Paradise

One of my newest favorite songs is "Paradise" by Coldplay. I love the message in the song, that the girl finds her paradise when she falls asleep at night and dreams. Paradise is something we create in our minds and is a reality that we can visit anytime. The messages about life I have received lately is that people often get lazy and even those who say they are in touch with their highest purpose, often take the easy way out. When people do not listen to their intuition and ignore the numerous messages sent to them through synchronicity, they become more cut off from their true purpose. Yes, free will is allowed but veering off course always comes with a hefty price tag.  Hey, its not unlike school. If you get lazy with your school work, you miss homework assignments and you don't study, you will get bad grades or perhaps risk not graduating. Earth school works the same way. In fact, the lazier you get with your earthy lessons, you end up feeling indifferent, cut off and purposeless. Our spirit guides have great compassion and patience with us but they invest more energy in those displaying the most potential by doing their work. When you slack off, let fear block you or just refuse to follow the signs, the guides expend less and less energy on you. Come on, think about it...it's just like in our lives. If a friend keeps coming to us for advice and they never listen but instead just ignore everything you say, how likely are you to expend too much more time and energy helping them? Chances are, you begin to pull away, getting more frustrated with their laziness or plain refusal to change. It's their choice to stay stuck but you are not going to keep helping someone who is not helping themselves. Our spirit guides work on similar principals. Guidance is always available but guides don't focus so much energy on those who refuse to do their work. When guides begin to depart, you feel an energy shift and life becomes more mundane and routine. You may even notice that you have less energy and it takes more effort to get things done. I find the biggest perk to staying connected and doing my homework is that things fall into place more easily and everything I need gravitates toward me without much effort. In essence, the one way to create more of a paradise on earth is to stay in tune to doing your emotional and spiritual work. As the saying goes, "energy follows thought" so staying positive, focused and centered on growing as a person ensures positive results. Sure, there are tests along the way, but those tests are to help you grow more as a person and to help you get stronger. In addition, some trials are a part of soul contracts made by individuals, cleaning up old karma. Healing old karma is like mending fences, shifting the energy so that your soul becomes elevated. Everyone is attracting the exact individuals into their lives that they need for their highest good and for the most growth for their soul. If you attract someone that hurts you, then ask yourself what you might be replaying or what you needed to help you heal so that you could progress through this lesson. Many people just remain stuck in their pain because they are afraid to live empowered lives. Victimhood is a choice of perception and the easy way out while true empowerment takes effort and work.  Paradise is at hand however, once you take the steps necessary to keep moving forward, excited every day at the opportunities waiting around each corner for another opportunity to graduate to the next level. "When the storm is over and the night falls and the moon is out in all its glory and all you're left with is the rhythm of the sea, of the waves, you know what God intended for the human race, you know what paradise is"....(Harold Pinter).

