Mystic Moons

Bad days

2010-04-18T21:51:00.000-07:00

No matter how optimistic and "faithful" I become I still have these days where I have no desire in anything or anyone. I lack the motivation to achieve anything and in general I have this absolutely horrid attitude! Today would be one of those days. I hadn't realized how long it's been since I have written here and even as I sit here typing I am trying to avoid this feeling of deleting everything and doing something else. Even though these are annoying times I do believe that they are nesessary. Nessesary for what, I don't know but i have noticed in the past this is like a low phase and it is usually followed by a more balanced time and a more optimistic view. When your in it though it feels like that clearing will never come. Oh boy do I get annoyed with things too, like right now I cannot get the spelling right on a word and can't find the damn spell checker on this compose box! Earlier I was trying to take photos for my shop. I've been working on photos for days and trying to bond with this new camera and I cannot seem to take 5 photos without at least 2 being blurry!!! I think times like these it's important to just do nothing but will I do it? hell no! I'm not wired that way. If I'm doing nothing I am still thinking of everything I should be doing.

Empowerment

2009-12-28T10:45:00.000-08:00

There is a way of thinking that I have always found interesting and though I'm not sure how "valid" it is or rooted in reality but I do find that it helps me to deal with things that happen in my life in a more balanced and mature manner. The thought is "we as spiritual beings are responsible for all experiences in our life." Meaning we are the creators of our life from the very beginning. Actually before the beginning. We are co-creators in the events and path of our life. We choose our experience's as a way for our soul to reach our chosen path.

When we look at life this way all blame stops. There is no one to blame except ourselves and in a way it brings a sense of calmness and peace that I haven't felt before. Blame, no matter who we are blaming, other people or god or authorities makes us feel like a victim. The simple act of blaming brings on this feeling even if there is no validity to the accusation.

When we take total responsibility for whatever is happening to us we remove that victim quality and move into a place of empowerment. We take responsibility for what is happening to us and are able to make decisions based on how we would like the experience to be. It's really an amazing place to be and even if it is all a bunch of crap, it makes the experiences of life bareable.

Yoga Today

2009-12-18T20:49:00.000-08:00

The last couple years have been really difficult and I know, logically, that yoga really helps with these difficult times but for some reason I haven't been able to push my body and my motivation has been really low. Lately I've managed to snap myself out of that place and have been practicing two times a day.

I am once again shocked at how my body is responding. I am feeling poses in ways I haven't felt before, my energy has come up and though my body is sore I am sleeping really deeply. My breathe has become deeper and stronger and I have slipped deeper into poses than I have ever gone before with ease.

Yoga is all about challenging yourself and going deeper and farther. Your instructor isn't going to notice (not always anyway) if your pushing into your poses or if your just going through the motions. If your going to class once a week and faking your way through the poses your really not going to get much benefit from the practice and will probably quit without ever knowing the true beauty of the relationship you develop with your own body.

I love the practice of yoga and cannot think of anything i would rather do which I think is a key to working out, find something you love doing and stick with it.

Trust

2009-09-17T19:53:00.000-07:00

I've been thinking about trust lately and have had a few conversations on the topic. It seems to be a theme in my life right now, again. I learned some time ago that trust, like most things, starts within oneself. It is very easy to learn not to trust yourself. Every time you make a promise to yourself and you don't follow through you are losing trust in yourself. If you make a decision to work out beginning on "x" day and "x" day comes and you don't follow through your trust in your self and your confidence deteriorates. When you make a commitment to yourself to stop smoking and you don't do it or you restart, your losing trust in yourself.

On a bigger scale and where trust becomes a more serious issue is in personal relationships. When we cheat on a partner we become all too aware of how easy it is to deceive people and we think "If I'm doing it then everyone else must be doing it too!" I was watching a television show today, can't recall what it was but there was a man who had been repeatedly beating up his wife and daughter in fits of rage. His reasoning was that he was told by other people that she was doing drugs and cheating on him. She was a very pretty girl and just from looking at her you could tell this probably wasn't true. He had asked her many times and she always denied it. He was convinced that everyone was right and his wife was lying to him. Why? Well, lie detectors were given to both people. She was asked about potential drug use and having affairs to which all she replied "no". The test results were conclusive that she was NOT lying. Then it was the husband's turn, he was asked about having sex with any other women besides his wife since they have been together and asked about repeated sexual encounters to which he replied "no". Test results? He was lying.

