Showing posts with label love. Show all posts
Showing posts with label love. Show all posts

5/22/2013

What's on Your Canvas?


This is how my day started - I try to find "an inspirational quote for the day" and today's was:

 

...and so la-dee-da I continued going about my day.

...then <<BAM!>> here comes the Universe with a lesson!

I received a phone call and all was well ...expect for this 'tiny' little comment made.  Now I can start blaming a multitude of things; point the finger; blame my hormones; blah-blah-blah...

But all in all - everything pointed me back to "my" today's message:



My experience is to "let go" of what others think.
I AM painting a life of "Love" and "No-Judgement" - for me.
My canvas is the result of my here-and-now.
My thoughts are my brush strokes and
My choices are what gets put on (in) to my "experience".

*IF* I choose to mess-up my canvas; I'll then need to "think" of ways to make it better.
*IF* I choose to add stuff to it; I also need to realize that it'll impact all future outcomes.
...my painting (my canvas) is indeed *MY* life.

Ultimately in the end, the results are... just that - *MY* results, any no one elses.
I am the one that has to live with what's been put on the canvas!


The Universe's message to me today was presented to me today for a reason.
...and since there is a REASON for everything - this particular message today;
just had me realize (be reminded) that I need to "let go" and allow things to happen freely.

Again, *For Me* it's always about trying to control situations / outcomes; this is what *my* "letting go" and "allow things to happen" pieces is all about.

Message to myself: Stop it. You can't have the Universe work through you if you are trying to control everything. Take a breather, relax and reconnect - without this self-actualization you're just becoming part of the problem. Disconnect from this 'negativity' and reconnect with Source.

Again,


This is what I love about ART!
Art allows the 'inside' to be expressed 'outside'.
No matter if it's though Painting; Sketching; Photography; Singing; Writing; Collecting; ...doing whatever it is that allows you to get 'lost' in your world, your passion - this is ART!

4/25/2013

The African Monkey with a Diamond - Searching for the Truth


Joe Rogan on Materialism and Technology --> a TRUTH conversation.



And the timing was impeccable... I understood what he was talking about when he spoke of the YUGA CYCLE since I just finished watching (the YUGA CYCLE is explained at about 22 minutes in):

1/30/2013

How Peace, Love & Misunderstanding can Bring on Understanding

Here are more of my thoughts and review with regards to the movie: Peace, Love & Misunderstanding (2011)

My first blogpost regarding this movie can be accessed here:
http://tammymathieu.blogspot.ca/2013/01/choosing-to-judge-is-my-problem.html

This is a more in-dept follow-up.



I connected with the mother, in a sense – but for me it was the resentment piece.
She resented her mother for being who she was, carefree.
She didn’t want to understand her mother’s way (the grandmother’s way);
And so blocked her out.
…and then at the end when she goes to bail her out, and her mother explains (something like):
“Now that you have children and know that love, how would you feel if one of them rejected you for 20 years?”
Ah-man that hit me in the gut.

We create our own judgements and “interpretations” as to what’s ‘right (for us)’ – and then build our lives on this “belief”.
What really happens – is all in our heads – we ‘think’ everyone else should see and think the same way, and if they don’t; then there’s something wrong with “them”.

The whole movie’s “message” (for me) was about Judgement.
The daughter judging her mother, and the mother judging her mother (the grandmother);
And the daughter judging the butcher / boyfriend.
The husband judging the wife (at the end when he states something like, I didn’t know you all had “that” kind of fun).

And then the fun part of the “message” was about “letting go”, that’s the [Peace, Love and Misunderstandings].
We create judgement upon ourselves by not “letting go”; we’re blocking our own truths.

Sure in the movie they included drinking and drugs – and the whole “Hippy” lifestyle – but I think that “stuff” was just marketing for Hollywood sales.
It just make things easier to understand “quickly”, since the “Hippy” lifestyle is already a stereotype most people know about.
Had they marketed the movie about a Grandmother living a spiritual new-age lifestyle, would it have had the same effect (and sales)??

Maybe some people really do live that way, and maybe they don’t – again we’re not to judge, we’re just to choose to love & understand. …we don’t need to do the same – we just need to “get over our-self-made beliefs” and Let Go (of everything outside of us).

