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Robyn M
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Channeled Teachings
How often do you allow the expectations from those around you to stop you doing what you feel, innately, to be the right thing to do or to say? How often do you silence your voice so that you don't 'rock the boat'? How often do you deny who you are and try to be what you think other people want? How often do you wish other people would just be what you need instead of accepting them as they are? How often do you resent being asked to help another because you are in the midst of doing something you enjoy? How often do you wish the world would leave you alone so you can drink your coffee and read your book? How often do you judge a person as annoying and assume that all other people are making the same judgment? How often to you criticize another and justify it by saying 'I am merely voicing what everyone else is thinking'? Look at all that we have written and answer truthfully. And then ask yourself: If I live and act in these ways what kind of world am I creating? If a thousand people in my suburb act in this way, what kind of suburb are we creating? If a million people in my country act in this way, what kind of country are we creating? What you are creating, is: not your best work! The only question that really needs to be asked is: what kind of world do I wish to live in? From that one question you will know what you must do to help create that. We know that right now you are thinking "I am one person, I can't make any difference, so why even bother trying. It's hopeless!" It is only hope-less when you decide you give up hope. Why would you give up hope when you have the support of your Guidance and your Angels? It is not just you, it is all of them, it is a group effort, a united effort. So...what kind of world do you wish to live in?
If it is a world of peace, then
you must be peace-full. Create that world now. No excuses.
You spiritual progress is in your hands Do you reach a level of peace and love and understanding, and stop there? Do you assume that you know it all? Do you assume that some challenges are petty and pointless and of no value to you? Do you seek to learn and grow evolve so that you may achieve as much as possible in a single human lifetime? Why are we asking these questions? Because we have noticed something... Many people are interested in the knowledge but not in the application, in the concept but not in the experience, in the energy of another but not in the work needed to achieve that for themselves. That is absolutely fine and we hold no judgment in that...but...please don't feel that where you are is the highest you can reach, that the understandings you now hold are the greatest you could know. Challenges and lessons arise in life to teach, to inform, to show you who you are, to offer you an opportunity. Sometimes you embrace that opportunity and you grow, evolve, understand and then you have those 'aha' moments and your consciousness makes a shift. If you are truly seeking to make shifts in consciousness then the step you would benefit from embracing is this: the spiritual truth that you know, the concepts that you understand and believe you follow, take all of that and embrace it fully, make it a part of who you are. If an opportunity to learn is offered to you, consider it, do not dismiss it. You may find, along that journey, that you will learn a great deal about yourself. And that is another important part of the journey: be willing to look closely at yourself, at how you live, think, speak and act, you have to observe your reactions to the world and consider where they are coming from and what is powering them. A shift in consciousness will show you how you really live in the world. Your flaws, and your weaknesses, your reactive patterns and your ego. When you are able to understand how they work, you will have made a massive step forward in your understandings of ALL. If you are happy where you are, and desire to stay there, then stay there for as long as you want -- for the rest of your life if you so choose. Don't assume you know it all because when you realize you don't you will make another discover: the more you know the more you will realize you don't know. Every challenge is presented to you for a reason. To truly learn and evolve as far as you can you need to make the choice to do that hard work, to take the difficult steps. If your commitment is genuine, the opportunities will be offered to you. Some of those you will embrace and some of those you will not. Choose which ones to pursue, and make the decision whether you are gaining benefit from them or not. If you want to go as far as you can, we will help. But it is your choice how far you go, how much you are willing to embrace and make a part of you...and how much you prefer to only understand as a concept. What you understand today, is not the highest understanding you will ever have. What you understand tomorrow, will not be the highest understanding you will have. Understandings are not concrete, they evolve, and grow. Be willing to learn more, be always pay attention to what resonates well with you. If it does not resonate well with you do not follow it. If it does resonate well with you, that that is your indication to follow, to travel further along that path. You calendar is a man made thing, and yet we wish you all love, and joy for 2010. What is it you hope to bring into your life in 2010? What personal growth goals have you set? Our advice is to set goals that are achievable. Don't set a goal of 'I will run five miles every day' if you know that there are so many days when you don't feel up to it, or just know that you won't do it. This will result if self disappointment. Make the goals achievable, and do not pressure yourself. One day at a time. As we observe many of you, we see you demanding things of yourselves and then punishing yourselves when you feel you have failed. We would ask that you simply stand up and dry again. Do you want to tend your gardens this year? Then plan out how you will do that. Do you want to work on the car? Plan out what needs to be done and schedule the actions. Do you want to get better at a musical instrument? Schedule in regular practice and don't be annoyed with yourself if something comes up and you cannot practice for a day or two. Do you want to bake regularly? Find the recipes you would like to make and get excited about baking. Make it something you can take and share with a friend. Do you want to learn a sport? Then do it, and persist with it. If you try one sport and do not like it, try another one. You may be a team player, or you may be more suited to something where the only person you let down through lack of effort is yourself, in which case you may want to consider a form of martial art. Do you want to save money this year? Look at what areas you could reduce spending on. Give up that coffee you buy each morning, you don't really need it. Are you giving yourself many luxuries that you can do without? Seriously ask yourself 'Do I need it?' before you buy anything. Do you want to lose weight? Then find something to distract you. Many people overeat because they are bored. Find something to keep you busy. And, don't have 'junk food' in your house at all. If it's not there, you can't eat it. Have fruit instead. Find some form of exercise that you enjoy. Make losing weight a long term goal, not something you have to achieve in two weeks. Every goal that you can imagine is achievable, but you need to put the steps in place. It does not matter how long it takes, it is the journey that is important. Pay attention to your journey. Every day is an opportunity.
