With the bringing in of the New Year, often comes a string of resolutions that are often broken before the end of January, if not sooner.

Whether it was to lose weight, quit smoking, be more financial savvy, be more active, become more social, or really committing to anything.

There is a reason that we haven’t done it so far, so why would we think this time would be any different?

So rather than use willpower or white knuckling to achieve goals, perhaps we should start to ask different questions.

What is stopping me from achieving this goal?

What do I fear if I achieve this goal?

What will change for me that I am afraid of if I achieve this goal?

Are my fears founded?

Is this goal really even mine?

We need to get underneath what is preventing us from achieving what we say we want rather than force it.

Once we have removed the blocks then the goal should be achievable, providing of course, it is OUR goal and for our highest good.

Sometimes the Universe gives us what we need rather than what we want.

All of this equates to everyone has a STORY and not leading the life we desire could mean that it is time to rewrite that story.

Having a story is like a blueprint of who we are, but it might not be defining us in the most positive light.

I wonder how many people are living their dream or are they merely existing, going through the motions whilst having an inner longing that there should be more?

We may have been told to be grateful for what we have and not to rock the boat, and whilst I am all for gratitude, in fact it is key in fulfilling our dreams, it is not the way of the Universe to downplay our lives.

Why do some people look like they have it all, while others are barely scratching the surface of their potential?

It is not up to anyone to judge where another is at in their life as long as that person is content being there. But are they?

We all know someone, Hell, we might even be that someone, who follows the masses of herd mentality, while still complaining about their lack, the government, the health system, world crisis’s and not forgetting the endless list of people that have wronged them, parents and ex partners and bosses ranking fairly high on that list.

I am often asked why I don’t let things worry me and why I stay so calm in sometimes difficult and challenging situations. My response is, no one has yet proven to me that worrying, acting irrational to prove my point and refusing to budge on my point of view, has made a situation any more palatable or offers any form of relief of stress.

In any given situation we always have a choice, whether it is a new occurrence or past. Research has shown that the body does not know the difference between fact and fiction, so when we are constantly replaying incidences in our mind, we are putting our body through the same levels of stress as if the incident was occurring all over again.

So what story are we ready to let go of?

It can be as simple as changing some of the language we use around it. Noticing how we feel when we tell the story?  Is it still charged with emotions? Is there stuck feelings that are causing us physical discomfort? Any unchecked emotions will eventually show up in the physical body so we can finally make peace and release them.

Why do people choose to hang onto their stories? Maybe it’s familiarity: a not so good old friend? A payoff?  Feeling entitled?  It’s become part of who they define themselves as?  Totally unaware? Belief that it keeps them strong or safe?

Any number of these reasons could be true for someone but the only time when anything will be addressed is when the pain of staying in the cycle carries more hurt than trying to leave it.

The Universe has an innate way of increasing the pressure to gently prod us to make healthier choices and sometimes it won’t be so subtle.  It can come in the form of a health scare or a life changing event that was sent to us to give us a much needed wake up call.

Happy New Year, Happy New Story, Happy New Life.

From my stance as a wholistic wellness practitioner I see more and more the crumbling of the family dynamics in many areas.

More and more synthetic foods, supposedly to preserve longer shelf life, to add more convenience, with the pretence of offering busy families back some quality time.

Well that would have to be one of the biggest marketing scams that we have ever bought into.

The foods are not only causing our children to have behavioural problems and learning difficulties, but many allergies and auto immune diseases are resulting from this ‘quick fix food’.

So why is the promise of more time so appealing? Why have we become so time poor that we would prefer to feed our families chemical laden shortcut meals over real food?

Enter in problem number two. We have lost the art of family time because we have overextended our wants over our needs and our priorities are misguided in our definition of success.

Children have too much freedom, less respect for elders and property and are less articulate and socially unaware because of the huge influence of social media being their mentors instead of us.

I believe the most precious gift we can offer our children is our time and our boundaries, not our wallets.

No one said parenting was an easy task but like anything that is worthwhile, it takes consistency, patience and time, remembering that our biggest job in this world is to help guide and encourage another precious member of the next generation to find their place in this world.

Obviously from my standpoint, natural is the way to go, but not just in food. Natural parenting that comes from the heart and not a text book or being peer pressured into what everyone else is doing.

One of the hardest lessons I learnt as a mother was that it was not my job to be my child’s best friend. So many people have problems playing the bad guy or not having people like them, especially their own child, or is it just easier to give in and save an argument? Consistency isn’t always easy to adopt no matter what we are doing but in something this important, I believe it is imperative.

