I listened to the playlist earlier today and realized I was struck by the only country and western song on the list; “I Hope You Dance” by Lee Ann Womack. I was surprised by how much emotion came up for me when Lee Ann sang the line, “And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance.”

I immediately tried to determine what the reason for the emotion was. I believe I need to clear all the times when I did not take opportunities for growth or didn’t fully lean into a situation. Perhaps I allowed fear to cause me to choose the safer option. I started to clear any discordant emotions regarding this and the false beliefs that someone else held me back from living fully and passionately.

I can see the larger mirror for the Experiment in Duality. I realize that the lyrics are giving me the nudge to truly release all the angst and false beliefs that I have held for all the actions and inactions I have taken in the Experiment. It is also giving me the reminder to truly be joyful about volunteering for the experiment in the first place. I can feel the shift of looking at the experiment as wonderful, not just a “wonderful opportunity” but sincerely as just a wonderful experience to the point that I can’t wait to see what crazy thing I am willing to join after our Ascension. I don’t want to sit anything out. I want to dance.

Here are the lyrics for the song and the link for the YouTube video. May you find inspiration in this song, too.

Namaste,

I AM

LORI

“I Hope You Dance”, Song by Lee Ann Womack, Songwriters: Mark Daniel Sanders, Tia M. Sillers.

I hope you never lose your sense of wonder
You get your fill to eat but always keep that hunger
May you never take one single breath for granted
God forbid love ever leave you empty-handed

I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean
Whenever one door closes, I hope one more opens
Promise me that you’ll give faith a fighting chance
And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance

I hope you dance (dance)
I hope you dance (dance)

I hope you never fear those mountains in the distance
Never settle for the path of least resistance
Livin’ might mean takin’ chances, but they’re worth takin’
Lovin’ might be a mistake, but it’s worth makin’

Don’t let some hell bent heart leave you bitter
When you come close to sellin’ out, reconsider
Give the heavens above more than just a passing glance
And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance

I hope you dance (time is a wheel in constant motion)
I hope you dance (always rolling us along)
I hope you dance (tell me who wants to look back on their years)
I hope you dance (and wonder where those years have gone)

I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean
Whenever one door closes, I hope one more opens
Promise me that you’ll give faith a fighting chance
And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance

Dance, I hope you dance (dance)

I hope you dance (time is a wheel in constant motion)
I hope you dance (always rolling us along)
I hope you dance (tell me who wants to look back on their years)
I hope you dance (and wonder where those years have gone)

Tell me who wants to look back on their years (dance)
And wonder where those years have gone (dance)

YouTube video: Lee Ann Womack – I Hope You Dance (Official Music Video)

Gratitude to Lee Ann Womack, Mark Daniel Sanders, Tia M. Sillers for the song.

Gratitude to Gerd Altmann for the dance image.

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The ability to be fully present and reverent in each moment is a skill every spiritual master practices. To quote the beloved Master Hanh:

“Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves- slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.”

Do not get caught in the illusion of what is important or in the fear of what might happen. Do not give your power to the structure by which others live their lives. Instead, drink your tea slowly and know the importance of who you are in each moment. Be reverent in every thought and deed. Trust in the divine plan and let reverence be your focus this week, this month, this year.

Image by fatema nur from Pixabay

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The fact of the matter is, if we all waited to be 100% healed, no books would be written, no seminars nor classes would ever be taught. Remember that our first priority is our own evolution, but it is through our second priority, through our service that we learn what we still need to heal for our evolution – our number one priority. Thus, it is through the books, blog entries, healing circles, and classes that most of us teacher / healers will find our mirrors and our triggers to help us evolve.

What I discovered, as I was preparing this blog post, is that the true imposter energy that I need to heal is that I am human in the experiment of duality; that is my true imposter. My authentic self, the essence of who I am, is Source, is the Universal Energy. Look at the image accompanying this blog post. The human reveals their true self as the universe that we see when the human opens their shirt. We see the authentic self when Clark Kent takes off his journalist jacket to reveal his Superman self. We show our authentic self when we tap into ourselves as Source and heal the imposter self / the lower self ego that believes the story we tell ourselves in the Illusion of the third dimensional world. We show our authentic self when we admit that we have more to heal on our journey through the illusion.

Yes, let’s heal the imposter energy. But that isn’t you as an imposter of a teacher / healer or master. Heal the imposter energy that I believe I am not Source. Remember yourself as the true master, the true essence of yourself as Source. Everything else is simply a character you are playing in the game of the experiment in duality.

Thanks to Pixabay.com for the image above

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You can pose this question to yourself for any resonance you’re guided to work with. What would Peace choose in this moment? How would Compassion respond in this situation? What does Wisdom know about this experience? And so on.

Working with this exercise helps me reach a deeper experience of full, living mastery- fully conscious embodiment as Source in motion. It can become part of your practice as a reminder of who you are in every action you take. Who are you as Love?

image is AI created

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When this happens, I ask to know the mirrors that I see in these stories as I would if something was happening to me in my personal life. Because of the Experiment in Duality and the Illusion of a 3D reality, the stories I read really are not any different than the stories I see in my Lower Self Ego’s life stream. If false beliefs and emotions trigger me in a story, I should ask to clear it, as I would any other situation.

