Is it all Love?

(c) 2009 Joan M. Newcomb

I've heard it said in several ways recently that everything is Love, and that all emotions are really True Joy. Whilst struggling with most of the lower feelings, I've questioned those statements.

If you consider that you're an Infinite Being, and the only emotion you experience is ecstatically joyous love, then everything is that. You've created this reality for the fun of feeling the opposite of who You are. You're infinitely capable, so it's really fun for you to experience limits and difficulty, and hatred and depression.

From that perspective, You're still joyous, even while the little you that You created as Your vehicle of expression, is wrestling in the mud and cursing Your guts out. You *love* the little you. You *love* all the little yous running around on the planet.

It's as if You exist above the clouds, where it is eternal sunlight. You can look down on everything that's happening (because you have multidimensional x-ray vision) and appreciate all the storylines and all the events.

However, from the little you, you're on the planet, under the cloud cover, and you're standing in a thunderstorm getting drenched. Intellectually you know the sun is up there, but it certainly doesn't *feel* sunny.

Same with emotions. You are writhing in despair, in loneliness. The world is coming to an end as you know it, because you lost your job or your relationship. It doesn't frigging feel joyous.

You're not going to die because you have no money, and you're not going to die because you're alone. It's just the little you, the body/personality, that feels that way. Because the body isn't going to make it out of this lifetime alive, so it views everything in life and death terms.

The larger You knows that no one ever makes it out of their lifetime *dead*. Death is as joyous an experience as birth. And since You're eternal, it doesn't matter if the little you dies now or dies later, dies in infancy or lives to be a hundred. It's all part of the wonderful cacophony that You created, the neverending symphony of sound and light.

But how do you *feel* like the Infinite You when you have no way to pay the mortgage, when you said the wrong thing and got dumped, when you're children hate you, or any number of situations of possible stories...

I find it's helpful to start talking to myself *as* my Infinite Self, or start narrating my story as the Me that I AM. When I started writing this article, I noticed a distinct shift when I got to the third paragraph. I felt expansive. I felt compassionate. I felt amused at things that even this morning felt overwhelming.

Talk to yourself as God, the Universe, your Expanded Self, as an Infinite Being. Or ask yourself, as an Infinite Being, how would I view what's happening?

Try it this week, whenever it occurs to you. And see how your life transforms! And email me about it! joan@joannewcomb.com

paddling through life

(c) 2009 Joan Newcomb

I've been following Roz Savage, who is currently rowing her way from Hawaii to Australia (having previously rowed the Atlantic and from San Francisco to Hawaii). It's been fascinating to watch her podcasts http://www.youtube.com/user/rozsavage and read her blog entries http://rozsavage.blogspot.com/. One entry struck me as an apt metaphor for life:

"I don't have as much maneuverability with a rowboat as, say, sailors
have. I can influence but not totally control my direction. Say the wind
is blowing me west (as it is) and I point my boat south (as I do) then I
end up going southwest, or south southwest, or west southwest, depending
on the strength of the wind and, I suppose, the strength of my rowing."

She's affected by convergence zones and currents, which are shifting and changing all the time.

She says "I should know by now that oceans are no respecters of human schedules.
I've never yet been on an open ocean voyage, either by sailboat or
rowboat, that ended up where it was supposed to be, at the time it was
supposed to be. And that's just the way it is. To paraphrase Winnie the Pooh's comment on heffalumps – you never can tell with oceans..."

Doesn't that sound like one's journey through life in general? You point your nose in one direction and then Life intervenes. Energetically, morphic fields look like convergence zones and currents. Collective thought clouds, emotional waves, move across our path, shifting our direction one way or another.

It doesn't work to try to control things beyond our rowboat. It's as futile as swinging your oar at the wind. The best you can do is keep on paddling, using whatever spiritual/energetic tools or techniques you have at your disposal to keep moving. Although you can also pull your oars in for the night and let the current gently take you wherever it will.

