Change on the Wind

There will come a time during your journey of live where all the things you did before, no longer work and things go wrong no matter how hard you try.  Its so very difficult in such moments to hold even a shred of a positive thought.  However, realize something very important...when you are in the wrong place and you are doing the wrong things, the Universe in its infinite wisdom will make things increasingly more uncomfortable for you until you find a way to make a change.  We don't like it much when change is forced upon us but that is usually the next step if we resist voluntary change when the discomfort begins to increase.  Sometimes you have to sit back, be very open and see what part of the path needs a twist or a turn - or a new direction altogether.  As I said, it is no easy thing and it can be down right painful.  But, take heart.  Everything happens for good reason even though you cannot see from a painfully emotional vantage point.  Trust in the plan, hold out your hope and stay open to something better, brighter and different.  Things will change and as you gravitate towards a new direction, hold courage, grace and the strength to see you through it.  You will get through it and don't fear the tears that may fall.  Just let them.  Breathe deep and do your best, try your best and realize that even if you cannot see the outcome now, some day you will look back at this moment and be glad for a change in direction whether adhered to voluntarily or whether it was forced upon you.

Change is always ultimately good for us even though we don't have enough facts and details to make that determination when we embark upon the road to change.  If everything always remained the same, we would never grow.  I resign myself to these thoughts this evening as I sit here in the quiet and dark after a very difficult day.  Times are changing and I can taste impending change on the wind.  It comes and I will stop resisting what must be.  I patiently await the light to shine in this new direction whenever or where ever it is that may materialize.  I am open to it, ready to embrace it and even if with just a bit of trepidation, I look forward to the changes that I know and feel are coming.  I just trust that it will be perfect and so, it will be.  Blessings of hope, courage and strength for your journey beautiful dreamers.  I wish you the very best always.

This song is a good one for change...thought I'd share a video rather than a picture this time. :)  Enjoy!

Foggy Mist of Our Own Minds

I must admit that I am a realistic optimist with much heavier emphasis on the optimistic side.  I am optimistic right down to my bones but have had the life experience enough and the wisdom of that experience to know that perspectives vary among us all.  There is much talk of the illusions in life but none more great than the illusion of taking things personally.  Even if a soul fully intended to hurt you deeply with words or actions, they do so only because of the illusions they hold.  Either they are fighting ghosts from wounds others have inflicted upon them that they have not yet healed and you triggered them or somewhere within them is held a deep admiration for you and they think that they are lesser than you.  You see, this is but an illusion.  We are all equal as human beings and none is greater than anyone else.  We all have our triggers, our weaknesses and strengths but not one of us is greater nor lesser than the other.  We forget this as we go through our days mired in egotistical thoughts that continually contrast and compare all of those souls around it not realizing that life is not a game that you win.  In living life as a gigantic race, if you strive to win at the expense of another, you will only lose in the end.

These are very difficult lessons to learn as we go through our days taking on more and more unhealed pain.  As we walk through the foggy mists of our own minds making assumptions not only about others but ourselves as well, we can never ever see the truth of what stands before us.  This illusion is one of the most difficult to break.  That is not to say that one should stand there and take blow after blow by those  mired in their own illusions.  One must have the self-love enough to side-step the blows and distance one's self from being pulled into a night mare.  We give away our power through our illusions not realizing that no one has the power to make us feel one single thing that we do not give our permission to feel.  We allow the blows to land, we see the threat of illusory attack and we defend and we strike and we take on the pain of others when we lose the ability to see the truth.  I write about this so much because it pains me to see so many taking on unnecessary pain and/or living with mortal emotional wounds.  This world is not always love, light and rainbows when you are caught in the illusion of victims and villains.  Are there folks out there that intend to do harm?  Sure there are but if you see them only as evil, you miss an opportunity to understand and in the absence of understanding within you there may be born a terrible emotion - fear.  Nothing steals away the light and your personal power like fear.  Can another harm you?  Can another take your life?  Yes, they can.  In this realm, this is true. But if you knew that the soul lived on regardless of a physical body, would you become as fearful?

If you knew that in life, nothing happens by accident and that everything was perfect as a process of learning, would you see life differently?  I do not mean to suggest that we should attempt to physically embrace those aiming a weapon in your direction.  I suggest rather that we become aware of the bigger picture, the causes of strife, of pain and suffering in this world and do what we can to contribute light, love and peace to any situation we might find ourselves in.  I am not saying this is easy by any stretch of the imagination but if you try, you will begin to understand how precious life is and what a beautiful gift it is to stand on this earth and watch the sun rise or watch a butterfly in flight, to hear the birds sing, to watch children at play and to know that no matter what it is that you have suffered or endured, you are loved and infinitely empowered to heal self and live life truly.  When we become too mired in the illusions that pain can create, we cut off any sliver of light from entering our world.  It is okay to feel pain but to own it forever without allowing the process of healing it to move and progress as it was intended is like imprisoning yourself forever in a very dark place and becoming angry at the world for the prison you created and walked into tossing the key out when you cut off your own self love. 

