Nice vs. Good

As Little Red Riding Hood skipped through the forest, after her terrifying adventure with the Big Bad Wolf in the movie and play Into The Woods, she sang an enlightening song to calm her nerves.  In this song, she sang the words, "Nice does not mean good."

The Big Bad Wolf pretended to be nice in order to lour Red off of her path and deep into the scary woods.  She was charmed by his winning smile and smooth voice (not to mention the fact that it was Johnny Depp.  Who wouldn't be charmed by him?!), but as we quickly found out, Wolf had an agenda.  He was not planning on being good to Red, he was planning on having her for super!  Therefor, his niceness was a weapon.  A manipulation.  It was a calculated attempt to destroy.  And he nearly succeeded.

How many people have you had in your life who have turned out to be the Big Bad Wolf?  How many times has "nice" been an attempt to get you to lower your defenses and ultimately cause you harm?

How many times in your life have you been the prey?

Based on many life experiences, and healing my own talent for co-dependency, I have finally understood an important distinction.  There is a huge difference between "nice" people and "good" people.  Growing up with a Narcissistic father, and than marrying a man with the same issues, taught me that charm and charisma is not always full of love nor good intentions.  In fact, many times it can be a red flag, a warning sign of what is soon to come.  However, not everyone with charm and charisma is dangerous.  What I am saying is that predators tend to use "nice" as a tactic.  But one thing they cannot so easily fake is "good".

The truly good people in our lives need to be cherished.  They deserve our attention and our energy.  Hold on to those who have truly supported you and who have been there for you come hell or high water.  Sadly we live in an age of necessary distinction... meaning that we have to be highly aware of hidden agendas, being manipulated, protecting our identity, our emotions and our ideas.  We need to teach our children to be more people savvy than at any time in our history.  Within these lessons, we must use Love as our barometer.  Just because someone is nice, does not mean that person has your best interest at heart.  Even Oprah once said on her talk show many years ago that teaching little girls that they have to be nice to everyone all the time is one of the most damaging things we can do to them.  Oprah made the point that little girls need to be allowed to say NO and to set boundaries.  All children need this.  All adults need this!  Setting boundaries is ok, speaking your mind is ok (as long as it is not intended to destroy the listener), and Self Love is vital.  It wasn't until Little Red Riding Hood finally stood up for herself, spoke her mind, and found the courage to tell Wolf NO that she finally felt good about who she was.  She strolled off confidently into the sunset.  

We all deserve self confidence, strength, love and... we all deserve to truly know ourselves.

Remember:  "No," is a complete sentence.

A message from the angels

It seems to be time for you to truly love who you are. 

I know this is easier said than done. 

Our modern, technocratic culture does not support self-love, only selfishness. Self love means seeing yourself as God sees you. Go all the way into the small, dark parts of yourself and forgive.  Allow those small, dark parts of yourself to breathe, to expand and to accept Life. That is what Love really is, accepting Life Force.  Allow it to move through you, and know that you deserve this. God gave you Life, therefor it's ok to let that Life flow all the way through you like a waterfall cascading into a spring lake. 

God needs you to be healthy and strong. God did not birth you to be weak and helpless.  Let God "see you". Let God know you all the way to your core. Let God know how you feel. This process will bring new Life into the parts of yourself that you think no one else likes.

Happy New Year 2015!

Once I gave in, gave up, and lowered my defenses, I allowed God to see into me, to see inside of me. And the more I allowed God to look, I realized that I have been made up of more pain than anything else, not just pain from recent events, but from my whole life, all the way down to early childhood. I realized that I have been keeping God from seeing that pain, thinking that I was protecting God from my ugly, dark secrets, but I was wrong. God sees it anyway. So once I opened up and surrendered and allowed God to fully enter my inner landscape and step inside of all that pain... do you know what happened? Suddenly I felt a whoosh of Unconditional Love rush towards me and through me. It raced into the dark, hidden crevasses of my heart and mind. God was not ashamed of me. God forgave me. God washed my insides clean. God freed me.
This has now become my regular mediation routine, to allow God to see into every tiny part of myself. The results? I have felt incredible! My dreams have been full of Light and empowerment! At random moments during the day I feel God's presence and know that I am ok. I always have been and I always will be.
The same goes for you.
Now, I have committed to God to move forward with this Light, to live with it and to share it. Because I clearly see it now: why else would we be here?

