Matrix Energetics, and The Yuen Method: Dolphins, oranges and neutrality.
For the month of August, I have spent much of it, and the
latter part of July, in deep contemplation. There is much
shifting on the planet, in relationships, in daily lives. I have
noticed that many of those around me are doing and seeing
much the same as I am. There is a big clean-up taking place
with people noticing and shifting their diets, their exercise
routines, their material items in their house. It is like we are
all getting ready. For the remaining time that exists for
August, I thought I would share with you some experiences
of the work that I have been doing and encountering lately.
Most of you know by now that I am a Certified Practitioner
of Matrix Energetics. I have also just returned from Los
Angeles studying with Dr. Kam Yuen and learning The Yuen
Method. These two methods move a lot of energy very
quickly.
While I was in Los Angeles, my two friends and I had a free
evening. We drove to the Santa Monica pier. The pier was
bustling with glorious summer fun, wet kids, towels, sand,
entertainers performing and the lights beginning to do their
patterns on the big Ferris wheel. We decided to walk along
the beach while we still had sunlight. As we headed out,
we set the intention as a group to see a dolphin. We knew
we only had a certain amount of sunlight left and it was a
pretty busy beach, but we decided to use our knowledge of
Matrix Energetics (M.E.). So we not only set the intention,
but also used the frequencies used in M.E. to send out a
wave of invitation and request to see a dolphin. We stood
for several minutes looking out at the ocean waves. The
waves rolled up and splashed down, but the only things we
saw were the swimmers in our peripheral vision and the
caps of the incoming waves. My one friend even drew the
frequency in the sand. Nothing. We decided to keep
walking.
As we walked, I was drawn to all the flat black rocks that
had been tumbled so smooth they resembled thick coins and
perfect skipping stones. I also picked up opened half shells
of black and blue and white coloring. We continued until
we were 2 miles from the pier, but still had it in sight
behind us. The sun had just dropped past the top of the
mountains in the distance and with no physical sun to see,
we knew our moments of lit visuals would soon be over.
Then just as we decided to head back to the pier, my friend,
Don, spotted the dolphins. There were two of them. They
playfully jumped up and back down again, with a third
dolphin. We hooped and hollered in our excitement! Our
intention to see a dolphin manifested not one but three! And
then behind them, three more jumped up and over and into
the water. Six! And then two more and then two more! We
quit counting, but it seemed there were 3 groups of 3 and
then two playful ones in the back. We stood stunned as the
little guy at the end, jumped up and in and left his tail in the
air and literally waved at us. And we all knew it. He did
not jump up and into the water and just slide in, this was a
dolphin version of a high arm-in-the-air wave, no doubt
about it.
The entire pod of dolphins began to swim toward the pier,
as if knowing that was where we were going, and they were
so close. So close. It was like they were as close as they
could get without the water being too shallow. We all knew
that we could have run out there and been with them if we
wanted to, save bathing suits and the setting sunlight. They
swam alongside our walk for nearly a full mile. We looked
around and noticed that the beach had emptied. This was
just for us. The group of 3 guys we encountered on the way
back had no interest in them when we tried to tell them what
they were missing. It was not for them. It was for us; we
were the ones who called to them.
We could see in the dimly lit ocean that the nearer we
approached the pier, the farther out they had to swim due to
the buoys and rocks protecting the pier and its carnival
setting. Then as they headed out to the ocean, the tail rose
again on one of the dolphins, waving at us, bidding a
wonderful night and a farewell with immense love and joy.
When I returned to Texas, I shared with my family that I had
a special story and that the rocks I brought home for them
were on the same beach as those very special dolphins. It
was a beautiful manifestation that we all used M.E. to
facilitate. Beautiful, touching, deep and confirming.
When working with a client, Matrix Energetics can show up
in incredible ways. I worked with a lady who had a
wonderful M.E. experience in many many ways. But the
part I would like share with you is the lesson of the Orange.
During our M.E. session I saw a perfect orange “pop” out
energetically from her abdomen. And then another and
another and another. I told her what I saw was a perfect
orange, perfect color, perfect shape, perfect for juicing,
perfect for eating . . .it was just “perfect.” And then the
lesson settled in. An orange is exactly as its title suggests.
Its color is orange, its fruit is orange, its juice is orange, and
it is what it is. And orange is perfect in description of its
inner and outer being. It is not like say, a taco, where you
have to describe what it is in, how it is made, the varieties,
and the sizes. It is not a description that has to be
explained. Thus in this M.E. session, the lesson was to be
just what we are, or in this case for the lady to be just as she
is, perfect as she is. No need to change, be described, be
explained, fit into someone else’s description, match the
other people. Just know that in the inner being it is all
perfect, inside and out. And to trust this. Trust this and
understand it.
Dr. Kam Yuen uses this idea as well. He stated in The
Yuen Method (TYM) workshop that any answer that comes
from within is always the right answer, even if it is wrong.
If it comes from inside there is no other answer. It has taken
me several days to integrate my experience with this man
whom many around the world regard in high esteem as a
35th generation Grand Master of Shaolin. Within ten
minutes of meeting Dr. Yuen, his sentence to me was to get
to where I have no need to take any more classes. This
enormity of this statement is stunning and confirming. It’s
about trusting. Trusting that the answers that come from
within with focused intent will always give an answer.
Thus my work with the Yuen Method is fast, efficient and I
have a much greater appreciation for this man and his
method now. Dr. Yuen moves energy so quickly that there
is no need to move through the “highs” of any issue or
emotion. He brings energy to a place of neutral so fast that
people who expect and like to experience the “oh” and “ah”
of energy swings may mistake the experience as nothing
happening. This is far from the truth. I have learned and
been confirmed in how to move energy quickly and
efficiently to a balanced state. There is not a time when it
does not move, it always moves. It may be perceived
differently than expected, but energy always moves.
Dr. Yuen has a wonderful philosophy that miracles are
accidents until you can do them all the time and then they are
routine. I understand what he is saying. We are all capable
in shifting and changing. It does not need to take a long time
to see, feel and be balanced. We are all fully equipped to
love each other and also have a space neutral enough to
create balance.
I worked on my husband who had been having a sore throat
for a couple days. In a matter of 4 or 5 minutes the pain
resolved and the thought process behind it had been
neutralized. I worked on a woman with an issue that
presented itself to me as something different than she
originally described. After several minutes of TYM, we not
only worked on her original complaint but also several
items “not” on the list and she felt a difference immediately.
She also tested strong with muscle testing that the results
were solid.
I have found that each modality I work with is unwinding
into a unique tapestry of healing opportunities. My goal is
to create a space where you remember how to do this
yourself. Remember that you are also a beacon of light,
here for a purpose, experiencing many things, one of which
is to trust yourself. Just like the dolphins appeared and the
oranges teach “perfect” lessons, and the stones on the beach
are like coins of treasure lost to the common observer, I can
see these things and I know you can, too. When you are
ready, come see me and let’s open that up. Just be willing
to look, trust and experience.
Blessings, joy, love, and light to you.
Live well, love well, rest well.
~Bright Star
Copyright 2007-2009 all articles are the personal property of Cheryl Kaufmann
and Bright Star Inspirations. Sharing information is permitted without written
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Monday, August 31, 2009
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
July 2009, Reiki and the Bishop's message
A Note about Reiki and the Bishop’s message.
If you have not already heard, the Bishop in accordance
with Catholic beliefs has published a doctrine that states a
strong opinion on Reiki. There are several articles that
cover the subject and if you wish to read further, I will post
the links below. At the risk of being blunt and not sugar
coating, in my heart I feel that God does not wish us to
separate ourselves from the experience of feeling Love so
great that it would heal another; whatever creates a healing
is an expression of Love, and God, no matter what words
one uses be it medical terminology, spiritual lingo, or no
language at all. May you be lead by the love in your heart to
experience what matches best for you.
