Changes
When all is dropping and disappearing
in the heart of all this disappearance is hidden
your spring
From this point you will start growing
new flowers that you have never seen before.Osho from the book Signatures on Water.
Playing A Bigger Game
Playing a bigger game. This is a term I have been working with .. mulling over in my brain, trying to get my head around for months, no probably some years .. seeing it as some sort of goal that I had to acheive – something that I needed to do or control or manifest. A position in life that I could only arrive at if I did certain steps.
For example.. if I followed the road to manifesting wealth.. then I could step into playing a bigger game. Because of course you need money to play a bigger game. How can you do something big without lots of cash? And of course then.. as I didn’t have lots of cash, that was a very good reason for not being able to play the bigger game.
So I continued on in my normal life – sure .. doing good things, with good ethics and helping people and feeling grateful for the abundance that I experienced in my life, but always with that nagging sense of not quite stepping into that which was mine to really do.
It was a thorny and knotty problem for me.. something I wrestled with almost constantly. and in fact something that no one else could ever answer for me – try as I might arrive at a suitable response from someone else.
It never came. I meditated, I wrote goals, I reviewed them daily, I spent lots of money on expensive courses that promised to bring me to a state where I would simply KNOW that which I was destined to be do or have.
And so I exercised more, I did special early morning rituals, I gave up things, I contemplated giving up more things.. I reviewed my goals yet again.
And nothing really changed.
And yet deep inside perhaps something was working its way through me.
A sense of synchronicity.
And then came the Dreamcatchers Cruise. I knew I should go with a clear intention of what I was wishing to create through this cruise. But life got in the way and I didn’t clearly formulate more than a simple wish to have a good time. I also wished to surrender to the fact that I had invited my 82 year old aunty along with me.. and that I would need to slow down somewhat and adjust my desires to fit with her needs as well.
I also was hoping quietly to get some clarity on my next steps.
I made a pact with myself that during this cruise – that this event would not see me sleeping. I was not going to miss anything. So dancing into the wee hours of the night became the norm and perhaps that in itself allowed me to break down some barriers that I was holding around myself.
Am I recommending that as a personal growth process? No not necessarily.. but anything that breaks down the walls that we create to ‘protect’ ourselves – in the right situation – can be very useful.
Gurdjieff – that extraordinary teacher and master – was known to get his followers very drunk and then demand of them to be present and aware. A tool that has been used by those who are bent on awakening those around them to good use many times.
So for me.. on the 2nd last day – we were in the conference room – and during a simple sharing exercise – I turned to my friend David who was seated beside me to share – and out of my mouth fell the words.. “I have to go to India.”
It was as if a light had turned on and shone upon the most simple solution that had ever been presented to me.
Here I was .. the person who had been wracking her brains – trying to work out with her mind what to do.. when all the time it was so simple.
Step into the bigger game.. simply acknowledge what is the next step – trust that the way forward will be shown to you and ask: “What can I do for you?”
Maya Shahani and Nandini were there. As soon as I could I went to them both – once again synchonicity aided my steps and they were standing together – and I said: “I am coming to India .. when I get there I would like to assist you .. in whatever way I can.”
Maya creates schools in the slums of Mumbai .. she provides opportunities for the mothers and helps people to come out of poverty. Her Sage Foundation is a model for moving into a better world.
Nandini runs an orphanage with 75 children. She is creating a model for orphanages throughout the world – one which supports the fullest potential of the children who are living there.
I have stepped into a bigger game and it was as simple as saying: “yes” to what was completely under my nose.
Was it easy? No – but it is simple.
Will it be easy.. now that I am home – back in my comfort zone? No not necessarily .. but writing this has put it out there for anyone who cares to read it.. now I have to do it. I have no choice any more.. my path is clear.
Thank you to all who have helped me on this way for there have been many. Mike Handcock and Dave Rogers - and the rest of the Dreamcatchers crew – thank you for you were the final catalyst in this particular alchemical moment.
Vaccine Zombie
Mike Adams the Health Ranger has really hit it with this rap song.. worth a look .. with some excellent messages we need to hear.
Universal Messages Come in Ordinary Ways
I just got back from the Dreamcatchers Cruise. Phew.. what a wonderful extraordinary trip this has been – sharing wth exceptional people from all over the world. I will tell you more of this in the coming days and share insights that I have been privileged to receive.
But for now.. this is simply a snippet to reinforce the message of trusting in the Universal knowing.
