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Appreciating Our Planet: Investing in Our Future – Part 2/3

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In part 1, I discussed how Gaia, our Planet, is a living, breathing organism – a conscious, living being, and that she nurtures us, and gives to us freely, asking for nothing in return. I also discussed that most native people still hold the reciprocal relationship with her that their ancestors did.  And by adhering to the concept of enough, they maintain the strong give and take relationships with her – that was always intended how we were to live. 

(This is an article from 2018,which I also posted again in 2019, and am re-posting it now. It seems timely with us all likely spending more time being outdoors and in nature these days, and a reminder for us to love and look after our Planet so that future generations will be able to take advantage of her energizing properties).

(You can read Part 1 here  And here for my blog post The Concept of Enough) 

Embedded in the Indigenous peoples’ histories is the belief that we are all our Planet’s stewards.

We would do well to listen to the Indigenous peoples and their concerns about maintaining fresh air, clean water, and healthy land. To carefully study and reflect on their approaches to nature.

We must do this for them so that they can maintain their connections to the land and cultures, and therefore their sense of empowerment, but we also must do it for all people.

As a collective society, it is the Indigenous people who have maintained the knowledge of how to keep our Planet healthy. Their beliefs about it are our road-map to achieving a good and healthy future for our children and our survival as a whole – just as they intended eons ago.

This article/blog post is based in concepts from my books

“Your Journey to Peace … “ and “Why We Are the Way We Are”

(Available in print and e-book, About links and  book cover images are below)

We Disempowered the Indigenous Peoples

Indigenous people all over the world tap into and sustain their empowerment through their connection to the land and cultural traditions.

Wherever we have overtaken their lands and/or forced our ways upon them we disempowered them, to say the least. The effects of centuries of abuse, misuse, control, and marginalization has done extensive damage that echoes through their generations.

We must work acknowledging the accumulative effects of past abuses, with compassion for the plights they now suffer, with fairness in mind, and a goal towards equal rights.

  • We must ensure that future projects for profit (or those in the name of progress we want to promote) no longer infringe on rural, native, or Indigenous peoples’ health, culture, community, or way of life;
  • we must also acknowledge what we are still doing to undermine them, or their healing. Their welfare must be kept at the forefront of any decision-making that impacts the environment as a whole, their health, general welfare, cultural traditions, and their land; Appreciating Our Planet: Investing in Our Future
  • we must do this so that Indigenous peoples can regain and maintain their connection to the land, which is essential to their sense of empowerment. This is what will allow them to thrive again;
  • we need to create partnerships with the Indigenous groups within our countries and work together to create a harmonious future that will benefit us all, and our future generations, on the lands we now share.

Programs and Movements Are Being Created Around the World

We are starting to address Indigenous peoples concerns: for the repercussions Indigenous peoples suffered at our hands, as well as to support their struggles against further encroachment on their heritage lands for greed and profit.

In 2012, a movement called Idle No More, was started in Canada countering a specific bill that would directly affect the First Nations concerns.

It spread to the United States, where it grew into one of the largest protests ever regarding Native American issues, and various other protests arose in solidarity around the world.

Many who were not of Indigenous heritage joined the Idle No More protests – some to show support for the native peoples’ concerns and others because of general environmental issues that affect all of us and our future.

In 2015 Canada set up a commission to bring to light and address the abuse and other ill effects for First Nations children that resulted from the Indian Residential School system that was set up by Government and Church over 150 years ago, with the last school closing only in the mid 1990’s.

These schools were aimed to alienate the First Nations children from their families and undermine their culture. The children who were forced to leave their reserves and attend these schools (where they were also badly treated) were heavily affected.

So were their descendants: the repercussions from alienating these children from their families and culture caused far-reaching negative effects.

In India, and after years of struggle, in 2010 the Dongria Kondh tribe won their battle against a resources company to prevent a planned bauxite mine that would have had a huge impact on their land and way of life.

