Nine Days of Awakening Light...

Dear Ones,


This time you have been living from 1987 to 2012 has been called the Great Awakening, the Shift of the Ages and the Nanosecond, among others. No matter what it is called, these last 25 years on Earth have been held in great interest by the worlds that exist on other planes and dimensions. Will humanity of the Earth be able to use the high frequency downloads of Divine Light to create new life on the planet? Will there be a spiritual awakening or mass destruction? All is possible.

We were aware that this time held the triggers for awakening within the core of humanity so it held great promise. There was curiosity to know how you would handle the pressure of accelerated energy and to see if you would be able to use the power of your thoughts and beliefs to create a new earth that reflected the desires of the many instead of the few. This time on Earth holds the promise for great feats of renewal, empowerment, harmony and peace.

There are vast changes now evident within the forces of people’s awareness. More and more groups have formed in conscious community to use the gathered wisdom to bring transformation into the world. There have been gateways and portals that have been observed and used to bring awakening energy onto the planet. Now the time has come for the quantum leap to new consciousness, a mass awakening. Will you be able to do this together? There are many from other star systems and dimensions who are watching to find out.

They are also here to encourage you and to let you know how much you are loved and guided. These are the unseen cheerleaders for those willing to take a leap and receive their assistance. That you have turned to us in this time is no accident. We have known of your love and your trust. It is now time to carry these teachings forward because the years after 2012 are going to be times fraught with disappointment and fear, as well as exhilaration and joy.

These unseen Forces of Light are not going to leave the Earth in the lurch as this awakening occurs. You will need to have vast levels of guidance to keep the Illuminated Glow of Truth burning in the midst of the changing life all will be experiencing. You are not without support and we will help you through these times – both collectively and personally. There are many Teachers of Truth who are multidimensional in nature. We are here to assist you through this tumultuous awakening that is occurring. We prefer the word awakening to ascension because there is so much baggage and confusion attached to the word ascension. This is a time of new freedom and opening to the abundant life. You don’t need to bring along the old paradigms attached to verbiage.

From August 11 to the 20th, there will be 9 days of awakening. Openings will occur within portals all over the planet and a massive download of Divine Love will be radiated from the Cosmos. This will spark mass transformation on a cellular level as people receive this energy of love in a way that was never possible before. By August 20, all who are attuned to frequency will be able to experience a greater sense of inner peace and more clarity in their lives. This will be of great value because the energy waves will continue to accelerate through December 21 and grounding will be needed.

Commemoration of the Harmonic Convergence, August 16-17, 1987

Many of you have been fascinated with this much prophesied 25-year period from the original Harmonic Convergence in 1987 and have been working to ground the Divine Light within your beings since that time. You have known that you were meant to be on the Earth during this momentous time in history to hold Divine Light within you, and to also hold the belief in a new peaceful awakening for the planet. Even though the years from 1987 have looked anything but peaceful, you have known in the core of your being that “birth is messy.” You have anchored within you the growing power of Divine Light and welcomed more Love into your life knowing you are a part of a new birth in consciousness.

Through this time most of you lost all that was dear to you as the rugs of contentment were pulled out from under your feet. And still you held to the faith that a new world would awaken from the ashes, and new life would be one with more harmony and the peace you knew was possible. To you, Warriors of Light, we offer our gratitude and honor, and yet it is not over. The culmination of 2012, this Year of Promise, requires an anchoring of the Light for a World of Peace. We come together to use this energy of our collective knowing to hold the truth of a Great Awakening, a Spontaneous Evolution for all on the planet.

Some off-world inhabitants playing God did not create this tumultuous time. The cycles of time now coincide to create the opportunity for large numbers of people to awaken. The level of frequency of cosmic energy has never been greater. This provides impetus for powerful shifts and can be used for ill gain or spiritual awakening. This is not dissimilar to times in ancient past when the power available was misused. You can be sure that many will do that very thing. But the sheer number of people who are dedicated to spiritual awakening and peaceful planetary shifts has never been greater. This provides an unprecedented opportunity for new levels of awakening and a greater level of assistance from the Angelic Dimensions, the Ascended Masters and multidimensional teachers from many realms who hold the Earth in a sacred manner.

