DISTRACTION

2014, DISTRACTION, DREAMTIME, IMAGINATION

You are focused on a central point and then your focus is beside you, or over hill and dale.  It has moved forward or back.  Now it is spinning in circles.  The central point which you wish to consider is disconnected from your energy.  You are in a state of Distraction.

We have all experienced this condition.  Sometimes Distraction provides a needed break from tedious work; sometimes it allows for the interjection into our studies, of other factors we might have considered non-related, that end up being helpful.  And sometimes, Distraction keeps us spinning in circles, impeding our forward progress.

First, study your quality of Distraction.  How often are you Distracted?  Are you Distracted while busy at enjoyable tasks or only those that are odious?  Does your level of Distraction rise where there is no expectation of newness or reward?  Do you purposely use Distraction to judge the value of the engagement at hand, those involved with you in doing it, or in judging yourself?

Let us say there is a task that needs doing, that you do not want to do.  You attempt to do this task, and each time your focus wanders so far, so fast, you become frozen and abandon the attempt.  This sometimes happens when a task is dangerous, overlarge, or dauntingly emotional.  Think of escaping captives at risk of losing their life, and thereby losing their focus for planning the first step by the Distraction of forward thinking all of the possibilities of failure and recapture.

Think of beginning a revolution, an overlarge task, or of making the first steps in cleaning out a child’s room following that child’s mortal transition.  Sometimes the mind and emotions shrink away from some or many portions of a task in which the ego-will would gladly engage.  Yes, you long to escape your captors, or free your mistreated people, or regain your burdened energy or space for your other children, but emotion and mind hold you back.

Your Distractions keep you moving in circles, returning you to the starting point again and again, the point marked:  “Not Today,” or “Not Now.”  That echo point may never say “Not Ever,” for you might not make that journey again.  These are a few examples of Distraction serving the pattern of the overruling emotional body and belief system.  

Notice that we do not include the idea that moving circularly is serving YOU.

What of day-to-day Distraction:  the column of numbers that must be added multiple times, the stretch of road forgotten, the details of an important venture momentarily ungraspable, then broken into ten subjects that rush into wormholes of seemingly unrelated subject matters?  Some of these concerns are false Belief.  Yes.  Who taught you that the mind was made to go to one place, one point, in one fragment of time, and like a laser beam, think only of that thing?

Does your body think only of beating your heart or taking in and utilizing your oxygen or managing your millions of electrical and chemical reactions?  Think of the multitudinous, overlapping reactions happening in your body Right Now.  Merge your Eternal Body with that.  Now, consider your immediate environment and then the greater environment—and greater and greater.  This splendour of activity within and without us, Life, is a Feast.

It is meant to be enjoyed in its great estate and in its minor one.  In this manner, Distraction can be a beautiful thing.  It can make us aware of things that exist just offside of our focus.  It is how the artist and inventor work.  It is the ingenious spark, hovering just outside of focus, followed and then embraced, that often provides the missing piece, elevating a work from the mundane to the brilliant.

Fine, you say.  But, what of my daily Focus and Distraction?  For that, we have a formulae. 

Allow yourself Distraction.  It is Dreamtime.  It is the gazing upon of fireflies and stars.  It unwinds a tense body and calms a ragged mind.  But, like sleep and dreaming, it must be taken in doses—and it has its places.

You do not use Dreamtime behind the wheel of your car.  You do not apply Dreamtime when Focus is needed, the sharp precision of energy brought to a central point of concentration.  You do not hide in Dreamtime to avoid Life activities and Life responsibilities:  you use Dreamtime to help creatively solve difficulties with these activities and responsibilities.

Distraction is a tool for harvesting when properly applied.  It is a restful state when taken in proper dosage.  When used as an escape and a tool for unnecessary alteration, it becomes as a drug, addictive and sometimes numbing.  Lost in Distraction, one may descend deeper and deeper, until the art of Focus is lost.

