Life Cycles: Growth and Change

We are all aware that there is a cycle of growth and change, but we typically do not pay a lot of attention to where we may be within the cycle. The result is that we are not in sync; we are out of rhythm with ourselves, our lives and with the natural timing of all the cycles of which we are a part.

If we pay attention to this natural process and where we are within it, we can become more efficient, patient, and remain healthier as we cut down on frustration and pushing rocks up hills.

Becoming Aware of the Creative Cycle

1.  When you are thinking about creating something new in your life, do you treat it as a creative process and consciously use stage-appropriate methods and tools?

 2. How would your response to change and transitioning from one phase of life to another be different if you honored these cycles within your life?

3.  How would your approach to consciously creating your life change if you incorporated awareness about the stage you were in?

4.  Do you nurture creativity in general in your life?

In the next post we will explore some questions that can take you deeper into looking at how you can approach life with more creative awareness. These more specific questions can help you to gain a deeper insight into your patterns.

March 8, 2010

2012: Changes in Personal Direction

Our radio show topic for the month of March is change associated with the year 2012 and how each of us can prepare and move forward in positive and effective ways to support overall well-being. This week  we will be talking about how the coming changes are challenging individuals and how those challenges can be managed more effectively…with some grace and ease!

  During our March 1 program we talked in general about 2012 and many of the related myths.  Every aspect of the world is changing and we are all feeling it in different ways. How are the changes affecting you?  How are you feeling about your life in general? Are you feeling optimistic?  Do you feel you have some control over matters or are you feeling that whatever you do will not change anything?

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Excerpted from Chapter 9, 12 Keys For Life and Self Mastery

Akin to gratitude is appreciation, a word often used in the HeartMath materials to speak about the feeling that generates positive shifts in physiology.

 To paraphrase their definition, appreciation is an active emotional state characterized by a perception and recognition of something for which you feel grateful. Appreciation, gratitude and unconditional love are the emotional states that have been shown to produce coherence within our energy fields. (Coherence is defined as that state where two or more systems are in sync, thereby operating more smoothly and effectively.)

In research studies when subjects produce high rates of coherence in the heart, they also exhibit increased heart-brain synchronization, increased immunity, improved physiological function, decreased stress, and better emotional management.

Individuals capable of sustaining high levels of coherence by holding feelings of love, gratitude and appreciation through intention showed profound changes in their DNA. High states of coherence produced an unwinding and lengthening of DNA strands, while fear, anxiety, frustration and stress caused DNA to tighten, become shorter and switch off many of its codes.

Members in a control group who could not produce high levels of coherence showed no changes in their DNA.

The bottom line is that our habitual states of mind affect our lives on any levels and the heart is a key player in regulating these effects.

Our radio show topic for the month of March will be the upcoming changes associated with the year 2012 and how we can all be prepared and move with the changes that this enormous transition in our world is requiring.

We will be discussing:

3/1/10 Laying the Groundwork f0r 2012 (Recording available)

 3/8/10 2012: Changes in Personal Direction

3/15/10 2012: New Models for Relationships

3/22/10 2012: Shifting Paradigms for Health

3/29/10 2012: When Spirit Hits the Sidewalk!

Of course everyone has heard about the predicted end of the world in Dec of 2012 but this is not what is happening. Closer inspection of the prophesies about this time in history  shows  that what is actually happening is that what is ending is some very long cycles and the beginning of new ones.

Indigenous people were in touch with much larger expanse of time than we in the modern world are accustomed to.  The great cycles that are now winding down are referred to as Great World Ages. We have been through 4 of these before and we are finishing up a 5^th and entering a 6^th. At this point in the ending of these cycles it is typical to have catastrophic conditions on many fronts—weather, politics, economic etc.

Great civilizations collapsed under the weight of times like these but it was not the conditions themselves that caused the collapse—it was the response of the powers that be, the people and their inability to shift how they approached life and the important issues of the day that brought them down.

If you study history/evolution what can be seen is that when there was a willingness to cooperate and work together to solve problems and let go of old unsustainable ways then the civilizations survived and rebuilt on new foundations. If competitiveness prevailed then everyone lost—there was collapse.

It is interesting to observe that the earth’s history includes quantum jumps when crisis conditions were present. E.G. single cell life about to die out—poof—photosynthesis saves the day. In 13.7 billion years this point has presented itself many times and there has always been a quantum leap rather than a slow steady progression from one step to another.

Through evolution Nature provides us with a model of a dynamic process of change that always involves cooperation and increasing complexity.

Excerpted from Laying the Groundwork for 2012

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March 1, 2010

What is 2012 about? Change. Lots of it. It is already happening actually and will continue on past the touted date of 12/21/12. So what does it mean for humanity? What does it mean for you? How will you be challenged? How can you rise to the challenges? As we move toward 2012 it is helpful to understand the great transition that is underway and know what is required to rise to these challenges.

Join Peg Donahue, Karen Kallie and Tony Pace for this lively discussion.

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Whenever we are wishing for something to be different from what it is, we are energetically holding it in our lives.

In our culture the word surrender is loaded with negative connotations, such as giving up, wimping out, being weak, unable to cut it. However, surrender in the context that we are using it is a deep feeling of letting go of struggle and conflict: it is about accepting what is in the moment, not fighting it – accepting the reality even as we seek to see what can be done to change or move beyond it.

 Surrender helps to bring your heart into coherence through the inner peace and calm it generates. To truly surrender we need to let go of wanting, yearning, wishing, needing and directing. When we are in these states, our focus is on what we feel we don’t have. We are in a vibration of lack or scarcity. Sometimes we become stuck and even paralyzed by these feelings.

Since our energy reflects our inner state, it is stuck, paralyzed, not moving, so it holds us in place rather than moving freely so it can be channeled in a stronger, more positive direction.

