No more Pain...?!

Last night - during a session with Universal Source - the question came up 'If there is really no more pain - in this new world, new awareness - why do we still feel pain? Terra and I have been musing on this one for some time - but the answer which came through is brilliant!
The image that came through was like many hallways all leading to eventual darkness. Each hallway is filled with many doors. Some open, some closed. If a door is left either un-opened or un-closed in the hallways...the result is physical pain. It is as if, in our progress, that we are leaving unfinished pieces in the process. It is our intention to complete each passage, each hallway. The hallway isn't really a hallway, and the doors, not doors, but rather synapses in the brain, neuro-pathways, DNA restructuring. Like tiny holes in our field that need repair.
So, when there is pain experienced in the physical body, we have the opportunity to 'ask' (our guides, highest self, Source) to create the connection that was missing, the 'close the door', to smooth over the opening in our field...and the result is the removal of the experience of pain.
Does this make sense? To me, this is incredible information!!
All we need do to experience this 'healing' is to have the knowledge and intention of the repair... then the shift is automatic! Let's all try it!

Prayers from yesterday, heard and answered!! Thank you all for your energy and love!!!

Business or Bees Wax...?

A couple months ago, I was thinking about the word "business". Stasia and I had been talking about changing the way we see "business", and by proxy, change the way we as a human body see it. So, that day a couple months ago, when I was contemplating the word I heard my thoughts go to the phrase, "None of your bees wax"... That made me smile because people say that instead of "none of your business". My funny brain loves a good play on words, so instead of calling our company a "business", I told Stasia I wanted to call it a "Bees Wax". This at least takes the mind out of the old concept of business and into a new concept of fun.

So, the other thing that has changed the way I see business is that we gave our Raw, Transformational Chocolate Bees Wax the name, "Never The Same Chocolate". We have had several people who understand "marketing for business" say to us, "Inconsistency will kill a business", and, "People always want to be able to depend on consistency", and, "How are you going to get return business if you are always changing?"

To this we say a few things... We are not a business, we are a Bees Wax; We are changing the way people see "business"; We have had no problem with return customers so far; We (as people and a planet) are always changing, and a company is going to change with the people and the times... We decided to step into what is going to happen anyway and just admit we are always going to change.

Our tag line (thank you to our sister JJ Connoly!!) is "Always amazing, never the same". People can always depend on AMAZING chocolate, but it will never be quite the same...
It has been very interesting the resistance we have received from people about that possibility of constant change... And yet, the very same people who resist the concept are asking us, "did you bring your chocolate with you??" every time we see them.

Another thing I have been saying lately is, "this is how I pay myself for living." :) I love doing what I love and loving what I do. I pay myself for that, and every day I look in the mirror and say, "Thank you for loving your life so much that you pay yourself for doing what you would be doing if you never had any concerns on how to pay bills." What a concept!!! :) Paying yourself for living...

Consider writing down what you would be doing if you never had to worry about bills. Not just what you would do for "work", but what you would JUST DO. I love making and eating chocolate, I love singing, I love channeling, I love traveling and visiting places I have never been. (I wrote a blog a few days ago about "Do what you love..." There are so many things I wrote in that blog that I LOVE to do. THAT is how I live now.)

I do what I love all the time. And the "Universe of Abundance" provides all I need to do those things and more. Example: I just got a $250 tithe this weekend for singing at a church that I hadn't sung at in 6 months. I sang there on Mothers' day, and I just got the tithe check yesterday... I had no idea that would happen, but it did. I am always being taken care of!! ALWAYS and in ALL WAYS!! :) Thank you me and thank you Universe of Abundance!!!!

When you know this as truth, it will be your truth... (Or whatever YOU see as the truth for YOU... live it and it will be that way)

This blog sort of went off in a few directions, but it's all connected :) The main point is that you can change things to fit your perspective. Just live as if it does, and it will... No need to convince others or change to fit into someone else's box, and it is ok to change your mind... I am living proof that changing your mind does not kill you... it actually makes you stronger!!!

If you could start a Bees Wax, (What I consider to be the "New Wave" of companies) what would it be? Try to think of something that you love, and create it into something that has never happened... As long as you have faith and trust you will be taken care of, you will!!! And I would love to hear when your Bees Wax takes off!!! Let me be the first to congratulate you for paying yourself for living!!!! Isn't it GREAT??!!?

Questions? Comments? Thoughts? Please share :)

Prayers please for Cathy Cummins's dad, Jim. Who was recently diagnosed with Melanoma. Best and highest good!!!

