Practice makes perfect they say. Well, we as a human race are definitely being given opportunities to practice at this time. Since the Tsunami & earthquake that hit Japan I have been feeling deep deep waves of sorrow, fear and debilitation. Facing my own inner tsunami of change and transformation....as with many of us. I often feel into "the field" and to clients, friends and family around me and over the past week there has been an increasing feeling of heaviness, sadness and a feeling of being lost.
After reading the latest on my Yahoo homepage, I discovered that the earth has shifted 6.5 inches off its axis and that the earth has sped up yet again, decreasing the length of a standard day - due to the earthquake that occurred on March 11, 2011. And then checking the Astrological report for the day I find out that earth is right in the middle of the two largest planets - Jupiter and Saturn - creating a tug-of-war, a feeling of being pulled....which would ripple right down to confusion, chaos and lack of spiritual clarity....which then ripples into a feeling of isolation, stagnation and feeling completely debilitated.
I felt a sigh of relief to know that something is going on on the larger whole - macro level and that the past week of low energy wasn't just me. Honestly, since returning from Trinidad I had been feeling slightly off, sad, confused, isolated and slightly depressed. I thought, okay, this is normal....I just left my husband with an uncertainty as to when we'd see each other again and faced with decisions as to where we can live while we await immigration paperwork....but the feeling has been lingering...and was getting worse until this morning.
I laid in bed, looking out the window and asked spirit to show me the truth of what's happening and why I was feeling the heaviness within me and of many around me. Here's what "they" told me:
"Humanity has just experienced a great shift in awareness, in the form of a world event that has shaken everyone up - whether he or she is conscious of it or not - everyone is being effected right now. From the macro to the micro and back up again. Along humanity's existence there have been many tests, trials, learnings, upheavals and challenges. It has been a part of the great plan for optimal learning and growth. As human consciousness is elevating, becoming more aware of the oneness of all beings, we decide to grow together instead of separate individuals. What effects one, effects all. Therefore major earth changes happen - assisting in the overall evolution and growth of EVERYONE. No one is excluded. You are all being given an opportunity to PRACTICE right now what you have learned thus far. What will you do in the face of great change and chaos? How will you handle fear? What choices will you make when faced with life and death situations?
Many will run, hide, pretend and suppress. However we know a higher way of growing. NOW is the time to practice your ability to create. To create EVERYTHING. You are all such powerful beings of light. It is time to remember this truth. It is time to step into the awareness that you are not separate from your brothers and sisters across the world. That what is happening to them is happening to you - it may not be in your external world such as your home land or environment, however something is happening in the internal - within your emotions, thoughts and spiritual body. You are awakening and growing.
When you practice being of service, loving one another, showing compassion to self and others you actually change the circumstance you are in. You begin to tap into the collective power of intention and manifestation. At this time in human existence, what will you create? What do you want to feel? How can you rise above adversity? It is now time to choose differently. To create your own feeling space. Do you choose love and acceptance? Or fear and despair? Do you choose to create abundantly from joy, from the power of your unique gifts? Or do you cower in loss and fear and stop playing the game altogether?
You are here to practice. It is part of why each of you have come here, in physical form, to practice everything - from grief to joy, creation to destruction. Each opportunity; every moment; every experience - is an opportunity for growth, for spiritual advancement and awakening. Everything! This is your practice. What will you choose? What is your practice? It is now time to choose what you WILL create and practice. Choice-point. Will you choose to create further chaos and pain? Or will choose to create life and joy and oneness and love? You have free will - the choice of practice is in your hands.
We are always here to guide, support and love you. You are never alone on this journey, regardless of what you've been told. This is a collective journey in many single forms. We love you."
After hearing this message I thought, "Wow...okay....lets try it out...Help me to remember. I have nothing to lose from trying." I felt into my gifts...how can be more of service to humanity right now? How can I practice the love more fully that flows through me? ...... In the stillness and silence the answer arrived ....... Share. Write. Love. Heal. Do what you love to do.