As parents, we are the most influential people in our child’s lives so the job requires more from us than feeding and clothing them. They watch us constantly, they may not always listen to us, but they certainly absorb all that we are doing. They will role model all our behaviours, positive and negative.

Some of the old fashioned values I believe need to come back into play to encourage respect are family values, art of communication and boundaries.

Family rituals and traditions, eating meals together, restricting technology, encouraging healthy sports (but not so many after school activities that the family never sees one another), playing games and having family outings are all conducive to setting up good foundations that can be passed down from generation to generation.

Giving our kids responsibility and the ability to earn ‘pocket money’ is a good first step in teaching this. Instant gratification and over consumption is a major dysfunction in today’s families.

A few years ago I wrote an article on Parenting Adult Children which discusses how the parenting role changes when our children become adults. It talks about how we can enable them because we feel anxious of them not being happy. Without our interference they would learn to adjust, self-correct, and take responsibility for the choices they make. That is our role, to teach them how to survive in this world when we are no longer there to support them.

Plant the seeds today and we will reap the rewards of our family trees growing and flourishing for years to come.

This is a poem I wrote my daughter when she was testing the boundaries of teenage independence and to this day I know it was a turning point in my life to be her parent first and foremost. Now I get to be her friend.

 

The Angels were smiling on the day you were born

A gift of their own, so precious and warm

My auburn haired beauty with her masses of curls

A bond everlasting, my sweet baby girl

 

A knew you were special from very first sight

I knew you’d be stubborn, from this we would fight

From words will come wisdom, a lesson for each

From listening comes knowledge

That no one can teach

 

There’s a spirit in you that I know I don’t own

But please have some patience for it feels so alone

To care and to nurture and protect you from all

Then to take a step back is a really hard call.

Please know what I do comes straight from my heart

For I know nothing else,

I was your Mum from the start.

 

I know now you can’t see what I’m trying to do

But maybe someday you’ll have a daughter too

And when you come to me with head in your hands

I’ll smile and remember, it wasn’t so bad.

A while ago I wrote an article on Faith and Trust that carried all the practical steps to achieving goals.

But what is Faith? Faith is a knowing. It is a drive or dream that won’t let go even when all evidence can show to the contrary.

The movie Serendipity is an example of that blind faith and not letting go of a feeling.

It is the voice that says ‘trust me’ when other parts of us are dying to run back to the safety net of logic.

It is having the integrity to honour our soul and not allow the personality/ego to drown it out.

We can easily be seduced into feeling it is safer to follow the masses, because at least you have company, but have you ever been in a crowded room and even though the faces are all friendly you still feel that you don’t belong?

At this point in time the Universe is pushing us towards our Life Purpose and that life purpose has to begin with us walking our talk, without fear of humiliation, rejection, retribution, scolding, shame or ridicule.

We should never give up on our dream because it’s ours, no one else is expected to feel the depths of it. Nor should we allow logic to put out those flames of desire and passion.

Even those that love us will often feel they are protecting us by being the voice of reasoning which is why we should be discerning of whom we share our dreams with.

We will have moments of feeling frustrated and the urge to vent will become high but that pressure can be relieved by journaling those frustrations without the repercussion of engaging into face to face encounters that often do not give any resolve.

Find people who support us even if they don’t fully understand, at least they will respect our choices without trying to overprotect.

Why do humans give up on dreams and callings? Maybe it is impatience, maybe lack of proof that it is real, maybe setbacks to that dream, or perhaps just a need to belong to a majority. Safety in numbers can often feel more appealing, dreamers are often put in the eccentric, minority class.

Also many give up on their dreams because they don’t happen in the time frame they would like them to.

Diving timing or the Law of Rhythm, where everything has a natural cycle, plays a huge role in the manifesting of our dreams. We wouldn’t pull a cake out of the oven thirty minutes before its ready. Patience is often a trait that none of us fare very well in.

By holding onto our dreams we can often be accused of being obsessive, irrational, illogical, too passive or a dreamer.

Whilst the Universe can be persistent it is not pathological, the signs will be continual but gentle and our perseverance has its merits.

Learning to trust our intuition and divine messages is key for our next level of evolution. Which also means trusting and accepting when it’s time to detach as that also can be part of the dream. It doesn’t mean we stop caring about our dream, it just allows the Universe to direct us without our interference.

Interestingly enough I thought I was finished writing this blog but something stopped me publishing it. I love the way the Universe works.

