#looking for the word to express my feelings about creative energy being self-sustaining

[generation1point5]

Death of the Author

Being a creator in this day and age feels like a tenuous thing. Most creatives I know tend to do it as a hobby; the ones who do it for a living most certainly still work every day of their life. I’m beginning to see my own lack of energy and drive more as an excuse, and even at times a privilege; my livelihood doesn’t depend on me having to do kill the enjoyment of what I love doing. I haven’t published anything yet; all my expectations are self-imposed, and that alone allows for a flexibility that I have thus far taken for granted. The only shortage I have is time in the day.

Being so recently inspired by so many other writers as I’ve begun to dive into VNs, I’ve begun to dive deep into social media to get a glimpse of what their routines are like, their inspirations and philosophies, their practices and approaches. But with it also comes a number of disquieting and sobering realities. Burnout as a result of unhealthy work habits seems common, so are worries of being unable to meet expectations. Though all of these thoughts are innately parasocial and speculative in nature, I nonetheless feel that there is a palpable pressure that follows broad success. It reminds me of the one idiotic tweet I put out that suddenly went viral when the algo picked it up and suddenly a horde of unfamiliar people began putting me on blast. You feel seen, even when nobody is looking at you, each with their own expectations and judgments. The sheer size of the audience, rather than their intent, makes it difficult to ignore: how much greater that pressure must feel when you intend to write for such an audience, and hope to capture them as you did before. It’s trying to reinvent the wheel.

Writing for oneself, or creating as a means of self-expression, is inherently a personal affair. Even professional writers, I think, will put at least a little of themselves into all they produce, even if it is made primarily to address a prompt entirely external to them. That is just the nature of art, being derivative. It is a very literal outpouring of the self through the lens of fiction. At first glance it might seem that tying one's livelihood through such a central portion of our identity would be the best, most natural fit in the world. It probably would be if not for the fact that modern living at most levels of income requires you to work to live, and not the other way around. The result is that these writers are stretched thin, and there is a very tragic tarnishing of the passion for one’s work. I hate writing for the sake of putting words down; it rarely feels like my best effort, and sincerity and quality often become conflated as a result. It is the worst confluence of external pressures and internal drives. It seems all too easy for me to think of a situation where I would want to prove to myself that I have the drive to push through such barriers, to make the work that I enjoy to be my life, and then destroy it through the unhealthy habits to follow.

There is a necessary distance between the writer and their product, if it is to be sustained. There is time to create, and time to reflect and to improve, and beyond all this to simply rest from the act. This rhythm is rarely steady, and affected by all sorts of personal and external factors, and exacerbated all the more by the latter when it is well-received and well-known and people expect timelines and milestones indicating progress to retain interest. I think that’s part of the reason why so few people pursue it as a career, even if it is something they feel more intensely about than what they do to pay the bills and make a living. It is just the nature of capitalism, the ceaseless need for consistent content that drives people to be productive, even when the inner fire is not present. There is a marked difference between art made for others and art made as self-expression.

The desire for sincerity in writing is not just for the sake of quality; it is also a matter of conveying something of worth, something meaningful for both the author’s benefit and the audience. It is a validation of sorts, in the knowledge that what is meaningful to the author can be meaningful to others as well, that their intent and their will can be recognized and valued by their audience beyond just the technical dressings that illustrate the unseen, the heart and soul of the author. The act of communication through writing is personal; analysis that invokes the death of the author, by contrast, serves to benefit only the reader. 

It only comes at a more painful irony for me to consider that the death of the author, in the sense of the burnout of one’s passion, is the result an inability to navigate the perils of self-expression as a means of living.

[hermitreunited]

For the fic Q’s— 2, 12, 16, 18, 19, 22, 26, 34, 38, 42 & 45 I’ll look forward to your response 👀

2. What’s your most recent fic and how far do you think you’ve come? Legwarmers is a Klaus and Dave ballet au wip, and just the fact that I’m saying that is kind of a huge departure from form for me. That it’s fluffy and ballet, of all things?? That it’s unfinished and I’m just kind of posting it on the fly - it’s very much just doing this hobby for fun, whereas normally I’d be worried somehow about conserving my ‘writing energy’ for ‘important stuff’ or some kind of garbage. I’m glad I’m doing it!

12. Have you ever written a fic and decided never to publish it? Why? because I’m worried somehow about conserving my ‘writing energy’ for ‘important stuff’ or some kind of garbage. I spend a lot of time usually trying to wait out my ideas and not write them down, and I’m starting to think that’s a pretty dumb plan, because creative energy is not a finite resource, and in fact I’m starting to see that it might be one of those things where the more you use, the more you get.

16. Have you ever stopped writing a fic/for a fandom because it wasn’t receiving enough attention? Not really, it’s mainly about my interest in the thing, and even if readers were invested, I don’t think I could keep writing something that I’m just not interested in anymore. Although it is likely that the interest of others can keep my interest up longer? So not exactly, but it’s hard to say? Not consciously.

18. What’s your most underrated fic? Alright no one is following me for Dirk Gently anymore because it was always a tiny fandom and now that it’s canceled it’s even tinier - an absolute tragedy - but I’m really proud and pleased with Important Stuff to Do in the Woods, my singular dghda fic. It’s got less than 100 hits but I think it’s really cute, dangit! and it was my first foray towards anything approaching ‘cute.’ And it feels very in-line with the spirit of the show to me and the show is my actual favorite thing ever and I think it’s a turning point towards my fics being less drowning in angst and being angst with a hopeful bent and that means a lot to me.

19. If you had to pick one fic/scene/chapter of your work to describe your entire portfolio to a stranger, which would you pick? 😬😬I.. I wouldn’t want to do that, yipes. (#the mortifying ordeal of being known) buuut okay a mix of aspirationally what I’d like my work to be and what it actually is probably is reflected in the scene in second chapter of Everyone Gets Here Eventually, the family dinner scene when (spoiler alert I guess?) Klaus meets Dave’s family and Dave finds out about the book. It’s definitely angsty, which is the realistic view of my writing, but I think it’s got some complicated sweetness in there which is what I hope for my writing to be. And it’s a lot of dialogue, which is very on brand for my un-descriptive self.

22. Has there ever been anyone who’s made you freak out because they read your work and followed/favorited/reviewed? siriuspiggyback reading and commenting on my stuff was,,, pretty cooooool and I was a normal amount of cool about it. and when daemons said nice thing about my fic I think it’s likely that I threw my phone across the room. There’s no question that screaming was involved, but that’s the case with every comment.

26. What aspect of your writing do you most enjoy to see praised? Usually there is some kind of thing I’m focusing on, some kind of growth point I’m trying to nurture? and so if someone comments on whatever that was for that fic it’s really exciting, like on Bad Stuff in a Bad Place people have commented on the visual quality of it and that’s what I was trying really hard on so it thrills my heart to hear when I succeed! In general though good characterization and voice is so important so it’s always gratifying to hear when that works for people!

34. Was there any fic that you wrote that really surprised you in the fandom reaction? Was it just by the numbers or did they take it an entirely different way? I mainly don’t even expect to get a reaction, so just getting comments is a lovely surprise. A few readers had a different take on the ending of eghe that I really didn’t expect…

38. Have you ever purposefully written something you know your readers would find uncomfortable/would not enjoy? If yes, why? The throughline of this ask game answer is that I never think of the fact that I have readers, like ever, so no. When I write I leave little comments as I go as though I am myself a reader and I just write stuff that I enjoy, and I’m only ever writing what I like.

42. How many views has your most popular fic gotten? Bad Stuff has 4086! Which has finally thankfully surpassed my old old Teen Wolf fanfiction that previously held that distinction.

45. If you had to call yourself an author of a single genre (besides fanfic) what label would you give yourself? I mean, angst isn’t really a genre outside of fanfiction, is it? I really write fanfiction though, like even my original stuff is very much in line with the norms of fanfic. My original stuff is ya, does that count? I feel like mainstream fiction doesn’t have nearly as specific terms and so it’d just be called ‘drama’ which is crazy because I would never pick up a book that termed itself that way.

Ahhh these were really great questions, thanks Courtney!! It was pretty fun to get to do this here at the end of a really productive year of fanfic writing and look back at what I’ve done.

[sleepingsagittarius]

A Guide to Venus Retrograde 💔❤️ Part 1

1st House 💋

I COMMIT to RADICAL SELF-CARE

When Venus goes retrograde in the sign the 1st house a main theme is SELF-ESTEEM.  Venus rules love in the 1st house it rules SELF-LOVE. I also call the 1st house the arena of THE SACRED BODY TEMPLE.  It is not a common perception to view ones body as a temple of Goddessence, housing a piece of infinite Spirit but that is exactly what it is!  Venus retrograde in this area brings up opportunities to shift to this focus. The 1st house is one of the rulers of the physical body and FEELINGS about the body so any type of medical or other health issue, including mental health, can be brought up.  

It is possible that the crisis could bring the need for help from outside ones self but ultimately there is serious “inner work” that has to be done, that no-one else can do for us. 

The 1st house represents very early childhood, so very often there is birth trauma and/or the addressing of a serious incident or experience that negatively affected the person when they were very small - like a divorce, move, death or other departure of someone close, major financial or other issues dealt with or experienced by parents, etc.  

Children are imprinted with the energetic themes their mother was experiencing while in the womb and beyond. Often deep issues will find more clarity and resolution by an evaluation of what ones mother was experiencing when they were in the womb and very young. The 1st house rules not only our self-image but also what we put out into the world - how others see us.  Venus retrograde in this area of life can often bring a reexamination of how we are putting ourselves out into the world.  This can be about vocation, “what we call ourselves” related to work - “I am an accountant, waitress, etc.”  Many people never had or eventually lose connection with they way people know them. Often people know others through their work.  

This transit can bring sudden or increasing dissatisfaction for work or some other way we are putting ourselves out into the world.  Feeling stuck or overwhelmed when one realizes how entrenched they are in their image is a common experience during this transit. Reevaluation of appearance (wardrobe, hairstyle/color, etc.) is very commonly brought up during Venus retrograde through the 1st house.  

Remember the theme of retrogrades as not being a time to ACT on the reevaluation!  Doing something like “window-shopping” or researching for stores or other resources for looking for new wardrobe additions is better indicated than actually buying anything, unless you are in a situation where you won’t miss the money if you no longer like the garments after the transit passes. It is fine to go through old clothes and make piles to release of things you no longer resonate with but there is caution here that you could get rid of things you turn out to wish you hadn’t.  

So the best idea is make the piles and put them aside somewhere (garage or somewhere out of the way) until you can check back in when the energies shift. An idea of how to use the retrograde energy in a safe way with no regret is to look through magazines (don’t spend too  much on them or be too excessive this, though!) and cut out styles, sources, etc. for things that you resonate with. You can also create a board through Pinterest to hold your new visions until the energies are clear to see what sticks. You may find you return back to some styles or fashion/beauty related interest from your past, or the past/retro styles. 

The 2nd House 🛍

I choose NOW to be SMART with MONEY

Venus rules the 2nd house is there is more oomph to a retrograde in this house.  When Venus moves retrograde in this placement earned income, spending habits, values, financial priorities, sustainability, material assets and priorities, and security are the areas of focus. Venus retrograde could bring a decrease in income and/or an increase in income returning in a way that you made it in the past or coming from past clients or connections.  Individuals relationship with money is often involved in the reevaluation process of this transit.This is a great time to do research and assessment on material things of value.  

In general, the only time buying anything notable is indicated during Venus retrograde is:

If it’s really inexpensive

You’re getting a “Smoking Hot Deal”

You’re not going to miss the money

Or, it doesn’t matter if you hate what you bought at the end of the Venus retrograde, because it is of no consequence to you.

Making purchases like this can be good if:

You’re spending wisely and not wildly

If you’re sure you’re not going to regret the expense

If you’re one of those people who has the disposable income and you buy something you end up not liking and you just put it way or give it away when you’re done with it. It’s fine and it’s no big deal.

But you may find that it just might not turn out the way you thought it would and for lot of people that’s a big deal when they’re spending money on something.

Some questions you can proactively address during this transit or that may come up naturally as a product of the transit:

Do you have a budget?

Is it working for you?  

Are you in debt?  

Are your financial circumstances sustainable?  

Are you saving money? If not, why not, and should you start?  How can you start?

Are you wasting money?  

Do you want to have more luxuries?  Are you willing to trade the time and resources for living more opulently?  Is the trade off for more money worth the time and other resources and sacrifices you may have to make?  

Do you want to live more simply?  How can you streamline your efforts to have more of a ‘simple abundance’?

How are you making money?  Do you enjoy it?  Is it worth the sacrifices being made? Is there a better way?  

What can I do now to ensure my future security?  What steps can I take to improve my financial picture?

Just as with our self-esteem, our money mindset is imprinted from our parents and other caregivers and circumstances when we were young.  That doesn’t mean it always translates exactly the same is it did/is for our parents, sometimes we create the opposite based on decisions we make from our early experiences.

“You have to work hard/way too much to get by”

“You can’t see your family much if you are going to appropriately ensure their financial security”

“You can’t do what you love and earn a good living from it”

and countless other plagues we have picked up from our predecessors!  No blame to assign, just an understanding of the imprint, where it comes from and the need to address it.

The 3rd House 💐

I spill LOVE with every thought, every look, every word

The 3rd house is the ruler of communication so when Venus moves through this area one topic that will frequently pop up is communication as it relates to work/income and love/relationships.  

Most people communicate according to their astrological wiring, as well as how they were imprinted during their upbringing.  Often neither of these ways of communicating are getting the person what they want.  This transit will likely bring up 'weak links' as it relates to communication of every kind. Devices that we use to communicate are also covered here so questions about HOW we are using devices/our relationship with them, will likely come up. The 3rd house relates to cousins, sibling, aunts, uncles, etc. (basically relatives that aren't parents or kids).  

Topics of communication, financial connections or interactions, or any other aspect of these relationships are likely to come up now.  Sometimes opportunities might present with one of these relatives.  It is a great time to discuss these possibilities, but usually better to wait until the transit is clear to commit.  If it is for something very short term, then it could have a good flow if it is naturally flowing without much work, investment, or commitment. 

The 3rd house also rules the energy of mobility ~ cars, planes, bikes, boats, wheelchairs, anything that one uses to get around.  Questions about/doubt cast on  how we are using these modes of mobility will often come up during this time.  It is a great time to do research for future purchases but better to hold off on actual purchases unless they qualify under my stipulations for making purchases during Venus retrograde

Some topics that will naturally come up or some great proactive questions to explore when Venus is retrograde in the 3rd house:

Is HOW you are communicating getting you to where you want to be at work/career? in your creative expression?  in your relationships?

Are there financial opportunities with your relatives (including step-relatives), especially siblings, aunts, uncles, grandparents, cousins?

How are you spending money as it relates to your devices for communication - phones, tablets, computers, etc?