The official document http://www.usccb.
org/dpp/Evaluation_Guidelines_finaltext_2009-03.pdf
William Lee Rand http://www.reiki.org/reikinews/ResponseBishopsStatement.html
Franz and Bronwen Steine, International Reiki Association
http://shibumireiki.org/index.php/blog/article/reiki_and_catholic_bishops
http://www.cinews.ie/article.php?artid=5879
http://reikidigest.blogspot.com/2009/04/catholics-and-reiki-in-wake-of-us.html
New York Times Article - US Nuns Facing Vatican
Scrutiny, July 2 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/02/us/02nuns.html?
pagewanted=1&_r=2&hp
If you have not already heard, the Bishop in accordance
with Catholic beliefs has published a doctrine that states a
strong opinion on Reiki. There are several articles that
cover the subject and if you wish to read further, I will post
the links below. At the risk of being blunt and not sugar
coating, in my heart I feel that God does not wish us to
separate ourselves from the experience of feeling Love so
great that it would heal another; whatever creates a healing
is an expression of Love, and God, no matter what words
one uses be it medical terminology, spiritual lingo, or no
language at all. May you be lead by the love in your heart to
experience what matches best for you.
The official document http://www.usccb.
org/dpp/Evaluation_Guidelines_finaltext_2009-03.pdf
William Lee Rand http://www.reiki.org/reikinews/ResponseBishopsStatement.html
Franz and Bronwen Steine, International Reiki Association
http://shibumireiki.org/index.php/blog/article/reiki_and_catholic_bishops
http://www.cinews.ie/article.php?artid=5879
http://reikidigest.blogspot.com/2009/04/catholics-and-reiki-in-wake-of-us.html
New York Times Article - US Nuns Facing Vatican
Scrutiny, July 2 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/02/us/02nuns.html?
pagewanted=1&_r=2&hp
July 2009 Saying Goodbye and Seeing the New
Saying Goodbye and Seeing the New
Usually when I sit to write an article for the website, it is
usually in a place where I “feel” the article develop. It is
like it comes from a deeper place within, not just my head
dictating and fingers typing. And yet this time, there has
been a stillness. So many people making their transitions,
Ed McMahn, Farrah Faucet, Michael Jackson, pitchman
Billy Mays, master impressionist Fred Travalena, and actor
Karl Marlden all passed away this week. Reports that
Patrick Swayze and Walter Cronkite’s health are a concern
to many. The world is asking questions about what is going
on that so many people are passing away. But it is not just
this week. There are many places across the globe where a
story is being told about someone’s life, legacy and
adventures. It sometimes just takes a few familiar faces to
get our attention. Farrah’s story could have easily been
someone’s mother or grandmother.
This is not a time of grief in the big picture. Although we
are all entitled to the way we process when our paths cross
and the way in which we walk side by side and the way we
part ways, there is a shift greater than any news tagline
could possibly encompass. These individuals held onto a
particular energy and served a purpose for their own
journey, but also they held a space in the big puzzle of life
and now their piece is put into its place with a soft click.
That means we get to benefit and see a little more of the
picture. Where are we going? What does it look like?
My take on it is this: it’s not the image on the outside of the
puzzle box. We as a whole have shifted an entire level, if
not multiple levels of our consciousness, the capacities of
our hearts, what we can internalize intuitively and how we
connect, what we tolerate and what is now ok to let go. We
breathe deeper, we see clearer, we move with greater ease.
How? You ask. I know there are reports of great turmoil in
the world. What I speak of is not ignoring the world in
which we live in and understanding it is growing, but rather
to appreciate what is different. What is new in our world
that was not there before? I love the quote Dr. Richard
Bartlett uses when he says, “we have all been trained to see
what’s wrong with us. . . .We need to see what’s changing –
changes happen in the blinks of our eyes.”
And so it is, I believe, that whoever got the puzzle going did
us a great service (consciousness awakening). And now
that we are getting the hang of it, the original picture has
changed – as fast as we blink. People that have completed
their purpose in holding energy that was part of a different
kind of picture may choose to leave at this time. The great
joy in this is we benefit from their knowledge, their life
experiences and as this piece is placed into the puzzle it
changes the moment it comes in contact with the rest. Some
may like to call it being the water drop in an ocean –
without all the drops it would not be the vast sea, and yet the
individual drop becomes part of a greater whole.
So when we have losses in life what changes? Sometimes,
the “losses” are really what saves a life. Sometimes it is
what finally gives a person the courage to find their voice or
set boundaries. Sometimes it finally puts together an “ah-
ha” moment of appreciation that is a deeper gift. It does not
mean we will always understand it. What is poison to one,
may be the cure for another. Allow it to be what it is.
So as you reflect on the shifts and changes in the world, you
are free to feel as deeply as you wish as a mass experience,
which you are a part of here on Momma Earth. I know for
me, when Steve Irwin died, I literally felt his spirit go
across the globe like a breeze and it was as if he personally
and individually thanked every creature he ever had contact
with as gratitude and dispersion of his love for critters and
humans. It was magnificent.
What is different? I appreciate. I see differently. I wonder
differently. I opinionate differently – and make up my own
words to express it. I ponder how many pieces of the puzzle
I can put into place by just experiencing and sharing. I
allow. And I trust. I say no. I say yes.
The stories we read about in the celebrity scene are not
unique to just them. They do, however, remind us of where
we are going which is to something different. Be willing to
see what you love in your life, change what does not work,
be mindful of your THOUGHTS as they will be supported
as they are a request. Change the word “negative” with
“non-beneficial” as see what begins to shift in your world.
And breathe. Become aware. You are waking up – on
purpose. It is ok where you are, experiencing what you
need at this time. Allow the heart to be still when needed,
and then give yourself permission to expand – that’s the
puzzle I see. And when I blink, I see more of you shining
brighter!
Breathe, notice what you notice to be different about you, let
go, let go, let go of what you no longer need and be open to
what is different. And allow others the same.
~Bright Star.
Copyright 2007-2009 all articles are the personal property of Cheryl Kaufmann
and Bright Star Inspirations. Sharing information is permitted without written
consent but must be accompanied by acknowledgment of the source via this
website, author's name and/or business.
Usually when I sit to write an article for the website, it is
usually in a place where I “feel” the article develop. It is
like it comes from a deeper place within, not just my head
dictating and fingers typing. And yet this time, there has
been a stillness. So many people making their transitions,
Ed McMahn, Farrah Faucet, Michael Jackson, pitchman
Billy Mays, master impressionist Fred Travalena, and actor
Karl Marlden all passed away this week. Reports that
Patrick Swayze and Walter Cronkite’s health are a concern
to many. The world is asking questions about what is going
on that so many people are passing away. But it is not just
this week. There are many places across the globe where a
story is being told about someone’s life, legacy and
adventures. It sometimes just takes a few familiar faces to
get our attention. Farrah’s story could have easily been
someone’s mother or grandmother.
This is not a time of grief in the big picture. Although we
are all entitled to the way we process when our paths cross
and the way in which we walk side by side and the way we
part ways, there is a shift greater than any news tagline
could possibly encompass. These individuals held onto a
particular energy and served a purpose for their own
journey, but also they held a space in the big puzzle of life
and now their piece is put into its place with a soft click.
That means we get to benefit and see a little more of the
picture. Where are we going? What does it look like?
My take on it is this: it’s not the image on the outside of the
puzzle box. We as a whole have shifted an entire level, if
not multiple levels of our consciousness, the capacities of
our hearts, what we can internalize intuitively and how we
connect, what we tolerate and what is now ok to let go. We
breathe deeper, we see clearer, we move with greater ease.
How? You ask. I know there are reports of great turmoil in
the world. What I speak of is not ignoring the world in
which we live in and understanding it is growing, but rather
to appreciate what is different. What is new in our world
that was not there before? I love the quote Dr. Richard
Bartlett uses when he says, “we have all been trained to see
what’s wrong with us. . . .We need to see what’s changing –
changes happen in the blinks of our eyes.”
And so it is, I believe, that whoever got the puzzle going did
us a great service (consciousness awakening). And now
that we are getting the hang of it, the original picture has
changed – as fast as we blink. People that have completed
their purpose in holding energy that was part of a different
kind of picture may choose to leave at this time. The great
joy in this is we benefit from their knowledge, their life
experiences and as this piece is placed into the puzzle it
changes the moment it comes in contact with the rest. Some
may like to call it being the water drop in an ocean –
without all the drops it would not be the vast sea, and yet the
individual drop becomes part of a greater whole.
