Embodiment: The Doorway Into Being (Class Six of Winter Session 2021)

“Breathe in deeply to bring your mind home to your body.”

- Thich Naht Han

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Dear Wise Women,

As we begin the second half of our winter session, we cross an important threshold.

We are shifting to the high frequency vibration of love. Through the power of wonder and presence we are activating our hearts to tune into this vibration. Each week for the past five weeks we have adopted a mantra or invocation to guide our awareness:

“I’m having a day of Heaven on Earth”

“I release the need to know and I open my heart to the power of  wonder”

“I am recalibrating to the vibration of the present moment”

“I see through the illusion of time and reveal the magic of this moment”

“Life lives through me”

These mantras and the energy they invoke help us to release the illusion that we are separate from Source and to realize our formless and infinite selves. Paradoxically, we cannot realize our formless nature without being in “form” (our bodies). Though we often try to escape the body with its pain and limitations, the realization of Oneness and the accompanying frequency shift can only happen through the body.

In her book, Awakening to 5D, Maureen St. Germain says that we chose to come into embodiment and experience the pain of separation so that we could fully realize Oneness. She says “We incarnate to increase that which would not be increased any other way”.

On the “path” to enlightenment it is easy to believe that the light is “out there”, or that we have to leave the body to “find” it. Many spiritual seekers spend a lifetime trying to transcend the body (and the material world) only to be disappointed when they return to the body and the material plane…which they inevitably must do. As Eckhart Tolle says “in the end you will always have to return to the body, where the essential work of transformation takes place.”

And so at this stage, half way through our session, we embrace the essential aspect of embodiment practices such as walking in nature, consciously connected breathing, qigong, yoga, and inner-body awareness (being fully present in our physical bodies). Through embodiment, we come to realize the full power of wonder and presence, and we will learn how forgiveness, compassion, gratitude, integrity and acceptance (and the embodiment of each) help us to shift to the fifth dimension and frequency of love….and to create Heaven on Earth.

“Transformation is through the body, not away from it.”

- Eckhart Tolle

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Embodiment: The Art of Inner-body Awareness

“To inhabit the body is to feel the body from within, to feel the life inside the body and thereby come to know that you are beyond the outer form. When you focus within and feel the inner body, you immediately become still and present as you are withdrawing consciousness from the mind. If a response is required, it will come up from this deeper level. Just as the sun is infinitely brighter than a candle flame, there is infinitely more intelligence in Being than in your mind.

Through the inner body, you are inseparably connected to the unmanifested One Life - birthless, deathless, eternally present. Through the inner body, you are forever one with God.”

- Eckhart Tolle, “The Power of Now”

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Qigong, an ancient practice is a powerful tool of embodiment. Through intentional breathing, movement and visualization we access the invisible body, life force energy…the “Being” that animates our physical bodies.

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Invocation:

“I am Being in a body”

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Photo taken by Wise Woman, Melanie, of her daughter.

The Hidden Treasure

Yearning to expand,

our souls chose to embody into human form.

To experience the polarities

of pain and pleasure

good and evil

dark and light.

To experience Separation

in order to increase Oneness.

We fell from the all-knowing

and woke up in human bodies.

Naked, afraid and vulnerable

forgetting where we came from and why

searching everywhere for the answer

until, finally,

we look within the most unlikely of places

THE BODY

…what better place to hide the divine?

The Power of Presence: Let Life Live Through You (class five of winter 2021 session)

"I am a hole in a flute that the Christ's breath moves through. Listen to this music.”
- Sufi poet, Hafiz

YouTube: Awakening Yoga with Bank โยคะตื่นรู้ "I AM the hole in the flute that the divine Spaciousness moves through. Listen to the music."

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“Every soul on earth is a flute! Experience carves holes in us. It does this because we are human. And just like nature is eroded over time, we have holes carved in us. This is all so the breath of spirit can breathe through them and release our song. Let the holes be carved all the way through.”

- Mark Nepo

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Dear Wise Women,

As we continue our journey together, I would like us to pause for a moment and remind ourselves of the sacredness of the work we are doing, and at the power of women’s circles.