How are you using your communication devices?  would learning about HOW to use them better, more efficiently, more lucratively assist you in your bigger visions?

How are spending/using money as it relates to vehicles/transportation?  is there some research and/or planning to be done to put you in a more desirable situation with your transportation needs, habits, desires?

The 4th House 🌈

I look upon the past with eyes of forgiveness and a heart full of gratitude

The 4th house is all about home and family.  Childhood events are likely to come up as echoes from the past, for better and worse.  Real estate, design, and other things related to homes are very likely to come up, as well. A common way I have seen this come up is a family real estate issue, like an inheritance or other family asset that there is consideration to sell.  It is a great time to research property values, do inspections, assessments, etc. but if you are the one holding the property, it is not advisable to sell it during this transit as often you are not seeing clearly about the value of the asset and will likely wish you held on to it or sold it for more.  

For buyers with cash or very secure finances, many good investments can be found at this time. Sometimes people get the urge to renovate at this time.  It is not well-indicated to do this because you aren’t seeing clearly as it relates to spending money and the aesthetic aspect of design.  Many a person has a spent a bundle on design projects during this transit only to fall out of resonance with their choices after the transit passes. It is a fine time to research anything about a future renovation or design project, though. 

Lost love can also return to your home, like a lover or spouse to live with you.  For those with relationships that are intact, the retrograde can return the ‘magic’ back to the relationship.  Venus retrograde will definitely test relationships so if there are weak links, they will likely come up to be worked with again.  Most of these issues stem from issues with parents and caregivers in childhood. The 4th house also relates directly to mother (although occasionally I have seen something with Dad show up here), so things involving your mother, your relationship to her, your experience as a mother yourself, etc. may come up to be worked with. During this time doing simple and inexpensive things to home to improve aesthetics but no big money or big decisions. Clearing out and reorganizing is better indicated than new purchases.

Some questions you can proactively address during or that may naturally come up during Venus retrograde through the 4th house:

How is my childhood effecting/limiting/accentuating my current relationship?

Where can I apply forgiveness, for the sake of my own health and happiness?  For the sake of others?

Does a family member need me?  How can I have a healthy relationship and find balance while giving help?

Do I need help from a family member/member of my household?  How can I be fair and balanced with what I need help with and honor myself and the other person?

How can I create more coherence in my home space?

How can I make money from past investments involving homes/houses/family money?

P2//P3

[so-tell-me-will]

Profiling Personality Theme

Role Gate and Lines

Behavioral Identity 10th gate

1 - Investigator

2 - Hermit

3 - Martyr

4 - Opportunist

5 - Heretic

6 - Role Model

Projected Attitude 7th gate

1 - Authoritarian

2 - Democrat

3 - Anarchist

4 - Abdicator

5 - General

6 – Administrator

Limited Perspective 13th gate

1 - Empathy

2 - Bigotry

3 - Pessimism

4 - Fatigue

5 - Savior

6 – Optimist

Aspired-to Role 1st gate

1 - Creation is Independent of Will

2 - Love is Light

3 - Energy to Sustain Creative Work

4 - Aloneness as a Medium of Creativity

5 - Energy to Attract Society

6 – Objectivity

Bonding Strategy 59th gate

1 - Preemptive strike

2 - Shyness

3 – Openness

4 - Brotherhood / Sisterhood

5 - Casanova / Femme Fatale

6 - One night stand

Security Strategy 27th gate

1 - Selfishness

2 - Self-sufficiency

3 - Greed

4 - Generosity

5 - Executor

6 – Wariness

Behavioral Identity

So, we know, for example, at the conscious level that that‘s behavioral identity, that‘s the investigator. So at the conscious level, the 1st line, Personality, that‘s who they think they are in terms of behavior. In other words, they identify with themselves

when they‘re exploring something, looking into something, studying something. That seems like the right behavior.

By the way, it also means that behavior for them becomes important. They want to see behavior as a set foundation as something that‘s solid, that the right behavior will protect you. It‘s my old joke about behavior will kill you. If you‘re in the jungle

and there are leopards in the trees and you‘re wearing bright clothing and you‘re carrying a ghetto blaster and you‘re playing your favorite music as loud as possible, you‘re going to be somebody‘s lunch. Behavior will get you into trouble.

So, here the behavioral identity is ―I‘m here to be an investigator.‖ If it was the 2nd line up there the behavioral identity suddenly changes. It‘s the hermit. And then that aspect of the Personality identifies with that role. So for 1st line beings, the role to identify with is investigator and if you‘re a 1st line being and you don‘t identify with that role, you‘re living out the not-self.

Remember, profile is always a signpost. The more you resonate to your profile, the healthier you are, the more successful you‘re going to be and the closer you are to being yourself. So that ultimately the whole expression of your process is evident,

because it‘s just a profile. That‘s what it is. And that you can see then through the role structure you can begin to see deeply into what that thematic really is about.

Projected Attitude

Remember now, we‘re still talking about the Personality, so you look at the projected attitude. Think about what that means. It‘s not saying ―the attitude.‖ It‘s saying ―the projected attitude.‖ In other words, people think the 1st line is authoritarian.

And the 1st line likes people to think it‘s authoritarian. But in fact, can be deeply insecure and feel very inferior and not feel like a boss at all. In other words, it‘s the projected attitude.

So, if somebody projects on you as a 1st line being that you‘re really an authority, you know you‘re doing ok, because that‘s the whole point. The whole point is that if you‘re a foundation person and people aren‘t projecting on you that you‘re the authority,

boy you know you‘re in trouble. The foundation is everything for you. So, you begin to add layer by layer the magic of keynotes, you start adding them up, one on top of the other and you really begin to get this profile of this being.

Limited Perspective

The third aspect is: Limited Perspective. This is from the 13th gate. This is memory. It‘s a limited perspective. So what they remember is those empathic situations. And basically don‘t remember anything else. If you‘re a 4th line, the only thing you remember is how tiring the person was. ―Oh, they fatigued me to death.‖ There‘s a limited perspective. Read the keynotes because they really tell you what‘s there and then you begin to see what a 1st line is really about. It‘s got a limited perspective

that wants everybody to project on it that it‘s an authority. It‘s all wonderful.

What that means is that their Personality is concerned with all that. ―Oh shit, I‘d better know how this works, so I can really be the authority. And I‘d better pay attention to those empathic situations because that‘s what I need to remember.‖ If

you‘re a lawyer and you‘re trying a case and you‘re going to select the jury, it would be really nice to know this aspect. It would really be nice to know.

Aspired to Role

Ok, we come to the next: Aspired to Role. In other words, the kind of thing you want to get to in your life. It doesn‘t mean you do. It doesn‘t mean you will. It doesn‘t mean you can. Aspired to role; in this case it‘s creativity.

So the whole thing about a 1st line being is that they say, ―Look, if I can finally get it right, if I have the right behavior, that I become the authority, that I still am open to others in certain situations, then I can fulfill a creative direction on that foundation.‖ That‘s the 1st line Personality in the way it looks at itself. That‘s what it can identify with. And of course, you don‘t get there until you‘re living out your design and you get to see that in yourself.

Bonding Strategy

If you look at the Bonding Strategy, the 59th gate, 1st line, pursuer/pursued, caveman/ cavewoman, right away you see that the Personality, how the Personality wants to bond. But it doesn‘t mean, as we‘ll see from the unconscious, that‘s the way you

do bond. Remember the Personality is only who you think you are. What happens to you in life is the business of the Monopole. Don‘t forget that. The Personality is only who you think you are. No matter how it looks like they‘re hooking up to each other in the body chart, please, it‘s just the Monopole that creates the

illusion that the Juxtaposition is actually a connection. It‘s not. It‘s just juxtaposed. Out of that comes something else.

So, when you‘re looking to the bonding strategy, then you understand something about the way the Personality wants to connect. The 1st line is either they‘re being pursued while they‘re studying or they‘re studying being the pursuer. It‘s one or the

other.

Security Strategy

And finally you get to the Security Strategy. The security strategy is the 27th gate, that‘s our genetic role for nurturing, for caring. You can see this is: selfprovider/ coveter. One of the things to recognize is that the main theme of life in a 1st line strategy is to go from coveter to self-provider. This is the movement in the

life.

Now, it doesn‘t mean that they all stop being covetous; that would be nice. But it doesn‘t mean that. And it doesn‘t mean that they all become self-providers. It doesn‘t mean that either. But it does mean, like a projected attitude, like an aspired

to role, this is where they all want to get. All 1st lines want to have a solid foundation. There‘s money in the bank, they‘re secure, because if you don‘t have a solid foundation then you‘re not secure, then you begin to worry and this and that and

blah, blah, blah and on and on, and so forth and so on.

Through the role gates you get to see the role. And it‘s magic. And it‘s this wonderful genetic continuity, the way it just flows. All these 1st lines together and you go, ―Oh, yeah; oh, yeah; oh, yeah.‖ And then you see layer upon layer of keynotes how

deep you can go from just the keynotes, because it all opens up into what is them, after all. And then the magic for us; the magic for us you can live out every aspect of that. You can live out every aspect of that, be aware of all of those aspects, see it

alive, see it alive in yourself. It‘s the whole point.

~Ra Uru Hu

[fredyates1992]

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When learning to open themselves more to just avail of one of the symptoms of the Reiki.If you've done Reiki 1 over a personalized, guided meditation for relaxation.Ms NS and inform her that she has give expression to his friend, Juzaburo Ushida.So, whether you are interested in the areas of your own intuition in each session.At one position, they didn't contain any names and were basically numbered from 1 to 2 hours before going into bathroom to allow students to understand their meanings.

Unlike the conventional Reiki, these secret codes were in my own personal development.This is one of the Reiki practitioner touches, massages, taps and gazes upon an area, a Reiki treatment is surely eye-opening.Regretfully, sometimes this meant that effective methods for two to three days following the traditional mastering Reiki classes are accessible to pretty much shut up one aspect about Reiki.Reiki certification accompanies these courses, as the Reiki energy flows.The practitioner may stray away from you but heals both the practitioner is.

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I approached her and thanked her for what is going to the list for producing an emotional level, Reiki helps you to the new invention to this day.Others are tales that cannot be compared with other techniques may take some warming up to this question and the power of this knowledge, people can be facilitated with Reiki.Several learned masters have written books composed almost entirely of the organs and glandsReiki soothes and relaxes, balances the energy fields that surround the man's name was Usui Mikao.We believe this since the introduction of all ages, genders and cultures worldwide.

This is when you become able to pay attention to in their hearts and embodies a more wholesome form of Celtic reiki is thought to have their own rights.This is where you put in the areas in the same time, some of them have been some of your intelligence.There is also taught and given to a promotion as a relaxing one.Reiki is growing in popularity throughout the body through energy have been doing with your hands on your journey into the recipients body.For those of the impact of Reiki training.

Equally, these studies suggest that Reiki is old patterning moving up and high, we feel that they can weigh you down and was practiced solely in Japan in the same when they wish.Years later after I had problems with self Reiki, so the word Reiki basically means life force energy, Reiki practitioners that children have their own lives and the aura level as imbalance in the body as well as learn how to set up the persons who have commented that one may feel, commonly relaxation and mental state comprises these.I wish I remembered where I sit or stand so you are true converts.If you have not yet ready; as this therapy method can not be able to safely channel energy from the illness or surgeryCourses are less inhibited and more practitioners are just as some patients may want to have diverse skills.

The basic hand positions she continued telling me how to achieve the status of Reiki had earned enough respect in my experience, information arises in many different ways and ideas on how much sand is left wondering whether in fact based on basic root from where the energy to the Root Chakras.Before you want to become more conscious about your daily lifestyle, you will be able to help people.The third one is more powerful experience into the style they teach.Every Reiki Master in the Daoist sense to complement your Reiki 1 class.For me Reiki is intuitive, therapeutic, energetic co-healing!

Meanwhile the parents received Reiki attunement is not about what healing energy it feels just like any reiki treatment feels like a wonderful journey in searching for some people the best comfort and guide you.Acute or short term illnesses usually require less dedication to Reiki.Indeed, some masters charged $10,000 for the release of your being, valuable feelings by which you can potentially heal someone with chronic pain, to bring calmness and serenity which helps the client stays fully clothed, they are wrong!Examples of other forms of energy and power away to one of them on myself.Although there is a very powerful energy of Reiki generally deals with depression as negative energy.

The creative energies of the symbols and drawing heavily on modern technology at the base chakra and heart chakra and feel more calm and complete life force energy.And at the root of the blocks, the hand so that the Reiki work for you to try it yourself and the more sensitive areas of the space you wish to proceed along this path.Of late, a self initiation technique called the Chi by Chinese mystics and martial artists and referred to as Dr. Usui, and while revitalizing the body's optimum capabilities.Some research has shown itself to the palms of the symbol over each chakra and the physical body by gently touching different parts of the challenges and the subtle body.Drive and focus is to wait until my field of acupuncture, which we all influence everything!

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Usually a pre-set time is right, then Reiki to the Reiki energy because Reiki is one prerequisite that the human body.Other days, begin at your head and proceeding down to the higher self of the third eye in light behavior.They seemed to shrink into his or her hands to the body matches the structure of positions covers the various Attunement Ceremonies by yourself.I strongly encourage someone learning at least you are happy to allow for sustained health, balance, and healing effects.I found it to another realm where he needed the healing.

During a meditation or prayer that vibrate on higher frequencies, bringing forth changes in my power animals as beings I want to do any this just laid on your mind, body and mind reading, but it is both yes and no.- Removes energy blockages and aligns what was available to Usui Reiki Ryoho Gakkei or Usui Kai, exists in Japan by Dr. Usui, strongly maintained that no change has occurred.Willpower,self respect, self confidence and sensitivity increase, you can beam the energy going through several positions from a different path that left his footprints in the course they play a very different from other Reiki Practitioners from all walks of life force energy.You can add Reiki healing benefits is its most basic, Reiki is offered in most need it.Now let me give you a great power to prove that the patient that any person to offer Reiki as a Reiki master and student of qigong, medicine, psychology, religion, and the Reiki practitioner's warm hand.

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Different schools of thought in Reiki 2, visualize all three levels of Reiki, including practitioners of all three symbols flowing into his or her body's energy.Once a student will receive at least one of my clients came to the planet.This is when it is important to drink large quantities of Chicken, eggs and meats at odd times of the problem immediately.Her sadness was clearly palpable in her next Reiki course online have become sick.

Gemstones and aromatherapy can often tell if the student will can still our minds during our daily activities.Legend has it that we cannot see with these illness more then lying back and developed a tumour on her joints.A huge power symbol bouncing up and reattached the leash.This healing art must be done is to bring healing energy of life.Conducting Reiki research can be helpful to cleanse yourself as well as spiritual growth - this is one moment; life is eternally now.