That night I saw the movie Tomorrow Land and whilst the movie itself wasn’t overly substantial, the message it delivered at the end certainly packed a punch for me.

It spoke of the way we can be manipulated by the news we are feed to lead us into a negative mindset that can escalate to dire proportions and would definitely be detrimental to holding onto a dream.

It also made several references to the Cherokee proverb of the two wolves.

On the upside it also spoke of encouraging the ‘dreamers’, the ones who never give up. The ones who see beyond the surface.

Dreamers believe in the unseen. They are the pioneers of Tomorrow Land.

Dare to Dream and never give up believing.

 

Whatever situation we find ourselves in all relationships are an opportunity for growth and are all Sacred Contracts.

A relationship, whether it be with parent, child or significant other, will put us in a ‘feeling’ state which is where all our growth occurs.

People come into our lives to teach us about us so all these relationships should be honoured for us to proceed into the next growth evolution of our lives.

Unfortunately we rarely see this in the midst of any pain we have. It is more likely we will project our hurt onto someone else in the hope of diminishing it.

Revenge, resentment and rage are very short term relief painkillers which will often result in an escalation in pain, physical and emotional.

The R’s that I prefer to use are :

Revere the relationship. Obviously relationships cannot be healed if one or both parties are not invested in resurrecting it.

 Respect yourself and each other.  Fight fair, no name calling, demeaning or derogatory comments. Remembering if you are determined to WIN then the other party has to be the loser.  Re-evaluate the importance of that kind of win.

Responsibility for your own feelings. No one can MAKE you feel any way but you always get to choose how you react to any comments or behaviour.

Release the feelings.  Whether it be through exercise, journaling, meditation or even EFT (tapping)

Avoid withdrawing, blaming, withholding, assuming and taking things personally.

Some of the most common issues that arise between relationships normally occur through fear.  This fear is often a fear of feelings. These being fear of rejection, abandonment, humiliation, shame or embarrassment.

Even when all these guidelines along with good communication are followed sometimes it is not enough.  Not all relationships are meant to be forever.  Sometimes people are in our lives for a short time to teach us and when the lesson is learnt, they move on.

Sometimes people leave because in their leaving we grow as people.  Sometimes it allows us to see that we are attracting a better calibre of person which might be a huge milestone for us.

We don’t always know the bigger picture of why things are happening.  Maybe it’s in the grace of acceptance that we can truly find the gift.

It is all a journey, we cannot be expected to see the bigger picture immediately.  So we need to be gentle with ourselves through the grieving process, whether this is a loss due to death or breakdown of a relationship.

Often in a newly established relationship many old wounds will resurface which is why it is imperative to own your feelings and do your own inner work.  That is the beauty of relationships because living behind walls for fear of getting hurt prevents us from growing emotionally. This can often be the cause of people butting up against each other and thus both retreating.  If both parties commit to healing their own wounds, often the relationship can be rekindled in time.

On the other side, some relationships have a firm establishment of commitment very early on which even though they may hit rough patches the thought of not being together outweighs any thoughts of shutting the relationship down.

With the Awakening of a New World, now more than ever before Twin Flames are meeting in this lifetime for a Divine Purpose. Twin flames are two halves of the same soul who often have been each other’s guides up till now.  The high vibrational energy they possess together will be what the Earth is needing now. But because they are each other’s mirrors this relationship has to be met with patience and release of ego before they can fully come together. To have a better understanding of the complexity of this relationship please read HERE

Living in a fast paced society where everything is just a click away whether it be fast food, fast cash, instant downloads or instant connection via online dating breeds an inability to wait and have patience and our resistance to waiting is a result of that instant gratification world.

In Sue Monk Kidd’s book, When the Heart Waits, she talks about a monk at the Abbey of Gethsemani who said, ‘Contemplative waiting is consenting to where we really are. People recoil from it because they don’t want to be present to themselves. Such waiting causes a deep existential loneliness to surface, a feeling of being disconnected from oneself and God. At the depths there is fear, fear of the dark chaos with ourselves”

If we can’t be present with ourselves how are we meant to have meaningful relationships? Our resistance to waiting is a belief that we have to make life happen rather than let it unfold.

In the waiting we will face our pain but it won’t be nearly as bad as avoiding it because pain has a way of expanding when it’s ignored.

That is true of people who resist being alone and become serial daters, which is why online dating sites are such a huge commodity.

We will achieve our deepest progress standing still because stillness speaks.

Like a caterpillar in a cocoon going inward not forward grows our wings.

