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My Three Words for2020 – Strength, Intention, Explore

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My Three Words for2020  – Strength, Intention, Explore

Messages from the Unseen World

Choosing three words as guideposts for the year to come is a very powerful way to direct your journey and open your path. This idea comes from my friend Chris Brogan and I’ve been doing it since 2016. 

How does choosing focus words impact your life?

Choosing focus words helps you set your direction for the coming year.  It’s like charting a course or at the very least knowing the general direction you want to go.  

Choosing focus words helps you make conscious decisions. What is important to you? What do you want to bring next into your life? What steps are you willing to take to make it happen?  Where will those choices lead you? 

My first word is “strength”

My first priority for this next decade is to strengthen my 87-yer-old body to help it regain its flexibility so I can keep living a proactive life.  “Strength” is the first world I chose.  It will be the cornerstone of my coming year.

Strength can also be a strength of purpose. Like getting projects out the door in a timely fashion.  Strength can mean determination to understand or learn or… My first cornerstone word for 2020 is “Strength.”

Intention is at the core of manifestation

Intention makes everything happen. It directs energy. It directs your thoughts. I will work to become more aware of the intention of erecting I think, and say, and do. And I will use the power of intention to help me explore the power of vibration and the Unseen World.   

Intention is the second word I chose for 2020. 

Change comes through exploration

“Explore” is my third word for 2020.  I am already exploring the Unseen World through shamanic journeying, but I recently experienced a powerful new message from my Inner World.  I now understand that the many crystals I have had around me for 40 years are to be my portals to the Unseen World. They are really talking to me in loud clear voices.  I will begin to journey with individual crystals with the intention of receiving their message from the Unseen World.  What an adventure!  I have no idea where I will go and what I will find.

“Explore” is the third word I chose for 2020.

Your words offer new awareness and open the door to new possibilities.  

The three words you choose for this year will add power and direction to your chosen path.

What would you like the coming year to be like?  How would you like it to be different?  What doors would you like to open?  What wud you like to learn? What would you like to change?

What are your three words for 2020?

Deeper Song Affirmation

I choose three words to guide me on my path for the coming year.

A Deeper Song Process 

  • Look over the past year and notice what you would like to change.
  • What steps, habits, choices do you want and need to make to get you where you want to go in the coming year?
  • Choose three words to guide your journey in 2020 
  • Work with them in the coming year and see what adventures they take you on.

To Sind a Deeper Song Consider:

Individual Curiosity and a Willingness to Change 

Walk the Sacred Path Within Surely and Steadily and Leave a Trail  

Raise Your Sails 

My Three Words for 2019 – Vibrator, Nature, Portal

My Three Words for 2018 – Invisible, Radiate, Journey

My Three Words for 2017 – Broaden, Deepen, Change

My Three words for 2016 – Determination, Trust, Explore

The Path Ahead Cannot Be Seen

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The Path Ahead Cannot Be Seen

Adventures in the Unseen World

Life changes, we change. We know what we’re changing from, but not what we’re changing to. 

We have to trust the process. 

Where you are now is the result of what you have been doing

You’re standing where you are based on the choices you made up to now, things you did and things you didn’t do. 

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How Cycles Sneak Up On You

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How Cycles Sneak Up On You
An Inner-world Exploration

Look at your life.  Are you happy or would you like things to be different? 

You can’t make a change unless you know change is needed  

The sneaky thing is that life moves in cycles – small increments that you barely notice.  You gradually find yourself in a different position than you thought you were going and you don’t even know exactly how you got there. That’s why it’s important to take regular well-being checks – on all levels – emotional, spiritual and physical.  Well-being – how well is your “being?“

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Raise Your Sails

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Raise Your Sails
An Inner-World Exploration

We are sailing along on the sea of life.  Sometimes we have a destination.  Sometimes we’re simply flowing and allowing ourselves to be taken wherever the current takes us.  And when the winds are calm, we may even paddle a bit. But when we raise our sails, when we catch the wind, we determine the speed and direction of our journey.  

We have only to raise our sails. 

You set your direction through intention

Sometimes we steer.  Sometimes we drift.  But even when you are casually drifting, it is good to have a general direction to move in.   

Your intention will also determine your speed – it tells you how many sails to raise. How full you let them out.  It may be a lazy slow-moving day or it may be an all-out race.  Your intention will determine your actions. 

Use a mudra as your compass

There are many ways to center yourself before setting sail. A mudra hand position is an easy one.  Experiment and find the ones that call to you.

