meredith murphy | luminous being

exhilaration! i am movement.

by meredith murphy

The New Human exists at the fulcrum of vast inner movement and the reflection of this in manifest realtiy.

To begin to know this experience, I claim my true nature: I am movement.

As movement I feel exhilaration! I don't know exactly where I am going and at times this has held me back, but no more. I don't always see the big picture of why I am drawn to certain things, but I trust myself and I allow myself to move into, toward that which I am drawn toward, that which I love and which I feel like experiencing--not slowly gingerly, but with heart and enthusiasm--running freely, the wind in my hair, kind of movement.

I am invigorated by nature and life.

I am embracing my innate innocence and sense of adventure.

I have let go of needing to see all the steps in front of me.

I am just flowing, moving toward life in each moment. Trusting. Confident. Strong. Joy embodied.

Beautiful!

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Movement supports our body as we allow the intense energies we're experiencing to elevate our experience. I've doubled my daily walk time with the dogs and am also beginning to think about rollerblading again and/or running. The more we participate with these waves of energy cooperatively, merging with the energy, the easier this is. I'm noticing that the more I move physically the better I feel and using all this energy to exercise is also flowing the energy it in a wonderfully positive way for my body!

To get into this flow of movement, I had to cultivate it.  It grew gradually as I noticed any kind of movement energized and opened me up and so I kind of kept at it, little by little.  I had so much inertia after all this inner stuff for so long!!  Eventually more and more movement became part of my day and the whole thing got it's own momentum. I know it will continue to expand as I am appreciating it and noticing the delicious ways I feel! 

I am a big fan of stillness and inner movement.  For me, I simply came to a point where my inner movement was SO VAST! My life in manfiest reality needed to come into balance and also move with more acceleration and expansion to reflect this.  

I needed flow in all of my life, not primarily on the inner planes where it was.  

All of this amazing, vast inner movement, NEEDS to come forth in our manifest reality!  The inner movement so many of us have created, in manifest reality, will expand our world!  I see the reflection of our inner "ultra-marathoner" emerging in our manifest reality as a powerful gift, balancing and harmonizing our world and revealing the New Human--who moves on inner planes and creates and shifts energy in big ways day in day out.  This most naturally will be reflected in the outer experiences we have and are.

I am an embodied being who was covering enormous distance within and yet my outer life was not moving so dramatically and I sense that's what's next...to have created enough alignment with our I AM presence, that we are able to elevate our seat of consciousness and reflect the inner reality by letting it flow into our way of being in the manifest world.  My outer life was kinda stuck... I am not just talking about exercise here, I am talking too about literal movement--to new places, creating new things, new relationships, manifesting my ideas and releasing them and creating more and more and more...about overall acceleration and letting it create more movement in manifest reality as a natural allowing of my energy to expand and be unified and harmonious.

In addition to all the inertia from so much stillness, there was a part of me that wanted to plan and organize my life...like I used to in the old paradigm.  For so long there was a part of me that wanted to KNOW and in this wanting, I hesitated.  Waited. I tolerated not knowing decisively and let parts of my life not move.  The thing is--now that we are moving beyond patterns and habits, there is less "known" about life in the long-term sense.  We can focus upon the essence of things we wish to experience--joy, happiness, vitality, love, abundance, freedom--and generate these.  The particulars are dynamic.  As we release patterns and habits, we become more FREE.  In this freedom life is spontaneous.  Dynamic.  In-flux.  And we don't need to see all the steps.  I've known this for a while, but it's different to know this and move slowly then to know this and RUN HEADLONG into life.  !  Running takes real trust and confidence.  And for me, really it is a leap of faith I'm embracing.

What changed so much of this is the clear indicators of how right-on this way of being is>>the incredible exhilaration of movement and joy just became the desired experience.

Life is accelerating, changing so fast now!  It's much easier to yield to my innate aliveness and to flow and dance with life enjoying the movement and also having the confidence that I can alter thing whenever I need to.  This is living based on the true understanding of reality that I have.  I am a powerful creator who can revise reality to suit my heart's desires.  Continually. I don't have to know what I want ultimately, I just have to know what I want NOW.  I just choose what's right NOW.  Later if I want something different I can do/choose that.

