Inspired to Passion

Who inspires you? Last night my ears perked up when I heard Diana Nyad’s name mentioned on the news about her upcoming swim from Cuba to Florida.  Diana was one of my first mentors for physical fitness as a lifestyle.  Her book, Basic Training for Women, was written in such an inspirational, motivational and personal way that I found myself thinking of Diana almost as a personal friend.  This was 30 years ago!  I think my desire to be in partnership with my body - to honor it, respect it, to find joy in moving it, to feed it well, to learn from it – can be traced back to Diana’s motivational reverence for the mind/body/life connection.

So here I am 30 years later inspired once again by Diana’s persistence to live out a dream. She attempted to swim from Cuba to Florida in 1978, and also intended to complete this swim last summer in celebration of turning 60.  In both cases, weather, something beyond her control, stopped her.  Diana is once again on the brink of realizing this dream.

One of my primary intentions while participating in the Youthening Program (energy downloads channeled through Wendy Down) is to feel the passion of my younger self, the me who believes she is here to make a difference in this world. Listen to Diana as she also steps into the passion of daring to follow through on an earlier dream, to feel herself as the collective energy of her aging cohort who are unwilling to be defined by conditioned beliefs about aging.

THIS is the time in our world to step fully into your passion, giving your gifts to the world.  My passion is being stimulated around consciousness transformation.  I just found out this week I have a place to begin leading Consciousness Evolution circles!  More about that in August, but for now, if the idea of playing a role and giving your gifts to our planet’s evolution is tapping you on the shoulder, I encourage you to attend or listen to the recording of the Activation Call led by Barbara Marx Hubbard this Saturday, July 23.  Or, become an Agent of Consciousness Evolution (read more) and join me in creating your own local evolutionary circle.

Kids Learn to Create an Awesome Life

This summer my gym (Castle Hill Fitness) is assisting with Project Healthy America, an organization focused “to improve the health and wellness of the community and diminish economic disparities, starting with the youth.”  Trainers are volunteering to teach sessions for the kids, age 10 – 17.  I volunteered to provide a “life coaching” lesson instead of something physical.

If you are working with children this summer, either your own or with groups, you are welcome to use any or all of this lesson plan to help teach kids about their ability to co-create their lives. I’m sharing the outline of this as my way of saying “thank you” to those of you who are supporting our newest cosmic citizens to live their lives remembering who they really are, powerful co-creators of our universe.

Lesson Plan:  How to Create An Awesome Life

Objective:  Experientially teach simple tools for understanding our personal capacity to impact our own life.

I Create Your Compass/GPS

A.    Use a paper plate to draw circle in the middle & 4 lines drawn to the outside edge

B.    Label one line for each letter “L” “I” “F” “E”

C.   Discussion points:

1.    GPS helps to keep us on course for where we want to go.

2.    If you get off track, the GPS can always help you get started again, no matter where you are.

II            L = LOVE what you want

A.    Focus on the things you love to do, have and BE to create your awesome life.

B.    Group activity:

1.    Person A with ball in their hand says, “In my Awesome Life I love to _________” and then runs to the other side of the room.

2.    Anyone who also loves that thing moves to the other side with him/her.

3.    Person A throws ball to someone else (either on the same side of the room or opposite, it doesn’t matter).

4.    Person B now says, “In my Awesome Life I Love to ________ “ and from wherever they are in the room, he/she runs to the other side.  Other kids who also love that thing move to the same side of the room, and if they don’t love the same thing, they move to whatever side is opposite.

5.    Person B throws the ball to another person and it continues.

6.    Look for responses that include doing (action), having (things) AND Being (states of being/emotions).  After a bit, prompt any area that is not showing up (probably “being”).  Continue until you have a good mix.

C.   Have each person write one thing they “love” that he/she wants more of in life on the compass in the “L” space.

D.   The “SECRET KEY” to this tool: You get more of what you focus on.

III            I = Imagine the end result

A.    Imagination is an awesome tool for creating focus on the “stuff” you want.

B.    Imagine:

1.    “What your life would look like if you had ‘more than enough’ of what you wrote under ‘L’”  (You could also “act” this out!)

