Creating Heaven in a Heart-Beat

Wow, so here we are in March already, spring is on it's way with the promise of regeneration and renewal only a breath away. This year has such amazing gifts to offer us, the potential and possibilities that exist are infinite as we move through the first year of the new paradigm. Planetary, the Earth has went from night-time to day-time, or a dark period to a light period. Astrologically, we’ve entered the Age of Aquarius. Globally, more people than ever have birthed Unity Consciousness in their hearts and individually we have awakened to ourselves as creators of our reality. So where do we go from here?

We have been given all we need to co-create heaven here on Earth and though in the big world it might seem like we’re still a long way off, have faith that things are falling into place in ways we can’t even begin to imagine yet. Your task for now is to keep the spirit of heaven alive within you and to bring it to life in your world, and as you do it’ll only be a matter of time until you see it reflected in the global picture.

I know that dealing with the daily toils of 21st century living can be challenging, especially when you’re stuck in the struggle for survival, but it is in these times it is most valuable to you to continue to cultivate consciously the seeds you wish to blossom in your life.

Moaning about the never-ending cycle of bills and the over-inflated prices is not going to resolve these issues. Ignoring the letters from the debt collectors and pretending they’re not impacting your energy levels, doesn’t work. I should know, I’ve tried it on many occasions lol! Getting “stuck” on how the system has been created to keep us so busy in the struggle for survival that making the transition to thriving is a real challenge for many, doesn’t help either, it just keeps us stuck in the same cycle of giving our power to others.

And in 2013, we are all committed to making it work!! Aren’t we?

Well I AM and I hope that you are too!

Together we can create the world we want to see, we’re creating it already. Every day when we are love in action, we are sending ripples throughout the Universe and even in our wildest imaginations we have only a mere idea of how much power every heartbeat holds. So no “matter” what the external world looks like, brings to you or shows you this year, the power is well in truly in your hands to consciously create a garden of love that will bloom for you and for generations of the Earth to come.

Yes, some of the things that happen in the World are horrible!! Even from a non-judgemental viewpoint there is no denying that sometimes things are just plain gruesome. They are so far removed from our true nature, that it hurts to see them, to hear of them, to feel them as they happen to a part of you. And, sometimes yes it is easier to turn your head away and try to pretend it’s not happening, but just like with the bills, it doesn’t work, does it?

What does work though, is getting yourself back to a heavenly state as quickly as possible, where you are in tune with your creative juices and solutions to all your challenges come easily and effortlessly to you.
Einstein once said:-

“No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.”

And this to me is the main reason I know that change on a fundamental level is happening now. The shift in consciousness that has took hold of this planet in the last 100 years with the almighty quickening in the last 10 years has been phenomenal! Energetically the world has already moved, Spiritually we have evolved, Emotionally we have matured, seeing through the illusion of our dis-eased society and now the Physical world is playing catch-up.

As we all know the world is a reflection from within, and no matter what battles you are playing out, whether it be the battle for survival, the battle of the ego, or the battle with the elite, if there is a battle within you it will play out with-out! So, it makes sense then that the quickest way from where we are now, to where we want to be, would be cultivating heaven within, yes?

To make it really easy for you I’ve put together a list of my top ten ways to Create Heaven in a Heartbeat for those moments when you feel yourself gripped by lower vibrations, the pain-body or when the EGO mind has gotten hold. Whatever is causing you challenges in your life, will most probably have a draining effect on your energy levels when you think about it, bringing you into a lower consciousness reality where the guidance from your higher self becomes almost unattainable. These techniques will help give you an instant boost back to higher vibrational states of being, where the answers and energy you need will be waiting for you.

Ten Ways to Create Heaven in a Heart-Beat

10. Have a Bath

 

There is something so perfectly divine about being immersed in water and when that water is roasty toasty and filled with bubbles, it can be the perfect remedy to unwind after a busy day. Being with water and allowing it to remind you of the gentle ebb and flow within and around you can gently ease you back to a heavenly state.

