Perhaps this should be Chapter One of all my other blog posts, for I'm going to describe here metaphorically how I view this world as my personally unique reality-world-illusion--and how I am the source and center of its creation.
If you're a Star Trek: The Next Generation fan, you'll remember episodes where the characters went to the holodeck on their spaceship, the Enterprise, to play a virtual reality game. That's how I view my life and world:
I'm in the midst of a virtual reality game hologram that My Soul willingly CHOSE to experience and play. And I'm playing it alongside and with other souls who have freely chosen to play the game, as well.
I am the central pinpoint of conscious self-awareness in a bubble of biology that surrounds me--a hologram of potential experiences.
And that hologram constantly adjusts itself to match--and burst into beingness--whatever I radiate out from the center that I "feelingly"CHOOSE to EXPERIENCE.
That hologram Universe co-creates for me my choices and accepted truths of the moment.
This view is the basis from which I write all the other ideas, and why I act the way I do, and make the choices I currently make.
Before I began awakening to my spiritual/divine self, I viewed myself as an actor on a stage, playing out a role someone else (God out there somewhere) had written for me. Often, I felt like a puppet on a string, with no power over my life or my happiness. All I had was a pre-determined destiny or fate, a path that forked in two different directions, towards the choice between two obscure and esoteric destinations--Heaven or Hell. Where I ended up when I died was determined by how I performed--whether I made "right" or "wrong" choices while I lived.
Then after several life-altering, and often shattering, experiences, I began to ask deeper questions about this stage I was on, the stories I was in, and the roles I was playing. The most important question I found myself asking was, "Who am I, really?"
No one outside of me seemed able to satisfyingly answer any of those questions, and that drove me to constantly go inward to discover my answers. Those were the only ones that I really trusted wholeheartedly.
I suddenly concluded that I wasn't just an actor in someone else's play--I was its author--I wrote the scripts and roles for others to play for me and with me.
I was the co-creator/producer, director, set designer and the STAR of my own show playing roles of my choosing...And I was my best audience!
I realized I'd been UNCONSCIOUSLY writing and co-creating and acting and observing and experiencing my own "Let's pretend" play the entire time.
I began to ponder what I could create when I could do so KNOWINGLY--when I was FULLY AWAKE (not just a bored or upset robot actor going through familiar motions and established patterns--aka, belief systems--over and over again).
I noticed that I'd make a "mental choice" and try to envision it to make it more real, but I couldn't bring it into being if I didn't truly FEEL (actually believe) it as a possibility. Mere visualization techniques didn't work for me--I had to become aware of the emotions I was radiating out when making a choice. I had to get in touch with my heart (deepest desires) and sensuality.
I had a lot of unanswered prayers; and I had things happen (loved ones died) that I, as a lone human, didn't consciously choose but seemingly couldn't avoid or prevent either.
I realized that in order to get a better understanding of the play I had going, all I had to do was take an actual BREATHER from the story, step out of my current acting role on the whole stage and sit above it in the director chair, or back from it in the audience seats, in order to get a clearer view of the dynamics of the illusion.
I simply SHIFTED my PERSPECTIVE of the scene--expanded my awareness of all of it on many different levels.
I began to imagine what identities and roles I could immerse myself in for a bit without getting stuck in an experience I no longer enjoyed--all because NOW I was SELF-AWARE of my being the co-creating/expressing god of my own world of experience. My boxy world was thrown wide open to possibilities I'd never imagined before!
Essentially, I am now writing and creating and acting in a NEW PLAY--a new world. This new hologram is tailored just for me by a divine-human me who is finally AWAKE and in touch with all other aspects of MY SOUL!
I am no longer feeling like an all-alone insignificant little human begging for my little prayers to be answered--or not. And I'm no longer creating my life from that downer of a perspective.
I am the source and center of this Grand Illusion and Gift from the Source of All that I call my own life! And I've been passionately driven for decades to discover how to enjoy it as the gift I believe it was intended to be--and to live it my way, without harming anyone or anything in order to do so...
My blog has been written with this model in mind...
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"I need..." Indicates the Sexual Energy Virus Is Present
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Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Monday, May 20, 2013
"I need..." Indicates the Sexual Energy Virus Is Present
The next time you're in a busy shopping mall, grocery store, or superstore like Walmart or Target, find a spot where no one will collide with you, and close your eyes. Feel into the energies around you and flowing in you and through you--feel into what you're personally radiating out into your world. The mental and emotional energy I have always felt most prominent in such places is:
I would prescribe the same thing (except for the medications or drugs) in the case of realizing the presence of the sexual energy virus in a relationship with another being outside of you. Step back from the relationship--the presence of the others. Give yourself "a rest" from interactions with the party illusion. If you poke and prod around, and fight with a disease, it often just becomes more insidious and pesky and spreads like wild-fire. So it is with this virus.