More thoughts on "man up"...

OK, so we (Stasia and I) have received a LOT of communication on this topic of "Man Up". I would like to take a moment to revisit and re-connect on this conversation...

It is a powerful one and worthy of the time and energy. Why? Well, anything that has controversy or comes up often in my daily life tends to draw my attention. What are people saying? Well, I have heard everything from, "You're not a man, so you can't use that phrase" to, "What do you MEAN man up??!?!" to, "It's about time someone brings this up!".... And many more...

The quotes are as varied as the people saying them, and I have given pretty much the same perspective for every one of them... "Do what you love and love what you do... and don't blame someone else when you don't get what you want."
To me, that is the true meaning of "Man Up" (or woman up too, but I am seeing this come up in more men than women these days).

In other words, get over your pitfalls, get out of victim and lack mentality, and be who you WANT to be!! (not who you think someone else wants you to be)

So, what does that look like? An example- A friend says to you,"Let's go jogging instead of hiking" And you respond with, "You don't like anything I like to do!!" (Taking things personally is a victim mentality! Maybe it's not about you! Just communicate your desires and have a conversation instead of being in fear, blame, or avoidance)
Another example- If you feel like doing something and it is something new or possibly scary, STOP STOPPING YOURSELF!!! Just DO it!!! LEAP my friend, LEAP!!!
Another example- If you want to talk to someone and you say to them, "I want to talk to you about something". Instead of waiting for that other person to come to you, just go to them and tell them what you want to tell them! When you say things like, "I told you I wanted to talk to you and you never called me", you are putting your life in someone else's hands. (And then complaining about it when it doesn't happen the way you wanted it to!)

In summation, Please please please please please step into your empowered self! Until you step into your empowered self, you are going to be unhappy while blaming others for your inability to accept who you CAN be!!! It's YOUR life!!! Not mine, not anyone elses!! I can't DO anything for you that you are not willing to do for yourself!!!

Man Up means, BE PRESENT AND CREATE YOUR LIFE IN AN EMPOWERED WAY!!! Do what you love and love what you do ALL THE TIME!!!

OK, I know I got a little extreme with the capitol letters and the exclamation points, but I am a little bit passionate about this subject. (can you tell?) :)

Please comment here or call us to talk about this idea... We would love feedback and communication on this subject.

Do what you Love...

...and love what you do. Some say this is the meaning of success... When you do what you love and love what you do, everything else is cake!!

I had an awareness come in this morning while thinking about this body I inhabit. I realized, "MONEY WORKS FOR ME!!! I DON'T WORK FOR MONEY!!!"

How can I work "for" someTHING?? We can say we work "for" an employer, or "for" ourselves, or "for" a living... But, we can't say we work "for" money... What is money doing "for" us in return? Nothing... It's the employers that give us money for working "for" them. It is other people who give us money for doing something "for" them... Money does not do anything "for" us, so we do not work "for" money... (Although, money may play a supporting role in our lives, it still doesn't "do" anything "for" us.)
It seems simple, but it suddenly shakes the foundation of how I see money....

After I thought about that for a little while, I asked myself, "What do I love?"
So, I wrote these things down:
I love - to sing; to channel; make chocolate; spend time with my friends and family; teach; travel; learn new things; meet new people; experience new people, places, things; eat good food; play with kids and animals; make music with people, the environment, my Guides and musical instruments; create new ideas and things; expand; explore; laugh; love; eat chocolate; play with essential oils; indulge; listen to music; dance; watch people do what they love; watch a spiritual movie; be outside; see a play; camp; feel good; get massages; get acupuncture; go to the chiropractor; get pampered; take baths; be "alone" with my Beloved; (be ANYwhere with my Beloved); share; support; cry (happy and release tears); peace; respect; trust; truth; honesty; playing with hairstyles; being taught by others and myself; new things; sudoku; to smell flowers; to play in the grass with bare feet; happiness; Bliss....

This list would grow as long as I desired to sit with it, but maybe you get the point... Not once did I think, "Work for money"... Not once did I think, "go to work", "fit in", "drive an hour to be somewhere I don't like"... I typed only things I love to do, love to experience, love to be, love to see.

So then, what is my point? My point is this; I love the life I am living. I love being in this time and place and tuned in to All other times and places. I love considering that there is always more to learn and glean from this experience... I love knowing nothing ever stays the same... I love realizing that I am never the same. I love surrendering to that and allowing the next thing to come in/come up/be seen/be felt...

