Saturday, March 19, 2011

The Law of Attraction: Clarity vs. Fear

If you are in fear of any condition arising, whether it be this over here, or that over there, you are going to act like a magnet in these times to draw those conditions to you. So, if you're in fear, you're going to position yourself unconsciously inside circumstances that will create more fear within you. 

If you stay clear, hold a clear intention, you will literally provide yourself with opportunities that will create more of the same.  

 
If you stay clear, yes, you're not an ostrich, you're aware of what is out there and aware of potentials, but you stay clear inside yourself, encase yourself inside these bubbles so to speak, then it will definitely, definitely help support you in staying steady on this path that we are speaking about.


see Visualization for Protection, posted December 22, 2008

Prayer For Peace

As the sun sets upon your Earth with consistency and assuredness,
May all Beings find peace in that.

As the sun sets upon your Earth every day,
It is not dependent upon thought, effort, pain or suffering.
Like the breath, it is consistent.
May that be every Being's experience, every day.

May every Being find peace in the fact that,
Every day the sun will set,
And every morning it will rise.

May every Being find peace within the knowingness,
That as sure as the sun will set every day,
As sure as the sun will rise every morning,
That every Being is blessed,
Every Being is surrounded in grace and compassion,
And that all that is necessary,
is that every Being knows that,
And sits in the peace of that.

May every Being find comfort and respite from any pain and suffering,
Any fear and delusion, in the fact that
As the sun sets, as the sun rises,
They also live, they also breathe,
And they also always have an opportunity and choices
Of peace available to them.

Contemplate this, Sweet Ones.
Stay with this, Sweet Ones.
This is reality.
This is what you know to be true and consistent in your lives.
It will help to support you.
Blessings.

Namaste.

Sunday, March 6, 2011

An Exponential Leap into Consciousness

The Trend of Emotional Turmoil: Where it’s Leading and How to Cope

In the past several months, Cathy and Guidance are finding an increase in personal turmoil that many have described as downward “spiraling” into hopelessness, confusion, and despair. Please know that this is part of the process we are collectively undergoing and that it is no time to give up, though it may be challenging on all levels. We hope you will find this information useful in supporting a process that is meant to help propel you forward into consciousness.

Possible Symptoms: Physical, Emotional, Mental
• Terror
• Anxiety
• A sinking feeling
• Loss of appetite
• Insomnia
• Abject emotional pain
• Confusion
• Feeling trapped, overwhelmed
• Awareness of a darkness “pulling you in”
• The sense of an internal “earthquake” (being shaken to the core)
• Hearing yourself say: “Everything I’ve done is meaningless,” “There are no answers,” “I feel like I’m going crazy,” “I feel like I’m dying”

Humans learn most efficiently by being painfully tapped on the shoulder because that is what gets their attention. The kind of pain we’re hearing about frequently is arising so that you can collectively become aware of who you are not, by first addressing it individually.

In past group sessions, we have used Captain Hook as an example to explain that by being the shadow aspect, he became a propellant to remind Peter who he really was. Like Captain Hook, often that propellant is painful. The harder it grips you, the greater the indication that it is time for the entirety of you to release yourself from that confusion and delusional thinking. The pain you are experiencing can be directly equated to the fact that all five bodies (mental, physical, emotional, spiritual, and energetic) are coming into a congruent understanding and relationship with the fact that this untruthfulness or confusion is no longer in service to anyone.

As individuals begin to look at themselves clearly and learn what’s true and what’s not, they begin to see what belief systems they’ve held inside themselves are harmful—not only to themselves but to others. As one begins to peel that proverbial layer like an onion, all of those aspects come into congruent understanding and relationship, and it’s like giving birth. It’s that painful contraction—the physical body in reaction to the shadow of attachment—that facilitates release.

The mind has to understand the issue or problem not just from an intellectual level, but also physically and emotionally. Since the physical levels (that is, the body and the mind) are the last to receive, they are also the last to release.

