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Another Perspective on The Law of Attraction

I remember when I began reading books on spirituality in the late 80’s. The Law of Attraction seemed to be a part of many texts. When I furthered my education in the healing arts, I noticed that the paradigm set up around the Laws of Attraction left many of us in a depressed state. Simply put, if things weren’t going in the direction of your intentions, you were not doing something right in your life, or perhaps a prior incarnation was catching up to you. Below are some of my own perceptions….

It is said that everything we do happens for a reason.

I like to think that we can simply find ‘reason’ in everything we do.
Even if that reasoning finds us face to face with the unknown, the mystery behind our life story, the mystery behind our perceived identities in relation to heaven and earth.
It is said that people are put in our path for us to meet.
What if that purpose was not as individualized as we think it is?
What if those chance meetings were for a higher purpose we know nothing about? To bring about a healing effect for an individual on another continent, from a past generation or a generation to come? To influence a parallel reality?
Many take notice of those chance meetings that impact their lives with grand momentum but rarely do we take notice of the homeless person we pass on the streets, sheltering himself under his worn and dirty blanket to keep safe from the cold. Chance meetings like that do not happen unless we want them to. That homeless person is on the same path as the one who will help your dreams get accomplished. I find it interesting how we ourselves alter the law of attraction to avoid shadow and suffering at times. We initiate those chance meetings and experiences to ignite manifestations and positivity on our paths. If we struggle and suffer too much, then a thought comes that we are not in alignment. But what if the struggle is the alignment?
We are taught to raise our vibration by keeping company with those on a similar path.
I don’t recall Christ, Buddha, or any of the other mystics I have read about practicing spiritual bigotry.
I recall a myriad of stories where those who maintained a close spiritual relationship with the Divine kept company with Saints and much as sinners, criminals, the wretched, the ill, the indigent. Their vibrations were raised by the mere fact that they opened their hearts to love all of God’s children equally, forgiving their trespasses as they would want to be forgiven.
It is said that if you change your thoughts, then your desired intentions will follow suit.
I have always thought that if you changed your relationship to your thoughts, that you have just altered your destiny by creating space for something new to come into your life, even if that newness is inner peace amidst your suffering. We identify shift by a physical manifestation as opposed to an internal one. The teachings of the mystics have been lost lately to The Laws of Attraction furthering the understanding that changing one’s thoughts can equate to one’s intentions manifesting physically.
Yes, those people you allow into your life matter.
What is more important is how you hold space for yourself in those relationships.
It is said that if our life is so challenged this time around, perhaps we did something wrong in a prior one.
Really?
Our souls are fragments of other souls combined. Every time we reincarnate, we do so with threads of other souls and patterns within us. We all have good and evil within us, and we are all here regardless of intention to bring that good and evil into balance, embracing our humanity and Divinity until we reach the stillness the Divine intended.
When we focus so strongly on initiating those Laws of Attraction, we involve the ego and forget the humility needed to understand that our purpose is interconnected, our lives are interconnected, our lessons are interconnected. When we allow inclusivity of the Divine purpose, we actually do not have to focus on attracting things into our life as it will happen automatically the way the Divine intended.

 

Holiness

Meet me at the place where God dwells. Where there is no separation among Her children. Where the four leggeds are held in sanctity as much as the two leggeds. Where the natural world is born from the heavens. Where the peace humanity seeks is already granted in ways our minds have yet to grasp. Meet me in this place where God dwells. Let it be so for this new year upon us. May God and the spirits bless us as we enter into this new time of holiness.

Closure

As we come closer to year’s end, these holidays become significant aspects of closure for many of us.
Nostalgia of what was emboldens our cellular memories to bring forth memories that have given us hope as well as memories that have wounded us.
I find that some are ashamed to admit their loneliness of being or feeling of disconnect with themselves and the world around them.
Something is missing, something is lost within the meaning of these year end celebrations. As people gather in joyful glee and before the new year begins, apprehension is also present as people wonder how they will define their lives in this new year to come. How will they relate to the world around them differently than they have in the past? How will others see them and more importantly, how will they see themselves? The internal pressure we sometimes place upon ourselves to find closure with our life perceptions can be intense and self deprecating.
Closure is symbolic of an ending or letting go of an integral piece of one’s life story in order to begin another. Sometimes the process can be easier than other times. The thought of letting go ignites raw emotion and questioning surrounding the authenticity of our lives. It requires surrender on our part and an acceptance of a pattern that brought us joy or broke our hearts. Closure requires us to take responsibility for our relationship to that which we are letting go of. It compels us not only to forge a new relationship with the object of our loss, but asks us to create a new relationship with how we let go of things and move forward in our lives. One of the conversations clients tend to have with me during these last few weeks of the year is what they will do with their lives as they enter into this next phase in time. Constant questioning can lead some into the darkness of their emotions. I don’t think closure has to be an all or nothing situation. Actually from my perspective, cellular memory holds memories of our lineages and those memories are still being healed generations later. So I wonder if we can come up with a new way of defining closure that will engender healthier relationships with ourselves and those around us? What if we allowed the process to be more gentler?

