Love is all you need...

“All you need is love…” a catchy phrase from John Lennon’s song. Pretty cool, we sing it with our arms wrapped around each other. We try to emulate these words. We send love to our friends and loved ones. Love is the only way that healing can occur in our lives. Love is the only way that healing can occur on the planet. Love of others sometimes has come before love of our selves. Many of us have put ourselves aside, trying to show that we are capable of expressing love by giving it to others. We try to forgive while carrying anger towards ourselves because we are angry with ourselves. For many of us, intimate love that causes us to feel connected to another is also elusive. Even when we feel that we have found our soul mate/twin flame, the one who is the complement to us, we find that intimacy is a distant echo, an illusive that try as we might, we cannot catch. We love our children and even they seem to be rebellious, pushing the love we give them away. Each morning we wake up, we search for that connection with our self and everything else. We try to create a feeling that we are ok.

How do you feel about yourself today? Are you contented with your accomplishments? Do you like the person who you are? Do the words of John Lennon’s song reverberate through your spirit, your body and your life? You work hopefully at a job that fills you up, are you happy in it? If not, why? Are you happy and in love with your life? If not, why?

These questions are not meant to challenge you or make you afraid. Rather it is meant to starting you on an internal dialogue. I am sure you have asked yourself these questions. Sometimes the answers are elusive because we tend to judge ourselves harshly as we search. “Years ago, a colleague of mine, while she and I were walking in the hills around Sedona, Arizona, bent and picked up the red rocks that were strewn along the way. She broke each rock in two with her strong hands and then flung the offending rock back to the ground. After about ten minutes of enduring the hollow echo of the offending activity, I asked her what she was doing. She replied that she was looking for a perfect rock to take back home with her. She was looking for the perfect rock and instead of waiting until she found one that spoke to her, she destroyed many, disturbing the peace of the environment trying to find the one she desired.”

This story reminds me of how we seek our inner truth. As long as we spend our time criticizing our self for what we feel we did wrong or did not do, we will not find happiness. We discard much of what we feel and realize about ourselves because we are afraid of seeing our truth. We are so joyfully beating up on ourselves that we forget to love ourselves first in order to be able to see our truth. I would love for you to look at yourself and your life without judgment. To find a way to “see beauty even if it is not pretty every day…” Oriah Mountain Dreamer. Our children are precious. Please teach them to love themselves through our example of loving ourselves. It is not our words that convey the loudest message it is our actions that leave a lasting imprint on our children and our world.

“All you need is love…” Be love by being in love with yourself. Be joy by being joyful within. Teach truth by finding your own inner truth. Be a lasting example of the greatest human being that ever existed by acknowledging your own divinity. Yes we can all be the greatest that ever lived. We can all cross the finish line at the same time it is called “a tie”. We can all lead it is called cooperation. We can all feel and be special it is called love.

“Love, love, love, All you need is love…” Let this song uplift you today, emulate it in your life so that it can flow from the source of your inner being manifesting in the greatest love fest the world has ever seen.

We are looking for the thing that will leave us feeling great about our self, that will make us fall in love with our self, that will make us more agreeable in our daily lives. We are so much judging our self that we have a hard time finding the elusive love, love, love.

Dealing with the heat.

My last post...such a long time ago, I wrote about the snow or lack thereof in Vancouver, British Columbia. I showed my gratitude for less snow which brings us to spring in Vancouver. Our spring is typical in Vancouver. Very rainy and cold. I have only just taken off the heavy coat of winter for lighter clothing wrapped in plastic rain wear. The past couple of years Vancouverites were complaining about the heat and mugginess. For the first time air conditioners were in great demand at the hardware stores as spring (what spring?) flowed into summer. While I was speaking with customers a rash of perspiration would slowly form on my forehead. As I stood there becoming drenched, acting like I was quite comfortable with being bathed in sweat, I would wonder if the individual with whom I was speaking thought something was wrong with me. They never said a word and neither did I.

