Energy Forecast for Dec. 3, 2011: Bulldozer and the Sun

The energy forecast for today…

There is the image of the bulldozer, out in the middle of a wide open field. (So many of the images are out in the wide open field, which seems to represents consciousness or potential of life unfolding- that empty palate on which to create all possibilities as the possibilities are shown). The bulldozer represents creating the space for the new to come into our lives and plowing through that which is in our way. This is about letting go of all of the things that we are holding onto and all of the things that we try to do ourselves. This is about realizing that there is something larger than us that is right there, willing and able to lend a hand ( in a huge and far more powerful and effective way than we are capable of at this point), and all we need do is get out of the way.

How many of us get stuck in ‘do it myself’ mode, racking our brains for the how-to’s, and find that we’re only left squirming in ‘know-nots’, beating our heads against the wall, and getting lost in the pain?  Those things that you seek, those things that you desire in your life, those things that you have no idea how to bring about or make so- they are none of your business.  What I mean by this is that you are not meant to know, you cannot know at this point, and if you can’t figure out how to make it happen it’s because you are in the way of the receiving, you are in the way of letting the way be known.

We hold on so tight and fast to our anger and frustration at life and at what’s not working, happening, or coming to pass. We feel justified and righteous in those emotions. We validate ourselves by telling ourselves that we have every reason to dip (often far too deep) into the negative vibrational heap because it is 'true' that our life is a mess, or we don’t have what we want  (that something that without which we will never be happy), or we find justification in the ‘evidence’ of how life refuses to flow.  It is us though, that is refusing, that is resisting, that is constricting the Know.

Our emotions are simply indicators that things are out of alignment, not tools for how to get anything done.  When we feel overwhelmed, discouraged, angry or despaired about how our lives are working (or not working) it is simply a red blinking light alerting us get out of the way.  We take it upon ourselves however to make it right or do something about it even when we have no idea what we’re doing.  We freak out and rush in, we react, we step on the gas instead of coming to a complete stop, and we find ourselves continually lost in the maze of confusion that originates from trying to be and do more than we are, in that moment, whihin any given situation.

When the ‘check engine’ light comes on in your car it is not cause for alarm. It simply means that it’s time to give our vehicle over to a qualified source so that the work that needs done can take place. We don’t panic when this warning light goes off, we simply make arrangements for the car to be repaired and go on about our day.  We don’t fret about what the car needs, or how it’s going to be fixed, or how we can rise to the task of fixing it ourselves. Yet in our lives when we are alerted that something needs fixed we put ourselves to the task, become overwhelmed or alarmed by it, and create all kinds of negative energy that inhibits us from making any lasting or effective change.

If you don’t know, that’s a sign. It means give it over. When you’re angry- give it over. When you’re overwhelmed- give in. When you have no idea how you’re possibly going to make happen what appears to need be done- get out of the way. By spinning in circle, analyzing the situation, getting trapped by frustration or limitation, we create all kinds of blockages that only create more of the same. We create a wall, a barrier that restricts movement, restricts flow. And this way of being inhibits the true insight, the higher knowing, from lighting the way.

It’s not our job to do it all. It’s only our job to listen, receive the orders from the One above, and take action on them in order to create the lives of our dreams ( which is the same dream the Creator has in store for us).  It’s not our job to interpret or analyze or over-think these directives.  These are the ways that we’re in the way.  These are the ways that we disconnect and impair our ability to receive.  This is the indicator that we do not trust Source, or Source's plan for us, that we do not trust in The Way. 

How can we get the message, the divine insight or the direction when we’re drowning it out and fogging it up with our mental chatter and rebellion? Yes, our resistance is an inhibition. Think of a child who so adamantly insists on doing something themselves that they are as of yet incapable of doing. Try as they might, and distraught as they become, they will not accomplish the task, no matter how badly they desire to do it for themselves at that point, until they have reached a point where they’re ready to. Eventually the child digresses, moves out of the way, ask for or receives help, and then they go about their day.  It is the same for us. We are limited in our capacity as far as we are blocking the assistance that we need in our lives while we continue to create the resistance by holding onto the frustration of not being able to do it ourselves or in our own way.

That giant bulldozer represents the help that is available to us, right now and always. We can try to clear the field, or the obstacles in our lives, by hand, or we can receive the assistance of the big giant piece of equipment that would undoubtedly get the job done in a much more efficient and effective way.

The obstacles we need to clear are the things that inhibit us from moving forward, the things that negate our way, the things that dilute our vision, and the things that distort our faith. Though we are more and more able to clear away what needs to go on our own, the message for today alerts us to the gift that stands before us now, the assistance that is ready and waiting and here to clear and plow through all that blocks us from receiving so that we may flow and be opened and move forward in a much bigger way.

We can climb upon that big ol’ machine and get the job done. We are supported. All we need do is get out of the way of our resistance and allow Creator to light the way. Give it over, get out of the way, let the way be shown. It really is much easier that way.

The other part of the vision was an enormously bright sun shining down upon us. The light is so radiant at this time, and it filters down upon us making it easier for us to distill the darkness, choose higher, and move in a direction that creates lasting change. Pull upon this light.  Allow it to rinse away all that has become corroded, stagnant, rusty, and stained.  You are the light, and the light shining down upon you is simply a reflection of the light you were born to sustain.