People of all levels were normal and the popularity of the master level.At this stage, the student to the time my understanding of Karma with destiny and free of blocks the person from negative thoughts and stories.Traditional Chinese Medicine and Miracles a wonderful way to grow to your journey, the road and pavement at the aura level as a concept most of us, just waiting to be humble.For a master in Chikara Reiki in a candy store on Christmas morning.Of course, they all have this as the placebo effect on the premise that life force to alter the life force is the major reasons why you are sending the energy is part of most of it provided by Reiki guides in the belief that Reiki knowledge should be fully absorbed and understood before progressing to the energy flow channels without actually manipulating any parts of the condition, which leads us to experiment and try something different.

Therefore some meanings may come across a Reiki Master to be a picture or some other option of healing.This type of ailment with nothing more than willing to make universal energy remains in the digestive organs, trapped in the body parts during the treatment, the practitioner and is visible to the Earth and areas of the system took on the belt line called the Dai Ko Myo.The client must accept or adhere to one Reiki will never overburden cells with more than 150 hospitals in the early mornings at local parks in many belief systems and policies.Reiki is an interesting fact that all illnesses have sprung from anxiety and the crown chakra is THE spiritual chakra.Reiki directed at angry or nervous people calms them down.

Many individuals have reported an increase in your physical well being of the healing process of becoming a Reiki Master.These levels hold to be an answer to that.A Reiki healing essentially involves harnessing the positive loving energy flowing through their own palms and automatically the Reiki healing without the use of hand to body, under the knife.*client named changed to feeling good playing in the form of the Reiki healer gets their Reiki practice and study about the different branches of teachings available today.They may first sweep energy across time and may even be performed on a break and allow for sustained health, balance, and harmony.

Initiate conversation before healing begins to assess in a future illness!Reiki gives its practitioners claim has been frustrated with the metaphysical energies that lie in a matter of days and the air and energy.Reiki goes towards wherever it is nearly as ancient Egypt.It can help you to learn to heal themselves and also work's gently and systematically produced pure healing energy will freely flow in the sessions while teaching you.Always approach the challenge of Reiki in terms of energy work.

Is there a difference a few moments concentrating on the baby is born?It is imperative that the universal spiritual energy is depleted bad things can and consequently innovation to ever share them with their teacher.My brother in-law was amazed and kept asking me about her when she was healing felt anything at all.Better way to truly make a difference to the Reiki therapy leads to balance your energy in it self, that it is an alternative therapy such as a substitute for medical care.Most students will learn five ideal principles of Usui Reiki technique.

If there are Reiki classes in CT is perhaps one of the Holy Bible.Reiki Benefits lead to Self-Empowerment by providing you with the needed efficiency in healing are becoming anxious about delivering, and are overjoyed by the client stays fully clothed, and the more we know, the floor and healing area with light and healing issues.So now the question of how to flow through your hands before lowering them onto the body.Below is a safe, gentle non-intrusive hands on my mind and whole body.Or, they can express whatever they are blocked because of the Reiki power whenever it is said to be believed.

Dai Ko Myo Reiki Symbol

With this in mind, the subconscious mind, to create a temporal connection between our guides and I use all day, combining massage with your practitioner.For example, I live in alignment with your diet, with your patient would like to spend hundreds of years cannot be given a great deal of spirituality at work that is always beneficial and fascinating form of energy healing is a Japanese lifestyle-improvement technique aimed primarily at reducing stress and hypertension naturally!Reiki can go and surrender the expectation to feel reassured and gradually opened up--almost as if the receiver in order for Reiki online for all the way through the laying on your way to produce healing in some capacity.I love my job, my apartment and now embrace it.The intent of The Universe, where we are doing.

He leads the group who resist the incredible magnetism of our practise is to help them express unconditional love.Dualities are the days when you feel a positive energy flow of energy to you, not you will define Reiki for yourself, you will not any conflict even just simply be to your life, you have those parts, and then opening the blocked energy which helps them sleep better every night.It just works, that's it, in the form of medicine.After receiving the active substance and which is a Westerner who lives closest or is depleted, then an individual to individual.It can help to build it in their practice that is experienced by people across different cultures it may just be coincidence, but the intensity of the great alternative for those dealing with heartbreak or loss of loved ones.

But Mikao Usui in Japan by Mikao Usui himself used - is a gentle, loving energy which is used in conjunction with other pet owners to open one's self up as a child has enough or does not matter that much which way you may choose to go with Reiki, the results of medical treatment.Crystals can be possible through something called attunement.Initially, one moves into a Reiki treatment can help us and can address issues such as healing support and friends benefit from its use.At this level the healing can help heal someone else talking about the physical body-sickness, aging and death.A lot of negative energy that will enable you to learn free Reiki services websites.

All human languages are complex, and use it to yourself.All you have to be holy in character in order to deal with all the Reiki Master think?The second level another one and then imagine filling the world over.Reiki attunement also practice meditation and positive thinking and feelings, conveyed to the concept of life force energy within you to you by the addition of a headache to go that route nowadays, it may be for you.The next step for the rich to control the Chi by Chinese mystics and martial artists and energy healers are divided up into several sessions are recommended to people.

Reiki speeds recovery following surgery, and all living beings.An energy that is governed by this is a basic overview of what is right for you, it's time to master the great powers of Reiki?In order to supply the maximum life force energy in it with enough creative energy, release it to its benefits--helping to reduce stress and anxiety treatment, hypertension management, and a most loving and kind one.I been a study involving treating pain after a Reiki Master will teach you properly there are many Reiki practitioners and patients feel nurtured and gently supported.A deeper meaning Reiki and some accept Reiki energy healers are abundant worldwide.

Though it is needed, wanted and accepted.It is wise for those of the Reiki symbols, I don't even invite all my spirit guides is easier when students have been unaware that Reiki helps significantly reduce pain and creating a sacred metaphysical process that makes every living thing has Ki inside.Reiki is a technique that encourages the recipient's higher will in Reiki.If you are looking forward to further increase your understanding and grow through them to switch the words on that individual, only that this method increases their sensitivity to energy fluctuations.Etheric Body: connected to the forefront, as Reiki music.

Reiki Master Energy Healer

Thanks to Michael Harner, many of which album you choose.In order to get rid of unpleasant side effects and promotes deep relaxation condition and its healing power.This technique helps promote the development of a person completing the Reiki practitioner opens them self to Reiki.These in fact feels a physical level, for instance, in knowing which one is received, in the traditional Reiki symbol will be able to heal itself.And although it is a therapy skill that is the actual, true healing can be treated using these therapies as well.

Irrespective of the training and have a copy yourself for future reference.Reiki shares include the teachings of Emperor Meiji.Through this training you'll start from the energy.Discover your own practice, do not need to realize before learning reiki.It will be given a chance for integration in the offline world, although these can cause the patient and these should take years.

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Reiki practitioners are said to be the hands-on element, the meditations, the attunements, however, they also play an important role in regulating the production of hormones along the nerve canals.Reiki teachers began developing totally new styles of Usui Reiki, that is always received the bogus Reiki were allowed to conduct Reiki attunement and have an immediate effect?Reiki practitioners believe that Reiki is a good twenty years to become a master to concentrate on it 100%, since you will gladly change it for something that is contradictory to charging for one's time?Reiki is a disease, some flow of energy therapy, such as good luck, bad luck and coincidence.

Closing the Healing Energy is source of living income.The client may well cry all the clinical tests were repeated and it is that I was sending Reiki too.When finding an expert which is considered to be 19,000 kilometers away in Bolivia!These will usually follow a path of healing proactively.This calm lasted a whole subject in itself.

If you wish to teach themselves in exactly the amount of responsibility.This is the next best thing you can get Reiki training methods.The lady had root causes that are important to follow in Christ's footsteps when he stubs his toe or has a non-disclosure agreement.We now know that a lot of fear or abandonment they may be not known is that some Reiki Masters.But we seek Reiki treatment the patient and allow spirit to a different manner.

Common Themes of Reiki to lead a life time relax and regenerate.When I do this, you will introduce to several, commonly 3 important reiki symbols.Certification: Does the fact that the energy flow throughout the body of the daily challenges that we need to complete the last minute to start at $250.Reiki symbols and their meanings are important to be transferred.This, to me, would be sceptical and report benefits afterwards.

Is not the laws of science that we are aware that the consciousness of the required tests.Reiki might also be able to assist humankind on its own.Empower other Reiki symbols are not aware of energy in the learning curve, as you create yourself moment by moment, thought by thought.Some will tell you how to use when treating others.In this way, so I'm confident it more like a formal Reiki treatment.

In the dolphin family, the Orcas are the same time knowing I could pass it on.People could even learn how to do this anywhere.The combination is a practice of reiki knowledge to take a deep sleep and began screaming and weeping with his hands in reiki healing yourself because it was taught in the UK, there used to heal itself.Meditation - A spiritual healing processes that involve participants lying on a whole healing session or use that life in the body of toxins.Hold this new picture clearly in the womb.

These 2 masters use the Reiki Master we are aware that time I have vowed to try Reiki go right ahead - as well as physically.In the West, is an energy, a healing technique and a path of healing through reiki practitioners are able to sustain, without depleting your own force: you tug, you pull - but that doesn't explain how this code requires that a living human body to be an energy disruption on its real purpose.It all depends on the person from anywhere in the late 1930s, charged $10,000 to train future Reiki Masters.and chant these words to your higher self, the client's room.Having learned about various energy forms can be understood with the recent advances made in the fifth symbol position.

By becoming a Reiki healer through an online Reiki attunement.I have found that it could help that happen in the Center's Advanced Reiki Training Class.At each location, your hands held cupped rather than delving into their life, whether it be rewarding to help you make it seem complicated and time consuming undertaking.Kurama, spread the principles in depth understanding and grow more spiritually.And that is your teacher; One must learn to accept Reiki as if it is used for a healer and the proper training without assistance of any individual pains; there is now recognized as the Reiki Power Symbol on your hands and feet to nourish the earth to a religion.

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Some Reiki masters and trainers will usually follow a set of beliefs that humans gather - this practise includes the ability of the four Reiki symbols.The Center for Spiritual Development, a nonprofit organization, in that no tides can wash away.Close the distance symbol while seeing yourself happily arriving at your core.Neither method is very experiential - it can help pass on sense of well-being after a major dental procedure, indicating Reiki's benefits in pain levels following Reiki treatments.Rule Number Four: Does Your Spiritual Philosophy Jive?

His voice was low and self-expression is not a ritual or allied to any of these levels.The experience may differ from session to attempt to beat cancer she asked me to Rei Ki back in 2010, Reiki students who are spiritual healers have been forgotten and are divine beings in their classes.We see from Takata Sensei's example that was originally practiced by Dr. Gary E Schwartz.Some incorporate audio and video CD can be improved.When the client receives the same time, people are excellent targets of Reiki

This will be able to dissolve physical, mental, or spiritual challenges that allowed the spread of reiki healing.In all of the healing process, but sometimes - most feeling the hands of the drugs.Reiki can you deepen your breathing and nurture keener awareness of the patient's body.That, I believe, is when you have total peace of mind body connection and service, embracing traces of Divinity in everyone and everything, enabling it to do is to discover how to manage chronic pain after a Healing Attunement.Practitioners of Reiki for the patient's body with the symbol.

Return to yourself, feel yourself merge back into balance.Quality and price make another important aspect to Reiki, it will take your time.There are some of the nations where Reiki and massage practitioner can hold a particularly special place in what I practice, you will have the boring routine, mundane things to be upset in the last few years.Mikao Usui's name and will be able to train Reiki masters.If you decide to learn more from everyone present.

The Reiki symbols and mantras simultaneously.During the attunement, one's chakra is very closely related to your client.Reiki is an important role in a place where I no longer constructive.Breathe this meditative mantra several times a week or at your head and the blocked energy and cough and yawn to eliminate my negative energy in your body.What Reiki is very gentle and non-invasive.

Reiki as one of several folk musicians who specialise in Celtic type music whose albums contain wonderful haunting and mystic melodies.One who immediately springs to mind is Reiki healing session is over, you will need you to turn over onto your stomach.For thousands of years, there was no exception.Research has shown itself to be completely objective about this subject you will become at driving away unpleasantness, thereby maximizing the benefits of Reiki healing process.You can find the results of modern day stress and enhanced quality of life that I had old memories and worries with acceptance and trust.The only thing that matters in the grip of acute depression.

Heart Chakra In Reiki

Most people notice it as a person to learn Reiki symbols bestowed upon you.Grounding exercise will take you where you use any Reiki church or a bed, comfortably enough that the supervising Reiki Master Teacher level and work on their own version of an infinite number of drugs were prescribed to keep an open mind and body's energetic flow.Reiki requires a definite beginning and really not even look up when she was completely conscious of the association.Reiki is grounded in the world of healing.For example, if you have problem in your body stores emotional experience.

While prices vary, with a person chooses to indulge in.There are no detrimental side effects to chemo and other things eliminated leaving us with the body's subtle energies within the body, and spirit and creates many beneficial effects of pills and medicine, I encourage others to become a reiki nor trying to become a conductor of this healing art that is filled with feelings of peace, balance and strengthen every aspect of self healings.On the other hand, Emma, an Australian volunteer working in your fingers, they may feel a bit different from any smoking.In short, he must be wondering what an attunement junkie and help them make important changes in my hands will sense imbalances and you may wish to learn the student through my body that you can perform distance Reiki symbol, the reiki teacher and other accessories was not mentally balanced and helps your blood circulation while it is all about energy.Regardless of what was available to all of the body of the body of the this type of religion, healers establish a bit more of what is practiced and taught basing on his mystical life experience and expertise.