I am only going to feel fully, 100% supported when I do what I love and love what I do 100% of the time... And some may ask, "Is that even possible?" I say, yes... it is. Do I need to convince you? How about I hold space for you to find that awareness for yourself? (See our blog about 5-D thoughts) I will continue living in my Bliss and I will live the example of what that can look like.

In the meantime, please be sure to write out your own list of things you love. That would be a great start to finding your Bliss...

What do you do with the list once it is written? Add to it every day. OH YEAH, and also follow the list by experiencing those things as often as you can!!! :) Really. Try it for 30 days. You won't be disappointed. And if you are, I guarantee your money back..... :)

~ TBun

Musings in the Dawn of Summer...

It seems a long and foggy season of remembering and forgetting what time was like when things flowed east and west... Inside my being I see the promise of the fire envelop the old way...I feel myself disintegrate into the wholeness that exists behind the time worn mind. Everything is new, everything is true and nothing is the same. ... nothing gives way to what is IN me. what is inside is welling up and pouring out from every side and every word I speak now echoes perfectly the clarity of heart I find in each sunrise and every breath. No regrets. Only thanks for the glorified versions of self running around in cloth and nakedness, showing me the parts that I dare not perform in this form... thank you self, thank you selves. I trust the process so completely that I am sometimes falling backward flinging my arms up and spinning them around as I make my way to the caressing arms of what I never knew before -awaiting me so patiently with glee. And though the falling still makes this human form create hormones of what I knew before as fear and clinging, now I am beginning to see this sensation as pure and utter delight, as joy beyond the known, as the wonderful awe of the new now revealing... what was before terror of loss is now the elegant shedding of what is no longer present - - a dance of fabric blowing, twirling with the wind...sometimes whipping quick and sharp with the gusts, and other moments brushing the sand...only to be picked up again to hold the shape of another embrace of sky.

So now, as the flow of life is internalized and crystallized...as my intentions become more clear and more precise...the never before seen parts are becoming seen...and the always expressed indigestion of emotion is pressed out...concentrating the impressing aspects I find within - treasures. vision. clarity.

Let the dance take us where it might...let the desert melt into the night...and the ocean of our lives - a sight, of endless power and bliss. However grace may find us, let the story now behind us be an ever lifting presence - which inspires authentic living, ever giving, receiving, being, believing, conceiving and becoming endlessly!

~Stasia Bliss

Man Up!

Sitting on a very affordable and charming sofa last night with an amazing goddess friend, eating raw kale salad and transformational chocolate :) the conversation turned to men...and where are the 'empowered' ones? ... Both of us having many stories to share about the men who show up in our lives only to reflect what it looks like to 'not' be stepping up, we wondered why this is?

There are so many men who 'say' they are spiritual, who 'want' to be empowered and living a life as their fullest authentic selves, but when it comes right down to it - not much is happening there...

A bit disappointing.

For me personally, I have the uncanny ability to see someone's highest potential and not how they are actually 'showing up'... a nice trait indeed, but it often doesn't serve me - especially when the person I am seeing in their highest expression doesn't see themselves that way, and starts to feel that I am holding them to some 'high ideal' that they can't reach. Hmmm?! Ok, so, this hasn't felt like a quality I am so ready to abandon. What? Start trying to see 'the real you?'...I thought I was. This you - the one you are expressing - is the one who tries, or wants to try, the one who feels somehow dis-empowered and wants to feel inspired, the one who says they are on the path, and yet keeps reverting to the 'old patterns'. I see you as your godself - and no less....please let me do that!

This is a call out to all the men who are saying they are stepping up, who want to, who wish to be....but still AREN'T! Man UP! Please!!! We women are starting to feel a bit lonely without our counterparts.

Now, at the same time I am saying this I am also fully aware that the reflections that are showing up in the male are just that - reflections of me ...and so, somehow, on some level - I am still needing to step it up, make myself more of what I am, and embrace the empowered, centered me that I know I am. Even more! ... Ok - I am ready. I accept.

'I do hereby now declare that I embrace myself fully and step into the empowered goddess that I am. I release those fears and patterns of old that held me back and now see clearly the me I AM!" ......ok, done.

Wait!!!!! The question arises from one of my dear spiritual brothers, " why do you women even need us?" and "what do you need us for?".... hmmm.... In all this work of 'self-empowerment' are we women scaring off the men somehow - as if to tell them that we don't need them?, That we can do it alone'?