This isn't suprising really. Many people who cheat on their spouses believe that the spouse is cheating on them. Why? Because they know how easily it comes for them and assume that all people must be like they are. Cheaters will often accuse the spouse of things they themselves are doing. It's called a mirror effect where we project our own images onto the people around us. Some relationships have this effect more than others. I think when it comes to do things that we know are hurtful or wrong we project even more to ease our own suffering of that kind of person we have become.

The universal law of resonance says, when you can trust yourself you naturally draw trustworthy people to you. If you cannot trust yourself then you will naturally draw untrustworthy people to you. It's pretty simple.

I think when you first meet someone it is natural to be somewhat cautious of them. For me trust builds with time, the longer I know someone and see their character the more trust and faith I will put in this person. If they show me that they cannot be trusted then naturally my trust diminishes. I also don't expect people to trust me right away either. I know in time they will and that it is a process.

I have also found that when trust is an issue in your life and you cannot decide whether to trust them or not (assuming they have given you no reason not to) you have to make a conscious decision to trust or not to. Make a commitment to trust, even if you get hurt or make a decision not to and move on, either way it is your choice. Once you make the decision to trust and stay with it your trust will start to grow and you will realize you really don't have to "worry" about trusting just decide to.

Tell me your thoughts on trust, are you trusting right up front or does it take you some time to trust? Have you experienced someone who was mistrusting of you and you found out later that the reason was because they weren't being honest with you?

IS Freedom Possible?

2009-09-11T19:50:00.000-07:00

A friend of mine had posted something about freedom on his blog and after I read it have been thinking a lot about the topic. My response to the post was that freedom is an illusion and upon thinking more about it I have confirmed my thoughts of illusion. In order to be really free a person would have to have no attachments at all. No electricity, no house, no possessions, no family etc. Each little attachment we have chips away at our freedom. I think we humans also have a tendency to impose restrictions to our freedom where there are none. Tell me your thoughts, please, I would love to hear them.

Juicer Experience

2009-07-25T13:01:00.000-07:00

So, I have been through a lot in the last couple years and my body is starting to feel it. Sluggish, lazy, gained a bit more weight etc etc. My mom dying from heart disease has also made me think a bit more about my own health. I decided to kick my addiction to unhealthy carbs and I acquired a Jack La Lanne's juicing machine recently and decided to give it a try.

Before I go to far, for those who don't know who Jack La Lanne is here is his web site ttp://www.jacklalanne.com/

Here is a picture of Jack and his wife (Jack is now 94 years old)

I think this man is AWESOME and look how amazing he looks today!!

Yesterday my friend Ashley came over and we were talking about the juicer and she says (cause she is an amazingly smart and talented woman) What about the fiber? I didn't have an answer and I still don't so once I research it a bit more I will update everyone on that. After having this conversation with Ashley I decided to do a pictorial of my very first experience with juicing.

I get the machine ready and I get out the veggies I bought yesterday in preparation of my new juicing routine. Now understand I don't know how to work this machine (how hard could it be, right?) and of course I have not read the directions. I am excited about this process and cant wait to get it going. Oh right, I need a cup so that the juice doesn't end up on the counter! Glass is too tall, have no idea how much liquid to expect from this process and think a large mug should work well. Yeah I know my kitchen looks nothing like Martha Stewart's (sorry)

I'm all set! I turn on the machine and get my veggies out and start feeding them into the hole where I "think" they go. I actually did get this part right. I put in a cucumber and wow it eats it right up. Excited I grab a couple carrots. Already I am in LOVE with the fact that I don't have to cut or peel or slice anything!

