meredith murphy | luminous being

daily routine: sitting meditation

by meredith murphy

Meditation saved my life.  

I used to say this all the time after I began sitting meditation almost 20 years ago.  I still remember the moment when all that labeling of thoughts as "thinking" actually showed up spontaneously in the middle of an argument as an angry, reactionary thought arose and instead of speaking, I heard, in my mind "thinking."  And then there was this stillness.  WOW!!  I realized I'm witnessing my thoughts--not just merged with them.  There was through meditation, now a gap created between thoughts and me.  Eventually I experienced great bliss and an expansiveness in which I experientially merged with/felt the Oneness of and with everything.  Over time my thoughts just stilled.  The mind just got quiet and now if I'm not consciously thinking my mind is routinely, consistently spacious and quiet. 

It certainly makes it a lot easier to hear your inner being when there isn't a constant sound track going on about everything and anything!

The gradual "showing up" to meditate, does what meditation does--it begins to free the mind; reinstating it's natural luminosity and spaciousness.  For me this has been a wonderful path.  I have experienced great realization in meditation and the benefits continue to flow into my life.  Sometime ago I wrote a little article about developing detachment and neutrality through meditation, and based on some recent emails I've received about the desire to quiet the mind and listen to the heart, feel the soul presence, I thought I would share it here...

One of the most valuable practices in developing detachment and neutrality is meditation that cultivates mindfulness, or develops what is called, “witness” consciousness.  I practice a combination of Tibetan/Zen/Taoist Meditation, which is one way to cultivate the natural state of mind.   

The reason this meditation works is that your mind is truly naturally spacious and quiet―like the sky (that’s the metaphor/image I love).  And like the sky has sun and clouds and moon and lightening and other phenomenon move through/across it, the sky is just the sky―spacious and unchanged by say a flash of lightening.  When we train our mind in this type of meditation we become increasingly detached from the “lightening” of our mind.  This detachment creates a gap, or space, and it is in this space that we experience freedom.  We can relate to life in freedom rather then by reacting, or identifying with what flows through our mind.  The benefit of practicing this type of meditation specifically is that you grow in your ability to simply observe thoughts and images, or even whole story lines and emotions as they arise and naturally dissolve, without being them―becoming them, or getting attached to them or pushing them away.  Thus you begin to not build up congestion through incomplete experiences, for you flow, as if on an inner tube down the river while noticing friends on one shore and yucky experiences on the other―you neither grab at things, nor push them away, you take what the Buddhist’s call “the middle way” you flow, allowing all that arises to rise and dissolve, as you continue to be present, detached and neutral about everything. 

The photo above is me meditating at the Krishnamurti Center in Ojai, CA (taken by my dear friend Sofia Peacock).  It’s helpful to meditate in a quiet place and returning to the same place paves the way energetically.  As Krishnamurti and others have meditated here, the energy was very wonderful to shift into and the space itself supported my focus.  I’ve meditated outside, and in many places, with others who are experienced and with “newbies” who are learning.  All of it is valuable, but the most precious for me is meditating, in my own home, early in the morning, with myself.  I make a cup of green tea, or coffee first, and enjoy that on my cushion before I sit.  Sometimes if I’m hungry I eat a banana.  You can have breakfast first too.  Do whatever works for you and supports you in being present.  You’ll see that as with all things, being loving and attentive to yourself, allowing rather than being critical, allows the experience to arise effortlessly.   

how to practice?

1. Choose a quiet place and a quiet time in which you will not be disturbed.  Ideal times are early in the morning.  It’s okay to have coffee/tea first :)  The energy is quieter early in the day, which supports the experience you are cultivating, but any time is fine.  Also, if possible sit at around the same time each day―this helps to build the habit and help you get into the meditation quickly; you’re cultivating a pattern of being.

2. Set a timer.  You don’t want to be checking the clock during meditation to see how much more time, or how much time has already gone by.  In the beginning it’s beneficial to sit for at least 15-20 minutes.  Some people don’t really experience their mind quiet until closer to 40 minutes.  Choose what you can.  I personally like to sit between 30 and 60 minutes as after an initial period of settling the energy deepens and expands and I feel the benefits exponentially.  Whatever feels right to you and works for you is good.  Just choose a time frame and stick to it.  Set a timer on your phone, or somehow so it will go off when you’re don’t and place it out of eyesight.

