When Reese and I were coming back from lunch March 30, 2016, I was shown a potential catalyst for The Shift that is in motion with intense vibration as we write this. They showed me to put the call out for us to start holding the energetic space for all those supporting the current broken system, holding the vibration for them to see the door, the adjacent door of the new way vibrating before them. Help them to feel the truth of this real option, help them feel this is feasible. This can be done. ![]() We are being asked to hold this energetically, in prayer, in meditation, and in our hearts, that those supporting the failing system will step through the change and withdraw their support from those in power who lack integrity. We are also being asked to help them see and feel that there is a choice. They can walk through the door for change, the door opening to the new way. Our gift to them can be holding the space for their awareness that this choice and opportunity to withdraw their support vibrates before them. ![]() Holding in our hearts the reality of The Shift can enable those supporting the current system to wake up to their integrity and courage in order to withdraw their support from corrupted places of power. Another aspect of our participation is our willingness to hold in our hearts the knowing that this can transpire and this can really happen. Whatever your spiritual belief, whether that would be to call on Mother Goddess, God, Mother Earth, the Universe, Angels, Jesus, Divine assistance, Allah, Kwan Yin, Buddha, Spirit Animals, Fairies... let us make the call for help to create the current of awareness for those supporting the corrupt system to break free and jump into the stream of change. Photos: www.pippalunacy.com
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![]() Spirit showed me to start teaching about balance, represented by the example of “Gray” (this-and-that) instead of seeing our healing and our feelings in black-and-white terms. I was shown to expand on the common perspective that we should strive to mostly feel good, light, and positive. In expanding on this perspective, I am not saying it is bad or wrong, but I am hoping to create room for the multiple ways people came to be. I am not the first to offer this understanding, nor shall I be the last. Ultimately, we are all connected and Source is Oneness. But when we come down to this plane, most of us are here to experience our uniqueness through some level of separation and individuality. This is where most of the confusion seems to arise. We have a tendency as humans to have a one-way-to-be syndrome, so it can be especially confusing when we actually tap into Divine truths, such as Oneness. I honor that the feeling of connection and Oneness is a valid and real path. There are people who came to experience this as their lesson. But the journey to experience and learn from separation and individuality is also a valid and real path. This is where I am trying to balance and expand into this-and-that: Gray, as opposed to black-and-white. ![]() Another element of confusion is about The Shift people are anticipating, where we will come to the place where we all feel connected, even on this plane. This is not yet here. Currently, a segment of the population is here to experience their unique offering through some level of separation, learning to connect from some degree of individuality and uniqueness. The degree of individuality is like spokes in a wheel. Source is the outer wheel and we are the separate spokes within. ![]() Part of balance is understanding this as a continuum. On the continuum, either side of the population bell curve will be leaning toward some form of separation or toward some form of connectedness. The middle of the bell curve holds some level of separation and connectedness combined. And then there are the outliers that came to either be totally separate or to feel total connection. They are holding the ends of the continuum, helping create balance, and are just as real, valid, and needed as the middle bell curve experience of unique separation and connectedness combined. There are many ways to experience and be in life. One perspective is to try and rise above things, or try and let them go. From what I have been shown and experienced, this is generally a tool to be used based on the context of whatever the person is facing, not as a general way of being for most people. If rising above or letting go was effective as a mainstay for conflict and problems, then things would not be getting bigger and deeper, as our current culture shows. In density and ignorance, rising above or letting things go as a primary tool only allows that current of density and ignorance to get bigger. These are needed tools, but when we are working with the element of outrageousness, this would not be a time to use these tools. ![]() Again, there are many ways to experience and be in life. There are many coping skills, ways of healing, methods to handle problems and issues, and many different lessons to learn and ways to learn them. What we have seen is when people use, “I’m supposed to rise above things, not let them bother me, and just feel positive,” as their major way of coping, then they still have most of their stuff in their energetic and physical body, and the dense charges sitting in there vibrating, waiting. This does not heal the wounds or solve the issues at the heart of the wounding. Being positive and rising above does take some of the charge away from the wounding. This is real. Which can confuse people, because they do feel better, and they are partially healing the charge of that particular issue or wound. For some people this is the level of healing they are meant to reach. For others, deeper healing at the heart of our wounds is what is