After the 2 carrots and one cucumber I realize there is something coming out from behind the machine. Yep you guess it, the FIBER and tons of it. All over the wall, back splash, counter and my tea basket (not shown here) Well I guess that kinda answers the "what about the fiber" question. I get a bag and place it over the out hole so the fiber doesn't go all over the counter again. After cleaning up I am ready to move forward! I get an apple and cut the core out (yep got to cut the core out of the apples, damn!) and I add about 5 sticks of celery to it. Every time I put a veggie in juice comes out and my cup just keeps filling up. I have to admit I was amazed at how much juice is in even the driest of veggie.

In the end this is what came out of this juicing experience. A VERY full cup (cup is more like a soup bowl size) of veggie juice! I was a little nervous about tasting it but I had gotten this far i couldn't go back. One sip .......... and .... hmmmmm.... wow ....... hey that's pretty good! WOW I like this stuff! and Jack was right, one mug full and I have ingested 2 carrots, 1 cucumber,and apple and 4 stick of celery. I would NEVER eat that in a day unless I was eating a salad with a nice big glob of ranch dressing on top and an apple as a snack at some point in the day.

The one question still remains (aside from the fact that we now know WHERE the fiber is) what do you do with the fiber?

To be continued!! Anyone have experience with a juicer? Do you juice? Have you noticed any changes? Have any amazing stories to tell about how juicing has helped you or cured some aweful disease? please share!!

Affirmations for another!

2009-03-04T09:30:00.000-08:00

I have recently been using an affirmation that I wanted to share with everyone. Many people are struggling and having a difficult time and at times we feel powerless to help. This affirmation has worked REALLY well for me with almost instant results. I typically use it in the morning, think of a person who is struggling and say their name in the affirmation and by afternoon they will come back to me with good news! Coincidence? NO WAY!

I bless you (name here) with God's almighty good. God's good is now gaining control and all is well!!

Protection Practice

2009-02-19T20:18:00.000-08:00

I have personally never been very good with protection practice. I know how to do them and I know the need for them but I tend to "forget" that is until something happens and my awareness opens up to the fact that I'm walking around feeling other peoples energy instead of my own. Energy is amazing and vast. We feel it everywhere and when working with different forms of energy we become more and more aware at how intense these energies can get without our awareness!

Have you ever been in a really good mood most of the day then you run into someone who has been in a bad mood and through the simple observation of this person and by being maybe feet away you find your mood has shifted?
Maybe you had a terrible day and the reverse happens. You meet someone so happy and "up" that you feel great when you have left them and forgot all about what got you in a bad mood in the first place. Maybe your very hyper one day and you go to work and a co worker is in a more mellow mood and you notice that your body and mind start to slow down over time in their presence. Maybe you entered a room and felt GREAT then suddenly developed a horrible lower back pain or a headache for a completely unknown reason.

In all these cases we can rationalize that we "feel" that way because this person did this or they did that, and it changed our mood or in the physical sense we might be "coming down with something" Tuning into energy and whats happening around you can give you more clues to whats really going on. Often these things are happening because we are picking up energy from others.

Now this is not to say that we should blame others for how we feel, not at all.
It's that we are much more sensitive to others than we ever realized.
We are all energy and all our energy shifts and moves and at times or rather most of the time does effect those we come into contact with. In fact it does'nt even take contact for this to happen. Spiritual and Earth energies are also all around us. If you live by the concept that we are all one then your awareness has to be that it doesnt take physical contact with someone to "feel" something.

The best and most fun form of protection I have done is using a bubble.
This method was taught to me by a medium (I wish I knew his name but i don't) and has helped me over the years. When your doing your normal daily routine imagine in your mind a BIG bubble. Like the kind you used to make when you were a kid with the bubble maker only ALOT larger, large enough for you to enter and move around in, about 3 feet from your physical body on all sides. Make it any color you wish and add a door to it. Make it see through with color though, you don't want to be living in the dark! Now open the door and walk into it. Say a prayer and ask that this space and anything in it be protected. Decorate it how you wish, hang pictures on the walls (it wont pop) and fill it with a nice scent.