9. Love the Shadow

One of the main stumbling blocks to returning to higher vibrations, is that we beat ourselves up forour feelings.We don’t want to admit to feeling angry, hurt, sad, bored or frustrated by the events going on around us. In fact, many even resist their feelings all together, saying “I’m fine” when internally they are falling to bits. Much of our pain and suffering in life comes from resisting what our emotions are telling us. Instead why not try to honour the emotions that arise within you, accept them for what they are and thank them for bringing your attention to whatever they are showing you and commit to changing what needs changed. In this way, the energy passes through you easily and effortlessly allowing you to be grateful for the experience. And we all know appreciation is in the love or above vibration, woo hoo!

8. Say Thank You

 

A simple change of focus from all that is causing you pain to all you have to be grateful for is the quickest and easiest boost in any situation. As long as we have breath in our lungs we can find something to be grateful for. If you need a large boost why not sit and write a letter to someone you are grateful to, even if you never post it, you will feel amazing as a result and if you do decide to post it, you’ve made someone else feel amazing too.

7. Be with Nature

If you’re slap bang in the middle of the concrete jungle it can be easy to lose your connection to the Universe and All that is and a return to nature can be the perfect remedy. Boosting the energy levels and  easing us gently back into flow. We don’t need to go far, sometimes simply shifting our gaze skywards or stopping and looking (really looking) at a tree can do it. It reminds us of the majesty of this magnificent world and if you’re really lucky, it’ll remind you of the magnificence of you, too.

6. Breathe

God, so simple, yet so powerful. A simple shift in focus to our breath for a few moments is all we need to re-connect with spirit and return us to a state of wholeness (holy-ness).

5. Hug

 

This one’s obviously much easier when you’ve got company! Hugs have the power to heal and there are times when a hug is the only effective answer. Hugs are beneficial to everyone involved and can make you feel better even when you’re already feeling great. In fact, sometimes the hugs you give when you’re feeling good are the best of all. To know you’ve had a positive impact on someone else’s energy simply by loving them, is awesome. And if all else fails and there’s no one around to reciprocate, a shout-out on social media for a hug from friends may provide the perfect pick-up especially when those virtual hugs fill you with love.

4. Laugh

One of the quickest and funniest ways back to yourself and particularly effective at shutting down the barriers to the unconscious mind which keeps you trapped in the same pattern of thinking is laughter. And it’s one of the best tools to do the whole “fake it ’til you make it” games with!

3. Sing

It doesn't matter if you’re the next Mariah Carey or more like the cats choir, when we sing we raise our-self to a higher level than before. I love to sing but it’s not something I’ll ever be making a living at, but I turn up the music and belt it out anyway. It makes me smile, it makes me laugh and if I get caught, it also makes me blush! But no matter what happens I always feel good after a right good sing-song.

2. Dance

For me this is the ultimate mood-booster. Whether I am feeling low or just need a bit of motivation to face the monotony of daily tasks of living with four children, a good tune and a silly old boogie will always raise me up. Nothing quite rids the body of stuck energy like shaking it to your favourite beats. Again, it’s best to fully immerse in the experience, dance like there’s no-one watching and for a double whammy combine 1 & 2 and sing, dance and be merry to your heart’s content.

1. Think of Someone You Love

The Power of Love a force from above…we all know the lines but how many of us consciously utilise the power of love in our daily lives? A lot more of us, than 10 or 20 years ago that’s for sure. And, we now see more clearly than ever how it is also a force from within. Every emotion we experience has an impact on our physical bodies and can deplete us or make us stronger. So not only is it good to think of the person we love, but it’s good to totally lose yourself in the feeling of it.

So now you see, there really is always a choice about how we respond to life and it’s possible to create heaven in a heartbeat, no matter what’s going on. Life is so much more sparkly and a whole lot easier to deal with when we’re in a high vibration so cultivate gardens of appreciation, love and compassion and let the good times roll!

