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Celestine Prophecy Secrets: The Power of Gratitude

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Gratitude can power our creativity in the world.
The secret of using this power is exactly as you might think: We merely have to remember to activate it.
To use Gratitude, first align yourself on the side of good, and the helpful.  There is a Karmic Design in the Universe that increases your personal power based on the motivation to uplift others and to help them live more fully.  The mere “asking” of how you might help another opens up your channel of intuitive guidance. You will receive the thought that shows you exactly what to do.
Stay aligned with this Karmic Design and you will also be given guidances that will help you as well.  You will be shown how to breakthrough what is holding you back, how to discover your best talents, and how to find the perfect place to push spiritual reform in a particular workplace.
Staying in Gratitude accelerates the process.  Your intentions are grounded and strengthened when you acknowledge that you are being guided by a Divine Connection that feels like a download of a greater part of yourself.  Gratitude establishes the “faith-power” behind your intentions.  When you are thankful that an intention will manifest, that it is meshed with the Divine intent of helpfulness, your aligned life and creativity can rise to a new level.
All together, gratitude keeps us on the right side of spiritual evolution, and in the best life we can have.
 Related article for further reading: Practicing Gratitude: 5 Steps to Abundance

5 Alternatives To Walking Away From Negative People

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Time and again, I’ve seen articles, posts, and quotes that advise, “If you want to be more positive, remove negative people from your life.” And when I’ve read this advice, I always have an intense internal reaction. I have experienced the pain of loss and abandonment, and every time this message comes around, I think about how devastated others may be if those they cared about walked away from them.

It seems that ‘Throw it away and run fast’ is the advice that’s been given to us for years about how to deal with anything we don’t like. Running from the people in our lives encourages separation with a ‘me versus you’ mentality and keeps us in our own negative thinking patterns about the person. It also leads us towards resistance of facing the issues that come up in our lives. So, in an attempt to live up to my values and beliefs, I decided I need to find a new perspective on this subject and a deeper understanding.

I would like to state before you read on, that I do understand the reasoning behind this way of thinking, and I agree that we must leave the really toxic people and unsafe relationships behind (the ones that are harmful, that use and abuse you, and destroy your sense of worth) – I’ve had to do this myself in the past in order to find the strength to create healthy boundaries. But I wonder what about the people who aren’t intentionally harmful, who are just lost in their way, and who haven’t been shown anything different yet? I once lived like that and despite years of trying to find happiness, it always seemed to elude me.

It’s important to first differentiate between toxic and negative people.

Toxic people consistently act in ways that are harmful to you, leaving you feeling totally depleted and drained of both physical and emotional energy. They make you question the core essence of who you are, how you want to be, and the life you want to lead, which makes you feel insecure, under-valued, and unworthy. Toxic people tend to be problem-makers and try to bring others down, never take responsibility, lie and cheat, and blame everything on others. They are adept at competing with others and will gossip to make themselves feel and look better. Controlling and manipulating the vulnerability of others without any regard to their needs shows how they focus on themselves in an unhealthy, selfish manner.

A toxic person wants others to share in their misery and the impact they have on you can leave you feeling frustrated, helpless, and emotional. But it’s not just about how they make you feel because even many non-toxic people will also drain you simply through having become lost in their own low energy.

Negative people who are lost in their way (but not necessarily toxic), may act in similar ways but their energy feels different and their motivations come from a deep need to find a way out of their issues. I once read, “The toxic person delivers his poison to others, while the [negative] person injects himself with his own poison.” The reason it looks the same is because both toxic and negative people don’t work towards solutions to become healthier – the toxic person doesn’t want to or even try to because they have learned to thrive off the drama they create, while the negative person actually does want to find happiness but they are so lost and blinded by their issues that they feel they can’t do it on their own.

It’s so easy to accuse people of being toxic and even narcissistic as these labels are becoming the trend. But if we take a deeper look into the behavior and motivations of negative people, we may just see they’re stuck in a control drama or they’re disintegrating to lower levels of development – falling into stress and acting on the habitual mechanism of their personality.

