Paramanhansa Yogananda's wisdom for these times.

" When you can stand unbroken amidst the crash of breaking worlds, you have found God."
Paramahansa Yogananda

In a Time of Mercury Retrograde.....review to release to receive.

I think of Mercury Retrograde as a time of fresh linens and clean drawers. That's how it feels once a Mercury Retrograde cycle is complete -- in this case, by June 19th. When you're starting a Mercury Retrograde phase (May 26th), and don't have much experience with this phase, it can feel like the world has stopped or slowed down and nothing is working.

In fact......it is a perfect time for a necessary and important aspect of our journey -- reflection, review, revision, re-evaluation, release...a time to consciously and intentionally channel this energy in service to your highest good. Sometimes it looks and feels like a time of cycling back through our past - sometimes we dread it. If we channel this energy appropriately, it can be a time of great truth and productivity. Yes, we get to re-look at things again - but nothing is every the same and so many changes have occurred in us, so much growth. We can see in the re-looking - how we have changed and grown and if, if, if, there are still things, thoughts, people, clothing, projects to let go of, or change up, or enhance, or embrace, or, or, or. This is not the time to start new things or sign contracts or initiate travel plans -- but to review and revise our plans, to re-energize our existing goals, to re-align ourselves to what is true and beneficial in our lives, to re-acquaint ourselves with ourselves, to reconsider, reconnect, and release what is no longer right for us. It is a time of completion -- completing of old projects instead of starting new ones, clearing out physical and emotional closets, making room, space, for the new to show up. Completion is powerful because it allows for the freeing up of old energy -- and a Mercury Retrograde period (which happens generally 3 times a year) is an exquisite time to do just that.

Ask yourself these questions: What could benefit you right now by letting it go? Maybe it is just your harsh judgment of yourself and your life. Or maybe it is an old piece of clothing that would be better served at Salvation Army than in your closet. What is the universe inviting you to reconsider? What could benefit from review? Where could completion free up energy? What would open up for you if you finished that unfinished business? Or made that long awaited phone call or wrote that letter?

I find myself this morning overcome by emotion -- old emotion that is up for release. I found a journal entry about my father's death, May 19th, 1980. I have not cried about this in so long -- yet here I am, another damn breaking. I guess I needed it. Tears are like heaven, you know. Tears wash away what blocks us from receiving joy. I always welcome tears, and encourage people to cry. As a child I used to think that angels flew out of our eyes when we cried. I believed our tears actually gave them wings - permission to appear.

I realize, of course, that these times are not just for the review and release of 'things' but of emotions, habits, patterns of thought, word, action that are no longer part of our higher path. As I wrote in an earlier blog a few months ago, "as each of us goes to the next level of our success in the world, we are invited to activate even greater trust and letting go, greater gratitude, greater fearlessness, and actions that demonstrate our willingness and commitment to our true path. Almost always the next level demands the clearing out of the old, old patterns, old relationships, old outmoded habits, old ways of being and often the experience of living in the void between creations. The old is barely gone and the new has yet to show up. We are living a little betwixt and between forced to dig more deeply into reserves of trust and faith."

As Paramahansa Yogananda wrote " When you can stand unbroken amidst the crash of breaking worlds, you have found God."

".....the master calls a butterfly."

"What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a
butterfly."

- Chuang Tse

On Forgiveness...

"He who cannot forgive others destroys the bridge over which he himself must pass."

- George Herbert


(Thanks to Heartmath for this quote)

Embracing our Light and our Darkness Delivers us to Freedom.

There is no getting around it. Life is Light and Darkness. It is our acceptance of both that makes for a rich life. Without sorrow, we would never really know joy. Without struggle, we would not really appreciate success. We require adversity to be our best.

As the world shifts into higher levels of consciousness, the old places of darkness in us are being called up to the Light. If we don't know this - even if we do know this - it is easy to succumb. To get caught up in anger and fear -- to fall into the pit of blame and defeat.

The way out is to see it for what it is -- fear. And to begin to change our perspective about it. Rather than seeing it as terrible, seeing it as the treasure house of our 'gold'. Rather than feeling like failures, we could be asking ourselves 'what's good about this?' It is in this and through this that we cultivate the best in ourselves. If we are willing and can find the strength to face our 'darkness', we will become greater people, more compassionate people, deeper people, people with more to offer the world. If we run from our darkness, or medicate it , or pretend 'everything is fine', we will feed the lie - the lie that tells us we are no good, unworthy, failures. When our sh@*&&^%%#! shows up, it is a request for growth and healing. Always. It is a request for us to allow more LIGHT to shine through.

