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They pointed the telescope at a place in the sky where “there was nothing,” And they discovered thousands of new galaxies. Reality is not as we “know it.” Anything is possible and the seeds of our creativity are being born as well as planted every moment of every day.

Are you living in the limits and boundaries of last century’s “known world” or are you embracing the knowledge that we are all flecks of God in an existence that reaches far, far beyond any one person’s wildest imagination?

Your problems may feel large (mine woke me up this morning at 5 am!) yet they are just parts of the game, distracting and delighting us simultaneously albeit on different levels of consciousness.

Today go forth, conscious with with causeless bliss and play the game any way you wish!

And if you don’t know about causeless bliss, please read about Divine Openings!

Love, Rox

The notion of “you create your reality” is popular in many personal development circles, and was born out of our increasing understanding of both quantum physics and spiritual insights.

Some people confuse it with self-blame, whereas I see it as an opportunity to claim my life and all its hair balls, and get them moving in a new direction!

Here is a short audio recording I made while in my car recently. It seems that there is some of the past populating my present – to which you may say, “Duh!” However what I figured out was that some of this might be a necessary requirement for getting to the starting point of having a spiritual awakening, a transition in consciousness. I hope you’ll tell me what you think!

Long before Divine Openings came into my life, I used the framework of having multiples “me’s” inside me. The adult and the inner child. The #1 or the #2 personality. The functional mind or the monkey mind. The Large Self or the small self. And of course always the divine me that runs through all of me.

I do have a challenge sometimes though knowing whether it is my large or small self giving me advice. With Divine Openings, “I” can create experiences that answer the question for me in a rapid amount of time, and often with a great sense of humor. This is just life happening, (and me noticing, gratefully) rather than having to work it over in my mind or remember a set a rules.

Today I was starting to make a cup of coffee – decaf is what I drink. Lately though I’ve been having thoughts about drinking tea instead of coffee. I haven’t taken time to really focus on the feeling of them – instead I had a mental conversation in my head with very little attention actually. I was dismissing it as the chatter of my small self. “Coffee is bad for you and if you gave up that milk every day you could lose weight!” Though this other voice would counter, “But I use 2% milk and I really like the taste of coffee. And who cares about my weight – it is quite normal actually, even if a few pounds heavier than last year.”

On the surface, the second voice sounds more, more “large self-y.” But it didn’t feel done and it was still pestering my mind. I had not taken the time to go into the feeling on it. So today I chatted with the Presence while making my coffee, saying I don’t know how to tell when it is large or small self sometimes and I’d like some guidance. Within a minute, the coffee grinder jammed. Then I remembered that my french press coffee pot was in the dishwasher, which was running. For the third and final act, my coffee mug lid was also in the dishwasher.

I cracked up and started to laugh at how easy that was! The divine me simply removed the coffee! I find this so much more fun than pretending to be rational and making a list of pros and cons and then still feeling ambiguous about so many of my decisions.

So here is the short cut to giving the divine those sticky confusing questions:

• Pose the question directly to the divine.
• Notice the little things that start showing up right away.
• Observe them without bias; just notice which way the wind is blowing.
• Decide how you want to act, now that you have new information.

Love,

I was giving a Divine Opening earlier today and during the phone call this moderately loud though muffled sound appeared. It most closely resembled a heart beat though it was coming from an external machine, a mechanical power source, and the rate was about 560 BPM (beats per minute.)

It seemed to metaphorically resemble the quickening of the energy that was happening on the phone. A sort of energetic fractal, as compared to a geometric or graphical one. We have this notion that all energy, all humanity, all divinity is interconnected and sharing the same source. So instead of feeling this sound as an irritant, and by understanding it as something “I” created, it simply became an outer manifestation of an inner experience. My energy vibration has quickened and causeless bliss envelopes me! Even though it is not what I would call a pleasant sound, I have reaped pleasant energy from it, and curiously it has just, now, stopped.

Love,
Rox

The Body Mind Spirit Expo is one of the longest running public events supporting natural health, green living, personal development, and spirituality. It will be meeting here in Honolulu at the beautiful Hawaii Convention Center January 23 & 24, 2010. I will be giving a free lecture on Saturday morning, from 10 am – 11 am. Here is a map with directions to the Hawaii Convention Center.