While no one enjoys being miserable, sometimes it may seem that others around us are choosing a life of misery. And, while deep down we all want something more – something better – some just haven’t figured out what ‘more’ is yet, or how to manifest positive change. We have created a world where we’re so consumed with our preoccupation that we are easily blinded to what it is that we’re really searching for. The vast majority of us have been down that dark road, so why, when we reach the light, should we condemn those who are struggling to catch up?

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The Energy of the Holidays

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I have always celebrated Christmas. In fact, as a young child it was, hands down, my favourite time of the year. Over the years, in line with the culture in which I was raised, I’ve carried on the traditions that my grandparents and parents modelled.

To me, Christmas meant family gatherings for which we made good food and put up fancy decorations, where we went out of our way to relax and have fun together. The snow and the lights, the parties and the extra smiles seemed almost magical to me. Not in a Santa sliding down your chimney in the middle night kind of way, but in a more subdued, bubbling with happiness kind of way.

In hindsight, I realize that the magical ingredient that was lacking the rest of the year, the thing that came out in full force during the holiday season, was time intentionally set aside to spend with loved ones. And, while I clearly see that the simple Christmases I remember from childhood are no longer, that is why I still choose to celebrate this holiday. In my home, it’s about turning inward, getting cozy, and playing in the great outdoors. It’s about joy and fun and love.

There is a deeper meaning than many of us have been acknowledging. 

Viewed through the larger lens of our Longer Now, and taking into account all that it meant to those that came before us, we can develop a greater sense of all that it can mean to us now. Many ancient cultures around the world celebrated the Winter Solstice, the turning of the season, as a time of reflection and celebration, and then moving forward, as a time of inspiration and renewal. As Christianity came into being, blending their own celebration with those of older cultures, the spiritual message remained one of hope and light. The significance of that is not lost simply because we have moved into a more commercialized way of being. It has not been obliterated by the legend of Santa Claus.

The deeper my own spirituality becomes, the more I connect with these truths. We are all products of our various cultures but when we step out of the power struggle over which religion or society is correct, we can all find the magic of this season waiting for us. Whether we are surrounded by snow or sand, whether we have a Christmas tree or not, there is a shift; a time out of regular life when we can set down our hurts and see the beauty of this life.

This may be the opposite of what many of us have experienced, for we have become creatures of consumerist habit and it’s hard to step out of that world. The weeks of December are said to be the most stressful of the year, and that is a sad truth many people live with. It can seem busier, more demanding, lonely. But if we connect with our souls, if we seek our personal truths, most of us will find that we yearn to be the Givers of the Third Insight.

Setting aside our control dramas will set us free.

We long to give up our control dramas that turn into questions of who gave the best gifts, who spent the most money, and who put in the most effort. And, once we have let go of those attachments, we will suddenly find ourselves free to share in the energy that floods through us, to be an amplifier of light and goodness, rather than a drain on our loved ones. In this way, we can reengage in the synchronistic flow of life.

We can let go of the controversy over what is politically correct, drop the over-responsibility of trying to dictate what others ought to do, and have our individual celebrations in ways that are nourishing and fulfilling. We can take back our Decembers, and give others their’s back with grace and love. It seems that some have become offended by expressions such as Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah, but we can choose to look on these greetings in the spirit they are offered and lovingly receive the gift beneath them. We can use our time off work or school to bond and have fun, to reminisce on the year gone by and dream of the year to come.

As we shift ever onward towards an expansive, inclusive world culture, I believe that not only will we continue to celebrate events like Christmas, we will do so on a greater scale. Regardless of religion or culture, the spiritual realness of each of these unique times of year will call to us, because we are all spiritual beings, breaking down barriers and shattering division.

We can choose to spend December in our own way.

So, as a spiritual being who chooses to celebrate Christmas, mixing traditions both old and new, I find myself free and full of gratitude over the beauty of my Earthly home, over the Christian holiday, and it’s many wonderful messages, as well as both the darkness and the light. My December is my own, and as more of us move into this way of being, we participate in the uplifting Interpersonal Ethic of the Eighth Insight by encouraging and supporting others to do the same.