Oftentimes the mental will receive information so that you can understand it intellectually first, with the emotional body trailing behind. At other times it starts with emotional understanding and settles into the mental later. Either way, the physical components of you are always the last to receive and to understand.

The experience of pain (emotional) and confusion (mental) are part of processing and release on those levels—you may even notice your body reacting to pain and confusion through physical symptoms such as loss of appetite and insomnia.

What Can You Do?

• Don’t try to escape the intense feelings. Initially, don’t DO anything. Sit quietly with them. Breathe.
• Become the objective observer (See Sept. 2009 posting)
• Celebrate: it’s a birth you’re experiencing, not death
• Be in gratitude. The fact that this is occurring is a sign that your consciousness is expanding.
• Ask what percentage of it is reality and what percentage is your fear that it will become reality?
• Take it apart like a puzzle
• Write out the steps of your own resolution
• Take action
• Be compassionate and kind to yourself as much as possible through the process
• Remember, it has to be an exaggerated experience in order to get you to pay attention
• Continually check in with yourself and ask, “Am I taking action to solve this situation on a practical level or am I just nursing my wound?”
• Trust that you are putting the puzzle pieces of your complex life together and that you’re making an exponential leap into consciousness

Resist the urge to “fix” yourself. Sit with the feelings; let them wash over you; pace with them; welcome them. Breathe deeply.

Such a time is really to be celebrated. If one could take oneself into becoming more of the objective observer that we speak about so often, one would see it’s actually a time to congratulate oneself, because it’s really like giving birth. This pain you’re experiencing is the contraction that creates.

This “spiral” process is really about tearing down false illusions and birthing oneself through the complexity of one’s life’s details. Whatever the instigating issue or challenge, one can take it apart like a puzzle and examine the individual pieces.

As one dissects the whole experience, one should be able to see, incrementally, that the tentacles of each emotional response could be tied into various phases of one’s present or past lives. So you see, those experiences and associations are like tentacles that continually tie you back into the initial experience(s) that supported you in beginning to believe in certain illusions and non-truths about yourself. If you had a lifetime to study just that one main experience, you would be able to track it and see why it was so relative to who you had become up to that point in time; you would be able to see how you developed belief systems that became your foundation; and you would also see that those tentacles are far reaching, not only into past lives but into the future of who you have the potential to become.

Since most people do not have a lifetime to study the source of their foundational system, these times of “labor,” provide an opportunity for concentrated review. Ninety-nine percent of the time, when one goes into this type of birth crisis spiral, the experience is purposely exaggerated. Just think about it: if a little voice simply entered your consciousness saying, “Excuse me, you’re holding an internal experience of untruthfulness and it really would help you to do something about it,” you’d pay no attention to it whatsoever. It has to be exaggerated in order to act like a magnifying glass, helping you to look at all of those illusions upon which your foundation rests.

In experiencing the “earthquake” internally; of welcoming it and letting it move through you; it eventually brings you to a place where you can step back and say, “Whoa, wait a minute, what I feared was the truth isn’t reality.” It allows the light bulb to go on for an “Ah ha!” moment where one gets to realize, “Wait a minute, if this isn’t truth and reality, how often am I living in non-truths, how often am I separating myself from reality?”

This process facilitates an exponential leap into consciousness; it opens one’s eyes to reality, to truth, and takes one to another level. When it’s over, it doesn’t mean an end to those feelings ever happening again. In fact, even after such a leap, you may find yourself inside similar situations, perhaps not as painful, questioning yourself again, asking “What am I doing?” (so to speak). Think of these as other propellants to take you into even more levels of truth.

While in the process, when do you let yourself “off the hook?” How do you know you’ve reached the end of it? How do you know if you’re in truth and not merely trying to escape into delusion?