I am a conduit for Divine Grace and will speak about how Divine Openings can free you from working on yourself. Using the principles in Lola’s book, Things Are Going Great in My Absence, I will explain how to connect with the Divine Presence within you to live a life of freedom, happiness, and bliss.

People in over 60 countries have stopped working on themselves and are living happily and manifesting beyond their wildest dreams. Learn what happens when you take your small self out of the driver’s seat and let the Divine do the heavy lifting. Divine Openings create the way for you to commune directly with the Divine, with the Divine you, so that you can live the life you imagine. There are no rules or gurus to follow, only opportunities to play on this playground that you and the Divine presence have created together.

If you have tried many ways to be free of your limitations and are still seeking, then Divine Openings can open you eyes to a whole new way to be a spiritual being having a human experience. Causeless bliss is within your reach.

The two-day event costs a nominal $8 to attend for the two days, and most of the lectures and access to the Exhibit Hall are included. You can get a $2 discount on the admission fee plus discounts from many of the exhibitors.

View my session description here and link to the coupon and special offers here.

Here’s more about Divine Openings.

For much of my life I have been in confusion over my power. Like so many other people, for the first 35 years I worked diligently to ignore it, in favor of “fitting in.” Fitting in always seemed to hold out more possibility, more potential, and more excitement for me. Of course that is related to a core misunderstanding: that we need others to accomplish anything, not least of which is being happy.

Because I now know we don’t.

All that is required is to wake up and claim my own divinity, my own connection to God, to the source of all that is, as I am one of the infinite cells of this beingness. As are you. And all those others we may not “like” for whatever reasons du jour.

The intensity of your discomfort equals the exact intensity of your power, once you’ve reclaimed it. – Lola Jones, of DivineOpenings.com

This quote resonated with me today as I have several patches of skin that have erupted on numerous places of my body. It itches a lot. It has gotten more intense this week, though I have been doing things to relieve it – including lots of dialog with the divine, without trying to ask over and over again for “da cure.” My small self thinks it should have gone away sooner, such as in the snap of a finger. Another part of me understands that I keep gaining insights from the itching and blisters – I am truly wanting to shed the skin I am and erupt as truer, more powerful version of me! The skin is also my protection and these obvious blisters on my arm and leg are keeping me away from people by my own choice. This private retreat is a delicious journey into my potential and I am loving that part of this!

My early college training was as a scientist. I have been a lifelong student of learning. I have placed tremendous value on research and fact-finding.

Yet today I am saying goodbye to the preciousness of research in my life. I see that it can actually weigh me down, in the form of baggage I’ve been carrying around. I think it derived from the fear response I had when I explored new thoughts out loud and someone else would yell, “Prove it!” Off I would go, responding to orders, and creating a false sense of satisfaction and comfort from being able to “prove it.”

Facts are so incredibly fast-moving and fluid today. Your known world is very dependent on where and how you travel. Each week literally I am contacted by friends and clients who rejected my facts and advice years ago, only to say, “I am ready now” or “I guess you were right.” This is not about me being superior – it is merely that I am an extreme early adopter. And this applies to so many areas of my life, but especially in my business and in my personal approach to spirituality.

There is plenty of research out there now anyway, that if someone else wants it, they can find it. I no longer have to be the provider, unless of course I am interested. Being interested in something is – as you know once I write this – a completely different energy than research as a defensive position, a fight or flight response.

I am not only allowed but now encourage myself to move forward based on my understanding of the energy, of the vibration, without the need for supporting data. Once you can prove something, it is already a known entity anyway by those who have chosen the path of direct experience. I think you see this often in business – those who can conceive of a solution before some even realize they have a problem! It is that inner knowing combined with a willingness to follow one’s desires, proof can come later if necessary.

I say goodbye to this baggage and choose to swim au naturel in the sea of the Divine. Want to join me?

This is an internet contest sponsored by Sam-E and Nature Made. This is a natural supplement company, and they are venturing into the social web. This contest is to locate a blogger who will write 5 posts a week on the Good Mood Blog.

I don’t think of myself as a contestant-type person. I don’t have the desire to drum up a lot of “pick me!!!” energy, though in this case I believe I am very well suited to the job. My 750 video episodes at Beach Walks with Rox are my proven track record of thinking positive and churning out content. Our first 402 episodes did not skip a single day! My practice there now is dramatically slower.