So when we have losses in life what changes? Sometimes,
the “losses” are really what saves a life. Sometimes it is
what finally gives a person the courage to find their voice or
set boundaries. Sometimes it finally puts together an “ah-
ha” moment of appreciation that is a deeper gift. It does not
mean we will always understand it. What is poison to one,
may be the cure for another. Allow it to be what it is.
So as you reflect on the shifts and changes in the world, you
are free to feel as deeply as you wish as a mass experience,
which you are a part of here on Momma Earth. I know for
me, when Steve Irwin died, I literally felt his spirit go
across the globe like a breeze and it was as if he personally
and individually thanked every creature he ever had contact
with as gratitude and dispersion of his love for critters and
humans. It was magnificent.
What is different? I appreciate. I see differently. I wonder
differently. I opinionate differently – and make up my own
words to express it. I ponder how many pieces of the puzzle
I can put into place by just experiencing and sharing. I
allow. And I trust. I say no. I say yes.
The stories we read about in the celebrity scene are not
unique to just them. They do, however, remind us of where
we are going which is to something different. Be willing to
see what you love in your life, change what does not work,
be mindful of your THOUGHTS as they will be supported
as they are a request. Change the word “negative” with
“non-beneficial” as see what begins to shift in your world.
And breathe. Become aware. You are waking up – on
purpose. It is ok where you are, experiencing what you
need at this time. Allow the heart to be still when needed,
and then give yourself permission to expand – that’s the
puzzle I see. And when I blink, I see more of you shining
brighter!
Breathe, notice what you notice to be different about you, let
go, let go, let go of what you no longer need and be open to
what is different. And allow others the same.
~Bright Star.
Copyright 2007-2009 all articles are the personal property of Cheryl Kaufmann
and Bright Star Inspirations. Sharing information is permitted without written
consent but must be accompanied by acknowledgment of the source via this
website, author's name and/or business.
Friday, June 5, 2009
June 2009 Giggle Gifts: a "little reminder" article.
Giggle Gifts
A “little reminder” article.
I’m sure many of you have heard of the expression “Laughter is the best medicine.” Sometimes there are legitimate explanations for such remedies and sometimes there is only the sound of laughter itself that will cure a serious heart. While attending a workshop in Seattle I came across firsthand what the stream of unexpected “tee-hees” can do. A couple from Florida with straight stoic gazes attended the same workshop I did and sat not too far from where my hotel roommate, Amy, and I had situated ourselves during an evening break-out session. A presenter and several audience participants demonstrating a specific technique stood upon a stage in front of just under 500 hundred people. The lights were lowered and the key lights for the stage were lit. And then it happened.
On the far right side of the ballroom, one woman in the front row began a small giggle, to herself mostly. It quickly spread to the ladies around her like giggle gas bubbles contaminating the air and soon these three ladies were becoming quite distracting, red faced and bouncing. It was irritating to many and a little rude to others. Their giggles began to spread to the rows behind them with just a tickle here and there to some unexpected bystander trying very hard to maintain focus on the presentation. It got to be where the giggles from the ladies in the front row on the far right side developed into out-right laughter and they chose to remove themselves chuckling right out of the ballroom and into the hall where an explosion of peals of laughter ensued that we could all hear from the now closed door.
The stoic couple I mentioned earlier looked at these women as needing to get it together, clearly they were acting out of control, which resulted in annoyance and irritation. But even though the Gigglers had left the room, their giggle germ had already spread to the people around them. Slowly, so slowly, it moved through the air to more people. Little bubbles of silliness floated around popping near me, in the center of the ballroom, and I found my own self beginning to giggle at the pure embarrassment of such an ordeal. And then it became funnier. Here I was in the middle of the ballroom, third row center and feeling the energy begin to flow in ways that at this point were becoming hard to swallow quietly. My body began to bounce and shake with slow tears escaping my eyes as I tried very hard to not repeat the experience of the Giggle ladies. I even thought to myself how annoying this must be to Amy sitting so quietly next to me; it was getting close to the bubble boiling point. It even triggered a childhood event that I never thought I would ever share in print.
I was taken back to a time where I was at church with my mom and the congregation was standing. I was bored out of my mind at age 8 or 9 and in the middle of a forest of adults a deep yawn came up and out. While I was totally engaged in this complete open mouth yawn, I burped. But since my muscles were totally occupied in the stretching of this full-bodied yawn, I could not close my mouth in time and out came a deep-from-my-gut growl – the perfect combination of a long yawn and resonating belch. I looked at my mom with wide embarrassed eyes as my mouth and gut are performing noises and stretches with what seemed to me without my consent. The people in front of us also turned around to see my mouth open spaciously, my eyes open wide and feeling out of control as my body roared on its own. I was so embarrassed and amused all at the same time that my mom and I both got the giggles so badly that it was as if we were the ladies in the front row far right side almost 25 years later at this workshop. It too closely resembled the feeling of “What can you do, now?” It is already out there.
And then it happened.
The lady from the serious couple, who a moment before was absolutely disgusted with the out of control experience of the Gigglers felt herself beginning to giggle, then deeply felt out of control in this experience. The bubbles of giddiness had settled in her lap. She decided that she would not let out the burst of laughter she felt building and tried with all her might to leave the ballroom. She stood up and looking horrified, hand to her mouth, leaning head first charged for the door as if she was about to vomit uncontrollably. She did not make it. About 12 feet from the door, she could not hold it in any longer. This disciplined woman, who the next day said she has always been so serious she did not even play as a child, was exploding with laughter so deeply that I visually saw the energy like a bucket of water being thrown – her laughter splashed all over the place and we could all hear her even once she got to the hallway hooting and cackling hysterically. That is what sent me over the edge. I then could not control my own laughter any longer. I then had to leave the ballroom, holding my own scarf over my face hoping I would at least make it to the door, unlike my “serious” friend who unleased 12 feet from the door. I left my hotel roommate and friend, Amy, alone in the ballroom as several of us aired ourselves out in the hall and around the grounds.
When I returned, the giggles in the ballroom had quieted, but not left completely. I ended up on stage with the presenter and some participants, when another participant did an action that sent my friend, Amy, into laughter she had tried to keep under wraps and out of the ballroom she went. Wave after wave, the giggles made their way across the ballroom from the far right side to front and center. I think we must have used it all up, because I heard the following day that there were a few people on the far LEFT side of the ballroom who viewed the whole thing as, you guessed it, annoying and irritating. A few even left the session, and not due to laughing. Oh, did they miss out.
Amy and I ended up with the giggles for hours, and even after that we still laid in the dark of our shared hotel room for 20-30 minutes laughing instead of sleeping. It just took one of us to breathe wrong to send us into hysterics. It was so freeing and light and life changing for the one “serious” lady as she was out of control in her laughter, her weightiness was not seen again the rest of the workshop. Not even on the way to the airport as she smiled and joked on the shuttle; I thanked her for her experience because it brought me to mine. I have not laughed that deep, that hard, that long for no apparent reason since who knows when. Whoo-wee, was that ever great.
And the presenter? I am sure some of you are asking if it was a complete disaster to the presentation. Fortunately, this particular workshop works with energy and completely understands such things. And the lady presenting has also had such experiences on stage before so she just rolled with it. At that point when a big portion of 500 people have the giggles, you can’t help but go with the flow anyway. It is contagious and liberating.
May you have the experience of complete and utter joy to the point of body-bouncing laughter, tears of unexpected heart-expanded happiness and life changing reminders how silly seriousness can be. May your heart be as blessed as mine has been in the gentle reminders of joy in unexpected ways.
And just to keep in the spirit fun, in the words of my husband, “bring home a Penguin” – whatever that means . . .
Love, love, love to you,
Bright Star
Copyright 2007-2009 all articles are the personal property of Cheryl Kaufmann
and Bright Star Inspirations. Sharing information is permitted without written
consent but must be accompanied by acknowledgment of the source via this
website, author's name and/or business.
