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Raise Your Gaze  

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Raise Your Gaze
An Inner World Exploration

What you look for, you see.  If you look at all the things around you that do not work, that is all you’ll see.  If you only look out for people who are not happy or kind, or who radiate some form of negativity, that’s exactly what you’ll see.  

Changing your life is as simple as changing your gaze.  

What are you looking for?

Technology is moving rapidly.  In fact, it’s moving a whole lot faster than I am at this stage of my life.  So I have some choices.  I can focus on all the things I don’t know how to do and feel overwhelmed and fall farther and farther behind, or I can focus on one or two ways to communicate with the people I serve and get really good at that.  I can use those consciously selected forms of communication to share my work with people and to gain the information I want to acquire.  

It’s all a matter of choice.  It’s all a matter of where you look. 

What are you expecting?

If you expect to be uncomfortable going to a gathering, you probably will.  If you expect to find one or two people for some deep conversations, you probably will. If you expect to feel like you don’t belong,  you also probably will.  You find what you look for. You get what you expect. 

Raise your gaze

If you see your job as draining, inhospitable, beneath your skill level, there is only one place to look – within you.  All you have to do is shift your gaze.  If you spend a whole day looking for something positive, something aligned with what resonates with you, you’ll find it. And when you keep looking for the positive every day, you’ll find yourself surrounded by it!

Do you see the broad picture or the narrow view?

It’s easy to get caught up in the mud, the mire, the daily disagreements of our world and we begin to feel hopeless and helpless.  But, when we raise our gaze, we see possibilities and experience hope and positive expectation. 

You can move toward either, the positive or the negative. You can allow yourself to be caught up in the downward pull.  Or you can raise your gaze and float upward – to the greater, broader, more inclusive view.  

Which would you rather do? Your choice. 

To see where you’re focused, write it down

At the end of each day, make a list of all the positive experiences you’ve had.  The things you’re grateful for.  The wonderful lessons you’ve received, the insights you’ve gathered. 

If you can’t think of anything to go on your list, just sit there until you do.  Maybe you’re just not looking in the right place. 

I was sitting in my soft chair with my cat, Sebastian, nestled comfortably beside me.  I almost missed that moment. I almost just watched television instead. But in a lovely mindful moment, I tuned into the incredible softness of his coat, his steady warmth, his quiet breathing, his contented stillness, his loving companionship. Such a lot to be grateful for in that small portion of my day! 

Start saying “thank you” with more awareness

Even if there are people that you’re not drawn to and exchanges you’d rather not have, find something to thank them for.  You may even find it hard to find something to say, but you have to find something positive because there is positive in every situation, in every person.  The positive might even be a lesson you’d rather not have learned. Look for it.  Find it.  Comment positively on it.

My oldest daughter was brain-damaged at birth by a forceps delivery.  As she grew, I realized she would not be able to become my vision/version of what my children could become, smart, educated, etc.  It was a huge gift she gave me because I had to look hard to see her gifts.  She is good with people. I began to help her recognize that gift and incorporate it as a positive quality in her life.

How hard do you have to look at someone you find different to see what their unique gift is?

Gifts come in many shapes

A woman I play cards with is very controlling.  It seems important to her to be in control.  It’s not important to me.  So I go along with whatever she suggests.  Unless she crowds me.  Then I will rethink it.  But for now, in this situation, I can let it go, ignore it, and allow her what she needs by letting her feel she’s the boss.  

A new member joined the group and the gift he brings is a viewpoint of life that is totally opposite from mine.  I get to try to understand him because he represents a whole vocal population in the country that I have never experienced before.  No, I am not drawn to the qualities he exhibits, but in trying to find my way in a casual social situation, I am expanding my heart, broadening my view, and yes, strengthening my own values.  

In the midst of negativity, there can be positive insights.

Let go of what doesn’t matter to you

Another senior here is somewhat obsessed with cleaning.  If you walk any place with her she is very judgmental about how others did not clean up well in the community social areas.  

On one such occasion, regarding the cleanliness of the floors in our community kitchen, I turned to her and said, “I don’t even see it.” What matters to her is not even in my realm of observation.  It was helpful for me to realize that.  It opened up space for me to be more accepting of this particular need of hers.

What is in your level of observation?  What are you trying to control that you have no control over? Let it go.