We teach so often that what counterbalances the emotional responses is the intellect. So this is how you check yourself. Ask: “Am I continuing to step into my life based upon trying to run away from what feels bad and, in that running away, only using more emotions to cover up?” Such impulse to escape might look like eating a whole plate of chocolate chip cookies, resorting to drugs or drink, planning a trip to Disneyland or resorting to other artificial means of making oneself “feel better.”

If you determine that you are only self-soothing, letting your emotions lead, you can step back and ask, “OK, how can I use my intellect to take me into what’s next? How can I sort out this problem step-by-step, from a logical approach?

Let’s say your “spiral” was started by some sort of crisis or simply having found yourself in a situation that you’re very uncomfortable with. What can you do about it? First, make a list of logical steps you need to take towards resolution. It’s not as much about your making yourself feel better in order to override the feelings, it’s about you taking very systematic action towards resolution…if that is in direct relationship to solving the situation.

Sit down and ask yourself, “What can I do about the problem?” Not, “What can I do to make me feel better?” When you’re at that level of using your intellect to detangle emotional issues, you’ll be at a level of clear thinking. Certainly there may be a little internal whine of, “But I want to feel better” and it’s ok if that’s intertwined with what you’re doing. In fact, try to take care of yourself physically as much as possible while you work out the logical steps toward resolution.

Continually check in with yourself and ask, “Am I taking action to solve this situation on a practical level or am I just nursing my wound?”

Those are two different actions and you’ll have very different results. The practical action, based upon reasonable, clear thinking, will have a positive result. If the action is just to cover up the emotion, the emotion will get stronger—it has to in order to get you to understand that this isn’t about covering up anything, it’s about taking you into clear thinking and seeing the wisdom that is required to develop clear thinking. It's also about creating a system to achieve resolution and systems of resolution are going to be as different as individuals and the different challenges they’re presented with. Everyone has to find their own system through the experience of the “spiral” as a propellant.

If you’re covering up intense feelings in an effort to quickly dispense with them and “move on” to immediately feeling good, guess what? Other opportunities will arise to support you in clear thinking, for that is ultimately the outcome of this experience. If you don’t “get it” the first time around, it will usually crop up as an even more painful situation to be experienced, examined and understood.

What you get to do is step into trusting yourself. You may not have all the answers but be at peace with that. As long as you are taking logical steps, trust that you are putting the puzzle pieces of your life together and, in so doing, are becoming, as we say, the ultimate puzzle-ist. In other words, you’re become the ultimate problem-solver, a detective in your own life; unraveling the mysteries and illusions of your current reality and assembling the pieces like a puzzle.

As you put this into practice, you’ll begin to be at peace with the process and say to yourself, in the midst of crisis, real or imagined, “Ok, on a very practical level, I’m okay. I know I’m becoming the ultimate puzzle-ist. I know where to go, I know how to resolve this painful situation to the degree that, on a practical and emotional level, I can say I’m ok. This situation is okay. I did it.”

Check yourself on every level that’s important to you—mental, emotional, the level of integrity you have, the commitments you make to the people that you associate with, etc.—and know that if there’s a feeling of congruency, you’re on the right track. At the same time, notice whether or not you’re still trying to just cover up the emotion and are taking no logical steps towards resolution. If that’s the case, there will be a feeling of internal incongruence. Look at yourself truthfully and ask, “Have I done everything I can to find resolution?” Then find peace in that. There will never be absolutes in life but you can commit to continually stepping forward with courage, intention, and integrity. It is that process that points the way to an expanded state of consciousness that will be the reward; the new life you’ll have birthed.

Monday, February 28, 2011

Fear . . . Are You Afraid?


It is important to understand that what is happening now, you are in part responsible for. Every kind thought, every compassionate act, every moment arising in wisdom, all contributes to this wave of change.

Rejoice! This is what you have been praying for - peace, happiness, prosperity.

Don't let fear change you.  Don't go into fear now.

