by Lori | Feb 22, 2025 | Blog
Are you the tea or the pasta? You may have heard this question during a motivational speaker’s presentation. The question is supposed to determine whether the environment you are in – the water in this metaphor – shapes you or do you shape the environment. Do you turn the water into a nice hot cup of tea or does the water cook your noodle?
In spirituality terms, the question is about whether you can stand in your power (be the tea) or give your power away (be the pasta). For the record, I probably like tea and pasta equally, so there is no “hot water shaming” going on here! However, for purposes of remembering who we are, even in challenging times, you can see where we are going with this analogy.
When we look at the mirrors in the outer world, our anxiety and energetic frequency level might lend itself to making it feel like we are the victim of the hot water. We truly believe our goose is cooked! The more we can put ourselves into a state of remembering that we are the creators of our reality, then we will see the outside mirrors as a way for us to express ourselves, to express our mastery, without feeling the drama of victimization energy, rescuer energy or persecutor energy.
I will admit, that currently, this is something I need to remind myself daily. Here are some of the steps I practice in order to try to be the tea!
- If I feel my anxiety level starting to rise, I start to chant a soothing song out loud, silently or I turn on my media player. I am amazed how quickly I become centered and grounded, again.
- Next, whatever my monkey mind won’t let go of, as quickly as I can, I write it down in the form of a clearing statement. “Clear the fear and false belief that my children might move in with me.”
- Then, I identify what the underlying issue is for that topic. “Clear the fear that I won’t have time and space to myself, that I won’t have time to meditate, that I won’t sleep well.” If it wasn’t obvious my now, I really like my alone time. It is where I find my power and my truth.
- That leads me to my next clearing statement. “Clear fear and false belief that I am not able to stand in my power and in my truth when I am with other people, etc.” You can see where this is going. I just continue to find more detailed issues.
- However, if I don’t have time to do all this immediately, I start with #1 and #2 to get the energy moving quickly. I will come back to the details when I have time.
- The next step is to bring in higher frequency resonances. This can be done consciously by filling with resonances like divine power, divine love, divine wisdom, divine nonjudgment, divine peace – whatever resonances will help transmute the issue I am clearing.
- Another way I bring in higher frequencies is to take walks, preferably by myself. See #3 above. I enjoy walking with my husband and with my dog. However, if I am truly doing this for selfcare, I prefer to be in nature without worrying about anyone else’s needs. (I am sure there is more to clear here, as well!) But, as part of being true to who I am, I need to be willing to admit to my loved ones what I need to be whole. I need to put on my oxygen mask on, first.
- Finally, I like to read or watch something silly, joyful or something that will make me laugh. One of my “go to” feel good movies right now is Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga. This Netflix movie stars Will Farrell and Rachel McAdams. It just makes me laugh and allows me the pleasure of singing along with the cast and the real-life Eurovision contestants. It raises my frequency and helps transmute anxiety I might be holding.
These are the steps I take to help heal my anxiety. Find what formula works for you. Allow yourself to be the creator to affect your experiences instead of being at the effect of your environment.
May you know yourself as Creator
Gratitude to Oleksandr Pidvalnyi for the image above and to LoreVa34 for the image below.
by Lori | Jan 31, 2025 | Blog
Recently, I have been using a technique to heal trauma that Marsha Hankins learned from another teacher and modified for Standing in the Light®. She calls the technique: Aging the Inner Child. With this technique, we are asking to see if there is trauma from our birth or at a certain age that needs to be healed. Once we identify an age where there is trauma energy, the actual aspect of trauma may not need to come to our conscious awareness. We can simply start to heal / clear the trauma with our usual clearing statements or healing methods like Reiki. Once that particular timeframe is clear of trauma, we ask for the next age where we might have trauma and start to clear that timeframe, too.
As I was working with this technique, I realized that I had the belief that if I had trauma energy that it manifested as a particular situation where I was the victim. I was the victim; thus, I was traumatized. That was my belief. Then, I heard some wisdom from my soul. I could have trauma energy even if I was the one in the situation who had persecuted someone else. I could have trauma energy stuck in my cellular memory no matter whether I was directly involved with the situation which felt traumatic. I could have trauma energy if I was a bystander, an observer or half way around the world to the unfolding events. Trauma energy is trauma energy no matter how it came to my awareness.
In this blog, we have discussed the Karpman Drama Triangle many times. When we still have drama in our lives or unhealed trauma, we need to heal the underlying energies of victim, persecutor and rescuer no matter which role in the drama we are playing. We need to heal the drama no matter if we switch from feeling like the victim to playing the role of persecutor to wanting to rescue someone that we believe isn’t able to stand in their own power.
Through all of these possibilities of drama and trauma, we need to remember that we, and all beings, are Source. If we still have trauma and drama to heal, it might help to look at the times when we perpetrated the trauma or rescued someone from the trauma and not just from when we might have been the victim. Heal the trauma no matter how it came into your experience.