If the clearing for a particular story goes on for a while, I am then guided to clear the energies that are binding me to the story. Thus, I heard to clear the energies of being enthralled, enchanted and bewitched by the fascinations these stories put forward.

Last night, at the Eminent Reiki™ and Standing in the Light® Joint Sunday Night Healing Circle, we discussed the topic of clearing/healing vows, etc. We asked if anyone else had been guided to add additional energies to their clearing statements, besides the general clearing of vows and contracts. Here is a list of some of the teleconference participants’ ideas.

• Treaties
• Alliances
• Promises
• Declarations
• Allegiances
• Codes
• Statutes
• Laws
• Regulations
• Pledges
• Swears
• Oaths
• Fealty
• And the energy of “undying” or “never ending” that we may have put in front of all these energies.

Also in the Sunday Night Healing Circle, it was suggested we clear trauma for holding all these energies and the trauma for holding ourselves and others to these energies. Others suggested we look at clearing the false beliefs and prejudices that might be raised by these energies. For example, if we have vows to believe one gender or one race is better than another, we should clear it. If we are stuck about clearing these energies, it was suggested to look at our ability, readiness or willingness to clear these energies.

In theory, none of these energies is any harder to clear and heal than any other. However, in practice, we may not have worked with these before or we may have blocked or hidden these energies from ourselves, so it might feel like it is harder. Ask your soul, what needs to come to your conscious awareness and clear it. If nothing needs to come to your conscious awareness, ask if there is a specific energy that will clear the topic – Reiki, Magnified Healing® or Pure Light.

Play around with these new topics and see if you are guided to any others. Your diligence and your intention will be life changing!

Namaste.

I AM LORI

Gratitude to Yuri – B with pixabay.com for the image above.

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As masterful creators, everything we have set up as the Experiment is in divine perfection. It is beautifully designed for the function we intended, even if we don’t like what we see or feel. It has all the elements we need for the learning and expansion we’ve chosen and it is also structured to help us remember who we are and come back into oneness when we are ready. Even in breakdown, it is functioning perfectly.

We hold the consciousness of the Experiment in Duality within each of us. It’s an illusion that anything is “out there”. If we are judging or blaming the experiment for what we don’t like, we are judging and blaming ourselves as Source. When we are ready to transcend the experiment reality, we have only to let it go completely. There is no other place to go to get away from it or leave it behind.

Take a few moments in meditation to connect with the consciousness of the experiment’s creation and our collective intentions at its inception. Ask the question: What do I need to remember about my intentions for the Experiment in Duality to take my next steps forward?

Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay

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This year, like most years, I use my 3D knowledge and Turbo Tax software to prepare our tax returns. Once I have input all the information, I check with guidance to see if the return is completed in “the highest plan” and ask if it is ready to file.

I heard that our returns were ready to file about halfway through March, this year. About a week later, we realized we had one more form from Pat’s family situation that we hadn’t received yet. I was resigned that I would need to file an amended return for both Federal and Colorado purposes. When I ran the numbers in the software, I realized that we would actually be getting a refund with the amended return. HMMM

At about the same time, I was guided to purchase airline tickets for a trip in Jan 2027. After some global issues changed the price of fuel, I happened to check the price of the airline tickets expecting for the prices to have gone up. For one leg of the trip, the prices had actually gone down. United Airlines has an interesting policy for situations like this but I had never used it before. I called to speak with a representative just to make sure that I understood my options before I changed anything. The representative told me the policy and then asked me my reservation number. Without me asking, she spoke with her supervisor and gave us the difference in the price of the tickets as future travel credits. HMMM

I wasn’t sure what these mirrors were trying to tell me. My initial thought was that these felt like blessings and abundance, only slightly delayed with a slight amount of hassle factor mixed in.

I was telling Ginger about these situations and we discussed what other possible mirrors these might have. (While clearing the “delayed abundance” and “hassle factor” energies!)

We remembered that the experiment was specifically set up to have “linear timeframe” as one of its elements. Source Energy is happening all at once. (Remember the 2022 Movie – Everything Everywhere All At Once?) However, in order to have the experience of what Ginger called “An Experiment in Cause and Effect”, we need to have linear time. How else would we be able to report to Source on the experiences of believing we were separate from Source and the eventual remembrance of ourselves as Source if we already knew, in a circular fashion, that we were never separate to begin with? So – linear time it is.

BTW – Ginger and I started our discussion calling it the “Experiment in Consequences” but quickly realized that “consequences” has a negative connotation and we didn’t want to have that judgment clouding our discussion.

For my two situations, my abundance and blessings were not delayed they were just in Divine Timing which doesn’t necessarily follow linear time. This was just a great way for my soul to bring to my attention the need to consider and clear any of my illusions and false beliefs of time within the Experiment of Duality and the Illusion of a third dimensional reality.

What messages are you receiving from your soul regarding time or its nonexistence? Allow yourself to work with the energies of Timelessness, Divine Timing and Divine Truth to allow in the wisdom from your soul.

May you experience yourself as timeless, as Source.

