How Will NEW YOU React This Holiday Season?

Channeled by Brenda Hoffman for http://www.LifeTapestryCreations.com

Dear Ones,

Perhaps you have many memories - both good and bad - of this family holiday season. How will new you react the next few weeks?

Will you wish to be surrounded by those you love? Will you prefer being alone? Will you accept whatever your family or friends wish to create? Or will you create new holiday traditions? All questions pointing to your discomfort with what should or should not happen in your heart during this season. And fears of Christmas or holidays past.

Your society trained you to create feelings you may or may not feel. Love is in the air - love created by society for this season. Even though you are a new being with new beliefs, your societal demanded heart actions are difficult for many of you to ignore.

It is as if the world conspires to insist you open your heart for a few hours of a specific date.

Your heart no longer functions as in the past. You may feel great love for a friend, relative or community based on celebrations. But you could as easily feel little or nothing - and become concerned as a result.

When you review your belief patterns, you most often shift your perceptions to better fit new you. But even new you probably has difficulties switching off expectations or fears when surrounded by those insisting you experience an activity as dictated.

You are no longer of the norm.

But then, you are not so strongly enmeshed in your new being that you can easily brush aside society's expectations - including new earth friends. Do not most, no matter what new earth stage they are in, continue to wish you happy holidays, prepare special foods and exchange gifts? Indicating that a day or days of your calendar year - a calendar created by your 3D world - has significance for new you.

Indeed this season might have significance, but somewhat different from the past - including healing or ignoring family wounds, creating new rituals or returning to rituals. You cannot be a new being and observe the same rituals with the same feelings as in the past.

Do not be surprised, confused or angry with yourself if you feel little or nothing. If past rituals seem somewhat boring - or if they have different or more significant meanings. You are a new being with new needs.

Such shifts do not make you a callous or bad person, merely a different person. An entity you are learning to love with your entire being - allowing yourself to be as is right for you this holiday season. Does this mean you might skip a family or friend gathering or be bored with something that once warmed your heart? Yes. You are new you.

Perhaps you will revisit rituals to determine if they are of your new being or pieces you no longer wish to continue.

Allow yourself to experience what your being wishes to experience.

What is right for you? That is what you will experience this holiday season.

Must you share your experiences or feelings with others? Must you tell those 'not in the know' how ridiculous celebrating a holiday created by humans, but not necessarily felt by any or all, is? Of course not. This is YOUR new you - not anyone else's. Perhaps your best friend will find joy in rituals you ignore. Perhaps your heart will open on a specific day given that society is stressing love during this season.

It does not matter what others are or are not feeling. All that matters is you know what you are feel/sense/wish to experience.

Perhaps you will wish to experience something entirely different the next holiday season. Such is well and good. There are no rules in this transition - other than learning to love yourself and to express that love with your beacon of light.

This is an easy transition, if you will. Shoulds are minimal. Love, miss, ignore or deny your earth family if you wish. Ignore, glory in or deny this holiday season.

This season is no longer a societal or religious season, it s a personal season of joy. What gives you joy is your only guidance. Not what the media tells you that you should feel. Or what your culture tells you that you should celebrate. Or how your family dictates your celebrations.

It is your personal holiday season. A season created for you, by you and evolving rapidly as new you becomes dominant in your earth being totality .

How will society react to this rebel in you - if that is how you decide to react this holiday season? It does not matter for all of earth are of new earth. Some shining their beacons of light. Some preparing to shine their beacon. And some refusing or frightened to do so for reasons you may never understand. It does not matter for even though you are one, you have a specific role to play.

Think of yourself as a hair cell and your family a nail cell. Do your toenails fall off when you cut your hair? Or do the two separate cell groupings function as unique entities until your being sends a message to the contrary that affects your entire physical body? So it is that this and all following holiday seasons are unique self-exploration adventuress - no different from selecting a new hairstyle.