Make use of these powerful energies today to create a life of grace and ease.  Allow for that field to be plowed down, for the blockages within you that reflect the blockages and incongruencies, or ‘not workings’ within your life to be bulldozed over so that the space for your dreams and your desires can be made.  Let the field be cleared in order that your dreams have a place to grow.   Clear the way, and let the way be known.  You don’t have to figure it all out yourself.  You’ve tried that already.  Give it over, give it up, and get out of the way so that the forces greater than you can move through you and their job.  Move aside today, listen for the divine instructions which can only be heard when we stop insisting on doing it ourselves. And let the way, shining down upon you in radiant streams of light, be known.


Happy clearing to you! Take a sigh of relief as you let  the forces beyond do the heavy lifting and you settle into believing that the way will be shown.

Blessings and light,
~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.   

Energy Forecast for Dec. 2, 2011 Paddleball and Gumball Machine

Energy forecast for today...though not posted here until this evening, the insights are long-lasting and apply any time. Enjoy!

Upon tapping into the energy of the day, I received...

Two images. The first is a paddle ball. This seems to have to do with balance and the way we keep bouncing around in the same old directions, playing out the same patterns, or directing our energy repeatedly in the same way. It can also have do do with self-abuse, as in how we slap ourselves around with overly-critical judgments about our lives or ourselves, and the negative self-talk/patterns that we fall prey to. The balance aspect is reflected in how the game is played. You have to get just the right groove on to get that ball on the string to bounce off the paddle. Keeping it going is the object, or how long you can keep it paddling before you loose your rhythm. It's a bit of a challenge, but it's fun. The challenge at hand is to attempt to balance that paddle so that the ball is in bounce mode and not falling of to the wayside. How easily we conform to those triggers that rush in as our eyes are barely opening in the morning. There are the worries, and the doubts, and the regrets, and the otherwise downward-spiraling potentials that step right up and call out loud and clear for your attention. Just as dream-time ends and you wake to a new day, you are met by the circus of drama and illusions vying for your attention. You don't have to fall prey though. You can choose another way. Just because the bait is there doesn't mean you have to take a bite. Just because the road is familiar doesn't mean you can't take another route. Happiness is a choice. If you want that, you have to lean toward an intention to create it. As long as you are choosing those unhappy thoughts or the ones that serve to sabotage you or your intentions, you are choosing to loose the game. Groggy as you may be, paddle that ball, don't let it just dangle to the side because it's challenging or takes a little effort. Give it a go and go for what you beleive in.

There's a good point there though, isn't there. What do you beleive in? Perhaps it's time to make some choices there too. Let's take the thirty-day challenge and decide that by the end of the three days we will choose three wishes. And in order for them to come true, all we have to do is beleive. The challenge is that you have to hold the intention and the vibration for those wishes each and every day. So that means no more complaining, negating, diving down low. No more anything that creates the opposite of what you desire. If you desire joy, why do you keep on swimming in pain? If you desire community or love, why do you keep yourself separate? If you desire riches, you do you resist when you could receive. Rather than exploring the what's and the whys, simply become aligned with your wishes. Become mindful of what you're going for, what you want to create, and pay attention to where you are killing it in your day to day. Make the shift. Enact the male within you and take action, create change, just your foot down when it comes to old habits that are distracting and delaying you from grabbing the prize, and take the reigns.

This is a time for discipline. But like a parent struggling to control and unruly child, we may not know just how to get a handle on why we debunk on ourselves and our lives, even though we know better, time and time again. Here's where the second image comes in...

There's a giant gumball machine. It's about the size of a house with you standing as a tiny being just in front of it. The gumballs represent the whoppers, the biggies that we dream of. Some so big, a part of us doesn't even beleive they will ever come true. Yet there is no line or crowd in front of this jackpot. It's deserted, not a soul in site, except for the possibility of you waiting to receive. That saying that we are far more afraid of our potential than our weaknesses is true. How many spend so much of their energy, time, and lives in misery because they don't have the things they desire. Yet they push those things away, and not only by the nature of recreating the energy of lack every time they play into the triggers that tell them what they don't have, but by the fear of what would happen if they really did receive. If old St. Nick were to drop down that chimney what you truly desire more than anything else in the world, right now, what would you do? Would you even know what to do with it? It's much easier to know how to navigate dreams when they are still in dream state. But the knowing that having that thing that you want would create change, would call for action on some level, would require responsibility....now that, that's a little harder to take, isn't it?

Perhaps you don't beleive that you are capable or worthy of handling your heart's true desires. Perhaps the notion of moving out of your comfort zone in order for your dream to take place is more than you can mojo. Perhaps the comfort zone, as uncomfortable as it is, is better in that sense, that the idea of the unknown. It's just a groove that's been worn, though, by traveling this beaten path. It's just a familiar way. You know, or are beginning to see that the road leads nowhere, right? Nowhere but where you've been, time and time again.

So, what is it that stops us from following our heart, or that inner voice, or spirit, when we know we're being called in another direction, towards a new path that's paved with possibility that we can even begin to see before they play out. It would seem that we've forgotten, or maybe we never knew that it's not our business. What we're being called to do that we're struggling to match up to...that's not our business, it's God's. These are HIS plans for us, this is the Divine at play, and our job is simply to take action in how we're being called. That's it. And when we don't, it is saying that we are not trusting God- which is why when we sabotage ourselves or don't speak our truth or follow our heart it is so painful. It is us cutting off from Spirit. It is us denying that Divine Flow to flourish in our lives.