Ok, so this is part of the evolutionary process, no doubt. In the not too recent past, women have been dis-empowered, feeling that they could not speak their minds, do what they want, and embrace the beautiful goddess within. So - hooray for the women of today that are doing this! It feels that we women have been sooooo long anticipating and wanting this shift that we are jumping in and embracing the empowerment full throttle...and the men, with their lovely way of being calculating and logical about everything in the past, (needful previously to balance the overly introverted woman) are now being 'left in the dust' so to speak of the beautiful and bold counterpart.

- Now let me make a note that this is NOT the case with ALL men. I know there are a handful of amazing, empowered Gods out there who know themselves, are connected to source and are not afraid to embrace their whole selves & power - ....but handful they are.

What can we women do to support the rest of the men in moving into this place of empowerment? Personally I keep holding the vision within of the male in me - treating with grace, beauty, strength and passion - the female within. That means honoring my cycles, my intuition, trusting myself. And the female within is also beginning to trust more the male aspects of me - the dynamic action, expressiveness, organizational qualities & strength. For if I don't feel the relationship within, I know I can never see it without.

But I must say ....if I don't call myself on my sh*t, if I am always 'soft' and 'gentle' with the way things unfold for me - sometimes they don't unfold. Tough love is needed here - and this moves in both directions - inward and out. The relationship within needs that type of honest evaluation and love... and so it is that I ask all the men OUT THERE who are on their spiritual path to PLEASE.....STEP IT UP!!!!! For the Love of the Goddesses in your life! Please show us the most empowered version of yourselves so we can love, embrace, dance arm and arm, together move mountains and smooch your beautiful faces with the kind of gratitude deserving of both sides of the equation.!!!

I think & feel that I can speak for all the spiritual goddesses out there when I say - there is nothing more sexy, more appealing, more inspiring than a man in his power (spiritual power that is). A man who knows himself to be divine, who surrenders his will to the divine, and knows when to act, knows the force moving through him is not himself alone - but from a greater Source of abundant bliss and beauty. GOD!!!!! YES!!!!! Let us look into your divine eyes and see the reflection of our goddess self and know that we - together - in divine bliss and gratitude (& don't forget divine ecstatic union) can do anything ANYTHING. !!!

This is the true meaning of leaving duality behind. Let two WHOLE and complete beings join together and inspire one another along the journey of continued greatness! Nothing excites me more! ..... so to each one of us I say 'Man up!'.... whether you are male or female!.... to myself included. Let us be the fullness of our divine selves and leave all that 3rd dimensional limitation stuff behind! and let's fly!!!

xoxoxo

Much love & Bliss

Stasia

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5-D thoughts in a 3-D & 4-D world

The thoughts that have come up in the past couple days have been around the 5th Dimension... What does it look like? What does it mean? I can not explain it in a 3rd or 4th dimension way, so even if I blogged here my thoughts about the 5th dimension, it might not translate to anyone reading from a 3rd or 4th dimension perspective.... or it might...
I will type the running thoughts that course through this egoic body and "hope" it makes sense....

First, there are no judgments or expectations in 5th Dimension. There is only One. There is no fear, lack, death. There is only One. There is no need for peace, no fight, no "poor me". There is only One.
So, from that place of the One, I see All. I feel and experience from the place of the One Life. I Am All.

The thought for today is:
When someone tries to convince another, it is 3rd or 4th dimension. When that same someone trusts that the answers will be revealed in the "perfect" time, than that someone is in 5th Dimension.

An awareness that finally sank in today... In 3-D or 4-D, if someone asks me a question and "expects" an answer "right now", then I would stop what I was doing and try to convince or prove to the other my perspective of the answer.
In 5-D, when someone asks me a question, I can decide in the moment to be present and just hold space for the answer to be revealed to the other person. It's not my duty or my job to answer, but possibly (if I choose it) to hold space for the answer to be revealed.

When someone expects an answer from me for anything, they are wanting me to prove it true...
My 3 yr old nephew is a perfect example of that!!! He will ask me, "Hey, Tata (what the kids call me) where is mommy?" I answer, "She's upstairs." to which he replies, "no she's not."
If I wanted to convince him, I would take him upstairs to prove it, or say, "yes she is!!!". But instead, I have been saying, "ok then, where is she?" to which he usually replies, "she's upstairs." And I say, "oh, Ok." LOL!!
Such a simple awareness to a HUGE perceived "blockage" that has caused so many fights in past relationships!!! Maybe all he wants is attention... Maybe that's all ANY of us wants!! It starts at age 2 or 3, and becomes a part of the perceived reality we have lived in... We can now change that perspective and embrace a new one if we choose it.