“The fundamentals of spirituality connect us rather than separate us. When women come together and make a commitment to each other to be in a circle with a spiritual center, they are creating a vessel of healing and transformation for themselves, and vehicle for change in their world. The more circles there are, the easier others can form. At the same time, each circle adds to collective human consciousness.”
- Jean Shinoda Bolen

Wise Women, after witnessing the impact of our study over the past two weeks, I have decided to dedicate more time to the Power of Presence. This week’s teaching is inspired by what has been arising in our sharing circles, and in particular, a powerful insight from Mark Nepo that our dear wise woman Laurie brought to us:

“Presence re-establishes our worthiness”

This simple and profound statement has been an absolute game changer for me. As I wonder how presence re-establishes my worth, I am being gifted insights, ah-ha moments, and gems of awareness. The source of these gems is infinite and endless, and all we have to do to receive them is ask!

The biggest insight I have had (and the inspiration for the title of this Treasure Trove) came via a sensation rather than thought. When I allow myself to fully experience the magic of breathing, when I am present to breath and breath alone, I feel (if only for a fleeting moment) that I am completely worthy of this breath of life.

Could it be that this is how presence re-establishes our god-given birthright of worthiness? The worthiness that we lost somewhere along the way when we believed what we were told (or what we thought) and continued to do so through our mind’s incessant ability to replay and reinforce these beliefs?

Could it be that “Worthiness” is another word to describe “Oneness”? Could it be that our ability to detach from this moment, to be everywhere other than in in the Now, is what causes us to believe we are not worthy of being at One with the vibration of life?

I wonder. Will you wonder with me?

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The following passage and exercise offers a way of looking at what it means to fully honour your life in every moment. As you hear the words, feel free to substitute the word God and Jesus with whatever word resonates the deepest with you (energy, source, spirit). Remember the actual words are secondary, the essence or feeling they evoke are primary.

“We come from a very ancient, human-based, natural, biological, universally experienced understanding of God. God’s eternal mystery cannot be captured or controlled, but only received and shared as freely as the breath itself—the thing we have done since the moment we were born and will one day cease to do in this body. God is as available and accessible as our breath itself. Jesus breathes the Spirit into us as the very air of life (see John 20:22)! Our job is simply to both receive and give this life-breath. We cannot only inhale, and we cannot only exhale. We must breathe in and out, accept and let go.

- Fr. Richard Rohr

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AWAKENED DOING

Eckhart Tolle’s teachings around the principal of awakened doing align beautifully with Richard Rohr’s words and offer us practical insights on how to let live live through us, which means to align your self to the highest form of life energy in all moments, or as Hafiz so eloquently, to be the hole in a flute that Christ’s breath moves through.

“There are three ways in which consciousness can flow into what you do and thus through you into this world, three modalities in which you can align your life with the creative power of the universe. Modality means the underlying energy­ frequency that flows into what you do and connects your actions with the awakened consciousness that is emerging into this world. What you do will be dysfunctional and of the ego, unless it arises out of one of these three modalities. They may change during the course of a day, although one of them may be dominant during a certain stage in your life.

Each modality is appropriate to certain situations. The modalities of awakened doing are acceptance, enjoyment, and enthusiasm. Each one represents a certain vibrational frequency of consciousness. You need to be vigilant to make sure that one of them operates whenever you are engaged in doing anything at all–from the most simple task to the most complex. If you are not in the state of either acceptance, enjoyment, or enthusiasm, look closely and you will find that you are creating suffering for yourself and others.”

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Acceptance

“Accepting means you allow yourself to feel whatever it is you are feeling at that moment. It is part of the is­ness of the Now. You can’t argue with what is. Well, you can, but if you do, you suffer. Through allowing, you become what you are: vast, spacious. You become whole. You are not a fragment anymore, which is how the ego perceives itself. Your true nature emerges, which is one with the nature of God.

Performing an action in the state of acceptance means you are at peace while you do it. That peace is a subtle energy vibration which then flows into what you do.

If you can neither enjoy or bring acceptance to what you do – stop. Otherwise, you are not taking responsibility for the only thing you can really take responsibility for, which also happens to be one thing that really matters: your state of consciousness.”

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Enjoyment

“Joy is the dynamic aspect of Being. When the creative power of the universe becomes conscious of itself, it manifests as joy.

When you make the present moment, instead of past and future, the focal point of your life, your ability to enjoy what you do – and with it the quality of your life – increases dramatically.

Joy does not come from what you do, it flows into what you do and thus into this world from deep within you. To be more precise, what you are enjoying is not really the outward action but the inner dimension of consciousness that flows into the action. This is finding the joy of Being in what you are doing.“

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Enthusiasm

“Enthusiasm means there is deep enjoyment in what you do plus the added element of a goal or a vision that you work toward.