If this were a real job, I'd be fired. I have done such a lousy job taking orders and following through with my responsibilities of acting on the whispers of my heart and following the directives of God, that surely by this point, if it were anyone other than God in charge, I'd be canned. But that's just it. He's much more patient and gentle and forgiving, in that he Allows for us to get to where we're going in our own time, in our own way, in what ever way we need to, because the mission and the journey are just as priceless as the end arrival.

If you remembered that you are a child of God, and realigned yourself in that way, you would be standing front and center in front of that big ol' gimball machine, ready to receive... and not just one giant prize, but as many as you could get to come out of the machine. Because you would realize ( in this remembering that you are divine) that you are boundless and more than capable of wrapping yourself around completely every single dream that has ever quenched your heart with lots and lots of room for more within every single day. You would know this, because you beleive.

In the spirit of the holiday, and in the essence of the child who knows that all things are possible, it is time again to dust off that knowing and beleive. Believe, that all things are possible. Believe, that you can create the life of your dreams. Believe, that you can exist in full-throttle on the new improved road, and that exiting the old worn and weary one is just what you need to do.

Become the holy trinity, enacting the mother who holds the vision, the father who takes action to create the dream, and the child who solely and simply believes.

Believe, my friends, just believe...and all else will follow.

Many blessings,

~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.   

Presenting: The Energy Forecast for The Day...A looking Glass

For some time, I have been receiving, each morning, an overview of the energy of the day- sort of a peek into the potential or the pitfalls that may arise and how to navigate through. Not too long ago, the forecast became visual, and I would receive images of what the energy would be. Though I've been posting this forecast on the Conscious Co-Creating Facebook page for a few weeks now, I though it was time to post it here too. Enjoy!

The energy forecast for today...

A looking glass ( floor-length and ornate, like the one the wicked queen looks into in Snow White). Within the mirror is a swirling vortex of potential. It is fluid. If you were to poke your finger into it, you would feel beyond where the glass was and into another dimension or reality. Within this vortex you can see into the future, or the past, or into the understanding of a certain situation. This is available to you now, as it is always, so that you can see the bigger picture, so that you can see the perfection of who you've been and what you've been through. So you can see the beauty of who you've become because of it. So that you can understand and let go of the things that you're still holding onto and release into the knowing that all is well, all is divine, and all is designed in order that you meet, ultimately, your fullest potential. Can you see into the mirror and sort through the pain, the confusion, and the indecisiveness that may be in your way? Can you look into the mirror and find peace with what Is, in the Now, in the in-between, in the future, and in the before? This is about us realizing that reality is fluid. That it is time to let go of rigidity and become more flexible, more fluid, and in the flow. The looking glass is about seeing beyond what appears to be and into the bigger picture of what IS.

A lot of the stuck-ness and the lack of movement that we have experienced are due to being more often lodged or cemented in our lower chakras. We have been cycling through our issues having to do with lack and imbalance in the areas of survival, pleasure, and power. As long as we remain focused on these areas of lack and within this imbalance we can only see from that perspective. This blocks the energy flow within us and inhibits the flow of possibilities and potential within our lives. Though we may know a lot about these spiritual concepts and may have filtered a lot of consciousness into our lives, how much time are we spending merely talking the talk?

There is a dead-man switch on a bomb. You will see it in movies in the scene where the hero will detonate himself in order that everyone else can escape danger and live. As long as he is holding on tight and pushing down on the switch the bomb remains inactive, but as soon as he lets go it explodes. We are holding onto the dead-man switch by operating from this lower place. We are restricting the flow of life (illustrated by the life that is saved once the hero saves the day by activating the bomb). When we let go, the energy can again flow, and the imbalance that we are creating within our lives can meet the flow, and the parts of ourselves that need saving, can again be renewed and restored to the whole.

A friend of mine was speaking of her visit to China and she said that their culture is based on balance. This is the premise on which they beleive life should be based. But she said that she doesn't even think that they know that the sky is blue because it is blocked by such a thick layer of smog. It appeared, she said, that even though their culture's basis is balance, they don't seem to be achieving it as a way of life, or as a way of being that effects the whole. If you find that you are following your practice and your path and are doing all of the releasing and the clearing and the mindfulness and applying the principles in which you beleive yet your life is presenting a much different picture, your sky is inhibited by a thick layer of smog ( lack of abundance, inability to thrive, thwarted power, lack of pleasure and joy ) then it's time to adjust your current level of focus, grab some stilts, and see from higher ground.

It's important now, if you are finding yourself still stuck and still treading water, to move into your higher chakras and operate from a higher place of perspective. As long as you are moving through life looking from the point of view of the lower chakras, you can only see knee-high. You go through life seeing only half the picture, only from a child's point of view ( your wounded child, most likely), and your perception as well as your potential remain half-hearted and limited.

By moving into the higher chakras now, you will find far more flexibility and fluidity in your life from which the possibility of blue skies can flow, to and fro. Your first chakra survival issues can be balanced by moving into the sixth chakra, where, from the thrid eye you can see that all needs are met. The areas in your life that reflect as imbalances in your second chakra relating to creativity and pleasure will become fruition and joy when you can navigate from the fifth chakra of expression, within the throat. Third chakra power issues find peace when you move into your heart chakra where real power is sourced. From this higher point of view, you can operate from a higher way of being. You reconnect to the source or perfection rather than sourcing your navigation from a tired and tangled point of view. It's time to rise higher and house your higher chakras so that you can move away from the smog-filled skies and light the light shine through. It's time to walk the talk and you can only do that by integrating the balance within you by incorporating and existence based on high-chakra inhabitance.

