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The Gifts of a Pandemic

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The Gifts of a Pandemic

A New Consciousness Exploration

It becomes very evident in a pandemic, that we are all very much connected – that our individual actions and choices have far-reaching effects.  It’s very powerful to begin to make our choices with a deeper awareness of our personal impact – how our individual choices affect others.  It makes us aware of our connection with everyone else on the planet.  And that’s a gift.  

We are no longer individual countries, we are humans on a planet who need each other and whose individual actions impact the whole.

We are beginning to think more about other people and how our mere presence may affect them.  We make choices based on the needs of others. We offer to help others.

The Gift of Namaste

Since we no longer touch each other in greeting we can use the Sanskrit greeting of “Namaste.” 

Place your palms together, bow to the other person and say, “Namaste” (Nah-mah-stay).  It means “The Light within me honors the Light within you.”  

That creates a depth of connection we do not normally experience. 

What a gift that is!  We begin to see the light that is in each of us – the inclusive light that is All-That-Is. 

Think about the meaning as you greet others – The Light within in me honors the Light within you.  Namaste.  Say it and mean it. 

Our family dynamic has changed

Families are suddenly home together and a new dynamic of exchange and understating and patience begins to evolve.  

We get to learn a deeper tolerance for each other’s individual needs.  We get to be creative in how we entertain our suddenly-at-home children as we figure out how to do our own work online. We set new boundaries and guidelines that help each family member be aware of and respond to the needs of the others.  Each family member will learn to accommodate the others and adjust to this new way of being. 

Older people get to examine our own vulnerability

I’m 87 and when I moved into this senior center ten years ago I had to really rethink what I thought about dying – because there is a definite traffic pattern here.  Those of us who are older may choose to look more closely at what we think about dying – as in what’s next or what the process is like.

Here’s the sobering part for me.  If a doctor has one ventilator and she has an old patient and a younger patient, she has to make a choice. So we seniors have a very strong investment in staying isolated and out of harm’s way. And, we need to figure out our personal philosophy of dying. 

I’ve fine with dying, I just have a lot more fun stuff still to do. 

Loneliness may become a factor

Reach out on Skype or Zoom and have conversations with friends.  Take classes online.  I’m developing a stronger personal bond with the tree outside my window, and the midwestern clouds and the setting sun.  And I have six friends I speak with regularly online.  I’m not lonely but I am alone. 

Who needs help?

Until we look around, we may not see how devastating this pandemic is to people financially.  Particularly service workers whose jobs have gone away because of the shut-downs of gathering places. What can you do to help?  Perhaps you choose someone and make certain they are OK.  Phone calls are fine.  Your willingness for that vulnerable person to be able to call you in need will make a huge difference in how they feel. Become a support buddy to someone.  You will make a new friend. And you will make a huge difference.

What gifts can you share?

What can you create from your storehouse of knowledge and talents and gifts that can help others in person or online?  It might mean reading a story to children online.  It might be sharing creative and economical recipes online.

Share some of your skills with your children. I remember as a child how the live-in housekeeper in my grandmother’s house taught me to embroidery. I learned to knit along the line and have great shawls that I have made. I think you can make play dough from flour and salt. Create new interactive activities with your family.  Things you do together.  

There are basic skills to teach our children.  Both of my boys learned how to cook at an early age.  All four children did their own laundry because they outnumbered me. Maybe you teach your children budgeting or other life skills. Give generously of yourself and your gifts to your children. 

What do you know how to do that will help others in this unusual opportunity we find ourselves in? 

Make new choices

As we give up our known way of living, we notice how detached we have become and how distracted we are by our narrow focus on –  whatever that online activity is for us. There is no more rush to get to after school lessons or games.  What do you put in its place?  How can you uniquely organize your family into a supportive, loving, accommodating, thoughtful collective?  It is not about retreating into one’s phone.  It is about consciously reaching out to interact add make a difference. We will expand our own light as we place ourselves in deeper service. It’s another gift fro the pandemic.