2.    What’s different in your life?

3.    Draw or write what’s the best part of the change.

C.   The “SECRET KEY” to this tool:  Using your imagination makes you feel better.

IV            F = Feel as though it is already so

A.    Continue to imagine the end result, what feelings/emotions are present?

1.    Stand up and act out the feelings/emotions without using words and notice how they feel in your body.

2.    Which emotions feel good in your body?

3.    Which emotions feel contracted/tight?

B.    The “SECRET KEY” to this tool:  When your whole body feels in flow, then you know where to go.

C.   Write word or phrase or image on compass about feeling state that felt the best.

V            E = Engage with your life

A.    Engaging your Natural Gifts & Actions Generates Energy

B.    Focus on using your natural gifts as you take inspired (feeling state) action.

1.    What are natural gifts?

2.    Write on compass.

C.   Discuss how trying to “figure out” or “force something” stops momentum.

D.   The “SECRET KEY” to this tool:  Using your natural gifts to take action generates energy/momentum to attract more of what you want.

VI            Review/Share/Close

Updates and other resources:

• Want to play an integral role in the transformation of consciousness on our planet?  The second ACE (Agent of Consciousness Evolution) program begins July 26.  I highly recommend this course!  It is loaded with passion for following your inner evolutionary impulse, calling you into creative and innovative involvement with a community of like minded global citizens.

• Watch my Facebook page on July 12 for a new book about accessing your feminine power and some great bonus offers with it.

Are You Responding to Your Evolutionary Impulse?

My deepest desire is to live the continuous experience of BEING pure awareness, living from my essence, fully engaged in the is-ness (read more) of each moment as it unfolds gracefully, guided by the joy, excitement and evolutionary impulse of the proceeding moment.

This past weekend I treated myself to the luxury of a five-hour retreat devoted to being fully present to what is bubbling inside of me and allowing that to flow out through my writing. (Check out Carolyn Scarborough, Backyard Pearls for info on her fall retreat!).  What flowed from me was an amazing validation of the work I’ve been doing with the ACE training.  In the desire statement above you can see these foundations of being an Agent for Consciousness Evolution unfolding through me:

1. Feel the impulse of billions of years of consciousness evolution rising up through my very core creating a powerful pull to step fully into my evolutionary purpose.
2. Follow my “compass of joy” to recognize my path.
3. Through this joy-path, allow my unique strengths and gifts to surface.
4. Giving rise to my gifts brings me into alignment with my essence, pure awareness, my deep authentic power (read more).
   
5. From authentic power I access “vocational arousal” (love that term!) to share my gifts for the evolution and transformation of our planet.
6. Utilize my arousal to be a resource provider (read more) who facilitates the awakening and inspiration for others to step fully into their evolutionary impulse.

Do you also feel your evolutionary impulse when you read these steps? I urge you to join the Activation Call TODAY to become a player in the Birth 2012 experience.  Listen to Barbara Marx Hubbard (evolutionary), Lynne Twist (soul of money), Neale Donald Walsh (spiritual), Jack Canfield (collective consciousness) and Dorothy Maver (peace movement) as they share their visions for bringing together the energy of over 2 BILLION people in December 2012 to collectively align with the highest expression of consciousness transformation for our planet. WOW!  This (FREE) call is an incredible blending of the science behind the spiritual transformation taking place on our planet. Prepare to be inspired to be more of what you came here to be! You can receive a recording of this call if you are reading this after June 22.

My intent is to form Consciousness Evolutionary Circles beginning in July.  Watch this space, or add your name to my mailing list, to receive more information about these.  Here is a video of Christine, one of my ACE partners, sharing an evolutionary conversation with friends.

Ideas for You to Step More Fully into Your Evolutionary Impulse:

• Activate your inspiration by listening to the Birth 2012 Activation Call.  Even if you are not called forth to be a part of this particular program, you will stimulate the synchronicities (read more) of the Universe to attract to you the path that is resonant for you.
• Every day experiment with sitting quietly before beginning a task and placing the question, “What is most wanting to joyfully emerge from me in this moment?”  From a poised mind, allow the answer to bubble forth and observe what shows up.  Take action from this deeper knowing.
• Sign up for the newly upgraded 8 Awesome Ways to Know You’ve Opened Your Channel (upper right side panel on this page) to learn and practice new tools for recognizing the inner guidance that is flowing to you in each moment from your Higher Self.

