Musings of a Spiritual Scientist

Spring Clean Your Inner Environment

Feeling a little sluggish these days? Having trouble focusing on what needs to get done? Fed up with dragging around ten tons of useless baggage?

Clutter happens! Not only in tucked away closets or out-of-the-way basements, but in your heart. When the heart is stagnant your energy is on empty.

In the heart, cobwebs go undetected! Dark corners of your mind are secret places where fearful thoughts, painful memories, and regrets build up. Bit by bit your vital life force drains out some unseen opening. Confusion replaces alert clear thinking. You are not present to those you love.

It's time to clean house.

Here are a few tips to renew, re-energize and revitalization your life!

Throw out those tired worn-out beliefs about your potential, your talents and gifts that no longer fit. Ask yourself, Why am I holding on to that limiting belief? What game am I playing to stay small?
Scrub away that long-ago hurt you feed with old movies of how you loved and lost; didn't get what you wanted; it just wasn't fair. Notice how much time is spent in the past? Accept what happened; let go, and become present.
Unburden your heart and let the fresh breeze of compassion and forgiveness blow away the dirt and grime of guilt and regret from with holding love. Again, check inside. Who am I punishing, really? and at what cost?
Don't forget to wash those windows - to the soul.Let your eyes gaze with clarity and truth on self-defeating behaviors that no longer serve you. Where does your need to control blur youractions? What addictive patterns are running you? Make a conscious choice today to see with new eyes.

Cleaning up your internal environment renews your spirit. The inner heart space sparkles with enthusiasm. Energy returns to fuel fresh insights. The slate is wiped clean.

Take a deep breath and allow gratitude and appreciation for this moment to fill all the spaces that have been cleared with a self-blessing.
and then

Relax, have a seat, put up your feet and pat yourself on the back.

Job well done!

Love it all,

Rebecca

As a Spiritual Being: Living It, Not Just Talking About It

I have always been action oriented. Put me in a room of idea people and I can sit still for about one hour. Then it's either "!!**!! or get off the pot!" (as they say)

I have been accused of steam rolling meetings and moving through agendas in record time. For me the proof of who I am is in what I do - not what I talk about doing.

Years ago when I was changing my life up, down, right, left and sideways the voice inside my head kept repeating, OK, What's next? If I needed to get rid of a belief...it was gone. If 'my style' of communicating needed improving I was on it. And any behavior that no longer was serving my new direction in life was history. This approach also worked in my outer life. I created new jobs, skills, relationships, organizations, homes and hobbies.

All of that worked until I decided to begin living as a spiritual being and cocreate my personal heaven. It took me awhile to learn being...and allowing the doing to come from the being.

Let me cut to the important points:

I am already a spiritual being and, therefore, already living a spiritual life. So the doing part was about awareness, acceptance, intention, observation, understanding and greater levels of opening. Hmmmmm. And I found out that the more I talked about it - the more I lied. Because living as a spiritual being is always in the now - and talking about living as a spiritual being takes me immediately out of the now.

If I may lie for a few more paragraphs.

So when that familiar voice piped up and said OK,What's next? I heard from somewhere inside,
Nothing.

When I felt that old familiar anxious urge to get something done I asked, What do I do?
I heard, Breathe.

And when I just knew that I needed to make something happen so the world would be a better place I found myself supported to, No. Let go.

I also discovered that all those really wonderful spiritual ideas and ideals that I had read in books didn't mean anything until I decided to check it out for myself and have my own experience. That's when the authentic, gut-level knowing of spiritual being began to reveal its secrets. This beingness was a palpable, living, doing/being experience of breathing in, breathing out waking, sleeping, eating, eliminating, blinking, sneezing, stretching, smiling, frowning, loving, laughing human experience.

How ordinary, I thought.

Yes, and how divine.

Love it all,
Rebecca

We're a spiritual being having a human experience. Let's Get on With it!

Why Now?
Our human experience is shifting. Old traditional structures and institutions are crumbling. Our consumptive lifestyle is running out of resources. The pop culture’s values, glitter and bling are less and less appealing.

Our human senses are waking up. We hear with different ears. The superficial lies and posturing of our world leaders comes through loud and clear. We see through to the hidden agenda of corporations, political rhetoric and patriotic causes. It’s like sitting through a movie and predicting the end – we’ve seen this same script many times before. We’re bored and time for a change.

