our societies and the systems of nature around us.  As our hearts and minds become so separate that we forget one another, then the Earth acts to bring memory of our greatest attributes back into focus. “When earthquakes, floods, hailstorms, drought and famine will be the life of the every day, the time will have then come for the return to the true path.  When prayer and meditation are used rather than relying on new inventions to create more imbalance, then they (humanity) will also find the true path.”

These words of the Hopi serve as a simple reminder of the quantum principle which states that to change the outcome of events already in motion, we must shift our beliefs regarding the outcome itself.  This is where the power of focused intention comes into play.  With enough beings directing their intention to a new direction, a new world, a new paradigm then we can create a new, better, higher outcome.

“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”  Mother Teresa

“Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.”  Martin Luther King, Jr.

When the power of peace is greater than the love of power….only then will there be peace.

We must be the focused intention dreamers to bring the new world into reality -

In peace…………Margie

When we come to Earth we know that we will be entering into a denser environment that is filled with duality and opposing forces.  In this environment we know that we will be presented with many opportunities to make choices between options that come to us in varying degrees of vibrational frequencies.  These choices range from the highest, most love and light filled to the lowest most hate, chaos and darkness filled, and everything in between.  For in any circumstance that is presented to us there is this full range of options to choose from.

It is important to note that there are entities, seen and unseen, that are invested in both sides of this choice equation.  There are many beings who are deeply committed to love, light, peace and the evolution of humanity to its highest level of consciousness. There are also many beings who are as invested in manipulating humanity toward violence, hatred, chaos, war, etc. as they feed off these negative energies. You can speak of this range of vibrations as moving from a high, lofty place to a lower, denser place.  You can also speak of it in the language of our emotional responses.

Each and every day, in what is presented in our lives we choose where we will place our allegiance by how we respond to the circumstances of life.  Some experiences elate us and expand our heart and bring a smile to our lips, or bring tears of joy.  But there are equally as many that have the potential to weigh heavy on our hearts, make us sad, depressed, angry, frustrated or hate filled.  While it is part of the human experience to feel all these emotions in their full range, it is important to remember where your allegiance truly lies.  Experiencing “darker” emotions will occur; living there and acting on them is what must be avoided if we are to continue to move into a more peaceful environment and to our highest potential.  Learning how to return to a neutral, peaceful place is of utmost importance in these times of imbalance and polarity.

As I have mentioned in earlier posts, the essence of human nature is based in higher vibrational qualities – love, peace, cooperation, etc.  We live in a time that the opposing forces of light and dark are highly polarized and it is important for each of us to decide on which side of this equation we stand and consciously choose our actions accordingly.  We have the potential to move into a new paradigm, but it is up to each and every one of us to make this personal choice to bring balance, the qualities of higher vibrations and less density into our personal lives and thus to humanity as a whole. By the collective actions of the many committed to moving into a peaceful, compassionate, less dense, cooperative world that takes care of the Earth and its inhabitants we will move into a new world paradigm.

It starts with each of us – we all get to vote with our choices – how will you choose?

In peace…………..Margie

In my post last week I spoke about the rise of monotheism and the ensuing male dominant religions and social cultures that arose from it.  It prompted me to think that there were more things to say that are pertinent today.  In this kind of social order we have come to understand that there is power in imposing one’s will over others.  Out of these kinds of social orders we have had centuries of war, suppression, class distinctions, hatred, turmoil, greed and planetary destruction.

In reality this kind of “power” is actually a function of the use of ego force in gaining superiority over others and amassing the spoils of victory as a testament to the ability to gain “power” by willful domination.  We have had centuries of this kind of social paradigm and we stand at a crossroads as we are destroying ourselves and our planet with this mis-use of force masquerading as “power”.

Real power is not sourced from ego, but is rather inherent in the true soul and human nature.  These are qualities that uplift, dignify and ennoble – qualities that come from compassion, love, peace – qualities that support the significance of life itself.  There are an increasing number of studies conducted that show that the true nature of humanity is of these qualities, but we have been culturally socialized to adapt by force.  In our current social construct we define success by how much “stuff” we can own, and greed and profit are rewarded in every aspect of our lives.  It is a way of life that is destroying the planet and has brought imbalance to our global community.  A few have profited at the expense of the many…..and this will continue unless we wake up to the need for a core change.

In order for us to survive as a people and a planet we must embrace this returning to our true human and soul nature.  It must be done both individually and globally.  This is the crux of moving into a new consciousness paradigm – realizing who we are and standing in our empowerment as noble beings of peace, love and light.  Our focus must turn from force and greed to personal and global integrity based on compassion.  We must evaluate the difference between what we truly need and what we only want.  If the toll that is levied on others by our wanting is poverty and destruction of their resources, then it must be curbed.  We must become global citizens, move beyond personal wants and nationalism and rise to global stewardship in order for us to survive and live in our soul integrity.

We have learned many valuable lessons as souls by incarnating in this environment, but now it is time to close the chapter on this way of learning and embrace our higher consciousness, soul integrity and destiny.  We have the opportunity to rise above the low vibrations of fear, chaos, subjugation and hate and use our true power to create a world filled with peace, compassion, order and beauty.  Now is the time.

In peace…………….Margie