We can find or create great symbolism during our process. The raw emotion provides us with the framework to CHOOSE how we grieve and how we move forward. I don’t know if people realize they do have a choice in the grieving process. They also have many choices as they are letting go. When one feels empowered as opposed to powerless when it comes to creating closure, letting go takes on a whole new life. The process itself has a purpose. Our emotions have a purpose. Closure, at that point, doesn’t seem as overwhelming as it did before.

End this year on a kinder note to yourself. Choose to define closure as life affirming so that you enter into the new year with a renewed sense of being.
Happy New Year.

The Shift

The ‘shift’ happens when your awakening reaches into the substance of your bones; when your flesh realizes with great authenticity that your humanity is as much about the change as your divine self. Our earth element belongs as much to the gods as it does to the lower worlds, those worlds beneath your feet that feed our bodies as much as they feed our minds and spirits. Those worlds beneath our feet that root us into a depth of self that is unspoken.

Anger Transformed

Anger is not usually defined by spiritual paradigms as being a constructive emotion. Yet over this past week and toward the end of this year, it has surfaced individually among many and collectively as a whole. I don’t recall spiritual traditions defining it as a negative emotion, rather the action that stems forth can have its consequences. Anger is an energy first and foremost. It is a fire energy that can either rise up from the earth element and evolve as it reaches the crown chakra or descend from the mind and distort itself as it reaches manifestation. It can also descend from the lower realms of the spirit world for those souls who are still working on their ancestral issues. It can attach to individuals and collectively to peoples as we all struggle to understand an emotion that has been a defining force for centuries when it comes to understanding one’s own power. That same fire energy which yields anger also births forgiveness, creativity, boundaries, purpose. Many on a spiritual path are uncomfortable with this energy and try to work through it faster than appropriate for their higher good. There is a time and place for every emotion both in human and spiritual realms. Working through an emotion faster does not give rise to the healing relationship with it that most people desire. Actually, some would rather not have any relationship with anger at all. The idea of it can be overwhelming, confusing, debilitating. For others, it can be empowering even uplifting. It all depends on one’s relationship to it in alignment with the appropriate response which fulfills that soul’s purpose. An appropriate response? Purpose? Yes, even in the higher realms anger serves a purpose but the intent is not the same. It is simply an energy which serves to direct reasoning, Providence and forgiveness. In human realms, in order for us to learn that it is an energy to work with and respect, we have to work through the living experiences that our anger takes us to in order to rise above. We are all given a choice as to how to carry the anger, relate to it, manifest it and direct it. This fire energy is incredibly strong right now and I believe Divine Providence is providing us with the awareness to carry it with a new understanding, which is why I am noticing people are being so easily triggered these days. Avoiding the fire will only make the flames more powerful. Standing at its threshold, honoring its power and purpose, deciding in stillness what course of action to take; that will transmute this emotion into the energy it was meant to be.

Wild and Free

God met me in the wild of the spirit world where I was born.
She tamed me in the womb of my mother.
She birthed me into a world where the wild of the spirit world now seemed so sacred and silent.
If only I knew then what I know now.
Back to the silent wilderness one day I will go.
Where spirits are tamed by a love so magnificent they spend their entire earthly existence searching for it.
Back to the sacred silence. Where all things wild are free.

Thanksgiving

There are those who surrender to gratitude.
Who understand truths within humanity which breathe life into their souls.
Who speak softly of the Divine, upon which many blessings stream forth into this wayward world.
There are those who surrender to gratitude.
Who understand the effortless of the Divine to give life with all its challenges, heartache, grief, wickedness, raw with emotion which overwhelms humanity.
Life can be taken as easily as it is given. Joy and happiness seem fleeting but lie abundantly within the silence, within the grace, within the effortlessness.
Blessings may not be easily seen or heard, felt or experienced, but imbued powerfully by the Holy Spirit.
And for those whose faith is embodied, that surrender is steadfast.
There are those who surrender to gratitude.
Bitterness does not take hold of their spirits.
Their gratitude flows freely between the heavens and the earth, between all kingdoms under Creation, abiding by those spiritual laws at work.
Appreciating the task at hand to love thy brethren with their whole heart and soul, to love thy earth as much as the womb which carried them between worlds.

