Welcome Change – It’s How Life Works

Posted on May 1, 2012 by ahnalira

awakening, change, how life worksOne way or another, change happens.  Change, as some philosophers say, is the only constant  I don’t know about you… but with 59 years on the planet, I’m still coming to terms with this.

Let go and let God.  Easy for someone else to say about my Life.  I’m the one with the vested interest, and the uncertainty that — by the very nature of change has to accompany it — tends to make me a little nervous.  OK, nervous is a euphemism.  Anxious.  Change makes me anxious.  There I said it. The changes I like are the changes in which I am control.  Like changing what I eat for breakfast.  That’s a change I can embrace easily because the “unknown” factors are manageable to the part of my mind that craves predictability.

However, evolution requires change.  Continue reading →

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Letting Go With Love – Awakening

Posted on April 17, 2012 by ahnalira

hooponopono, awakening, law of attractionMy new mantra – letting go with love.  Awakening through letting go.

Letting go isn’t new.  One way or another, we are in the process of letting go of something all the time, I think.  Whether it is a physical transition through age or an emotional release associated to a change or finding a way to evolve a belief toward more fulfillment, letting go of “what was” has been a precursor to the new state of Being from the moment we left the womb.  I’ve known that for a long time.

What I didn’t know… what is new to me in realizing how letting go supports awakening consciousness… is that releasing 100% is the key to allowing the new paradigm to shift into being. Continue reading →

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Three Visits to John of God – A Pictoral Documentation

Posted on April 7, 2012 by ahnalira

John of God, Abadiania, Casa Dom Ignacio, spiritual healingIn 2011, I visited John of God at Casa Dom Ignacio in Abadiania, Brazil three times – for 1 week in February, 12 days in June, and 12 Days in December.  Overall, I participated in the Current room, experienced the Crystal Beds and Sacred Waterfall in addition to the 5 spiritual surgeries I received.  All of these visits have blog and vlog entries on this site (see the John of God category in the column to the right).  I thought it would be interesting, though — in preparation for my next visit in June, 2012 — to put a few pictures up from these previous visits to document the visible changes.  What can I say?  My idea of a good time; >)

So, let’s begin with February, 2011.  I went for one week.  It was a spur of the moment trip made primarily to support a friend who was healing from a cancer surgery.  I didn’t really know much about Medium Joao or Casa Dom Ignacio — just that I was willing to experience and benefit from whatever happened. Continue reading →

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Shamanism – Another Word for Creative Process?

Posted on April 1, 2012 by ahnalira

shaman, awakening, shamanism, creativityShamans intrigue me.  Even as a child, if a book’s description mentioned a shaman or shamanism, that was enough to get me to read it.  The words used to describe the practice of shamanism include mystical and magical and wisdom and invocation.  All words to which I gravitate.  As I grew older – and my studies and research into shamanism more developed – I studied the philosophies of different cultures that venerate shamans and, whenever I could, found current-age shamans with whom to study and practice.  I engaged the shamanic principles and learned the art of traveling between the seen and unseen worlds – a fundamental in the art of shamanism.  I explored the experience of communicating in unseen worlds and transforming my consciousness through it.  And still, I wonder:  Is Shamanism a mystical, mysterious allegory or a technique for accessing the Creative process of the Divine? Continue reading →

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Coutd It Be The Solar Flares? – Awakening

Posted on March 8, 2012 by ahnalira

solar flare, awakeningSomething is happening within my Being.  Soft and subtle – almost imperceptible – like the unfurling of a bud into a new Spring leaf.  Something is unfurling within me.

Like a whispering breeze, I didn’t notice at first, the shifts happening in my perceptions.  My day, filled with projects and items to check off the list, proceeded as usual.  I almost missed it.  Until I chanced to rest from the activity for a moment and feel… the gentle caress of a softening within.  An easing of mind chatter and an absence of the “push” to achieve.  An abiding sense of Grace. Continue reading →

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Impatient to Awaken?

