Tuesday, May 21, 2013, 9:55 PM

Dear Angels: KO has asked us students to write an essay about what we want to do with our life. We each have—100 years? What do I want to do with this time? Well, I know what I’ve done with the first 50, and it’s been fantastic, the learning, the love, the understanding, the knowings, the connections, the friendships, my beautiful family, my child, my pets, my homes, my deep yearnings, my joys, my frivolities, my work, my colleagues…life has been rich and I feel deep gratitude for what I’ve experienced and gained. YET – at times I am awash in lethargy in terms of planning concretely for my future. Days pass. I fill them with work and driving and commuting for the most part and then fill in the blanks with the other things as I can. There is structure. But where am I headed? What do I want? How am I planning to structure my next 50 years? How will I organize my days? What forms will life take? What discipline will I maintain to enact my deepest hopes and dreams? These are the questions that I seek your guidance with. I deeply want to know where I am going so that I go there consciously and not by default.

These are—many questions, many questions indeed about your future. But let us think that the future is not really coming, that is, your future is a roll-out of the microseconds of your present, but truly, for you here and now and living on the Earth, there is only the present. So what brings you emotional fulfillment in the present, to the greatest extent?

Great question! My greatest fulfillment is in connecting with my family! I so enjoy our times together. This weekend my brother D joined me and Mom and the Bs for an outing. I felt so complete being there with them. I felt anchored and loved. I felt my history coming to life. And I love being with friends, too. The Bs are really family and friends. It was a great, great pleasure to bring the past into the present.

Then this can be your greatest intention for your “future”: to live each day refreshed and invigorated by the love you share for and with your family. You can plan your housing on this. You can plan your dreams to include aspects of your family and friends so that you always know that you are loved and cared for. This is good.

Next, ask yourself to whom you owe the greatest inspiration for growth. Who or what propels you forward in disciplining yourself to become more and more of what your spirit guides you toward? You see, your family loves you unconditionally, which provides you with a resting point, because with family you do not need to prod for growth as much as you can relax and know that you are accepted. But when we seek inspiration, it often comes from conditions that reach our core of yearning, of asking, of wanting, of at times seeing contrast that gives birth to great desire. So – what is it, or who is it in life that triggers your greatest inspiration?

There is no question that my studies with Kathy Oddenino are what do this for me. They reach inside my soul and pull me up up up into a stratosphere of newness, where I am exhilarated with that which I come to know that I already know deep inside. My studies are comfortable, easeful and flowing yet powerful and motivating. I always feel my world change when I study with Kathy and with my fellow students. Life is continually transformed.

So, this is good. This is very good to acknowledge so clearly what uplifts you and causes you to be more. As you seek to be more, you do indeed become more. Time—you have the luxury of time to grow within. You can observe your growth. And you can see more and more readily what it is that inspires. 

So as you acknowledge the significance and value of your studies and your relationships within this circle of seekers, make your plans, design your next 50 years to accommodate them to the greatest degree possible. Know that your purpose is anchored within this community, and that your family and friends are the support network that encourage your commitment. They give you strength to advance your own growth and to honor your commitment to help bring Kathy’s work and the spiritual philosophy of the ancients to others.

Now, we ask what it is within each day that you are comfortable working with, and that you enjoy working with, and that you seek out because of its bringing of pleasure and stimulation?

It is writing. It is creating media. It is connecting with people, cultures around the world. It is providing forums for exchanges. It is learning. It is being in the thrust of youth and the elderly and those my age and just feeling the pulse of life. I love being in the pulse of life!

Then, these, too, are elements that you can seek to harvest more fully. Keep those skills fine-tuned in working with media. Keep your eyes on the horizon for opportunity. Keep your hands in the pie of working with others, i.e., do not isolate, because your extroversion will be stoked and your balance will be challenged. Keep yourself in the thick of connectivity with other people and the movements of technologies. The technologies are happening because they are helping the masses to learn rapidly and to come to understand humanity on a much deeper level. The Internet is a nervous system, just like yours within, and it connects the cells of activity of Planet Earth just as the cells of your body connect all aspects of your body. See the fractal pattern of you and your brethren and the Earth and the Universe. You are all truly one. 

Yes, I do feel that we are one. It is exciting to connect on deeper and deeper levels.

So now, you can ask yourself what are the emotions that you wish to feel inside. How do you want to feel about life and about those with whom you choose to surround yourself? What are the emotions that give you the greatest pleasure?