If you think God only leads you beside still waters, think again. God will also lead you beside turbulent waters. If you have the courage to enter, you’ll think you are drowning but actually you are being churned into something new. Just dive in.

There are many important reasons why many twin flames go through a time of physical separation from each other. This is something that is driven primarily by the soul and not necessarily the individual. Even though it may appear that one or perhaps both twin souls are denying/pushing away/running from the connection, really it is because the SOUL is not ready. The soul dictates when reunion will occur, therefore until the soul has decided it’s time, then no amount of trying to force yourselves to be together before that time will work.

But this physical separation occurs primarily to “wake us up”. All preconceptions about the connection will need to be looked at and if the twin souls have any false ideas about what the connection “should be” and are not accepting it for what it really is, then they will need to continue on in physical separation until they are aware of the true reality of this soul connection.

Also, a main reason why we are physically separated from our twin soul is to learn to love ourselves as much as we love our twin soul, unconditionally.

But firstly we need to look past the ego that contains all the “shoulds” and expectations, the conditions. Mostly what we blame our twin souls for is really what we are blaming ourselves for on a subconscious level. There are parts of ourselves we may be rejecting, denying, scolding, punishing ourselves for. To try and ignore this pain, we put the focus on our twin soul not giving us something which would make us happy. But really we need to realize it is OURSELVES not giving us what we need for happiness and fulfilment. Until we realize this and act upon our needs for happiness and self-love, the problem will continue to manifest itself between the twin flame as the mirror it back to each other.

The physical separation also helps us to become aware of just how important, how significant this twin soul connection really is.

If we were to be together immediately with no problems then surely we would take it more for granted and be unaware of just how important, how significant the connection is. In being physically separated but feeling this pull and experiencing all the psychic, spiritual phenomena that occurs with twin soul connection, we become aware that this is something MASSIVELY important. It helps us to look inwards to discover WHY it is so important and this also spurs us onto awakening.

Our physical separation helps us to realize and strengthen our connection to God/dess. God/dess resides within us, we are divine beings and having the space from our twin souls to concentrate on our relationship with ourselves, with God/dess, helps us to come back to self-love and acceptance. This is what harmonizes our energies with our twin souls and creates twin soul healing to bridge the gap between them for reunion to eventually occur.

As we work on our individual selves, the female aspect of the twin soul connection learns to develop more independence (primarily masculine) and the masculine aspect develops expressing emotion in a constructive manner (primarily feminine). Therefore the twin souls have the room to grow and develop their bi-gender energies to realign and reunite.

Think about what you have learnt from the separation – what are the good things that have resulted from this? Have you grown more as an individual? Have you awakened more spiritually? Have you learnt more about yourself? Have you developed more of your intuition? 

This is all happening for a reason. It is nobody’s “fault” but just the path of your souls to help you learn and grow the most in preparation for twin soul reunion.

 

This is taken from www.twinsouls.com

 

 

 

 

After writing my last blog on Releasing the Ego it is more apparent than ever that FEAR is running rampant.

From my experience, FEAR often shows up just as something good is about to emerge.  It can show up as insecurities, old limiting beliefs, sabotage, indecisiveness or half truths.

I don’t think it’s any coincidence that governing bodies are becoming more proactive, or rather bullying people into their way of thinking by instilling fear and stand over tactics.  Maybe their fear is that the natural therapists know truths that could be either damaging or unprofitable.

My only purpose for this blog is not to engage a debate on natural versus clinical but to open a line of communication, within ourselves to have an awareness of when we are operating from fear base or fact.

With obvious evidence supporting both sides of any debates, I think it bears remembering that scaring, shaming or bullying is now recognised, on a global level, to be totally unacceptable.

Regardless of whether the intention is to help people, the inability to choose that help negates any good doing.

We know that there has been discrepancies in the past of what medical and government have chosen for us in the interest of our own good.   Like the tampering with our water supply with fluoride, hybridising our wheat supply, the cholesterol myth, the thalidomide effect, the introduction of artificial and processed foods, the overuse of preservatives in vaccines, overprescribing of antibiotics and pharmaceuticals and most recently the threat of not insuring midwives to assist with home births.

We are currently celebrating 100 years of the Anzacs and all the aussie pride that envelopes that is about the fact they fought for our freedom.

Regardless of what our beliefs are and where our alliances on these delicate issues lie, having our freedom to choose taken away is something that everyone should be concerned about.

Maybe these new decisions don’t directly affect all of us today, but if we stand back and allow others to be subjected to these bullying tactics we are guilty of being accessories by our passivity or could find ourselves affected personally at some stage.

