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Resolutions for change

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GCW speaks of “resolutions” for change:

It is the time of year to turn inward, reflect, recalibrate, and rethink. Is your life unfolding in a pleasing way? Are you happy? Do you need and want change but fear you can’t make it happen? My dear, change begins within the silent secret recesses of your soul. Allow yourself to access this sacred place within, the inner sanctuary where your spirit dwells.

What does your soul (not your brain that over-thinks, worries, and doesn’t know squat) desire for you – for this precious and fleeting lifetime? It is not too late, never too late to focus the best of yourself on this task. Let your words, thoughts, beliefs, feelings, and actions all be in agreement with your most heartfelt desires. It is that simple! Align all of your energy with your desires. Live your life. Repeat!

Be gentle, kind, and a friend to yourself as you learn this new way of living. You are in control, you are the boss. You set the tone of your life, and this tone is what you will see and feel reflected back to you in this dear sweet life you’ve been given.

Expand or contract?

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GCW speaks of expansion and contraction:

It has come to my attention that your human hearts, the center of your brilliant selves can expand or contract, depending on the fear or joy you feel. The joyful loving heart fully expanded can encompass the universe and all its inhabitants with light.

Do not think you are insignificant! Do not think your feelings, your transmissions of emotion have no effect, for each of you sends powerful signals to all that is, the the web of all things. Emotion and feeling are the messages. All particles in the universe are affected by you!

Do you wish you hadn’t read that? You can’t go back to pretending you are powerless; you can only move forward with the knowledge that you are a being of light, that you matter, that your existence is meant to be. Step up and claim your power!

When you close your heart to this knowledge and squeeze off the muscles of your chest, cave your shoulders in around your center, shut off your feelings, wall in your energy, you inhibit the flow of your natural joy! You contract and subtract from the sum total of well being available to you and those whose lives you touch and outward into the great web. Perhaps if this becomes a habit, your heart has no choice but disease and decay.

Heal those breeches, tears and blocks in your energy. Turn inward and notice what is happening within you. Healing is possible. Reach out and ask for help so that you too may feel the expansion of love and joy and power throughout your being and have it mirrored back to you ten fold.

You too are a shining star at your core. Allow yourself to know it, feel it, and live it!

An old cliche

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GCW speaks of an old cliché: “Bloom where you are planted”.

That is the motto of all good plants and rooted things, but for people? Bloom and go where you are called? Then bloom there too?

You have been planted here on the green planet, Earth.  Make the most of your circumstances, let life unfold from your center outward, for it is within your heart that all blooming begins. Your heart, the deep center of you is connected to all that is and if you listen to her quiet messages, you will be steered effortlessly toward your highest good.

So many things pull you away from your true center and heart, the embedded bud of growth within you; sugar, in thousands of tempting disguises, shiny objects, moving pictures on a blinking screen, drinks that inhibit your light, drugs that dim your brilliance, worries that swim and flit in your brain like a school of fish.

My beloved, you are capable of being the light, of transcending those whirlwind thoughts, of gently letting go of those distractions that sap your growth and wilt your blossoms. You have the power to put into perspective those emotions you are afraid will engulf and drown you. You can release the fear, you can let that energy flow harmlessly and release it once and for all! You need not live in fear! Ask for help if it feels too big. No-one on this planet is meant to exist in isolation or live in the dark.

Can you see yourself from a tree’s eye view, a newer, higher, loving and understanding perspective where the entire tapestry and web of existence is visible and your energy is integral to the structure of the weave?

Above all, see yourself with compassion and know you are meant to be here now in all your brilliance. Rooting and growing and blooming with ease and delight is your birthright! Claim and become that! Yes, it is possible for you!

Weather

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GCW Speaks of the weather:

I have noticed how humans love to comment on the weather. It is not often good enough for you is it? It is too cold, too hot, too wet, too dry, too humid, too windy, too much, not enough.

Can you simply bless each day as it comes to you? Do you know what a blessing each day of this life is? Can you feel the power of the meaning of you in this body in this place at this time? You have chosen to manifest as a physical presence here on this earth! This is an honor to be cherished and acknowledged….but I digress into a speech….

Can you bless even the coldest windiest day of the year? Can you feel joy within you during an overcast week, or is the cloud cover a mirror of your human atmosphere? Have you allowed the clouds of fear and stuffed feelings to accumulate in your energy field until they block your light? Do you clear them? Crying, like rain, can clear and air. Let clearing be your daily practice, for your health and the health of the planet. Simply feel, as you were born to do. Allow yourself to feel. Acknowledge your feelings and locate them in your body, and this will help to clear them.

Hurt no other in this process, for violence of thought word or action is a gross misuse of nature.

What is emotion but energy; like wind and breeze it needs to flow and move. If you stop it up the layers of cloud get thicker and thicker. You may feel a storm coming on. You may feel restless, unhappy, sad confused, anger may build within you if you squeeze and hold back and stifle and pretend it is not what it really is.

You are meant to clear the clouds daily and shine brightly like the sun! Create your own weather! Let it flow and all the earth will be blessed.

Ancestors

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GCW speaks of the ancestors

Do not be alarmed. Your ancestors who have passed on to the light, are with you now, even those from before history was recorded. Does your room feel crowded?

They wish you, embodied in a physical presence, with feet on the earth, the best. They are indestructible spirits (as you are) that continue to learn, grow, that are mightily interested in the unfolding your your lives.