Appreciating Our Planet: Investing in Our Future

They received support from various sources, one of them being Survival International, who helped create a documentary film “Mine: Story of a Sacred Mountain,” about the tribe’s life and this struggle. Survival brought in well-known British stars Joanna Lumley to narrate the film and Michael Palin help promote their cause. (1)

The film shows that the Dongria Kondh people are autonomous and actually thrive in the area their people have occupied for centuries, contrary to the popular belief that rural tribes and those living isolated from civilization are all characterized by hardship. The proposal to go ahead with the mining project was denied.

This denial has set a precedent and now has an international impact for future companies whose intention is to encroach on tribal lands for profit.

The extensive research that was done throughout the tribe’s struggle brought to light the necessity of fully investigating the effects projects of large corporations have on tribal and native peoples and their way of life.

Next, in Part 3 I will continue this theme that the Indigenous people are our road-map back to harmonious living. with my article Our Countries’ Harmonies Are Linked to the Indigenous Peoples’ Healing.

(See below for endnote)

~ Rosemary McCarthy© originally from 2018, updated August 20, 2020.

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(1)Mine, Story of a Sacred Mountain, narrated by Joanna Lumley, (Survival International) http://www.survivalinternational.org/films/mine

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March 2020 Newsletter: Gratitude: In Good and Challenging Times

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With all the limitations recently put on us and the uncertainty of what our near – and not so near future holds, I pondered a while to come up with a message this month that was both sensitive and possibly helpful – to hopefully some of my readers.

I believe that assuring we remain grateful for what we do have helps us remain more balanced as we continue to work through all the restrictions put on us and the fears and frustrations many of us are dealing with.

(At the end are links to 2 guided meditations you might find helpful at this time. A recent one by Marianne Williamson to help us weather this challenging time – both physically and emotionally. And one by Louise Hay that focuses on gratitude).

Gratitude: In Good and Challenging Times

A little quote from Rumi, the 13th century Persian poet, expresses the power of gratitude perfectly. Gratitude seeps through any denseness created when we fall prey to low vibration thinking or ways of being and connects us to our heart-space. It bursts through any blocks we inadvertently created – like those caused by worry, fear, blame, anger, etc. that keep us disconnected from our heart-space.

Wear gratitude like a cloak, and it will feed every corner of your life. ~Rumi

Along with joy, freedom, and love, gratitude and appreciation are listed as the highest on Abraham Hicks’s Emotional Guidance Scale (1). And just like love, joy, and all the high-vibration attitudes, appreciation and gratitude send sparks of light, love, and healing to our cells, allowing for mental stability and feelings of physical well-being.

This helps us override as gratitude connects us to our heart-space, we are propelled into higher levels of consciousness. This helps us to override any habitual, negative / unhelpful thought, attitudinal, and behavioral patterns. Worry, fear, anger, blame etc. dissipate, and we see life with more clarity and from a more hopeful – and helpful perspective.

With clarity of vision, what we really need to do not only becomes clearer, it also somehow happens more easily. The cobwebs of worry, fear, anger, blame, and what if’s simply fade away. Clarity of vision is not a small thing – especially in these confusing and challenging times.

Gratitude does not come that easily to many of us, but there is much we can do to help bring feelings of gratitude and appreciation into our every-day life.

Cultivating Gratitude

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Meditations

Louise Hay’s Gratitude Meditation is useful any time of the day. See Here

Marianne Williamson’s recent meditation aims to help us physically and emotionally in these challenging days by 1) infusing our bodies with protective and healing light; 2) waylay any fears we may hold about all that is happening regarding the corona virus. See Here 

 ~  Rosemary McCarthy©,  April  16, 2020.

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The Universal Law of Cause and Effect (Part 5 in series of 8 on Universal Law)

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The premise of the Law of Cause and Effect is that for every cause there is an effect!

(This is the 5th article is from a series of 8 on Universal Law. Link to other 7 are at end).

Most belief systems tell us that creation codes were set out at the beginning of the Universe and that cosmic forces are always at play – and that many affect us. Often called the Universal Laws, many of them are similar and/or overlap.

