What about the power of choice? We are energy beings and that energy is power.  How we access and use that power becomes our choice.

In “The Anatomy of the Spirit” by Caroline Myss, she goes into detail about our second chakra; The power of relationships. She writes, “Paradoxically, while the energy of the second chakra inclines us to try to control our lives, the lesson of the second chakra is that cannot be in control. We are physical beings and energy beings, but since the physical world cannot be controlled, the task before us is to master our inner responses to the external world, our thoughts and emotions.”

Our responses to the external world is how we understand, interpret, and value what is in our physical world while strengthening our spirituality.  Our dualism; the law of cause and effect (for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction) and the law of magnetism (oppositely charged objects attract).

What you focus on expands.  It’s amazing how little but how much control we do have.  It’s a matter of choice.  What motivates those choices? What source do you choose – that will determine what result you receive.  I’ve put my 4 week class together for this exact reason; Introduction to the Language of Energy

There are only four classes to my introduction course. We will cover basic terminology, 100%/0% theory, how your biography becomes your biology, beliefs/images and how they direct your results.

Begin today living your life your way. 

 Create yourself a fabulous day,

Jody

When I am learning a new subject, usually there are new words attached to it. Words I’m not that familiar with so I look them up.

When I work with people, what I hear the most is how much “help” they need.  In reality they are perfect the way they are; it’s just the distance between what they believe they are and WHO they already are.  I could tell them to focus more — (Wd def.) Focus: a state or condition permitting clear perception or understanding OR I could assist them in shifting their Perception of themselves. (Wd def.) Perception: a mental image : awareness of the elements of environment through physical sensation.

We all see and feel differently. We all have had different experiences in our life and all of these have created beliefs and images of who we believe we are.  This is the distance I am referring to.  This photo says it all! I had to finally understand  that is was only a story – MY STORY – that kept me away from accomplishing what I wanted.

I’m beginning a new course Introduction to the language of energy; gaining a better understanding of self .  Check out my page that gives full details.

There are only four classes in this course – webinar style

There you have it, the secret is out. What you see is really not what you see – to understand this in a better way, watch this video about illusions.

Illusion is defined as: the state or fact of being intellectually deceived or misled

We believe we see everything around us and that is not true.  The truth is we will only see what we value.  We are a physical beings which means we have physical sight; however we also are spiritual being and our spiritual sight has not been developed in most of us.  Think of a newborn, their sight – physical eyes have not been developed to see anything clearly.  However, they have not lost their spiritual sight completely.  As they grow and develop their physical/spiritual sight will develop side by side with what they value.

This is the secret your Ego doesn’t want out.  It wants you to remain believing everything you see is real.  Our physical bodies will not be using our physical sight when we die.  We will be using our spiritual eyes.  We are spiritual beings having an earthly experience so that makes sense for us to understand how our physical eyes will no longer play a part in the spiritual realm.  Remember, we see what we value.

Our feelings tap into our spiritual sight.  Do we feel appreciation for what someone has done for us? Do we appreciate all that we have – holding no conditions to it? How often have you felt a deep connection to another person?  These are the emotions that assist in developing our spiritual eyes – YES to see what is NOT around us but we feel it around us.  Yes, we can see what is not there. We do it so often we simply are not aware we are doing it.

May is the month to celebrate Mother’s. Who better to understand how one can see us with spiritual eyes?  Here’s a video as a tribute to Mothers.  Enjoy!

I’m beginning a new course Introduction to the language of energy; gaining a better understanding of self .  This will assist you in opening your spiritual eyes.  Are you ready to begin seeing ALL that is not seen?

Check out my page that gives full details.

Create yourself a fabulous day,

Jody

How does one break free? There are tons of answers out there however, there is one simple one that works.  Being or feeling imprisoned means you are lacking something – locked away from what you really want.  This may feel exceptionally real, however that my friends is the illusion!

How do you learn how to undo this illusion? You must first understand you are living in an illusion. “No learning is acquired by anyone unless he wants to learn it and believes in some way that he needs it.”  ~ A course in Miracles

If the answer is so simple, why then do most of us stay imprisoned with our old beliefs? We can not fear the unknown because it’s just that UNKNOWN. What you fear is leaving what you know. Even if the knowing is uncomfortable we still choose to stay where we are at.  Your first step is to awaken! Awaken to knowing you in some way need greater understanding of who you are and why you do what you do.