One of my favorites is the Buddhist Walking Meditation mudra – simply close your fingers around your thumb.  Do this with each hand. Notice how your energy shifts. It’s amazing what a single hand gesture will do to focus your mind and your intention. 

Fill up your sails and center your compass with your breath

Use your breath to begin this inward journey.  A mindful breath in, a releasing breath out.  Create a steady rhythm that keeps you moving increasingly inward.

Merge with the “I AM”

Lose yourself in the experience of gradually sailing inward.  Allow your body suit to disappear.  Allow your awareness to disappear.  Simply be the vibrational energy that you are.  That is your destination – to be aware of simply being One.

Heal with colors

On this inward journey that you take with your mind, you can use colors to balance your body suit and your earth-bound world. Fill yourself with whatever color comes to you and simply feel it, experience it.  Don’t interpret.  Let the color move through your body to release and rearrange and heal any part that calls to it.  Let it tidy up. Let it clean and clear things out. Perhaps you even change colors.  

Rather than see and feel the light energy coming through your crown, let it come from within you as a sphere, and simply change colors at your core.  Let it radiate out.  If there are blockages or stuck places, they release themselves and leave the circle of light that you are.

Expand your vibration

On each slow exhale, feel your sails unfold and expand and begin to pull you forward. You are a golden sailboat, shining in the sunlight, sailing smoothly atop the waves.  It is a happy day, a positive day, a fulfilling day. Fill your sails and feel yourself fly over the surface.  

Allow the experience of being limited to your body suit to disappear

Become one with the wind.  Become one with the sun.  Become one with the water.  Disappear your body and then finally disappear even the pinpoint of you as your mind. 

Now that you are still, expand your vibration

Feel yourself as a circle of light. Feel the energy radiate out, first in inches, then feet, then yards and then miles until you are radiating out energy that covers the planet, energy that moves to the center of the earth and reaches out into unknown galaxies. You are radiating as Everything-That-Is, as The One All, the Everything.

Hold the expanded energy that is All-There-Is in your heart and feel its power expand into an all-encompassing vibration.

Lift your sails

You are safe, you are expanding, you are raising your vibration. Raise your sails and fly across the surface of life. Experience and accept.   Accept the serenity. Accept the healing.  Accept the guidance. 

There is trust involved in sailing 

When you set sail, you have to trust that the wind will be there, to trust that you know how to set the sails.  

A slight shift in the sails, in their tension, will slow you down or speed you up or change your course.  Adjust your sails to keep you on course.

What to do if there’s a storm

When the ride gets bumpy, take down your sails and ride the storm out.  Withdraw into yourself.  Trust yourself.  Heal yourself. And wait.  The sun will come out again.  It will soon be a great day for sailing. 

Awareness + choice = change  

When you are ready to set sail again, become aware of your desired destination, set your intention and you will head in the direction of your choice.  

Hold the feeling of Oneness within your heart

There is only one All-that-Is. There is only one Emptiness-That-Holds-Everything.  There is only one Cosmic Soup. Once you have released your awareness of your body suit and have moved into the sacred space within, allow yourself to sink into the feeling.  Deepen that feeling.  Remember that feeling so you can return to it immediately on a single mindful breath.  

You are One.  We are One.  All is One. 

Deeper Song Affirmation

I raise my sails and journey inward.

Deeper Song Process

  • Decide where you want to go, what you want to accomplish.  It may be a small goal or a large one. 
  • Plan the best course.
  • Raise your sails and go for it. 

To Sing a Deeper Song, Consider:

How to Walk a Path of Inner Stillness 

Believe in The Power of Your Own Ripple 

The Packed Potential Before the Beginning   

Why We Need to Raise Our Vibration 

Build a Launching Pad for Your Inner Work 

Broaden and Deepen
Your Personal Journey 

I help spiritual adventurers explore the Unseen World so that we broaden and deepen our personal journey and learn to share our discoveries with others.   We are guides and way-showers with our light held high.

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Learn the Vibration of Recognition 

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Learn the Vibration of Recognition
An Inner-world Exploration 

Our world is made up of vibration. We are vibration. Everything around us is vibration.  The more we learn to feel and hear and recognize the subtle vibrations around us, the more aligned and in tune we become with our own vibration.  

Begin with feeling vibration

Think of a time when you heard someone sing so deeply from their heart that you felt the vibration tingle all over your body.  Sound carried that vibration but the singer’s heart sent it.  

