by Lori | Jul 1, 2023 | Blog
My husband often likes to quip that “better is the enemy of good enough.” The saying comes from many wise people including the French writer, Voltaire, and the French philosopher, Montesquieu. Shakespeare writes a similar phrase in King Lear, “striving to better, oft we mar what’s well.”
Most of the time, this is a philosophy of mine that I whole heartedly practice. I do not strive for perfection that often – partially because in the third dimensional world the concept of perfection is both subjective and judgmental. Partially because when it comes to gadgets, stylish furnishings and fashions, I am frugal. (I don’t need to tell you all that! You have seen it!) And partially because my self-worth is rarely tied up with how things look in the outer world.
However, there are times, especially in our healing and spiritual work, where striving for the best is worth it. That is what I have been guided to do lately. I have been guided to ask my soul to let me know if I am holding an energy technique long enough. Am I looking deep enough at a situation in order to pick up on a nuanced issue that I have been running over because of thinking that “better is the enemy of good enough”?
Ginger Withee’s blog entry for last month does a nice job of explaining Sir David John Brailsford’s “marginal gains” philosophy. She explains that by making incremental improvements, we can really make huge shifts. Every Step Counts – Standing in the Light (iamstandinginthelight.com)
I have been focusing my intention on these incremental improvements in order to access as much energy and light as I can within the practice and time that I have already allotted to my inner work. I have seen the changes by simply being more mindful of how I practice healing techniques. You may want to check with your soul regarding what practice you may be able to improve simply by asking and setting your intention to be more mindful instead of getting stuck in a pattern than doesn’t go into enough specific detail for your evolution.
I am striving to remember that evolution and Ascension are the goals. To paraphrase another saying – Ascension is in the details. Let us continue to focus our attention on Ascension and the details that will take us there.
Gratitude to Adina Voicu for the above image from Pixabay.com
by Lori | May 31, 2023 | Blog
Some people like to say that we are humans having a divine experience. Lightworkers like to say that we are Divine having a human experience. I believe we are both.
We are being guided to remember that we have incarnated as a human in this lifetime in order to experience our divinity in human form. Our divinity and our humanity are not mutually exclusive. In fact, our divinity and our humanity coexist, because we need both to understand each aspect and to understand the whole.
My divinity is my humanity. My humanity is my divinity. My humanity and my divinity are together like oxygen and hydrogen in a water molecule – both are required for the essence of water to be water. Whether the water molecule presents itself as ice, or as liquid, or as steam, it is still H2O. It is the combining of hydrogen and oxygen that makes the whole of the water molecule, not the physical form it takes. Ice is not better or inferior to steam, it is just a different manifestation of H2O.
As I evolve from only knowing myself as the 3D Lower-Self Ego to the 4D Self into the 5D Being – I AM LORI. I am just different versions and different frequencies of Lori – both human and divine. My divinity and my humanity will hold the key to why I volunteered to be in the experiment and this knowingness is what will allow me to continue to clear my issues, raise my frequency to the point I no longer need to be in the experiment. No matter where I go from there, as I absorb more light, I will evolve into a higher frequency being, but I will always have the essence of Lori within me. No physical transformation will take away the experiences I have had as Lori – human, divine, both. I am all. I AM SOURCE.
May you know yourself as Source,
I AM LORI
Gratitude to Willgard with Pixabay.com for the above image.
by Lori | Apr 28, 2023 | Blog
When I feel anxious and unsettled, which has been happening more than I would like to admit recently, I focus on breathing slowly and it helps immediately. I have also noticed that I start to sing to myself a calming and repetitive chant. I have some current favorites that bring about a peaceful feeling. But really, any chant seems to work.
When I was a child and I was having trouble falling asleep, I would pray the rosery. I would wake in the morning with the rosary in my hand knowing that I had fallen asleep within saying the first 10 Hail Marys. I do not discount the intersession of Mother Mary. But, I also postulate that the repetitive nature of the prayers stopped the “monkey mind” from spinning, allowed relaxation to take hold and sleep was finally accessible.
Now, I access the peace and relaxation through chanting. Most of the time I chant silently but sometimes I belt out the songs as the universal energy calms me.
In Standing in the Light® we have some old standbys that we use for meditations. “Eternal Om” by Robert Slap is a favorite of ours.
Over the last few years, we have added some lovely chants to our Sunday Night Healing Circles. These contemporary songs lend themselves to higher feminine energy which is a nice balance to the chants that have traditionally held more masculine energy.