Through enthusiasm you enter into full alignment with the outgoing creative principle of the universe, but without identifying with its creations, that is to say, without ego.

Sustained enthusiasm brings into existence a wave of creative energy, and all you have to do then is ‘ride the wave.”

- Eckhart Tolle, “A New Earth”

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Invocation:

“Life lives through me.”

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Grace

Dear Grace,

Please walk with me today.

Please whisper divine wisdom in my ears,

Please reveal magic to my eyes,

Please touch my skin with life’s vibrant energy.

Divine Grace, I am open to unconditional love and I allow this love to:

Infuse my thoughts,

Prepare my words, and

Animate my movement.

Dear Grace, let me be a vessel

for your love to live through.

- Patti Wardlaw

The Power of Presence: Revealing the Illusion of time(class four of winter session 2021)

“The separation between past, present and future is only an illusion, although a convincing one.”
- Albert Einstein

“Everything seems to be subject to time, yet it all happens in the Now. That is the paradox. Wherever you look there is plenty of circumstantial evidence for the reality of time - yet you never find direct evidence, you never experience time itself. You only experience the present moment, or rather what happens in it.”

- Eckhart Tolle, “The Power of Now”

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Dear Wise Women,

Last week we (re)discovered how “present moment awareness” or “being present” activates a higher vibration we call “presence”.

With a spirit of wonder I asked you to feel how attunement with the vibration of presence IS the transformation of consciousness that we so desire. Paradoxically, we think of the “awakening of consciousness” as a future event when, in truth, it can only happen when humanity becomes fully present.

This makes me WONDER, and I invite you to wonder with me….

• “What if we no longer viewed awakening as a future event, but instead assumed it is happening right now?”

• “What if how we perceive time is only that, a perception?”

• “What if there was more power in presence than we could possibly imagine? What if presence, as vibrational energy, has the ability to positively influence our experience of clock time, as well as past and future events?”

As with all wonderings, these questions are valuable, not because they have specific answers, but because of the additional questions and imaginings that that they provoke. Though I will provide some pointers, I encourage you to focus more on what is possible than what is proven. For, as we have learned, it is in the wondering about what is possible that we gain access to a portal where unimagined possibilities are created!

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“Time is not what you think it is. Time is a construct. You can learn to work with time in the same way you can work with any idea. Time only serves as an aspect of consciousness that all agree on. Reality expands and contracts millions of times per second. Time is fluid. It is nested, spiraled, and convoluted in many ways. The past, present, and future are all happening and interacting simultaneously.

Each expansion and contraction allows you to change the reality of the next moment. Invite yourself to expand what you experience—shift your belief of what is possible. Shift your perception to expand to all that is holding your reality in place! Although you may not yet understand this, your actions in the present can alter past and future events. Your future events can alter the present and so on.”

- St. Germain, Maureen J.. Waking Up in 5D: A Practical Guide to Multidimensional Transformation

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The idea that the past, present and future are happening and interacting simultaneously is difficult to grasp and may even seem a little far fetched. Yet supportive theories have been and continue to be developed by physicists worldwide. I do not pretend to fully understand this, and I certainly cannot explain it at an intellectual level…yet something about it just feels true.

What feels even more true to me is that there is much more going on than we can ever understand or perceive. The following passage from Eckhart Tolle helps to understand and bring this into a practical context.

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“Usually, the future is a replica of the past. Superficial changes are possible, but real transformation is rare and depends upon whether you can become present enough to dissolve the past by accessing the power of the Now. What you perceive as future is an intrinsic part of your state of consciousness now. If your mind carries a heavy burden of past, you will experience more of the same. The past perpetuates itself through lack of presence. The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future - which, of course, can only be experienced as the Now.”

- Eckhart Tolle, “The Power of Now”

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CLOCK TIME VERSUS PSYCHOLOGICAL TIME

Eckhart Tolle suggests that “we learn to use time in the practical aspects of our lives - we may call this ‘clock time’ - but immediately return to present-moment awareness when those practical matters have been dealt with. In this way, there will be no build-up of ‘psychological time’, which is identification with the past and continuous compulsive projection into the future.”

In his book the Power of Now, which the excerpt above and below are from, Eckhart Tolle suggests that time is an illusion not from a quantum physicist’s perspective but from the very simple fact that there is never a time when your life is not “this moment.” This fact is so obvious that it might even seem meaningless, but once fully realized, it can cut like a sword through all the mind-created layers of complexity and “problems.”

Be aware of clock-time and let go of psychological time.