We are learning to live in Infinite Time, embodying our eternal, creative, limitless selves, which are continually changing/moving/expressing...holding onto NOTHING.  Why would we?  We're one with everything anyway...?  It's more a matter of where our focused experience and expression is right NOW. 

We are movement as life is movement.  

For me, I love running, sprinting, speed--things like skiing, bike riding, driving with all the windows down and the air rushing by me, rollerblading and skating fast--so that's my way of stepping fully into the nature of this true reality.  For others it might be different--maybe more like swimming, or diving, dancing, or flowing.  Choose your way of moving...what feels right to you, but I encourage you to tap into the incredible joy of motion with the increasing energy.

In light of our innate ongoing movement--wave-particle-wave-particle--it ought to come as no surprise then that hesitating feels irritatingly icky and moving feels incredibly fabulous.    

I AM/We Are movement embodied, I invite you to choose to cooperate with that.

Exhilaration is yours to experience!

And WOW.  It feels wonderful.

 

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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If you'd like to print, save or download these ideas for meditation?  click here: Developing detachment and neutrality through meditation 

creating a momentum of happiness

by meredith murphy

I've been reflecting lately on all the small shifts I've made over time which have accumulated into the happiness I now experience.

Happiness I've learned, is not the result of one thing, but a certain way of being and a momentum of many things stringing together moments where we feel good.

All of us long for happiness.  In fact, many wise people have observed that we all do everything we do because we sense or thought of feel or realized at one time that this would make us happy. 

To create a life in which happiness is a boundless spring within ourselves is a worthy aspiration.  It's also in harmony with life--it's something we cannot seem to squash the desire for.  So going for it and learning what paths create this is not just fun, but also smart.  Because consciously or not, this deep seeded desire actually influences everything.

It seems to me in my own experience that there are things which always elicit happiness and things which seem like they will but don't.  Of course there are those things we each say/do which we sort of know from experience will not feel good and yet we do them anyway.  Often these make us feel really bad--because we've acted on our own behalf in a way that isn't serving our own wellbeing.  Yet if we're gentle and honest, we discover that underneath those kind of patterns there is, yet again, the sincere desire for happiness.  Typically there is some pay-off for the behavior that is usually a diluted form of feeling good.  Maybe it's the best way we knew how to get to feeling good in the past?  So even if it's a lame version of happiness we choose it because it seems to be better than not having any happiness.  So maybe we can just lighten up about all of this and realize we are in our own perhaps warped way, just seeking the fundmanetal nature of reality--which is joy.  Even though some of our choices result in experiences that feel icky (Like eating sweets when we want love.)  We can recognize the basic impulse toward happiness and instead of beating ourselves up we can just choose to add a small new habit into our life which might help us tap into love in a more sustainable way.

What's amazing is that sometimes it's easier to just build new wonderful feel-good ways of being, then to drop bad habits.  Sometimes we can just pivot our experience through looking at and paying attention to something new and healthy and wonderful and amazingly, over time, we realize the old bad habits that didn't serve us has just dissolved on its own.

I like this kind of approach because it's easier.  Why not choose the easy path?  It's just a simple truth--the more uplifting, congruent, love-filled moments in my day, the less of any other kind of experiences.  So the not-happy moments gradually just got squeezed out.  

Now it's the exceptional moment when I feel content--content being a downward dip in my experience.  Generally I know a sustained experience where I am present, clear and happy!  Occasionally I feel frustrated.  And very rarely irritated or angry.  Because these lower-vibe experiences are the exception, I am very quickly aware of what's happening and so can choose to care for my experience.  For me the important thing when I am triggered or feel badly is to just be aware and then to interrupt this.  I just stop participating in whatever is happening.  Once I've interrupted this, sometimes I just feel good and well-being returns spontaneously.  Then I can "clean up" anything I need to--like apologizing to someone if I wasn't really listening, or for leaving a conversation because I had to take care of myself.  All of this happens pretty smoothly now, because happiness is a groove for me vibrationally, as I've cultivated it, and it's natural for the inner-smile to come forth again.

