A Waking Dream Message from the Angels

Recently, during a challenging time, I randomly opened a book to a passage that said, “This too shall pass.” A waking dream message, I thought. This too shall pass was a phrase my mother said when consoling her children through difficult times. Reading the sentence again I felt the Presence of my spiritual guides and angels. A few hours later, I overheard someone at work say, "This too shall pass." Now my spiritual guides had my full attention. I was being reminded that no matter how difficult a situation, my spiritual guides and angels would always be with me. I was not alone.

As a child I was comforted by this phrase. However, during a challenging time perspective is distorted. Fear settles uncomfortably into one’s consciousness pushing out feelings of hope and joy. When this happens there is a loss of contact with the higher self. The little self, the ego, holds tight and wants to steer the boat. Another approach, a counter intuitive move, is to let go and turn it over to a higher power. It takes loosening the grip and trusting that something Greater than the little self, the ego, has a wider more expanded point of view and will guide to safer and calmer waters.

Turning things over and trusting a higher power is difficult for just about everyone. It is natural to want to hold on and force solutions. It is a relief to let go and allow oneself to be guided. The process is not always comfortable. In fact it is quite a stretch to move out of one's comfort zone and trust that something Greater than oneself is guiding towards the best possible outcome. By letting go and releasing the tight grip of the ego you will cope with the roller coaster ride. At some point, all challenging situations change and pass into something new perhaps into something greater and better than you ever imagined!

With love, and light, healing and many blessings,



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Taking off the Rose Colored Glasses

I see the world through rose colored glasses. I see the good in people. I see their potential. Their successful careers, marriages, family and more. I see the potential in everyone. I live in the world of infinite positive possibilities, positive manifestation-all dreams come true; my special brand of Fairy Tale Thinking. However, every so often the Universe says it is time to take off the rose colored glasses.

I have always seen the world through rose colored glasses. Life is beautiful and the sun is shining. However, as a psychotherapist, I know the struggles people have changing behaviors, confronting bad relationships trying desperately to stop addictive compulsive behaviors. It is challenging and takes a lot of hard work. The hard job of changing the patterns of one’s personality is a daily effort. It is so much easier to put on the rose colored glasses, pretend problems don’t exist, run away-especially in the summer to the shore, the mountains, a lovely quiet campsite beside a pristine lake.. Ahhh... a lovely thought. The hard work of going to therapy, or groups, Twelve Step recovery programs- anything that confronts one’s personality patterns, is the psychological work that needs to be done. In today’s world of “give it to me fast and make me better yesterday,” makes the hard work of self-examination and confrontation difficult. Becoming that bright shining psychological and spiritual star means confronting psychological dross. (That is what I call the stuff that has to be healed from the personality in order to become whole and one with spiritual light). The psychological stuff we have accumulated from this lifetime and from other lifetimes too. (Yes, we do reincarnate with both positive and negative personality patterns. All has to be looked at and worked on with the goal towards healing the self.) Googling the word dross, definitions like waste matter and scum that forms at the surface of molten lead, as well as impurities showed up. That is the psychological stuff we all have to look at. Our own personal psychological dross.

I used to think that I would reach some magical age in life and all of my problems would be solved. (Isn’t that what enlightenment means? In the Light, and forever free to be in communion with God with the Holy Spirit.) For the rest of my life, I would sit in a lotus positions, chant OM or HU or Love, or Peace, and be finished dealing with my psychological self, untouched by the hardships of life. But alas, that is magical thinking, and would in the long run be boring. I can’t say it is fun to take off the rose colored glasses when there is something psychological to look at, but it is necessary to do. Otherwise, we live  in denial, miss important opportunities, and make up that the change we are feeling, the change that is on the horizon is going to be easy, and it never is. Change is challenging. Facing reality is challenging too. So for now, and only temporarily, I am taking off my rose colored glasses and putting them in the drawer knowing, without a doubt, (or maybe a few doubts), that Higher Power has a 360 degree point of view, a higher vision, a higher plan to help shed the psychological dross allowing spiritual rose colored light to shine through.


Love, Light, Healing and Many Blessings,


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Faith or Fear?

Faith or Fear?

Will it be faith or fear? As the challenges mounted this week, this is the question I asked myself. So I followed my own advice, the advice I give to others, and sat down to meditate. This is what I heard my higher power say. Let go of what you can’t control. Everyone has their own higher power, their own God that is directing them towards wholeness. Keep in mind that on earth, at this third dimensional level of consciousness, there is a lot of pain. And as difficult as it is, people grow the most from pain. It is okay to let people grow from their pain.

