by Lori | Feb 22, 2025 | Blog
Are you the tea or the pasta? You may have heard this question during a motivational speaker’s presentation. The question is supposed to determine whether the environment you are in – the water in this metaphor – shapes you or do you shape the environment. Do you turn the water into a nice hot cup of tea or does the water cook your noodle?
In spirituality terms, the question is about whether you can stand in your power (be the tea) or give your power away (be the pasta). For the record, I probably like tea and pasta equally, so there is no “hot water shaming” going on here! However, for purposes of remembering who we are, even in challenging times, you can see where we are going with this analogy.
When we look at the mirrors in the outer world, our anxiety and energetic frequency level might lend itself to making it feel like we are the victim of the hot water. We truly believe our goose is cooked! The more we can put ourselves into a state of remembering that we are the creators of our reality, then we will see the outside mirrors as a way for us to express ourselves, to express our mastery, without feeling the drama of victimization energy, rescuer energy or persecutor energy.
I will admit, that currently, this is something I need to remind myself daily. Here are some of the steps I practice in order to try to be the tea!
- If I feel my anxiety level starting to rise, I start to chant a soothing song out loud, silently or I turn on my media player. I am amazed how quickly I become centered and grounded, again.
- Next, whatever my monkey mind won’t let go of, as quickly as I can, I write it down in the form of a clearing statement. “Clear the fear and false belief that my children might move in with me.”
- Then, I identify what the underlying issue is for that topic. “Clear the fear that I won’t have time and space to myself, that I won’t have time to meditate, that I won’t sleep well.” If it wasn’t obvious my now, I really like my alone time. It is where I find my power and my truth.
- That leads me to my next clearing statement. “Clear fear and false belief that I am not able to stand in my power and in my truth when I am with other people, etc.” You can see where this is going. I just continue to find more detailed issues.
- However, if I don’t have time to do all this immediately, I start with #1 and #2 to get the energy moving quickly. I will come back to the details when I have time.
- The next step is to bring in higher frequency resonances. This can be done consciously by filling with resonances like divine power, divine love, divine wisdom, divine nonjudgment, divine peace – whatever resonances will help transmute the issue I am clearing.
- Another way I bring in higher frequencies is to take walks, preferably by myself. See #3 above. I enjoy walking with my husband and with my dog. However, if I am truly doing this for selfcare, I prefer to be in nature without worrying about anyone else’s needs. (I am sure there is more to clear here, as well!) But, as part of being true to who I am, I need to be willing to admit to my loved ones what I need to be whole. I need to put on my oxygen mask on, first.
- Finally, I like to read or watch something silly, joyful or something that will make me laugh. One of my “go to” feel good movies right now is Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga. This Netflix movie stars Will Farrell and Rachel McAdams. It just makes me laugh and allows me the pleasure of singing along with the cast and the real-life Eurovision contestants. It raises my frequency and helps transmute anxiety I might be holding.
These are the steps I take to help heal my anxiety. Find what formula works for you. Allow yourself to be the creator to affect your experiences instead of being at the effect of your environment.
May you know yourself as Creator
Gratitude to Oleksandr Pidvalnyi for the image above and to LoreVa34 for the image below.
by Lori | Jan 31, 2025 | Blog
Recently, I have been using a technique to heal trauma that Marsha Hankins learned from another teacher and modified for Standing in the Light®. She calls the technique: Aging the Inner Child. With this technique, we are asking to see if there is trauma from our birth or at a certain age that needs to be healed. Once we identify an age where there is trauma energy, the actual aspect of trauma may not need to come to our conscious awareness. We can simply start to heal / clear the trauma with our usual clearing statements or healing methods like Reiki. Once that particular timeframe is clear of trauma, we ask for the next age where we might have trauma and start to clear that timeframe, too.