Instead, disconnect, get out of your head (mind chatter yammering) and don't try to analyze or judge the situation to death. Simply breathe (walk, go for a drive, nap, get out in nature, or go in a room alone) to flow the energies through easier. Stories are less likely to stick to you if you simply CHOOSE TO ALLOW energies and feelings to FREELY FLOW through you, regardless of their form or charge. That means not trying to keep from feeling and thinking things you've judged as being "right" or "wrong." Just allow yourself to immerse in all of it--get the fullness of the experience. That is what our soul is after--simply an honest, authentic experience undiluted by Little Human limitations and programmed expectations of how we think a perfect human should be. Drink a bit of water, and immerse yourself in soothing baths, showers or pools (water is known to help flow consciousness)--literally wash away those troubles and pains.
If you truly want to release yourself from the situation, DO NOT commiserate and tell your stories to others to get sympathy.
First, accept full responsibility for having chosen to give yourself that experience in whatever issue. You don't have to have a justifiable reason--you simply chose an experience to get a better understanding, "just because."
Then, when you can share the story with others from that perspective, you won't be perpetuating the virus through blame.
I know this is a hard one to resist--but commiseration and whining to others will perpetuate the energy-feeding for anyone involved, even those listening to your stuff.
"If it's in my life, I put it there, and I'm deriving some benefit from it."
We all fall off the horse with the venting and commiseration stuff at times, so be kind and self-compassionate--laugh at yourself, with yourself, and others--when you do.
Walk through life with a sense of humor about everything, and you'll realize you've mastered your life.
Give yourself the SAFE and SACRED SPACE time alone in order to help you step back out of the illusion enough to see it from a clearer vantage point. That way you'll become aware of other POTENTIAL CHOICES that you couldn't see while in the midst of the struggle of the energy feeding situation/illusion.
Because I'm confident in each of us having the answers for oneself within oneself, I now find it much easier to gracefully tell a loved one who wants to vent with me (energetically feed off) to just take themselves off for a walk alone and just breathe...and remember your own KNOWINGNESS.
The SEXUAL ENERGY VIRUS is not a conspiracy!
"I need..."
"I need something or someone in order to feel happy...to feel SAFE...to feel good about myself...to feel complete...to feel loved...to be accepted, noticed, appreciated..., etc."
A few years ago, this "neediness energy" would be such a bombardment of my senses that it literally stopped me in my tracks in the middle of the shopping mall or Walmart. It was embarrassing. I couldn't move either of my legs forward until I closed my eyes, took a self-compassionate (kind-to-myself) breath and centered myself in me in the moment. All it took was a couple seconds, but it would be frustrating when I would be trying to keep pace with my husband--he'd get exasperated having to slow up and wait for me because he didn't understand it at the time--ha!
My brother experienced the same thing. For a long time neither of us was too enthused about going shopping or into crowded places. While entering the grandstand area for a Taylor Swift concert at the hot and crowded ND State Fair, I found myself asking my husband to help me find a place to sit so I could get my head lower than my knees--I experienced nausea, the sweats, clamminess and dizziness, and nearly fainted. On our passage through the carnival rides on the way to the concert, I'd been meeting people's eyes (windows to souls)--and I was still learning at that time how I was taking on other's energy stories (empathing) and holding them as my own. That was another disconcerting moment which passed once I got a sip of water and some quiet breaths in a quiet spot. I enjoyed the packed concert without any incident afterward.
Thankfully, I've gotten quite adept at just breathing and flowing all energies through me and haven't experienced this phenomenon while out shopping or while in huge crowds in more recent years. I have however, experienced lately that self-masters don't hurry while out walking (they saunter or run for the joy of it, but they don't rush because of time constraints), but that's a whole other upcoming post.
Any time you realize you or others ARE SEARCHING for something OUTSIDE of oneself in order to feel complete, safe, and accepted--you are dealing with what is known as the SEXUAL ENERGY VIRUS that permeates mass consciousness.
The old consciousness energy of humanity has been off-balanced to the masculine and mental--a more aggressive, forceful energy. As the Feminine has come forth to take her place as a FULL PARTNER WITH the Masculine, the consciousness has become more compassionate and intuitive--and FORCE does not work in the new energy. SELF-AWARENESS and ALLOWANCE are the keys in the new world. I keep seeing PASSION as the divine masculine, and COMPASSION as the divine feminine--and the two dancing together in full partnership feels like the most wondrous of celebrations. But that's just my take on things.
