By The Masters of One through CC Treadway
In the ever-expanding universe we see three main and helpful themes for 2010. If we are to take a look at the “time table” of this year, we must first recognize that spirit is all one. So if the consciousness expanding is expanding as one, into one, how does the story of Earth make her mark in this year? Now, please understand, in the cosmic sense, that there is no 2010. That there is no 2012. In the cosmic sense we move as one in the space of no time, in the vortex of healing, of creation, of learning, of understanding, and of moving.
1. There is More Consciousness Available Than You Think
The movement in the universe happens through the impulse of group consciousness. So the group consciousness will show you how the earth is moving. Make no mistake, there are no miracles that occur on the earth without a collective agreement that it be so. And so, if you are to understand this, you must also understand that there is SO MUCH CONSCIOUSNESS on this planet, for it is not only human beings that have consciousness. What if you were to take the time to talk to the plants and trees? Where do you think their consciousness would be? Would be it be to gather world domination by force, creating illnesses and economic strife? Probably not. Pick not only the humans of like minded consciousness to align with, but all that is in alignment with peace and harmony and effortless growth, and of acceptance of that growth as natural.
If you are surrounded by those who hold their consciousness in the shadow, find something around you that doesn’t. A tree, a child, dirt or even your sweater. Just because children do not usually choose to sit in meditation visualizing world peace, does not mean they are plotting with evil forces for your soul. Their benign, truthful energy is aligned with source, so you’ve got the vast majority of children in the world’s consciousness heading in the right direction! There are also interdimensional beings, like us, who share Earth’s space and move with her. That’s a lot of energy! Everything has consciousness, and everything, to a certain extent has free will and influences where we are going together. So use this knowledge as comfort when it feels like the whole world has lost its heart.
2. Proactive Love
What is interesting now is that traumatic events are happening in such a visible way that is impossible to be separated from it. It is impossible to look the other way. It is impossible not to know what and when has occurred. Take the time to feel into how these events affect you. Is it just another day, or do you have the feeling that, deep inside, you are being watched by a force that is waiting for your reaction to be in a proactive and loving way? Many of you have this sense. Some call it God, others the Higher Self, but indeed, there is a force that is waiting for your energy to grow to the extent that it can align with you and become more powerful, more loving. This high, wise and very strong energy cannot align with you fully if you do not use the strength of love to face what is difficult in the world proactively. It is not enough to simply pray, or hold space, although that is wonderful. But what action are you going to take in the physical world that reflects this intention? Because when the vibration is put into action, the vibration grows exponentially. Action does not have to be starting a non-profit organization and saving children in Africa, although it could. It can mean taking the time to stroll through the park and touch the trees, or to take the chance and tell someone that you like their hair!! It is taking a loving thought one small step beyond what you might normally, until it is so comfortable that larger acts of love are done with ease. These acts must be truthful, however, for pretending to love is not effective.
If we shift our acts on a daily basis to doing one or two more active loving things, we are raising the vibration significantly. And we need that this year. If you thought there was change last year, this year will bring about even more change. We must shift our default state to one of proactive love. This will encourage a communal way of thought that is helpful, not harmful. Moving into a common agreement that joy and love is the way to go takes a continued commitment to being there, it is a continued reflection you must give those around you so they feel as though there is nothing more comfortable in the world than to be their most loving and strong self. Please know this is a process, and do not judge yourself if it takes you some time!
3. Mother Earth Calling in the Troops & Manifesting
If last year made you question your values and come into a deeper truth within you, this year, the ability to manifest in the new way, the new energy, will be magnified as Mother Earth calls back her children to align with her. Mother Earth is the strongest energy available to you as humans on the planet. It is vastly stronger than any human being or group of human beings. Use it to your advantage, and to the advantage of all. The group consciousness created over the last few years has created a strong template that is available for those in their new paradigm to manifest from. This is reflected in the numerology of the year, which is a three. Three is a manifesting number. Remember that as you align with Mother Nature, you are simply reclaiming what is yours. The body becomes alive with this knowledge, the cells reawaken to their natural power and you are free. This freedom only requires that you maintain attention and focus to manifest properly.
