Gratitude and Appreciation

During this holiday season, it is especially important to remember using the attributes of gratitude and appreciation.  This can be a crazy time involving family get-togethers, group activities, and travel to far off places, not to mention all of the drama and expectations around gift giving.  For myself, I try to keep the holidays very low key.  I do have to say that since I moved here to Utah, this time of year is not as dark energetically as it used to be in the past.

The energy of gratitude and appreciation is of a higher vibration.  By applying it, it serves as a kind of Teflon coating that makes everything go smoother.  It can also transform lower vibrational events into higher vibrational ones. 

How to do this?  

First one must have an intent.  Then, you generate these feelings within.  A good dose of self love is always helpful.  Finally, you project these feelings outwards to the target.  Using your breath helps, too.  Then hold that energy transformation for a bit and observe the shift.

Now, life isn’t always pleasant.  Since we live in a 4 D realm of polarity, there is positive and negative to everything.  There is a silver lining to every cloud.  Even the darkest cloud has this!  Applying gratitude and appreciation to any situation, no matter how distasteful it may be, raises your vibration and can shift the situation, too.

Of course, sending gratitude and appreciation to the beautiful and wonderful aspects of life is a way of being thankful.  Imagine going through life in this way. 

Timelines

 

This is an interesting topic with lots of twists and turns!  With all of the turmoil going on in the world lately, do you ever feel like you are on another planet where none of that is going on?  That is because the path chosen by your Higher Self before birth does not include you being on that timeline.  Just because war and turmoil is going on here does not mean that you will experience it.

I see timelines as threads of energy leading out from the present moment into the future.  As I have said before, your point of power and choice is in this now moment.  On the other hand, you may think that you are choosing a certain path into the future, but who’s to say that this was your predetermined path all along and that you are just going along with that plan?

In the early 90’s, I studied with a teacher who said that there were several different planet earths in existence all at the same time.  One of them had blown up in a nuclear disaster, and that energy had oozed over into our timeline causing ripples of disturbance that was being felt at that time.  So, in addition to the multiple timelines that people are on, planets and regions of planets can be on different timelines at the same time, too. 

That brings me to the topic of jumping timelines.  If you are a science fiction fan, you have probably seen multitudes of movies and TV shows that deal with this topic.  The list it too long to mention here. 

Have you ever had an experience involving breaking up with or separating from a certain person, never to see them again in person or hear from them afterwards, even though they live near you?  That has happened to me several times.  I always explained it away by thinking that the karma between us had been cleared.  It is possible that at that moment, I chose a different timeline than the one that they were on. 

There is another theory that one can jump to another timeline from this one where they are ill to another one where they are healthy.  It is possible that some people can do this, but I have never tried it. 

Take a moment to look back at your life and try to see where the major choice points were that led you to where you are today.  Then look at where you would be now if you had chosen something different, or turned down an opportunity.  These should be pretty clear.  I know mine are! 

So the photo above was taken when I was with a group that spent a few days at the Kagyu Samye Ling Tibetan Buddhist Monastery in southern Scotland.  We were warned that the resident peacock was kind of aggressive and to keep our distance.  Nevertheless, when I wandered into the facility’s garden where he was, he followed me around and spread his tail feathers for me in a very friendly way.  Imagine that you are the peacock and the tail feathers are your timelines! 

Below is the infamous panel of carvings in the Great Temple at Abydos in Egypt.  What timeline do you think that those ancient folks were on? 

Happy

 

Genuine happiness consists of the feelings of joy, contentment and gratitude.  It is strictly an internal energetic state, and is generated from inside of ourselves.  Now I am not saying that external circumstances don’t generate happiness.  Instead these circumstances may trigger our capacity to be happy.  A single joyful event that happens in front of 5 different people would elicit a variety of responses from each of them, according to their capacity for happiness.

What causes different happiness levels in people?  It could be anything from an inherited trait to early family programming.  Do you come from a family of whiners and complainers, or a family with primarily sunny dispositions?  Or do your life circumstances tell you that you do not deserve to be happy? 

Either way, you can generate those feelings within you.  You do not have to wait for an event to get those feelings going.  On a very basic level, happiness is a quality of higher vibrational levels.  It also has elements of contentment, well being and self love.  No one or no thing can provide that for you.  Of course, there are substances that you can eat or drink that will do the trick, but those habits are not healthy and the effects are temporary. 