Handle your corner of the world

My house has wonderful things in it but it is also a bit scruffy because I have a cat who scratches places other than his scratching posts.  I choose to focus on my wonderful crystals and shamanic items and simply sit in my comfortable, scruffy, scratched chair and cuddle my warm cat.  

There’s no one here to be bothered by any of this but me, and I’m not bothered.  I’m content and happy and love all my nearly-too-many things. 

Handle your own corner of the world and let the other guys handle theirs. 

What to do when negative energy tries to invade your space

As I’ve said to you on other occasions, I just can’t be around anger.  It hurts my body, so I get up and leave the situation.  

If I were in a group where someone seems negative to me, I would do several things – 1) look to see where my own judgemental-ness was coming from, 2) either do mindful breathing or assume a mudra to change my own energy, 3) invite them to change their negative energy or 4) excuse myself and leave. I would take some step to defuse the negativity. 

You have many options when faced with negativity.  Pick one and don’t stay stuck in a less than positive situation.

You see what you’re looking for

To raise your gaze, begin with gratitude. Notice what’s good about the situation that bothers you.  Shift your gaze.  Come at the situation from another direction. Look for the good – in everything and in everyone. It is there.  And you will find it. 

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Do You have the Willingness to find Common Ground?

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Do You have the Willingness to find Common Ground?

There were great articles on where and how to create peace in The Shift Network newsletter.  I didn’t read them.  I couldn’t read them because…I don’t know.  I didn’t want to read about people doing cruel things to each other or systematically destroying our planet.  I feel helpless in the midst of the current chaos and friction in the world and, well, I don’t think I am really willing to compromise. And compromise we must in order to find the common ground that will bring us peaceful coexistence. 

I don’t even want to be around people who are slightly angry – their negative energy physically hurts my body.  So I avoid conflict.  I avoid disgruntled people. I avoid anger.

But that isn’t going to really make things better.  I have to participate. I have to compromise. I have to find common ground. 

We are all totally interconnected

My action here affects your life there.  If we both don’t raise our consciousness, we will neither one improve our level of participation, our level of life experience.  

For instance, if I am not consciously recycling trash, it may end up in the ocean affecting the fish you need to catch to feed your family. 

We each have different priorities, but we’re all connected. 

Can we have one core focus?

When we each decide that our primary concern/focus is sustaining our planet for ourselves, for our children, for our descendants, then we immediately identify specific steps to take. No pesticides. No GMO. More organic food production, no plastic wraps for food, positive emission steps to help slow climate change.  When we think of our future, our consciousness shifts and we make different choices. 

If you and I lived in a community built around a central garden that provides all our food, we would each do our best to make it the best, most productive garden we could.  We might try different methods.  And we would probably have an argument over organic versus genetically modified.  And I bet it would be an animated conversation, depending on what we each thought was more important – quantity or quality.  

We need to find common values

Let’s say everyone in our small community that has gathered around this one garden primarily wants to be healthy.  Finding common ground, common values is where you begin. But do you know how many versions of how to be healthy there will be?  One for each of us. 

An important awareness we must each develop is to know that we’re free to do what’s best for us according to our own knowledge and understanding – as long as it only affects us.  

As long as it only affects us.  So you really can’t put pesticides out anywhere near my organic vegetables because they will drift over to my plants and I won’t eat any of your genetically modified produce.  We have to grow our own food separately because our viewpoints are so opposing.  And yet our fundamental, common goal is the same.  Feed ourselves and our families. We simply have different ideas on how to make that happen.

I’m not going to change and you’re not going to change because our beliefs are very, very strong and it’s our survival we’re talking about, what we eat.  

That’s both a terrible example and a good example.  I’m a vegan so I have lots of strong feelings about what I eat.  But it does highlight just how core our opposing viewpoints can be and how difficult it can be to find common ground.

Fortunately, in today’s world, you can buy what you want and I can buy what I want.  Although here we go again, pesticides are killing the bumblebees and genetically modified food puts the entire food chain at risk of being totally eradicated because it is not diverse and if it goes, our entire food supply will go. 

Learn the facts

If you never thought about what’ll happen if all crops were genetically modified, it might be good to do some online research. Who is pushing for it (one chemical company) and what are the repercussions? One new blight, one adverse organism could wipe out our entire food supply.  