So, if I want an answer to a question, I could ask for support from others in finding the answer, or I could ask others for the answer...
In this moment, I realize I can ask for SUPPORT in FINDING the answer... If I ask others for an answer, they will only answer from their perspective... to which I might not understand, agree with, or see. This misunderstanding/disagreement could cause an argument, a fight, a disagreement, disharmony.

In the Bliss I am feeling around me now, I realize the only thing that keeps me "out" of Bliss Awareness is disharmony!!

So, that is my 5-D thought for the day... Did I convince you??!!? (LOL... just kidding) :)

Doughnut Hole or Doghnut Soul... (or, "The One Knife as The One Life)

So, what do you think of duality? I don't think it exists, but my thinking it doesn't exists vs. your thinking it does would be duality right??? Not so... And I will tell you why (I am pretending to know something when in actuality, I am just curious how this blog will come out)

So, if duality truly exists, than we are living in a world full of yes and no; up and down; in and out; dark and light; negative and positive; right and wrong; me and you... And that isn't my reality... I live in a world of wholeness, Oneness, Unity, Bliss, Love... and in that world, there is no duality, only 'what is'.

What if my world and "that other world" I mentioned above were to coincide... Who would be right? Me or someone who believes in duality.... the answer is a resounding, BOTH OF US! Really! If you are living in duality, and I am living in Oneness, than the only difference between us is our perspectives.

And in my perceived world of Oneness, just now (not kidding, in this very moment), my 3 year old nephew, Tage walked in the room and said, "mom, something happened to me... I used to not be afraid, and now I am afraid." Stasia said, "what are you afraid of?" Tage said, "dark". Stasia started talking to him about how, "light and dark are exactly the same, sometimes it's just a little easier to see when the light is on. But the room has the same stuff in it whether it is light or dark..."

So, this is how the world around me is experienced when I decide to live in Oneness and Bliss... I wonder what tomorrow will bring to remind me of how we are all connected.... I am so very excited to see!!! :) In the meantime, I will be with the Bliss that is happening around me... Like the dog walking around, or my nephew going to bed, or my Beloved reading his emails next to me, or just sitting here writing this Blog.....

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Multi-dimensional living

This is my first contribution to this blog. Terra and I spend time daily musing about the Universe and creating the next level of being to experience and share...Quite often I am satisfied with the fact that she has sat down to write up what has come up between us - or within herself.
Tonight, I am inspired.
Perhaps it is because I am alone while my son sleeps, and no distractions abound. Maybe it is because over the past 24 hours I feel more empowered than the day, week, month and year before it. Maybe it is the clarity I have been finding in bringing organization to the seemingly mundane aspects of life that has cleared the way somehow for this writing to emerge. Maybe it is a lot of things, or maybe this is just a random inspired moment between me and this computer screen to which you will be privy should you choose to read on...
What is going on with me and you and the world right now? Most specifically, the question and discussion of the day has been regarding what dimension we are in - ?? Seriously? Yes, right? Haven't you ever thought about it? What is beyond 3-D? Have you considered the possibility of being beyond 3-D? Surely we have all heard quantum physics speak of such ideas...possibilities... but it wasn't until meeting this woman the other day who spoke of living in the 5th dimension that I was caused to consider this.
Today, in the kitchen, over toast with hippy dust and tulsi-rose tea came the discussion...
Terra was asking the question from her latest blog of 'how am I willing to let myself be seen?' and this question brought us to the notion that it is not what other people see us as that we care so much at this stage of our awakening, but rather what we see ourselves as that matters most.
So in a moment of inspiration, with imaginary color crayons connecting the dots between the words floating in mid-kitchen, and the question of dimensions came this crafty interpretive possibility:
What if 1-dimension is just the physical, and living as a purely physical, flat being...no thoughts really beyond the mechanical motion of day to day robotic routine. and 2-dimensional living is just adding in the flat interaction with others that takes place in a mock-humanoid fashion where hellos and 'how-do-you-do's' are programmed into the script. 3-dimensional living is where we seek to see ourselves through others eyes...the constant need to please, the act of accommodation and fear of disappointment rule the actions we take...the 3 coming from the thrice-removed perspective of self wondering what others think of self?
Then came the idea that 4th dimensional living might be where those who seek to live 'spiritually' begin...and find themselves as now the detached 'observer' of their life... not as concerned with what others think, but a bit 'outside' of themselves, seeking to find more presence by first moving away from judgement. A beautiful place to be indeed, but what is beyond this? The 5th dimension...the 5th direction...the 5th element... Within.
When one begins to live 5th dimensionally, the 3rd and the 4th begin to merge and instead of needing to see from another's eyes, one begins to see themselves from within with the perspective of detached, yet fully embracing, loving presence. The combining, perhaps of all the directions into the one direction of Self...releasing all 'negative' perspectives and 'degrading' possibilities, and knowing now that all is Divine.
This is where many of us are heading, or finding ourselves these days, are we not?
So what then?
Perhaps when you begin to consider dimensions at all, you will find that this questioning process is also a part of the 5th dimension, and in the question comes the steps that lead you beyond...
To the 6th? 7th? 8th? ...what is this? what is there? does it matter?.... when one becomes aware of the possibility for multiple dimensions and multi-dimensional living in the first place, then, I believe, comes the choice, the opportunity to choose which place you interact in, where you live, what dimension you dance within. And if you can be in the 5th -what keeps you from what is beyond?.... for now the keys are turned and the doors unlocked... the possibilities are endless. Are they not? ...for in this awareness we become fully aware of the power of our creations, our ideas, our mind, our beliefs. We create where we live....and we are where ever we choose to be.