Mother nature needs her children to come together and recognize her as their primary source of all that is physical. This separation and reliance upon that which is above to feed us is not complete. While it takes above and below to create, the dismissal of the Mother cannot create satisfying or nurturing results. Ever feel that when you are manifesting that you must manifest more and more because it is not enough? As the element of Mother is restored, we will feel we have enough and create from there. It will not be an uphill climb with no choice but to come back down from the peak, but an experience of passion, creativity and nurturing. It is a wonderful feeling to create in this way and the energy for that awareness is strong in this year of 2010.
These three helpful themes will carry you in the flow of this year. When trying to manifest, remember that you are physically divine, when trying to love, do something loving and when frustrated with the state of the world, hug a tree.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Channeling: Past Lives & Contracts (Dec 09)
Let us clear up some of the confusion surrounding past lives, contracts and the like. In the space of no time, there is infinite earth experience, there is infinite life experience in the hologram of life. All these lives and experiences are happening in thought and feeling, and some in action and physical form, others in mythological or astral form. They are all real and part of the human psyche, landscape and experience. As you tap into the energy that is being held by a life experience, the healing is real because of the amount of self/Creator energy tied up and attached to the expression of that feeling or thought. What is confusing and used as a justification of living all these different lifetimes, is the linear time set up, which only allows the human mind to grow in an understandable way in a place of heavy gravity. Thought and emotion brought into expression or repression, results in energy. All is measured in energy, and in the presence of emotion, the presence of space large and small, the outer, the inner.
What precedes/stimulates thought/emotion into expression? What stimulates the particular thought /emotion to which the expression is born is the desire to bring forth a creative experience in the reality of good and bad. The desire is to unify the good and bad with a creative experience. The creative experience is the bridge in a dualistic reality. There is no end and beginning, only the desire to create and bridge the duality. There is duality in this harmony because, it is like the creating of any instrument, there is a science behind the instrument, the way the notes are layed out, and how sound is made. The notes are layed out to create a specific type of sound, but the creative mind can make infinite amounts of songs with that form. Such is the experience in the dualist plane. Think of a simple instrument with two notes, spread far from each other. How would you bring those notes together to play? Would you get frustrated with the notes that are given and add the voice? Would you add another instrument, another note? You could do a lot of things, but the base structure of that instrument would remain the same. Two notes. In the end the desire of Creator could be such that the instrument is remade, because the desires of the creative impulse would be to long for more, over time, a new note would be born, simply form the energy garnered by the desire. That would be the basic structure of the universe to which this plane of reality is based upon. And that is how growth is allowed. There is movement, there are layers, but time is now. This will all make more sense as we go along.
Contracts and family… In the structure of the framework of the manipulation of time that this dimension provides, there is an interim space where souls meet to decide on their next move. While this space is not in the same time paradigm, it is not totally out of time. It has been constructed to best serve the form of the dualistic realities. In this time space reality, of the in between, it is like a stopping station, and there is a physical representation of this on the Moon. It is the meeting space, and the observer of earth happenings. Of other life forms from other planets must in some way stop through the Moon, to prepare themselves for the time space reality of Earth. There are those who are curious to disturb this setup and have people bound to the earth planes with no period of judgment in between that is all. This would slow evolution. But it cannot happen. These are few earth beings who are enjoying creating a destructive, demonic reality. This is ok. But the idea is to align with the truth and that it is all a creative experiment of the one true God… and how difficult do you want to create for yourself?
In order to create harmonic families on earth, there must be a commonality of energy. The willingness for a human to create family dramas and stay connected relies on this harmony, this commonality. This would imply, and is true in our understanding, that an energy, or monadic type structure exists as a larger whole and then is split off into many parts for the humans to interact and create within this dualistic plane and other planes. Monads would have joined with other monads originally and the soul family tree is given reason to incarnate together on the time space realities of physical creation. In this way each monadic system grows, learns and breathes connected to each other. And returns to itself in some “future time.” Of course interactions between people who do not have these connections will also result, and this can create variables of creation that are extremely diverse, enriching and confusing at times. This stretches the character of the monad and creates and energetic bond that allows for the monad in non-physical form to be connected as well. Remember we are all from the same Source, so these are just creative ways to connect with the energy of the all that is.