3. Practice every day.  If possible.  It’s called practice, right?

4. Sit upright in a way you are comfortable but most importantly so that your spine is straight.  You can sit in a chair or on a meditation cushion.  It’s good to be comfortable so sit however is easiest for you―that way you minimize any way you might be distracted by the body while you meditate.

5. Place your hands palms-down on your thighs.

6. Keep your eyes open and look in front of you and downward―say 12-18 inches in front of your body, toward the floor.  Keep your gaze soft, looking at this same general spot, not focusing, just resting your eyes there.  This is your position for the entire meditation.  Once you begin, try not to move physically.  If your feet or hips or legs fall asleep, shift to a new position and again, then try not to move.

7. Breathe normally.  Pay attention to your breathing; meaning what you are doing now is looking softly downward and just noticing your breath.  Notice that as you inhale, there is a rising in your abdomen.  As you exhale, feel your abdomen relaxing back into its neutral position.  Just notice this.  Softly.

8. While watching your breath you will discover you are no longer watching your breath, you are thinking.  You’ll discover you are making a grocery list, thinking about a person, engaged in a mental conversation, or having images flash through your mind.  

9. In this practice, we're simply going to name the thoughts and images that arise, by saying to yourself, quietly, gently, neutrally when you notice this is happening, "thinking." 

10. As you label the thoughts “thinking” the attitude is mellow.  Detached, friendly and relaxed, like gently telling a puppy, “sit.”  Just observe and label. 

11. Then return to watching the breath.

12. Do not be concerned with how often or how much this happens.  If your mind wanders, no problem, just come back.  You don’t have to make any effort to change what’s happening, just label it, “thinking,” and return again to watching your breath.

13. The part of you that is observing and labeling the thinking is called the Witness Consciousness, or the energy of Mindfulness - and is the part of our mind that remains forever untouched by its contents - by the thoughts and images arising within it. A traditional metaphor for this aspect of mind is that it is similar to the deepest part of an ocean - which remains calm, still & silent, even if at its surface, waves (of thinking, emotion, or sensation) are raging. 

14. When the alarm goes off, turn it off.  Take a moment to come back to your body and notice how you feel.

notes

The great thing about meditation is that it’s not about effort or trying to do it right.  You just have to show up.  There is no way to do it wrong.  So give up evaluating or comparing and just do it.  Do it when it seems wonderful.  Do it when it’s not.  Just keep doing it.  The practice does the work, you show up. Trust it.  Humans have been using it for a long time and it’s well known for it’s benefits.  

As a little side note especially to the metaphysically inclined: it’s good to remember the purpose of witness meditation is NOT to have phenomenon show up―like to start channeling or see angels or anything.  The practice is to quiet the mind and experience the natural spaciousness and peace that is your true presence.  So if you start having these experiences, don’t become enamored with them, just label them “thinking,” and return to your breath.

For questions about meditation and your practices to cultivate happiness, joy, clarity and presence in life, I am happy to be of service.  Feel free to get in touch via email: Meredith@ExpectWonderful.com

Namaste!

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luminous being: entry into 2012

by meredith murphy 

I am still humming with awe at my entry into this auspicious year of 2012, and astonished by what can be accomplished by forgiveness--especially self-forgiveness--on this journey of remembering and re-assembling as light. 

Recently I traveled to Lake Louise in the Canadian Rockies.  I went to gather energies and experience the Archangel Michael vortex there for the dawn of the Lunar New Year.  I was thrilled to be returning--it had been 28 years since my last visit to the Canadian Rockies, and I booked a room with a view of the lake in the beautiful Chateau.  

Even before I travelled there I was craving silence.  I'm not talking about quiet, I mean silence.  Like "not talking, no sound, hours on end into days just being" kind of silence.  I kept thinking about the character in "Eat, Pray, Love," who took a vow of silence and walked around with an I'M IN SILENCE name-tag on.  I knew that I needed a deepening that was available in not talking not reading not engaging the mind or the voice, in letting go of the need to communicate things.  So I let my friends and family know I would not be talking while I was there and I entered into a silent communion with myself in this sacred place.

What I hadn't anticipated was the intensity of the emotional release and spiritual clarification I would experience.

