Putting The Tools To The Test- The Cleanse

Tune into your inner dash board and notice what is directing you. As the year comes to a close, we are being asked to relinquish what's no longer working and to deconstruct what stands in our way. If we have not found alignment with our peace, the warning light will be alerting us to this indiscretion and the radar of our internal navigational system will be directing us in the way we need to go in order to bring old chapters to a close. Your radar will send you warnings in the form of unease. If you're feeling out of sorts, it's because you have business to attend to, and what's been pushed aside or neglected can no longer be overlooked as your soul leads you further on the path of integration and closer to the highest truth of who and what you are meant to be. Irritation and anger are our guides right now.  Frustration is lending itself and it’s electrical current of unrest to get our attention and focus us in on what’s working and what needs to go.

How to shake it down….come closer.  That argument you’re having with yourself; that script you’re rehearsing; that tight grip of contention you’re holding onto for dear life- none of it gives you power.  You are not strengthening your resolve, or yourself, by splurging or overindulging in defense mentality.

But shutting it down, per se, doesn’t work either.  Just getting out of your head is a bit more complicated than it seems. Only though, until you realize how simple it can be.

Ok, so stay with me as I guide you through the steps.  First, you’re going to set up your awareness radar.  You’re going to notice frustration, irritation, and anger as a radar- an area of focus.  Next, bring consciousness to those areas of sensitivity so that you’re not reacting to the soarce and perpetuating the cycle.  If the fire alarm is going off, you need to investigate the situation. So, awareness-check.  Consciousness injected-check.  Now’s where you’re going to have to bring in a little self-discipline. 

That story you’re telling- the one that doesn’t serve you, the one that’s bringing you pain- put it down.  Step away from the story. Notice your resistance to this  We hold on tight to this inner dialect and drama because we think (key word) that it’s going to show us the way to feel better.  We hold on because we believe that we need to defend ourselves if we’ve been wronged or misunderstood. We think we have to resurrect ourselves, right the wrong, balance the equation.

And some of this is right- to a degree.  We are not totally off the mark.  But our approach needs a little tweaking.  Let me offer you a fresh perspective.  Any pain within your being is alerting you to imbalance ( and yes, this includes discomfort).  This signaling, or alarm system, is alerting you, as king of the castle, to bring order to your realm.  We tend to react to these triggers, to freak out or run away.  Alternately, we’ll zoom in (real hard) on what’s troubling us, but end up spinning our wheels as we never move beyond the surface of the pain.

You have to move away from the source of your pain, distance yourself a bit, in order to go deeper.  Neutrality gives you perspective  in the higher sense), and allows you to be more objective so that you can turn off that damn fire alarm and bring to your kingdom order and peace.  That’s your job.  Become clear on that first.  Setting someone else strait, defending yourself, lashing out, withholding your love- al of the above are just a temporary fix created in defense.  They may serve to disengage the fire alarm temporarily, but they don’t put the core flame to rest.  You have to go to the source of the pain.  And the source of the pain is within you.  No one can trigger a reaction so deep that it sends you spinning unless there’s something within that needs resolve.  The source of your pain is not someone or something else.  The source of your pain is your story- the one you’ve been telling yourself.  The one that’s been bringing you pain.  And the only way to find peace is to put it down.

As angry or irritated as you may be at someone else- this isn’t about them.  They are simply a player.  They are simply pointing you back to what desires to be healed within you- to the warning light that’s blinking. Does knowing this lesson your grip any?

Here’s where integrity comes in.  Time to be honest with yourself.  Time to pull out of the tantrum in your head and look at it more clearly.  You have to let go of your belief in the story and the notion that it’s bringing you power in order to find real strength.  We hold on because we think it is charging us.  We think it is ammo.  And that argument we’re rehearsing in our head or that wrong we’re righting will become more potent the more it’s rehearsed.  Or so it seems. This is an old way of being- one we’re ready to leave behind (hence the discomfort).   How can I be so sure? - because I’m certain you’re ready for peace.

Here’s what you need to know, and this is the key- Retaliation and retribution will not take you where you need to go. Though they will promise to defend your honor and define your truth, they are mistaken.  Your truth is not found there, in defense of yourself.  Your truth is love, peace, and joy.  And your job is to align with that, at all costs. 