I believe if we have grave concerns regarding any issue, not to adopt a knee jerk, fear based reaction but to research or seek out and follow those who have done that research so that you are better informed to make your own choice and not hand over those important decisions based on herd mentality.  After all, we are all individuals, so that needs to be acknowledged.

Our self-awareness and ability to trust ourselves goes a long way in helping make those important decisions.  I think the saying of ‘when the student is ready, the teacher will appear’ is very appropriate in these circumstances.  Once you have the intention to become more informed, more information will be presented to you.  It’s the Law of Attraction.

Aim to be a critical thinker in your life. Critical thinking is the ability to engage in reflective and independent thinking and contrary to some beliefs doesn’t inhibit our creativity. It actually enhances the outside the box thinking and pursuit of the less travelled consensus.

Many acclaimed critical thinkers, who are experts in their fields are amazing examples of how science and natural therapies can not only live in perfect harmony, but is our natural state of being.

Wayne Dyer, Gregg Braden and Bruce Lipton are but a few of these people that are worth following to gain a better understanding of this, all of which I have had the privilege of meeting.

Freedom is our natural state of being and should be pursued for our peace of mind.

Perhaps Paulo Coelho said it best:

Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose

And commit to myself to what is best for me

From today we have a New Moon, Equinox and Solar Eclipse happening.  If anyone was unsure of how connected we are to the earth and how its changes affect us, this will confirm those thoughts.

Just when you thought you had heard enough about ascension, peeling back our layers for our own betterment, earth consciousness, and hanging in there for the good times that are about to follow, our faith can understandably start to dwindle when we yet again can be thrown another ‘curve ball’ of further challenges in the form of physical health, financial blows, or major life changes.

The world is not conspiring against you, it is the earth’s growth and we, as part of the earth’s consciousness, are feeling those changes too.  It is often through our darkest hours that true strength and illumination can be felt, but most humans would not consciously choose these harsh times, and for good reason often will fight against them and fall prey to a lower vibration of feeling victimised.

Even having an understanding of the earth’s consciousness of moving from a state of 3D to 5D and going through its normal 5,000 year cycle of change, many are struggling to hang onto the hope that this is all happening exactly as it should.

Unlike the other cyclic World Ages of the Ice Age, Stone Age, Bronze Age and Dark Ages, where mankind had to be reborn for the earth to be cleansed, in this Age we are living through it and at times it can appear very unsettling and very dark.  Our ancestors knew that the close of one world age was the beginning of another.  This is the Cycle of Life.

It is interesting to note that the only things that are breaking down are those not sustainable to the Earths future and Earth is not the only planet experiencing changes, many other planets are too.

As the earth’s consciousness is rising to a higher vibration for its own evolution, we as humans are going through the same metamorphous.

Similarly, the birth from caterpillar to butterfly, or our own birth, there is an element of discomfort, uncertainty, pain, apprehension and a terrifying fear of the unknown.  As the saying goes, it’s always darkest before the dawn, the same applies to our own rebirthing. If we can relax, struggle less, offer less resistance, and believe we are safe and protected throughout this process, we will triumph.  This is our Death of the Ego, often referred to as the Dark Night of the Soul.

It is only when we allow fear to creep in and the thoughts of our ego to take centre stage that we will fall victim to these thoughts.

Our ego is our personality, it’s the crust of us that has been formed from our experiences, our belief system that may have been heavily influenced by parents, teachers, bosses and partners.  It is our outer shell but it is not a true representation of our souls.

How would we know if we are operating from our ego self?

Everyone has an ego personality, it is what makes us human but the challenge is to not be ruled by it and remember where our truth lies, in our soul. The ego will strive to maintain the illusion of separation, a distinction between outside and inside, us and them mentality.

It will show itself as prejudices, habits, addictions, blame, fears, judgements and guilt.

It will project our fears onto the people closest to us, it will mirror others behaviours back to us that we may not recognise as our own, and it will blame others for our lives or make us believe we have to carry the burden of guilt.

Guilt is an emotion that keeps us trapped and stagnant, not to be confused with taking responsibility for our behaviours.  Blame is the flipside of responsibility that keeps us in ego state.

It will judge others to deflect looking at ourselves and healing the wounds of the past.

Our journey is from the head to the heart and when we are in judgement we cannot move toward love.

It will show us anger, resentment, and unforgiveness.

Another clue that we are living in the ego is when we don’t stay in the present.  Ego cannot live in the present.  It will prey on insecurities about your past and install fear about your future.  It has no power in the present.