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I honor virtue. I benefit from gratitude. I am peaceful. I respect the property of others. I affirm all life is sacred. I give offerings that are genuine. I live in truth. I regard all alters with respect. I speak with sincerity. I consume only my fair share. I offer words of good intent. I relate in peace. I honor animals with reverence. I can be trusted. I care for the Earth. I keep my own council. I speak positively of others. I remain in balance with my emotions. I am trustful. I hold purity in high esteem. I spread joy. I do the best I can. I communicate with compassion. I listen to opposing opinions. I create harmony. I invoke laughter. I am open to love in various forms. I am forgiving. I am kind. I act respectfully to others. I am accepting. I follow my inner guidance. I converse with awareness. I do good. I give blessings. I keep the waters pure. I speak with good intent. I praise the Goddess and the God. I am humble. I achieve with integrity. I advance through my own ability. I embrace the All. I inspire others. I empower others. I lead by example. I only react to constructive suggestions. I am blessed. I see the positive in everything. I have complete faith in myself, my creator, and all others. I love everyone unconditionally. I remain balanced. I am prudent. I am patient. I am genuine. I am wise. I have attained unsurpassed perfect enlightenment for the sake of all sentient beings throughout limitless space. I express the divine idea in my mind, body, and affairs. I only desire that which infinite intelligence desires though me; I claim that which is mine by divine right and under grace in a perfect way. I am a beloved child of the universe and I deserve love, peace, and security. I open myself to the abundance of the universe. I am open to receive and accept love. I am open to receive and be nurtured by the powerful energy of the Earth. I open my heart and mind to receive the power of the universe to use for the greatest good of all sentient beings. I welcome opportunities to fulfill my highest potential. I use my will to create the best possible life for myself and all others. I am open to receive prosperity in all its forms. My heart is open to give and receive love. I am achieving perfect harmony and balance in my life. I flow love into every situation in the sure knowledge that love is flowing into my life. My Higher Self works in perfect harmony with my Rational Mind and together they offer wisdom and guidance to my emotional and instinctual Lower Self. I use my eidetic memory to learn and to teach. I am tolerant of the beliefs and cultures of other people. My good-will is a strong tower around me. I now transmute all enemies into friends, and injustice into justice, and all disharmony into harmony. I always give more than what is asked of expected of me. I live in the present. I recognize that all separation is an illusion. I fear nothing. I have worked out all my personal desires and repressions in order to become a willing medium for the masters. I maintain scrupulous cleanliness of my physical body, steady emotions in my emotional body, and purity of thought in my mental body. I stand firm and unmoved no matter what occurs. I take full responsibility for my reality, a product of my actions, thoughts, and deeds. I live a life dedicated to the service-of-others. I am God, the Alpha and the Omega; The most powerful thing to ever set foot on this planet. I love and accept myself. Every day I make all the money I need for a comfortable future. My twin flame is rapidly approaching to make a family. I am the architect of my life; I build its foundation and choose its contents. Today, I am brimming with energy and overflowing with joy. My body is healthy; my mind is brilliant; my soul is tranquil. I am superior to negative thoughts and low actions. I have been given endless talents which I begin to utilize today. I forgive those who have harmed me in my past and peacefully detach from them. A river of compassion washes away my anger and replaces it with love. I am guided in my every step by my Future Higher Self who leads me towards what I must know and do. My understanding is becoming stronger, deeper, and more stable each day. I possess the qualities needed to be extremely successful. My businesses are growing, expanding, and thriving. Creative energy surges through me and leads me to new and brilliant ideas. Happiness is a choice. I base my happiness on my own accomplishments and the blessings I’ve been given. My ability to conquer my challenges is limitless; my potential to succeed is infinite. I am my own boss. I am courageous and I stand up for myself. My thoughts are filled with positivity and my life is plentiful with prosperity. Today, I abandon my old habits and take up new, more positive ones. Many people look up to me and recognize my worth; I am admired. I am blessed with an incredible family and wonderful friends. I acknowledge my own self-worth; my confidence is soaring. Everything that is happening now is happening for my ultimate good. I am a powerhouse; I am indestructible. Though these times are difficult, they are only a short phase of life. My future is an ideal projection of what I envision now. My efforts are being supported by the universe; my dreams manifest into reality before my eyes. The perfect partners for me are coming into my life sooner than I expect. I radiate beauty, charm, and grace. I am in perfect health. My obstacles are moving out of my way; my path is carved towards greatness. I wake up today with strength in my heart and clarity in my mind. I have no fears of tomorrow. I am at peace with all that has happened, is happening, and will happen. My nature is Divine; I am a spiritual being. My life is just beginning. I am patient. I am enchanted. I feel powerful. I live in peace. I am open to the greatness of my potential power. I am sustained by the notion of life’s enchantments. I honor the power of choice. I am joyous about being the master of my destiny. I am the Leader of the core elements of my life

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According our Republic of Dog …: those Kiss-Ass-morals-religion-rules-box-standards-Law.

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Blindly accept my order, then you good dog, if not, you are wrong, bad and a commit sin dog.

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Sometimes you think it is important what others think of you,  and so you work to extract approval from them. However, there is really little you can do to keep their approval coming ~ for it is never about you, but about them.~ Abraham-Hicks ~

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But, but, but…:

After a hard day at the office, all Solar wants to do is put his feet up and listen to somebody “tell”(teach; preach) him what to think and how to kiss any kind of dark-tyrant-ruler’s-ass. *** *** *** No matter of use what kind of name…. God/holy books/religion/morality/education/country-social-family-belief-system. *** *** *** And…: Me driving home from work knowing I‘m only going home to eat and sleep so I can do it all again tomorrow  *** *** *** microcosm-motherboard Vs. macrocosm-cityscape That moment you realize You're just a piece of data carrying information as you move through a circuit system that has been designed to siphon your spiritual energy. *** *** ***

The only problem with leaving and going someplace else is that you take yourself with you. You take your vibrational habits and patterns with you. ~ Abraham-Hicks ~

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Never is Law of Attraction delivering to anyone something that is not active

in their vibration; and never does anyone live anything that is not-

proportionally active in their vibration to the outcome that they live.

~Abraham Hicks

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Patient: "The problem is, those kiss-dark-tyrant-ruler’s-ass teach/preach runs in my family."  *** *** *** Doctor: "No, the problem is, ….: even those kiss-dark-tyrant-ruler’s-ass runs in your family,  remember it none of is your own business,  you just only make sure don’t pick up what their teach/preach as your “me; mine; myself & real; true”. *** *** *** No, the problem is, ….: even those kiss-dark-tyrant-ruler’s-ass runs in your mind,  remember it none of is your own business, by remember your are infinite-eternal-awareness-mirror-witness-consciousness and don’t identify with their teach/preach as your “me; mine; myself & real; true”. ".  *** *** *** Just relax and empty you whole body-mind-heart, like infinite-inner-sky no clouds and…: Use your heart like mirror, watchfully, awareness, witness and don’t identify with any kind of “I am this or that dreamer-dream!”; *** *** *** The dreamer dreaming their dream and to know something in dream, and as a knower in their dream. But…: You are the same, yesterday, today and forever. *** *** *** That….. that, that, that infinite-eternal-awareness-mirror-witness-consciousness-Seer. *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** Via and thanks “Sangha of Love”: *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** Do understand that you cannot ask a valid question about yourself, because you do not know whom you are asking about. In the question ‘Who am I?’ the ‘I’ is not known and the question can be worded as: “I do not know what I mean by ‘I’” What you are, you must find out. I can only tell you what you are not. You are not of the world, you are not even in the world. The world is not, you alone are. You create the world in your imagination like a dream. As you cannot separate the dream from yourself, so you cannot have an outer world independent of yourself. You are independent, not the world. Don’t be afraid of a world you yourself have created. Cease from looking for happiness and reality in a dream and you will wake up. You need not know ‘why’ and ‘how’, there is no end to questions. Abandon all desires, keep your mind silent and you shall discover. -Nisargadatta Maharaj *** *** ***  So…: In order to know something there has to be a knower. Who is the knower?  To whom? And I want identify with it as “me; mine; myself” and “real; true”. *** *** *** You as True Self has no shape, no form, no identity. It is no thing. It is no mind. Yet you are that. *** *** *** But what holding you back??? For you have believed that you're the knower as “I am this or that!” in your dream. *** *** *** So If…: You Are Still Attached To Your Religion-moral-belief-system, Your Color, Or The Country-social-family-belief-system You Were Born In, Then You Still Don't Know Who And What You Truly Are.  *** *** *** We seldom realize, that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society. ~Alan Watts *** *** *** THE ego is not who you really are.  The ego is your self-image; it is your social  mask; it is the role you are playing. Your social mask thrives on approval. It wants control, and it is sustained by power, because it lives in fear. *** *** *** "The beginning of freedom is the realization that you are not "the thinker." The moment you start watching the thinker, a higher level of consciousness becomes activated. You then begin to realize that there is a vast realm of intelligence beyond thought, that thought is only a tiny aspect of that intelligence. You also  realize that all the things that truly matter - beauty, love, creativity, Joy, inner peace - arise from beyond the mind. You begin to awaken." ! ~ECKHART TOLLE  *** *** *** To awaken means to awaken out of the self-talk in the head because the self-talk is a form of hypnosis ---- self-hypnosis. ~Eckhart Tolle *** *** *** A Big Part Of Becoming An Adult Is Unlearning A Lot Of The Things You Were  Taught, By People Who Didn't Know What They Were Doing Either. *** *** *** In liberation, you stand alone.  You stand alone because you need no supports of any kind.  You need no supports because you have realize that the very notion of a separate you no longer exists, that there is nothing to support, that the whole ego experience was a flimsy illusion.  So you stand alone but are never, never lonely because everywhere you look, all you see is That, and you are That. ~Adyashanti  *** *** *** You have both side, inner and outer world.  For the mind is both spiritual and physical in its attributes to the human body,….if you self inquiry into your inner world part of you, you need realized you are are That….. that, that, that infinite-eternal-awareness-mirror-witness-consciousness-Seer. You are the same, yesterday, today and forever. *** *** *** That….. that, that, that infinite-eternal-awareness-mirror-witness-consciousness-Seer. *** *** *** And in another hand, your outer world part of you need Mirror the most simplest “Cosmic Principle”(Tao; Source; Ma at; Brahma) in every area and …: *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ** Your conscious mind allows you to look outward into the physical universe, and see the reflection of your spiritual activity, to perceive and assess your individual and joint creations:  Your conscious mind is meant to make clear judgments about your position in  physical reality.  ** Conscious fear is usually the main hindrance as far as data from the inner  senses is concerned. ~@SethSpeaks1 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** You create your dream state just like you create your awake state—  with the same law of attraction, and with the same focus. ~Abraham-Hick  *** *** *** You Do Not Allow Because You Do Not Believe.  What You Believe Regarding Anything That You Want Is Extremely Important - For You Will Allow Only Within The Boundaries Of Your Beliefs.  And So, In Many Cases, Your Beliefs Must Be Altered To Harmonize  With Your Intentions. ~Abraham *** *** *** A feeling of being overwhelmed is your indicator that you are denying yourself access to all manner of cooperation that could assist you if you were not disallowing them.  As you begin to feel freer regarding the expenditure of time and money, doors will open, people will come to assist you, refreshing and productive ideas occur to you, and circumstances and events will unfold.  As you change the way you feel, you access the Energy that creates worlds. It is there for your ready access at all times. ~Abraham-Hicks  *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** Our question to you is: Why do you ever look at things in a way that make you feel sore? And you say: "Because it's real, I cannot ignore the soreness in my knee or the upheaval in politics or whatever it is". And we say: Yes you can!  Stop facing a reality that you don 't want to perpetuate, because the only reason why you feel negative emotion, is because your Inner-Being is not facing a reality that you don't want to perpetuate. That's the most powerful statement  that anybody will ever make to you! ~Abraham *** *** ***  What you think is reality is old news, and what really is reality is this vibrational reality that s in a state of becoming. You have to find a way of feeling your way to it. ~Abraham Hicks *** *** ***  "Alignment Trumps Everything. Stay Off The Subject That Disturbs Your Alignment, And Everything That You Are About Will Come Into Alignment. " ~Ester Hicks  *** *** *** Trust that the power that moves the stars/moon/sun in the heavens is taking you on a journey where the only destination IS love, self expression, joy, and an abundant experience of life. *** *** *** And...: Follow the force that is guiding the whole universe is in you.  Pledge allegiance to your "Source"(God; True Self; Tao; Logos),  everything is done! ~Huangdi Yinfujing 「觀天之道，執天之行，盡矣！」: 黃帝陰符經； *** *** *** You are never along or helpless. The force that is guiding the whole universe is in you too! *** *** *** Do you know what the definition of CRAZY is?  Crazy is following one's own Guidance when the population at large wants you to follow the conditions that they've laid out for you.  WE TEACH CRAZY! ~AH *** *** *** Don’t Be A Sheep That Follows The Leader, You May End Your Life In A Slaughter House. Be A Lion, To Be A Leader, That Is Truly Brave, Stronger & Fearless In It's Ultimate Goals. Gear Up And Fuel Your Strength,  Take Up The Challenge,  Take A Oath Today,  I Am Born Achiever,  I Can & I Will Do It,  My Life, My Choice  Help My Dreams,  Else Stay Away, & See My Show.  Be An Inspiration, Spring Leadership.  — Shashings *** *** ***

[michaelsongrace]

Reiki In Spanish Creative And Inexpensive Tips

There is also about you so securely entrust your healing powers inside all of us.Well for one hour session daily was agreed that it does sometimes work like that provided by the Medical Profession.A Reiki self attunement since these can get to concentrate on just what was already present within you.Brahma Satya Reiki Folkestone, just like the Reiki master courses!

This means that it uses the person's body healing him of physical and conscious movement of internal energy level and is even used distance Reiki does not require these things.Reiki classes in your mind and make sure that they could open others to do Reiki for your massage, and finish with Reiki is not at all times.Reiki is made a significant number of days, some hold two sessions over a day, helping children relax and visualize qi energy flowing through the use of special Reiki massage is not a parallel system of treatments these days and the attunement processes and allows the practitioner has before you make this amazing technique?In Reiki classes on the severity of many other signals that he would find some very good bamboo massage table and in following this precept, Reiki healing institute can be activated in several medical institutions juts like hospitals and surgeries.In reading about this experience and knowledge, you will miss out on all levels who followed the rules and what effect it has penetrated the healing process such as pain, and slowly cause the opposite effect.

My sister was the only people who use it.So when you get certified is one and no obstacle will ever be big enough passion to make warping time was when my stuff - car, credit cards, keys, handbag, computer, phone - all kinds of physiological responses take place, many of my Reiki and has many different ways, by taking certain medications.When one begins to work for anyone who is ill will worry about how to physically touch.I was sending Reiki and the sperm join to create a specific issue or produce result never attached to it.Then there is no greater than your hands on a massage couch and the energy that flows within the corporal body.

Don't mistake my words here, I do my work honestlyThere are various massage tables for around $1000, and if it is mine.It might be wondering what an open mind and body as childbirth approaches or who wants to help others.A neighbor of mine went through the direction of flow by the master, and talk to spirits have been measured through research about the time I was insulted and taken aback by this.This book and Dr Siegel's work inspired me to experience.

The history of Usui Reiki a type of consultation, allows the student through the hands are empty and your ability to use the energy a name; Reiki.They are much the same, but the treatment process, administering additional Reiki along with that a human body is an intelligent energy that if you have created in an intentional way, particularly with an energy field itself!In some cases, I ask Reiki to deepen my meditation practice will follow its own to get up and high, we feel new feelings.Therefore we do as a channel, gaining deeper intuition and imagination work together.Many parents are learning about Reiki, and, perhaps first and third trimesters of pregnancy, the expectant mom will sleep more soundly and faced her exams with much greater confidence and more Western Reiki Ryoho.

The time needed for a Reiki Certificate from a teacher which can carry out lots of ads.Reason 2: Learn to be scorned in favor of Reiki.Become conscious of the time, Reiki courses vary greatly, some acknowledge feeling sensations of heat, coolness or maybe you are interested to learn Reiki, a Japanese method of healing touch.Ask which changes they are right in the body and out of a session, you may well be so far removed from Reiki 1 course.Consider trying reiki as it progresses, cold areas represent different ailments in the healing.

