Peace In the Chaos

The past year has been a very crazy and difficult one for me. This last month has been particularly chaotic as my family welcomed a new grandson into the world and I struggled to juggle several trips to south Georgia along with work and trying to take care of my husband's ever growing needs. Two days ago I was at the point of utter exhaustion and total mental meltdown as I attempted to get last minute prep done for my family's Christmas. I finally had to throw in the towel yesterday and allow myself to be content with what I had already gotten done.

Allowing myself to be content with my less-than-perfect self is tough. I am my own worst critic. Coupled with the fact that I enjoy making happy holiday memories for my family, my bright plans not all coming to fruition is a bit of a letdown.

That said, in the midst of the self-created chaos I've had some truly wonderful insights. The first (and most important): I am being way too hard on myself. I have created a must-have scenario that is unrealistic and unfair--especially considering the circumstances of my present life. I am losing the most important part of myself trying to bring about the "perfect" holiday.

I am also aware that I am doing too much for my adult children. When they were little, it was important to me that Christmas be exciting and fun. I so enjoyed planning, buying their Santa gifts, and trying to make sure they had happy childhood memories, regardless of the fact they lived in a one parent household. (Yes, I was overcompensating in many ways.) That said, Christmas was always my favorite holiday and I wanted my kids to share this with me. I believe I have been successful in that goal. The thing is, now that they are adults I need to pull my own reins in and allow them to create their own memories. I will still work to make sure I celebrate the holidays with them. I now understand I need to create new holiday goals--something more realistic and maybe something that includes more of the public at large like volunteering with a program that distributes toys to needy children.

Nearly having a nervous breakdown can sharpen your focus. As I sit in the quiet drinking my morning coffee, I understand that everything is all right in the world. I have shelter, clothing, food, a loving family that I will get to spend time with, and new opportunities opening up. There can be peace within the chaos. We just have to take the time to remember it.

The Sacred Journey Of Rock Bottom

At some point in time, we all hit rock bottom. While most of us see this as a negative, the expedition to rock bottom is probably one of the most positive and profound spaces we can occupy during the course of our lifetimes.

The journey to rock bottom is a sacred journey. It is lined with problems and missteps. We arrive broken, battered, beaten, discouraged, but this is where the magic begins to happen! As we attempt to pick up the pieces of our lives and put ourselves back together, we become open to new information--new solutions! We see possibilities we were unable to see before because we were mired in limited perspective. We arrive at a point in our lives where we allow ourselves to think and act in new ways. We grow. We change. We become better.

And our lives improve. They may not improve overnight. Climbing out of the pit can be tough work. Quite often we slip back into old patterns of behavior and fall again. Still, growth occurs with each new step up. Pulling ourselves up contains the added benefit of making us stronger.

I have hit several rock bottoms throughout the course of my lifetime. With the added benefit of hindsight, I can now see how those experiences grew me as a human being. The scars that are part of my journey have become badges of honor as I use them to remember the growth that has taken place. I can appreciate who I am and the odyssey that made me that way. It is in this sacred journey of rock bottom that I find peace.

~CSE

Thankful For The Darkness

There are times in life where it doesn't rain but it pours. My life in recent weeks has reflected this as I struggle with my mom's approaching heart surgery, my husband's health problems, my oldest son's wedding, car problems, etc. It seems as though everything in my life has culminated in one perfect storm and I am at a loss with how to cope with it all. That said, this morning as I sit in quiet meditation I am thankful for the darkness that surrounds me.

I have survived a lot of perfect storms in my life. I was saved from a cult that blinded me when I was a young adult seeking truth. I lived through a very painful episode where my first daughter died less than a day after her birth. I was terribly broken and drained from my first marriage and subsequent divorce--so much so it took almost ten years to restore myself to some degree of normalcy. The turn of events I now find myself in is not exceptional as far as my life goes.

The thing is, all these major challenges in my life have done amazing things for me. The cult experience taught me that I am indeed directly connected to God/Source and I need to rely on that connection for my answers and guidance instead of on what other people tell me. The death of my infant daughter taught me how to be compassionate in the face of blinding loss. The demise of my first marriage and subsequent rebuilding of myself from the ground up taught me what my strengths and weaknesses are and what I deserve and don't deserve from life. Yes, the pain from all these events was significant, but in process I was able to overcome major obstacles. This is where the most powerful growth comes from. As difficult as these situations were, they changed me in very positive ways. I will never be the same and I am blessed because of it.