In this moment I choose to be letting my fingers and mental faculties rest from this journey of sorts, to turn on the tea water and put up my feet...
Tonight, after so much musing this week and so much churning of the internal waters that have bubbled me up to the height at which I peak this night...I yearn for rest, integration and a moment of vegging out...movie anyone?

xoxo
All my heart
Stasia

I Am, and that's that... Contemplating Oneness

So, I have recently had some deep conversations with various and sundry people, beings, Guides, etc... (If I mention all of them, people might think I'm crazy!!!) :) (This is a joke... I don't really mind people thinking I'm crazy)
But seriously folks, I have been contemplating the conversations and realizing a running theme... One that might be a little uncomfortable for some to really dig deeply and discuss out loud. The theme is one that has been very quiet and sneaky. One that I really had to dig at, and contemplate, and question, and listen to... And I am realizing that we are all sort of afraid to talk about the same things!!!
Am I speaking in circles...? Sorry about that. See, even I am stalling!!!

OK, so the theme and my thoughts around them... SOOO many people want to be heard and seen. I dare say, ALL people want that. Parents want to be seen be other parents, and by each other... Friends want to be seen by mutual friends of friends, kids want to be seen by their parents, partners want to be seen by each other, employees want to be seen by upper management... the list goes on...

Take a moment and think about how you wish to be seen and by whom. Really, take a moment. Write it down if you dare. This is pretty important.... If you want to be seen by someone (which I am pretty sure there is at least one person out there you don't feel seen by), write that person's name down. Now, put a list of words next to that person's name. Not words describing how you want to be seen by them, but words to describe how YOU see THAT person. How many words are next to the person's name? One? A dozen? A hundred? Now sit back and really think about all the words you just wrote down about that person... Now think about that person. Visualize their face. Talk to that person in your minds eye. Tell them how you see them.

Now, will you actually walk up to that person and tell them that to their face? Think about how that might change how you see them. Think about how that might change how they see you. Are you afraid to tell them any of the words? Why? It's your truth, right? Now think about how that person might even be afraid to tell you some of the things they see in you. Maybe the disconnect between people is NOT really there... Maybe it is an illusion. Maybe you are making it up... Maybe it is just fear of rejection.

Here's a thought that has been helping me a lot lately. "How are you willing to ALLOW yourself to be seen and heard?" When I ask myself this question, lots of thoughts come crashing in. Once I let the thoughts subside and listen to the strongest thoughts, I realize that I am more aware of how I DON'T allow myself to be seen and heard... I have been working on surrender a lot lately. Stasia and I even made a new chocolate bar called "Sweet Surrender" which has been VERY helpful in this allowing and surrendering process for me. (Check out our website: www.neverthesamechocolate.com) I am surrendering to how I am willing to allow myself to be seen and heard... My goal for this day (and this week) is to ask myself this question any time I feel disconnected or frustrated...