From your Expanded Self's point of view, it doesn't really matter whether you're sweating away or sailing along. It's all a very fun and exciting ride.

So I invite you to take the next 7 days to shift your viewpoint about your own life. If you're in effort about trying to make things happen or feel like you're stuck and going nowhere, just relax and enjoy the ride instead.

Email me and let me know what happens! joan@joannewcomb.com

Commitment - to yourSelf!

© 2009 Joan M. Newcomb

In working with several people recently a theme emerged. Two were having a very creative and productive time, rising above challenges, moving forward in their lives. Two were spinning their wheels, feeling stuck, overrun by their mental 'gremlins'.

The secret for the first two was the solution for the second two: committing - to one's Self! The first two were committed, the second two weren't.

We're not talking about discipline, or being committed to goals, although that figures into the equation for one of the productive people. The other one has a more creative approach, doing what she feels motivated to do when she feels motivated to do it. And each time I meet with her she's teeming with new ideas and offerings.

It's an internal commitment they both have - to their Inner Being or their Expanded Self. When that is present, it's like a guiding light that directs you through the toughest time and acts like traction getting you out of any rut where you're spinning your wheels!

When you're committed to your Self, it aligns your focus with your highest good, even if you don't know what that is at the time. It allows things to fall into place, situations and circumstances occur to support You in your growth and expansion.

People are sometimes afraid of commitment, they think it will trap them or they will lose something. They often resist commitment, because they think it will restrict their freedom. As with all things spiritual, the exact opposite is true.

All of these ideas are lies our 'gremlin voices' whisper to us in order to maintain the status quo of stuckness. In reality, committing to your Self empowers you. Committing to your Self opens the doors to opportunities you never dreamed possible!

How do you commit to your Self? Do you have a ceremony? Does it require lengthy meditations? No, not really. It's just a decision. And you may need to remind yourself frequently, as new things come up.

Often when you commit to yourSelf, it's like going through a spiritual remodel. Your reality constructs that were based on false premises start to dissolve. Like living in a house being remodeled, it can be really uncomfortable for a while. Which is why frequent reminders are necessary.

Some people like to meditate or journal, as it's a way to communicate within and can be useful reminder tools. A dialogue between yourself and yourSelf can be very comforting.

When you change your energy patterns you may no longer match your friends and family and coworkers, so it can feel quite lonely. Some people join like-minded groups; it's helpful to be with others who are on the same or similar journey.

So breathe and release all those old ideas about commitment and restrictions. Take a deep breath and inhale new energy, new inspiration, new ideas. Try, just for this week, committing to yourSelf, and see what changes happen! You may like it so much you may commit to yourSelf for the rest of your life!

Being Your Expanded Self

(c) 2009 Joan M. Newcomb

It's all about perspective. Whenever I read someone who is down in the dirt struggling with something, you can be sure they're operating from their body/personality's point of view.

Now mud wrestling can be fun, but most people who call me for readings are not enjoying themselves. They feel like life is happening to them, things feel overwhelming, it's painful, miserable and there is no light at the end of the tunnel.

They've forgotten that they're really an Infinite Being, who chose to come here in order to experience all the fun and diversity of the physical realm. All they're experiencing is pain and discomfort, density and effort. And they're taking it seriously.

As an Infinite Being, they're actually having a blast. If you imagine that you come from an experience of infinite joy and expansiveness, then you'd find it entertaining to try out the lower emotions and limitations.

When you're experiencing life as your body/personality, though, it feels powerless and out of control. When you operate from your Expanded Self, you have choices, it feels effortless and enjoyable. Even the tough times are fun.

In fact, the more challenging your life is, the happier you are as your Infinite Being. It's like an Olympic Athlete choosing the most difficult workout.