needed. ![]() If the heart of our wounds and issues are charged and big enough, life will be triggering these places in us, and we will then need to rise above more and more in order to not feel our charged wounds or issues, thus creating a dissociative state. We are being asked to experience our humanity in various and unique ways. The people who came to experience rising above and letting go as a primary way of being are so aligned with this tool that they can stay completely in their bodies and connected, because this is truly what they came to experience. For the rest of us, from what I have been shown and experienced, this is to be used as a tool based on the context before us. “I want to feel good all of the time,” has a high potential for humans to create addiction. A great part of the experience of life is feeling and dealing with a variety of feelings and emotions. This is a big piece of the puzzle, a spoke in the wheel of our humanity. ![]() If we were to understand that a lot of the population is here to learn, transform, and integrate what our culture considers negative, our shadow, then experiencing our lives and emotions would not seem so bad. Nor would it seem like it was something to get out of, but rather something to be walked through, lived, and transformed. Without this context, the message of Oneness can create for a lot of people the experience of dissociation. When people have done this for so long, and this feels normal or good, a lot of times they do not realize that energetically they are almost out of their bodies. It is understandable that the message of Oneness is absolutely essential here on Earth. Oneness is not just remembering we are all one. It is not just limited to “I am you, you are me,” but also remembering we are connected in practical ways. What I am doing is impacting others. If I pollute the Earth, I am not only affecting myself, but others. It is quite obvious this truth is not only forgotten, but desperately needed as a ballast. In Expansion, we can walk knowing the foundational truth of Oneness, and be open to experiencing our own unique walk of individuality, finding our own unique brand of connectedness, and using whatever tool is needed based on the context of the situation before us. We can understand Oneness and still come and experience individuality. Photos: www.pippalunacy.com
“I will not be reduced by . . . .” When we decide to go into healing, seeing ourselves and really looking at our lives, one of the elements that shows up is the feeling of being so vulnerable and exposed. The dysfunctional parts of ourselves feel threatened and ready to protect. This can show up in response to something as small as a suggestion, guidance, basic input, someone else just having a different experience or opinion. ![]() Everything becomes a statement about me. “What are you saying about me!?” It can feel like, “I’m reduced, because I didn’t get it right, didn’t know, forgot or did it wrong.” I feel the need to defend myself over things that are really nothing. We encourage people when they are in deep healing of their dysfunctional self, to be willing to use the phrase... “I will not be reduced by . . .” I will not be reduced by a mere suggestion to do something different than what I am doing or thinking. Suggestions help me learn various ways of doing things, even some of the best shortcuts! This is how I learn from other people. This expands me and makes me more-than by being open to learning. I will not be reduced by having someone add input to what I am saying. Adding input to what I am saying does not diminish what I have contributed. This can potentially be a beautiful collaboration. I become more whole by being connected and interacting with others. Healing is greater in real time, seeing ourselves in the middle of our interactions. Yes! This can be done! I will not be reduced by someone knowing more about something than I do. There is always going to be someone who knows more about something. This is my opportunity to learn to be the student and to be humble. A large aspect of our lives involves growing and changing and one of the most powerful ways in which to do so is by learning. Knowledge is the door to growth and change. I will not be reduced by having something I am doing pointed out. This is an opportunity to see myself in a more full way. This is an opportunity to see a shadow aspect of myself that needs to be dealt with or healed. Or the opportunity to teach someone something about me, why I am doing what I am doing. This does not need to trigger me or bring up my defenses. Constructive criticism and feedback is powerful and needed for a balanced, grounded life. I will not be reduced by being mistaken or wrong. My most profound lessons and wisdom come from being willing to learn from mistakes and from being wrong. Having an openness to being wrong gives me the room to show up authentically in life. Being wrong does not define who I am as a person. It is only my ego that has a problem with being wrong. I will not be reduced by not knowing. Not knowing means I get to learn, expand and grow. It does not mean that I am reduced or will be reduced. It is time for your Soul to remember in the unknown is where creation takes place. The unknown is not a void, it is not annihilation but instead the depth and breadth of who we are and what we are going to create. Photos... pippalunacy.com
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The reason I'm so aligned with myself isn't because I'm perfect, it's because I don't mind that I'm not perfect. Karen Pangelinan A foundational aspect of walking back into our authentic selves is learning to embrace the experience of being wrong. In the Western mindset especially, being wrong is something we are conditioned to avoid, sometimes at almost any cost.