As I sit, wondering where my life is going to go from here, I am reassured there is light somewhere around the corner. Great darkness brings powerful change (and ironically, I have been praying for powerful change to come into my life). It appears it is indeed time for me to move into the next phase of my earthly existence.

Great change is the result of weathering great difficulties. It is darkness that prompts a person to make the changes necessary to forge a new life path. Darkness always precedes the light. Although I am in the midst of the darkness, I am thankful. I know I am experiencing a very powerful growth process, and this knowing brings me peace.

~CSE

  

    

A Perfect World

I have many fond memories from my growing up years of a place called Camp Bountiful. It's a camp owned by the church I grew up in, settled in the hills of southeastern Ohio. I used to spend a couple of weeks there every summer, attending family camp (affectionately known as Reunion) and any youth camp I was either eligible to attend or old enough to help/volunteer with. Although it is a beautiful place and I participated in a lot of fun activities there, it was not those things that kept me coming back. What kept me coming back was the spirit I found there--the connection to God and the love that surrounded me.

I was twelve the summer I became conscious of it. I was attending one of my first Junior High camps. Because I was extremely outgoing and had been attending camps here since I was a toddler, I was in my element. I was good at making friends. In fact, I often had friends that didn't like each other. As it happened, two of my good friends that week were enemies. Both of them asked me individually why I liked the other one. I proceeded to talk about the best qualities of the other, although I could tell I wasn't believed. I ignored the friction between the two, but I could feel it just the same.

One of the best things about youth camps were the campfires held at night. There were lively songs and funny skits in the first part of campfire that would slowing transition into a much more mellow place of calm and peace. Usually toward the end of the week, campfires would open to periods of reflection and people were encouraged to share what they had learned throughout the course of the week.

The final campfire that week was a magical one. The experiences people shared spoke of great love, which ultimately binds us all. My two friends who had been in conflict that week apologized to each other and forged the beginning bonds of friendship. The presence of God was powerfully present--so much so I began to see the images of angels among the trees that were the backdrop of our campfire. Everything was perfect at that time in that place.

A soft misty rain fell the following day as we left camp. It almost felt as though God was a little sad that we had to leave this place of connection to go back to our lives in the "real" world. While the goal of camp is to take such feelings back into the world with the hope of growing them there, it was difficult to leave the perfection of that place--the perfection of that feeling.

That is the world I envision. While many would say it is a pipe dream that could never happen in the real world, I beg to differ. I have been there. I have seen it. I have experienced it. I know it can exist in this plane. This is the life I work toward every day as I struggle to find my place in this world.

As we open our hearts to love, we open ourselves to a whole different place--a whole different state of BEing. Our hearts don't come from a place of logic. Our hearts come from a place of feeling, and feeling is what manifests in the real world. The closer we come to thinking first with our hearts, the closer we come to establishing this peaceful more perfect world.

I am looking for people who also see this vision of the future. Join me?

~CSE

       

The Law Of Attraction And Darkness

I am a believer in the law of attraction. You do get more of what you think about and dwell on. That is where the problems begin in the New Age community. There are many out there who refuse to believe that darkness even exists. It's almost as though, if they stop thinking about evil, it will go away altogether. The irony comes when they encounter evil. If they don't believe in it and didn't think it into existence, where did it come from? Darkness has always existed with the light. You may be able to hide from the darkness at times, but it will eventually find you again. Sooner or later, darkness must be dealt with.

It's a simple truth of this duality that we live in. We need darkness if we are to appreciate and understand light. While you may cling fast to the light, darkness still exists in the world around you. Darkness still exists in you! Resisting darkness only makes it worse because you are, in effect, focusing on it and drawing it more closely to you.

Understand that resistance is an energy block, and blocks are what stop flow and abundance from entering into your life. The more you resist darkness, the more you block the free flow of energy toward you and away from you.