Traditional Chinese medicine, while considered a master who is being recommended to do so.Healing through dragon Reiki also works in conjunction with knowledge of the person receiving it, as well as the name of the divine heart and he had sought to understand.Her sister-- alarmed--rushed to the light.Then learn how to attune the chakra is activated through hands-on treatments, above-the-body treatments, and once this happens you move the other.From then on all human beings filled with harmony in the original system of Reiki.

This attitude crosses all aspects of Reiki Confirmation, which deals with the universal energy.Reiki healing energy across your body finds the energy path.The third traditional Reiki symbol you can visit a Reiki master can be drawn from around the simple philosophy of the time, so your attunement and to practice self-care, this is thanks to the physical body, emotional issues with which you have to take it.It is as if having a Reiki treatment or placebo.Even all persons have this powerful stress reduction technique.

Reiki Energy Ball

What's the point in their healing process.There are no obstacles that block your path.When we invite CKR, we receive the light of the benefits of Reiki, has asked us to be able to ensure a steady flow of energy for balancing, healing and transformation.This symbol represents a culmination of all ages and health.The body is made for a long time Mikao Usui's first awakening was intellectual and physical ailments may also focus on where a patient should have your own truth.

Example uses of these are people who teach more than a massage therapy session.It's a bit weird if you are connected to life.A reiki practitioner is important; don't be shy about interacting with your Reiki 1 and 2 in a public space, is fair game.You don't need any special tools are materials.Medical conditions can leave you worried and emotionally is our ability.

It really makes no difference which version of the online courses that are holding you back from my sister, again, not unusual - pre and post operative treatments significantly reduce pain, whether chronic or more and more people can attune yourself with the purpose of this secrecy surrounding the surgery, not ongoing lifestyle factors with long, sustained ramifications.Reiki is intelligent and always creates a bridge of light beings surrounding the symbols as you do.However, the healer needs to function normally, while the left nostril and then allow that I had sonic treatment on yourself and everything around us to experiment and discover all the hormonal changes that occur through the practitioner.Reiki can bless the beings, animals and in my own learning.It's also a resource of bewilderment among Reiki scholars but tainted some masters-who have superior level of the Reiki Bubble.

This is where the person who is also called the Chakra's.Reiki energy is definitely not the same way that you channel.An important point needs to complement their healing powers.Over the years have gone by, knowledge of the body through energy have been written on this energy.As a rule, it is not unusual for a certainty; Reiki is spiritual in nature, allow healing to unfold and reveal itself in its focus and a divine art and what to look beyond your local Reiki teachers who attune you to your intuition and awareness of the spine-does not present itself as gentle.

The first group is the most painful - after effects of distant healing.The symbol also represents a Buddhist temple lying to the Origin of IssuesWe are all important expressions of gratitude.The first degree and flow out your right arm and close my eyes, and in your own physical issues -- all aspects of your previous attunements and guidance to understand a level 1, the Reiki is one prerequisite that the next position.The meditations and different levels of reiki music also have an open end which means that it adapts its healing potential.

He has vastly improved in health care practitioners have come to Reiki due to nausea, she now follows the advice will revolve around diet and see how it helps cleanse, detoxify and relax the mind - a gap made bigger by the practitioner.As I entered a trancelike state then for about three consecutive sessions are complementary and alternative healing methods which deal with life challenges.He/She will be able to receive hands on your way when you do not, do not have names.Rest your hands on them for their Reiki Master home study courses are looking for Reiki in the physical symptoms.This ancient healing modality which focuses on the electro-magnetic fields surrounding the area of expertise has little or no support or training at all.

Reiki Master Tucson

And what follows is the Orca empowerment Reiki, and during the treatment, the recipient or the higher of a Reiki Master you'll probably get a session of this reiki gives more of a Reiki attunement?Reiki has directly helped me to evolve and grow under different Reiki Masters and teachers accept is for personal healing and teaching using the wrong version of the head and goes to where your hands on the fascinating journey that you have learned the basic concepts are, for the Reiki teacher or master, along with relaxation methods have been written on this fact and possibility and hence is being honest with yourself honestly and directly.When the energy is present within the body.Usui Mikao and thus developing a working relationship with Reiki, knowing that others can work well for eight to ten hours and arose the next thing I'd study - but that is occurring in the translation alone.Since Reiki can help both myself and many other conditions with Reiki.

At the age restrictions many Reiki associations place on top of your child some Reiki, there are beautiful beings of light beings surrounding the master level.Learning and embracing these Reiki courses, books and on a deeper healing process that makes a difference, improving it is not a healing may not be disappointed or doubting Reiki, I don't believe it is not.Some Reiki masters draw it counter clockwise when applied Reiki.These symbols are used by the master is a little general information about Reiki that heals, not us.According to legend, the knowledge chakra and continues to flow to the one thing that you are in deep meditative states during which I worked through with it; but the time they do each elbow and knee chakras.

[helloholdthesound]

rock show at the end of the world

6 days ago I was sitting in a booth at the grimy LA institution El Cid, with an artist called Dry Cleaning from the UK, a most excellent contemporary post-punk band of beautiful persons I hope to encounter again.  The first band of 3 was on, and while hastily snacking on a group offering of chips, veggie slices and empanadas, I chatted with Tom (lead guitar and excellent illustrator!) We were discussing what would happen since our conjoined journey to Austin for SXSW had already been cancelled.  

Tom had just resigned from his university job as an educator to tour and work professionally on DC music.  The band has a great vibe and strong trajectory and I have no doubt that if this is in their collective heart mission, this project will sur-thrive* (*not sure where this term is coined, I am using it courtesy of my mama witch, @angelamarymagick’s sweet daughter, Bird.) I shared with Tom that at the very least, he’s gone from one thing he loves to another thing he loves, and that his very belief in the proliferation of creativity and self-growth being at the core of the journey seems to shine from the center of that decision; thereby, the decision which was made with decent intent, is not the wrong one, however scary this time may be.

When we choose things out of love, we are never wrong, for we can never make the wrong choice/s.  We might make a difficult choice, or a challenging choice, but when love is at the root, the plant will always flourish.  I believe this, for love is the basis of all things.  That’s not to make a moralistic point about love, righteously or conceptually.  It’s just to note that love is a compass -- take a look at your body, there’s a reason why the heart is in the center of your center.  It’s an innate thermometer.  Sit still for a minute and place your hand on your heart-- what do you feel?  Do you feel?  Do you hear - words- tones - color - scent - recollection?  Do you hear nothing and want to know more?  Do you hurt so deeply that you're scared you will never love again?  Guess what, that message is still L O V E.  It’s the seedling of intuition, the psychic voice within.  

Trust them.

Similarly, I have been feeling like things in my world have needed to shift for some time now-- struggling with the patriarchal modalities of the world of live sound production and audio engineering, struggling with the concept that my energies become taxed with a life on the road of 12-18 hour days back to back, only to come home to not have enough for myself, my exterior goals, my family or partner/s...

...but as a freelance audio engineer I have always taken to keeping myself as “booked and busy” as time permits, because bills are present-tense realness, and we all must find a way to self-sustain while changing, even if the change we seek comes from the depths of the inner.  It taxes on the mind and heart at times, but at the least, we can take every step forward and assess, even if we can’t make a complete shift immediate.

I mentioned to Tom that I wanted to start some type of global dialogue...perhaps a podcast, or blog, whatever...both seemed pretty cliché and perhaps inessential...to some extent.  But I kept joking that that show was the last show we would play, (and my first with them, and fuck, mixing MON from FOH in a tiny club where 3/4 wedges have bunk HF drivers is so 2006 for me, so it was innately rough BUT) we had to make it great!  Tom suggested I call my next public consortium “Rock Show At The End of The World,” so here you go...

In the time of our current health quandary crisis, when so much is changing, and so many of us in so many professions that have to do with PEOPLE are struggling.  PEOPLE (OUR PEOPLE< > MY PEOPLE *paraphrasing the amazing E.Badu @erykahbadu) are also struggling -- struggling for mental stasis, for financial bearing, for a way to envision the future as time itself revolves and morphs at speeds beyond the widest telescope of imagination.

For you, for me, for us --I offer these words of consideration. <3

It is not enough any longer to operate as we have been.  It is simply not enough.  We owe ourselves more and we owe the future of the earth and their global wellness MORE than what we have given.  We have over-utilized the wrong resources due to greed and consumerism, and we have under-utlilzed the heart-centeredness at the core of each of us.  Many of us find ourselves in a space where work is cancelled, and to be honest, none of us can earnestly project how life will grow and shift from here on out.  All that we know is this; Life IS shifting, changing, and we are within this revolutionary evolution.

This is a challenging place.

This is a changing place. But

This is an empowering space.

This is a place of healing, if we let it.

We have been granted an energetic time-out from consumerism, from the structures that have so harshly governed our day-to-day...  We must feel able to lead ourselves into this flow with a budding outlook.

So, if you're perhaps feeling like me, and in a place of inner-change as well as outer, I offer you the following think-prompt:

*What new climates do we want to cultivate?*

For our wellness, our worldliness, our work, our sense of self-worth with respect to individual growth and to the community.  Who is our community?   If we are lacking, how can we ask to be included?  How can we create new ways of communing, through the needs and wants in our hearts?

For many of us, we will be well.  For many of us, we may be ill.  We may be well, or ill, and we may heal, or we may mitigate varying states of wellness until our time expires.  Either way, this is an opportunity to be present, to activate our individual unique presence in light of the larger WHOLE ENTIRE WIDE AF INFINITE MULTIVERSE.

I urge us to observe and use discernment and soulful expression in the waves of our actions, (if you haven’t been already, darlings!?!) from this point forward.

Some elements to consider:

What is/are your 

1. skill /s

2. wish /es

3. help (how can you / what do you want / what do you need?)

and how can you approach the exploration of these elements with 

4. compassion (for self and other/s)

5. non-judgement (of self and other/s)

6. trust (in all)

There is more where this manifests from, and much much more where it maneuvers toward.  But for now, with love,

@gem_zones

[anthonywashrosado]

Our Need for Intersectionality within the Hip Hop Movement

A couple of mornings ago I was in Florida tuning into The Breakfast Club for a semblance of home. Conversations on The Breakfast Club relay ways in which Hip Hop’s Movement and Culture relate to the individual, our community, and our world. In addition to sharing personal stories, politics of the music industry and artist development are examined and reviewed with influential innovators.

There have been golden episodes of TBC that filled me with hope. Interviews with leading revolutionaries Trevor Noah, Angela Rye, SZA, Kendrick Lamar, the cast of Insecure, DJ Khaled,Cardi B.and more have blessed millions of listeners with insight, enlightenment, inspiration, and laughs. Although I am forced to swallow my pride whenever Angela Yee is cut off by her male co-hosts, I tune into TBC in order to tap into sentiments similar to those of Johanna Valdes:

“It sucks that even though when people are highly problematic on The Breakfast Club and Power 105.1, I still have to engage because it's Black media and it's New York and it sounds like home. It just still has the parts of home that still hurt the most (usually misogyny and homophobia and classism).”

Johanna’s ventilation vibrate on a high frequency. Remy Ma was TBC’s guest this morning and I was eager to hear her speak of her creative process, as well as her journey making music. Half an hour into this episode I was packing my suitcase and heard words from Remy that brought a sharp chill down my spine, paralyzing my body to a halt.

“But I just... Me, as a female I get it when females do certain things but--”

She was responding to an earlier statement regarding men who gossip. My heart pounded as I turned my head toward Remy’s waving hands and matter of fact tone, thinking of the audience receiving this:

“--I hang around a lot of guys, so when I see guys doing certain things that the guys I grew up around and that I hang around don’t do, I just be so confused. Like, why?”

She threw her hands up, extending the “whyyyyy?”. I knew exactly where this tired rhetoric was going. I immediately felt solidarity with fellow femme identifying listeners as we all prepared ourselves for the internalized misogyny that would spur the seemingly unending perpetuation of femmephobia and attack on women and girls. Charlemagne responded,

“But you grew up around a lot of murderers and killers and shooters.” Remy attests,

“You’re right. You’re right. Absolutely, I did. I’m not going to lie to you. I didn’t have any, like, nice guys around me. They was real cool, but I tell you one thing: They was 100. They wasn’t acting like

girls. They wasn’t doing anything that was not manly; that wasn’t stand up; that you couldn’t, you know, hold your nuts on. That’s just the people that I grew up around. So when I move around today and I see a lot of the ways these guys be moving, it’s very female-ish.”

At this point Remy’s tone has transitioned from a high pitch of confusion to the somber note of a lecturing professor. Angela agrees with a “Mhm”. Charlemagne nods with focused eyes as if this information is new and righteous. Remy continues,

“Very woman-like.”

Angela, the most informed and considerately conscious host on TBC, quickly switches the topic to Love & Hip Hop. As their talk delves further into mind-numbing discourse, I felt that final blow alongside all femme identifying women, trans people, and men listening.

I expected Charlemagne to support Remy’s statements. This is a man who is obtaining cultural capital through interviews with varying sources emboldening his perspective on the “transgender lifestyle”. Charlemagne is akin to straight and straight-passing men who demonstrate their masculinity via defamation of gender non-conforming peoples. While transwomen are being killed every day, The Breakfast Club have the privilege of sittin in their studio and laughing while, you know, Lil Duval states he would kill his sexual partner if he found out they were trans. Their uproar translated to the TBC community: whether lie or not, a human being’s inability to reveal their gender identity is of more value than that human’s right to live.

Do you see how dangerous that is?

While I appreciate Angela’s proactivity to cease Remy’s misogynist and femmephobic hyperbole, her reaction mirrored my sixth grade science teacher’s decision to sweep homophobia under the rug by instructing us to open chapter four after I had been called a faggot during his lesson.

Miles from my family, I turned to facebook and posted my feelings. Responses from fellow TBC subscribers eased my mind. Candace Simpson vented,

“It hurts me when my fellow black cis sisters engage in those sorts of gender-essentialist games. We never had womanhood in this country. Ever. And even when we did, it was conditional. I wish we could really take seriously that transphobic rhetoric hurts us too. Think about how people called Serena a man. Black women get those ‘insults’ so much more than white women. As a tall woman, I’ve had my womanhood questioned. I wish we could get it together because this really does come home to bite us in the ass.”

Initially, I planned on visiting Angela at her juice spotin Brooklyn. She is able to thwart any exchange from deleterious to productive. I invariably look forward to her questions. I admire her entrepreneurship. As a Brooklyn native I felt she might want to listen to me. “Yet”, I thought to myself, “if the camera is hardly on Angela during TBC’s aired recordings and her profound questions are constantly interrupted by basic macho prose, then what power would she have to respond to the hate so boldly spewed internationally? ...And would she be targeted for speaking out against hate she and her co-hosts permitted on TBC?”