Love and blessings from this wee dancing queen.
Mhaw! x

(p.s. This list is not limited and as always I’d love to hear your stories and suggestions of what works for you. Blogs are so much more fun when readers participate too, so please comment or ask questions, tell me what you’d like to see more of or if there is something specific you need help with and I’ll try my best.)

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http://rashellereid.wordpress.com/

Collaborative Dream Activism

What's so amazing about Dream Activism?

Anyone can do it

Has powerful impact

Practical application generates an unconventional activism

 

You may have heard people like Dr. Bruce Lipton say "Heal yourself heal the planet." Let’s face it healing ourselves is a gargantuan task! Humans may have advanced like gangbusters on the science and technological front, yet on the emotional and spiritual growth fronts, we find ourselves sitting squarely at the early adolescent phase. Healing and growth is definitely in order – but how?
Here’s what I believe: working with your dreams is one of the most basic, personal, inexpensive, powerful types of activism you can engage in. Dreams reveal all manner of unknown-knowing, emotions, perceptions, attitudes and patterns of behavior that need our conscious attention. Working with our dreams heals us at the personal level.
Now here’s the key. Each of our efforts to heal ourselves at our individual level is something ONLY the individual can do. I can’t do it for you and you can’t do it for me, yet it has to be done to heal the planet. When we heal ourselves, we powerfully change the initiating fractal of EVERYTHING in our world.
Let me go one step further tell you what else I believe: dream activism can lead us to discern practical actions that will facilitate the healing of relationships with people, land, money, the past, the future, the good, the bad, AND the ugly. But to do all that we first must begin to learn the language our dreams speak and get the conversation underway between ourselves and whatever you call the Universe or Source.
I’ll tell you how I know all this. Well that and how I came to work on a Facebook page with a wonderful tribe of people we call Collaborative Dream Activists, and why I invite you to get acquainted, maybe even come work with us. But first, let me share a dream I had this week.   

I’m somewhere that I have figured out that global warming has caused all the ice to melt in the world’s oceans. Where the surface of the ice used to reflect the heat back out into the atmosphere, now the water is absorbing that heat, causing climate change that threatens the entire Earth and her inhabitants.

Suddenly I have this awareness that if I tie a solar panel reflector to my back, I can reflect a tiny bit of the sun’s light back out into the atmosphere. Further, if all of us tie a solar panel to our back, we collectively will reflect out the heat that is endangering us all. 

The dream seems to end where I see an infinite winding path packed with humans carrying these solar reflectors on their backs. Together we are leveraging the very thing that factored greatly into getting us into this mess – ourselves - to individually do the very work the ice can no longer do for us. As the line extends beyond my vision, I can see that our efforts are effective. In the process of individually addressing the challenge, we save ourselves and the planet.

This dream segment is one of many I am guided to working with as I heal a major theme of fear and helplessness I feel when projecting what humanity’s future looks like without major changes now. The dream shows me making progress as I address the powerlessness I wrestle with in waking life to impact, my individual as well as humanity’s collective, sustainability.
My own exploration of the power of dreaming with intention began in the mid-2000’s. Back then I was battling a pervading sense of powerlessness as I surveyed the potential individual and collective landscapes rolling out in front of me, I was. Personally my economic, marriage, and health landscapes were looking frightfully unsustainable. At the collective level phrases like "corporate social responsibility" and "prioritize people, planet, profit" were well ensconced in the public relations arena, even as government and corporate interests actively undermined all sustainability efforts rumored to stand in the way of the almighty revenue stream.

During that time I had an unexpected business development opportunity fall in my lap. I was to meet with Director of the Center for Global Business and the Economy at a United States ivy league institution’s graduate school of business. The economy had tanked, and I was in dire need of new clients. This providential opportunity seemed like an invitation to solidify a powerful new connection and bring in new clients. My personal economic sustainability could be restored if I could just impress the gentleman I was set to meet eight weeks hence. Voila!

EXCEPT, the drawback was I had not graduated high school, much less college. My fear of being perceived as "unqualified" weighed heavy.  The full story is in the audio interview at this link http://bridge2vision.com/library.html  but suffice to say, this was when I was desperate enough to try something unconventional. A series of synchronicities led me to prepare for my meeting (a practical action) using my dreams, seeded each night by the question "What should I do tomorrow to prepare for this meeting?"