How do you regain your infinite perspective? There are many ways. The first is to remind yourself that you're an Infinite Being. It's also helpful to talk to your body *as* your Expanded Self. Like a horse with a rider, it's very comforting for your body to know you've got the reins. Meditation or quiet reflection assists with this, as does journaling (you can write to your body as your Expanded Self, and vice versa). It's a very simple shift, one that becomes easier the more you do it.

When you're 'back in the saddle' as your Expanded Self, you're reconnected with your inner wisdom. You intuitively know what you're next steps are. You can look at all the excitement and drama going on in the news and not get caught up in it.

You can say to yourself, "I'm an Infinite Being". Any problems, concerns or questions you have, ask yourself "what would an Infinite Being do?" You'll find that, as your experience of your Self expands, your troubles will shrink!

I invite you to get started now. Remind yourself as often as you think of it, that you're Infinite, in a physical body. And watch how your life changes! And let me know what happens!

Benevolent Universe

(c)2009 Joan M. Newcomb

It's hard to believe it's a benevolent Universe if you look at the news. How could God/Source/Spirit/Creator create a world with violence and hate? How can anyone feel safe when there's so much to fear?

And yet when I've had moments (or months) of being truly aligned and connected, it's been a Niagara Falls of Love. At those times, I've felt in love with God, in love with my life and in love with myself. Even though my outer circumstances hadn't changed, I still had the same problems, I knew that everything was going to be okay. Regardless of the external dramas, I was always able to come back to center.

After many years of spiritual work I was able to uncover the origin of my feeling that the Universe wasn't on my side.

I grew up in a devoutly Christian family, we went to Church every Sunday and said grace at meals. We were told God was a God of love. Yet the environment in our home wasn't always loving. And my father's job involved life or death situations, so there was an unconscious atmosphere of being on high alert at all times. It doesn't feel like a benevolent Universe if someone could kill you at any moment!

But in my times of direct connection, I can feel the greater perspective as one of Love.

When I view my environment through the lenses of the regular world, I see injustice and abuse and global warming. It feels unsafe and dangerous. Yet when connect with my inner Divinity, I have a very different perspective. It's like a parent watching children on the playground. They're inventing games to play, some of which have very dramatic storylines and produce very intense feelings. Divinity is holding a loving space for these games and yet isn't moved to intervene, because none of it is real.

Reality is what is unseen. What we see is our made up story.

As I walk through the games on this playground, all I have to do is consciously keep my focus on the Truth. Events can happen but I don't have to be swept up in the drama. When you realize that we are all already connected as Essence, even estrangement and death don't have any significance. When you realize that you, at your core, *are* Essence, so You are the one that manifested all of this, you can be overwhelmed with appreciation. There is no poverty, there is no lack, because it is all a neverending creation. You stand in the flow of this abundant energy and fear and concern and the economy dissolve.

Baby steps are all that's needed to get to this space. I recommend Abraham-Hicks, and I recommend Divine Openings, and I recommend Busting Loose From The Money Game . You can find free videos of all of these on YouTube to get you started as well.

Any time you get swept up in the headlines, take a step back. Imagine seeing the situation from outside of time and space takes the charge out of it. Any time you feel swayed by interactions with family, friends or coworkers, emotionally detach. Imagine stepping off stage or having a commercial break. See others as cast members who are, at their Essence, divinity also. Notice how that shifts your perspective.

Notice the dialogue between your ears, the imaginary conversations you have in your head as you drive down the road. Notice the interview you give on Oprah at 4am lying awake in your bed. Stop telling those stories to yourself! Start reminding yourself of what an amazing story it all is. Consciously appreciate the wonderful world and the imaginative scriptwriter and director you are to have created it.

You'll quickly realize that it *is* a benevolent Universe, lovingly created by your Expanded Self.

Doing this a little bit every day can have a dramatic affect on you. When I started doing this six years ago, it lifted me out of years of depression. It can redirect your life in very positive ways.

So try this for the next seven days and see what happens! And email me the results!