When one looks back on the changes that have occurred on the planet since 1987, it can be mind-boggling. The power of the World Wide Web alone has changed the way the world communicates and does business. These same interconnecting links will lead the world into even greater levels of evolution. During the 9 Days of Awakening Light, there will be opportunities to transmute the power of the old paradigm where the needs of the many are usurped by the few. You will have the chance to activate completions from the misuse of power and bring more balance and sustainability to life on this planet. Portals will be opening all during that week from August 11 to the 20th that will enable those who have been attracted to this awakening to work together for a new planetary shift into Divine Love and emerging consciousness.

You will align with leaders, teachers and groups all over the world who are being impulsed by the awakening forces of the Angelic Dimensions, the Ascended Masters and the Beings of Light from many realms who observe and protect the planet. It is a gorgeous gathering for the force of Divine Love as has never before been witnessed. You are all coded for this awakening. Many who have carried a fascination for the Harmonic Convergence since 1987 will come to greater understanding of the part you have played over the past 25 years.

All is in readiness. Join with those whose love attracts you and create together your vision of a new world that is filled with Harmony, Beauty and Peace. Remember, you would not have the desire without the means to fulfill it.

And so it is.

Shanta Gabriel

For Archangel Gabriel

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August 2012 Monthly Visions: Solar Flare Havoc and Heaviness

We’re ducking and weaving between solar flares right now faster than an Olympic boxing champion, but all that ducking and weaving is to no avail. We’re getting hit with wave after wave of electromagnetic energy which doesn’t always feel that great, but the clearing and shifting these waves trigger IS great so next time you find yourself crying ‘Oh no, not another flare!’ know that they are facilitating much inner and outer transformation.


A series of flares over the past week has left us feeling extremely tired physically and emotionally. You may have felt like crawling back into bed at random times of the day not just because you’re exhausted but because there’s a bit of ‘What’s the point of anything?’ energy about right now.

Every flare seems to be coming with its own unique flavour and message. The one we experienced on Saturday 30 July was a particularly difficult one for many. It felt like an intense wave of alone-ness and loneliness, a blanket of heaviness, a feeling of flatness, feeling like you're an isolated island disconnected from anything or anyone. Time may have dragged on forever as if it was going in slow motion. You may have had an urge to do whatever it is you do when it all gets a bit much whether that's head for the tub of icecream or crawl into bed and hide under the doona/comforter/duvet. If you felt like this, know that you are not alone - there are millions of people going through this with you, not to mention your soul support team 'upstairs'!

We are not alone but we all have to experience certain parts of this life journey on our own: no-one can feel our feelings for us, no-one can embody our awakening on our behalf. The flare on that last weekend of July felt like we were in a void of 'aloneness', which may have triggered panic attack like symptoms or anxiety. We were experiencing a very intense blast of confrontation with our 'on our own-ness'. It acted to clear some of our old illusion reality/old wounds around being 'on our own/alone' by triggering old emotions out of the blue including old feelings of being left out, abandoned, ignored, disregarded, forgotten, not considered or not supported.

The flare brought up a lot around “I have to do it all on my own" (and feeling burdened/resentful/sad/angry etc about having to do everything on your own, shouldering the bulk of financial obligations on your own, or family responsibilities or whatever it is). If you relate, ask yourself if you feel you receive the support you need? It is time to let go of any old ' I have to do it on my own' stuff, and replace it with "I hand all this to Source energy (or whatever word you want to use) and trust in Source to help me, to support me, to provide all I need, to be there for me, I don't want to do it on my own anymore, and thanks to Source energy I actually don't have to." As you say this (and feel it/believe it) you may feel a literal lightening of your load around your neck, shoulder and back areas, where many of us are holding tension specifically related to the issues that have come up lately.

