Dreams Are Beginning to be Born into My Life

A Course in Miracles says that when miracles are not occurring, something has gone wrong. The Course also defines miracles as a shift in perception, which was such a beautiful revelation to me when I first heard that. I think this ties into the Law of Attraction, which basically states “like attracts like”, in that if you are able to make the shift in your perception from fear to love, from believing in the “ain’t it awfuls” of the world to believing in the possibility that everything your soul craves is on its way to you, then you are able to perform the miracles necessary to attract those soul cravings into your life. We are all creators, we are all creating the lives we are living thought by thought. Awakening is simply understanding your relationship with you and learning how to create your heart’s desires in your life by making conscious thought choices that keep you on the path to your divine purpose.

This transformation is at work in me now. It’s taken a long time and a lot of diligence to learn to be conscious of what I’m thinking and how it’s serving me all the time. I can say with certainty that in the past few months I’ve shifted into a whole new level of consciousness. I have such an awareness of my thought processes now. Not ALL the time, I’m no enlightened master, the ego still gets me, but… it’s like I have the ego on a catch and release program. Very quickly after it gets me, I catch it at work in my thoughts and my life, and immediately surrender it to Source, asking that it be taken away and my thoughts made new. I’ve been gaining momentum in the manifestation of dreams and I don’t want anything slowing me down! I surrender all, I forgive, I release, and pray that if my dreams are in the highest and best interest for all, then please allow them to materialize!

And they are materializing. I just went back and reread one of my favorite posts that I’ve made, and I’m surprised at the lack of its popularity. It’s title is “Follow Your Heart: Intuition is Multisensory Perception”. I wrote about multisensory perception (just the idea of multisensory perception is intriguing to me, sensing beyond the five senses!) and I included one of my favorite examples of how reality as we know it is so small: on the color scale (and if you’ve ever taken Graphic Design, you know this VERY well) we can see from Red to Violet. Physics has proven that the color scale continues INFINITELY in both directions from that little swatch of color scale that we can see with our human eyes. It’s an example of how we take the five senses and think or say to ourselves “this is all there is.”

But as A Course in Miracles says, beyond this world is a world I want. I interpret that “world I want” as Heaven. It’s not in some far away place, it’s simply beyond the five senses, but it’s here. We  just have to tap into that higher level of consciousness, we have to tap into our multisensory capabilities, we have to ask Source for a miracle, to broaden our perspective, to think and feel all the love and abundance that has always been here for us, just waiting for us to evolve to being able to bring it into our hearts and minds, because “like attracts like” so once we achieve this miraculous shift in perception, then and only then, will the dreams of our souls and desires of our hearts materialize into our lives. This is what life is about. This is the lesson. We were not born perfect, but it is our mission to become perfect here, meaning it is our mission to learn how to think the thoughts of Heaven in a fear-based world, it is our mission to become powerful creators of everything our hearts and souls have ever desired rather than powerful creators of lack. “This is what it means to take your spiritual life seriously: the world is in trouble, the people on the earth have prayed, and God sent YOU. ” –Marianne Williamson.

For the purpose of documenting my work within myself and my study of the Law of Attraction, I am going to say exactly where  I am right now. Beginning back in February, I think, I started seeing the year 2009 and Colorado everywhere, on every TV show, the radio, everything I picked up to read, there it was. (2009 was the year I spent two months studying Parelli Natural Horsemanship at the Parelli International Study Center in Pagosa Springs, Colorado). I think that was the universe speaking to me, telling me to wake up to the dream that has been sleeping in my soul. Then, miracle, 4 years after the fact, I finally got in touch with the woman who took the professional pictures of me and my horse when I was in Colorado, purchased the photos, and received them (the photos in the post are the Photos by Griz that finally, miraculously, found me!). THAT brought my dream of living in Pagosa Springs, Colorado, with my horses, working for Parelli, and all my dreams for myself and my horses to a HUGE awakening. That dream shot straight up from it’s slumber. So I kept writing about my spiritual journey as an artist, and I created a vision board filled with pictures of Pagosa Springs and all of the things I want to do with my horses, log homes and horse properties in the Pagosa Springs area, pictures of stacks and stacks of money. I signed up to be a volunteer for the Des Moines, IA Parelli Natural Horsemanship Tour Stop and things started happening very quickly!