“If you set yourself a goal and work toward it, you are using clock time. You are aware of where you want to go, but you honour and give your fullest attention to the step that you are taking at this moment. If you then become excessively focused on the goal, perhaps because you are seeking happiness, fulfillment, or a a more complete sense of self in it, the Now is no longer honoured. It becomes reduced to a mere stepping stone to the future, with no intrinsic value. Clock time then turns into psychological time. Your life’s journey is no longer an adventure, just an obsessive need to arrive, to attain, to “make it.” You no longer see or smell the flowers by the wayside either, nor are you aware of the beauty and the miracle of life that unfolds all around you when you are present in the Now.”

NOTICE YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH CLOCK-TIME/ NOTICE HOW YOU TALK ABOUT TIME:

One of the biggest obstacles to maintaining presence is our relationship with clock time! How, after-all, do we be fully present to Now when there appears to be so much that “needs “to be done by a specific time in the future?

A clue to unravelling this conundrum may be in deconstructing our beliefs around the following commonly used expressions:

“If only I could manage my time better!”

”I ran out of time!”

”There is never enough time in a day.”

”I saved so much time today!”

”What should we do to fill the time?”

“When will I ever find the time to get finish this project.”

“Stop wasting time!”

“I’m just killing time.”

“I was robbed of time”

”Where did the time go?

“Time flies by too fast.”

Can you spot the paradoxes in each of these statements? Can you see how our perceived ability to control time is the work of our identified egos… and a recipe for endless suffering?

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YOU CAN STRETCH TIME, ADOPT THE MANTRA: “ON TIME, IN PLENTY OF TIME”

“When you believe you have plenty of time, you actually stretch time. You might say you are not stretching time; you are stretching your experience of it. In essence it is the same.”

Try this the next time you are in a rush and starting to “worry that you will be late.”

1. As you notice that your focus is on the negative possibility, on what you don’t want, change your thought to “I can arrive on time.”

2. Use your imagination—don’t look at the clock. Instead, see time compressing, expanding, and bending to serve your purposes.

3. Then, when you arrive at your destination, notice in your imagination that it was perfect timing. And don’t look at the clock afterward either! Instead know you have created divine timing.
   

   - St. Germain, Maureen J.. Waking Up in 5D: A Practical Guide to Multidimensional Transformation

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INVOCATION:

“I see through the illusion of time and reveal the magic of this moment”

Photograph taken by Katrina Campbell, follow on instagram at km_bella

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Dear “Time”

I am sorry

Please forgive me

for believing I was bigger than you,

for thinking I could

manage you,

control you,

shrink you,

waste you,

and even lose you.

I am sorry

for blaming you,

resenting you,

and feeling stressed “by” you.

Oh Time,

How misunderstood you have been,

viewed as an object and an enemy

instead of celebrated for who you really are:

a mere marker of the

endless, eternal and infinite Now.

- Patti Wardlaw

The Power of Presence (class three of winter session 2021)

Photo by wise women Katrina Campbell. You may follow Katrina on instagram at km_bella

This We Have Now

This we have now
is not imagination.

This is not
grief or joy.

Not a judging state,
or an elation,
or sadness.

Those come and go.
This is the presence that doesn't.

- Rumi

(excerpt from the translation of Rumi by Coleman Barks.)

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“The Universe is continuously emerging as a fresh creation at every moment. All point to this same, extraordinary insight. The Universe is not static, nor is its continuation assured. Instead, the Universe is like a cosmic hologram that is being continuously upheld and renewed at every instant. A universal encouragement found across the world’s wisdom traditions is to live in the ‘NOW.’ This core insight has a clear basis in physics: The present moment is the place of direct connection with the entire Universe as it arises continuously. Each moment is a fresh formation of the Universe, emerging seamlessly and flawlessly.”

The present moment is the place of direct connection with the entire Universe.

― Alexis Karpouzos, Cosmology: Philosophy & Physics

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Dear Wise Women,

Last week we explored how asking “I wonder” and “what” shifts the energy and opens a portal to additional information, information that is not retrievable from the lower dimensional vibration that is induced when we ask linear questions such as “why, how, when and where”. 

Together, we explored how fully opening our heart to wonder is akin to childbirth. How accessing a higher dimension of being requires us to lean into our resistance and discomfort and to embrace the contraction that inevitably precedes all expansion. With this analogy, I asked you to view yourself as a midwife to the birth of a higher consciousness.

Today we add presence to our midwifery bag of tools. We will discover or, more aptly, RE-discover the Power of Presence. 