But what is causing this shift of perception? Is it really just since recent disasters in this country: 9/11, Hurricane Katrina or globally the Indonesian Tsunami that so many people are acknowledging that something is going on? And what is the difference we sense, witness and feel stirring deep inside?

If we study the evolution of consciousness on the planet rather than wars, we realize that the next obvious step is usually expressed philosophically, spiritually, or socially long before we wake up and honor the dead guys. Pierre Theilhard de Chardin wrote in the first half of the 20th century, “We are not human beings have a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience” I believe the truth and reality of ‘ what that is’ is just now dawning for many.

Dawning happens gradually.
Different aspects are illumined as the heart and mind move beyond the familiar way of perceiving and expand ‘down the rabbit hole’. We can sense something new before we can articulate it; contemplate it before we own it; have a new awareness before we become it. The form is usually the slowest to catch up with what we have already seen and perceived. To hold steady during the transition from essence to form requires steadfastness, endurance and courage.

If we are to lead the formation of new business, social and spiritual models impeccably, and not continue to follow old dead end paradigms helplessly, attention must begin inside – to access true empowerment, clear and focused attention and soulful intention.

It is not enough to change horses in mid stream. The water is toxic. It is fear-based creating separation, alienation, power struggles, lack, and hierarchical belief systems. We must claim and exercise the spiritual mantel that is our divine birthright – a cocreative partner with the divine forces of the universe. Then the flow of life creates abundance sustaining us all to do well, live well and love well.

We are powerful cocreators.
Learning how to cocreate responsibly and in alignment with our Soul, rather than our ego, takes patience, practice, higher levels of cooperation and grace. The way to shift into the divine cocreation playing field is to become a spiritual scientist.

The New Age Spiritual Directory defines spiritual science as: The evolution of high consciousness as it relates to the human being, to the Universe, and all creation, as taught by the ageless wisdom, esoteric studies, and theosophy.

In my work, I define a Spiritual Scientist as one who observed through the eyes of the soul how to work masterfully with the human reactive nature, apply the learning to their life and cocreate heaven on earth.

When you learn self-mastery, you no longer need self-help.
Many self-help approaches give good, practical advice for solving problems. Solving problems doesn't always resolve the deeper issue. Like constantly putting out fires, you can tire of the old drill because problems continue to pop up.

Self-mastery is the ability to recognize and be successful at choosing a loving point of view. When your choices come from knowing the goodness of who you are rather than wanting the pain to stop you create lasting peace of mind, joy, happiness, fulfillment and abundant loving. This new point of view shifts the way you view any problem that may appear. It's another opportunity to grow in compassion. It’s an expansive gift of on-going awakening. It reveals the truth that lies beyond the veil of unknowing.

Self-Mastery also opens the door to cocreating with your Divine Self - the wise, impersonal, unconditionally loving partner that knows exactly what you can do to discover and live life differently!

Want to know more?
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Check it out.

Love it all,
Rebecca

Taking Responsibility

You know, it's tough taking full responsibility for everything in your life~

I mean, how many times have you heard yourself say, "Hey, that's not my fault." "I couldn't help it. She/He said blah blah blah" or "You know, I was minding my own business and all of a sudden..."

YEP - we are soooo afraid of making a mistake and finding ourself blamed and shamed. It's almost a full time job of pointing the finger some where else - just don't point it at me.

One of the characteristics I have identified in becoming a spiritual scientist is taking full responsibility for EVERYTHING in my life. This week another great example of our slippery human nature unfolded in the media following Cheney's 'accidental' shooting of Senator Whittington.

Do accidents happen? Absolutely. Is there an opportunity to take responsibility? You bet.

Here is my imaginary scene in the hospital room of Senator .... several days after the hunting accident between Cheney and the Senator.

C - You know Senator, you came from nowhere! All of a sudden, there you were right in my line of fire. What were you thinking?

Senator - Have you ever noticed sometimes, Mr. VP, that you don't know why you do some things? That some kind of instinct takes over and almost compels you into a dangerous position?
I have been reflecting on my actions all day lying in this hospital bed. I obviously know the folly of my actions but for the life of me can't figure out what I was thinking!!

C - Yes, it was like you weren't thinking!

Senator - Boy, is that scary to think about!! Not thinking!! What else have I done in my life when I wasn't thinking?? And when does that happen? I wonder if it has to do with fear?