Contracts are put in place, again, so that a certain amount of energy resides around an issue so that it can be resolved in the heart of the soul during an incarnation. At times, during the course of a life, the need to maintain this old bond is no longer necessary and it can be dissolved if the soul feels the lesson has been learned, or if the foundational belief of the contract is causing unnecessary harm to the soul, in its opinion. Once the soul discovers that there is choice, and that there is access to the higher self, more control can be had over these pre-decisions. However, the dualistic nature of the earth experience will guarantee a certain amount of confusion until a place of non-dualism is reached in the heart of the soul. This takes much trial and error, but it can occur.
Thank you for your questions,
In Great Love and Service
The Masters of One
What precedes/stimulates thought/emotion into expression? What stimulates the particular thought /emotion to which the expression is born is the desire to bring forth a creative experience in the reality of good and bad. The desire is to unify the good and bad with a creative experience. The creative experience is the bridge in a dualistic reality. There is no end and beginning, only the desire to create and bridge the duality. There is duality in this harmony because, it is like the creating of any instrument, there is a science behind the instrument, the way the notes are layed out, and how sound is made. The notes are layed out to create a specific type of sound, but the creative mind can make infinite amounts of songs with that form. Such is the experience in the dualist plane. Think of a simple instrument with two notes, spread far from each other. How would you bring those notes together to play? Would you get frustrated with the notes that are given and add the voice? Would you add another instrument, another note? You could do a lot of things, but the base structure of that instrument would remain the same. Two notes. In the end the desire of Creator could be such that the instrument is remade, because the desires of the creative impulse would be to long for more, over time, a new note would be born, simply form the energy garnered by the desire. That would be the basic structure of the universe to which this plane of reality is based upon. And that is how growth is allowed. There is movement, there are layers, but time is now. This will all make more sense as we go along.
Contracts and family… In the structure of the framework of the manipulation of time that this dimension provides, there is an interim space where souls meet to decide on their next move. While this space is not in the same time paradigm, it is not totally out of time. It has been constructed to best serve the form of the dualistic realities. In this time space reality, of the in between, it is like a stopping station, and there is a physical representation of this on the Moon. It is the meeting space, and the observer of earth happenings. Of other life forms from other planets must in some way stop through the Moon, to prepare themselves for the time space reality of Earth. There are those who are curious to disturb this setup and have people bound to the earth planes with no period of judgment in between that is all. This would slow evolution. But it cannot happen. These are few earth beings who are enjoying creating a destructive, demonic reality. This is ok. But the idea is to align with the truth and that it is all a creative experiment of the one true God… and how difficult do you want to create for yourself?
In order to create harmonic families on earth, there must be a commonality of energy. The willingness for a human to create family dramas and stay connected relies on this harmony, this commonality. This would imply, and is true in our understanding, that an energy, or monadic type structure exists as a larger whole and then is split off into many parts for the humans to interact and create within this dualistic plane and other planes. Monads would have joined with other monads originally and the soul family tree is given reason to incarnate together on the time space realities of physical creation. In this way each monadic system grows, learns and breathes connected to each other. And returns to itself in some “future time.” Of course interactions between people who do not have these connections will also result, and this can create variables of creation that are extremely diverse, enriching and confusing at times. This stretches the character of the monad and creates and energetic bond that allows for the monad in non-physical form to be connected as well. Remember we are all from the same Source, so these are just creative ways to connect with the energy of the all that is.
Contracts are put in place, again, so that a certain amount of energy resides around an issue so that it can be resolved in the heart of the soul during an incarnation. At times, during the course of a life, the need to maintain this old bond is no longer necessary and it can be dissolved if the soul feels the lesson has been learned, or if the foundational belief of the contract is causing unnecessary harm to the soul, in its opinion. Once the soul discovers that there is choice, and that there is access to the higher self, more control can be had over these pre-decisions. However, the dualistic nature of the earth experience will guarantee a certain amount of confusion until a place of non-dualism is reached in the heart of the soul. This takes much trial and error, but it can occur.
Thank you for your questions,
In Great Love and Service
The Masters of One
Channeling: 11:11 (2009)
These days, in these times, it is of the most importance, the utmost value if you were to look inside yourself daily, minute to minute, as often as possible. For all the answers are within. In this time of outer chaos, we revisit the concept of the inner. We revisit the concept of the hologram, that all of life unfolds, enfolds within your true self. The self of Now. As you do this process of enfolding, the truth then can rise between the spaces of consciousness that is known to you. And in this space resides the awareness of the ONE. The only truth that you need listen to. In this time of chaos and great change, it is the stability within, and the mastery within, which unites the differences. For in that stability within, the one truth links us all. In this time of great chaos and ambition, we see that there is single minded focus to prevail, and so within, find this place that longs to prevail and let it enfold within you. Te gateway of the 11:11 is a time, an opportunity to allow more of this space, this truth to enfold with you, to pick one frequency, one currency of flavor, of spice that will carry you deeper into the universal truth of success, of rejoining with your galactic brothers and sisters, and others….