Lifetimes

"People never leave, we are always here in our past and future lives"...(Paulo Coelho-The Aleph). What if our journey is a cycle of many lives instead of just one. We know in modern psychology that we all repeat patterns from our childhoods. What if our patterns go deeper than that? What if our patterns have been repeating for lifetimes? In addition, what if we have opportunities to grow and shift those patterns in each life so that you can become more empowered. Let's say that in an early tribal life, a young man was in love and had an opportunity to follow his heart but instead he chose to follow orders to marry the chiefs daughter from another tribe, even though he wasn't in love with her. Even after he married the other Chiefs daughter, he betrayed his wife by sneaking off with the young woman he loved. The pattern started there....a man who did not follow his heart and ultimately the two women he betrayed. Eventually he was threatened by his tribe to never see the woman he was cheating with because she was promised to marry another warrior. He complied but slowly lost all of his power because he was no longer connected to his heart and he turned into an evil warrior. The only way he could have power was to take it from others by victimizing the innocent. He had not always been evil but once he disconnected from his heart, he had lost his way. Let's just say that those same players continued the same pattern, lifetime after lifetime. Each lifetime, he would meet up with the love of his life and each time he'd be tested about whether he'd choose her or would he follow obligation. The scenario may look different each time but the souls play out the same pattern in a soul pact that the three of them made to help each of them grow. As lifetimes pass, the man makes the same error in judgement each lifetime and he betrays his heart every time and sinks into despair, anger and darkness. The women grow and change however. The women slowly take their power back each time and turn from victims to turning the tables on him by making different choices. They shift their part in the scenario, even though he hasn't. Each lifetime is an opportunity for each soul but change is a matter of choice. Let's look at another soul. He was a fighter pilot killed in World War I. He left behind a wife and several children. The wife was so overwhelmed by his loss that she sank into anger and depression. His soul never really progresses because her anger keeps him around her instead of his soul moving on. Yes, his spirit stays around the family out of guilt. Fast forward to their next life and these two souls agree to come back to heal their karma together. He comes back to meet and marry her one day to make amends for having left her in the last life and she agrees to work on forgiveness and possibly to let him go this time if needed. They meet and marry but the pattern repeats. This time, he stays by her side after they marry even though she cheats on him. Her anger toward him has been carried on from the previous life and she keeps him imprisoned with his guilt. He doesn't even know why he stays and endures her abuse. Something inside his soul is compelled to never leave her because he's trying to make it right from the past life. She doesn't know why she cheats on him and practically hates him. She has not learned to forgive or to let him go, so they are caught up in a repeat of the past lifetime, even though the situation looks different. The other irony is that she is literally reliving the past life with her obsession of all things Victorian....frozen in time. When people surround themselves with items and decor from another era, chances are. they too are frozen in a past life pattern. When souls repeat the past life pattern without learning or growing from the lesson, chances are they will have to repeat the same lessons in the next life. Their empowerment would come from one or the other saying good-bye to the other, which would break the imprisonment he feels with her. Every soul is sent guides and angels to help them on their journey. Most people are pretty unaware of the guidance they have but some feel it as synchronicity, dreams, deja vu and intuition. What if you are repeating a past life pattern and that you too have brought in some of the same souls that you have been with before to help you play it out. In addition, what if you have progressed and souls come back into your life to reward you for your hard work. It sure makes our lives look a lot different if you are open to the possibility that we are only seeing a small part of the picture. That means that every soul you have been entangled with was for a purpose to bring you to your next lesson or to complete a lesson. If you trust in a higher power, then you feel that there is just so much more at work than meets the eye. At one point in time, people believed the earth was flat...so it's not hard to believe that we may just be starting to realize that our lives are so much more infinite than what we see. "It's what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future"...(Paulo Coelho-The Aleph).


"Lifetimes"(By Sheryl Crow)

Take off your halo, take off your golden crown
The spotlight's off, the shades are down
Where are your friends now, they're ghosts in a windowpane
Sometimes it's hard to stay the same

We can live lifetimes in a single day
No matter what you do, I love you anyway
You say if you're lost inside; well, I get lonely, too
Even in the worst of times, I give my best to you

I dreamed I was swimming, fighting the undertow
Drifting in circles, no place to go
And when I woke up, I was wringing wet
So much stronger than before

We can live lifetimes in a single day
No matter what you do, I love you anyway
You say if you're lost inside; well, I get lonely, too
Even in the worst of times, I give my best to you

The words escape
The silence made
The looks betray
I'm not afraid

We can live lifetimes in a single day
No matter what you do, I love you anyway
You say if you're lost inside; well, I get lonely, too
Even in the worst of times, I give my best to you
Even in the worst of times, I give my best to you

