Simple thoughts yield simple results.
Uncluttered
Uncomplicated.

You all are asking SO much from life!
Which is great in a way,
but it doesn’t feel that way, a lot of the time.

Everything feels super sized,
You don’t just want a sundae,
you want it with sprinkles, and nuts, and three
different ice creams, all fat-free, and can the
whip cream be on the side?
oh, and a cherry on top!

With so much going on,
you can’t taste the individual flavors!
Each thing is splendid on its own.
Sometimes more….is just too much!
Simplify.

Start ordering one simple thing from life at a time.
See how it tastes,
THEN add something to that.
maybe, just maybe, it is fine as it is.
Simple and uncomplicated.

You’ve all forgotten how to do this.
Start with ONE desire,
THEN see if you want to add more.

Sensory overload is as uncomfortable
as sensory deprivation.

Slow down,
think what you REALLY want from life,
start simply,
and let the rest fall into place over time.
Or not…;)
Maybe you already have what you need.

The road to prosperity is paved with good intention.
What we mean by that , is watching you trains of thought
about money.

Do you wish those that have it, well?
Or do you resent them, feeling they have more than their share?
Are they greedy? Did they take some of yours?
There is infinite prosperity in the universe,
no one can take “your share”!

Do you feel that charging for your services is somehow
unfair?
Feeling Guilty, Not being able to figure your worth?
Feeling guilty about making money, makes the exchange unbalanced
and will start to cause problems.

Do you feel it’s wrong for any business to make a profit?
Do you judge profits as being “too much”?
Do you feel that those that ” help” people should do it out of the
kindness of their hearts and not make any money?
You can only really help others when you have enough for yourself.
Why would you deny those people a living?

Don’t you realize you are sending mixed signals to the universe?
You cannot wish prosperity for yourself,
but resent those that have it.

Profits drive commerce.
That allows people to buy things from other businesses,
to eat at restraunts, to go to the movies,
and more importantly, to give it away to others that need it.
All charity begins with the fact that there is enough to share, to give away.

When you feel you don’t have enough, or that others have too much,
it will be impossible for the universe to deliver prosperity to you.

Watching your intentions and thoughts around money
can start to change things around for you.

I’ll be hidden, out of sight,
In the middle of a fight.

Being snarky?
Passing judgement?
With nothing nice to say?
It will seem that I’m not with you,
As I stay above the fray.

Don’t look for my agreement,
when you justify your meanness.

I cannot see things as broken,
I can only see them whole.
While you see someone in ruin,
I can only see their soul.

We’re on separate paths,
you and me,
When mistakes are all you see.

Fault is always found,
when you’re looking at the ground.
Lift your heads up higher,
if it’s truth that you desire.

That is where you’ll find me,
when you start to see the sun,
In the eyes of those around you,
there is light in everyone.

Consider them as flawless,
like I do with you each day.
Do the best you can,
choose kindness,
If that doesn’t work…
then pray! 😉

We realize we keep revisiting this scenario,
this lecture, this cautionary tale.
But…we cannot express strongly enough
the void that would occur, should you decide to side step
a love because of its painful end.

Many of you are having strong feelings of loss and regret
regarding loves that never stood the test of time.
Remember dear hearts, that to love and lost is SO incredibly,
stupendously and magnificently better than never having loved!
(to embellish a phrase). 🙂

The depth of the pain equals the depth of the love.
Shallow, simple love…doesn’t hurt that bad.
But fall down, crazy, messy, earth moving,
thunder and lightning kind of love….
when that ends, it can feel soul shattering!

But would you trade those minutes?
those hours and days?
Who would you be if you’d never felt that?

Wanna play life safe do ya???
That would be a shameful waste of a human life!

You think things would be better, but there would not be that light
behind your eyes.
You cannot un-ring a bell…
Once you’ve loved that deeply, even if you’ve lost,
your heart has stretched and grown and aches to be filled again.
Hearts want to soar! you clip their wings with thoughts of regret.