There is so much to understand, but if you practice the journey within, then you find the commonalities, the similarities between you and the great vastness and all of her colors, species and goals. You fit within that, quite easily if you allow for space. This is a practice that must be practiced, time and time again as you rise, earthlings, rise to the occasion of your birthright. This birthright enables you to see, with clear vision, who you are, where you are and what you are doing here. Do you realize you live in the greatest mystery of all? To agree to come into this plane requires so much stamina and trust. More trust that you could possibility imagine. To agree to forget so that you can assist in the rising of consciousness is such a sacrifice, and yet the sweet reunion with the Divine, with Creator makes it all worth it. To be lost, only to be found again, over and and over. You live this truth. The truth of the seeker.
What is the value of being the seeker? That you are the pioneers of the new world. One that involves each person being the truth of who they are, and nothing more is needed. Is that so difficult? Yes it is when the original human wound is running through your veins like poison. The wound of being bad, separate worthless. These are beliefs that each one of you holds, if you have “cleared it”within yourselves, you can still feel it in others. And you cannot deny that you are all breathing together this same air. On this 11:11, we ask that you not reject yourself, or another because they have a disdainful quality, but that you remember, that within lies the entire universe and that disdainful quality is as much yours to love as it is another’s. With that we say manifest well, tap into the higher flow and let yourselves be the greatness, the great souls, the Masters of Creator, the love that lies within.
In great Love and Service,
The Masters of One
There is so much to understand, but if you practice the journey within, then you find the commonalities, the similarities between you and the great vastness and all of her colors, species and goals. You fit within that, quite easily if you allow for space. This is a practice that must be practiced, time and time again as you rise, earthlings, rise to the occasion of your birthright. This birthright enables you to see, with clear vision, who you are, where you are and what you are doing here. Do you realize you live in the greatest mystery of all? To agree to come into this plane requires so much stamina and trust. More trust that you could possibility imagine. To agree to forget so that you can assist in the rising of consciousness is such a sacrifice, and yet the sweet reunion with the Divine, with Creator makes it all worth it. To be lost, only to be found again, over and and over. You live this truth. The truth of the seeker.
What is the value of being the seeker? That you are the pioneers of the new world. One that involves each person being the truth of who they are, and nothing more is needed. Is that so difficult? Yes it is when the original human wound is running through your veins like poison. The wound of being bad, separate worthless. These are beliefs that each one of you holds, if you have “cleared it”within yourselves, you can still feel it in others. And you cannot deny that you are all breathing together this same air. On this 11:11, we ask that you not reject yourself, or another because they have a disdainful quality, but that you remember, that within lies the entire universe and that disdainful quality is as much yours to love as it is another’s. With that we say manifest well, tap into the higher flow and let yourselves be the greatness, the great souls, the Masters of Creator, the love that lies within.
In great Love and Service,
The Masters of One
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Pioneering the New Earth and Money
FOUR REASONS DO-GOODERS ARE BROKE
By CC Treadway
Working as a healer I am always struck by the murky boundaries around money. In the spiritual and philanthropic circles, there is not much common agreement on the subject. In fact, it’s up for debate on most days. When I used to work as a video editor for corporations like MTV and Discovery Channel, financial contracts were clear. It was generally accepted that you did what you could to get paid as much as possible. When I would work for independent companies, financial contracts were hard to come by, not always honored and more work was expected for less money. The main reason why I “sold out” to corporate America for so many years was because they had better ethics around money. I know this sounds shocking, but I knew what to expect and I planned my life accordingly. I fondly remember spontaneous trips to Puerto Rico, shopping just for fun, paying for healing school and a savings account.
