Intuitive paths to health

Dearest readers,

I’ve been working on surrendering my life and individual will to my Higher Self. Meaning that I am doing my best to allow flow to return to my life and to be receptive to intuitive guidance regarding health, career, family, home, relationships, life purpose.

Flow, synchronicity, and ease come with relinquishing our lives to our own personal higher guidance, which is simply Self in a larger context.

Intuition means turning inward. To receive intuitive guidance, we need to be receptive. And to be receptive, we have to relinquish control of the ego and the mind over our lives.

Being receptive to our inner guidance is very relaxing and rewarding.

The brain is a receptor that stores information. We have all been conditioned, for better or for worse, to run our lives based on a set of values, beliefs, and information that we have been taught is true. All of the information stored by the mind comes from outside of self, and it clutters our inner life.

The brain is a tool. A receptor that stores information. It is not the source of consciousness.

To be receptive to intuition and higher guidance, it is necessary to let go of a lot of “junk” thoughts, beliefs, and pre-conditioned information.

Intuition can come in many forms and enter our awareness through dreams, art, music, people we encounter, things we see, situations in daily life, writing or journaling.

Our minds are full of non-original thoughts, beliefs, conditioning. Nothing new can come from or is stored in our brains.

There are as many ways to channel our Higher Self as there are different people with different talents. The most important aspect to receiving intuitive information is to pay attention to everything going on inside of ourselves as well as what we perceive in what we call our “outer reality”, which is actually just a projection of our inner emotional or mental state.

What we have been taught to perceive as the outside world is merely a projection of our inner mental and emotional states of being.

Recently, I have been asking for guidance about my health. Because I know that everything that exists is a fractal of the singular consciousness that most people call God, I also intuit that whatever I might receive is also an integral part of myself. Separation is an illusion, as is time.

I ask my Higher Self for guidance so that I can better support my health and to achieve my life goals, and to better serve the highest good of everyone and everything.

Which means that any health condition that we believe we have persists because we hold onto that belief. If I believe I have rotten teeth, they will continue to be rotten because my sense of reality is built around that construct.

Our beliefs determine our experiences of reality, including our states of health.

If I know that all parallel lives and timelines co-exist in oneness, and that time is concentrated in a single Now moment, this also means that every possibility of every experience that I could choose from to create and to experience is available to me right now.

Time is an illusion. Everything that could happen, that has ever happened, that will happen is all going on right now.

If I wish to be in perfect health right now, all I need to do is to choose that timeline/reality and to embody it completely. This requires completely letting go of all beliefs in a material, linear reality where things simply don’t change very easily.

Trust is a prerequisite for perfect health.

To heal instantly simply requires that we adapt our mindset and accept a paradigm shift. That we make a quantum leap in our thinking and being.

Our current culture, especially in the United States, is a culture of doing, rather than being. It is a hyper-masculine culture. To sit and be quiet, to be receptive to one’s own thoughts and feelings (a feminine perspective), are fairly foreign to this culture and are generally deprecated. To be feminine, to be intuitive, has been judged, shamed, condemned as weak.

Doing is male. Being is female. Neither one is better than the other. Both are crucial for life balance.

Yet this is what our world needs now. We need balance, and we need to take charge at the same time. By restoring the feminine as an active part of our culture and by restoring balance to the proportion of masculine and feminine dynamics in our cultures, we can restore intuition into our daily lives and practices. We can learn to heal ourselves.

The Higher Self is a fractal of Oneness that has a more expanded perspective of reality. It can see everything, where I can only see a narrow slice.

Very recently, my own Higher Self communicated to me via YouTube videos, synchronicities, and dreams how to better care for my own health.

I have a bright orange little car. When I see the same make, model, year on the road, I know I am on the right track. My outer experience of reality gives me constant clues.

I was guided to walk barefoot and to connect to the energy field of the Earth or to use grounding mats to help heal my teeth and gums. I was also guided via dreams to avoid eating corn and to eat less and less frequently.

Everyone has their own intuitive, symbolic language. We do collectively, as human beings, share important symbols and archetypes, but personal subtleties will demonstrate that we each have our own creative language.

The language of intuition can be very colorful and not very literal. Getting to know your own imagination and language of symbols is important. As you journal, write down your dreams, write songs, poetry, spend more time in nature, meditation, or just being quiet or alone without using technology, you will find your own way of communicating with your Higher Self.

