by Lori | Jun 24, 2024 | Blog
I love when I find wisdom in song lyrics. Recently I was putting together a playlist for the ecstatic dance group – Wild Embodiment Dance (WE Dance). One of the songs that really spoke to me is “Unwritten” by Natasha Bedingfield. Not only is the music uplifting but the words give us permission to be our authentic selves and to be unconcerned that we might not have everything figured out. The song encourages us to enjoy being in the now and reminding us that no one else can live our lives for us. Our experiences are our experiences, and we should take pleasure in those experiences.
The lyrics also urge us to look at each new day as a new book, one that isn’t written yet. This allows us to forget any perceived mistakes or lower frequency experiences and, instead, start fresh each day. In Standing in the Light®, we acknowledge that the perceived mistakes or lower frequency choices may be from different lives, not just our current incarnation. We need to be willing to make a new start every day / every minute of every day for all the baggage and cellular memory from other lives and other dimensions, too. Standing in the Light® has specific clearing and healing techniques that most of you know already. Simply setting the intention to clear all cellular memory of these experiences is a good start. This is an intention that we can set every day just as we are picking up the quill to write our new experiences.
Here are the Spotify link and the full lyrics to “Unwritten”. I hope you are inspired by it, too.
Unwritten • Natasha Bedingfield (spotify.com)
“Unwritten” by Natasha Bedingfield
Songwriters: Natasha Bedingfield, Danielle Brisebois, Wayne Rodrigues
I am unwritten
Can’t read my mind, I’m undefined
I’m just beginning
The pen’s in my hand, ending unplanned
Staring at the blank page before you
Open up the dirty window
Let the sun illuminate the words that you cannot find
Reaching for something in the distance
So close you can almost taste it
Release your inhibitions
Feel the rain on your skin
No one else can feel it for you
Only you can let it in
No one else, no one else
Can speak the words on your lips
Drench yourself in words unspoken
Live your life with arms wide open
Today is where your book begins
The rest is still unwritten, yeah
Oh, oh
I break tradition
Sometimes my tries, are outside the lines yeah, yeah
We’ve been conditioned to not make mistakes
But I can’t live that way oh, oh
Staring at the blank page before you
Open up the dirty window
Let the sun illuminate the words that you cannot find
Reaching for something in the distance
So close you can almost taste it
Release your inhibitions
Feel the rain on your skin
No one else can feel it for you
Only you can let it in
No one else, no one else
Can speak the words on your lips
Drench yourself in words unspoken
Live your life with arms wide open
Today is where your book begins
Feel the rain on your skin
No one else can feel it for you
Only you can let it in
No one else, no one else
Can speak the words on your lips
Drench yourself in words unspoken
Live your life with arms wide open
Today is where your book begins
The rest is still unwritten
Staring at the blank page before you
Open up the dirty window
Let the sun illuminate the words that you cannot find
Reaching for something in the distance
So close you can almost taste it
Release your inhibitions
Feel the rain on your skin
No one else can feel it for you
Only you can let it in
No one else, no one else
Can speak the words on your lips
Drench yourself in words unspoken
Live your life with arms wide open
Today is where your book begins
Feel the rain on your skin
No one else can feel it for you
Only you can let it in
No one else, no one else
Can speak the words on your lips
Drench yourself in words unspoken
Live your life with arms wide open
Today is where your book begins
The rest is still unwritten
Gratitude to Hansuan Fabregas with pixabay.com for the dancing in the rain image.
by Lori | May 31, 2024 | Blog
When I first realized I was on a spiritual growth path, I started to listen to inspiring authors on tape. Yes, I typed “tape”. That tells you how long ago it was. I was listening to my good ole cassette player in my first Subaru Outback while driving from Colorado to Kansas to visit my parents. I was taking a break from filling with resonances with the technique I had just learned from Kris Duffy in the I AM SOURCE™ classes. I was convinced I was going to have cleared enough and raised my frequency enough to be a Full Living Master by the time I saw the “Leaving Colorful Colorado” sign. 😊
I don’t remember the exact tape I was listening to, but I think it was a Jack Kanfield tape published by Rings True production company.
While discussing how we could overcome life’s irritations and issues that were mirrored to us by people we didn’t get along with and other button pushers in the outer world, the author raised this question. “What if everyone else is in on the joke? They have already evolved, and they are acting the way they are acting simply to help you find what you still need to heal for your evolution.”
That was definitely a great way to look at my issues with other humans in order to not blame them for what I saw as their short comings and instead to look at what their actions forced me to view about myself.
