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Believe In The Power Of Your Own Ripple

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Believe In The Power Of Your Own Ripple
An Inner-World Exploration

As a rather old woman, I have made a lot of waves.  Now I’m making ripples, but they still count.  They’re still effective.  I just have to believe in the power of my own ripple.

As do you.

What ripple are you sending out?

Everything you do sends out a ripple. So it’s a good idea to be both aware and selective of our thoughts and actions.  I write a lot of stuff.  Not all of it goes out.  I give myself time to get some distance on each draft of my articles.  That’s when some ideas, even if fully developed, never get shared.  I look at them as part of the overall energy I’ve created and some of them are not a good addition to the ripple I want to send out.

When I idea calls to you – answer

When I got the idea for the 7-7 Vibrational Healing Drumming Day I wanted to share that and I hoped it would be passed along. So I posted it in the four online classes I was in and reached out and added friends from those groups to my Facebook page.  I wanted that idea to make a splash, not just a ripple.  But however it turns out, a steady and far-reaching ripple will be good too. 

Everything you do sends out a wave

A moment of grouchiness – sends out a ripple.  A moment of carelessness – sends out a ripple  A moment of kindness – sends out a ripple. Laugher sends out a series of ripples.   

What kind of ripples are you sending out and how can you raise the number of positive ripples you’re launching?

Be aware of the splash you make

When you begin to think of everything you do as sending out a ripple, having an effect on others, it can be a sobering thought.  Is this the kind of energy I want to send out into the world?  Be aware of your own vibration.

How can you change your response so that it will impact the ripple coming at you?  Do you absorb the ripple?  Do you reject the ripple?  Can you change the energy of the ripple?

All change happens within you.  It begins with being aware that everything you do creates a ripple that affects someone somewhere in the world.  

Create your ripples with concessions awareness

I put a blessing on every post I send out.  It’s a conscious blessing that’ll reach those it’s meant to reach, touch their hearts and change them.  That’s a lot for one ripple to accomplish.  

Perhaps, before beginning a task, identify the kind of ripple you want it to send out.  Then see how you can make it kinder, more supportive, more impactful. 

Monitor your thoughts so the negative responses and reactions never get sent out as a ripple.  Dissolve them. Melt them.  Wash the negative away so that the ripple you offer is supportive and full of love. 

You’ve seen the destruction that high waves can make.  They reshape and flatten and corrode.  We’re just talking ripples here, gentle pebbles dropped in a still pool that sends out a gentle wave that eventually reaches the outermost edges.  The outmost edges. Your ripple can go on for a long, long time. 

Your ripple affects the ripple of others

Just about the time I being to feel ineffective, I remember that my ripple will change someone who will then, in turn, change someone else.  One ripple goes on, and on and on.  

That makes me want to be even more careful of what ripples I send out.  I am affecting the lives of people I don’t even know and they will be changed by my ripple.  I want to make certain the ripples I send out are supportive and loving and positive and meaningful. 

We have to trust our ripple.  We have to trust that what we are passionate about is our calling, our gift, our place of illumined service. 

Trust your ripple.  Understand what it is, how you affect others and do the best job of rippling you know how to do. 

Deeper Song Affirmation

I am aware of the far-reaching effect of my choices and actions.
I create positive ripples. 

Deeper Song Process

  • Give thought to the impact you have on the world.  How far-reaching is it? How effective?
  • Are you sending out the ripples you want that are gently effective or are you creating your own tsunami?  Give some thought to how you would like to adjust that. 
  • Choose an action you can take that’ll allow you to see its ripple effect.  Send it out and notice what happens.
  • Create a ripple that you simply must make and that you know you will not see where it goes and who it will affect. Check the energy behind your ripple, see that it is positive and well-intentioned. Then send it out. You may or may not know who and how it affects others.  
  • Monitor your ripples. Send them with thoughtful awareness.

To Sing a Deeper Song, Consider:

How Do You Make Your Actions Lasting and Meaningful? 

Do You See and Hear and Walk in a Sacred Manner? 