Upon deciding to be a healer, these financial standards were washed away by “Spirit” as they say. The expansion and bliss I felt with my newly found open heart usurped any desire for financial stability. I then defaulted into the financial belief system of the “spiritual” or “do-gooder” template. What was interesting is that I unconsciously took on a whole lotta garbage with it, and I found my financial situation steadily decline. I felt some sort of satisfaction about “leaving the system” and living with very little. I have learned a lot. No regrets. But as I integrate my experience, I have discovered the shadow side’s stinky smell. I had to get honest, because my bigger vision was to make a large impact, and it is really hard to do that when you are in survival mode. This is a huge subject, but I broke down a few major belief systems that prevent lovey-doveys from financial health.
SMELLY GARBAGE THAT MAKES DO-GOODERS BROKE
Garbage Pail #1: CARETAKING
Rationale: Must have compassion. Feeling guilty for charging money for work.
Desire: Love me
Flip side: Overcharging, huge ego.
Positive: Compassion and understanding is a beautiful thing, oftentimes lacking in cutthroat business.
Having compassion and empathy for people is normal. For healers, it can be off the charts. The pain of feeling other’s pain, can lead to caretaking behaviors. Learning how to control empathy will help strengthen boundaries and get clear on your needs and your client’s. It’s so easy to undercharge, or adjust our rates prematurely because we want to help someone. This does not empower them, it creates a set up of “needing the client,” or of feeling like they are controlling your decisions which then leads to resentment. And that makes them feel very uncomfortable and unsafe. If you don’t respect your financial needs, how can you expect someone else to? It is more healing to hold a clear and loving boundary around money for your clients than to be wishy washy for their sake. I personally have had a very difficult time with this garbage pail.
Garbage Pail #2: MARTYR
Rationale: Spirit Servant. Feeling obligated to serve, even if it means self-sacrifice.
Desire: Self-Empowerment
Flip side: Not knowing when to be generous.
Positive: Surrendering to Divine will is an essential step in spiritual development.
Oftentimes, when someone steps into what they consider to be a do-gooder profession, they feel it is ordained by God. All of the sudden, they are a servant of Spirit, a servant of the people, with no will of their own. This leads them into situations where they are over their heads and cannot behave ethically, or where they are taken advantage of.
One time, I got an email from someone asking that I heal their whole village, but they couldn’t offer me anything. They described a curse with many entities. Now, for me, as a healer, this is a potentially dangerous situation, and one I was really not qualified for. If I were “going with the flow” or “obeying in Spirit’s call,” or acting from ego I would have gone with it. It would have been a disaster. In the business world, you wouldn’t commit career suicide by taking on a job you couldn’t handle. In the healing world you must be extra careful because a village full of dark magic could really kill you.
I have heard people tell me that if God gave me a gift I am obligated to use it. I wonder where they get these ideas. I prefer to think I am working with the Love of God when I can. But I have seen healers in great distress because they did not honor their own needs and abilities, taking on too much for a good cause and ending up broke and sick. This can also happen while charging tons of money! Of course, as a human being we all can make a decision to offer healings or services for free when it truly feels right. Sometimes knowing when that is can take time to discern.
Garbage Pail #3: REBEL
Rationale: System is Bad. Confusing the dreaded “System” with money itself. I am a victim.
Desire: Accept me, I want to trust
Flip side: Making money into freedom, power and Godliness.
Positive: Creating new and better ways of living.
An Apache told me I would be a better healer if I didn’t charge. A Spaniard told me I would be punished with illness if I charged. An American woman at the gym eavesdropped and warned me that I better watch out or I would have another James Arthur Ray sweatlodge situation on my hands! Wow. Time to go back to garbage pail number two.
Most do-gooder types feel so rejected by the system that they associate money with that system, making money bad itself. This is a very stinky garbage pail. There are good reasons for smelling this one however. Many healing and philanthropic professions do not generate large incomes. Financial education in these fields is almost zero. The backlash when a healer or do-gooder tries to make money off products or services is enormous. This can lead to overcompensating by charging outrages prices, or becoming invisible and under the radar.
To my knowledge, some form of currency, whether it be paper based, gold based, seed based, flower based or bartar based, has always been used in organized societies. And, all societies are organized. It has not mattered the system: totalitarian, tribal, socialist, communist, democratic/capitalist, money is there in some form. I know so many wonderful artists and healers who feel rejected by the system who then blame money, act like they don’t need it and end up in survival mode, unable to help anyone. I have been in this category from time to time.