Art and journaling, as well as dreams, are a great creative outlet and form of channeling my Higher Self.

Every human being living in a grounded body here on Earth does have an out of body guidance system. Even though it often feels as if we are alone here, we are not. It is important to ask for help and to get to know our Higher Self and spirit guides (or whatever you choose to call your inner guidance).

We are not alone here on Earth. We all have an out-of-body guidance system. Because of the law of free will, we do have to ask for help to receive it.

Because living in a physical body has equipped us with a strong Ego and survival instinct, it is challenging to let go of control and fear of being hurt, killed, or manipulated in some way. The culture of separation, however, is coming to an end, and it is time to heal from this illusion of limitation, suffering, and division from self, others, and all of Nature.

We can choose to live from Ego and try to control our own lives. This experience involves a lot of struggle. Flow can only be restored when we surrender our lives to our Higher Self. This is not easy!

We each have to power to restore balance to our bodies: mental, physical, emotional, and energetic. Balance is health, and balancing is healing. Because we have for so long relinquished control of our well-being and of our lives to forces outside of self, our lives and our worlds are in chaos. To surrender to our Higher Self is to take back our power. For the Higher Self is our true self, in its fully empowered state.

To surrender to our higher guidance is to be fully empowered, because our Higher Self is within us, and is us. It is not surrendering our self or our freedom to external sources of power, information, or technology.

Instead of reaching out to the Internet, first touch base with your inner guidance system. Make a list of questions and speak them aloud. And then say: “Please guide me. Please show me what I need to know.” Then just pay attention. The answers will come quickly and in surprising ways!

 

Anomalisa, childhood, and the fading of wonder

Dearest readers,

Yesterday I was listening to an attempt to explain why time seems to speed up as we grow older. When we are young children, an afternoon stretches out for an eternity, whether or not we are enjoying ourselves. A summer break from school contains the perspective of endless freedom and joy. Why is it that the impression of the passage of time, which, while only a convention invented by humans for humans in the third dimension, changes so much as we age?

My personal impression and belief is that the closer we each are to high frequency energies and unity, which is the typical condition of early childhood but also of great wisdom and spirituality, the more timeless our experience of life becomes. I believe that artists, musicians, creatives, gardeners, empaths, and sensitives of all disciplines are more easily able to enter this zone of timelessness so prized in great works of art.

 

I also once read that the convention of the clock or universal time was created because the powers that be realized that certain areas on the globe experienced faster or slower experiences of reality. In other words, zones such as sacred sites (cathedrals, mountains, pyramids, Druidic stone structures, cave paintings, etc.) and those living near these sites would experience a slowing down of time.

 

The high energy frequencies of these sites are the reason for which time and time again, humans would build sacred burial mounds, churches and other places of worship on these nodes, lay lines, and portals. I wonder if people who live near these places of pure energy experience longer life, more wonder, creativity in their lives? One could imagine that people vibrating at a higher frequency would be drawn to such sites. In the United States, places such as Mount Shasta, Mount Ida, Sedona, are among the high frequency sites.

In contrast, places where there has been much war, death, and devastation, I would venture to imagine that time goes by faster. The Earth retains a memory of all that has occurred at each site. Fortunately, we are currently experiencing a cleansing of the planet. Gaia has chosen to heal herself, and as she raises her frequency, so has humanity begun this process of cleansing.

As we begin to heal, we also long to slow down and to live more simply. When we do slow down, it becomes easier to look inward and to reconnect to our imagination, intuition, and to our connection to the planet, one another, and to our highest versions. A simple life is conducive to a state of wonder. As we move from living in our heads to healing our emotional bodies and returning to our hearts, our senses open as well. The sychronicities that artists, sensitives, and the spiritually awake have always seen will become visible to everyone. It is really about paying attention and knowing that everything we perceive in the so-called “outside” world is conscious and speaking to us.

This childlike sense of wonder that our current society beats out of us in a very intentional manner from such an early age is key to our happiness. As we each learn to deeply love our self and to see every other being and thing as alive, conscious, and connected to our self, the beauty of the world, of humanity will become apparent to us again. Instead of judging and constantly criticizing self and others, we will feel joy and remember that we are all creators of realities. Knowing we are powerful and that we create our lives from within at each moment is a great generator of wonder. Instead of living as victims in a world that goes against most of our innate beliefs about life, we can now choose and take responsibility for our experiences of reality every day.