I listened to what higher power said to me in meditation but still wanted my will to prevail. Don’t I know best? Can’t I make things happen and show another the way? The longer I held on to that kind of thinking, the longer I was out of balance and motivated by fear. Finally, after much effort; reaching out to support systems, reading spiritual teachings, and saying the serenity prayer many times a day, I surrendered to the challenges of the week and am at peace.

Surrendering to higher power is a daily decision. Co-creatorship does not mean we are running the show-ours or anyone else’s show. It means we align our little will with the higher Divine Will. The Divine Will has a plan for each and every person. Divine Will wants us to grow spiritually but we must surrender and listen to the voice of our higher self so we can know the direction to take.

During challenging times, this is difficult to do. Fear creeps in and wants to take hold. Faith is pushed out of one’s heart and mind. The inner child asks, “Am I safe.” The answer is “yes” we are safe. We are all children of God who approves and loves us unconditionally.

“God, Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change. The courage to change the things I can. And the wisdom to know the difference.”

Love, Light, Healing and blessings,
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The Pleiaidan Starseed Light Worker Network

The Pleiaidan Starseed Light Worker Network is a network of spiritual beings of light who embrace the idea that our individual and collective thought creates individual and world reality. We are coming in to a New Age of Light and love. It is a new kind of spirituality. It is not a religion but is a way of living life sharing the light and love and recognizing that all people everywhere are spiritual beings of Light. As we move into a new age of light more and more people will embrace this truth; we are all spiritual beings of light on earth, and act accordingly.

The Pleiaidan Starseed Light Worker Network are people who remember this truth and are awakening to the fact that it is vital to share the light and share the love and share the information that we have to look beyond our conditioning and see our spiritual light-see the light in other people too. Perhaps it is DNA programmed in Starseeds that is awakening to this mission. Perhaps Star Beings from the Pleiades did come to earth and mingle with humans leaving some of us with this strand of information that is awakening at this point in time. Or perhaps it is spiritual and psychological development that says, yes, go forward and share the light and love. The most profound truth is that the information is here for all to see if they choose to. Light and Love is all there is. To get there we must work on psychological and spiritual healing.

If you are depressed, anxious or out of balance it is hard if not impossible to hear Higher Self information and disseminate it to others. To become a channel for the Light and Love and hear the Pleiadian Message and the message of the Spiritual Hierarchy of Light, you have to decide, and it is a decision, to take time every day away from the busyness of your life, and sit down and meditate. I meditate in the morning or by noon every day. Find a good time for yourself, sit down and enjoy the quietness. Passively observe your thoughts; let them come and go. Gently come back to the word Relax, Release, or Love, and Light.

Are you a Starseed? You are a spiritual being of light on earth. Become a part of the Pleiaidan Starseed Light Worker Network and choose to disseminate information on Love and Light. I will send you a clear quartz crystal to meditate with. Here’s what I say in my book, For Starseeds: Healing the Heart-Pleiaidan Crystal Meditations about quartz crystal.

“Quartz crystals are psychological and spiritual healing tools. Quartz Crystal creates a path for the light to flow from the higher chakras down from the crown chakra to the brow point chakra, throat chakra, heart chakra, naval point chakra, sacral chakra, and root chakra—the body is balanced and cleared. If there are blockages, quartz assists in removing them.”


Love, light, healing and many blessings,



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The Dynamic Duo-Thoughts and Emotions: Creating a Positive Reality

The Dynamic Duo-Thoughts and Emotions

Creating a Positive Reality


It is not enough to say that our thoughts create our reality. It is too black and white and narrow and the concept does not give enough information. If something bad happens for example sickness or an accident does that mean that your thoughts created the event? If you believe that your thoughts create your reality, when challenges occur and they will, you now have to cope with trying to figure out how the negative event happened and what you did to create it. Was it your thoughts? Buying into the concept that our thoughts create our reality can compound difficult situations additionally burdening a person; people tend to blame something or someone, often it is oneself.


I like to think about the concept that our thoughts create our reality like this.


When a negative event happens in our lives we feel emotional. Emotions occur from thoughts. Emotions have important psychological information. The feedback from a strong emotion like anger, for example, says there is something that we do not like that may need changing. Keep in mind that strong emotions like anger can be motivating. (E-motion. energy in motion). Since it is impossible and a big waste of time to try and change the person who made us angry, it is best to be motivated and examine what is going on in one’s thinking process. It is also best not to suppress emotions but contain them. When one is cool headed an objective examination of one’s thought process and what is driving the anger can occur.