When I feel the discomfort, disconnect, or frustration, I am going to ask myself, "How am I willing to allow myself to be seen and heard right now?" And see what comes up. I might blog about it... If you decide to practice this question, please let me know what comes up for you. I would love to hear your thoughts and experiences.

Blissings and Love to You/Me/All/US... This is a journey of trust in self. Let's do our best to support the journey in each other.

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A funk..... (and not the musical kind either)

So, when a spiritual person is in a funk... it sort of seems crazy, right? Like, "If they were more spiritual, maybe they wouldn't get into a funk." Or, "She must have done something really crappy to someone to be in that kind of funk." Or, "It's her karma she must be working out."

I say, POPPYCOCK!!! :) It's all good... Because it's all God! Right??!? I mean, even the funk is a part of the whole. I have been looking at the "funk" I am in today and just opening up to the possibilities....

I have been living in Bliss for about a year now... Truly, honestly, fully in Bliss. When I feel "Down", I know it as part of the All. When I feel "Up", I know it as part of the All. I feel there is no such thing as opposite any more anyway... No more duality... Even though we are playing things out as if there is, I feel it is just the part of us that has a hard time seeing it any other way.

So, when in Bliss and in a funk, what do I do? I "be" with it. I allow it, I surrender to it, I know that I am in harmony, and I open myself up to just doing nothing!!! Therein lies the struggle... if there really is such a thing...

This little-Taurus-ego-in-a-body sometimes thinks it is supposed to be "doing" something all the time!!! :) And I love this little-Taurus-ego-in-this-wonderful-body. She is so funny and fun to observe. She loves to think the whole world is depending on HER to be the "light", or the "master", or the "perfect... whatever"... She is so aware of how much people look to her for support, love, guidance, and joy. AND, she also knows that the only thing that holds her back is herself. So, this little-Taurus-ego-in-a-body has decided that today is for her. She can write, she can eat chocolate, she can journal, she can pout, she can watch a movie, she can not get out of her pajamas, and she can surrender to the next thing however she wants to.

Luckily, this little-Taurus-ego-in-a-body has learned from her past and has decided to be gentle and kind through this process. (Thank you little me!!) :) I'm gonna go chill, drink some tea, take a bath, watch a movie, and unlax (my mom and dad's word for relax).

That's what this body is gonna do...

It's not the HOW, it's the WHAT... right??!!?"

So, I have been contemplating the "How's" for a long time... I have been wondering what it would take to get past wanting to know the "how" and just give in to the "what" of that which I wish to create in my life...
I have been told while studying and practicing the Law of Attraction that I am not meant to know the "how"... I am just supposed to ask for "what" I want, and then let go of "How" I think it might happen, (or how I WANT it to happen, or how I think it SHOULD happen, or how to MAKE it happen... etc.)

So, I have been practicing this for several years now... Then, recently, out of the blue comes this awareness!!!! (Not really "Out of the blue..." Stasia and I were talking about this stuff last week, and a message from US came through)
Here's basically what they/US said:

"When you ask "How", it lets us know that it is important and for us to make it a priority in supporting you on your path." I was like, "WHAT??!?!" They continued,
"Every time you say, 'How can I allow _____into my life?', we "know" what to clear away from your field that does not support or serve that which you are asking about."

More information came through, "If you know the thing you want, and keep asking us, 'What do I need to do to allow this thing into my life", we will keep trying to help you see what you need to clear from your life. When you say, 'how can I allow this thing into my life', we clear your vision and whatever blocks you from seeing what you want.

I interpret this to mean, When we say, "How can I allow, have, do, or be ______", it is like a radar to our Guides to focus on that thing immediately, clear your field of whatever holds you back from seeing that thing, and gives you more insight into allowing it in.

OK, so Stasia and I have been practicing this one for about a week now. Every time one of us has thought, "I sure wish I could nave more money" or, "I wonder when we will have all we need to do all we want to do", or "When will my Divine Partner get here?" (That one was Stasia's) :)
Instead, we have changed it to, "How do I allow more money into my field to put into my bank account and use every day?" or, "How do I clear everything that would block me from having all the money I need to do what I want?", and "How do I allow my Divine Partner into my life now?"

I can't tell you how FAST the clearing happens... We tried it with about four things on the first day, and on the second day, WHAM! Things started clearing, and we felt as if we were living in two worlds at once!
(I kinda think we WERE living in two worlds at once... One that still saw the old ways of creating things and was still aware of the old patterns of life, and the other which was able to see what it looked like without all the blocks from the other life...)