This “have to do it all on my own” energy can also manifest as feeling like you are supposed to ‘have it all together’, feeling like you’re not supposed to show emotion or express anything other than happy sunshiney positivity. There is a huge misconception, not only in our mainstream society but also amongst the ‘spiritual’ peeps that so called negative emotions are bad, and something to be avoided at all cost. Smiling through a difficult inner experience, when you really and truly aren’t feeling happy, can be just as debilitating as self-medicating with drugs and alcohol. How so? When we repress what we are feeling, we are essentially judging something within us as ‘bad’, when actually it is a powerful messenger trying to get our attention. When we continually ignore our inner messengers they have to find more and more obvious ways to get our attention – hello shoulder and neck pain, hello chronic illnesses, hello physical body symptoms that we’d rather not experience.

This isn’t to say forget the positive attitude. Our heart (and emotional body) is not a black and white system. Our heart and emotional body is a rich rainbow filled with a myriad of colours and feelings. Awakening to greater consciousness allows us to be aware of more of our full spectrum. Within that spectrum are the many facets of who we really are, and as we grow in consciousness we realise that we can experience multiple facets simultaneously. We don’t have to fear going into any of these facets because we know we are not just that facet, we are more than just that feeling, we don’t feel our identity is suddenly restricted to just that aspect of ourselves. Knowing this, we feel safe and free to express ourselves more authentically. Ironically, owning our ‘shadow’* ultimately leads to our wholeness and inner unity consciousness governed by the heart, while putting horse blinkers on to feel only that which is within our comfort zone can keep us stuck in the old reality of duality consciousness, governed by the mind. Long story short – feel your feelings and be true to your whole self without self-imposed restrictions or judgements.

You’ll notice a lot of ‘self-imposed’ stuff is being released right now (and really, everything is ‘self-imposed’), including old beliefs around how we think we should be, what we thought we should be doing with our lives, who we thought we were and so on. Our attachment to these and other stories are going, going, gone. In their place will be a new story, or no story, or a blank story yet to be written – either way it can feel vulnerable and dishevelling to be standing there energetically naked having no conscious idea of who you are anymore. Think of it like an old coat that is being removed to reveal a sparkling outfit underneath, but you have been with that coat for so long that to be without it is, at first, completely disorientating to your sense of self and identity. (We touched on this in July’s Monthly Visions: The deconstruction of who we thought ourselves to be.) It is normal and natural to have bouts of grief and confusion come up – we are saying goodbye to so much of who we thought we were, and even though from our higher self perspective we know it’s time to say goodbye, from our human self perspective it can bring up a lot of different emotions.

Another energetic influence prevalent right now is the one of expectation, whether on ones self or on another, and deep disappointment when you or others fall short of the mark. When we say fall short of the mark, we really mean the mark that has been self-imposed by you, who knows when for who knows what reason. This ‘mark’ may have once served as a healthy benchmark or standard of behaviour, but there comes a time for all things when that which has served us starts sabotaging us once it has served its purpose. This is a good time to ask yourself are you holding others in an old or false mould that doesn’t actually fit them (causing tension between you)? Are you needing or wanting others to be something that they can’t, or don’t want, to be (creating anger, hurt or frustration for yourself)? When we do this, we are placing the power of how we feel in someone else’s hands. When we want someone to act a certain way so that we can feel better, it’s a good sign of ‘wrong way go back!’. This doesn’t mean we have to like what they’re doing or not doing. It does mean we need to make some decisions around how we choose to respond.

The difficulty with lots of relationships now is there is a huge vibrational gap between many people. It’s like we’re all in our own Willy Wonka great glass elevator that goes up and down, forward and back, sideways and every which ways. So in any given moment you may or may not be on the same vibrational level as your parent/friend/partner/family member/work colleague. This has always been true to a degree, but whereas before the different vibrational levels were able to interact a bit more fluidly, now it is becoming almost impossible. As a result people who are not on your vibrational level, or on one that is not compatible with yours, are either not going to be able to be in your physical reality for a while (or anymore), or if you are in the same room you’ll feel quite uncomfortable, there’ll be an unnecessary argument or other such tension. This ‘vibrational gap’ thing is tricky business because again on our higher self level it makes complete sense why some people just can’t be in our lives right now – if their vibration is not in harmony with ours (or vice versa) the two just can’t meet any more than oil and water can merge. So in that sense, if someone has dropped out of your life you may be being protected from an unpleasant interaction that really doesn’t have to happen. Yet on a human level we don’t always know that these vibrational gap type laws exist, and even when we do know it can be hard to be with the reality that someone you used to care about is no longer in your life, or is not acting in the same way you would with a given situation. It is very much time for a ‘live and let live’ philosophy. People have to do what they have to do right now, even if you can’t understand it or relate to it one iota. Easier said than done, yet done it must be all the same.