The next eight weeks I began to learn my own language with Source, actively, intentionally tapping into my own unknown-knowing through my dreams. This effort yielded all kinds of "right-brained" data in the form of symbols, synchronicities, and leads that I doggedly followed. 

The talent I had brought to the corporate world was an ability to listen, gather individual awareness and insight, and weave it together into a "sum" that was greater than the parts – the end products would then be used for training, calibrating, communicating, etc. 

About five weeks into my eight week process I had a dream that indicated I was to apply the same approach I used in my corporate work to mindmap, then generate a collective knowing summary. Using all my own dream and synchronicity data bits (ideas, interviews, books, impromptu speaking engagements etc.), I wove together the resulting theory, and prepared a presentation that would show the gentleman I was to meet how I gathered data from disparate sources and generated an end product that communicated a collective understanding.

I traveled to my meeting armed with an example of my work as well as the theory that this process had taught me. It wasn’t a rocket science theory, some people already understood my new awareness, I just now knew it for myself, having learned it in this unconventional way.

 My dream-generated theory articulated I am/you are the basic building block to global sustainability - ergo global sustainability begins with discovering our own personal sustainability. Like they say, heal yourself, heal the planet. 

My theory also gave me some strong awareness around how to recover personal sustainability.

In a nutshell working with my dreams showed me the path to our personal sustainability picks up the pace when an individual hits a rubber-meets-the-road experience that takes us lower than we have ever been and from which we have no idea how to recover. In desperation we finally abandon familiar patterns that no longer work and try something unconventional, like using dreams and synchronicity, to reveal practical action that will help recover our personal sustainability. 

Following the dream data I learned the "unconventional" approach involves turning to our right brain, intuition, Spirit or Source, or the Divine, whatever you call it, to tap into the infinite creative source. It is there we discover infinite love, healing and ultimately articulate our soul’s purpose to ourselves. Whatever right brain way you do it, painting, music, dancing, stand-up comedy, dreaming, environmental restoration projects, needlepoint, writing, etc. - the collaboration with creative source will heal you, provide insight, and allow you to trust that within the vast creative source you will always find answers you need to sustain whatever part of yourself is endangered. 

From personal experience, I know this process reveals time and again that each of us has access to a bandwidth of wisdom and creativity that awaits our engagement.

Others have said this before me, but now I KNOW from personal experience: to heal the planet, first we have to heal individually, then heal each other, then in our healed, loving and expansive state we will collectively create and innovate our way through the challenge of healing the planet - otherwise known as global sustainability.

All of which brings me back to the Collaborative Dream Activist group. In the way I used right-brained activities like dreaming and synchronicity to tap my own unknown–knowing, this group does the same. Then we collaborate using the power of our combined left-brains to discern the practical action our "right-brain data" infers.



There are a few differences of course: The first is the intention statement we go to sleep with: 

"I am grateful to be living in a Multiverse filled with peace, harmony, and balance for all sentient beings" 

Secondly, moving out of isolation, we work collaboratively to strengthen our personal understanding of our individual language with the Universe. As individuals are inspired to post a dream they had, members consider the imagery represented and if inspired, share what the imagery means to them, what questions it calls for them to answer. Eventually we weave it all together and discern what practical action could be taken. The more we engage in this conversation with the Universe, the more we understand our personal language, and now in this group – our "tribe’s language accent." From there we generate an understanding of the practical action the Universe is calling for us to do in support of the group’s stated intention.

Unconventional? Yes. 
Results Oriented? Yes. 


Open to anyone inspired to hold our intention, dream, and collaborate from anywhere in the world? Yes.
This tribe has been convening for just a few short months, but the insight and synchronicities between us is nothing we could have strategized. Inspired to come check it out? Get your Unconventional Activist self over to Facebook and search on Collaborative Dream Activists. Join. Activate your contribution to healing the planet.