There is also a watch within the vision that you wear upon your wrist. This watch is special in that when you open the lid that houses the tiny version of the looking glass, you are reminded of the vortex of possibilities within the timeless place of potential. You can tap into this portal through this watch upon your wrist, you can transverse the limitation or the restriction or the lack within your life.

Enter the fluidity and exit the fundamentals that have held you down. There is a whole world beyond which you yourself have created and experienced on some level. Just because you don't see it (due to the smog or knee-high vision) doesn't mean it doesn't exist. All that's needed now is a shift of perspective, and opening to possibility, and a good heaping dose of faith. Your perspective shifts simply by moving into the higher chakras and stepping into the looking glass, or Window of what Is. The looking glass doesn't lie. Look into it and see what it has to tell you about where you're going and where you've been. And allow for the past, present and future of you to merge into the divine perfection of the story of your soul as it continues to unfold.

Higher chakra living, baby! Step into the glass, shift up and clear the way.

Much love and abundance heading your way.

Blessings,

~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.   

Trigger Happy

As we’re being offered this profound opportunity to shift into an entirely new way of being, it can be easy to bypass the windows that are presenting in favor of falling into default.  These windows, when opened, offer us the fresh air of a perspective that’s beyond the one we’ve been privy to.  And in this consciousness expansion, we can gain greater strides in our awakening as we shift away from tendencies of blame and of victim-consciousness, and fold into a freer way that isn’t hindered by fear and projection.

Begin by allowing the ever-multiplying bouquet of triggers to float into and through your awareness rather than anchor you down.  You can do this!  It just takes a little intent and a lot of perspective about how pursuing triggers and getting sunk by them has never really brought you anything but grief.

Triggers are here to teach you, but they can’t do their job and you can’t evolve unless you’re able to separate yourself from the need to be sent.  Repeat to yourself ...     

 ‘ Just because I’ve always reacted to this set of circumstances in this way doesn’t mean I have to react to it that way again now.  I can do it different.  Why not? And in doing so, in choosing to just be the trout at the bottom of the stream, watching all of the bait go by, I can be removed from it enough to actually see what it’s here to teach me.  And when I can do that, when I can remain inactivated by this ‘thing’ that’s always set me off before, I can shift the energy and the vibration of it so that it will no longer re-appear in my life.

And beyond that, I will gain wisdom and I will gain strength and I can even gather profound perspective for myself in having suffered through that lesson  (and for all others who have suffered through, and are continuing to suffer, in the same way).

In this, you are made new.  In this, you achieve wholeness because you have gathered to yourself an aspect that has been adrift in your struggle to move beyond the point of trigger into a place of peace.

Lighten your load by releasing the need to carry around the yesterdays and the tomorrows.  Haven’t you got enough on your plate right now?!  Anytime your Now is flavored by what’s ‘always been’ or what hasn’t- it’s limited in it’s potential and skews your perspective, keeping you boxed in and disillusioned.

Strike the ‘shoulds’ from your vocabulary.  Past ‘shoulds’ and future ‘shoulds’ are an indicator that you are being derailed from your presence and your power.

Perspective, people, perspective!  As long as you view everything, anything, as meaning something, it does. But most often it doesn’t mean what you think it means at all.  When your perspective is based on your past, it filters out the truth and disables you from moving beyond the imposed limitation.

When you realize a trigger is on the horizon, when you See that it has the potential of unfolding and causing you to unravel- retreat.  Go inward, and away, to the best of your ability considering the circumstances, from the drama.  Allowing yourself to ‘move away’ from the situation gives you some breathing space so that you don’t get sucked into reacting, attaching, or judgment of what’s playing out.

Every time you don’t go there and give in to the habitual responses, you win.  You move forward.  You are further along in your game.  So when you juxtaposition yourself to remain still, remain objective, remain neutral, remain in the Now- you set yourself up to See the big picture and discontinue acting small (or from the stance of the littler ego self).

Moving forward, shedding all of these old triggers, gives more leverage, more leg room- gives an insiders advantage, because you’re able to See things from the inside out , from a higher perspective, and not feel so weighed down by what’s been dominating you forever.

Remember to find ways to shed that old skin as you’re releasing in droves.  You don’t need to hold onto the old perspective while simultaneously opening to the new.  Try salt showers, releasing rituals, surrendering to a higher power, and reconnecting with your higher self to keep things resonating from that ‘higher’ place.

It doesn’t matter what’s happened before. This moment is not a reflection of what’s been. This moment simply IS. This Now holds within it the potential of the new.  It is not condemned.  It is not tainted or tarnished unless you make it that way.  Choose the portal.  Choose new.  You deserve this newness.  You deserve to get unstuck.  A trigger holds within it the weight of what’s been.  That‘s why it has such a stronghold and an impact.  It’s got the hardware of what’s kept you paralyzed and in an unconscious groove.  But within the trigger is also a mystery to be unlocked which holds the magic of wisdom and of love.

