Where the Wisdom Lies

Good Wednesday Morning!

What is wellness to each of us?  And where do we go to achieve it?

I recall so well in about 1970 that my brother who lives in L.A. called to encourage, insist really, that I chant.  He had connected with what was then Nicheren Shoshu of America, a Buddhist sect that chanted Nam Myo-ho Renge Kyo (sp.) for anything they needed/wanted.  

I was washing dishes when he called, involved in my life in northern Minnesota with my husband and two children - and I had developed a painful spastic colon.  As I continued washing my dishes, looking out the window of my kitchen, I began to chant, and the more I chanted the more relaxed I felt.

My practice expanded into joining the organization.  Every day I chanted, and I could feel myself going within as I never had before, finding peace and well-being.  My symptoms disappeared and have never returned.  I continued this practice for several years and it taught me a lot about achieving wellness.

Over the years since I have produced other symptoms of varying severity.  The most significant was the loss of my thyroid.  The story of that journey is too complex to report here, but the upshot was that after it had been irradiated, a surgeon diagnosed a nodule and told me to schedule a surgery to remove it.  I walked out without the appointment, knowing somehow that it wasn't necessary.  During my morning walks I talked to my thyroid & the nodule - or to the area that had been my thyroid - and three times I clearly heard my Inner Voice say, "Benign."

That message gave me peace of mind, so I gave up seeing any doctors for it, and I continued to thank my body for its Wisdom.  It wasn't long before my energy returned and my thyroid recreated itself.  This may be common in medical terms.  I'll never know.  I only need to know that my wise System took care of it because I gave it the opportunity to do so.

Just how big is this System that has all the Wisdom it needs to rectify our well-being?  I'm a person who is programmed to feel responsible for myself, so asking for help from others - even extra-dimensional others - was a stretch for me.  Worth exploring, but not my first reaction to a symptom.

Recently, with some heart issues motivating me, I've expanded my acceptance about what is possible.  Lying down one day after having some pain, I prepared for a meditation and asked for all the help possible to relieve the symptoms and to help me achieve a strong and healthy body.

Quite quickly I was surrounded by and filled with an energy that moved in unfamiliar patterns and identified itself as Metatron, accompanied by extra-dimensional beings I call the OHM.  As they worked in and around my heart I fell asleep.  Now they are always available, as I suppose they always were, accompanied by Jesus, whose presence I have counted on for 30 years.

What I've learned and now trust is that every cell in our bodies holds the memory of its perfect function.  Given the chance to release the shrouds of accumulated compromising beliefs, these core functions can be resurrected - if that is our perfect plan.

Our perfect plan does not necessarily mean perfect physical health. If it did, we would all live into infinity.  No, we have finite physical bodies for a reason.  At least they are finite for most of us, and a discussion of Ascension with the body intact is for another day.  Our finite bodies are a prime experience through which we learn ourselves, exercise our beliefs, and expand Cosmic Consciousness/the Mind of God.  Our symptoms, mental, emotional and physical, are intended to exercise those options.

Enjoying our lives means addressing those symptoms the best way we can.  Sometimes we need to employ a medical professional or a therapist practicing alternative means to assist us.  I believe we are fortunate when we engage with our expanded Consciousness, calling on all the awesome help available, asserting the conviction that best addresses our symptom and surrendering control over what we cannot fully, logically understand.  

Whether it's wellness of body, thoughts or emotion, we can feel the shift within ourselves as we accomplish our objective.  In doing so, we also change the Consciousness, expanding access for anyone else who shares a similar journey.  What a trip!  And I am grateful.

Phyl-El

Heaven Can Wait

Good Morning!

The title, "Heaven Can Wait," comes popping into my head as I open this morning.  And it does have to do with what I thought I'd chat about this morning, which is that some days are for nothing, well, nothing obvious.  Every day produces something, but we're so programmed to achieving that when a day looks inactive, as mine was yesterday, the appearance is that it was a nothing day.
Heaven, or Spirit, is a constant, but obviously pursuing anything is not necessary every day.