Money has nothing to do with the current system. Money is an ingredient to life that you can work with if you choose to create. If it changes form when a system collapses or grows, that energy will still be there to work with to amass power and help you achieve goals.
Garbage Pail #4: DENIAL
Rationale: Associating being close to nature/God as not needing or wanting money.
Desire: To be safe
Flip Side: Total lack of integrity & responsibility with money, separation, homelessness.
Positive: Reconnection with Mother Earth, Father Sky.
The denial creeps in when we honestly believe that living with nature means we don’t need society. We reject money, the system, people and taking it one step further, outcast ourselves. Now, returning to nature and being one with God are my passions in life. But the subsequent removal from society creates a hermit complex, a separatist attitude and usually has as much to do with childhood wounds as your own empowerment. That being said there are of course some people who will live out their purpose in a quieter way.
Denial forms when we don’t feel strong enough to handle the truth. The truth is we have allowed ourselves to be victim to our leaders, our systems, relying on them to save us or empower us. Even the most conscious people have this going on. This over-delegation of power to our leaders has allowed financial mismanagement on the largest scale. And we have let them. Stepping out of denial means taking responsibility as human beings, as divine beings, as natural beings and a members of the community. It’s painful, but like it or not, finances are a part of community living, they are a part of society. If we, the supposed ethical, moral and spiritually empowered ones do not infuse our knowledge into our financial reality, we are allowing ourselves to be overtaken by those who seek to control us. And they are out there, completely consumed by their goal. We must financially educate and empower ourselves so we can be a part of the solution, not the problem.
PIONEERING THE NEW EARTH
I recently had dinner with a lovely Russian couple. Boy did that give me some perspective. They relish the opportunities and the feeling of freedom here in the United States, have a clear understanding of the dangers of Communism and do not want to go back. From their experience, while there is corruption, we have it very, very good here. It could be a lot more corrupt. My own experience living in a third world country showed me that as well. Despite the world’s problems, and the United States’ role in it, we, as the people still have the ability to create what we dream of. There are other countries who also are founded on this template. But there are many more where the oppression is so strong they truly are held captive. We are the lucky ones and if our freedoms are in danger like they say, we have to work on all levels to make sure that doesn’t happen.
As pioneers, we are learning as we go. We spend a lot of time working on ourselves, developing consciousness, mindfulness and community… things that our new earth desperately needs, but the shadow side prevents us from truly making the impact we desire. We are not victims to anyone as long as we are free and able to do for ourselves. Coming out of denial, rebellion, martyrdom and over-empathy means learning a new skill that is hard at first. Combining the blissful energies of spirit and nature with the slower, more left brained skills of financial responsibility is no easy task for most. It is a new language and most of the time not an overnight success story. But more freedom waits on the other side. As we become fluent in the language it is effortless, the creative possibilities then limitless.
(c)CC Treadway 2010
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By CC Treadway
Working as a healer I am always struck by the murky boundaries around money. In the spiritual and philanthropic circles, there is not much common agreement on the subject. In fact, it’s up for debate on most days. When I used to work as a video editor for corporations like MTV and Discovery Channel, financial contracts were clear. It was generally accepted that you did what you could to get paid as much as possible. When I would work for independent companies, financial contracts were hard to come by, not always honored and more work was expected for less money. The main reason why I “sold out” to corporate America for so many years was because they had better ethics around money. I know this sounds shocking, but I knew what to expect and I planned my life accordingly. I fondly remember spontaneous trips to Puerto Rico, shopping just for fun, paying for healing school and a savings account.
Upon deciding to be a healer, these financial standards were washed away by “Spirit” as they say. The expansion and bliss I felt with my newly found open heart usurped any desire for financial stability. I then defaulted into the financial belief system of the “spiritual” or “do-gooder” template. What was interesting is that I unconsciously took on a whole lotta garbage with it, and I found my financial situation steadily decline. I felt some sort of satisfaction about “leaving the system” and living with very little. I have learned a lot. No regrets. But as I integrate my experience, I have discovered the shadow side’s stinky smell. I had to get honest, because my bigger vision was to make a large impact, and it is really hard to do that when you are in survival mode. This is a huge subject, but I broke down a few major belief systems that prevent lovey-doveys from financial health.