The old consciousness energy of humanity has been off-balanced to the masculine and mental--a more aggressive, forceful energy. As the Feminine has come forth to take her place as a FULL PARTNER WITH the Masculine, the consciousness has become more compassionate and intuitive--and FORCE does not work in the new energy. SELF-AWARENESS and ALLOWANCE are the keys in the new world. I keep seeing PASSION as the divine masculine, and COMPASSION as the divine feminine--and the two dancing together in full partnership feels like the most wondrous of celebrations. But that's just my take on things.
Consciousness is Awareness of Self--"I am! I am aware that I exist."
Mass consciousness is a term used to describe the myriad waves of SUGGESTIONS of what is emotionally or passionately believed to be truth by a large number of humans. Ideas like "This is just how it is in the world, and this is how you have to be, and what you have to do" are mass consciousness BELIEFS. These streams of consciousness are flowing all around, and in, and through our individual consciousnesses at all times.
Energy, which serves us unconditionally and abundantly, comes in to match our personally radiated consciousness-- emotions and passions--and pops into manifestation whatever potential we've focused our conscious attention on. This is why not all our thoughts manifest--only the ones that we're emotionally triggering, FEELING, or passionately focused on (even if we're trying to avoid those thoughts and feelings).
This is why it's important to be aware of what is going on inside of oneself at all times: "What am I radiating? Am I OPEN and FLOWING? Or am I barricaded in, closed off, protective of myself?" Most of us have been walking around, tightly wrapped, on the defensive or offensive, in survival mode--thus, we keep getting energies serving us by bringing forth things for us to fight in our manifested realities. If I'm radiating out that I have issues I need to resolve--if I have protective walls up in my energy field----the energies serve me by giving me issues to mess about with.
Mass consciousness is a term used to describe the myriad waves of SUGGESTIONS of what is emotionally or passionately believed to be truth by a large number of humans. Ideas like "This is just how it is in the world, and this is how you have to be, and what you have to do" are mass consciousness BELIEFS. These streams of consciousness are flowing all around, and in, and through our individual consciousnesses at all times.
Energy, which serves us unconditionally and abundantly, comes in to match our personally radiated consciousness-- emotions and passions--and pops into manifestation whatever potential we've focused our conscious attention on. This is why not all our thoughts manifest--only the ones that we're emotionally triggering, FEELING, or passionately focused on (even if we're trying to avoid those thoughts and feelings).
This is why it's important to be aware of what is going on inside of oneself at all times: "What am I radiating? Am I OPEN and FLOWING? Or am I barricaded in, closed off, protective of myself?" Most of us have been walking around, tightly wrapped, on the defensive or offensive, in survival mode--thus, we keep getting energies serving us by bringing forth things for us to fight in our manifested realities. If I'm radiating out that I have issues I need to resolve--if I have protective walls up in my energy field----the energies serve me by giving me issues to mess about with.
Energy Feeding is a symptom of the sexual energy virus, which is just like a physical virus that infiltrates weak spots in a physical body--only this is a virus in CONSCIOUSNESS. Humans feed off the energies of others in order to feel better about themselves or to feel more powerful. The core energy underlying any type of energy-sucking is a personal sense of powerlessness at not feeling able to FREELY live one's own life. It's grasping for CONTROL over one's life by trying to manipulate and handle the external reality. But feeding off others energetically only keeps one imprisoned in that reality landscape.
One of the most frustrating forms of energy feeders for me has been people who insist on being the victims in every aspect of their life. I actually sprint in the opposite direction when I see them approaching me. Ha!
If you contract a viral infection in your physical body, a medical doctor will most likely tell you to go home, drink plenty of fluids, manage the painful symptoms by using foods and symptom medications to keep energies flowing--and get lots of rest until it's run its course.
One of the most frustrating forms of energy feeders for me has been people who insist on being the victims in every aspect of their life. I actually sprint in the opposite direction when I see them approaching me. Ha!
If you contract a viral infection in your physical body, a medical doctor will most likely tell you to go home, drink plenty of fluids, manage the painful symptoms by using foods and symptom medications to keep energies flowing--and get lots of rest until it's run its course.
I would prescribe the same thing (except for the medications or drugs) in the case of realizing the presence of the sexual energy virus in a relationship with another being outside of you. Step back from the relationship--the presence of the others. Give yourself "a rest" from interactions with the party illusion. If you poke and prod around, and fight with a disease, it often just becomes more insidious and pesky and spreads like wild-fire. So it is with this virus.
