Namaste'  I hope you have recovered from all the holiday fun and feel a sense of awe for the amazing new year before us.  As we begin to tackle our new endeavors, dreams, resolutions for 2007, I am reminded of a wonderful phrase from A Course in Miracles, "Trust would settle every issue now".  This reminds me that after we set an intention, and do what we are called to do to support it ... to also let go!   Trust.  Affirm it. This or something better in the perfect way and time.  Know it.  Embrace the divine receiver in you... that life can feel great, that it all can happen with ease.  Think about it: our heart beats hundreds of times per day, the earth orbits perfectly, and the sun rises without any of us doing anything.  So what else is flowing with ease.... what else could be a lot easier?  How could we accomplis h so much more in half the time or deal with what is by grace?  How can I enjoy each day rather than stressing over it?  After all Joy is the path.  Joy is the healer.  I invite you to read the article below and deeply ponder this topic in your life.  Ask, "how can I radically embrace more Trust in my life now... of myself, others, life, the divine?"     Trust.    Trusting the highest Unfoldment… knowing it is so......This is the moment of Divine Grace.... All changes now with Trust.   

I also invite you to the amazing 'Power of The Circle' Retreat coming up in February in Joshua Tree California with amazing people dedicated to enlightened leadership, cooperation, fun and being our best.  Healing, Playing, Hiking, Music, Ceremony, Learning, Love, Life.    What could be better than this?  We will explore what Trust is as a theme as well.  Flyer coming in a few days.  We’re filling fast…. So Trust your heart, ask, and go where you are guided.  Community is the way!  The power of the Circle... 

Have a great month!  ... and as always let me know if I may be of any support to you, 

Aho,  Bill     760-809-4478

 

 

Awakening  By Mary O'Malley  (a fellow Irishmen/women!)

Trust.   Trusting the highest Unfoldment… knowing it is so......  a shamanic way of life.

 

As we are opening into another year, and are more inclined to take an

overview of our lives, I ask you to live in the question, "What would it be

like if I could trust my life - all of it - what has happened in the past,

what is happening right now, and what is to unfold in the future?  And what

would it be like if I could watch the evening news and have a part of me

know that all this confusion is taking us someplace?"  It is possible to

trust on this level.  In fact it is not only possible, it is the most

powerful way for human beings to move through life.  Trust isn't about

always liking what is happening.  And it isn't about just lying down on the

side of the road and letting life run you over.  Rather, trust is full

engagement with life as it is right now.

 

To trust life allows you to dance with it passionately, lovingly and

joyously.  To trust life allows you to let go of all of the should's, have

to's, can'ts and wont's so that you can connect with the newness of every

moment.  To trust life is to learn how to respond rather than react so your

actions don't add to the confusion and heartache, and instead become a place

of healing.  And to trust life allows you to tap into the flow of creativity

that has been unfolding for millions of years, for everything that is

authentically new and of lasting value comes from this ability to be fully

engaged with life no matter what is going on.

 

What we are exploring here is how we can live our lives from a place that

empowers us.  Shifting our perspective from reaction to trust changes our

experience and thus changes our lives.  In this time of crisis, both on the

world stage and inside of many of our lives, we can either react, creating

more confusion, or we can learn how to respond, knowing that life is for us.

  Life wants us to become conscious human beings even more than we do and is

giving us, both individually and collectively, the experiences we need to

move into our maturity.

 

Together we are on the threshold of possibility such as we have never seen

before.  Yes, this is a time of breakdown - the breaking down of our old

views - our old ways. And this is a time of breakthrough - into becoming

more and more conscious, loving, aware human beings.  As in all births, it

is painful and messy at times.  But this birth is taking us to a place that

is beyond the dualistic mind.  This old kind of mind moves mainly from

comparison and judgment.  It says, "I am right" and "you are wrong." Or "I

am wrong and you are right." It can become so ridiculous that is says, "I am

better than you because of the color of my skin."  Or "I am not as good as

you because I am a woman" or "I am poor," or "I am illiterate."  This kind

of mind has brought forth so much suffering on this planet.  It creates wars

inside of us, in our relationships and all over the world.

 

This shift that is happening for human beings is not about getting rid of

the dualistic good/bad, right/wrong mind.  It is a useful tool for

maneuvering through life.  But when it is in the driver's seat, it keeps us

caught in struggling with life.  We don't need to get rid of it, but we do

need to learn how to use it rather than having it take over our lives.

 

We are being asked to mature into the kind of mind that trusts the

breakdowns and the breakthroughs, a mind that connects rather than controls,

a mind that understands rather than judges, a mind that can see we are all

in this together.  This kind of mind makes choices and decisions from an

empowered place, from a place that trusts life.

 

As my New Year's gift to you, I leave you with a quote from Leonard Cohen.

 

"Sometimes when you no longer see yourself as the hero of your own drama

expecting victory after victory, you understand deeply that this is not

paradise.  We've somehow embraced the notion that this veil of tears is

perfectible, that you can get it all straight.  I found that it became a lot

easier when I no longer expected to win.  You abandon YOUR masterpiece and

you sink in to the real masterpiece"

 

So I invite you, in the midst of your new year's resolutions to hold the

intent of engaging with the life that you have been given so you can show up