![]() Our objective is to try to get it right...
Being in the perspective of trying to get things right tends to keep us in a looping pattern, reproducing the same kinds of problems and issues over and over. Life is presenting us with repeating, similar patterns to help us see what we are doing, so we can shift out of trying to do things right and into a willingness and openness for learning and growing as a human race. From this place and intention, we can integrate the wisdom we have acquired from all of our experiences. When these looping patterns get bigger, the out of control feeling gets so big, we cannot handle anything else. We lock down... My life feels at stake, I have to find the right answer. This gains momentum, giving us tunnel vision and shutting us down to the possibilities before us. This can be the most contracted energetic state, where we are locked in on looking for the right way instead of being in tune with ourselves and our truth or the adjacent possibilities that are all around us. How about asking...
The fear of being wrong and the need to be right can stop us from being ourselves. This limited way of being tends to constrict our energy, collapse our perspective and make us brace against life. In this state it is difficult to be Real. This can hinder us from walking in our truth, integrity and our own knowing. In Consecrated Living we see the experience of wrong as a beautiful and necessary experience for our Spiritual evolution and transformation. Our Higher Selves have no wish to avoid mistakes. We are here to experience and learn from our faults and failures. We believe it is a distortion that we are all here to achieve one universal right way, or that this is a one size fits all reality of perfection or rightness. Instead, we believe we are each here to live from within ourselves, to follow our own guidance, to experience what it is to be me, and be aligned with our authentic selves. This is our Divine calling, aligning us with Source and all of Life. We believe we are each here to show up authentically and offer our unique selves to our families, friends and the world! When we feel ourselves bracing against being wrong, this is an opportunity to open up and go into all that wrong has to offer.
![]() We can relax into the possibility that all of this is purposeful and serving us. We are being offered an opportunity to learn and grow in the depth of our character. The more we can stand in the purposefulness of whatever we are experiencing, the more we will begin to feel and know that we are not diminished in any Real way by being wrong. We are expanded by the experience of wrong, gaining so much through the lesson of whatever occurred, that we are richer for having been open to it. And as we practice this we cross a threshold where the illusion and fear of wrong breaks up. We begin to realize there is a lot to be learned from wrong. Then we are able to hold in our hearts this is not just a terrible or destructive experience but something we benefit greatly from. Working to get it right takes us deeper into an illusion, running on the treadmill of a false belief system for a goal we cannot reach... perfection. We may have learned to associate being wrong with a loss of our power or even a sense of annihilation, or an underlying feeling state that we do not deserve to be here if we are at fault. As we allow ourselves to go into these feelings and experiences rather than escaping them, we begin to heal and integrate. Paradoxically, this is where we begin to return to our power, as we move through the fear of being wrong and the mistaken sense that we will be powerless or annihilated in its wake. Embrace the possibility...
Consider, the things we tend to think of as ugly and wrong are actually the meat of our transformation. Working to get it right takes us deeper into the collapse of our limited ego and into lessons of contrast. The call is to wake up! It is time to walk out of limitation and collapsed understanding into openness, willingness and our deepest and most Sacred lessons of Spirit leading our lives. If you feel called to go into your deeper lessons or the unhealed parts of yourself, we would love to walk and guide you through your transformation and healing. We are waiting with a sense of great anticipation for you to open the door of your own healing and walk through. We encourage you to claim Wrong! in your own unique way. Embrace this as a beloved and desired aspect of your soul's experience. Claim your life and what your Soul's lessons are here to offer. See the experience of wrong as Sacred. Therein lies your Salvation. Photographs... p ippalunacy.com This was originally posted as an article in 2013.