Instead, disconnect, get out of your head (mind chatter yammering) and don't try to analyze or judge the situation to death. Simply breathe (walk, go for a drive, nap, get out in nature, or go in a room alone) to flow the energies through easier. Stories are less likely to stick to you if you simply CHOOSE TO ALLOW energies and feelings to FREELY FLOW through you, regardless of their form or charge. That means not trying to keep from feeling and thinking things you've judged as being "right" or "wrong." Just allow yourself to immerse in all of it--get the fullness of the experience. That is what our soul is after--simply an honest, authentic experience undiluted by Little Human limitations and programmed expectations of how we think a perfect human should be. Drink a bit of water, and immerse yourself in soothing baths, showers or pools (water is known to help flow consciousness)--literally wash away those troubles and pains.
If you truly want to release yourself from the situation, DO NOT commiserate and tell your stories to others to get sympathy.
First, accept full responsibility for having chosen to give yourself that experience in whatever issue. You don't have to have a justifiable reason--you simply chose an experience to get a better understanding, "just because."
Then, when you can share the story with others from that perspective, you won't be perpetuating the virus through blame.
I know this is a hard one to resist--but commiseration and whining to others will perpetuate the energy-feeding for anyone involved, even those listening to your stuff.
"If it's in my life, I put it there, and I'm deriving some benefit from it."
We all fall off the horse with the venting and commiseration stuff at times, so be kind and self-compassionate--laugh at yourself, with yourself, and others--when you do.
Walk through life with a sense of humor about everything, and you'll realize you've mastered your life.
Give yourself the SAFE and SACRED SPACE time alone in order to help you step back out of the illusion enough to see it from a clearer vantage point. That way you'll become aware of other POTENTIAL CHOICES that you couldn't see while in the midst of the struggle of the energy feeding situation/illusion.
Because I'm confident in each of us having the answers for oneself within oneself, I now find it much easier to gracefully tell a loved one who wants to vent with me (energetically feed off) to just take themselves off for a walk alone and just breathe...and remember your own KNOWINGNESS.
The SEXUAL ENERGY VIRUS is not a conspiracy!
People use the terms "energy feeding" and "energy stealing" interchangeably, but I don't like to use the word "stealing" because it implies that we're "victims" of some "conspirator" or "perpetrator"--and a fight like that actually FEEDS the VIRAL ILLUSION, and keeps it in place LONGER in our reality of the moment.
Most of the time, humans are UNCONSCIOUSLY feeding off other's energies. You know, even the most evil-acting "energy stealers" are simply beings who are deep asleep in their own belief that the identity--the roles they play in this lifetime--is all they are. Please don't pity them or feel sorry for them--that feeds the "evil" story they have going even more. Just be aware that they are asleep, and there is nothing you have to do with them or for them. They're immersed in an experience of their choosing--don't play in it with them if it's not fun for you.
Be aware that people often share stories that instill fear in others in order to feed off those fear-triggered emotional energies--it's why conspiracy theories run so rampantly over the Internet these days.
Be aware that people often share stories that instill fear in others in order to feed off those fear-triggered emotional energies--it's why conspiracy theories run so rampantly over the Internet these days.
You can simply choose to quietly disconnect your relations with energy feeders. Breaking ties with a person doesn't have to involve a knock-down-drag-out fight. If they persist by invading your personal space, just command, "NO MORE! I am done!" What others do outside of you need not affect you--if you CHOOSE. They're just enjoying immersing themselves in an experience--we all are. Keep it as simple as that.
Or you could nip it in the bud, as I've often contemplated, and walk around with a grin on your face and a button pinned to your lapel that reads:
"This boob is all dried up--go suck elsewhere."
Or you could nip it in the bud, as I've often contemplated, and walk around with a grin on your face and a button pinned to your lapel that reads:
"This boob is all dried up--go suck elsewhere."
As I've awakened, I've realized there is no desire, much less any need, to feed off the energy of anyone or anything outside of me. The soap-opera "neediness" just disappears.
When we were kids we used to tease Mom about watching the soap opera, General Hospital, while she ironed piles of our clothes. I even got addicted to watching Days of Our Lives when I went to college--it was a way to relate with fellow students at the time. I don't even watch TV these days, though we do rent movies, but that's beside the point.
I've lately become aware of how many of the people around me are living out these soap operas in their "real" lives. All of this energy feeding tells me that many humans are bored with the status quo about life--they're simply starting to search for more...and that's a good thing. That's exactly what happened with me in my own awakening.
My point is--don't fret! Don't worry about this thing called the sexual energy virus. Don't fight with it. Just be aware that energy feeding exists, and that you become less affected by it simply by realizing you don't "need" anything--everything you desire is right at hand IN YOU!
You just have to DROP the WALLS and open yourself to ALLOWING yourself to RECEIVE it with EASE and GRACE. No thinking, no judging about what's "bad" or "good," no trying to figure out how. Just breathe and open yourself up...breathe and open...flow...
