(Written by Kathy)

Recently, Mark had an unpleasant experience with a freelancer on eLance. It started as a very positive experience, and some revelations came to the freelancer through her exposure to Mark’s material. She had some very real, major breakthroughs.

Shortly thereafter, she began making some poor business decisions. I won’t go into all of the problems that occurred. But I will say that this “business conflict” was a beautiful thing from a spiritual perspective.

I’ve seen Mark go through a lot of intense experiences with people. He’s been exasperated lately, asking, “Why does this keep happening to me?” I support him as best as I can, and I try to point out where he could have done something differently. However, these points are usually quite minor in consideration of the overall scope of a project. So, yes, I agree with his wonderment… why does this happen to Mark?

With the eLance provider, he had some intuitive impressions that the major breakthrough might swing the other way. He’s had enough experience with people doing change work to know that once people step out of the prison of their patterns, they often go right back into the cage and resume their life experience from that perspective. For someone who has been angry, bitter, and unforgiving her entire life, she’ll find the first person at whom to point a judgmental, angry, unforgiving finger.

Fearing Exposure
I’ve noticed that people either love Mark and his work or they despise him and his work.* (see disclaimer below) The ones who despise him are the ones with the most defensive fortification of patterns to protect fragile egos. They seem to have a sense that Mark could easily break through those fortifications and expose what’s really going on underneath.

Spirit moves in interesting ways. And it is always moving in ways to bring you closer to the truth of who you really are underneath your patterns.

The only thing that separates you from your most magnificent self is the patterns that you’ve learned to defend yourself from attack – whether real or imagined.

Some of our patterns are developed to defend ourselves from the attack of being ignored or marginalized… meaning, some people develop patterns to garner as much attention as possible. (An example would be the narcissist.)

These unproductive patterns are what I call your “broken pieces.” I’ve always said that relationships are the place where people come together to heal their broken pieces, but someone’s going to get poked. All relationships and their experiences… whether business, romantic, family, or friendship… have the primary purpose of helping you heal your broken pieces so you can discover the magnificence of who you really are.

This is what ho’oponopono teaches… getting to the “Zero State” where your patterns (or your “data”) can no longer operate.

After working with ho’oponopono for 5 years, and after learning from Mark who has been working with ho’oponopono for 15+ years (amongst other modalities), I can honestly say that I do not believe that using ho’oponopono on everything always generates happiness and rainbows, ESPECIALLY if you’re operating through a perspective of a lot of patterns. Sometimes all ho’oponopono will do is clear one row of patterned defenses, leaving the more painful row of patterned defenses to be exposed.

And sometimes, Spirit will work in ways so that you must experience healing. You cannot do some of this healing intellectually.

What Scares the Pants Off of You Can Save You
This summer, I took the kids to a fire safety class at a local church. One of the firemen put on his fire protective suit, an oxygen mask, the whole regalia. He looked frightening, and a lot of the kids were kind of scared. I loved how they made the youngest, most innocuous fireman get dressed up like the “scary monster fireman.” Then, all of the kids crawled under a blanket (representing smoke) and hugged the big scary monster fireman. I imagined if the kids were in an actual fire, scared beyond belief, and the big scary guy was the one to save them, they might rather hide and risk their lives.

If you’re in a challenging position and something even scarier comes along, that big scary thing might very well be the thing that saves you.

Your “big scary monster fireman” is where you feel victimized. It looks awful, you don’t want to face it, you don’t want to go towards it. But where you are sitting is even more dangerous than what looks scary to you. But you’re the frog in the boiling water. Staying where you are, defended by your patterns, is no longer an option. You must move. And you must move towards the very thing that frightens you the most.

If conflict is showing up in your life lately, you can ask “why me?” Or, you can ask “why not me?” You can act as a healing agent in your life, or in someone else’s life. Perhaps it isn’t that you’ve done something wrong to attract conflict or difficulty. Perhaps you’re in a place to get poked a little, but also help someone heal one of their broken pieces.

You can do so by getting beyond your own triggers and patterns, and you can do so by staying centered in your heart. Love softens the broken pieces, love removes the fortifications, and love gives you the trust and knowingness that no matter how scary or difficult something might look, you’ll always be magnificent on the other side.

* Disclaimer: I don’t purport to say here that everyone who doesn’t get along with Mark now or in the past has issues and the issues are all about them. Sometimes Mark can be very in-your-face and often not very politically correct at all. He says what he means and he means what he says. This can be a great thing if you value honesty in your relationships. It’s an uncomfortable (and even enraging) thing if you value harmony.