Happy New Year :)

Keep Your Heart Open to Everyone

This evening I had a beautiful angel reading with an amazing woman who lives in Brooklyn, New York.  And if you've been following my blog, you know how much I love to write about love.  It is something that fascinates me and I seek to learn as much as I can about how to works in our lives.
During this reading, this woman's angels began talking to her about keeping her heart open to everyone in her life.  At first, this information did not resonate with the woman because she immediate thought that love meant sexual/romantic realitionships and she didn't want to "keep her heart open" for that kind of relationship with everyone.  But here is what the angels said:

You are talking about two different things here.  Keeping your heart open, and sexual/romantic relationships are two different things.  When we say, "Keep your heart open to everyone," we are talking about a very high spiritual level of existence.  Imagine that you have died.  We know this sounds morbid right now, but play along... imagine that you have died, and you are in heaven meeting every single person you met during your life.  Imagine the joy and the relief of seeing them all again in such a healing space.  Now, imagine that you not only get to meet these people again and celebrate, but that you also get to say to them, "What did I contribute to your life because I lived with my heart open to you?  What were you able to accomplish simply because I refused to stop loving you?"
How would that conversation go?  What if people were able to say back to you, "All of my dreams came true because you refused to stop loving me!"  Or imagine people being able to say to you, "Your love gave me the strength and the perseverance to believe in myself and accomplish all of my goals."  What if everyone you encountered in heaven got to say to you, "Thank you!  Thank you!  Thank you!"
This is what "keeping your heart open to everyone" means when the angels say it to you.  It means that you let people go, you allow them to live their lives, you give them space, you never hold back and you believe in them so strongly that the Universe hears your call and follows your prayers immediately.  Keeping your heart open to everyone means giving them a chance to succeed whether you are there to share in the victory or not.

Are you an alien?

So many people want to know about aliens.  Who are they and why are they here?  The answers are more simple than you might realize.  Some of the beings we call "aliens" are your very own ancestors.  I prefer to call these beings "star beings."
How can they be our ancestors if they are from another planet?  Because your ancestors were not simple-minded cave-dwellers who could barely rustle up enough brain power to rub sticks together to start a fire.  Your ancestors were highly advanced, immensely intelligent people who lived closely with the Divine Creator.  They lived in harmony with the earth and valued life instead of taking it.  This information is in The Ringing Cedars of Russia books written by Vladimir Megre. 
The books are worth the read, but to save you some time, I offer this simple glimpse into our True History as Divine Beings.  We have been lied to about our origins.  Our current culture is not the height of human development, in fact, technology is a sign of a diminishing intelligence and a disconnection from Source.  Once the human race becomes dependent on technology, we stop thinking for ourselves and rely on some computer to think for us.  In short, once we begin relying on the ideas of other people instead of cherishing our own, we are going downhill, and technology is "other people's ideas" and other people's way of living life.  When you stop to think about it, you might begin to see how much of your time and mental energy goes into running someone else's system rather than designing and inventing your own way of being.  And I believe that the true way of being is living in harmony with Source and Life, not with metal, plastic and fiber optics.
The true origins of the human race is pristine, whole and complete, fully aware, loving and intelligent beings who treasured the earth and all it's inhabitants as the direct results of the thoughts and intentions of God.

Your ancestors were so advanced that they knew how to leave the planet and extend their love throughout the cosmos.  Thousands of years ago they figured out the secret (which is explained in the before mentioned book series) and they used Divine Thought to move themselves around the universe.  They settled onto hospitable planets and began growing and expanding and building new communities with the same essence of the Divine Mind.   This type of loving growth and expansion was a part of the Creator's plan (not killing each other off like what humans have been doing for generations).

Not all the creatures from other planets are on the earth with loving intentions.  In fact, some of them have been down right nasty buggers.  However, the good and loving beings who have been reaching out and contacting people on earth are usually reaching out to their own family members.  These are families that have been created during back and forth travels through space... and when I say "space" I don't mean the huge night sky, I mean the quantum physics space of instant travel over long or short distances, the kind of space that bends over and across itself and allows for travel of all sorts.  Our ancestors knew all about this.  They knew more than we do now.  And not only did they know about quantum physics, space and interstellar travel, they also knew about folk medicine, healing herbs, humanely raising animals and powerfully loving their children. 