Love yourself first--don't look for someone outside of you to complete and love you first. It just won't be enough for you until you love yourself first. The purpose of the Sexual Energy Virus is to return you to you--the real you, the "I AM" within...
Love and appreciate your own life--and your world, and joyful abundance in all aspects, will simply follow suit...
P.S. Playing in the dramas/traumas of the sexual energy virus is a seductive game--it's easy to get caught up in self-doubt and mental details that keep you worrying over things you can't control (and aren't meant to control). I realized this morning an easy way to pop myself out of playing in drama. Taking a conscious breath, I remembered this:
I KNOW within that we're playing games of
Let's Pretend:
I KNOW that these human bodies are the costumes we don in order to play our pretend games.
I KNOW these human identities are simply an act--they aren't the whole or true me.
I KNOW I am the master creator of my own reality, and that I can simply choose to harmonize with all you other master creators.
I KNOW that All is well in All of Creation...
When we were kids we used to tease Mom about watching the soap opera, General Hospital, while she ironed piles of our clothes. I even got addicted to watching Days of Our Lives when I went to college--it was a way to relate with fellow students at the time. I don't even watch TV these days, though we do rent movies, but that's beside the point.
I've lately become aware of how many of the people around me are living out these soap operas in their "real" lives. All of this energy feeding tells me that many humans are bored with the status quo about life--they're simply starting to search for more...and that's a good thing. That's exactly what happened with me in my own awakening.
My point is--don't fret! Don't worry about this thing called the sexual energy virus. Don't fight with it. Just be aware that energy feeding exists, and that you become less affected by it simply by realizing you don't "need" anything--everything you desire is right at hand IN YOU!
You just have to DROP the WALLS and open yourself to ALLOWING yourself to RECEIVE it with EASE and GRACE. No thinking, no judging about what's "bad" or "good," no trying to figure out how. Just breathe and open yourself up...breathe and open...flow...
Love yourself first--don't look for someone outside of you to complete and love you first. It just won't be enough for you until you love yourself first. The purpose of the Sexual Energy Virus is to return you to you--the real you, the "I AM" within...
Love and appreciate your own life--and your world, and joyful abundance in all aspects, will simply follow suit...
P.S. Playing in the dramas/traumas of the sexual energy virus is a seductive game--it's easy to get caught up in self-doubt and mental details that keep you worrying over things you can't control (and aren't meant to control). I realized this morning an easy way to pop myself out of playing in drama. Taking a conscious breath, I remembered this:
I KNOW within that we're playing games of
Let's Pretend:
- Let's pretend we've got a disease and we're fighting it, trying to cure it...
- Let's pretend so-and-so is dying and leaving us permanently...
- Let's pretend we just can't seem to get along...
- Let's pretend I'm poor and insignificant...
- Let's pretend you have POWER over me...
- Let's pretend we're fighting wars (pretty much like the Cowboys and Indians pretend games from my childhood)...
I KNOW that these human bodies are the costumes we don in order to play our pretend games.
I KNOW these human identities are simply an act--they aren't the whole or true me.
I KNOW I am the master creator of my own reality, and that I can simply choose to harmonize with all you other master creators.
I KNOW that All is well in All of Creation...
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An "Ah-Ha-a?!" to Ignore
When it comes to enlightenment, you have to have a sense of humor...
I was returning home from a walk a few weeks ago, remembering moments when I was single and used to go to the local bars to socialize and dance. I experienced the fairly common occurrence of a random guy approaching me who was "several sheets to the wind," "deep in his cups," or--to use proper English--"pissed."
I liked to tell myself it was because they thought I was so smokin' hot that they thought they needed the "liquid courage."
My Ah-Ha! on the subject on this particular walk was:
What if it was just because I was one of those women who got better looking after he'd had a few, or--in my case--several, eyesight-blurring beers?
I was returning home from a walk a few weeks ago, remembering moments when I was single and used to go to the local bars to socialize and dance. I experienced the fairly common occurrence of a random guy approaching me who was "several sheets to the wind," "deep in his cups," or--to use proper English--"pissed."
I liked to tell myself it was because they thought I was so smokin' hot that they thought they needed the "liquid courage."
My Ah-Ha! on the subject on this particular walk was:
What if it was just because I was one of those women who got better looking after he'd had a few, or--in my case--several, eyesight-blurring beers?
Saturday, May 18, 2013
Life is a Gift, NOT a Test
Contrary to popular belief, I've realized for myself that life is not a test, a place where you have to prove yourself worthy of being--LIFE is a GIFT.
One simple statement with a huge life-transforming potency: "You are, your life is, a gift."
