Stop Fixing, Start Emerging in 2011

Aacckk! I don’t care much for the “I’ve got to ‘fix’ myself energy” that surrounds the New Year.  Most of us know that New Year’s resolutions most often fail, usually by February!  My belief is  these resolutions come out of some “should’s & oughta’s” and not from  inner knowing.

Instead of “I need to fix myself,” consciously aware folks ask, “How might I know myself even better so that I can live a more continuous experience of feeling authentically me?”  This question recognizes there is nothing to be fixed, that our core (divine) self is always present, and that our evolvement is about allowing our core self to emerge more and more fully.

Especially at this time of year I tap into the various energy bodies to receive guidance.   These 4 portals – physical, mental, emotional and spiritual energy bodies – provide insights for what aspects of my life are ready to be released and what core strengths are ready to emerge.  This type of inquiry is well supported by the energies of the winter solstice, a time for illuminating our inner world.

Do you know how to sense your energy bodies?  I’ll guide you through a wonderful metaphor a friend of mine, Michael Nunnally, shared on the Consciousness Playground.  Note: as you connect with each energy body in its highest vibrational state, notice the “communication” you receive.  This is your guidance about what is ready to be released and what is ready to emerge.

• Imagine yourself as a large glass container.
• To get in touch with your PHYSICAL energy body, imagine large rocks in your container.  The density of these rocks correspond with your physical body.  Have you ever felt your body as coordinated, graceful, and in flow?  This is the higher vibrating physical body and the one you want to communicate with for guidance.
• To get in touch with your MENTAL energy body, imagine pouring small pebbles into your container.  Notice that even though the large rocks filled the container there is room for these small pebbles to move down among the larger rocks. You know you are accessing the higher vibrating mental body when you feel “clear headed,” creative and focused.
• Next, in your imagination pour sand into your container.  Once again, even though the container appears full, there are still spaces between the pebbles and the rocks and the sand filters down to fill these.  This represents your EMOTIONAL energy body and the way emotions affect us both physically and mentally.  Shift into your higher vibrating emotional body with feelings of appreciation, peace, joy and love.
• Lastly, pour water into your container and watch as it washes through the rocks, pebbles and sand, coating every piece, visibly changing every thing it touches.  This is your SPIRITUAL energy body and is experienced in its highest vibration as a sense of divinity, connection and oneness.

What amazing and profound insights did you experience with this exercise?  I would love for you to share them here!

Would you like additional assistance in moving through these energy bodies?  Maybe you want some added support in understanding the communication process of these portals?

Join me in Play 4 Guidance in January.  I’m offering teleclasses and in person workshops in Austin where I guide participants to use these portals effectively.  I also teach several tools to help you harness and better utilize the communication that you receive.  Our focus is on receiving individualized guidance directly about 2011. You’ll leave this course with specific “next-steps” to move you purposely forward.

Complimentary Overview Teleclass on Friday, January 7, 1:00 Central Time.

If you want to know the time in your area, check here: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html

Action Steps to Use this Process Now:

1. Sit quietly and breath deeply to center yourself.  Read the “script” above, one energy body at a time.  Notice what you notice with each energy body, then write it down.  At the end, let yourself sit with all that you have written, and then distill your guidance down to one or two sentences that create your next steps forward in 2011.
2. Register and join me on Friday, January 7 at 1:00 CT to experience a portion of this process with a guide.

I am in Spirit.

“I am in spirit.  I see and act like the Creator does.”  This is the opening for any exercise of the New Knowledge for the New Age (NKNA) and immediately I drop into this expansive field of energy, fully stepping into my authentic power.  There are many exercises for NKNA, each focusing on allowing our physical bodies to return to the state that is in alignment with the perfection of the Creator.

(Check out 5:41 for a patient story.)

Last week I was sick with a stomach virus and running a fever.  I tried to reduce the fever with aspirin, Advil and a hot bath.  It finally occurred to me to use a NKNA exercise and within minutes the fever broke and I felt tons better!  It was a very dramatic response.