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A god mantra to get you through the day, 'None of this means anything at all'. This is one of the most powerful statements to keep you out of the way and in the flow. It really is that simple...when ya let it be.

Peaceful forward movement to you!

In grace,

~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.   

Realigning with Center to Make Higher Choices

There comes a time on our path where consciousness moves in on such a level that we becomes more and more aware of our choices.  And for a time, this place on the path can be painful, because all of a sudden, we realize that our life is unsatisfying, our life is falling apart, or our life is painful due to the choices we are making.  Suddenly, we begin to know (and have to face) that we are causing the (perceived and chosen) suffering and we know (on some level) that we can no longer blame it on another.  For it is not the outside world that is causing us strife, it’s our own mis-alignment with our truth and ultimately our incongruence with center.

And so we begin to know that we must begin to make higher choices.  This is the part where so many of us stumble.  We know what we are supposed to do, but doing it is another story.  We see where we are going wrong, but getting it right seems to be impossible.  How can we be so conscious, so evolved, on one level, yet at the same time continually be tripping over our own two feet?

Easy.  Here’s your answer.  You’ve evoked consciousness- you see from a higher plane- you ‘get it’ on a deeper level, but how much of the time are you operating from that place of awareness in your day-to-day?  We seem to slip in and out of consciousness, merging with our God-Self in certain moments and then falling back into unawareness in others.  And when we do not bring that consciousness into everything- every moment, every breath- then we are unable to make mindful choices from which we can thrive and from which we can truly begin to taste the fruits of our labor.

When we are not present, engaging the Now, we are unconsciously operating from a place that’s not Center.  From this place that’s ‘not flow’ we continually make the choices (or mistakes) that we’ve made throughout our life (or for many lifetimes) that disable us from our power-place, that create more misalignment, that cause us grief and suffering, and send us spiraling into the abyss.

When we live on auto-pilot, our choices are vague, they are rogue, they are a repeat of the patterns engraved in our heads.  They are ‘the way we’ve always done it’- habitual responses that leave us wanting from more, wanting for better, and wanting desperately out of this mismatch to our higher knowing.

Consciousness comes in and we See how those choices affect us but we don’t see a way past them.  We wonder why we can’t ‘get it right’, ‘do it different’, or inact a different plan'.  We each have our own core stuff playing out that will be triggered and responded to repeatedly and again until one day we shift- we choose higher and we set the foundation for a new path, a higher vibration, a greater way.

As we stumble and fall over our choices and get tangled up in conflict with our selves, we may struggle to find the compassion for our own trial and tribulations- wanting so desperately to just ‘win’ to not fall into the same traps, that our focus remains on our ‘failures’ and our ‘flaws’.

Our ‘flaw’ is not that we keep tripping it up or are incapable of overcoming.  Our ‘flaw’ is our level of unconsciousness still playing out strongly within our lives that’s dominating our choices and making us feel like we don’t have the capability to choose another way.

Enter centeredness- and the need to remain connected- the need to remain grounded in your power and with your Source, for the greater part of the day.  When we go into fear, disenchantment, worry, anger, stress or strife, we disengage from Connection.  We disengage from life.  Once unplugged, we begin to spiral, tapping into all of the thoughts and emotions that readily support our travails.  We begin to feel tainted and bad about ourselves, about life, about possibilities- separating from God as we become self-rightious, separating form others as we begin to feel unworthy or wrong, separating from ourselves as we doubt and judge, plugging further into the false god of suffering and plunging further into disconnect and despair.  And from this place we operate.

These thoughts and emotions are so well-worn, so unconsciously familiar that we often don’t even know that that’s the place we’re living in.  We can go on in that state for hours, or days, months, infinity- completely unaware, mostly unplugged, searching our minds for answers and calling out in the night for relief.

When we operate from this place (and we do if we are continuing to struggle), we continue to make unconscious choices.  We continue to see life as struggle and ultimately, we continue to place the blame.  But blame is an unconscious maneuver and owning is exactly the caveat necessary to shift you to a higher plane.

In order to live from a higher place, we need to remain in the higher for the duration.  As we continue to shift in and out of awareness, we continue to live out the default of the highs and lows.  The more we maintain a presence in center, the more we can act froma place of intention, from a place of awareness- and the more life begins to flow.

Until we exercise consciousness consciously for the greater part of our waking time, we continue to play out more of the same. 

This is about maturation.  This is about taking ownership and stepping into authority within your life- within your being.  This is about no longer being moved by the tantruming inner child and being maneuvered by the habitual auto-pilot, but instead taking charge and owning your choices- owning your power-owning your resources- owning your life.

From the view of the inner child, the ego, the unconscious- it will always be the same way that it was.  It will always play out the same.  There is no choice, there is only the quest for safety and this is a modality based strongly in fear and mirrored wholly by the past.  When you have elevated in consciousness, you can inject that into your life and into your choices by becoming center and living from that place of Knowing (ultimately in every moment) so that you do not continue to act out more of the same (pain).  You can begin to sooth your inner tantruming which dominates your unconscious responses by reassuring that part of your self that you are, alas, an adult.

You can begin to know that you are capable of authority in your life when you can rise beyond the habitual way and embrace your fears with compassion as you transition into strength.

Those quelling parts of you need enrichment, not engagement.  They need direction, not detachment.  They need our embrace and our wisdom over our desire to collapse into tham and become the tantrum and the suffering ourselves.