I was suffering with the heat not because of the weather so much but because I was in menopause. Menopause shows itself differently for each woman. For many it may start at the back of the legs, from the solar plexus, for my friend just beginning to indulge in this pasttime that few womwen can avoid, her feet gets really hot. For me it began in my heart. In my chest. A wave of heat started to prickle in the centre of my chest and slowly, oh so slowly oozed over my chest, up my neck, into my face and up into my scalp, then down through my stomach. The heat was suffocating. It was debilitating as its intensity grew and rose up and over my body. It was as if someone took wool batting, and attempted to slowly suffocate me with it. I felt like I was being forced out of air with the heat and as I panicked the experience grow and became more intense.

Over my life I found that as I struggled to overcome a situation, it intensified. I learned that relaxing and surrendering to the physical pain and discomfort caused it to diminish. This is how I faced the hot flashes. I emotionally relaxed, which relaxed my body which caused the discomfort to go away quicker. When my mother went into menopause, I am not sure if she was aware of what was happening but she thought everyone was contrary to herself. She could not understand why people were wearing so much clothing when the environment was so hot to her. She did not understand, she would comment, why we did not put on much clothing when it was so cold. My mother's foray into the world of menopause did not last long because it was not her focus and the same with me. I have heard that the experience lasts for many years, mine lasted for only a short time - unless, I just got used to dealing the heat.

I am looking forward to our (hopefully) hot summer. I should not need to sleep with a fan running all night, nor stick my face into the fridge to alleviate the discomfort. So I am excited about dry picnics, outings and sleeps. Unless menopause is stalking me like my kitten Princess stalked my stockinged feet pouncing when I lease expected it and getting tangled up in my stocking with her claws.

The importance of change

In Vancouver, we have been pleasantly treated to a soggy, rainy winter. I believe the farmer's almanac predicted that we would be inundated by snow, this winter. I did not want snow. Snow can be inconvenient, blocking the roads, creating slushy transport not to mention traffic issues. I know that the people in most of the US and the rest of Canada and parts of the world can agree that snow is no picnic. My mother, enjoyed the short vacation of staying at home because the buses and subway where she lives were going no where. So, I relaxed in the divine view that I do not have to shovel rain. Many automobile owners had, in November, bought snow tires in preparation for the deluge expected, only to be let down by the lack of snow.

Imagine my surprise this morning when I woke up to snow. I was a little nervous at the big, fat snow drops that were drifting from the sky. I had become used to the rain. I know, not many people like the wet stuff, but I had become used to rain, to the safety that for me the rain provided, as opposed to the insecurity brought from the snow. Well I did not have to be discomforted because the snow went as quickly as it came. Whew!!!

So what does this have to do with the importance of change. I feel that change shakes us up. Enjoying the same thing on a day to day basic leads to a type of complacency. We become like the log lying in the forest, getting soggy and dried out until moss begins to grow on us. Soon mushrooms join the moss and we become hosts to complacency, the doldrums, fatigue and physical angst. Like the sand dollars in the oceans and the trees in the forest, it is a really good idea to embrace change. Even if it is a tiny change like rolling over, change is a really good thing for us to embrace.

Let's face it everything is changing. Time is changing. Nature is in constant change. We are also shifting and changing energetically, emotionally, physically despite our resistance. So, let us join hands and sing... (kidding). Got you worried didn't I. That is the shake up I experienced this morning which woke me from the little stagnation I was in. Enjoy the changes as they come...you can't avoid it anyway.

Facing fear

“The thing that is hidden within, if you bring it forth will save you. The thing that is hidden within you do not bring it forth will destroy you.” Thomas Aquinas

What is the meaning of these words?

The thing that is hidden is that which has the most power over us. What is it? Many of us feel as if we are in the grasp of an invisible force, which is guiding our path and forcing us into directions that leave us wondering what is going on. We make decisions that cause us to wonder why did I do that? We see our friends and loved ones who, to us seem strong and powerful fall into destructive behavior and relationships and we ask ourselves why?