Martin Luther King, Jr. once said:

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

For me, this is the wisdom of the Universe! This is the very strategy that made the civil rights movement in the United States work! It wasn't their resistance that worked even though their resistance supplied the contrast. What worked is the fact they did not respond back with violence. Because MLK and his followers were peaceful in the face of great abuse, others who looked at the situation began to understand the darkness that limited the freedom of black people in this country. The darkness was acknowledged for the ugliness it was, and people could no longer accept that treatment as the status quo.

What's the solution when we encounter darkness? Understand that it is here for the contrast. Thank it for the understanding it is brings. Then, instead of resisting it, love it! Bestow it with all the equal and opposite feelings you can muster! It needs healing! It needs to be balanced out in order to restore the equilibrium once again.

We can never truly get away from darkness because darkness is part of everything that is, including ourselves. Accept it. Deal with it. Love it. Bring it back into the fold. When we are done looking upon darkness as the enemy and resisting it, we are one step closer to peace.

~CSE

 

 

Taking Responsibility For War

I was watching an interview with a Syrian refugee. Because of war facing that country, she and her family fled. No one wants to live in war. No one wants to live in such fear. The simple fact of the matter is, the vast majority of us want to live in peace. The vast majority of us want to live lives of freedom from fear and worry.

This is not possible at present. Why? Because those in power want war. War makes them rich when governments buy more planes and ships and bombs and arms from their war corporations. War makes them rich when they are enabled to take over the vast mineral and slave resources available in any given 2nd or 3rd world country. War gives them the wealth necessary to buy more and more power as they take over world governments and suppress the people.

We have two choices with this state of affairs. We can choose to play the victim and continue to allow those obsessed with wealth and power to control our planet through our destruction. The other choice is to recognize what is going on and take responsibility for what happens. The fact of the matter is, there is a whole lot more of us than there are of them. If we were to all come together and say we want peace and you can no longer stop us, war would stop. Immediately.

Now is the time for action! Now is the time to open up our hearts and begin connecting to them! When we allow love to flow in, we begin to understand that the people in those war torn countries are just like us. They don't want to live in fear. They want to live in peace, just as we want to live in peace. They may have different colored skin. They may have different cultures and different beliefs. Still, they want what we all want. They want to live in love and happiness.

Stop allowing evil people to decide what actions we take! As long as we listen to the voices of these wolves and the lies they spew forth, all we will know is war. All we will know is fear.

Open your heart! This is the place where peace and love begin. This is the place of connection--the place we discover that we all have something in common. We have spent enough time destroying one another. It is time to begin the process of peace and prosperity. It is time to take responsibility for our actions, lay aside our weapons and begin to live in the peace we so desperately crave.

Together, we can make a difference. Together, we are the ones we've been waiting for. Let's make it happen!!!

~CSE

   

One

Some of my best friends are African American. Through no fault of their own, they are born into a society that does not always value them as it should. Some of my white friends get offended when they hear about programs that favor minorities or when they hear African Americans promoting themselves or their businesses. Personally, I believe they need a little extra help and should promote themselves. The simple truth is because we still think with our minds and not our hearts, African Americans and other minorities can be treated as second class citizens.

I am a woman. While progress toward equality with men has been made in this country, it is not what it needs to be. Yes. Women can vote and hold public office. We can choose to marry or divorce. We have even made progress in career fields when it comes to being paid the same wage as a man doing the same exact job. Still, most of our progress has to do with allowing women to do the same things that men do. Equality for women in this country has nothing to do with seeing the qualities of women as equal to the qualities of men. Don't believe me? When was the last time you were encouraged to think with your intuitive heart over your rational mind? It is just not done because it is not thought of as worthy.

The fact of the matter is, when we see someone or something else as different than ourselves or outside ourselves, we cannot be whole. We are, in fact, separate and broken. Societies that are separate and broken do not get along. They have problems and struggles and fights. They do not have peace.

Essentially, we are at war with ourselves. We are at war because we do not understand that deep down we are all connected. At the level of the heart, we are all One.

It's time to bring divinity back into our own lives. It's time to remember who we are. It's time to bring back peace. We do that by recognizing one simple truth: we are One.

~CSE

    

The Energy Of The Fight

I recently found myself emotionally triggered by a vegan who is very vocal in his stance for animals rights. I have no problems with veganism itself. I honor people who intentionally choose not to consume animal flesh and can understand their way of thinking. What triggered me was the superior attitude the guy had because he was vegan and the implication that veganism was the only correct way to eat.