As we move into mindfulness and realize that this is the ONLY place from which we can make higher choices (choices that support our heart’s desire, our forward movement, and fulfillment of self), we begin to know the utmost importance of maintaining a state of awareness throughout the day.

Remember to realign and reconnect whenever you find yourself out of alignment. Once you're back in center you will be in a place of being able to again make those conscious choices that will move you on down the line and into the freedom from the habitual past mistakes.

Balance your soul by breathing into your being and reconnecting with your high self. Breathe from this place daily and you will find greater ease flowing and less stress.

Be true to you, continually pivoting back to center, back to core.

You are blessed! Believe it, even when it doesn't seem that way!

Love and longevity of spirit,

~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.   

Shifting Out of Anger

Anger is, in many ways, about taking inventory, taking responsibility, and taking back our power when it’s been misused or given away.When used as a navigational tool, it can take you into uncharted territories of possibility and peace. With consciousness, intention, and a greater awareness of what this radar is transmitting, you can transform what's stuck, transmute what's not for your highest good, and temper your tantrums so that you are no longer ruled by your powerful emotions but use them to rewire your life instead.

Recognize where you are hard that you need to become soft and where you are soft that you need to become hard.  This is what anger is asking you.  Anger is a response to a trigger, and it’s up to you to decide if you’re being guided to shift away from or towards something.  Always, it’s both. But what direction are you being called in and in what way do you need to shift to truly accommodate your soul?  If you are being taken advantage of, mistreated, unappreciated, or are in some way giving away your power- then anger is showing you where you need to step up and out of softness- where you need to take control.  If you are being rigid and responsive to circumstances beyond your control and you are needing to open to a new perspective and a new way of doing things- then you are being asked to surrender to a higher way of softening and letting go of domination and attachment and you are being guided in where it would benefit you by not being quite so hard and held-fast to one way, to your way, and to open to a better way than perhaps you’ve known.

Anger is a fiery tool, but it can be transformative if you let it speak to you and really listen to what it has to say.  At its onset, if you go inward rather than focusing and directing it outward, you can pluck out its lessons and bring consciousness to previously unbridled forces, allowing this emotion to propel you forward rather than keep you stuck.

Become the observer next time you feel the anger rising.  Notice where you feel it in your body, how it affects your vibration, and just become aware of what is triggering you. Watching from the non-attached position gives you the leverage to create the possibility for positive change rather than being swept away and ruled by unconscious responses and tendencies.

Becoming the observer puts you in charge- which is always what anger asks for anyway.  Be aware of the temptation (and anger is very seductive) to tantrum, to project, to blame.  This is about you.  Always.  So the question is not what someone else has done or how you’ve been wronged, or even what the exterior situation is, so much as it is what did or didn’t I do and is it in integrity with who I truly am.

Anger is healthy when used as a barometer to know when you’ve been pushed beyond your limit, have given away too much of yourself, or need to maintain or set stronger boundaries. Anger is volatile and damaging when our only source of asserting power or getting our way. Ask yourself, ‘What is my anger showing me about who I am and who I choose to be?’

Ask “what needs of mine are neglected and need attending to and how do I delegate that those needs are met?’   When your needs are unmet or have gone unnoticed for too long, you will feel the fire of angers rise.  When you take this warning light as a cue to take care of yourself and do what you need to do t come into balance, you will find your inner peace restored and you emotions swinging back to the other end of the pendulum or into complete balance.

Underneath all anger is sorrow.  If you are not listening to your inner voice or minding your internal compass, you will find that your body and soul will create another way of getting your attention.  The inner siren will become louder.  Your discomfort level will heighten.  And your muscles and thought process will tighten.

Slow down to stop and become connected with what it is you need to know.  The more you resist, ignore, or suppress, the hotter the fire will burn.  Create the space for the wisdom to be gained rather than stocking the flames through resentment or allowing the fire to smolder. 

Anger remains until it is addressed.  And storing it in your body because it is unwelcome or unacceptable simply elevates it into more blocked energy forms of depression, repression, and unaccountability.

Anger is about power.  Not only is it a powerful force but it is a fire that is showing you where you are in your power and where you are not and ultimately what you need to do to burn through to the other side of the equilibrium.

So the next time you are feeling the passion of anger rearing its head, it is time to use it to your advantage and ask yourself some important questions. What can you do to become more empowered?  How can you begin to pay better attention to your inner compass so that the temperature of emotions don’t need to rise so high in order to get your attention?  In what areas of your life are you needing to assert yourself more directly?  And, what beliefs, thoughts behaviors, and tendencies is it time to let go of?

You have within you the power, the peace, the wisdom, and the freedom to move into whatever direction you choose.  Connecting deeper with what your spirit is directing you in will liberate you to see clearly where you are misdirecting your energy and where there is possibility for growth.

In order to become more integrated and whole, you will need to take stock of the messages your body, mind, and spirit are sending you.  Anger is not necessarily the problem when you learn to harness it as the messenger it truly is and allow it to become the directive to the solution.

Breathe into your heart and soften at angers rise.  Become inwardly reflective rather than allowing it to become outwardly directed.  Anger is the force of Kali. It is destructive, but it is also creative. And if you anchor into stillness despite the temptation to explode, you can use this powerful energy force as a means of transforming and transmuting the old into the new rather than remaining a victim of circumstances with a chip on your shoulder whose needs continue to go unmet and whose pain remains unknown.