Therefore, understanding both Distraction and Focus together as corresponding and symbiotic tools, is an important Life Skill.  It is much needed today in your world and we will speak more deeply on this subject.

Blessed Be This Day

This is a Direct Voice Communication from my Tribe, Spirit Elders who share their wisdoms with me from the other side of the veil.

    Archives: September 16, 2014

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THE BROKEN HEART

2014, ACCEPTANCE, THE BROKEN

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

What is the phenomenon that is termed “The Broken Heart”? Is this a mortal condition, felt only in the body? Is this condition deeper, one that affects the immortal Spirit and its emotional health, self-value, and belief?

What is heart? What is A HEART? Do you believe that you were made in the image of your Maker? How so? What if your Spirit was made in the image of your Creator Spirit’s image, that bright, eternal, body of pure Light and Life that fires the stars? Would you then think about the heart/Heart in a different way?

Notice the condition of Spirit in people, from their birth. Some are merry, some serious. Some never seem to grow up and some seem to be born old and knowing. These are tell-signs that speak of the condition of the Heart. The more a Heart has been broken—as bread has been broken—the more a Heart has been opened, examined on its inside, and shared.

A Broken Heart, like broken bread, becomes a feast  that may nourish others. It sees the world from its insides. It exposes its core. It has given up its hardened outer shell and offered its softness, the commingled parts that have come together to create something that offers nourishment.

The young Heart is like the unbroken field. It turns in its puberty and is disrupted. It takes into itself the seeds of young adulthood and raises up its crops. And all of this time, it knows its setbacks, its storms and droughts, its predation. It may be trod upon and hacked at.

At harvest, there comes the threshing, and then the sifting of the flour and the combining of other ingredients to make the bread. The bread in itself is a miracle—what it took to bring these ingredients, one to another, to make this nourishment. It is mixed and pounded and kneaded and baked in a very hot oven. It is tempered by its trials.

Yet it arrives at the table a potential food. It has taken these pieces of Life unto itself and made a new purpose. See you this bread now as not only bread, but as its journey? The Heart is like this bread. Beginning young and unturned, it knows its first turnings, its sowings, its storms and droughts and predations.

The Heart grows Acceptance. It matures and gives its grains over to be made into bread. It allows itself to continue its trials, and is threshed and mixed, pounded, kneaded, and baked. It becomes bread not when it is set at the table, but when it agrees to become food. 

When It Agrees To Become Food.

Only the Broken Bread may serve as food. Only the Broken Heart may serve as food. Both are the result of long journeys with many trials. They become more capable, not less. 

This experience is not limited to Earth and the human incarnation. Then, why the Heart?  What is this pain in the chest you feel when experience affects your Heart, when your Heart feels the breaking? It is the Song of remaking, winding through you: the more electrical the place, the brighter the Song.

The Broken Heart is a sign of Life experienced, opened to and taken in. A Broken Heart is not a Broken Life; it is a Life fully lived. Will you be as the Bread of Life and nourish others from this Breaking?

Blessed Be This Day

This is a Direct Voice Communication from my Tribe, Spirit Elders who share their wisdoms with me from the other side of the veil.

    Archives: September 09, 2014

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HAPPENSTANCE

2014, DESTINY

SEPTEMBER 6, 2014

Do you believe in destiny?  How large a part in your life does free will play?  When something unplanned happens, do you believe that it was destined to happen?  Do you believe that fortunate events are rewards and that unfortunate events are punishments?  Are you missing the tableau of Life by viewing it in black and white?

If you observe the conditions of any event, you will find many aspects at work:  destiny, free will, spontaneity, acceptance, denial, creativity, singular activity, group activity, harmony, and disharmony.

Let’s consider an event:  the meeting of two lovers.  It is their destiny to meet in this lifetime.  They employ their free will, each of them, in determining that they will meet as lovers, and not as co-workers, neighbors, combatants, or friends.  Though it is not part of their destiny to stay together for the remainder of their incarnations, they decide that it must be so and spontaneously marry.

