By passion I consider myself to be an artist. I gravitate toward all things beautiful and people who inspire beauty. Therefore when I looked at how I could lend a hand in Haiti, I immediately thought of the Artisan community in my local area.
And so I decided to call art galleries and ask if they'd be willing to contribute a percentage of their sales for one day over the next month to the restoration and relief efforts in Haiti. I provided a list of relief organizations through which they could contribute and asked for a pledge of their commitment to provide support. I logged this information along with their email address and phone number and made a note to thank them personally, the day after their pledge date.
My thinking is this. If all of us who are enjoying the ease and comfort of undisturbed living, can use the recent disaster in Haiti as an opportunity to give thanks, then take action to generate restoration there, we can collectively raise the vibration from devastation to manifestation. Our collective efforts will create a ripple effect, attracting all that is needed to restore balance.
Make the effort today. Ask for participation from those in your local area, then followup with an acknowledgment of gratitude on behalf of the Haitian people. By each of us taking action locally, we infuse our piece into the worldwide tapestry for peace.
Here's a couple more ways we can gather the good for Haiti:
1. Give a Haiti relief charity gift to a Facebook friend.
When you give a charity gift on Facebook, you are buying a specific item needed on the ground in Haiti. We have several new gifts in the Facebook Charity Gift Shop, including:
Water for Haiti from Oxfam
Light a Candle for Haiti from UNICEF
Food for Haiti from CARE
Shelter for Haiti from the American Red Cross
Survival Kit from World Vision
Visit the Facebook Charity Gift Shop to see all the Haiti relief Gifts.
2. Join and donate to a cause.
Many nonprofits have started fundraising projects, with funds specifically for Haiti relief, such as:
Doctors Without Borders
Friends of the World Food Program
International Rescue Committee
Saturday, January 16, 2010
Monday, January 11, 2010
Destiny Is Variable by Owen Waters
I've never post someone elses article on my blog before. Owen Waters is someone I have enjoyed reading for quite some time now and would like to share him with my readers. If you like this article, find value in it and wish to be on Owen's mailing list his web site info is at the bottom of the post. Enjoy the read.
In the Old Reality, things were seen as opposites - black or
white, hot or cold, good or bad, this way or that way. In the
expanded view of New Reality consciousness, life is seen in a
unified way. Opposite sides of the coin are viewed, not as
polar opposites, but rather as just being different aspects of
the one coin.
In the New Reality view of the world, the opposite extremes of
black and white become, instead, endless shades of gray. Hot
and cold become variable degrees of warmth. Good and bad become
different shades of human nature; free of the judgment, hate
and fear that comes with Old Reality, polarized thinking.
In the Old Reality, destiny and free will were seen as
mutually exclusive. The reasoning was that, if destiny exists,
then it controls everything and, therefore, free will does not
exist. On the other hand, you can prove that free will does
exist by making a choice. So, as the thinking goes, if free
will does exist, then there can be no destiny.
But, wait. Perhaps that choice of "free will" was really a
pre-destined one. Perhaps the person was destined to make that
choice all long, so the experience of choice was just an
illusion. At this point, people usually give up on the whole
question because it has turned into one of those brain teasers,
like asking which came first - the chicken or the egg.
Brain teasers keep your mind in an endless loop until you try
stepping back from the situation and seeing it in a wider
perspective. The new, wider perspective allows for the
inclusion of non-materialistic factors. In deciding whether the
chicken or the egg came first, for example, you just have to
step back and see that the Creator designed the chicken to be
self-perpetuating.
When you step back and see destiny and free will from a wider
perspective, you realize that nothing has to be absolute. If
every event in your life were pre-ordained, there would be no
such thing as free will or self-determination. As we do have
free will, destiny cannot be fixed.
Destiny is therefore variable, not fixed. Destiny and free
will both exist as interwoven facets of your life. Like threads
in a tapestry, they interact with each other and blend to form
the outcomes that are the events in your life.