The dying, pesticide-poisoned bumblebee population is important to remedy because they are necessary for the cross-pollination of our crops.  Before we dig our heals in on a particular position we owe it to ourselves and to our world to educate ourselves about the degree of repercussions our choice would/could make.  We need to keep up with the latest discoveries, the new solutions, and be open to changing our views. The old way is obsolete nearly as fast as we figure it out. Change is a constant and we absolutely must be willing to keep up with it.

Live and let live only goes so far

We don’t live on the planet alone.  Every action we take affects everything, everyone. We must learn to live as globally conscious, flexible, innovative members of a planetary community.  I have no idea how to get everyone to do that.  I can see how a group of like-minded people would choose to live around a cooperative organic garden.  But what about the rest of the people in their community?  If they are doing things we see as destructive to our planet, what do we do?

We each have to give up something

We have to find common ground.  We will each have to compromise, give a little.  Maybe give way a lot.

But wait.  If I mess up my food source, I’ll die. That’s pretty basic.  I can see a “live and let live” approach to a lot of things – free choice about a lot of things – until it infringes on my clean air, my organic garden, my fresh water.  Then I dig in and refuse to budge.  That’s my survival that’s being messed with. 

If I were starving, I’d eat pretty much anything.  But we don’t have to get to the starving stage to find agreement. 

It’s when we come together to build something that conflict arises because compromise must be the core of collaboration. 

Let’s say we, in our community of both organic and non-organic believers, come together to organize and expand our town. 

First, we have to decide between short term and long-term planning. What is our over-arching goal?  Then we have to examine the repercussions. Everything is tied to everything else, so if I pull a string here, something unravels or tangles up over there.  Are we exchanging one knot for another?  What is best for the highest good?  How does filling this need now impact our children’s lives?

The first step is to agree on our over-arching purpose 

What is our over-arching purpose for this planet?  Survival would probably get everyone’s vote.  How we do that starts the discussion and referee the arguments. We may have to compromise because of cost.  We may have to prioritize because of pressing need.  We may have to forgo immediate results in order to take active foundational steps because they create positive long-term results.  We have to see the overview and hold it in front of us as we plan. We have to see the connection, how this move here will affect that situation over there. And we have to hold the same primary goal and keep moving toward our agreed upon end goal as we move forward together. 

Oh yes, and we all have to be flexible as the movement unfolds. We have to make adjustments for new discoveries, and new entanglements. 

So I’m going to join with other organic gardeners and have a plot to grow my food.  I’ll share some of my organic produce with those who have made other choices.  I may or may not point out how much healthier and stronger those of us who eat organic are, but maybe that will simply become noticeable.  That gradual awareness may cause others to make more conscious choices for their own well-being. 

That works unless I am forced to eat genetically modified food with pesticides on it.  

Then we’re back to core conflict.  

We must each learn to see the overview

If you’re in survival mode only, you can’t raise your gaze to see the long-term.  You don’t see the water table lowering or the seas rising or the glaciers melting. You can’t look that far beyond today’s survival. Therefore, you can’t or won’t be able to see how your actions of today affect the future.  Your focus is on the ground before you, one foot of survival at a time. 

But those of us who can see the overview must take steps to protect us all.  We can begin to do that by example.  If an organic diet makes us live longer, then others will see it.  If I carry my cloth grocery bag to the grocery store, others will see it and may think to carry their own.  If I’m very careful to recycle what I can, perhaps I need to offer to carry my neighbor’s recycling out for her to make certain it’s done.  

What can you offer to do for someone else that moves the world a little closer to wellness?

I can network.  I can tell my neighbors that when I order my groceries delivered, the drivers will take the plastic bags from the last delivery back and the store ships them to a special place for reprocessing.  They may not know that.  They may not choose to do that.  But I have passed forward the information of some positive, environmentally supportive choices they can make.

Raise your consciousness and the consciousness of others

I didn’t know the water table in Cape Town, South Africa, was so low it was at crisis level until I watched a PBS news report, which also informed me that California has a similar water table problem. I have no idea how a water table works or how to protect one. I’m in the mid-west so I’m not certain what I can do about either of those particular problems, but I can educate myself to figure out what that means and how my community is caring for our water table.  

If it turns out we need to make changes, I could go so far as to report what I find to the local government.  Maybe I have to do some educating.  And find like-minded people who are concerned. And be pro-active in helping to find a solution.