The warning light sometimes serves as a distraction as we get lost in the details and fail to get the message.  And the message, if you listen closely, most often is that you’re out of alignment with you truth.  You are spindling into a much lower vibration because you’re ruminating in a story that no longer needs to be told.

So zoom in.  What’s the story?  What’s the theme?  And ask yourself from a heart place if it’s really true, if it’s really serving you.  Loosen the grip.  It may have been part of your identity until now, part of what you’ve played out and pretended to be (and you’ve done it well).  But it’s time to put it down now and become new.  Yes, it is that simple.  Be firm.  Let go.  And when you loosen the grip and watch it fly away, you’ll see beneath the surface.  You’ll see what it’s been showing you about who you’ve been.  You’ll recognize how you’ve played it out forever on the time table of your existence and how you’re ready to wipe that slate clean and really get to the core of your truth.

No more playing out karma.  No more living through the lens of drama (and really, that’s what this all is).  In letting go, you move forward, you fly higher, you realign with your true design.

Try it on for size.  The other way’s not working.  It’s dragging you down.  And maybe, just maybe, the lesson isn’t what you think.  If you haven’t found clarity or peace with a played out story so far, then come to it with a new perspective.  Release the need to hold tight and you will become lighter.  You will become clear.

Your story does not define you.  It confines you, and sentences you to certain death.  It’s a distraction and it keeps you from your peace.  From here on, you define what Is by realigning with your Truth (peace and love) and disengaging from any and all that is not that.

Have compassion with you and let it flow out to the players who brought things into focus.  Release them, release you, and move forward.  There you will find resilience to turn your back on what seems to be, and turn your attention to moving into a higher vibration.  (Actually this will happen for you just by creating the grace of letting it all go.)

The truth is so much bigger than what we could ever imagine and so much greater than what it’s been limited to through our current perspective.  Expansion means opening to that possibility and not needing to have all the answers, all the why’s and what’s, and not needing to seek justice.  Create the space for this expansion within your experience and you will find yourself floating away from your story and into greater ease.  Create a story defined by grace, ease, and peace and let the warning light direct you not distract you.  As you align with your true story, and integrate it into your being, you will cease to attract to your life a reflection of the old story that’s played out and it will quit coming up for review.

Be gentle with your self and open with a new way of being.

Soon you will be free.

Great blessings to all,

~Rhonda

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Inventory: A Year In Review

It’s been a year of growth and change.  And as we lean towards a new year that promises more of the same, it’s good to take a little inventory of what we’ve learned and the tools we’ve gathered along the way. The insights we’ve gained into ourselves and our world have served as valuable lessons. Nothing has been in vein. Along the way, we’ve gathered strength and we’ve acquired new ways of being that will continue to serve us as we become more of who we are. The new ways of being are tools, and the tools we’ve been harnessing could quite easily be considered virtues.  Virtues are proof of alignment.  They are attributes to our character which will heighten our experience as we move towards a life of greater peace.

So let’s take a peek at what we’ve gathered. A year in review…

We’ve climbed many mountains and weathered many storms. And through it all, we have delved deeper into what it means to be alive, divine, and on purpose. And though at times, we felt like we were in over our heads, there’s no doubt that at this point we are more.  By staying the course, we are coming into greater alignment and we are well on our way to the other side of the rainbow. As we’ve maneuvered through our journeys, searching for our Way Home, we’ve no doubt acquired, or have at very least begun to touch on the heart-based qualities that are helping us to become more complete.  We’ve discovered perseverance; embraced honesty as a way of life; pulled out unlimited supplies of courage; developed greater compassion; created pathways to faith; renounced obstacles to becoming one and allowed for loyalty.  And none of this could have been so without self-discipline.

Over and again, we have reclaimed our strength and resolve as we’ve tripped and fallen, certain we couldn’t go on, no less overcome the obstacles along our path of growth.  Time and again discovering what we were capable of achieving as we stepped into newness. And through this we’ve acquired perseverance- the ability to continue onward, to pick your self back up again in the face of defeat.

As we’ve become more truth-filled and have embraced more authentic ways of being, reaching ever more for alignment with essence and realizing that in doing so our reward is peace, we’ve come to a place of greater honesty, with ourselves and others. Becoming more clear and real about what works for us and doesn’t and learning to live more whole-heartedly from integrity.