Your destiny is created by plans that you made at a soul level
of consciousness. Before you were born, you made your main plan
for this life. Then, the minute you were born, the rules of the
game demanded that you also get a case of amnesia about the
whole arrangement. Such is the game of life in the physical
realm.
However, at night when you go to sleep, you have the chance to
visit the deepest levels of human consciousness and review how
the original plan is unfolding and make changes to your plan if
desired. When you return to your physical body and awake in the
morning, amnesia strikes again. Within seconds of your
conscious mind returning into your physical brain, you forget
both the surface dreams and the deep experiences of the night.
Amnesia may be a part of the game we are playing in this life,
but inner guidance is always is always available to anyone who
pays attention to it. Your intuition is your link to your soul,
or inner being, which is also linked to the rest of the
universe and all levels of Creation.
You are never left alone to fumble in the darkness of a purely
physical life. Your inner being is always there with you,
expressing itself through the quiet whisperings of intuitive
information. Thanks to this inner compass of knowing, you can
always sense which choice feels right. You can always tell when
your life is running on plan, and you can tell equally well if
you've become temporarily distracted from your plan. You always
have the means to be right on course, or get back on course,
and explore the fascinating themes that make up your life plan.
The most productive use of free will is to explore your true
potential within the themes of your life, thus gaining the
greatest possible experience from your life plan.
Destiny is an influence that comes from your inner plan. There
is nothing absolute about your destiny. It's a pressure which
constantly seeks the best route to unfold into manifestation.
Free will provides the means to manifest that destiny in a way
that provides the learning that you came here to acquire in
this life.
Destiny is variable. It adapts to the circumstances of your
life every second of the day. As destiny unfolds, you feel it
within as a sense of being a part of the flow of life, of
manifesting your potential in the way that you planned for this
day and that you planned for this life.
Destiny is the plan. Free will is the action. Experience is
the result.
That's what being human is all about.
*If you enjoyed today's article, forward it to a friend!
They will appreciate your thoughtfulness.
Owen Waters is the author of the e-book, "Discover Your
Purpose in Life," which is available for download now at:
http://infinitebeing.com/ebooks/purpose.htm
In the Old Reality, things were seen as opposites - black or
white, hot or cold, good or bad, this way or that way. In the
expanded view of New Reality consciousness, life is seen in a
unified way. Opposite sides of the coin are viewed, not as
polar opposites, but rather as just being different aspects of
the one coin.
In the New Reality view of the world, the opposite extremes of
black and white become, instead, endless shades of gray. Hot
and cold become variable degrees of warmth. Good and bad become
different shades of human nature; free of the judgment, hate
and fear that comes with Old Reality, polarized thinking.
In the Old Reality, destiny and free will were seen as
mutually exclusive. The reasoning was that, if destiny exists,
then it controls everything and, therefore, free will does not
exist. On the other hand, you can prove that free will does
exist by making a choice. So, as the thinking goes, if free
will does exist, then there can be no destiny.
But, wait. Perhaps that choice of "free will" was really a
pre-destined one. Perhaps the person was destined to make that
choice all long, so the experience of choice was just an
illusion. At this point, people usually give up on the whole
question because it has turned into one of those brain teasers,
like asking which came first - the chicken or the egg.
Brain teasers keep your mind in an endless loop until you try
stepping back from the situation and seeing it in a wider
perspective. The new, wider perspective allows for the
inclusion of non-materialistic factors. In deciding whether the
chicken or the egg came first, for example, you just have to
step back and see that the Creator designed the chicken to be
self-perpetuating.
When you step back and see destiny and free will from a wider
perspective, you realize that nothing has to be absolute. If
every event in your life were pre-ordained, there would be no
such thing as free will or self-determination. As we do have
free will, destiny cannot be fixed.
Destiny is therefore variable, not fixed. Destiny and free
will both exist as interwoven facets of your life. Like threads
in a tapestry, they interact with each other and blend to form
the outcomes that are the events in your life.