I will say, however, that he will admit when he’s wrong. He will always lend a hand to help someone. He has brilliant ideas. And his biggest talent is helping people heal from the patterns that keep them away from knowing real happiness.

Yesterday, there were a number of posts about the increasing number of Americans living in poverty. In fact, the number of Americans living in poverty today is higher than it has ever been.

Many Americans across the United States are living in tent cities while empty, foreclosed homes sit vacant.

We could blame the banks, the government, the wars overseas, Obama, Bush, or even Clinton. It can feel very overwhelming to realize this is happening. It is disempowering to realize that, individually, there is not much we can do to change the broad scope of the economic pain people are feeling.

People are hurting all over the world. I bet there are people in your own community who are suffering. You may be one of them.

Old paradigms and structures are failing. Many of us have made decisions and structured our lives around the paradigms and structures that can no longer support themselves.

It’s apparent that we cannot rely on government or businesses to “take care of us.” We have to take care of each other.

If you are fortunate enough to help someone less fortunate than you, I recommend doing something. It changes your worldview, brings light to another person, and giving opens you to receiving.

This weekend, Kathy and the kids baked goodies for the local soup kitchen. Her rationale was, on the 10th anniversary of 9/11, to refocus herself and the kids away from the disempowering messages in the media reliving the pains of the past. Doing something tangible for someone — right here, right now — will help you feel empowered.

I wrote about this in my book How to Make Someone Feel Like a Million Bucks. If you’d like a copy of this eBook, leave a comment or contact me. In making someone feel like a million bucks, you end up making yourself feel like even more than that. Those good feelings then translate into attracting forces that create more good in your life and in the lives of everyone you inspire.

It is very important to remember not to sacrifice your own self in giving. The good Samaritan continued on his journey to do his business after he stopped to help the injured man. He did not give up his own welfare to help another, but ensured the injured man was cared for.

There is something you can do today — within your means — to help another who is less fortunate.

Imagine if we all did something TODAY that helped someone else out? Could we create a grassroots program to change the economic experiences across the world, one community at a time?

What do you do regularly to help people less fortunate? What can you do today?

I heard an amazing, inspiring story of life after death recently. I did a podcast about it, that you can download and listen to.

Download to listen.

I recorded this podcast from Mount Shasta. Here are some pictures of that evening’s sunset.

I hope you enjoy the recording, and I look forward to your feedback.

Giving has been on my mind a lot lately. Actually, it’s been an entirely important part of my life. I have always been an incredibly generous person, giving my money, my time, my energy, and my gifts wherever I am called to serve. It is an important part of my faith to give. And in times of tribulation, I often turn towards asking the Divine to make the road of service more clear to me.

Over the past couple of years, I’ve learned an important lesson, and I wanted to share it with you. The intent with which you give is more important than the gift itself.

Why is it that sometimes we give and our gifts don’t make a difference? Why is it that sometimes we give and give and give until we feel completely depleted, and then we realize that the experience felt more like “being taken from” instead of giving from the heart?

When Giving Doesn’t Work
There was a point in time during my life when I was homeless. I don’t talk much about this experience; I don’t feel like I need to use it to justify anything or use it to make people think my life is anything that it is not. When I was living without a home, I was sitting eating a can of beans. A man, who appeared to be homeless as well, came up to me and asked me for money. I told him that I didn’t have any money, but that I would share my beans with him.

He said, “No, man, sorry. I don’t want your beans.” He proceeded to tell me how he made a good living from asking people for money. It was his “job,” so to speak, to ask people for money and prey upon their pity of him. This was how he earned his living.

Kathy had a similar experience. While working in downtown Chicago, she saw a man begging for money who was visibly mentally afflicted. A few weeks later, she saw him up in her neighborhood, far away from the touristy areas downtown, buying food at the grocery store. He was not acting afflicted as he paid for his food. He even had a credit card to pay for his food, and he acted perfectly normal.

We’ve all had the experience of being asked for money by someone we just knew was going to use the money to buy alcohol or drugs. And we’ve all had experiences where friends or family ask us for favors, our money, our time, our energy, and we’ve not have the favors repaid. Or we feel sorry for someone down on their luck, we give to them to help them, and they end up taking advantage of our kindness.