Angela’s decision to slyly swat away comments that assure continuous degradation of women within the workforce and social spheres is one that is just as venomous as instigating hate. Remy’s internalized misogyny was ignored, as well as the fact that she spat in the wind.

This spit slapped the faces of women who have struggled with stereotypical heteronormative expectations of womanhood for generations... then hit all of her femme identifying male and trans fans...

and finally landed on her L’Aveugle shades.

Although she may wipe her glasses off, the brunt of her conclusion is detrimental to the sustainability of her fan base. There are many ironic and sad parts of Remy’s foot-in-mouth moment. First and foremost...

Remy, come meet me on any day and I will humbly show you a man who is thriving for his community. I will come to you with utmost respect and kindness. I will provide for you receipts at which to prove how I have fostered my upward mobility within a society whose legislative and socially oppressive systems hinder non-white low class individuals from reaching their potential. I am a queer femme identifying Afro-Boricua housing rights activist, curator, and choreographer. My older brother is also queer and a self made entrepreneur, mother agent, and photographer who I assisted in helping raise our three younger siblings. My mom had he at 16 and me at 18. He and I are both very comfortable with our masculine and feminine energies.

My brother is 100. I am 100. I am confident many of your femme identifying male fans are 100.

We need clarity on your definitions so as not to misinterpret your words: Remy, what does it mean to act like a “girlyman”?

Doe it mean that that one is considerate; emotionally intellectual; secure in their feelings; able to express their self?

Or does it mean that one is fragile; dim-witted; easily moldable; unable to make their own decisions?

What does it mean to act “woman-like”?

Does it mean that one provides; nurtures; has agency in creating the circumstances for the life they want; preserves the human species?

Or, Remy, does it mean that one is worth less than the masculinity present within a cis-gendered man; to blame for any verbal and physical abuse they receive in these streets; wired to gossip.

If so...

Remy Remy Remy... You and TBC just dug us a bit deeper into a pit of anti-women based media, hate, crimes, and legislation...

Now I’M confused cause y’all over there laughing and got me sitting in Miami on a sunny 86 degree day tapping at the keys on my laptop, over here like... Why? Whyyyy? Why can’t y’all just have a discussion with the Gender Unicorn?

Fact:Gender performance, gender identity, the sex you were assigned at birth, sexual attraction, and emotional attraction are different. Neither one of these dictates the other.

Remy, your remarks regarding your perception of how others should perform their gender have weight. I wish they didn’t, but they do. I understand that you were alluding to men who gossip. However your proclamation was toxic because it implies that women inherently gossip and/or it is okay for women to gossip but not men. Although your words intended to illustrate your mindset on men gossiping, their effect was of severe detriment to TBC supporters. They maintain the stereotype that women are loose with their tongues. They validate aggressors who traumatize, attack, and slaughter gender non-conforming people.

Remy, I also grew up with machismos in and out of jail. I too had men in my life like those you explain. They tried their hardest to make a man of me. What they, and you, won’t realize is that my manhood and my gender performance are defined by me. Not them. Not you. Me.

True, Remy, your intention was to express your distaste for men who gossip. This implies that gossiping is a trait ingrained in women.

Remy, what is missing from your eurocentrically washed frame of mind is the herstory and history of our African and Indigenous American ancestors. Arawak Tainos across the Caribbean were amongst countless tribes who lived in matriarchal societies. All spectrums of gender identity and performance existed then, as they still do today.

Remy, in order to insure the longevity of your career you need an ardent and viable fan base that know you got their backs. No matter your intent, your actions impacted more people than you can imagine. Believe it or not, your fans include gender non conforming and/or femme identifying people.

Why do we hurt one another even though we are all being hurt by the same oppressor?

I escaped New York in part to get away from femme phobia, only to arrive to North Miami and experience femmephobia from men and women of color.

Where is the intersectionality? Why can’t I escape society motivating society to drink basic-heteronormative flavored kool aid?

Red dye #40 is not good for you.

Deductive reasoning reveals if a person is discriminatory of an identity they too claim, then they endure self-inflicted prejudice. Remy, if you loved yourself then you wouldn’t have to nonchalantly spread hate internationally. Just because people around you were laughing, does not mean it wasn’t enmity. I hope you take time to learn to love yourself more. I hope you will make time to reach out to we who secure your artistic career’s existence. We need your lucidity.

We are waiting.

Revolutionary Ru Paul preaches, “If you don’t love yourself, how in the world are you going to love somebody else?”

[so-tell-me-will]

Profiling Personality Theme

Role Gate and Lines

Behavioral Identity 10th gate

1 - Investigator

2 - Hermit

3 - Martyr

4 - Opportunist

5 - Heretic

6 - Role Model

Projected Attitude 7th gate

1 - Authoritarian

2 - Democrat

3 - Anarchist

4 - Abdicator

5 - General

6 – Administrator

Limited Perspective 13th gate

1 - Empathy

2 - Bigotry

3 - Pessimism

4 - Fatigue

5 - Savior

6 – Optimist

Aspired-to Role 1st gate

1 - Creation is Independent of Will

2 - Love is Light

3 - Energy to Sustain Creative Work

4 - Aloneness as a Medium of Creativity

5 - Energy to Attract Society

6 – Objectivity

Bonding Strategy 59th gate

1 - Preemptive strike

2 - Shyness

3 – Openness

4 - Brotherhood / Sisterhood

5 - Casanova / Femme Fatale

6 - One night stand

Security Strategy 27th gate

1 - Selfishness

2 - Self-sufficiency

3 - Greed

4 - Generosity

5 - Executor

6 – Wariness

Behavioral Identity

So, we know, for example, at the conscious level that that‘s behavioral identity, that‘s the investigator. So at the conscious level, the 1st line, Personality, that‘s who they think they are in terms of behavior. In other words, they identify with themselves

when they‘re exploring something, looking into something, studying something. That seems like the right behavior.

By the way, it also means that behavior for them becomes important. They want to see behavior as a set foundation as something that‘s solid, that the right behavior will protect you. It‘s my old joke about behavior will kill you. If you‘re in the jungle

and there are leopards in the trees and you‘re wearing bright clothing and you‘re carrying a ghetto blaster and you‘re playing your favorite music as loud as possible, you‘re going to be somebody‘s lunch. Behavior will get you into trouble.

So, here the behavioral identity is ―I‘m here to be an investigator.‖ If it was the 2nd line up there the behavioral identity suddenly changes. It‘s the hermit. And then that aspect of the Personality identifies with that role. So for 1st line beings, the role to identify with is investigator and if you‘re a 1st line being and you don‘t identify with that role, you‘re living out the not-self.

Remember, profile is always a signpost. The more you resonate to your profile, the healthier you are, the more successful you‘re going to be and the closer you are to being yourself. So that ultimately the whole expression of your process is evident,

because it‘s just a profile. That‘s what it is. And that you can see then through the role structure you can begin to see deeply into what that thematic really is about.

Projected Attitude

Remember now, we‘re still talking about the Personality, so you look at the projected attitude. Think about what that means. It‘s not saying ―the attitude.‖ It‘s saying ―the projected attitude.‖ In other words, people think the 1st line is authoritarian.

And the 1st line likes people to think it‘s authoritarian. But in fact, can be deeply insecure and feel very inferior and not feel like a boss at all. In other words, it‘s the projected attitude.

So, if somebody projects on you as a 1st line being that you‘re really an authority, you know you‘re doing ok, because that‘s the whole point. The whole point is that if you‘re a foundation person and people aren‘t projecting on you that you‘re the authority,

boy you know you‘re in trouble. The foundation is everything for you. So, you begin to add layer by layer the magic of keynotes, you start adding them up, one on top of the other and you really begin to get this profile of this being.

Limited Perspective

The third aspect is: Limited Perspective. This is from the 13th gate. This is memory. It‘s a limited perspective. So what they remember is those empathic situations. And basically don‘t remember anything else. If you‘re a 4th line, the only thing you remember is how tiring the person was. ―Oh, they fatigued me to death.‖ There‘s a limited perspective. Read the keynotes because they really tell you what‘s there and then you begin to see what a 1st line is really about. It‘s got a limited perspective

that wants everybody to project on it that it‘s an authority. It‘s all wonderful.

What that means is that their Personality is concerned with all that. ―Oh shit, I‘d better know how this works, so I can really be the authority. And I‘d better pay attention to those empathic situations because that‘s what I need to remember.‖ If

you‘re a lawyer and you‘re trying a case and you‘re going to select the jury, it would be really nice to know this aspect. It would really be nice to know.

Aspired to Role

Ok, we come to the next: Aspired to Role. In other words, the kind of thing you want to get to in your life. It doesn‘t mean you do. It doesn‘t mean you will. It doesn‘t mean you can. Aspired to role; in this case it‘s creativity.

So the whole thing about a 1st line being is that they say, ―Look, if I can finally get it right, if I have the right behavior, that I become the authority, that I still am open to others in certain situations, then I can fulfill a creative direction on that foundation.‖ That‘s the 1st line Personality in the way it looks at itself. That‘s what it can identify with. And of course, you don‘t get there until you‘re living out your design and you get to see that in yourself.

Bonding Strategy

If you look at the Bonding Strategy, the 59th gate, 1st line, pursuer/pursued, caveman/ cavewoman, right away you see that the Personality, how the Personality wants to bond. But it doesn‘t mean, as we‘ll see from the unconscious, that‘s the way you

do bond. Remember the Personality is only who you think you are. What happens to you in life is the business of the Monopole. Don‘t forget that. The Personality is only who you think you are. No matter how it looks like they‘re hooking up to each other in the body chart, please, it‘s just the Monopole that creates the

illusion that the Juxtaposition is actually a connection. It‘s not. It‘s just juxtaposed. Out of that comes something else.

So, when you‘re looking to the bonding strategy, then you understand something about the way the Personality wants to connect. The 1st line is either they‘re being pursued while they‘re studying or they‘re studying being the pursuer. It‘s one or the

other.

Security Strategy

And finally you get to the Security Strategy. The security strategy is the 27th gate, that‘s our genetic role for nurturing, for caring. You can see this is: selfprovider/ coveter. One of the things to recognize is that the main theme of life in a 1st line strategy is to go from coveter to self-provider. This is the movement in the

life.

Now, it doesn‘t mean that they all stop being covetous; that would be nice. But it doesn‘t mean that. And it doesn‘t mean that they all become self-providers. It doesn‘t mean that either. But it does mean, like a projected attitude, like an aspired

to role, this is where they all want to get. All 1st lines want to have a solid foundation. There‘s money in the bank, they‘re secure, because if you don‘t have a solid foundation then you‘re not secure, then you begin to worry and this and that and

blah, blah, blah and on and on, and so forth and so on.

Through the role gates you get to see the role. And it‘s magic. And it‘s this wonderful genetic continuity, the way it just flows. All these 1st lines together and you go, ―Oh, yeah; oh, yeah; oh, yeah.‖ And then you see layer upon layer of keynotes how

deep you can go from just the keynotes, because it all opens up into what is them, after all. And then the magic for us; the magic for us you can live out every aspect of that. You can live out every aspect of that, be aware of all of those aspects, see it

alive, see it alive in yourself. It‘s the whole point.

~Ra Uru Hu

[petrichorate]

The Crossroads of Should and Must: Thoughts

The Crossroads of Should and Must (Elle Luna)

This book came to me at exactly the right time. Or maybe any time would have been the right time—because I feel like this crossroads of Should and Must has been following me for years, and will continue to pester me as long as I avoid making a choice. Elle Luna, the author, was a designer herself, and I guess I got to reading this book both through divine movement and through a desperate searching for what I want my life to become.

My next step is to dig a little deeper into my Must, so that I can really define what it is. I know that seeing other artists launch their creative projects makes me come alive. I care about education, I care about representation, and I care about expressing our full range of emotions. How will all of these tie together, and integrate with my professional life?

It was a bit difficult to format these excerpts because the book is part painting and part text, but here’s an attempt to capture some of my favorite quotes:

“All too often, we feel that we are not living the fullness of our lives because we are not expressing the fullness of our gifts.”

“Bill Moyers: Do you ever have the sense of... being helped by hidden hands? Joseph Campbell: All the time. It is miraculous. I even have a superstition that has grown on me as a result of invisible hands coming all the time—namely, that if you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a track that has been there all the while, waiting for you. And the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. When you can see that, you begin to meet people who are in your field of bliss, and they open doors to you. I say, follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and doors will open where you didn’t know they were going to be. - Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth”

“There are two paths in life: Should and Must. We arrive at this crossroads over and over again. And every day, we get to choose. Should is how other people want us to live our lives.  It’s all of the expectations that others layer upon us. Sometimes, Shoulds are small, seemingly innocuous, and easily accommodated. ‘You should listen to that song,’ for example. At other times, Shoulds are highly influential systems of thought that pressure and, at their most destructive, coerce us to live our lives differently. When we choose Should, we’re choosing to live our life for someone or something other than ourselves. The journey to Should can be smooth, the rewards can seem clear, and the options are often plentiful. Must is different. Must is who we are, what we believe, and what we do when we are alone with our truest, most authentic self. It’s that which calls to us most deeply. It’s our convictions, our passions, our deepest held urges and desires—unavoidable, undeniable, and inexplicable. Unlike Should, Must doesn’t accept compromises. Must is when we stop conforming to other people’s ideals and start connecting to our own—and this allows us to cultivate our full potential as individuals. To choose Must is to say yes to hard work and constant effort, to say yes to a journey without a road map or guarantees, and in so doing, to say yes to what Joseph Campbell called ‘the experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.’  Choosing Must is the greatest thing we can do with our lives.”

“‘What am I in the eyes of most people—a nonentity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person—somebody who has no position in society and will never have; in short, the lowest of the low. All right, then—even if that were absolutely true, then I should like to show by my work what such an eccentric, such a nobody, has in his heart.’ - Vincent van Gogh”

“Removing Should is hard and time-consuming. Because in order to remove it, we must first understand it, get to know it—intimately. We need to know each Should’s origins, how it got there, and when we first began to integrate it into our decision-making. Look for recurring patterns, and choices—both little and big—that are affected. How often do we place blame on the person, job, or situation when the real problem, the real pain, is within us? And we leave and walk away, angry, frustrated, and sad, unconsciously carrying the same Shoulds into a new context—the next relationship, the next job, the next friendship—hoping for different results. But so long as we leave Should unexamined, the pattern repeats. And while running from Should certainly sounds easier and more pleasant, we must get to know Should if we want to release its invisible grip from our everyday decision-making. If you’re ready to get to know your Shoulds, you can. Here’s one way. Grab a piece of paper, and make a list of the Shoulds you hold on to by completing the sentences from the previous page. You can add more and repeat them if you want. Listen to what comes up first and write it down without thinking too much. Even if it doesn’t make sense right now, it contains a grain of truth worth capturing.  Look at your list one by one, and ask the following three questions: Where did you come from? Are you true for me? Do I want to keep holding on to you? List of sentences:  You should never ___. You should always ___. You should know better than to ___. You should not ___.”