It is the ego that wants us to remain stuck. As the Course in Miracles says, the ego 'seeks but never finds'. The ego wants you to give up. Your Higher Self, your God Self, your Divine Self knows the truth of who you are and urges you to keep going. Sometimes it means 'letting go', dropping your pictures of how you see things, and letting what is, be. Sometimes it means taking action, when you haven't taken action.

If you find yourself in "The Valley of Fucking Awful", call upon support from the outside world. Get yourself into some breathwork or energy healing --- and not just yoga. Call a rebirther or breathpractitioner who can support you to feel your feelings of sadness, anger, fear then transform the thought that generated those feelings. You always want to feel your feelings but change your thoughts...breathe out the fear and sadness and breathe in love and joy and self-love. You always want to hold the highest thoughts -- the highest thoughts generate the highest vibratory feelings in the body, mind and heart. The highest thoughts attract the highest experiences.

As The Course in Miracles says, "The truth about you is so lofty that nothing unworthy of God is worthy of you." Our feelings of darkness, of unworthiness ....are our souls tool for calling us to more Light, to the truth of our beings, to our purpose on this earth. Listen closely: You are here to manifest the Glory of God that is within you. Trust that wherever you are right now is the perfect Divine place. You are being called to so much more! Reach out for support from a therapist, mentor, rebirther/breathwork practitioner, energy healer of any kind. You deserve to live in the truth, to radiate Divine Life Force Energy, to be who you are, and have what you love.

"I've Been To The Valley...."

Several years ago, after one long 24 hour period in my own personal amusement park of fear and self-judgment, I prayed to God and the Universe for release and a way of overcoming it. I was preparing to lead my regular Prosperity Circle that evening and I wondered seriously 'how I was going to get it together' to do it. I knew I would....and as I left my apartment, I heard a sprightly, playful, impish, leprechaun-like voice whisper " You've been in The Valley of Fucking Awful!" I cracked up. It was so precisely true....and so hysterically funny that it shattered the darkness, dissolved the gummy veils of old energy in which I had been consumed.

It has become one of my favorite phrases because it so perfectly describes how it FEELS to be in this awful depressed place inside our souls. I believe we all have our own version of it. And to call it by name IS liberating.

I wrote about it in my book, 'What You Speak Is Seeking You':

"I've been to The Valley of Fucking Awful. In fact, just last week, I went there for about 24 hours. I don't know what thought bought me a ticket back there. I can tell you it was fucking awful. You know the place. I'm sure you've been there. It's filled with old ways, old fears, pictures of the way things 'could have been' or 'should have been', old voices of defeat, lack, self-recrimination, missed opportunity, and ill-fitting self-concepts. It is not a place you want to spend much time.

It's liberating to call it by name. It makes you laugh, breaks the trance, and opens a portal for the Light to pour in.

Once you shine the Light of self-acceptance and self-love, The Valley of Fucking Awful trembles and shudders, withering into nothingness.

If you tumble back into The Valley now and again, dust yourself off and remember: loving yourself just as you are and your life just as it is, is the ticket out." Christiane Schull

excerpt from 'What You Speak Is Seeking You', book on prosperity consciousness, words by Christiane Schull with pictures by Nicole Katano.

To view more excerpts of the book, please visit : www.christianeschull.com. To order 'What You Speak Is Seeking you', or for more information, please email: christiane@christianeschull.com.

"Stay Focused On The Light!"

The following article is by Patricia Diane Cota-Robles. It is titled 'Stay Focused on The Light'.
Her website is http://eraofpeace.org

During this auspicious time, the Beings of Light are consistently imploring us to stay focused on the Light. Even in the face of seeming adversity, it is vital that we use our thoughts, words, feelings and actions to empower what we want to manifest in our lives and in the world. If we focus the power of our attention on our fears and the negativity that is being pushed to the surface to be healed and transmuted into Light, we will empower and sustain the very things we are trying to eliminate on this planet.

Know that with every thought, word, feeling and action you are either adding to the Light of the world or the shadows. Be cognizant of this Truth, and monitor the focus of your attention moment by moment.

In order to inspire you to keep on keeping on, I would like to share with you once again how critical mass affects our ability to change our lives.

REACHING CRITICAL MASS

There is a phenomenon that often causes Humanity to feel frustrated and powerless when it comes to changing our lives. That phenomenon is known as reaching critical mass or, in pop-culture lingo, the tipping point.

When we awaken, we begin to understand the power of our thoughts and feelings. We realize the importance of monitoring the focus of our attention and of controlling our behavior patterns. As a result of our new insight, we put forth the effort to think positively. We strive to hold our thoughts and feelings on what we want to manifest in our lives, instead of on our fears and the things we do not want in our lives. We envision Heaven on Earth, and we breathe life into our thoughtforms with positive affirmations, meditations, decrees, buoyant joy and heartfelt enthusiasm.