 When our focus is on what is missing from our lives, we create more of what we feel we don’t have. We create more of what is missing. Developing an attitude of acceptance – acceptance of the way things ARE – enables you to move beyond patterns of resistance and bring peace to your heart. Acceptance does not mean that something or someone is right or wrong. Acceptance is acknowledging things just the way they are now. It’s just allowing them to be, without judgment. Judgments tear at our energy and do us much more harm than the person, place or thing that we are judging.

Our true power is in Being … not in mere intellectual thought. This is an important key concept for creating. We have said before that conceptual knowledge is not enough to turn desire into reality; intellectual understanding is only the first step to conscious creation. The most powerful tools and techniques for the materialization of our thoughts are those that move us into a state of BEING that matches what we desire to create.

In Chapter 8 of 12 Keys we explore methods that help you to do just that: take energy from the realm of thought and transform it – through feeling – into the world of manifestation.

Using these methods and developing the qualities discussed will help you enhance your creative power and expand your self mastery. When we are in harmony with the universe, creation flows as a natural result. The mind “laser focuses” as we master the challenge of energetically bringing our heart and mind into alignment and harmony with the higher frequencies of creative power.

Coherence of our energy is an important factor in health, well-being and conscious creation. The topics covered in this session are significant, as they promote coherence and whole body integration … a peaceful blending of body, mind and spirit.

 The Impact of Thought and Emotion

Thoughts, emotions and feelings of all types are a major part of our human experience. They (along with free will and judgment) differentiate us from animals and other life forms.

As humans, we have a wide range of emotions. We are meant to feel. If we are to be healthy, fully express our authentic nature and bring the best of our selves to the world, then we must know how to let emotions move fluidly and easily through our systems and not repress them or get stuck in them!

 Knowing how to work positively with all our emotions builds our energy and helps us move more rapidly and simply toward the lives we desire. We hold memory all throughout our body-mind … no experience escapes our notice. Our life experience is imprinted through our energy and nervous system into our biochemistry and into the cells and organs of our body.

Thoughts and feelings affect the energy throughout all our systems, but perhaps most important is how they connect deeply in the heart and help shape our experience of the world. Our thoughts and feelings are two primary ways we manage our energy, but they don’t necessarily always work in unison. We are very capable of thinking one thing and feeling another. We can “know” something in our mind and experience it a totally different way in our heart and body.

 Cellular memory is imprinted more through how we feel about something than through how we think about it or how we rationalize it. As a result, we have the feeling police deep inside: the body knows your truth! This is why it is so critical to clear the patterns and beliefs of the past – not because we are bad or have sinned and need to set our records straight, but because through our lack of knowledge and awareness, we have created obstacles that block our health, well being and happiness.

Next : Understanding Surrender and Acceptance

 Using tools that clear, balance and strengthen your personal energy will help ensure that your energetic requests are ones that you want to show up in your life.

 In spite of having a great deal of knowledge regarding the topic of conscious creation, many people still have difficulty making the process work for them. This can lead to discouragement or to abandonment of the process altogether.

One reason for the difficulties in learning how to consciously create is that navigating the inner landscape and the world of energy requires different attitudes, approaches, and tools than does navigating the exterior world. Another is that it generally takes time to learn and integrate new ways of being. It is possible to have huge shifts in no time at all, but most of us will probably need some degree of persistence, patience and perseverance as we adopt new attitudes, methods and world views. It took time to form the patterns you now have, so it may take time to shift into new patterns and frequencies and sustain them. Soon enough the new patterns and frequencies will become Self reinforcing, especially if you adopt a light playful attitude.

 The specific approaches we cover in Session 5 of 12 Keys to Life and Self Mastery help you to move beyond some of the common pitfalls to co-creating in your life.

 You will learn how to:

• Effectively affirm and support your truest desires
• Identify the hidden dynamics that block your desires
• Set intentions that universal energy can readily respond to
• Discern between willingness and willpower; shift to ease in creation

A great video—well worth 10 minutes of your time! 

Excerpted from Ch. 4 of 12 Keys for Life and Self Mastery

We form patterns in our early environments that become our automatic reactions and repeated responses to situations and events throughout our lives. We all have beliefs about the key areas of life: safety, survival, relationships, money, self image, power, entitlement, love, self expression and spirituality. If we are to be truly free to create lives that are the unique manifestation of our individual BEING, then it is essential to identify our real values and release what interferes with openly embracing our own strong, passionately alive consciousness.

Information regarding our internal state is always coming to us in several ways – our physical, emotional and mental faculties are always giving clues about our energy and inner being. In addition, our energy system can offer a great deal of useful data if we take the time to learn how to comprehend it.

We can also stay aware of how the various aspects of the mind communicate with us and blend that into our energetic awareness. The conscious mind is aware of concepts and ideas; the subconscious speaks through feelings or lack of them – the body clearly tells us what is happening in our subconscious mind if we know how to listen. Higher awareness tends to speak through imagery, subtle sensing, or an unmistakable kind of knowing when you sincerely request to know the truth of a matter.

The human energy and chakra system are the vehicles through which we develop and encode our life experience into our cellular memory, so they provide us with a very useful, simple and organized way to look at our values and beliefs as well as with a means to understand how beliefs affect the organization of our energies.

Notice what dominant theme(s) repeatedly comes up for you in your life. Herein lies a clue as to a core belief that is strongly affecting the organization of the people, places, and circumstances of your life. Through collapsing that belief and its attendant mental and emotional features you can be free from the inside out, have more energy and be more open to creating more of what you do want in your life .

12 Keys provides a comprehensive guide to uncovering and releasing troublesome beliefs and opening to higher energies that support, nourish and sustain you in the conscious creation of your life.