Gestating FREEDOM

As I mentioned in my previous post, I’m in a gestational period.  I’m incubating the next phase of my vocation, though I do not yet know what it looks like.  I do, however, have the full support of the Universe as I am receiving many synchronous signs about what this next phase feels like – FREEDOM!

A couple of weeks ago I was walking home from the gym where I am a personal trainer, thinking about client hours, cancellations, income, the time oriented nature of this biz, and retirement.  The question I raised for myself was, “If you retired, what would you want to do with your time?”  Well, I treasure the physical training I do with others and would want to keep a few clients; I enjoy playing with energy, consciousness expansion, and sharing these kinds of resources with others; I get pleasure from writing about living from a connection with your Higher Self.   A huge wave of recognition flowed through me and I just had to laugh out loud!  I am already living in a way that reflects what I want to do when I “retire!”  I am already experiencing the FREEDOM I imagined for my future.

Last week I confessed to a friend I had wasted too much time lately playing Angry Birds (really? it’s embarrassing!).  She told me that when she was pregnant she had the most delicious feeling of being continuously productive, regardless of whether she was “in action” or not.  She was producing a baby when she was taking a nap, watching mindless TV or working; the most important thing was that she was gestating. There it is, FREEDOM to follow whatever is calling to me whether it is strategic games to entertain my mind, or bike rides to fuel my body, or sharing my professional skills, the real productivity of gestating my future is happening 24/7 and it needs the time, space and FREEDOM to do that.

One last example is from the Agents of Consciousness Evolution training.  Our focus the past few weeks is around allowing our compass of joy to bring forth our unique skills and gifts so that we each can use these in service to the transformation of our world. As Agents, we see ourselves as the pioneers modeling a co-creative community that honors every ones’ strengths and gifts, providing the FREEDOM for people to self-express in ways that empower their highest contribution to the community.  It’s the FREEDOM to be who you really are, abundantly supported on all levels, to joyously evolve our world through your own full self-expression.

Integrating More Freedom Into Your Life:

• Where in your life do you feel the most restricted or stuck? Now take the opposite view and “make a case” in your journal how this part of your life actually reflects some aspect of FREEDOM.  What insights or inspired action steps come from this?
• In your quite time, ask yourself, “What is growing in me that wants to be shared with the world?” You may not receive a specific answer, but you may receive a feeling, an image, a color, a thought, a scenario. Just notice what shows up and allow this new information to incubate. Check in again after a few days to see what else is present. How is this information moving you toward experiencing more FREEDOM of self-expression in your life? Check out programs (many are free!) by the Shift Network to support you in your journey toward full self-expression.
• Whenever I lead clients to experience themselves as their most expanded Self and ask, “What are you feeling?” invariably I hear “FREEDOM.” Listen to my meditation, “The Mental Gap,” which leads you through the experience of feeling yourself as pure energy. You can download this for FREE using the promotional code FREEDOM. Share your experiences HERE of feeling your Mental Gap!

Opening to the Feminine Field

This week’s full moon is in Scorpio.  Molly Hall says this moon is about “catharsis. . . . It can illuminate what’s stuck, hinting at reservoirs of old wounds, resentments, and unfulfilled desires.  At the deepest levels, there can be a release, a sense of greater power and a deluge of fresh feelings.”

So much energy is swirling in me, surfacing “stuff” I thought I had already completed, yet also firing up fresh awareness and passions (watch my video about choosing physical form).  An old neck injury is causing pain, tightness, numbing and tingling all through my left side.  The left side represents feminine energy and the message I’m receiving from my body is that it’s time to cultivate a deeper sense of my feminine nature. Not surprisingly, everywhere I turn I’m directed toward feminine energy.  In very synchronistic ways, I’ve been guided to download specific meditation music focused on Ishwari, to listen to an Inspiring Women Telesummit, to add Shakti rituals to my daily routines, and to notice that every thing that draws my attention these days is actually some reflection of “the feminine field.”