But often, after what seems like a valiant effort, we continue to experience many of the same old problems. This unfortunate situation causes us to become discouraged and to lose faith in our ability to change our lives. At that point, we feel like our efforts are futile. That is when we decide to give up, and we stop trying to make our lives better.

When we let go of our visions and our hope, we regress into our old negative thinking patterns. We start dwelling on our fears, problems and challenges instead of our goals, hopes and dreams. As a result of this tragic relapse, things get worse in our lives and our situations appear even more hopeless.

Once we understand the phenomenon of reaching critical mass, it will give us the courage to persevere until our goals are accomplished. We will have the courage to stay focused on the Light, even in the face of apparent failure, which is ALWAYS an illusion.

Everything is comprised of energy, vibration and consciousness. When we explore a minuscule fraction of the vast science of quantum physics, we learn that when something reaches critical mass, there is an UNSTOPPABLE SHIFT that takes place. For instance, when an electron is increasing in vibration, the moment it reaches a critical mass of the higher vibration, the entire electron ascends into the new frequency. The instant the electron reaches critical mass, nothing can prevent this unstoppable shift.

Critical mass is very complex and unique to every situation, but the Company of Heaven has said that for simplicity, we can think of reaching critical mass as 51 percent of the energy, vibration and consciousness of whatever it is we are talking about. For instance, when 51 percent of an electron is vibrating at the higher frequency, the remaining 49 percent is instantly absorbed into the new vibration.

Okay, so how does this facet of quantum physics affect our ability to take charge of our own lives?

As we strive to improve our lives, the same laws of quantum physics apply. These are Universal Laws to which we are ALL subject. When empowering a vision or thoughtform, the moment a critical mass of energy, vibration and consciousness is reached, in alignment with our vision, nothing can stop it from manifesting. The problem is that we never know just when we are going to reach that magical moment of critical mass.

There are often no outer-world signs to indicate that we are on the brink of reaching critical mass. In fact, many times it looks like we are very far away from that instant of transformation. The reason for this is that our I AM Presence is giving us the opportunity to transmute the blocks and resistance to our vision that have surfaced to be cleared out of the way. When this happens, we usually feel a little overwhelmed. We erroneously conclude that our efforts must be failing, and we just give up.

The Beings of Light have said that many times we have been a breath away from reaching a critical mass of our goal. Since we did not realize that, we got discouraged and stopped working toward our life-transforming changes. Consequently, our hopes and dreams were never fulfilled.

Let’s not allow that to happen this time. This is a year of new beginnings, and we have never had the magnitude of assistance from On High that we are receiving in 2008.

So, in very practical terms, critical mass means that when we are striving to create prosperity in our lives, the moment our thoughts, words, actions and feelings are vibrating with a critical mass of prosperity consciousness instead of poverty consciousness, our life circumstances will shift, and we will experience prosperity. The moment a critical mass of our energy is aligned with self-esteem and love, we will magnetize positive relationships into our lives. The moment a critical mass of our energy is aligned with peace, harmony and balance, we will manifest those Divine Qualities tangibly in our life experiences.

The key to our success is that we must keep on keeping on even in the face of adversity. It is vital for us to understand that the Light of God is infinitely more powerful than any fragmented human miscreation we may have inadvertently created. Poverty has no power over the Abundance of God. Our Divine Potential is infinitely more powerful than disease, failure, dysfunctional relationships, hatred, greed, corruption, war or any of the other humanly-created maladies appearing on the screen of Life.

As long as we stay focused on the Light and consecrate our energy to empower only the positive experiences we want to create in our lives and in the world, we will manifest our visions and dreams faster than we can possibly imagine.

Whatever you do, do not give up!

This information is being given to us by the Beings of Light in the Realms of Illumined Truth during this critical moment on Earth to help us remember that if we do not like what is happening in our lives, we have the option to do something about it. This is true for each of us individually, and it is true for all of us collectively as a global family.

We do not have to believe in the various Universal Laws in order to exist on Earth, but since we are ALL subject to them, it is just common sense for us to try to accept them. We do not have to believe that every single thought, word, action and feeling we have will go out and affect the world and then return to us to affect our personal lives, but this is happening scientifically, to the letter, in spite of any disbelief we may have.

It is important that we put things back into perspective and accept responsibility for turning our lives around. When we deliberately focus on transforming our lives and cocreating Heaven on Earth, our efforts are empowered by the unfathomable Light of our I AM Presence. Then, if we invoke the assistance of the entire Company of Heaven to intercede on our behalf, our success is assured.

Patricia Diane Cota-Robles
New Age Study of Humanity's Purpose
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