Because I had been triggered, I took a few minutes to look at the situation to see what questions I could ask and what information was trying to make itself known to me. Anytime emotions get set off, there is unresolved energy that is asking for attention and help.

Two things really jumped out at me. The first was the energy that confronted me--the energy of the fight. It was judgmental. It was superior. It was forceful. It sought to overpower. It sought to win, which also implies there has to be a loser.

The second thing that jumped out at me was how I chose to respond to this situation. I wanted to shut it up and close it down. I wanted to show rationally how it wasn't the superior argument. I wanted to fight back, and I did even though the action did not sit right in my heart.

The world I observe is the world created by my perspective. While it contains pieces of truth, it is still limited to those pieces I choose to see and become aware of. If the world around me is a reflection of myself, what does this situation say about me?

The situation tells me I am still part of the fight, still part of the drama. It shows me that I am in judgment--ironically of people who are in judgment! I definitely still carry the energy of the fight, just as much as the person I encountered.

We we can lay aside the energy of the fight and allow what is to exist without trying to tame it or control it, there will be peace.

~CSE

The Willingness To Allow

I always find it intriguing when I set off other people's trigger points. I don't do things with the goal of setting people off, although I do admit there are many occasions where I give out information for people to consider. I have no problem when they think about the issue and still come to the same conclusion. I believe that is part of their journey and part of their BEing. We all have different things we want to explore and learn about in this 3D existence.

This time I posed a question on Facebook. My post reads as follows:

I am curious. For those of you who have changed your profile pictures to French flag colors, how do you want to support the French people? Are you planning on bringing peace, or are you ready to go to war (which is the goal of world leadership and corporations)? If peace, how are YOU going to promote it?

This was just after the horrible events that took place in Paris on Friday the 13th (Nov. 13, 2015).My overall goal with the post was to get people to think about how they could support the concepts of peace instead of those of war. I believe the people who planned this attack desire the world go to war, and I want to do what I can to foil those plans. For me, focusing on peace is the way.

Most of the people who responded to my post did post about peace. However, one person was set off to the point where they first told me that if I believed this was a false flag attack I should unfriend them immediately. I then asked them to define what a false flag attack was and gave them my definition. I also told them it was up to them to unfriend me if they still felt that way. They did unfriend me, and that's okay. It is not for me to change them.

I wish this person would have responded to the question specifically posed to them. I really do want to understand where they are coming from--thoughts, emotions, rationale, etc. As it is, I can only read/feel into it. What I feel (or what my heart tells me) is that they were so threatened by the idea this attack was planned by something bigger than religious extremists they had to lash out at the person who made them consider the thought (me).

Lately when I get triggered in a big way, I try to look at the situation from many angles. I start by asking questions such as, "What about this situation intimidates me?" or "What emotion am I feeling and what do I need to learn from this situation?" This is where I will sit with the information and allow it to sink in. This is where I consciously connect to my heart and search for answers. It is my process for healing and growth and an approach that allows me to quickly work through the energetic blocks in my life.

It is important to understand it is possible to embrace differences. We all experience different things, like different things, believe different things. There is no way we are going to convince all people that what we believe is right, correct or even true. Life is not about changing others. It is about growing and learning. It is about becoming better than you were before. It's about changing self.

The willingness to allow involves both allowing others to BE who they are and allowing ourselves to learn from those experiences we might consider negative. It is in these ways we overcome our own problems to create a better world.

To the person who unfriended me: I still love you. May peace accompany you on your continued journey.

~CSE

Manifesting Peace

We believe we want peace. We look around at all the fighting, all the war, all the violence, yet one day does not become better than the next. The struggle is still a constant in our lives. Why is that? I believe the answer can be found within our own hearts!

Sit back. Close your eyes. Take a few deep, cleansing breaths. Picture yourself--your spirit or soul--contained within your physical heart. Feel yourself fully there in this moment of now. Take the time to explore all those things you find there. What do you find there? Do you feel peace or are you worried about something? Do you see/feel conflict in the world around you?

