Dear Ones, why not stop for a moment of appreciation for this magical moment in time? Thank yourself for choosing to be on the planet, participating in the grand shift of the ages. You are doing such a magnificent job! Thank the other human beings, who like you, are courageously being the ground crew. Thank the planet for giving you a world to experience. Thank the animals for their loving and pure energy on your earth. Thank the earth and the plants for providing sustenance and healing.

Thank the planets, for wonderfully aligning to support your growth, evolution and service. Thank your guides and helpers, your ancestors, your angels, the masters for their consistent, encouraging and loving presence in your lives. Thank Source energy, for it’s unconditional love, endless wisdom, beauty, glory and expansion (and recognize that you are a vital part of that love, wisdom, beauty, glory and expansion, as well.)

Feel the appreciation that exists for you and all you do. There is magic in you and all around you. In your appreciation of self and all, you only make it shimmer all the more beautifully. ~Archangel Gabriel

It is like you carry a theater in your heart. You have a playwright, producers, director, stage director, actors and more in your heart. Every day they come out on stage and put on a good play. You couldn’t think up what gets put together without even a rehearsal. Everyone prances out on stage, and the drama does its thing, and the audience, which includes you, travels through all the emotions known to man. Oftentimes you are surprised at the drama. Other times there seems to be nothing new. Watch out. There will be new developments. The theater seats are filled everyday.
 
Even when you go home, the theater is there, everyone in place and the next performance is all set to go. The orchestra plays, and the Play of Life has begun its gyrations.
 
Are you not one of the actors on stage? Isn’t it your theater? Don’t you enter the set ready for the comedy or the drama, all the scenes and characters set before you? It is a play ad libbed to perfection. If you had studied the play for years, you couldn’t do better playing your part – and, incidentally, all the other parts as well. It is, after all, your play and your experience.
 
There is even a catering service included. Sometimes you are pleased with the food, and sometimes you’re not. Almost all kinds of performances appear on your stage, and many are repeated in one form or another.
 

Valerie Tarico, Guest
Waking Times

Americans in past generations lived in a sea of religion inherited largely from the Middle East by way of Europe, with home grown refinements. Most still do. When Americans venture off the continent, one of the things many find fascinating is the religious  beliefs they encounter. Some people worship flying monkeys, or magical big breasted dancers, or Prince Phillip.

From the outside, beliefs like these seem fantastical and unlikely. They played a key role in evoking such ethnocentric ideas as noblesse oblige and manifest destiny and white man’s burden.  But if we could see our own culture from an outside vantage point, as if we were travelers, the world might look a little different. Even one of the Bible writers pointed out that self-examination is the first order of business.  Why are you looking at the speck in your brother’s eye, he asked (to paraphrase), when you have a plank in your own?

HJ: Life is about balance and in that sense most of us need more stillness, peace and quiet.  The tendency in modern society is to be overstimulated, overextended, over everything… And so finding time for stillness and peace becomes extremely important.  It is nourishing at a deep level to the mind, body, spirit and soul.

- Truth

ACCESSING THE SPACE WITHIN: A guided relaxation meditation to come to stillness

By Michelene Nader | Mindful Word

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Through stillness, you can access what is unconscious and bring it to the surface. You can watch your mind with detachment and open and deepen your observation. You can make your state of relaxation a daily practice in the morning when you wake up, in the evening before you go to bed, or anytime ...