Your destiny is created by plans that you made at a soul level
of consciousness. Before you were born, you made your main plan
for this life. Then, the minute you were born, the rules of the
game demanded that you also get a case of amnesia about the
whole arrangement. Such is the game of life in the physical
realm.
However, at night when you go to sleep, you have the chance to
visit the deepest levels of human consciousness and review how
the original plan is unfolding and make changes to your plan if
desired. When you return to your physical body and awake in the
morning, amnesia strikes again. Within seconds of your
conscious mind returning into your physical brain, you forget
both the surface dreams and the deep experiences of the night.
Amnesia may be a part of the game we are playing in this life,
but inner guidance is always is always available to anyone who
pays attention to it. Your intuition is your link to your soul,
or inner being, which is also linked to the rest of the
universe and all levels of Creation.
You are never left alone to fumble in the darkness of a purely
physical life. Your inner being is always there with you,
expressing itself through the quiet whisperings of intuitive
information. Thanks to this inner compass of knowing, you can
always sense which choice feels right. You can always tell when
your life is running on plan, and you can tell equally well if
you've become temporarily distracted from your plan. You always
have the means to be right on course, or get back on course,
and explore the fascinating themes that make up your life plan.
The most productive use of free will is to explore your true
potential within the themes of your life, thus gaining the
greatest possible experience from your life plan.
Destiny is an influence that comes from your inner plan. There
is nothing absolute about your destiny. It's a pressure which
constantly seeks the best route to unfold into manifestation.
Free will provides the means to manifest that destiny in a way
that provides the learning that you came here to acquire in
this life.
Destiny is variable. It adapts to the circumstances of your
life every second of the day. As destiny unfolds, you feel it
within as a sense of being a part of the flow of life, of
manifesting your potential in the way that you planned for this
day and that you planned for this life.
Destiny is the plan. Free will is the action. Experience is
the result.
That's what being human is all about.
*If you enjoyed today's article, forward it to a friend!
They will appreciate your thoughtfulness.
Owen Waters is the author of the e-book, "Discover Your
Purpose in Life," which is available for download now at:
http://infinitebeing.com/ebooks/purpose.htm
Saturday, January 9, 2010
Hanging Out In The Vicinity Of Brainstorms
The news of the Iguanas falling out of the trees in Florida, due to the falling temps, sparked an awareness for me. I realized there was a message here, a connection if you will, between what was happening with them and what was happening with me. As winter set in and temps fell, I too experienced falling out of my tree.
I'd recognized myself to be at the effect of a condition an old friend once coined as 'gritchy' - a cross between grouchy and bitchy! Not really angry but not very happy either. At first I assumed it to be the lack of light due to short days and long nights, and so I beefed up my vitamin D intake. No luck, still felt an edge of irritation precluding me from connection with inspiration. And so I started investigating. I mean after all, life situations are nothing if not opportunities to 'Clue Track' right!
The fact that the Oh HO HO of the Holiday Season had come and gone, leaving a chill in the emotional air of things, and the new year hasn't really kicked off yet, sounded like a good 'reason' for the lack luster vibe I was experiencing. However something told me to dig deeper and so I did.
The soul-searching spiral took me into a place where I found something different than what I'd expected. Here I came face to face with the culprit of my discontent. I had fallen out of alignment with the natural ebb and flow of the season. In the northern hemisphere we are experiencing winter, which is the time of renewal. The winter solstice heralds in the beginning of downtime. Here's where we get to go within, regroup with ourselves and rejuvenate .
I had been gearing up instead of slowing down. I had intended to use my will to push through the end of one calendar year straight into the next, without skipping a beat. It never occurred to me that because I was going against the grain of the natural order, my vibratory frequency was out of sync with the vibration of joy - thus the 'gritchy' uninspired feeling associated with burn out.
