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July 7, 2009

Self Mastery: Reflections are Projections

A couple weeks ago I was misquoted by a local journalist in what could have been a very sensitive portrayal of a man's life and death. When the story was published I was angry the report was so cavalierly presented and very different than what I'd said during the interview. I re-read the article several times over and dove into my dictionary to clarify word meanings, all the while knowing I was gathering ammunition for a great war against misinterpretation and injustice. At best, I was surprised at the way my words had been rearranged; how sentences and quotes had been welded together, creating an entirely different tonal quality to the story I'd offered the day before.

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Musings & Meditations

   "The only way out of ignorance and out of this dark night of the soul is to be aware of your own being, aware of your own awareness. In that moment when you are aware of your own awareness, everything stops, time stops. Suddenly you are beyond time and beyond space, and a door opens which makes you part of the whole…."

Osho
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Awareness & Alchemy

Finding the Center of your Head means much more than just locating your brain on a map! Lie on the floor comfortably on your back, relax and just breathe naturally for a few minutes. Allow gravity to gently help your eyes settle deep inside. Your bones are heavy and your muscles melt like chocolate on a warm day. You are NOT getting sleepy; this is an awareness exercise! Begin breathing into your nose noticing how the air becomes sustenance as it moves into the body. This food type energy nourishes the space inside your head. As you exhale, let the breath take away anything foreign. Inhale through your nose, into the Center of your Head, letting the molecules of life force swirl around collecting old energies and thoughts. Exhale down through your spine, into the center of the planet, clearing out anything that does not belong to you in present time. Practice this each day to help you relax, becoming more aware of yourself and your responses to life.



Enlightenments & Education

Opening to Spirit: Exploring Ceremony, Healing and Intuition. This experiential online workshop guides you with practical tools for self-mastery and healing, assists you to increase your awareness and the ability to sustain a present time state of being. Open your body to the Goddess and our planet Earth, embracing your own rhythms as you in tune into the vibration of the divine feminine. This online program, complete with exercises for meditation, breathing, movement and creative projects, will be emailed to you weekly for six consecutive weeks. You can begin any time you like, studying in your own home. Cost: $33. This is a prerequisite to Rhythms of Change, a year-long program based in the seasons and cross quarters on the Celtic Wheel of the Year. Click here for more information on Opening to Spirit workshops and Rhythms of Change.

Also, check out the book, "Evolve Your Brain," by Joe Dispenza; it's full of information about the "Science of Changing your Mind."



Keystones & Kingpins

For integrating and balancing the brain, try the essential oils of Sandalwood and Frankincense. Place a drop of each on your Brow and Crown Chakras as well as underneath your lower middle back skull (occiput). Young Living carries each of these as single oils, as well as several blends containing both Sandalwood and Frankincense: Three Wise Men, Acceptance, Forgiveness, Gathering, Harmony, Inspiration, Into the Future and Trauma Life. According to documentation at the University of Berlin, the high levels of sesquiterpenes in these oils have the ability to cross the blood brain barrier; coupled with research done by the AMA, this could potentially heal conditions like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Multiple Sclerosis. Use these oils according to the instructions you receive with your purchase. Purchase Essential Oils or learn about these and other similar products.



Conservation Concerns

Recycling Plastic
I reuse my plastic olive bar containers and doggie box container over and over until they break! In fact, I take used containers with me to restaurants and the bulk sections for reuse. I also save plastic produce bags and reuse them at the grocery store as well. Most of the plastic bags and containers I save are reused time and again for up to 6 months!

Plastic does not breakdown, at least not our lifetime, taking 700 years to begin to degrade; and who knows what happens then? Have you heard of the huge plastic dump out in the middle of the Pacific Ocean (at the Pacific Gyre -- check out Wikipedia for a detailed description of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, where high winds and intense currents meet, and is purported to be twice the size of Texas! There it sits, caught up in the currents, going nowhere and growing day by day.

Please stop buying plastic water bottles! Get a home filter and fill up a reusable stainless bottle each day. Here is a website with some interesting and scary facts about plastic, in case you want to really confront your comfort zone.

Be conscious and aware! Most of us throw everything into the recycling bin and depending upon where you live, your plastics may or may not be recyclable. In fact, when you throw different plastics into the same container you may, depending on your area recycling protocols, contaminate the bunch and they will never get to the recycling stage, instead being tossed into the regular garbage. Here are a couple links to websites giving guidelines for plastics: How to Recycle Plastic and Recycling at Cleaning101.com. Always, without exception, you must rinse and look at the bottom of the container to know what is recyclable or not. The best action you can take is to call your local refuse and recycling operation to determine what can be recycled in your area. For information on recycling foam and other packaging materials, you can contact the Alliance of Foam Packaging Recyclers to find out more about this type of recycling. The good news is this: many plastics which up until very recently have not been recyclable in most cities, are now undergoing some experimentation in places like the Bay Area. Please call your local waste management company to find out how it works in your area. Meanwhile, if you must buy things in plastic containers, keep washing and reusing them, over and over and over again.



Self Mastery: Reflections are Projections

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After some of the shock wore off, I started to consider a possibility: the writer's interpretation of the information may have evolved very differently than my intentions. Although it didn't help my angst, I was able to move my attention away from micromanaging the ill effects of the story and began to explore how something like this happens. These shifts in perspective lead me to see my own responsibility in the situation.

Realizing there was a big projector online here, I was first able see how the reporter could project onto me the desire for a specific type of story and how it was possible to misinterpret my statements to accommodate this reality. I also remembered similar past situations in my own life and began to experience new and present circumstances in which I was, yet again, misinterpreted! Because it recurred in other aspects of my life, albeit less glaringly, I had to go further down the root tunnel to see where this particular scenario originated, and it was more complicated than a simple direct reflection.

Everything we experience can be linked to a projection from inside of us. What we believe are reflections from the outside world are really projections from inside of us onto the world. And even though they originate from within, they are not always directly nor easily interpreted. The story we perceive may only be a preface of what's ready for interpretation as part of our growth. First we must be willing to actually see it, second we must know its source, and then we must interpret it correctly.

Ultimately, do you want to be right or self-empowered and co-creative?

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