Living In Hurry Energy

Time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Finding the courage to create changes in your life is good, but once you make a commitment to move on with it, you need tools to get where you want to go. And one of the greatest tools is time. We don't seem to have much of that these days. The problem is we're living in hurry energy.

Everything is energy, so everything affects everything else--including people. Dynamic changes are taking place in the universe and in the earth, and these changes are disrupting our human energy fields. According to scientific studies, our universe is rapidly expanding, the earth's magnetic poles are shifting, and the earth's pulse is speeding up. That's just part of it, but it's enough to sweep us along in a sea of fast moving energy, and it seems like most people aren't even noticing. They're just running the race to nowhere.

Sometimes I wonder how much we're missing in our fast paced lives. We get anxious, depressed, disgusted and fed up. Then we pop a few pills and keep running. When was the last time you told someone you love them? When was the last time you looked into a mirror and said, "I love you?" Do you know what quiet sounds like?

When I look back over my life--working, house cleaning, cooking, shopping, laundry, running errands, paying bills, etc, etc--these memories are a blur, all running together. But fun times with my children, PTA meetings, times spent with people I love, trips I took, books I read, and quiet time alone--these memories I hold in my heart.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. Lao Tzu

You have the power within you to decide the kind of energy in which you will live. And balance is the key. Rethinking the way you spend your time and finding ways to just breathe now and then is absolutely a possibility. But if you don't do it, it won't happen. I know someone who bought a beautiful plant, and everyday as she rushed through her house, she looked at it and intended to water it the first chance she got. Then one day she passed the plant, and it had dried up and died. Dont' wait.

Put everything aside for one whole day and use this time to carefully examine how you spend your time on a day-to-day basis. Include everything, and eliminate, organize or change whatever you can to provide some free time each day. I know it's hard to give up some things you're used to, but give them up anyway. Stop living in hurry energy, and keep working on this until you're living a balanced life with the inner peace that goes with it.

I wish you smiles along the way.

Marilyn

Find Your Courage

A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. William Shedd

If you made a commitment to release old ways and create new ways to live your life this year, you may be running into some inner obstacles. Maybe when you look at the changes you want to make, you feel overwhelmed. How can you change the way you live? How can you let go of what's familiar and learn new ways? That's too much to expect. Yet, in some ways, you're going to change anyway. That's just the way life is.

Even though I see how I've changed and grown through some of my challenges in the past, I still sometimes resist. The I just want to put a problem in the drawer and hope it will go away. But of course that doesn't happen. Maybe learning to accept and move on is a lifetime process--something we have to keep doing if we want a full and meaningful life. So why not put ourselves in charge of our future and create what we want instead of settling for what life hands us.

Once you make a commitment and state your intention, resistance can set in. Our ego self has a way of sabotaging our best intentions. In order to keep going, that's when you need to reach deep inside to the bigger picture of yourself and your life, and see the meaning in each challenge. Know that everything you need is within you, and awareness brings the courage you need to make the changes you want. Then resistance will diminish.

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship. Louisa May Alcott

Look at various issues in your life, and decide what you will keep, what you will release,and what new you will create. Look at your life the way it is, and imagine the way you want it. Imagination is a wonderful tool. It comes from the soul and provides vision outside of the material world and enables us to fulfill our dreams.

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. Will Rogers

Remember that this is a year of opportunity to turn your life around, raise your energy vibration level, and grow spiritually. But nothing gets done unless we do it. So now is the time to move along in our year of opportunity.

I wish you beautiful creations.

Marilyn

Flow With Change

Our world is moving quickly, and sometimes I feel like more demands are being put on my time everyday, and I can't catch up. Before I get used to one modern device, it's obsolete, and something new is on the market. I heard recently that we're even running out of air space to accommodate our technological devices, and communication will be slowed. Whew. I want to stop the clock or get off the merry-go-round, but there's nowhere to go but forward.