It is time to hold firmly compassion and peace and kindness, in order to continue on with this change.  Any moment you experience happiness, hold on to it, be with it, then dedicate it to humanity.  Anytime you experience peace, hold on to it, breathe into it, then dedicate it to humanity. You are beginning to experience critical mass changes, the 100th monkey theory is presenting itself in a tangible way now. Stay steadfast, hold onto your dreams.

Remember you are all connected at such a larger level; what you say, do and think effects everyone on some level in this reality.

Peace, happiness and compassion will help you rise above the lower energies that are arising.  Don't get caught up in the vortex of fear - it will only create more of the same.  We are not saying become ostriches hiding your heads in the sand, we are saying be aware and alert and conscious in the understanding you are creating what is next for yourselves.

Blessings to all of you in acknowledgement of becoming powerful creators in life.

Sunday, February 27, 2011

Choose Fear or Truth

Much of what I have learned from Guidance is about how not to add to the emotional turmoil on Earth - by staying calm, holding my center, focusing on the truth that is my life, my reality, in this Now moment.

Otherwise we can end up feeding that which is upsetting us in the first place and realistically, how does getting upset help anything? How?

It doesn't.

So much of what we read and see on the news is not presented truthfully anyway. In each moment, what do we choose to believe in? Something presented to us on a glowing box by a talking head reading a script?

Or the truth that is right in front of us every day.

The truth of our lives. The smile of a loved one. The warm soft fur of a beloved pet under our hand. A simple pot of soup bubbling on the stove. Sunlight warming the earth. Wind-driven clouds scudding across the sky.

These are truths you can settle into. Rest in. Breathe in.
These are truths that no one can take away from you. No matter what.

I used to think that getting all hooked up emotionally in the drama of tragic events was "compassion" but what I have learned is that all I was actually doing was allowing events in the world to resonate with my own unprocessed trauma.
Our fear about what is happening 'out there' is simply a reflection of what we have not yet realized about our own Selves.

Period.

The world is our mirror.

The fact that we notice fear arising within us can be used as an 'arrow' that Guidance talks about, pointing us toward those parts of ourselves that still hold unprocessed emotions. So, the fear can literally be seen as a blessing, if we make a conscious choice in the moment to see it in this way. To flip that coin over and realize the opportunity that is there for us in that moment. To see it as a gift we can open to receive.

So feel the fear and acknowledge it - but take a step back and realize it for what it is - simply a vibration, an energy. Realize it is never about what is 'out there', no matter how much the news media or your mind would like you to believe it.

It is always about what is right in here.

If one can take a step back, shift perception and bring it back to self - there, in that moment, is the power we can claim for ourselves. The power to take responsibility for that fear, discover it's source and to heal.

The truth is - we are not tiny helpless people trapped here on Earth in a maelstrom of chaos. The truth is - we are enormous Beings who have chosen to be here on this blessed planet to experience events during this historic shift. To help ourselves. To help humanity. To help our Mother Earth.

It is time. It is time we acknowledge that fact and step forward into the truth of Who We Are. It is time we start walking that walk we have dreamt of for decades. As a conscious choice. With love, humility, awareness and compassion. The pedal is meeting the metal. It is time for us to begin to step into becoming All that We Are.  

                                                                               - denver


There is much material here that can serve as a valuable resource in moments of difficulty or confusion. I encourage everyone to take a moment and explore these offerings in the knowledge that they have been presented for the benefit of us all.                                                                        

Friday, February 25, 2011

Predictions

It has been called to my attention there is so much fear in regard to what is next for our world inside all this perceived chaos.

For those of you that don't know about Guidance . . . they have predicted accurately many life changing events. From what would happen to our country when George Bush was elected, to 9-11, to the financial crash of 2008, they have been spot on with what will happen both nationally and internationally. They predicted several months ago in sessions "an eruption occurring in the Middle East".

Guidance has been speaking to groups predicting, even before Barack Obama was elected, a "Wave of Change" that will influence our society as much, if not more than, the Industrial Revolution.