We invite you to listen... I was reminded of Louise Hay’s offering on turning should into could in her beautiful book You Can Heal Your Life, while we were reading the "Beware of the Should Police" blog by Sam Morris. This is a powerful intention, switching the word should into could. Toxic shame creeps into our feeling state when we are using should a lot. We have been given doors by Spirit into healing our wounds. This is a Sacred door which helps us shift out of toxic shame into healthy potentiality and ownership. And from this place the shame we may feel, if needed, goes more and more into Healthy Shame. (See our blog... "Healthy Shame Vs. Toxic Shame") Be open to...
Could becomes open potential. Offers the possibility of transformation. Yes, we came to experience the different elements that are part of living and part of life in order to learn; this is one of those elements... could. It is time to aid ourselves in healthier ways of being. Making the conscious decision to be mindful of using should... it is time to see the magic in our lives and the magic in our choices. Also remembering this does not opt us out from being responsible for our lives or our choices. We can heal and be responsible. (See our blog... "Our Feelings are the Door to Transformation.") It is our belief that we are humans having a Divine learning experience, that these things serve our Soul’s lessons and the Sacred is interwoven into our journey. We are encouraging you to open up to the powerful experience of transforming should into could. How does it feel to hold the knowing that everything in your life is serving your Soul’s needed lessons, even what may be considered bad or wrong? The more you can open up and trust that all is serving you in some way, even if you cannot see it, the more the Divine can work in your life. The Universe is always working on your behalf, even when it does not feel like it. All Photographs: www.pippalunacy.com
![]() Most people do not necessarily think of sadness as having sacred or healing aspects. This is partly because when people feel sad there are elements within them of toxic shame and guilt which have not been healed, and this gets mixed in with the needed sadness. The common experience and effects of this mixed, distorted sadness are feelings of futility, of just being bad, wrong, and awful. The feeling that this cannot be redeemed. The compulsion to punish yourself or others. Which can often go into depression. This energetic state is very draining, tiring, downtrodden, and hopeless. All of this is an experience of contrast. From this place it is understandable that most people would not think of the state of sadness as being sacred or healing. Necessary sorrow has sacred elements of healing. Sorrow evoked by a life event or something you have done holds the promise for deep insight and learning. Our openness and willingness to walk through this process holds the profound potential for needed change and wisdom. ![]() Healthy sadness means that deep sorrow held in our heart, gut, and soul can be purifying, as purifying as feeling healthy shame. Sadness in this form is a slow, methodical resonance that has the potential to clean your soul, melting through your whole being to elicit whatever rectification, lesson, or change is needed in your life. Visualize liquid gold running through your entire being, knowing the very reason this is here is to help you transform some aspect of you. ![]() The resonance of this type of sadness, of holding sorrow in an intentional way that is sacred, purposeful, and honoring, is what is needed. Whatever transpired is here, so therefore it is meant to be. There is a point to our lives. Part of what we came to experience is doing things wrong. We are meant to be learning, growing, and evolving. When you allow and open up to healthy sorrow, and love that it is cleansing your soul through its resonance, you are experiencing the very nature of what sadness is for. This is the work of sadness, to cleanse us. Our acceptance will help shift us into purposeful transforming. ![]() When we, as a society, are used to things being punitive, right or wrong, good or bad, then that is what people believe in. This is a collapsed understanding. It is the one-way mindset. There is another way if you are willing to know. The resonant vibration of deep sorrow helps clean us out. It is powerful to understand that healthy sadness cleanses you through a very different vibration than what you are used to feeling as sadness. Through this resonant vibration your sorrow goes deep and just coats everything. Like liquid gold. Intentionally allow this feeling to be a healing and transformational element with whatever is bringing on your sorrow. Let the Sacred melt through you and cleanse your wounds and Soul. The companion piece is "Pain and discomfort are Natural States of Healing" blog post. Photos: www.pippalunacy.com