It is increasingly a time of letting go of any pressure or expectation you have on not only others, but also yourself because there is just SO much shifting right now it can be very hard to have a set goal and expect yourself to reach that goal for the simple reason that some other course of events may have much more potential to awaken/heal/transform something in you that is next in the queue for awakening/healing/transformation. Years ago we had more time and flexibility to deviate and detour from awakening opportunities. Now, time is of the essence. If something is scheduled for shifting, you can be pretty sure it will happen in days or weeks rather than months or years. We all have a greater higher goal that is much more important than our seemingly very important conscious goals.

We can all feel this sense of urgency now. Some of us have felt it almost our whole lives, but it’s been very personal. Now we can see it in almost everyone and everything around us. We can all feel that something is happening, something huge is about to happen, and we know that we were born to be a part of it. This year has been torturous for many because we feel like we’re waiting for something, but we aren’t really clear on what will happen exactly, or when, or if it will be one massive thing, or many huge things (aside from the constant daily big things). Certainly all signs are showing that a perfect storm is brewing made up of calendar dates, solar flares, cosmic alignments, prophecies, earth changes and unprecedented man-made crises. I asked my peeps upstairs, the always wise star elders, what they could share to help everyone who is beyond frustrated with this ‘waiting’ feeling. They said “You will all be needed after the great revealing. There will be much confusion and shock as people realise reality is not what they believed it to be. Even though what IS, is much greater and more wonderful than what they believed WAS, it will still take time to digest and absorb, to recover from the shock of the collapse of all that they believed to be true, to realise that they are now staring at another truth, one that they never would have imagined. Yet at the same time they will remember the truth of what they are seeing, and they will wonder, how did I forget this? All of you will feel this to lesser or greater degrees. Those of you who are less shocked will be of great support to those who are more shocked. Some of you will snap out of any remaining sleep relatively quickly. Some will take longer than others to come out of their sleepy haze, but all will be as you all are upon waking in the morning, rubbing their eyes, seeing clearly for the first time, and it will not be easy for everyone.”

This sounds like the gradual process of awakening we have been on for lifetimes, but they are very clear that ‘the great revealing’ will be an event within the overall ‘revelations’ period we are in right now, and that the ‘coming out of sleep’ that they are referring to will affect everyone and be directly related to this particular event. What is this event? Well, in my experience the elders tend to share as much information as they feel is needed for now and no more, or perhaps they only share as much as I can, for whatever reason, receive in that moment. So, unfortunately and annoyingly, I don’t know what this event is, but my feeling is that it is related to us suddenly, unexpectedly and extremely quickly, being shown who it is we really are, our galactic history and origins, and the truth of what is actually going on on this planet. It will be the turning point in moving Earth and humanity into our next phase of evolution.

The event could be disclosure, starships appearing everywhere, mass awakening triggered by a cosmic alignment and the resulting downpour of high vibrational energy onto us or none of the above. Waiting energy is not particularly empowering energy, and one has to be mindful and ask are we being lulled into this waiting energy so that we don’t take action and actually DO something about the state of our planet? So please check in with yourself always and daily affirm that you are always aligned with your best possible self, best possible reality and best possible movement forward. Affirm that you are always in the right place at the right time, and you may also like to affirm that you are always where you can do the most good for the most amount of people. Be discerning about what you read and hear and see, and always ask yourself: how does this make me feel? Is it true for me, or not?