We cannot just sit around and let it happen to us

Many people will do nothing.  It’s simply not in their nature.  They’ll accept whatever shows up.  Others may find one particular cause, like animals that are nearing extinction, and donate money or join groups who are being pro-active in saving public lands. 

Whatever you’re called to do to preserve our planet, do it.  Make it a positive participation. Make certain it moves the cause forward.  Even if it’s in your small corner of the world.  Let others know what you found. Give them the information they need to make informed and more pro-active choices. 

Raise your sights. Raise your values. Be an influencer

Do not settle.  Be an influencer.  Make others aware of their choices and the repercussions of their actions through education and actions.  Don’t force.  Just do. Be an example. Raise the level of consciousness in your corner of the world and when you look up, you’ll find there are others around the world doing the same.  Meet each other’s gaze and keep going. 

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The Path of Supportive Service

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The Path of Supportive Service

We help others by simply walking beside them in supportive service.  

We don’t push.  We don’t pull. We don’t tell them what to do.  We simply walk beside them in service. Supportive service.  Loving service. Loyal service.  

We do it for others.  Others do it for us. 

We move gently into their life and match their steps.  

We may shine a light here and there to highlight possibilities, but mostly we walk in loving support beside them as they move through their own journey.

It’s an interesting feeling for me to know that I don’t walk beside you as a teacher or a leader.  I’m simply here to support.  And shine a little light along our shared pathway. 

I see myself on a path.  It’s not a particularly steep path, but it’s heading steadily upward.  

At this point in human time, I have two people with whom I’m actively interacting as we walk along together. We’re going in the same direction, but we are taking separate journeys. 

That’s as it should be.

I’m also walking beside others through my writing, even if I’m not always in direct interaction with them. 

I know that just as I find support and inspiration and motivation from other people whose work I read, we never know how the waves we send out impact others. 

Support by listening

For me, the greater service my two walking-beside-me-in-service partners give is to provide a space for me to share my excitement over what I discover and what I learn. They’re strong sounding boards and reflective mirrors. In that sense, we teach each other because we’re going more or less in the same direction, but we each have chosen a distinctive pathway. 

We listen well.  We exchange ideas with enthusiasm.  We give informed feedback and encouragement. Sometimes the gift is an idea we pick up from the other person that they’ve chosen to put in place themselves.  Listening is learning.   As we share our experiences and our response and interpretation of our own journey, we each expand our awareness – of self and of possibilities. 

Because my path is so focused on deepening my own spiritual understanding, for me the most important aspect of walking beside someone in service is that we’re at similar levels of interest and accomplishment along our path.  We can understand each other at the deepest levels of our journeys.

It has occurred to me, in writing this, that you are the third person I’m walking beside in service. You, who read what I write and sometimes offer comments.  Thank you for your thoughtful steps beside me. Thank you for sharing in my journey.

We follow our heart when we select who to walk beside in service. It’s always an exchange.  We both give and receive as we move along our journey. 

Support by mirroring

One of my walk-beside partners is very detailed.  I’m at the other end of the spectrum.  I grab an idea and run with it.  She holds it and studies and absorbs it.  Both are perfectly appropriate ways of learning but it was important for both of us to see and honor each other’s learning styles.  She helps me be willing to be a little more detailed – I help her be a little more experimental. 

Support by reflecting

One of my partners is a fellow shamanic practitioner.  We’re both exploring how we want to fit that incredible work into our lives, for ourselves and for assisting others.  She wants an active in-person shamanic practice. I want to primarily use the journey work to explore and write about what I discover and show others how to apply journeying for their own self-awareness. Two different objectives.  One shared path.

We practice on each other.  We reflect back to each other.  We learn from each other. We talk on Skype every week. 

Learn from their path

The other major person I’m walking beside in service is also a healer, but her path is different from mine.  She’s exploring things I never even thought about and some of my experiences in my shamanic explorations expand her knowledge. We have broad-ranging conversations as we walk alongside each other.

As you walk beside someone in illumined service, there’s an exchange.  You learn from each other as you also support each other’s journey.

Learn from helping

I’ve just begun to walk beside someone else in service.  She wants to learn shamanism.  As I prepare an outline for the guidance I want to offer, my own knowledge deepens and expands. Her questions and needs and interests will guide our journey together. 

Helping her helps me clarify how I want to be in service on a broader scale.  The words I want to write. The insights I want to offer.   You learn from the person you’re walking beside even as you’re the one doing the supportive walking.

