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Thursday, April 9, 2015
COMMENDATION
2015, GRATITUDE, TRUTH
APRIL 9, 2015
Do you praise, or Commend, in equal measure to the Condemnation you share? Commendation provides a lifting of Sprits; it is a vibration that is enjoyed by both the giver and the receiver. Do not Commend falsely. Commendation is the art of seeing what is beneficial, positive, well-done and helpful, and expressing gratitude about it or for it.
To Commend is to acknowledge an action or achievement, and its maker, in a way that is genuine—as a reflection for how that same reflects in the whole of Great All or in the measure of progress in some microcosm of the same. To Commend a child for sharing something, unbidden, is liken to Commending a nation for sharing unbidden their resources to help others.
Commendation is not used for manipulation, to aggrandize, to level playing fields, or to falsely attune to peer standards. Commendation is the pure act of seeing an action or achievement and being moved by it to the degree that from a place of respect (even silently, in your thoughts), you feel pulled to thank its maker.
What in your world today can you give your Commendation? What can you give your world today, that will cause your world to give You its Commendation?
Blessed Be This Day
This is a Direct Voice Communication from my Tribe, Spirit Guides who share their wisdoms with me from the other side of the veil.
When we lack the ability to apply our Will to our Purpose, streamlining our Behavior, Thoughts, and Actions to Right disciplines, Intemperance occurs. Whether that means indulgences in food and drink, sexual endeavors, spending, or risky behaviors, a pattern of Intemperance can throw us from the path and keep us from the path, traveling indefinitely in circles. How do we identify this, and how can we rectify it?
We have spoken to you before about circular thinking, and about looking for the places at which you attach your energies. Begin there, in seeing where your patterns lie. Quite often we attribute behaviors to part of our character—as colorful or unavoidable quirks—when we should be looking at these behaviors as aberrances and intruders. Upon finding these impediments to Right-Willed behaviors and Positive-Growth behaviors, we should immediately begin to negate them.
Chocolate is a pleasure to those who crave it. To have it in moderation is wonderful. To have it in such quantities that it replaces nourishing food and disrupts the body’s chemistry is destructive.
To consume alcohol is a delight—until pleasure has become an addiction—until the body begins to suffer and fail—until the social and work life are lost to its effects.
To seek sex, drugs, violence, or other high levels of stimuli at addictive frequencies can bring ruin. All of these examples are quite obvious. But what of the quiet, tiny, and white-noise type behaviors that run disruptive programs in the backgrounds of our days and nights, working as silent directors, driving our lives without our conscious knowledge?
What of the small anxieties, covetous fears, arbitrators of low self-esteem, fear-based greed, indecision, bullying, manipulation, and silent hate that flows through our thoughts, and manifests in so many outcomes each day? How many of these Intemperances—that we call human behavior and personality quirks—are self-allowed faults that keep us from personal and cosmic harmony?
Be honest; not perfect. Be aware; not willfully blind. Notice the plank in your own eye before pointing out the splinter in another’s.
This is not easy work. It is painful. It is destructive to the ego. It is necessary.
Which of your behaviors is most circular, most tiring, most demanding? Which behavior has you believing you are the least capable of changing? That behavior is riding at the surface, waiting for your attention—demanding your attention.
Look at this behavior as an un-involved observer would study it, outside time and social restraint. Can you see this behavior as if you have just come to your own culture from another time and another galaxy? Can you see this behavior in the context of Great All, how it works, from the aspect of how it affects the person perpetrating the behavior, and how it affects those persons influenced by the behavior? You will see that, observed in this way, the behavior looks very different to you.
Quite often, unmasking the behavior in its true form is the only thing needed to overcome its false power. You will begin to un-power the behavior, and deconstruct its forms and pathways, those automatic responses it has created in your thought structures. Let us say that you are working with a chocolate addiction.
You have just unmasked your ‘love of chocolate’ as a food addiction. You now realize that you crave this substance, using it as both a reward and a punishment. You realize that you eat this substance so often that you replace nourishing meals with its un-nourishing calories. You have been told by health professionals that your teeth and your organs are suffering due to your chemistry levels. What was once a ‘personality quirk,’ joked about with your friends, is now an Intemperance that you intend to correct.
Establishing the Intemperance is a crucial first step. You understand that a behavior is out of balance. The ideas of reward and punishment are universal and deeply rooted. Treatises to deal with those matters are out of scope for these communications at this time. Our intention is to make you aware of your subconscious habits, to understand that personality quirks and character flaws are often something more.