These types of experiences (many with much bigger things than fever!) occur on a regular basis for the participants in the Consciousness Playground.  Joining now means you get access to all of the recordings about the New Knowledge for the New Age.  Additionally, December is devoted to moving even deeper into a true “knowing to the bones” of ourselves to BE the Creator, the One energy.  (Check out Wendy’s blog posts at both ConsciousnessPlayground.com and WendyDown.com where some incredible participant stories are showing up.)

If you enjoy cutting edge consciousness experiences, then I encourage you to join this amazing community of like-minded people, all joyously playing in the expansive field of infinite possibility.  I’m happy to answer any questions you might have about the value I’ve received from being a part of this community.  Feel free to send me an email at (celeste@ChannelYourHigherSelf.com) celeste (at) ChannelYourHigherSelf (dot) com.

Also, watch this space for opportunities in January to play with using your energy bodies as portals for receiving guidance as you plan for 2011.

Exercises for Noticing the Creator Energy in You:

1.     You can order a free download of my meditation called “Crown Chakra Opening” to experience yourself as your Divine Self using the coupon code “spirit.” (This is Experience J from How to Channel Your Higher Self.)

2.     Sit quietly using a centering breath to bring your focus inwards.  When your mind and body have stilled, allow the words, “I am in Spirit.  I see and act as the Creator does.” to be present in your awareness.  Hold your focus on these words, gently bringing your mind back to them when you become aware that you are thinking about something else.  (This is normal to have your focus drift, but it becomes easier to retain focus the more you practice.)  As you sit with this phrase over time, notice what feels different for you.  Can you sense a field of expansiveness?  Do you feel calm and peaceful?  What other physical or emotional sensations occur for you?  All of these feelings can become “portals” for you to access your Higher Self, receive communication and initiate healing.

Opening to Appreciation this Holiday

I love Thanksgiving!  It seems like it brings out the best in people.  Everywhere I went this morning I felt the energies of love, appreciation and gratitude flowing through the people and places I encountered.

This holiday energy also created an awesome swim for me at our beautiful spring fed natural pool, Barton Springs.  Metaphors about spiritual growth were bubbling forth as I glided through the cool waters feeling chock full of gratitude for this place, my body, my life.  Looking at the aquatic plant and fish life beneath me, and glimpsing the blue skies and wind blowing through the trees above me, spoke to me about how our inner landscape is as real and interesting and varied as our outside world.  And then as the wind picked up and the surface of the water got choppy, I loved how underneath the surface the water remained still, silent, and peaceful. It reminded me of the depths of my core self I can reconnect with when I remember to meditate in the middle of a hectic life.  And metaphors continued on like that, each deepening my pleasure of this luxurious yearly tradition I have of swimming in balmy weather on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving.

Please accept this offering of a meditation from my book, How to Channel Your Higher Self, as my gift of gratitude to you for reading my blog and interacting with me through this space.  “Opening to Appreciation” is centered on allowing the people, places and things you love in your life to come into your awareness and fully experience a deep sense of appreciation for your life as you also open your heart.  (Turn your speakers up, the volume of this recording is very low.

May you have a wonderful, thanks-giving filled holiday.

Action Steps for Expressing Gratitude and Appreciation:

1. Begin a gratitude/appreciation journalgratitude/appreciation journal and commit to recognizing and acknowledging at least 5 things every day you appreciated during your day.  (My friend Carolyn Scarborough’s book, Backyard Pearls, is a wonderful collection of essays focused on finding the pearls of beauty, wisdom and joy that occur in your everyday life.)
2. Join the “World Gratitude Gathering” and receive beautiful messages and images for 42 days to remind you of the many ways we can express gratitude.
3. Build your “muscle” at shifting into appreciation by setting aside one day each week to practice this skill by finding sincere appreciation within yourself for every person, place or event you encounter during that day.

Deliciousness of Auspiciousness

Today, September 23, 2010, is most auspicious (def: promising success, opportune).  Both the Fall equinox and the full moon fall on this same day.