I’ve even had experiences where I’ve been promised payment for my work, given freely above and beyond what was required, and then denied payment for my time, service, and above-and-beyond gift of energy.

And then sometimes people will give a gift and constantly remind you that they gave the gift, making it not feel much like a gift at all. It can often feel like you’re paying for the “gift” over and over again when you’re reminded of it!

Sometimes giving doesn’t always work out very well.

Yet, my faith tells me that I must give and care for my brother. But I don’t feel that it is appropriate to “cast my pearl before swine” and have my time, energy, money, or kindness wasted… or even worse, taken advantage of.

When Giving Keeps Giving
And then there are the stories and experiences that tell me that giving is completely magical.

There have been situations when I’ve given, and it has been magnified. A woman I know gave her last $20 to someone, and it was returned to her the next day through another source.

I’ve given money to people and had it come back to me in other ways. I’ve bought meals for people who were begging, I’ve bought gas for people, I’ve paid tolls for the car behind me. Those experiences change my world and my perspective in ways I cannot fully explain.

Giving is a huge part of who I am.

So where is the distinction? Why does giving sometimes work out wonderfully and other times create disasters of epic proportions?

Reasons for Giving
I have a theory that the reasons behind our gift are more important than the gift itself. The physical manifestation of the gift – food, money, time – doesn’t matter as much as the spiritual intention behind the gift. When you give, the belief and intention that you hold in your heart is what you are creating.

Think about this.

• Are you giving a gift because you need it returned 10-fold?
• Are you giving a gift because you need attention for it?
• Are you giving a gift because you need glorification?
• Are you giving because you feel like you have to?
• Are you giving a gift because you feel sorry for someone?

Or are you giving because you feel inspired? Are you giving freely from a willing heart? Are you giving with faith?

Giving because you feel sorry or pity is the worst. When you give from this place, you are giving a reinforcement of the situation that makes you feel sorry for that person. The experience of feeling sorry for that person will come back to you tenfold. You do no good giving because you feel sorry for someone.

Jesus did not heal because he felt sorry for people. Jesus healed because he could see the Divine within that person, he could see that person fully well, and he held true to his faith. He did not heal because He had to or needed to. He did not heal because He wanted glorification or attention.

The intent and belief behind your gift is more important than the gift itself.

If you are giving from a place of need, you create more need. If you are giving because you want attention, you’ll get attention all right… but not necessarily the attention you were looking for.

If you give freely, lovingly, with no attachment to outcome, then you are giving with the intent of healing, growth, and love. If you give with the intent of bringing Spirit, inspiration, and love into this world, you will have that magnified. And this energy is what will come back to you. If you give knowing and intending to help someone into a better situation, this comes back to you.

If you choose to give, see your physical gift as a manifestation of your truest intent. Set your intention in the right place, that the highest good will come from your gift, that the will of the Divine is at play, and that healing, growth, and love can and will occur.

Think about the woman who gave away her last $20. Her gift came back to her in the exact amount the next day. But think about what was behind that gift. She gave it with faith that it would come back, and it did. But the gift… it keeps giving. It is giving to you today as a gift of a story of inspiration. The intent behind the gift itself was — and is to this day — more important than the gift of the money.

The Real Power of Giving
When you are in the place where you are giving from your willing heart, when you are giving free of attachment to outcome, with no thought of how it makes you look to others, you know. There is a feeling that comes through giving, a feeling where you begin to allow miracles happen for yourself and for others. When giving comes from that place, it bridges the place between Spirit and physical.

When Kathy was in downtown Chicago, she saw many people begging on the streets. Her desire and need to give was being triggered, but her cynicism was high. Instead of giving money, she began giving energy. She would select individuals and “give” them something other than money. She would imagine them happy, joyful, laughing, and then imagine a ball of light coming from her to that person. It wasn’t always homeless people that she would give this to, it was entirely random and based entirely on the in-the-moment inspiration she felt. Whether or not the “gift” she gave made a difference, we’ll never know. But it made an impression on her.

Think about the gift of prayer, the gift of reiki, the gift of goodwill, the gift of intent, belief, faith. There is no way that you can know where it goes, what it does when it gets there, or what it will do when it is returned to you tenfold.

Giving in the Now
When you are presented with a situation that would allow you to give, inspiration is your guide. It takes some experimenting to play with your resistance. There may be opportunities to give and provide miracles for others that right now might look like some of those tell-tale signs of bad giving. But when are these situations really your patterns resisting wonderful opportunities?