A “little reminder” article.
I’m sure many of you have heard of the expression “Laughter is the best medicine.” Sometimes there are legitimate explanations for such remedies and sometimes there is only the sound of laughter itself that will cure a serious heart. While attending a workshop in Seattle I came across firsthand what the stream of unexpected “tee-hees” can do. A couple from Florida with straight stoic gazes attended the same workshop I did and sat not too far from where my hotel roommate, Amy, and I had situated ourselves during an evening break-out session. A presenter and several audience participants demonstrating a specific technique stood upon a stage in front of just under 500 hundred people. The lights were lowered and the key lights for the stage were lit. And then it happened.
On the far right side of the ballroom, one woman in the front row began a small giggle, to herself mostly. It quickly spread to the ladies around her like giggle gas bubbles contaminating the air and soon these three ladies were becoming quite distracting, red faced and bouncing. It was irritating to many and a little rude to others. Their giggles began to spread to the rows behind them with just a tickle here and there to some unexpected bystander trying very hard to maintain focus on the presentation. It got to be where the giggles from the ladies in the front row on the far right side developed into out-right laughter and they chose to remove themselves chuckling right out of the ballroom and into the hall where an explosion of peals of laughter ensued that we could all hear from the now closed door.
The stoic couple I mentioned earlier looked at these women as needing to get it together, clearly they were acting out of control, which resulted in annoyance and irritation. But even though the Gigglers had left the room, their giggle germ had already spread to the people around them. Slowly, so slowly, it moved through the air to more people. Little bubbles of silliness floated around popping near me, in the center of the ballroom, and I found my own self beginning to giggle at the pure embarrassment of such an ordeal. And then it became funnier. Here I was in the middle of the ballroom, third row center and feeling the energy begin to flow in ways that at this point were becoming hard to swallow quietly. My body began to bounce and shake with slow tears escaping my eyes as I tried very hard to not repeat the experience of the Giggle ladies. I even thought to myself how annoying this must be to Amy sitting so quietly next to me; it was getting close to the bubble boiling point. It even triggered a childhood event that I never thought I would ever share in print.
I was taken back to a time where I was at church with my mom and the congregation was standing. I was bored out of my mind at age 8 or 9 and in the middle of a forest of adults a deep yawn came up and out. While I was totally engaged in this complete open mouth yawn, I burped. But since my muscles were totally occupied in the stretching of this full-bodied yawn, I could not close my mouth in time and out came a deep-from-my-gut growl – the perfect combination of a long yawn and resonating belch. I looked at my mom with wide embarrassed eyes as my mouth and gut are performing noises and stretches with what seemed to me without my consent. The people in front of us also turned around to see my mouth open spaciously, my eyes open wide and feeling out of control as my body roared on its own. I was so embarrassed and amused all at the same time that my mom and I both got the giggles so badly that it was as if we were the ladies in the front row far right side almost 25 years later at this workshop. It too closely resembled the feeling of “What can you do, now?” It is already out there.
And then it happened.
The lady from the serious couple, who a moment before was absolutely disgusted with the out of control experience of the Gigglers felt herself beginning to giggle, then deeply felt out of control in this experience. The bubbles of giddiness had settled in her lap. She decided that she would not let out the burst of laughter she felt building and tried with all her might to leave the ballroom. She stood up and looking horrified, hand to her mouth, leaning head first charged for the door as if she was about to vomit uncontrollably. She did not make it. About 12 feet from the door, she could not hold it in any longer. This disciplined woman, who the next day said she has always been so serious she did not even play as a child, was exploding with laughter so deeply that I visually saw the energy like a bucket of water being thrown – her laughter splashed all over the place and we could all hear her even once she got to the hallway hooting and cackling hysterically. That is what sent me over the edge. I then could not control my own laughter any longer. I then had to leave the ballroom, holding my own scarf over my face hoping I would at least make it to the door, unlike my “serious” friend who unleased 12 feet from the door. I left my hotel roommate and friend, Amy, alone in the ballroom as several of us aired ourselves out in the hall and around the grounds.
When I returned, the giggles in the ballroom had quieted, but not left completely. I ended up on stage with the presenter and some participants, when another participant did an action that sent my friend, Amy, into laughter she had tried to keep under wraps and out of the ballroom she went. Wave after wave, the giggles made their way across the ballroom from the far right side to front and center. I think we must have used it all up, because I heard the following day that there were a few people on the far LEFT side of the ballroom who viewed the whole thing as, you guessed it, annoying and irritating. A few even left the session, and not due to laughing. Oh, did they miss out.
Amy and I ended up with the giggles for hours, and even after that we still laid in the dark of our shared hotel room for 20-30 minutes laughing instead of sleeping. It just took one of us to breathe wrong to send us into hysterics. It was so freeing and light and life changing for the one “serious” lady as she was out of control in her laughter, her weightiness was not seen again the rest of the workshop. Not even on the way to the airport as she smiled and joked on the shuttle; I thanked her for her experience because it brought me to mine. I have not laughed that deep, that hard, that long for no apparent reason since who knows when. Whoo-wee, was that ever great.
And the presenter? I am sure some of you are asking if it was a complete disaster to the presentation. Fortunately, this particular workshop works with energy and completely understands such things. And the lady presenting has also had such experiences on stage before so she just rolled with it. At that point when a big portion of 500 people have the giggles, you can’t help but go with the flow anyway. It is contagious and liberating.
May you have the experience of complete and utter joy to the point of body-bouncing laughter, tears of unexpected heart-expanded happiness and life changing reminders how silly seriousness can be. May your heart be as blessed as mine has been in the gentle reminders of joy in unexpected ways.
And just to keep in the spirit fun, in the words of my husband, “bring home a Penguin” – whatever that means . . .
Love, love, love to you,
Bright Star
Copyright 2007-2009 all articles are the personal property of Cheryl Kaufmann
and Bright Star Inspirations. Sharing information is permitted without written
consent but must be accompanied by acknowledgment of the source via this
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May 2009 Collecting Crystals, the treasure hunt.
Collecting Crystals, the treasure hunt.
While walking along the beach, a landscape of endless grains of sand are before you. Your toes sink with each pressure change from heel to toe, from step to step, from shifting in motion to maintaining balance while still; it supports you. These grains of sand, too numerous to count are each themselves small pieces of dirt, rock, minerals, shells, bone and crystals. When an unblemished shell is found in this vast terrain of sand granules, a treasure is in the hands of the one who picked it up. And while to another, the broken shell with swirls of colors is far more interesting. The treasure is still in the heart of the observer.
Imagine if you will, Dear Observer, a cluster of perfect crystals with powerful terminations (points) and flawless color. Where we find this cluster of immense sustaining beauty is within our sense of Being and our heart. Sometimes as we go through our journey we feel compelled to share our love and light by distributing this great inner beauty by giving a piece of crystal structure to another. If we distribute enough of our crystal pieces to others, we are left with a very small piece of our self. It is in this example that we give ourselves away, trying to please those around us, trying to create connections with others in a way that we hope they will see value in us. When we return to the person and ask them, quiet innocently, “Are you taking good care of that part of me?” The person will probably say yes. If asked repeatedly it changes the meaning to, “I need you to take care of me.” If we ask enough times how well the person is taking care of us, the person may just decide that this is a) obviously something very special and may want to return it to its rightful owner to have it be in its proper location or b) decide that if they need to take that much care of it, it inhibits their own movement in life and they wish to give it back.
The one who has handed out all his special crystals pieces no longer has the solid foundation in themselves any longer – all personal power is in the hands of others. When an occasion of a returning of a piece of Self/crystal piece takes place, it can be viewed as rejection -
“You’re giving it back?!” translates to “You don’t want me?” It is the lack of person foundation that has created a sense of un-empowerment. As pieces of ourselves come back to us, the opportunity for gratitude in the recreation of inner strength presents itself. It really does not have to be about rejection, but more about reconnection. There are gifts both ways when pieces of puzzles are put into place, even if it wasn’t the piece we were looking for.