Ditch that regret!
everything was meant to happen the way it did.
There is a divine order to things.
He or She was perfect for that time.
whether it was 12 hours or 12 years!

When you gain the perspective of acceptance,
leaving ALL regret behind,
Love will rush in and fill that void.

If you were to dissect joy,
you would see that its origins are found early in your lives.

Its existence hinges on this very simple belief,
Is the world a good place or a bad place?
Does the universe conspire to help you? or hinder you?

Those beliefs are crucial to experiencing joy throughout your life,
for if you are always struggling, uphill,
against what life is “throwing at you”,
joy will be impossible to find.

If you view your life as just a long string of obstacles
that you need to overcome, joy will be elusive.

The foundation of joy, it’s life’s blood…is trust.

Developing the ability to lean into life,
especially when it gets messy,
and believe that all is well.
Trust that things will work out for you,
they always do.
Life is on your side, it is not working against you!
This is necessary in your pursuit of joy.

But remember, joy can be skittish, it smells fear.
If you chase after it…it evaporates.
Better then, you just find it around the corners of your
life, expected, but still surprising.

The expectation of joy, calls it in.
Hear that.
The expectation of joy CALLS IT IN.

So it doesn’t even have to be pursued,
it just appears.
THAT could change EVERYTHING!

We are watching many of you struggle,
as this current energy brings up feelings from your past.
They are meant to come to the surface to clear,
but for many of you, they are sticky, and heavy,
and you are “in them” way too long.

The pain in your hearts when you revisit these feelings,
is so familiar, it is like your default setting.

When something causes you pain,
like your hand on a hot stove,
you are programmed to pull away.
But the heat from these old situations,
was so frequent and so sustained,
that the pain started to feel normal,
and you became wounded.

Even now as adults, when you feel this heat,
you do not pull away, as you should,for self-preservation.
The feeling is so familiar, that you almost walk toward
the stove!

It’s interesting, you will run miles to escape just the
threat of something that “might “cause you pain as adults.
You will turn your lives upside down to side step it.

But when these hurts from childhood come up to
be healed, you marinate in their familiarity.

Please, we caution you at this time,
in this energy, as these feelings come up to be cleared,
to realize that even heat this old can still burn you,
and walk away from the stove.

These are burdens you no longer need to carry.
Your perception of them, causes the struggle.
Pain and sadness are not meant to be sustained.
They are indicators that something needs to change.
Let the painful feelings come up…and out.
Feel them…let them go!
Let the wounds heal, finally!
Let your default setting change from pain…to love.

Walking thru your day, start to observe,
which situations feel expansive,
and which cause you to contract inward.

You can be feeling perfectly fine,
open and happy,
but then traffic slows and you realize
you will be late for your appointment.
What happens next?

You feel anger rise up, and at the same time
you can actually feel your body contract.
You may feel your chest get tight,
your jaw as well, your breathing gets shallow,
your eyes narrow, your hands, which only a few minutes ago,
were keeping time to the music from the radio,
are now in a death grip on the steering wheel.

Those are the physical signs of your energy contracting.
It doesn’t feel good! and it’s not good for you!

Once you can start to feel exactly when the contraction occurs,
you can stop it in its tracks!

Changing your breath can be your pivot point.
Taking three deep breaths will start the process.

Expansion feels open and easy.
Expansion in your body feels good!
Your eyes feel open and light.
Nothing feels tight, not your jaw,
not your chest.
Your shoulders are not hunched forward,
they are back and down, away from your ears!
your hands are relaxed , not clenched in fists.

If you become observant you will notice contraction
in the body language of others, and our advice…
walk away.
Nothing positive can be accomplished when you’re dealing
with someone who’s energy is so pulled in.
They can’t even hear you, or see you clearly.

