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How To Be Nothing

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OUR LUMINOUS LEGACY

How To Be Nothing

Ninety-five percent of our existence is invisible.  Our human part is full of ego and separation. The rest of us, the majority of who we are, is in The Great Nothingness, the All That Is. We are all one energy, one vibration.  There is no separation.  We are all just part of the Great Nothing.

How does it feel to be Nothing?

If you’ve ever meditated and “disappeared” in the process, you understand how to be nothing.  Have you ever had a moment when you’re totally one with what you’re doing:  that perfect physical act that’s effortless and seems almost miraculous?

That phrase or idea that comes floating in from nowhere that sends you catapulting in the right direction? The feeling of everything falling perfectly into place – effortlessly?  That is the Great Nothingness in you, coming through your bodysuit, pushing through your human ego. Pulling you into Oneness with All.

What is “out there?”

The Sufi poet Rumi says,  “Live in the nowhere that you came from even though you have an address here.”  Nowhere.  And everywhere. All That Is, The Great Mystery.

Put aside the limiting human approach of seeing yourself as separate and feel yourself absorbed into an unseen unity of all there is. Move into the inner realms, the unseen world, the Great Nothingness. Know that you’re one with all.

It’s challenging to lose our feelings of separation

Even trying to imagine ourselves as being part of a great universal nothingness, we want to feel separate. We want to feel we are a unique individual. That’s our limitation as humans and what we must learn to move beyond in order to feel and be nothing – and at the same time everything.

From our limited humanness, we cannot understand the concepts of a great nothingness, a nowhere that we came from.  We have to look within our inner world to begin to understand and accept and experience. We are all that is. Each of us – are one.

The invisible realms are noticeable

I explore the invisible realms every day as I take regular shamanic journeys. To create Our Luminous Legacy series, I go to my inner realms for guidance. I went within to the invisible realms to channel the first draft of this newsletter. I closed my eyes, asked my helping spirits for guidance and wrote what showed up. It flowed as fast as I could type. Of course, there were small edits, but the words appeared out of nothingness and flowed into my human world with ease. We are always connected to our inner realms.

There are no forms in the invisible realms, although, in order to communicate with us in our limited body suits, the helping spirits appear in many shapes – power animals, teachers in human form, wee folk, talking trees and animated elements.

The invisible world speaks to us in metaphors, symbols, shapes and unexpected images that only have meaning to us as individuals in our body suit form.  So in our imagination, we get shapes and subtle messages that only we can interpret for use in our body suit life.

If you have meditated deeply, you’ll know nothingness

Years ago, I was led in a guided meditation in which we steadily moved through each part of our body, focused on becoming the space between the molecules.  For each part, we gradually moved past skin and bones and tissue and blood into the space between the molecules.

Our arms disappeared from our experience.  Our legs disappeared.  Our body disappeared.   We went through one part of our body at a time, moving into the space between the molecules.  I absolutely remember the moment the last part of my awareness of my physical body disappeared into the space between the molecules. I was like a pinpoint of consciousness floating in space, in nothingness. No body.  Just one point in my head where my third eye had been.

That’s the feeling we all want to recapture.  We want the experience that there’s nothing but this one link from our consciousness to this all-encompassing radiant light, this embracing vibration of positive energy, this floating experience.  The Great Nothingess.  The Nowhere That We Came From.

Learn to lose your ego

We spend most of our lives paying attention to what we do, who we are, what we want.  Our human lives focus primarily on our needs and wants.  We are, after all, the only one who can live our lives.  We begin to cherish our uniqueness, our individuality, our gifts, our achievements.  And it makes us stay separate.

This is not about merging with another person.  No, that’s ego and ego. I’m supporting us both in this idea of losing our ego selves to become pure light. No body, no ego, no separateness.  Just one all-encompassing experience of simply being. Nothing.

I sometimes picture the Great Nothingness as Cosmic Soup and how we are each a flavor that affects the whole soup. What flavor we add (negative, positive) affects the overall flavor. Our individual seasoning of “self” blended into the whole.

I used to think in terms of the Web of Life, but being a strand of that made me still feel separate.

There are only limiting words to describe this disappearance, this dissolving of our body suits until we are free floating in a healing, wholing state of pure light, being vibration, just being.

When we go within, when we disappear into the nothingness, we heal, we release the human stuff that’s blocking us, and we step into light, healing, wholing, oneness.  We feel embraced and included and supported.  When we open our own hearts, we feel love – spiritual love from our collective spiritual hearts.  The world drops away and we are in Nothingness.  There are no problems, no pain, no worries. There is just a sensation of being.  Our body disappears. We are Nothing. And Everything.

What do you learn in the Great Nothingness?