While attempting to 'keep up the momentum' I was falling out of my tree. I had become a casualty of the old paradigm I so loath. I was functioning congruent with the idea that 'the end justifies the means'. Interestingly enough I had been charging all those around me with being guilty of this very act. I could see it outside of myself but wasn't aware of my own participation with this cup half empty perspective. Until I stopped and looked at how my actions were creating what I was experiencing, I wasn't able to see where I needed to make changes.
I've been in the business of inspiring change through the development of human potential for more than three decades. I know better than to use the power-over strategy with the natural rhythm of things, and yet it appeared I had forgotten. My new status as a network marketer had me so excited, that I forgot the golden rule - 'The end never justifies the means'.
It's still the season of renewal, time to regroup, relax, regenerate and psychically prep for spring, that time of vision. It is not time for the Big Push forward but rather a time to take a step back, rethink old strategies, soft focus the lens and open to whatever we need to sustain our well-being. Indeed our cup is very much half full, even during this relentlessly harsh weather pattern.
But don't take my word for it. Check it out for yourself and let me know what it feels like to be in alignment, as compared to experiencing the contrast associated with not being. Success can be measured in a myriad of ways. Garnering energetic gifts from aligning with the natural flow, often produces surprising results.
Be well, take care and enjoy the season of renewal.
I'd recognized myself to be at the effect of a condition an old friend once coined as 'gritchy' - a cross between grouchy and bitchy! Not really angry but not very happy either. At first I assumed it to be the lack of light due to short days and long nights, and so I beefed up my vitamin D intake. No luck, still felt an edge of irritation precluding me from connection with inspiration. And so I started investigating. I mean after all, life situations are nothing if not opportunities to 'Clue Track' right!
The fact that the Oh HO HO of the Holiday Season had come and gone, leaving a chill in the emotional air of things, and the new year hasn't really kicked off yet, sounded like a good 'reason' for the lack luster vibe I was experiencing. However something told me to dig deeper and so I did.
The soul-searching spiral took me into a place where I found something different than what I'd expected. Here I came face to face with the culprit of my discontent. I had fallen out of alignment with the natural ebb and flow of the season. In the northern hemisphere we are experiencing winter, which is the time of renewal. The winter solstice heralds in the beginning of downtime. Here's where we get to go within, regroup with ourselves and rejuvenate .
I had been gearing up instead of slowing down. I had intended to use my will to push through the end of one calendar year straight into the next, without skipping a beat. It never occurred to me that because I was going against the grain of the natural order, my vibratory frequency was out of sync with the vibration of joy - thus the 'gritchy' uninspired feeling associated with burn out.
While attempting to 'keep up the momentum' I was falling out of my tree. I had become a casualty of the old paradigm I so loath. I was functioning congruent with the idea that 'the end justifies the means'. Interestingly enough I had been charging all those around me with being guilty of this very act. I could see it outside of myself but wasn't aware of my own participation with this cup half empty perspective. Until I stopped and looked at how my actions were creating what I was experiencing, I wasn't able to see where I needed to make changes.
I've been in the business of inspiring change through the development of human potential for more than three decades. I know better than to use the power-over strategy with the natural rhythm of things, and yet it appeared I had forgotten. My new status as a network marketer had me so excited, that I forgot the golden rule - 'The end never justifies the means'.
It's still the season of renewal, time to regroup, relax, regenerate and psychically prep for spring, that time of vision. It is not time for the Big Push forward but rather a time to take a step back, rethink old strategies, soft focus the lens and open to whatever we need to sustain our well-being. Indeed our cup is very much half full, even during this relentlessly harsh weather pattern.
But don't take my word for it. Check it out for yourself and let me know what it feels like to be in alignment, as compared to experiencing the contrast associated with not being. Success can be measured in a myriad of ways. Garnering energetic gifts from aligning with the natural flow, often produces surprising results.
Be well, take care and enjoy the season of renewal.
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