Sideways

The way to step out of strong currents and patterns is to step sideways.
Everyone tries to go up but that never works.

Sideways.

And once you step sideways off the road where everyone else is rushing to insanity, at an insane pace, you are at peace to go wherever you want at your own pace without getting caught up in collective madness. And then you can't get infected by the madness and your inner self is safe and protected.

Of course our lives are made up of many pathways rolled into one life so we might have to do some sideways stepping out of some paths, and stay on others.

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So many people are at unprecedented levels of anxiety, depression, etc over the election and aftermath...I keep encountering them.  No matter what a person's inclinations are, it seems like some kind of contagious mental/emotional disease went around making people either completely rabid or emotionally distraught. Whichever way, it is a widespread effect.

It hit me really badly too, and I couldn't make it go away- it was absolutely horrendous. I have to basically stay away from all of it, I can't be on facebook anymore- there is too much rabid irrational insanity from EVERYONE. And I'm not a politically inclined person at all--- there's something about the current atmosphere that is spewing all sorts of negativity that attaches itself to everyone and hurts them. So I'm in quarantine, so to speak! And it works. It is the detachment that Buddhism teaches.

My coworker came into the office yesterday morning and said to me, "I saw someone with a make America great again hat on the street and my day is ruined." WHAT? I mean come on seriously. How absolutely absurd.

Seeing a hat ruined her day. It didn't really but even needing to say that is crazy.
And she's a really stable, sane, intelligent person!
That's the level of complete and total contagion and people are just swallowing it.

You don't have to swallow it or get caught up in it.

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The truth is that all through history there has been upset, imbalance, and unrest.
This is not the first time, nor will it be the last.

It is a very human-collective thing though, and if it is hurting you, or is impacting you negatively, step sideways out of it, stand in your own space and make your own reality instead of following a dictated collective reality.

In times like this history is really important so we can remember and know what others went through- that it isn't just us in this place and time.

It's like when Daya at age 11 doesn't believe me when she is going through a strong emotion or a problem- she doesn't believe that I, too, experienced the exact same thing  To her, that experience is unique to her and no one else can ever understand it because she doesn't really accept that it is a universal experience. As a parent I just shake my head and keep encouraging her, knowing that one day she'll get it.

Collectively humans do exactly the same thing.

But it IS a choice to participate.
If you want to, great- do it. The world needs people like that.

But if you are in a collective flow and it is hurting you, step out.
Sideways. That choice is always available.

I did it SIDEWAYS!

Infusion (PRT)

Ecce crucem Tolemac

Fugite partes adverse

Vincit leo de tribu Juda

RADIX AMORE 

Alleluia

Sometimes energy can get stuck to us and it needs to get cleaned off.
Yesterday I had that anger energy stuck to me.

My issues aside, I know myself and when I give something space, and I acknowledge and vent it, and it is STILL there. something else is going on.

Nothing has happened in the present time to cause me to keep holding that energy, nor is it serving any kind of positive purpose. It is messing up my energy.

So it is either a bit of energy that attached itself to me because I was a vibrational match, or it isn't even mine at all. I don't think it is mine because it feels different than when I am upset due to my own triggers. (This can be a hard thing to sort out if you are energy-sensitive and haven't learned to distinguish what is yours and what you picked up from someone else.)

In any case it has to go. It needs to expire, leave me. I need to get my energy vibration out of the mud and raise the frequency. Sometimes this is difficult.

When I need a really quick and effective energy cleanse, meditation, a bath, and Archangel Michael is a generally effective combination. Oh, and exercise. And maybe a Triple Grid.  It's like a massive infusion of high vibration energy that clears out all the junk.  Like a good shower.

The point is that in order to change your vibration you have to go and get higher vibration energy from somewhere else.  If you know where to go this is pretty easy. It is everywhere, available for everyone, at all times.

Love

Listen children to my simple song

The human life is not so very long

Taking heed, as you grasp for goals

For destiny is full of holes

Back on earth I pray you won't go wrong

Here is an excerpt from Out of Mo's Mind.  I like Mo. He has good things to say.  And his latest article was about love- apt, for Valentine's Day, which is tomorrow.  But this really applies to every day, every moment.

