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| Written by Misty-Eve | ||||||||
| Tuesday, 15 July 2008 | ||||||||
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Meditation is the relaxing act of letting go. This discipline is what reduces our resistance to and re-aligns us with Source Energy. Many times I find that this practice is all that’s needed to jump off the emotional roller-coaster and find peace. In meditation I ask myself… What have I been feeling about this situation, or that person? Was my feeling filled with love and happiness? Have I been ‘looking for’ the good to be found there? Or have I been looking for what’s wrong? Where is my focus? The parent or business manager who sets up a system of demerits for catching a child or associate doing something wrong is focusing on ‘what’s wrong’, and so they will attract more of ‘what’s wrong’. However, the parent or manager who sets up a system of rewards for catching a child or employee doing something ‘right’ will attract more of ‘what’s right’. I Want To Feel Good If God is good, then everything God created is good. Whenever I am feeling good, then, I am feeling the goodness of the Creator. If feeling Source Energy (or God) feels good, then I want to feel good as much as I can! Are you aware of your feelings? Is feeling good important to you? Can you tell when you when you are thinking about something that feels bad or feels good? Where has YOUR focus been during this emotional month? Are you looking for what’s right, or what’s wrong? If you check in with yourself, can you tell which thoughts feel better? Which accomplishes what you want to have happen, and which brings about more of what you don’t want? It’s worth thinking about… ~ Misty-Eve*~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ HO'OPONOPONO "Two years ago, I heard about a therapist in Hawaii who cured a complete ward of criminally insane patients - without ever seeing any of them. The psychologist would study an inmate's chart and then look within himself to see how he created that person's illness. As he improved himself, the patient improved. "When I first heard this story, I thought it was an urban legend. How could anyone heal anyone else by healing himself? How could even the best self-improvement master cure the criminally insane? It didn't make any sense. It wasn't logical, so I dismissed the story. "However, I heard it again a year later. I heard that the therapist had used a Hawaiian healing process called Ho'oponopono. I had never heard of it, yet I couldn't let it leave my mind. If the story was at all true, I had to know more. I had always understood "total responsibility" to mean that I am responsible for what I think and do. Beyond that, it's out of my hands. I think that most people think of total responsibility that way. We're responsible for what we do, not what anyone else does--but that's wrong. "The Hawaiian therapist who healed those mentally ill people would teach me an advanced new perspective about total responsibility. His name is Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len. We probably spent an hour talking on our first phone call. I asked him to tell me the complete story of his work as a therapist. He explained that he worked at Hawaii State Hospital for four years. The ward where they kept the criminally insane was dangerous. Psychologists quit on a monthly basis. The staff called in sick a lot or simply quit. People would walk through that ward with their backs against the wall, afraid of being attacked by patients. It was not a pleasant place to live, work, or visit. "Dr. Len told me that he never saw patients. He agreed to have an office and to review their files. While he looked at those files, he would work on himself. As he worked on himself, patients began to heal. "'After a few months, patients that had to be shackled were being allowed to walk freely,' he told me. 'Others who had to be heavily medicated were getting off their medications. And those who had no chance of ever being released were being freed.' I was in awe. 'Not only that,' he went on, 'but the staff began to enjoy coming to work.’ Absenteeism and turnover disappeared. We ended up with more staff than we needed because patients were being released, and all the staff was showing up to work. Today, that ward is closed.' "This is where I had to ask the million dollar question: 'What were you doing within yourself that caused those people to change?' "'I was simply healing the part of me that created them,' he said. I didn't understand. Dr. Len explained that total responsibility for your life means that everything in your life - simply because it is in your life - is your responsibility. In a literal sense the entire world is your creation. "Whew. This is tough to swallow. Being responsible for what I say or do is one thing. Being responsible for what everyone in my life says or does is quite another. Yet, the truth is this: if you take complete responsibility for your life, then everything you see, hear, taste, touch, or in any way experience is your responsibility because it is in your life. This means that terrorist activity, the president, the economy or anything you experience and don't like - is up for you to heal. They don't exist, in a manner of speaking, except as projections from inside you. The problem isn't with them, it's with you, and to change them, you have to change you. "I know this is tough to grasp, let alone accept or actually live. Blame is far easier than total responsibility, but as I spoke with Dr. Len, I began to realize that healing for him and in Ho'oponopono means loving yourself. "If you want to improve your life, you have to heal your life. If you want to cure anyone, even a mentally ill criminal you do it by healing you. "I asked Dr. Len how he went about healing himself. What was he doing, exactly, when he looked at those patients' files? "'I just kept saying, 'I'm sorry' and 'I love you' over and over again,' he explained. "That's it? "That's it. "Turns out that loving yourself is the greatest way to improve yourself, and as you improve yourself, you improve your world. "Let me give you a quick example of how this works: one day, someone sent me an email that upset me. In the past I would have handled it by working on my emotional hot buttons or by trying to reason with the person who sent the nasty message. "This time, I decided to try Dr. Len's method. I kept silently saying, 'I'm sorry' and 'I love you,' I didn't say it to anyone in particular. I was simply evoking the spirit of love to heal within me what was creating the outer circumstance. "Within an hour I got an e-mail from the same person. He apologized for his previous message. Keep in mind that I didn't take any outward action to get that apology. I didn't even write him back. Yet, by saying 'I love you,' I somehow healed within me what was creating him. "I later attended a Ho'oponopono workshop run by Dr. Len. He's now 70 years old, considered a grandfatherly shaman, and is somewhat reclusive. He praised my book, The Attractor Factor. He told me that as I improve myself, my book's vibration will raise, and everyone will feel it when they read it. In short, as I improve, my readers will improve. "'What about the books that are already sold and out there?' I asked. "'They aren't out there,' he explained, once again blowing my mind with his mystic wisdom. 