In the rules of microcosm/macrocosm, when we overpower anything through the use of Right Will, we form a template, an everlasting pattern that becomes part of our Song. Encountering any emotional condition becomes more manageable when we have a frame of reference, a template onto which we may apply its main points and study it. When we may look at things in the light, in diagram, in their reality if not their Truth, we have the opportunity to respond with greater authenticity.
Blessed Be This Day
This is a Direct Voice Communication from my Tribe, Spirit Guides who share their wisdoms with me from the other side of the veil.
From what source does the motivating force, and the energetic factors of Life come? How are living things made animate? How is it that you are here, reading this, enjoying a body that is alive, awake, aware, and busy with billions of separate processes? In this stream of constant, re-circulating, reciprocating energies, how can one experience Fatigue?
First: what is Fatigue? When you believe you are Fatigued, can you pinpoint the source? Is your physical vehicle lacking rest or nourishment; is it mal-aligned or dis-eased? Do your memories or emotions torment you? Is your Spirit at odds with your thoughts, behaviors, and actions? How is your Fatigue made manifest? In how many ways and conditions?
We must first point out to you that living in a mortal body has physical limitations, and that your current genetic mutations do not complement your current geopolitical and socio-economical ideals and beliefs. You are a world of busy-doers and achievers. You are worriers and strivers. You war with yourselves and with others. From the aspect of physical self, emotional self, rational self, and spiritual Self, these habits are circular, superficial, and non-growth oriented.
Your Highest Self holds its energy away from those conditions which do not serve the Highest Good of your Eternal Self and the Great All. Eternal Self does not cast its lot with low behaviors. Therefore, when you engage in low activities—beliefs, behaviors, and actions that oppose Eternal Self and Great All—you will remain to the greater degree, unfunded by its greater resources.
There must also be respect given to form. You would not ask the apple tree to produce apples all year long, in all its seasons. You would not ask the beasts of the field to plow each day without rest. A well cannot supply beyond its capability, nor a dwelling hold more than it’s able. There is a template in the mortal world for each receptacle and its purpose. The function and form of each thing has a balance point, and to work optimally, that balance point should be met.
Draw too much water from the well today, and let the well recover tomorrow. Take apples in the summer, and allow the apple tree to nourish itself for next summer’s bounty. To plow your fields, give your beasts their food and rest—and do the same for your Self. The balance point must be maintained.
Considering these points, ask your Self again: are you Fatigued, or is your well taxed? What is reasonable and what amount of burden takes you off your balance point? How can this be corrected?
Look at your Life. Test its priorities. Measure your Beliefs against Truth. To which entities is your personal energy connected? How can you go to your sleep each night, not in deficit, but in a state of balance?
Release one activity or obligation that draws upon your energy without return. Embrace one activity that honors your wholeness, bringing you closer to balance. You will find your balance point when you have removed the governors on your incoming energies, and the strain on what you falsely share.
Blessed Be This Day
This is a Direct Voice Communication from my Tribe, Spirit Guides who share their wisdoms with me from the other side of the veil.
When you are in the Right, that is, using Right Will, you will find that your movements through life glide more often than they stutter. When heart, mind, intention, and action, are dovetailed in your purpose, the path ahead clears for you. You see the line of light laid out ahead, seamless and bright, ready for your advancement, with helpers placed along the way.
This is not to say that You will not experience times of darkness and not-knowing. This is not to say that to feel alone and unsupported indicates that you are Wrong-Willed. Sometimes, what is perceived as a negative experience, must be felt in all levels of the self, in order to tempor the reasoning, empathy, and compassion necessary to deal justly with others, and with life experiences.
Right Of Way is a precedent. It is a Golden Rule for the Self, stating simply that the Spirit will give over more freely to that which is actively Good-Intentioned before it will give over to its opposite. Think of how you feel upon completing something positive and inspiring as compared to lashing out with foul or hurtful behavior. You feel harmony and satisfaction with the first; disharmony and dissatisfaction with the latter.
Right Of Way is a natural occurrence. It cannot be bought, bartered, or otherwise traded upon. It is not what happens in traffic or in grand processionals. Right Of Way as we are discussing it with you, is the course of Spirit flowing forward, in accord with the harmony of Right Will.
Try for one week, acting from only Right Will in all that you do: thinking from Right Will, applying yourself from Right Will. Invite Right Of Way into your life and see how your life changes.
Blessed Be This Day
This is a Direct Voice Communication from my Tribe, Spirit Guides who share their wisdoms with me from the other side of the veil.