There are people you serve you don’t know

Here’s the unmeasurable one. Our presence has a ripple effect. Our work has a ripple effect.  My work with the people I’m actively walking beside supports them and helps them expand their reach. I can see the movement that comes from our exchanges.  But through these people, I’m also in service to others I do not know in places I cannot see, as they expand their own reach into their world.

I also am aware that I’m walking on a planetary-wide path with people I do not know.  But I know our purpose.  I know our direction.  We are Illumined Explorers expressing our spirit-directed living and we are moving through the world to tap on the shoulders of receptive people.  As we shine our light, others see it and recognize the light in themselves, and they join in to help raise the collective consciousness. It’s very inclusive, impactful work for the wellbeing of our planet.

It’s trickier for me to gauge the impact of my own written offerings.  I occasionally get emails that indicate that a particular post has touched a life.  And I know there’s a consistent number of “opens” on my weekly posts.  But I have no idea what my work prompts each reader to turn around and give their world. And I never will. I have to trust and keep shining my light their way.  So that’s what I keep doing. 

You walk beside someone in service with every exchange

I live in a senior community in the conservative Mid-West and with my metaphysical interests, there’s no one here I can talk to about them.  But my mere presence is part of my service.  My persona, my participation, my appreciation for the opportunity to interact, those are all ways I walk beside them in service.  Your mere presence is a light that shines upon the path. We must be conscious of everything we offer the world, even by simply being present.

Point out the possibilities

If you picture yourself walking along a path beside someone, you may periodically shine your light on other possible paths to explore.  They may take one detour. You may explore another.  When you continue on the main path together, you each have new insights to share from your separate side journeys.

Help them over the high places

When we walk beside someone in service we help each other over the high places – and the low places. That’s simply the nature of walking along the same path. We’re supportive of our respective journeys.

Appreciate their light upon your path

Not everyone is going to think of their personal journey as shining their light upon the path of another.  Perhaps as you walk beside someone, you tell them how much their light means to you.  Perhaps you even find ways you both might shine your lights in other directions.  Stay aware.  Keep on the lookout and respond to the opportunities that appear. 

What does it feel like to walk beside someone in service?

Look at your life.  Who are you walking beside?  Who is walking beside you?  Some may be walking more closely to you, some may be nearby but at different points on the journey. Some may be willing to take that interesting detour with you. Others may not. 

Simply shine your light brighter.  Expand your beam. Draw in more people. And keep walking.

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One Powerful Way to Change Our Future

It’s natural for people to be tribal.  For early man, it was about survival – some people could hunt, some could heal. In other words, it took a tribe to make a village.  So it makes sense that we tend to collect around people we find supportive and like-minded, to be part of a tribe.

The problem is, within our own tribe we seldom question, we seldom explore.  We seldom examine alternatives.  We settle into the security of the familiar, the routine and safety of our own tribe. And when we come across another tribe, we are suspicious of them and protective of our own way of life.  

We don’t even consider that this other tribe might have insights to offer and gifts to share.  We move into our own protective mode and sometimes even go to war to keep things the same
– familiar and unchanging.  

We need to be willing to explore and accept the gifts of other tribes

The world is changing so rapidly we’re spinning.  There’s no way we can hang on to the way it was because the way it was is no longer the way it is.  We must be willing to see what the other tribes have come up with, how they have solved similar problems, what new challenges they face, what values they’ve chosen to guide them.  

And then we get to question our own life – everything. Our own thoughts, our own values, our own way of doing things and look to see what new options have appeared and what new paths we might follow. 

Life is changing very rapidly and we have to change with it. 

But at the present moment, we are rooted in a tribal mindset of self-protectionism.  

What if we can see the world as one big tribe?!

As a country, if we were attacked, all our individual, separate tribes would join together as one. As a world, if aliens attacked us, we’d suddenly all be on the same team. 

The solution to a more peaceful coexistence is to see ourselves as ONE BIG TRIBE!!!  One Planetary Tribe.  ONE WORLD TRIBE.  

If I see myself as a member of the World Tribe, my focus shifts from “me” to “we”. It makes the job of living more complex because there are many, many variations of living in this world, but it’s not an adversarial approach, it’s a unifying feeling, a world family feeling. Finding ways to take care of each member of our family, our World Tribe. That idea broadens my viewpoint.  And my choices

That’s a big leap.  How do we do that?

