by Ginger | May 27, 2022 | Blog
As Memorial Day approaches, I’ve been thinking on how I can expand the ways I’m holding the energy of remembrance with gratitude. This time of year is an excellent opportunity to reflect on all who have gone before me and created something in the world from which I’ve benefitted. That might include military personnel or social activists or parents or spiritual masters. It might include all who have contributed to expanding Light for the planet (and the universe!) in their unique way.
If you’re guided, you might take time in your next meditation to send thanks to those who have contributed in unseen but potentially powerful ways to your wellbeing and evolution. We have all heard of the butterfly effect, that the smallest action anywhere on the planet can create great change for us all because we are all connected as aspects of Source. As Lightworkers, we hold the intention to be guided by what serves the highest good of all. But it’s also important to acknowledge with gratitude that same intention in others. These acts of remembrance unite us by strengthening our awareness of our oneness.
When we send healing energy to others, we are doing our part in service to those who will likely never know of our intentions. When we give thanks for those who have given to us in service in so many unseen ways, we are completing the circle and keeping Source energy flowing. We can use this national holiday as a reminder to honor all who have given service to the planet and to the universe, but the good news is that we don’t need to wait for a date on the calendar to live from this consciousness every day.
With deep gratitude to each of you for your unique acts of quiet service.
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by Lori | May 20, 2022 | Blog
We have long talked about the benefits of higher frequency resonances. In Standing in the Light®, we teach that resonances are one of the three R’s to manifesting consciously. Just as a refresher, the first R is Receive the Vision, the second R is to Release any blocks to manifesting the vision and the third R is to Resonate the vision – to bring in the energy or resonance of what you are trying to manifest.
Looks like scientists are experimenting with resonances in a fun way. Here is an article in an online magazine called Thrillist by Megan Schaltegger on the MSN platform describing an experiment performed by Bern University of the Arts in Switzerland. Cheez-It ‘Sonically-Aged’ Its New Crackers to R&B Music (msn.com)
In a study conducted by Bern University of the Arts in Switzerland, researchers found that aging cheese to hip-hop music can “strengthen taste and smell.” Which, naturally, inspired the brand to give the attempt a go.
There’s just something about scream-singing ’90s R&B that heals the soul. And apparently, it also intensifies the flavor. Cheez-It has “sonically-aged” its new crackers to a Pandora-curated playlist with hip-hop’s most iconic players.
“After six months in the making, we’re thrilled to finally share this absurdly delicious collaboration with our fans,” Senior Marketing Director Erin Storm said in a press release. “Our innovations team is always exploring new ways to bring more unique experiences to our fans, and Cheez-It x Pandora Aged by Audio is the perfect way to provide our dedicated fans with a truly first-of-its-kind snack while celebrating the joy music brings.”
The Cheez-It x Pandora Aged by Audio crackers, which will be sold exclusively via Cheez-It’s online shop beginning May 26 at 12 pm EST, were aged to a quality mix of A Tribe Called Quest, LL Cool J, The Roots, Beastie Boys, and Snoop Dogg for six and a half months. The entire playlist will be released along with the crackers later this month so that you can experience the same tunes as your snack.
“This collaboration is the perfect mix of my favorite things: hip-hop music, wild innovation and Cheez-It,” SiriusXM radio host Sway Calloway said in the release. “Hip-hop has influenced many lives, so I’m looking forward to seeing if fans can taste the effect of the most beloved genre of music in the world on these crackers.”
I love everything about this story. It is fun and frivolous at a time when fun and frivolity seem in short supply. I love that we get to see the effect of resonances on cheese.
If resonances affect cheese, what can they do for you? What are you listening to these days? What are you surrounding yourself in? Is it raising your frequency or sapping your energy? Take a look at what you are soaking in 24/7. If you need to make some changes, do it. If you are honoring yourself with positive energy, keep it up. Just remember the power of resonances to help you heal and help you manifest.
Hope this entry wasn’t too cheesy.
Namaste.