My first day there I felt the affinity with this place at this time--as the layers and layers of snow and the miles of gently touched mountains were vibrating with the feeling that was surfacing in me.  The photo above is a photo I took while hiking around Lake Louise and back toward the glaciers on Mt. Victoria.  I walked quietly and mostly alone, save for a few cross country skiers on the lake, for several hours, back into the forest behind the lake, past frozen waterfalls, and small spots where fresh water still ran, not frozen, and then I just stopped, standing in the stillness, merging with it all, letting go.

The potent combination of the gentle yet pristine energies with silence, initiated a review of my life and my feeling about me, that left me emotionally exhausted, physically drained, and energetically cleansed.

Ever since arriving in Banff and then Lake Louise, I found my heart opening and all kinds of things moved me.  At my first glimpse of the foothills, I had a powerful release and had to pull my car off the road, while I let the unarticulated emotions flow through me.  

This feeling of emotional release only intensified as I arrived at Lake Louise and checked into the Chateau.  Everything moved me!  I recognized the undiffrentiated oneness of reality expressed in other people, in families eating breakfast, in the dog sleeping in the lobby, in the kids skating, the foreign visitors taking photos of the ice sculptures and most of all, in the mirror.  My eyes teared up, my heart chakra burned and opened wider, it felt good, but intense.  I wept and cried, sometimes so much so I had to get up and go to the bathroom and blow my nose, or back to my room to just lie down for a good release/cry, and often with no specific idea about why--just this deep feeling of unity and beauty.  I felt the incredible joyous happiness of loving everything and everyone and not needing to get away from anything--everything felt good and fine and actually, like a long-lost, previously unreognized soul-mate.  It was amazing.

Then the clearing triggered by all this high-vibe energy began.  The day following my long walk, all kinds of unpleasant ideas about me and my life surfaced for review and release, for love and most of all for forgiveness--some of others, but mostly, self-forgiveness.  Old and long-seemingly forgotten impressions arose--of many people I disappointed and those who disappointed me.  The combination of this amazing place, and the simple act of not filling up my attention with things, allowed things needing my attention to just come forth.  

It was painful, and challenging and unexpected.  I knew enough to let it flow. To remember I was not these feelings and to try and enlarge my perspective (unsuccessfully).  I knew the point of this was to forgive myself--for all the ways I wasn't who I wanted to be throughout my life.  I am grateful that even though I had very strong difficult feelings, I also knew this was the energy of a powerful place working on me and I trusted this most relentless and agonizing experience. I wasn't feeling grateful particularly while it was happening, but there was a sense of trust.  I was amazed to realize how alive these feelings were.  How much they still hurt.  How difficult it was to let them flow through me.  I felt the pain of the times I fell short of my own ideas of who I wanted to be, when I wasn't able to do what I said, or wanted to do, when I fell short of ideals of other people who I love, when I broke promises, spoke sharp words in anger, judged and criticized someone else, held myself back out of fears of not being good enough, but mostly it was the times I felt I let other people close to me down that hurt the most--and all of this came up and ultimately looped back to how I felt about me.  In the midst of all this, I began to feel dismayed and as if my trip was a waste!  Yet, even then, with all this going on for hours with seemingly no end, my heart knew otherwise.  I just kept breathing.  I knew not to reach out to friends or anyone else--I knew I would be fine and more importantly that there was a great gift in letting myself experience all this with surrender and awareness.  