Courage has been no stranger (though we don’t always give ourselves the credit we deserve) as we’ve been facing our shadows, overcoming old ways of being and continuing forward, even when faced with adversity.  For many, the journey has had everything to do with going toe to toe with fears and surmounting them one by one with bold acts of loving our selves forward, forgiveness, and changing the way that we ‘see’. Without courage, we would have given up long ago.

As we’ve opened our hearts that sometimes very much wanted to stay clamped closed, we’ve found new love for ourselves and our brothers and overall, a new way of being.  We’ve become gentler in this nature, less rigid in perspective and all the more open to receive. We’ve touched on the graces of compassion as a way of life and we’ve opened to the knowing that in many ways this aspect of love is undeniably the key.

Faith has been our foreground as we’ve reestablished our footing, overcoming self-doubt and wondering relentlessly in our times of darkness if there really was a reason to continue, if this process was indeed real, and above all, as we’ve bucked the limitations of separation, if we are indeed supported, surrounded, and celebrated by greater forces unseen.  As we’ve learned to allow and surrender, we’ve had to place our faith in a power beyond our own, let go of age-old control-mechanisms in place to keep us safe, and allow something more knowing and powerful to meet our needs.  We’ve also begun to trust in our own abilities to create fulfilling experiences by stepping aside from the outcome and honor a deeper knowing or belief in divine timing and not always knowing (or needing to know) the big picture, as not everything is as it seems.

Self-discipline. Garnering consciousness has meant breaking out of old patterns and unconscious responses and it’s meant holding ourselves responsible for the choices we make rather than continuing to let old programming play out out of habit.  We’ve had to break habitual patterns, become ever more aware of the consequences of our behavior, and hold ourselves responsible for our actions in order to break free of the chains that have bound us and the belief systems that made it hard to be in alignment.

The pay back has been greater integrity, strength, and flexibility as we’ve embraced a more solid approach to life and a more conscious way of being.

We’ve had to remain true to an undying (though at times shaky) resolve to commit to the journey, to our selves, to our greater good, and to the shift of the whole.  We’ve chosen loyalty by knowing what we embarked on mattered, talking ourselves away from the defeat and ever reaching forward as we’ve gained greater awareness into our own truth, stronger allegiance to supporting our integrity, and determined to ‘stay the course despite the cost’ as we’ve shifted our perspective to incorporate Oneness, wholeness, and integration of All That Is and All that can be.

This year wouldn’t be what it was without resilience.  Allowing for the nature of the process as we’ve bounced back from seeming set-backs, ready to face the day new, ready to come to the page with fresh perspective, and determined to push forward in the birthing of our being, despite labor pains or slaying of illusions that kept us locked in worry, doubt or fear.  Time and again, we’ve popped our collective heads back out of the sand and have risen above whatever had seemed to bring us down, gathering up lessons, embarking on new territory, and all the while, becoming a brighter version through our strength and perseverance of what we originally knew ourselves to be.

Through the year and through the loving grace of where we’ve been and where we’re gong, there is overflow of what we’ve become. Virtues are acquired strengths, they are aspects of wisdom, and they are the gifts that you have given yourself by holding fast to the power of truth and love.  It is no small feat to have acquired these virtues or to have incorporated them into your life. Take your toolbox forward into the new season of your being, knowing that your blessings will be magic and that the more aligned you become, the more your success is guaranteed.

Blessed Be.

Lovingly yours,

Rhonda

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Walk the Talk~ Implementing the Tools

Are you allowing the moment to guide you in the direction you need to go?

Choose action over reaction. Feeling guilt or regret?_ Do the thing you wish you would have. Now. Do it how you wish you would have.  Write a new page.  Extract the lesson, become responsible, take charge, and implement what you’ve learned.  Here you will find resolve.  Here that inner calling will be heeded. Chock one up on the scoreboard for conscious choices, for reflecting on your heart’s wisdom and following it.

This is what we’re being asked to do in these moments of growth- to walk the talk-to integrate the wisdom and live it.  This requires that we pause in our everyday experience and reflect on what is being requested of us.

As you lend yourself to the moment, you can better moniter your responses and refrain from frustration, anger, irritation, or conditioning,  You can begin to anchor into a new way of being without needing to defend your reactions or later contend with regret.