For example, the Law of Cause and Effect is not dissimilar to the Law of Attraction, but it is just a little more specific.

I base the Law of Cause and Effect I am putting forth here on concepts in A Course in Miracles, but it is also deemed one of the ancient Hermetic Laws. The idea is basically the same: for every cause, there is an effect.

For us, the Law of Cause and Effect explains how we can become the cause of our life experiences, rather than at the effect of unconscious influences that run our lives or of the world around us.

This article/blog post is based in concepts from my books

“Your Journey to Peace … “ here  for About  

“Why We Are the Way We Are” here for About

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The Eastern concept of karma is another well-known concept that offers an explanation of how some of the laws of the Universe, including the Law of Cause and Effect, play out for us.

The Law of Cause and Effect is really just a different way of explaining karma, whose premise is what we send out into the world will be returned to us – good or bad.

Many have confused God’s revenge with the karmic Law of Cause and Effect playing out in our lives.

What we experience are just the creation codes of the Universe playing out.

  • Thoughts create attitudes.
  • Attitudes create actions.
  • For every action there is a reaction.
  • For every push there is a pull.
  • For every pull there is a push-back.

The Bible tells us that we will sow what we reap – that the quality of what we put out there (cause) is what will be returned to us (effect).

Within complete Oneness there is no duality. No Karma. No Cause and Effect. No Action and Reaction. Because as Arten tells us in Gary Renard’s The Disappearance of the Universe, most of our reactions and actions come from a need to release because the world of duality we live in is characterized by “tension and release.” (1)

Cause and Effect and the Universe

As everything in our Universe is expanding and in a state of flux, something is directing things – causing them to move, change, grow, or come into existence.

The Universal Law of Cause and Effect

Stanislav Grof tells us in The Holotropic Mind that when physicists explored the micro world, they concluded that objects are actually an interweaving “complex web of unified events and relationships.” Something causes something to happen. In science they use the term Causality. Cause = Effect. (2)

Grof then concluded that “consciousness does not just passively reflect the material world; it plays an active role in creating reality itself.” The hypothesis is that there must be a consciousness that is directing – creating. (3)

Cause and Effect and Us

We are consciousness. We are reality. We therefore have an active role in the creation process. In our creation process. Active role = Intention. Intention is Decisiveness. Decisiveness can Direct. We can Direct. We can Direct our Thoughts and Actions at will. We can become the Cause rather than be at the Effect of our unconscious choices or the world around us.

What are the root-causes of our experiences? Are they conscious, or unconscious? Directed, or whatever …? Are we aware? Do we think about it? Do we care? Are we responsive, or Reactive? Do we want to choose our life experiences, or allow them to happen willy-nilly?

Do we want to be the cause of our life experiences, or be at the effect of our unconscious mind or the world around us? The Law of Cause and Effect builds on the premise of the Law of Attraction. We now understand through the Law of Attraction that we bring into our lives that which we ask for with our vibrations.

So, it only follows that if we want a different experience than what we are getting, we need to change our vibrations to reflect what we want. To Direct them so we can be the cause of our experiences.

It also follows that if we act and react unconsciously, unaware of the vibrations we are emitting, we are at the effect of our unconscious – we are not the cause – not the Directive of our life.

To invite better experiences into our life, we do not even have to be aware of this vibrational shift or the idea of cause and effect. The understanding of this vibrational aspect and of cause and effect has not in the past been at the forefront of psychology programs or Western religious teaching. However, in the past few decades many of us have gone searching for truths that were kept hidden from us.

The Universal Law of Cause and Effect

Much has recently been discovered and we now understand that attitudes and the vibrations they give off affect all areas of our life. And any who have made conscious positive shifts in attitudes have raised their vibrations and experienced the benefits of being the cause of new experiences, rather than at the effect of past ones – those that were not giving them what they wanted.

The Law of Cause and Effect plays out in our lives – whether we are aware of it or not.