Gratitude to Gerd Altmann with pixabay.com for the accompanying image.
by Lori | Dec 29, 2024 | Blog
As we are all leaning into our mastery, many of us are being guided to look at the nuances of different energies. Marsha Hankins has two messages this month that allow us to explore the subtle distinctions of energies. One message explores knowledge versus knowingness. The Wisdom of Moving from Knowledge to Knowing – Marsha Hankins The other explores the difference of being on track versus on target with our spiritual evolution. Marsha explored this in “A Message From Marsha.” (If you would like to be on Marsha’s message email list, click this link Join Mailing List – Marsha Hankins).
In the Standing in the Light® classes, the Christ gives us a technique for manifesting. Again, quoting Marsha, she calls this technique “five steps to creating miracles.” I have been a student and devotee to this technique since I first took the I AM SOURCE™ classes from Kris Duffy in 2002. Many of you know that the five steps are as follows:
- Connect to your Soul / your own self as Source.
- Receive the vision
- Release the blocks to manifesting the vision
- Resonant the vision.
- Take action steps
Recently, I have been guided to explore the subtle distinction of using the manifesting technique to master the illusion vs using the manifesting technique to use the illusion.
The Christ teaches us that our number one priority is our spiritual evolution and ultimate Ascension. Our goal is to master the illusion in order to exit the experiment in duality. If we are only trying to master the abundance of the third dimensional reality, then we are playing into the illusion of separation instead of mastering it.
We teach that having material possessions and an abundant lifestyle is our birthright as aspects of Source. We also teach that our motivations for wanting the abundant lifestyle factor into the equation. “It’s not the WHAT. It’s the WHY.” If the reason I am raising my frequency is to be more abundant in a traditional third dimensional way, then I may be missing the point of the teaching. If I am raising my frequency for my spiritual evolution and, along the way to a higher frequency, the law of like attract likes allows for an easier lifestyle, that is different than setting out to have a particular amount of money in the bank, for example.
These are all subtle distinctions but most of us reading this blog entry are at the point in our evolution where exploring these nuances is what will help us up the next rung of our spiritual ladder.
Take this question of Mastery to your meditation chair. With your Soul, evaluate your motivation for bringing in resonances and clearing blocks and other dense energies. Redouble your commitment in 2025 to use this manifesting technique for your spiritual evolution and Ascension.
May you know yourself as Source.
Gratitude to PlacidPlace with Pixabay.com
by Lori | Nov 26, 2024 | Blog
I am currently binge reading and listening to novels by British comedian, playwright and author, Ben Elton. I have been a fan of Elton since I first saw an episode of the Blackadder television program with some British friends when we were celebrating Fourth-of-July in Tokyo in 1991. Yes, I know, strange bedfellows and all that, celebrating Fourth-of-July with British people. I had more cultural commonality with the people from the country the colonists were rebelling against 200 years prior than with my host country.
Elton’s creative genre is satire weaved with heavy doses of politics and sometimes from a dystopian perspective. As bizarre as it sounds, this is a perfect combination for me to help see through the illusion. I do not suggest that it is what will help you see through the illusion, just telling you what helps me and why.
I lived in England from 1997 to 1999 and was exposed to more of Elton’s creativity including a West End play called Popcorn. Recently, an English friend of mine recommended Elton’s 2007 novel Blind Faith which is a dystopian story set years after “the second flood” which has devastated much of the earth’s landmass. The citizens of England culturally believe that privacy is wrong and everything should be done in public including intimate acts. Every room in the apartment has two-way devices connected and turned on 24/7 to everyone else’s devices and the central government. If there is unwillingness to display everything online, the neighborhood watch shames individuals and can even have the individuals prosecuted. Science no longer has a place in society and many laws proposed by the religious leaders are determined by a voice vote at a gathering at Wembley Stadium.
As someone who meditates and enjoys my own company, the set-up of this novel definitely pushed my buttons and gave me the opportunity to look at what I still needed to clear, not only about the illusion, but the concept of transparency, consensus and oneness. Reading Blind Faith led me to my current desire to explore more of Elton’s work.
I just finished the 2002 novel called High Society in which a little-known Member of Parliament proposes that the UK legalize all drugs arguing that legalization would eliminate the crimes associated with using, procuring the drugs and the illegal activities to get the money to buy the drugs. The government goes so far as to calculate how much revenue would be raised with the high tax rate that could be placed on a fairly low product cost, if the product was legal. This proposes that the high price of drugs is because they are illegal not because they are expensive to produce. The book is a very interesting look at all sides of the arguments. In Elton’s brilliant imagination, we are even given Queen Elizabeth II’s speech on legalizing drugs. Elton calls out all aspects of the debate. Again, this allowed me to look at my issues and to start to see everything as farcical. It is that energy of farce that is helping me to question what I see in my current world, both internal and external, to help me see through the illusion.
Finally, I just started Elton’s 2019 book called Identity Crisis. I am only 40 pages into the book, yet, it is the reason I am writing this blog entry on the topic of satire helping me see through the illusion.
In this book, Elton addresses identity politics. The book discusses the pendulum swinging between liberal ethos and nationalistic ideals. In this storyline, not only has Britian had the referendum to leave the European Union and Scotland wants to separate from the UK, but English nationalists want to separate from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. One of the main themes so far is regarding the company whose mandate is to send out campaign messages disguised as social media hashtags and memes in order to rally votes for the side of English separation – the “England Out” campaign. Elton is discussing the company’s algorithms with the main goal to divide people into their separate silos. One particular message is being sent to people on both sides of the same topic in order to make both sides angry and, therefore, reactionary.