The amazing thing is that none of these changes were difficult to make.  That's because I made them when I felt ready, or inspired.  When the idea of this way of being was nudging me, popping up synchronistically all around me, pointing me in this direction.  So I made changes when I was in alignment with new ways of being.  How do you know this?  If you sense something will bring you more happiness, it likely will.  Simple as that.

Some of these changes took longer than others to truly become a habit, but they all reflect things I care about--kindness, openness, love, appreciation, respect for life, nature, enthusiasm, warmth, simplicity, beauty.  I suspect it's because they are aligned with my values that they eventually took root within me and have just become who I am and how I do things.  

Here's a few of the changes I've made that I've seen great benefit from: drinking more water, using/checking in with direct knowing rather then using my mind to "figure things out," stretching when I wake up, paying bills with happiness for all I receive, washing my dishes right after I'm done eating, eliminating animal meat, eating more fruit, taking time to focus on my breath, enjoying a daily sunbath, calling in my higher self and grounding each morning, deciding not to take anyone's comments or feedback as criticism--seeing it as just their opinion, always welcoming my dogs/cats when they want attention, learning to be alone with myself, journaling, meditation, listening more and talking less, following my intuition even if I don't understand it, smiling at each person I come in contact with, waiting until I know what I want/want to do before doing it--not trying to "find" answers--letting them come to me, walking my dog every day and noticing the trees and the sky while I'm out walking, making a choice to sustain eye contact with others, getting up early.  

You'll notice these are process related, not results related.  I am not trying to achieve a certain outcome.  I am choosing to live in ways that express what I care about and the kind of presence I wish to be.

I didn't do all of these at once, but little by little they accumulated.  Some are larger and more pervasive and took more time to accomplish.  All began with an intention to move in this direction and to become this kind of a person.  Small or large, all of these changes can enlarge our experience as we take the time to focus upon one and then allow it to become an organic part of how we live.  They may seem subtle but building new habits is a powerful thing.  Just one of these becoming a habit, becoming who you are/how you live in an ongoing way, will have long lasting implications for your light and your happiness.  

It's exciting to realize there so many little ways to open up our experience to more wholeness and joy.  

I love making small changes because they are easier and also they snowball--the wellbeing we develop through one path opens up our whole life.

As we discover the new experiences that come from one path or doorway into greater awareness, we become more aware in general.  As we choose small shifts in being and doing that reflect our values and ideals, we amplify our ability to embody these qualities.  So the great gift of paying attention to your life and making small changes to reflect what you sense will bring you more happiness, is it shifts your consciousness and refines your emanation to reflect and be MORE of you!  Pretty cool.  

What small shift, or opening has been nudging you from within lately?  Has it occurred to you that your higher self flows through your consciousness like a stream and might be planting ideas within you with this little flow of inspiration?  If it's a big change can you break it into pieces and start small?  What new habit would you love to create that would feel good and make your life more fun?  

Enlarge your experience of aliveness?  Be sneaky and clever.  Smart small. Unleash an innocuous momentum of happiness in your life.  Catch yourself offguard...seed your life with newness while no one is noticing.  Cultivate and grow.  Get your inner smile on.

 

photo by Pink Sherbert Photography  http://www.flickr.com/photos/pinksherbet/250674118

nourishing your power

 
by meredith murphy

I have been merging with nature consciously since I was a small child.  I didn't think of it as anything unusual.  I will say though, I was well aware that the experience definitely had a certain charge!  A kind of magial, secret power...I knew there was something awesome about these moments in life and being a person aware of living this way even as a child I knew this. I also knew it was something to do by myself and often.