Seniority & Discernment

(c) 2009 Joan M. Newcomb

I am really enjoying Lola Jones' book, "Things Are Going Great In My Absence (How to Let Go & Let The Divine Do the Heavy Lifting". What I like most is that she's not interested in gathering a following. She wants to give people information that empowers them and then, gently, shoos them on their way. They can come back to her website, www.divineopenings.com and mosey around for new things, but their continued awakening is up to them and their own Divinity.

"Spiritual practices are meant to be outgrown," she says.

I followed a spiritual practice for twenty five years; a good twelve years beyond leaving my former spiritual community. I enhanced it along the way, but it was essentially the same practice. Apparently I outgrew it three years ago, when I expanded into Matrix Energetics www.matrixenergetics.com and Busting Loose http://www.bustingloose.com/. It's been exhilarating and uncomfortable, rewarding and challenging.

What was so interesting is that I created both of these to be spearheaded by characters that I initially judged. This was partly through my own Spiritual Teacher lenses, but also I believe a creation by my Essential Self not to give up too much space to either one. To retain my own seniority as I continued to expand.

It's a tricky thing, to discern whether you are operating from your own Knowingness and Wisdom, or whether you're viewing things through your Judgments, Assumptions, Perfect Pictures or Expectations. The way I've been able to tell is whether I have a lot of emotion around my opinions. If I'm feeling very strongly about them, then it's the latter. If I'm feeling bemused or neutral, it's my inner wisdom.

However my gut feelings can show me when I'm navigating into toxic territory. I don't negate them when I'm in a situation or with a person who's driving me crazy. Before I would have stayed until I figured it out. Now I know it's okay to leave.
Neither choice is good or bad, they're just different choices leading to different experiences.

Ultimately it's all about being Divinely guided, and that guidance is inward. It's not in another person, place or thing. Others can provide clues along the way (thank you Lola, Richard and Robert), but your connection with your Expanded Self is uniquely yours. Your path is your own personal road trip.

In my classes and my coaching, I'm all about empowering you to connect to your own Inner Wisdom. Your life is entirely created by You; you create all your experiences for your own growth. If you're reading this, then you created me to write it for you. If you're in a class, you created me or whoever is teaching it to tell you whatever you hear or learn. If you're being coached, you created me or whomever is coaching you to ask you powerful questions and inspire you moving forward.

Think of someone you give up space to, that you think knows more than you or has more than you. Realize that they're just a castmember in your hologram. You made them up. You wrote them into your script. Whatever they know or have, You Know and Have on a vibrational level. The Author always knows everything about the characters they're writing about.

As you align with your Expanded Self, you'll realize this more and more.

Start recognizing the difference between your little self, your personality, and yourself as Spirit, the Essence of Who You Really Are. Start identifying yourself *as* the Greater part of you, and watch how radically things change. Problems become smaller, enjoyment of life becomes greater.

Try this whenever you think of it this week, and let me know what happens! joan@joannewcomb.com

Perfect Timing ©2009 Joan M. Newcomb

Today I’m musing about timing. I’ve been having things come into form that have taken ten years to manifest. My first book, originally written in April of 1996, was self published in 2006. I’m getting a handle on money issues that have been around at least that long, if not longer. I’m in a relationship that’s everything I’ve always wanted – and have been consciously praying for and energetically working on manifesting since the early 80’s.

Then I think about manifestations from my earlier years – my two kids were planned pregnancies that occurred without effort, with quick births, yet they had their own timing for being born.

Why do some things happen quickly and some things take forever to show up?

When I was a teenager I lost 50 pounds, simply by charting what I ate, limiting calories, and walking to school and back every day (about 5 or 6 miles). It took most of a year to do this, and was tremendously transformative and empowering.

Buoyed by this experience, I set my sights on a relationship, which took about five months to get the guy to go out with me. It was initially wonderful but then heart breaking.