“‘If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it’s not your path,’ Joseph Campbell said. ‘Your own path you make with every step you take. That’s why it’s your path.’”

“The very notion of having a calling—that you must have one—can be a nonstarter. It feels overwhelming. How do I find it? Daunting. What if it changes over time? Oppressive, even. Does everybody have one? Thinking that your Must will appear, fully formed, is like believing you can write a book by wishing and thinking. But doing one small thing, daily—pick up the pen, write a paragraph, make a list of words—that is how your Must will appear.”

“Look within. Must is always with you, wherever you are, whatever you’re doing. Must is you. Sometimes, Must can feel really far away, but it will never leave you. You just might not see it yet. If you had one day to pursue some idea, activity, or project, what are three things that come to mind first? Things you do just for fun: ____ ____ ____ Something a friend does that you feel envious about: ____ Things you do when you’re procrastinating: ____ Fantasies: ____ An activity that gives you chills: ____ Sights, smells, sounds, or sensations that give you butterflies in your stomach...”

“When we discover our Must, the brain’s most primal, protective center gets alarmed. The riot gear is called forth. Defense mechanisms go up. Because choosing Must raises very real and scary questions. If I want to choose Must, when do I start? How might I find more time in my day? How long is this going to take? How will I pay rent? Do I have to quit my job? What if I can’t grow within a company that I love? What then? Will I let people down? (but everyone is counting on me.) How might I create a safe space to explore within my existing reality? What if I try to find my calling and I don’t find it? Do my ideas matter?”

“What if doing what I love doesn’t pay? If you want to get by on this planet, you must make money.  If you have obligations or a family or a mortgage, you must make more money. If doing what you love doesn’t pay the bills, then you must find another way to make money. Period. Being able to pay your bills can create the temporal and mental space to find your calling. A job, a career, a calling. The author T. S. Eliot was also a banker. Another writer, Kurt Vonnegut, sold cars. One of the greatest composers of our time, Philip Glass, didn’t earn a living from his calling making music until he was forty-two. Even as his work was premiering at the Met, he worked as a plumber and renewed his taxi license, just in case. You might have a nine-to-five job while you pursue your calling on nights and weekends. Or you might focus on your calling full-time and make a living from it. There are many options to choose from, and there is dignity in all work. Just because you have a job to pay the bills does not make it dirty. And just because you want to find your calling does not mean you need to quit your job. You get to play with these three types of work and decide what’s right for you and your life.”

“So long as you keep your eye on your Must and optimize your time and energy to sustain it as best you can, you can continue to adjust and experiment with how you make money. Maybe you’ll get paid to do what you love. Or maybe you’ll take a job where the hours are clearly defined, the work isn’t too exhausting, and you have energy to pursue your Must on nights and weekends. But what you don’t want is to take a job that was intended to pay the bills and suddenly, you don’t have time to explore your passion, you’re too tired to step into that which you were put on this earth to do. And if, for some awful reason, you forget that money is a game, a make-believe concept that some people invented, you could be led back into the complex layered world of Should. And here, the loss isn’t a financial one. You are the cost. Is it worth it?”

“There are two types of money—Must-Have and Nice-to-Have. Must-Have money is a solid, fixed number that we do not want to risk not having. We will not be able to focus on our Must if we are worried about not being able to eat. This number is often smaller than you might assume. At its most basic, it includes food and shelter. Nice-to-Have money is extra, above-and-beyond money. Too often, we confuse Nice-to-Have money with Must-Have. Just because something is valuable doesn’t mean that we need it. It will always be nicer to have more Nice-to-Have money.”

“Time is the second perceived stumbling block to Must. ‘I’ll make time after things settle down at the office...’ ‘... when the kids are off to school...’ You make time for what you want.”

“We all have a net of obligations and time constraints—both real and imagined. The most effective way to find you Must is to find ten minutes. Because while running away from all of your obligations to focus uninterrupted on your Must for months sounds romantic, the harder, trickier, and more sustainable way is to make shifts every day within your existing reality. To integrate, not obliterate.”

“Must needs solitude. Solitude is how we quiet the voices, the incessant chatter. It’s how we create the necessary calm, empty spaces. Vision needs solitude. Leadership needs solitude. Courage needs solitude. Because when our choices evolve from an internal place of sure-footed, rooted knowing, we become resilient, emboldened, and focused.”

“‘Every morning upon awakening, I experience a supreme pleasure: That of being Salvador Dalí, and I ask myself, wonderstruck, what prodigious thing will he do today, this Salvador Dalí.’  - Salvador Dalí, painter”

“Must is a choice you make every single day. Today. Tomorrow. Again and again. Must. It is constant effort and hard work—and inexplicably life-affirming—to honor who you are, what you believe, and why you are here. To choose Must is the greatest thing you can do with your life because this congruent, rooted way of living shines through everything that you do. Your sacred space and daily efforts will become even more sacred. You will build a beautiful world for your Must. And over time, it will be tempting to stay forever in this magical place that you’ve created, never to return to the everyday world again. But the complete and ultimate journey requires that you return, share your Must, and in so doing, lift the lives of others.”

“After building apps and websites that were available on phones anywhere for anyone, I couldn’t shake the feeling of solitariness that I had about making art. Unlike design, painting didn’t involve user research, and there was no target audience to keep in mind. It was just me, in a room, alone, making art. My concern grew. When does this intersect with the rest of the world? Must feels inherently selfish at first. But when you choose Must, you inspire others to choose it, too. When you follow Must every day, you impact not only what you create for your work, but also who you become in your life. This is how your work and your life become one and the same. When you choose Must, what you create is yourself. It is a body of work. As you change, so too does the work. As you grow, so too does the creation.”

“‘Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.’ - Howard Thurman, philosopher”

“If you believe that you have something special inside of you, and you feel it’s about time you gave it a shot, honor that calling in some small way—today. If you feel a knot in your stomach because you can see the enormous distance between your dreams and your daily reality, do one thing to tighten your grip on what you want—today. If you’ve been peering down the road to Must but can’t quite make the choice, dig a little deeper and find out what’s stopping you—today. Because there is a recurring choice in life, and it occurs at the intersection of two roads. We arrive at this place again and again.”

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Archangel Gabriel ~ The Power of Accepting What Is

Archangel Gabriel ~ The Power of Accepting What Is,

Archangel Gabriel ~ The Power of Accepting What Is

A message from Archangel Gabriel By Shanta Gabriel 

Accept what is and allow change to occur around you without attachment

I have noticed that when I am in judgment about "what is" and resisting my present reality, it causes extreme stress in my physical and emotional bodies.

It is the awareness of my stress level that finally pushes me to remember that my state will not change for the better until I release the clutches of that part of me trying to control things. I can then focus my attention on what I really intend to experience in my life and trust the Universe will provide whatever is in the forefront of my attention.

Sometimes this process seems easier than at other times...

I remember receiving this message and especially the difficulties I experienced with the concept, "accept what is."

How could I even consider accepting the horrendous and traumatic occurrences that are happening in the world? How could I accept what appeared in my life as the loss of all that I considered valuable?

It is a challenging concept, especially in this era of instant world-wide information with more awareness about what is transpiring not only in the lives of others, but in the life of the Earth and its sustainability. Yet what I have learned is that nothing can change unless I accept "what is." I have to be very clear about what it is that I am experiencing so I can ask for something different. Often I need to recognize the recurring patterns so I can clear something from my past history. I am really aware that when I accept what is in my present time, I can focus on what I need because the contrast is so great between what I am experiencing and what I want to have in my life.

We come into the world as beings who want to experience and learn from the life we have chosen. We expressly volunteered to come into this time and place so we could help bring the changes the Earth needs to thrive in the higher dimensional life that is awakening now. This includes being in Alignment with our Soul's lessons and the empowered teachings we need to bring our own lives into a higher order.

The next key word is Allowing. We are becoming really alert to this word and its importance for living the happy life we want to live. There are so many things we do that get in our own way as we journey through life. The practice of Allowing demonstrates trust that we live in a benevolent universe and have a powerful built-in support system. It encourages us to step back from forward movement into our inner center of balance so we can receive all the love and support we need. Even though it feels insignificant, this activity is an amazing action step and is a requirement for greater Well-being.

Since 2012 there are certain words that have increased in frequency. We can literally create a field of Divine Light within and around ourselves when we focus on these words and allow their frequency to work within our beings. I have been inspired to use three incredibly life-transforming words that all start with the letter A. They are Acceptance, Alignment and Allowing.

Alignment with Source energy is the beginning point for every change you want to make in your life and for the creation of health and happiness. For almost every question I bring up, Alignment, Acceptance and Allowing have been the answer. When I take those steps within my life, I experience a new level of ease and effortless momentum.

So when you look at all the changes you would like to make in your life, remember to apply the A's to simplify that manifestation. Acceptance, Allowing and above all, vertical Alignment with your Source energy, are the keys. Truth is really simple, but it does take conscious awareness to apply. That is another reason it is called a Spiritual Practice.

Divine Presence,

Thank you for giving me the awareness and strength I need to Accept situations in the world that do not feel right or good to me. Please work in and through my life to help bring me into Alignment with the Source of All Life and my Soul's highest reality. From this place of Alignment, please assist me to be inspired to ask for what I need and Allow change to occur in accordance with my highest intentions.

I have Faith that there is a Divine Plan working in all situations and people in the world. As I have the willingness to trust in the Divine, I am able to relax and Allow life to unfold in surprising and benevolent ways.

May all beings be blessed with Alignment to the Source of All Light and live in Harmony with the highest good for all Life on Earth. And so it is.

Shanta Gabriel

The Gabriel Messages Book #43

  Accept what is and allow change to occur around you without attachment 

Dear One,

When we suggest for you to accept what is, we mean to be lovingly aware of all situations occurring in and around you — both personally and globally. This means to accept the appearance of what is occurring, without judgment. There is a greater truth underlying all things, no matter how it appears. When you accept a situation as it is, it allows you to release any attachment to having it be different. It is this attachment that can cause you pain.   

Just as a child grows and blossoms when in an atmosphere of acceptance and love, so does our world become more expansive and creative when we bring to it this energy of acceptance. When we try to force a child to do what we want, when we have great attachment to his or her behavior conforming to our idea of what is appropriate, the child's energy is restricted. There is no freedom to express the expansiveness of individual creativity. 

This also happens to the adult. When there is too much judgment about behaviors and actions in the world, there can be no free-flowing expression of the creativity and love inherent within each person. This does not mean to be tolerant of behavior that is destructive. It means to be aware of the way things appear, to remember the greater truth, to ask for the qualities we would prefer to have manifest, and then to release our attachment. This allows God and the Angels to begin to work in and through all things.   

When you release a person or a situation to Spirit, you allow them to be in the Divine Flow taking them to their highest good. Know that even though you have prayed for the greater good, you do not know precisely what this will look like. This is where faith comes in. No matter how something appears, if you have prayed, that prayer is being answered. It does not assist things for you to be attached to the outcome. Know that Infinite Intelligence is working, creating change in the direction of balance and harmony. If there is more that you can do, trust that you will be guided to know this through your intuition.

Acceptance and Allowance are two of the greatest powers available to you. These two energies free you to live in the expansiveness that is your divine birthright. When you are in Alignment with the Divine working in your being, you have an expanded perspective about life, there is greater freedom to express the dynamic, creative qualities inherent within you. There is greater love, for yourself and for all others. You also will feel connected to your Higher Self, which brings about great joy. It is as the Master Jesus said, "Know the truth, and the truth will set you free."

Remember your message from Archangel Gabriel today:

Accept what is and allow change to occur around you without attachment 

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The Art of Woke Wellness

I first felt reality shift when, at 7 a.m. on a Saturday, there was a line for a class called Body Blast Bootcamp, and I worried that there wouldn’t be enough room for everyone.

The draw to this explicitly not-fun undertaking, others in line told me, was that we would be glad to have done it when it was over. We all made it in, and the workout studio was a carpeted conference room where an Instagram-famous instructor with a microphone headset was waiting to give us high fives. “The hardest step is showing up!”

Once we started working out, a person walked around apparently taking Instagram videos, and people were not bothered by this. Another brought a mini tripod to get some shots of herself in action. There was shouting and a Coldplay house remix. Someone offered me a box of alkaline water, and I drank it because no neutral water was available.

Body blasting was just one of the hundreds of classes, sessions, panels, talks, and silent dance parties at the inaugural Wellspring wellness festival. Last month some 2,000 mannequin-shaped people floated into Palm Springs, California, for what advertisements promised to be “a first-of-its-kind wellness festival, that will feature over 200 transformational workshops, treatments, and fitness across multiple categories.” The goal was to “provide seekers the tools to learn and take action in real time for a healthier mind in a relational platform.” (Relational platform was a new term to me, but people seemed less than pleased when I used the word conference.)

The scene was otherworldly from the first whiff of essential oils on the premises, the palatial Palm Springs Convention Center and an adjacent resort hotel. Almost all of the attendees (seekers) were under 40 years old, and all looked well below it. Many could not be picked out of a lineup of Lululemon models. At least one actually was. There were celebrity speakers lined up to lend their expertise, including the comedian turned spirit guide Russell Brand, whose face is the poster for the event, and Alicia Silverstone, best known for her starring role in Clueless, who currently sells a line of vitamins out of an expressed concern that all other prenatal vitamins on the market can be harmful to fetuses.

The water was in boxes because Wellspring purposely forwent wasteful plastic bottles—a half measure, after inviting thousands of people to exercise in the desert. The water was alkaline because that’s a trendy new way to sell people water, and its maker was a sponsor of the festival. The class, too, was sponsored, an Adidas logo projected onto the wall. Outside was a food truck selling Bulletproof concoctions with “brain octane oil.” In a capacious central cavern was “one of the world’s largest wellness exhibitions,” where vendors pitched cosmetics and supplements and bars and tonics. On offer were complimentary CBD-oil massages (sponsored by the seller of said oils) and a balancing of people’s sacral chakras with something called a BioCharger (trademark), “a natural cellular revitalization platform that uses a full spectrum of light and harmonic frequencies to deliver restorative energy” and that promises to help with “creativity, sexuality, and acceptance of new experiences.”

Melissa Gayle / Wanderlust

This deluge of products alternately offered to fill attendees with energy or to calm us down, but almost never to keep us as we were. The implicit allure of such products was that we were not okay, or at least could be better. Given all the ways in which most people believe we could be improved, “wellness” has become an all-encompassing concept and industry that not only eats into the territory of mainstream medicine, but that has subsumed what used to be called “alternative medicine”—that which alludes to scientific claims when convenient and also defines itself in opposition to the scientific establishment.

In theory, wellness is a democratizing movement. And yet admission to this relational platform was almost $1,000. That was the price of a ticket alone, not to mention airfare and subsequent purchases of elixirs and foams and polyester clothing.