See us all as the One Light Being we are

The truth is, we’re all one energy, one light, one wholeness.  And what we each do, think and say affects this wholeness. I can shift to see myself as a contributor to the wellbeing of this wholeness.  That means my conscious acts of kindness, gratitude, blessings and positive interaction affect the whole. My actions ripple out. 

A shift in our consciousness can change our behavior, our voices and our actions, both individually and worldwide.

The entire planet is your home

Expand your thinking to see past your home, your neighborhood, your city, and take a giant leap to see the entire planet as your home.  That means we have to care about pollution, and air quality and climate change. We have to do everything we can to protect the well-being of our planetary home. 

See and feel the connection we have with everything

As a One World Tribe, we all live in the same place – Earth.  Earth sustains us.  It offers us what we need to survive.  Unless, of course, we don’t take care of it.  I need to take care of the section of earth that I impact, and you have to take care of the section of earth you impact. 

We must each monitor and control our personal impact on our planet.  Be conscious, learn what is damaging to our planet, and stop participating in the destruction. 

We can co-exist in world-wide peace

How peaceful it would be to co-exist with mutual support and respect. We would all exist to support each other, to take care of the natural flow of our existence for the well-being of everyone. 

See yourself as a member of the World Tribe

It’s challenging to consider the entire planet as your tribe.  Some of the choices being made seem far away and totally out of our control.  But we have our thoughts.  We have the powerful energy of our intention.  And we can sit in our personal space and radiate the pure light energy that we are so that it reaches and touches and changes everything in the world, in the galaxy and beyond, to the Emptiness that Holds Everything. 

By each choice, each thought, each belief, we heal and whole our planetary home and every member of our World Tribe. 

Thinking as a member of a tribe is a natural inclination.  All you need to do is expand what you see as your tribe.  The entire planet becomes a part of what you are responsible for, what you care for, and since we’re all one tribe, there’s nothing to defend. There’s only peaceful and supportive coexistence to master.

The shift is within you.  It can happen today.  It can happen in this instant.  Be the agent of change that you already are.  Shift your consciousness.  Make the entire world your tribe. 

This World Tribe idea is more than about our planet home; it’s about how we see each other. We would each take our role in the global community, and everything we think and do would be for the greater good of our World Tribe. 

Will you see yourself as a member of the World Tribe?

If you begin today to feel you are a member of the World Tribe, the entire world will begin to change. Just by your one shift in how you see your participation in the world, you will begin to make different choices.  As a member of the World Tribe, I have to be conscious of the overall effect of each choice I make. My small choice here sends waves of impact into my World Tribe!  

With that kind of thought, you may choose differently. 

Begin to experience our oneness in your inner plane

I don’t know what a World Tribe is going to look like on the physical plane, but I do know how it looks and feels like on the inner plane because I actively participate in it every day. I’m a global light-bearer.

As are you.

All over the planet people are meditating on the well-being of our planet.  They’re gathering in person and in online events to focus on the broader welfare of our planet.  They may focus on one area like Earth Day or World Peace Day, or on taking part in other like-minded Light Worker Groups. 

We’re all focused on raising the group consciousness by elevating our own consciousness. We’re expanding our collective hearts. We’re sending our light energy to every corner of the planet.  By doing so, we invite others to see and feel the light within themselves and honor it, develop it and expand it. We, as transformational thinkers, are focusing on our contribution to our World Tribe and encouraging more emphasis on our collective well-being. And that’s the stuff a World Tribe is made of. 

You’re already a member of the World Tribe.  Know that and let that awareness shift your thinking and your actions. 

Let us join together in this powerful way to change our future. 

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OUR LUMINOUS LEGACY

I stood facing a forest in my shamanic journey.  A bit to my left was an open door with light pouring from it. A shadowed woman beckoned to me to enter.  I did.  It was a Chamber of Radiant Beings.  I was invited into the center and light radiated toward me from everyone in the circle.  I stood there and welcomed and accepted the healing and wholing.

The Chamber of Radiant Beings is in my inner world, my Sacred Garden within. It’s a place I continue to go to heal and balance and join with other light beings for the well-being of the world.  You, too, are invited.  Or you can manifest your own Circle of Light Beings.

When I first joined an internally visual community like this, it was in an online course on shamanism. The leader took us on an inner journey by simply describing what we saw and who we met.