Nothing. You learn nothing. You do nothing. You simply are.  When you move back into consciousness, you can bring back to your human form that feeling of calm, that feeling of connection, that feeling of well-being and you can walk around with that glowing from inside you all day.  That will affect how you experience your day and how others experience you.

You can purposefully move into the Great Nothingness before you begin to work, or sleep, or before anything you’re doing in your body suit.  Bring this feeling of oneness with you in all you do.

What if you feel separated?

Coming back to the human existence can be jarring.  Ease back into consciousness.  See what feelings and awareness you can bring with you. Continue to experience yourself as immersed in a greater whole. Maintain those feelings of calm and stillness and flow easily and effortlessly through your life. Just float. Just be. Be present.  Be.  Float in meditation.

Flow in your work, let your intuition and imagination have full rein.  Back away from the confines of your body suit and flow through your day, flow through your life, maintaining your experience of being within and of the Great Nothingness.

Can you “be” light throughout your day?

Find a way to slip into the stillness within, even with your eyes open.  Take regular moments throughout your day to take a deep breath, let go of your body suit and float in the Invisible Realm.  It’s replenishing and restorative.  And it’ll change how you experience your life.

Go within each day

Every day, go to a quiet place and simply be.  Let go of feeling separate in your human world. When you are worried, go within.  When you are scared, go within.  Remember these are all body suit experiences, not experiences of the Invisible Realm.

There is no separateness within

It’s challenging to imagine a world where all are in agreement.  The Invisible Realm is not like what we see and experience living in the human world.  In the Invisible Realm, there are no separate opinions and thus no disagreement. We are part of a whole. Everything is one.  One Energy.  One Light. One. How different our worldly experience would be if we could bring back those feelings of oneness to the physical plane.

Go within for comfort and lessons and guidance. Go talk to the great Nothingness and bring back the knowledge of the Oneness. Know that there is no one else, nothing else.  All simply is. One.  One radiant light of wholeness.

Bring the wholeness of Nothingness to your physical plane experience 

Allow wholing energy to come to you on the physical plane. Sit.  Go within and feel your oneness with everything, all that is.  Step into the light that is everywhere and feel its wholeness embracing you, encompassing you, filling you. Feel it hug you and love you and support you, even though those are human feelings. Feel your individual light merge more deeply with the light of all that is.  Feel the support from this ongoing, massive field of energy.  Let it lift you and heal you.  Soak it up.  This is healing light. Healing energy.  It makes things whole.  Because it is wholeness.  It is All There is.

You learn to be by being.  Let your body suit go and float off in your Invisible Self and merge with the Light That Is.

Simply be.

Will you practice simply being? Will you immerse yourself in the Field of Wholeness? Will you radiate the light that you are?

OUR LUMINOUS LEGACY PRACTICE

  • Two or three times a day, take time to go within and simply be. Be present.  Follow your breath, slowly and mindfully, in and out.
  • Feel the light energy from within vibrating around you, encircling you in light.  Blending and merging with your body suit.
  • Notice how you let go of everything and how your body suit responds.
  • Lose all awareness of your self until you no longer exist but are simply present in the glow, the light, the wholeness.
  • Feel and experience yourself in the Invisible Realm.  If something shows up in your imagination, explore it, talk to it, ask its purpose.
  • Journal after this to solidify your experience.

A Message from My Spiritual Heart

Our Luminous Legacy emerges from my spiritual heart. I know myself to be a spiritual explorer who serves as a messenger and a bridge to the Invisible Realm.  The Luminous Legacy series is part of the maps I leave to guide you on your own inner journey.

Namaste,

Cara

Our Luminous Legacy Series

1- Unleash the Power of Your Inner Garden

2-How to Be Nothing (this one)

Who do You Serve?  

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As far back as Marketing 101, I understood how important it is to know who you serve.  Your target market, the people who’ll hear and understand you, the people who’ll want your product, the people you’ll want to work with. You can’t serve everyone.  You have to pick your tribe and serve it well.

What are they doing in their lives?

When I was becoming a Reiki Master Teacher we went around our group to say who we were going to help.  One person said she was going to help all the poor people.  In that moment I knew who I was going to serve – thought leaders who were already deeply in service so that my work would support them in flying higher and touching more lives.  And that has never changed.  I don’t want to teach “beginner” anything. I want to teach conscious, exploratory thinkers.

It’s important to know who you want to serve.

Why do you want to help them?

I am really self-focused in my choices.  I love to learn.  I have a burning desire and calling to explore the spiritual realms.  So my first reason for doing anything is determined by my own love of exploring the metaphysical.