Hurrah for local governments

Perhaps our well-being is as strong as our local communities. The major of Kansas City held a news briefing on television in which I experienced an extremely intelligent man, doing very interactive, thoughtful, adaptable work with clarity and reassurance and awareness.  Local government is showing leadership and it is gratefully accepted. How can you help in your community?

How do you want to change your “next”?

New opportunities are appearing.  For instance, delivery jobs are suddenly in great demand. Be aware of the chaining culture and the new opportunities it brings. 

This is definitely an invitation to change.  To rethink.  To explore new opportunities.

All of my online friends are younger and all of them are in business for themselves.  This is a perfect opportunity to examine how you make your living online and explore your options for expansion or diversity. The socially distanced people are going to look for, discover and use more resources that are offered online. 

At the very least, explore the possibilities. Podcasts, Courses, Videos, Books. What can you teach? Who can you coach? Then do some math – I need X number of clients/customers to earn X amount money.  Explore your options.  Find out what calls to you and make a business plan to test its feasibility.  See if you want it to be a dramatic change in how you make your living or a repositioning of what you are already doing. Then use this time of introspective reevaluation to figure out how to do that.

Learn from Nature

Nature teaches us patience and cycles.  She teaches us stillness and action.  Now that you have the freedom, take meaningful pauses in your day and connect with nature.  Whether you go outside and stand in the sun and take deep, centering breaths, or turn to look out the window and watch the shape-shifting clouds or touch the soft leaves of a nearby indoor plant, pause and connect with the vastness of our Oneness. This is a cycle. This is the on-going, ever-changing cycle of nature.  Be with it.  Flow with it. 

There are many gifts in this pandemic

There is no known cure at this point in time, other than what our own bodies do to counteract it. And although people do die more do not. That makes taking care of our own body suits a priority. Be aware of how your choices and actions have a  major impact on your own wellbeing and the wellbeing of others and make positive choices.

There is a growing sense of global community

The greatest gift this pandemic has given is to help us see ourselves as one planet – rather than individual countries.  That’s a huge, huge, huge gift. 

Because this pandemic is worldwide, we need to learn from the actions and results of other countries.  We need to copy what works. We need to exchange insights and information with them. We are truly one global, planetary community.  We are one world. 

The gift of introspection

What used to be important to us may no longer be. W get to look at that. 

This may signal a crossroads in our life. We get to consider that. 

We have time to deepen our spiritual practice and perhaps expand that practice with our families.  This is a time to go within and listen to your own guidance and wisdom and bring yourself into greater alignment with your true place of service. 

It is about change.  

The planet is adjusting

We can’t see our lesson yet, but there is one. 

There is a rebalancing taking place.  Whether it is the planet or a consciousness that focuses on the higher good, we do not yet understand, but it is a gift and it comes with a lesson.  We are to observe, learn and adjust – and be aware of ourselves as one over-arching, all-encompassing vibration. 

There are gifts here, in this worldwide situation. What new choices are you making to help yourself and the greater community of our planet to move forward?

Namaste. 

The Light within me honors the Light within you.

Deeper Song Affirmation

I creatively change my life and become more aware of my very deep interconnection with others on our planet. 

A Deeper Song Process 

  • Speak to your family unit, including those not in your home, and design creative ways to assist each other. 
  • Look at your neighbors, particularly older ones and see how you might be of help. 
  • Look for someone you don’t know very well, who you know is struggling because of cutbacks or a job loss and find creative ways to assist her and him. 
  • Think community. Think tribe.  Feel how we are all in this tougher.  How can you be of service? 
  • Identify your dreams and potential and go exploring to create a possible new “next.”
  • What are the gifts this pandemic is offering you?

To Sind a Deeper Song Consider:

How to Partner with the Energy of the Universe

See the Pattern and Then the Potential  

Create a Releasing Ceremony For Yourself

Another Part of You – The Unseen World

Dying and the Invisible World

Believe In The Power Of Your Own Ripple

Come Sing a Deeper Song

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raising their vibration
to explore the Unseen World
so that we can help create a New Consciousness.