I am home.. back in my home office – at Best Health – looking around me and feeling somewhat daunted by the amount of ‘stuff’ I see around me. The collection of years of working and living – and building up the clutter of the Western way of life.
Starting to feel a little overwhelmed by it all and sensing strongly the need to shift and move into a higher gear.
I went to the kitchen to make a light lunch and my eyes fell on the local Herald newspaper – suddenly I had a knowing that inside that paper would be a message for me - I sat to open it.. and as I opened it – not even starting yet to read it, out fell a postcard onto the bench.
It showed a beautiful picture on it of the sun rays shining up behind a cloud.. and the header on it said..
“See the invisible! Do the impossible! Believe in miracles!”
Author Unknown.
And at the foot of the picture the words..
TRULY INSPIRED.
I was stunned and then curious – “What was the advertisement for?” I turned it over almost not believing what I was seeing – and there it was.. Acton Real Estate on the other side.
What did that message have to do with real estate? Well I guess it didn’t .. it was simply a message for me from God!
I breathed a huge sigh of relief – I don’t have to do it all.. yes I have to be the hand of God if I may use that term to describe the higher power – the higher power that is us – but I can “let go and let God” .. and I can allow myself to truly do that now. Thank you.
Thank you Acton Real Estate!! Thank you Mike Handcock of the DreamCatchers - Dave Rogers – coach Extraordinaire.. Glen Levy – the most dangerous wonderful man on the planet – Don Tolman – a health guru beyond excellence, Maya Shahani – Sage Foundation and a profound thank you to all the divine beings who played with us on the DreamCatchers Cruise!!
A World of Love – Happiness
Bruce Lipton Phd said:
“When the brain sees a world of love, it releases happy chemicals. These translate into chemistry that controls the health of the cell.”
If you don’t know who Bruce Lipton is you are excused but I highly recommend that you check him out as he is one of the most brilliant thinkers and writers of our time. He has turned the erroneous supposition that genes control our lives, on its head.
His books – Spontaneous Evolution: Our Positive Future and a Way to Get There From Here and The Biology of Belief: Unleasing the Power of Consciousness, Matter and Miracles are excellent.
I really want to bring to your attention to the above statement..
What does this mean for you and me – practically, day to day?
It means that if I survey the world from a position of friendliness and the spirit of of Kindness (Sylvia Marina) with an intention to step up and do my work and my play from the point of view of love – then that in itself has a profound effect on my health.
As Bruce already does this so well, I have no desire here to explain the biochemistry of how this effect actually occurs, – but I clearly wish to bring it to your attention so that you have yet another reason to shift your focus and move effectively into the light of the world.
Einstein said – “The field is the sole governing agency of the particle”
Okay this is quite a statement so let’s see if we can deconstruct this a little to help each of us really get what he was saying.
It is that the environment, the energy field in which we are all bathed, has a profound effect on the individual or at the smallest level on each particle of our being. Referring once again to Bruce Lipton – he gives an example of the effect of a magnet on iron filings on a sheet of paper held above the magnet. The magnetic field effects the movement of the filings. However if those filings are cemented into a coherent state – they become a solid iron bar.. which can then be magnetised. Then this coherent force will effect the field.
What am I on about…. you may ask?
Well simply this… if we as human beings become connected, become coherent in our intent and join in community, we can change the field of the earth. We can make a difference, but only as a connected humanity – only as a wholeness and a oneness. It is the time to connect.
In the words of the master wordsmith and conductor of social artistry Jean Houston:
“Now is the time and we are the people.”
First Do No Harm
I was a straight laced, medically oriented, relatively tunnel vision Occupational Therapist. Ready to shoot down anyone who suggested anything out of my belief system patterns. Until my husband – almost ready to die, was healed by a Balinese shaman.
My husband – then suffering from severe recurrent pancreatitis – was told clearly by the medical profession that his days were numbered and they had no further answers for him and his incurable condition.
The Balinese healer, after sleeping in the family temple in order to dream the method of healing for my husband,used only his hands – and massaged my husband’s body with some hot yellow paste. After two weeks he proclaimed him healed and he was.
That catapulted me out of my comfortable reality and into a journey which has no end in sight.
It moved me to be aware that there is much more to this world than meets our eyes. To realise that healing has many different shades and colours and that scientific studies and rationale is not necessarily always right or even in fact useful.
My husband (now my ex) is still alive today more than 30 years later.