Think about some kind words that have been offered to you that touched your heart. A friend recently said to me, “Remember, you are light wherever you go.” I needed the reminder.  I needed the validation. Sound vibration can carry unconditional love from heart to heart.  

My hand can feel the vibration of my cat’s body, and I can hear his purr of contentment and love.  

When I tune in, I can feel the vibration and specific messages of my crystals.  When I pause, I can feel the vibrational gifts of my food. When I take a moment as I first enter, I can feel the welcoming vibration of my home.

Vibration is everywhere.  It’s a powerful form of communication and we must learn to feel and hear it — and learn how we, from the confines of our body suit, can radiate vibrations of wholeness and unconditional love. 

Learn to listen

Sit in your workplace and listen.  Listen to the sounds and vibrations of people doing work.  Many of them love what they do and you can feel that energy of joyous engagement coming from them.  

Stand in nature and listen.  You may hear a bird joyfully living its day.  You may hear the leaves rustling in the wind whispering to each other.  You may hear the wind howling around corners.  

Nature is full of sounds.  The world is full of the vibration of sound. Learn to listen. 

Recognize how vibration speaks and resonates with you

I learned to feel the energy of crystals years ago.  A friend simply told me to hold the crystal in my left hand (receiving hand) and see what I experienced.  I felt a sensation in my body, identified it with a specific chakra and began to interpret from there.  

Now my stones call to me across the room, “Talk to me today.  You need me for this.”  It’s all a matter of listening and feeling the vibration. 

Hear and heed your inner voice

I have a very loud inner voice.  I’ll hear a phrase nearly shouted in my mind, or two or three words pop out at me and I know I have to explore them and write about them and learn to apply them.  

Sometimes I have an inner conversation with myself:  “you want to do this because….“,  “you want to rethink that because.“ I sometimes have a running debate with myself until suddenly I just know.  The decision is made and I act on it. 

Cultivate your awareness of vibration

Your awareness of vibration begins in silence. Just sit in a quiet place and mentally scan your body to listen and feel. Just notice what you experience. 

Then move to sound — perhaps begin with the sound “OM” (pronounced “Aum”).  It’s the seed syllable of the universe.  Say it out loud.  Take a deep breath, feel it cleansing and restoring your body suit, then on the exhale say “OM”.  

Begin there.  

Mudras will change your vibration. A mudra is a hand position. You see them on Buddhist statues.  They communicate great energy. I like the Buddhist walking meditation of simply holding your thumbs in your closed fingers making a light fist.  It immediately calms me.  Experiment with mudras and allow the vibration they create to speak to you. 

We are all vibration

When you begin to feel yourself as pure vibration, you’ll experience yourself as nothing and everything.  It’s an incredibly expansive feeling. You experience yourself as simply vibration with no boundaries, no limitations, only vastness to explore. Be with that.  Explore that.  Go where it takes you.

In time you will see and experience others as pure vibrations.  You will understand that there is no difference, you are the same thing — vibration.  Actually, you are the same vibration, one vibration. One. 

And your world changes. 

Begin with the awareness of vibration — your vibration, their vibration, the vibration of nature and of your world  

Then you, as vibration, go exploring in the invisible world.  

As vibration, you can go everywhere and become anything.  Merge with a mountain, merge with a cloud, merge with the eagle flying overhead.  Merge with the earthworm and the butterfly.  Still your mind, cease your separateness, and become one. 

One.  Just one

All is One. 

Be that. 

Deeper Song Affirmation
I experience the vibrations around me with deeper awareness.

Deeper Song Process

  • Feel vibration. Sit quietly and sense the vibration around you. It may be a breeze on your arm, or the breath moving in an out of your body, or the beat of your heart.  Begin to explore vibration.
  • Hear vibration. Ring a bell, or strike two sticks tighter or make a humming noise that resonates throughout your body. Listen to the silence.
  • Absorb vibration.  Feel the sunlight on your face and let the vibration of warmth enter your body. Expand your awareness to feel the vibration of your home. Feel the comfort and nurturing and safety in the vibration. Find other ways to absorb vibration.
  • Feel the vibration of your barking dog or purring cat. 
  • Put your hand on your diaphragm and sing a few notes and feel the vibration of your own sound.
  • Listen to music and feel the vibration of the instrument and the vibration message of the melody or the rhythm or the harmony.
  • Find other ways to experience vibration. 

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

Expand Your Spiritual Heart

Our Defense of Non-Existent Boundaries

What Does Spiritual Friendship Look Like? 

 How to Weave the Sacred into the Ordinary

When I See Myself As Light

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