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See the Pattern and Then the Potential

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See the Pattern and Then the Potential

Adventures in the Unseen World

Experiences keep repeating because we keep doing what we’ve always been doing. To change our experience and our results, we only have to change our actions. 

However, there is another way to look at patterns.  We can see patterns as potential.  You become aware that what continues to show up – for better or worse – is a result of your actions and thoughts. The patterns you have set up by your actions and thoughts are working to create the results that appear.  

You are the creator of the results you experience. Change your patterns and you will change the outcome.  All change comes from within you. 

What is working?

Because I’m retired there are a great many things about my life that are working.  Because I’m old there are a few things that are not working as well as I would like.  Let’s begin with the positive. 

I’m a much better writer than I was even five years ago, let alone 50 years ago.  That’s a positive that has built over time because it is a passion and a constant calling that I heeded. 

Over the course of time, I now know myself well enough to know I like to write in short forms so I do not undertake long detailed projects.  That’s a powerful realization – knowing what you like to do and what you don’t like to do. That helps you make good choices. 

I love to do shamanic journeying so I do that nearly every day. I love to play my flute so I do that every day.  I love to write so I do that every day.  See how easy it is to fill your day with things that you love to do!!

Notice what you love to do and simply do more of it.

What is not working?

Because I spend so much time encouraging my mind, my body has taken a bit of hit.  I’m smart enough to know what I need to do but I have to find more clever ways to get me to do it.  My inactivity is working to make my body less strong. I need to make changes in my viewpoint, my expectation, and my actions. 

Look for the pattern

I have to look for places I am willing to put in new actions that will correct the things that are not working.  If it means doing some Qi Gong when I stand up from my desk, then I begin there.  If it means a few yoga moves at the kitchen skink every time I am in that room, I can build on that pattern and add new designs.  

Create a pattern of reminders. I call them pulse points.  Walk through a doorway and let it remind you to stand up straighter. When you see the sun set out the window, turn and play your flute and offer gratitude for the day.  

A pulse point.  Something you do often that will serve as a reminder to begin to establish new choices, new habits. 

Look for the potential 

There is potential for strengthening my body each time I move around the room. There is potential for stretching even while sitting in a chair.  

I have a pattern of preferring to write in relatively short pieces.  But the potential becomes a collection of posts to make a book.  Use what you are drawn to.

I am doing very unusual shamanic journey work and the potential seems to include processes to teach others. Explore how you will share your passion.

My exploration of vibration healing has moved beyond tuning forks and humming and drumming. I am exploring the Unseen World for guidance and information and your next steps. Let your inner voice guide you.

Every thought you have is filled with potential.  It may or may not be yours to do, but if the idea appears, it is certainly yours to examine and perhaps explore a bit. 

What is the potential for the idea you just got? 

Know what is stopping you and see if it can be released

Thirty-five years ago I was told I could be a very strong motivational speaker.  

I did not pursue that because I was bogged down with a bit of shyness.  Perhaps a lack of confidence, perhaps not feeling I knew enough to motivate anyone.  In order words, I did not understand or know my own value, my own gifts, my own potential.

The result is that I am not a motivational speaker, but I am a motivational writer.  

Find where the gift fits and do that. 

Identify the pattern and then explore its potential.

Deeper Song Affirmation

I take conscious stock of the patterns in my life and look creatively at their potential.

Deeper Song Process

  • Take time to make a list of the things you do or think about what you want to do.  
  • Pick one and go exploring. Look at some training videos to see if the idea really appeals to you. What more could you do with the idea?  Where could it take you? How could you make it uniquely yours? What is in your way?  How can you get rid of that?
  • Find what is calling you and do that. 

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

Individual Curiosity and a Willingness to Change. 

Believe In The Power Of Your Own Ripple

Expand You Own Power Through Self-Leadership

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

Come Sing a Deeper Song

I help people who are consciously raising their vibration 
to explore the Unseen World 
so that we can help create a New Reality.

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The Harmonies of Silence

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The Harmonies of Silence

Adventures in the Unseen World

There is sound in silence. It is as if I am experiencing a noiseless vibration. There is no melody, no tone that is loud or soft, there is simply a steady tone – of silence.  And it has a rhythm all its own.   