The night after this most difficult day I went to bed early--about 7:30 pm--with these still unresolved difficult feelings and thoughts lingering.  I was exhausted.  I woke up in the pre-dawn hours about 4 am.  I got up to look out the window--I couldn't see anything except the lit ice rink, the frozen part of Lake Louise closest to the hotel.  The mountains and the glacier were hidden and the whole sky was dark.  I lay back down and tuned in, feeling myself.  I felt a little better.  I allowed the whole thing going on to surface fully in my awareness and I again chose to elevate my view, to look at my life and all these disappointing memories and feelings, from the perspective of my higher self and at last, with no effort, it came: an enveloping soft wave of love, and a moment of true knowing from within. Clear realization and soft feelings.  I just knew that I had done the best I could.  I felt the genuine relief of knowing my own timeless, infinite energy was simpy having an experience.  Many experiences.  I could see this beyond labels, stories, judgment and duality because the Oneness I Am was alive and well and coursing through my whole being.  I called upon the I AM that I AM and asked for the experience of self-forgiveness.  I was able to truly, deeply, forgive myself and let go of everything that lingered within me--all those memories and the stories, the enormous guilt and sadness.  I felt the roots of all this just dissolve--the interpretation that somehow I ought to have been anything other then what and who I was in each and every moment of this experience--of any experience, really.  I realized I was no longer comparing myself and my life with these expectations.  I saw how ridiculous it all was--this idea of needing to be something I'm not.  I felt how totally a-okay I really am and always have been while still knowing everything I know about me.  I held it all in my awareness and it just dissolved into love.  I saw everything in the light of the Oneness I AM.  I smiled outloud!  Everything felt very still and quiet, but in a totally different way.  I noticed: there were no thoughts, no sad feelings, nothing, but the quiet of the night and the glorious lingering feeling of peace.  I laughed.  Then I laughed again.  I kept laughing. And then, I said it outloud, "I completely forgive myself.  Yes!  I entirely release all of this."  Then I asked my higher self to clear out all these energies within me and I felt the appreciation of letting go of all these illusions! about me/my life.

I went back to sleep.  I slept deep into the morning.  When I woke up everything was, and is, still peaceful, new and quiet.  :)

Self-forgiveness is the ultimate balm for the heart.  Nothing I've ever experienced has been so transformative and made such huge, sweeping and lasting changes in my life in such short time.  If you think of it, a life review that took a couple of days and liberates this kind of joy is quite amazing.  All kinds of practices and ways of focusing can get us into clarity, calm, expansive spaciousness or a feel good state, but this deep return to wholeness given by forgiving ourselves eclipses all of those other ways of arriving at happiness--when we love ourselves as are ourselves just as we already are, happiness just IS.  Right now.  Continually.  No journey required.

When I returned and the experience had integrated a bit I saw that letting go of all these illusions about me, liberates a sense of non-Self.  A return to unity in awareness so that I no longer consider my value, my purpose, my origins, my unique possibilities--all of these are stories, layered upon the simplicity of being.  When I am healed of guilt and the need to please others, or myself, my heart now freed, is just open and life is and I live directly.  I create, I sit, I write down and put words to ideas.  I don't evaluate it or analyze it.  I express what I feel and I let it be as it is.  I feel a sense of resonance or completion when I've reflected the wholeness of an idea, but there is no judgement or thinking about it.  It's just knowing through feeling.

I have been fortunate to live much of my life with self-confidence, clarity, a sense of empowerment and joy.  Yet still, underneath it were these common threads of so many paths of the human experience, tying up my heart and holding me hostage to my own inner (internalized) critic.  Pushing me.  Inhibiting my flow in very subtle ways...interrupting my natural state and pinching me just a little bit off from feeling unabashadly, across my whole life, SUPERBLY great about me, which of course inhibits my ability to feel superbly great about ALL of me (which includes you and everything else...) 

For many of us, we work at getting here, seeking seeking seeking.  But as many great spiritual teachers have shared with us, that doesn't work--it actually comes from not seeking.  It's already here.  It really just needs to be released and revealed.  And for me, letting go of all these stories, was like the last turn of the combination lock that set me free.  Letting go of any idea of separation-- which breeds comparison and feelings of inadequacy, ideas that there is "A" way things ought to be, or should have happened.  How ridiculous is it to argue with reality?  How often we do so.  Clarity and freedom are experienced when we stop trying to be anything and instead we just let ourself be who we already are.

Without the stories evaluating and defining me, articulating my meaning and the purpose of my life, guess what?  Nothing falls apart.  Surprisingly I continue to be and feel like myself, only lighter and happier.  I discover there is not even relief in this experience, for there is no sense of the other to find relief from--it's dissappeared!  It's just easy and natural.  Now home, in California, with my cat Astra sleeping on the cushion next to me, I realize this is how she lives--with no idea of self.  Just being.  