They are in complete acceptance of their physical union in the beginning phases of coming together and in denial of any naysaying around them.  Externally, this first creates a sense of harmony, but as they continue on together, disharmony unfolds as the energy between them becomes more denial of their physical union and acceptance of the naysaying around them.

Yet, they do not part, for it was destiny that brought them together, right?  How would you say to the sun, come together with the Earth and linger there, shining, for it is the sun’s destiny to shine upon the planet, and not think beyond the coming-together, or of Earth’s natural rotation?  All things have their reason and season. 

Let Life show you what It needs as You unfold with It.  And likewise, You must show Life what You need as you unfold within It. 

Destiny sets down markers, letting you know what goals you set for yourself.  It may say that your Life will be served by knowing this thing or meeting this person or having this experience, but Destiny will leave the details to you.

You may spontaneously decide to end your incarnation.  You may spontaneously decide to extend your incarnation.  You may be in full acceptance of all or some of the lessons that Life affords you.  You may be in full denial of some or all.  You may choose to interpret compassion in an historical way, through medicine or parenting, or you may apply skills creatively, by making images as an artist that help others to understand that compassion is needed.  Or you may apply compassion among people who have none and don’t even value it.

You may choose to experience your Life as more of a singular activity, affecting a limited amount of people, or a group activity, working on a large scale.  You may choose to follow the ways of harmony to promote harmony, or disharmony to promote disharmony.  You may even promote disharmony to help people seek its opposite . . . peace and harmony.

What you will not do in this Life, is be passive.  You will never merely exist, being only acted upon.  Destiny is not a hammer that strikes at you; it is a roadmap with mandatory refueling stations at which you must stop, doorways at which you must linger.  You decide in which condition and with what attitude you come to those points.

Is there Happenstance?  Coincidence?  Briefly, yes.  But the Great All is not a place of willy-nilly, where things are thrown together needing sorted out.  It is a great tapestry, a magnificent symphony.  To get to the Happenstance, many finely tuned events have occurred.  

You have primed the engines.  You have created potentials. You have created a Stance upon which things may Happen:  Happen—Stance.

Blessed Be This Day

This is a Direct Voice Communication from my Tribe, Spirit Elders who share their wisdoms with me from the other side of the veil.

    Archives: September 06, 2014

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FEAR VERSUS DREAD

2014, DREAD, FEAR

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Most of what you call Fear is merely learned reaction to distant things, a high level of Dread. Real Fear is an immediate reaction intended to increase your chances for survival, flooding you with the fight or flight response. Dread is a reaction of great resistance in response to an action you would not happily make. To be clear on this difference will aid you in empowering yourself, by reducing what you believe to be Fears.

Let us say that you believe you Fear high places. Are you in a high place right now? If not, then you actually have a Dread of high places. If merely thinking about high places causes a visceral reaction that is similar to or the same as, being in a high place, you are experiencing a very advanced state of Dread, that is emotionally, intellectually, and chemically analogous of the condition of Fear: these are not the conditions of which we speak. They are deeper and far more serious than what this treatise discusses today.

We have discussed many times, the power of word-thoughts and belief-thoughts. When you make a statement such as this one: “I fear I will die in my sleep and my children will have no one to care for them,” you are expressing a high level of Dread. If you are alive to express that Dread, you have not died, in your sleep or otherwise. How is it this Dread has taken your attention hostage? What thought-form first possessed you to pause with this idea and return to it again and again?

Unraveling these conditions may take many lifetimes, and to give advice here regarding how to treat such a thing in the mind-body is not our goal. We want only for you to be aware of the difference between true, spontaneous, life-affirming Fear and that of pattern-based, life-draining Dread. We want you to inventory your behaviors for Dread patterns and to become aware of them. What are these patterns?