It can be relentless and distort the truth. It is trying to survive so will stop at nothing to achieve this.

If we are unaware of these ways of the ego we can succumb to its taunting and find ourselves in a place of darkness and despair that can spiral to the point of desperation and depression.

My hope is that someone will read this and see themselves in these words and know that they are not mentally unbalanced or cursed or lost.  We are simply going through our birth canal and our only choice is to keep going.  To stop reacting to the ego and allow our natural form of creating instead.

Acceptance, surrender, faith, trust, compassion, empathy and love are the words of the soul.

There is no coming into consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd to avoid facing their own soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. Carl Jung

What feels like a breakdown is actually a breakthrough

We lose in order to find

We forget in order to remember

We die a death in the ego in order to be reborn

We are Human Angels

Happy Birthday everyone !

It’s another New Year and 2015 is the Year of the Sheep which in Chinese tradition signifies having an open heart, compassion, creativity, family and acceptance.  Sheep only go forward, never backward or sideways.

Traditionally most people will set goals, resolutions and benchmarks for themselves at the beginning of each year, which are often unrealistic and harsh and then they spend more time beating themselves up for failing.  The open heart compassionate policy has to begin with us.

In times of tragedy and disaster many people will step up to help their fellow man like in the recent Sydney siege where instead of turning to hate against a race, it became a crusade to protect them with offerings of escorting those who felt fearful for their safety on public transport.  The ‘Ride with Me’ exercise was an example of humanity triumphing over tragedy.

Another recent example was the Adelaide Hills bushfire at the beginning of the year.  People rallied to help neighbours and the animals and to offer food and shelter.

These examples are proof that when tested the true hero in the story doesn’t carry a weapon and act tough, it remains soft and vulnerable, proving once again that the heart is the master organ.

When we witness these events it’s easy to believe that humanity is alive and well but why wait for a disaster to strike or tragedy to occur.  We can offer this to strangers in the form of courtesy, tolerance, vulnerability, compassion many times throughout our day.

Many people are experiencing big changes over the last couple of years which I covered physical symptoms of rashes, hot flushes, cold and flu, shingles and gastro symptoms in my blog from 2012 Our Ascension Part 1 and  Our Ascension Part 2.  These are still occurring as our bodies are going through a metamorphic phase of recalibrating. Changing of energy has many of us going through changes of losing loved ones, friendships, relationships, dwellings, jobs and beliefs. This is ascension, not menopause, midlife crisis or rebellion.

There is also a call to clean up past ‘clutter’.  We can no longer overwork, overexercise, overeat, overshop or overstimulate to avoid facing these ‘skeletons of our past’.  It is as simple as acknowledging and releasing.  It doesn’t need to be an intervention of the family or years of therapy.  Just feel the emotions, let them have their voice and allow them to pass through us, (often as the physical symptoms listed above).

Many people experienced different Christmas celebrations, either with new people, some family missing or dined with new people, as with different celebrations for New Year.  Whilst this can seem disconcerting for some as change often does, I think when we embrace the Law of Detachment we are more likely to bend with change rather than snap because of a rigidity or what things ‘should’ look like.

Many are spending more time alone opposed to socialising, this is part of a self-awareness level. This can be that the rise in vibration has made us more sensitive to outside stimulants that make us feel uncomfortable, not to be confused by an anxiety of not venturing outside the house at all.

When we embrace an attitude of tolerance we are not only coming up against our own beliefs but those we may have grown up with.  We may be opposing against our family, our church, and our medical professionals.  Just know that it doesn’t have to be all or nothing.  We can challenge things at our own pace based on our heart feelings and inner knowing’s.

There are many topics that are in need of tolerance and my advice would be to become more educated on the subject but always make the decision from your heart, what feels right and never make a decision based on fear.  Those topics can give rise to many a heated discussion whether it be religion, nutrition, parenting modalities including vaccinations, breastfeeding, child birthing or parents’ rights to work or stay home. If we can stay in our heart and know that everyone is doing what they believe is in their best interest, we can leave judgement at the door and adopt our own personal philosophies thus making decision making better suited for us.

For me personally, my philosophies would be close to nature, so I find it interesting that my style of spirituality, nutrition, parenting beliefs and natural healing are often referred to as NEW AGE where in reality it is more nature’s original blueprint, making it more ancient or indigenous.

Technology is amazing but in many cases man has interfered with our natural philosophy, one being fundamentalist religion and another being the philosophy of our innate intelligence to self-heal by introducing many man made foods and pharmaceuticals that are contributing to poorer health.