C - I don't see the connection, Senator. What did your action from not thinking have to do with fear?

Senator - I'm not sure. But I can't think of any other unconscious feeling that would have blocked out 'thinking' other than fear.

C- (scratching his head) Senator, you've lost me.

Senator - I read somewhere that fears can be irrational - maybe it was a irrational fear. AND I read some place that irrational fears are often unconsious because we don't want to face the judgment of being afraid.

What do you think Mr. VP? Do you ever fear being judged when you are afraid? Or another way to say it might be do you ever fear being judged?

C - This whole converation is making me very uncomfortable, Senator. You've been watching way too much Dr. Phil. But I do know that I was not responsible for your actions or getting in the way of my shot. And I'm not interested in this mumbo jumbo psycho babble as to 'why' it happened. Let's just stay with the facts.

Senator - Now, that's an interesting statement coming from you, Mr. VP.
And exactly what are the facts? Seems to me it's a matter of perceptions.

C - Then, the perception that I want people to know is that I was not responsible for what happened.

Senator - But Mr. VP you fired the gun! You are part of the responsibility! and maybe if you allow yourself to get conscious about the fear you have at taking responsibility in your life when things go 'wrong'?... Wow, I feel freer already.

C - (pause) Well, you're right about one thing. I did fire the gun. I am responsible for that action. But I'm sorry, Senator. Let's just stick with the facts. I'm afraid the shock of this whole ordeal has fogged your brain.

Senator - Yes, Mr. VP - I agree. Taking responsibility sometimes is like speaking another language.
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What I have discovered is that when I can take responsibility for it all - beyond fair/unfair, good/bad, right/wrong thinking, forgive myself and let it go ....I step free.

Love it all,
Rebecca

A Heavenly Valentine

In August05, Steve O'Keefe, President of Author Views, Inc, made a stop in Santa Fe and invited local authors to a video taping party. The fruits of his hours of editing can be seen on the site http://www.authorviews.com/blog/. And his featured video today is a You Can Make It Heaven: How to Enrich Your Life with Abundance and Loving.

"It has one of the lovliest book jackets I saw on the tour. An attractive cover and a deep message -- something our featured author and book share." to quote Steve.

In honor of this divine occasion, I am offering a special valentine gift for YOU! If you order the book from my site http://www.makeitheaven.com anytime in the month of February I will send you FREE 10+ delicious, mouth-watering audio clips from the very successful course, Becoming a Spiritual Scientist: A Course for Cocreators.

Yes, you can buy it cheaper on Amazon, but you won't get the CD - which will be downloadable for your MP3 soon!

Just a little tempting tasty treat for you...or maybe someone else you love very much. Find out how to move from fear to feast and finding lasting loving and abundance today.

Love it all,
Rebecca

The Super Bowl of Life

I am eating popcorn this afternoon watching the annual American ritual of big men in brightly colored uniforms running for the goal – Super Bowl 40. Now, before you jump to conclusions that I am not a football fan let me assure you that I was raised in the South where demonstrating football mania was as necessary as having a church home.

Ask my husband. I have been known to become completely obnoxious when my team was in a major play-off game.

What catches my attention this sunny Sunday is the roar of the fans waving their flags and dressing up in outrageous costumes to express their enthusiastic spirit.

Now that is what I call support!

Wouldn’t it be great if we experienced that kind of support as we played the game of life?

As a Spiritual Scientist I view the game of life as – my human reactive nature vs my cocreative divine nature. Or simply put, as I
Change a bad habit into a good habit
Make a choice to open my heart when my feelings are hurt
Shift out of fair/unfair thinking and embrace the highest good
Forgive myself and accept my mistake
Let go of needing to be perfect or know it all
Face and overcome a crippling fear

Yes, this definitely works for me. How about you? How about 30,000 fans cheering you on as you run down the field of life carrying the ball to make that goal... for not taking that comment personally, choosing to learn the lesson... and remembering that first, you are a spiritual being and a human being second!

How would you like an all-seeing, bigger perspective Coach on the sidelines calling the plays? Someone who sees how to avoid the hard knocks of letting your ego lead, slip past the illusions of lack, know when to pass it off to acceptance when you’re slipping into low self-esteem and take that risky break-through throw when fear is charging across the line.