'They are still in you.' In short, there is no out there. It would take a whole book to explain this advanced technique with the depth it deserves. "Suffice It to say that whenever you want to improve anything in your life, there's only one place to look: inside you. When you look, do it with love." ~ Joe Vitale, author of The Attractor Factor ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ASSIMILATION: QUOTES OF THE DAY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ “People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.” ~ Norman Cousins (1912-1990) American Essayist and Editor, long associated with the Saturday Review. “You are the one who creates your flow and you are the one who does not go with it and not one other person in your life has anything to do with that. It's you versus you. PERIOD. “And when something isn't go very well and you say it's your fault or it's his fault or it's her fault or it's this condition or it's that condition or it's this other condition, we say you may very well be using those conditions as your reason to point upstream. But because you have got yourself pointed upstream we know your self-created stream is beating up on you pretty good, it's giving you cancer or it's giving you a car wreck or it's giving you something that you do not want, but it's all self inflicted because you're the one that created the stream and you're the one that's bucking the stream. You get this? “All of you, are worthy, beautiful, eternally evolving, creative geniuses. So we understand why you get pretty irritated when things aren't going well because at such deep levels of your being you know it's suppose to.” ~ Abraham-Hicks “I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have – life itself.” ~ Walter Anderson “As you have entered this physical life experience, you have intended a continuation of growth. You have intended interaction with others that you might learn from what you perceive and that you might uplift others by the clear expression of your very being, others who participate with you in this physical realm and all others who are connected and observing.” ~ Abraham-Hicks “The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.” ~ Norman Cousins (1912-1990) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ PEACEFUL THOUGHTS "To dwell day by day in thoughts of peace toward every creature will bring abounding peace to their possessor." ~ James Allen, As A Man Thinketh This may be the hardest of all principles for me to practice on a daily basis. It seems those days that don't get off on the right foot sometimes get worse and worse. First, there's a technical problem with one of your websites and people can't access it. Then your phone system is knocked out by lightning for the third time in a year. It wasn't Mother Nature that I had the harmful thoughts toward, it was the local phone company who didn't want to send out a technician on my schedule. And on, and on. In the end, it was me who was harmed by the thoughts I directed at these faceless and innocent victims. Whether by the Law of Attraction or the Law of Cause and Effect (what you sow you reap), it is impossible to give without getting in return - when you give out thoughts of anger, frustration or ill will, they are certain to be returned to you. I love this quote from John Kanary's book Breaking Through Limitations: "If I knew you and you knew me, and each of us could clearly see, the meaning of your heart and mine, I'm sure that we would differ less, we'd clasp our hands in friendliness, if I knew you and you knew me." As John says, we're a whole lot more alike than we are different. The same wants, needs, loves and hurts. Truly understanding that will help us to dwell in thoughts of peace towards others. In Above Life's Turmoil, one of the books of the James Allen trilogy, Allen writes, "The man who thinks hateful thoughts brings hatred upon himself. The man who thinks loving thoughts is loved. The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds, and prays that God will bless him, is in the position of a farmer who, having sown tares, asks God to bring forth for him a harvest of wheat. He who would be blest, let him scatter blessings. He who would be happy, let him consider the happiness of others." © Reproductions Permitted http://www.AsAManThinketh.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Cancer: ‘I FEEL’ 3rd Decan Influence: ‘ASSIMILATION’ July 13th – July 23rd Cancer is mutable in its third decan for at the end, things are always phasing out and the new is felt. As you know, all the signs rule some part of the body and Cancer rules the stomach. The stomach assimilates. Assimilate means to "take in." Just as the stomach takes in our food, the Cancer person takes in also, taking others into his arms and into his heart. It is appropriate too that this follows sympathy, for only when we have taken others' feelings are we prepared to take them into our hearts. When we suffer with people it is then that we want to take them into our arms. Cancer influences us to learn more about our Feelings. First to feel our own inner knowing: INTUITION; then to feel with others in SYMPATHY; and finally to take others' into our lives and thus ASSIMILATE them. This is brotherhood! This is sisterhood! It is this unity which the Wise people seek through their harmony with each other and the Gods. To be -- To have - To think - and finally to rise to our mental lives through our feelings and to take others, as our beloved brothers and sisters, into ourselves. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ For more on the lessons of CANCER see: http://druidcraft.us/astrology.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ DO YOU WANT TO KNOW MORE? To learn more about the teachings of the DRUIDIC CRAFT OF THE WISE visit the “Courses” page on the website: http://druidcraft.us You are a blessed being! Misty-Eve* Druidic Craft of the Wise The American Rite http://druidcraft.us One of the ways we become wise is through our association with, and our assimilation of the perspective of those we consider wise. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A WORD TO THE WISE A Daily Newsletter of Astrological Reflections from The Druid Perspective ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Share A WORD TO THE WISE with those you care about. Reproductions are permitted with the use of the following tag line: (C) Reproductions Permitted: http://awordtothewise.info ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Cancer is one of the emotional Water signs depicted in the Tarot as the suit of Cups. It always seems to bring out dramatic and emotional events brought about because those involved dare to express their tender feelings in an effort to be better understood.
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