What you see/feel in your heart is important because what is in your heart manifests in your physical world. If you feel conflict with another person in your heart, it is present in your outer world. If you see the wars and violence in your heart, it becomes present in the world around you.

What can you do to change this? Use this heart meditation time to feel something different. Remember times in your life where you felt truly joyful and happy. Get very specific. Maybe your memory was of your birthday, where people were present to celebrate you! Notice the happiness around you. Ask yourself, "In this happy moment, was there conflict?" If you picked the best memory, the answer should be "no". Reflect on the feelings the memory brings up--especially the peace aspect. Allow yourself to sit with those feelings until you once again begin to feel them in the rest of your body.

The bottom line is, peace is either part of your frequency/energy or it is not. If you do not carry that vibration of peace with you everywhere you go, you will not see it in your outside world. Like attracts like. That's what the old saying "Birds of a feather flock together" means.

It is up to each one of us to BE peace in the world. If you profess peace but have conflict with a friend or family member or coworker, you are not BEing peace. You are not carrying that frequency. If you believe others have to change to bring about peace you are focused on something outside yourself which you have no real control over. The only thing this will accomplish is to keep you separate, and separation is not part of peace.

Peace is not merely the absence of conflict. It is also the understanding that, on some level, we are all truly interconnected and interdependent on each other. Until we are able to internalize this concept, we will continue to have conflict in our lives.

Peace, like everything else, is a choice. Manifesting peace is a matter of looking within and understanding we are all One.

~CSE

    

Our Current Timeline

As a serious alternative news junkie, I am constantly looking for signs that progress is being made. Are there any criminal politicians being arrested (or at least accusations coming to light)? What is going on with regards to alternative/free energy? What is happening to the financial markets and what changes are taking place with the world economy? While I see progress being made on all fronts, I am also sensing a pattern that events are still highly controlled, and this is what I feel led to point out today.

I see the economy changing substantially over the course of the next few years. I do believe things will improve, at least somewhat, for the vast majority of poor and middle class people on the planet. However, I don't believe these improvements will be because humanity is "winning". I believe We the People have been pushed close enough to the breaking point and are angry. What will happen in the next few years is being done to calm the masses back down to the point we will no longer want to erupt and topple the current powers that be. That is their fear, and that is the only reason these changes are happening. Do not be fooled. Those running things behind the scenes are still largely in control. It's all about "bread and circuses" and understanding that once you have fed and entertained the masses they go back to being docile.

Perhaps the most positive changes we can focus on are those regarding alternative/free energy. Since the time of Tesla, many factions of the cabal (aka the powers that be) have worked hard to keep this information from being revealed. Because of some key standout players, progress has been made to the point that we are on the verge of real change! Just this month, the Keshe Foundation released its free energy technology to some of the poorest third world countries in an effort to help them become more energy self-sufficient. Yesterday, the information went live on the internet so that government suppression is no longer an option!!! Those of you who are scientifically minded need to follow up on this technology and become familiar with it so you can build your own free energy devices to free yourselves and others from dependence on the multinational corporate state. (For more information go to Keshe Foundation. Note that if you have trouble with the link, it is an extremely busy website this week!)

I have to confess I have good deal of respect for Russia's Vladimir Putin. While I don't believe he is the savior of mankind, I do believe the actions he is taking on behalf of his country will benefit all of humanity in the long run. He has already called out the criminal actions of the United States regarding their creation of ISIS and is actively working to dismantle it and maintain order in the Middle East. This one act is decimating the plans of the New World Order for supreme control over the planet.  

From my perspective, it is highly important for us to focus on the criminal activities of those we have allowed to have power over us--politicians, royalty, celebrities, etc. It is only by revealing/illuminating their crimes that we have any hope in overcoming their criminal rule over us. We need to actively protect whistleblowers and their families--everyone from Assange, Manning and Snowden on down to the people who have personally witnessed criminal activity and reported it, only to find they were put into prison on trumped up charges. The sacrifices these people have made on behalf of humanity cannot be underestimated!!! We will never be free from these criminals until we have shined the light on the wrongs they commit against humanity and the world. They need to be taken out of power and locked up in a place where they can no longer hurt anyone again.