For the Human Nature Team is very experienced in the ‘games’ of right/wrong thinking, enough/not enough perceptions, just/unjust judgments, and good/bad blaming. And their competitors, the Divine Nature Team: weaker in muscle but carrying more weight in the self-forgiveness, compassion, happiness, wealth, health, and upliftment.

The Human Nature team strategy is defending the status quo at any cost. The Divine Nature Cocreation team is focused on learning, growth and living from Soul.

Now, here is game to watch!
Who are you cheering for?

Love it all,
Rebecca

What if Oprah had been aware...

What if Oprah had been aware of how to work masterfully with her human nature when lied to?

It is my intention to bring the headlines of our everyday life into the realm of the spiritual – namely becoming a spiritual scientist. There are many occasions that present themselves on our TV’s, radios and movies that show so well how the human nature behaves when triggered…but not much representation for the ‘other side’. How would a cocreator react if using spiritual scientist tools? So let’s begin with Oprah and the hoohah about James Frey’s lying in his memoir, A Million Little Pieces.

Did you read the book? I did and loved it. Not only did I read it but recommend it to many clients and friends with the endorsement, “The best book I’ve ever read on overcoming addiction.” This, I may add, from the daughter of an alcoholic.

So, I could relate to Oprah in her embarrassment to find out that the book she recommended to her loyal followers had parts that were fabricated by the author.
AND, to make matters worse, she defended him at first and then had to recount – in front of several million viewers – the error of her ways.

I don’t like eating crow either, Oprah.

Applause for Oprah for apologizing on national TV. You don’t see that very often, I must say. But what followed – blaming and shaming James Frey for his fabrication, lying, twisting the truth – ahhhhh, here’s where I would like to diverge into another type of dialogue that ‘could’ have taken place on national television – if only Oprah had been studying the tools of becoming a spiritual scientist.

Here’s my imaginary dialogue

O – So, James…what exactly in the book is a lie? Or, to note literary embellishment, what did you fabricate?

James – Well, I wasn’t really blah blah blah. And I didn’t really blah blah blah. And, the character Lilly, well, she really blah.

O – You know James, when I hear you confess to these lies, I get this pain in my gut. It’s really intense. So intense that I have to ask myself – ‘Self, what is going on? What is being triggered here?”

James – no comment

O – And what I hear inside is “Well, I don’t like being lied to. It makes me feel unsafe and that I can’t trust you. In fact, who can I trust? All of a sudden, the world seems unsafe and dangerous.”

“Now, I could get really angry at you – blame and shame you for lying…embarrassing me, making up stuff for your book….really James, you’re book was so sensational. Why did you need to fabricate the facts?”

James – That’s a good question, Oprah. You know, after all these years of being sober there’s still a part of me that doesn’t feel like who I am or what I am is enough. So, it wants to make up things..

O – Exactly. I know that part inside of me. Here I am…widely successful…rich beyond my wildest dreams…and there’s still a small part that is afraid that I won’t measure up. I think it got triggered when I found out that you did fabricate parts of your book. “Oh dear”, that part thought.” I really don’t measure up. I backed a liar.”

James – That probably didn’t feel very good.

O – No, it didn’t. But you know what I did to feel good? I decided to work inside myself with that part that was in fear and didn’t feel safe. I decided to find out what I needed to do to OWN the part of ME that this triggered. In other words,
What part of me lies to me because it still doesn’t feel good enough?

James – And what did you learn?

O – I learned that I still secretly harbor a fear that people will ‘find out’ that I don’t know what I’m talking about – that I don’t know anything…..(chuckling) What if that’s true? What if I don’t know anything?

What about you James? Do you know anything after all these years of sobriety?

James – (pause) I know that being sober is better than being wasted. I know that life is about learning….about growing…about helping others.

O – Let’s see. I know that it’s worth it to stick your neck out. I know that you can make something of yourself regardless of your past. I know that I want to be honest above all else…and I know that I care.

So – what do we do with you? A million people are waiting.

James – Oprah, you have been a tremendous gift. This is my next step in becoming well. Thank you. I will make a commitment to write the truth – if that’s my genre – from now on. And, if writing fiction, then make it honest!!!! I believe people are hungry for that.

O – And I want to thank my human nature for, once again, showing me where I can get bigger – expand in my loving of my humanity…and the humanity of others.

Let’s here it for all the spiritual scientists out there who would rather take full responsibility and work in self-mastery than blame and shame.

Light to you!!!
Rebecca