The key to out-witting these patterns is experimentation. Sometimes giving a dollar to someone who is going to spend it on alcohol is a dollar lost; sometimes it is a miracle.

Give from the intent of a miracle.

Then, let go. Let go of what you think should happen, what you want to happen, all of your patterns of hope, past experiences, etc. Let go completely. Let go, Let God. Let it be.

Just give in the miraculous now with an intention, and let it be whatever it needs to be.

The power of change is in the now, and change happens when you let go in the now.

Working this field, I come across people from all walks of life. Some of them are debilitated by traumas, fears, and despair. Others are living pretty wonderful lives by comparison, but they were looking to get ahead and get more from their experience.

I am proud that in most cases I am able to stir old, unproductive patterns loose and help people find more peace, freedom, and joy in their lives. Sometimes those people are so thrilled that I’ve done something good, that I receive glowing energy back from them as thanks.

They think it is me doing the work. And a lot of it is me, the knowledge I’ve accrued from some pretty amazing people, and my own personal challenges that have given me the ability to see what’s not working.

But it’s not really me. Yes, I’ve worked hard to gain knowledge that helps people. Yes, I am continuing to learn more things. And yes, I love helping people.

If anything, my gift is that I can open a place where God, grace, and forgiveness can enter in. I am more like a catalyst than anything.

You see, underneath whatever is holding you back, there is an undamaged person with amazing joy, love, and abundance given as a birthright. That is the real you.

Your thoughts, your unconscious patterns, your beliefs… these are all just tools we’ve inherited, adopted, or chosen in order to cope with challenges. But these challenges are not permanent, and the “sin” is thinking that we’ve got it all figured out and we’ve found a way to protect ourselves, adapt, and survive those challenges.

Every event in your life is an opportunity to uncover what thought, belief, and unconscious pattern doesn’t fit with the true nature of who you really are. It is important to remember this when such challenges arrive. It is the gratitude for the challenge to clean unconscious patterns and grow that allows us to accept grace and healing when it arrives.

If you’re interested in dislodging patterns and uncovering the real you, I am available for coaching. I typically do 1-2 sessions only, as I’ve found this is all it takes for most people to experience breakthrough on their issue.

If you want to do something right now at home, check out Mind Power for Free. This is a free program that John Overdurf and I released to help people get clear.

You can also dive deeper into ho’oponopono with the Subliminal Clearing DVD. It can change your life, too.

I love hearing from people who have been moved by my work. I love it even more when I hear that someone has spread that good feeling forward. Those changes can transform your relationships and transform others. As you change, the people around you tend to change, too. Imagine what change can occur in the world when you begin to reach out and touch the lives of total strangers, too.

In my first introduction to ho’oponopono, the speech I heard put together a number of disparate puzzle pieces for me.

One intuitive puzzle piece said, “You are more than you think you are.”

Another said, “You need to be less than you think you are.”

For months, I couldn’t reconcile these two intuitions. How can I be more and less? And what does that mean?

Ho’oponopono opened my perspective. Through learning about the “zero state,” I realized that I am much, much more than who I thought I was. I have a vast reserve of capabilities, desires, hopes, and dreams. Some people call this God. Other people call it a higher self. Other people call it the universe.

To me, it feels more like a lifeline to a wider awareness. I don’t think there is line dividing me and All That Is. I am a part of the vast ocean of all that is, just like an ocean wave is a part of the ocean. But I am not the ocean, and the ocean is not the wave.

The intuition of being less than what I thought I was was telling me to let go of data. Let go of all of it. Everything that I believed about myself, everything that I thought was just how things were. This data is not something that we can recognize easily. We end up having unconscious assumptions about how things are. For me, I had many unconscious assumptions that busy = success. I inherited a lot of those beliefs from my very busy entrepreneurial parents. But as I started working with ho’oponopono and clearing data using great tools like Mark’s meditation videos in the Subliminal Manifestation: Attracting Wealth DVD, those unconscious patterns started unraveling.

I realized the dreams I had thought were going to make me happy weren’t making me happy as I accomplished them. Adorable mission style house in a beautiful suburb? Check. Fancy German sports car? Check. More clients than I could have ever dreamed about? Check. Money? Yep.

I had everything I could have ever hoped for, everything I could have ever wanted. And I was still chasing more.

