The Awakening Shift

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A New Earth is birthing and we are all midwives. With tomorrow being Earth Day, this is a perfect time to reassess  your connection to the Earth and find out what you can do to help.   I have an article titled Birthing a New Earth: You Too Are a Midwife,  in this month’s edition of Seattle’s  New Spirit Journal. 

There is  information about how and why a New Earth is birthing plus how it is connected to 2012.There are suggestions for what you can do to facilitate the birth of a New Earth. The first one is to “Be a lighthouse emitting gratitude and appreciation”.  These emotions vibrate at 0.10 hertz, which is the quality of energy that heals the earth.  To read more, go the New Spirit Journal and scroll to page 10.

I encourage you to take time tomorrow to send loving energy to the earth through this special 24 hour healing broadcast that is directed at healing the earth, sun, oceans, animals, humans and water.  Contributing your loving energy could help create a critical  mass in the zero point field  for a powerful healing for the Earth and our solar system.

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It’s the time of year that you have probably made New Year’s resolutions, so why not add a resolution that supports birthing a New Earth???

So, how to do that?  First, let’s look at the concept of the New Earth and what that means.  Eckhart Tolle made this term popular in his book,  A New Earth in which he writes about a New Earth that is emerging as a result of a transformation in the state of human consciousness.  As people raise their consciousness and vibrate at a higher and higher level, life on earth changes.  A sense of community will develop and we will realize that  we are all one causing us to promote a world of peace, abundance, and harmony. Because we are all connected through a huge field of energy called the Matrix or Zero Point Field, what each person does affects all of humanity.

If you make a resolution that invokes adding positive energy to the matrix, you’ll be helping to birth a New Earth.  Two possible ways to do this are to start a Gratitude Journal or participate in James Twyman’s Oneness Experiment.

To start a Gratitude Journal, simply purchase a small journal. Each day write five things for which you are grateful. At bedtime each night is an especially good time, as these happy thought will be planted in your subconscious as you drift off to sleep.  It is even more important to do this if you have had a bad day. During the five minutes you are being grateful you will be permeating your own energy field with uplifting and healing energy. You cannot be truly grateful and angry or upset at the same time.

My second suggestion is to participate in the Oneness Experiment sponsored by James Twyman.  It started January 1 and will run for 40 days. You’ll need his book The Proof which has a practice for each day. The focus of these practices are to bring peace into your life and connect with the oneness we all share. James supports the experiment with calls on Saturdays. If you want to sign up for the calls and receive emails related to the experiment, go to Oneness Experiment.

Thousands of people will be participating.  The power of doing something like this with a group is that it increases its effectiveness. I participated in the Oneness Experiment when a group of 5000 did it in November.  I found it to be very powerful in opening me up to spiritual possibilities that had been out of reach before. Even though it has already started, don’t be concerned.  You can easily read the first few lessons and join in.

So a good question to ask yourself is ”How am I going to contribute to the Zero Point Field this year?”  Am I going to add love, gratitude and caring or worry, stress and fear?  Your choice is important. Living a life of joy and happiness actually contributes on the quantum level to the happiness of all beings on the planet.

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The seasonal cycles of the Earth are one expression of her aliveness. In this post, we’ll examine how the Earth’s natural cycles and our calendar are out of sync creating a disconnect in our subconscious. One aspect of waking up, in preparation for 2012, is to become more sensitive to the aliveness of the Earth. This is known as the Gaia Theory and states that the Earth is an alive sentient being. So let’s look at how we can do that.

The calendar is a major part of our everyday life and working with it creates an alignment with the concepts it represents. A part of our calendar is contrived. Consequently this puts us out of sync with the organic cycles of the Earth. Since our calendar is based on the earth’s 365 day journey around the sun, this aspect is in alignment with the Earth’s natural cycles.

However, our year is divided into 12 months, which are meant to represent the moon’s journeys around the Earth.  This journey takes 28 days and the moon makes 13 of these each year  rather than 12. So here, our calendar is not in rhythm with the moon’s cycles. This results in a blue moon like the one coming up on December 31.  A blue moon occurs when we have two full moons in one month. It is the extra full moon related to the 13^th trip of the moon around the earth.  Some years we have an extra new moon rather than an extra full moon.

Another feature that is out of sync is our calendar’s start date on January 1^st. In nature, the real beginning of the year is the winter solstice, which just occurred on December 21.  On the winter solstice, in the northern Hemisphere, the Earth has turned her face as far from the sun as she can, and on that day, she starts her journey back to the light. As the light returns – a new cycle begins.