Gratitude to Chiplanay with Pixabay.com for the image.
by Ginger | May 1, 2022 | Blog
I recently finished Gary Zukav’s Universal Human, just published in 2021, and it is largely the inspiration for this month’s blog. He shares many wonderful insights and perspectives on the next steps in our human evolution in this uplifting book, but I am inspired today to focus on one particular insight I received from it. I share with you here the opening pages on his chapter called “Authentic Power”:
All your duties are included in this: Do nothing to others that would pain you if it were done to you. – Mahabharata (Brahmanism)
Do not offend others as you would not wish to be offended. – Udanavarga (Buddhism)
Is there a maxim that one ought to follow all his Life? Surely the maxim of peaceful goodness: What we don’t want done to us we should not do to others. – Analects (Confucianism)
Hold as your own the gains of your neighbor and as yours his losses. – T’ai Shang Kan-Ying P’ien (Taoism)
What you don’t wish for yourself do not wish for your neighbor. This is all the law, the rest is only commentary. – Talmud Shabbat (Judaism)
Do unto others all that you would have them do unto you because this is the sum of the law and of the prophets. – St. Matthew (Christianity)
Not one of you will be a true believer who does not wish for his brother the same that he wishes for himself. – Sunnat (Islam)
Do you sense a theme here? My spiritual teachers have often said this, and as a spiritual teacher myself, I also try to model that divine truth is always simple. It may not feel easy in that moment, but it is always simple once we clear away all the what-ifs, should-haves, I-can’ts or must-do’s. When we are in our divine knowingness of who we are, and who we all are as aspects of Source, then we know what action to take or words to speak as transparently as we can see through crystal. We don’t really need expansive, flowery writings or detailed religious practices or even religious scholars or philosophers to direct us to the truth. Deep down, we know.
Many great spiritual masters have come to show us that we really only need to follow one law, the law of Love, to find our way to enlightenment. They did not come to erase or destroy previous teachings but rather elevate them to the next level of consciousness when the time was right on the planet. For example, the Ten Commandments from the Christian tradition were, at their heart, examples of the greater universal law of Love broken down into smaller bits for the spiritual student on Earth. If we are able to connect with and stay focused on the energy of Divine Love, we don’t need these rules written in commanding tones to remind us what to do. Those and other important teachings serve as a primer for the greater principles of Source consciousness which we each carry within us. As one of the above excerpts says, “This is all the law, the rest is only commentary.”
When you feel stuck or confused about your next step, pause for a moment to remember that deep down you already know. You may still stumble or take a few mis-steps in the process, but by holding your clear intention to make your choices from the highest expression of Love, you will always find the path and it will be perfect. This is divine truth in all its simplicity and all its glory.
The above excerpt was taken from Universal Human copyright © 2021 by Gary Zukav, pages 27-28
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by Lori | Apr 23, 2022 | Blog
Twenty years ago, I started what felt like a new path for me. I met Kris Duffy in Boulder, Colorado, took her I AM SOURCE™ classes and was hooked. I began private sessions with Kris to help me navigate my path and to learn more about the teachings that spoke to me more than any other belief system ever had. I AM SOURCE™ gave me insights to things I had heard before but never quite understood or believed was possible.
In one of my early sessions with Kris, she asked me to ask my inner guidance for a percentage of how much I believed in the essence of God and the essence of Goddess. I don’t remember the exact percentages, but I think the God percentage was around 80% and the Goddess was hovering at 0%. Obviously, I had blocks and false beliefs as to what Goddess is.
I set my intention to clear the false beliefs – some of which were that Goddess was a Disney evil queen, a less important being to her male counterpoint or a nonexistent being altogether. Clearly all false beliefs!
I needed the awareness that the patriarchal system that I lived in was not the only option, was not my only truth. More false beliefs I needed to heal. I needed the cosmic and internal awarness of the very first line in the John Lennon song, Woman. Before he starts to sing, Lennon speaks the words, “for the other half of the sky.” I had to know and integrate my self-value, regardless of my gender, to know myself as Goddess Consciousness.
Merriam-Webster online dictionary defines Consciousness this way: the quality or state of being aware especially of something within oneself.
In Standing in the Light® – the successor program to I AM SOURCE™ – we teach that everything in creation needs both feminine energy and masculine energy in order to manifest. It is no different for ourselves and our evolution. We need to own, integrate, blend and become both God Consciousness and Goddess Consciousness in order to truly know ourselves as Source.
If you do not yet feel yourself as Source, you may want to ask questions regarding your belief and experience as Goddess Consciousness and God Consciousness. Here are some questions to prompt you.
- How much do you believe in God Consciousness and in Goddess Consciousness?