There are those who do not know how to surrender.
Who hold tightly to fear, to doubt, to the uncertainty which plagues human hearts.
To the abandonment of self within our wayward world.
To the abandonment of self within the cosmos.
To the abandonment of self within Godnature.
There are those who do not know how to surrender as they do not yet understand gratitude.
It lies within them, a palpable force to be reckoned with, a sense of unyielding freedom from all attachment and desire.
For what is past, what is present, and what is yet to come.
There are those who fear gratitude, the unknown that comes with it, the perceived sense of powerlessness.
May we join together within God’s sanctity, within a moment of silence, to understand the immense beauty that is shared for a life worth being grateful for.
A life that is our own, one that is another’s, and for those lives that walk within every dimension between the heavens and the earth.

We are Weaved

Keep defining us by your projections and we will only become more radiant. The healers, the artists, the witches, the soothsayers; the earthkeepers, the creators of imaginary worlds;
who for centuries were held accountable for mankind’s darkness. Our souls bound by light to discern the realms of existence and experience through visionary works, those seen and unseen. We are not here to harm but to share in the magic of the Divine and weave into this laden world stories of hope. Stories that will comfort the wounded, carry the oppressed, honor the wronged, praise the good, forgive the broken. We will never disappear. Our acts of kindness will echo through the hearts of many and engage distant lands, both above and below the heavens, until the day comes when you finally accept your place. You are also a creator of an imaginary world. We bask in the same realms. You are the healer, the artist, the witch, the soothsayer and the earthkeeper. You cannot define your human or spiritual experience without acknowledging that we have weaved our experiences to mirror each other. I am in you and you are in me. Our stories dwell in the house of the gods as equals.

A Note on Relationships…..

Frustrations, irritability and impatience seem to be prevalent these days within relationship. It feels like we are being emotionally tested by those closest to us or for the most part, doing the testing ourselves. I am noticing so much internal power struggle as many are searching for a new purpose to redefine their lives.My sense is people are feeling ‘bored’ with the way they presently envision themselves in this world, in relationship to one another, This boredom walks hand in hand with emptiness of self, and these internal power struggles are seeking pathways to express themselves externally, usually being projected onto the relationships we engage in. Disagreements, arguments, people have mentioned a ‘not quite right’ feeling about themselves or those relationships they are in. Impatience is rising and some are feeling the need to make drastic changes in friendships, in partnerships of various kinds. Some are feeling the need to make drastic changes within themselves. Addictions and compulsive behaviors might be at their peak these next few weeks.

As we are coming closer to the end of this year, these days will require all of us to be courageous in our ability to cultivate a courage like we have not known before, We are being asked to redefine and create a new understanding of trust in one other. We are being guided to hold space for ourselves and those around us allowing for growth to take place in ways we are not used to. Some of this might be challenging, even frightening. I know many of you might be wondering who you are these days, or questioning the person you thought you knew your entire life. I don’t think we should compel ourselves to figure this all out now. I think we should take a step back and allow the unwinding of this internal tension to give way to possibility. How can we discern what our relationships are all about if we are still trying to figure out who we are in this time? This process needs a gentle heart, an open mind, and a clear vision which will assist us in embracing loss. The loss of old identities and patterns which were needed to be in the relationships we have been in. The loss of what was so we can allow for the possibilities of what could be.

Be patient.
Our hearts and the hearts of those we love depend upon it.

Follow Me

Follow me amidst the graves of your ancestors, whose footprints you walk upon against the fertile earth beneath you with each passing day. Follow me as my voice beckons, calling out to your mother, your father, your grandmothers and grandfathers, their relations and their relations before them. The earth may carry their bones but their spirits are ever present in every facet of your being. Your anger, your sorrow, your joy, your peace, each emotion permeating every cellular thread from the heavens to the earth. It is between and within those spaces where we have the power to change the past, the present and the future. When you follow me, you follow every footprint. Your first step, your baby step, your seminal imprint in this world is ensconced within a million footprints. If you want to change the world, honor the footprint. Honor the thread that connects you with a million souls before you and a million souls still awaiting their powerful births into this world. Their stories of creation, their stories of survival, their stories of hope, their stories of love…those stories will not change, nor necessarily those that are predestined. What will shift as we honor these footprints is the way in which we perceive the stories, the ways in which we carry them in our bodies, the ways in which our cellular threads communicate these stories through ancestral genetics. Your ancestors will hear you. Your ancestors will know you differently than they do now. You will come to know yourself differently. Follow me, amidst the graves of your ancestors. Learn their footprints by name so your own name might be revealed to them by the gods.