So, we might as well use it to our advantage – to create the life we want.

When we become conscious of the affects our thoughts, attitudes, and behaviors have, or will have, on ourselves, our life, and on others and choose those that will give us the affects we want we are using the Law of Cause and Effect as intended – to be the Directors of our life creations – of our life.

(This article is the 5th from a series of 8  n Universal Laws that I first published in the Starlit Path Magazine from March 2018 to December 2019. Here is the link to the magazine). Links to other 7 are below.

Rosemary McCarthy© first published March 2019, updated May 2020.

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Endnotes

(1)Arten, quoted in Gary Renard, The Disappearance of the Universe, 2002, http://www.garyrenard.com/Preview.htm#law.

(2) Stanislav Grof, The Holotropic Mind: The Three Levels Of Human Consciousness And How They Shape Our Lives (New York: Harpercollins, 1993), 164.

(3) Grof, The Holotropic Mind, 6.

Link to posts on the other Universal Laws (some are long, so are broken up into  more than 1 post)

Link to full post on Part 1/8 – An Intro – Understanding Universal Law HERE

Link to Part 2/8 – Universal Law of Openness HERE

Link to Part 3/8 – Law of  Authenticity HERE

Link to Part 4/8 – Law of Attraction HERE

Link to Part 5/8 –  Law of Cause And Effect  HERE

Link to Part 6/8 –  Law of Balance HERE

Link to Part 7/8 –  Law of Expansion HERE

Link to Part 8/8 – Recap of Universal Laws HERE

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Understanding / Overcoming Our Reactive States

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Understanding and overcoming our reactive states helps heal our relationship. We can move from being highly reactive to responding calmly to others and situations – appropriate to what is going on at the moment. However, it does take some self-examination and connecting of the dots between our reactions and what lies beneath them.

(This post is a companion to “Connecting the Dots: Worksheet 5b.” Here is the link

Many of us are outwardly reactive. We may be aggressive, controlling, critical, or blame everyone ).and everything for our frustrations and feelings of disempowerment. We may be needy and expect others to answer our every emotional whim.

And we often get angry at those around us for not getting down in the muck and joining us in our misery and reacting to our neediness or hissy-fits!

Negative and inappropriate reactions are just the surfacing of past emotions: hurts, conflicts, or confusions about love that were never addressed or answered. These caused emotional turmoil within us, and until addressed they show up one way or another in our attitudes and behaviors and how we approach life.

This article/blog post is an excerpt from my Book 1 of my new ‘Our  Journeys to Peace’ Series

“Why We Are the Way We Are”

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Confusion About Love

The lack of love or the confusion about love we may have experienced when growing up is what keeps us from creating healthy relationships. (I further discuss relationships in book 3 of the series, Relationships in an Evolving World. (Links are below).

If we have not been shown love, or have received conflicting messages about love, we will be confused about love.

For example, a child whose parent professes God’s love for them but the parent doesn’t show the child love will become hurt and frustrated from the lack of love in their life and feel conflicted about love. If the child is urged to love his or her neighbor but the parent does not do so, the child will become confused about the meaning of love.

Deep within us, we have a memory of unconditional love — which we all still long for, and this combined with the lack of love or any conflicting messages about love keep us confused about love — how to give it and how to let it in.

Confusion about love — what unconditional love is,

how to give it — and how to receive it,

is why our relationships are so difficult.

It takes a bit of self-examination and quiet time in honest reflection to begin to first understand and then connect the dots to, our unaddressed emotional world that causes our reactions and frustrations, and to unravel it all.

Connecting the dots helps us recognize why we are bringing past hurts and confusions to present situations. Making this connection helps us to consciously overcome any negative, habitual propensities. It helps us choose differently.

 

Understanding / Overcoming Our Reactive States

We now know that if we want to overcome our habitual thought-processes we need to consciously choose our thoughts and attitudes  It is the same for our reactions.