This means, and this is very important, that we become one with the moment, the present, the situation-whatever that may be.  Neutrality.  So if you’re feeling frustration, notice it. Be with it. Use your faculties to discern the bigger picture ( or wholeness of the situation ) and you will be able to come from an expanded place- which is what you desire anyways.  It’s just going to take some time, some retraining, as with any new way of being.

So incorporate your knowing, the tools you’ve garnered throughout the year. Incorporate awareness, so that you can operate from a broader view.  Factor in allowing, so that you can learn from what you’re feeling, from what’s presenting, and honor it and grow. Remember, resistance to resentment of what is only exacerbates the learning and holds it off for another day.  By avoiding what is, you’re avoiding the lesson and bloscking yourself from moving forward because you haven’t advanced to the next level of solving the clues.  Remember it’s all just a game, so try not to take yourself too seriously.  When contemplation comes to the plate, exercise compassion for yourself and override contempt for your seeming failure to ‘get’ what’s being presented.

Operating from a heart-place will take some adjustment and we will need to be patient and endearing with our souls as they shift out of the ancient embedded grooves and release into a fuller way of being.  Surrender daily, moment-to-moment, or as often as it takes.  Moving forward takes grace.  Afford yourself with the momentum that comes from simply being.  This is a vital aspect of co-creating.  When we allow our selves to step aside and let it be, et God, let go and lend to the unfolding of what Is by stepping out of the way and removing our resistance ( which sometimes comes from pushing too hard) and overextending, over-analyzing, or juicing it ( working it to death).

Presence.  If you’re here you’re clear.  And the next time the situation, or lesson to be learned, presents itself ( and it will until you learn it, or do it differently) you can be prepared and pro-active.  You can move it to a place of smother operation and facilitation of life experiences rather than feeling like you’re continually caught off guard.

Expect a ripple.  As we shift in our experience, the experience of those within our world will shift as well.  We’ve heard this often, but what we fail to remember or realize is that the impact plays out in certain ways.

So as you dislodge in preparation for experiencing the new, and experience emotional outbursts and physical symptoms- so too will others in your world.  Know that their own individual expression of this is unique, though often a reflection of the shift you’re mastering, it’s important to honor and respect their expression and hold compassion (avoid reaction) as they too find their way through.  This is part of supporting the whole.  And as we usher in awareness of this process and bring consciousness to the ripple of our effect, we will begin to see how our environment is seeking to match the vibration of our awakening, and we can further ease the duration and confusion of what they’re experiencing and absolve ourselves from re-learning lessons we’ve learned but are just needing to put into play.

Much of what we’ve learned simply needs to be integrated and acted on.  A lot of the ‘lessons’ playing out are more about teaching us to reflect on what we know and put it to use in our experience.  We’ve come too far not to be who we are.  And part of what we are is the combined lessons of our experiences.  So reach deeper- into your beingness.  Relearn how to live from consciousness and discover that your progression into a life of joy is only about opening to the tools that you’ve excavated along your way and executing the master status that you’ve tasted from time to time.  It’s about going from temporary to permanent.  From knowing to being.  Wear the new hat with confidence.  Absolve yourself from not being able to achieve.  Bring presence to your moments and integrity to your choices, and great momentum you will see. There’s freedom in finding a happy medium- balance is always the key. Acclimating to what’s becoming new in your life by leaving behind and detaching from what doesn’t serve you.

Shalom, bringer of peace. Invoke love as your compass, and from karmic retribution you will be set free. Be sovereign in your shift, heart-based in your life, and resolute in your conviction to break free of anything and everything that serves to hold you back from fully embracing your greatness. Become a master of your experience by mastering the tools that you have gathered and stepping fully into the moment of your now.

Be the fullness and truth of who you are and bring it to everything that you do.

Many blessings,

Rhonda

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Shifting into Presence

And for those who stand on the threshold, wondering if this time those doors to the past will close, and if this time, you will finally find our way home, I tell you now to sink into your heart and love you there.  Love you through this moment in the matrix of your becoming, because that light you’ve been searching for, that joy you’ve been told of, is what waits for you within the bubble of your love.  And it’s the very thing that will save you from yourself.