When you have completed your design you now have a space that you can enter at anytime that is safe and protected. When you feel a need to protect yourself enter your bubble. When you want protection for your car make it bigger and ask that you, your car and your passengers are protected. Place one big enough to cover your home and yard and bless this area as protected. Make bubbles for your pets to keep them safe and for fun teach your kids to make bubbles too!

The mental bubbles of protection :)

Manifesting

2009-02-19T20:17:00.000-08:00

I REALLY want to stress the importance of thinking POSITIVE right now. At the time of the Harmonic Concordance ( Nov 8th ) many were speaking of ( and I was feeling ) the absolute "need" to change our thinking. The veil is thinner now and for some time we have been being cleared of our fears. MANY ( incredible amounts of people ) worked through years of healing mind and emotions of past issues. Now we are ready to start helping others who have not been on this path to further their power. You may start to notice that more and more people are interested in the power of the mind, success orientation, happiness, peace of mind, happy and content relationships and healthy bodies. More and more are turning to alternative ways to heal mind, body and spirit.

NOW is without a doubt the time to stop the insanity! Stop thinking about fear based things. Stop manifesting all that unwanted crap in your life. Have faith in an abundant universe! Get up and get moving! Do something, anything that starts something new in your life. Don't think "what ifs'"! Positive affirmations are a definite these days, write them down, read books that have them in them ( one I HIGHLY recommend is Dynamic Laws of Prosperity by Charlotte Ponder ) Get cards that help you to think positive and stay positive! DO whatever is necessary to stay on a positive track. If there are people in your life who are too negative, stay away from them for long periods of time. Be who you are and don't allow someone else's patterns to interfere with your own work. Don't dismiss the person from your life unless you feel it is necessary, because you could be the "shining star" they need! Say "NO" to forms of negativity such as news that relentlessly talks of "gloom and doom" and books that increase negativity. You can delete influences from your environment and I recommend doing just that because fighting our own built up negativity is hard enough without being subjected to it by outside influences. It's much like a drinker who has quit, going to the bar after work wouldn't be the wisest thing to do for them to stay on the path they have chosen, negativity is no different!

When you catch yourself thinking bad things, think "cancel, cancel cancel" then think of what you desire to be true. Maybe say an affirmation asking for universal help in staying positive in your thoughts. Whatever works for you to stay on the positive and to live your dreams in divine abundance is what's called for now!

Dream Dejavu

2009-02-19T20:15:00.002-08:00

Every so often I go through this weird mind thing that I term "Dream Dejavu" It's a period of time when my mind seems to recall countless dreams over and over. Dreams that I had forgotten about. Now the way this comes about is during my daily activities my mind will suddenly flash on some dream and connect it to the events happening before me. I have noticed over the years that it happens about once a year, where for days on end I seem to be walking around with flashes of dreams coming forth as if the flashes are telling me I've been here before or seen this before, either in reality or in a dream. It's different from Dejavu in the respect that I recall its a dream I had. In normal dejavu I dont recall where the memory came from only that I knew what was long before it was. I'm in this space now and looking for the meaning.

Letting Go

2009-02-19T20:15:00.001-08:00

Wow finally an opening. All the years of thinking about or wondering what letting go was and knowing I wasn't achieving it, I have finally gotten it! Very simply letting go is being content and at peace with where you are, what your doing, and how your being every second of the day. When your not in a state of peace and acceptance your striving for something, looking for something, trying to obtain something. Letting go is just "being". If your washing the dishes just enjoy what your doing, if your working on your job, just enjoy what your doing, if your single just enjoy your solitude, if your in a relationship enjoy having someone there. It all about going inside and being ok with what is in the moment and nothing more. It's not a thought or a feeling and it definitely takes some time to get there and some energy to stay there or check yourself when your not there. I have also realized that not letting go is connected to lack thinking and poverty consciousness also, because if you aren't in a state of acceptance of what is your feeling as though you lack something and your always working towards that which you desire... and naturally as your working towards what you desire your constantly reminded of what it is you lack or think you lack.

