Post- Christmas Greetings!
Just now sitting down with my first cup of lovely coffee, "The Shape of Christmas," came into my thoughts, so here I am wondering what that means to me and to each of you.
The shape of my Christmas is round, I realize. And full and packed tightly with stored memories, some of which are still to be told and recalled one day. My Christmas, I am grateful to say, is full of family. Not all of us were able to be together, but celebrating with Mom is the center of our Christmas sphere. It moves out from there with every other person linked to her, filling the space of Christmas. She will be 92 in March, so inevitable thoughts bubble to the surface about what our Christmases will be like when she takes the trip to her next adventure.
Victoria Safford, inspiring minister of the U.U. church we attend, recited responses to questions about Christmas recently asked of the congregation. I nearly lost it when she quoted one person who said this would be her/his last Christmas. Emotions are close to the surface during this holiday season. Emotions shape part of my Christmas sphere.
I did not respond to report my Christmas feelings and memories, but my most vivid memory of all Christmases is the one following our father's death in 1955. I was thirteen.
That morning there were many gifts under the tree, given by generous people who worked with Daddy. I remember very little of those, but at breakfast, in each child's place at the table, there was a gift. The tags said they were from Daddy.
For just a moment, he was alive. It was a bad dream that he had died some weeks before. He was alive. And then, of course, he wasn't, and I was grief-stricken all over again. Each of the boys received a Swiss Army knife. Each of us girls, a musical powder box.
Mine still plays The Anniversary Waltz.
Most of us have poignant memories related to important holidays or anniversaries. Our lives are shaped, in large part, by our memories. I am reporting some of mine because memories, while they do shape us, need not control us. We are Becoming, and in that reshaping we decide what we do with our memories.
Breathing into a memory and bringing all the emotions to the surface, thus releasing the energy of it, is a healthy exercise. Unexpressed emotion controls us. Will we live in the suppressed energy or move out of karmic controls and into the present, with breath? Joy can grow out of that breath. Knowing my father now brings new emotion; he is very real and the joy of knowing him now is greater than the grief that once controlled me.
Joy to each of you and gratitude for our shared consciousness.
Until next time,
Phyllis, Still Becoming
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Friday, December 23, 2011
The Karmic-Free Lens
Christmas Greetings!
Yes, it's been a while since I last posted here. Seems odd to be posting at last just when my days are most full of holiday activities. I do hope your days are full of joy and peace. Mine are, and I am grateful.
Reflecting uneasily on some events in my day yesterday, I said, "How do I change this?" And the response was, "There is no karma."
And I realized how deeply I have believed in cause and effect. This follows that, as night follows day. I have believed this, and even while I've explored the alternatives, I've not really questioned my conditioned reactions to the state of the karmic condition.
Some years ago while meditating with our Synergy group, I
found myself standing at the edge of Creation. The expanse in front of me was without form or movement. This was completely disorienting, so I tried to turn to look behind me and could not. There was no "behind me." There was no history, no reference point. The message I heard was, "When the human experience is complete, there will be a new beginning. No energy is lost." This experience was repeated some time later in private meditation. This time I was not so undone, as I realized where I was. And this time as I looked out at the expanse in front of me, there was movement; the beginning of something as yet unnamed,
but something.
Last night's message reminded me of this experience. We had resolved all of our karma. All cycles had reached completion. Last night Wisdom showed me only what is in front of me. Karma was the past, and only the moment had any meaning. I could feel the expanse in front of me, and only it had meaning even though it had no form.
This past week Archangel Michael reminded me that on this Winter Solstice we entered the final 6-month period of the three-year cycle that began with Summer Solstice in 2009. At that time he told me we had shifted into New Earth, but we were not yet conditioned to its new energy.