As I look back over my different life experiences, some consciously manifested, some unconsciously attracted, and there has been a sense of Divine Timing in all of it.

“The Universe gives you what you can handle” is one way of looking at it. You attract what you’re ready for, is another way. I’ve resisted what the Universe has given me at times; it thinks I’m too friggin’ capable.

But now I’m reframing my experience of timing, and also of manifestation.

Someone once mentioned that reincarnation didn’t make any sense to them because everything was happening at once. I got the instant understanding that there is no time or space as Spirit, so from the Spiritual perspective all one’s past and future lives are happening ‘at the same time’ this one it. There is no linear link from past to future, it’s not like going up grades in school. And if you can grasp that in Spirit there is no individuality then there’s really no one spark of light going through a series of experiences (like grades in school). We just jump into the pool of life, splash about, and then jump out into the All-That-Is.

As I reconcile it taking me so long to get to where I am at, I realize that it really took no time at all. Each lifetime is just a blink of an eye. And what I’ve accomplished is just a glimmer of the great Spark of all of creation.

As I relax into a Spiritual perspective of creating, it really doesn’t matter how much or how little I have achieved. It’s all about Creation. It’s all about learning to manifest in the physical. I either manifest something, or I don’t. It either happens now, or later, or not. I create this, or I create something else. And I can choose to create happy thoughts, happy experiences, or challenging ones.

It becomes a much more fun way to experience life. And I can welcome all these wonderful things coming into my life and enjoy my time with them Now. Which is really the only time there is.

Turning Points and New Technology

©2009 Joan M. Newcomb

Something many people are feeling nowadays is a sense of ennui. It's like there's no wind in their sails, no current taking them in any direction. In more extreme cases, it feels like someone has picked their boat up and put it down in another ocean in another hemisphere. All the stars are wrong. So there's no way to navigate and no energy to move with.

This is one way of experiencing a turning point in one's life. I've had these feelings at certain times of my life, when I was making a major transformation from one way of being to another.

It seems more prevalent now, as the outer reflections of the economy, job market, real estate, stocks, politics or whatever, is going through radical changes as well. Pretty much everyone, it seems, is going through some kind of transition right now.

What can you do when this happens? Get out your oars and row? With no sense of direction? Hunker down and wait for something to change? Stand on deck and yell for help or flash SOS with your beacon? Or go below and read a book and pretend everything is fine and dandy.

Well, any of those things are fine, as it doesn't really matter what you do. Change will happen, whether you paddle or not.

The feeling of no-energy, ennui, lack of motivation, etc. comes when you are stepping out of an old way and stepping into a new way of Being. It's disorienting for your body/personality, because suddenly it seems like there isn't anything familiar any more. Old ways of doing things don't work, there's no enthusiasm or sense of calling.

It's your Expanded Self that is doing the stepping, and your Expanded Self that knows the bigger picture. If you feel like paddling, then paddle. If you feel like reading a book, then read. There's nothing you *need* to do but take the next indicated step, whatever that seems to be.

One of the challenges I've been going through is, working on this accelerated level, my old tools and techniques don't work (or don't work the way they used to). I've slowly come to understand why. When I first learned them, it was the early 1980's, and the tools and techniques were based on first century Christian and Eastern mysticism. A lot of the analogies I used for understanding them were based on the technology of the time. Things have changed a bit since then.

Recently I let go of a whole group of unseen helpers, known as 'guides' or devas, and brought in a new 'staff group'. The old group was represented by one image, a guy with a long gray beard in robes. The new group was some trendy young guy too shimmery to get a clear picture. They shook hands and the bearded guy left (presumably to get on his camel and go off into the desert).

As I was watching this I was thinking "I need to have an energetic 'staff meeting' to get to know my new guides." They immediately told me they don't need meetings. But how am I going to communicate with them? They flashed me the impression that they'll Tweet me when needed. OMG, they use Cosmic Twitter? Suddenly I got the impression that, yes, they'll send ideas, inspiration, and inspiration via psychic Tweets (or is it Twits?).