As I was working with this technique, I realized that I had the belief that if I had trauma energy that it manifested as a particular situation where I was the victim. I was the victim; thus, I was traumatized. That was my belief. Then, I heard some wisdom from my soul. I could have trauma energy even if I was the one in the situation who had persecuted someone else. I could have trauma energy stuck in my cellular memory no matter whether I was directly involved with the situation which felt traumatic. I could have trauma energy if I was a bystander, an observer or half way around the world to the unfolding events. Trauma energy is trauma energy no matter how it came to my awareness.
In this blog, we have discussed the Karpman Drama Triangle many times. When we still have drama in our lives or unhealed trauma, we need to heal the underlying energies of victim, persecutor and rescuer no matter which role in the drama we are playing. We need to heal the drama no matter if we switch from feeling like the victim to playing the role of persecutor to wanting to rescue someone that we believe isn’t able to stand in their own power.
Through all of these possibilities of drama and trauma, we need to remember that we, and all beings, are Source. If we still have trauma and drama to heal, it might help to look at the times when we perpetrated the trauma or rescued someone from the trauma and not just from when we might have been the victim. Heal the trauma no matter how it came into your experience.
Gratitude to Gerd Altmann with pixabay.com for the accompanying image.
by Ginger | Jan 26, 2025 | Blog
Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery using paint infused with precious metals such as gold and silver to create a new object of beauty. It’s not about repairing things in a way to cover perceived flaws but truly honoring the unique beauty of the new form. I was reminded of this tradition by my soul when I was recently working on embracing change.
One of the primary blocks to change is the tendency to compare the new with the old. If we hold any kind of attachment to what came before, we are holding judgment and resisting growth. Kintsugi represents a step beyond accepting change by seeing it as completely new, free of comparison with any other, and celebrating all of its unique attributes as wholly divine.
Marsha Hankins has written about this in several posts about The Parable of the Cracked Pot. A pot was carried daily by the water carrier to bring water to the master’s table but leaked half of its water each time due to a crack. Eventually, the pot’s shame about this deficiency caused it to speak up to the water carrier. The man replied by pointing out the beautiful flowers that lined the path where the leaking pot had watered them. The pot’s unique feature created its own kind of beauty in the world, different but no less divine.
The coming years will bring many shifts and changes in the outer world as we move into a new phase of the breakdown for breakthrough. If we hold onto what used to be or try to “return to normal”, we will experience these changes as struggle. If we focus on not just accepting these changes but truly celebrating the beauty of them as reflections of our next steps toward experiencing Oneness, we will know true Peace and Joy.
Are you ready to practice the art of Divine Beauty?
photo courtesy of David Pike
by Lori | Dec 29, 2024 | Blog
As we are all leaning into our mastery, many of us are being guided to look at the nuances of different energies. Marsha Hankins has two messages this month that allow us to explore the subtle distinctions of energies. One message explores knowledge versus knowingness. The Wisdom of Moving from Knowledge to Knowing – Marsha Hankins The other explores the difference of being on track versus on target with our spiritual evolution. Marsha explored this in “A Message From Marsha.” (If you would like to be on Marsha’s message email list, click this link Join Mailing List – Marsha Hankins).
In the Standing in the Light® classes, the Christ gives us a technique for manifesting. Again, quoting Marsha, she calls this technique “five steps to creating miracles.” I have been a student and devotee to this technique since I first took the I AM SOURCE™ classes from Kris Duffy in 2002. Many of you know that the five steps are as follows:
- Connect to your Soul / your own self as Source.
- Receive the vision
- Release the blocks to manifesting the vision
- Resonant the vision.
- Take action steps
Recently, I have been guided to explore the subtle distinction of using the manifesting technique to master the illusion vs using the manifesting technique to use the illusion.
The Christ teaches us that our number one priority is our spiritual evolution and ultimate Ascension. Our goal is to master the illusion in order to exit the experiment in duality. If we are only trying to master the abundance of the third dimensional reality, then we are playing into the illusion of separation instead of mastering it.