In her version, there was a doorway and a large room and an altar with prayer bowls and incense and we, as an international community connected energetically by her words, whenever we listened to them, were all invited to take part.  We could offer our talents as gifts.  We could leave prayer requests.  We could offer our prayers for others. There was a crystal image of the world in the center and we were invited to send energy to it.  Anytime. From any place.

There was a defining feeling of being joined energetically with people all over the world who wanted to heal the planet and help the world.  I was no longer alone in my small corner of the world. I was connected to many, many, many people focused on the same thing. Wholeness for us all.

Begin by creating a reflective place in your own inner Sacred Garden. You can make your inner contemplation area any way you wish. I prefer to think of a focused area for blessings as a mesa, which is the shamanic term.  When I created my own mesa in my imagination, it was in the sunny meadow of my Sacred Garden, which is my starting place for all my shamanic journeys.

The focus for my reflection consists of one large flat rock sitting on three low pillar-shaped rocks. There is not one incense holder or prayer bowl in sight.  Just the rock in the meadow ready for however I choose to use it. But that’s my version. Make your sacred inner space exactly what you want or need it to be.

I go to my Chamber of Radiant Beings for nurturing, for healing, for guidance.  But most of all we join together to radiate our light, the one light, into the world to bring about healing and balance and peace and safety.

Each element of your Sacred Garden is a part of you.  As you change it changes.  It is filled with metaphors only you can interpret.

I visited my Chamber of Radiant Beings on quite a few journeys before these Beings metaphorically came out of the Chamber to be with me in the open meadow of my Sacred Garden.

It’s your chamber.  Create it the way you need and want it to be, place in it whoever needs to be there and in whatever form they seem to want to be for you.  Then use your Chamber of Light as you will.

Whether I’m working in the Chamber or in the meadow, sometimes I’m in the center receiving the light energy.  Sometimes I’m in the circle surrounding someone to offer healing and support, and other times we are simply joining together to heal the world.

I do not see anyone I know from the physical plane.  Nor do I see mythical gods and goddesses.  I see radiant light beings in service.  The leader, the female figure who beckoned me in, eventually gave me her identity, but for several journeys, all I knew was this – she was the spiritual leader.  As my journeys progressed, sometimes I was the leader.  Sometimes I was the receiver of the focused light and sometimes a participant shining my own light.

Go with what you find. Explore what’s offered.  Interact with whoever shows up.  Remember, everything in the Sacred Garden, in this Chamber of Light is a reflection of you.  It changes as you change.

When you leave the chamber, the circle, create some kind of blessing.  It may be a bow.  It may be a hand over your heart. It may be blowing a blessing through your fingers.  Create a sign of closure.  And gratitude.  Bless all you see.  Thank them for being present.  And depart.  Back to your Sacred Garden.  And then back to consciousness.

Your Chamber of Radiant Beings is a refuge.  A place to heal and restore. A place to do your sacred work.  Make it look and feel and be like anything you want.

Because there are millions of people all over the planet doing inner healing work in a similar fashion, you can meet with others on the inner plane.

Your Chamber of Radiant Beings is a workplace.  It’s a gathering of other radiant beings to heal and preserve our planet earth. To heal and support each other.  Create your own ceremonies.  Use this room as a healing space.  If you wish a healing for someone, in your imagination create a way to do that – a name placed in a blessing bowl, the light of the person in the center with light radiating toward it.  Whatever your imagination invites you to do.

It all involves light. Light is all we are.  Light is the power.  Light is our collective oneness.

Be light.

Process for finding your own Circle of Radiant Beings

  • In a quiet place, set an intention to join with the group of light beings that best serve your soul’s purpose. A name may come to you.  Call it that.
  • Go to your Sacred Garden, the place in your imagination where you begin your journeys, and simply be. Look around your garden.  State your intent to be joined with your own circle of light for the purpose of healing and wholing. See what shows up. Is it inside or outside?  Who is there?  What are they doing? These images are metaphors that have meaning for you.  Invite them to reveal themselves to you.  Explore and experience. If it doesn’t happen today, journey again tomorrow. Trust what shows up.
  • You may find light beings in many different forms – people, animals, plants, waterfalls, volcanoes, oceans, mythical gods and goddesses.  Whatever is present, the message is for you.  Look, observe, feel and participate. Ask for greater clarity if you need it.
  • Offer thanks when you leave.
  • When you return to full consciousness, journal to capture your experience and interpret what you were shown. The inner world speaks in metaphors for each of us to interpret for ourselves.  If the message is not clear, ask your helping spirits to clarify.