There is no right way to celebrate the holidays, there is no right way to engage in the flow of energy generated during this season, but we can stay open to and share the happiness and the joy, the camaraderie and the love. Whatever each of you choose to do with your December this year – make it your own, and make it great!

 

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A Reminder of Love

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Hundreds of movies and songs have pointed to it.  Books and poems have alluded to it.  Religions have embraced it: love is all the world needs to solve its problems.

Yet, for most of the year, this message lingers in the background.  Too often, we seem to forget the power of love until, thankfully… the holiday time of year rolls around.

But why do we forget?  Everyone has felt love.  We’ve loved a grandparent, a parent, a child, a pet… or someone special in our lives.  We know love is real, but it is also elusive, and we lose the feeling.

We lose it because life is crowded and busy and in-tangled with so many people who don’t seem to have our best interests in mind.  We find we have to defend ourselves in this world, so we fight back and compete.

And, sometimes, we slip from competition into hate, especially now in a world so polarized.  We hate those who disagree with us, those who attack our political views.  We hate because we think our assumptions and way of life are being threatened.

We think that with hate and anger, we can push the negative back, put out its fire, and feel more secure in our fortress.

But anything that you hate always grows stronger – because those who feel hated, marshal their forces, and increase their efforts to hate back… and hate grows.

In all this, the power of love remains forgotten, even among those who know love.  Could this explain our world of polarized opinion, where exaggeration, lies, and demonization abound?

Perhaps it is love — remembering love — that could lead to restoring truth and civility?

Toward this possibility, the traditional holidays beacon to us, radiating the memory of love.  The songs, the poems, the special moments with others dare us to cross all boundaries, to lift all conflicts into a higher solution.

Can we pray that this year love will not be forgotten, that we will hold the realization that without love, hate prevails?

Can we pray that all the people who know love will evoke it, and will stay on the light side of human striving?  Not hating the dark, but gently replacing it… as we share and learn and hope with each other.

 

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The Horse Spirit and Synchronicity

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Throughout our history, the Horse has been recorded as a figure of importance in mythologies and cultures around the world. Spiritual messages are believed to be passed through sightings of horses, and as spirit guides, the colours, markings, and bearing of the horse in question can indicate the type of guidance we are receiving. According to many, paint horses – those with white and solid colours, represent freedom and adventure, white horses call us to spiritual investigation, and black horses symbolize shadow and mystery.

Horses played a huge role in the longer now of the Second Insight, but as we moved forward technologically, many of us lost the likelihood of creating those wondrous relationships. Happily, there is a shift occurring as more and more people are interested in restoring horsemanship back into their lives. We are seeing a resurgence of the horse-human relationship. Their beauty and grace, along with the freedom and spirit they represent, combine to give them a power that, for many of us, is beyond compare.

Over the years, a multitude of papers have been published on the benefits of working with horses. However, long before science could back it up, many spiritual teachings told of horses restoring us. And now, with all that is changing in the world of health and wellness, the Horse is finally being given their rightful place among healers.

They have a presence that can induce a state similar to meditation, where time becomes meaningless and something other takes over. Often following time with horses, we overflow with feelings of balance and wellbeing. I’ve personally been fortunate enough to both witness and experience this phenomenon numerous times, and believe that this effect is caused by their souls, by the energetic bodies of horses.

Many modern day energy workers believe that horses have expansive auras, much larger than our own or most others mammals. They remain grounded, tuned in and open to the Universal energy with no need to stealenergy. Instead they act as open conduits, sharing this gift of energy freely – with us, with each other, with the world at large, without being drained themselves.

My world changed in one day.

I grew up in a ranching community, and come from a family of cattle ranchers and horsemen, but never owned horses myself until I was an adult. I started taking my animal-loving daughter to horseback riding lessons and shortly after, was riding myself as well. During this same period of time, I, like so many others, suffered from panic attacks. At times I was okay, but at times they were extreme to the point of debilitating.