Sometimes I resist change, even small ones, but I know that change is inevitable whether we like it or not. It's the nature of everything in our universe to constantly move and change, so if we are to know life at its fullest, we must stop resisting and allow change to take us where we need to go. As I look back on my life, I realize how much has happened and how much better I am for it. Yes, I guess embracing change does lead me to more of who and what I want to be. And I find that as years pass, my life has more meaning with each change.

Recently I came across a poem I've had for many years, and it reminds me of how far I've come and how far I still need to go. Life doesn't stand still. We just continue in our flow with change. So we might as well make it as positive as we can.

CHANGE

By James Dillet Freeman

I have resisted change with all my will,
Cried out to life, "Pass by and leave me still."
But I have found as I have trudged time's track
That all my wishing will not hold life back.
All finite things must go their finite way;
I cannot bid the merest moment, "Stay."
So finding that I have no power to change
Change, I have changed myself. And this is strange,
But I have found out when I let change come,
The very change that I was fleeing from
Has often held the good I had prayed for,
And I was not the less for change, but more.
Once I accepted life and was not loath
To change, I found change was the seed of growth.

I wish you a peaceful journey.

Marilyn

You Are A Miracle Maker

I think miracles exist in part as gifts and in part as clues that there is something beyond the flat world we see. Peggy Noonan

When I was a child I spoke as a child, I thought as a child, and I went on wonderful trips around the world. I tromped through snow with polar bears, and I danced in my beautiful hula skirt in Hawaii. I flew like an eagle and I sang like an angel. I rode on trains, boats and airplanes, and I climbed the highest mountains. Of course I did. I was a child, and I could live in my child mind where I could be, have and do anything I wanted. I was a miracle maker, and sometimes my dreams came true.

Oh, sometimes I got sick. And I felt lonely. And I cried. And sometimes I felt angry when Mama said no. There were days when life wasn't what I wanted it to be, but I didn't have to let it ruin the good stuff. I remember how it felt to lie on the grass and make things out of the clouds in the sky, or chase the seagulls up and down the beach. Or watch a butterfly flit from one flower to another. And I remember the smell of fresh bread coming from the bakery next to my grandpa's house. And I used to put records on the phonograph and dance to the music. I was a miracle maker, and sometimes my dreams came true.

Miracles happen everyday. Change your perception of what a miracle is and you'll see them all around you. Jon Bon Jovi

Then my world began to change, and I had to grow up and act like a grown-up. Get real--get your head out of the clouds--get a life. And I forgot how to create my miracles. Did they have to disappear? Could I get them back? What a miracle it would be for me to awaken my inner child and recapture that miracle part of myself--that part that can replace chaos with peace, soften conflict with love, and comfort sorrow with joy. And discover the greatest miracle of all--the miracle maker.

Open your heart and look past appearances. Don't let life cloud your mind and rob you of your dreams. Miracles happen when you make it so. Be the miracle maker you are, and sometimes your dreams will come true.

I wish you many happy miracles.

Marilyn

Your Quest

Join me in my quest for a greater understanding of our existence. Join me in my desire for a greater self. Join me as I seek the humility to love and understand my fellow man. Bryant McGill

We may not realize we're searching for something more in life, because much of life goes on inside, the part outside of our conscious thinking. Our inner beliefs and feelings motivate our outer choices. We're programmed for ever forward and upward movement, and if we take the time to quietly go inside and listen, we can hear our inner voice guiding us to be, have and do more than we see in our life now. This year that voice is yelling louder than usual, and the universe is telling us to pay attention. Are you listening?

I'm working on a list of changes I want in my life. And I'm starting with myself. Someone said, "Change my life by changing me." That's were it begins, isn't it? Well, I figured a good place to start is with my health challenges, and that means to stop smoking. That seems really mundane compared to the lofty goals I could include on a priority list. But when I rise above the psychological misery of withdrawal, wanting to scream obscenities from my front porch, I find this adventure brings more than freedom from smoking. Now I'm seeing myself with different eyes. I've been 2 1/2 weeks without a cigarette, and I'm getting in touch with a part of me I haven't experienced for a very long time. In a way, it's a weird feeling, like I want to recapture whatever that is. Perhaps in searching for myself, I might find me.