It is time for balance and time to remember what we know to be true. Deep within most people is the knowing that pain and discomfort are natural states when healing. This is the truth... in a multitude of ways and to varying degrees for most of us while in healing. Whether healing is related to your past, or whether it is physical, psychological, emotional or spiritual there are going to be different levels of pain and discomfort involved. When we are willing to feel our discomfort, even when it becomes painful, this can move us into the potentiality of the change that is waiting to unfold. Discomfort can be a Sacred experience. When your discomfort leads you into healing and changing your life, there is the Sacred. Remember it was this unease that led you into what was needed. Here is the service of discomfort… our Soul calling us into more full alignment with ourselves. An aspect of our out of balance society is the belief that we should not feel pain or discomfort. We see this showing up in the high levels of addiction we face as a Social collective. I have experienced after surgical procedures the doctors and nurses being surprised when I have half or more of my pain medication left in less than two weeks following surgery. ![]() That being said, after knee surgery I do not want to be in excruciating pain where I am unable to get around or sleep. This would impede my recovery. I understand the benefit that pain medication provides. It helps to regulate and relieve the initial pain, which is definitely needed. My intention in the process of regulating my pain is not to avoid all or most of the pain, but instead to aid me into regulating the pain naturally by myself. We need to understand that being alerted through experiencing pain and discomfort is one of our body’s means of communicating. This communication may be trying to wake us up or to stop us. I have encountered in my own life and witnessed with other people how our bodies’ tendency is to not stop until we listen. What a powerful gift. Part of our work is to help people remember the truth. Discomfort can show up in other areas and ways... our life or current state of affairs... alerting us that something is not right. Perhaps something is not aligned with our values, truth or justice. Discomfort is coming through in order to reach us. When we feel the deep pain of betraying ourselves or dishonoring someone else, this profound feeling state helps us have the will and the desire to change. See the various ways that pain and discomfort have purpose and serve. Another beautiful gift of pain and discomfort... they can help build character. There have been times in my life walk that I have had to call people out, and many times I was the only one saying... This is not okay. This is not just. This must stop. This felt bad and overwhelming to hold all on my own. My deep knowing and understanding of the truth is what has kept me going. The willingness to feel bad and uncomfortable when needed is what will help change and heal our world, even if this impact seems to be happening in our own little corner. The willingness to feel discomfort and feel badly in order to do what is needed creates depth, integrity, character and the ability to walk in truth. The openness and willingness to feel discomfort or pain is needed in order to be Real and heal. This might show up in personal issues, at work or when you are out in the world. Our willingness to have a full spectrum of emotions and experiences makes us whole people. When we are whole we have depth and dimension, which gives us the ability to ride through whatever is before us and to truly deal with our lives. Instead of medicating, numbing or distracting ourselves. It is now time to stop our out of control selves and society. Time to get Real and heal. We need to create a movement welcoming truth back into our lives. We do not die from seeing the truth, quite the opposite we are freed up to actually live being in truth. We become unencumbered. It is time to go into our dysfunction, addiction and other issues. It is time to honor and respect our life’s journey, even what we consider wrong. Here are our lessons, what can become our wisdom if we are willing to learn from our life and our experiences. A powerful tool I have used when I have worked with people is to remind them that they are not their choices. Their Higher Self and their Soul are not the choices that they make in their lives. It is true we and the people around us can be affected by the choices that we make. It is important to hold the truth that our choices, again, do not define us. And here is the beauty of choice... we can choose at any moment to make a different choice, a choice for ourselves and for life, creating a new way. This is the path not only to our new way but the path of rectification. By making intentional choices grounded in integrity, honor, respect and regard we can own our lives, be accountable for all we have chosen and set things right. It can be very painful and uncomfortable to heal from any of these dysfunctional elements. One of the truths of healing is that we have to be willing to feel the pain and discomfort we have been avoiding, suppressing, self-medicating and distracting ourselves from. It is the Divine truth that pain is a natural state when we are healing from emotional wounds. A perfect example of this is when we are healing from a broken bone, where we understand and even expect that there will be pain and discomfort involved in this healing process. Our intention is to help people expand and remember the truth of healing, that it is not meant to be all light, fresh-scented emotions. (Karla McLaren, The Language of Emotions, 2010) Hopefully, remembering this simple reality can help you open up and embrace the pain and discomfort you have long avoided. The companion piece is our Sacred Sadness blog. Photos... pippalunacy.com