One of my favorite reads, Yann Martel’s, Man Booker Prize winning, Life of Pi, which is a painfully humorous sometimes, intense novel about a boy named Piscine Molitar Patel. In India, Piscine, tired of his name being mispronounced Pissing took it upon himself to rename himself Pi. Pi was shipwrecked on a lifeboat during a trip with his family and the contents of a zoo, from India to Canada. He found himself accompanied on the lifeboat by some flies, cockroaches, a zebra, an orangutan, a hyena and a Bengal Tiger named Richard Parker. The story played out until Pi found himself alone with Richard Parker. He was faced with his own fear of death, a death that involves being eaten by the Bengal tiger. He was in a desperate place and yet as his need to survive came up strong and activated his fear, he learned to train and use his fear for his survival.

The question that I feel we should ask ourselves is “What am I afraid of?” How do we handle our fear?

Each of us is afraid of something. The spiritual leaders who are trying to manipulate the world into peace, are they afraid of the consequences of war? The political leaders who are afraid to say no! What are you afraid will happen when you exercise that right to be true to yourself? We are looking outside of ourselves at all times trying to effect change in the environment around us. Why? I feel that it is necessary for us to go within and reconcile the struggle with ourselves and our fear.

This is a passage from Yann Martel’s, The Life of Pi, Random House, ISBN 0-676-97377-9. Page 178, Chapter 56.

I must say a word about fear. It is life’s only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary… it goes to your weakest spot, which it finds with unerring ease. It begins in your mind always… fear next turns fully to your body, which is always aware that something terrible is going on… Quickly you make rash decisions. You dismiss your last allies: hope and trust. There you’ve defeated yourself. Fear, which is but an impression, has triumphed over you.

The matter is difficult to put into words. For fear, real fear, such as shakes you to your foundation, such as you feel when you are brought face to face with your mortal end, nestles in your memory like a gangrene: It seeks to rot everything, even the words with which to speak of it. So you must fight hard to express it. You must fight hard to shine the light of words upon it. Because if you don’t if your fear becomes a wordless darkness that you avoid, perhaps even manage to forget, you open yourself to further attacks because you never truly fought the opponent who defeated you.

At this time in our lives on the planet, everything that we hold dear is under attack. We are not too sure what to do. We desire change, radical change from the status quo of dependency and limitation. We want peace and abundance in our lives but are afraid of the consequences of reaching this state. We can attain this but there is always a price for everything. Within this polarized existence, balance must always be maintained. We are aware that in nature there is always balance. In an old growth forest, in order for new life to exist, fire must burn away the old so that the new life has a chance of survival. This keeps balance in tact in our natural environment.

The new, requires the transformation of the old to exist, otherwise everything perishes. Our world as we know it is falling apart, there is overpopulation, poverty, violence, lack and limitation on the planet. These situations have come about because we have been afraid to fight for our right to be ourselves. We have hidden away from our own nature by trying to live in “love and light”. “Love and light” exists always. This state is what we are. We deny the painful, sad abusive parts of ourselves and this is the part of our nature, which is the fire of destruction in our lives and the planet. I feel that it is time that we go back to basics and look at ourselves by step into the dark aspect of ourselves so that peace, real peace can exist in our lives and on the planet.

Peace cannot exist, without there being peace within. It is not about “self-talk” it is about self-realization and self-expression. It is time that we give voice to the shadow side of our nature, bringing it out into the light so that it can release it’s hold upon us.

Each time I ask what can I do to effect change on the planet? The voice of my inner guidance replies “Find peace within, respect all aspects of yourself and you will see peace on your planet.” I am grateful to my guides and inner teachers for their continuous support and blunt guidance.

Please look within and create peace so that peace can exist on the planet.

Recognize your worth and cashing in on it.

In our world, mankind is of two minds about money. On the one hand, we love money and the freedom it brings. Yet on the other hand we keep money at arms length. Without money we would not eat, have a roof over our heads or the medical needs of our loved ones met. We see money in a negative light, many of us believing that money is not important that it is the love of family that is most important. We forget that we need to support ourselves and how we do this is with money. Money is the form that our modern world uses to value it's products and services. The truth of the matter is that the same view that we have of money is reflected in our views of ourselves. We see ourselves as not worthy, and many of us experience this in a lack of wealth.