I used to go and sit outside on the front porch during a rain or even thunderstorm.  There was a little notch at the corner of the house created where the huge picture window frame jutted out and the surrounding brick was set back at the corner.  Just the right size for someone small enough to sit and not be seen from either direction.  I loved to sit there and become one with everything.  I love that I grew up in a household where I had lots of freedom to explore the outdoors and be.  No one interrupted me or worried about where I was.  I felt confident, connected, elated and entirely safe.  As I dissolved in my secret space, I would feel an incredible bliss arise.  I felt huge and spacious.  Elated and expansive.  I felt like ME. 

When I lived in Nashville I used to walk often at Radnor Lake.  As you walk around the lake the bushes are tangled and dense and when I could find an opening I would step off the trail and sit within the thicket.  As I relaxed and was still, without any effort on my part, I would feel the boundaries of my energy dissolve. I could then sense tiny movements and all kinds of life energy around me that I could not see or hear.  Lots of small birds which live darting in and out of these thorny bushes at amazing speed begin to come out in the open as though I was not there.  Playing!  People would walk by and not even notice me.  Meanwhile, I was getting a giant juiced up infusion of exhilarating life-force energy.  My awareness was non-local and I was part of the whole.  This mode of being I now know fed my energy body, (what I now know is my KA body) and again, an incredible bliss arose. From the release of all resistance and all identity?  I don't know.  But whatever it is, it works.

It's powerfully expanding to take your awareness, and thus your state of being, to different levels of focus on purpose.  To realize that you exist as YOU reading this simply by focus, and that you can alter that, anytime you want.

One of the ways I learned to channel consciously was to attune myself to the energy of another thing, and eventually, another focus and speak what I experienced.  

More and more I have returned to the simpler way of being that I engaged in as a child.  I just expand without words, and feel.

Today, I was very inspired by this image...this beautiful bird (finch?)  So delicate and free. 

I began to soften my own energy to attune to this gorgeous landscape...to imagine the feel of resting on a zinnia, wings tucked back, entirely supported.  At ease.

Openness takes me once more into spacious expansion, and bliss.  And with this openness is freedom--no obstructions to flow.  My vitality, an endless spring.

Then I began to see...and make connections.

For a long time I didn't make any correlation between these nearly daily experiences and my own enormous personal power.

I have always had an unusual amount of self-confidence and trust in my own power.  For much of my life, I didn't even know this was unusual.  Only as I got older did I gradually discover that not everyone felt this way.  I typically am so involved in my interests, what I'm learning, my passionate self-expression and being with friends and animals having conversation and fun, that I don't compare myself, I just AM.  As I began to work as a executive coach and strategic consultant, a career coach, leading teams and teaching, I realized my experience was more unusual than I had known.

The way any of you know me now, is in many ways, pretty much how I've always been.  I know what I feel and think.  I learn things quickly.  I'm quick and smart.  Clear and bold.  Energetic and positive. Creative and logical.  Soft and outgoing.  Love being alone and open and accessible to connect with.  Confident and enthusiastic.  Engaged and involved.  I make money easily, change my life as frequently as I like to keep up with me.  I find myself good to great at most things I turn my attention to.  I don't feel I need to prove myself to others and I don't care too much about what others think about me.  I don't feel I need a degree or a resume to open doors for me.  I've gotten all kinds of jobs and created work because it was what interested me and my energy and confidence made things happen.  I'm robust physically, coordinated and strong.  Loved and loving.  Connected and free.  I'm continually thriving, and moving toward greater thriving.  I trust life to speak to me.  I trust my presence, I trust the Universe and I believe in the innate capacity of YOU in much the same way.

Audacious?  Well, yes--by old paradigm criteria.  But isn't this somewhat the way self-love and empowerment feels like?  

For a long time I didn't make any correlation between these nearly daily experiences of non-local knowing and energizing, and this atypical human experience of enormous personal power.  In hindsight I see the energizing of my etheric body and this regular return to the fullness of non-local perspective, is the literal fountain of youth; sustaining my innocence, curiosity, flexibility, sense of self and ultimately, my feelings of being powerfully capable, deeply loved, vitally important and totally free throughout my life.

Amazing how simple it might just be to find your power, and to expand it.

It might not actually require you to participate in rituals, find a guru, commune with ascended masters, go back to school, spend thousand of dollars on therapy, or learn secret techniques.