Raise Your Vibration with Serenity

Energy Cannot Be Removed-Only Re-purposed

When I See Myself As Light

The 7 -7 Vibrational Healing Drumming Day  

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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Energy Cannot Be Destroyed – Only Re-Purposed

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Energy Cannot Be Destroyed – Only Re-Purposed
An Inner-World Exploration

Energy cannot be destroyed, but it can be dismembered, then rearranged, refigured, and reassembled.

That is very powerful knowledge.  It means that negative energy can be turned into positive energy. You don’t have to stay stuck, you can simply dismember the negative energy and reassemble into positive energy. 

That’s a powerful concept to embrace. 

Do not focus on the negative energy

Transformational thinkers all over the world see their contribution to the well-being of the world as personally raising their own vibration so that it affects the collective consciousness. Changing the vibration of our own energy is the cornerstone of all change. 

While I work daily to raise my own vibration, I looked for ways to assist in the dissemination of the negative energy that’s so dense, so destructive.  

We do dismemberment – reassemble work through intention

There are several ways to create change. Somethings have to be leveled in order to build anew. We have to destroy, remove, clear, clean them out.  Then something new can be planted and nurtured in the clear energy that remains.  

For our own growth, we need fertile ground that we’ve prepared through our spiritual practice and sometimes we have to clear a space of unwanted thoughts and energy before we can plant and grow something new.  

The intentional inner work we are to do is to disassemble the unwanted energy and then use our intention to build up a new form,  bringing the energy together in a new harmonious design. 

It’s a process and we each have to find our own ways to dismember and reassemble, but I’ve figured out a few ways to begin. 

Identify the energy you want to change

You may want to change a negative attitude within yourself, a negative situation you experience in your life, or yes, a negative experience in your world that feels beyond your control. 

Choose the focus for your dismemberment. 

What is the current purpose of the energy you desire to change?

Even negative energy has a purpose.  It may be there to force you to examine your personal values, make a different choice, deepen your conviction, or rearrange your beliefs.  Once you have used thoughtful self-awareness to identify what you want to change and why, mindfully begin to change your responses and your actions.  

There’s a purpose for whatever situation we find ourselves in.  It may be blatantly obvious or patently subtle. We need to be willing to change.  We need to be willing to release what’s no longer useful. 

What are the messages you are receiving in your life and how will you dismember the negative energy you see around you, then rearrange, refigured, and reassembled it in a positive form?

 All healing/change begins within you.

Negative energy is sneaky

Negative energy is insidious.  It creeps up on you and gradually takes up more and more space until suddenly you’re pretty much immersed in the negativity.  A very important first step is to notice your own energy and the energy that you’ve allowed to surround you in your life. 

This negative energy might be as simple as a judgmental thought you have about someone you meet during your day.  It might be a feeling of anger at something on the news. The next thing you know you’re sitting there upset and angry and rather full of negative energy.  It creeps in and builds up. 

Be aware of the negative energy you come across in your day.  Be aware of any negative energy that you create in the course of a day.  And begin to make changes by 1) being conscious of negative energy and 2) creating a spiritual practice that helps you not just notice the negativity but clear it from your life. 

Why that negative energy is there?  

What’s the lesson of negative energy? It highlights where your attention is focused and what you expect to be present in our life.

That’s easy to change.  Shift your gaze. 

Dismember the negative energy in your life 

Once you have identified the negative energy you wish to eliminate, thank it for its service, for its lesson.  You will see it immediately begins to lessen in strength.  Then invite that energy to transform into a happier, lighter form.  Keep looking for scraps of negativity in the corners of your life and allow all the negative energy to dissolve and disappear. 

Dissolve your personal attachment to the negative energy

Why has this negative energy been important to you? Why did you need it in your life?  What did it make you do – or not do? How did it make you feel? Perhaps identifying with the negative energy made you feel right, or part of a group consensus.  What are you personally getting out of being attached to or focusing on this negative energy? 

Once you identify it, let it go. Then simply walk away.

Create a level playing field

The practice of dismembering in shamanism is to take the energy you are changing completely apart so it no longer exists in the form it was in. Reduce it to “unformed” energy.   