Making Decisions

2009-02-19T20:14:00.001-08:00

Making decisions has always been a little difficult for me personally. I think I have come to a place where when you feel a need to make a decision but aren't sure if your making the right one you should delay the decision till you just know in your heart it is right. This seems to keep regret from forming. If it isn't a definite yes then consider it a no. Key for making decisions "IF it isn't s definite yes, it's a no"

Messages

2009-02-19T19:42:00.000-08:00

Messages from the Universe are happening all the time. Whether we are aware of them or not. Paying attention to messages tends to increase them and helps to make our intuitive abilities stronger. Meditation helps a lot in this area, being in touch with your inner guide, being calm and centered so that you can receive them.

Sometimes we get so dependent on help from others around us that we don't see the messages coming from the source. I've noticed at times like this I feel a very deep sense of confusion within. I feel this same sense of confusion when my inner guides are telling me something isn't right. Ironic I would feel the same about both issues, connected but not.
Messages come in a lot of different ways. I think many people have an impression that the messages will be the same as normal human conversation, but there is nothing "normal" feeling about receiving messages and you know when you have made contact, there isn't a doubt in your mind of what to do.

Thoughts I think are the most misunderstood of all messages. We automatically assume that what we are thinking is coming from our own minds and has no connection to anything what so ever. Most of us do anyway. I cannot tell you how many times I have heard people say "yes but those are just thoughts IM having and don't mean anything" The truth is they mean a lot!

There is a difference between "thoughts" and "guide contact" the difference is hard to tell when it rattling around in your head however something that keeps coming up in your thoughts over and over and over because you have ignored the message is guide contact. Thoughts that are fear based and negative are typically your OWN thoughts unless you have mastered the art of being totally positive 100% of the time or have acquired some interesting entity that wants to play with you.

Universal, God, Guides contact is always positive and loving and pushes you in a direction that's good for you or another not something that will be negative or hurt others.

Messages will come also from your surroundings such as something that is said on a TV show your watching or a song that keeps coming up on the radio, or maybe you hear someone say something that hits you a specific way, and when it does you just know you are being given guidance! The person speaking could be totally unaware they have given you a message!
Take a day and a little note book and vow to "pay attention" to all that happens around you. Write down inspirations, thoughts and things people said to you have during the day and at the end of the day review them and see if there is a pattern to it. Nagging thoughts are almost ALWAYS a push from the Universe for you to do something, don't ignore them cause they will continue until you follow the thought and they might well be a key to something you were looking for but thought was unrelated to anything in your life!

Dreams usually offer some really big clues to messages and guidance especially if your among the "totally oblivious s to any messages during waking hours" types! When you've a dream, get up and write it down! Don't think you will recall it when you get up in the morning cause most often you won't. Make a journal of your dreams and get a good book that will help you determine possible meanings for the symbols. Remember that 95% of the time people in our dreams are aspects of ourselves (most often ones we don't admit to or even realize we have) and NOT about the other person!

There are without doubt two sides to life, reality is easy we have been doing it most of our lives but getting in touch with the other side (whatever you choose to call it) will change your life forever and give you a much greater sense of confidence and optimism in your life. Fear will start to go away little by little and we can literally get to a place power within. It's worth it to find out what's out there and listen, give it everything you have got if this interests you :) you won't regret it!

Thoughts on Karma

2009-02-19T19:40:00.000-08:00

Many years now, in fact pretty much my whole life the concept of karma has intrigued me. I remember in my youth thinking karma was "bad" although I couldn't define why or how. For that matter I couldn't even define the definition of bad with any clarity and I'm not sure I can to this day. At that point in my life, teens and early 20's karma was something you "got" for doing something bad to another person. An eye for an eye, was the only explanation of karma I knew and to me that meant "do something bad and something bad will happen to you" I'm not sure I totally believed it though cause there were times I would do things that could be defined as "bad" and the thought of karma didn't stop me from doing them it only allowed me to place huge amounts of guilt and fear on myself after the fact!