What are the Harmonies of Silence?

It was on a shamanic journey that I heard the phrase “Harmonies of Silence.” The message was “Add your harmony to the golden choir.  The over-arching choir, the Universal Choir.  Make your tones as clear as you can.  Speak only the words that resonate with your inner-self.  I hear a sound.  It is the harmonies of silence, the harmonies of nature.  Be still and immerse yourself in the silence and receive the messages.”

The Harmonies of Nature

I immediately wanted to figure out what that meant. Perhaps it refers to my inner ear that I cannot hear.  Perhaps it means my breathing which is silent because I am sitting still. If I were outside I might hear the wind moving through the trees. I might hear a nearby insect or rain tapping on a surface. There is powerful silence in the falling of snow. It transforms the world without a sound. Those are very gentle sounds of silence. Those are some of the harmonies of silence.  But as soft as they are, they can be heard by the body suit ear.

So perhaps we think of those as the “Harmonies of Nature.” Water can be heard tapping on a window. The sound of the moment of an ocean has a rhythm to it, like breathing in and breathing out. A mountain stream giggles and gurgles as it races along. There can be a great deal of sound in the movement of water. And that sound fits into one harmonious pattern or existence.  Nature is full of harmony.

What are the harmonies of silence?  

Our thoughts are part of the Harmonies of Silence. My dear sweet wonderful mind that can get so carried away with ideas can be very loud sometimes. As I sit here in stillness, my inner voice is part of the Harmon of Silence. 

What about touch?  Is it part of the Harmonies of Silence? The soft fur of my cat cuddling beside me is part of the Harmony of Silence. He is silent in his sleep, and I am aware of the vibration of his being.  I can’t hear it, but I can feel it.

So is feeling a part of the Harmonies of Silence?  Yes. 

Emotion is very powerful. It can greatly influence how we feel and respond and react.  Feelings are also a part of the Harmonies of Silence.  

None of those elements make a sound – until they are expressed.  Love is silent, anger is silent, curiosity is silent, confusion is silent.  And yet those are very powerful harmonies in the energy of silence. 

Align with the Harmonies of Silence

I do not move through my entire day aligned with the energy of silence because I do not stay mindful of its existence. I have my mind, I have my emotions, I may even have a physical plane interaction with another energy being in a body suit.  But at the core of me, at the core of everything, there is silence.  And in that field of silence, there is harmony – active vibrations, different volumes, changing rhythms and even occasional melodies. How do I become aware of them? What do I do with them?

Cultivate the Harmonies of Silence

I have quieting techniques to sprinkle throughout my day to keep me calm and centered – deliberate pauses to breathe, a contemplative look out the window, mindful moments in which to be silent and inwardly focused.  

I have choice in how I interact when another body suit shows up and we exchange energy.  

But my main job is to stay centered and harmonious in the Harmonies of Silence.

I do that through awareness and choice. Awareness that there is harmony in silence and choice to be aligned with it.

Where I look creates harmony

The harmonies of silence can be very subtle.  I must teach myself to be aware of them.

Watching the sunset aligns me with the Harmonies of Silence. 

Watching the tree branches gradually bend with the weight of snow is part of the Harmonies of Silence. 

When I pause to experience the serene energy of my home, I hear the Harmonies of Silence.  

I feel the Hormones of Silence when I hold a crystal in my hand and feel and experience its message. 

I feel Harmonies in Silence when a phrase captures my attention and sparks an idea.

Pause to listen – and hear

Listen to the Harmony of Silence that surrounds you – wherever you are.  Listen to the background sound. Listen to the vibration of your soul energy. A simple moment of awareness helps you hear the harmonies of silence. 

The silence within is a sacred silence. When we notice it, it calms us.  When we experience it, we are aware of our own all-encompassing energy and our intertwined connection with the being-ness of the universe.  

Now that’s something to listen to!  

Sit in silence. Be present in silence. Be still and immerse yourself in the silence and receive the messages.