To help this process move along, when you are emotional and out of balance, find a trusted friend or a good therapist and talk it out. Go to the gym, a walk, a swim. Do something constructive and active to let go of the toxic build-up of stress hormones cortisol and epinephrine that occur when we are upset and angry. Then, when calmer, sit down to meditate.


Meditation releases feel good hormones serotonin and melatonin. The brain receives feel good messages that we are relaxed and calmer. The chatter in the mind settles down and clearer thinking returns. Anger dissipates, balance is restored. Then it is easier to let go and think positive thoughts flooding the brain with feelings of wellness, happiness, joy and gratitude. Understanding how our thoughts and emotions work together- a dynamic duo- creates a more psychologically positive and healthy lifestyle and a new reality-one in which our thoughts and emotions are the energizing force behind creating a positive and productive reality.


Love, Light, Healing, and Many Blessings,



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Good People Doing Good Things

 

Good People Doing Good Things

 

There are more good people doing good things; people who compassionately help others and empathize with their pain. People who forgive mistakes and know the importance of being positive and pleasant-I remind myself of this when bad things happen to others. Then I think about a banner that my second grade teacher Miss Gregory hung on the walls of the classroom, “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” My heart soars; even at eight years old I know my second grade teacher is sharing a secret-a truth. At the time, I did not know this phrase was a message from the great Master Teacher Jesus to his disciples, but it touches my heart and is a guiding principle. So when people hurt other people, (impossible to understand), I take it into meditation. I close my eyes and ask, “Why would anyone want to hurt another person?” In meditation my mind settles down and the quietness is soothing. I am back to center and balanced.

I recall a spiritual law.

The Law of Karma; everyone, everywhere is held responsible for their thoughts and their deeds. Everyone. There is no escaping it.

We reap what we sow; what we do and what we think every day has repercussions for ourselves and others. Yes…thoughts are "things" and have a tangible quality. We cannot monitor all of the thousands of thoughts we have each day, but we can make a daily effort to quiet the mind in meditation, balance ourselves, and reach out to others-never intentionally doing harm. With a balanced mind and an open heart we are better able to be a kind and caring human being.

Although it is a challenge to meditate at least one time a day for ten, fifteen, or twenty minutes or longer, the simple easy and effortless process of letting thoughts come and go re-balances the nervous system and releases stress. When I meditate, I am reminded that there are more good people doing good things in the world than bad people doing hurtful things. There are more good people helping others, serving others, family, friends, and neighbors, then destructive out of balance and misguided people. Then my mind drifts back and I think about the banner Miss Gregory hung on the walls of the second grade classroom, “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”  Yes, there are more good people doing good things for others bringing light and love in to the world.

 

Light, Love, healing and many blessings, always, Ruth Starseed
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Inner Voice

I was twenty three years old when my Cousin, five years younger, born on my birthday, a blue eyed blonde beauty; a colorful bouquet of mountain wildflowers, I thought, as she walked towards me. Her ankle length skirt flowed lazily, effortlessly, from side to side.  “I recently learned to meditate and I would like for you to learn too. It’s relaxing and healing.” The bright eyed eighteen-year old was eager to share her experience with me.  An introductory meditation class would be held on Thursday. “Bring flowers and fruit to the session and make an appointment with one of the meditation teachers on the college campus,” she said.

I, in my white tennis shorts, shirt, and sneakers, was getting ready to pound the ball across the tennis court. The thought of meditation was unappealing; I identified elsewhere. Anticipating that meditation would somehow change me in ways I would not like, the idea of going to a class was unappealing. However, I could not ignore the inner voice that told me to check it out-to go.

Thank-you Cousin. Since that time, decades ago, I have healed body, mind, and spirit, psychologically and spiritually, and taught meditation to others in hundreds of seminars and workshops. In the process, I demystified the general thinking that in order to meditate correctly one must clear the mind and get rid of all thoughts. In fact when we meditate, we need to follow the path of least resistance and “go with the flow;” passively observing the babbling brook of the mind, the continuous flow of thoughts, gently introducing a word like Relax into the meditation to transcend to quieter more peaceful places, effortlessly, easily.  

Remember when you meditate:

1-You will always have thoughts

2-Gently and silently say the word Relax

3-Allow the word Relax to drift in and out of your mind. Thoughts will drift in and out too.

4-Passively observe them-let them come and go.

5-If it helps listen to soft soothing music.

6-Meditate for fifteen to twenty minutes a day.

-The benefits are enormous. I will talk about them in the next blog.

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