If we choose to view transformations and avenues in creating healing, even if it does not appear to look that way initially, there is great power in this choice. Whether we are handing crystals back to their owners (not being responsible for others’ wellbeing/ happiness/ sustainability) or asking for our pieces to return to us (speaking up for ourselves, choosing differently, thinking more highly of ourselves) change takes place.
I have told many of my clients and students lately that even if we don’t see an immediate change before our eyes when we are working with energy in my studio, the trajectory has still changed in their life- both of our lives actuality. Small or big in the angle of change, change is still change. And transformation can alter a life. It can heal a heart, free a spirit, give a voice to the quiet and melody to a song. What we see as change can be treasure if we choose to allow ourselves the opportunity to hold it, bringing the pieces back to the solid foundation it was meant to be.
We share ourselves in many ways; we give of our time, our food, our homes, our material goods, our shoulders and ears. We play, laugh and cry. We express emotions, share interests, point out other ways to see things; we are connected already. There is no need to give yourself AWAY. Everything – EVERYTHING – is a treasure. Even what one sees as broken will fit the perfect opening somewhere. In quantum physics, all things are possible. If all things are possible, why not you just being you, complete and whole, broken or still in the plastic factory seal – you are a treasure to someone – Yourself as an expression of Divinity.
So I challenge you – It’s time to go on a treasure hunt. It is your purpose in life to find all the crystal pieces you have hidden or given away. No one can take them from you without your consent. They are yours and it is of your power they change direction and location. All those pieces that are scattered in the hands of others bring them back in to your life. All those pieces that you are holding on to that do not belong to you, it is time for them to return home. Home to the place where joy and peace and love reside – in the hearts and inner Beings of each of us.
May your journey be blessed in the finding of your most precious treasure – yourself. It is in the finding of you that you find you are as vast as the sand beneath your feet – shifting in motion and maintaining balance when still. In finding you, you find the bigger picture and connections to all you were seeking in the first place; love.
In this space, there is no need to guard, horde, protect, or feel violated if one approaches such a treasure as yours. They simply see your beauty and find value in you being you (and wasn’t that what you were seeking in the first place?). Go, treasure hunters, it is time to collect crystals. May your gems shine brighter than you had ever known to imagine.
~Bright Star
Copyright 2007-2009 all articles are the personal property of Cheryl Kaufmann
and Bright Star Inspirations. Sharing information is permitted without written
consent but must be accompanied by acknowledgment of the source via this
website, author's name and/or business.
While walking along the beach, a landscape of endless grains of sand are before you. Your toes sink with each pressure change from heel to toe, from step to step, from shifting in motion to maintaining balance while still; it supports you. These grains of sand, too numerous to count are each themselves small pieces of dirt, rock, minerals, shells, bone and crystals. When an unblemished shell is found in this vast terrain of sand granules, a treasure is in the hands of the one who picked it up. And while to another, the broken shell with swirls of colors is far more interesting. The treasure is still in the heart of the observer.
Imagine if you will, Dear Observer, a cluster of perfect crystals with powerful terminations (points) and flawless color. Where we find this cluster of immense sustaining beauty is within our sense of Being and our heart. Sometimes as we go through our journey we feel compelled to share our love and light by distributing this great inner beauty by giving a piece of crystal structure to another. If we distribute enough of our crystal pieces to others, we are left with a very small piece of our self. It is in this example that we give ourselves away, trying to please those around us, trying to create connections with others in a way that we hope they will see value in us. When we return to the person and ask them, quiet innocently, “Are you taking good care of that part of me?” The person will probably say yes. If asked repeatedly it changes the meaning to, “I need you to take care of me.” If we ask enough times how well the person is taking care of us, the person may just decide that this is a) obviously something very special and may want to return it to its rightful owner to have it be in its proper location or b) decide that if they need to take that much care of it, it inhibits their own movement in life and they wish to give it back.
The one who has handed out all his special crystals pieces no longer has the solid foundation in themselves any longer – all personal power is in the hands of others. When an occasion of a returning of a piece of Self/crystal piece takes place, it can be viewed as rejection -
“You’re giving it back?!” translates to “You don’t want me?” It is the lack of person foundation that has created a sense of un-empowerment. As pieces of ourselves come back to us, the opportunity for gratitude in the recreation of inner strength presents itself. It really does not have to be about rejection, but more about reconnection. There are gifts both ways when pieces of puzzles are put into place, even if it wasn’t the piece we were looking for.
If we choose to view transformations and avenues in creating healing, even if it does not appear to look that way initially, there is great power in this choice. Whether we are handing crystals back to their owners (not being responsible for others’ wellbeing/ happiness/ sustainability) or asking for our pieces to return to us (speaking up for ourselves, choosing differently, thinking more highly of ourselves) change takes place.
I have told many of my clients and students lately that even if we don’t see an immediate change before our eyes when we are working with energy in my studio, the trajectory has still changed in their life- both of our lives actuality. Small or big in the angle of change, change is still change. And transformation can alter a life. It can heal a heart, free a spirit, give a voice to the quiet and melody to a song. What we see as change can be treasure if we choose to allow ourselves the opportunity to hold it, bringing the pieces back to the solid foundation it was meant to be.
We share ourselves in many ways; we give of our time, our food, our homes, our material goods, our shoulders and ears. We play, laugh and cry. We express emotions, share interests, point out other ways to see things; we are connected already. There is no need to give yourself AWAY. Everything – EVERYTHING – is a treasure. Even what one sees as broken will fit the perfect opening somewhere. In quantum physics, all things are possible. If all things are possible, why not you just being you, complete and whole, broken or still in the plastic factory seal – you are a treasure to someone – Yourself as an expression of Divinity.
So I challenge you – It’s time to go on a treasure hunt. It is your purpose in life to find all the crystal pieces you have hidden or given away. No one can take them from you without your consent. They are yours and it is of your power they change direction and location. All those pieces that are scattered in the hands of others bring them back in to your life. All those pieces that you are holding on to that do not belong to you, it is time for them to return home. Home to the place where joy and peace and love reside – in the hearts and inner Beings of each of us.
May your journey be blessed in the finding of your most precious treasure – yourself. It is in the finding of you that you find you are as vast as the sand beneath your feet – shifting in motion and maintaining balance when still. In finding you, you find the bigger picture and connections to all you were seeking in the first place; love.
In this space, there is no need to guard, horde, protect, or feel violated if one approaches such a treasure as yours. They simply see your beauty and find value in you being you (and wasn’t that what you were seeking in the first place?). Go, treasure hunters, it is time to collect crystals. May your gems shine brighter than you had ever known to imagine.
~Bright Star
Copyright 2007-2009 all articles are the personal property of Cheryl Kaufmann
and Bright Star Inspirations. Sharing information is permitted without written
consent but must be accompanied by acknowledgment of the source via this
website, author's name and/or business.
April 2009 Keep your Eye off the Ball.
Keep your eye off the ball.
In our society, we have been so incredibly trained to keep our eye on the ball that we begin to lose sight of all that around us. And not only that, but according to quantum physics, as long as I keep my eye on the ball I effect its ability to change by simply gazing up on. How does that work, you ask? I may not be able to explain the same way as a physicist would, but I would love to share an example or two of taking your eye off the ball.
In our efforts to figure “stuff” out, whether it is what is wrong with our physical body or why your spouse acts the way they do, or why childhood things still creep into your decision making process as an adult, or how to get out of stuck places, we search for the initial problem. I have studied many modalities where going to the source of the problem can be the key to clearing up the issue. I happen to be one of those people out there who can tap into past lives and other realities, so finding the source of the issue might mean something different to me than it does to you. However, in our infinitely creative ways of being, sometimes if our brain knows what “really” happened, it dwells on it rather than just using the information to go forward. So trained have we been to describe what is wrong. The lists of symptoms, the reasons why we can’t, won’t, don’t do what we really want to do. Ugh. We have been trained very well to find the problem.