This is not the full article- I pulled some bits out, bits I like.

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What would the world be without romantic love?

Love is a constant, a thread that connects the human experience throughout the ages, like beads on a Mala. It weaves its way through every aspect of our existence and links us to our ancestors and to those who will follow.

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Throughout history, love has been objectified, moralized, petrified, monetized, confused, burdened with lead ingots of guilt, denied, vilified and turned into a device to sell products. Yet, love itself hasn't changed.

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Love is a constant. Love is a baseline of the human experience and without it, we lose our humanity.

Love is not a weakness. Love is strength. Love is the ability to share emotional honesty and be fully confident in the security of spiritual intimacy. True love does not cause misery in our lives, but brings us joy and fulfills us. True love is always a risk, one worth a leap into the abyss of vulnerability.

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Each one of us has to believe in love in order for it to be in our lives. Often, it sneaks up and suddenly pounces onto our path, but If we don't believe in it, we'll shove it out of our way and push on. If we are to recognize love, we have to hold the truth that it's real and that we're entitled to have it.

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Yes, we've all been disappointed and many of us have been fooled by what we thought was love. Many of us have been betrayed or have talked ourselves into something that turned out to be more nightmare than dream. There's no question that love isn't easy.

There's also not a single atom in me that doesn't fully believe that the search for love must go on and is more important than almost anything else we do. This doesn't necessarily mean seeking other partners or being dissatisfied in what you have, but it means always looking for the happiness that you deserve and the love that you are capable of as a human being on this planet.

You know this is true. Your own heart whispers these hopes to you in your daydreams and in your most secret of moments. Never deny the utterings of your heart.

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Until next week I wish you peace, love and certainty.

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In life we are constantly choosing between fear and love.  These forces are interwoven in every detail of our lives.  Fear may seem stronger, but love is always more powerful.  It is always ours to consciously choose.

I read a blog post recently; this paragraph is quite powerful.

All of this–my experiences in Guatemala each time I went there, my experiences in other countries where we’ve traveled, our time in Honduras, our lives as nomads, it all got me thinking about fear and how, so often, we allow fear to be the deciding factor in our lives. It comes in many forms; fear of the unknown, fear based on one-dimensional pictures of a place or a person, fear of failure, fear of taking that first leap, fear of being vulnerable, but it all ends the same way, in deprivation.

If you want your dreams here and now

Pull- don't push- the sacred cow

-Stuart Wilde

Snow Leopard

Deep inside the Tracker's rib

I saw the leopard as eternal,

As immortal spirit breathing

Fur so white and teeth so gleaming

Resolving all through heaven's love

Back in 2008 there was a super fantastic snowstorm. So I went to the Bronx Zoo.  There were maybe five people in the whole place.  It was so magical and spectacular. A crystalline world.

When we approached the Snow Leopard, it came running over to us, like it was so happy to have someone to talk to.  It stayed, too. It was such a deeply magical experience.

Holy light in living temple

Timeless soul you are beloved

Heart enshrined in snowcaps dreaming

Noble is the leopard sleeping

Now sleeping close to heaven's gate

The snow leopard's soul from nature sings

Man, take care of the little things

The snow leopard's heart from heaven calls

Man, take care lest nature spoils

Rest inside the ancient Law

Respect for all is at the fore

At one with all the living things

In love and peace with all living things

-Stuart Wilde

In Time

Men visst eg veit ein morgon renn

då dødens natt skal enda.

Min lekam opp or gravi stend

og evig fryd får kjenna.

Keep Reminding Me

Men visst eg veit ein morgon renn
då dødens natt skal enda
Min lekam opp or gravi stend
og evig fryd får kjenna

Keys

If you believe in the magic, nothing can stand in your way

I am your dream
I am the Light you will be
And I will set you free
Come follow me, follow me

-cecilia

The world needs more people who really, truly believe in Unicorns.

"Truly I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of Heaven."