Be The Change

All things are connected like the blood which unites one family. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of earth. Man did not weave the wave of life, he is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself. Chief Seattle

Our world, our existence is intrinsically intertwined. We are inseparable, all parts of one great whole that is the unified field. The very energies of compassion that bring us together in difficulty and tragedy exist always and we are expanding those energies to more of our daily lives, to more of our first thoughts when in relationship with others.

It is this current shift in sensibility that is bringing us into the fold of our evolution, our bond and our expansion into cooperation and compassion. Our lives are shifting consciously and unconsciously at higher and higher frequencies as we move toward our new normal.

It would seem that any change historically has often found increases in energy fields in two directions, a pulling apart and polarization. There often seems to be more of what was as more of what is to be builds its energy base.

Have you been experiencing a feeling of being out of balance? Have you been feeling a little 'spacy'? Have you had a sense of things being off kilter, not normal, as if the earth were shifting under your feet?

We know from our science that we are all a part of a unified field of energy, a unified field of all that is, was, and will be. And since quantum physics tells us that there is no time, except as we create it in our minds, then the unified field is simply all that is, and that includes each of us and who we believe we are.

Who do you believe you are? Who do you want to be? How do you want to be in the world? What do you want to have? How do you want to be your better you?

Ask yourself better questions and you will create that better you. The parts of you that no longer serve you have a higher probability of falling away and being replaced by what you want instead, when you know what those things that you want are.

All things are connected, look at what you want as a model of what you want, and then become that. Put your energy toward clarity for yourself and who you are at your core level, at your spiritual DNA level.

Be the change you want to see in the world. Mahatma Gandhi

Love and blessings, Katie

Thoughts on Inner Money Peace

Quotes from Alan Cohen:

If you have a good wealth mentality, you will generate wealth wherever you go.

Even if you lose money temporarily, your wealth mentality will attract it again....

A perfect demonstration of mind into matter.

Money is important, but wealth mentality is essential.

When I change my mind, my situation changes to reflect it.

It's hard to defeat an enemy that has an outpost in your head.

Your thoughts are the strongest currency at your disposal.

Creating a New Experience

If it’s true what quantum science says—that nothing exists in our material world until we focus on it, that everything is a wave until we observe it, then that must mean it is also true that there is no poverty, no wealth, no illness, no health, even no love or hate until we make it manifest by attention to our thoughts and beliefs. 

Those thoughts and beliefs, whether they be about your abundance or your lack, your ease or your struggles, your wellness or your illness, create the reality that you experience.  Your thoughts and beliefs influence your decisions.  Your decisions determine your behaviors and your behaviors reflect back to you what you experience as ‘real.’  Make sense?

So if all of this is true, then it is possible for you to create whatever you want by focusing on it with your thoughts.  When your thoughts and beliefs are in alignment with abundance that makes abundance possible in your life.  Same is true for thoughts of health, great relationships, achieving desired goals—anything that you can allow yourself to imagine.

Whatever you believe to be true is what shows up for you.  If I believe that life is a struggle, and that was certainly a belief I held for decades, then struggle you will experience.  If you believe that you can achieve any goal you desire, then that becomes your reality. 

When you can accept that whatever you have or don’t have in your life you consciously or unconsciously created it, then you can say “OK.  I created this.  Now I can create a different experience.”  Close your eyes and say that to yourself—and feel that sense of empowerment that comes from accepting what is and choosing to create something new.

In my life, I have believed that in order to see my own magnificence, my own kindness and my own sense of self I must have one person in my life that it is opposition to me.  Being in opposition to someone or something shows me who I am not.  By casting them as my shadow side, I see the reflection of who I most want to be—kind, compassionate, loving, wealthy and healthy.

In doing this, I freeze that person or that situation into a pattern of behavior that imprisons us both.  They can only show up for me in that opposing way because that is the only way I allow myself to experience them.

In a situation of struggle and lack I will only allow myself to experience the struggle and lack because it matches precisely what I unconsciously believe to be true and all other possibilities are deleted from my awareness.  Nothing gets past the ‘gatekeeper’ (conscious mind) that doesn’t match the unconscious programming.

I create what I experience in the world by my beliefs and thoughts.  And that’s the good news!    Because NOW I can create something different.

What story of your life are you feeding?

An old Cherokee is teaching his grandson about life.  "A fight is going on inside me," he said to the boy. "It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves. One is evil - he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego. The other is good - he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith. This same fight is going on inside you - and inside every other person, too."

The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather, "Which wolf will win?"

The old Cherokee simply replied, "The one you feed."

This is one of my favorite stories.  Within this short story lies great wisdom, truth and power--power to make new choices and walk in new directions.

Over the past several weeks I’ve been paying close attention to the stories people are telling me about their lives. It’s amazing the information you receive when you really listen—listen to when someone is talking and to what someone is writing.  If you truly want to understand another person, then keep your mouth closed and your ears wide open--really listen to what they are saying—and not saying.

We all have our stories—we have our pain story and our joy story.  There isn’t a person walking this earth now that does not have both.  You have yours and I have mine.

Our story becomes our reality if we tell it often enough.  Regardless of the story we are telling, we continually re-create it just by focusing on it.  We breathe life into our story with the words we use, the thoughts we think and the emotions we hold about that story.