Start of Something Good

"You are a creator. You create with your every thought...anything you can imagine is yours to be, do or have"...(Abraham-Hicks). I woke up this morning, excited to greet the day. I couldn't really sleep last night but that didn't matter. The energy around me has been keeping me up nights but this morning, I didn't care. Once I had my coffee and I started playing my new favorite songs from Daughtry's latest CD...."Breaking The Spell." I felt better than ever. Most of his songs are about love and one of his songs, "The Start of Something Good" was my theme of the day. Today was a magical day. I received vivid signs all day long...giving me messages about things in my life. So many signs happened that there were moments I could barely catch my breath. I have a saying with my friends when synchronicity is at it's best..."you just can't make this stuff up." Have you ever had one of those days when magic occurs all around you? You think something and it happens or you think about someone and you run into them or they call you out of the blue. As I wrote in my last blog post, I need magic and wonder thus I clearly attract it. It makes life so much more exciting! I have found that my ability to manifest has helped in my dating life. First, I have to say that although the dating sites offered options when I was dating before, now the computer dating sites offer me zero appeal but I will forge ahead and try the sites again with a new perspective. Many people misrepresent themselves on those sites or out and out lie. Nothing appealing about that. There also seems to be very few warriors on those sites, meaning men who are courageous, respectful and strong in who they are. Just to recap some funny experiences I had on dating sites before, let me start with the man who represented himself as a successful songwriter who e-mailed me a couple of times because he was looking for a woman to bring home and share with his wife. Another fella e-mailed me and said he'd keep his identity hidden because he is a local police officer but would I want to meet for crazy sex. I of course had to say no thank you to both of those offers. To each their own...but those offers are just not in alignment with who I am. Other guys I met for coffee, turned out to look 15 years older in person because they were using seriously old pictures of themselves. Most of the time, I felt like I was doing therapy with the men since most were very broken from past relationships. Many women I know are frustrated and they ask me..."how do you find warriors in the dating scene." Well, it's all about the law of attraction. If you believe it's out there, you will attract it. If your intuition tells you to look on dating sites for your warrior, then start there. Otherwise, just put out there what you want to attract and it will find it's way to you. If you are in complete alignment with who you are and what you want, the universe will open all of the doors to make it happen. We need more warriors but women need to be clear about what they want to attract. I hear women complain endlessly about the men they date but they do not see why they continue to attract the same type of men. I learned from my first round of dating that you have to be clear about what and whom you want to attract. Just be very aware of your thoughts because your thoughts will send out a signal to what it is you feel you deserve. My approach to dating has shifted dramatically just as with everything else in my life. Whether its dating, running a day camp or any other endeavor...I know I will attract exactly what I need and whomever is in alignment with my highest purpose. I'm so sure of that that my faith is absolutely unwavering. So start with paying attention to what you want and working on yourself first. If you are in fear or you complain endlessly about life, dating, or work...don't be surprised if you attract more suffering. If on the other hand, you display gratitude, courage and excitement....you will then discover quickly that the universe is happy to reward you with abundance.  "Within the seed of your desire is everything necessary for it to blossom to fulfillment. And Law of Attraction is the engine that does the work. Your work is just to give it a fertile growing place in order to expand"... 
(Abraham-Hicks).

Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep

Now I lay me down to sleep....
This my prayer in vivid thoughts spinning circles around my bed
I want extraordinary not mundane
I want unreal not insane
I want to wake up each day and know that I have a purpose
Not going through my day as if it's a scripted verse
Anyone can follow a manual
Wake up, brush your teeth, go to work
Then what?
Is that truly living
Or is that a living hell?
I want to be blown away by courage, compassion and magic
Knowing that something greater is at work
Weaving its way through the fabric of our awareness
That dreams are more real than we give them credit for
And hoping is not futile
And that the saying..."Anything can happen" is possible when we least expect it
That my tears are not in vain
And my laughter is contagious
That my smile is optimistic
And that our time here is worth every single minute!!
I pray that I am heard...in my thoughts and written word
We all have something to say
But many have gone silent
Muted by fear and doubt
And those who do shout
Only do so to hear themselves spout
Trying to feel alive
Even though they barely thrive
This life is but a dream
Let love shine.....It's the only real thing
In this world of greed and contempt
Love will win...when it's from the heart
I turn out the lights now
Wishing upon wishes...
That this world gets it....because waking up can mean many things
And tomorrow offers everyone another chance at redemption and awareness
See with your heart
Not with your eyes
And life will have new meaning....