Our thought-processes come from our mind, which often runs amuck. If we have unhealed emotional pain we are working under the guise of unconscious influences, which cause our emotions to run amuck.

In the same way we have to  consciously train the mind to override negative programming, we also have to become aware of how our habitual emotional are luring us to react and start to shift from anger, blame, neediness, etc. to taking responsibility for attitudes and reactions – and ultimately for our peace and happiness.

The influence of negative factors needs to be released if we want to be the creator of our life experiences rather than being at the effect of our unconscious influences.

Until we override these influences we will automatically react to situations, as our internal tensions from the buried emotions and conflicts within us need an outlet. I call our automatic reactionary or non-reactionary state our Default Position.

Our Default Position

Our Default Position: The reactionary, non-reactionary, or responsive way we deal with others and situations. Our approach is either aggressive, passive, or neutral.    Whether negative or positive our Default Position plays out in all our communications with others. It can waver depending on our mood or stress level at that moment.

Next week, I will further discuss “Our Default Position.”  To access, Follow my Facebook page or sign up for my free monthly newsletter. Bot links are below.

© Rosemary McCarthy June 2019, updated October 2019

Here is link to companion post ” Connecting the Dots: Worksheet 5b.”

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Worksheet 5b: Connecting the Dots:

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Negative or inappropriate reactions are the result of living on the surface level of our emotional world. We are either disconnected from our current emotions out of fear of what we may find, or we are unaware that past emotional upsets or hurts are causing us to react badly.

This post is a companion to “Understanding / Overcoming our Reactive States”  see here  for link.

Having no true connection to the honesty of our feelings and the depth of our emotions, we react from unconscious emotional states that have no bearing upon current situations, rather than respond to what is in front of us,

Connecting the dots between what we are feeling and how we are reacting can help us overcome negative, inappropriate,  and ineffective behaviors.

Worksheet 5b: My Reactions and their Root Causes

Example # 1: I feel hurt: He/she forgot. I feel he/she doesn’t love, value, or appreciate me. I don’t feel loved, valued, or appreciated.

Connecting the Dots:

  • I feel hurt when others don’t meet my expectations.
  • I need validation of love from people.
  • I feel unloved when I don’t get it.
  • Others haven’t always loved, valued, or appreciated me.

I recognize now that I am projecting the lack of love and validation that I had growing up into present circumstances and am  putting unfair expectations on those around me.

Example # 2: I am impatient and fly of the handle easily: I’m always busy and have lots to do. I don’t have time for anything that delays my plans. I am impatient with people who are calm. It’s not my fault – I just get caught up in things.

Connecting the Dots:

  • Being busy makes me feel useful.
  • I like the validation.
  • I feel I must do everything and for everyone.
  • I am impatient because what I am doing is vital to me feeling good – and been perceived as useful – important.
  • What others are saying or doing doesn’t help me, so I am impatient with them.
  • I can’t say no. I don’t like to say no – as it makes me seem not nice. I want people to like me.
  • I feel I must prove myself – and being useful helps this.
  • People say I am a busy body and that I have unhealthy boundaries.
  • I need to prove to others I am of value – that I am important.
  • I wouldn’t feel valued by just BEING.
  • i wasn’t valued growing up … OR … I wasn’t made to feel important … OR … I was told I was lazy … OR … I was criticized … OR … those around me were impatient with me.

Example  #3: I’m always screaming at my family: No one listens to me. No one helps me. There is never enough time for all there is to do. No one realizes all that I do. When I ask for help, they won’t help, or don’t do it right. It has to be done—and done right.

Connecting the Dots:

  • I like organization and structure
  • I need to control my environment — to be in charge of everything.
  • It makes me feel safe.
  • I did not feel safe growing up.
  • My environment did not have structure.

I recognize now that I am projecting past emotional wounds onto others and situations, which is not fair to them and causing unnecessary conflict in my life.