Then you will hear the Harmonies of Silence. 

Deeper Song Affirmation

I practice listening to the Harmonies of Silence every day. 

Deeper Song Process

  • Sit quietly in tie moment and listen to the silence. 
  • Now listen to the Harmonies of Silence – the rhythm of your breath, the beating of your heart the sensations of your body.  
  • Extend your awareness out into the room and feel the energy of the items on your altar or the energy of a nearby plant or the room you sit in. See if you can become aware of the vibration, the Harmonies of Silence that quietly embrace you.
  • Look out the window and observe the Harmonies of Silence in nature.
  • Expand your awareness of the silence throughout our day. 

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

Learn to Harmonize with the Patterns of Life

Make Use of Emptiness  

The Deepest Sound is Silence 

How to Interpret the Messages from Within

Messages from a Snowfall

How to Walk a Path of Inner  Stillness

Raise Your Vibration and Change the World. 

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Are You a Transcendent Leader?

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Are You a Transcendent Leader?

An Inner Word Exploration

“Transcendent leader” is a new phrase for me, and I wondered if I was one.  I want to be.  But what does that look like? Feel like?  Act like?

Transcendent means spiritual, metaphysical, above the range of normal or physical human experience. 

Leader – well, to me that means a guide, way-shower, path-finder.  

We can do that. 

If we are Transcendent Leaders, it means we are aware of the oneness of everything – of our interconnection with All That Is. It means we are aware of everything as vibration – merged, interactive, one vibration.  It means we have an ever-deepening, ever-evolving spiritual practice that permeates and influences all we do. 

There is no separation in transcendent leadership.  We are all one.

What is my job as a Transcendent Leader?

To me, it means to continue to raise my vibration so that it, in turn, raises the vibration of whatever and whomever it comes in contact with.  

I do that in my spiritual practice, my shamanic journey work, my vibration healing work, my thoughts and beliefs, and actions. My choices.

Not a leader – a way-shower

A way-shower says, “Here’s one way if it calls to you.  Hers’s a path I explored that really resonated that I’d like to share with you.  I learned this way to deepen my spiritual practice, or raise my vibration or….” 

You simply become a living example of the energy you cultivate and embrace.  Others see it, experience it and adapt it or not to their own way of being. 

In my case, I write to figure it all out and share what I discover with others. They in turn resonate or not.  Act of not.  I have simply said, “Here’s one way.”

A Transcendent Leader walks beside others

A Transcendent Leader is always conscious of his or her vibration and its impact  We are also aware when someone comes alongside to walk a similar path beside us.  Then we engage in an exchange of energy.  We listen. We share.  We encourage.  And at some point we part ways.  That’s simply the nature of walking your own path.  For it is the purpose of each of us to cultivate and walk our own unique path.

How can I be a better Transcendent Leader?

First, you have to realize that you are a Transcendent Leader.  Whatever you are doing, however you are doing it, you are also impacting others.  Perhaps by guiding them, perhaps by encouraging them, perhaps simply by showing them by example.  

The cornerstone of  being a Transcendent Leader is to know that you are one.  And accept that responsibility and choose and act accordingly.  

Well, fellow Transcendent Leader,  what shall we do to transform the world today?

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I accept and honor my role as a Transcendent Leader.

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

  • Sit with the idea of being a Transcendent Leader. What does that mean to you?
  • Think about and identify those whom you consider to be Transcendent Leaders.  What do they do?  How do they act? What are the qualities that draw you to them?
  • It begins by accepting your role as a Transcendent Leader.
  • Do that.

To Sind a Deeper Song Consider

You ARE Vibration and Why it Matters

To Gain Strength, Renew the Root

The Transformative Sphere

Unleash the Power of a Creative Spiritual Practice 

The Power of Being in Intentional Space

Do You Practice Self-Transcendence?

Energy Cannot Be Destroyed – Only Re-Purposed

Raise Your Vibration and Change the World. 

I help transformational thinkers raise their personal vibration so that we, collectively, can raise the consciousness of our planet.

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