The emotions that give me the greatest pleasure are the emotions of joy and passion and ecstasy. I have felt joy a good deal, but I seek more passion and ecstasy. I know I feel them when I unite with others in the shared pursuit of helping the Earth, and the people of Earth, find comfort zones. When I feel clean rain upon my skin, I feel elation. When I see the harmony and beauty of nature, I feel immense peace and excitement. When I am talking with friends and I feel the depth of our unity, I feel peace and lightness. These are the feelings I want to feel and that I know I will feel because I’ve felt them before and I know I can feel them again. I would like to feel them every day. This is why I seek a place to live, where I can remember each day, by virtue of the nature around me, that life is supposed to be happy and good and fulfilling and exciting. I strive to feel these things!

It is important, when defining your hopes and dreams, to be specific, to have clear images of what you want. What are the dominant images in your mind when you think of what you want?

Ahhh! I see a lovely little cottage nestled in the trees, but with sun sun sun pouring down and bathing my gardens with all the good chemical-light necessities for plants to grow. I see beautiful gardens growing in the sun. I see chickens ambling about. I see a goat or two nearby. I see a friend sharing this with me, joining me in this dream of creating. I see artwork on the walls and colorful tapestries decking the rooms. I see openness and color and warmth. And I feel the gentleness of being wrapped by nature. 
 
These images are indeed fractal patterns of what you’ve experienced in other lives and what you have come to know with certainty are the attributes of living that bring you pleasure. You see, you know yourself. You do know what you want. So continue seeking it with passion, with fervor, with all the belief in the world that you can create this. You can create this! Believe in your powers of creation. Draw unto self, by virtue of your own powers of Creation, that which you want. You do not need a partner to create this, but wanting, simply wanting is fine and good. But – no need. You have no need. You have only to want – in order to create.

Now, let us think about the funds that you would like to have. What do you envision?

I have always thought that I needed somebody else to help me create my creations. I have held this belief for my whole life. I still believe it. I still am not sure that I do have all that I need to create total abundance. 

Yes, this is true: you do have all that you need to create your own abundance. You do not need a partner to help you create abundantly. Let us take a moment to do a visualization about abundance:

Imagine yourself lying on a beach. Imagine the uncountable grains of sand around you. And each grain of sand is a penny. And you insert your hands into the sand, like a shovel, and you turn over the sand, and you rub your hands together to feel the sensory grit of the sand, and you feel it in between your toes and on your skin and in your hair and on your clothing. And do you know that if each grain of sand were to manifest in your life as pennies, and if all the grains of sand on the beach were to come into your life as pennies, and all the grains of sand in the ocean in front of you were to come into your life as pennies—then even still your abundance, your true ability to create abundance—would be far greater, far, far greater. You can create all this by your thought. You have only to believe it to make it so, as the water was turned into wine by virtue of understanding the laws of the Universe, which hold that there is free flow of energy, and mind is the builder. Together these two principles are the principles of abundance. So, your abundance is indeed a game of the thinking mind. Examine your thoughts, and put them to work for you. Remember that you are a master creator, as is each human being. You need only to believe it to make it so. 

Thank you! I am loving being reminded of my abundance and my ability to create!

Let us move on to another question. This question is in regards to mind, the thinking mind. What are the thoughts you wish to surround yourself with each day? What do you want to have dancing in your mind?

My mind dances when I am not feeling fear. Fear is a killer. It makes for stop signs everywhere. I want my mind to dance with the confidence and connectedness that true health and vitality of body, mind, and spirit bring. I want to wake up each day with thoughts of the many stimulating things I’ll be doing that day. I want to have thoughts every day of what will bring me joy that day, and what will help me give goodness to the planet. I want to apply myself diligently to making music, and dancing, and playing in my gardens, and playing with my cats, and playing with my friends, and creating things, being a vital creator. I want to wake each day and fall asleep each night with thoughts of all that I can create. I want to remember my dreams. I want to send loving notes to the people I love. I want to think of ways that I can nurture myself and others. I want to think of how I will help change our world, and heal myself and help heal the world. I want to tie in to goodness. I want to be aware of all the scientific discoveries in the world. I want to better understand earth science, and how and why we have come to this point in our evolution. I want to think of traveling, and plan to travel. South America! Spain! Austria! Norway, Denmark! I am excited to travel to see more of this beautiful treasure jewel of the Universe Planet Earth! So these are some of the many things I want to have rolling around in my thinking mind each day. They make me happy and they bring me joy. I see how the mind and the emotions are eternally connected.

Indeed they are connected. Knowing what you want to think, and knowing what you want to feel, are two very important goals to be clear about in your mind. As they merge, you will feel a quickening of the spirit within. As each thought unites with emotion, the Universe expands. See your power of Creation. 

Thank you so much, Angels of my higher self. I look forward to continuing this exploration of my future. In my next post, I would like to explore how the ethical values will help me more readily create what I want. Thank you again.