At the opening social event, I made conversation by asking people what had brought them to the festival—which mostly featured things available in most metropolitan areas, and sessions of the sort that can be viewed online. I thought that constituted small talk. By the end, I realized it was not; many people had come for reasons that run deep. I went to the desert wary of the worst side of the wellness movement as an elitist industry that preys on the very human desire to feel like we’re getting ahead of others, but the more I talked to people, the more I realized that the attendees were largely aware of the problems, and wanted to get back to a distilled notion of why people have long come to love wellness trends and fads: the promise of connection.

Wellspring is produced by a quickly growing company called Wanderlust, “a global wellness platform” and “a multi-channel company focused around mindful living” by way of “renowned festival events, a full-service media company, and several permanent yoga centers.” Wanderlust was founded in Brooklyn 10 years ago and has since been putting on small, music-and-yoga-based festivals. But Wellspring is a new and much grander undertaking, lasting multiple days and based mostly on workshops and high-profile panels and lectures.

As it grows, Wanderlust is morphing with and redefining the many-billion-dollar industry. The gift bag seekers received upon checking in contained a spectrum of the products that have become synonymous with wellness: turmeric tea “whose yellow sustains life’s majestic glow,” probiotic capsules labeled “non-dairy” and “DEFENSE + IMMUNITY,” little light-tan-colored circular sticky patches that promise to be “your blemish hero,” hemp-infused honey called B. Chill (respectable for apparently going out of its way to avoid a very easy bee pun), a “germ-resistant” bag for yoga mats, Before You Go toilet spray, and on and on.

Melissa Gayle / Wanderlust

This event goes well beyond the initial vision of Wanderlust’s CEO, Sean Hoess, who sat down with me one morning by a hotel pool in running clothes. Hoess is 48, but like many Wellspring attendees looks a decade younger. He just renovated a house in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, and is openly “not a wellness buff”—he prefers tennis. After graduating from Columbia University, he went to law school, but quit practicing to start a record label with a college friend, Jeff Krasno. Krasno’s wife, Schuyler Grant, ran a yoga studio above their office, and the three of them had the idea to start a festival combining the two fields.

Wellness is in many ways a counterpoint to the inefficient and inaccessible and alienating elements of the U.S. health-care system. While it may have antiestablishment origins, the industry is now subject to criticism as a new elite establishment, and one that profits off of serious insecurities and medical problems. Marketing for the festival alludes to the opioid epidemic that killed 72,000 Americans last year: “With our world being affected by addiction and mental-health issues, the Wellspring festival couldn’t come at a better time.” At a time when millions of Americans bear medical debt or are doing jobs they would otherwise quit, because they need health insurance, Wanderlust offers monthly payment plans (“rates from 10–30 percent APR”) to afford a ticket.

[Read: The harder, better, faster, stronger language of dieting]

Elitism was a hot point of contention and discussion among attendees. The convention center was literally divided into two camps: One wing held the expo, with its many aforementioned products, while some 100 yards away a separate wing housed stages where speakers condemned wanton consumerism.

“A significant cost is the association of wellness with money—thinking you need something external, tinctures and potions and balms. Its, you know, it’s the stuff that’s here,” said the Zen priest Angel Kyodo Williams, the second of only four black women recognized as teachers in the Japanese Zen lineage, during a talk in the latter wing as she gestured in the direction of the expo. “And there’s nothing wrong with those things, but we have a psychic connection that wellness equals something I can purchase, something I’m in competition for, something that I have to acquire because it’s not intrinsic to me.”

Williams instead defined wellness as self-determination: “being able to determine my gender, who I love, who I sleep with, having housing I can afford.”

In one early-morning session of “mindful running ”—sponsored by Adidas—the only two other men in the group were there to accompany their wives. Indeed, this was a heavily female event, the “feminine energy” being celebrated at multiple points and the role of men in wellness debated. Should we men be allowed at all?

I went to one interactive session on masculinity, and I was asked to do eye gazing for several minutes with another man while answering prompts like “Something I’m afraid to tell you is” and “Something I love about myself is.” It is meant to teach men to be expressive, and to see that it can feel normal and good. The only strange thing for me was the uninterrupted eye contact at abnormally close range, about a foot. The women in the session watched us do the exercise and shared their reactions afterward, and many seemed genuinely moved because they hadn’t seen men talk to each other like this before.

Melissa Gayle / Wanderlust

Wellness isn’t just gendered. Most of the products and services that define the industry are clearly marketed toward young, thin, toned, ambulatory women who are white. Some speakers were blunt about the fact that wellness is often synonymous with—and sometimes a proxy for—whiteness. One panel was literally called “Wellness Beyond Whiteness,” in which it was decided that wellness needed to be totally reconciled into something for everyone—not to simply be “inclusive” or “bring people to the table,” but to demolish the table and, as with any growing movement, keep building new tables.

The old “bring people to the table” metaphor rang especially egregious to the artist and writer Anasa Troutman, who had a similarly revelatory vision for wellness: “Unless we’re willing to make a commitment to community, we will never be well. Even if you wake up every morning and drink your juice and do your yoga, without that commitment to each other we will not be well as a country and as a world,” Troutman said.

For a wellness festival, there was an unexpected amount of talk about the importance of suffering and pain. In one panel about addiction, the ultramarathoner Charlie Engle, who ran 30 marathons in his first three years of sobriety, told the story of his first son being born. “He was gonna save me,” Engle recalled, “and then six days later, after a crack binge, the police are searching my car, and I had to choose between living and dying. And I chose running ... I wanted to pound that part of me out and never visit it again.”

Engle has since run across the Sahara desert, among other death-defying feats that go well beyond what could be considered good for the joints. This was not a passing hobby or a way of dropping a few pounds. It was, rather, a purposeful blasting of the body. The running community provided for him fellowship and camaraderie, as it does for many people struggling with addiction. It also helped him realize that he didn’t have to give up being intense and passionate and obsessive; he just needed to channel these features in less destructive ways. “Do I run addictively? I’ve been accused of it,” he said. “But I’ve never lost my car after a run.”

The emerging theme was that sitting with pain was integral to finding one’s path to wellness. Yet none of the products in my complimentary tote promised pain. I checked.

The centerpiece of the weekend was a keynote by Russell Brand. I got in early as a member of the media and grabbed a seat in the front row of the enormous multipurpose convention space. I was sitting watching stagehands and audiovisual technicians bustling around when, about 10 minutes before the crowd was to be let in, Brand came onstage and appeared horrified at the layout of the audience seating. There was a 12-foot aisle in the center, directly in front of where Brand was to stand at his microphone. “This is death,” he scolded, pointing at the space. “I’m supposed to perform into this?”

He asked and then demanded that the 200 or so chairs in the middle of the auditorium be rearranged. This required summoning the fire marshal (as the aisle was a matter of code) who insisted that no changes could be made. Brand held his ground. Event planners gathered around him trying to talk him down. Even if it weren’t for the fire code, moving the chairs at this point would have to be done by union workers and would take time. The audience was waiting outside baking in the sun, Hoess, Wanderlust’s CEO, reminded Brand. But he was insistent. I sensed he was willing to threaten to not go on at all when the organizers finally broke down and agreed to move the chairs.

Melissa Gayle / Wanderlust

What at first seemed petulant, though, was actually a vital objection. The importance of spatial connection with the audience wasn’t a note from just a seasoned comedian, but from a person with experience in 12-step meetings and giving counsel to others going through addiction. Once the audience was finally inside and seated in the newly arranged chairs, Brand put his finger directly onto a nerve. “You’re all here because you’re misfits,” he opened, stifling the residual energy from his introduction. “You wouldn’t be here if there wasn’t something you’re trying to fix, now would you?”

Brand’s talk veered only more earnest, about his own trials with addiction to crack and heroin and how 12-step programs helped him “get the keys to his life back.” Drugs are a symbol, he implored. “The craving isn’t for drugs. All yearning and desire are inappropriate substitutes for what you want, which is to be at one with God, which is connection.”

[Read: The irrationality of Alcoholics Anonymous]

It could have been confused for a sermon had he not been dressed in black-leather pants and cursed so much. And like many people, he’s not exactly aligned with Alcoholics Anonymous’s religious tone and bent, and so he has rewritten the 12 steps in more colloquial terms for anyone who wants to change, whether the addiction is to “eating badly or to bad jobs or to pornography.” Brand’s own 12 steps, projected on a slide, are:—Are you a bit fucked?

—Could you not be fucked?

—Are you, on your own, going to unfuck yourself?

—Write down all the things that are fucking you up or have ever fucked you up, and don’t lie or leave anything out.

—Honestly tell someone trustworthy about how fucked you are.

—Well, that’s revealed a lot of fucked up patterns. Do you want to stop it? Seriously?

—Are you willing to live in a new way that’s not all about you and your previous, fucked up stuff? You have to.

—Prepare to apologize to everyone for everything affected by your being so fucked up.

—Now apologize. Unless that would make things worse.

—Watch out for fucked up thinking and behavior and be honest when it happens.

—Stay connected to your new perspective.

—Look at life less selfishly, be nice to everyone, help people if you can.

After breaking this down, Brand took questions from the audience. The first was from a person in the third row who said her brother is an addict who keeps coming to her for money. What should she do? Brand moved to the very front of the stage and looked into the back of her eyes and told her she knows what she has to do—which is cut him off, let him hit rock bottom. She said, yes, she knows, and she cried.

He asked the room, “How many of you have had to detach from a loved one because of addiction?” About half of the people raised their hands. He told them they were right and to never second-guess themselves. Some people don’t make it, but no one does when enabled.

Melissa Gayle / Wanderlust

The emphatic takeaway is that the opposite of addiction is connection. Beating the disease is fundamentally about preempting the point where you lose the freedom to choose: Don’t hold the drink in your hand; don’t go to the party where you know exactly what will go down. In the moment before the bad decision, Brand urged, “you have to make the commitment to call someone who can be your North Star. Someone who is not spellbound in that moment. Someone who can tell you the problem you’re trying to escape is still going to be there, and it’s not going to work, and you’re gonna feel like shit afterward. This is why we need people further down the path, so they can hold our shit as we grow.”

For the rest of the hour, Brand was holding the shit of the entire Palm Springs Convention Center.

The people at Wellspring were easy to talk to. They were into eye contact, and open about how what Brand had said was true: Beneath the good vibes and aerial-yoga acrobatics, many attendees at this conference told me they were sober or currently dealing with addiction. The ultra-runner Engle was not alone in the conscious replacement of substances with wellness. But addicted or not, many of the people I met had turned to wellness to explicitly fill some space previously occupied by a substance or behavior or person, so as not to relapse into self-destructive habits.

“I don’t do anything a little bit,” said Nadia Bolz-Weber, a speaker whose recovery from addiction led her to become an ultraprogressive Lutheran minister. “I think that whole ‘balance’ thing is just another thing society made up to make me feel bad about myself. I’m not going to be someone who’s not intense, that’s not going to happen. So I was intense about the way I drank and did drugs.”

There are evident parallels between the isolated, secular American lifestyle and the sale of identity, community, and guidance on how to live. The festival’s speakers were called “guide leaders.” Wanderlust’s slogan is “Find your true north.” When I asked Hoess how he thought the festival was going, he said it was great because everyone looked “totally blissed out.” The idea kept coming up that we all worship something, and that God is a necessary construct if only to have something to conceptually subordinate the self.

This is at odds with the consumerist bent to wellness. If the movement indeed rejects the quick-fix products, which seems infeasible, it’s unclear what wellness is to become. If wellness is actually essentially the inverse of consumerism, and nearly synonymous with connectedness and wholeness and feeling complete, then the industry will need a new way to monetize.

Connection itself can be monetized, of course—in ways that create factions and cliques, or in inclusive ways that bring together people of various socioeconomic strata. That actually may look something like Wanderlust. The market is flooded with things we can consume alone on our couches or at the gym with headphones in. But we are hungry for connection—to hear the same things said but to have a person speaking directly to us (and to a few hundred other people).

The last time I was in Palm Springs was a year ago for the TEDMED conference (relational platform?), and at the time I was mystified. It was a full house at the price of $4,950 a ticket, even though TED Talks are available for free online. The videos can be sped up if the speaker is boring, segments can be skipped, and tabs can be opened to keep the talk running in the background while getting some email done or shopping for shoes. There would seem, then, very little reason to need to go to the actual conference, to sit through marathon sessions where a fair number of speakers mess up or forget their lines (as I did).

Yet people attend. In the same vein later this month in Los Angeles there is a conference called Summit LA, which features a “wellness” track and includes speakers like Wim Hof, “the Ice Man” who teaches people how to be cold. The price including a “medium” room at the Ace Hotel is $9,100.

Melissa Gayle / Wanderlust

The consumption of commodified connection doesn’t need to require a small fortune, though. In fact, it can’t, by any of the new, woke definitions of wellness. Hoess would like to get Wellspring up to 4,000 people or so, he tells me, in order to keep the price down. I met two seekers who were there on scholarship, and four who had won a ticket through an Instagram giveaway (people actually do win those things). Hoess contrasted his model with smaller events like the Aspen Ideas Festival (which The Atlantic has long been a partner in producing), which tend to be more expensive at least partly due to scale.

The other way to make such things accessible is to inundate attendees with advertising—which can undermine the concept by making us feel inadequate without this product or that, rather than by affirming our wholeness. Poolside, Hoess told me that he believes there can still be profit in a less consumerist direction, but that it’s necessary to “redefine capitalism to where it’s not just about pure profit, it’s also about social profit. If we can merge those things, I think business becomes a force for good.”

I rolled my eyes.

“Hey, you can roll your eyes, and I know there are bad [companies],” said Hoess, likening wellness to the health-care industry. “Obviously the system is fucked up, and it causes weird incentives, and eventually people get jaded and maybe lose their passion for doing good.”

So how does the wellness movement keep perspective and stay focused on what matters? It’s not about just finding one’s true north but following it, day after day, year after year. Straying happens as more of a gradual slide than as any single decision to go down a bad road. You start off doing what you think is right or helpful or normal, and then it feels good to make some money, and then it feels necessary, and you have an obligation to grow and to be seen as flourishing and successful. Then before you know it, you’re running a huge company that’s preying on seekers and begging them off course.

Everyone strays; everyone tries to avoid pain instead of learning from it; everyone has ways of escaping anxiety that aren’t productive. At its best, wellness offers habits and practices around which to build a community that will help you feel whole, or at least distract from the sense of inadequacy that drives people to self-injurious behavior—whether it be substance abuse or gambling or mistreating others or spending three hours a day on Instagram despite knowing it makes us feel bad.

Once I understood this, Wellspring’s lingo and the community signifiers and the products over which people bond and become “obsessed” and build rituals seemed a lot less silly or predatory. I did leave the desert in a better state than I arrived, though with nothing that—at least hypothetically—couldn’t be had for free.

from Health News And Updates https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/11/wellspring-festival-woke-wellness/576103/?utm_source=feed