I say RE-discover because I ask each of you to venture into this discovery with a sense of wonder. I invite you to approach the word “presence” as though you have never heard it before, for as we have learned this opens us up to new energies and heightens our ability to receive information that we may not have received otherwise (in Buddhism, this is referred to as cultivating a “Beginners Mind”).

Presence will be our topic for this week and next. This week we will feel into the magic of presence and next week we will explore what is possible when we open up to other ways of experiencing what we call “time”.

We begin by contemplating the subtle differences between PRESENT MOMENT AWARENESS and PRESENCE. This summation is based on my experiences and the perspective of various trusted teachers.

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Present moment awareness is something we practice.

Presence is something we become.

Present moment awareness opens the portal to a higher vibration.

Presence is the higher vibration.

Present moment awareness is the birthing process.

Presence is the creation.

When we practice being present by bringing our awareness to this moment and embracing it exactly as it is we open a portal to a higher vibration that causes the mind to harmonize with the heart - and in this moment we experience the magical creation of NOW. This IS the emergence of the higher consciousness, heaven on earth, or fifth dimensional experience we are talking about.
REMEMBERING IS THE RE-BIRTH!

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“The more you are willing to just let the world be something you’re aware of, the more it will let you be who you are — the awareness, the self, the atman, the soul.”

- Michael Singer, “The Untethered Soul”

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“Joy, abundance, and health are automatic by-products of present moment awareness. Like our Inner Presence, they are already within us. It is our attention that is elsewhere.”

— Michael Brown, “The Presence Process”

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“The foundation for a new earth is a new heaven - the awakened consciousness. The earth - external reality - is only its outer reflection. The arising of a new heaven and by implication a new earth are not future events that are going to make us free. Nothing is going to make us free because only the present moment can make us free. That realization is the awakening.”

“Awakening as a future event has no meaning because awakening is the realization of Presence. “

- Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth

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The Magic (and importance) of Dreamtime

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“Waking up is the recognition that the eternal now is all you have. Waking up in fifth dimension is different from your current form of waking up. This should be obvious, but for the sake of discussion it is useful to say so. You will find that your rest will become deeper and deeper as you become more fifth-dimensional. You may realize that you have trouble “waking up” in the morning or awakening from naps. This is real. This is a new function of waking up in fifth dimension. This is because you are going deeper, connecting with other versions of you, and waking up your inner awareness of who you really are!

Certain alignments take place in the dreamtime that are essential to our ever-present now. Help yourself by choosing to slow down the wake-up process: allow your body to drift slowly into awareness from the dreamtime in order to bring your most evolved essence back into your body. This is your opportunity to maximize higher dimensional energies. Your physical rest is your time away from the body. You also may be bringing in a better version of the body you have.

One of the most important circumstances that keeps you out of fifth dimension is not getting enough sleep. In fact you may need much more sleep than you may think is necessary. Longer sleep times take you deeper and deeper into your fifth dimensional expression. This is because during these deeper rest periods you are able to recalibrate with your higher vibrational self which allows you to maintain your fifth dimensional self while waking.”

St. Germain, Maureen J.. Waking Up in 5D: A Practical Guide to Multidimensional Transformation

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INVOCATION:

“I am recalibrating to the vibration of the present moment”

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“In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmanifested life that animates your physical form. You can then feel the same life deep within every other human and every other creature. You look beyond the veil of form and separation.

This is the realization of oneness. This is love.”

- Eckhart Tolle, “The Power of Now”

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The Embrace of Presence

Like a warm blanket

allow presence to wrap you up,

comfort you,

and hold you.

There is nothing to do

but to allow.

For the embrace of presence

awaits you

like a mother waiting to hold her newborn child.

All you must do is open up

enough 

to receive.

- Patti Wardlaw

The Power of Wonder (class two of winter session 2021)

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“To me it is enough to wonder at the secrets.”

- Albert Einstein

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“Whoever is devoid of the capacity to wonder, whoever remains unmoved, whoever cannot contemplate or know the deep shudder of the soul in enchantment, might just as well be dead for he has already closed his eyes upon life.”

- Albert Einstein

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Dear Wise Women,

Last week I invited you to feel into the immense opportunity presented to us. I asked you to consider and open up to the possibility that powerful forces are aligning for there to be a major shift in human consciousness - a paradigm shift from the low vibration energy of fear to the high vibration energy of love.