These concepts are advanced I realize but they can be learned and learned by any soul willing to open their hearts and seek healing.  My life has taught me these things and I must admit that I learned them the hardest of ways.  There were times I was so mired in my illusions I locked myself up and destroyed the key.  What a miserable time that was fighting ghosts and villains of my own creation.  Oh sure there were actors more than willing to play the parts I cast them in but it was my own reactions in the absence of understanding that imprisoned my heart and soul in darkness.  When the pain got too great I began looking for the answers within my own thinking.  I found the patterns and themes and tugged on the strings and was brought to the core of my own assumptions...my own creations and when I found I had no one to blame but myself, my assumptions and my own choices, I began to realize just how powerful I was and how powerful the illusion of pain could be.  But we, we are not limited in our ability to learn, to see, to love and to understand.  We must only chose to open our hearts and minds to the truth about ourselves, accept every action, every thought and every reaction to all of life's challenges.  When we accept the errors of our judgments knowing we did the only things we knew how to do at any given time, we begin to forgive.  As we begin to forgive, we begin to also understand the actions of others and can even find a measure of forgiveness for actions taken within the foggy mists of illusions that others held.  It becomes hard then to remain an angry, weak and lost victim.  When we know the power of words, the power of the energy behind our own thoughts, we might also learn how to create life in the infinitely positive.  That's when the world begins to become a bright, beautiful and amazing place.

I wish for you the brightest, purest and most beautiful self love seen, felt, heard and acknowledged within you.  It is already there at your core.  Let that flame roar to a fiery inferno of bliss, healing and joy.  Accept yourselves as perfection in the scheme of this design here in the Earth school and know some lessons may be hard won but once you understand or even attempt to try to, you will open the door to higher love and higher learning.  When you open up, watch how your world is transformed over time and new souls come in to assist you as you go.  Enough of my coffee induced ramblings this morning.  Have a wonderful day beautiful dreamers.  You are loved.

(c) Jaie Hart (photo, random internet find)

Compulsive Silver Lining Seeking

There are those times we will be called upon to endure some of life's more difficult challenges...things that rock our security, situations that press the edges of our seemingly gossamer string hanging sanity.  But, through it all, you hold the grace and strength within you to master the moment, to master your emotions and to find the courage within you to face all of the elements that are your life.  As dark or bleak as things may sometimes seem, allow yourself to become a compulsive silver lining seeker and you will transform yourself in moments of darkness into pure and beautiful feelings and emotions of love and light and it is this ability that will carry you through.  Master the fear and worry about what might happen or could happen.  Take a breath and be very present in every now moment...let your internal senses reach out beyond your person and your local world...feel the rest of the souls and angels that stand there beside you lending you love, light and support and know that you are courageous, you are resourceful and you are loved.  ~Blessings of courage, strength and positive focus dear souls.  You are the masters of your own destiny.  You are beautiful and magical and so very loved.

(c) 2012 Jaie Hart (photo, fortunate random internet find)

Hearing Does Not Equal Listening

Oh the things I might have learned if only I had been listening.  Learning to listen is no easy task. The ears of the ego hears only in terms of offense and defense and maybe even preemptive strike or worse, retaliation.  But, what if there were something more we should be listening to, like maybe the truth that hides so quietly behind the words of illusion spoken by those mired deep within life's many illusions heard by those also equally mired within their life's illusions.  With egos clashing for pole position in some imaginary competition or race, the truth can never be heard nor even remotely understood.  A challenge for the day, for the moment and most importantly, this life is to truly listen.  But, not with the ears of the ego.  Instead, if we were to listen through the heart of the soul, we would be capable of not only discerning the truth but understanding it.  Some food for thought, beautiful dreamers.  I hope you enjoy this last day of the work week for most.  Have a blessed weekend filled with love, light and greater understanding.  You are the higher love you seek. 

(c) 2012 Jaie Hart (words/photo)

Restless

Oh is my spirit restless sometimes
So much to contemplate in every single moment
"Just be," they say
"Just breathe," they suggest
But sometimes, its just no use
We are human, fallible
And sometimes, we just need to feel
Whatever it is we feel
So, I accept how I feel in every moment
They're my emotions,
I know because I created them
And well, the whys will come in time I suppose
Until then I'll just move to the tune
Vibrating deeply within my soul
Would that I could be still in this moment
Attempting to stand underneath the blessed stars
I send my love up and out to each and every one
And they twinkle knowing just what to do
And I smile again
This moment will pass
And another will follow
And the seconds will turn to minutes and years
Distance from this moment will be
Perhaps by then I will have found the peace
From deep within the core of me
And I'll look back to this moment
I once spent restless
And I will be glad for it

(c) 2012 Jaie Hart (photo, random internet find)

Fanning Flames

Even when it feels like the love inside of you amounts to a tiny gossamer flame, if you put your focus fully upon it you can raise your flame to a blazing inferno. The love burning deep within us is the impetus for our growth, for our compassion and the pure resonating with others on this Earth and beyond it. Caress that flame with the gentleness of your intention, fan that flame with the faith of your affection and seek to truly feel it with everything in you that makes you you. The love inside is our treasured connection to Source. It never disappears but we sometimes turn away from it in our moments of sorrow and disappointment. Know it is that flame that connects us each one to the other and you are never alone in any part of your journey. When you raise that flame high, so too do those around you in response. Keep your light of love alive and shine beautiful dreamers. ~Much love and infinite light!

 

(c) 2012 Jaie Hart (photo, fortunate random internet find)

Did You Know?

...That your presence here on Earth at this moment in time matters?
...That right now someone is thinking of you and is glad you are here?
...That no matter how small you sometimes feel you are there are those that see your greatness?
...That you are someone's first thought in the morning and someone's last thought as they drift off to dream?
...That everything that you do does not go unnoticed by those who count the most?
...That every one of your perceived failures is actually a great life lesson for you?
...That when you give life your best, no matter what happens you will not fail?
...That you are a beautiful soul living a beautiful life and everything you do counts?
...That I am so grateful you are here?
...Did you know?
Thank you for you and all that you do.
You are loved.

(c) 2012 Jaie Hart
 (photo/words)