Sometimes you may feel as if you are wading through mud, just to get to the end of the day and disappear into the oblivion of sleep. Many a day you won't even realize that this is how you feel because you don't stop to think about it, you just keep struggling, one foot in front of the other. Eventually you will pause and realize that you are struggling. Whilst we can't do anything to lift you out of your struggle, we can help you to understand how to lift yourself out of the mud. The challenge lies in the way you perceive your world, and the way your perceive your role within the world. People often believe that they should try and do great things with their lives. Yet, we would ask only that you be the most loving, kind and peaceful person that you can be. Focus on that and the changes within your life with begin to take place. It is too easy to become bogged down in the outside world, and forget that the greater world is the one you cannot see. You have struggled. You have realized you are struggling, and now it is time to focus on more spiritual values in your life so that you can raise yourself out of the mud. Your vision has been on the mud and on putting one step in front of the other. We ask you to raise your eyes and look upwards, and focus your steps rising upwards. The choice for you to make is: what shall I focus on this day? Simple. What you focus on is what you create. The world around you is, in part, created by you. It is also created by the people around you. But, before you argue the pointlessness of trying to change things when other people refuse to change, let us point out that it only takes one person to change, to choose a more peaceful way of living in order to have an effect on everything around that person. So, we ask, what will you focus on today? Tending to your inner world, your spiritual world, is the first step towards greater peace in your life. And as you grow to emanate that peace, you share it, you touch the word around you. From there you examine your responses to your world, and find that nothing is really as big a problem as you used to think. You find things 'rattle' you less, you find you response to things with greater calm. You become a more peaceful person, and a happier person. People find that being in your company calms them, you become a sanctuary for others. What you devote your energy to, you will attract to yourself. This is an unavoidable truth, and can be used to assist you in your growth. You are not asked to do great things, you are not asked to do anything at all, but it would be of great benefit to yourself to understand and embrace the divinity that is your reality. Focus on a return to this state and you will no longer be struggling in the mud, you will rise above it, and exist with a greater serenity and love. Simplify your life. Focus on your spiritual growth. In the quiet moments you will begin to hear your Soul breathe, you will begin to feel yourself stretch and grow, you will hear the current of life that flows through all things. You will understand that there is a greater world than the one you see, and that greater world can have a greater impact upon your life, if you only allow it to be so. What will you focus on today?