This time is that of long-winded story telling as the sagas of your identity roll out into clearer view of consciousness.  And it is for you, dear ones, to decide if these are indeed the stories you cherish most.  When you find yourself replaying such messages again and again for review, take heed, for there is a moral to the story.  And that moral, quite simply, is whether or not you want to continue to replay this tale in your life, as your point of view, as your opinion of yourself or of others.  And you have everything within you to walk out on that story right now, if you will open yourself to the obvious and wipe away the unclear.    The only thing left to learn is whether or not you’re ready to put it down and let it go.

It’s interesting to discover just how attached you may have become to a recurring theme or a harsh judgment.  Think of one thing within your realm that you’ve held fast to and ask in this moment if you question it’s validity.  Question from  a heart-based perspective.  And then ask yourself what you need to do to be free of that limiting belief or way of being.

Decide if it couldn’t be as simple as a choice- a choosing to become more, to expand, to outgrow, to leave behind what no longer fits.  And if this is truly your heart’s desire, then you can back it with your integrity.  You can support your forward movement by drawing the line and deciding, making a conscious choice, not to cross it- by declaring that you’ve crossed to the other side- to the side of completion.

Once you make this declaration of peace within yourself, this resolution to resolve rather than regret where you are or where you’ve been, you create the space for all possibility and are no longer disabled by the boundaries of what’s been. You become free to move within the cabin of your creation, no longer harassed by the ghosts of who you’ve been. 

So, as the spirits of your beliefs and experiences arise, rather than fear their presence, know that they are meant to be put to rest.  But first, as with any soul, the soul of all of all of the songs you have sung or were meant to sing, must be released.  For as long as you hold tight to a truth (or a glimmer of a life) within that aspect of you, as long as you resist it’s passage and try to keep it alive, you will struggle with a feeling of being caught between worlds. 

Let go and allow for the release of what remains and needs to go.  Allow yourself to open to the next window of opportunity.  It is all in perfect order and perfectly divine.  Be blessed in your next endeavors.  Be loved by yourself above all.  And be courageous, for this is your time of glory.

You must ask yourself what has held you back and continues to stand in the way of your bliss.  What’s not working? If you’re tending to wallow in reflection of what’s been or swallowed by guilt or despair, it’s time to recognize the opportunity to stop the ride and get off.  It’s only making you dizzy. Swimming in your thoughts and paralyzed by what’s not working doesn’t serve you.  As long as you are submerged in what’s not (working), you fail to see what is.

When we bring this current repetitive lesson  (train of though) to a close, to an end, at whatever cost, at whatever mustering of strength, will, self-love, we will be delivered into the opening and new beginning- the release we so long for ( and God knows, we deserve!)

A particularly difficult lesson that we have been schooled in is to be more conscious in our choices.  And as we have asked to become more conscious, we have been given many circumstances in which we could choose from a higher place.  Many times, we have stumbled and fell and the lessons became painful, as in the aftermath we would be submerged in the review which became a maze (and a madness) of regret, guilt, and frustration with ourselves for not getting it right).  All of which, at times, felt completely consuming, and for many, not reflective of where we felt we should be on our path. We felt we had grown and resented the ‘drop back’ into these ‘lower’ emotions.  We sought to distract ourselves so as not to feel them, and consequently, we failed to get the lesson one more time.  When we embrace the lesson, extract it’s essence, and choose to move into the present with resolve, when we say to ourselves “Ok, I get it, I’ll be more aware. I’ll take the time to be more mindful in my decisions rather that react based on old beliefs that were running my way of being”, we can stop dancing in circles and revisiting the same old pain.

On so many levels, we continue to give away our power in pursuit of approval.  And for many, this is such a long-standing conditioned response. Most often, we fail to have compassion with our selves each time we choose ‘automatically’, in favor of what we ‘should’ be doing rather than following our hearts.  And even though we know the lesson, we continue to react in these moments again and again the same old way.  Each time, becoming more painful.  At some point, we began to realize that we can’t afford to do it that way anymore.  But to shift to ‘Organic Choices’, choices that come from an intentional, conscious, place, we have to bring that awareness into the present, into the moments of growth where we can choose to do it differently.  This means becoming mindful, becoming present, so that when the lessons do present, we can stop, drop (into your heart and allow it to advise you rather than respond via autopilot, a.k.a age-old conditioning), and roll with the situation in a forward movement rather than create another opportunity to learn the same old thing again.