Fast forward 20 years and I believe this question will help us reframe everything we see in the outer world today.
What if everything that is happening in the outer world is simply to get me to figure out what I still need to heal in order to be a Full Living Master? This outlook allows me to focus on my issues not what I believe is wrong in other people. It allows me to lessen and heal my judgement of others which is really just judgment of myself. The Christ tells us that judgment is THE block to knowing ourselves as Source.
What if I can heal my judgments and be thankful for the nutty-ness of the times we are living in so I can heal my dependency on _______ in order to be happy, abundant, confident, and secure? (Fill in the blank.)
- My dependency on a partner
- My dependency on the government
- My dependency on the country I live in
- My dependency on natural resources
- My dependency on others to define my success, my confidence, my evolution
If I reframe what I see in the outer world to be happening FOR my evolution versus happening to me as a victim, I will be able to more easily heal what still needs to be healed for me to remember myself as The Full Living Master that I strived for 20 years ago.
Thanks to souandresantana with pixabay.com for the image.
by Lori | Apr 26, 2024 | Blog
Recently, our 8-year-old labrador retriever cornered a skunk in our backyard. It was dark and we saw Ruby run after something in the yard, but we assumed it was a rabbit which normally makes it through the fence before Ruby catches up with it. We noticed that Ruby stopped abruptly, didn’t retreat nor bark, and just stood there. Pat went to get a flashlight and realized that a skunk was still inside the fence and she, too, was just standing there facing Ruby. It was a standoff. Well, it was a standoff now, because the skunk had already stood in her power, demanded the respect that she is as Source, sprayed Ruby, and did not feel the need to flee.
Ruby came to us when called. At this point, we were not entirely sure that the skunk sprayed Ruby because she didn’t smell like skunk spray. She smelled slightly like burning rubber. As soon as Ruby was in the house, we realized she needed a bath. Fortunately, Ruby was upwind of the skunk, so we believe she did not receive the full effect of the spray. After two rinses for Ruby and opening the windows for a while, the smell was gone enough to sleep!
But before I slept, I referred to Animal Speak: The Spiritual & Magical Powers of Creatures Great & Small, by Ted Andrews. Andrews gives insight into animals and what awareness we might want to know when we encounter a particular animal. For the skunk, Andrews indicates that the keynote awarenesses are sensuality, respect and self-esteem. Andrew writes this about the skunk.
It teaches how to give respect, expect respect and demand respect. It helps you recognize your own qualities and to assert them.
The skunk does not get out of the way of any animal. It moves along at its own speed, with its own mind. It is self-assured and confident in itself…
Skunks are fearless, but they are also very peaceful. They move slowly and calmly and they only spray as a last resort. (1)
The skunk recognizes itself as Source and recognizes its power without taking away anyone else’s power and without permanently nor severely harming anyone else.
Standing in our power with self-respect and self-esteem is how we recognize and allow others to stand in their power with their self-respect and their self-esteem. The more we emulate the respect energy of the skunk, the more we will see ourselves and others as powerful and peaceful Source energy.
(1) Ted Andrews, Animal Speak, (Minnesota: Llewellyn Publications,1993), 312-313.
Gratitude to www.thespruce.com for the attached image.
by Lori | Mar 30, 2024 | Blog
Three weeks on the Big Island of Hawaii will definitely allow a person many opportunities to enjoy the majesty of nature.
I recently spent three weeks in Hawaii after the birth of our newest granddaughter, Lore. Many of you sent healing energy to Lore and her parents, Cara and Art, when a complication during the birthing process required Lore to be flown from the Big Island to Oahu for a week and a half at a neonatal intensive care unit at a hospital in Honolulu. All of us are grateful for your thoughtful and consistent healing intentions.
The day I was originally scheduled to fly to Hawaii was the day Lore was approved to fly back to her home island, as well. Picking up Cara, Art and Lore at the airport was very special for me. I had the joy and privilege to spend the next three weeks in helper and grandmother mode. I made more omelets for Cara and Art than I have for myself in the past year. Because I do not have biological children of my own, I held, fed and changed Lore more in 3 weeks than every before in this lifetime. All of these experiences touched my heart. I felt the emotions well up in me as they dropped me off at the airport for my flight back to Colorado.
When I took a little time to determine if I needed to cut cords of attachment with the humans, I realized I just needed to acknowledge the majesty of the natural world that is Hawaii. While helping my human family recover from 11 days in hospital and the normal recovery of the birthing process, I was able to enjoy the beauty and bounty of staying on a coffee farm on the Kona coast. The view from the lanai is majestic and healing as evident in the accompanying image to this blog entry. Although this was the most colorful of the sunsets, I enjoyed all of them while I was there.
