by Lori | Sep 30, 2024 | Blog
When is being positive not positive?
As a scuba diver and one who tries to see the world from a high frequency, I always thought that having a scuba shop named “Positively Buoyant” would be fun. However, besides learning the first rule of diving that you never hold your breath and the second rule that you always dive with a buddy, you quickly learn that being positively buoyant is not usually preferable.
When a diver starts a dive, they start with weight on them in order to be able to descend. Wet suits have pockets of air in them. Our lungs have air in them. The defacto set up of the human body is to float. (Don’t ask me if I can prove that scientifically, I am just saying that most people would not be able to descend and stay at depth without weights to allow them to overcome the air in their gear.)
Once the diver is at the depth they want to dive, they switch modes to wanting to be neutrally buoyant. We don’t want to drag ourselves or our gear on the sea floor. This can damage the coral and it brings up sand or other sea floor particulates which obscures visibility. At depth, a diver might put a little bit of air into their buoyancy control device (BCD) in order to stop descent and to level out. Being neutrally buoyant is more efficient for consumption of air, as well, because you don’t want to get into the cycle of letting out air of the BCD to stay down and then putting in air to keep off the bottom.
Even when it is time to end the dive, you don’t want to be positively buoyant. Yes, you want to ascend, but you want to ascend in a nice slow fashion not popping up too quickly. It is dangerous to ascend too quickly. So, even when it is time to get out of the water, being positively buoyant is not recommended.
I am sure this is why no dive shop ever, has been called “Positively Buoyant.”
Where are there other times where being positive might not be recommended?
I recently tested positive for Covid 19. (I know, it is 2024, but I am a late bloomer!) As symptoms go, I had such mild symptoms that I tested twice because I was surprised by the positive result. Also, the people I would have been exposed with did not have any signs or symptoms of covid. Because of the delay in understanding I had covid, I exposed my husband who did subsequently also test positive.
Trying to make lemonade out of lemons, I realized for me, that having a reason to relook at my third dimensional schedule was actually a benefit. I was able to not feel guilty about rearranging a driving trip which I had on my calendar and to not feel guilty about napping and taking it easy. I don’t normally feel guilty about napping, meditating or taking it easy, but this felt like a hall pass that I otherwise would not have had.
Just before sitting down to write this blog entry, my husband and I finished an almost 3 mile walk with our dog around a nearby lake on this beautiful autumn afternoon. Otherwise, I would have been half way to Salina, Kansas. I have postponed the trip to Kansas until the end of Oct where I am sure I will have a great time with my parents. But just for today, I feel like Ferris Bueller and am getting to enjoy a beautiful day off in Colorado.
It might be interesting to ask your soul if there are sometimes when you need to throw the schedule out the window, allow yourself to relax without self-judgment. Are there times when up is down and down is up? Or when positive is negative and neutral is positive? Without the need to contract covid, or a cold or any physical impediment, is it time to dialogue with your soul about more free time to enjoy your surroundings and circumstances? What is going to make you positively buoyant?
Gratitude to Kim Donghwan with pixabay.com for the above image.
by Lori | Aug 29, 2024 | Blog
“And the winner is…Emma Stone.” The 2023 movie Poor Things, starring Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo and Willem Defoe, is an interesting topic for my blog entry. Stone won her second Oscar for her role in this sometimes bizarre yet fascinating film. I saw that Stone won the award and didn’t bother to read the movie synopsis when I checked out the DVD from the library. After the first 5 minutes of the film, I wasn’t sure I wanted to finish it. But I pressed on and soon couldn’t look away, much like not being able to look away from a train wreck.
The DVD cover gives this description. “The incredible tale about the fantastical evolution of Bella Baxter, a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter.”
Stone, Ruffalo and Defoe all play their characters perfectly. Defoe is a master at playing odd characters but Ruffalo and Stone definitely are playing against type. They both were wonderful.
As I became more fascinated with the movie, I realized that Stone’s character is the original pattern of what we all were when we first came into the experiment – curious, experiencing everything without shame or judgment for ourselves or for others, without concern about what society might say, without concern that we might be doing anything wrong, without concern that we might fail. Even when Bella relies on her sexuality for money, there is a fascination regarding the experiences and no self-judgment.
This movie nudges us to heal any issues we might have regarding judgment. The Christ tells us that judgement is THE block to knowing ourselves as Source. May we all remember that everything we are experiencing in the illusion is simply that – an illusion. There is no need to hold judgment for ourselves or for each other. We are all here for the experiences and to learn more about ourselves as Source. Ask to clear the judgement of ourselves, of all others, and of all situations. The judgment sustains our separation. It was never our intention to give our power and sovereignty away to the belief in separation. Allow yourself to realign with yourself as Pure Energy, Pure Light and Pure Love. Holding these frequencies will help us to eliminate judgment and the belief in separation.
It is a delight to watch Bella mature from her innocent self into a fully sovereign being. May we all navigate the experiment in duality from the place of non-judgment for ourselves and for each other that Bella models for us.
If you are interested in a more 3D review of the movie, please check out this review on RogerEbert.com. Poor Things movie review & film summary (2023) | Roger Ebert
Gratitude to Gert Altmann with pixabay.com for the accompanying image.
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.