How do we recognize that the shift in thinking happens? To become a magnet for financial abundance effectively, requires a shift in your thinking. This could be through mantras, each morning, look in the mirror, into your eyes and say, "today, I attract abundance, with ease". Before bed each night, go over your day, bless things that did not go well for you and let them go. Then use the mantra, "I attract positive abundant in all aspects of my life." This is a good start to get you on the path to changing your thinking about money and become a magnet for all the good stuff you desire.

A sign that shift has happened is a click inside of yourself, an epiphany, you feel a physical jolt within. You recognize your value and find your life purpose.

The Power of Money

In the past, supporting charities was a noble choice. We chose who we wanted to help and our desire to assist our neighbour was a good thing. Today it seems that as soon as we jump to assist one disaster, another one creeps up on us. The businesses on the planets that get the most publicity are charities or ones supporting charities. We ride for cancer, run for AIDS, collect for Haiti, fund raise for Pakistan, there are flooding, landslides, new diseases being found, which require us to put our needs aside and give money. What I find ironic is that in this time of recession and financial hardship, the charities are the organizations that seem to be doing well, at least they seem to have the support behind them.

What I am getting to is that there seems to be an avalanche of disasters requiring our attention and our money. Why is this the case, all of a sudden? Our science has shown us that what we think we create. There are many books on the subject and many spiritual teachers who tell us that our thoughts create our reality, all proving that the unseen, the unconscious mind is a powerful tool for creation. We, most of the time, worry about attracting "bad" not realizing that as we worry, we are creating the thing we are worrying about. Our fear has the greatest power for manifestation. Could it be that as we collectively focus on the poor downtrodden people on the planet, who need our help we inadvertently manifest more disasters in order for us to fulfill the need to save others, including our animals?

In my class THE POWER OF MONEY, I speak about the idea of everyone seeking to support others, always giving, which creates an empty hole needing to be filled with receivers, because even the people who are being supported have a sense of unworthiness within themselves, thus leaving a negative energy within the word charity.

Now that I've gotten the negative off my chest, let's talk about abundance. We all desire abundance - meaning money. We want to be able to live our lives on our terms. We want to know that if something happens to us we can afford to take care of ourselves without turning to handouts. We need to be able to move into attracting abundance mentality, instead of avoiding money mentality. It is within us to be abundant. It is our birthright. When we look at our world, it is abundant. We are abundant with cells. Trees are abundant with leaves. Our desert is abundant with sand. Our world in abundant with money. There is more than enough money to give each human his and her basic needs. In the class I show you how to shift your thoughts and recharge our unconscious mind to make ourselves receptive to abundance.

Having money is good. It allows us to live our lives on our terms. It affords us the opportunity to support whatever and whomever we want without leaving ourselves cash poor. Maybe this will unconsciously reverse the negative trend of disasters that seems to be plaguing our world.

Meet and Greet

On October first, I am facilitating a 'meet and greet'. It is the first such event by me in several years. What is a meet and greet? Well, I usually have something to say, you wouldn't know that by the limited amount of blogs I have put out, but I do. Get me started and I can go on and on and on... well you get the picture. I decided to do some of my speaking to a large gathering of forward thinkers instead of the one-on-one that I have been doing. Don't get me wrong, I will still continue to speak to whomever will listen.

Back to the meet and greet. I love to talk spirit and the shift in the human consciousness. I love to share what I know, for example, the fact that we can follow the progression of the human evolution through the chakras. The step by step journey which shows us, that we will continue after December, 2012. The human species will not be destroyed as many are thinking. It will continue, because we have much more evolving to do.

I love to share that "The thing that is hidden, when you bring it forth will save you, instead of destroy you when you keep it in the dark". The explanation is very clear, when we as amazing beings, human beings, realize that we have what we need to save ourselves and this beautiful planet of ours. Our planet is the macrocosm of our inner world. We will heal the planet when we see the mirrored effect of this symbiotic relationship we have with earth.

This and much more I shall share in the two hours of sitting in the divine energy of universal love, on October first at six-thirty. Meditation, connection and conversation, all a part of inner healing and movement into divine love.