Not for lack of interest, but for lack of time. The day job has become incredibly busy as people want to jump into our brains and learn many of the things we’ve learned and created in the past 10 years of being early adopters on the web. Part of the appeal for this Good Mood Gig is the compensation. It will allow me to turn down some other work and focus back on the ideas of change, cooperation, respect, happiness, and freedom that run through so much of BeachWalks.tv.

The main lure though is the opportunity to speak to a larger audience about life and how to manage it. I am a long time student of consciousness; I pay attention to the words I use so as to avoid stress from the very seeds of each thought. As a former health coach for Johnson & Johnson, I have both professional experience in health management as well as a personal interest. I was the first mind-body fitness presenter at the IDEA Conventions, way back in the early 80’s! The interplay of thoughts, feelings, actions, and nutrition are a constantly changing field of science, but many of the foundations of mood management come from long-standing practices.

I hope you will help me make the first cut: it is based solely on raw votes on the internet. We’ve made it easy to remember: just visit www.vote4rox.com or www.VoteForRox.com and they will both take you to my page for voting. You can vote once a day, so to help you remember, we’ve created an email list. If you join, I will send you a little bit of daily inspiration and include a link to the voting page. This part end on October 30th.

Many thanks for your kokua (help) and support.

The piece of consciousness here I am chewing on lately relates to the time-space game we enter here “on this earth, in this body.” I must say my small self gets confused when seemingly big hard things (to her at least) can shift in the span of a few breaths, while seemingly small things (in her mind – like getting an aisle seat on a long flight) don’t happen as “desired.”

For me that is when the “all is well” mantra really comes in handy! To judge my spiritual awakening by the accounting of small earthly things is to be letting the small self run my mind. Not gonna do it!

I was reading this today from Lola Jones, and it’s perfect synchronicity:

You don’t have to “go out and save the world”. “Go inside and save your world”, remember who you are, and you will not be able to stop being a force beyond anything you can imagine.

All is well, you and everyone else are ultimately safe no matter what happens. The worst that can happen is that you don’t reach freedom in this lifetime, and you die and go back to the bliss of the oneness.

But isn’t it nice to reach freedom here and now?
On this Earth, in this body.

I have long abandoned the need to save the world. I believe we all are conscious co-creators. And of course that includes the small selves as well. The more we reclaim our large selves, soothe the small selves and stop letting them run the show, well that’s getting the party started! Think how many times we have come to the edge of the cliff as countries, as communities, as families, as individuals, only to return for another act.

Love,
Rox

You can view all of H. Koppdelaney’s photos on Flickr. Mahalo for sharing.

I read an article this morning in the NY Times that describes a feedback loop I well recognized in my own behaviors. The good news is that these behaviors are getting dramatically unplugged by the divine openings I have been giving and receiving. It is a way of being able to focus on the blue sky and regain calm and clarity rather than stressing over the things pulling you and me in so many confusing directions.

...chronically stressed rats lost their elastic rat cunning and instead fell back on familiar routines and rote responses, like compulsively pressing a bar for food pellets they had no intention of eating. Moreover, the rats’ behavioral perturbations were reflected by a pair of complementary changes in their underlying neural circuitry. On the one hand, regions of the brain associated with executive decision-making and goal-directed behaviors had shriveled, while, conversely, brain sectors linked to habit formation had bloomed.

There is also an article today on mental stress training for army recruits. Stress is taking its rightful place in our awareness of illness and dysfunction, so we can actually do something about it! Here is more from the rats and stress study though. Is this familiar to you?

“The truth is, Dr. Sapolsky said, “we’re lousy at recognizing when our normal coping mechanisms aren’t working. Our response is usually to do it five times more, instead of thinking, maybe it’s time to try something new.”

There is good news though! Just as we can train our brains to dysfunction, we can also liberate them.

But with only four weeks’ vacation in a supportive setting free of bullies and Tasers, the formerly stressed rats looked just like the controls, able to innovate, discriminate and lay off the bar. Atrophied synaptic connections in the decisive regions of the prefrontal cortex resprouted, while the overgrown dendritic vines of the habit-prone sensorimotor striatum retreated.

If you don’t have four weeks to take a vacation, please consider giving yourself a series of divine openings. It is a direct download of divine energy, grace, consciousness, that accelerates our ability to unplug from these repeating patterns of behavior that only get us more of what we don’t want. You will learn to recognize when you are headed down into a stress spiral, and you will learn how to unplug yourself and connect with God, the divine, to see clearly and feel better.