The carefree piece was a sight of beauty (for me). Maybe at times, for the movie’s sake – it went overboard (sex, drugs and …well extras!)
But the foundation for that Grandmother was there – this was HER story, HER choices.
How many of us can claim to live our choices, freely… really?
We don’t. And why? Because of exactly this – we judged her choices and made them wrong.
And why…? She’s not us… and so this IS the piece we need to Let Go.

This “meaning” is similar to what the boy says at the end about judgement (having someone want to change someone else): “that’s your problem” …and not hers. The Grandmother found her “peace” and is choosing to live it. She understood what her daughter was going through and knew she had some “releasing” to do, but ultimately she pretty much just let her do her own thing and just “welcomed” her back into her life with Love.
How many of us could do this, just welcome “lost” ones back into our lives with open arms – after the hurt and abandonment? And to choose not to judge “them”…

There were several underlining messages and I’m sure they spoke differently to each of us, and I’m sure the “messages” get received very differently at different times in our lives.

I enjoyed it overall, and am looking forward to hosting Feminine Full Moon Evenings! ;)








1/29/2013

Choosing To Judge is My Problem

I watched a movie on Netflix last night, and was moved by several blocks stories within it.

Peace, Love, & Misunderstanding



















Watch Trailer here:



There were several things going on in the movie that I seemed to connect with. Now I'm not going to go into all the details since, well - you should just watch the movie! :)

Grace (the Grandmother) is a 'hippy-free-spirit' who receives her daughter and two young-adult children in to her home after not seeing them for 20 years. The daughter, Diane,  is an uptight-lawyer who's husband just announced that he wants a divorce.

During the family's adventure with Grandma, they all learn about themselves... in a safe, welcoming, and 'open' environment.

I caught myself between wanting to be like Grace and fighting off the "Diane" front I've built for myself. Like "Diane" we get so caught-up in wanting to do what we're 'supposed' to do, and to do the right thing. But what the "Grace" of the world present back to us is... what is right, really? Early on in the movie, Grace says: "Exclusion is an necessary violence, don't you think?"

There are so many quotes and learning moments  within the movie, that for me - I could go on forever.

But one in particular that stuckout for me was towards the end, when Zoe and Cole 'confront' eachother with the truth:

Zoe: Do you, uh, think I'm violent with you? Closed off? Defensive?

Cole: Sometimes.
Zoe: But you're here.
Cole: Yeah, I am. I am here.
Zoe: And I judge you for what you do.
Cole: That's not my problem.
Zoe: Well, it kind of is.
Cole: No, no, actually, it's - that's your problem.

What that triggered for me was the 'truth' Cole was able to share about judgement.
When we 'choose' to judge, when we 'choose' to blame, when we 'choose' to want to make someone else change - we're not accepting and so we're kind-of rejecting... love. Whether it be love for someone, for us, or just love in general, blocking ourselves, of this love, because of judgement is a choice.

Here's another quote that spoke to me, in just Letting Go:

Diane: You want me to just let go of 40 years of irresponsibility, embarrassment, and her total refusal to grow up?

Jude: Yes, exactly.
Diane: [incredulous] Like a balloon that'll just float away.
Jude: It's not a balloon, Diane. It's a sandbag you've got to drop for the balloon to get off the ground.

Quotes made available via: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1649780/quotes


My lesson learn via the movie.


Just a simple reminder that – we can’t change anyone (but ourselves) and so when we ‘chose to judge’ we’re actually part of the problem.
We must be the ones to let go of our judgement to see beyond ‘the belief’.
 


What's Your Chakra Level of Understanding? - Quiz -

Quiz originates from the site: ChakraEnergy.com

I encourage you to take the quiz on the site http://www.chakraenergy.com/


Once you answer a series of questions broken down into seven different sections - you'll be presented with a "Test Results" summary:

How You Use the Test Results

Each section above pertains to a different chakra intelligence. If you answered 4 Yeses in one section it means that you are connected to that chakra center. If you answered 3 Yeses it means you have a good understanding of that chakra power. If you only answered only 2 Yeses it means that you have the possibility to use that center but you do not completely understand its function. If you answered one or zero Yeses than it shows that you have little understanding of that chakra’s full potential.

Remember there is no right or wrong–it just is. This Chakra Test was only for you to see that you use different “thoughts of energy” and by understanding your own energy will only help you to achieve your maximum potential.