Perhaps you are concerned your family or friends will not accept new you. Such might be true - especially during this holiday season. But that is not your concern. For they are not tasked with learning how to love you - you are.

So allow yourself to be in all your totality - most often easier in non-holiday seasons than those days and times of societal expectations. So be it. Amen.

Teacher Ophelius.
Subject: “How Precious is your Life?”

Received by Chris.

Teacher Ophelius: “How precious is your life? Do you ever stop to think about the value and meaning of life on earth? Have you ever really stopped all the busy thoughts going through your mind — the distractions of your day, the hurt feelings of your past and the hardships of earning your keep and paying your bills? Let’s put all those thoughts aside for a moment and really sit with this idea of what life really means. Are you with me?

“You are alive — you have life — you have awareness — consciousness, and you are experiencing your life in this material world in time and in space. Your thoughts are your own, and you may choose what thoughts to have and you may direct what experiences in this world you may have as you go about your day. You record your experiences in memory — you learn from them, and you glean wisdom. There are other people in your world, in your life, who are also experiencing life in a similar way — having their own thoughts and their own experiences. They too are recording their experiences in memory and learning different values and seeing the world differently than do you. There are billions of you who live on this planet, all having these unique experiences — all recording them in memory — billions of experiential co-creators who are alive!

“The most important experiences in life are the experiences of relationships — your interaction with others’ consciousness. Why are these so important? It is through these relationships where you first experience love, where you learn truth, where you see beauty, and where you find goodness. These are eternal values and these experiences are committed to memory and saved in the soul-trust for use in the continuing journey as you leave this planet and awaken on the shores of a higher realm where you continue to experience your life — yes, your life continues, my friends, and you retain your identity and personality, for without this continuity of consciousness, the value of your life is diminished and the purpose for which you were created has come to naught. Life in eternity is for your choosing — when you understand your purpose, that choice is easy — ‘Yes, I want to live forever and continue to experience the wonders of all creation and share those experiences with my Creator Father.’

“Do you not see how important your life is to the Creator? You are a co-creative partner with God — you are the ‘experiencers’ who fulfill the Will of the Creator to have ‘all experience’ in all worlds, in all realms of the creation. God requires diversity and that is why you are all different and unique. Through the agency of the Indwelling Spirit, the Thought Adjuster, does the Creator look out through your eyes to see and experience the world around you. You are given the opportunity to direct your life using the gift of free will to assure that no two experiences are alike — like you, they are all unique, all loved, all cherished, all valued, and all have purpose. Think about what stupendous love the Creator has for you that He offers you the gift of eternal life, and all that is required of you is that you think about this and come to the conclusion that ‘I want to live forever and continue my life as a co-creative partner with God!’

“Now, having said that, I want you to start thinking about the quality of your life and experiences — life on earth is but a short stay. Live well, my friends, live well.

“Blessed are you all!
“The Circle of Seven.”

© The 11:11 Progress Group.
“The giving of self, the illumination of truth and the relief of suffering
are the noblest paths to higher consciousness.” — Teacher Ophelius.

Heavenletter #5113 Whirling Atoms, November 24, 2014

God said:
Everything in the world is how you see it. The world you live in depends upon how you see it. In one sense, there is no world out there. There is only the world within, the world that is comprised of ideas based on perception and misperception.

Yet, it would seem that there is common agreement that the world is this way, not that. There is changing weather also commonly agreed upon. The world changes, even as there are maps of the world. And everyone breathes air. And, yet, I say it again, here, in the world that you walk on, even with total agreement from all, what you see is illusion. It looks real, yet it is not. In the world, the carpet can be pulled out from under you. Truth is stable and doesn’t switch around. No carpets in Truth. Truth is truly solid ground yet not solid at all according to your view. The unseen foundation is solid, beloveds, in the sense of Truth and staying invincible.