- If not yet 100% each, what are the blocks or false beliefs that keep you from having the inner awareness of yourself as God and Goddess.
- Is one or the other consciousness easier for you to believe or experience? If so, why is that?
- Are there societal, cultural, physical or religious reasons that are clouding your experience of Goddess Consciousness and God Consciousness?
- Is judgment blocking you from Goddess Consciousness and God Consciousness?
Allow yourself to take these and any other questions to your meditation practice and start the dialogue with your inner God and Goddess. Each is ready to help you become the full expression of yourself as Source.
May you have full inner awareness of yourself as Source.
Thanks to Enrique Meseguer with Pixabay.com for the above image.
by Ginger | Mar 30, 2022 | Blog
I was meditating recently on my own blocks to allowing true transformation and I was given some insight into how our unwillingness to fully surrender blocks us. We might be able to shift a bit here and there, make some smaller changes in our lives, but not completely transform. Until we truly let go, we are still anchoring pieces of our old selves, our long-held lower-self identities, which hold our energy in place so that we cannot move in the way we need to move in order to create anew.
Many are familiar with the example of the caterpillar spinning itself into a cocoon and emerging, completely transformed, as a butterfly. What some people may not realize, is what actually happens inside that cocoon. The caterpillar does not simply go to sleep and grow a pair of wings. It dissolves into a liquid state, a primordial ooze, and then re-assembles those basic building blocks of life into a new form: the butterfly. In order to do this, it must completely surrender itself to the process. To the caterpillar, this is instinctual and natural. To humans, it often feels more daunting!
The full and complete surrender of our old selves is the key to this transformation. This surrender includes parts of our 3rd dimensional identity that we deem as “good” as well as aspects we admit aren’t serving our highest good. It is not that we will lose our gifts and talents as we evolve, but we will need to release our attachments to those qualities and our belief that those traits make us who we are. Who we are is Source. We choose to reflect certain aspects of Source in each lifetime for our own learning and as our service, but if we allow those qualities to define us then we are blocking ourselves from the true inner change necessary to manifest them in ever new forms. The pine tree cannot both hold onto its pinecones and also spread its seeds to create new trees! It sounds simple, but that is often what the lower self’s ego tries to accomplish.
So, if you are feeling stuck, work with your Soul to identify what it is that you’re still holding on to which is blocking your transformation. It might be a restrictive idea about what your new creation should look like or how you believe it must come into form. It might be fear of trusting your inner, divine self to guide your process of metamorphosis. Or it might be some false belief about who you are that it is time for you to release and heal. Work with resonances to support your trust in your own innate wisdom and you will find yourself emerging from your chrysalis in an exciting new form! May you believe in your own brilliance in creating your new butterfly expression.
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by Lori | Mar 30, 2022 | Blog
As I try to make sense of everything swirling around me – all the vitriol and posturing going on – I heard from my guidance that if I see vitriol and posturing then I don’t understand the situation. Oh, it isn’t that I don’t understand the human behavior to justify one’s position. My guidance is making the point that I don’t understand that my beliefs are still coloring what I see in the world.
I don’t need to agree with a certain position or any position. But, I do need to understand that everyone is choosing their position because of their beliefs, just like I am forming my opinions because of my beliefs.
It doesn’t matter if I think the other person is sincere or insincere in their beliefs. Underneath all of it – sincerity, insincerity, altruism, manipulation – is still a belief system. It could be a power-over belief system, a fear belief system, a wounded belief system or a belief system that the “other side” is always wrong. It doesn’t matter what the belief system is. The belief system is what dictates the actions and reactions of whoever holds that belief.
Just like my belief system dictates my actions and emotional responses.
I need to understand my beliefs and I need to question my beliefs. If my beliefs are not 100% in non-judgment and 100% in the energy of love of everything I see and experience – which of course is not the case, yet – then I need to seek understanding of the divinity in everything swirling around me.
Some might say that seeking to see everything in its divinity is not realistic or that it is naïve. But seeking to understand the divinity of everything is the only way to truly know ourselves because we are divine. If I am not willing to see myself and everything else as divine, I am giving my power away to the outside world. I am allowing the outside world to tell me what my beliefs should be. That may be realistic by some definitions but it is buying into the illusion of our separateness, the illusion of our limitedness. Instead, I seek to understand the true nature of myself and the true nature of you – our shared divinity.
Seek to understand and know yourself as the Master that you are.