I’d like to retrain you. Or detrain. Or rather entrain. Entrainment, not entertainment (although that is just as valuable), is that moment when two or more things come to a place of single rhythm. Like 10 people singing. At first they will be higher, lower, louder, softer; all different and easy to pick out whom is who doing what. Then after a bit, the voices will naturally begin to meld together in pace, quality and it appears they have found a place on an unseen grid to slide their sounds on with ease. Kind of like a ballerina on ice skates; effortless beauty, gliding with grace.
In a recent workshop I took, I loved the way of describing letting go. Most people don’t really understand the concept of letting go. They are afraid if they let go it might go away. Of course, many of might think, and wouldn’t that be the point? Yeah, for the other rest of us, it would be. But remember, we have been trained! Must keep our eye on the ball! If you quit watching the ball and it changed, what would you watch then? If we didn’t have our things wrong with us, who would we be?
Dr. Richard Bartlett of Matrix Energetics describes the idea using quantum physics in a wonderful way. For our purposes, and for fun, I’ll describe it with my own take on it. If we look at our list of symptoms as the problem, it is natural that we would like to find the solution. If I find the solution, which ball am I going to keep my eye on – the problem or the solution? If I keep my eye on the problem, the mere act of my gaze locks the problem into an experience of my limiting watchful eye. If I stare at the solution, it is in essence not allowing it to move forward because I’m staring at it. Finding a solution to a problem in our previous training brings two images to mind: 1) telling the issue it can go and yet holding onto the belt loop so it can’t move. And 2) Conversely, it reminds me of the old gag my dad would pull with his hand on my head keeping me at arm’s length so I couldn’t touch him no matter how I stretched my arms toward his body. Neither position allows full movement of neither the problem nor the solution to create change.
Now what if just for a moment it didn’t matter to me what the outcome was. Just for a moment. In that quick moment, an instantaneous miracle could absolutely take place. How? Because in the moment that I said I wasn’t personally invested in the outcome, it is like taking my hands out of the belt loop. In those 60 seconds, opportunity for change is present. And we all have heard the saying about liking the present, because that means gifts!
In quantum physics, it is stated that human consciousness does indeed have a force. Intention has a force. This force can be harnessed, yes. But what if when we moved our human consciousness out of the moving force and just let the intention and magic of the molecules do their stuff, just for a second, you open up to infinite possibilities. When you look at anything, you settle your eyes on only one possibility, which is sometimes called collapsing the wave into manifestation or into being. What if there was a possibility that served you, but had more than what your brain could imagine! Wouldn’t you think about maybe giving door #2 a try if it became a possibility, if you knew there was a door #2? You might have to not look at door #1 to notice . . .
If we could allow ourselves the experience of entrainment to the what if’s of incredible possibilities, the doors of opportunity blow open with a breeze of far greater potential than we have been trained to look for. You don’t have to hold that space forever if you are not ready to do that yet. You are entitled to watch that ball, and see it up close and personal when it hits you square. Or you can be willing to step into the possibility of what if at the last minute it curved? Or I can imagine Dr. Bartlett saying, “Or turned into a ball of blue slime?” Ok you might not be ready for that lesson in quantum physics, but I think you can handle relaxing for a minute.
The point I am trying to make is there are an infinite number of possibilities of any particular situation and view point. If I identify a place that I would like to see change and know there is a solution out there, the best choice I can make is to allow the solution to make the changes by moving out of the way. This is not to be confused with passive behavior, or waiting for God to handle it for you. It is an active participation in energy movement and then a softening, an allowing of transition to take place with a greater potential than I could possibly imagine.
On the scientific level, photons move in two directions. If a trauma or injury or block of some sort is moving in one direction, the inverse of that energy can be identified from the other direction. When the inverse energy comes from the opposite direction and crosses the path with the block, it cancels itself out. Homeopathy calls that like cancels like. This is how miracles happen. A change in energy changes the outcome. It changes the perspective. It changes the body.
Another great example of Dr. Bartlett is throwing a rock in a pond. You can control which rock you choose, but once it leaves your hand, the magic that happens is beyond your control; concentric circles of moving energy through the water. These changes I am speaking of here are like the moment you throw the rock, there is a relaxing, a breath you take, like taking your eyes off the ball, allowing changes to move like ripples in the body, healing occurs.
So let’s return to entraining. Imagine that you now become the water and you throw your own rock (or coin into a wishing well, if you like). Imagine when your rock or coin drops into the water, you have made your wish. Now, step back from it, disengage just for a moment from the outcome. Just observe the movement. Feel what it would feel like if the ripples moved through your body, gently, consistently, rhythmically. When you can become entrained in the motion with the waves and just BE in the energy, not forcing change, not making them bigger or smaller, just allowing – it is in that moment you have taken your eye off the ball, so to speak, and are allowing the quantum physics of changes to manifest. By not looking, change happens, by throwing the rock or coin, change has been initiated, but releasing lets it manifest.
Give it a try. Just see what happens. Dr. Bartlett says to simply “notice what you notice.” Don’t force, just be. And instead of looking for what is wrong after you give it a try, ask yourself what is different. Move forward in your thinking. If you are not sure, just keep asking, “What is different?” Even something as small as a deep breath can be significant.
Live well, love well, be well.
~Bright Star
Copyright 2007-2009 all articles are the personal property of Cheryl Kaufmann
and Bright Star Inspirations. Sharing information is permitted without written
consent but must be accompanied by acknowledgment of the source via this
website, author's name and/or business.
In our society, we have been so incredibly trained to keep our eye on the ball that we begin to lose sight of all that around us. And not only that, but according to quantum physics, as long as I keep my eye on the ball I effect its ability to change by simply gazing up on. How does that work, you ask? I may not be able to explain the same way as a physicist would, but I would love to share an example or two of taking your eye off the ball.
In our efforts to figure “stuff” out, whether it is what is wrong with our physical body or why your spouse acts the way they do, or why childhood things still creep into your decision making process as an adult, or how to get out of stuck places, we search for the initial problem. I have studied many modalities where going to the source of the problem can be the key to clearing up the issue. I happen to be one of those people out there who can tap into past lives and other realities, so finding the source of the issue might mean something different to me than it does to you. However, in our infinitely creative ways of being, sometimes if our brain knows what “really” happened, it dwells on it rather than just using the information to go forward. So trained have we been to describe what is wrong. The lists of symptoms, the reasons why we can’t, won’t, don’t do what we really want to do. Ugh. We have been trained very well to find the problem.
I’d like to retrain you. Or detrain. Or rather entrain. Entrainment, not entertainment (although that is just as valuable), is that moment when two or more things come to a place of single rhythm. Like 10 people singing. At first they will be higher, lower, louder, softer; all different and easy to pick out whom is who doing what. Then after a bit, the voices will naturally begin to meld together in pace, quality and it appears they have found a place on an unseen grid to slide their sounds on with ease. Kind of like a ballerina on ice skates; effortless beauty, gliding with grace.
In a recent workshop I took, I loved the way of describing letting go. Most people don’t really understand the concept of letting go. They are afraid if they let go it might go away. Of course, many of might think, and wouldn’t that be the point? Yeah, for the other rest of us, it would be. But remember, we have been trained! Must keep our eye on the ball! If you quit watching the ball and it changed, what would you watch then? If we didn’t have our things wrong with us, who would we be?
Dr. Richard Bartlett of Matrix Energetics describes the idea using quantum physics in a wonderful way. For our purposes, and for fun, I’ll describe it with my own take on it. If we look at our list of symptoms as the problem, it is natural that we would like to find the solution. If I find the solution, which ball am I going to keep my eye on – the problem or the solution? If I keep my eye on the problem, the mere act of my gaze locks the problem into an experience of my limiting watchful eye. If I stare at the solution, it is in essence not allowing it to move forward because I’m staring at it. Finding a solution to a problem in our previous training brings two images to mind: 1) telling the issue it can go and yet holding onto the belt loop so it can’t move. And 2) Conversely, it reminds me of the old gag my dad would pull with his hand on my head keeping me at arm’s length so I couldn’t touch him no matter how I stretched my arms toward his body. Neither position allows full movement of neither the problem nor the solution to create change.