The Fall Equinox reflects a joyous time associated with a bountiful harvest, the payoff for all of your hard work through the spring and summer.  Combine that with a full moon that is in Aries, which illuminates the vital power of the individual, and you may notice an eagerness in you to take action.

Molly Hall, with about.com, says a Full Moon in Aries is about trusting your instincts, taking courageous actions, risking confrontation to be authentic, and taking a stand as you begin a new experience.

In fact, the full paragraph Molly wrote  blew me away when I reread it this morning:

“Full Moon in Aries: trusting your instincts; the passion of compassion; vigorous warrior energies; the animation that comes from meeting a challenge head-on; fresh starts; courageous actions; risking confrontation to be authentic; forceful self-expression; the purifying fire of unsentimental truth; taking a stand; being at the edge of new experience; personal charisma.”

Energetically speaking, last night on the Feminine Power call we touched on every single bullet point above.  We went deep into our core knowing to access what is passionately wanting to be birthed from our deepest calling for our fulfillment of bringing our gifts into the world. Wowie zowie, it was powerful!

Talk about receiving the support of the universe!  The timing of this exploration couldn’t have been better for me, or for you!  Take advantage of these energies and discover the deep passions in you that are ripe for harvesting today.

Integrative Action Steps for YOU to Utilize this Auspicious Energy Today:

1. In nature, under the full moon, or just by planting your feet firmly on the ground, connect with your deeper knowing by breathing down into your body, down into your hips and low back.  Observe your breath moving deep into your lower body; allow your mind to quieten.
2. Ask that your Higher Self give you the emotional and physical experience of your future self who is actively and passionately living her dreams, fully utilizing her gifts, strengths and talents.  You’re not after the specifics of “what” you are doing (though you may receive that), rather feel for the emotions and sensations associated with your future fulfilled self.
3. Enjoy these sensations flowing through your body.  When you are ready, ask for the next step that is in front of you that puts you directly on the path of manifesting this future self.
4. Notice the images, words, or inspirations that show up.  Also, notice if you have some fear about the next step present.  That is a good sign!  You’ll know you’ve touched on  something deep and meaningful for you.
5. Now is the auspicious time to tap into the courage of the Universe to take your next step, to nurture the spark of new beginnings; to be inspired to take action from strong intuitive nudges; to allow  passions to emerge and become manifest; and to honor the communications received from your Higher Self focused solely on your unique and highest good.

Summer Vacations – Portal to Aliveness

School is starting and that reminds me of the typical first writing assignment, “What I Did For Summer Vacation.”

I went to fitness camp, as I have (almost) every August since 1987.  My husband and I attended our 22^nd camp, continuing to thoroughly enjoy the week of pure fun and total physical exhilaration.

Camp feeds me on many levels.  The cooler weather of the higher elevation; the beauty of both flatland and mountainous desert geology; long summer days chock full of running, cycling, swimming, hiking, yoga, dancing, sun rises, sun sets, star gazing and, of course, eating, all touch my soul. And my camp buddies are there every foot strike and pedal stroke joking, laughing, and living fully in each moment, completely leaving “home life” back home.

I open myself to as many experiences as I possibly can while at camp; returning home physically spent, but deeply satisfied.  Being a very kinesthetic person, I know physicality is a primary portal for me to experience my deepest sense of aliveness.

Enjoy my camp videos.  One is full of nature and beauty, one is the

exhilaration of physical exercise and I love them both.

Do you know your portal to aliveness?  How often do you play there?

Want to play more often?

Join me for “What’s on YOUR Channel?”  In this interactive and fun 6-week telecourse I share a number of exercises to expand your skill set for recognizing and integrating portals to your Higher Self.

Manifesting Delight

I had a fun experience last Sunday that reminded me how easy it is to manifest something I want when I’m not really attached to whether it happens or not.  Such a funny paradox about manifestation, the more you really, really, want something, the less likely you are to allow it to show up in your life, because really, really wanting something is actually the energy of not believing it’s possible to have that thing in your life.