The same is true for yourself.
Recognize that you cannot make good decisions
from that contracted place.
The energy of anger, fear, sadness, all cause contraction,
and you cannot expand toward your best life from that place.

There is great power in this realization.
Making sure you and those around you are coming from an expanded
energy place before you undertake anything important,
will make a huge difference in your life running smoothly.

If you could erase your past, would you?
Would that serve you? or ..
would it be a gross disservice?

Would you just extract the “bad” things that happened?
What would be the statute of limitations on how awful it felt?
Because, if you think about it, the things that mortified you as a kid,
can still trigger that sinking feeling in your stomach.
Would you erase those too?

How big would the pain have to be for you to erase the experience?
What about the time when you were 13 and made a fool of yourself,
or so you thought, at that school pool party?
Or when you didn’t make cheer leading in high school?
Would that qualify?

What about how you felt when your parents or a teacher said
something sharp and cruel?
Or that pang of injustice when you were treated unfairly?
What about all the bad relationship break-ups?
You felt just about as low as a person can go,
and the one when you were 18 hurt as much as the one a week ago Friday!
Would you erase all of them? Some of them?

You would have to wipe from your memory the entire relationship,
in order to side step the pain…would you?

Do you see what we’re getting at?
Your past is part of what made you, YOU.
As much as some things have hurt you,
you HAVE learned and grown from them.
Erasing them from your experience altogether
would leave you hollow, because they happened for a reason.

Just think about that today.
What would you erase from your past,
that you think , if it were gone completely,
would make you better?

We’ve talked a little about this before,
but you should really be feeling the recent
recalibration of your eyes and ears.

You are having days where your vision is extremely blurry,
your eyes may feel scratchy and they may burn.
It will be your reading that will suffer,
but you will notice it also when driving,
and just seeing in general.

Your glasses and contacts will seem useless!
Don’t be alarmed.
It is just a stage of your physical recalibration.

You may already have experienced this,
and you may have also noticed that a couple of days later,
your vision is crystal clear.
This is not something that will go un noticed,
for the colors will be extremely bright,
and the clarity will seem like your high-definition TV!

The same is true for your hearing.
There will be days that you will struggle to hear
someone speak that is standing right nest to you,
or even the radio in the car.

Some of you have noticed that the pitch of
the siren of an ambulance or fire truck either hurts your ears,
or you can’t hear it at all until they are practically beside you.

Again, this is part of your changing physiology.
The days you struggle to hear a conversation,
will be followed by incidents where you will hear someone whisper
from the next room,
or be able to hear the conversation at a Restraunt three tables away!

A bit of patience, and a sense of humor is required.
As long as you know these changes are not permanent,
don’t sweat it! you are on your way to a new normal!

Concentration is a skill.
It requires focus and stillness.
Sloppy concentration equals
a sloppy life.

Certain tasks require your concentration.
Driving is one, and these days your focus is challenged
by radios and phones, etc.
This is an example of external focus.

Prayer is a form of focused concentration.
Silently reciting words and using prayer beads,
help to maintain your focus.

Meditation is a form of concentration.
It is relaxed focusing.
Your mantra and your breath help you
maintain that focus.

Both prayer and meditation keep you internally focused.
they extract you from outside influences.

You are under the misconception that external concentration
and focus determine your life,
but it HAS to start within.

Just as you can see the adverse consequences of losing your
concentration while driving.
If you find yourself inside a life that you don’t like,
chances are you lost your internal focus, your concentration,
and your life is reflecting that back to you.

It is very easy to become distracted and lazy.
If you develop that skill of internal concentration,
thru prayer or meditation,
you are better able to make corrections that are needed.
You will get to the place of higher awareness where
all the answers are available, and miracles take place.

Practice your internal focus daily,
and you will no longer be subject to the choppy
energy of the external world.
Your practiced internal concentration,
will take you thru chaos and turmoil,
into the calmness and serenity of life
lived not just in the world,
but of the world.