Connecting the Dots to Other Possible Reactions

  • I get angry when someone cuts me off in traffic; I take this as a personal affront; I had am angry and critical parent growing up. I recognize now that the one cutting me off may just be having a bad day – it is not personal.
  • When someone lets me down I feel hurt; this makes me feel unimportant to them; I have been let down often by others and it made me feel unimportant and unloved; I recognize now that things often come up and people can’t always keep their promises.
  • I feel taken for granted when my boss yells at me because I work hard; It makes me feel undervalued; I realized that my boss woks hard and may just be stressed or overwhelmed and his yelling at me is just a tension release.

Both post are excepts from Book 1 Why We Are the Way We Are of my new ‘Our Journeys to Peace’ Series. Available in print and e-book from Amazon, see here for About .Cover Image Below.

  Copyright ©Rosemary McCarthy. From 2018, updated October 2019.

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The Importance of Balancing Our Lives

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To be happy and feel good we need to attend to our body, mind, emotions, and spiritual connection. To the subtler parts of our existence. We need to keep these parts of ourselves in balance – at least most of the time, as a sustained unbalanced life will not serve our ultimate peace and happiness.

Modern society has devalued the importance of the subtler aspects of living: of taking the time to reflect and connect to what makes us feel peaceful and happy and of listening to the urges of our soul. Instead, we have been encouraged to follow a work-for-gain lifestyle and embrace the competitive market place that goes along with it.

When we ignore the subtler, reflective, and feeling parts of ourselves, which  convey our soul’s guidance, we fall into the trap of following what society has deemed important.  Unknowingly, we get caught up in social and economic forces that do not have our best interest at heart, and fatigue, stress, and apathy often set in, causing us to undermining ourselves from becoming our Best Self.

These social and economic forces are part of Humanity’s history that has been based on false realities. Of separate motivations grounded in fear, greed, competition – on me-against-you.

Fighting for our survival became paramount in our existence. We were reactive, rather than responsive.

Although today most of us do not have to fight for our physical survival, we have translated this survival mode to one of business – of getting ahead.

And we have maintained the competitiveness and reactive states of that survival mode.

Rather than responding calmly and only addressing what is currently happening, many of us react to others and situations aggressively – often bringing in past issues or unaddressed emotions from our past.

Our business, competitiveness, focus on getting ahead, and our reactive states have left no room to connect to our subtler and reflective natures.

This article/blog post is based in concepts from my books

“Your Journey to Peace … “ and “Why We Are the Way We Are”

For About “Journey … see” here   About “Why We Are …”   here

(book cover images below)

With the reflective and feeling parts of ourselves disregarded, we lead unbalanced lives. We have become disconnected from the subtleties of our True Self.

This can cause us to be uncompassionate. Selfish. Unable to see how our attitudes and behaviors affect those around us.

An unbalanced life undermines our peace and happiness. And we are usually in denial that we are behaving in ways that hurt us or those around us.

The classic example are workaholics, who spend all their time focusing on success, money, and/or power and leave no time for relaxation, family life, or spiritual growth.

Workaholics are usually unaware or in denial of the consequence of their single-mindedness on themselves and the effects of their  pursuits on others.

Or, they may have their eyes wide open and simply not care about anything or anybody else at this point in their lives, which is of course their own choice. They just may have to face the consequences – at one time or another.

It is the unconscious driving forces from Humanity’s and our personal past histories that creates a distorted picture of reality causing us to allow for imbalances in our lives.

We are now starting to understand that we do not have to be greedy or in competition with others. That there is enough love, success, and material goods to go around – for us and everyone. That the Universe operates under the principle of abundance.

The Importance of Balancing Our Lives

However, to be open to the universal gifts offered we have to maintain a connection to universal flow. This connection is weakened when we are unbalanced. And when we live unbalanced lives the important things that ultimately fulfill us suffer.

This is usually related to health, family life, career, or our happiness and ability to connect to the subtleties in life. To feel joy. To feel peaceful.

We need to ask ourselves whether or not our life choices and decisions will bring us peace of mind, contentment, and ultimately make us happy.