I'm not knocking any of these approaches and I myself spent lots of money on therapy reclaiming aspects of my childhood.  Obviously I channel ascended masters and love the experience.  So these things work and are very helpful, but I am urging you to tap into something even deeper.

I noticed that even during the most difficult parts of my own years of therapy, I felt my own resilience, in a much stronger way then it seems others I know have been able to.  After an especially hard session, instead of feeling tired and sad, I used to ride my bike home from my therapist's office, roaring out loud at the top of my lungs about what I was going to be and do, while weaving amidst downtown Chicago traffic and feeling invincible. 

Why is that? 

I feel it has to do with these direct experiences with the true nature of reality that reveal our inherent God-ness and the bliss, that if you don't know how to find it, feels SO very elusive and if you do know it, sets you free--it grounds you in a fundamental state of worthiness and awesomeness that's kinda bullet-proof, actually.

Isn't all of adult life about going after the paths and things, experiences and relationships which will return us to a state of happiness we KNOW is fundamentally what life is all about?  Aren't we working towards that peaceful, blissed out state, seeking some kind of return in so many ways?

I keep thinking lately that life is really a path of returning to wholeness because in wholeness we feel powerful.  HUGELY POWERFUL.  And we're innately powerful.  It's natural.  When we're young and haven't forgotten this yet, we live differently...we're not worried about getting hurt.  We go and do what seems fun.  If we get knocked down, we mend and do it again.  We follow our heart.  We are open and innocent enough to feel life in so much richness it's glorious and mind-blowing on I-can't-wait-to-get-out-of-bed-and-ride-my-bike kind of daily basis.

I believe we can plug directly into all this just by returning to a non-local presence regularly. 

I now continue to create these experiences, only with a much fuller understanding of what is taking place.  I use solar flares, channeling and high-vibe energy of all kinds to nourish my energy.  I do this by becoming non-local, or one with everything, and this happens just naturally as I relax and allow.  I can also do it intentionally with my focus.

Looking back upon my early experiences with this shows me how natural this all is.  I was never afraid when I became one with the sky, the rain, with all of nature, when I extended my energy out to merge with the entire Omni-verse.  I just felt bliss. INCREDIBLE bliss.  You know--the way we feel after great sex, kinda bliss.  Think about it...

When you're in love and you have just had great mutually orgasmic sex, there is an intimate secret bliss between you and your lover.  A radiance that lasts and an energy field you're within (the non-local one you co-created and shared, btw).  You look at one another in knowing wonder and glee at what you've shared and felt.  There is deep satisfaction, fulfillment and peace.  You actually feel profoundly powerful, if you think about it.  And filled with love.

That's what I feel whenever I release my local identity of Meredith, and allow it to enlarge into an expanded non-local field of whatever I choose to be the boundaries.  I feel a huge sacred private connection that exhilarates me and alters everything that follows it.  I feel spacious, huge, gladdened, made more alive and inviolable.

I might expand into a connection with all of the planet, or just the rain, I might become one with a place I'm in, or enjoy an expanded and merged state of being with my pets or dissolve into the whole sky.  There may be forms within this field, but my awareness rests in the space within the forms and the space outside the forms; the non-local fluid omnipresent Oneness.

And in this openness, I feel, simply, like me.  The ultimate, infinite, splendiferous, cool, powerfully creative, loved, me.  The me that lives life, as Byron Katie, says, (reflecting total empowerment, nonchalance and trust), "Everybody already LOVES me, they just don't know it yet!"

 

 

weekly digest | coming fully into the present

Hello you beautiful being ♥ As you may remember, I'm moving.  This week I completed phase one of this, which involved moving my art studio and paintings, plus a lot of furniture and papers I had stored at one point.

What a metaphor that is!  There is this enormous drive within us to hone our life to the present--be that in terms of our focus, or our lifestyle.  To bring our power--which IS our focus--entirely to bear in an undivided way in the here and now.

This is the gift of our being which is most needed by All That Is: Our Presence.

