Adaptation and transformation

When life kicks you, do you lie down and close off or do you get back up stronger and wiser?
I was always of the opinion that the roadblocks and hardships placed in my path where put there for me to learn from and once I had I was a stronger and wiser woman.
We as human beings are blessed with many things, two being the ability to adapt and also to transform.
Adaptation is a powerful tool. Having the mindset to go with the flow and to learn from the knocks or blocks being placed in your way and rising up instead of being down trodden, has helped transform our planet through out our history.
Learning from our lessons and transforming ourselves to be better, stronger, wiser is an amazing gift we all possess but not everyone chooses to use.
Have you fortified your personal arsenal with these and other tools?
Are you a survivor or a victim?
We are incredibly lucky because regardless of our pasts at any time we can choose to take a stand and create a personal change within ourselves. We can go from being passive or being victimised to taking back our own power and taking strength from that to transform ourselves into being that person who we have admired who stands up and stands firm for what they believe in and shouts out loudly "enough"!
I believe that it is important to die with personal dignity intact than to live in continual shame. In another word I would rather stand for what I believe in than be bullied into living in silence as that would eat me up from inside and I would rather not be turned into a shadow of who I am. My internal warrior would not allow me to be a passive participant in my own life or in my part of this world.
Ask yourself " Am I adaptable to change and circumstance?" and also " Do I transform myself with each lesson learnt?"
Are you afraid to adapt and change or is it a natural thing for you to do?
I am a great believer in meditation and inner contemplation as I think being a fluid being allowing constant growth is part of my personal journey and meditation is a great tool to help give me both focus and also direction and understanding.
Take time to add this tool into your life as it will aid you in stilling the internal naysayers we all possess and help you in times when adaptation is needed in your life.

Affirm to yourself " I am fluid and open to adapting to my world and transforming myself as needed, with easy and grace"

See yourself as a butterfly. Going within to your cocoon (internal reflection) coming out as a moth ( learning new tools) and turning into a vibrant butterfly(mastering those tools) and flying free.

Have a vibrant and joyous day.
Namaste
Debra Rae

Happiness

How are YOU? Do you take the time too get in touch with YOURSELF?
Or are you so busy that the last person on your list is YOU.
I would encourage you to take a deep breath this year and take a personal assessment of yourself and your life.
Are you happy? Or is that a strange question for you to think about? Have you ever thought about it at all? Did you automatically say yes or no, without having to think about it. Is your answer true or just an instinctual response.
Take a deep breath, grab a pen and paper and ask yourself now
What is happiness, take the time to write down your response/s.
Are you living what you wrote down?
Are you feeling what you wrote down?
The first time I really thought about the concept of happiness as an adult I really had to take time to think about what it meant to me in my 'now'. I had thoughts around what it meant to me to be happy and I also had feelings around what that felt like, but in reality I was living a busy life with a busy family to look after and I had forgotten along the way to actually think about how I was feeling about this life I had created. In this I would think I am very much like many other people, we just get on with it and accept to a degree that this is what life is meant to be as an adult with responsibilities.
It actually came as a shock to me, when I took the time to think about it(happiness) that I was not living in a happy place. Now do not get me wrong I had a great life but I had long ago put myself in last place in my family chain.
Even more surprising was that I really had no idea what it meant for me to experience an intimate connection to the feelings of what 'happy' was. I would say during this period, that 'this' made me happy or 'that' made me happy. But this and that was an external experience. It was also a revelation to me that after much though and writing I had to conclude that my happiness was something I and I alone had control over, no one else could MAKE me happy.
On my journey to happiness self discovery I realised that truly it is a thought process. If I wish to be happy then I need to think and feel happy! It has nothing to do with where I live or what I have or don't have, it truly is about how I think and feel about myself at that period in time.
It is not surprising I lost my way on the happiness trail because if I ever think back on it, as a child you just where - happy- and as a teenager and young adult I learnt to attach my happiness to things or to other people or their needs.
Have you lost you way as well? Are you only happy if your relationship is great or work is going well?
Take the time NOW to reattach to your own inner self, open up your heart and mind to the vast possibilities of living in happiness regardless of what your external reality is. Take back the control of your happiness.
Be a happiness beacon! Smile with your heart/mind and soul. Increase your happiness vibration consciously and watch the magical change within you as the little things that use to erode at you disappear-poof!