Most of us have at least – at one time or another gotten caught up in the business of life and feeling the necessity of being in competition with others.

In his transformative healing sessions, Gerry Clow reminds us that as a society we have tipped the scales way off center as we have replaced the subtler aspects of life with the harsher ones:

“Most of our lives we are reactive, rather than reflective. We spend our time searching, not sourcing; looking, not listening; finding, but not feeling. We involve ourselves in life, forgetting often how to evolve ourselves in life, not realizing it’s essential – and healthy – to be on both pathways at the same time.” (1)

We inherited these attitudes. But we now know how destructive they are to our personal happiness and spiritual growth. It is time for us, individually and as a collective, to realize the importance of living conscious, balanced lives so that we can all become our Best Self. To do so we must:

  • Make the necessary changes to bring about living a balanced life.
  • Support and promote balanced life philosophies for others.
  • Let go of our competitive and combative ways.
  • Place importance on empowerment for everyone—instead of yielding to those who wield control and power over us.
  • Make time for the subtler aspects of living.
  • Ensure we are connecting to and engaging our True Self—and following its guidance.

(1) Gerry Clow, RPP, RCST www.handclow2012.com (2014). http://handclow2012.com/transformative-healing/(2018).

© Rosemary McCarthy, June 2019, updated October 2019

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Spreading ‘Joie de Vivre’

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“’Joie de Vivre” is contagious.” I just listened to a podcast by Linda Dillon (author of The Great Awakening) where she discussed the importance of taking time to regenerate ourselves and find our “joie de vivre,” which inspired me to share these thoughts with you.

Even though Doing gets things done and we feel satisfied, taking the time to tap into Inner-Peace and Joy raises us to a Higher Plane of Consciousness. It is in these higher states that Inspiration is Birthed.

And it is Inspired Thoughts that Motivate Us to make Better Choices for Ourselves – and For the World around us.

In this busy day and age where every moment seems to be filled with to-do’s and stress seems to overshadow all we do – it is important to Really find Alone and Quiet time.

Quiet time that Rejuvenates Us and Connects us to Inner-Peace and allows us Tap into Joy and its sense of “joie de vivre.”

As well as inspired by Linda’s podcast, this blog post is based on concepts in my book, “Your Journey to Peace …”

About Book found here  (available in print and e-book).

Most of us have lost these connections – or at least have trouble sustaining them for more than a few moments. There are many reasons. Here are a few:

  • Many of us feel inclined to take in every aspect modern living offers us – often to the point of feeling scattered and stressed.
  • In our sincere desire to be helpful to others or to help bring about a better world we often overextend ourselves – and are left feeling drained, joyless, and sometimes even resentful.
  • And even our attempts for relaxation can be fraught with stress. We may drive to a Day Spa or fun event and get stuck in traffic or bad weather coming home negating most of the good feelings.
  • Our weekend getaways, annual vacations, and out of country travelling we so depend on to rejuvenate us often go awry, as the hitches in travel plans and unexpected surprises of the new environments bring with them stress and/or disappointment, which are not conducive to returning rejuvenated.

As well as meditation, prayer, yoga and the many common ways of connecting to Spirit and our God-selves, here are a few of the simple things we can do that help reawaken the Inner-Peace and Joy within us, allowing that contagious “joie de vivre” to pulse through us.

Spreading ‘Joie de Vivre’

  • Listening to our favorite music.
  • Sitting under a tree or on your favorite park bench – doing absolutely nothing.
  • Watching the sun glistening off the snow.
  • Sitting on the porch just staring at the scene in front of us.
  • Gazing at the stars.
  • Watching / listening to the waves.
  • Watching the sun glistening off the water.
  • Enjoying the pristine new fallen snow: how it so beautifully lazes on the trees.
  • And simply finding a quiet spot, closing our eyes, tuning out the world, and listening to our breathing brings us to that quiet place where peaceful feelings abide.