It is in removing our focus from the past and the future, entirely, that we become empowered.  This is a cleaning up of the horizontal aspects of being on Earth which is a key to living a leading edge life.  You can't live as a spiritual adventurer on the leading edge while still carrying all the baggage--physical, mental, emotional or energetic--from the past.  It just slows you down, blocks your view and dilutes your power.

Wow.  Is it tiring or what to clean all this up!

I have papers and furniture, kitchen things and clothes I will likely never use.  I am SO excited (yes, it's really true) to go through all of this with the awareness of who I am and what I am up to, and embrace my responsibility to redistribute all that's not right for me now, back into flow.

By doing this we create a vacuum for what is right to come easily and quickly to us.  By letting go of what no longer fits we send a strong message energetically about our new standards and ideals.  We come into greater alignment vibration wise, with who we are now, and our broadcast of being amplifies.

I have papers and furniture, kitchen things and clothes I will likely never use.  I am SO excited (yes, it's really true) to go through all of this with the awareness of who I am and what I am up to, and embrace my responsibility to redistribute all that's not right for me now, back into flow.

By doing this we create a vacuum for what is right to come easily and quickly to us.  By letting go of what no longer fits we send a strong message energetically about our new standards and ideals.  We come into greater alignment vibration wise, with who we are now, and our broadcast of being amplifies.

This is the invitation offered us by all this wholeness.  Here are some posts and resources that speak to me in clarifying my life to reflect my inner beauty distilled.  May they be of benefit to you!

A new channeled message from Archangel Michael, The Newness You, Begets the Culture You Seek,  talks of "substance" among other things and why this is rising up for us. 

As our understanding of who we are and what we value evolves, our life too, must evolve to stay in sync with the leading edge of us.  The Gift of Each Day, share how some of my current daily practices support me in difficult times and with challenging feelings.  These feelings started when I was triggered by the responses many people had to Osama Bin Laden's death being announced.  I wrote about this (Osama, Obama and Peace) and in doing so I realize even more deeply the essence of being a STAR-SEED: we are seeds!  To grow into the light from which we came!  A true gift of insight. 

Many of us are feeling this huge change underneath the surface, and yet it's not moving and coming forth in quite the way we would like.  Gestating the New Human is no small feat!  Take comfort in some of the landmarks appearing on the horizon! 

And so, we continue to evolve and grow.

 

Learning to integrate life on an ongoing basis--rather then putting things of any kind in storage--is healthy and supportive of the life I, and I suspect you, wish to lead.  Revisiting and responsibly handling the stuff from that flows our energy to the past, creates an amazing new, lighter platform for life.  One I look forward to!

I'm off to unpack some boxes.

All love to you Starseeds!
Meredith

 

initiate yourself

by meredith murphy

Recently I initiated myself.  I made clear, conscious, heartfelt choices and decisively changed my world.

We can all do this.

Decisiveness is a powerful aspect of energy in focus.  It is like choice, but to be decisive means you've eliminated other options.  It's an all or nothing thing.  Meaning, you're committed.  You've put both feet on the other side of the fence and you're not looking back. 

To be committed means you're willing to stay the course, to use your strength and focus, your will and energy to embody the decision you've made.  It doesn't mean you won't find this hard at times, or perhaps fall short of what you hope for in some moments--it means you stay on the path.  So when you veer off, you come back.  ASAP.

Being decisive is making committments with care.  It's knowing when you're ready for the no-looking-back thing and it's a natural expression of your own growth and insight.  It's not something to do because you think you might miss out on something, or because someone else is doing it.  It belongs to you and will only work when it's honest and true.

Of course we don't always know what challenges to our committments will arise--that's why decivieness is important; it gives us strength.  We may need help to fulfill our decisions and in making a decision we also commit to asking for all the help we need to follow-through, and with self-love to thrive while living our newness out in day to day life.

Decisions are supported energetically.  An undivided focus in choice is highly magentic.  It realigns everything in your life and the entire Universe responds immediately to this newness.  Your energy field alters and the integration begins.  Your body and lightbody respond to the command of manifesting this new direction by immediately making changes on all levels of being.