Now what if just for a moment it didn’t matter to me what the outcome was. Just for a moment. In that quick moment, an instantaneous miracle could absolutely take place. How? Because in the moment that I said I wasn’t personally invested in the outcome, it is like taking my hands out of the belt loop. In those 60 seconds, opportunity for change is present. And we all have heard the saying about liking the present, because that means gifts!
In quantum physics, it is stated that human consciousness does indeed have a force. Intention has a force. This force can be harnessed, yes. But what if when we moved our human consciousness out of the moving force and just let the intention and magic of the molecules do their stuff, just for a second, you open up to infinite possibilities. When you look at anything, you settle your eyes on only one possibility, which is sometimes called collapsing the wave into manifestation or into being. What if there was a possibility that served you, but had more than what your brain could imagine! Wouldn’t you think about maybe giving door #2 a try if it became a possibility, if you knew there was a door #2? You might have to not look at door #1 to notice . . .
If we could allow ourselves the experience of entrainment to the what if’s of incredible possibilities, the doors of opportunity blow open with a breeze of far greater potential than we have been trained to look for. You don’t have to hold that space forever if you are not ready to do that yet. You are entitled to watch that ball, and see it up close and personal when it hits you square. Or you can be willing to step into the possibility of what if at the last minute it curved? Or I can imagine Dr. Bartlett saying, “Or turned into a ball of blue slime?” Ok you might not be ready for that lesson in quantum physics, but I think you can handle relaxing for a minute.
The point I am trying to make is there are an infinite number of possibilities of any particular situation and view point. If I identify a place that I would like to see change and know there is a solution out there, the best choice I can make is to allow the solution to make the changes by moving out of the way. This is not to be confused with passive behavior, or waiting for God to handle it for you. It is an active participation in energy movement and then a softening, an allowing of transition to take place with a greater potential than I could possibly imagine.
On the scientific level, photons move in two directions. If a trauma or injury or block of some sort is moving in one direction, the inverse of that energy can be identified from the other direction. When the inverse energy comes from the opposite direction and crosses the path with the block, it cancels itself out. Homeopathy calls that like cancels like. This is how miracles happen. A change in energy changes the outcome. It changes the perspective. It changes the body.
Another great example of Dr. Bartlett is throwing a rock in a pond. You can control which rock you choose, but once it leaves your hand, the magic that happens is beyond your control; concentric circles of moving energy through the water. These changes I am speaking of here are like the moment you throw the rock, there is a relaxing, a breath you take, like taking your eyes off the ball, allowing changes to move like ripples in the body, healing occurs.
So let’s return to entraining. Imagine that you now become the water and you throw your own rock (or coin into a wishing well, if you like). Imagine when your rock or coin drops into the water, you have made your wish. Now, step back from it, disengage just for a moment from the outcome. Just observe the movement. Feel what it would feel like if the ripples moved through your body, gently, consistently, rhythmically. When you can become entrained in the motion with the waves and just BE in the energy, not forcing change, not making them bigger or smaller, just allowing – it is in that moment you have taken your eye off the ball, so to speak, and are allowing the quantum physics of changes to manifest. By not looking, change happens, by throwing the rock or coin, change has been initiated, but releasing lets it manifest.
Give it a try. Just see what happens. Dr. Bartlett says to simply “notice what you notice.” Don’t force, just be. And instead of looking for what is wrong after you give it a try, ask yourself what is different. Move forward in your thinking. If you are not sure, just keep asking, “What is different?” Even something as small as a deep breath can be significant.
Live well, love well, be well.
~Bright Star
Copyright 2007-2009 all articles are the personal property of Cheryl Kaufmann
and Bright Star Inspirations. Sharing information is permitted without written
consent but must be accompanied by acknowledgment of the source via this
website, author's name and/or business.
Sunday, March 1, 2009
The Answer to No Answer.
Occasionally, I do an unexpected research journey. By this I mean I am taken from one subject to another via the vast internet that somehow mysteriously leads me to the perfect tidbit of information either for myself or another. I am sure I am not unique in this phenomenon. It is like I am lead down a serious of hallways and doors just to find treasures with each opening. And sometimes I am there just to take a peek, other times I get to take “home” a souvenir. In one such case I was led link by link to a blog authored by Fred Alan Wolf (I’m still not sure how I ended up on his blog page, but it was fun to find). He is best known as the wild and crazy quantum physicist in the movie “What the Bleep do we know?” In one of his blog spots he relayed one of the many stories of Buddha.
In this story, Buddha is approached by a follower who asks, “Is there a soul?” Buddha responds with silence. The man then rephrases and asks, “My Lord, is there no soul?” Buddha again says nothing. The man leaves with no answers. A disciple who had been watching the whole event approaches and asks Buddha why did he not answer the man’s question – either one of them. Buddha calmly responds, had he answered yes to the first question, he would be supporting the ideology and all implications that come with indeed there is a soul. Had he answered yes to the second question, Buddha would be supporting the suggestions of all those who believe there is no soul. In fact, Buddha goes on to say to his disciple, that both are correct and both are of no consequence. To explain to the student that we are both a soul and not a soul would create confusion. An attempt to explain that a soul does AND does not exist would not help the questioner. In my words, it is like saying there would be no compartment for such information and trying to it fit into any particular box would produce turmoil rather than peace.
Mr. Wolf goes on to imply that in science and those who really understand the nature of science have an understanding that there are no absolutes. That even “hard” evidence in being able to reproduce a result does not mean it is ever “the end”. Even I recall from basic science, energy is in motion and only changes shape and form, but does not disappear. And thus, those who understand the deepest levels of science, in particular the large percentage of science that is apparent but not absolutely provable by “hard” evidence such as quantum physics, also know that to explain the deepest levels of our spiritual mystical selves is just as impossible and will change and move much like “energy” changing shape and form, but never disappearing.
Thus we are left with the quandaries of conflicting information, no absolutes and an answer to one question may counter the next question. And yet it is possible for both to be correct. Our outlook in life so often gives us this experience where we wish to have an absolute, an unshakable solid ground in which we know we can stand upon. Yet, again as we delve into science, the solid ground really isn’t solid, now is it? There is a lot of space between those molecules that make up dirt and rock. Our ideas make up our world and create expectations in which our world shall appear before us. Thus we go out to prove an answer to one of our questions.
Friends and family give input to their theories and provings of their experiments of what they know and what they have read, etc. Perhaps they have found (or been told to find) a certain answer. When we begin to question and search and find that maybe, just maybe, it is more than, it can create confusion like Buddha’s curious one had Buddha answered. And when we begin to create an idea of our own truth, finding ways that do not “fit in the box” may bring feelings of being separated for some.
When I was in college, I decided that I could not decide on being an art major or a creative writing major. So I decided to conduct my own personal experiment and take an art class and a writing class (both upper levels) in a single semester and see which one was more fun when taken seriously. The winner would be my major. Silly as it sounds as a means to pick a journey of a lifetime, it was the easiest way for me to see what I would do surrounded in the energy of such an exercise. So I wrote and I created art. I chose art in the end, deciding that writing just took too much of my time. I had other things to do, like study my favorite classes of philosophy and philosophy of religion. It was not on my radar yet to have a third option as a life passion, since I asked only two questions: Is it art? Is it writing? It was not until much later did I realize that while I loved learning and doing art, what really held my attention was the philosophical perspectives people held and how these very beliefs created a day, a marriage, a life, and a death. And how these beliefs can create change or prohibit change.
Had someone suggested philosophy as a possibility it would have created confusion for me in that semester of proving my major. I was focused elsewhere – art or words, art or words, what do you mean “thoughts/beliefs?” I had no way of knowing that once I moved into the possibilities of myself that all and none of the above would be so present in my life. My very being is filled with creative expressions with writing these articles, writing books and manuals for my students, recording a CD, designing my studio space. It is both my “majors” that I thought I had to choose between. But most importantly, the assimilation of the both together, along with the third “option” of philosophy is very present in my life. I teach others to expand thinking out of the box. I show others “door number 3” (and 4 and 5 and 6, etc.). The journey does not end. There are no absolutes. There is nothing for you to prove except what you know is true for you. And that truth is an energy, moving and changing shape, but never disappearing.