Back to the solar flares - the energetic effects of regular, strong flares are not only taxing on our emotions but also taxing on our physical bodies. Really, it’s not too different to being pummelled by ocean waves for months on end or experiencing the contractions of labour indefinitely instead of (comparatively) mere hours. This is a very real physical experience that we are all going through, not just an emotional/energetic/spiritual one. Even our electrical grids are subject to power failures if hit by a big enough geomagnetic storm resulting from a solar flare. Questions are being asked as to whether this was the reason for India’s massive power outages over 30-31 July with 650 million people affected – over half the country, and around 10% of the world’s population! I think this is a good time to say, this is not a fire drill! The fact is, the solar maximum is here, the flares are going to increase in number and strength, and while we have gone through this solar cycle before, we haven’t gone through it with the extreme connection to, and dependence on, power that we currently have.

This isn’t something to fear, it’s something to be practical and prepared about. I’m not talking about building a bunker with 2 years worth of food, rather just think about what you might like to have handy if your family is faced with a power outage for 2-3 days which may include no running water. This is no longer a potential 2012 scenario, it’s what millions of people have already lived through this year for one reason or another so, as the Scout motto says: Be Prepared! Friends of ours in the US recently had a 72 hour power outage. Aside from being desperate for a shower by the end, our friend said she didn’t miss the tv/computer/internet/cell phone at all. It was a welcome break from the external noise we have become so used to. The flares are shifting our perspective, allowing us to go offline for a while, re-connecting us to our natural sources of power vs artificial, and helping us appreciate the little things like a hot shower. 2 Billion people in the world have no access to electricity and almost a billion people lack access to clean, drinking water. Will it increase our sense of connection to our brothers and sisters around the world living in those conditions if we find ourselves experiencing a version of it for days on end regularly? Will the unpredictability of our national power grids trigger more of us to take steps toward an ‘off-grid’ lifestyle? When you feel a flare or read about the Solar Storms as we increasingly will, instead of going into fear or despair ask yourself: If this is here to help us, how is it helping? What message does it have for us?

We are living through a year where every day, and sometimes every hour, will have a different flavour - ranging from extreme wellbeing and clarity to disillusionment and despair and everything in between. Knowing that we have strong energy waves passing through us, for the purpose of clearing debris and raising our vibration, can help us to ride our own personal rainbow rollercoaster, as crazy as it can get some days! Some days you may want to consciously work with whatever is coming up, other days you may just want to take deep breaths till it passes. Everyone will have a different way of getting through these times, it's really what works best for you and that may be different every day! There were some high energy flares mid-July during the Mars/Uranus opposition during which time it was helpful to do very physical and grounded things like running, dancing around or having your feet on the earth. This week it’s maybe more about finding things that are comforting and nurturing for you.

I keep repeating this and will likely continue to but we really just have to breathe through these 'contractions' because there are plenty more coming!! And remember, we are not alone. Not one of us. Not ever.

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*Debbie Ford is the queen of working with your Shadow. Her book ‘The Dark Side of the Lightchasers’ is a great place to start if you are new to shadow work.

(c) Dana Mrkich 2012. Permission is granted to share this article freely on the condition that the author is credited, and the URL www.danamrkich.com is included.

Calendar of Awakening

Calendar of Awakening...
~Julie Redstone~
~the One life in the many~

There is a River of peace that flows
through your being.
It never diminishes and never
runs dry.
Those who bathe in this River
find their peace.
Those who forget it exists are often
parched and thirsty.