They may sound similar to these very common patterns: I fear early death/ I fear disease/ I fear the loss of loved ones/ I fear abandonment/ I fear failure/ I fear isolation/ I fear challenge X/ I fear pain/ I fear my own abilities

All of these things listed are measures of Dread, not Fear. You may call them Fear, as you have mostly likely been taught to do. Meeting your challenges and challengers, begins with knowing them. You might be surprised by how your mind-body begins to heal itself when you reduce the burden of what you believe is its storehouse of Fears by demoting them to Dread.

It is the unimaginable battles with monsters that we truly Fear. Dread can help us to throw back our shoulders and lift our chins, seeing the other side of fray with reward won. Demote false Fears and restore to yourself those energies held hostage by lies.

Blessed Be This Day

This is a Direct Voice Communication from my Tribe, Spirit Elders who share their wisdoms with me from the other side of the veil.

     Archives: September 04, 2014

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TERMINALS AND END POINTS

2014, BELIEF, OPENNESS

AUGUST 31, 2014

Measuring progress is a matter for perspective.  When looking back, you might be considering periods of great activity or inactivity where memories cluster into Terminals, usually a point at which you were required to make a significant decision before moving on. 

If viewed from above, these Terminals might look like, and sometimes function similarly to, a hub or a power station that you can ‘plug into’, receiving data and guidance.  Informing your future and your future behavior often relies on the lessons you have gained, and stored at these Terminals.  Avoiding learned danger is one such example.


What happens, however, when a Terminal closes, and becomes an End Point?  An End Point is a closed field, a tribute, part of a record and part of what has gone into making You.  Learning to crawl and then to walk, in this mortal lifetime, were stored in Terminals while the accumulating ideas were active.  Once you had mastered these skills, those Terminals become End Points, with the attachments sites all occurring along the ‘stem’ up to a certain and final point.

Even if you were to lose your motor skills and had to learn again in this mortal lifetime how to crawl and how to walk, the resonance of those helpful memories would continue to be available to you in the still-live attachment sites below the End Point.  If you did not advance from crawling to walking to running to flying to teleporting, your Terminal would have a very predictable pattern.

But:  what if, once walking and running was mastered, you mutated for flying and then teleporting?  What if the state of your Belief was one of openness and expectation?  What if you embraced the idea that more is unknown to you than is known?  What if, instead of closing the Terminal, finalizing the ideas stored there as complete, and making an End Point (essentially stamping that file folder with the bold red words:  CLOSED), you kept open those Spiritual and neurological pathways to ideas yet unknown?

Can you fly?  How do you know?  As an infant, did you know you would crawl?  Can you teleport?  How do you know?  As an infant, did you know you would walk?

Returning again and again to End Points for information that was gathered and marked “Closed” long ago has its uses, and its faults.  New thinking does not arise from End Points.  End Points are static, they contain records of what was.  Fresh thinking, applied to old knowledge, keeps the branches of the tree alive and growing.  Terminals, to work properly, must be fed, just as a tree must be fed.

How often have you seen old data applied to new conditions with failed results?  A painter who paints the same piece over and over again will fail.  A car manufactured each year without new innovations will fail.  And a person who relies only on the ideas and beliefs that grow close to the trunk of his tree will fail—in expansion if nothing else.
Terminals form connections.  Like the neurological systems in your bodies, sending and receiving information, Terminals keep you connected, and fresh.  End Points are stagnant.

Are you working from End Points to form your opinions and ideas?  Do an assessment.  The more rigid an idea, the more likely the idea is stored in an End Point.  The more open and expansive an idea, the more likely the idea is stored in an alive and open-ended Terminal.  How many of your ideas are also Beliefs?  How many of your Beliefs do you take for Truth?

Imagine for a moment that your Life is a tree.  Imagine that you are a tree.  Lift your branches.  Move them.  Let them dance.  There is no need for stunted, arthritic, and immobile branches.  Let them all swing and sway to Great All’s symphony.  Let the Song move through you.

You are part of that Song.  Watch the wind and the grasses.  Watch the trees.  They will show you how Joy looks in the body.  Remember.