He said we had three years to try on the energy and realize its unique opportunities. He called it a "three-year leap of faith." We have entered the last 6 months of that cycle. What is beyond that still has no form as far as I can see. Its expansive possibilities and challenges feel like a full gallop. If we thought the quality of time had changed recently, for this next chapter we'd better take some deep breaths and hold on. Better yet, raise our arms above our heads, like an adventurous passenger on the biggest roller coaster!
I can't imagine a more exciting - and challenging - time to be human. Earth has evolved, and we with it, to the point when we can become anything. Yes, it's always been true to a point, but the energy of The All That Is is now so vividly available that there are virtually no limits.
Releasing karma is key to new creations. Breath is our natural tool for releasing references to the past.
Wherever our attention is, we are creating. Our reactions, our references to what was, hold our creational energy in the past and produces more of the same. We must breathe and refocus if we expect to produce what we prefer.
To focus on the moment, to hold a steady view through a karmic-free lens, we must breathe. We not only fulfill our own dreams and intentions, we expand Consciousness and provide a clear creational pallet for the planet.
I am breathing and practicing the release of all references.
I love the feeling of freedom, the ease of my body, the peace in my System as I focus through this karma-free lens. And I feel more focused having processed here with all of you.
Thank you.
Karmic-free Blessings to all,
Phyllis, Still Becoming
Yes, it's been a while since I last posted here. Seems odd to be posting at last just when my days are most full of holiday activities. I do hope your days are full of joy and peace. Mine are, and I am grateful.
Reflecting uneasily on some events in my day yesterday, I said, "How do I change this?" And the response was, "There is no karma."
And I realized how deeply I have believed in cause and effect. This follows that, as night follows day. I have believed this, and even while I've explored the alternatives, I've not really questioned my conditioned reactions to the state of the karmic condition.
Some years ago while meditating with our Synergy group, I
found myself standing at the edge of Creation. The expanse in front of me was without form or movement. This was completely disorienting, so I tried to turn to look behind me and could not. There was no "behind me." There was no history, no reference point. The message I heard was, "When the human experience is complete, there will be a new beginning. No energy is lost." This experience was repeated some time later in private meditation. This time I was not so undone, as I realized where I was. And this time as I looked out at the expanse in front of me, there was movement; the beginning of something as yet unnamed,
but something.
Last night's message reminded me of this experience. We had resolved all of our karma. All cycles had reached completion. Last night Wisdom showed me only what is in front of me. Karma was the past, and only the moment had any meaning. I could feel the expanse in front of me, and only it had meaning even though it had no form.
This past week Archangel Michael reminded me that on this Winter Solstice we entered the final 6-month period of the three-year cycle that began with Summer Solstice in 2009. At that time he told me we had shifted into New Earth, but we were not yet conditioned to its new energy.
He said we had three years to try on the energy and realize its unique opportunities. He called it a "three-year leap of faith." We have entered the last 6 months of that cycle. What is beyond that still has no form as far as I can see. Its expansive possibilities and challenges feel like a full gallop. If we thought the quality of time had changed recently, for this next chapter we'd better take some deep breaths and hold on. Better yet, raise our arms above our heads, like an adventurous passenger on the biggest roller coaster!
I can't imagine a more exciting - and challenging - time to be human. Earth has evolved, and we with it, to the point when we can become anything. Yes, it's always been true to a point, but the energy of The All That Is is now so vividly available that there are virtually no limits.
Releasing karma is key to new creations. Breath is our natural tool for releasing references to the past.
Wherever our attention is, we are creating. Our reactions, our references to what was, hold our creational energy in the past and produces more of the same. We must breathe and refocus if we expect to produce what we prefer.
To focus on the moment, to hold a steady view through a karmic-free lens, we must breathe. We not only fulfill our own dreams and intentions, we expand Consciousness and provide a clear creational pallet for the planet.
I am breathing and practicing the release of all references.
I love the feeling of freedom, the ease of my body, the peace in my System as I focus through this karma-free lens. And I feel more focused having processed here with all of you.
Thank you.
Karmic-free Blessings to all,
Phyllis, Still Becoming
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