August 2006

It’s the end of your workday. You look at the clock and ask yourself where the time went. Perhaps you acknowledge feeling exhausted, either physically or mentally. On some of your more challenging days, you may feel emotionally drained too, and a depressed or angry mood may begin coloring your after-work hours. You become distracted by the negative mood. Without realizing it, you give your power over to this mood, allowing it to dictate how you express your energy.

When this happens, you forget your earlier intentions to center yourself after work with some quiet reflection time. You understand the value of meditation, stopping the world long enough to go within. Even if your spiritual practice is sometimes simply closing the office door and turning off the electronic gadgetry, sitting for 20 minutes to clear your mind, you know how much better your life works when you allow for this down time. On this stress-filled day, you may briefly remember your earlier intentions, but you decide you feel too disturbed or tired to sit still in contemplation.

You convince yourself that you need something else to help you move back into balance. Perhaps a phone call to a friend or loved one would make you feel better, you reason. Sometimes the easiest thing to do is to switch on the TV to be entertained. At other times, you opt for other diversions, like shopping or re-checking your email. After all, you think, perhaps there’s something out there I don’t have. If you use food or other substances to numb your pain, you may seek out a tasty treat or a mood-altering drug.

In general, you seek out experiences that you think will comfort you, or at the very least, help you to forget your troubles. It’s a normal human response. You learn through ordinary experiences to deny, resist or hide from life’s pain. Your parents and caretakers show you how. As a child you observe your father, for example, coming home after working hard all day. Perhaps it’s his habit to reach for a beer and put his feet up, watching a TV program before dinner. You notice—without realizing you’re noticing—that he’s unable to be present with you at dinner. Instead, he monopolizes the conversation most of the time, sharing his experiences of the day, stopping only to mechanically ingest the food on his plate. The family seems almost invisible as his “talking head” chatters away. The situations he talks about have a similar thread, week after week, even if some of the characters change. You don’t know why, but as a young child, you are bored by these stories. After all, you’ve heard similar stories many times, and each of them happened already. These stories from the past get replayed regularly, as though talking about them over and over would change them. As a child, you get used to hearing these kinds of stories, just like you get used to hearing repetitive criticism of your behavior. If you interrupt the conversation or ask to talk about your school day, you may be ordered to keep quiet until later.

You take in these early life experiences, and make decisions about what they “mean,” forming beliefs about life and how to adapt to situations that seem beyond your control. For example, if your father regularly ignored you at dinnertime, you could have decided that there was something wrong with you. Perhaps you thought you were lacking in some way, or that you didn’t deserve to be heard. If you were yelled at or criticized for interrupting the dinner conversation, you may have decided this meant it was safer to be silent.

Possible beliefs resulting from this conditioning include: “no one listens to me,” and “I’m not enough.” Belief systems like these are recorded in your DNA, and therefore become a part of your conventional human expression. Many times, these beliefs mirror those your ancestors had before you were born. It’s a generational cycle that continues until someone in the lineage wakes up to it and changes it. That person in your family could be you.

When you begin to know your own mind and to clear outmoded belief systems that have chained you to your past, you can be more present. That’s because you begin to be free of negative programming that has its roots in the past. As you liberate yourself from the effects of this programming, you will find it is easier to manifest what you truly want. The relentless search for something outside of you—which was born out of mistaken notions that you were not enough or you needed to be fixed—is replaced by acceptance and gratitude. As you make this change, you can more easily adapt to current planetary shifting. Dense energies are transformed, a little at a time, into light. As this happens, your body vibrates at higher and higher frequencies, helping you to travel even the rockiest roads with more ease and grace.

A Prescription for Peace in Turbulent Times

What are some other things you can do to find peace in these turbulent times?

First, use the power of intention on a daily basis. This means that you set your intention regularly throughout the day, deciding what kinds of experiences you will have. To begin with, when you first awaken, set your intention to create harmony everywhere you go and to see any conflicts from a higher spiritual perspective. You can’t put an end to life’s problems, but you can consciously decide how you will respond to them.

Second, declare a ceasefire in your personal fight of resistance. It’s normal to resist what you have labeled as wrong or unacceptable, but your resistance is a paper tiger. Remember that the things that happen to you really are neutral, rather than positive or negative. Your conventional mind, fueled by limiting belief systems hidden in your subconscious, puts an illusory meaning on things. Therefore, it’s you who decides how to view life’s events. When you’ve made something wrong or bad, and you insist that it be replaced by something good, you dilute your ability to powerfully create positive solutions. Allow yourself to simply be. Step back for a bit and let the situation reveal to you its higher purpose.

Third, avoid pack mentality. Just because everyone else at work is eating high caloric foods at break time, you don’t have to join in. Likewise, if the rest of the family sits in front of the TV night after night to watch something that really doesn’t interest you, consider going off on your own from time to time. Sometimes people go along with the pack just to fit in or to avoid feeling lonely. Other times, it’s simply a habit that’s not questioned. Begin to question your habits. Start to question how you are spending your time and energy. Ask yourself, before starting an activity, whether it’s in your highest good right then. Go within your own heart center and inquire about the energetic effects of activities. Ask whether what you are thinking of doing will drain your energy in some way. If that’s the case, consider doing something else that will support your ongoing need to regenerate and find balance.

Fourth, become more aware of your body and inhabit it as fully as you can. What does this mean? Most people learn at an early age to focus their attention outward and to be on output, always doing and seeking to achieve more and more. With this view, life is “out there” and not so much “in here.” People learn to look to others for their answers, and to the outside world for their satisfaction. With this habitual response often comes a forgetting about one’s own sacred body and the Divine essence housed within it. Your body is a Divine temple for your spirit! Remember to give it your attention. Your body has its own set of individual needs for basic nutrients—including water, air, and food. These needs will fluctuate throughout your life, and often will change from day to day. Get to know your own body more intimately so you can discover what it needs. Honor your body by giving it what it needs. Allow your body to tell you when it’s thirsty or hungry or tired. Care for it like you would your cherished only child. As you do that, allow your inner intuitive voice to take a more active role in your day-to-day life. Take the time each day to go within and invite your inner wisdom to show you a path of love. Ask for peaceful resolutions to the conflicts you face. Ask to be given realizations that will help you to accelerate your path of enlightenment.

Fifth, let go of criticizing the world for being so messed up. Use your energy, instead, for improving your own ability to love. No matter how evolved you are, you can be more loving. Start with yourself. Ask yourself regularly how you can love yourself with fewer conditions. Aim high, to love with no conditions. Help others more often. Contribute something to the planet each day, even if it’s simply picking up someone else’s trash. Remember that criticism is easy. Anyone can do it. Where does it get you? Does it stop the wars? Does it stop the hunger? Does it wake up the politicians you dislike? Walk gently along your path of life. Notice the good. Expect miracles. Pray for awakening.

As you continue the journey of rediscovering your Divine nature, we surround you with our love and blessings. We are The Council of 12.

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