You are powerful beyond measure.  Conscious decision making harnesses this.  Choosing to live Divine Will and the Divine Plan and your role in this places you in a powerful vortex of alignement.  It's why when we do things for status or to make someone else happy, we are never as successful as someone coming from a deep, authentic passion--you just can't compete with that.  It flows the energy of the Universe! 

The awakening which flows to us from beyond the veil, which alters our body chemistry, our cellular structure, our perspective and our experience is one we can initiate with our own hearts and with our own will. 

The plan we came here for involves decending fully as spirit, soul or I AM presence into our human body.  We initiate this when we declare our readiness--freely and decisively--to embody our Divine Soul fully, right now.  This enables this to happen as much as our physical body and our energy body are capable of right now and for this state of embodiment to evolve on an ongoing basis.

We can declare each morning and each night that we are committed to this.

We can ask to be guided and taught.  We can ask to be led to what will support this.  We may ask to know our guides and teachers.  We can invoke those energies we feel will benefit our path.  We can ask for clarity and the courage to do this.  We can ask and state our willingness for healing and teaching that is of benefit to our highest good be given to us during sleep.  We can ask to only experience light and love.  We can state our willingness to be supple and to be taught that we can respond to life with flexibility, to allow change with ease and to learn to be fully present.

In doing this we enter into a co-creative relationship with All-That-Is, consciously.  In order to see wisdom, it helps to ask for it and then give our attention to receiving it.  These are very simple properties of how relationships work that we can apply to our own path of expanding consciousness, awakening our multidimensional experience and elevating our frequency.

We came here to participate in planetary ascension.  Do you feel this? 

We knowledgeably choose this incredible experience.  As we remember this, we let go.  For me letting go means that I am of service.  I am available for the highest aspects of the I AM THAT I AM to merge fully with me in the focus of Meredith, to participate in the Divine Plan and specifically to embody my role--the one I chose before I came into this body, this life.

Do I remember all of this?  All my intentions before coming here and the ways I wished to be part of this?  Not yet.  Much yes, and more and more.  Certainly I know what feels right and aligned with this--it gives me great joy and peace!  These are landmarks that I'm on the path.  It works--what I am and am doing works.  It's easy and effortless.  I feel the grace of it.  All of these experiences help us to discern more clearly what's harmonious and aligned with our coming into full embodiment as a Divine Being of Love and Light.

So we can initiate ourselves and begin.  We are masters.  We are here and we are there.  Above and below.  Bringing and bridging heaven and Earth.  We commit and submit to Divine Will and the guidance from within. 

We decide to live from our innate wisdom and cultivate a relationship to this.  To walk this path and be willing to be led to wholeness from within and to live with impeccability; to choose authentic spontaneity and suppleness as a way of living.

We let everything else drop away and we begin to know what it means to be light!  Free!  In harmony with the Earth, the stars, the Sun, the inherent Divine Self in every other being sharing this co-creation with us.

This all begins with the magic of our own focus.  Decisions create magic: they give focus to energy and light.  Don't wait for anyone or anything to begin living the life you came here for.  You can do it now, yourself.  You're entirely capable and All-That-Is will support and inspire you.  It will naturally be drawn to you as a result of the magentic quality of your decisions and the quality of your questions.

Knowledge requires a doorway to come to you.  The key to this doorway is declaration, good questions, and focus.  All of which is something you have total control over.  Start where you are.  It's a lovely place.

If you're inspired, create your own ritual and initiate yourself.  Then behold your innocent newness with love. 

You are a creator-god.  It's time.  Claim it.  Step out of the weeds, away from the sidelines, and into the opening of light and live!

Namaste. 

 

choose your stories well

This is a delightfully clear bonk on the head to release many of the limiting un-truths we may have heard over and over through stories as a child (which since we practiced focusing on these ideas again and again they became BELIEFS).  You are an eternal, fully resourced, powerful divine being descending fully at this time, collectively, into human form. It's time for NEW stories!