But there was something whispering as intuition within me. Ho’oponopono helped me to open to those intuitions and open to happiness I could have never found on my own.

Some ho’oponopono teachers have explained how to use ho’oponopono to create wealth, cars, houses, even relationships.

But there’s something more important that ho’oponopono does, and that’s healing the relationship within you. When you begin to heal that relationship, when you start to let go to your intuition, to your heart, and to the deepest part of yourself, it opens doors to new avenues of creative consciousness that you simply cannot conceive of right now.

And I’m not saying I’ve found the keys to the kingdom. I just found keys to another room. I’m more than certain that I’m going to be exploring even more rooms, and they may be completely different than those you discover.

Our complexity and diversity is what keeps this place fun and exciting.

How to Use Ho’oponopono to Open Your Experience

Start with the mantra. Use the four statements: “I love you, Thank you, I’m sorry, Please forgive me.” These statements resonate your energy in a place where you can open and connect with the energy force that creates miracles in your experience.

Cultivate your awareness. Notice what’s different, and what’s the same. Even small events are messages of your experience. A butterfly landing on your arm can mean something. Two people telling you the same thing or using similar words. A person verbalizing something you had thought about. Notice the small things, and bigger things start to happen, too. The key is to cultivate your awareness. Once you start cultivating your awareness, you are given more and more significant messages.

Do something completely different. Take different ways home from work. Try new foods, especially those you said you’d never eat. Walk at a different time, take a different route. Start writing. Try painting. Play a guitar or the piano. Call someone you haven’t talked to in a long time. When the guy or girl who looks completely different than you’re “type” asks you on a date, say “yes.” When someone who holds your opposing political viewpoint says you’re wrong, agree with them and see things from their point of view.

Do something completely out of character. If you’re someone who always goes with the flow and says yes more than you should, say no. If you’re someone who finds certain belief systems offensive, pretend for a while that you believe those things. If you’re a vegetarian, eat meat. (I was actually vegetarian for 14 years.) If you’re a vehement meat eater, try going vegetarian.

The key to opening your experience for change is to keep seeking new experiences, new ways of being, new belief systems. Don’t shy away from conflict, opposing viewpoints, or things you’ve previously found offensive. Experience is most often the teacher, thinking and reading can spur the experiences, but they are not experiences in and of themselves.

The goal is to cultivate new experiences in order to experience something new.

If you’re not happy, if you’re doing everything you think you “should” and not following an internal compass that tells you what feels best, if you’re running your reactive patterns instead of choosing your experience, you’ve got to cultivate and reconnect yourself to that compass in order to shake things up and experience something different.

You think you know what you want. But something within you knows something else. And it’s just waiting for you to open to it.

Enjoy this interview I did last week with my good friend, Georg Lang, about his spiritual process called TISIA.

As a follow up to the intuitive guidance I wrote about the other day in surviving the shift, a model of understanding came to me that explains what is going on, and why so many people are feeling unbearable discontent right now.

The model is that of All That Is being the ocean, and we are individual waves. Each wave has a certain height, character and depth. But it is still a part of a larger whole.

We are all a part of All That Is, The Universe, God, a collective consciousness… whatever you want to call it. We are a part of this vast energetic pool of knowingness, and that knowingness seeks to experience life on earth through the individual experiences of each of us. The question of who am “I” and what is that knowingness isn’t important. Just knowing that you are you, and that there is a deeper part of yourself that is connected to a deeper part of All That Is.

It is within that deeper part of yourself that your larger knowing exists. When you relax, meditate, dream, you go into that deeper part of self that knows much more than you do about what is going on.

The deeper part knows your patterns, the things that block you consciously and unconsciously. The deeper part isn’t concerned with politics, healthcare, bankers, environmental disasters, having more money, the annoying co-worker, the current problem of the day, having a better car, or lifestyles of the rich and famous.

It isn’t that the deeper part doesn’t care about the environment, disasters, or the inequality in the world. The deeper part of you feels compassion, care, and love in such situations instead of anger, despair, or outrage. Ho’oponopono is only one of the ways that you can help yourself to get to the deeper part of yourself to feel these things. There are many other modalities that work, too, such as reiki and meditation. Walking through the woods, being in nature, these things help me open to that deeper part of myself as well.

There is a lot of anger, despair, and outrage in the world right now. There are even people feeling anger, despair and outrage that other people are feeling angry, despondent and outraged! I have to admit, I join in on some of those feelings sometimes. We’re human. It is our nature to explore all parts of our existence, from the shallows to the depths.