Create a level playing field.  Simply visualize the dense energy changing.  You can feel a wind come through to disperse it. You can see a rainfall come to put wash it away, or a flame to burn it up. You can feel the earth move to cover it up.  I like to see negative energy simply becoming lighter, joyfully happy to be lighter. It becomes white light and simply dances off.  Dancing formerly-negative energy – ha!  Use your imagination to see the negative energy disappear or grow lighter, or…you are dismembering it so that it no longer exists in the negative form.

Begin to reassemble

Reassembling is like having a fresh ball of clay before you that you can make into anything you desire.

What do you want to build with it? How do you want to reassemble it?  

Remember, we cannot destroy energy but we can change its form.  

Give careful thought to how you want to reassemble the energy before you.  It’s not about creating the opposite of what was just there.  It’s about moving forward in your thinking to shape that energy into something better than before. Perhaps something not thought of until now. 

We cannot see into the future so your request to your helping spirits may be to reassemble that changed energy into the form that’s most useful for you and your evolution.  Then simply see what shows up. 

Keep flexible.  As the energy shifts, you may want to repeat this visualization to clarify your intention in order to continue to lighten and reshape the vibration in a positive form.

Create a ceremony of continued reshaping

Each day, in your spiritual practice, release your connection with any negative energy you see around you. You may simply see the energy gradually grow lighter, or begin to dissipate or drain into the forgiving earth.  You may release it in a breath. You may be at the point where you easily see the level field and begin to reassemble, to construct what you need next in a positive form.  

Although this will probably be a gradual process, it will be hastened by your focused attention and your intention.  Work with this process of disassembling and reassembling energy.  

Be aware of what changes

Sometimes change happens simply because we shift our focus.  We start focusing on the good that’s happening.  Make the act of looking for the positive a part of your daily spiritual practice.  Cultivate gratitude and awareness.  And encourage a willingness to let go and change. 

Change the negative energy as it shows up

Create your own physical act that reminds you to send positive energy toward – whatever you wish.  Maybe you blow a breath over the top of your index finger at the negative that you hear or see.  Perhaps you hold your palm up to halt it or mentally send a stream of energy from your third eye. Just make up some gesture that reminds you to intuitively send positive energy to a person or situation emanating negative energy.  

The power is in the awareness. The power is in noticing the negative energy and sending it positive energy through thought and intention.  And it’s about becoming aware of the negative energy and taking steps to shift it in the moment. 

Create your own technique to alter the negative energy that comes to your attention. 

Keep your own energy positive

Each day in my spiritual practice, I simply sit and vibrate light.  I see my light energy moving out into the world to make others aware of the power of their own light. I send my vibration out to heal and comfort and support the planet and all who live here.  You, too, can simply sit and radiate your glorious inner light out into the world. Become more aware of your own goodness, your own power to simply gaze upon and thus change the negativity you come across.

Deeper Song Affirmation

I nurture and support the positive energy in my life.

Deeper Song Process

  • Identify a form of negative energy you want to transform.
  • Identify the thoughts, beliefs, reactions that are behind it. See if you can understand its reason for its existence.
  • Through your intention and any ceremony you wish to create, begin to disassemble your attachment to the negative, your belief in the negativity, and your fear of the negativity.  Cultivate a willingness to have that negative energy disassemble into neutral energy. 
  • Watch the negative energy begin to shift.  Does it change color? Does it grow smaller?  Does it melt into the ground?  Notice how the energy changes. 
  • Sit quietly in contemplation at the level playing field you’ve created. The blank slate. The energy is still there, it’s now neutral energy waiting for its new shape.  What will you invite it to become?
  • Use your imagination and intention to begin to reassemble the energy into a positive form.  It doesn’t have to be specific, it can be greater awareness, deeper conscious behavior, a willingness to act for the highest good for all.  
  • Notice how the world changes with the reassembling of the energy into a positive form. 
  • Repeat as desired.

To Sing a Deeper Song, Consider:

Another Part of You-The Unseen World

How to Interpret the Messages from Within 

When I See Myself As Light

Do You See and Hear and Walk in a Sacred Manner?