You might wonder:  Then how did all of this knowledge get lost?  The answer is in the Ringing Cedars of Russia books.  But know that the downfall of the human race was intentional, systematic, cruel and unrelenting.  The way the Bible teaches us that we now live in a fallen world... well, we do, and if we had any idea of how far we have fallen, everyone would go insane with grief.  But instead of pondering what "could have been", take the time to free your mind, meditate daily, connect with God, know Who You Are and uncover your true skills and abilities.  Live as a good steward of the earth and all it's inhabitants.  Know that you have powerful ancestors out in the universe who are reaching out to you through your thoughts and feelings.  They want you to Re-Member with them.  They seek unity.  And the more you know about yourself and your abilities as a Divine Child of God, the more you can hear them, see them and discover how deeply you are loved and cherished.  It is much more difficult to control and lie to someone who deeply knows how much he is loved.

Dancing With Love

Today is November 11th.  11:11

This is a great day for manifestation because the 11:11 number represents portals, or gateways, to Heaven.  Today is a day to focus on what you wish to manifest in life.  Focus your thoughts on what you want and desire.  Also take the time to "feel" what you want.  The combination of thinking and feeling will bring about your desires more quickly.  

If you cannot feel what you want quite yet, then ask God or your angels to show you.  A very powerful prayer is: Show Me. 

Show Me how to bring more divine love into my life.

Show Me how to find the best job that aligns with my talents and abilities.

Show Me the most beautiful way for me to make money.

Show Me how to attract the love of my life.

Show Me how true happiness feels.

... and the prayers can go on and on.  Whatever works best for you.

I offer another thought about manifestation.  We must be responsible for what we wish to create in this world.  Just because we have the God-given ability to manifest our desires does not mean we get to go around calling forth whatever we want without consequences.

Consider a man who wishes to manifest a new car.  He thinks about his new car, he feels himself driving it, he imagines how other people will react when they see it and so on.  However, is that truly what he needs?  Cars require a lot of resources from the earth in order to be made and to run.  They require oil and gas/petrol and spew a lot of toxins into the air.  Is this really something we wish to be manifesting?  Therefor, ask yourself what it is that you really want.  If you truly need a car, than please make sure your ability to create is used wisely and call forth a car that is fuel efficient.  Also send blessings to everyone who built the car, along with their families, send blessings to all the people in the world who have had great ideas about how to make cars that don't require any oil or petrol.  Pray that those people's ideas are allowed to manifest and that soon you will be one of the first people who is able to financially support these inventors by buying one of their non-toxic vehicles.  

Or perhaps it is not a car you truly desire, perhaps it is the feeling of owning something new.  Or the desire to have your friends be envious of your wealth.  Dig deeply into your desire and know what it is you are craving.  Because if a man asks for a car, but what he really wants is acknowledgement and love, then his manifestation will cause destruction.  This man would benefit from knowing himself better and realizing that he is craving acknowledgement and love and ask God, "Show me how it feels to be powerfully acknowledged and deeply loved."  That is a prayer God would answer in a heart beat, literally.

Accepting the Inner Maddness

Today God taught me a beautiful lesson.  I would like to share it with you.  During a deep meditation, I came across a dark character inside of my subconscious mind.  It had the flavor of a nightmare, but I forced myself to look at it.  However, the more I focused on it, the more the darkness dissipated and my initial fear retreated.
This "character" was a trickster.  She had crazy hair and wild eyes.  But instead of shaking off her disturbing image as "not me" I embraced her.  She melted into my arms and compassion washed over me.  In that gentle moment of self-acceptance, God's Light flooded in and His Thoughts came to me, "Self-acceptance is the key to self-love."
Somehow I immediately remembered how much I hated myself when I was younger.  A rough childhood and stormy early adult years left me constantly feeling broken and unworthy.  I felt lost and out of control of my life.  However, instead of reaching for God, buckling down and healing old wounds, I chose to get married instead.  I thought, "Isn't it easier to focus on someone else rather than face the inner quagmire of self-hatred?"  In fact, I not only got married, I gave up myself completely and adopted the life style of my husband as to avoid looking at Who I Am.  I became the person he wanted me to be.  I surrendered my wisdom to his choices and decisions.  I abandoned myself to his future, instead of insisting on building my own.
By no means is this a criticism of him.  No!  He was running away from himself too, he just expressed it differently.
But today, in my meditation, God explained something extremely important.  God told me:  "Human-to-human love cannot be authentic until there is Love between God-to-human.
Until you know and understand Real Love from God, you cannot direct it towards another person. Instead, what you direct towards another person is need, not love. It might feel like love, but it's not... until, and unless, you allow it to come into you from God first."

Now, I will teach this to my children.