With the understanding that a “new heaven’”is the emergence of a transformed state of human consciousness, and “a new earth” is its reflection in the physical realm”, I invited you to begin each day by stating the following mantra: “I’m asking for a day of heaven on earth for myself and everyone I come in contact with”, or more simply the affirmation of “I’m having a day of heaven on earth”

The realization of heaven on earth or higher dimensional living means, amongst many things, an end to extreme polarities and to a balanced embodiment of divine masculine and divine feminine in all beings. As we move towards this new vibration, we are seeing an increase in the flare-up of polarities, both in the outer world and within our inner experiences. This is to be expected - for nothing is birthed without labour pains.

The challenge is this: Can we greet each painful contraction with fierce love and openness? As we know, a mother who closes in on the pain of labour will have a very difficult delivery. And so we must ask ourselves, how can we support the birthing process, both for ourselves, each other and for mother earth herself?

I invite you to see yourself as a midwife to this great birth…to be patient, calm, resolute, focused and aware of what is needed and when. Let us answer this call and begin our work! Each week we will add another tool to our midwifery bag. Many of these tools will be familiar to you, and together, we will re-explore their power!

We begin our journey by exploring the vehicle of WONDER!

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REPLACE “WHY” WITH “WONDER”

“I wonder” is infused with love, inclusion and abundance.

“Why” implies fear, exclusion and scarcity.

“I wonder” activates curiosity, non-linear thinking and healthy discernment.

“Why” activates judgement, linear thinking and limited possibilities.

“I wonder” opens the heart.

“Why” closes the heart.

When we say “I wonder what is going on?” we open up the door to new possibilities and activate a shift to higher dimensions.

When we say “Why me?” or “Why is this happening?” we close the door and lock ourselves and others into the lower dimensions of victim and victor, polarity and duality.

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Use the power of wonder to transform your questions…and watch what happens!!

“Get in the habit of noticing your questions. Do you ask so that you can assess a situation or compartmentalize it (such as as good or bad)? This is using your mind (mental body) alone. Once you decode whether something is good or bad, then you are compartmentalizing. This keeps you in third dimension. In fifth dimension, nothing is either good or bad.

The questions based on “Who? When? Where? and Why?” are guaranteed to keep you in polarity. They do this by gathering information that allows you to compartmentalize the answer and solve it with your ego. Only the “What?” or “Wonder?” questions are open ended enough for you to get all the information. Understanding this guides you to ask certain kinds of questions in particular ways that don’t reflect polarity. For example, instead of asking, “Why did this happen?” or “Who did this?” or “When did this happen?” you can ask “What’s going on?”

Amazingly, when you pay attention to how you ask you may discover a whole lot more information that was just waiting to enter your consciousness! When you use your heart to decide, you are honouring both your mind and your emotions. This allows you to validate your observations and choose wisely!”

- Maureen J St. Germain, “Waking Up in 5D: A Practical Guide to Multidimensional Transformation”

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CHANGE YOUR QUESTIONS AND CHANGE THE VIBRATION OF THE MOMENT

Begin to notice every time you say “Who? When? Where? and Why?”

Make it a habit to catch yourself saying these words and to pause and notice your energy and your heart in that moment - does it feel open or closed?

Notice when others use these words and notice the language that follows, become adept at spotting polarizing language and judgements. Try responding with “Yes, I wonder what is really going on?”, or “Hmmm that makes me wonder”. Then notice the shift in energy that occurs. Feel it with your heart and try your best to not analyze with your mind. Every time you do this you are upping the frequency of your heart’s vibration and transmitting this frequency to those around you.

Obviously, you and others will still need to use these words for basic logistical communication and you will spot the difference when used in this way (it will just feel neutral).

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“Spirituality is a wonderment with the experience of being.”

- Adyashanti

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Begin to Wonder at Absolutely Everything!

I took this photo a few days ago. Like many photos taken in the sunlight it has a patch of light in it. Years ago, I was told that these patches of light were “orbs” or messengers from the spirit world. Later on, I learned that they were simply specks of dust reflecting the light (known as backscatter in photography jargon) and I stopped feeling any excitement when they showed up in my photos.

Lately, I’ve decided not to ask “WHY” it is there here, but instead I simply “WONDER” about it. And guess what? Every time I do this an image appears within the light. I am mindful not to explain the appearance of the image away with logic. I just allow myself to feel the magic of what appears, and, in doing so, I feel a shift in my energy. It’s not about forming a new belief, it’s about opening up to the mystery. Its about being playful, curious and full of wonder… and it feels amazing!