And I also have a powerful need to explain what I figure out and share that with others.  But I no longer want to teach even the beginning steps of the exploratory work I’m doing.  My need to explore and figure out is first, and that is not a particularly good marketing strategy.  But my passion and excitement is contagious and there are those who are listening and reading and absorbing what I share. And that’s what I want.

Why do you do what you do?

It’s been very revealing to be retired, to no longer be focused on doing a job for the monetary reward. I find it both indulgent and expanding.  And I move rapidly and deeply into whatever I choose to explore. My focus is on learning more about the unseen world.  Not everyone wants to know about that, but those who do read what I write.

Your passion has been with you all your life

Whatever you’re supposed to be doing in your life, you have either been doing it all along or longed to do it all along.  Sometimes a gift shows you the way. I am a writer but the gift that makes the difference is my ability to quickly see the overview and make connections that others may not be able to see.  That helps me guide people toward new insights.

Many people are reaching mid-life and taking a hard look at their level of satisfaction, find it lacking, and go start their own business, or follow a more personal calling.

Don’t be afraid to change your life, wherever you are on your path.

You never know who you’ll reach

I did a podcast interview and the person who did the interview has shared with me some of the positive responses it received.  I know nothing about those people other than their responses.  But that’s enough.  I touched some lives. I made a difference. And I have no idea what I said or what idea touched them.

We often don’t know how we touch lives.  We just have to trust that we do.

Your calling is deep within

Go into meditation.  Ask your inner self for guidance.  Ask to clarify your passion and offer suggestions for its expression.  Then go do that.

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider

Are You a Conscious Elder?

Where toy Radiate Your Inner Light

What is Your Unique Purpose?

How do You Put your Spiritual Insights to Work?

Your Gift to the Future

Where to Radiate Your Inner Light

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There’s only one thing I know that everyone can do to help balance the planet – radiate light.  And the more effortlessly we learn to do that, the stronger our light becomes.

Shine your light along the path

When we are in illumined service we walk along the path beside others and simply shine our light – to help them see their way, to perhaps shed light on some new options. But they are always on their path and we are on ours.

Whatever you do or say radiates light.

Upping your inner radiance

What about your inner radiance?  How is it doing?  If you’re angry, that dulls down your radiance.  If you’re judgmental or ignore the needs of others, your radiance will dim.

There are things we can each do to effortlessly radiate more light – it begins with our thoughts.

Begin your day with mindful intention

Create some kind of a daily, mindful ceremony in which you agree to be your best self, do your best work, and release all that doesn’t serve you in shining your light.

Once you feel you’re clear of what holds you back and take steps to release that, make conscious choices about how you’ll illuminate your day.  It may be the performance of a task.  It may be writing to a friend.  It may be holding your tongue in a tense situation.  When you become conscious, when you’re mindful of the power of your words and actions, you’ll become more selective.

Our light, the light we show the world, is a reflection of our inner consciousness  

Hmmm.  How are you perceived?  How do you perceive others?  What are your judgmental thoughts?  (Drop those).  How do you notice new places to serve? (Keep looking for those).

Your inner consciousness is who you are.  You effortlessly radiate your light, but the question is, is your inner light as bright as you think it is – or want it to be?

Awareness + Choice = Change

Awareness. First become aware of how you feel inside.  Serene, gentle, glowing, peaceful?  Those qualities will effortlessly radiate as your personal glow, your light, your being-ness.

Choice. You constantly have a choice about what you think and feel.  Notice what you choose and make those choices enhance and increase how you want to radiate in the world.

Change. Become aware of how brightly or dimly you’re radiating and choose what you’ll do to increase that radiance. The right choices will bring forth a shiny, effortless personal light.

How will you increase the radiance of your inner light today?

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

Repurpose Your Thought to Change the Outcome

How do You Put your Spiritual Insights to Work?

Your Gift to the Future

Building a Transformational Community to Heal Our World

Your Desire to Heal the World

The Guardianship We Hold

The Unfolding Vision Board

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When you choose to let your life simply unfold, can you make a “vision board”?  A vision board is a collection of pictures and words that hold your view of the future, your wish for the future, your intention for the future.

But if you let your life unfold, you really don’t vision, do you? You don’t spend time imagining “what if.”

If you don’t vision, if you don’t make conscious plans, how do you “vote” on your future? How do you make stuff happen?  You draw your future to you by your present thoughts and actions and beliefs of what is possible and what you deserve.  And all that creation of your future happens in the now, the present moment.

Monitor the present in order to direct the future

What you’re focusing on in this moment is exactly what you’re helping to gain momentum and power in the future.  If you focus on what’s not going well in your life, you’re simply attracting more of that.  To get more good stuff, we have to focus on and think about the good stuff.