One day as we headed out to go riding I had a panic attack, and I am forever thankful that I did. I was embarrassed and red eyed. My entire body was shaking, sweating, and I smelled like fear. And then, I touched Kisses, the horse who changed my life.

As my hand made contact with her, it was as though she flicked the off switch on my fight or flight response. Everything relaxed, the fear, the anxiety, the shaking. My heart rate slowed and I felt like I could swallow again.

I went home that day knowing that working with horses to help people heal was a part of my calling, my lifes purpose. That day, out of one of the worst panic attacks of my life, a horse and a moment of synchronicity led me to a new life.

The gifts horses give us.

Nearly a decade and a half later, I am still in awe of the amazing gifts that horses offer us. They increase levels of health and happiness, helping us to transcend the mundane, while inspiring love, compassion, and understanding. While there are those who have had negative horse experiences due to extenuating circumstances, the number of people who claim feelings of worth and wholeness through time with horses is staggering.

Horses of the right temperament offer us a place to relax, to be accepted exactly as we are, and encourage us to let go of our stress. This is especially true for the vulnerable, when we are unwell, suffering, or traumatized. We cant make a bad impression on these horses just by being ourselves. They dont care what we dress like, if our hair is a mess, or if we have scars and baggage. While they can learn not to trust people who treat them poorly, we can make mistakes in their presence and still be welcome. We can do things incorrectly and clumsily as were learning. We can be afraid, raw and real, and the next day they will be there for us, waiting for a scratch and a nuzzle.   

They have a sense of what we need, of what gaps need to be filled. Horses teach us to tune in to our own energy, intuition, and sensitivity. And while their energy bodies are working magic within our own, horses can show us exactly what we need, whether that means lending their shoulder to cry on or acting as a mirror and showing us the hard truths about ourselves.

The karmic effect spoken of in the Third Insight also become immediately apparent through time spent among them. While horses are naturally very giving, they are amplified by what they get, so the more giving of love and kindness we are to them, the more they give back. The cause and the effect happens almost simultaneously and is impossible to ignore. This leads to creating giving and respectful relationships, where we learn to communicate effectively in order to create real and lasting bonds.

I believe that horses have an important role to play in the emerging culture of the Ninth Insight, and while it is definitely not feasible for everyone to own horses at this point, there are options available for people who wish to learn about and safely engage with them. People offer healing sessions and retreats with horses, therapeutic facilities take volunteers, farms and ranches provide tours and rides. The Fifth Insight – The Message of the Mystics speaks of a deep spiritual connection and there is no where Ive felt this play out more strongly in my own life than being in nature with horses. For anyone who has felt called to be with horses, I urge you to listen. The stirring is in you for a reason and the experience is amazing.

 

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Map To a Better World

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The concept that we are all one, connected to each other by invisible energy, can be a struggle to accept. Not because we don’t want to believe that there is some greater force that we are all a part of, but because it can be hard to understand. At least it was for me and […]

Shifting from Independence to Interdependence

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We’ve all heard the expression “It takes a village” in reference to the raising of children. And it’s true, it does take numerous people to successfully nurture children, give them the experiences that enable a well rounded life, whilst allowing the parents to maintain some sense of self. What we forget is that as we […]

Stress Less: Energetic Self-Care for the Holiday Season

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The holiday season is upon us once again and as always, it is a lot. A lot of energy, a lot of noise, a lot chaos, a lot of love. We are commonly told that the joy is in giving rather than receiving, and that the most important part of this season is being with […]

Celestine Prophecy Secrets: Staying Out of Control Dramas

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If you have read the Celestine Prophecy, then you know that “Staying out of CONTROL DRAMAS” is essential to becoming more Conscious and being able to create the life you want.  Remember, THE CELESTINE PROPHECY reveals 9 of 12 truths about how the world “really” works and how humanity is destined to come into alignment […]

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Handling Christmas Without Your Children After Divorce

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Christmas and this run up period is meant to be one of the most joyful times of the year. However, if you’ve recently journeyed through divorce, the festive period can be one of the most emotionally challenging times to handle.  If you’ve split from the mother/father of your children and you’ll be alternating Christmas’ yearly […]

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