Work with this inner place of light often.  Call it whatever you want.  See it however you see it. Let your experience expand.  Place yourself in the center. Place someone else in the center. Place the world in the center.

Join with Other Light Beings to Heal the World

As I continued to journey, I sought to expand my participation in helping the world – the environment, the people, its future.  One day, after setting that intention for my journey, the members of my Chamber of Radiant Beings took me to join in the Circle of Light Beings which is how I see all the transformation visionaries in the world and we joined with others to lift the consciousness of our world. Again, name it what calls to you.

Here is my journey to the planetary encompassing Circle of Light Beings as I experienced it and journaled it:

I’m standing with the Radiant Beings I’ve been working with and we’ve now joined a large Circle of Light Beings.  Since there’s no time in the inner world, you may join us.  We stand in a circle. As fellow Light Beings join us, they simply put their hands on our shoulders.  And when the circle seems full, another layer is added, with more hands on the shoulders of the Light Being in front of them.

In the center, we can place anything we wish and it’ll receive this full power of the ever-expanding Circle of Light Beings.  For now, let’s begin by placing the planet in the center. Embrace her in unconditional love, the deepest respect, and honoring her great spirit.  We send her unconditional love.  Can you imagine what it will feel like to Earth to receive the unconditional love of all of us, all the Light Beings in this radiant, radiating circle?

As we stand in this ever-growing circle of light, we personally receive this wholing light energy. It balances and cleanses and heals without being told what to do, for it is wholeness and wholeness is perfect.

Feel yourself as a Light Being standing in a circle with your hands on the shoulders of the Light Being in front of you, radiating light out into the world.  You feel a hand on your shoulder as another Light Being joins in the Circle of radiating and expanding light.   Feel the power magnify.  Feel the wholeness.  Absorb it and add your ever-increasing light energy to it.

Anytime you want to refocus the group energy you can.  If you want to picture a particular situation in the middle of our Circle of Light, do so.  It can be a person, a situation, a place. Our collective light energy will cover it all.  Your choice, your direction, like shining a spotlight on whatever you choose.

Notice your breath.  It is slow and deep and replenishing as you stand with other Light Beings and offer your light to the world.

You can join in the Circle of Light Beings any time and put into the center anything you wish, knowing fully that this group energy is now focused on it.

We do not and will not focus on anything negative.  We support only the higher vibrations so we cannot be manipulated or fooled.  We see only light and we recognize only light and we send only light.  All of us.  Individually and collectively.

When you feel complete, leave a part of your light body there, letting it continue to send focused light energy and return to your bodysuit.  Know that you can return in an instant to increase your energy in this powerful Circle of Light and place whatever you wish in the center so it will receive the combined energy of this ever-expanding Circle of Light.

You are a Light Being.  As are we all.  Knowing that and acting upon it is exceedingly powerful.

And effective.

A Mudra for the Physical Plane

As a physical plane reminder of the Circle of Light when I’m in the ordinary world, I use a simple mudra of holding my bent thumb in the first two fingers of my left hand and mindfully send energy to the Circle of Light. You can use any physical plane reminder you choose.

Wherever you are when you’re called to send wholing light to a situation or a person, simply set the intention, enclose your thumb with your fingers and let that represent the Circle of Light Beings surrounding your intention. You can sit anywhere at any time and send energy anywhere and everywhere.  And you can send energy without the mudra.

Use this mudra when you come up against some anger. Use this when you are feeling tired and need to be replenished and restored.   Use it when you see a situation where you’d like to see a shift toward inclusiveness.  Use either thumb.  It’s the intention that counts.

You can also breathe down on the enclosed thumb and let that healing breath move down into the Center of the Circle of Light in the inner plane. This is your reminder, your intention. Form it any way you choose.

Notice how the energy changes.  And how rapidly.

If you’re in a position to close your eyes, do so and feel the light radiating out from you, merging and blending and enhancing the light of the fellow Light Beings around you. Feel the light increase and encompass.  And spread.

When you go to sleep, place yourself in the center of the Circle of Light for the entire night!

Welcome to the Circle of Light Beings!!!

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