At those times, it is like I am further into the wave and further away from the ocean. I am more “out on a limb” and riding the wave of the current weather and situation that feels most important. Sometimes there is a reason to go out on the wave for a ride. We are manifest so that we can experience, and learning to travel the various depths and shallows of experience is a part of that life experience as a human. Depth is no better or worse than shallow.

But you can’t stay on the edge of the wave for long, especially during the storms. During the storms (like now), the propensity for seasickness and discombobulation on the edge of the wave will thrash you emotionally and make life difficult. You have to know how to find the depth again to recharge if you want to play on the waves again.

In the depth, there is knowing. There is peace, love, compassion, and joyfulness. You can look at the waves happening, but not be carried away by them. You can look at some of the most egregious actions and not be overwhelmed by them.

Mark has taught me, more than any other person, how to travel the length of the wave. It’s the reason why so many people from all walks of life come to him for incredible coaching experiences; they want to learn how to ride the wave from top to bottom and get the most out of life experience.

I can go shallow and dance on the waves, or I can go deep and feel the peace and knowingness. Living in Mount Shasta has accelerated my finding the depth within myself. I’m amazed at times at how deep it goes, and I’m certain I haven’t explored the full spectrum of who I am in that paradigm. I’m sure I can go deeper. And through being here, I am pretty sure that acceleration of exploration is going to continue.

This could have never happened in Texas. The environment there was not personally conducive to my depth.

Last night, I played with some shallow emotions. And even during a relatively unpretty emotional state, my deeper self was still communicating with me. I was still receiving intuitive guidance even though I was angry and wanting to punch someone. That, to me, felt like progress. And, I was able to recover from anger quickly, express it exactly how I wanted to, and reconnect deeper when I was done.

These situations come up for me, just like they do for you. But the resolution is accelerated. A year ago, an upset might have lasted a whole day. Now, I’m surprised if it lasts for more than an hour. And my learning from these experiences happen much, much faster. Clearing, breakthrough… the other side of pattern transcendence is incredibly freeing.

Overall, I think there is a move away from playing at the shallow end of self. I’m sensing that each of us are realizing that our greater power is in the collective whole rather than the individuation of ego. Connection to each other and all that is has a lot more power than egocentric pursuits. And those who pursue the gratification of ego are seen for who and what they are. They may win at certain games, but the wins are shallow and lonely, and their time will end sooner than you think.

I am sensing that each of us are getting signals to go deeper, to discover who we really are, and the path is within each of us. Your signal may be a thought to go do something that nurtures you (a pull towards something), or it may be that you are so sick and tired of hearing about “xyz” in the news media that you turn it off and spend some time alone with yourself (a push away from something). Whether you’re sensing a push or a pull, something is telling you to go deeper. That something is really your own self, inviting you to open up to the depth and connections within you.

We’ll get to a tipping point eventually, when enough of us begin to explore those depths and open up to our greater knowingness and intuitive guidance. What happens then will be very interesting. We can’t go deeper without affecting everyone else, as they are a part of us. The more we can play with the depths of our own consciousness, the more we can help others do so themselves just by the very nature of our own exploration… ripples in the greater ocean of all that we are.

There is something rather big happening right now.

Can you feel it?

Whether you’re looking at its surface-level effects, or delving deeper to find meaning, you’ll notice that there are some major stresses happening in our reality right now. The structures of our world – financial systems, monetary systems, electric and transportation power systems, political systems, healthcare structures, environmental, media systems – everything is in a state of stress, degradation, or even downright falling apart.

It is becoming apparent that the systems in place to support and protect us aren’t exactly what we thought they were.

The public relations people are certainly busy trying to keep the visage of having it all together intact and sweeping the bad news under the rug, but it is too little, too late, and people are waking up to the fact that life on earth just isn’t what we thought it was.

Even the FBI and NSA are releasing documentation that extra-terrestrials have been found, contacted, and yes, they do exist. Isn’t this huge news? Important? And why now? Meanwhile, the media and politicians distract us with discussions of birth certificates.

I am aware of all of this happening… the earth changes, the shift in consciousness, openings, the interdimensional blurs… my intuition is on supercharge. The knowledge of what is real and what is imaginary patterning is strong. I’m noticing it in the kids, too. Max will verbalize something I am feeling. I will be writing something, and Claire will speak what I am writing, even though she’s across the room.