The movie “Anomalisa”, directed by Spike Jonze and written by Charlie Kaufman (director of my favorite film, “Being John Malkovich”), is a great example of how we live in our heads, how we allow our adult self to be controlled and brainwashed by the illusion of a societal vision of reality, and how wonder brings life back into full color.

In the film, all of the characters are very realistic animated puppets. Unlike in “Being John Malkovich”, where real people manipulate one another like puppets, and where the puppets in the film have strings, the situation in “Anomalisa” is more enigmatic. There is no duality between “reality” and “fiction”. The entire reality is composed of puppets. In Kaufman’s artistic reality, puppetry is very symbolic of how we live co-dependent lives as victims and manipulators. We live in separation from self and see others as a source of joy, wonder, pleasure, energy…whatever it is we feel we lack to be whole, sovereign beings. Both films are very philosophical but can be enjoyed on various levels.

The main character of “Anomalisa” is a motivational speaker, Michael Stone, from the U.K., who has come to Cincinnati, Ohio for a customer service conference. All of the other characters in the film share the same male voice (played by actor Tom Noonan), with the exception of Lisa (voice by Jennifer Jason Leigh), a young woman who ends up spending the night in Stone’s hotel room. All of the events are fairly banal. We, as viewers, sense that Stone is depressed. He lives a conventional life: he is married, has a child, and a good career. People appear to like him. Yet he feels alone, separate from the remainder of humanity. The emotional connection between Stone and life has been severed, and he lives inside his head. Which is why everyone speaks with the same voice. He cannot relate to others, differentiate people from one another, or see the beauty in the uniqueness of each person.

Lisa, who is a customer service representative, is attending the conference with a more vivacious and charismatic friend and co-worker. Lisa seems to lack self-esteem due to scarring from an injury, which has also affected her emotional well-being. Michael and Lisa connect, and they sleep together. They discuss the meaning of the word “anomaly”, which is why Stone begins to call her Anomalisa. He begins to open his heart, to differentiate her from other people, to see her and feel her presence as alive. He begins, for a short time, to come alive himself.

Because, like most of us, Michael is trained to see love and completeness as something outside of self which is inaccessible,  he yearns to find wonder and emotional completeness in the world. When he meets Anomalisa and her presence touches him, he sees her as an anomaly in his dull, emotionally colorless life. After they sleep together, and Lisa expresses a desire to continue the relationship beyond the spontaneous experience of that evening, her individual voice fades into the male monotone of all of the other characters in the film. As Michael Stone disconnects emotionally from his own heart and from Lisa, his sense of wonder leaves him once again.

The film is very interesting because the puppets are so very real. They move and live in a world exactly like the one that has been created for us. And this is fascinating because it shows us up front that our collective reality is in fact an illusion. It looks real, and it evokes all of the emotions we experience in the collective nightmare that has been given to us as reality. This is disturbing until we wake up and realize as Kaufman has that the world our culture has given to us is not reality.

When we reawaken to wonder and to our true human abilities as creators and emotional beings, we can step out of our puppet skins. We can stop fooling our self, stop manipulating others to get what we think we need to be happy. We can take back our power and create beauty and emotional satisfaction in our own lives. Wonder is at our fingertips at every moment. All we need to do is slow down, stop, look, listen, and see. We live in a magnificent world, full of beautiful emotional beings. We have been taught to put up walls around our self. To protect self from others. We leave reality and we become lonely, hurt, disappointed. The monstrous world of narcissism, co-dependency, manipulation, but also of artistic creation reflected in Kaufman’s films is a wonderful mirror to help us, as human beings, to remember who we really are.

Nightlight (a poem)

Darkness roils.

Chokes dams and infants

a force that appears to clog opportunity

Angry, hands tied to bi-polar swing

state of emergency alternates with somnolence

pendulum regular

Groups sway to a chaotic yet predictable rhythm

distracted by temptation

Pulled by illusion

And then, the syrup of night

which once manifested gigantic muscular hands crushing tendon and bone

surprisingly faded to weak

without the shadow of doubt or fear to feed it.

The child awoke from a nightmare.

Comfort of light painted relief from dark terror

The absence of light was nothing but spinning, stories spun from habit

and the passive creation of real life

The awakened child knows better.

Crayon in hand

She draws the world she wants to live in.

Smiles.

Comforted by her own power.