Finding Alone and Quiet time and staying in that place until Peace and Joy arise in us – and Reveling in the feelings that come about until it almost hurts – until Joy is Bursting Out of Us – is how we will find Sustainable Inner-Peace. Where we can Tap into Joy. Where our “joie de vivre” can become contagious because it is just oozing out of us.

~ Rosemary McCarthy © January 30, 2019.

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Newsletter – January 2019 – Subtle Resolutions

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Subtle Resolutions We Can Make

The beginning of each year brings with it hope. New possibilities. And often resolutions. As we are now a few weeks into 2019, many of our New Years resolutions may have fallen by the wayside. However, we can still aim to better ourselves in more subtle ways.

Most resolutions focus on “doing” or “not doing” – on behaviors. And as important as it is to become conscious and improve behaviors that may not be serving us, we can gain more clarity, increase our happiness and peace of mind, and improve our relationships with simple attitude shifts. We can:

Become More Positive: Our whole outlook on life will shift. A more positive attitude will invite more positive people and circumstances into our life.

When we replace anger and negative attitudes with calmness, acceptance, and more positive attitudes we feel more peaceful. And our relationships will start to improve.

Being positive allows for more openness, and openness allows for better communication, which improves and creates more harmonious relationships.

Become More Accepting of Others: As we become more accepting of others, we benefit by clearing our mind of its judgments. A clearer mind allows for more clarity regarding our path forward, and allows us to focus on more life-affirming aspects of living.

And our subconscious translates this acceptance of others as being more accepting of ourselves, helping us to overcome any self-deprecation of not being perfect.

Making Peace with Situations: We have all experienced difficult and/or unfair situations. It is only in making peace with tough situations and giving up the focus on them that we open ourselves up to better ones. Our past and society has taught us to blame, to keep the drama of it all going, and even to seek  revenge.

These attitudes only keep the negativity of situations alive within us. Letting go of the thoughts, details, and scenarios of past or current situations we don’t like and replacing them with the thoughts and dreams of what we would like to happen in our life now is what will make room in our energetic being for better circumstances to enter our life.

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of  my new ‘Our Journeys to Peace’ Series.

Forgiving Others – Forgiving Ourselves: We have all only ever done our best within our level of awareness. Society has only recently acknowledged that compassion, understanding, equality, fairness, and acceptance are qualities that we need to adhere to become happy and contended people.

And our current spiritual awareness has shown us that happiness and contentment is our God-given right. Most of our individual pasts did not support these qualities, nor promote happiness. Neither did Humanity’s history.

It takes time to overcome our personal and collective programming. It takes understanding to forgive others for their past or present shortcomings of positive and life-affirming attitudes and behaviors.

And it takes courage to look at and forgive our past attitudes and behaviors that did not reflect what we now know we must all embrace.

So, as we all attempt to adopt these newfound ways of being and navigate the world differently, let’s remember we are all just doing our best to shift and overcome our past programming – and that we will all still falter from time to time.

Let’s remember to continue to forgive others – and ourselves when we forget to be the loving, accepting, and positive beings we were all meant to be, who are able to create harmony in our lives, and are able to feel inner peace and just BE.

As we continue to embrace all that 2019 brings with it, let’s keep the hope alive, do our best to better ourselves in whichever way is important to us, and forgive our self, and others, when we forget to be hopeful, positive, accepting, and loving.

My Best Wishes to All of You and Your Loved Ones for a Happy, Healthy, Life-affirming, and Safe 2019,

Rosemary McCarthy© January 20, 2019.

Blessings to you and all those you hold dear, 
Rosemary
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New Book – “Why We Are the Way We Are”

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I am pleased to announce that Why We Are the Way We Are, Book 1 of my new ‘Our Journeys to Peace’ Series is now available – in print and e-book through Amazon.

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New Book - "Why We Are the Way We Are"

Book 2 – Becoming Our Best Self – due out March 2019 – see here for About Book (see below for covers)

Book  3 – Relationships in an Evolving World – due May 2019 – see here for About Book