Here I am in my 50’s and in a womb being nurtured for my birth into fulfilling my commitment to play a significant role in the transformation of our world.  Just last night in the Agent of Conscious Evolution (ACE) training (that I’m loving!), Barbara Marx Hubbard talked about building the feminine aspect of receptivity within us in order to join with the masculine aspect of genius that is also within each of us.  It’s an “inner procreation” that will then birth my capacity to fully participate in outer co-creation for world transformation.

It’s heady stuff, but in alignment with a quote I’ve heard was from the Dalai Lama, “The world will be saved by the Western Woman.” He is reported to have said this at the Vancouver Peace Summit in September 2009 along with his view that “we are seeing the rise of the feminine energy globally as we move toward compassionate, empathetic and nurturing global society.”

Men are not excluded, however, from this shift in our way of relating to one another.  Each of us has what to date, traditionally called masculine and feminine characteristics.  In the ACE training, and also in a local networking discussion I attended about this very subject, the consensus is that as we raise our consciousness levels, duality in all its forms is blurred, and an enlightened “Universal” human arises to embody the highest forms of both the masculine and feminine energies. (Do not fear, it is NOT a genderless society, rather a juicy, creative, cooperative, sexual society.  But, that’s a whole other post!).

As you raise your vibration, you come more into alignment with your true “universal” nature, and with the natural order around you.  Use this Scorpion moon’s energies to “[transform] again and again, to stand on a sense of real integrity.  True confidence emerges when there’s nothing to fear within or without.”  Molly Hall

Integrative Action Steps to Utilize Scorpion Energies:

• It’s time to go deep, purge what no longer serves you, and find a firm footing on your foundational beliefs.  Grab your journal, find a quiet space with sufficient time, and allow yourself to move inward.  Drop your mind into your heart by placing your hand on your heart and focusing your breath and attention there.  Ask these questions:

1. What dream, goal, desire is ready to emerge from me?
2. Scan your body and notice if any contraction occurs.  If yes, ask this specific body part, “What is your message to me?  What are you most afraid of?”
3. Imagine you had complete freedom to drop this fear, or limitation that surfaced, and ask, “Will you show me a vision of my life without this fear/limitation?”
4. What insights, new awareness showed up for you?  What inspired actions do you now feel called to take?  Write about this experience in your journal.

• I have been pleased with my experiences with programming through The Shift Network.  For resources around shifting your consciousness, take a look at http://bit.ly/tsnch

A Birthday Gift from My Higher Self

One of my intentions of playing with “youthening” is to completely lose awareness of my age. But, birthdays are still fun to celebrate and this year I received a wonderful gift from my Higher Self.  In a flash I was moved from melancholy to a powerful appreciation for our ability as humans to create in the physical world, and I felt deep in my core, this choice I made to be here NOW!

Soon after I received this gift I heard and downloaded a beautiful musical meditation from the group, Sacred Earth.  It’s called “Shine” and one of the repeated lines is,

Step out from behind the darkness to the Light
‘Cause it is time for you to Shine

I listen to this group during my morning cleansing ritual and get juiced for the day, allowing the question, “What is wanting to emerge from me today?” to be present.  Then, I feel inspired to take action, such as making the video above.

What is emerging today from your choice to be physical?

Ideas for Stepping Fully into Your Choice to be Physical:

• Connect with your physicality daily through movement such as dance, yoga, running/walking/swimming/cycling, strength training, gardening, etc.  Practice loving and appreciating all of the many ways your physicality supports you, saying kind and gentle things to your body.

• Contemplate or meditate regularly upon the question, “What is emerging from me to share with others in support of the transformation of our world?” Step outside the chatter of your intellect and allow your inner compass of stillness, excitement, joy, curiosity, or passion to guide you into taking inspired action.

• Seek guidance/community with others who are also excited about creatively playing in our earth’s (and our own) transformation such as The Shift Network, Crimson Circle, The Consciousness Playground, and TUT’s Adventure Club.

From Revelations to Crystallization

Crystallization.  Of all places it happened this past weekend as I listened to a funeral sermon and heard: “Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away.”  My ears perked up and I felt a deep cord of resonance flow through me.  “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.” (Excerpts from Revelation 21:1-27 ESV)  And I heard within me this interpretation, “Behold, God is everything.  He dwells within all that is and all that is, is One.”