Blessed Be This Day

This is a Direct Voice Communication from my Tribe, Spirit Elders who share their wisdoms with me from the other side of the veil

      Archives: August 31, 2014

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SPACE

2014, CONNECTION, UNITY

AUGUST 29, 2014

 

How do you think of Space?  Do you measure it in the sense of enclosure, non-enclosure, boundaries, personal freedom, distance between people, places, objects, ideas, or conditions; or do you measure Space in Time?

What is Space?  Your quantum physics tells you that more Space exists in an atom than does structure.  But, what is structure, as compared to Space?  Are either ‘real’?

How does anything—thought, matter, light, sound—move from point A to point B?  Is it ‘through’ Space?  Do things ‘move’?  How so?  

Does this mean that Space is ‘something’ rather than ‘nothing’?  Does it mean that Space is alive?  How does the vibration of the word “Space” match with your conceived belief notions of what might be the functions, in total, of Space?

Of course, this is too large a matter to conceive with only the mind, but an excellent example of how words fall short in describing anything, especially things of grand matter.  If we could conceive of Space as a mystical conductor and eternal connective tissue, alive and omniscient, ever-changing, growing, and learning, what word could we assign it that would properly describe and elevate its true nature?

What if we allowed ourselves to explore this idea, and others, in a condition that is above words?  That is the condition that one reaches in high meditative and prayer states, where things are known and felt, in places beyond words.  Mind-fields unify ideas, beyond cultures and times and beliefs, in thought-places where words are a hindrance.

Strive for this in your meditation and prayer time.  Illumining your Spirit with the wonder of non-words grows exponentially, the peace and wisdom innate at your core.

 

Blessed Be This Day

This is a Direct Voice Communication from my Tribe, Spirit Elders who share their wisdoms with me from the other side of the veil

      Archives: August 29, 2014

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DRIFT

2014, AWARENESS, FOCUS

AUGUST 26, 2014

In order to fulfill your destiny, in the present and in its future, you must perpetually anchor its aspects in the moment-to-moment of your Life.  Though your horizon may stay equidistant to where you stand, no matter the ground beneath you or the conditions surrounding you, it is imperative that you channel towards and into yourself, those chords and notations for achieving what things next you will do and become.

When movement in Life becomes lateral, overslow, stagnant, or retrograde, your intentions and focus are in a state of Drift.  You are not anchoring your horizon with your present.  Even with the path well lit before you, if you do not walk the path, you will achieve nothing beyond the point at which you stop.

It is rare, except in states of preparation for mortal death, that all aspects are in Drift, but it is common for several aspects of character, belief, or Life energy to be in Drift.  While you may exceed in earning money, per se, you may be in a state of Drift about responsibly applying the bargaining power of the acquired money.  You may exceed in parenting skills, yet be in a state of Drift about your own health and well-being.

Look at your life today.  In which areas are you moving toward your horizon, with strength, integrity and clear purpose?  In which areas are you experiencing Drift?  What conditions have led to these differences in how you engage these different matters of life?  How do you think about and prioritize them?

Contemporary Earth dwellers, in the main, have too many outlets for energy and not enough inflow.  Study this idea as you consider what is in forward movement and what is in Drift.  Do not wait to be shown by tragedy and travail, what your priorities must be; discover them for yourself.  Discard what is non-essential; give energy first to what is vital and next to what is important, remembering to support your joy and regeneration.

Drift creates a kind of static that drags at all movement, making lode stones in the overall weight that you bear, especially when moving uphill.  Life is lighter when all the parts are moving parts and all are moving forward.  Reduce Drift/ increase effectiveness.  Reduce Drift/ increase vitality.  Reduce Drift/ increase satisfaction. 

Drift consumes space and energy.  When you stop feeding it, there is more food at your table for forward movement.

 

Blessed Be This Day

This is a Direct Voice Communication from my Tribe, Spirit Elders who share their wisdoms with me from the other side of the veil

      Archives: August 26, 2014

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