This past weekend was the Horse and Soul Des Moines, IA tour stop, and that’s why I haven’t written anything for a week. I’m still recovering from the awesomeness and I’m going to write a post about that alone next, but right now I feel driven to write about my how the Law of Attraction is working in my life. So, Horse and Soul, back in February I started going to Wednesday night book studies at my church, ended up chatting with a woman after class, and discovered her sister was a huge Parelli student like I am. We finally met last month and since we were both volunteers at Horse and Soul, we ended up riding together to Des Moines and rooming together to split expenses. Her name is Jody, she has become a good friend and a valuable source of all kinds of information. Through that same Wednesday night book study I met someone who needed book cover designs done, which has given me some excellent new additions for my graphic design portfolio as well as another lucrative addition to my art business, and he has also become a great friend, not to mention another great source of information valuable to me as well!

THE KICKER:

I can’t reveal the particulars yet, but I am headed to Pagosa Springs, Colorado soon with my beloved Jordan. So as I work to manifest my dreams, which also include my life-partner, of course, my focus is on gainful employment with Parelli in any form, getting a place to live in which I can keep all three of my horses, a truck big enough to haul my trailer, and the means to make all of the above possible. I don’t have any idea how this is going to play out, but I am absolutely certain that now is the time and place, that this is the desire of my heart and soul, I really believe  it’s happening now (because it FEELS so right and so GOOD), and yet, I’m not clinging to the outcome. I know the best possible outcome of everything will take place, I know the universe is conspiring in my favor, and as long as I keep my heart, soul, and mind aligned with Source, then only good lies before me. Only good lies before Jordan and I.

So I can see how the universe is at work in my life, I can see the swirling and sparkling of my dreams beginning to materialize into real, tangible creations in my life. You can’t connect the dots looking forward, but you can looking back. I can look back and see where I was mentally aligned with Source and how the universe routinely reorganized itself to present to me something I needed on my journey to creating the life I’ve longed for. It’s amazing! Stay tuned, I think I am going to be making some really exciting dream manifestation posts soon!

Kingdom of Heaven

Here is a poem I wrote at the beginning of my deep-seeking spiritual path. I wrote this after I read A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle. That book in combination with the “Becoming a Horseman” course I took at the Parelli Ranch in Pagosa Springs, Colorado, really cracked open my brain. I began to see how much bigger this world and all life really is. So far I have not found a fitting photo to add this poem to, but I still want to share it. Here is Kingdom of Heaven:

Kingdom of Heaven

 

 To be still and quiet in thought,

No play on words ruining this time,

Just the space between my spirit and form,

Finding the Kingdom of Heaven in rhyme.

So much love awakening in me,

A joyous heart-song I can’t help but sing,

Like a bird soaring weightless and free,

I find so much peace in being.

To be still and quiet in thought,

How do I open my eyes to the now?

To the glorious wonder of each moment passing?

To the miracle of God somehow?

I long to feel without searching my mind for answers,

I long to see without mentally reaching for a name,

I long to taste, smell, and hear every day,

With a new curiosity that is ever changing.

Love exploding as if this is a dream,

No drop of water, no ray of light the same

Floating in the presence of the Holy one,

By being present this very moment today.

I long to stay in this tranquil place,

But thought sweeps me into its trap so easily,

And holds me prisoner like a drug induced addiction,

Exhausting me endlessly, never giving me mercy.

But awareness is rising up through the space in me,

Ever widening with each moment I spend being,

Completely surrendering to the “what is,”

Finding the “I am” within the chaos humans bring.

-J. Miriam

My Kingdom of Heaven will have mountains and horses!

Follow Your Heart: Intuition is Multisensory Perception

“Multisensory Perception— we are becoming a new human species.  The five senses together are really only one sense. They are a single-sensory system and the object of detection that they detect, is physical reality. But there is much more to this world. As a species in the past, we’ve been limited to that. There have always been people who have not been limited to that; every one of our religions is named after one. But the difference is that now all of humankind is beginning to get a new perceptual capability. We have access to compassion and wisdom that is far greater than what we can provide to ourselves.” –Gary Zukav

Physics Example:

“The light spectrum that we can see with our eyes runs from red to violet.  But we know that there is light, below red, so to speak. We call that infrared. We know that there’s light that’s higher than violet. We call that ultraviolet light. Beyond that is microwave and beyond that are all of the frequencies, including television frequencies. We don’t see it. But where are they? They’re here in this room with us now. We can only see a small bit of that infinite spectrum. All we can see is red to violet. That’s what we call the light spectrum. But any physicist can tell you that the spectrum of light goes way beyond red in one direction, and do you know how far? Infinitely. And it goes way beyond violet in the other direction, infinitely. And of this infinite spectrum, this is what we can see.