 The Power of your Imagination

What Core Beliefs are Guiding You Today

How Do You Make Your Actions Lasting and Meaningful?

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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How to Walk a Path of Inner Stillness

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How to Walk a Path of Inner Stillness
An Inner-world Exploration

All our work is done on the inner plane.  It happens whenever we think and imagine and choose and formulate plans and ideas.  But to do all that we have to develop the skill of stillness. We need to question our mind and emotions in order to examine, feel, absorb and finally choose.  

Awareness and insight require stillness. Inner stillness follows outer stillness.

Quiet your Body

Pause throughout your day, and notice.  Notice how you feel.  Notice what you have drawn into your experience.  Is this the life experience what you want?  What needs to change?

Quiet your Mind

Take a slow deliberate breath in, hold it a few seconds, then allow that breath to emerge through your nostrils or slightly separated lips.  Pause with empty lungs and notice the serenity that begins to form. Repeat.  With each slow, conscious, deliberate, mindful breath, notice how calm and serene you become. 

Repeat this often throughout your day. 

Cultivate a quiet mind

Stillness means quietening our mind.  First, you have to notice how rampant the mind is, then you have to choose to quiet it. Turn to the window and look at nature. Absorb the gentle unfolding, the deep patience, the simple waiting for the perfect time.   That aware and mindful, focused pause will eliminate your mental chatter.

Let nature be your guide

We are nature and a major lesson of nature is that everything unfolds in cycles. We are always at a beginning, middle or end.  Pausing to look out the window puts you in tune with how the day is unfolding with the grace and serenity that is nature. 

Place yourself in tune with the harmony that nature shares with us. 

Stillness is simply being.  Not doing is being  

Simply “being” takes some practice. We are very busy in our body suit lives. As I pause to look out the window at nature, the changes I see are subtle.  The unfolding is minuscule.  But there’s a pulsation that stills and settles my humanness. The experience of serenity can be found in nature.  

Stillness is about being present

When we are still, we don’t daydream or visualize or even meditate.  We simply sit still and feel and embrace and absorb and become present in that stillness. Let yourself be drawn into the minuscule, the detail. Feel yourself as a part of something larger. 

Simply be with the object you’re contemplating.  As you sit in mindful stillness, let the energy of the object touch you, speak to you, offer you insights.  You will hear and understand. Feel yourself become a part of what you’re embracing as you cultivate the art of stillness.   

Stillness allows you to experience your soul

Only in stillness, only with focused mindfulness, can you become aware of your soul, the core of you, the essence of you, the reason for you, the message of you, the purpose of you. Those answers are in the stillness, the knowing, the acceptance of the call from deep inside you.  

Cultivate Stillness

To know Soul You, to hear your inner voice, to figure out what you want/need to do next, you must cultivate inner stillness.  

In that stillness will arise the guidance you seek for the focus of your attention and actions. 

As you learn to maintain that inner stillness throughout your day you will become aware of a powerful innate inner knowing that guides you in selecting from the choices and opportunities that appear. 

Do you heed the voice within?

My inner voice speaks in both subtle nudges and loud shouts.  I have learned to listen and heed them both. 

Sometimes my inner voice is simply a knowing.  Like an instant decision that you know is exactly right.  Are you aware of those unexpected ideas that pop in, and do you examine them? They’re there to guide you. To open new doors. 

Do you notice the unexpected opportunities?

We have to be prepared for surprises, the unexpected ideas or opportunities that nudge us in a new direction.  New opportunities can be subtle or they can stand in front of you and shout.

Not everything that shows up is for you to act upon.  The better you know yourself, the more accurate will be your choices.  Simply notice.  In your stillness, notice the opportunities that present themselves for our examination.  Let your inner voice guide your choices. 

Do you know your purpose?

This path of inner stillness allows you time to explore and examine and cultivate your illumined purpose. Notice the doors that open.  Check out what they offer.  See if it is aligned with what you need and want to do next. Then choose – or not. 