Turn the negative around

I keep putting off uploading a short complete book on Amazon and iBooks.  It’s technical, I can do it, but it’s not half as much fun as making up new stuff.  I have to move the focus off how I feel and picture the positive effect my words may have on someone else’s life.  It’s selfish of me not to take those final steps. When I change my patterns and choices in the present moment, I change the outcome in the future.

I sometimes beat myself up for being such a loner.  But I can switch that vision of myself by focusing on the creative, focused, prolific productivity that being alone, working alone and having time to think alone produces.

Change how you view what you would put on your vision board

If I see my writing as being in illumined service, that shows up on my vision board as an intention to be a bright light, not a mound of dollar bills.  If I hold my regular conversations with like-minded healers as mutually supportive on my vision board, I promote growth and expansion not just a certain number of Skype calls a month.

Notice how you view the results you want on your vision board and see if they can become more expansive and inclusive.

You cannot force your vision

You cannot force a vision, but what you can do is make choices in the moment.  Make aligned choices that’ll carry you in the general direction you want to go.  The beauty is that each choice opens new doors, new side roads to explore, new opportunities you never expected.  So you don’t want a final result on your vision board, you want the flexibility and unexpectedness of simply traveling a path.

An unfolding life can still have a vision board

My vision board would show a woman traveler alone on a path carrying a lantern high.  Periodically she stops to draw a map and places it in an obvious place beside the trail so others can find it.

My vision board includes my helping spirits in the invisible world who guide me along my journey. They’re in the mist around me, ready to offer assistance.

My vision board holds side trails that tempt me to explore them.

And my path is always leading upward.

Sometimse on my vision board I turn to walk beside someone in service, to shine my light so they can better see and then take their own steps.

But there’s no end result on my vision board. No final destination. It contains only my journey – the one I’m on now and will continue to be on.  Change comes from my choices, in the moment, the choices that take me on a side path or up a hill or across a stream.

Make a vision board about your journey, not your destination.

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

Did You Over–plant?

What Life Decisions Changed Your Direction? 

What Do You Need to Leave Behind

How To Write a New Life Story  

Clean Your Inside Home 

Are You a Leader of Change?

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The world is shifting rapidly. New technology, new science, new possibilities, new expectations.  We either keep up or rapidly fall behind.

Change means constant flexibility, releasing, exploration and adaptation. And those of us who are flexible enough to see, realize and create an alternate option are being called upon to lead.

Change means flexibility

Change can be scary. It means moving out of your “comfort zone”.  It means learning new skills and embracing new beliefs.  Flexibility is the cornerstone of being a Leader for Change.

Change means releasing

In order to change, we have to let go of what we think we know and what we believe and be prepared to explore what we thought was inconceivable. As science continues to uncover new planets and deepen its understanding of how our body works and discover the relationship of man’s choices and the well-being of our planet, we have to change our minds.  We have to keep learning and shifting and keeping up.

Change is about adjusting and modifying what we think we know.  Embracing change means to be open and curious.

Change means exploration

What calls to you?  Where can you be in service?  People are training for the new technology.  They’re becoming active in the governing of their community and they actively participate in global organizations that are caring for the world. I work energetically with others all over the world to raise our collective consciousness.

Look at new opportunities.  Go where you’re called.

Change means adaptation

There are technologies that are leaving me behind.  I’m not a good texter but I can make a video. I’ve never done Instagram but I’m in Facebook communities. Find the new technology or idea that calls to you and make it your own.

Change your thinking

We have to stay flexible in both our thinking and our expectations.  What we used to believe possible is now very outdated and limiting. We cannot go back to the familiar, the comfortable, the safe. It’s obsolete, outmoded and stultifying.

There’s no way I can truly identify with the children who are 80 years younger that I am.  I did not grow up with the technology they have available now.  That very technology will color how they develop and how they see the world.  And that’ll be very different from my life experience.

But I can watch and observe.  And I can keep expanding my own service in the world and embrace some of the new technology so that I can share with others.

Be a change maker

My personal role is as an explorer and map maker of the unseen world, the spiritual experience, the esoteric concepts that run through the core of our lives.

People can serve in many ways. The knowledge that we each have to be more active in our governing process, at the local level and up, is beginning to sink in.  More women are running for office.  Young people see themselves as part of the solution.

I am active in transformational communities working to raise the collective consciousness and support light workers in all fields.

Find your place on the spectrum of change and get to work.

Whatever you do to allow change to flow though your life is perfect. Be conscious of the need to change.   Be open to new ways of being, new ways to express yourself, new ways of thinking.  And then hang on to your hat and enjoy the ride!

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

How to Effortlessly Radiate Ligh

Are You In Illumined Service?  

Choices That Create Your Future

The Guardianship We Hold 

Building a Transformational Community to Heal Our World