Reflections of what needs to go are teaching us, not torture, when we step out of the emotion and into conscious awareness of what’ s being presented.  Everything’s a gift.  These things are not a measure of who we are.  They are a measure of where we are on our path, and of what we want to dislodge, transmute, transform-in order to go further, higher, and obtain peace.

Many blessings to you, dear ones. Ascend in grace!

Love,
~Rhonda

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The High Road

The high road, what does that mean?  Many spiritual warriors find themselves conflicted when confronted with situations that demand a response that either respects our own borders or allows another to get off scott-free.

We think that we must take the 'high road’ and by that I mean avoiding confrontation and bypassing standing in dignity as it may represent that we are disturbing the peace.  We reject the option of saying no, for fear that someone’s feelings will be hurt of that we will cause anger and argument.  But we end up hurting ourselves by complying to out-dated versions of right-ness and then spend precious time angry and arguing with ourselves. 

No is not a bad word.  No is a boundary.  And as expansive as we are, it’s important to honor our own uniqueness and individuality.  Without defining ourselves clearly, we cannot accurately depict our selves out into the world in which we’re received.

We are not defined by everyone else.  Yet we search for ourselves there and often wonder why we find our selves misunderstood.  It’s because we’ve been misinformed about what we should be doing and how to handle our selves in conflict.  The truth has been misconstrued and it’s time to reclaim clearer wisdom so that w can operate from wisdom rather than internal warfare.

Honoring our selves is like an investment.  The more we do it, the more we’re able to think for ourselves and to come from a higher place that fosters discernment  and the ability to determine what’s greatest for the whole.  The whole includes us as well, not just others,  We have to factor ourselves into the equation,  We matter.  How we feel in a situation matters.  If we continue to react from a stance of unconscious conditioning, we will continue to be presented with the same lessons.

Why are the lessons often painful?  Because on a deep level, we really want to get it this time and move forward.  It’s like re-injuring a knee.  The more times you contend with the pain of the injury, the more irritated and resentful you become with this thing that’s ‘gone wrong’ that should be operating ‘more right’.  You want to operate ‘more right’ as a soul, as a being, from a conscious perspective, from a place of peace rather than discouragement or dis-ease.

Going forward in peace.

How to get there? Begin with a step forward rather than back.  Next time you’re confronted with a situation , a lesson ( an opportunity to reclaim consciousness ) say, in the form of a confrontation, determine to stand in your truth.  Now, you will have to discern what your truth is in that moment and you can more often base it on concurring themes of the past.  Is your bridge to the other side, is your step to moving forward, grounded in standing up for your self and being solid in your truth (as it’s playing out at this moment)? Or will you gain greater contentment form standing in a place of peace, disengaging from the situation, and allowing circumstances to just be?

Chances are, if you’ve done it one way one-thousand times and it hasn’t brought joy, it’s time to do it another way.  Take a chance on you.  Trust that you are fully capable in being correct and that your choice will not be detrimental to another.  What’s more detrimental is that , if you haven’t done so already, you now choose to admonish yourself.

You have learned from the lessons past,  You revisit the learning through doubt, regret, and remorse,  If you want to be free of this way of learning then you have to have the courage and the faith to trust in yourself to do it without the worry of revisiting those places, those barricades of the mind, where you get lost instead of found, and where your trepidations runs free.

Transcend self-doubt, release retribution of regret, and override any ounce of remorse that swims in your sea.  Do you really need these elements to keep you in check?  Is your moral ground so faulty that without them you would be reckless and mean?  Know yourself better than that.  Know you are a loving being with a tender nature and a heart that gives completely.  Know that you are becoming solid enough now to tend to your self, your own lessons, desires, and needs, and that you can do that without the burden of feeling like you are neglecting or endangering anyone in the process.

You are deserving of the grace that flows like a fountain when we maintain a sense of order with ourselves, In that order is an arrangement of priorities that facilitates self-supporting nourishment and centered-ness, by way of creating balance and discerning the truth that will set you free. When you strive to honor yourself rather than worry about injuring another, you will begin to strengthen a bond with your spirit that will lead you deeper into peace. Spiritual maturity isn’t about always looking the other way or overlooking what matters to you in favor of what another needs. It’s about aligning with your truth and honoring your essence enough that you can see clearly the forest for the trees.