Adjust your eyes to see there is an illusion. This reminds me of our home in Minnesota.  The bathroom had some wild wallpaper and the previous owners covered the light switch up with the same wallpaper. When we first moved in I could NOT find the light switch. I knew there was one but had no idea where it was located.  It was pretty funny, but this is much like living in the illusion.  The way out has been camouflaged with fear.

Break free from the prison you believe you are in. Learn what camouflages you have and why! Become a follower of my blog – I would love to take this journey with you as you embrace your spiritual self and remove the limits that keep you stuck; begin feeling safe to grow and expand exponentially!  Are you ready to be FREE?

Create yourself a fabulous day,

Jody

Would that child begin his walking career taking off and running without learning to stand first? No, that would never make sense. When we begin something new why do we expect ourselves to take off running when we are only learning how to stand – is it because we know in time we will be taking a few steps?

It has been fun watching our grandchildren take their first steps. I was reflecting on those times we as adults learn something new. We treat ourselves MUCH different than we do a child learning a new task – why is that?

Why is it we put more pressure on ourselves? Is it because we believe we should know everything first?  Why are we so arrogant believing we are above learning? Doesn’t that sound crazy? I believe it is!

When a person begins to spiritually awaken and learn there is more to this life than just their physical body; understanding that they are spiritual beings having an earthly experience – their journey begins. This journey is much like learning how to walk.

We must first learn to recognize what its like to stand – be comfortable in a new space. Once we gain more confidence and experience we can begin to take a few steps. With each new area of growth – acceptance and celebration is in order.

Think about it? When we want to encourage a child we clap our hands, shout for joy and celebrate each new area of growth they take. We don’t condemn them when they stand for the first time and they fall. We don’t criticize them for NOT taking off running. We encourage them, pick them up and let them try it again and again and again – celebrating every few seconds they remain standing. I believe we should learn from how we treat others and begin treating ourselves much the same way.

How I have brought this into my life is to end each day with being grateful.  My mentor and friend Julie Hutslar shared this concept on being grateful with me and those she works with. It has proven to be awe inspiring as my appreciation and gratitude expands over the littlest things.  It has given me powerful spiritual feelings that I have a spiritual Father clapping His hands and celebrating as I learn and progress each day.

Gratitude allows your eyes to open to all the goodness around you; planting the attitude of appreciation and sprouts happiness in our hearts. It all begins within!

Create yourself a fabulous day!

Jody

I had been reading a book titled “Awareness” by Anthony deMello, this book I choose to give a book report of sorts. I was to find the “gem” it holds.  I love to read, I love to learn, especially I love to increase my understanding.  This book offered me profound perspectives to what I already understood and some that were new.  The point that really stuck is the one that we don’t need more knowledge or more of anything – we should be seeking understanding.  Our situations don’t change but with a renewed understanding our perspective changes which then changes the situation.  A more empowering way to observe and live life.

Words of my book gem, “Happiness is our natural state. Happiness is the natural state of little children, to whom the kingdom belongs until they have been polluted and contaminated by the stupidity of society and culture.  To acquire happiness you don’t have to do anything, because happiness cannot be acquired.  Does anybody know why? Because we have it already. How can you acquire what you already have? Then why don’t you experience it? Because you’ve to drop something. You’ve got to drop illusions. You don’t have to add anything in order to be happy; you’ve got to drop something. Life is easy, life is delightful. It’s only hard on your illusions, your ambitions , your greed, your cravings. Do you know where these things come from? From having identified with all kinds of labels!”  pg. 78 in the book of “Awareness” by Michael Brown.

Why would I tag this as my book gem? Because it clarified the visual of having to drop something.  We hold onto our illusions, our understanding of how things should be that we have obstructive vision. We must drop our labels, our stories, our old beliefs that no longer serve us.  Just like I mentioned about learning to understand – our situations really don’t change but with a renewed understanding our perspective (releasing of the labels or stories) changes which then changes the situation.  Definitely a more empowering way to observe and live life.  It’s a more mature way to see how this life serves us. What we are doing here and why.