Though you will grieve the loss of a pet, understand that 'life' (the Soul life) goes on. All that you gave is remembered as 'something that was experienced' not as a judgment of good and bad, for once your pet has passed on there is no judgment in the world of Soul, there is only 'it was an experience.' So...what will your pet remember when they pass on? Will they remember your love? Will they remember being kicked and beaten? Will they remember playing games with you? Will they remember being ignored? Will they remember the joy of a warm place to sleep on a wet and rainy night? Will they remember being locked out in the cold in a freezing kennel on a cold and rainy night? Will they remember having freedom to run and play? Will they remember being locked into a cage and having no freedom? Will they remember having enough to eat? Will they remember starving? Will they remember the grace and respect you treated them with, and the wisdom in your voice? Will they remember harsh shouts they could not understand and a feeling of being afraid? They will remember. You may wonder why we care so much about the animals? Firstly, they are as important as you are! Let us make that point abundantly clear. They are a part of I AM. They are loved, cherished, and respected. They could teach you much if you would only learn, about grace, and trust, and play and laughter, about loyalty and wisdom. Perhaps as great as their equal value with you, is another purpose of this discussion. How you treat your animals is representative of how you treat each other. Take a good look at how your society treats their animals, and you will see how your society treats each other. So far the picture is not as great as it could be. Animals are abused, beaten, terrorized, imprisoned, feed substandard food, not given clean water, left out in the cold, shut out at night, ignored, treated as a nuisance, shouted at, treated as if they are stupid. We do, of course, acknowledge the many home in which the animals are loved, cherished, hugged, fed well, given a warm place to sleep, given laps to lie on, given lots of wonderful attention, played with, taken for walks, and treated with respect, grace and dignity. And to you people, we give our thanks. We see the way all animals and people are treated. We are not blind. A loving act is felt through all the universe as a wave of that love, rippling through everything, even the tiniest pebble. We do, also acknowledge that when you love these pets as greatly as you do, that there is great heartbreak when they pass on. It is the price for loving so well. And we know that it is a price you joyfully pay, for to have had such a friend in your life and to have not loved them makes no sense to you. To never love means not enduring the pain, but it means having never loved. That is not living, that is 'waiting to die'. Love greatly. Love fully. Your pets will thank you for it when they meet you again. And trust us, when your life is over and you too go home to the world of spirit, the Souls of these animals you loved so well will be waiting to greet you, in fact if we know some of them well, they will not even wait until you reach the welcoming party they will run off and meet you first and escort you in, proudly. When you have given your purest love to your pets, you have given that love to I AM. You have given that love to the ALL. If you cannot love a pet well, if you do not really have the time, please wait until you do. Please wait until you are ready. These are I AM's cherished creatures for they are a part of the energy of I AM as is everything. We are all connected. Remember: death is only the release of the body. You will recognize the Soul of your pet when you meet again. You will. Treat the animals well, they are your brothers and sisters.
(Dedicated to Sola.) You rush so much through your days, always trying to get the chores done, the house or apartment looking clean and tidy, the gardens weeded and dug, the washing done, the dishes done...always busy, always active. Whilst it is good to have something to do...why are you so reluctant to sit quietly outside in the fresh air and do nothing? Why are you so intent on being busy, or occupied (listening to music, watching television, reading a book) all the time? Why are you so obsessed with keeping your attention and your thoughts occupied all the time? What would happen if you stopped, sat down in the sun or under the shade of a tree and did nothing? Just sitting there, not thinking, not doing, just BEing? Do you know what would begin to happen? You would begin to hear, and to sense, and to feel. Your Guidance would sit and talk with you. You might not hear their words, but you just might sense their love, feel their peace. You cannot even begin to grow, spiritually, if you are not prepared to sit down, distraction free, and 'be' (fully and completely) in that moment. We are not talking about giant strides here, we are not talking about unlocking your ability to hear everything or to know everything, we are talking about the tiniest baby steps you could possibly make. And yet, these are the most vital baby steps you could take. How can you ask to feel at peace, to feel loved, to feel the very fabric of the universe draped around you, if you do not take the time to listen? These tiny baby steps will grant you the time to sit and pay attention so that you can feel peace, and love, and tranquility, so that you can hear and feel and know, at the tiniest level. From there, if you continue, you will begin to feel that all-enveloping peace no matter what you are doing, no matter where you are. And you will feel it instantly, you won't have to go and look for it. Baby steps, so that you can learn, and then it becomes a part of you, something as natural as feeling the sun on your back, or smelling the scent of the rose. You cannot achieve this if you do not stop your obsession with keeping busy and occupied. You don't have to be busy all the time. People are not really as impressed as you think they are when you complain about how busy your life is and how you barely have any time, and how you will try to fit them in but just plain run out of time. They don't really care. When you have embraced the peace, and the ability to sit quietly and awaken, you won't care either. To awaken in single moment is possible. It is your right. But, it first has to be your choice. In a single moment exists all the peace of the universe. In a single moment exists the love of I AM. You can embrace that in this moment, and in the next and the next. You don't have to be in that serenity all the time, but wouldn't long lines of moments, all joined together, be a welcome relief from the state of the world you see around you? Can you even imagine what would happen if an entire community did this? Take that time to sit quietly. Stop the rush. You are not hear to keep busy, you are here to evolve, spiritually. Please, take the time to be quiet, to sit, without thinking, and just be in that moment, so that you can truly know that moment....and see what happens when you begin to do that more and more and more. |
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