Re-creation is the foundation for the energy it takes to actively engage in any day.  Yesterday was about recreating myself.  I loved my overnight, Friday night, with my two granddaughters.  What a joy to share life with them for 30 energy-filled hours when we have time to connect.  And then, being such a solitary being, I do need the time to renew.

I'm reminded of the affable and inspired minister at Unity Church in Golden Valley some years ago.  He spoke one day about how Monday was his day off, so he would go golfing.  Then one day, while lining up for a shot, he realized that he was tensing up, trying to improve his game.  His days of planned re-creation were not at all relaxing.  What he really needed was time to renew; time with himself to replenish.

On this gradually sunny Monday I have some things to accomplish and I'll let them flow with breath and confidence that whatever needs doing will naturally come about on its own.

I know what the girls are probably doing today.  They have a new puppy; a Greater Swiss Mountain dog who looks so cute in the first pictures it makes me go, awwwww.  Her official name is themed to her litter - Sunshine Punch - and they'll call her Sunny.  Andrea is delighted with the balance in this.  Their other dogs are Ursa (stars), Luna (moon), so now the addition of the sun is perfect.

While it takes different energy to have two such lively people in my space overnight, I love that I am renewed in that energy, too.
Seeing the world through their eyes is a joy beyond reason.  Well, who needs a reason for joy!?  And speaking of joy, I think my next post will be about health and well-being.  I'm done for today, so I
wish each of you a flowing and perfect day of re-creation.

Happily,
Phyl-El

Known and Done

On this perfect Minnesota morning, Hello!

Continuing on the theme of Creation this morning, I'm going to review a piece Wisdom offered last October as I was preparing to move from my apartment home of 24 years to our family-owned condo just a few miles away.

With every good intention to surrender control and allow my Universe to take care of everything, I found myself one day making lists.  The irony struck me, I stopped in my mental tracks, then heard "Phyllis, it is Known. It is Done."

I was filled with and surrounded by absolute ease, the lists fell away with each breath and within hours I found my whole move unfolding in my favor.  My cousin called to insist he and his son move me.  My contracted moving company made me a sweet deal I couldn't refuse, and friends in my building disposed of all the large items I could no long use.  Awesome.

We learn early to engage with the emotional body and our brains,  which blocks the flow of all that can provide us ease. We've been trained to create through logic.  We find comfort in making lists, creating a plan.  But the comfort is short-lived; a band aid on our emotional and mental patterns.

Whatever the situation, the need or the symptom, the outcome is Known in Creation.  It is already complete and waiting for us to accept the ease in it.  And because it is Done,  breathing into that alternate and awesome reality allows us to see the elements falling into place in our favor.  When we stand out of the way of the Cosmic flow we can enjoy the benefits of our own Wisdom. What about free will, then?

We work on so many levels of Consciousness, all the time, not just when we're thinking about it.  Our free will engages at the conception of our personality, long before our physical birth.  At all levels of Consciousness our Plan is Known.  As we play out our lives, exercising our free will, we learn through experience.  We always have the right to learn through struggle, making the lists, telling God to do it our way, for whatever reasons.   We also have an opportunity to surrender and allow the Wisdom to work through us for our overall benefit - including the benefit of others.  Where we do not struggle, so are the people around us relieved of the need to complicate their lives.

The conversation about Creation and free will is worth having.  Doing so, we expand our Consciousness and implement our skills. But as we have been guided, as much as we like to talk about it and help one another to achieve a level of ease, we are better off not trying to understand it.  We use so much energy disseminating and trying to make sense of everything.  But Creation defies our linear thinking. We are better off using the tools we have and relaxing into the joy of it all.  

Each day is a new adventure in the joy, the ease, the awesomeness of it all, and I am thrilled by every serendipitous event.  And, yes, I can even appreciate better the contrast when I slip into control mode again.  But from day to day I live more wholly in the Known and Done and celebrate with others their own expanding ease.

Until next week, breathing with you,
Phyllis/Phyl-El