I was shown how there is a general perspective in our world regarding anger... this view goes in the direction that we should be getting out of anger pretty much completely. What I am addressing here is the standard where we should not be feeling or showing anger, and if we do have anger we should rise above it. It feels like there is an underlying belief that anger is wrong. It is just negative and wrong. Period. Especially for women. Post Script... As of 2017 Consecrated Living is so thankful and excited to see this long-standing pattern starting to be broken up. In Consecrated Living, when we are working with anger we look at the context we are dealing with. If we were to look at our planet and what is happening, it is pretty apparent there is a lot going on that is outrageous to which anger is a natural, appropriate and healthy response. ![]() Part of what heals outrageous acts, beliefs and elements is outrage and anger. A common collapsed notion around anger goes like this... If I get outraged and angry about outrageous things, then I will just descend into an angry pit and will never be productive or appropriate and will only cause division. From this collapsed understanding people fear anger and cannot feel its purposefulness and service. This is because they have locked in on anger being wrong, unproductive or inappropriate only. To a degree it makes sense that there is fear of anger, due to how some have used anger and rage inappropriately and without the needed and powerful effects for which anger is here to serve us. The collapsed assumption is... Whenever I respond from a place of anger or outrage, even though it is needed, then anger is all that I am. An angry person. Upset all the time. Cannot let things go, cannot overlook anything or rise above conflicts and problems. It is our limitation as people to think that if we have strong emotions come up around issues or problems, then we are just going to be stuck in them or be that all the time. The opposite is true. The more room we give to the truth of how we feel and what is coming up through our emotions, the more quickly and easily these feelings and emotions get processed and then dissipate. The bonus of being open to our feelings and emotions is that we can be effective, of service and purposeful in our lives in a more full, real way. This effectiveness is due to us being aligned with our emotions and our intention to act on what we feel is needed, based on the context of what is before us. ![]() Another limited perspective about anger is... If I get angry or outraged, I am now just part of the problem, I am no different than the issue I am angry about. This notion can at times be true if our intentions and actions are no different than that of who or what we are addressing. However, when anger and outrage are used with the healthy intention to create change, to stop outrageousness and to make a difference in our world, we then experience the purpose of having these emotions in our arsenal. If we look back throughout our history it has been anger and outrage that created the most effective, powerful current of change. Even if acted out in nonviolent ways, anger and outrage were still leading the cause. They were the fuel behind the change. Leaders who have been considered peaceful, like Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King Jr., and Mahatma Gandhi, first felt anger and outrage and then spoke out openly about it. These strong emotional responses gave them the clarity to see and the strength to keep going. See a current use of anger and outrage in freeing the African country of Liberia in the book, Madame President. ![]() We are humans having a Divine experience and lesson. Anger is part of our natural feeling state but it can still feel bad and overwhelming. This is especially so in a culture that is so against anyone showing up in outrage or anger, even when needed. That being said, it is understandable for our culture to have this perspective as part of the pendulum effect. For so long people have acted so extreme and unaccountable in their anger, that we are now in a counter movement trying to correct one extreme with another. This new extreme has brought us to a place of believing we should evolve out of or above expressing anger. In Consecrated Living we are here to offer some balance. Anger and outrage are a needed part of our walk here on Earth, especially while we are trying to shift the planet. With the density and insanity that is vibrating on this plane, being willing to fully feel our anger and outrage is the most powerful aspect we can be using to heal ourselves and the planet. Spirit always works with what is needed. And at this pivotal point in time anyone willing to show up in authentic anger or outrage will strengthen the current of needed transformation. Photos... pippalunacy.com & morguefile.com/Prawny
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