And so, here I am - offering this writing as part of my gift, compassion and love for all of humanity.
If you wish to receive healing take a moment to get centered right now. Take a few deep breaths. Close your eyes. Feel the love that is pouring into your heart and being right now. We set the intention to remove, release and clear ALL FEAR; ALL CONFUSION; ALL LACK AND LIMITATION; ALL DESPERATION; ALL SADNESS; ALL ANGER; ALL SCARCITY; ALL SORROW - clearing in the highest and best way, for the highest and best good for all beings everywhere. Breathing into this space of cleansing. Aaahhhh. And from this space of opening we set the intention to be refilled with LOVE; ACCEPTANCE; COMPASSION; TRUST; TRUSTING THE DIVINE PATH AS IT UNFOLDS; TRUTH; INNER KNOWING; PEACE; STILLNESS; AND SUPPORT - feeling the wings of angels surround us, support us, love us and lift our hearts and minds to a higher place - anchoring a higher vision for the earth and all her inhabitants. AND SO IT IS.
It is time to practice what we know - and not just from a place of healing or learned spiritual practices...but from a knowing deep inside of us. So what do we know for sure? We know love, we know compassion, we know gratitude, we know how to give. So lets practice that! Lets each practice what we know for sure. If you are drawn to joy - practice being in a state of joy all day long. If you know love - practice feeling or sharing love with self or others. If you know gratitude - practice being grateful for all that you see, from a grain of sand to the budding of a tree to how our heart beats in rhythm. If you know yoga - practice and dedicate your practice outward. Whatever it is you know for sure...put it into practice now. Play with how you can maximize this practice and experience....and then watch how your world around will shift and change and elevate! Rippling out, effecting so many others in a positive wave-chain!
I thank each and every one of you - for being here in this experience at this time in human history. Thank you for your courage, your continued faith, your choice for saying yes to being here and bringing forth all of the amazing light that you are. May your gifts be fully expressed and shared with the world as you practice creating a space - inner and outer - for which you wish to live...created from joy and love and abundance!
Holding all of you in such love,
tara - aka "the love bug", goddess of compassion
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Buddha Sees Shells by Kevin Gerien
Buddha Sees Shells
Friday, March 11, 2011
New Beginnings from Foundations Past
New Beginnings from Foundations Past
Have you ever wondered how something you are doing now will effect your future? Or how past events may have an influence on who you are and what you are doing today? Most of the time when we are "in it"...going about our day-to-day activities...we rarely ponder how this action may ripple out and effect future lives, future paths or even where may be going. Until some years later when we stop and reflect on the events of our life and have one of those "aha" moments of complete awareness that the events that have occurred had to happen in such perfect order for this exact moment to unfold as it is! It truly is an amazing phenomenon to witness!!
We never know how one action, one word or one act of kindness may shift or effect the course of another! The ripples are exponential and infinite!
I met with a colleague from my seeming-distant past - a time when we both worked at the Ministry of Health over 5 years ago. It was amazing and wonderful to hear about how his path has unfolded and about the powerful impact he is having on the lives of those he interacts with! I had no idea. This man was always very kind, happy, caring and in the flow of life...his staff have always loved him, followed him from Ministry to Ministry....because of his honesty and integrity. We engaged in conversation about life, inspiration, leadership and the simplicity of a joyful life. I was inspired while speaking with him! He is a Deputy Minister of Children & Youth Services now and shared some of the uplifting day-to-day activities he is involved in, by his own choice and doing. With a deep desire and passion for helping and bettering the lives of others, he took a leap of faith and courage and reached out beyond the call of duty. In wanting to understand the youth of today, especially those who have traveled paths less glamorous, he visited a number of youth detention facilities and just sat and talked with the young individuals about life, how their path brought them to this point, how the programs at the facility could be improved and provided them with an opportunity to be a part of their own self-learning and rehabilitation - candid, open, vulnerable, accepting and compassionate. Instead of shying away from the issues, he took the time and extended a caring hand.