We are everything.  We may not be able to cognate about it, or put it into words, but we can actually live as the Oneness we are, without having a definition of who we are.  We can stop paying so much attention to the flavor of our bodies, the particulars of our work, the ideas of who we want to be.  We don't need an elevator speech about our career, or a way to tell people what we're doing with our life.  We can go deeper, wider and beyond this and just relate directly to life.  We can show up without using stories or labels, or conventions to define who any of us are. We can drop the need to please or impress others by telling them in some careful way who we are and what we do.  We can stop defining people this way too.  So much of what we say about our selves is a cover-up to smooth out and make ourselves into who we want to be seen as.  It implies there is some need to do this, that there is something wrong with just being who you are.  That if you don't say these things, you will be misunderstood, not valued, not seen, not loved, that the real you just being there, isn't enough.  There is nothing wrong with who you are.  Or anything you've done or not done.  There is not a "thing" you have to do.  Everytime we layer these stories on top of our life, we complicate things and remove ourselves from direct experience.  We hide our most radiant essence from our selves and attempt to dress it up for others.  

As uncomplicated and unbelievable as it may sound--somehow the truth is that just being genuinely carefree and happy you are everything. Ironically it's by not striving that so much is emanated and experienced.

Striving and goals are expressions of separation.  Does my heart have to have a goal to beat and keep me alive?  Do my eyes have to make an effort and strive to read the words I type?  No.  This is innate and just is.  The Oneness we are flows into everything, taking form as the information holographically structures everything.  We are holographic to the whole, which means we have access to everything while being this particular essence of All.

How do we "get there," then?  How do we re-learn how to just be and stop thinking and trying so hard?  For me it has been a long, gradual process of becoming more aware of how I relate to myself, and the linch-pin was actually to deeply and fully go through my past and see all the things I still felt badly about and then, slowly gently, forgive myself.  How do we forgive ourselves?  For me, this was triggered by silence...lots of it.  When we stop talking and we stop distracting ourselves with conversation and brain-food and activity, gradually stuff surfaces.  We notice what's underneath it all and I won't kid you--for me, this was hard.  We may find that we identify with the bad feelings the memories of all the times we "failed" to be who we thought we ought to be.  We try to reconcile the past with the now.  We wonder how others will view us now, if they only knew all the ways we were "less than great" in the past.  We feel the agony of holding ourselves to some standard beyond what we truly were capable of at the time.  The only relief is to let go--to bring love to our own self-perception and gradually, gently we let go of all the expectations that we have and have had, of ourselves.  Doing this, we are more able to forgive others.  (Bonus!) It is these expectations we have of ourselves that create guilt, that allow us to hold a grudge against ourselves (and others) and beyond them we instead relate to life as IT IS.  Not as we in our mind think it ought to be, or what should have been possible, or what we wanted to happen, we relate to life as it is.  Knowing that like the heart and the eyes, the human being--me and you--are just as we are.  (And together we are such a beautiful One!)  So, perhaps, then we just lighten up about it all.

What if, we give ourselves permission and stop thinking about everything so much and living a mediated experience--choreographed and narrated by our mind--instead, we become a direct expression of life?  No interference.  No running commentary.  No need to compare or evaluate. Just here, just now. Just being and not worrying about the results or the destination.  Allowing ourselves to say what we feel, to feel what we feel and to just be a free, fresh, innocent presence within our own life.  Noticing everything, loving and appreciating everything, not-engaged but fully present; curious and interested. Filled with love, expressing as kindness and tenderness and a sense of humor about the many variations of our own self--some in our form over time, some reflected in others.  

Having given up the need to be perfect, better, or other then we are, and having forgiven ourselves (meaning having released all the expectations of our own life where we argued with what was possible, what simply was) we finally become free.  Happy with life as it is, enjoying the process of being and growing and creating, yet loving all variations on the One theme...And just as we are, without making all kinds of improvements to ourselves, just by dropping the expectations that we be different than we are, we change everything.  

Now, at peace within and in this quiet, simple generous fulfillment of our being, we begin to create the inner reality of New Earth made manifest. Luminous being arises; as light reflecting the Oneness, we expand the lens of the Golden Dawn, love flowing through us, and the momentum and light growing toward that much anticipated morning.  Remembering, reflecting and re-assembling the One IAM/WeAre.

 

 

let go of your story

by meredith murphy

You are so much more than you realize...

What if you stopped stringing together ideas of who you are, what you've done, what you're going to do, what planet you came from, what job you want, what stage you're at, et cetera, et cetera?