Years ago I wrote a post about a friend who had a permanent brown cloud above her head.  I actually had several friends like that.  Now in these cases, I believe that they were suffering from some sort of depression, but that does not mean that they could not generate a happy vibe from within.  Maybe you know someone like this.  If you are sensitive, that low level energy could be very hard to be around.  It was difficult for me, so I had to limit my interactions with them.  Isn’t it more pleasant to be around a genuinely happy person?

So the next time you are not in a good mood or feeling sad or discontented, look within for a solution.  Any pursuit that raises your vibration should help.  I recommend daily meditation and expanding your Core Essence, or getting out in nature for a walk.  Or perhaps recalling a time when you were happy and re-anchoring those emotions.  Absolutely do not pursue happiness outside of yourself as that is only a temporary fix and will lead you down a blind alley. 

Attachments

 

What is an attachment?  An attachment is a strong connection to a person, place, or thing.  From my standpoint, this usually looks like a cord or stream of energy between the person and what they are attached to.  Here are some examples.

When someone relocates, it is common to stay attached to the previous location.  The result is that one’s energy is split between the 2 places, which does not serve either place.  One must very consciously pull up their roots from the previous location and repeatedly anchor their grounding cord into the new place until it feels solid.  Also, being in the now at all times tends to erase the memory of the previous place to make grounding into the new location much easier. 

One can be attached to things.  Not uncommon!  We all have favorite items that we use every day, or a favorite car, or beautiful things that we have collected.  There is nothing wrong with having material things, but it is our attachment to those things that can cause problems.  A lot of stuff can really weigh you down and lower your vibration.   One of my guilty pleasures is the show “Hoarders”.  For some reason, I am fascinated with the psychological issues that these people have that causes them to obsessively cling on to their possessions, including garbage! 

The most important category of attachments is from one person to another.  An attachment occurs when there is an expectation of the other person’s behavior.  Expectation creates attachment, and where attention goes, energy flows.  In these cases, the energy is flowing back and forth between the two.  The problem is that this is not an equal flow.  Someone always gets most of the heavy energy, and the other person ends up with most of the positive energy. This is mainly an unconscious pattern, although there are cases where someone attaches and is deliberately sucking another’s energy. 

So the point of this post is to encourage you to look at the attachments that are created by your expectations, and heal that need within yourself to attach.  Remember that any attachment to people, places or things will weigh you down and deplete your energy.  In these times of energetic acceleration and change, none of us can afford for that to happen.

Drama

What is drama in relation to how a person is acting or communicating?  Drama happens when a “story” is excessively embellished verbally or physically with an excited or loud voice or exaggerated physical gestures.  A lot of heightened emotions are on display including histrionics and hysterics.   Does that sound familiar in light of the political craziness that our country has just gone through this past year? 

We all know drama queens (or kings).  What is their ultimate goal for carrying on in this way?  First of all, they need attention.  Perhaps they did not get enough of that whey they were young, or they have a diagnosable psychological condition.  They may just want to feel better about themselves.

Once they have your attention, use your inner/higher guidance system to detect which way their energy is flowing.  Is it outwards towards you, or from you into them?  If you are a sensitive person, either energy flow will not feel particularly good to you. 

If the energy flow is going out to you, quite often in a forceful manner, that means that the dramatic person is dumping their heavy energy onto their surroundings.  For someone who still has their chakras, the 5^th or throat chakra, is called the smoke stack of the chakra system.  If one is not grounded, the heavy energy that builds up in all of us during the day cannot be purged down into the core of the earth to be combusted.  It backs up and comes out the throat chakra, often in some sort of distorted verbiage.  The result is that you feel heavy and even sick after one of these interactions when you have been dumped on.  For me, it feels like I have been slimed. 

If their energy flow is facilitating their feeding off of the energy in the room (or you) and taking it back into themselves, in these situations I say that “the big straw is out”.   If you are on the other end of this dynamic, you might feel energetically drained or also sick. 

So what to do?  First of all, distance yourself from the drama.  Leave the room, hang up the phone, etc.  If you have been dumped on, use your physical hands to gather up the other person’s heavy energy from your body and throw it back at them.  If you have been drained, make sure you are grounded and expanded and that will replenish your own energy.  Firm boundaries are always a must, too. 

What I have described here is one of the reasons why people who are healing their own issues and raising their own frequencies frequently disconnect from friends and relatives who are carrying on this way.  One’s circle of people may get smaller until those of like mind start to gravitate to you!