And the truth is—our story, whether the pain one or the joy one, is all made up.  There is nothing real about our story except for the meaning we attach to it and the attachment we make to the results we get when we hold our story as truth.

There is pain out there in the world and we do get wounded in life.  This is a fact of our experience here on earth school.  Some of us have deeper, more painful wounds than others.  I’m not talking about the wounds themselves. I am talking about the stories that we create around our painful experiences that keep us imprisoned in that pain.  Why is it that most of us lead with our pain instead of our joy? 

Even in casual conversation or in declining an invitation, many of us lead with the pain story about why we have to say no, can’t be there, can’t do that. Your pain story is everything that comes after the infamous ‘but.’  “I’d love to be there, but...”  “I’d do it for you, but…”  “I was going to change that, but…”

Then you justify why you cannot or have not yet done something by telling your story of pain.

We all do it.  I did it--for years.  It was my survival strategy as a child.  I learned early on that if I was weak, sick or scared not much was expected of me.  Always I would begin with 'I would if I could, but..." and then go on to blame my health, my family or my weak character as a way of keeping expectations of me low.  I led with my pain story.

What we are discussing here is not about what is right or wrong.  It is just what is.  So, if you find that you are always leading with your pain, how do you turn it around?

You start by being honest with yourself.  Tell yourself the truth about which 'wolf' you are feeding and what benefits you receive from that choice.

It may be that in some areas of your life you feed the wolf of love and in other situations the wolf of fear.  That is human nature-and we are after all human as well as divine. 

To know the truth ask yourself these 2 questions?

What wolf am I feeding in this situation?

Do I tend to lead with my pain or my joy?

And the most important question you will ever ask yourself--and it is the question that will lead you to new choices and a new way of being in the world is:

"What do I want instead of what I have?"

Armed with this knowledge you are now empowered to create changes in your life.

We witness your mastery,

Bonnie

 

Know Thyself - Know Your Spiritual DNA

Our most recent discussions on the One Command Yahoo group have been truly deep and self-revealing, the willingness of the members to open their life experiences to others and share their recognition of how much self-awareness enhances their ability to change your lives for the better has been a blessing.

Many times people ask what to Command for...and the best answer will always be, What do you want instead (of what you have). To help that along, it can be very useful to find out what programs you have been running that have gotten in your way.

We know from quantum physics and psychology that biochemically, biologically and energetically, we take in information that is transmitted as chemicals throughout our body and then creates or changes our DNA. We come in with ancestral programs, we take on cultural and family programs and we have inherent behavioral DNA programs - all information that shapes how we think, perceive the world, and behave.

And beneath all of that is our Spiritual blueprint, the programs that we universally share that come from Source. These are the programs that hold our integrity, our compassion, our sense of fairness, our love - and nowhere in that blueprint will you find fear.

Fear is incorporated in your core behaviors, like the flight/fight responses, and in your learned behaviors like family beliefs and cultural beliefs, and in your personal set of perceptual behaviors that shape how you interpret the world and how you react in response to those perceptions.

The very best part is that as you dig into what is going on in your life, from your dreams to your beliefs to your daydreams, and as you allow yourself to be aware of all the ways you have viewed the world and how and why you make the choices you have made, you have even more freedom and more information about What you want instead.

All of your stories of self-discovery are you gifts to yourself, your gifts of self-recognition, your gifts of self-revelation - and at that point - you get to make more and more and more decisions and choices to use your inherent courage to behave from Source, from your Spiritual DNA blueprint - the you that is in complete alignment with Greater Capacity.

Congratulations to all of you and to all of us - self-knowledge is FREEDOM!

Redefining success

In reading an inspiratonal message this morning I came across a quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson that sparked a new way of thinking about success and how I am already succeeding.

"To know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived.  This
is to have succeeded."  Ralph Waldo Emerson.

I know that I have recently become so focused on creating income that my
definition of 'success' became so narrow.  I was gaging my success by how
much money I brought in each month.  If I made my goal, I felt successful
and that felt good.  But conversely when I didn't reach that financial
goal I felt like a failure.  With such a narrow focus I forgot to look at
the people and situations in my life where I made a difference, often just
by being myself.  Taking that phone call from one of my children in the
middle of my day, listening to my husband tell me about his day, holding a
grandchild, making sure a client got what they needed or just listening
when someone needs to talk .  Those are ways to make a difference in a
life--and making a difference in any way for any one person is succeeding.

It took getting away from my daily routine to visit a daughter and her
family that reminded me of what is most important to me and what brings me
the most satisfaction in life.  With teaching & 4 growing kids, she's on
the run all the time.  Being here I was able to help pick someone up from
practice or drop someone else off where they had to go.  Jim & I had
dinner ready for them when they all came home.  At one point she said that
just those simple acts made such a difference for her and she was
grateful.

That is my reminder that it is time revisit my values and where I am living them or ignoring them.  It is time for me to relocate my 'true north'--those ways of being in the world that are most precious to me and to remind myself
of how I define success.

Just as there are 'many ways up the mountain' there are many ways to succeed.

May today be a day where someone breathes easier in your life because you live.

Bonnie