We teach that having material possessions and an abundant lifestyle is our birthright as aspects of Source. We also teach that our motivations for wanting the abundant lifestyle factor into the equation. “It’s not the WHAT. It’s the WHY.” If the reason I am raising my frequency is to be more abundant in a traditional third dimensional way, then I may be missing the point of the teaching. If I am raising my frequency for my spiritual evolution and, along the way to a higher frequency, the law of like attract likes allows for an easier lifestyle, that is different than setting out to have a particular amount of money in the bank, for example.
These are all subtle distinctions but most of us reading this blog entry are at the point in our evolution where exploring these nuances is what will help us up the next rung of our spiritual ladder.
Take this question of Mastery to your meditation chair. With your Soul, evaluate your motivation for bringing in resonances and clearing blocks and other dense energies. Redouble your commitment in 2025 to use this manifesting technique for your spiritual evolution and Ascension.
May you know yourself as Source.
Gratitude to PlacidPlace with Pixabay.com
by Ginger | Dec 28, 2024 | Blog
Shining your light is an act of love; not just self-love but love for all. This reminder came to me at a healing meditation circle as we chanted to “I Shine” by Alexa Sunshine Rose. The lyrics guided me to focus on my connection with all light throughout the universe and the experience that shining my light is shining the universal light of all. I felt myself as both the whole cosmos and a truly unique being within the cosmos. Shining our light in this way is a unifying act of love both with and for all creation. It is an understanding of Oneness.
I share the lyrics here in English. The chant is beautifully recorded in both English and Spanish:
With the light of the Sun, I shine, I shine
With the light of the Stars, I shine, I shine
With the light of the Moon, I shine, I shine
With the light of the Earth, I shine, I shine
When I shine, we shine. When you shine, we shine. When we are all shining as One, the expanded light supports each unique being as a pure expression of Source. Take these words into your heart. Feel them. Know them as divine truth. And keep shining, always!
Image by MichelleMontrose from Pixabay
by Ginger | Nov 29, 2024 | Blog
“Are we there, yet?” is a common refrain made to parents by excited kids, impatient to reach their destination. We are all spiritual children making our way back Home to our divine state of Oneness. As the outer world shows increasing signs of the breakdown of the illusion, we might find ourselves experiencing doubts that we will make it. Spoiler alert: We will. Some may reach that point sooner and some may have a few more journeys to experience, but we are all going Home.
When my soul wants to remind me of something, I often get a message through a song. I recently had some moments of doubt about humanity’s path to breaking through the illusion. Then, I heard a performance which I knew in the moment was a love song from my Source-Self, reminding me that I will be ushered with open arms to my divine home whenever I am ready to surrender the illusion of my separation.
“Carry You Home”, sung by artist Alex Warren, was written as a romantic love song, but I heard it as a song about divine love. The main chorus goes like this:
Oh, I hope you know I will carry you home
Whether it’s tonight or 55 years down the road
Oh, I know there’s so many ways that this could go
Don’t want you to wonder, darlin’, I need you to know
In this and every life
I choose us every time
This inspired me to ask myself, “Am I choosing Source every time?” With every action, word, thought and emotion, do I choose the wonder and beauty and joy of being Source? Honestly, I do not. Not yet. But I am getting closer each day, and I know that we are all much closer than we may believe right now.
When we choose a higher frequency in each moment, we are making choices which will carry us Home with ease and flow. Ask your soul where in your life you can make a shift in how you focus your energy to bring you closer to your divine home. The highest plan right now might be greater mindfulness in daily activities or detachment from the outer world. You might be guided to slow down and enjoy the beauty around you or to connect with your passion and take your next action steps. Maybe you need a boost in your belief that you’ll return to a state of Divine Home. Trust your guidance.
Know that Source energy is always present to support us when we allow ourselves to open up and align with it. It is this remembrance of ourselves as Source which will ultimately carry us Home. May you experience joy in your journey!
Image by Felix Merler from Pixabay