Loving you always,

~Rhonda

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Self-Sustanance vs Self-Sabotage

When you're running low and wanting more and you're finding yourself at unrest, it's time to reevaluate where you're coming from and become clear about on whose morality you've based your sense of self.  It's time to redefine your spirituality based on the elements of your own truth. It's time to put the martyr mentality down.  It’s not serving anyone.  And really, has it ever?  We’re told that we have to put others before ourselves.  That it’s wrong to put ourselves first.  We fear, based on years of conditioning, that we’ll be viewed as selfish or self-centered if we put our own needs first.  And so at the cost of our souls, we have given our selves over again and again in order to sustain an element of salvation.

It’s projected and expected that we must give, that we can’t say no, that the pain of another supercedes our own.  Here’s where the dichotomy comes in.  We tend to be a very self-serving society, but not in all the ways that it really counts.  There is profound joy and great treasure in being of service, but serving and doing for others doesn’t mean sacrificing ourselves.  There’s nothing holy in bleeding ourselves dry, in being a doormat, in going against our will.  And yet we’re taught that this is par for the course in order to be accepted, in order to receive love, in order to get your ticket to paradise.

How many are steeped in hellish conflict though because they have no sense of self, because they have given away their power, because they find no joy in giving, as they’re trying to scurry away any last remains for their self.

We fill with people and things because we’ve forgotten how to sustain by nurturing our own soul.  We nurture and support our own being when we honor our truth, when we listen to our inner being, when we follow our hearts music and turn away from the rhythm that’s not in tune with our own song.

Sustainability is about strengthening our resolve, our boundaries, our beingness, through understanding our inner callings and discerning what truly matters most.  When we step away from an old way of being, from self-servitude to self-sustainability and preservation, we become more solid in who we are and we begin to discover other branches of our self.

It’s the air-mask-on-the-plane mentality.  You have to put on your own life-saving device prior to rescuing others.  In this time of great shift, as healers abound and service orientation is of great focus, we must take care to become strong in stance before we be that for everyone else.  When we give from an empty well, we are not giving from our highest self.  We are giving out of obligation and too often, breeding resentment and betraying our own deeper needs.

You cannot love another unless you truly love yourself.  You cannot give what you don’t have.  We love and give and wonder why it’s not enough, and it’s because we’ve overlooked the importance and the necessity of self care.  Too many, when asked how they nurture or support themselves, come up empty.  It’s something on the should  or to-do list.  But is that really reasonable, rational, or coming from a conscious place?  We’re used to pushing our self aside and putting our selves last, but that martyr mentality doesn’t serve us, or anyone else for that matter.  It only creates empty space that continually seeks to be filled.

What if self-love where on the good hygiene list, right up there with brushing your teeth, twice a day or after every meal? How would that feel?  We brush our teeth, we maintain oral hygiene, to avoid decay.  Go deep for a bit and see how you’re feeling at a soul level.  Is your soul crying out for some care?  Is it tired of being put last or neglected? Is it long overdue?

Ask what you can do to nurture your soul today.  Don’t put it off till tomorrow.  You have to fill before you can fulfill this destiny of yours that’ s in high order.  As you begin to strengthen yourself and your reserves are restored, the order of your spirit will fortify your dreams.  You will not be resistant to moving forward, to following your resolve, when you are blanketed in the knowledge that you’re not going to neglect your self.  Your own needs need met.  And it’s not wrong to meet them.. You are not risking another by strengthening yourself.  You are completing another level of consciousness when you open to self-love as your reality and forsake the mentality of loving yourself as sin.

The greatest ‘sin’ is in forsaking our selves.  In not honoring and harboring respect for our own inner wisdom that calls for nurturing and retribution, we distill a truth that was meant to set us free.  To be of service is to be of love.  But we must begin within.  Release old modalities and beliefs that tell you otherwise.  Let the ‘new’ consciousness guide you to a priority that supports the whole. You are part of that whole. Factor your self into the equation.  Give up being a martyr and decide to become a master. Your enrichment will enable you to further give, from a place of strength and compassion, and will enter you into a vastness that is far more compatible with your grandest version of you and ever aligned with your truth.  Question your reality, or the one you’ve been living, and go out on a limb to try something new and improved. Even if it’s only based on a hunch, if it’s coming from your own curiosity of what could be, it’s worth trying on for size. And as you expand, what used to fit no longer applies. Expand into you first, and the world will reap the rewards. 