He also started a blog where he shares details of who he is, his life and the realness of his experience. And the best part...his blog is accessible to all of his staff and anyone he comes into contact with! A space of complete honesty and openness....nothing hidden! Full authenticity and integrity! I love it! The power and impact of this is far reaching! People respect and honour who he is! His staff love him! People ask him to speak at Leadership conferences! All because of his honest, open realness and deep passion and love for helping people and wanting to make a difference!
We just never know who, how, where or when we might touch the life of another and make a difference! It's one of the greatest mysteries! And once in a while we get a glimpse of the impact one smile, a gentle word, a gesture of inspiration or a random act of kindness has on another human being...shaping or changing the course of his or her life to a higher place!!!
As I complete this newsletter and article, the radio station harmonized with the writing in expressing the following song by Hootie & the Blowfish:
"One love might make a difference....Might take the walls and tear them down....One light might keep on shinning....If we take One love we spread it around....Same scene played over and over and over now....Same young passion, same red blood....universal language goes unspoken....but only One love.....One love might make a difference...."
Like I said, we just never know how we effect the world around us.....I love the interconnection of all things!!
Have you ever wondered how something you are doing now will effect your future? Or how past events may have an influence on who you are and what you are doing today? Most of the time when we are "in it"...going about our day-to-day activities...we rarely ponder how this action may ripple out and effect future lives, future paths or even where may be going. Until some years later when we stop and reflect on the events of our life and have one of those "aha" moments of complete awareness that the events that have occurred had to happen in such perfect order for this exact moment to unfold as it is! It truly is an amazing phenomenon to witness!!
We never know how one action, one word or one act of kindness may shift or effect the course of another! The ripples are exponential and infinite!
I met with a colleague from my seeming-distant past - a time when we both worked at the Ministry of Health over 5 years ago. It was amazing and wonderful to hear about how his path has unfolded and about the powerful impact he is having on the lives of those he interacts with! I had no idea. This man was always very kind, happy, caring and in the flow of life...his staff have always loved him, followed him from Ministry to Ministry....because of his honesty and integrity. We engaged in conversation about life, inspiration, leadership and the simplicity of a joyful life. I was inspired while speaking with him! He is a Deputy Minister of Children & Youth Services now and shared some of the uplifting day-to-day activities he is involved in, by his own choice and doing. With a deep desire and passion for helping and bettering the lives of others, he took a leap of faith and courage and reached out beyond the call of duty. In wanting to understand the youth of today, especially those who have traveled paths less glamorous, he visited a number of youth detention facilities and just sat and talked with the young individuals about life, how their path brought them to this point, how the programs at the facility could be improved and provided them with an opportunity to be a part of their own self-learning and rehabilitation - candid, open, vulnerable, accepting and compassionate. Instead of shying away from the issues, he took the time and extended a caring hand.
He also started a blog where he shares details of who he is, his life and the realness of his experience. And the best part...his blog is accessible to all of his staff and anyone he comes into contact with! A space of complete honesty and openness....nothing hidden! Full authenticity and integrity! I love it! The power and impact of this is far reaching! People respect and honour who he is! His staff love him! People ask him to speak at Leadership conferences! All because of his honest, open realness and deep passion and love for helping people and wanting to make a difference!
We just never know who, how, where or when we might touch the life of another and make a difference! It's one of the greatest mysteries! And once in a while we get a glimpse of the impact one smile, a gentle word, a gesture of inspiration or a random act of kindness has on another human being...shaping or changing the course of his or her life to a higher place!!!
As I complete this newsletter and article, the radio station harmonized with the writing in expressing the following song by Hootie & the Blowfish: "One love might make a difference....Might take the walls and tear them down....One light might keep on shinning....If we take One love we spread it around....Same scene played over and over and over now....Same young passion, same red blood....universal language goes unspoken....but only One love.....One love might make a difference...."
Like I said, we just never know how we effect the world around us.....I love the interconnection of all things!!
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