Whether we meditate on it, pray on it, or sleep on it, if the decision is coming from a place of feeling then we are on track. If we find ourselves still jumping from head to heart then spend time in nature, with our pet or make sandcastles with our kids or grandkids.  Spending time in a cleaner frequency gives us clearer reception to our answers.

Having a belief in ourselves and know that it is our nutritional decisions, thoughts and unresolved emotions that contributed to a state of unwell so a reversal of those can bring us back to wellbeing again.

If mankind ever hopes to sustain the planet’s existence there has to be a realisation that it’s not technology we need, it’s HUMANITY.

Article from Innerself Magazine January 2013

Welcome to the New Year and New Earth of 2013.

The prelude to this year wasn’t without its share of physical and emotional shifts, global shifts, shifts in consciousness and fatigue of just being on this earth’s lower vibration.

The cloak of our past has weighed heavy on our souls but we should be starting to feel some relief now from the burden of not being our authentic selves. For to live in our light bodies is a yearning we have all been eagerly awaiting.

It has been said:  The War is Over, The Battle Won and LOVE was the victor

Interesting how we use the terminology of : ‘War on Cancer’ and ‘Fight for a Cure’ and that we believe going to war will stop people killing each other. Maybe now we can replace the words, battle, struggle, fight, war and control with negotiate, challenge, compromise, peace and surrender, starting with our own internal challenges.

Over the last few months especially, we have experienced solar eclipses, lunar eclipses, and super moons, so it’s no wonder our bodies have gone through an emotional detoxification.

Solar activity is a catalyst for evolutionary process as it changes matter, energy and consciousness.

We are all aware of the Galactic Alignment with the Earth and the core of the Milky Way that occurred but what did it really mean to us?

Solar flares affect our central nervous system causing us to become nervous, lethargic, anxious, worry, memory loss, trouble with communication, headaches and irritability.

Solar activity then comes in to illuminate consciousness by opening our new neural pathways and old patterns are virtually consumed by the light.

As the Earth goes through this ascension to a higher vibration from 3rd Dimensional to 5, so did we. This means what was previously called our junk DNA  by scientists is now being activated and available to us.

This is where we access ESP, the ability to see auras, enhanced intuition, more inner peace, more synchronicities and deeper connectedness to the Earth and all its creatures.

With this 12Strand DNA now being activated the energy rises and purifies each chakra, releasing energy blocks, hence our erratic mood swings. This is called Kundalini energy, often referred to as Kundalini Rising as it lies dormant as the base of our spine like a snake coiled until it is time for each chakra to be cleansed and awakened.

So with all this activity going on, especially in the latter half of the year we could be excused for believing the world was going a little mad, border lining between extreme highs and lows.

The new energy is going to mean different things to different people but the overall message is that our Heart Chakra energy is opening up and changes are inevitable. The level of change will be very individual.

Some of us will follow these new instincts and others will continue to resist.

Some signs that we are on the ascension path will be that we can observe our own behaviours and are more likely to be able to self correct; we are following our instincts more and thinking with our hearts rather than our brain.

We will be more interested in spiritual practices ranging from meditation, energy healings, and spiritual workshops or just getting closer to nature. This is our natural state to be a ‘feeling’ being, rather than a ‘thinking’ being.

When we are not caught up in the material world and worrying about keeping up with a non-existent society and its rules, we will automatically default back to what feels natural and right for us.

It’s no surprise that so many people flock to the ocean, lakes and nature for their vacations. It’s our natural state of energizing ourselves.

We will also be drawn to keeping that state of vibrational elevation by choosing non toxic cleaning products, organic foods and toxic free relationships.

Our curiosity for understanding our patterns and limiting beliefs will also be a symptom that we are truly coming into an age of ascension where the Heart is the Master Organ and fear no longer has the power over us.

The most important part of learning to ride the rollercoaster of change is to surrender to the different stages of emotions and allow them to pass through rather than cause them to get stuck in our bodies by resisting.

The message for this new energy comes back to the fact that underneath all our habits, beliefs, fears, theories and emotional baggage, we are all interconnected, interrelated and interdependent.

The Heart being the Master Organ means it is Number One. It’s all about the Oneness.

What affects one, affects all. The Awakening has the scales tipped in the favour of humanity.

We all now want the same thing. Peace and Humanity will become our Life Purpose.

I believe that people’s obsession with acquiring ‘things’ is our actual craving for human touch.

The touch of a hand, hug, and hand on the shoulder is part of reclaiming our oneness. It is why there are so many people out there ‘looking for love’. They are just looking to reclaim that love inside that has been buried under the veil of the lower vibration energy.