Crystallization.  Many facets of my spiritual life are coming together, crystallizing to show me how I have been preparing for this transition into our New Earth that is happening NOW.

Did you participate as I did with the 100’s of thousands that joined Oprah and Eckhart Tolle in the ground-breaking webcast of A New Earth?  Could that really be three years ago?  In Chapter 1, Tolle refers to this same scripture and writes, “A ‘new heaven’ is the emergence of a transformed state of human consciousness, and ‘a new earth’ is its reflection in the physical realm.”  A seed was planted on my path.

Last fall I joined in the Feminine Power Teleclass for Awakening Women with Katherine Woodward Thomas and Claire Zammit and accessed for the first time some deep conditioning around powerlessness that I was clueless to its limiting affect on my life.  Using many of the tools from the Consciousness Playground, I began to disassemble this conditioning. Another seed nurtured.

Six weeks ago I planted these “Dream Seeds” in my Blooming Humans project:  1)  To consistently, with grace and ease, stay in tune to my inner guidance and live continuously in the field of excitement, curiosity and joy, and 2) Allow a new manifestation to flow easily into my field of awareness that is fun and calls to me.  And then, Birth 2012 showed up!

Crystallization. I am an Agent of Consciousness Evolution (ACE).

Training to be certified as an ACE began last night (it’s not too late if you also feel called!). I was moved and inspired by this highly conscious integration of science and spirituality. But, more importantly, I felt the deep resonance that this work is on my path.  I don’t know yet how it will manifest through me, but it is clear that I will share the story of our conscious evolution and play a part in this transition to our New Earth. Be-ing an Agent of Conscious Evolution is the crystallization of many of the seed facets of my path.

This came from Blooming Hearts today!:

Your part is clear. As you rise up in yourself to find a higher form of grace and astute awareness, you become a part of the great Web of Peace encircling the planet. Every person who is awakening is essential to this movement. http://www.thegabrielmessages.com/

What is crystallizing in you?

• From a quiet, sacred space, place this question in your heart, “What is emerging on my path?” (from the ACE training)
• Raise your inner antennae as you listen to music, news, conversations, trainings, see images, readings, etc, and feel for an inner “zing.” This is your indicator your Higher Self is calling to you to pay attention.  What is the pattern of the messages you are receiving?
• Use one or more of the resources listed above to stimulate deeper awakening to your inner knowing.  Additionally, listen to the channeled works of Crimson Circle, the Lightworker and Kryon to hear how the New Earth is becoming manifest.
• Share with others HERE leaving comments about what is crystallizing on your spiritual path.

Self-Judgment as a Message from Your Higher Self?

Your secret blessing, Celeste, is that no matter where you go in time and space, you only ever have to be yourself – as courageous, vulnerable, bold, or afraid as you may feel – to find yourself amongst friends.

So loved,
The Universe

You’re actually kind of like chocolate to other people when you’re just being yourself.

Another perfect note from the Universe this morning as it mirrors succinctly the very foundation of the philosophy from which I coach, total self-acceptance.  Just this morning I worked with a client around recognizing self-judgment as a message he was receiving from his Higher Self to fully accept himself, warts and all.

What if you stopped listening to the words of your own self-judgment and just recognized “the Judge” as one of your multi-dimensional selves indicating your Higher Self was seeking your attention? What might “the Judge” actually be saying to you?  Maybe something like, “Let’s get honest here, nobody here but us two.  What do you really think/believe/feel/sense deep in your core?”  (Read more here to know which of these words is the best for you.)

I love the way that Abraham explains that negative, or uncomfortable, feelings are nothing more than just indicators that you’re ready to get back into alignment with who you really are.  There’s nothing good/bad, right/wrong, positive/negative, clean/dirty, or black/white about them. These indicators are just like the gas tank indicator on our car warns us when we’re nearing empty.  It’s not the goal to put a “happy face sticker” on your gas tank and hope for the best.  We use the indicator as information and guidance.

So an uncomfortable feeling, such as self-judgment, is an indicator your Higher Self wants to talk! And, your Higher Self NEVER uses degrading, demeaning or judgmental language, so learn to listen to what is beneath the words you hear in your head.  When you’ve tapped into what is honest and authentically true for you, you’ll feel the immediate relief of self-acceptance for the whole kit and caboodle that is you.   And the legacy? When you connect with your totality and accept yourself, others sense this and you become a beacon for their own self-acceptance.