We talk about spiritual progression. The word progression implies adding to, adding on to where we already are.  The definition of progression b : a continuous and connected series: sequence. Like building blocks, one upon another. How about rewording it and calling it spiritual cleaning. Cleaning indicates the clearing away or removing what no longer belongs.  Life is not about doing more, it’s about holding onto less.  Holding onto less beliefs that no longer fit, that no longer serve us. Shifting our perspective gives us a birds eye view of any situation.  When we are in the thick of it we only see the mess in front of us, obstructing our vision.  By taking on that new perspective, a more healthy, more mature view we see things as they really are.  It’s not so challenging to dig through the mess, your view is clear and accurate.

When you put on your spiritual perspective you focus on your “BEing” more than you focus on your “doing.”

Create yourself a fabulous day

Jody

Why am I telling you about my cleaning habits? It’s because I always find a spiritual lesson in what I normally do.  Today I get to share it with you.

At church I remembered hearing a story about Christ coming to visit. The story goes that a young man was nervous about Christ coming.  His visitor sat out front waiting until the young man invited Him in.  The young man continued to clean and clean his house until he felt prepared to invite Christ into his home. He opened the door and welcomed Him in, they hugged and the young man felt foolish for taking so much time before inviting Christ in. Jesus Christ asked to be shown around his home, now the nervousness started up again.  The young man thinking, “what if he doesn’t like what he sees? or what if he leaves?”  Christ felt his concerns and put him at ease letting this young man know there was nothing to worry about.  They finally came to the last room but the door was shut.  The young man did NOT want to let Christ in; the room where he stored all his bad choices, bad thoughts, bad feelings, and bad actions.

We each hold a room of negative emotions we have gathered over the years. We each hang onto disempowering beliefs that keep us separated from God. We each hold outdated images of beliefs of who we should or could be. All of these are much like the “stuff” the young man kept hidden in the closed room.

Interestingly, I was told today that the solution to this subject was to have a positive attitude.  I thought about that, however I didn’t agree. Yes I agree to move more towards the positive however, just having a positive attitude is like putting clean clothes on a dirty body.  None of the “dirt” has been washed off. We each have a spiritual house that needs to be cleaned out. Our energetic signature is the unique style of our spiritual home.  Why would we NOT want to clean it up?

The answer: We have been given the tools but we simply are not aware enough on how to use them.

As in the Course in Miracles states, “…Light cannot enter darkness when a mind believes in darkness and will not let it go. Truth does not struggle against ignorance, and love does not attack fear. What needs NO protection does NOT defend itself….Bring to Him every secret you have locked away from Him. Open every door to Him and bid Him enter the darkness and lighten it away. At your request He enters gladly. He brings the light to look upon.”

Create yourself a fabulous day,

Jody

That intrigued me and got me thinking. What is Hope? Hope for a new dress? Hope for a happy marriage? Hope your kids turn out good? Hope for health? What is hope?  and what do you hope for? Of course, I looked it up in Websters dictionary; “Hope” is to cherish a desire with anticipation: to expect with confidence is trust

Let’s reword our questions of hope with the definition to what will serve us best toward understanding our Spirituality – our Divine self.  Let’s me use Websters definition to help clarify this point.

Do we “HOPE” we are spiritual when we die? OR do we cherish the desire to be spiritual when we die with anticipation?

Why do we hope for something we already have?  Maybe we are not feeling our spirituality or we haven’t recognized our Divine self – that makes more sense.  How can we get to recognize our Divine self?  Well, I have blogged a great deal about the Ego/Natural man and what part that plays in our life.  I believe if we are still hoping to “be” spiritual we have not separated out our Ego from our Divine self.  Maybe we don’t know how or maybe we are so close to both of them it’s hard to be sure.

Look at them this way – as twins.  Identical twins are hard to recognize UNLESS you really know each one. We must understand the unique characteristics each hold so we can identify which one we give power to, who we listen to, and which one we serve.

Spend a few minutes with yourself, do a 20 minute writing to unload the chaos in your mind.  Most times we need to clean things up to see what we have. I know you will benefit from this exercise – I already know WHO you are; I’m just “hoping” you begin to understand and love YOU!

Create yourself a fabulous day,

Jody

What about emotional pain.  I believe we have felt it but it’s not so obvious to us. I believe it’s because we become accustom to our emotional pain and because we are so familiar with it, we only recognize it when it takes us down or is interrupted. The little “hurtful words” we hear everyday no longer effect us like they did when we were little because we have been “toughened up”  – or we say it’s just the way things are!