If you take a moment to close your eyes and feel into it, you'll become aware that most of humanity has been living his/her own life from the viewpoint of having to prove oneself through how well she performs through a series of life lessons--tests...and then we die...
What if the purpose for our life on Earth in human form was meant only as a method of self-discovery--to be a place to express and experience oneself? Doesn't every loving parent desire to give his/her child a SAFE and SACRED SPACE in which to freely choose to explore all there is to experience?
What if we don't have to prove our worthiness to anyone or anything? Proving one's worth is deeply ingrained in our consciousness beliefs--so much so, that most people are completely unaware of other easier paths. Paths like the one where life is viewed as a simple gift from an unconditionally loving Source of All that Is.
What if you don't have to fight and struggle against evil, but instead just need to compassionately and gently shake yourself awake from the nightmare or dreamworld you "believe" is reality?
One simple statement with a huge life-transforming potency: "You are, your life is, a gift."
If you take a moment to close your eyes and feel into it, you'll become aware that most of humanity has been living his/her own life from the viewpoint of having to prove oneself through how well she performs through a series of life lessons--tests...and then we die...
What if the purpose for our life on Earth in human form was meant only as a method of self-discovery--to be a place to express and experience oneself? Doesn't every loving parent desire to give his/her child a SAFE and SACRED SPACE in which to freely choose to explore all there is to experience?
What if we don't have to prove our worthiness to anyone or anything? Proving one's worth is deeply ingrained in our consciousness beliefs--so much so, that most people are completely unaware of other easier paths. Paths like the one where life is viewed as a simple gift from an unconditionally loving Source of All that Is.
What if you don't have to fight and struggle against evil, but instead just need to compassionately and gently shake yourself awake from the nightmare or dreamworld you "believe" is reality?
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Blueberry Muffins
Blueberry Muffins
Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
Grease/butter cups of a dark (browns bottoms better than aluminum) 12-muffin/cupcake pan.
Mix topping in small bowl and set aside for last step before baking:
1 tsp. finely grated lemon rind (zest)--should look like coarse mush
2 Tbsp. sugar
Using a wire whisk, sift together in a large bowl:
2 c. flour
1/3 c. sugar
3 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
Gently toss in the flour mixture until coated:
2 c. blueberries, fresh or frozen
Lightly whisk together in a small bowl:
1/4 c. butter, melted
1 egg, well-beaten
1 c. milk
1 tsp. pure vanilla
Pour the entire bowl of liquid ingredients over the dry ingredients and blueberries. Stir lightly with a fork just until all liquid is absorbed (batter will be lumpy). Spoon into the 12 greased cups of the muffin tin, filling each about 3/4 full.
*Before baking, sprinkle each muffin with the lemon zest and sugar topping mixture.
Bake until golden brown--425 degrees for 20 minutes. Best served hot out of the oven, with a smear of butter, of course. Makes 1 dozen muffins.
Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
Grease/butter cups of a dark (browns bottoms better than aluminum) 12-muffin/cupcake pan.
Mix topping in small bowl and set aside for last step before baking:
1 tsp. finely grated lemon rind (zest)--should look like coarse mush
2 Tbsp. sugar
Using a wire whisk, sift together in a large bowl:
2 c. flour
1/3 c. sugar
3 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
Gently toss in the flour mixture until coated:
2 c. blueberries, fresh or frozen
Lightly whisk together in a small bowl:
1/4 c. butter, melted
1 egg, well-beaten
1 c. milk
1 tsp. pure vanilla
Pour the entire bowl of liquid ingredients over the dry ingredients and blueberries. Stir lightly with a fork just until all liquid is absorbed (batter will be lumpy). Spoon into the 12 greased cups of the muffin tin, filling each about 3/4 full.
*Before baking, sprinkle each muffin with the lemon zest and sugar topping mixture.
Bake until golden brown--425 degrees for 20 minutes. Best served hot out of the oven, with a smear of butter, of course. Makes 1 dozen muffins.
Thursday, May 2, 2013
Use "I CHOOSE," instead of "I Want" or "I Need"
I make it a conscious habit to use the phrase "I CHOOSE" instead of "I want" or "I need."
First of all, the universe is very literal--so if I state, "I want to travel," I end up experiencing staying home, wanting to travel. If I say "I need money," the universe creatively manifests an experience that I need money for.
I am the source and center of my own unique world--and the universe supports me unconditionally by LITERALLY helping me co-create everything I CHOOSE.
I've learned it's important to not get too mentally specific about my choices, because that limits them manifesting in my life--often to the point that it actually stops them from materializing. Keep your choices FEELINGLY simple.
So in order to cover everything, I just say:
"I choose to ALLOW myself, with EASE and GRACE, to live my life with joyful, OUTRAGEOUS abundance."