And with the five senses we are saying, this is reality and this is all there is.

As you become multisensory, what happens is, those intuitive feelings you have become as real as what you can see, smell, taste, touch, and hear. And what’s more, those intuitive feelings become more powerful than what your other five senses are telling you. You reach a place where you will follow your heart no matter what your head or five senses tell you.” –Gary Zukav

What an image of how little we can see! I felt a sense of great relief when I first heard about multisensory perception and I really love the way Gary describes it here. I think we all have intuitive feelings, but we “rationalize” and we get “realistic” and we abandon the most powerful guiding force we can muster. I think we’ve all gone against our gut feelings and paid a price at one point in time or another. One element of what I’m trying to do with my practice of yoga of meditation is cultivate a stronger intuition. I want to tap into that spiritual realm and really create an intuitive lighthouse to guide my way through life.

In the past I have a experienced a very strong knowing at certain times. It’s like words are spoken in your head, in your voice, but they didn’t come from you, if that makes sense? One story that’s very vivid happened just like this. I was working for a big company with many departments and I was hired there through a temp agency. I had been working in one department from 12 p.m. to 9 p.m. for two months when I switched to another department with the hours 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. I was also taking three online classes at this time, which was crazy to do with a full time job. I was really struggling to get up and make it to work on time with the change in hours and change in hours of when I could do school work. One morning I slept through my alarm for two hours, I was so exhausted. Another morning I was ten minutes late. I was almost late and just barely made it a handful of times. And then there I was, on my way to work, running just late enough that I was most likely going to be ten minutes late to work again. I was praying, praying, praying to make it when a Pat Parelli speech from a 2008 seminar popped into my head (this was the part that felt more  like a voice speaking to me than a memory)… “If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always gotten. You have to make a transformation…” and I said out loud in my vehicle, “Oh God, I get it, I get it, I have to change how I do everything in order to get enough sleep and get up on time for work, I get it!” I felt a sense  of recognition and peace flood through me and as I got into town and then the craziest thing happened. It had never happened before and it has never happened since. I hit all green lights, all the way to my parking lot. Fourteen green lights in a row. I actually made it to work five minutes early that day and flopped down at my desk in total disbelief. That may not seem like a very profound story to you, but it certainly was to me, and I was never late again!

There was one other occasion in which I was searching for an art center, finally found it after many wrong turns, finally found the parking lot after much fruitless searching, pulled into the parking lot, and saw two guys about 100 yards away standing against a building. Something about the situation made the hair stand up on the back of my neck and every fiber of being was telling me to back out and just leave. I decided I was not going to override a feeling that strong and try to rationalize the fact that I didn’t know the guys and it was in the middle of the day, so it was probably nothing. No, I sat motionless in the parking lot for a few seconds, and then quickly took heed of the  biological warning signs to leave the area. I’ve heard a lot of stories about women ignoring those warning signals and ending up getting raped or beaten or experiencing some other terrible act of violence, all because they wanted to be nice. Forget that!! Better safe than sorry! When I feel a strong sense that danger is lurking, I cheese it out of there!

What I am working every day to build, however, is an extremely powerful intuitive sense of knowing where to go, what to do, what to say, and to who. Meditation seems to be the most powerful tool in tapping into multisensory capabilities. I really want to learn Transcendental Meditation, so that’s going to be a new entry for the vision board. Speaking of meditation, I think I’ll meditate before I tackle today’s algebra assignment. It’s the last class I have to finish in order to finally graduate with my Associate of Arts degree. I’m excited to be done with it and see what happens in the next two months. If you’ve been reading my blog, you know I’ve been pining for Pagosa Springs, Colorado and the opportunity to work for Parelli Natural Horsemanship. Well, I am an ambassador for an upcoming Parelli Horse and Soul tour stop (which means I’m doing marketing for it) and I’m a volunteer at that stop as well. I also met a woman at my church, in a chance encounter (it’s a BIG church), and discovered that she has a sister who is hardcore into Parelli (like I am) and I’m going to meet her soon. Even more interesting, my beloved life partner has been searching for a municipal job (he’s a powerlineman for a contractor) so he can be home every night and quit travelling. Oddly enough, by “accident”, I happened upon an opening in Pagosa Springs. What are the odds? So the application goes in today and we’ll see what happens. Who knows, a month from now I could be writing this blog from Pagosa Springs! Wouldn’t that be something?

What are your thoughts on multisensory perception? I love to hear what other people think!