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. Antoine de Saint-Exupery

What things do you put into your life that mask your true self? What do you focus on that takes you away from who you really are? What needs to be uncovered for you to see a greater you this year? Now is the time to explore and discover more of yourself and experience greater meaning in your life.

You really are a cathedral.

Marilyn

Theta State

There is more to us than we know. If we can be made to see it, perhaps for the rest of our lives we will be unwilling to settle for less. Kurt Hahn

Our brain functions in several states of awareness, composed of brain waves. Electrical activity in the brain generates four categories of brain waves--beta, alpha, theta, and delta--from very alert to deep sleep. Theta brain waves can occur during times of quiet relaxation, meditation, yoga, running, etc, but most of us experience them in the barely conscious state just before sleeping or just after waking--a dreamy state, but not feeling fully awake and alert. This is a time when we can access the subconscious part of ourselves and experience free flowing ideas with mental imagery and meaningful and creative mental activity. This is a time when we get those insightful "wow" ideas.

I've experienced this state of awareness many times, but since I recently made a statement of intention for positive changes in my life this year, it's been happening more often. At first, I thought I could remember thoughts that came to me in that sleepy state, but when I became totally awake I forgot them. So this morning I jumped up and wrote everything down. I'd like to share those thoughts with you just as they came to me.

"When I look at my life I see lack and turmoil. But appearances are not truth. Appearances are illusions. I must bring out the truth. Transform it. I don't know where I will go with this, but I know I will not remain where I am now--physically, mentally, emotionally or spiritually. I don't know what all of my illusions are, but as I discover truth, illusions will come forth and be transformed--released--dissolved--or whatever happens to old beliefs when we let them go. Like everything else, they're made of energy, so the energy has to change in some way." And then: "We are a global community. This has been emerging in the past few years. Now is the time for all to come together. All a part of the whole. A ripple effect."

As earth energy shifts, I believe we will be guided through each challenge, sometimes in unexpected ways. So paying close attention to my theta state, without judgment, may be a valuable source of insight. Now I intend to start a journal of my theta awareness thoughts and ideas. Maybe that will help increase my understanding and guide me on my 2012 journey. I can't say I know exactly what I'm doing, but I definitely want to go with a positive flow this year. And I need all the help I can get. Gotta start somewhere.

We are more than we know. I wish you happy discoveries on your journey this year.

Marilyn

2012-3 Inner Work

When the world threatens to flood my barricades, I run to my centre, my calm, my bliss. Alison Stormwolf

2012 is a year of increased turmoil, but it's also a year of much opportunity for expansion, enlightenment, and personal growth. Strong forces in the universe are now positioned to help us move forward and create positive changes in our life. Take some time to look around at your own life. Is it what you want? Is it vulnerable to the negative energies you see moving across the world today? Are you at peace with yourself and the world? What do you want to create this year?

Sometimes the way we manage outside issues is motivated by false beliefs, or illusions, resting in the subconscious, and our quality of life is a reflection of what's going on inside. But we don't have to live by what our illusions and our environment tell us is reality. It's important to release old behavior patterns that don't work in positive ways, and create new ways to function. Change the inside, and your outside changes will be more sound.

We're now being called to understand our true nature, and this year we'll have opportunities to awaken to truth. As you make changes in your physical world, listen to your inner voice for guidance, and ask, "What is the truth about myself, other people, and the world? And what is false?" Your illusions will be made clear if you're vigilant and pay attention. Then you can release them. All of your answers are inside. Listen. Learn. Grow in spirit.

When we operate in authentic power, the world and its ways are viewed with detachment. Alison Stormwolf.

Each day spend some time in quiet meditation. As you become more in tune with your spirit self, messages will come to help you move from illusion to truth. Intuition will increase, and you'll feel what is true. This is a process. Allow it to unfold. Go with the positive flow of energy this year, and allow your authentic self to be at peace in a chaotic world.

Let there be peace on earth, and let it begin with me. Seymour Miller and Jill Jackson

And so be it. This year build a rainbow above the clouds.

Marilyn