And I leave it at that, and let go...
With that, there is no having to mentally figure out how to make it so, there is no action I have to take--I just ALLOW and breathe with ease...and later I find myself ooh!-ing and ahh!-ing at the magic of it all.
If I had kids, I'd definitely practice "I choose" statements with them. It empowers the individual, and that way parents no longer have to try to figure out how to give their kids all their wants and needs and desires. You'd have given them the greatest gift of all--the reminder of how to create their own.
P.S.
I wanted to keep this post short and to the point, but my husband and I were playing around with "I choose" versus "I want, need" statements, and I realized two more things:
First: CLOSE YOUR EYES and say each phrase out loud.
Notice that "I choose" FEELS and sounds MASTERLY and in control of your life.
And that "I want" and "I need" feel and sound WHINY--kind of like a poor, pitiful peon begging?
Secondly: My husband stated as he was leaving this morning, "I HAVE to go to work." Notice again, how it feels and sounds like "I'm a poor, pitiful, puppet-on-a-string"?
I told him, "Put 'I CHOOSE TO' in front of that 'HAVE TO'--and then notice the difference." (CLOSE YOUR EYES again).
"I choose to have to go to work."
Suddenly you're aware that you're "having to go" to work because it's your choice as a self-master...and with that awareness, you can now make a new choice, if you choose...
Perhaps you'll choose to say instead:
"I choose to release myself from having to work."
*Rule of Thumb: Keep the word, "not," out of your choosing statements.
The co-creative Universe doesn't recognize the word, "not"--so I would recommend refraining from using it, or you'll end up choosing something you do not desire. For instance, according to the Universe,"I choose to NOT work" is pretty much the same as "I choose to work."*
First of all, the universe is very literal--so if I state, "I want to travel," I end up experiencing staying home, wanting to travel. If I say "I need money," the universe creatively manifests an experience that I need money for.
I am the source and center of my own unique world--and the universe supports me unconditionally by LITERALLY helping me co-create everything I CHOOSE.
I've learned it's important to not get too mentally specific about my choices, because that limits them manifesting in my life--often to the point that it actually stops them from materializing. Keep your choices FEELINGLY simple.
So in order to cover everything, I just say:
"I choose to ALLOW myself, with EASE and GRACE, to live my life with joyful, OUTRAGEOUS abundance."
And I leave it at that, and let go...
With that, there is no having to mentally figure out how to make it so, there is no action I have to take--I just ALLOW and breathe with ease...and later I find myself ooh!-ing and ahh!-ing at the magic of it all.
If I had kids, I'd definitely practice "I choose" statements with them. It empowers the individual, and that way parents no longer have to try to figure out how to give their kids all their wants and needs and desires. You'd have given them the greatest gift of all--the reminder of how to create their own.
P.S.
I wanted to keep this post short and to the point, but my husband and I were playing around with "I choose" versus "I want, need" statements, and I realized two more things:
First: CLOSE YOUR EYES and say each phrase out loud.
Notice that "I choose" FEELS and sounds MASTERLY and in control of your life.
And that "I want" and "I need" feel and sound WHINY--kind of like a poor, pitiful peon begging?
Secondly: My husband stated as he was leaving this morning, "I HAVE to go to work." Notice again, how it feels and sounds like "I'm a poor, pitiful, puppet-on-a-string"?
I told him, "Put 'I CHOOSE TO' in front of that 'HAVE TO'--and then notice the difference." (CLOSE YOUR EYES again).
"I choose to have to go to work."
Suddenly you're aware that you're "having to go" to work because it's your choice as a self-master...and with that awareness, you can now make a new choice, if you choose...
Perhaps you'll choose to say instead:
"I choose to release myself from having to work."
*Rule of Thumb: Keep the word, "not," out of your choosing statements.
The co-creative Universe doesn't recognize the word, "not"--so I would recommend refraining from using it, or you'll end up choosing something you do not desire. For instance, according to the Universe,"I choose to NOT work" is pretty much the same as "I choose to work."*
Friday, April 26, 2013
Fly! Fly, Birdie!
Fly away and don't come back until you're a sovereign Big Bird...
I realized today that it's appropriate for me to let go of my old role of trying to uplift and be the wind beneath everyone else's wings.
I let go of the role--not out of resentment or blame--but out of gratitude and celebration for myself, and for all those outside of me whose projects, creations, causes, and stories I supported. You all served me so well--Well Done! And much of it has been a pleasure. Many of you helped me remember to simply LAUGH at myself--and to spread my own wings and just leap--and now it's time for me to part ways.