What if you allow yourself to live like a truly multidimensional eternal limitless being and STOP defining yourself or your life in all ways? Stop measuring, comparing, mapping progress, evaluating, analyzing...just be whatever feels right moment to moment.

Oh just give into it!

Let go of your story.  Let go of everything.  Just dissolve everything that defines you.  Expand into what...?

Everything.

Let yourself fly!

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look deeply into your own reflection...

by meredith murphy

"If you want to be active and doing things, and yet don't have the inspiration now, realize that the energy is still coming forth, aligning. The invitation right now is to deep deep inward presence. The time to emerge and play will arise naturally. Go with the flow for ease."--Meredith Murphy, Daily Inspiration by email from Expect Wonderful

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Hello Ascending Human!
    
Are you enjoying the energy these days?  For many there are depths of joy and bliss, peace and expansiveness that are unprecedented.  Many are writing and sharing how life has rearranged their health, schedules, work, to get them into non-doing and stillness.  Participate by getting fully present.  We don't know what exactly the emerging view will look like.  We can prepare for it by taking in all we experience with gratitude.  If you're in that camp, go deep and enjoy!  Realize this is the nature of your being coming into expression more fully in your experience.
 
Some are experiencing huge waves of fear, and intense emotions out of the blue.  If you're in that camp, go deep and enjoy.  Realize that everything that arises is indicating where you can let go and access greater freedom.  Make friends with the difficulty.  Pay attention to what's real and happening within YOU.  You are the most important thing right now, so make time for YOU.
 
In addition to all the things we experience while awake...there is a lot of activity while we're asleep.  Although we're not conscious of much of this many Lightworkers are traveling dimensionally and doing healing and other work while sleeping.  This is very real and at this time, with what is happening physically, also tiring.  Rest easy and let go of any obligations you don't feel entirely thrilled and inspired about participating in.
 
I have been very quiet since early August.  I took a break from teaching, yet have been channeling and receiving a lot of downloads myself.  I spend huge amounts of time just experiencing incredible peace, bliss and contentment.  I cannot imagine a way of being that did not involve the gift of these long and deep moments of doing nothing, saying nothing, just being with. It is astonishing how deep the well is and how endlessly refreshing. Never boring. Always rich and how is that? That this silence, this nothingness which is everything, which we often experience as without form, feels SO SO SO deeply fulfilling? How often I sense we have misunderstood where fulfillment may indeed actually come from. For as I write this I feel within myself that fulfillment is love, harmony, total openness.    
 
I feel my feeling state incorporating more and more of my higher self.  I am able to relate to challenging moments in a much more inspired way.  I am light and easier to feel amused and to continually say to myself, "there is no other," and to bring home what is happening, let everyone else do their thing and resolve within me anything and return to peace.  The pay off to doing this is big!  I am also meditating more as the mind seems to be more sensitive--usually mine is pretty quiet--and the collective energy feels more intrusive than I am used to, and I sense my aura is expanding and I will have to make adjustments again to find my thrive-zone.

I sense your presence and think of you often.  We're an incredible community of love and light and even when I don't post much, or write as often, send out updates or teach, I know that the connection is exchanging and flowing between us.  We've created those energetic pathways and the non-local field assists us in dynamically growing as a group.  I trust all of us to continue our inner path of awakening while gathering together whenever we feel the resonance to do so.  Thank you for all that you do to bring more light and love into this shared space and the collective!
 
In the channeling I have done over the last few months, I have received a lot of downloads from Archangel Michael and my guides and part of that will flow into significantly expanded options for connecting soon...
 
In the meanwhile, thank you for this space of shared ideals, and the chance to explore and share with you my fellow explorer, the notes from this life at the Ideafrontier!
 
Wishing you all wonderful things.
Love, light and much appreciation,

Meredith

 

invoking our memories of harmony

by meredith murphy

A lot has been loosened up by the recent earthquakes, the heating up of the Earth's core as the frequency rises and most obviously, by Irene, the recent hurricane and tropical storm along the East Coast of North America.

Realize the location of this storm--the seat of so many old paradigms and communities built and anchored in the male energies of our collective history.  A strong feminine energy has entered and through the focus of love instead of resulting in the anticipated destruction, instead, we have witnessed stagnant energies being shifted with far less impact and there is transformation which has occurred.