___ Part One: Red Chakra


___ Part Two: Orange Chakra


___ Part Three: Yellow Chakra


___ Part Four: Green Chakra


___ Part Five: Blue Chakra


___ Part Six: Indigo Chakra


___ Part Seven: Violet Chakra


From my interaction with the site's quiz, I ended-up scoring:

_2_ Part One: Red Chakra


_3_ Part Two: Orange Chakra

_3_ Part Three: Yellow Chakra

_0_ Part Four: Green Chakra

_1_ Part Five: Blue Chakra

_3_ Part Six: Indigo Chakra

_3_ Part Seven: Violet Chakra

** This score was dated November 15, 2012.

And so with that, this gave me a simplistic view of where to start... I have some knowledge of some particular Chakras, however there are other Chakras that I need to gain more awareness on inorder to work with them at a more in-dept level.

And for yourself, did you take the quiz? Any surprises?

9/07/2012

Choosing Temporary Love

Sometimes everything around me feels fake, as though it's there but really not. It's there cause I can touch and feel it, but really.. is it there? Is "all of this" really mine or am I just making it mine by possession. And how does this possession-emotion change when we choose to live in love, and a life of "Let Go, Let God"?...

Everything, all things - are temporary. We must enjoy, appreciate, be grateful and love while its here, available to us. And then when its not longer here - in our possession - that's ok too, cause we still had the enjoyment, that love, we shared while it was in our now.

If you hold-on to "something"; fearing its distance and/or of it leaving, this simply creates more fear inside of yourself causing you to keep holding-on tighter. Inevitably once it "leaves" or "returns" to itself, our fears are simply reinforced with more strength since we've just reaffirmed their existence as truths by giving them power with our "possessiveness" and "insecurities".

Turning things around, by being grateful to have had the opportunity of love and being grateful of the new opening it's now provided to us; replaces this love-possessiveness with grateful-love.

Thus, when a "leaving" occurs, and a space is left inside of us - we have a choice of detachment. Either way, something is to come in its place...and what'll replace it, depends on how we detach and when we detach.

If we choose to grieve continuously and not want to let-go, the void is filled with nativities and past-fillers of nothingness leaving us constantly wanting to "go-back".

Letting go and embracing the emptiness to allow a "new" filler, fills us with anticipated joy and love even if we don't have anything to fill it with.

The Universe will provide to us, fill that now vacated space with something joyous and for us to love - because that is the vibration we are emitting and wanting - and so it will be brought to us in tri-folds. ...Since Like-Attracts-Like, more of whatever we are projecting is bound to come-in and fill whatever space is available.

Gratitude flicks that switch from "Oh no, don't go!" to "Thank you for having been here."

Everything in our path is exactly as it should be, always. Everything is a teacher, we just need to listen to its lessons and continuously learn - and then move on.

What happens outside myself is not within my control; however since we are all energy and we resonate from our Source-Energy, we are One. And so, just because I can't control what happens outside of me doesn't mean it isn't me - all that I see is really a part of me. It's (what 'I' am shown - my lesson from 'my' life-teacher - in 'my' now) just showing me how a part of me is vibrating - and that's what I am seeing. If I like it, that's good - and if I don't like what I am being exposed to - then I need to make a decision - change about myself. This has nothing to do with anyone else, but me - because they are me. The more I try to "control" or "change" them - the more I am judging myself.

I must seek the message, learn to listen and grasp the lesson to be learnt and then let-go and move-on in Love. All of the chained-emotions I feel trapped with are simply intertwined-fears projected on to me. All of my self-talk, ingrained-beliefs, everything keeping me in my dark-emotional-pit are fear-based attachments I decided to keep in my mind. Maybe at some past-point in my life they had provided me with some benefits - however I must chose to let them go in order for them to be replaced with more accurate - better for me now - beliefs. All teachers bring forward lessons in which we need to decide 'what' about them we 'wish' to move on with (beliefs). These choices of lessons are our Universal rights - and no one can tell you whether you are wrong or right. Only you can 'feel' these beliefs, and you can also choose to change them at any point of Your Life.

At times I feel as though I am stuck in a barricaded limited emotional state where everything around me just seems to be pushing my downward spiral at a higher speed. When this happens I need to make a choice of either sulking in my state and whine about how bad my life is and so giving this depressive state more truth OR I could choose to acknowledge the truth of the matter and accept a 'new' truth and choose to change my path. Seek my lesson, acknowledge it and move on.