Posted on March 2, 2012 by ahnalira

spiritual awakening, propheciesThese days, the prophecies scroll through my inbox and Facebook wall: dates for “downloads” of a new frequency, days to gather for special focus to bring the “new order” closer, leaders of the movement offering “new” information on what’s to come…Does anyone besides me ever think, “Let’s just ready, get set, go!”  Or am I the only one who feels impatient?

Impatience has been my traveling companion through Life for as long as I can remember.  Sometimes an obstacle in my process and sometimes the trainer that pushes me to get it done, impatience is always my teacher.  Teaching me the way around or over the obstacle.  Teaching me how to create new solutions that work more effectively.  Teaching me when my best solution is to let go and let be.

I first read the Hopi Prophecies in the early 1980′s…and then the Mayan prophecies in the early 1990′s.  2013 seems like “forever away” back in those days.  Continue reading →

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Creative Time Management

Posted on February 21, 2012 by ahnalira

time management, creative process, intuitionSome might say time management, a distinctly left-brained activity, bears no resemblance to the creative process – well known for its decidedly right-brained absence of logic.  Some might say, in fact, that all one requires to effectively manage time are three simple rules:

  • Break large projects into smaller increments.  Make those increments small enough that each one can be completed in a block of time perceived as “manageable.”
  • Build a daily schedule that accounts for the completion of the smaller increments.  Identify through an understanding of personal rhythm which parts of the day are best for mental focus and which for physical activity.  Fill blocks of time accordingly.
  • Once the schedule is made – stay on it.  Procrastination is the destroyer of time management.

Simple logic that – when applied – results in productivity, right? Continue reading →

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When Creative Process Becomes Habit Magic Happens

Posted on February 13, 2012 by ahnalira

creativity, creative process, spiritual awakeningMany of us think of creativity as that inspired moment when the idea is born…or the shift in understanding that opens a whole new paradigm of thought.  We tend to describe the creative process as a process that bursts into intriguing possibilities, over and over again.  Many of us who value creativity reach continually for that excited buzz that comes with the feeling of touching an expanded viewpoint.

For me, the inspired concepts and exciting new configurations do happen…but they are part of the creative process – not the entirety of it.  In truth, if the new idea was the only goal of the creative process, nothing would be brought to fruition.  This is where our creative habits come into play.  The behaviors we take on as a result of following through on inspired ideas become the invocations, if you will, that define the characters we play in the movie called “Life” (see: Stars In Our Own Movie.) Continue reading →

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Creative Process – Recipes for Life

Posted on February 3, 2012 by ahnalira

creative process, creativity, recipesForest Gump said, “Life is like a box of chocolates.”  He meant, I think, you can never know what you’ll get until you take a bite of it.  For me, Life is more like a cookbook.  And the key is to find the recipe that uses the ingredients we have to create the result we desire to eat.

Some people treat recipes like chemistry projects.  They measure carefully and follow procedures methodically, looking for a precision that can be reproduced reliably.  Some people read cookbooks for ideas and then create spontaneously from the the inspiration they got.  Some are interested in food creation only to the extent that they can open a can or a box and add water.  All of us have our own unique relationship with cookbooks and the recipes within.  For me, recipes are a side-bar, a reference point, to ground my creative exploration.  Because – as with life – I only believe what I experience first hand.

Such is the power of the creative process – it is always a first hand experience. Continue reading →

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Creative Process and Perfection?

Posted on January 27, 2012 by ahnalira

creative process, creativityIn the creative process, I think, there is no such thing as perfection.  There are only perfect bridges.

Think about it.  Have you ever had an idea – something that excited your interest and passion – only to discover that, when it came to execute, you couldn’t quite get a handle on how to do it?  And the uncertainty resulted in non-action as well as a small sense of failure before you got well into it?

It’s happened to me plenty of times – that’s why I can describe it so easily.  At a certain point, I began to ask myself, “Why?  What was the internal pattern within myself that continually halted my creative process in its early stages?”  And this I discovered: Continue reading →

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