I invite you, as you meditate this week, to consider all the energy that is being loosened, shaken up, transformed by all these earth changes, and envision it being returned to pure potentiality.  Realize that our planet and our own energy system is inherently wise and returns naturally to it's divine and true identity when supported.

Please take time to use your power to support deep integration and affirm the return to the flow of creation that is indeed taking place within you, within all of us, within everything.

Our planet is experiencing a re-instatement of love, of light, of coherence. 

I share this beautiful image of a rainbow flower of life.  The peace and harmony of it, remind me of the innate organizing intelligence of our very lives. 

May this infinite truth and wisdom inform the re-organizing taking place now within our world and our selves as old paradigm structures with our love, our focus, with the intelligence and willing sentience of Gaia, are loosened, opened, shifting, healing, and with the help of our star families, the angels and archangels, the devas and the many who are dreaming with devotion the Utopian Dream, we remember and invoke our memories of harmony.  Calling this vibration forth with appreciation and focus; altering life as we have known it. 

Deep deep deep alterations have been made now.  Feel into yourself and realize the changes as they are revealed within you.  Find your own divine truths emerging.  Remembering more and more why you came here, what this all means, and celebrating each enormous release of the illusion and the re-emergence of clarity, light and love.

being herded home

Herding is the act of bringing individual animals together into a group (herd), maintaining the group and moving the group from place to place...

Well, yes then, that's precisely what I am experiencing.

I am discovering the cowboy archetype is alive and well in Archangel Michael...as I am nudged, then pushed and then gathered up and repeatedly put on the road to my own empowerment.

Let me be clear--this is because of my choices.  And it comes to me intuitively.  It's not like being "told" what to do, or directed by another outside of me. It's strong, continual intuitive urgings that make it clear that my intentions and desires for expression in life may be fulfilled most perfectly by going in the direction I'm being drawn to led towards.  I ask for guidance in my life and I then listen to my inner wisdom.  And all of this feels like a deep and loving response to my choices for the role I wish to play and how I desire to grow and expand. 

It's all very gentle.

I am allowed to meander back to what feels comfortable, enjoying the illusion of not being moved somewhere new.  I have a few hours or days feeling like I'm settled where I am, but the my attention is being drawn and then I continually find I am focused on moving to Mt. Shasta.

I viscerally now understand the mysterious allure of Mt. Shasta.  Apparently the energies of this place are aligned with the desires of many of us to awaken and experience our fullest selves here on Earth.  I relate now to the people who say they end up there so fast and so amazingly they are stunned by it all.  One member of the Expect Wonderful tribe wrote me saying that out of the blue she felt the draw to go there, and woke up living there so fast--despite having no way to seemingly get there or finance her move--and before she knew it all kinds of things happened and there she was.  With kindness and warmth she told me she was, "holding the door open" for me.

That's good, because if I am anything like these horses above--which I feel I am--crackling with aliveness and freedom, then I will come through the gates running and at a clip and thank heaven they'll be open and prepared for me.  And so I trust. 

Of course I also stomp my feet and cry.  Even though I asked for this, it's happening quick!  And the change is big.  So I feel the intensity of this herding process--really and truly.  It is like nothing I have ever known--yesterday I saw that it's like being in a giant cosmic funnel and finally realizing it.  The extraneous things have been released and the path is clear.

It is clear that some soul group assembly is taking place and I am being summoned in response to my choices for participating in life.  I got a little grace period--first I thought I would just visit in March.  Then visit for the Summer Solstice.  Then I went up again in July--this time thinking I might move there, but the realization of a real WINTER sent me home after yet another "vacation," although truly it was a powerful initiation, as all my trips there have been, priming me energetically for the longer presence there.

And now, suddenly, there's no more goofing around allowed.  It's clear I have to be there and very soon.  Like by August 15 or so.  Because there are events happening which I clearly want to be part of, and they start right after that.  Which gives me two weeks to pack up here, store things, drive 10 hours and find a place, come back here and move whatever is needed there...Oh!  And buy a winter coat!