Most importantly, it is time for each one of us to learn to connect to our hearts and our own divine link to Source energy. The more time we spend in connection, the less likely we are to be led around by our experiences and our programming. We are capable of seeing new options and making new choices. We are free to claim our own personal power once again as we connect to all that is. By doing so, we all have the power to positively effect the course of the entire planet.

It is up to all of us to claim our power and create the world of our dreams. Until we do this, we will continue to have the same sorts of problems that affect us at present. Time to connect...empower...and create!!!

~CSE

Inner Healing, Inner Peace

Over the years, I have done much work to fix all those broken places inside of myself. Sometimes the problems seem endless as I jump from one problem to the next. What amazes me most is how the world around me really does change when something gets fixed and I put out a slightly different frequency.

I've had a really huge personal shift lately because of an unhealthy attachment I recognized and was able to let go of through renouncing the spiritual contract I had with this person. The amazing thing is, because this relationship also affected someone I am close to, the break has helped my loved one in very profound ways. It is almost as though my loved one has changed overnight into a much healthier and happier person. I am blown away by how changed my own life is because of this shift.

Understand those points of stress in our lives are there for a reason. They are there to point out all those things you need to fix in yourself. When we don't have inner peace, we need inner healing.

I cannot heal you. The only person who can do that is you. What I can do is help you identify those places you need to work on. What I can do is offer up some of the tricks and techniques I know of that have helped me over time. Over the next few months, I hope to offer much of that information here on my blog (for free!!!).

When we heal our inner world, we change our frequency. When we change our frequency, all those things we attract into our lives change. Because we are all connected, when we change ourselves we really can change the world.

It begins with a new way of BEing.

~CSE

Visions Of Peace

There is a place, deep in our hearts, where peace lives. Even though we cannot presently see it with our eyes, we understand it is a real place. We know we have the power to make it a reality. Today, more than ever, it is important to allow this peace to radiate out from our beings to shine its great light upon the world.

A few short months ago, a shooter in Charleston killed nine people in a church, including SC state senator Clementa Pinckney. It was widely reported that the killer was a white supremacist. While this may be true, I believe the emphasis placed on race by the media was designed to build up racial tension within Charleston and the state of South Carolina and promote riots, similar to what had happened in places like Ferguson, Missouri and Baltimore, Maryland.

What the powers that be did not anticipate were the reactions of the people of Charleston and the state of South Carolina. Instead of being filled with hate, the good people of South Carolina came together and said, "We can no longer tolerate hate. We will use forgiveness to heal what is wrong and come together as a community." They carried peace in their hearts. They knew it. They lived it.

When the residents of the state did not act with the hate and violence that was intended, outsiders were brought in to protest in the hope that these protesters could get the violence started. Again, the good people of South Carolina recognized the external circumstances that were brought to them and refused to hate. They told the protesters to go home and take their hate with them.

This is exactly what we need to do today and in the coming months: refuse to hate and allow peace to reign in our hearts. It is time to see and recognize the worth of all souls. It is time to allow those who are different from ourselves the space to BE different. It is time to lay aside the barriers that separate us and create a world where we understand our deep connections to each other and our world.

May we all allow these visions of peace to shine so brightly and so powerfully from our hearts there is no room for anything else! Together, we can all make a difference!!!

~CSE

    

Visions For The Future

While we still have relative peace and calm, I feel strongly that we need to continue to envision the world as we want it to be. The more real this world becomes in our minds, the more likely it will be to actually appear.

First and foremost, we need to rethink the financial system!!! Currencies around the world need to be revaluated to reflect more equality in the system. The US dollar has been manipulated to the nth degree in order to give the rich and powerful even more wealth and power. Money is nothing more than a way to "keep score", and it has been badly skewed.

A better world should develop a system designed to redistribute the gifts Mother Earth has provided so that everyone on the planet can prosper! She gives freely to all, not just to a few at the top of the food chain. We have the technology and distribution systems in place to continue life as we know it. We just need to remember it belongs to everyone on the planet and not just those who hold power!

We need to envision a world where disease is actually cured! It is my belief that cures already exist. We just don't know about them because Big Pharma has been allowed to manipulate the system in the name of profit!!! Envision a world where people are not allowed to profit from the misery and suffering of others and we may actually see cures happen!!!