So trust them now when they tell us that what is upon the horizon for us and our country, is a level of prosperity and happiness that we will all enjoy if we stay out of fear, frustration, anger and impatience. Those that have followed the groups were given tools and suggestions, such as staying out of fear, in order to ride upon this wave and not be engulfed by it.

Hold what you want.

Intend peace, happiness, prosperity and float upon this "Wave of Change". We must hold a clear intention now, for Guidance is teaching us we are on the precipice of mass consciousness shifting. Please, when you are happy . . . hold it and then dedicate it to humanity. When you experience peace, hold that and dedicate it to humanity.

There is a beautiful Buddhist prayer that encourages us to hear a bell of peace. See every note from the bell resonating around our world, touching all ears and hearts. Hear the bell resonating compassion and kindness, equanimity and patience. Please know we can help the suffering in our world by being the best we can be, and by praying that all beings be blessed and protected.

Thank you.
Please refer to other posts to help you move beyond the entrapment of fear.

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Thursday, February 24, 2011

A Sustainable Wave of Change is Coming

There is a wave of change upon us.

It is, and has been, our commitment to teach and support you in preparation for this wave of change in a tangible way, teaching you higher levels of wisdom in order to help you literally change your lives without attachments, pain and suffering. We have discussed many times how changing your thoughts and beliefs creates potentials in a personal way and universally. We have encouraged you, when asked how to help your world, to find moments of happiness and then dedicate it to humanity. Find moments of peace and dedicate it to humanity. Well, the time is arising to begin to see quite tangibly the effects of your commitment.

You will be going through this wave of change, no doubt.

Higher levels of consciousness, along with wisdom, will be arising within you. Because of these levels of wisdom and clear thinking, your intuition and clairvoyance will also expand. All of these things will be by-products of your internal work and because of that work, this wave of change is possible.

There will be toxins thrown off by the system in the initial adjusting to more light, which is part of the healing process. You may find this happening on all levels - physical, mental, spiritual and emotional. And not just personally, but also universally. So, when you hear or see situations arise in your world that are disturbing, it is just a necessary part of the readjusting, of seeing conditions more clearly. It will seem as if there is a detoxification occurring, and it may be uncomfortable, but it is all in the process of healing.

Remember the analogy of the hallway . . .

Imagine you are walking down a hallway guided by the light from a 100 watt bulb. You are comfortable with that amount of light, and then in front of you, you see a doorway. You walk toward it and, upon opening, thousands of watts of light come streaming through. It takes quite awhile to adjust to that amount of light, it is uncomfortable at first. You enter the room and your eyes finally adjust, gradually allowing you to able to very clearly see more and more of what is in the room. All of that light is shining upon objects you have never seen before. However, after you have adjusted to that amount of light, you look back out into the hallway. It looks dark. Everyone and everything looks dark. But the reality is, it is not because they are darker, it is because you have adjusted to more light. Remember this in moments of concern for what is happening in our world and around you.

One learns to appreciate lighted-ness by being initially exposed to darkness.

Please don't judge anything that arises now, whether seemingly harmful or not. It is like a rock, it may seem dense and useless, maybe even creating a painful situation or reminding you of a painful situation, for your toe still aches from stumbling over it. It is just a rock, it can, at times, even be appreciated for reminding you of becoming more conscious and present to your next step.

Adversity creates change.

The change you are seeking right now and are so impatient for, is going to happen. Maybe not right away - please remember, this wave of change must take time to create conditions that are sustainable. A consciousness of wisdom and clarity, tolerance and equanimity must arise in order for this change to become sustainable. Be patient.

In remembering you are responsible for this change, each individual then adds to the change that is happening and how sustainable it will become. So patience and mindfulness are the keys. Remind yourselves, 'How do I see each moment through the eyes of Wisdom?' and as a result, through this level of thinking, you become your own 1000 watt light.

Blessings.


from the transcript of the Guidance group session,
Ventura, California 11/14/10