When I get a chance to hang out with our Grandchildren, they come up with great teaching moments for me. I had the privilege to have them sleep over at “Grandmas” house.  We hung out watching movies and just talking.  This particular  Saturday morning we were sitting around the kitchen table eating breakfast.  Our grandson said, “T” wouldn’t let me play with her.” He proceeded to tell me clearly about a time he asked to play with his sister and friend.  Of course older sisters don’t want their younger brothers hanging around so these girls told little brother to go away.  The words that were spoken is what I want to share.

“T’ brought up that she wanted to play with her friend and didn’t want “B” to hang around and she told him so, pushing him away from her room and shutting the door.  She was justifying this situation.  It made perfect sense.

Let’s look at it from “B” side.  What “T” and her friend said was, “B” doesn’t matter, go away.”  I had a chance to speak directly to “B” while “T” over heard.  I asked, “that hurt you, didn’t it?” and of course the answer was yes.  I then had an opportunity to teach my grand kids and learn something profound myself.  I told “B” that words hurt us – it’s like hitting someone. “T” began to listen. I began to explain how “hurtful words” are felt and are said.  Since I had both of their attentions we began to role play – going back to this situation and found better ways to accomplish the same outcome WITHOUT the hurtful words.

We each have a unique energy signature just like we each have a unique physical body.  Feelings which lead to emotions are like blows that lead to bruises (or worse.)

In my workshop “Break FREE – live life with purpose and passion” we go in detail on how our energy signature works and why words hurt us.  We as a people look for outward validation. We look to others for support, love and acceptance. It’s time to change our view. Time to look INWARD!

What can you do before the workshop? Begin stating out loud, “that hurt me” when you feel emotional hurt.  It is that simple to begin becoming aware of when you “feel” hurtful words.  You are amazing!!!

We are spiritual beings having an earthly (physical) experience.  Isn’t it time we put our learning in order — learn WHO we are vs spending so much time and energy on DOING what we know?  Just because you know you are a spiritual being doesn’t mean you understand your energy signature.  Isn’t it time to begin?  Imagine living and understanding life BEing your Divine self embraced in Love, Joy, and Happiness!  Yes you are worth it!

To create an easier understanding for this word, I’ll identify real Truth (Divinity) with a capital T – whereas truth that is only truth in this physical world (Natural man/Ego) I’ll identify with a lower case t.

We know we are divine beings which says that is a real Truth. That Truth is a Universal Truth which means it doesn’t matter whether you believe it or not, it’s True.  It was described to me this way, “think of a Mother ship and it just landed on this physical world. We depart out of the Mother ship and wander around or away.  Just because we have wandered so far off and we no longer can see the Mother ship, doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. It is still there. ”

We also know we are physical beings which subject us to the Natural man/Ego. This is our earthly identity believing this is our spirituality.  The Natural man/Ego desperately wants you to believe you can NOT live without it.  The “t”ruth is you can not live without it in this physical world.  When we die we are still our divine beings without a physical body.  Our physical body is what allows the Natural man/Ego to stay “alive.” Because we are physical beings we each hold a different truth. “truth” then is based off how we interpret the world, our experiences and the beliefs we hold.

To summarize: Truth is a universal Truth whereas truth is an individual truth.

In my workshop I am going to share with you some exercises that will allow your awareness to see clearly what you hang onto that may no longer serve you.  Our physical identities are like clothes.  When we out grow something we usually replace it but the Natural man/Ego can NOT stand to have anything taken away. It wants you to keep wearing those outdated clothes for fear it will lose the identity you held while wearing these clothes.  That is when we hear, “you still look fabulous in them or you are crazy to even consider letting them go.”

Our goal is to bring our truths inline with Truth.  Once we do that the more joy we feel, the more in control we are, and the greater peace we feel. Isn’t that a great place to live?  truth keeps us striving for what’s not real and reminds us how far away we are to divine wholeness where Truth allows us to remember we are already healed and whole.

The truth we must do more to go farther and become better is only a truth – where Truth focus’ on who you already are, a divine child of God. You are already Divinity and Divine nature is what you already have!

Join me in my NEXT workshop May 26th – become clear how to take back your choice.

Jody