NOW is the Time!Now is the time for us to accept and bring forth a new paradigm: to willingly and intentionally be self-realized and self-actualized in higher levels of consciousness and daily living. Our intuition confirms that at the soul level we are immortal & predestined to and express on transcendental levels of awareness. As the door opens to a brand new year, a new millennium, be willing to totally release the past & be a new person NOW. Let us take a stand that we can experience our divine refinement in and through a new model of relationship & partnership - one committed to growth, development, unfoldment and evolution. Stand for empowering one another, enhancing each other's creativity & potentiality; realize we are 100% at source, the creators of our experience and reality. Tell the truth & keep our agreements; make conscious, critical choices for intimacy, reveal instead of conceal. We can choose to move from dependence to independence to interdependence: to move from co-dependence to co-commitment and co-creativity. Set your new goals NOW; write them down, ink them don't just think them. Include long range & short term goals. Create short powerful present tense affirmations for each area of your life. Create a collage, an image book or poster board; visible things and attributes that depict the quality of life you truly desire. Barbara Marx Hubbard suggests the following as qualities for checking our alignment with the archetypal evolutionary: not self-sacrificing, but self-actualizing; experience deep empathetic communion with others; respect scientific inquiry & intuitive holistic awareness; be a risk taker and commit beyond your known abilities; know you are not working alone; self-disciplined; highly individualistic but co-operate easily; have an expectation of newness; sense your intuition of designing intelligence; be not comfortable with the traditional male/female roles, unite WHOLE BEING to WHOLE BEING to supra-sexual relationships. Supra-sex is when you feel within you a "vocational arousal" when your life's purpose kicks up. You sense you have something more to do with your life, you join together with others to co-create such that your life's purpose gets expressed & manifested through joining in love with others for the sake of the world I recently heard about a group of people who returned from India, having met with the Dalai Lama for several days. The meetings focused on a dialogue of what they believed were the 5 most important questions to be considered moving into the new millennium. The group was asked to come up with five questions before meeting with the Dalai Lama. They asked: * How do we address the widening gap between rich and poor? * How do we protect the earth? * How do we educate our children? * How do we help Tibet & other oppressed countries/people? * How do we bring spirituality - deep caring for each other - through all disciplines? The Dalai Lama said all the questions fall under the last one. If we have true compassion, our children will be educated, we will care for the earth and for those who "have not". He asked the group: Do you think loving on the planet is increasing or staying the same? His own response was, "My experience leads me to believe that love IS increasing." He shared a practice with the group that will increase loving & compassion in the world, and asked everyone attending to go home and share it with as many people as possible. The Practice: 1. Spend five minutes at the beginning of each day remembering we all want the same thing (to be happy & loved) and we are all connected. 2. Spend five minutes cherishing yourself & others. Let go of judgments. Breathe in cherishing yourself, and breathe out cherishing others. If the faces of the people you are having difficulty with appear, cherish them as well. 3. During the day extend that attitude to everyone you meet: we are all the same, & I cherish myself and you (do it with the grocery store clerk, the client, your family, co-workers, etc.). 4. Stay in the practice, no matter what happens. NOW IS THE TIME - come grow with us at the Centre for Self Awareness. Let others know why you come, what you experience at our Sunday Celebration. Thank-you for BEING and being in my life. Namaste, |