The gathering of many brings with it an energy that is a reflection of each individual, and of all the individuals together. Add one person or subtract one person, or consider all of the members together, or any individual alone at any other moment of time, and you will have a different Congregation. For you are unto your Self, a Song, and in blending with others, make another Song. Together in large groups, we make astounding symphonies.
Partly, what is meant in saying that something is harmonious, is that the conditions of the thing, person, or place considered, is harmonious to the Song of the Self, or of the Congregation. A Congregation in a state of harmony is a force for peace. We know well enough what a Congregation in a state of dis-harmony is: a force for destruction.
You have been part of many Congregations, and will be part of many more. One Congregation is family. Another is your neighborhood and your community. Schools and workplaces group people into Congregations, as well as places of worship and other unifying beliefs.
This Tribe from whence we speak to you, is a Congregation. We vibrate together as helper/healers and speak through this Tribe member who is also a helper/healer, and can bridge the space between where we currently stand and where you can listen.
To which Congregations do you belong? Which are comfortable, and which feel dis-harmonious? Which Congregations were you born to and which did you enter of your own free will? Of these Congregations, with which do you have physical contact, and which have influence over you at a distance—with your beliefs, thoughts, and personal energies—such as cosmologies, religions, or other paradigms?
As you consider this, remember, that you, too, are part of a cosmic Tribe or Congregation. You belong to a group whose core harmony reflects certain skills and interests. Like the helper/healers, you may have a bent for building things, or for regeneration, or negotiation, or for supplying others with muse energy. You may bridge worlds, through language or artforms. You may be gifted in working with children, animals, plants, or the elements.
Your natural skills and your interests will show you to what cosmic Congregation you belong. And your heart and intuition will lead you to how best this serves Great All and all of its inhabitants.
Blessed Be This Day
This is a Direct Voice Communication from my Tribe, Spirit Guides who share their wisdoms with me from the other side of the veil.
There are specific trials which endanger the soul. Among these are self-illusion grandeur, obsession and entitlement. Look closely at your life: where do these conditions exist? If you have arranged your life so that material objects influence you, whether or not they are present, then you have constructed a life which spiritually, will be lacking.
To express oneself is a beautiful thing. Can you do this with might and clarity, or do you feel the need to have empty articles around you in order to feel whole? Yes, you can have both articles and wisdom. You can live in an embellished house and have nonattachment. But, beware that to control your life, you must also control the things you invite into your world, and not let material objects control you.
Take inventory today of the influences in your life, and consider how much influence each thing has.
We will save the influence of people for another time. Day by day we will look at these things and contemplate our relationship with them. Some things to think about are universal, whether you consider yourself to be blessed or poor in these categories: food, shelter, tools, conveyances, and luxuries.
Most persons reading this will have abundance in more than one of these categories. Do the items in these categories serve you . . . or are you serving these objects? Do these objects make your life easier, or do they lure you to spend time and energy away from what might be more important, more life-affirming, or more celebratory?
Do you use the ‘possession’ of these objects to make excuses for destructive or ‘deadening’ habits: overeating and food punishment; overextension of housing expenditures in time, money, energy, and attention; absorption and contemplation with tools that support the manufacture of more empty goods rather than spirit-affirming goods; conveyances that inflate ego rather than serve a main intent; and luxuries . . . a broad category.
Let us refrain from preaching. That is not our intent. We desire to bring awareness to where your energies lie in your life. What all peoples have in common while in mortal incarnation is a limit of time and energy to spend. Wise use of these assets gives life room for greater joy.
Blessed Be This Day This is a Direct Voice Communication from my Tribe, Spirit Guides who share their wisdoms with me from the other side of the veil.
As you were first created, Sung into Creation, your harmonies were blended from, and into, the harmonies of Great All. This is Your First Song. It is your base vibration, a complex blend of everything that is You at the moment of your making.
And each time you are re-made, a perpetual process, your Song evolves. But your First Song is always there, singing You.
When you are quiet and still, listening to the music of Great All, part of what you hear is your current Song, and part of what you hear is your First Song. When you feel lost or confused, listen for your First Song, that undiluted blueprint of You that was envisioned by your Creators. All of the hopes of You are in that First Song: what you may do and how you will contribute.
The First Song is your birth blessing. It is your Guidance Prayer. It is your homing device. All things can be answered through your First Song. Seek it when you are weary. Let it fill and lift you.
Let your First Song re-Sing to you, the beauty of Home.
Blessed Be This Day This is a Direct Voice Communication from my Tribe, Spirit Guides who share their wisdoms with me from the other side of the veil.