The beauty of chants is in the simplicity and accessibility of the words, the music range and the repetition. The chants that I am using the most right now are by the artist Alexa Sunshine Rose. You can access her music here at this link for Bandcamp. I have noted some of my favorites.
“Every Step a Prayer”. Lyrics: Every step a prayer. Every breath a new beginning. Every Step a Prayer | Alexa Sunshine Rose (bandcamp.com)
“I Release Control”. Lyrics: I release control and surrender to the flow of love that will heal me. I Release Control | Alexa Sunshine Rose (bandcamp.com)
“Come Receive”. Lyrics: Calling all the people of the world. Come Receive the Light and Love. Come Receive | Alexa Sunshine Rose (bandcamp.com)
“Open My Heart”. Lyrics: Open my heart so I can hold all I need to hold. Open My Heart | Alexa Sunshine Rose (bandcamp.com)
“Center of the Center”. Lyrics: From the center of the center, the light that never ends. Shining from the center, the light that never ends. Center of the Center | Alexa Sunshine Rose (bandcamp.com)
“Arms of Love”. Lyrics: Come now, child, lay it down. Just breathe, just be. Come be cradled in the arms of love. Just breathe, just be. Arms of Love | Alexa Sunshine Rose (bandcamp.com)
It is interesting when I find myself chanting a particular chant. When I am hiking uphill, I chant “Arms of Love” to help me keep a steady pace. Recently, when I wake up at night, I am usually humming “Come Receive” to myself. It definitely helps me go back to sleep.
If you need a technique that can calm you almost instantly, in coordination with your breath work, please consider one or more of these contemporary chants.
Gratitude to Alexa Sunshine Rose for her beautiful songs. Gratitude to Myrtillemymy with pixabay.com for her beautiful image.
by Lori | Mar 28, 2023 | Blog
My husband and I were recently watching the movie Paul, the 2011 movie starring Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and Seth Rogan. Rogan voices the animated alien, Paul, and Pegg and Frost are Sci-Fi geeks touring America’s famous UFO sighting areas. Paul asks the two humans to drive him from the UFO landing sites in the Southwestern states to Wyoming in order for him to be picked up by his fellow planet inhabitants. My husband was willing to suspend his critical thinking regarding the possibility of an alien living in the United States for 50 years, helping Steven Spielberg to write movies, create the characters for the X-Files and advise the government on a host of topics. However, Pat had to step up his willingness to suspend his logical thinking regarding how fast the characters were able to drive from the Southwest to Devil’s Tower in the Northeast corner of Wyoming. I love when it is the practical aspects of movies and stories that are the hardest for us to suspend our disbelief.
“Suspension of disbelief” is the term used to describe when story tellers use the audience’s willingness to overlook improbable situations in order for the audience to enjoy the narrative of the story being told.
While we were watching Paul, I realized that our relationship with the Experiment in Duality is actually very similar to novels and movies where we have to buy-in to the facts and circumstances presented in order to participate and believe the narrative being told. But, unlike with novels and movies where we suspend our disbelief, when we joined the Experiment in Duality, we needed to suspend our BELIEF. We suspended our belief in ourselves as limitless, as love, as powerful, as forgiving and compassionate. We suspended our belief in our oneness with all beings. We suspended our belief in ourselves as Source.
Like a favorite movie, we need to allow ourselves to enjoy while we are here in the Experiment in Duality and just like in movies, we need to remember this is just an illusion. We need to step out of the narrative whether we are enjoying it or not and remember what is really true. We need to remember and believe that we are Source.
by Lori | Mar 1, 2023 | Blog
“When I stumble, I make it part of the dance.” A friend of mine recently said this. What a fabulous life philosophy. I believe it should be all of our intentions for ridding ourselves of self-judgment. This philosophy turns something that we judge to be a mistake into something new and creative. This turns a lifestyle from ridged and fear based into a willingness to try something out of our comfort level even if we might not be perfect from the very first moment.
Consider this. Break dancing (or breaking) started as street dancing in New York in the 1970s and went hand in hand with Hip Hop Music. I like to think that someone was trying something they had never tried before and they stumbled onto this creative dance movement which has become an art form. To that end, breaking will have its debut as an Olympic Sport in the 2024 Summer Games in Paris.
Just image what else we could evolve into an art form in such a short timeframe if we simply lived by the philosophy of “When I stumble, I make it part of the dance.”
Gratitude to Pete Linforth for the image.
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