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INVOCATION:

“I release the need to know and I open my heart to the power of wonder”

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“Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.”

- Eckhart Tolle

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Wonder

Have you ever gazed up at the starry sky

and felt your body disappear?

Swept up by the mystery

the magnitude

the magic.

If so, how long were you able to stay in that sensation?

Was it just for a mere moment?

Or did it feel like a millennium?

Did your mind run interference and explain away what you were seeing

and bring you “back to earth”?

Or did your heart explode into the vastness

and take you into an experience of timelessness,

to a realm where there is no “you” and no “stars”… there just is?

The first is a response to asking:

“why are there stars”?

The second is a response to asking:

“I wonder what I am seeing”?

- Patti Wardlaw

The New Earth is not a place: it is a Vibration we are Becoming (class one of winter session 2021)

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field.
I’ll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase “each other”
doesn’t make any sense.
The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.
Don’t go back to sleep.
You must ask for what you really want.
Don’t go back to sleep.
People are going back and forth across the doorsill
where the two worlds touch.
The door is round and open.
Don’t go back to sleep.”

- Rumi (middle verse from “A Great Wagon”

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“AWAKENING TO OUR TRUE NATURE: Attuning to the Frequency of Oneness”

Both scientists and mystics agree that there is far more going on dimensionally than we can sense and feel with our senses. Many believe that we are currently experiencing a new era in human evolution. This “new era” is known by many different names; some call it the “New Earth”, others refer to it as the “Fifth Dimension”, astrologists understand it as the “Age of Aquarius”, some call it the creation of “Heaven on Earth”, and others simply refer to it as the realization of “Oneness.”

All seem to agree that this new earth/new age/new era is NOT a place we are going to, but is a VIBRATION we are BECOMING! It is a shift from the low frequency vibration of FEAR to the high frequency vibration of LOVE… a vibration that opens up the portal to new possibilities and new ways of being, a vibration that creates solutions to the problems of humanity…solutions we can’t yet imagine!

If this resonates as true to you, chances are that you came to Earth to be part of the solution. In fact, I’ll go so far as to say that you (and we) were made for this time!

In our twelve week session and beyond we will we will explore and embody the potentiality of the unique times that we are living in, deepen our understanding of how WONDER, PRESENCE, FORGIVENESS, INTEGRITY, COMPASSION, ACCEPTANCE and GRATITUDE increase our vibratory rate, and open the portal to the new earth and how our HIGHER SELVES and GUIDES are available to help guide us (all we have to do is ask) .

Through qigong and meditation we will experience the invocation of Divine Light and the embodiment of heaven here on earth, in our physical bodies.

We will not be holding back on realizing our truest and highest selves and, as always, we will do so in a safe, practical, warm-hearted and supportive container...a container that will allow each of us to flourish and affect meaningful change in the world!

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A New Heaven and a New Earth

“The inspiration for the title of this book came from a Bible prophecy that seems more applicable now than at any other time in human history. It occurs in both the Old and the New Testament and speaks of the collapse of the existing world order and the arising of a “new heaven and a new earth.” We need to understand here that heaven is not a location but refers to the inner realm of consciousness. This is the esoteric meaning of the word, and this is also its meaning in the teachings of Jesus. Earth, on the other hand, is the outer manifestation in form, which is always a reflection of the inner. Collective human consciousness and life on our planet are intrinsically connected. “A new heaven” is the emergence of a transformed state of human consciousness, and “a new earth” is its reflection in the physical realm.

-Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth, 2005

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Ascension and the Five Dimensions

At this point in human history, everyone is getting the wake-up call. For some, they are magnetically drawn to challenge what they valued, along with their current choices. This spiritual awakening is part of the Great Shift that has been predicted for ages. It began with the so-called end of the Mayan calendar. Many teachers are calling it Ascension. It’s not the end of the line but a shift so great that it might seem to be. It is actually the beginning of amazing, powerful energy and frequencies that unhook us from our past patterns and make it easy for us to transform. Many of us have been waiting a long time for this! This big shift is the transformation of an age.

St. Germain, Maureen J.. Waking Up in 5D: A Practical Guide to Multidimensional Transformation (p. 48).

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The Dawn of a New Era

On December 21, 2020 at the time of the winter solstice, a new era dawned with the closest planetary conjunction in the sign of Air in 800 years (Jupiter and Saturn are only 6 minutes apart). Each time this conjunction changes elements – what qualities society structures itself around and how it learns from them changes according to the element.