Integrative Action Steps for Using Your Indicators:

• As you pay attention to your inner thoughts and feelings, instead of trying to cover up or shift your attention from uncomfortable feelings, experiment with acknowledging their presence as an aspect of yourself, and then “ask” this aspect what’s really true.  Even if it feels like the “answers” are coming from your imagination, keep asking for the deeper truth until you feel the “ah-ha” of deep knowing.

• Are you already a beacon of change for others? Check out this incredible training from The Shift Network and Barbara Marx Hubbard called “Agents of Conscious Evolution” to receive training to increase your skills for supporting our global awakening.

• Do you feel a calling for a more personal, inner-directed spiritual experience? I teach simple tools to my coaching clients that help them connect easily and gracefully with their Higher Self.  Please feel free to contact me at (celeste@channelyourhigherself.com) celeste (at) channelyourhigherself (dot) com for more information.

Are You Being Called to Birth Your Contribution?

Spring!
Birth. Re-birth.  Renewal
Earthquakes. Tsunamis.
Opening hearts sending out tender roots.

Growth!
Wake up. Awaken.  Awake.
WaySeers become WayShowers.
Birthing your beingness to birth the new.

Clarion call!
Resonance. Chaos. Expansion.
Many paths, all unique, sacred and true.
Listening to One energy.

Are you hearing the call this Spring? My email inbox is full of opportunities to get involved. It’s more important than ever to create the still, sacred space to be able to hear and receive your own inner guidance for how you are going to participate in your own unique way in the gigantic, global shift that is happening right now.  There is absolutely no question you will participate, yet, wouldn’t it feel better to do it consciously?

Resources for Adding Your Unique Voice to Birthing the New:

• Barbara Marx Hubbard, the “evolutionary voice for our times,” is “calling upon visionaries, evolutionaries, change leaders, and open-hearted humans to step forward to add your unique brilliance to consciously co-creating our new world.

“What if Dec. 21, 2012 marks the passing of one phase of evolution and Dec. 22, 2012 marks “Day One” of the next epoch of evolution – for the next 26,000 years? A time we can collectively set our intentions for a more evolved world?

The catch is that it likely won’t happen if we sit back and hope for something cosmic to occur. Instead, we can decide to come together now and co-create the greatest field of love, resonance and social synergy in the history of the world.”

• 

  Nature of Mind, Alex Grey

  The Blooming Humans project continues to inspire me daily on this 42 day opening to clarity about my own contributions to the birthing of the new for both the world and myself.  Beautiful images and creative prose facilitate a daily focus on allowing what is most wanting to be expressed through me to step forward.

• What is your life theme? (read more) Consider the inner genius that is already present in you and how this natural aspect of your multidimensional self is ready to play in the birth of our new world.

Living From Your Heart’s Desires

Watch this video! If it stirs in you the yearning to be a part of something bigger, to know yourself as THE UNIQUE PART of something bigger, you must visit Blooming Humans.  The 42 day email series begins NOW (whenever that is for you) to nudge, nurture, support, guide, inspire, reward, distill, and clarify your place in this world to “Show Up and Shine!”

You might have heard of Stacey & Ken in 2005 when they initiated the One Million Go Gratitude project.  Their gratitude symbol took on a life of its own, sparking multitudes to awaken to the deeper essences of themselves through beautiful prose, poetry, images, art, music, sound, and much energy embedded in their emails.  I feel quite sure magic and miracles are in this Blooming Human series as well.

One other special element that is in total alignment with their consciousness of appreciation is your ability to register for this series and set your own level of financial appreciation for their work, beginning with $0 if you are in need of their inspiration, but without extra funds.  I love the level of trust this displays.

Christian Pankhurst Update

If you haven’t already watched the free video series teaching “heart intelligence” with Christian Pankhurst, you’ll want to make sure you do so soon.  He opens his Accelerated Awakening coaching program on Thursday, March 10 at 10:00 a.m. PT, and once this fills those videos will probably come down. His video series is well worth watching regardless, but  he will make special offers for those who resonate with his work and you’ll want to get in early on the registration process if you want these.

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