I am still bristling a little at being cajoled, funneled and rounded up in such a fashion.  But gradually as the deciveness of this experience shows itself, I am doing the only sensible thing I can :letting go.  What's my other option?  To go kicking and screaming?  No thanks.  To decline the opportunity of a lifetime to participate in this collective planetary unfolding.  Not a chance.  It does surprise me though how comfortable and rooted I've become here and how hard it is to let go and pull up my stakes and move and just let it unfold.  It's interesting that it's the feeling of meeting my future and it pulling me forward that is triggering resistance--as my sense of my life is being profoundly altered.

I knew after my most recent time "visit" there--in July--that life would never be the same; I had no idea what that would feel like, and it seems this is part of it.  I have caught up with my life and it's like merging with a powerful thundering beautiful horse, amidst a thundering gorgeous herd, being ushered gently, but definitely, somewhere new and the air is filled with dust, and noise and energy.

Cowboy Michael is clearly helping out by running the round-up, the head rancher here these days...to make sure we're in astro-cartographic alignment for what's next...and I hear him and others of my family like whispers in the night--explaining, giving little bits of vision and encouraging me, and the voices have grown much clearer, even while the wind from all this movement, rushes through my hair.

I feel alive, loved, supported and free.  Knowing what's happening is a manifestation of my choices and focus.  And learning to get used to, and absorb the realization of just how fast and clearly I can call forth my life.

 

expanding into more life

by meredith murphy

Mt. Shasta, more than meets the eye...

Yesterday while staying here, I asked to visit the City of Light within and was greeted by Archangel Michael and Saint Germain who welcomed me, and "showed me around," and what I received was perfect and so vital for me unfolding my life now in service and as the light that I AM.

It reminded me that when we ask, we receive perfectly exactly what is most beneficial and that which we can integrate easily now.

Years ago this would have been unimaginable to me. Today it is just beautiful and entirely real.

living from moment to moment

This is it!

Living moment to moment.

Not moment INTO moment.  Not moment built upon moment, or moment strung to moment to moment.

No.

Moment TO moment TO moment TO moment...

Consider that for a bit...

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Observation?  Moment TO moment is like a leap.  It's one thing.  It's another thing.  it's another thing.  It's another thing.  Being here now.  Discrete.  Whole and complete in and of itself--each moment. 

And in this full presence, unaware of any other moment.  And yet experiencing all in the present.

Consider this>>experiencing ALL in the present.

Each new moment a new experience of ALL in the present.  Dynamically informed. 

Continuous, spiraling, evolving...?  Yes.  Perhaps though these words are still too focused on "connecting" these moments, instead of living in absolute trust and allowing them to be discrete and fully present to--unaware of all else. 

Total loss of identity, naturally.  For what is identity in our experience if not a strung together story of self?

What is self in countless perfect whole discrete moments?  And how different is self from a flower, in this way, a leaf on a tree.  A rock washed by the river flowing down the mountainside?

And the luminousness of this full present entirely free awareness...!

Wow.  That's it.  Life.

The Ultimate letting go...beyond identity, giving in to an experience of True Identity in Infinite Time: no identity and no story.  Just presence.

 

your energy is accelerating!

by meredith murphy

These are POWERFUL times; the time of times, really. 

I hope you enjoyed the little rest, the breather from all that delicious energy that brought us into wholeness on Tuesday -- the beautiful Full Moon | Full Lunar Eclipse energy.  Things are in movement again.  There is within your field an intensification; you are in expansion, and an accelerated energy. Are you feeling it?

Information as light is available and readable in coherence, abundantly!

There are SO many insights and clarifications; the guidance for being YOU in the world is flowing to you.  I see it clearly and yet because it's coming without linear time/space constructs...(aha!  zero point qualities) I have to organize it and stay focused.

FOCUS is a big deal right now; as YOU are moving into greater alignment which always brings forth an increase in energy and flow (and naturally, the releasing aspects associated with a new set point integrating.)

I encourage you to ask all those questions you've been trying to "solve" by thinking and take note of whatever impression, guidance, visions or ideas come to you.  Then trust them (for more on that read the prior post :) 

Yes--write down ideas and keep track of dreams, don't worry if they shift a lot and seemingly contradict each other; a lot of vision is available right now, ground it.  It will make more sense later if it doesn't now...and don't forget to call it forth by asking!  You're the master here!

See your self without limits and allow the YOU that IS to appear to you in its fullness expanded!

beyond words

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