As you grow, expand, have experiences, do experiments, prove findings, you will also find the further you explore any subject, there really is no “it.” The “it” factor that is so important in the beginning of many of our journeys is like telling Buddha or any other deity,” give me the yes and I’ll finally know the truth.” When the lead character in Kung Fu Panda, Po, realizes that there is no secret ingredient (sorry about the spoiler) in his Dad’s special soup, his father explains, the people believe it is special therefore it is so. “There is no secret ingredient” and yet belief is the actual secret ingredient. It may not have been a scientifically provable physical ingredient, but the metaphysical ingredient is present.
My dear ones, questions we ask ourselves are often meant to get us moving toward a direction. “Hmm, I wonder what that is about?” I ask as I click from link to link to find another groovy internet educational, philosophical or artistic expression. Whether I am lead by my own soul or by no soul at all, I only know that I am lead. I do know that deep in my own heart, I contain some kind of secret ingredient. And it is an ingredient worth sharing, regardless of physical authenticity. As are you.
Like the season of seasons, pepper of events, and the salt of experience, moving into the possibility of who you are and living it can be out of box. And yet, when one person steps forward into their possibilities, the energy changes shape all around you! Nothing disappears, nothing is left behind that you find valuable. It is interesting, though, what we find of value does change. Do not be concerned about unanswered questions nor the ideas of what you started with. It changes and so will you. The only thing I know for certain is in this moment I feel all spaces between the solid appearances. And in this moment, change happens. It is both still and moving. All and none. I type, I write, I am none of these words and yet they come from me, or rather more accurately, through me. To be confused is to mean that you know of something or you would not know to be confused. Thus we begin to ask, and then we change. Share what you know, be open to change, believe that there is always more, always more!
Take heart, you may not have answers for others when they ask you, either. Sometimes we grow when the answers that are placed before us are not to the questions we ask, but to the questions we have yet to ask. Let the Earth breathe wonders upon you and the ocean, well, the Sufi poet and theologian, Rumi says it best: ”I have one small drop of knowing in my soul. Let it dissolve in your ocean.”
Breathe deep, Light of Lights, you are the unprovable absolute.
~Bright Star
In this story, Buddha is approached by a follower who asks, “Is there a soul?” Buddha responds with silence. The man then rephrases and asks, “My Lord, is there no soul?” Buddha again says nothing. The man leaves with no answers. A disciple who had been watching the whole event approaches and asks Buddha why did he not answer the man’s question – either one of them. Buddha calmly responds, had he answered yes to the first question, he would be supporting the ideology and all implications that come with indeed there is a soul. Had he answered yes to the second question, Buddha would be supporting the suggestions of all those who believe there is no soul. In fact, Buddha goes on to say to his disciple, that both are correct and both are of no consequence. To explain to the student that we are both a soul and not a soul would create confusion. An attempt to explain that a soul does AND does not exist would not help the questioner. In my words, it is like saying there would be no compartment for such information and trying to it fit into any particular box would produce turmoil rather than peace.
Mr. Wolf goes on to imply that in science and those who really understand the nature of science have an understanding that there are no absolutes. That even “hard” evidence in being able to reproduce a result does not mean it is ever “the end”. Even I recall from basic science, energy is in motion and only changes shape and form, but does not disappear. And thus, those who understand the deepest levels of science, in particular the large percentage of science that is apparent but not absolutely provable by “hard” evidence such as quantum physics, also know that to explain the deepest levels of our spiritual mystical selves is just as impossible and will change and move much like “energy” changing shape and form, but never disappearing.
Thus we are left with the quandaries of conflicting information, no absolutes and an answer to one question may counter the next question. And yet it is possible for both to be correct. Our outlook in life so often gives us this experience where we wish to have an absolute, an unshakable solid ground in which we know we can stand upon. Yet, again as we delve into science, the solid ground really isn’t solid, now is it? There is a lot of space between those molecules that make up dirt and rock. Our ideas make up our world and create expectations in which our world shall appear before us. Thus we go out to prove an answer to one of our questions.
Friends and family give input to their theories and provings of their experiments of what they know and what they have read, etc. Perhaps they have found (or been told to find) a certain answer. When we begin to question and search and find that maybe, just maybe, it is more than, it can create confusion like Buddha’s curious one had Buddha answered. And when we begin to create an idea of our own truth, finding ways that do not “fit in the box” may bring feelings of being separated for some.
When I was in college, I decided that I could not decide on being an art major or a creative writing major. So I decided to conduct my own personal experiment and take an art class and a writing class (both upper levels) in a single semester and see which one was more fun when taken seriously. The winner would be my major. Silly as it sounds as a means to pick a journey of a lifetime, it was the easiest way for me to see what I would do surrounded in the energy of such an exercise. So I wrote and I created art. I chose art in the end, deciding that writing just took too much of my time. I had other things to do, like study my favorite classes of philosophy and philosophy of religion. It was not on my radar yet to have a third option as a life passion, since I asked only two questions: Is it art? Is it writing? It was not until much later did I realize that while I loved learning and doing art, what really held my attention was the philosophical perspectives people held and how these very beliefs created a day, a marriage, a life, and a death. And how these beliefs can create change or prohibit change.
Had someone suggested philosophy as a possibility it would have created confusion for me in that semester of proving my major. I was focused elsewhere – art or words, art or words, what do you mean “thoughts/beliefs?” I had no way of knowing that once I moved into the possibilities of myself that all and none of the above would be so present in my life. My very being is filled with creative expressions with writing these articles, writing books and manuals for my students, recording a CD, designing my studio space. It is both my “majors” that I thought I had to choose between. But most importantly, the assimilation of the both together, along with the third “option” of philosophy is very present in my life. I teach others to expand thinking out of the box. I show others “door number 3” (and 4 and 5 and 6, etc.). The journey does not end. There are no absolutes. There is nothing for you to prove except what you know is true for you. And that truth is an energy, moving and changing shape, but never disappearing.
As you grow, expand, have experiences, do experiments, prove findings, you will also find the further you explore any subject, there really is no “it.” The “it” factor that is so important in the beginning of many of our journeys is like telling Buddha or any other deity,” give me the yes and I’ll finally know the truth.” When the lead character in Kung Fu Panda, Po, realizes that there is no secret ingredient (sorry about the spoiler) in his Dad’s special soup, his father explains, the people believe it is special therefore it is so. “There is no secret ingredient” and yet belief is the actual secret ingredient. It may not have been a scientifically provable physical ingredient, but the metaphysical ingredient is present.
My dear ones, questions we ask ourselves are often meant to get us moving toward a direction. “Hmm, I wonder what that is about?” I ask as I click from link to link to find another groovy internet educational, philosophical or artistic expression. Whether I am lead by my own soul or by no soul at all, I only know that I am lead. I do know that deep in my own heart, I contain some kind of secret ingredient. And it is an ingredient worth sharing, regardless of physical authenticity. As are you.
Like the season of seasons, pepper of events, and the salt of experience, moving into the possibility of who you are and living it can be out of box. And yet, when one person steps forward into their possibilities, the energy changes shape all around you! Nothing disappears, nothing is left behind that you find valuable. It is interesting, though, what we find of value does change. Do not be concerned about unanswered questions nor the ideas of what you started with. It changes and so will you. The only thing I know for certain is in this moment I feel all spaces between the solid appearances. And in this moment, change happens. It is both still and moving. All and none. I type, I write, I am none of these words and yet they come from me, or rather more accurately, through me. To be confused is to mean that you know of something or you would not know to be confused. Thus we begin to ask, and then we change. Share what you know, be open to change, believe that there is always more, always more!
Take heart, you may not have answers for others when they ask you, either. Sometimes we grow when the answers that are placed before us are not to the questions we ask, but to the questions we have yet to ask. Let the Earth breathe wonders upon you and the ocean, well, the Sufi poet and theologian, Rumi says it best: ”I have one small drop of knowing in my soul. Let it dissolve in your ocean.”
Breathe deep, Light of Lights, you are the unprovable absolute.
~Bright Star
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