Gratitude to Gerd Altmann for the above image.

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I have been asking myself these questions at the same time I have been enjoying the HBO series Heated Rivalry, developed by Jacob Tierney. This series is based on a book series by Rachel Reid entitled Game Changers. Reid creates a hockey universe in which the main characters are hiding their sexuality from the world because they don’t believe they will be accepted in the masculine and, feared, homophobic culture.

If HBO shows had ratings, Heated Rivalry would be rated “R” for language and sexually explicit scenes. I rate it “R” for romance! I have been reading romance novels for 45 years. The first was actually Ice Castles by Lenore Fleischer which was made into a feature film. It follows the love of a male hockey player and a female ice skater. I guess I have come full circle, yet moved fully into the 21^st century.

Heated Rivalry is very poignant and honest about what it takes for the characters to go about their lives with the secret of who they truly are firmly in place. Some might say that the little white lies they tell others don’t really matter because it is their own business and no one is being hurt. But like most secrets, the ones who are being harmed the most are themselves.

One character expresses the exhaustion and loneliness that he feels trying to keep his secret.

As fascinated as I am with the series, I had to ask myself for the mirror for me. I heard to clear on the smaller issues of gender and sexual identity and any judgement I have for those issues from across the millennia that I have been in human form. Believe me, some would not consider that a small issue, even I don’t sometimes because of clearing the victim, rescuer and persecutor energies that I have dealt with across the ages. But even these issues are small to the real mirror that I am facing.

The mirror of not wanting to admit to others and to myself that I am truly Source.

Oh, I play around the edges of the mirror. As an example, I was leading a WE Dance group a month ago. At the end of each session, we gather to share any of our experiences with the other participants. As the facilitator, I set the energy by saying that we can keep our silence, we can share anything in confidence and if we want, we can share our preferred pronouns.

As the facilitator, I was the last to share. I told them my name, that I use She/Her and Source as my pronouns. We all giggled a little at me adding that I identify as Source. But what would happen if I said that every time? That I AM SOURCE. The first time we giggled. Would it become pretentious or tiresome if I did it again? I am not sure. Whenever the facilitator ends the music portion of the dance, we close with some encouraging or poignant words. After that, I always close the way I close every Standing in the Light® session and healing circle. “And may you know yourself as Source, Namaste.” The group is used to me being who I am enough to say that as a closing. So why am I fearful of going FULL SOURCE on them? I guess I have more to clear and higher frequencies to integrate.

Mind you, it is possible that on any given day, it isn’t the highest plan to announce myself as Source to the group. But assuming it is never the highest plan, is also not being in 100% alignment with who I am. Of course, if I am willing to admit it to myself, to experience myself as Source in every moment, then I probably don’t need to announce it to everyone else. Again, the one I am harming the most by hiding who I AM, is me.

Let’s ask the questions again. What are you hiding? Why are you hiding it? May you have the courage of your convictions to find out.

May you know yourself as Source. Namaste.

I AM SOURCE

Gratitude to Alana Jordan with Pixabay.com for the above image.

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As I kept watching in awe at the beauty and grace of his movements, I realized that in order to achieve that height and take advantage of the upper air currents, the hawk still had to put in some effort of flapping his wings to create lift and, having reached the altitude that would allow him to glide from current to current, still had to occasionally flap his wings to course correct and stay aloft. What appeared so effortless still required some effort.

What I remembered in that moment was that it isn’t about getting to a point where we no longer have to put in any effort but rather how we experience the efforts we’re making. To the hawk, flapping his wings to achieve the needed lift so that he can achieve that state of perpetual gliding is completely natural, requiring no thought, no inner debate. It is not hard work. It simply is.

I had lost a sense of ease and flow in my life not because I got off track and now needed to bushwhack my way back. I simply needed to shift my perspective of the track I was already on. Like all divine truth, simple if not always easy.

Image by Veronika Andrews Andrews from Pixabay

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I was reminded recently that this is how we should view the conga line for humanity. The Christ gave us the concept of the conga line to explain how humanity is moving through the experiment in duality. All Beings have volunteered to be in a certain place within the conga line of humanity for the experiences necessary for their own evolution as unique aspects of Source. We need to remember this to help with non-judgment of ourselves and non-judgment of other people’s experience at this time of break down for breakthrough. Whether we are the masters at the front of the line or those holding less light at the back of the line, all will eventually move through the archway from one dance room to another. It simply looks more chaotic the further back in the line we are.

I often wonder about the Being who is anchoring the back end of the conga line. We should each check with guidance regarding any wisdom and understanding about this Being. For myself, I have always felt that this Being is the bravest among us. For us to judge anyone regarding what their experience appears to be, is doing a disservice to their commitment to increasing the wisdom of the multi-verse. My love and gratitude for everyone in the conga line is inestimable. However, there is definitely a special place in my heart for those showing us who we truly are from the back of the line.

Because we are all One, the Being at the back of the line is really the same as the Being at the front of the line and the Beings throughout the line. All are adding to the wisdom of the multi-verse. All Are Source.

May we all remember who we truly are. Namaste.

Gratitude to Vecteezy.com for the image above.

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