Cultivate mindfulness

When you’re still and give yourself time to become aware and allow your inner self to offer nudges and messages and guiding insights to your life, you’ll organically move more readily into an understanding of your inner world.  What it is saying.  What you want to unfold next in your life. You will experience your oneness with the greater whole and respond with the knowledge of that support that is within you as you express your soul’s purpose.  

Listen. Look. Interpret.

Deeper Song Affirmation
I cultivate stillness.

Deeper Song Process

  • Notice how busy you are.  How you are pulled to do several things at once.
  • Stop where you are and take a slow, deep breath, hold it a moment and slowly release it.  Then pause to notice the emptiness that is left.
  • Repeat.
  • Sprinkle this simple breathing practice throughout your day, noticing how often you do it and what the circumstances are that remind you to do it.
  • Shift something. Make new choices.  Release what you truly don’t need or want in your life.
  • Breathe again and see how you feel. Then turn and look out  the window and immerse yourself in nature.
  • Repeat until you find stillness.

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

Are You Sacred Space?

The Power of a Releasing Ceremony

Tune Into the Calendar of Nature

Life Messages from a Potter

Can You Let Your Life Unfold?

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Dying and the Invisible World

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Dying and the Invisible World
An Inner World Exploration

I’m old, but I’m a long way from dying.  The most comforting, inviting concept I’ve found surrounding this process of death is the journeying I do in my imagination when I practice shamanism.

95% of our experience is in the unseen realms

I’ve been in touch with my inner world for years through meditation, intuition, hunches, simply knowing, but shamanism has taught me specific ways to explore the unseen world.  I find it very comforting now and I know I will find it extremely comforting when I die.  

For you see, I have many friends in the unseen world, the invisible realms, the parallel universes.  Helping spirits that I work with in my life today, that teach me and guide me and guard me. Today.  Every day.  In my spiritual practice. When I begin an inner shamanic journey I go to my Sacred Garden, and there they are, waiting to guide me and answer whatever question I have chosen.  

Those helping spirits and more will be in my Sacred Garden when I die, ready to show me my “next.”

Aging makes it real

When I first moved into the senior center I call home, I thought I had a really good philosophy of death.  Until I watched a steady stream of this population constantly going off to die.  It was then I realized that my philosophy of death needed to be more individualized, more personal, because I was closer to the actual process of dying. 

So I began to search.  It was when I began to perform Shamanic Journeys that I found my most reassuring path.  

It would be great if there were no pain when I die, but my helping spirits can help with that.  

There is no fear for me in dying because I have long been intrigued by the concept that Rumi calls “the nowhere that you came from.”  

As I explore the unseen world, I see how vast it is but also how easily I travel within it.  It’s a whole new adventure. 

And it will continue to be.  

Explore your inner life

Notice your dreams and take time to interpret them.  They are metaphors.  Look beyond their recognizable representation to uncover the meaning they convey.  

I now have many helping sprits.  They show up to offer different types of service, to take me on journeys for different purposes.  But they are always there, ready to assist, to be of service, to guide my steps. 

Go beyond your body suit

Whether you dream or journey or meditate, do your inner work with the intention of understanding “next”.  I’m drawn to concepts like the Great Nothingness, the All That Is.  The metaphor of the Web of Life is too individualistic for me; it still seems like we are individual threads in the web of life.  I’m more drawn to the idea of being part of the cosmic soup, there’s no separate flavor, it’s only the blended result of the combined seasonings.  I like the idea that my individual seasoning will join in the cosmic soup and blend with the total, the all that is.

Rumi says, ‘You are not a drop in the ocean, you are the ocean in one drop.”  We contain that cosmic soup even as we are the drop of our individual body suits.

Can you speak of dying to others?

I can speak about and explore my own ideas of death for myself, but approaching that conversation with someone who’s facing their own death is not something I’ve done yet. I have a friend who is on oxygen, whose doctors say they have now given her all the “big guns” they have in the form of treatment.  There’s no timetable for death, but the signs seem to suggest that she’s closer than she was.  And yet, I do not have the conversation with her about how she views death. It is probably not my place. I can only seem to do that for myself.  Perhaps it’s because she is not a close-up and personal friend with whom I regularly have philosophical conversations.  