Ancient Mother....I Hear You Calling

You know I was sitting and listening to John Trudell talking about the Planet this morning and the state we find ourselves in and he said something that really rocked me...and truth be told I had been thinking about it much of the afternoon yesterday. And that is BP and all the other Big Oil Companies out there are not the only ones to hold accountable for this catastrophe...we are to be held accountable too. We come from a long line of humans who have used oil and gas to get where we wanted to be in this technological age and none of us are without blame. It goes way back to the Industrial Age. Bottom Line. The question we all need to ask ourselves now, is where do we go from here...how much more do we 'need' before we Awaken?  How will we change the way we do things, so that our dependence on oil and fossil fuels changes? It is something we all need to be seriously thinking about and then implementing that change in our own lives, and quit waiting for the Bigness of this situation to change for us. I can think of no better way than to start by buying and selling in our own communities...our own states...growing what we eat and selling to our neighbor...and doing it all in tandem with one another...which means we have to begin to learn to trust our neighbors and really begin getting to know one another at a heart level. We go back to those days of our Ancestors who knew the importance of community and they showed it by barn raisings, the harvesting of crops, the moving from farm to farm to help out, the buying and selling to one another, and when the work was done, being thankful and grateful to Creator for it in celebration one with the other and in private when the day is done.  You and The Creator. It is back to basic time. If we don't...we lose it all. We are the Seventh Generation. For now I will use my anger and fear to put to good use...if all things are vibratory and they are, as everything is energy, then I will put that energy into proper channels by way of prayer and rolling up my sleeves to take care of my tipi/home/apartment first, and then radiate out where I am able...and I will not worry any longer. The motions were struck the moment the first drill hit pay dirt...now it is time to reverse the motion. I don't mean to sound preachy...only to share what I know to be true within me, and I have to remain steadfast in that so that when I cross over I can say in authenticity I have done my part the best way that I could.

We have had our time to worry and be frustrated and even angry!
To what avail?  Did it bring about a change?  The only thing we brought attention to was more of that, vibrationally speaking.  The longer we give our attention to that way of thinking, the more the Universe will give that energy
right back to us. 
It is the Law of Cause and Effect....

Abraham who is channeled through Esther Hicks says this:

Law of Attraction says, "That which is like unto itself is drawn." Vibrations are always matched. So, as you experience the contrast which inspires the new desire, this new desire, whether it is a strong one or a soft one, is summoning unto itself proportionately. And as it summons, it is always answered. It is the basis of our Universe: When it is asked, it is always given. Humans think they are asking with their words, or even with their action, and sometimes you are, but the Universe is not responding to your words or your action. The Universe is responding to your vibrational calling.


--- Abraham

Excerpted from the workshop in Cincinnati, OH on Saturday, July 15th, 2000

A very Dear Sister of mine mentioned the other day a visualization for me to do which really struck a chord within me...She said:  Filling a glass with water, attach a color to it, imagine that color infusing your body as you drink it and send blessings into the water, drink two thirds of it and then take the rest out and pour on Gaia...sending the blessing into the Heart of the Mother.
What color will you attach to your water, what blessing will you give Mother Earth...and will you understand that while everyone thinks she can sustain anything, has always sustained us that even She may be growing weary of all
that is happening?  I get that distinct impression from Her...Her sadness is mine...Ancient Mother I hear you calling,  Ancient Mother I taste your tears.

Is it any wonder we all are sick physically, mentally, and spiritually?

Just asking you to think about it...

And to say I love you beyond measure...

As I love Father Sky and Mother Earth

And all of Their Creations....

Bless Us All!!!

Calendar of Awakening

~The One Life In The Many~

There is not one way to awaken but many.
Both heart and mind are doorways.

You pass through these doors in your own
unique way, based on the qualities of soul
that form your essence.

No one is left behind.
No one is forgotten.
Even those who believe nothing at all
are on a spiritual journey.

Julie Redstone
Light Omega

The Awakening...

The Awakening...

A time comes in your life when you

finally get it.  When, in the midst of

all your fears and insanity, you stop

dead in your tracks and somewhere

the voice inside your head cries out.

ENOUGH!  Enough fighting and crying

and blaming and struggling to hold on.

Then, like a child quieting down after

a tantrum, you blink back your tears

and begin to look at the world through

new eyes.

This is your awakening.

You realize it's time to stop hoping and

waiting for something to change, or for

happiness, safety and security to magically

appear over the next horizon.  You

realize that in the real world there aren't

always fairy tale endings, and that any

guarantee of "happily ever after" must

begin with you...and in the process a

sense of serenity is born of acceptance.

You awaken to the fact that you are not

perfect and that not everyone will always

love, appreciate or approve of who or

what you are...and that's OK.  They are

entitled to their own views and opinions.