Pagans and some indigenous people base their holidays on this cycle.  However at an unconscious level, it seems that all of humanity is attuned to this new beginning in nature. This is demonstrated by the many festivals of light around our globe this time of year – Christmas, Hanukah, Kwanza, and many others.

We can relate this cycle metaphorically to the growth cycle of a plant.  So Earth’s calendar looks like this:

• Winter solstice – beginning of new cycle – seed is planted
• Spring  Equinox – cycle expands – seed sprouts
• Summer Solstice – cycle peaks – plants flower and blossom
• Autumn Equinox- cycle ends – fruit is harvested, plant dies and returns to the earth

This natural cycle of the Earth is one aspect of her aliveness.  We can see how our man-made measurement of time as expressed in the Gregorian calendar does not support connecting with this organic cycle.

So what can we do to remedy this?  One thing we can do is to honor these seasonal cycles with a ceremony.  Ceremony is a powerful way to form new neural nets in the brain, which will then automatically cause an alignment with these cycles.  The more we do them, the more attuned we become.

Another way to form an alignment is to notice how our own body expresses this Earth cycle.  In the winter, like the seed, we want to hibernate. Spring comes and we feel fresh and alive just like the little sprout.  In the summer, our energy is at peak.   We go on vacation, do outdoor activities and enjoy the uplifting, outward flowing energy. Fall comes and we begin to pull inward. We focus back on work and harvesting all that we have been striving for all year long, knowing that the cycle is ending and we’ll soon be starting a new year.

So as you celebrate the holidays in your tradition, know that Mother Earth is also beginning a new cycle.

That’s my invitation to you – awaken to the awakening shift!  And that’s why I have created this blog – to provide support, information, and tools to help you do just that.

With the 2012 movie having just been released, lots of folks are beginning to wonder what the real truth is about 2012. I say it is a deep and profound awakening in our consciousness that is causing a shift in how we experience our world.  I have coined the term “Awakening Shift” to describe this awakening movement in consciousness that is creating a shift in our lives.

So in this first post, I’ll give a couple of examples of how we are waking up. But first, I want to define what I mean when I say consciousness. I am referring to our level of awareness, how attuned we are to all that is unfolding in our world- externally and internally.  If we look at world history, we can see that we have been a pretty numbed out.  Certainly, aware beings would not do to each other and the Earth what we have done.

But now, our race is waking up. In fact, we are waking up so much that, I believe, we are evolving into a new species.  Several scholars subscribe to this theory and have suggested names for the new “us”.  Homo spiritus is the name given by David Hawkins, MD, Ph.D. to beings who are awake and vibrating at a high level according to a consciousness scale he has developed.  Alberto Villoldo, anthropologist and shaman has labeled it homo luminous to indicate that we are becoming beings whose energy fields are luminous. And Barbara Hand Clow, Cherokee elder and writer, calls the new human homo pacem, to indicate we are becoming a species focused on peace.

Another sign that we are coming out of our stupor is we are waking up to the needs of the planet as shown by the huge “green movement” now afoot. We are saying, “Ah, we are all in this together.  Either we all survive, or no one survives.”

I invite you to go one step farther…. beyond the Green Movement and begin to look at the Earth as a living, sentient being. This is known as the “Gaia Principle.”  Many indigenous people refer to the Earth as our Mother, indicating that she is an alive being who provides us with our physical needs to sustain life.  In South America she is referred to as Pachamama meaning Mother Earth.

What I am saying is that the earth is not just a big hunk of rock and dirt whirling around the Sun. It is alive and has an awareness and consciousness, one that our human minds may not be able to comprehend.  Opens another can of worms, though. If the Earth is alive, so is Mars, Venus, Jupiter and all the other planets…and the sun and the stars! We live in a universe of alive sentient beings that are expressing as stars and galaxies. How mind stretching is that!

So in this first post, I want to introduce these two concepts.  We are evolving into a new species and we live on an alive sentient being. I know this isn’t news to many of you, but for others these concepts may occur as way outside of your comfort zone.   However, the only way to wake up is to stretch ourselves out of our old way of thinking. So, I invite you to visit my blog often and leave comments so I can know what other questions have arisen out of my posts.

These are two of what I call my foundation principles that I suggest you will need to embrace to be able to align with the new energies and flourish on our New Earth. I have written an article entitled Five Foundation Principles of the Awakening Shift to explain these five principles. You can access it under articles.