I'm off to live my own sovereignty my own way--no more trying to mold myself to fit in with others' ideas and passions--or trying to protect them from unfriendly energies. I do need this time to disconnect, to be alone with me for a little while, in order to refocus all that love and energy and attention I gave to others, on uplifting and flowing my own self-expressions. I've realized that any time you have two or more people gathering together in order to feel better about oneself--well, the SEXUAL ENERGY VIRUS has slipped in.
I choose to completely independently love and encourage and honor me. When I've got that part down, then I can return to laugh with others from the gatherings that I so love, who have also, hopefully, each claimed their own embodied self-mastery and sovereignty. I'll return in the form of a new kind of free-living and free-loving friend, sans (without) the energy feeding.
In the old energy consciousness, we've long been accustomed to creating our ideas and passions by first garnering the outside approval of like-hearted or like-minded people, who would then supply the "belief-in-its-value energy", the "labor energy" and the "money energy" to back those causes and get our creations (self-expressions) up and flowing.
The fear is that if the old funding and old energetic support is pulled, the creation will collapse--but I KNOW, without a doubt, that it won't...
Energy never ends--it transmutes, it changes, and it flows and flexes. And if the need, or passionate desire, is there for a system or creation to continue, the energies will rearrange themselves in order to keep it flowing--even if someone like me should opt out of it. And it can happen with ease and grace for all parties--no trauma or drama necessary in the shift.
I've been holding energies for the causes that I've supported because of that old fear that I will have let my friends down. That the good things we created together in the past will come to an end if I disconnect and withdraw my financial and old manner of energetic support--and that is what was stopping me from taking that final step over the threshold into my own sovereignty.
No one needs my wind "uplifting them" to help them fly--and I don't need outside support in order to soar either...
No one really flies until they've allowed themselves to be uplifted BY THEMSELVES. You can love the living daylights out of another being, but if they don't allow themselves TO BE loved--your love doesn't matter, and their life won't change.
Remove, quit being, the crutch. Give everyone the opportunity to discover their own god within, that they can walk (whatever mode one chooses) on their own...because we each can.
I am all that I need, to fly on my own...the Source of all of us created us to do exactly that.
Fly! Soar! Be FREE!
I realized today that it's appropriate for me to let go of my old role of trying to uplift and be the wind beneath everyone else's wings.
I let go of the role--not out of resentment or blame--but out of gratitude and celebration for myself, and for all those outside of me whose projects, creations, causes, and stories I supported. You all served me so well--Well Done! And much of it has been a pleasure. Many of you helped me remember to simply LAUGH at myself--and to spread my own wings and just leap--and now it's time for me to part ways.
I'm off to live my own sovereignty my own way--no more trying to mold myself to fit in with others' ideas and passions--or trying to protect them from unfriendly energies. I do need this time to disconnect, to be alone with me for a little while, in order to refocus all that love and energy and attention I gave to others, on uplifting and flowing my own self-expressions. I've realized that any time you have two or more people gathering together in order to feel better about oneself--well, the SEXUAL ENERGY VIRUS has slipped in.
I choose to completely independently love and encourage and honor me. When I've got that part down, then I can return to laugh with others from the gatherings that I so love, who have also, hopefully, each claimed their own embodied self-mastery and sovereignty. I'll return in the form of a new kind of free-living and free-loving friend, sans (without) the energy feeding.
In the old energy consciousness, we've long been accustomed to creating our ideas and passions by first garnering the outside approval of like-hearted or like-minded people, who would then supply the "belief-in-its-value energy", the "labor energy" and the "money energy" to back those causes and get our creations (self-expressions) up and flowing.
The fear is that if the old funding and old energetic support is pulled, the creation will collapse--but I KNOW, without a doubt, that it won't...
Energy never ends--it transmutes, it changes, and it flows and flexes. And if the need, or passionate desire, is there for a system or creation to continue, the energies will rearrange themselves in order to keep it flowing--even if someone like me should opt out of it. And it can happen with ease and grace for all parties--no trauma or drama necessary in the shift.
I've been holding energies for the causes that I've supported because of that old fear that I will have let my friends down. That the good things we created together in the past will come to an end if I disconnect and withdraw my financial and old manner of energetic support--and that is what was stopping me from taking that final step over the threshold into my own sovereignty.
No one needs my wind "uplifting them" to help them fly--and I don't need outside support in order to soar either...
No one really flies until they've allowed themselves to be uplifted BY THEMSELVES. You can love the living daylights out of another being, but if they don't allow themselves TO BE loved--your love doesn't matter, and their life won't change.
Remove, quit being, the crutch. Give everyone the opportunity to discover their own god within, that they can walk (whatever mode one chooses) on their own...because we each can.
I am all that I need, to fly on my own...the Source of all of us created us to do exactly that.
Fly! Soar! Be FREE!
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