Understanding anger allows you to be less restrictive, more creative, and purposeful in directing your energy and making meaningful change.

Here are some mantras to help you shift:

I am at all times in my power.

I use my power to create positive and informed change.

My anger is showing me where I perceive myself to be giving away my power and teaching me where I need to grow.

When I become angry, I have neglected myself in some way and more than anything, I am needing to be acknowledged, loved, and heard.

I create space for compassion for self when I feel angry and go inward to find out whether I am needing to surrender or take control.

Anger is my radar’s way of letting me know that I am out of balance, whether it be that I need to speak up, slow down, change directions, or create clear boundaries.

I honor my anger and address it with the intention of gaining greater wisdom into the truth of who I am.

I see a gentler way with anger, never using it to hurt myself or another, but rather accepting it as an indicator of need for awareness of what I am unable or unwilling to see.

I navigate through anger in a mindful way, becoming detached, becoming the observer, and allowing it to guide me to a clearer perspective of my life, of myself, and of what I need to do to become free.

Today, I appreciate my anger for what it has taught me and choose to learn its lessons rather than create the need to repeat them.

I was away my anger by observing its message and moving away from the need to hold onto the emotion or become it.

I am not my anger, and anger is not bad in and of itself.  It is only when I choose to allow it to be a habitual way of life and an unconscious way of responding that it becomes damaging and detrimental.

As I bridge the gap between anger and peace, I find that I no longer need anger to play such a dominant role in my life because I choose to listen closer to the clues alerting me to imbalance and discontent before they need escalate to a place of pain.

Harmony, joy, and peace are my birthright.  And as I come into greater connection with and allow for the healing of my wounds and nurturing of my inner longings to take place, I am able to detach from resentment, blame, projection, and bitterness, and rise to a place of balance.

Anger need not be boxed or labeled as wrong or bad.  When I release judgment of my emotions and of myself, I am able to reach a deeper space of clarity, insight, and healing of the cries from within.

Today, rather than responding in anger, I address the inner and outer triggers that inspire it and intend to transform habitual ways of reacting and transmute ways of feeling and being that deplete my peace.

I am a powerful being and anger need not be my vice or means of expressing my self or my needs.

I assert myself in a way that makes me feel empowered and creates a better version and vision of myself in so doing what is right for me and in responding consciously and responsibly to how I feel.

Experience today without anger, or at least the anger that moves you from center or distracts you from love.  Notice where and when it’s a natural response, where it’s a triggered reaction, and do it new.  Choose wonder.  Choose curiosity.  Choose to see it from an entirely new perspective.

Try to relax in your rigid-ness, in your Need for it to be one way or another, and ease into it.  Choose fresh over frozen; compassion over coldness, and creation over pain.  All pain is restriction, is blocked energy.  And all energy flowing is creating.

When I allow anger to dictate my life rather than direct me, I create the energy for more painful lessons and for more energy of that sort to be directed back to me.

Anger is a mirror and a window.  I choose to see into it rather than become submerged by it and instead of allowing it to become suppressed.

How I choose to navigate through my anger today dictates the way anger will continue to direct me in the future.

I choose growth over grumbling, peace over powerlessness, and conscious alignment with balance over discontent, disillusionment, and blame.

I allow anger to propel me into action that will create positive change rather than further disharmony.

Be the peace. Whatever your emotion, you have the power to merge with it and let it be your teacher.  This is the way to move out of the pain-body and into the heart-based way of living you desire. Be the light and let the 'darkness' show you the way out of where you no longer need to go. Moving into a new way of being is always an available choice. Choose new now, and elevate your being.

To your inspired growth,

~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.   

You Are the Weaver of Your Web

You are the weaver of your web.  Where are you going to hang it? How solid of a foundation will it be forged on?  What will the design of your web be?  Will it be intricate, delicate, complicated?  Will it be tangled?  Will it be symmetrical? Will it be weak?

The themes for this time have to do with the throat chakra and expression; Receiving; Responsibility, for what you’ve created and who you are; focus and intent- you are the master of your web and your world. What are you creating; and establishing new foundations.

This is a time for (re)discovery of You. Who are you, at a core, conscious level? What do you really want?  What are you really craving in your life? What matters to you most?  Where are you independent?  Where are you strong?

Notice what comes up (trigger and drama wise) that no longer has a charge.  Notice what no longer pulls you in.  Just because it comes into your thought field doesn’t mean it has to pull you in or pull you under.  Notice if it does.

Placement is helping you adjust to no time which is now time.  It’s helping you adjust by showing you where you are flexible and where you thought you couldn’t bend. Time, energy, reverence- everything is flexible.  It’s you that has been rigid, has been restricted.

And so, this is a time to soften.  A time to reflect.  A time to look inside, look deeper, and see, as if for the first time, or perhaps just with a very different perspective, who you are for real, and the faculties that are keeping you from where you want to be.

Many are feeling very drained by the experiences and energy that are incompatible with their truth. Many are finding that they are sponges for the energy of fear that is so prevalent all around. How do you know when your energy is being siphoned? You will have the experience of feeling drained.  You will feel depressed, exhausted, uneven.  You will feel a shift, and not in a good way.