“Scientific?” - (using the criteria we consider to be fit and acceptable in our Western mentality) this was no where near it!. “Placebo?” – well if it was I certanly didn’t care.. my husband was healed.
Western Medicine is struggling with the load of chronic disease – and in their struggle they are having the tendency to kick out against anything they don’t really understand.. there are many good healers in the firing line for speaking out and walking their truth.
Hippocrates famous advice more than 2000 years ago was “First do no harm”.
In our more than 34 years (combined) of practice – neither Sahaja Springer – kinesiologist and facilitator of magic – nor myself – kinesiologist and EAV electrodermal screening practitioner (Avatar) - have ever harmed anyone.
And there are many that live healthier more balanced lives as a result of working with us. We are very happy for that, and we are always here to serve you and to assist you to live happier healthier lives.
Please look behind the smokescreens that are placed in our way every day.. look deeper to enquire what is really the truth – dig just a little and you will be amazed at what is being purposefully hidden from your view.
Scientific studies on all manner of things from ‘healthy margarine that reduces your cholesterol” to pesticides and chemicals that are ‘harmless’ and only later are revealed to be changing our gene pool (and most certainly not for the better). Drug company funded scientific studies proving that the latest and greatest wonder pill won’t kill you have been highlighted in our prestigious newspaper The Australian so simply trusting the ‘science’ may be dangerous to your health.
Some of the places to look that will give you honest clear information are the following:
The Health Ranger - great entertaining news.. sign up for his newsletter.. its well worth it.
Dr Mercola – who has an amazing array of information for health matters.
Open your eyes – open your minds, allow the information that is out there to reach you through the jungle of advertisements, mis-information and lies. Your health demands it.
The Stories We Tell Ourselves
The stories we tell ourselves are the stories that define the potentiality of our existence. We are our stories. Shekhar Kapur
A wonderful talk seen recently on TED ideas worth spreading. If you don’t know the TED talks I highly recommend them. There are wonderful concepts seen and heard here.
But back to the words of Shekhar Kapur.
We create stories to define our existence. A person without a story does not exist.
He talks on how he puts himself into chaos in order to get out of his mind – to create – to bring in the source that we connect with when we meditate.
I suggest you will be inspired beyond yourself by watching this wonderful talk.
And the inspiration that occurred to me as I watched and listened to what he had to say is this: What stories are you telling yourself? Do you tell stories that hold you within limits, to excuse yourself, to keep yourself small, to rationalise your unwillingness to step into who your truly are?
Or do you tell yourself stories that will lift you to greater heights, stories that will pull you toward your greatness – that will hook you into the essential archetypes of our world – the hero stories? Because these are the stories that will also define our future – the stories that will bring us into our full potential as human beings.
If you find yourself telling the fairy tale of doom and gloom – the Brothers Grimm style tales – where the victim is fattened up for the slaughter .. and the wicked witches wait in the wings to pounce on the unwary.. change the channel!
Flip the switch.. choose and choose again.. choose your stories wisely for they not only define you.. yourself but define us all as the human race, define our nations and define us as a people who can courageously move forward into the future that we envisage and dream ourselves.. leaving behind the limitation and smallness of the nightmares of our restrictive past.
And not only that – help your children to dream the dreams and tell the stories that will bring them too into a future worth living beyond the stories of disaster that abound in these days of change and evolution.
Mentors, Teachers, Coaches, Advisors
As we move through our lives, we learn in so many diverse ways. The most beneficial and often the easiest way to learn is with a mentor, a teacher, or a person who may sometimes be called a coach.
When I was a young child my parents were my main examples to learn and copy and imitate – sometimes much to their dismay! And for me, being brought up in the ‘bush’ that is the Australian Outback, my role models were few and far between. The jackaroo with his high heeled riding boots (RM Williams of course) swaggering around our wide concrete verandahs was certainly my hero! Only problem was of course .. I was a girl and my Father was not too keen on my slavish imitation of the jackaroo!
Life progressed on and teachers and mentors came and went – there are many that I still clearly recall with great fondness – those that taught me the foundations of the ethics that I have built my life on. I have been so very fortunate with the number and quality of the people I have been privileged to learn with and model.
And now in my work I am often considered a mentor myself – I mentor those who come in the art of living – in the art of bringing joy into their lives and finding their full potential. Does that mean that I have transcended the need for teachers and mentors myself. Absolutely NOT!