"I am a loving vibrant being of happiness, open to receiving and giving
                                                    love"                                                        

Re-Commit

So we have reached the half way mark of January, How are you doing? Are you still excited about the promises you made to yourself at the beginning of the New Year or have you slowly started to go back into your old habits?
If it is the first - good for you
If it is the second - get a grip!
If the commitment you made to yourself is important and do-able, please take this time to refocus and do not quit.
It is vital that you start keeping the promises you make to yourself. It is so easy to get lost in our own journeys, so easy to be too busy or too tired or the myriad of excuses we give ourselves for why we stop doing what we know we either should or must do to achieve the dream we have for ourselves. I often have that evil inner voice of mine, that sits in judgement and knows all of the emotional boxes to open, show itself, and always when I have promised to create changes for MY betterment.  I also over the years have gathered the tools to stop it from being around for long, but I am aware of the power it - the subconscious sabotage that plays havoc in all of our brains.
Keep your promises you make to yourself. Keep them small and do-able and bask in the glory of a win over your saboteur, those small wins will soon mount up to the larger victories you want. It also gives you an internal and mental strength that tells you - I am a winner.
So if you have been lagging on those commitments you made a few weeks ago, NOW is the time to recommit and maybe to redefine or simplify that list you made.
"I am the success I see in others"
Have a great year with that affirmation in your mind.




Just a Thought
Debra Rae

Mind-Full-Ness

We literally have the opportunity every day to rewrite our own stories. Our now is lead by our beliefs and our thought processes, so at any time we can create change. It is as simple and as complex as that! We have all said to ourselves at one time or another 'I have changed my mind'; now the power behind that statement is profound. We, as human beings have the unique ability to stop and think and reassess ourselves all the time. It is an amazing power and resource that we tend to be both unaware of or disregard most of the time.
The saying 'Put your mind to it' is again used often; but what does it really mean to you and I? It seems to me that in this day and age we are encouraged to look beyond our self as a resource. We rarely look within to the heart and mind of the problem, we seek solutions with friends, family, the internet or a professional. Unfortunately we also seek solutions in drugs, alcohol, sex or food to name just a few areas. We have not been taught to have a trust and faith in the strength of our own minds and convictions.
Just think, what keeps you on track to start something new or go to the gym or on the other hand what keeps you trapped in old negative habits? The answer to both is your mind. It is the most powerful resource we have, and the most under utilised asset, as most of us live in a automatic haze and rarely stop and 'think' about our why's and how's.
Today you have the power to access your most vital resource YOUR MIND and you can learn to master it. Now it is both as I have stated before simple and complex. It is simple because you can learn what works for you to create these changes, you can access your dreams and hopes and you can make a plan on how to achieve them and you can 'SET' your mind to getting there. It is also complex because in our mind we have created a maze of ideas and thoughts that often are wrapped in misconception and full of 'feelings' and these often stop us from moving forward.
The challenge is to find and work with the right tools to move through these mind-fields and to re-set your mind to work for you and with you.
When this is achieved, you will be able to then climb that internal mountain and stand tall yelling ' I did it!'
In my journey I have discovered a few tools that work well for me:

Meditation, because it allows the mind to be still and fears to be reached

Journaling, because it is a great way of seeing your fears as well as your hopes and giving space for both; a release and a direction.

Affirmations, because having a mantra of sorts focuses my mind and gives me a direction as well

Visualisation, because I find it is important to have a picture in my mind to show myself where I want to head...I need to see and feel it for it to be real.