While this conjunction took place in Earth signs, our quality and curriculum was of the earth element: we learned stability, self-reliance, security, discipline and to function in the material world. We entered the Age of Industrialization which changed the nature of work, labour and economics. Let us take a moment to be grateful for the lessons and gifts of the Earth element: embodiment, mastery of creating stability, incremental growth and relative prosperity and security for many but not all. The shadow aspects of the earth element include abdicating our power to authorities, preoccupation with security, warring for territory, warring to enforce particular value systems on others, greed at the expense of others, dictatorships, authoritarianism, materialism, exclusiveness and the exploitation of our planet to meet our unquenchable desires has also brought many lessons and opportunities for transformation.

Can we step now through the eye of the needle into a broader life expression? Can we insist that all of our brothers and sisters are welcome to accompany us? Can we shake off control and fear and step into freedom, sovereignty, humanitarianism and vision? The new era of Air which this conjunction represents these qualities and more – innovation, energy healing, communication, technology, the science of energy, frequency, and vibration.

- Ariel Learoyd, Astrologist and Wholistic Counsellor

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In these times that are very tough for so many with lockdowns, extreme financial hardship and mental stress, our overriding instinct has to be kindness. With everything that comes in as a challenge to your world, step back and ask: 'WHAT WOULD LOVE DO?' before you respond.

Yes, in 2021 we have a wild ride ahead of us, often chaotic and unpredictable. But as more of us wake up, and we will, the momentum will shift even faster towards the New Earth. Some people are already there as this is not a change in place, it's a change in frequency which we can access at any moment. The way to do that is through kindness, compassion, joy and unconditional love. So live in your heart, and beam out peace to the world, especially when events are so heated. The more we can feel love, joy and peace in our hearts the more we develop 'heart coherence' which is measurable, and expands our electro-magnetic field.

- Pam Gregory, Astrologist

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CREATING HEAVEN ON EARTH

Photo taken in Calgary, Alberta by wise woman, Katrina Campbell

You are the container, and consciousness bubbles up from within you. You can have a narrow pipe or a giant-sized one. It’s up to you. You can open it with your will, your intention. You can also close it with your fear, judgment, rage, disappointment, and other negative emotions. Early in my spiritual work, I was shown how to ask for “a day of Heaven on Earth.” You can too. Start with that. Make every day a good one by using a simple prayer: I’m asking for a day of Heaven on Earth for me and everyone I come in contact with.

St. Germain, Maureen J.. Waking Up in 5D: A Practical Guide to Multidimensional Transformation

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INVOCATION:
(practice saying this every morning, before you get out of bed and several times throughout the day)

”I’m having a day of Heaven on Earth”

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The Circle of Presence

The circle of presence is a sacred space for speaking, listening and connecting. In our circle, we pass a heart shaped stone to represent our shared desire to open our hearts. Whoever is holding the stone is free to speak or remain silent while receiving full and unconditional presence of all other participants. The subtle energy created from using this respectful approach provides a sense of communion and interconnectedness.

• The person holding the stone has the opportunity to freely express in any way that is comfortable. She is safe to say whatever is in her heart.

• The person with the stone receives full attention from everyone in the circle. Listeners make every effort to listen attentively without forming judgements or comparisons (to listen to what is being said without relating it back to one’s own experience is one of the most divine gifts one can give to another). 

• After all have had a chance to share, participants will have another opportunity to speak by asking to hold the stone.

• Participants refrain from making comments or offering advice about what someone else has shared (positive relation to what someone else has spoken is welcome). 

• When passing the stone, visualize it as pure and clean and pass it on.

• As the facilitator, Patti may further relate or expand on what has been shared through her teachings. When the sharing circle is complete, participants may freely ask Patti questions about the teachings (holding the stone is not required during this interactive period).

•  The personal nature of what is shared is confidential to the circle. 

• Connection and communication outside of the sharing circle (during tea time before and after class) is welcome. Please be mindful and respectful that some participants may not not wish to further discuss what they shared in the circle.

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Dreaming

Could it be?

Could this be the time we have been waiting for?

That we were born for?

A time of transformation

and new possibilities?

The beginning of the end of

war

hatred

violence

winning

and losing?

Could it really be?

Or am I just a dreamer?

Dreaming that the shift is real,

that the veils are thinning,

that a new Way is possible.

Maybe so, but think I’ll keep on dreaming…

what if dreaming is what makes it real?

Will you dream with me?

- Patti Wardlaw