You may feel their loving presence at time when you allow yourself to release human constructed ideas about what is and isn’t real. Get over that! You limit your brains to the concrete physical world and you miss the infinitely wider spectrum of possibilities and relationships and inspirations and love that will flow easily to you. That happens only if you allow it by releasing your grip on the “real” every now and then.

So much is possible! These spirits are not cold scary aloof beings and ghosts, but warm loving and caring helpers! They who have lived in a physical existence time and time again, have made mistakes and experienced fear, but also great love, these ancestors have much to teach us. They desire to assist as you create your loving home, the nurturing safe and beautiful places for all who dwell on this plant.

You are supported, loved and guided by these spirits of light who beam with passion and joy as they witness the unfolding of your lives.

Focus

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GCW speaks of focus:

All of your being- mind, body, spirit, and heart is concentrated in this moment. That is focus. With focus you are doing one thing. ONE THING. You and the one thing become one and form a unified field. Whatever you are doing – writing, playing a new piece on the piano, knitting a sweater, raking leaves, conversing with your beloved grandchild, washing the floor, the entire beingness that is you is doing only that. “Multitasking” as you humans call it, is for those who with to diminish their power and effectiveness.

With focus you become like a column or beam of light. All other thoughts, actions, words leave your mind as you do what you have been created to do; be fully present here and now in this moment. Your full attention is required to do your best work and live your lives fully!

Do you find it difficult or nerve wracking to pull yourself together and let go of those extra thoughts and ideas and sudden feelings that distract you from the very power you came here to express? The oneness of purpose that is required to keep your focus?

Practice! For only you have access to the power of your physical being. Take it slowly, put down the shiny thing in your hand, unplug your ears from the music player, bring your scattered self into your heart center where all is one; where your true power resides

Now, focus on the one thing you’ve chosen. It could be your breath, a new song to learn, enjoying your child’s beauty and perfection, an intricate knitting pattern you want to learn, a round of yoga poses- the list is infinite, as you are.

This is a paradox. Learn to focus your awareness in the here and now and feel your life expand into new dimensions!

Dance of energy

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GCW speaks of the energy in all things

Have you felt and sensed that all living things are permeated and surrounded by their own atmosphere? Have you felt the pull toward another, or a feeling of being repelled and wanting to keep your distance?

All is a dance of energy. Pay attention for this is your sensitive radar. You all have it! Tune in and let it guide you through life. It is more powerful, sensitive and smarter than your smartest shiny blinking object. And no monthly plan!

When you tune in, this energy may manifest as feeling, as bodily sensations as gut instincts, as knowing, as simply appearing in the right place at the right time for no apparent reason.

You were given these bodies that are so much more than any of you can imagine! Expand your experience. Expand your knowing and pay attention to them. Take time to tune in to the miracle that is you. No rushing about and staring at blinking objects while trying to tune in!

Quiet your minds, the frenetic energy, the reeling thoughts, the ever present judgments, and the world will be a more peaceful place. Your thoughts are the energy that create the tapestry of your life. Choose thoughts that support the life you wish to create!

Not good enough?

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Grandmother Cottonwood speaks of “Not good enough”

My dear, you constantly strive to improve yourself! You think your best effort is not good enough. You think less of yourself when you do not measure up to the standards, weights and measures others have devised to define and control!

When will you realize your precious and delightful energy is better spent on creating your unique life, blazing your trail into the unmeasured un-analyzed territory of the heart, knowing and trusting yourself? The source in you is inspiring and guiding you each step of the way. Tune in! For the growing, expanding, unfolding, exciting, inspiring place is deep within you and nowhere else.

This will allow you to unfold into the rich full human being that you are designed to be, not a clone of someone else, not patterned after an ideal model, praised by the media and your mom.

You are first and foremost here to be and discover your own desires and bring them to fruition, to grow toward the sun in your own way, at your own pace. Let go of “Not good enough” once and for all.

The spirit world

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GCW speaks of the spirit world

My dears, there is no separate “world” in which spirits are confined! All things that you can see taste touch small and hear are so much more than the outward physical manifestation you sense with your bodies.

When you tune into your feelings, when you observe your thoughts, you are tuning into your own delightful energy – AKA spirit! Yes, you are spirit as well as body! Understand, feel, know and sense that and you will deepen and enrich your earthly experience beyond measure.

As you become more sensitive, you will begin to open a window to the wider spectrum of experience. You will begin to know what lies beyond the everyday experience of the physical world. You will be shown the underpinnings of this life, the source in which all things are one.

You cannot be told! You must experience and travel this path for yourself. A teacher can guide you if you flounder and resist. But know this: Your heart is the compass to navigate the unseen realms, the foundations of all that is. Trust it!

Going beyond what you know with the senses is to deepen and enrich and make incredibly precious your life here in the body in this place at this time.

Music

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GCW speaks of music:

Music is like life itself, flowing, expressive, full of feeling; each moment a new tone- with a melody you can catch on to, can repeat sometimes. Just as a stream flows, the notes of music forming a stream that delights, refreshes, surprises, inspires, and continues until the final chord. Or do your prefer repeating patterns, repeating ideas?

Then the final note fades away leaving a deep silence. Deep silence is the backdrop to all that is, to all that is sung all that is spoken in this world. Deep silence is the paper that your life song is written on.

A song is like one lifetime – Silence between notes, between songs the foundation of spirit every lifetime is built on. Next lifetime a new song. Variations on a theme.