These are just a few tools, there are so many more but I have found that everyone has their own source that works for them, they just have to take the steps to find out what they are.
Remember you can change your life, direction, negative thoughts ect every day. Your MIND is your most powerful resource, explore it!

Today I awake to a new adventure knowing that my life is full of everything I need to be happy, healthy and successful!

Namaste
Debra Rae

 

Connection

In these times of electronic dependence and 24/7 connection, I believe it is important for all of us to take time out each and every day to be 'switched off'. We need to take time to reconnect. We are spending so much time using our minds that we have lost track of ourselves as a whole entity. There seems to be a generation out there who are tech smart and spend large amounts of their time either online at their jobs and online playing games at home that their whole identity is wrapped up in an electronic haze. Now I believe it is important to be on board with technology as it provides us with amazing resources BUT we have to remember it is only a part of the whole of who we are as a person.
I feel there is a need to get back in touch with our bodies and our spirit and to be part of the earth we live on. A lot of people are walking around with a secondary focus on other area's of there personal being. They feed their bodies often without thought or true focus and some times exercise their bodies because they know it is good for them and that they should, so they do. This compartmentalisation is worrying to me. We are a whole being and need to be aware of ourselves as a whole entity. Even though we have separate needs it is contained within the vessel that is us. When was the last time you asked your bodies what it needed? Do you have that relationship with yourself or do you just do what you within your mind space thinks should be done, or are you totally unaware and run in automatic mode.
Equally do you have a spiritual side that you nourish? whether that is mainstream or alternative or just uniquely yours? Do you understand your placement on this great planet we live on? Do you understand that you are a energy being and so is every other thing on earth? And that the Earth itself is energy.
Take time to switch off and reconnect to yourself as a whole being and to the earth beneath your feet. It need not be complex. Every day take 30 minutes and learn to breathe properly.
Method: take a deep breath in and physically push the breath into your
stomach. I use a counting method of 8. Count in your head 8 in and 8 exhales out and do this 3 times. This is a quick effective grounding and centering technique that will relax you and get you connect to your whole self.
Spend the rest of the time being mindful, check in on your body-how are you doing? check in with your spiritual side-do you have what you need? be aware of your environment and your role in it.
We are all a atom of energy sharing the same space and time, are you being a positive one?
Be thankful and aware of you Now.
It does not take much or cost anything to be a positive atom of light full of gratitude and totally connected to yourself and the living breathing world around us. You may even enjoy the process of having a deeper relationship with yourself and your place in your world.
Just a thought