There are people I could have the conversation about dying with but not many.  Not everyone is willing to even think about it.  They may be afraid because no one knows what it’s like, or they may not be doing the exploratory inner work that some people do.  

We each walk our own path of life – and of death.  I’m exploring my “next” by exploring my inner world, the unseen part of my existence, to make the experience of dying a positive passage. 

And I really like the support I’m finding there.

Deeper Song Affirmation

I do the inner work necessary to develop
a comforting concept of dying. 

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

Another Part of Me – The Unseen World

Unleash the Power of your Sacred Garden

 How to Be Nothing

How Effective Is Your Spiritual Practice? 

Come Out of the Protective Darkness of the Unconscious 

What is the Difference betweenSpirituality and Religion?

I Row My Boat Alone

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How Do You Make Your Actions Lasting and Meaningful?

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How Do You Make Your Actions Lasting and Meaningful?
An Inner-world Exploration

We would all like to feel we have value, that we contribute. How do we make our actions lasting and meaningful? I pose a question to which I have no immediate answer.  I just really like the question.  

When a phrase like this asks me to explore it, to understand what it means to me and how to apply it, I usually begin with the dictionary to expand my awareness and interpretation of the meaning of the words. “Lasting” means enduring, permanent. “Meaningful” means significant, consequential.  I want my actions to be all of that.

To make my actions lasting and meaningful, I begin by working to identify my purpose, deepening my own understanding of my unique gifts and what’s calling me from my core. Then I figure out how to express that in my life. 

What is calling you?  Find the form

You know what’s calling you.  Put it into descriptive words, a label perhaps. I am a ….

I see myself as a spiritual philosopher, an explorer, a map-maker and messenger. Only lately have I realized that I am still a teacher. 

How do you express what’s calling you? How do you see your role?

When you have passion behind what you do, it deepens your impact on everyone you meet.  Your enthusiasm and excitement is as effective as the work you do, the service you perform.  You affect all who come across your path. 

My initial actions can be very subtle. I can be sitting here doing whatever, and suddenly a thought comes barreling into my awareness and I’m deeply called to explore the meaning behind that idea. 

I want to understand the concept and if it resonates deeply, I try to figure out ways to add it to my life. And I need and want to share what I discover.

The initial call is incredibly powerful to me.  The need/desire/calling to figure out is imperative.  And writing it in a form to share with others not only helps me complete my inquiring process, but offers my insights to others as well.  

The form of your offering begins with what’s calling you.

Action – Take your calling to the world

Our actions create our life experience. What we think, say, do, and believe are reflected back to us in our lives.  We are to learn to choose actions that are in alignment with our highest good.

Our actions impact what we receive. What we put out, we get back.  Anger brings back more anger.  Love brings back more love. We get to choose what we receive by being conscious of the energy we put out. 

Our actions also impact what others receive and absorb from us. Just as we are affected by the vibrations we put out, so are those around us affected by the level of vibration we emanate.  Do you have an idea of how your presence is perceived by others?  This is not about pleasing others, it’s about being aware of how you walk in the world. How your mere presence affects others. 

The choices and actions we take are vital.  How we conduct ourselves – the words we use, how we interact with others. Just the simple act of being present is a meaningful action that has deep impact. 

The focus of our actions affects our impact.  What we choose to do with our lives, in our lives, leads us on a path of our own making.  It’s not about what we achieve, it’s about how we go about our lives – our attitude, our consideration, our compassion.  

The form our work takes is revealing.  We may be a leader, a team player, an individual stand-out or a steady support person.  That’s the form our action takes.  How we take that action is key not just to our physical-plane success but to our inner, spiritual development as well. 

Action is in our deeds, our behavior, or conduct and our endeavors. It is also in our thoughts, beliefs, and expectations.

What is a “meaningful” action?

What is meaningful to you includes experiences that feel significant, impactful, important, relevant, important, and worthwhile.  