Use these opportunities as a jumping point to become a master of energy. A master of energy does not bend to the energy of the environment, of the company, of the situation. A master of energy is able to maintain their vibration, and their integrity, despite the encounter with something denser. A master of energy does not become victim to their circumstances, but remains even. Remains solid.  Remains intact.  Remains in-tune, yet unaltered by the outer, surpassing the dip in vibration, and therefore the need to retaliate or recharge continually from otherwise draining situations.

When you find yourself dipping in vibration because of what someone has said or because you have taken on the energy of someone you’ve been around, question whether or not that is so. By questioning that simple fact, ‘Have I taken on the energy of another?’, you will find an instant lightening, and instant lift- simply by bringing this truth to awareness, simply by bringing it to the light.

Often, when we take on the energy of another, we are unaware that we’ve done so, and we internalize the emotions or the thoughts of those we’ve engaged with. We become confused and swept away by the emotions and thought forms, especially if they resonate with thoughts or emotions that have been ours. It can be difficult to differentiate what is ours and what is theirs. And so it becomes evident, how necessary it is to establish clear boundaries, especially energetically, as we climb the ladder of vibration. As we climb, we become more and more sensitive.  As the veil thins, and our senses sharpen, as we become more light-bodied, we operate from that level- from the level of transparency, telepathy, clairvoyance, and higher levels of empathy. This is the higher way of being, but we must integrate the safe-guards or the know-hows in order to operate from this place more efficiently.

Though the tendency is to want to hybernate or restrict contact with the outside world in order to bypass these commonly unpleasant experiences, the need to know how to operate, how to be unrestricted and free within the world and not running from it, is a part of our growth and learning. We have gone beyond the marker of being in this world but not of it and are entering a time of mastership, where being of it and in it and beyond it simultaneously are not only possible, but preferable, because we have embarked on the road of no restrictions and are leaving the land of victim-hood and hiding.

Part of being able to be in the world is being able to stand firm and solid in who you are (integrity) despite anothers conviction. If this is not a strong point for you, you are going to be tested in it. You are going to be prompted and challenged to stand your ground and be unwavering, because this is the foundation for living from your soul-truth, and this foundation, in order for you to shine your brightest shine, need be solid and sufficient. 

Your battle within thus far, between your growing truth and your ego’s opposition, has been about safety.  Your ego-mind fears the ventures of the new, the pitfalls of transition, and the betrayal of the other whom you’ve placed your value and your faith in. Your soul longs for independence from the validation of others, expression of inspired experiences, and culmination of faith that It can take you where you need to go. The war will continue to wage until you are able to provide a foundation on which your ego can rest and your soul can fly.

You have everything within you now to achieve this. This is a time of fishing through the utensil drawer of your tools and finding what will support you in this endeavor. What will it take to become strong in the face of anothers opinion, in the presence of another discordant energy? In the moment of truth, which is every moment, what are you going to bring to the table?  You may find that you’ve been drawing from the dull tools, the ones you’ve used before, perhaps time and again, and you are seeing more clearly how they haven’t served you.  You are seeing more clearly because it matters to you now, in a way that perhaps it never did before. And as you bring in the consciousness that proceeds the clarity, you no longer have the capacity to function at that level, at that level of just getting by, of barely making the ends of your life meet, and of spending half of your time picking yourself up off the floor rather than most of your time climbing higher.

So take inventory of your strengths. It’s harder to fool yourself now.  And this is to your advantage. The further you engage with your truth, the easier it becomes to see who you really are, and in these upcoming challenges, it will become increasingly easier to see when you have taken on the energy of another, and knowing this helps you to remain more in alignment with your truth.

Gather from your experiences the lessons rather than the pitfalls or disappointments and use these too in your arsenal of truth. Who you ARE is a direct reflection of who you have always been (at the core and deepest leve). So much time is lost in reflection of who we are not and who we may never be. You are a soul.  You have had millions of experiences.  You have lived many lifetimes.  You have been without body, in spirit, and thus you have traveled to other worlds. How could you Not know beyond, far beyond, what you have limited yourself to knowing? How could you not have come into mastery in all of these fields which you desire to encompass in this now? You limit yourself because it has been the norm of your culture, it has been the safely valve of society. You have placed your faith and banked your worth on what someone else has told you you should be. Isn’t it time to reach beyond that now, into the wisdom of within and bathe in the light of your vibrant being? How much longer can you remain in the tight-fitting suit of the ‘should’ ?

You know the answer to that question by the restriction you feel in your throat when you hold back from expression.  You know it when you feel the rumble in your belly when you give away your power to something or someone you don’t even believe, out of habit or out of doubt in your self. You know the answer all to well, and the question becomes not how long will it continue, but when and what will it take.  What will it take to break free of what’s held you down?  What will it take to follow your heart, every time, and take the chance on you, no matter the consequences? What will it take to BE in your fullest capacity, at last, without worry, without wondering anymore, without restriction?

And the answers to these question are what this time and these challenges are all about. This is a time to question- everything, everyone, especially yourself. Question why you buy in, what you want from your experiences, where you place your trust, and what you most deeply and truly desire. This is a time to overturn, uncover, and intercede on what has been just for the sake of always being that.  This is a time of revealing. Let the mysteries unfold, the tangles of deception be unraveled, and the constriction be soothed. This is your Now, baby!- Go on and live it!

Engage with awareness and create with the vibrancy of truth!

To loving life fully and expressing with ease,

~Rhonda

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