Namaste
Debra Rae

Choose Wisely

I find it interesting how we as a society cycle our fashion choices, our beliefs, foods and so on, the list is never ending. I knew from studying History at school that events of the past are often repeated so in time we could almost predict a pattern. So I find that it is interesting that I am seeing in the last five years particular a huge growth in the Metaphysical field. I have been exploring this area since I was 18 years old, so I have been at it for a very long time. When I started out I was lucky to be in England where it is considered quite normal to talk aura's and ghosts ect, and as a avid reader I found a fantastic resource as I traveled that helped awaken me and teach me. I also found other like minded people in Australia that helped me explore the health area's of metaphysics like reflexology and massage as well as at that time -the early 1980's- more unusual area's like past life regression and automatic writing to contact guides. I have through out the years explored many area's of spirit and also religion and have mingled in therapies like Reiki and Chakra healing with massage and aromatherapy.
After many years I have a true understanding of who I am and what my 'talents' are in this vast area of knowledge. I have over the years gotten to a point where I am thankful for my 'gifts' but at the same time I believe in creating a whole balanced perception so it is only part of the whole that is 'me'.
Today I can pick up both metaphysical and main stream magazines and find many columns of physics, healers, guided mediums and so many other fields that seem to grow every time I read a new addition. In many ways I think this is fantastic as it is so excepted and mainstream. BUT at the same time I am concerned. My concerns lay in a few areas. They both come from my experiences as a practicing physic and as a teacher of energy courses. I have found that there are many wonderful people out there who are completely authentic in both their talents and in their respect of their 'gift' and the people they serve. Then there are those who belief they have a 'gift' and belief they are helping people. Then we have the total scammers, those who are much like the grifter's of old, they have either a great ability to con or have some talent but choose to use it to make as much money as possible. I believe we all have choices and every person has a place and a role to play - and when I am in my lack of judgement place I tend to be neutral. Now that is only some times! I get really mad at the injustices that occur in our vast world, even though I believe and understand karma and past lives does not mean the woman in me does not act out.
To actively swindle and use a medium I believe in makes me angry for many reasons.
1. It is immoral and illegal
2. It is often aimed at the most vulnerable
3. It is a stain used to colour all of us who are in this field
We are in a time frame where the metaphysical fields are becoming more and more popular with people from all walks of life and so along with the true and the gifted are the what-a-be and the good old fashioned con artists.
Those of us who believe in positive intentions and harming no one in our processes need to be on guard against those who are using only lies or cons and fear to gain a profit, because in the past, their deeds have been used against all of us. The government in this country is already charging taxes for physics who read in Metaphysical stores and have also started to press charges against some con artists. My concern is that laws will be enforced that curb without a working knowledge of what they are dealing with, what and how we can work. We need to embrace this growth but at the same time be respectful to the Universal Laws that granted us these gifts. Apart from acting with a high individual moral code and speaking up when in the presence of a scammer at this time their is little else we can do to safe guard the magical, mystical world we visit often. I hope the acts of some do not act as a catalyst to the detriment of those of honest intent.
To those of you who use the services of a medium. physic or healer be on guard and use your judgement. If fear is being used to motivate you, get up and leave. If your gut is telling you this is wrong, trust it. If the person you are going to promises to heal you then be on guard as most of us who deal in healing energy understand we are a tool and hope to aide YOU in the healing process WE cannot heal you. If you are being asked many questions to get a answer then again be on guard. Like many areas of our lives using our own inner guidance and discretion is need here as well. There are so many real talented people out there who wish to be of authentic assistance, find them, do not buy into the hype or fancy dress that many use to make you believe that they are gifted....in this case buyer be ware.


Namaste
Debra Rae

A New year

I stand here once again at the beginning of a new year. I am both invigorated and sadden. I am invigorated that there is a new year and I am once again determined to achieve goals I have set for myself, and of course that is also why I am sadden, as these goals are much the same as the ones I have set in previous years. I stand with the same determination in my heart every year. I have a plan in place and tools to use. It should then be a simple process then, but of course as I am repeating some of my list it is obvious that it is not easy at all.
This year I am determined to succeed. Now you may be asking 'what is so different this time around', a valid question, as I have asked myself the same thing. And I believe that is part of the difference. I have not randomly decided that this year I would once again do 1,2,3. I have decided that each day is a new one. This way I cannot sabotage myself for longer than one day. I am going to wake up and face my day with that determination in my heart and my mind. I have my affirmations in place, my journal ready and tools to stop that inner part of myself that drives me to fail.
I finally realise that I have a total black or white side to my mental thought process, and it is this lack of fluidity that has brought about my many failures in the past. My solution to this is to
1. Recognised this part of myself
2. Be on constant vigil of its appearance
3. Understand the emotional signals and my responses
4. Be in a constant re-set mood
5. Treat every day as day 1
6. Be a gentler person to me.
7. Be real in my goals
8. Accept failure as part of success.
Now armed with a new thought process and a acceptance that along the way
I will have failures along with success's I am ready to move into this year with a hope for achievement of my goals and room to pack any baggage I find away for ever.

Namaste and may this year flow with love and peace for you
Debra Rae