I’m aware that the surface level activities that we’re seeing are just ripples of effects from important things happening at deeper levels of awareness and consciousness.

It’s to the point where a lot of what is going on with conventional discussion just makes no sense anymore. It’s not about Obama or taxes, or the government, or even the banksters, or HAARP, or even illuminati, or whatever else explanation people have for what is happening.

There is something else shifting, something deeper, something beyond what we can comprehend or understand. If we go deeper and unplug from the mainstream explanations, we can sense what’s really going on.

I can see it astrologically, but I can also sense it from the depth of my consciousness. I just can’t really explain it.

Something really huge is happening, unlike anything we’ve experienced on earth ever before. That’s about all I know for sure.

And sometimes I get scared and wonder why, and then the download comes in and tells me that we are all here to participate and witness this shift… we wanted to be here for this… and it’s happening now.

Breathing in… breathing out.

We’re all breathing in, we’re all breathing out. Earth, all of us us, even the universe. Energy has been moving one way for a long time… and now it’s moving in another, but none of us understand exactly what that means. We’re sitting on the chess board, and we can’t tell what is happening in the overall game. We can’t get it intellectually, or even emotionally. But somewhere within a deeper part of us, we know.

And it’s really quite exciting.

We all came here to witness this, to experience it, to feel it, and we’re all doing so at different levels of awareness and from different perspectives. Some of us are angry. Some of us are distressed. Some of us are at peace. Me, I’m bouncing around somewhere in between. Being in Mount Shasta, I am A LOT closer to peace than I ever have been before. I feel incredibly guided by Spirit within me, grounded in nature, and protected and loved by All That Is.

My connection to that deeper part of consciousness guided me to this experience, and the more I open to it, the more the deeper part of me is guiding me in every decision I make. They all turn out to be fantastic decisions when I am plugged into that deeper part of myself. And the systems falling apart don’t mean as much to me then.

My job is not to fix it or even feel angry about it. My job, apparently, is to let go of attachments and desires that things be a certain way. Our collective job is to unplug from the manipulation machines that make us want things that we don’t really want.

We think we want certain things, but we don’t take a deeper look at why we think we want them. This is one of the things I’ve learned most from Mark… and one of the reasons why his presentation about subliminals at Kevin Hogan’s bootcamp last month was so amazing. It exposed the manipulation machines and how it happens, and how we end up plugging into a system of experience that makes us feel good even though we’re giving our energy and power away. We get an emotional experience, they get our money.

That whole system is falling apart. Our collective consciousness won’t stand for it much longer.

If you’re holding on to a broken system, angry that it isn’t working anymore, you’re just making yourself unhappy and you’re not helping yourself or anyone else. It’s like standing in the driveway beating on a broken car. It gets you nowhere. Get the car fixed, or get a new car. Or start walking, call a friend for a ride, or go back in the house and turn on the music really loud and dance naked in the living room.

The Key to Surviving the Shift
I don’t really know what’s happening, but I know what is working for me. So here it is.

Let go to that deeper part of yourself that knows something really big is happening. You don’t have to fully understand it, just trust that the deeper part of yourself knows. There’s a part that finds it all rather laughable, amusing, or even exciting. You don’t have to hurt through this shift. In fact, hurting through the shift doesn’t mean you’re any more noble, and you’re unable to help those who are hurting. So find a way to make it not hurt. That part is important.

By letting go to the part of yourself that knows, you start to integrate that deeper part of yourself into your daily experience. You begin pulling more of your consciousness into your life experience, and you begin to strengthen the connection between the you that you think you are and the you that you really are.

You’ll start to see that the systems you think you needed or wanted aren’t really important, they aren’t what you really want. You’re not looking for the things that they’re selling, you’re not looking to plug into THAT system.

You’re looking to plug into a deeper part of yourself. That deeper part of you is what you’ve been craving, what you’ve been looking for, the whole of yourself that has been neglected, feeling like an empty hole in yourself.

The deeper part of yourself knows what to do next.

You don’t have to understand or even know why, you just have to let go and trust. And you’ll find that you will live through interesting times without having to feel the curse of it.

- Kathy

Read the follow up to this article here.

Here’s a clip from the successful Subliminal Clearing DVD, Z+ Advanced Ho’oponopono. In it, I discuss the concept of the inner child.