The story I tell you in my video is based on playfully imagining that something could happen and feeling just how much fun that would be if it really did without any expectation that it would, . . . . and then it did.

After I manifested some help, I proceeded to ride my bike.  Waiting in the intense sunlight and heat for yet another stoplight to turn green, I had the thought, “If I could manifest before, why not do it again?”  I  imagined how great it is not to have to stop at a light.  Right after that, I noticed lights were all green for me, but I had to really pick up the pace to get through the light.  So I tweaked my imagining some more and thought how pleasant it is to ride comfortably as lights turn green just when I get to them, allowing me to keep pedaling without stopping.

I was having so much fun noticing how the lights would play with me, laughing at how they would turn green right at the last minute.  Most of the rest of the ride I was able to hold this state of “playing” with the lights.  Several times people I didn’t know honked and waved at me, so I must have been showing the delight on my face as well.

Towards the end of the ride when I was hot and tired, I felt myself shift into “willing” the lights to turn green.  Ahhh, there it was.  Attached to an outcome, and guess what?  Red lights.

It’s a fine line, non-attachment in the midst of desire.  It’s about playing in the field of excitement and joy for the fun of imagination, letting “seriousness” about reality drop away, and jumping whole heartedly into our ability to create our very own illusions which we can then call our reality.  I’m playing with this.  Want to join me?

Integrative Action Steps for your own creative manifestations:

1. Start with simple things where you absolutely don’t care one way or the other what happens.  Think of it as “building your manifestation muscle.”
   
2. Begin imagining your creation using playfulness, delight and fun as your only motivation.
3. Notice only the synchronicities that show up to support your creation and delight in them, letting go of any seduction to look at what doesn’t happen.
4. Acknowledge your creations when they show up and express appreciation to the universe/source for support in your co-creation.

When You’re Stuck, Think Simple!

Sometimes it’s the simple things that work the best.  Not that I don’t believe fully in the myriad of tools and techniques I know to shift energy and states of being, it’s just that sometimes they can be too much.

Take yesterday for example.  I have some chronic discomfort in my front upper and lower teeth and gums.  I met with an energy healer and we spent 75 minutes applying a number of energy tools to shift this creation of mine (as in, we each create everything in our lives and every creation is also an illusion).  By the end of our time together there was even more discomfort than when we started.  Sigh.

Certainly not his fault, but it was a great example of the law of attraction that states whatever you focus upon is energized by your focus.  The more I tried to shift the discomfort, the more the discomfort.  There’s a fine line between allowing a creation to “dis-create” and the core dynamic of trying to force a particular outcome.  Big sigh.

Ben Zander popped into my head this morning as I was reflecting on the work I did yesterday with the healer.  I heard Mr. Zander give a truly inspiring keynote at a conference way back in 2004.  So, my antennae went up recognizing communication coming from my Higher Self reminding me of Mr. Zander and his talk on the Art of Possibility.

Letting my mind relax to receive what was there for me, I remembered his drawing of a spiral to represent our thoughts.  “We can either let our thoughts spiral downward, or spiral upward, and the world around us shifts according to which direction we choose.”  Oh so simple that diagram, and in the moment of seeing it again, I experienced the possibility of something different showing up for me.  Funny thing is, it was the energy embedded in that simple drawing that held relief for me, and not necessarily the intellectual understanding of it, which is how symbols work.

Okay, so I’m not 100% without discomfort yet.  However, I’ve stopped trying to make it go away and playing more easily with one of Paul’s tools for finding the energetic state of “living in the reality of” my teeth/gums as a non-issue.  And the spiral is ever present in the background representing the energy of possibility without force, trusting divine timing and letting go of the “cursed how’s”.