The blame game comes-in where you set yourself up to believe that someone else holds the lock & key for whatever situation you're in. Coming back to your inner-self, we need to re-acknowledge that "they" are "me", and so in actuality, I hold my own key.

Life turns around and changes when we turn around and change.
I accept my own destiny by choice.

The security and comfort lifestyle I choose comes from the camouflaged fears I've accepted within myself as being 'ok'. I've accepted this belief as being a "safe" place. When I choose to move beyond this acceptance / belief description, then it will then be replaced by whatever 'new' definition (for me, at that point in my life).

For now, this "safe" lifestyle ...what does it really keeping me safe from?
Could it be from ... "freedom"? While I stay locked-in and safe in my cave, I see the shadows wondering about in the unknown - I feel a little envious inside - but not enough to run out and join them. I stay protected, possessing what I "know" and "own", convincing myself that this is 'ok'. ...Cause really, Freedom is a scary place, right? ...and plus once I get there, then what would I have to look forward to? ;-)

8/23/2012

What is Enough?


What is enough?
When is enough?
When do you realize that who you are and what you currently have is enough?

…The Answer is “never”. It’s that simple... or is it?... "hmmmm..."

What is enough, really?

We keep searching for Meaning and with this search we keep being presented with Choices.
Someone’s choice reasoning isn’t necessarily going to be the same as yours – hence why they’re choices.

The result of the choice made brings us to life-lessons.
Until we learn what’s needed to move on, for our next step, to our next choice – we ‘stay’ in a life-loop.
Sometimes enough is becoming vulnerable to Love.. and living in Faith.

Quote:
“The deepest secret is that life is not a process of discovery, but a process of creation. You are not discovering yourself, but creating yourself anew. Seek therefore, not to find out Who You Are, but seek to determine Who You Want to Be.”
Neale Donald Walsch

I wrote about this last year, and here is a brief summary:

Creating yourself isn't something you can just Google. This is a life-long learning, and learning encompasses failures and success (because no one can succeed without failing), and never ends.
Imagine if you created a piece of art and this was "the masterpiece" of your existence. It's done. ...so now what? Do you just need to crawl in a corner and wait for death? No - you continue life.
This was "the masterpiece" of the right-now's existence. It is now in the past and a new one awaits to be created.
Continuously creating brings more growth into your life whereas if you simply created and stop - you become that "old school" mentality of "that's just how it is".
Your creativeness is gone - you don't believe you've got anything left cause you gave it all already and now it's just there and "that's just how it is".
Don't try to change me. Don't tell me what to do. I created that "masterpiece" and so now I'm done. I 'did' my time and now I'm just going to sit here and look at my "masterpiece" while it collects dust. Leave me alone. 

So if your mindset is of “enough” and when “enough” is reached you’ll be happy – …you’ll be waiting a longtime.
Once you’ve reached… “good-enough” this should be “enough” to allow you to move forward. – Cause I’m sure that your original “enough” has changed several times already.

A quote I heard a while ago that resonated with me was: “Don’t let perfect ruin good-enough.”

Life is beautiful and continuously flowing and changing… focusing on perfection takes too long and the closer you get the more perfection it’ll need.
…take a deep-breathe and choose to live in love.
“Do not waste the precious moments of this, your present reality, seeking to unveil all of life's secrets. Those secrets are a secret for a reason. Grant your God the benefit of the doubt. Use your NOW moment for the Highest Purpose- the creation and the expression of WHO YOU REALLY ARE. Decide who you are- who you want to be-and then do everything in your power to be that.

It is not nearly so important how well a message is received as how well it is sent. You cannot take responsibility for how well another accepts your truth; you can only ensure how well it is communicated. And by how well, I don't mean merely how clearly; I mean how lovingly, how compassionately, how sensitively, how courageously, and how completely.

If you think your life is about DOINGNESS, you do not understand what you are about. Your soul doesn't care what you do for a living-and when your life is over, neither will you. Your soul cares only about what you're BEING while you're doing whatever you're doing. It is a state of BEINGNESS the soul is after, not a state of doingness.”
Neale Donald Walsch

“Enlightenment is understanding that there is nowhere to go, nothing to do, and nobody you have to be except exactly who you're being right now.”
Neale Donald Walsch, Conversations With God: An Uncommon Dialogue, Vol. 1



 
In summary, just know that:


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