Everyone sees a table or a countertop. You can put things on it, and the table and countertop support what you put on top of them. You can depend on surfaces to do what they are expected to do. Countertops can bear heavy pots. Tables don’t fall down nor do heavy pots and pans fall through a countertop. Nevertheless, science says that the solid-seeming table is made of whirling atoms, and that you are also made of whirling atoms, is that not so? This is also accepted, and yet everyone still leans his elbows on a table.

You already know that there is much that does not meet the eye. You have been instructed that your eye takes a picture upside down, and the retina turns the picture you took right side up for you. One way or another, the world you live in is a maze. You walk through a maze. In your place in the cosmos right now, you could be walking upside down on Earth while gravity keeps you from falling off. All the senses are wonderful and powerful, and these senses are here to help you walk through the world. The wonderful senses do not necessarily give you the straight goods, however. The senses are for your interpretation. You need them to make your way through the maze.

There are many ways of looking at the world. Even the same individuals may look at the world on various levels within the illusion. There are questions of right and wrong and whether a book was worth reading or not. Not every woman wants to marry the man another woman is avid to marry, nor would every man choose to marry another man’s dream woman. In many or most cases, definitely not. And so the world goes round.

What you have to say about the world is your opinion. Opinions are not gospel. You don’t have to keep the same ones. I want you to have great confidence in yourself, yet that does not mean you can be sure that your opinion is right, or that tomorrow you will hold the same opinions. Opinions can change in the wink of an eye, just like the world itself. That which changes cannot be Truth. Therefore, the world in front of you, just like you, can change its mind, as it were. Tender is the world held together by so many human hearts and minds, even as there is One Mind and One Heart, and Oneness prevails regardless of what you see or don’t see. The last word on Reality isn’t truly yours, beloveds. You are a learner.

Sivananda Daily Reading

25 November
Posted: 24 Nov 2014 02:03 AM PST
Helpers on the Spiritual Path
The spiritual path may in the beginning appear to be very hard, thorny, precipitous and slippery. Renunciation of objects gives pain at the outset. If you struggle hard to tread the path, if you once make a strong determination and firm resolve, then it becomes very easy. You get interest and a new joy. Your heart expands and you have a broad outlook on life; you have a new wide vision. You feel the help from the invisible hands of the indweller of your heart. Your doubts are cleared by themselves, by getting the answer from within - you hear the still, sweet voice of God. There is an indescribable thrill of divine ecstasy from within. There is ineffable, unabating, undiminishing, undecaying spiritual bliss. This gives new strength and the footing on the path becomes firmer and firmer. The jivanmuktas (liberated sages), yogis, nitya-siddhas (eternally perfect ones), amara-purushas (immortal souls) and chiranjivas (deathless souls) lend their helping hands to the struggling aspirants. The aspirants feel this actually - the feeling of loneliness and of being neglected and forsaken vanishes entirely.
Doubt or uncertainty is a great obstacle in the path of Self-realisation. It must be removed by study of religious books, satsanga (holy company), vichara (enquiry) and reasoning. Again and again it will raise its head to mislead the aspirant. It should be killed beyond resurrection by certainty of conviction and firm unshakeable faith based on reasoning.
An aspirant should always watch whether the sight of an unpleasant object or any unpleasant sound causes irritation or agitation in his mind. He should try to eradicate this irritation - he should have perfect control of temper. A weak aspirant, though strong in concentration, is overcome by idleness; and a strong aspirant, if weak in concentration, is overcome by tossing of the mind. Concentration and energy should therefore be well balanced.
Stick to your ideas, convictions and principles - whether you become popular or unpopular, even if the whole world opposes you. Dig a deep pit in one place. Centralise all your efforts. Even so try to imbibe the spiritual teachings of one spiritual preceptor alone. Drink deeply from one man - sit at his feet for some years. For the preliminary practices of japa (repetition of God's name), ahimsa (non-violence), truth and to develop mercy, devotion, love, tolerance etc., you do not need a guru. You have to do all these things yourself. When you are ready, the guru will appear before you of his own accord.


				*11-24-14 New U & Holidays*