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.
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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.
by Ginger | Feb 28, 2022 | Blog
Father John LaFarge once remarked, “For those who believe in God no explanation is necessary. For those who do not believe in God no explanation is possible.”
I’ve always loved this quote about faith. Faith is not something logical we can explain to anyone nor is it something we can talk ourselves into. It is not something we can pass along to another and it is not about following doctrine. At times, we may be guided to act on faith but we cannot do faith as an action step to make faith happen for us or anyone else.
Divine Faith is a state of being which comes from within. It is a deeply heart-centered understanding of ourselves and all beings as Source. For most of us, it will take time to expand to that level of consciousness and the best approach is to love and allow ourselves with as much patience as we need to grow into our full faith.
So, be at peace and go gently forward as you move into Divine Faith. Give yourself space to more fully remember yourself as Source and support yourself in ways that will help you stay in the resonances of peace, calm, patience, understanding and trust. A soothing bubble bath, a soft chant or a walk in the sunshine may not seem directly related to practicing faith, but they might each be the perfect way to help you hold the wisdom that you are divine and that all is well and in perfect divine order.
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by Lori | Feb 27, 2022 | Blog
Are you looking at the world from a Victim Orientation or from a Creator Orientation?
In the Standing in the Light® Gathering and Teaching from July 2019, we discussed the Karpman Drama Triangle. In the 1960’s Stephen Karpman proposed that until we heal our drama, we are acting as a victim, a persecutor or a rescuer. We can move between these three energies very quickly. First, we might feel victimized and then we point the finger at someone else blaming them for our situation. We may want to be rescued or we could act as a rescuer for someone else because we believe they are a victim. The variations are endless as long as we are looking at the situations from the Victim Orientation. Many of us in the Standing in the Light® Community have worked with healing our unhealed issues by asking ourselves which corner of the Karpman Drama Triangle we are coming from. Are we acting as the victim, the persecutor or the rescuer?
What if we change how we look at the triangle? What if we look at it from the Creator Orientation instead of the Victim Orientation?
In 2005, David Emerald wrote the book called The Power of TED*. TED stands for The Empowerment Dynamic. In this book, Emerald introduces the audience to the terms Victim Orientation and Creator Orientation. Similar to Standing in the Light® teachings regarding how to look at the world from the 5D perspective instead of the 3D perspective by flipping the pyramid upside down, Emerald flips the Karpman Drama Triangle to look at the situation from the Creator Orientation.
In Emerald’s model, the victim corner of the triangle becomes the creator corner, the persecutor corner becomes the challenger corner, and the rescuer corner becomes the coach corner.
The idea is that the situation we find ourselves in may be the same but how we look at it will change the outcome. If we continue to look at it from the Victim Orientation we see a problem, we have anxiety from the problem and we react from that energy of anxiety which fuels the problem.
If we take the same situation, we find ourselves in but flip the triangle so that we see it from the Creator Orientation we look for the vision or the outcome versus looking at the problem. The energy that we feel is passion for the outcome not anxiety. Then we take baby steps in order to get us closer to the vision and outcome we desire.
For the Standing in the Light® students, does this sound familiar? Obviously, Emerald’s teaching really resonates with me! The Christ teaches us the 3R’s of manifesting. We focus on what we want to create (Receive the Vision), raise our frequency with positive energy like passion or whatever energy speaks to us (Resonate) and then we take the action steps to create it. The action steps may include Releasing the Blocks (the third R) in addition to taking steps in the outer world to bring the vision into fruition.
What I really like about Emerald’s model, The Empowerment Dynamic, is looking at the characters in each corner of the triangle in a new way. We can take a situation we are dealing with and name the victim, the persecutor and the rescuer as we see them. Then flip the orientation to The Empowerment Dynamic and see who the creator is (us).
We can identify the “challenger”. The challenger may be a constructive challenger, like a mentor or facilitator that challenges us to move forward and challenges our beliefs to help us heal. The challenger may be a deconstructive challenger like a boss that we really don’t like but who challenges us to really ask what we want and to help us move forward out of an uncomfortable position.
We can find the coach who sees the creator in us all and helps us on our path. This can be a friend, facilitator or teacher.
Of course, from the Standing in the Light® or Light Worker perspective, our own inner guidance can and does play all three roles as our most qualified aspect of Creator, Challenger and Coach.
We can ask for help from other humans and from our own inner wisdom. Sometimes we need the assistance in the physical world and sometimes we need it from the spiritual world. Many times, we need both forms of assistance. This does not mean we are a victim or need rescuing. It means WE ARE CREATOR and we are discerning how best to bring that energy to ourselves and to the world.
Let’s practice flipping our perspective from the Victim Orientation to the Creator Orientation. WE ARE CREATOR. WE ARE SOURCE.
by Ginger | Feb 2, 2022 | Blog
Studies show that many people slow down or even stop altogether on progress toward their New Year’s goals by February. We might feel stuck or over-whelmed or just fall back into the comfort of the familiar and routine, even if those habits don’t serve us well. I’ve been reviewing areas that feel stuck in my own healing intentions for this year and one big message came up for me – part of me doesn’t want to heal because of fears of the power and responsibility in fully healing myself. This is good news because having identified the piece, I can now focus on what I need to do to clear it.
When we think of blocks to healing ourselves, many of us immediately think of issues like lack of worthiness, feeling loveable and blocks to accepting help or care for ourselves. It can be more challenging to identify power issues related to healing because the mental body often doesn’t make that connection as easily. And for many Lightworkers, there are layers of fear, guilt or shame over misuse of power or lifetimes of being abused by power. But when we stop to consider it, fully healing ourselves requires us to access and be willing to use divine power confidently, masterfully and free of fear.
So, if you are feeling stuck in your own healing process, you might consider asking your Soul whether blocks to power are part of the issue and which specific blocks you need to clear. Some possible questions to ask your Soul might be:
What is my level of commitment to healing myself?
What is my level of belief in my ability to heal myself?
How on track am I to heal myself on this issue? (name whichever issue you are working on)
How on target am I to heal myself on this issue? (name whichever issue you are working on)
What is my level of willingness to use my Divine Power in my process to heal this issue?
These are just starter questions to help you get a sense of where you may need to focus. Of course, always follow your guidance on where you should be focusing your energy and which action steps to follow next.
You are masters who are just in the processing of remembering and experiencing yourselves in that way. You can and will heal yourselves! You’ve already chosen to heal at the Soul level. The only question is when and which steps you’ll be taking to get there. There aren’t even prizes for being first across the finish line because everyone is moving in their perfect divine timing. Have faith in yourselves and be thorough in your healing work. You will get there and all that will matter will be the experiences and wisdom you gained along the way.
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