Integrative Action Steps for your own take away:

• It’s easy to fall into the trap of trying to force a change in your life where you are feeling stuck.  Notice if you are trying to make something happen or expecting a specific outcome.  Play with focusing on elsewhere for a change (HA, I see the pun!).
• When a random memory shows up, recognize it as communication and allow your Higher Self to show you the beneficial aspects of that memory.
• Symbols are simple ways to ignite a whole “package of energy.”  What symbols in your life move you UP the spiral of possibility?

Would love to hear your comments on receiving communication or the use of symbols in your life.

My Friend Charlie

My friend Charlie left his physical body last Saturday. His body was 92 years old and had been a very good body to inhabit for many years.

I met Charlie at fitness camp the year I was 31 and he was 69. Interestingly, I just found out in a bio that was the year he was named an All American triathlete. I just knew he was an “old man” who was a good runner and had the unusual habit of carrying a long bone, decorated Native American style, as he ran. Charlie’s name is still in the record books holding many of the age group records, both in Texas and nationally, for distances from the 5K to the marathon. Here he is at age 88 running the Fort Worth Cowtown 10K (which he helped start in 1979) on a blustery and cold February day.

As I got to know and love Charlie, he stopped being an old man and became ageless. He had the enthusiasm and curiosity of a young person, the wit and intellect of a man full of life experiences, and the wisdom and groundedness of an old soul. Charlie was generous, humble, kind, funny, smart, and spiritual. He always made me feel like I was his “special” friend, yet, I know that each and every one of his friends also felt that way.

In recent years I began to talk to Charlie about his beliefs about the world, why we’re here and who we really are, since that was my current interest. Charlie was a man of science and approached these concepts from the intellect. (Being born in the winter, this is exactly the way of his design according to the medicine wheel philosophy, something he ascribed to.) I’m more of a feeler, more interested in energy states. In our little microcosm we mimicked the world of science and spirituality, and just as is happening in that macrocosm, we found our intersection in quantum physics. We shared resources, talked about our non-physical selves as energy, and listened to each other’s perspectives.

What stuck with me was a state he called the “forever now.” I shared with him some of my “expansion” exercises.  These came close, but never quite matched the ecstatic (?), peaceful (?) state, he experienced only once or twice in his life, his glimpses behind the veil. I feel quite sure he is currently experiencing the “forever now,” a state that is beyond any intellectual description or feeling either of us could imagine in our conversations.

When I was in college I read Jonathon Livingston Seagull and I loved this quote. It seems appropriate. So, to my friend Charlie, with love:

“Remember, Jonathan, heaven isn’t a place or a time, because place and time are so very meaningless…. If our friendship depends on space and time, then when we finally overcome space and time, we’ve destroyed our own brotherhood. But overcome space, and all you have left is Here. Overcome time and all you have left is Now. And in the middle of Here and Now, don’t you think that we might see each other once or twice?“

Richard Bach

Focus on Appreciation

Now, this is what I’m talking about!  Last week I wrote about becoming aware of the thoughts you were thinking first thing in the morning.  I love both the excitement and focus on appreciation that Jessica exhibits in this video. When you learn to focus your thoughts, and even more importantly, shift your emotional state to a high vibration, then you set yourself up to create more of the things you want, less of the stuff you don’t want.

One of the exercises in my book, How To Channel Your Higher Self, revolves around using appreciation as a portal to communing with your Higher Self.  Most of the exercises in the book include an audio version that is available in the experiential online environment that comes free with the book.  Here’s my version of opening your day by accessing a state of appreciation.  It’s more in the meditative mode than Jessica’s version, but either way, you shift your inner state of being and set the tone for new possibilities to emerge for you in your day.

Opening to Appreciation

Integrative Action Steps for Shifting Your Energetic State:

1. Notice the flow of your thoughts and/or feelings.  Are they moving you toward more of what you want or away?
2. If needed, shift your inner energetic state by focusing on appreciation or your highest excitement.  Words (affirmations) alone don’t make the difference.  You must create an energetic match between your thoughts and your inner state of being.  Jessica definitely lines up her words and feelings!
3. Notice the resulting flow of your thoughts and/or feelings.

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