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.

Christmas tree farm

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This farm is such a place of beauty and serenity. We are a community with trees of different ages, shapes, sizes, colors, and varieties of evergreen so beautifully kept and nurtured for your human delight and enjoyment. You beautify this corner of the earth through your farming, and you spread the joy for miles around. This is a sacred place.

We (evergreen tree spirits) bless you with our heady scent, the texture and beauty of our green leaves, thin and short, long and soft, the sticky sweet sap, the sharing of your holiday season.

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You bring us into your home and we bring you joy! Human tree interactions at their best! Our greenery decorates and freshens your spaces, giving you hope in the cold, dark and gray time, when most green things have died or gone to sleep. You are welcome!

We love you! Even when you come and cut us down, another of your kind will plant seedlings next year to continue the cycle of yearly blessings. You make a fuss for us. You bring more of us to life on this farm than would grow naturally. We are given more chances to feel the sun and rain, the cold winter winds, to witness the lightning in summer, to feel the thunder, to know the earth supporting our roots and pulling them toward her loving center, to be fed by the rains, to sense the wheeling hawk and vulture above, to support nests for lively songbirds, to shelter the little furry ones that come and make their home here among us. This life on earth is precious and not to be missed!

Remember the earth in which we grow and receive our sustenance. Give us back to the earth when you are finished with your holiday, and we will feed next year’s growth.

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!

Thanksgiving

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GCW speaks of Thanksgiving

How beautiful it is to acknowledge all the blessings of this life – of your physical existence here in this place at this time. The food that delights the senses and enlivens your physical bodies, the shelter that provides you with a warm and welcoming home, those objects that give you pleasure and make your life easier… the magnificent beauty of the natural world… those beloved friends and loved ones, the most precious gifts of all…

To give thanks is to feel these blessings lovingly in your heart and know the support of the universe. It is to experience deeply the connections between all things and all beings.

You are meant to be here! NEVER FORGET THIS! The universe fully supports your existence! Do you know this? If not, reexamine your beliefs!

Every particle in this universe to the far limits of your awareness and beyond is supported by love, which is the thread that weaves the tapestry of creation!

Feel it. Know it. Live it.

When you embody and allow this exquisite love to radiate from the center of your being you become the very energy of appreciation. It is your priceless birthright!

Winter

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GCW speaks of winter

The shift in seasons from autumn to winter reminds us that all living things must die, ourselves among them. There, that’s out of the way!

So many fuss about the cold of this coming season. Do you wish to add the energy of fuss and complaint to the web of all things? Would you prefer endless summer? That is available elsewhere, not in this place.

The cycles of light and dark, seasons, the rise and fall of waves and our breath are intimately intertwined with our cells and our energy. We have been created for this ebb and flow of the life force, the time of growth and fruiting, and the time of rest and pulling inward. When you live by the clock and calendar, by human devised definitions, by the preset schedule, you limit yourselves severely! You do not allow the flow of the natural world to provide you clues for the structure of your lives. You create your own climates and curse the one outside that is too cold, too hot, too humid, too wet, but this is a curse on the earth that you have evolved to exist in so successfully. Cease and desist!

Bless each flake of snow, bless the northwest wind. Bless bright sunlight sparkling on a million ice crystals. Bless each day of your life with your inner warmth, and light. Find something to bless each winter day. Then if you dare, express your delight at living on this planet so exquisitely attuned to support our precious lives.

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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Tree as healer

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.