You learn the importance of loving and

championing yourself, and in the process

a sense of new found confidence is born

of self-approval.

You stop complaining and blaming other

people for the things they did to you -

or didn't do for you - and you learn that

the only thing you can really count on is

the unexpected.

You learn that people don't always say

what they mean or mean what they say

and that not everyone will always be

there for you and that everything isn't

always about you.

So, you learn to stand on your own and

to take care of yourself...and in the

process a sense of safety and security

is born of self-reliance.

You stop judging and pointing fingers

and you begin to accept people as they

are and to overlook their shortcomings

and human frailties...and in the process

a sense of peace and contentment is

born of forgiveness.

You learn to open up to new worlds and

different points of view.  You begin

reassessing and redefining who you are

and what your really stand for.

You learn the difference between wanting

and needing and you begin to discard

the doctrines and values you've outgrown,

or should never have bought into to begin

with.

You learn that there is power and glory

in creating and contributing and you stop

maneuvering through life merely as a

"consumer" looking for your next fix.

You learn that principles such as honesty

and integrity of a bygone era, but the

mortar that holds together the foundation

upon which you must build a life.

You learn that you don't know everything,

it's not your job to save the world and

that you can't teach a pig to sing.  You

learn that the only cross to bear is the one

you choose to carry and that martyrs get

burned at the stake.

Then you learn about love.  You learn to

look at relationships as they really are

and not as you would have them be.  You

learn that alone does not mean lonely.

You stop trying to control people, situations,

and outcomes.  You learn to distinguish

between guilt and responsibility and the

importance of setting boundaries and learning

to say NO.

You also stop working so hard at putting your

feelings aside, smoothing things over and

ignoring your needs.

You learn that your body really is your temple.

You begin to care for it and treat it with

respect.  You begin to eat a balanced diet,

drink more water, and take more time to

exercise.

You learn that being tired fuels doubt, fear,

and uncertainty and so you take more time

to rest.  And just as food fuels the body,

laughter fuels our soul.  So you take more

time to laugh and play.

You learn that, for the most part, you get

in life what you believe you deserve, and

that much of life truly is a self-fulfilling

prophecy.  You learn that anything worth

achieving is worth working for and that

wishing for something to happen is

different than working toward making it

happen.

More importantly, you learn that in order

to achieve success you need direction,

discipline and perseverance.  You also

learn that no one can do it all alone, and

that it's OK to risk asking for help.

You learn the only thing you must truly

fear is fear itself.  You learn to step

right into and through your fears because

you know that whatever happens you can

handle it and give in to fear to give away

the right to live life on your own terms.

You learn to fight for your life and not to

squander it living under a cloud of

impending doom.

You learn that life isn't always fair, you

don't always get what you think you

deserve and that sometimes bad things

happen to unsuspecting, good people...

and you learn not to take it personally.

You learn that nobody's punishing you

and that everything isn't always

sombody's fault.  It's just life happening.

You learn to admit when you are wrong

and to build bridges instead of walls.

You learn that negative feelings such

as anger, envy and resentment must be

understood and redirected or they will

suffocate the life out of you and poison

the universe that surrounds you.

You learn to be thankful and to take

comfort in many of the simple things we

take for granted, things that millions of

people upon the earth can only dream

about:  a full refrigerator, clean running

water, a soft warm bed, a long hot shower.

Then, you begin to take responsibility for

yourself by yourself and you make

yourself a promise to never betray yourself

and to never, ever, settle for less than your

heart's desire.

You make it a point to keep smiling, to

keep trusting, and to stay open to every

wonderful possibility.

You hang a windchime outside your window

so you can listen to the wind.

Finally, with courage in your heart, you

take a stand, you take a deep breath, and

you begin to design the life you want to

live as best you can.

~Author Unknown~

Yesterday late afternoon as I was going

through my file cabinet searching for

something, I pulled this up thinking it

was something else entirely.  Knowing

all things are synchronistic, I began to

read this once again.  It spoke volumes

to me once again.  So I thought I'd

share it once again, and once again

...I am Awakening.

A'Ho!