I'm fifty years old and I feel like I'm suddenly working with twenty-somethings. Just twenty-somethings that are ageless and formless (wireless to the nth degree).

Something I've noted before is that technology is mankind's way of replicating Spirit. We invented the airplane so we could transcend the earth. We created phones and then email to replicate telepathy. Twitter, it turns out, replicates Consciousness.

In the movie Bruce Almighty, Bruce is given God's abilities for a period of time. At one point in the film, he hears everyone's thoughts. That's Twitter.

So, technology has shifted from typewriters to computers to Iphones. Energetically, things have shifted as well. There's a whole 'retraining' going on (mostly unconsciously). However it doesn't have to be difficult or take effort. Relax and notice what's different for you. Validate what has changed. Allow the evolution.

And email me what you discover!

What Life Is All About

(c) 2009 Joan M. Newcomb

A long time ago I was washing windows. The elderly owner of the house where I was working came out and started gabbing with me. He ask, "what is the purpose of life?"

I was absorbed in my task and only half hearing what he was saying, but as soon as he asked that question, I came into sharp focus. "Creating. Creativity. We're here to create."

It was one of those 'Aha' moments, when the I AM me really stepped into the driver's seat to respond to his query.

You've had that feeling - where you feel clear, and maybe large, and maybe full. Things around you are in sharper focus. Colors are brighter. There's an inner relaxation, too. That's you being You. That's you Being. That's when All That You Are is fully here. Doesn't that feel wonderful?

We're here to create. That's it. That's all. We're in it for the fun of it. No lessons to learn, no karma to pay off. It's all about the true Joy of being here, in physical form.

Think about a time when you were absorbed in doing something. Writing. Gardening. Cleaning. Cooking. Painting. Singing. Making model trains. Rearranging the rocks in your fish tank. Caring for your child. Really, it could be anything.

An energy kicked in. It feels similar to the Aha moment. It's an inner satisfaction. It's a hum of your engine. It's an inner happiness. You're in the moment, and it could last forever.

That's You, creating.

All art is an expression of our Spiritual voice. Painter's paint and what comes through bypasses intellect and goes straight to the heart. Musicians play their music and do the same. But it doesn't have to be what one typically thinks of as 'art'. It can come through anything you engage it.

It's You being here.

You are Spirit, you are Infinite, and you're here manifesting through this body for the fun of it. At first it seems like density and effort, struggle and pain, powerlessness and manipulation and all those gloriously entangled threads of restrictions and resistance. But that's part of the fun.

Being Infinitely Capable, it's fun when things are really, really hard.

Eventually, though, when you relax into it, breath, release, refocus, it becomes a delightful game to play. You are here, Being Yourself.

What's so fun about making stuff (making art, creating) is it is what You do. You are your most expanded, made all of this reality. Decorating your house, building the diorama for your train set, adding plants to your fish tank, are all microcreations of your macrocreation of life.

If you've lost perspective of this, if you're feeling overworked, burned out, used and abused, take a time out. Do *something* creative. Even fifteen minutes of idle doodling can bring your energy back. Bake cookies. Knit. Sing. Badly. Finger paint with chocolate pudding.

Do something like this every day. Doesn't have to be the same thing, doesn't have to be at a specific time. Give yourself a moment of creativity and see how it restores your soul.

Try this for the next seven days and see what happens! And email me about it! joan@joannewcomb.com

Power

(c) 2009 Joan M. Newcomb

I'm in the midst of a tremendous shift of awareness. Which reminds me of a joke - what's the difference between a pun and a fart? A pun is a shift of wit...

What it feels like is a graceful transition into an expanded awareness. Unlike previous shifts which have been painful and dramatic bottoming out before becoming enveloped in Love.