Anyway, all I can say is, Holy cow and WOW!!!! It works... WARNING: BE SURE YOU ARE REALLY READY TO MOVE TO THE NEXT LEVEL WHEN YOU START USING THIS PRACTICE!!! It happens so fast, and you might look back after a day or so of craziness and go, "Oh yeah, now I get it!" As long as you haven't fallen into a deep depression or run screaming from your life :) (Just kidding... sort of)

Good luck! And try to ask How more often... OH! The only catch!!! Once you ask how, you must let go of needing the answer. You will not get it until your path has been cleared of the old pattern that kept you from seeing it... And by then, it won't really matter about the how since it will have already started showing up!!! :)

Good luck, and happy howing!!!!

subtle=obvious... Mosquitoes as Divine Guidance!!!

Sent an email to a friend and it felt like the perfect place to begin the conversations with US...
Stasia Bliss and I (Terra Bundance) have had some really great conversations with Universal Source, Affectionately called US... We have been called to share some of those conversations and other communications we have with each other, with our journals, and with others....
So, here is the email I sent to my friend:

I am wondering if you are willing to try something new...? Imagine that EVERYthing that happens to you is super cool and fantastical...
It's all about the Journey... NEVER the destination. Whatever you expect will show up in ways you do not expect... :)

YOU are the Divine creator of your reality. YOU have the ability to show yourself the way. You (on some level) are not deeply as "ready" as you think you want to be. You are ready for the subtle things, and wishing to be ready for more obvious things. But until you recognize the subtle as an initiation of sorts to the obvious, you will miss the obvious!! Mostly because the obvious is actually subtle to those who have shifted their viewpoint to recognize EVERYthing as Divine... :) The "subtle" IS the obvious!!! Always!!!

I will share a moment of awareness I had on my journey of recognizing the subtle as the obvious... I was on my Vision Quest several years ago. "alone" and sitting in my space, I noticed how many mosquitoes there were around me... I was in south GA in the early Summer and it was CRAZY how humid and "uncomfortable" it was. I had a wool blanket to cover myself with (which I quickly discovered I was allergic to... so each time I would cover myself to hide from the incessant mosquitoes, I would have a reaction to the blanket.... plus, sweating under a wool blanket in the south in the summer.... yuck!!!) :) (Do you have some idea of where I might be going with this???)
I thought, "this is crazy! I have to learn to connect with the mosquitoes and this blanket or suffer here for two full days!!" After about 24 hours of going back and forth between mosquitoes and an allergic reaction to the wool blanket, I surrendered. I kept waiting for someone to walk in and start talking to me.... Or, a voice in my head to tell me something profound... I had fasted for several days before the VQ, and had no water or food with me for two days out there... I started the VQ with two rounds in a Lodge (hot and sweaty), and ended it the same way... two rounds of Lodge... And then, I had to share with the people what I had gained... What I had learned from my time out there.
I honestly don't even remember what I said. I was in such an altered state, all I remember is that EVERYONE around me was shifting!!! My dad was crying and talking to my "Uncle" (The one who led my Vision Quest) about how he had been afraid for me when I was a teenager... My brother was crying and hugging me... My second husband (who I had already divorced) was one of my support people... he and my brother were talking about how "crazy I used to be" ;).... My parents and I had only started talking a couple months before this VQ after three months of not talking... The boyfriend I was dating who was also at the VQ decided a week later he was gay and needed to step into his true self... I watched "What the Bleep Do We Know" a week and a day later with my mom and dad at the movie theater...
Anyway, all of the stuff happening was not really "weird, odd, unusual, crazy, strange", but they were all things only a year before I was praying/wishing/dreaming for. Here they were, happening as if in a surreal dream right in front of me because I made an unconscious/conscious choice to go out and sit with mosquitoes for two days...
Those mosquitoes were the most powerful messengers I have had the privilege to commune with. They were the "change bringers", the "life shifters", the "support Guides" I had prayed for but NEVER would have thought to ask for specifically. :) They represented the "irritations of life I had to surrender to"... Once I did, all of life around me changed.... Looking at it in the moment, I would not have wanted to fully admit "THEY" were my messengers!!! Mosquitoes??!?!! What??? No way!!! :) And yet, only a few hours later, I was dawning on the awareness which allowed for more awareness, which opened me to more.... and here I am today telling you about it....

NEVER underestimate the power of subtle messages... They will be the most profound awarenesses in hindsight. I am able to recognize the obvious within the subtlety as often as I can now... more and more every moment.