In peace and joy,

~Rhonda

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Copyright © 2010 Rhonda Simpson~Conscious Co-Creating. Permission is granted to copy and redistribute this transmission on the condition that the content remains complete and in tact, full credit is given to the author, and that it is distributed freely.  

 

Beginnings and Endings

The energy of the month is about beginnings and endings. It is time to wrap up the remainders of the old that are lingering or peaking around the corner to be reviewed. And it is most definitely time for the writing of that new chapter to begin. Take this into perspective as that which needs viewing pops in.  Allow it to be laid to rest, given over, surrendered, surrounded in peace. Once and for all, allow yourself to move forward and be free.

But how you ask. What is coming to mind, or more likely doing laps through your head, as it’s wanting to be rescued and resuscitated and released is the stuff that needs to go.  It’s the stuff that needs resolve.  Too often we tackle this head on by none other than our head, but this never works, as our heads, in that state of attempting to solve our soul remains doesn’t have the answers. We need to sink down into our hearts in order to be led through the lesson and out into the light. 

Know that whatever memories, insecurities, doubts, are surfacing are doing so because they are still embedded within you and are contributing to your overall well ( or not so well) being. Many times we are surprised by what comes up, or comes back around, thinking it was so long ago, or believing we had found some resolution already. Bit alas they come once again to a head in order to show us that what’s buried may be unconscious, but out of sight isn’t out of mind. When we toss these things aside, or stuff them further, in order to avoid dealing with them or unsure of how to face them, we only end up meeting them again on another day, at another time. This hide and seek doesn’t serve us.  It delays the progress of our growth and keeps us stuck on a treadmill, until we find another way.

We can find strength and resolve through intending that we are not those thoughts that haunt or hinder us.  We can become more balanced and whole by deciding to separate our selves from them in a healthy way and releasing our selves from the energy signature that they hold. We can justify our detachment from that story by deciding it’s time to tell a new one, and by gifting ourselves with a fresh perspective, a clearer outlook based on truth, and a chance to do it differently.

The longer we hold onto stories that undermine our joy, the longer we struggle in a life that doesn’t seem like our own. And it’s not our own, our life, as long as we give our power to a story that depletes us. We have absolute power over what plays out in our lives, as far as how we respond to it and how we determine what’s important and right. When we give away our power and place it in the hands of a mind whose mantra is unholy, we find ourselves in a place of unrest and we long for the peace that we know on some level we deserve.

Isn’t it time now, as this new year approaches, as the old one comes to a close, to start a new chapter filled with exciting endeavors, enticing ideas, irresistible love and abundance? Isn’t it time for the tides to turn and for your story to be one of peace? This doesn’t have to be a fairy-tale-only situation. We have what we need to turn the page and make it new. We have the strength, and the wisdom, and the love that we need to be and do and have everything that we desire.  And when it all comes down to the final cut, the most important, and by far the most precious, of all that we could experience in life are the moments of joy, peace, and love.

As this holiday season rolls in to remind us of the spirit of those elemental truths, be mindful of what you are most appreciative.  Be grateful for the gifts of the lessons that have played out in all of your previous chapters, and the ones that are playing out now, as they bring you the opportunity of finding closure and the chance to know yourself on a deeper level.  As the year comes to a close, remember the tools you have gathered along the way and resolve to bring them forward into your next chapter, into your tomorrows, and into your better days.

Be of the spirit of mindfulness and trust in your ability to do what you came to do.  No other can do it quite like you. Let go of what needs put to rest.  Bury it,  burn it, become your own entity absolved from it. But be careful to bless it before it goes, as it offers insight into what you are ready to leave behind and clues about who you are growing into.  As each day is new, so are you, and fresh is the moment to be rich with a new way of being.  Let your new chapter be filled with love, enrichment, and creativity. Bring to it all that your heart desires. Be certain that you write the page.  And be filled with the knowing that you are loved.

~Rhonda
Awakeningthedivine.net

Copyright © 2010 Rhonda Simpson~Conscious Co-Creating. Permission is granted to copy and redistribute this transmission on the condition that the content remains complete and in tact, full credit is given to the author, and that it is distributed freely.