On the 10-acre coffee farm, not only are there coffee plants, but there are also banana, mango, macadamia nut, lime, avocado and grapefruit trees. I enjoyed walking through all of these plants daily as I was also the chief dog walker while I was there. Although, I did have to practice my Indiana Jones moves to not walk into the abundant and ever present spider webs between all these trees.
A 20-minute drive down winding roads from a 1000-foot elevation to the ocean allowed for a quick swim from the volcanic beach where tourist and locals enjoy the famed sanctuary where the ancients sought refuge from their enemies. The healing powers of the area has been well known for millennia.
As predicted, I did enjoy the bounty of the sea with multiple meals of the famed Hawaiian dish of poke: raw fish with seaweed. Poke was my first meal on this trip waiting to pick up everyone at the airport and it was my last meal, waiting to board my flight home.
The majesty of nature helped me as I helped others. I am striving to keep that high frequency energy of the majesty of nature in my daily life back here in Colorado. So far, so good.
by Lori | Feb 26, 2024 | Blog
Please note: I have visited this topic before but not for 12 years. Because it is tax season, I think it is time to review and update it!
If you are like most Americans, Monday, April 15, 2024 is your Federal Individual Tax Return deadline for Tax Year 2023. For the majority of individuals in America, Tax Day looms large over our heads like the sword of Damocles, bringing abject fear to some or just mild frustration to others. Regardless which camp you are in, you are usually glad to see your taxes filed. Done and Dusted.
But, today, I don’t want to talk about how we should feel about Tax Day 2024 with respect to our 2023 Tax filing, but instead how we should feel about our 2020 Tax filing. And the word that comes to mind is ABSOLUTION.
For the vast majority of us who filed our 2020 Federal Income Tax Return by April 15, 2021, this April will be the end of the statute of limitations for the items in that return. How exciting is that?! Let’s not get so far down the rabbit hole that we discuss the oddities like carry-overs, and fraud, etc. (We will discuss fraud later in the blog entry.) For now, we will stick to the most relevant stuff. The end of the statute of limitations means if we goofed, we don’t have to worry about the IRS coming back to refigure our taxes for 2020 and prior. Collective sigh of relief!
If the Federal Government, the IRS no less, is willing to only look back three years into our financial business, why do we carry around so much of our personal failings, personal grudges and negative-group-think many years, many life times into the future? We should allow ourselves a little grace and a lot of ABSOLUTION on our perceived failings. No need to hold unto these negative energies even the normal three years statute of limitations for taxes, let alone thirty years or lifetimes of grudges.
A caveat for the three-year statute of limitations for taxes is that you must actually file your tax return. If you never filed the return, the three-year time limit doesn’t start, so it never ends.
This really is no different for our personal issues. If we don’t look at the issue and start the process to forgive ourselves, to change our energy or our focus, then the festering never has a chance to heal. Even if your initial attempt to heal / change / forgive yourself isn’t perfect, think of it as your “first offer”. You can always update or “amend” it as new information comes in.
Now let’s tackle the fraud situation. When I told my husband I was going to brush off this blog entry, he said, “but sometimes there is fraud”. From a metaphysical standpoint, he is asking if we can have absolution if what we did was really bad. From the perspective of the spiritual hierarchy, there is no delineation in “how bad” we messed up, how violent we might have been and for which lifetime the egregious action took place. From the perspective of the spiritual hierarchy – all of the things we judge as bad – are just experiences. These experiences may not be in the highest plan, but they are not a reason to be punished, abandoned or kicked out of Source. There is nothing but Source. We are all Source. We have always been Source. There isn’t anything else we could be. There is no need for a “fraud” exception to keep the statute of limitations from expiring because Source does not require any restitution for any action. It is our lower-self egos that are not ready to absolve ourselves of any past or current transgressions. But we can change that. We can heal the belief in our unworthiness or the belief in our darkness which keeps us punishing ourselves.
Let us set our intention to be as forgiving of ourselves as the IRS is. And let’s take it a step further. Don’t even wait three years to raise your frequency to the energy of absolution. Don’t worry if some action was the equivalent of fraud. Take this opportunity to wipe the slate clean. Be willing to forgive and absolve yourself, others and all situations.
Be willing to grant yourself Divine Grace, Forgiveness and Absolution.
Gratitude to John Hain with Pixabay.com for the above image.