Spend some time considering what is meaningful to you. Begin there. That will dictate your calling, your actions, your focus, and your development.  

We are talking about how to make your actions meaningful and lasting. But to whom? The world, others, your family?  Who do you want to impact?  Who do you want to see your existence as meaningful?  Who do you want to reach?

You will know about some of your impact.  Much of it, you will not.  A simple smile may be enough to have a meaningful and lasting impact on a person who needs it at that very moment.

A less tangible impact may be something someone said to you a long time ago that you have based a lot of your life upon.  That could be a parent, a teacher, or a friend who encouraged you and that led you to steps to build on that encouragement. Words of encouragement are very impactful. 

We may not have to look very far afield to understand the many ways our actions, both large and small, can be meaningful and lasting. 

We want our work to be lasting

Lasting means “abide or able to endure over a long period of time.” It has a deep vibration, a profound effect. 

To be lasting means that the action you took created change.  It created change in someone’s outlook. It created change in someone’s understanding.  It created change in what someone thought was possible or what they thought they deserved.  It changed them.  It changed what they thought, or perceived or considered or chose.

A very simple action or thought can make a lasting change.  

“Lasting” means a change at the core

This phrase “make your actions lasting and meaningful”  came from something I read.  I don’t even remember what.  But look where it’s taking us.  I feel this exploration shift me as I compose this piece. It has made me stop and think and consider and wonder and question and … That’s a lot of impact for a few words. 

And whoever wrote them will never know the adventure those few words are taking us upon.

You won’t necessarily know who and how you affect others.  

“Lasting” means inner work

Just as we don’t know who our actions and words will impact, we don’t know how.  

But lasting change begins within. 

My work is to identify ideas and concepts that lead me into greater clarity and incorporate them as an actual practice in my life. 

That purpose will impact what I choose to write in my posts and newsletter to share with others. 

That purpose will impact how I interact with the people close to me and the people not so close to me.  

That choice is certainly going to impact my spiritual practice.  When I start holding up each action I take to the measuring stick of “meaningful and impactful”, I will leave a pile of ideas on the floor and choose the ones that are – yes – meaningful and impactful to both me and those I serve.

Choice and your measuring stick

I rely very heavily on my inner voice. It hollered at me to write down that phrase.  It immediately demanded that I write the first draft to begin to figure out what it meant to me.  It was clearly important to my inner self that I both understand this concept and figure out how to absorb it into my life.  And as I live with this idea of wanting my actions to be meaningful and lasting, I have set up a new measuring stick to help me select the next steps I take. 

Sometimes we don’t know what will be meaningful and impactful

A long time ago, I remember walking across Central Park in New York City with a friend who said, “We are rocks.  People depend on us.”  I was a bit startled at the idea, but I recognized myself in her statement. I asked, “Where do rocks get help?” “From other rocks,” was her reply. 

That was 45 years ago.  And that idea, that image has profoundly affected my life and how I live it.  

We simply do not know and may never know, how we help to change the lives of others. 

So besides raising our own vibrations, expanding our spiritual exploration and consciously trying to serve others, we have to simply be true to ourselves. The more we deepen our own spiritual awareness, the stronger our light becomes and the more attractive and vital and meaningful our light presence becomes to others.  

We may never know

I can have an intention to have my choices be meaningful and lasting but I’m not always going to know if they are. But I absorb this idea and look for ways to raise my own vibration, to be of greater service in the world, and I hope, I intend, that what I offer, what I provide, will be both meaningful and impactful when it moves out into the world. 

Deeper Song Affirmation

I choose to make my actions lasting and meaningful.

Deeper Song Process

  • List what you think makes your life and work meaningful.  To you. To others. 
  • Of those things you have listed, what do you think may have the most lasting impact?  To whom?  Why?
  • Do you see any changes you would like to make?
  • Do that.

Deeper Song Affirmation
My life is meaningful and impactful. 

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

Does Your Work Stir Your Heart?

What Are Your Weaving in Your Reality?

Life Messages from a Potter

When I See Myself As Light 

How to Interpret the Messages From Within

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