We need to contemplate a world where there is no more war and violence. Realistically, if people have what they need to live on they do not feel the need to take it from someone else. Making sure everyone is provided for goes a long way toward stopping these sorts of problems.

We need to see and understand the worth of each being on the planet. We are all spiritual beings having human experiences. When we are able to understand that and honor our fellow beings, humanity can grow in exponential ways. Be willing to honor the homeless man you see on the street just as much as you honor the President or prime minister of the country! In the spiritual world, status means nothing. We are all great and powerful beings!

It is time to look beyond the memes society has programmed us with and replace them with memes that will once again empower us all. Make sure your vision of the future is a world we can all benefit from!

~CSE

A Call For Peace

Chaos swirls in the air around me. ISIS and terrorism. Wars and fighting. Devaluing currencies and falling stocks. Arguments over who are the rightful "citizens" of countries. These things are all noise--distractions designed to keep us separate and alone and afraid. Now, more than ever, it is time for us to get grounded and connect inside our hearts. A call for peace has gone out, but it is impossible to hear unless you focus with intention.

Today is the day to find a quiet space to sit. Close your eyes. Breathe in. Breathe out. As you breathe in, focus on bringing in healing, and love, and peace. As you breathe out, allow the stress and tensions of your daily life be expelled. Allow this process to deplete you of negativity while filling you with abundance and opportunity. Sit in silence until you have released all blocks and feelings of helplessness.

Next, focus on your beating heart. Feel your spirit body residing in that physical place where your heart beats. Picture your spirit inside your heart. Once you get a firm sense of how that feels, increase the size of your spirit body until it completely fills your physical body. Once those boundaries are established, allow your spirit body to expand in even greater ways. Picture it the size of the room you are in. The town you are in. The state or country. The continent. The hemisphere. Picture your spirit body the size of the whole planet, allowing it to fill the entire core of the earth. Continue to expand your spirit body out beyond infinity, to the place where everything exists in a limitless way.

As you sit in this expanded state, explore your personal energy. What does it feel like? Ask the Universe, the Oneness, what you are called to do...and wait for the answer.

Once you have a firm sense of self, explore the energies around you. Feel the elements of nature. Become aware of art and music and architecture. Sense the energies of the people you experience your present reality with. Feel the give and take of the flow that connects all of it. Understand that you are not separate from anything in reality. Allow that sense of Oneness to fill you with peace.

Peace is within you when you take the time to go inside and search for it. Practice it daily. This is what will save you from the chaos that follows. As always, the choice for peace is up to you. Listen to its call. Take time to connect.

~CSE

Focus On Your Own Journey

There is a lot going on in the world. Financial markets are in free fall as the Greek domino falls. False flag events (aka "terrorist" events) seem to occur every other day. So much is going on in our world that it is easy to be distracted by the constant flow of events. As I sit in the quiet of the morning, I very clearly focus on one thought: focus on your own journey.

Even though we are infinitely connected to everything through Oneness, our personal journeys are just that--personal journeys. We are all here to accomplishing previously agreed upon jobs. None of us have the same exact purpose. We are here to act, learn and grow. We are even here to make "mistakes". That is a large part of the learning and growing process.

When we get caught up in what someone else is thinking or feeling or doing, we are no longer focused on our journey. We are focused on theirs. Usually this is accompanied by an unhealthy dose of judgement. The problem with judgement is, it is an unnatural separation process that distracts us from our true purpose.

It is okay to be aware of what is going on in the world around you. It is okay to be aware of what the people around you are experiencing. We can use this information to help us with our own missions. It is when be try to change someone else that we run into problems. It is not our job to change someone else. We change the world by changing ourselves to be better than we were before. We change the world through our example and our actions, not through force or pressure.

Begin each day asking the Universe what you can do in that moment to assist in the planet's evolution. Feel into your heart and focus on those things you can do to bring calm and peace and joy into the situation. Those empaths who are healers can feel into the problems in order to understand where to place that calm and peace and joy. (Note it takes very strong empaths to be able to transform these energies.)

By focusing on what we can create to bring abundance and harmony into the chaos, we will assist the planet in bringing in a new world of peace and prosperity. The more we focus on our own personal journeys, the more quickly we will usher in a new world in which we can all thrive.

~CSE