How We Create the Weather

Friday, April 24th, 2009

Isn’t the weather today really lovely?  But also, don’t you find it strange how it drastically jumped from low 40s on Thursday to 70s on Friday.  And it will be as high as 88°F on Sunday!

I cannot help but notice how the weather changes resembles the way we feel about the economy.

You have heard people say that it has been a very, very long and hard winter.  We feel the same way about the economy.  We say how difficult things have been and how we are very tired of being worried, of being gloomy and being scared.  We are all ready for a warmer weather for a sense of rejuvenation and of being carefree.  On days when there is good news on Wall Street we feel upbeat and hopeful.  However, on days we hear that things have not changed and may be getting even worse we feel even more frightened inside.  The lack of centeredness and this great sense of insecurity fiercely swing us from one mood to another in seconds.  The almost violent in intensity emotions we experience generate an amazingly powerful energy.  The energy created by the strong emotions of fear and hope experienced by millions of people who live in New York and the greater New York area affect our environment and create our weather.

Elias, a spiritual teacher channeled by Mary Ennis, explains how we, as part of nature, create the weather: “Through your emotions, you are influencing of your planetary conditions; your weather, your tides, your elements of natural occurrences upon your planet. Through your thought process, you hold the clarity of the focus. Your animals, your flowers, your clouds, your oceans, appear as they appear, for you are part of them. You hold the clarity. You hold the vision. What you see, what you visualize, is what is created. Therefore, you are a very intricate part of nature.”

It is really important for us to realize that we create our personal world and the environment around us.  That realization removes the weak excuse that we are victims of circumstances we have no control over (while in fact we really do).

Take in as much sun and a sense of peace, hope and renewal as you can in the next few days.  And allow the beautiful feeling of warmth on your skin to spread to your heart.  Allow the feeling of wellbeing to take a hold in you so that you can reconnect with the wisdom of your soul.  Deep inside you exists the knowledge that you are eternal and that you will always be nurtured and that you will always be well taken care of.  Allow this knowing to become rooted in your vision too.  Build a bridge between the way you think about the world every day and the unshakable belief that you will be ok.  This is a very important bridge to have because, as soon as you feel challenged by the world outside or the media and its easy sell to people who are frightened, you can go back inside and find your own center.  The real knowledge of security we have in us, which emanates from the eternal feeling of love and well-being can never be replaced by any material possessions on the outside.

The longer you allow for the faith that you will be ok financially to dwell in you, the better you will feel about your life, your financial prospects and the economy.  I promise you that soon enough the economy will improve and one day before we know it the economy will be booming again because nothing can stop the creative power of our emotions!

271023578_cf5ff469dfIf you want to learn more about how we create our environment and nature you can read the following excerpt from another spiritual teacher, Seth, who was channeled by Jane Roberts. In “The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events” Seth says:

“The natural contours of your psyche are quite aware of the inner sweep and flow of your life, and its relationship with every other crea¬ture alive. Intuitively, each person is born with the knowledge that he or she is not only worthwhile, but fits into the context of the universe in the most precise and beautiful of fashions. The most elegant timing is involved in each individual's birth and death. The exquisite play of your own inner nature in general — and that identification leads you into the deeper knowledge of your own part in nature's source.

…The myths upon which you base your lives so program your existence that often you verbally deny what you inwardly know. When people are hurt in a natural disaster, for example, they will often profess to have no idea at all for such involvement. They will ignore or deny the inner feelings that alone would give the event any meaning in their lives. The reasons for such involvement would be endless, or course — all valid, yet in each and every case, man and nature in those terms would meet in an encounter that had mean¬ing, from the largest global effects to the smallest, most private aspects of the individuals involved. You have made certain divisions because of your myths, of course, that make this kind of explanation extremely important and difficult. You think of rain or earthquakes as natural events, for example, while you do not consider thoughts or emotions as natural events in the same terms. Therefore it is diffi¬cult for you to see how there can be any valid interactions between, say, emotional states and physical ones.

You might say: "Of course, I realize that the weather affects my mood," yet it will occur to very few of you that your moods have an effect upon the weather. You have so concentrated upon the catego¬rization, delineation, and exploration of the objective world that it surely seems to be "the only real one." It seems to exert force or pres¬sure against you, or to impinge upon you, or at least almost to happen by itself, so that you sometimes feel powerless against it. Your myths have given great energy to the outsideness of things.”

Image: the fable of the moth and the sun [det], a Creative Commons Attribution photo from TheAlieness GiselaGiardino²³’s Flickr stream.

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Mental Pizza

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009

Written By Hypocriticist

My aunt’s Volvo has a bumper sticker: "Kill Your Television"

But wait: its important for readers of this post to know that I deeply love pizza. And I'm no pizza snob. I enjoy a cheap, greasy slice with pepperoni after I've been drinking, or an artisanal thin-crust pie and a salad as a respectable meal. My ability to consume pizza is actually legendary in my family. But as I've gotten a little older, and maybe a little wiser, I've started noticing how pizza always makes me feel after I eat it. Not good. Not good at all. Pizza tastes great, but as good as it tastes, that's how bad it makes me feel after eating it. Like an infinitely dense lump of grease sitting in my stomach.

Back to television. Now, we intentionally haven't had a television for some time. But the proliferation of video on the internet has effectively undermined this decision, because there is enough mindless video content, complete with commercials and weird pop-up ads, to endlessly distract someone surfing aimlessly, and without willpower. This phenomenon has snowballed over a period of years, starting with youtube and culminating with myspace, facebook, espn360, hulu and netflix, until here we are at a point where I effectively have the ability to distract myself with as much visual content on the web as I would with an actual television. Maybe even more if I don’t mind watching low-quality video.

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Recently I went on a web-video watching spree. Since I had lived for about two years without television, I had forgotten the deep emptiness that results from spending a few hours in that colorful, streaming visual abyss. It is addictive and confusing.

Just like pizza, I love television while I'm consuming it. But after a few hours of viewing, its like: "Hey honey, have you seen MY MIND around here anywhere?" Now, killing your television sounds pretty aggressive. But the crazy thing is that even if you have gotten to the point where you are ready to do it, it may not be sufficient in the modern world.  We cannot kill the internet too, because we also use it to pay bills, do important research, communicate with people. Oh, and also to write a blog.

Pizza tastes good, there is no doubt about it. Every once in a while, man, it just hits the spot. But that’s the rule: once in a while. So… why let my mind consume endless amounts of that which I only allow my body to consume in small doses? In the same way that I try to eat better, work out more and go to yoga, I also have to work hard to consume visual content that is valuable, enriching and non-debilitating.  Doesn’t my mind deserve the same treatment as my body?

Time to cut the mental pizza out of my digital diet.


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A beautiful gift

Friday, April 17th, 2009

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Isn’t this a beautiful rose?!  Well!  I got a dozen roses just like this one this morning!

I was walking down the street on my way to work and someone I did not know gave me a beautiful bouquet!  How nice it was of them!  I embraced the bouquet, thanked them with all my heart and with a skip in my walk continued on my way.  Yup! I live a charmed life!

I saw how people on the street were passing me by thinking how pretty the flowers were.  At work everyone asked me what occasion was it.  “Was it my birthday?”  “Were the flowers from my sweetheart?”  No, just a stranger who made my day.

The roses were such a magical way for the universe to welcome me home.  I have been working a lot lately.  The long and tense hours made me so focused on the world outside, on making it through that I really felt as if I have been absent.

I hugged the bouquet and lovingly marveled it.  Every petal was so perfectly nestled on top of another.  And the scent was …so… intoxicating!

Welcome home, Rethnea.

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