Eventually my imput expanded and I started to learn new phrases such as " what you put out, you get back" NOW this was thrilling to me because for the first time there was the possibility of a "positive" attached to the word karma... put out good, get back good! woo hooo a new view!
A bit on down the road I read (against my will) Conversations with God. I bought the book with the intention of reading it, read the first page thought "Oh my this person needs help" and placed it on a shelf where it sat for roughly a year until I picked it up again and started to read farther. (I have now realized that when I feel this kind of resistance to anything, it is definitely something I need to dive head first into! Now this book was not necessarily about karma but it "connected alot of dots" for me in regards to karma.

My view of karma now is much different and I really went all the way around the barrel to get to where I am now on the subject. Even as I was going around the barrel to get here I stumbled over a couple rocks turned around and tried to go back the other way and finally found a clear path. My view of karma now has affected my life in amazing ways, including empowering me even more with a sense of my own inner strength.

When I started putting it all together, karma became clear. It wasn't some sentence we got from God, it wasn't some unexplainable universal law that controlled karma, it wasn't someone's voodoo being placed upon anyone. In fact it was, like most everything in life, so much more simple than that.
It was or is ......... our own mind!

Our perception of our deeds and our judgment of ourselves have very powerful effects. When "we" believe we have done something "bad" to someone "we" create an energy that needs to be cleared. We do it everyday without realizing it. Maybe we said something to someone we felt needed to be said but regretted saying it soon afterwards. Maybe we cut someone off in traffic cause we were in a hurry, maybe we decided that the person we were seeing wasn't meeting our needs and started to venture off without being upfront and telling the person we didn't want to see them anymore. Whatever the cause the effect is the same, we feel bad and we feel a need to be punished.

Who does the punishing? We do! We set up situations that will clear this and if we are unable to clear it we will hold it till we die and beyond that and if we feel particularly bad about such an action we will literally live lifetimes trying to make it right.

The nice thing about all this is that it kinda puts a light on peoples natural desire to not hurt others and to do "right". People in general are good hearted even if we at times do things that go against the grain.
Just for the record my use of the words "bad" "good" "right" and "wrong" are general terms only. In reality there is no right or wrong or good and bad there is only what is right and wrong or good and bad "for YOU". This is where judging comes in and where karma begins.

When we judge our own actions we are not being true to ourselves. When we judge we are not loving ourselves, when we judge we create karma.
It's kinda sad really when you see so many people who have been hurt be able to let go and forgive another person who has hurt them or who they felt wronged them, they will tell you they can't forgive or they can't let go but then argue the other persons actions as valid which means they already have in a sense forgiven, who they forgot to forgive was themselves! The hanging on and the need to punish come because we cannot seem to forgive ourselves for ALLOWING someone to hurt us, or allow someone to treat us a specific way, or allow someone over and over to do things we didn't like!

Without confusing myself anymore I'll stop here and just ask that anyone who has thought about karma on a deep level look at their view and see if it isn't something you have created. The thought of this will lead to other areas and then others and soon you will start to see very clearly how life isn't something you deal with like a hand of cards dealt to you that you would have rather not gotten cause you can't "win" the game with this hand, but more a creation of your own thoughts and feelings in everything you do.
Karma is a choice not a sentence

Internal Power

2009-02-19T19:38:00.000-08:00

Internal power is a feeling of confidence, a feeling of being centered, of being complete. Internal power is knowing you can handle anything that comes your way. Internal power is being able to make a commitment and following through. Internal power is knowing you can accomplish anything you set out to do. Internal power is being centered enough to not allow "issues and drama" to affect your life. Internal power is going your way even if it's alone.

Own It

2009-02-19T19:37:00.000-08:00

We live in a mental world. No one limits our thoughts but ourselves. No one directs our thoughts but ourselves. Each person has the choice and can decide what kind of world he is going to live in and the direction their life will take.