Not that there hasn't been some dramas along the way... but I'm getting ahead of myself.

Everything nowadays is the opposite of whatever it's been. Some of which we already know and understand. We no longer have to work 8-6, fifty weeks of the year, remain loyal to one company for a lifetime, stay married to our first husband for the sake of the kids and the mortgage on the house, continue going to Church because what would the neighbors (or our parents) think?

It's an energetic dance. People who've seemed powerful in the past, because they were so rich, so dominant and controlling, are revealed to be the least powerful of all. They've operated from the Power outside belief. The Truth is power's inside. Standing in your own power doesn't feel very powerful (in the old way of experiencing it). Empowerment often feels normal, relaxed, unhurried, centered.

I recently witnessed someone who feels very powerless in their own life manipulating an entire group to their personal will. Yet another interesting illusion of power. More on that later. Maybe.

In relaxing into my internal sense of power, I've received some fun "cookies" from the Universe (reassurance that my Expanded Self is truly driving the bus). Sunday I saw a Safeway gas advertizing gas at $2.23 a gallon. I stopped by there yesterday to fill up, and the price was $2.37. Had I misread it? Did the price go up? I got $10 worth of gas, then did so much driving I was at empty when I returned home. This morning I went to another gas station and the sign said "$2.23" per gallon. I drove up to the pump, looked over and saw the gas station owner changing the sign to $2.37. I looked at the pump and the price still read $2.23. I looked at the owner and he said, 'Lucky for you I haven't changed the other side of the sign'.

Yesterday I had a nail in my tire, which kept me from attending the meeting where the group was manipulated. It was a gift from my Expanded Self to not engage with drama. More on that later. Maybe.

Today I went to Discount Tire and asked them how much to patch my tire? How much to put it back on my car? It was all free.

Okay, maybe these things don't seem all that miraculous to you. But I'm enjoying my cookies, anyway.

I've noticed it doesn't feel like power when it's genuine power (doesn't feel powerless either).

Crazy people/irritating situations are just indicators where you have given up power, or have power stored in this illusion we call Life. When you dance this particular energetic dance, it's all about reclaiming power. Taking your power back from these situations actually means withdrawing your energy from the illusion. When you do, everything falls apart at first (sometimes) and then everything falls into place (like I'm experiencing now).

When I was a kid, my mom read me stories about Brer Rabbit, who was always escaping Brer Fox and Brer Bear's tricks. One day Brer Fox and Brer Bear made a Tar Baby sitting on a bench. Brer Rabbit came along and said Howdy, then got offended when the Tar Baby said nothing back. He started to sock the Tar Baby and got stuck.

You can, if you like, react to crazy people, irritating situations. However, to me it's kind of like the Tar Baby, just gets you wrestling with them and giving them more power.

Brer Rabbit got free when he convinced Brer Bear and Brer Fox to throw him in the briar patch, by pleading with them *not* to. It turned out to be where he grew up, so he got away free.

I mean, if you want to wrestle with the Tar Baby and get thrown in a briar patch, that's one way to do it. I'm just saying, why wrestle at all?

Sometimes we can't help it. The Expanded part of you knows not to wrestle, but you're covered with tar anyway. You can be amused AND irritated - it shows you're regaining seniority.

Seniority is a tricky concept. It comes from the idea that You are senior in your own space, your own creation. You ARE your expanded Self. There is NO power outside of you, not in anyone or anything. You're the main character in your hologram. Seniority isn't authority (which implies power over others). Seniority is... resting within your own energy. With the knowledge that it's all your own space, everything is your own creation. But you don't have to get caught up in the drama of it. You can channel surf and decide where to put your attention.

What can I suggest for you to do this week? Keep reclaiming power. Keep breathing. Inhale a lot. Exhale some. Step back from the drama. See what happens when you stop trying. Do something different. Do the opposite of what you've always done. And watch what unfolds.

Email me and let me know what happens when you do!