Having all these topics played out for me in print is a little bit like systematic desensitization therapy. It is allowing me to look at all the mirrors, buttons and walls that I still have in a safe (and fun) environment in order to clear my phobias, anxieties, judgments and fears. Again, this is helping me see through the illusion of duality and helping me to not give my power away to outside forces.
I am not suggesting that Ben Elton books need to be your guide to finding inner truth. I am suggesting that you find what will help you to stand in your power and heal what still needs to be healed. Check with your inner wisdom about what will help you disconnect from mass consciousness and heal your issues of fear, limitations and judgment.
Here’s to enjoying a good book and a good button pusher.
Gratitude to CDD20 with Pixabay.com for the image above.
by Lori | Oct 28, 2024 | Blog
“How does your light shine in the halls of Shambala?”
My favorite self-indulgent TV show to watch at the moment is NCIS: Hawaii. I love the vistas and I have found the plot lines and characters engaging in a light, easy and relaxing way. CBS canceled the show after three seasons so I will probably have the episodes memorized soon!
In one of the episodes in the first season, the subplot for the NCIS team is going out for karaoke night. They end the episode singing “Shambala” by Three Dog Night. This is a perfect karaoke song with its memorable tune and lyrics.
Many times a day recently, I have found myself humming this song. I finally decided to look up the lyrics and the story behind it to see if I could receive whatever message I was supposed to receive.
The lyrics, like the tune, are happy and uncomplicated. I will post them at the end of this entry.
I decided to dig a little to find out what “Shambala” is. I found the Shambala.org website from Toronto, Canada, with this explanation.
“Shambhala” is the name of a mythical kingdom in Central Asia where the people enjoyed harmony, good health, and well-being. The basis for such an enlightened society is the people’s confidence and respect for inherent goodness, wisdom, and dignity—in themselves, in each other, and in society.
The Shambhala teachings are grounded in ancient wisdom and practical knowledge from many traditional cultures, especially teachings from ancient Tibet. These teachings begin with the understanding that all beings are basically good, and that life is worth living. We call this a path of spiritual warriorship, which here means living a life of fearlessness, gentleness, and intelligence. The Shambhala teachings emphasize being in the world, and bringing together everyday life, work, family, and social action with the path of meditation. The teachings focus on how to help this world. In essence, Shambhala is about living a full human life, right in the midst of challenges.
I realize that this is similar to what we teach in the Standing in the Light® programs. We emphasize being in the world but not of it, as Jesus advises us. We teach bringing the light to everything in our lives, not just to the aspects that we think are “spiritual”. Ginger Withee has this phrase as her automatic signature on her emails.
“Today the vegetables would like to be cut by someone who is singing God’s name.” ~Hafiz, Sufi poet
We strive to be and bring the light to all that we touch even if it otherwise seems mundane. We are “light workers” which means bringing and sending the light where it is needed based on guidance.
We believe light and love will help us transmute density and lower frequencies. Will we see the change in the outer world with this light and love, immediately? That really isn’t the focus. First, we bring the light to ourselves and our inner world. Whether we see the hoped for result in our own experiences or in the experiences of those we are sending the light to, is not really the focus, either. Raising our frequency is the goal. Being the light and the love, even in the midst of the challenges is the goal. Walking through the chaos without our own frequency diminishing is the goal.
Then, we will be able to help those around us who want help. We want our light to shine, not just on the road to a place where every one else is already evolved. We want to shine our light in the middle of the challenges and the chaos until we help others to realize that they have the same light within them. We want to help others know that they can tap into the light that they already are.
That is what we will truly find on the road and in the halls of Shambala. The light that we already are.
Enjoy this YouTube link to let your light shine! Shambala
SHAMBALA by Three Dog Night written by Daniel Joseph Moore
Wash away my troubles
Wash away my pain
With the rain in Shambala
Wash away my sorrow
Wash away my shame
With the rain in Shambala
Ah ooh yeah
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
Ah ooh yeah
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
Everyone is helpful
Everyone is kind
On the road to Shambala
Everyone is lucky
Everyone is so kind
On the road to Shambala
Ah ooh yeah
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
Ah ooh yeah
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
How does your light shine
In the halls of Shambala
How does your light shine
In the halls of Shambala
I can tell my sister by the flowers in her eyes
On the road to Shambala
I can tell my brother by the flowers in his eyes
On the road to Shambala
Ah ooh yeah
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
Ah ooh yeah
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
How does your light shine
In the halls of Shambala
How does your light shine
In the halls of Shambala
Tell me how does your light shine
In the halls of Shambala
Tell me how does your light shine
In the halls of Shambala
Ah ooh yeah
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
Ah ooh yeah
On the road to Shambala
Ah ooh yeah
To Shambala
Ah ooh yeah
On the road to Shambala
Gratitude to Joe Plenio with pixabay.com for the above image.
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