A very special mentor of mine – Roger Hamilton – once said that when you choose a mentor, make sure that you ask to be mentored by one who is of course further on in the evolvement of their field that you are – but not necessarily one who is at the pinnacle for example. Why not.. why not choose the mentor who is at the top of their game?
Well consider this. One of my current coaches – mentors – is a friend and colleague – Ben Wan – Ben is great at what he does.. he is an internet marketing coach. Is he at the absolute top of his game? Possibly not – but he is at a level considerably more proficient than I am so learning from him is of great benefit to me. If Ben Wan was a supreme master at what he does, his languaging would be too advanced for me at my level to understand. He would have to step down to my level to explain the basics – because that is the level that I am at. As it is he is a great mentor for me in this area simply because he can understand easily what I am stuck on.
And he is great at explaining things in language that I can comprehend.
Roger says – if you ask to be mentored by the person at the peak of the game, and you are too far down the ladder, you may risk not being able to step up to the level required by the mentor, and also you may fall down on the way and block the pathway for others!
So .. I believe we all need coaches and mentors to assist us on our life journey in many different areas – and these people change as we progress through our work and life paths we choose.
Modeling those who are successful in their field can assist you greatly to move into success yourself – whether that be in the very complex and detailed field of internet marketing (thank you Ben) or in the skills of moving into your peak physical fitness, or in my case – assistance with the evolution of my day to day life in congruence and harmony with my work and my passion for growing into my full potential – for this I am mentored by my good friends Dave Rogers and Mike Handcock. They come highly recommended.
Only The Singing Was Left
An old friend shared this beautiful story with me recently and I could not resist sharing it on further with his permission. Enjoy…
Nisheetha and i just drove a 200 mile round-trip to hear an unknown and illiterate Bengali sing for twenty minutes. You’ll maybe remember the Bauls of Bengal are the itinerant mystic poets of India, the drunken laureates of the spirit. In the local language they are known as the madhukuri , the honey-gatherers. Like the minstrels of mediaeval Europe they travel the villages and small towns of Bengal offering their songs and their inspiration to all and receiving in return rice and dhal and vegetables.
At the Old Vic Theatre in Bristol the writer on Indian spirituality William Dalrymple was reading excerpts from his latest book ‘Nine Lives’. Two Bauls were seated beside him on the stage. He introduced one as the singer Paban Das.
Paban stood and tuned his five stringed instrument for a moment. When he opened his mouth the honey poured forth.
I keep bees. At the end of summer we take the boxes with frames full of honey off the top of the hives up to the kitchen. With long knives we cut off the wax cappings, put the dripping frames into a centrifuge tank and crank the handle until all the honey is extracted. Then we leave it to settle for twenty four hours to allow bits of wax and pollen to rise to the top. The kitchen at this time is redolent with the smells of summer, of the fragrance of flowers and the sweetness of the nectars.
Then the moment comes.
With sparkling clean glass honey jars lined up beside me, I hold one beneath the tap at the foot of the tank. As I open it a rope of thick golden honey flows noiselessly into the jar. This is the beekeeper’s moment of fulfilment, the consummation of a year-long dialogue with nature and the bees.
When Paban began to s
ing my heart was pierced with sweetness. Tears poured down my cheeks. He sang another song and the roof and walls of the theatre came off and the place was filled with light. In his third song everything disappeared, the singer the audience, the song; only the singing of was left.
Later when we met him and his wife, his soft hands, his warm embrace, his brilliant smile were ordinary markers of an extraordinary master honey gatherer.
The lover
who wholly loves
can reach reality.
The secrets of death
are revealed to him
while he is fully alive.
What does he care
for the other shores of life?
love and hugs
Rashid
rashidmaxwell@yahoo.com
Light Up The World
This blog is the continuation of a blog which has been running for a number of years.. if you would like to see more posts from me than please just head on over to this link… I would love to share what I have already written with you. and look forward to providing much more inspiration, information and intelligent comment.
Let us light a candle in ourselves that sparks a revolution in this world – that brings us into the new era we are heading for with ease and grace.
As I have said before….
What’s it all about?
To assist in raising the consciousness of the world.
Sounds like one heck of a task – and it is, but we can only do it one of us at a time, one step at a time – and if lots of us go for it, then the world can come awake and become lighter and start moving away from fear and into light.
This blog is a small candle in the dark, moving to join with all the other lights out there!
And if I can help any of you to be informed – to find the way whatever that is for you, then I have succeeded in my purpose!
Thanks for visiting.