We all have the inner knowledge that we are all connected, people, animals, plants and the earth. It is no longer Us or Them…we are all in this together.

We have resisted feeling or showing love in fear that it may be rejected or unrequited.

Love is in abundance now.  It is the only thing we don’t need to be frugal with.

Love is the only thing that the more we give away, the more we receive.

There is no longer a need to protect ourselves.

I AM SAFE

I AM LOVED

I AM PROTECTED,

Article from Innerself Magazine September 2012

This article may appear to some as a little deeper than previous but I believe the timing is right. Even if the words don’t quite resonate yet, please be aware of an inner knowing that, on some level, you already know this to be true.

Our Ascension is imminent but the speed at which we arrive is individual. The real goal is to move forward at whatever pace you are comfortable with. There is no gold medal involved for the quickest time. There is however, a prize and that prize is Freedom.

We don’t acquire Freedom; it’s not something that is handed over to us like a Key to the City.  When we have the knowledge of The Truth,of who we really are, the bars disappear and we realise that we were our own jailers.

Now before we go beating ourselves up, remember we have been conditioned to believe in systems. The legal, the government, the education and the medical. We needed these to keep order and conformity and structure….or so we thought. It’s no surprise that these are the very things that Indigos rebel against and they are our evolution.

I think a lot of people are awakening and are feeling that these systems are keeping us stuck, literally, in fear, like we have lead weights on our ankles.  We know we can fly but we’ve forgotten how.  We needed guidance and to believe in something because we have forgotten our own majestic ability.  We have had amnesia of our own magnificence and that we are all one.

So how do we know if we are ascending and heading in the right direction and what should we expect?

We will all go through a transformation of many aspects of our lives.  Remember we are never given more than we can handle, so please do not worry, just go with the flow.  Some of the changes may be subtle and others may seemingly ‘knock you for six’ 

Some symptoms of ascension can be changes in sleep patterns, energy levels ranging from high to low, waves of emotion, not depictive of hormones, tingling of the crown and spine as our vibration changes frequency and power surges of heat and cold.

We may find that many relationships will change.  We will move closer to those of similar frequency to ours and be repelled by someone of lower frequency.

Our challenge is not to judge others by where they are on their path, remembering we are all going through our own journey.

We need to be respectful of this but we also need to be honest with ourselves and them when we no longer wish to continue with these relationships.  This can often be one of the hardest parts of the transformation process, but remember the best way to teach is to lead by example.

As we are gong through these relationship changes do not be surprised by a sudden reappearance of an old beau or person from your past.  These people can resurface merely because there are ‘loose‘ ends that need tidying up emotionally.

We cannot transcend while we are still carrying old baggage from our past.

Another change is an amplification of our senses.  It is a normal occurrence to see glittering lights and shimmers, not unlike that of a heat haze. Our hearing can sometimes be magnified or experience ringing and as again with Indigos, often have trouble understanding instructions, a form of audio dyslexia .

It is also not uncommon as we are going through our emotional cleanup that we can experience physical ailments of cold and flu symptoms, skin outbreaks in the form of rashes, dermatitis, acne or shingles. It is just when the emotions are released, so are toxins that can erupt through our skin. On the up side, the less we resist these emotions and acknowledge the message, the quicker they will pass and we will physically look younger.

Another significant change that may occur is changes in food choices and food intolerances which subsequently can result in altered body shape. Many people when raising their vibration no longer vibrate to lower energy foods and chemicals whether from ingesting or using in their personal and home care.

After our physical transformation we are in a better position to extend that out to the earth, and animals and may well be on a path of our life purpose. No longer will there be tolerance for cruelty, greed, and environmental abuse.

Integrity will no longer let you turn a blind eye.

We will fight for causes, speak up for the underdog and rally to save our precious resources and wildlife.

I have stood on the steps of Parliament House with my daughter  to demonstrate against the Japanese fisherman in Taiji to stop the slaughter of the dolphins in The Cove and also Ban Live Export.

We need to ask ourselves what we are passionate about and don’t ever think that our one voice won’t make a difference.

This is not intended for anyone to make changes based on guilt because then it would be for all the wrong reasons.  Fear again would be the ‘Stick’.

I will always stand by my motto of only doing things when they FEEL right …not what we THINK is right.

Wherever we are on our ascension journey just know that we are exactly where we need to be.

Nothing in life is to be feared…It is only to be understood.

Now is the time to understand more and fear less

Marie Curie