#60

You've probably heard it:
The End of Days is coming! Stockpile canned goods! Erect a fortress! Lock the gates! Buy a gun! 2012! It's the end of everything we know!

Maybe so.

I have had occasion to "look" at that whole scenario psychically, when asked to do so by a client during a reading, which by the way is a very rare request, and this is what I've seen; a faint shimmer of instability around our Earth.

This instability strikes me as an exciting opportunity.

Think of a person who is grounded, solid and standing firm. It would take a big effort to move that person in any direction. But if that person is unstable, say in the transition of taking a step, just a little nudge can easily change her direction.

So it is with the instability of planet -- we have an opportunity now to fairly easily affect the direction our world is taking. Each of us can give Earth a little nudge. All we have to do is know the direction we want Earth to take. I myself am in favor of the direction of love, of compassion, of community and cooperation, of reverence for Earth.

How do I make that nudge? The energy I emanate is the direction I nudge Earth towards.

If the energy you emanate is the direction of your nudge, then you should be very careful of stockpiling food and building fortresses and buying guns. Because if those activities are based in fear, which it seems to me they are, then fear is where you're nudging Earth to go. Ask yourself: do I want to send us deeper into fear?

Ask yourself: What energy am I emanating? Is that the direction I want for our dear planet? Is that the energy I want for my life?

#59

Today is International Peace Day. I'm going to join A Million Minutes For Peace, and pause for one minute at noon and pray for peace. Although I don't know that what I'll do could really be defined as praying -- I won't be petitioning Anyone for anything. I'll be finding peace in myself, feeling and experiencing that peace, then emanating it.

The emanating part is inevitable. We're always emanating, whether we're conscious of it or not. Choosing the quality of energy you want to emanate means choosing the quality of energy you want to experience, and then actually experiencing it. In my one minute "prayer" today, I'll experience peace, and thus, inevitably, I'll emanate it. With practice, I'll be able to do it for more than a minute at a time!

You can always choose what you want to emanate. When you don't consciously choose, your emotional response to life tends to be habitual and automatic, tends to be from the past rather than the present. Ask yourself throughout this day, "What am I choosing to feel right now? What am I emanating?"

#58

Not fair!!

It's true, it's not fair.

Actually, there is no such thing as fair; there is just life -- messy, mysterious, miraculous, miserable, magnificent, meaningful and meaningless life.

You can look to nature to see that fairness is not a natural concept. Is the forest fire fair to all the creatures who get burnt to a crisp?

Eschew fair. After all, fair is a form of expectation, isn't it?

Rather than lament the unfairness of life, we are better off meeting life with an open heart and curiosity. Impeccability is to do your best in whatever you're engaged in -- to do your best with life as it is. Forget about life as it should be. I strongly suspect that if you do your best with life as it is, you'll soon come to discover that life is, has become, as it should be.

Remember that I'll be at the Duluth Holistic Expo at the DECC on October 2 and 3.

#57

Last week we talked about retrieving pieces of self caught in another time and place -- resolving one's history. That is why I pay close attention to resentment and regret. They are clear indications of retrieval to be done. They are the X that marks where to dig for treasure. Where there is regret or resentment, where there is a grievance of any kind, there is an unresolved situation.