SMELLY GARBAGE THAT MAKES DO-GOODERS BROKE
Garbage Pail #1: CARETAKING
Rationale: Must have compassion. Feeling guilty for charging money for work.
Desire: Love me
Flip side: Overcharging, huge ego.
Positive: Compassion and understanding is a beautiful thing, oftentimes lacking in cutthroat business.
Having compassion and empathy for people is normal. For healers, it can be off the charts. The pain of feeling other’s pain, can lead to caretaking behaviors. Learning how to control empathy will help strengthen boundaries and get clear on your needs and your client’s. It’s so easy to undercharge, or adjust our rates prematurely because we want to help someone. This does not empower them, it creates a set up of “needing the client,” or of feeling like they are controlling your decisions which then leads to resentment. And that makes them feel very uncomfortable and unsafe. If you don’t respect your financial needs, how can you expect someone else to? It is more healing to hold a clear and loving boundary around money for your clients than to be wishy washy for their sake. I personally have had a very difficult time with this garbage pail.
Garbage Pail #2: MARTYR
Rationale: Spirit Servant. Feeling obligated to serve, even if it means self-sacrifice.
Desire: Self-Empowerment
Flip side: Not knowing when to be generous.
Positive: Surrendering to Divine will is an essential step in spiritual development.
Oftentimes, when someone steps into what they consider to be a do-gooder profession, they feel it is ordained by God. All of the sudden, they are a servant of Spirit, a servant of the people, with no will of their own. This leads them into situations where they are over their heads and cannot behave ethically, or where they are taken advantage of.
One time, I got an email from someone asking that I heal their whole village, but they couldn’t offer me anything. They described a curse with many entities. Now, for me, as a healer, this is a potentially dangerous situation, and one I was really not qualified for. If I were “going with the flow” or “obeying in Spirit’s call,” or acting from ego I would have gone with it. It would have been a disaster. In the business world, you wouldn’t commit career suicide by taking on a job you couldn’t handle. In the healing world you must be extra careful because a village full of dark magic could really kill you.
I have heard people tell me that if God gave me a gift I am obligated to use it. I wonder where they get these ideas. I prefer to think I am working with the Love of God when I can. But I have seen healers in great distress because they did not honor their own needs and abilities, taking on too much for a good cause and ending up broke and sick. This can also happen while charging tons of money! Of course, as a human being we all can make a decision to offer healings or services for free when it truly feels right. Sometimes knowing when that is can take time to discern.
Garbage Pail #3: REBEL
Rationale: System is Bad. Confusing the dreaded “System” with money itself. I am a victim.
Desire: Accept me, I want to trust
Flip side: Making money into freedom, power and Godliness.
Positive: Creating new and better ways of living.
An Apache told me I would be a better healer if I didn’t charge. A Spaniard told me I would be punished with illness if I charged. An American woman at the gym eavesdropped and warned me that I better watch out or I would have another James Arthur Ray sweatlodge situation on my hands! Wow. Time to go back to garbage pail number two.
Most do-gooder types feel so rejected by the system that they associate money with that system, making money bad itself. This is a very stinky garbage pail. There are good reasons for smelling this one however. Many healing and philanthropic professions do not generate large incomes. Financial education in these fields is almost zero. The backlash when a healer or do-gooder tries to make money off products or services is enormous. This can lead to overcompensating by charging outrages prices, or becoming invisible and under the radar.
To my knowledge, some form of currency, whether it be paper based, gold based, seed based, flower based or bartar based, has always been used in organized societies. And, all societies are organized. It has not mattered the system: totalitarian, tribal, socialist, communist, democratic/capitalist, money is there in some form. I know so many wonderful artists and healers who feel rejected by the system who then blame money, act like they don’t need it and end up in survival mode, unable to help anyone. I have been in this category from time to time.
Money has nothing to do with the current system. Money is an ingredient to life that you can work with if you choose to create. If it changes form when a system collapses or grows, that energy will still be there to work with to amass power and help you achieve goals.
Garbage Pail #4: DENIAL
Rationale: Associating being close to nature/God as not needing or wanting money.
Desire: To be safe
Flip Side: Total lack of integrity & responsibility with money, separation, homelessness.
Positive: Reconnection with Mother Earth, Father Sky.
The denial creeps in when we honestly believe that living with nature means we don’t need society. We reject money, the system, people and taking it one step further, outcast ourselves. Now, returning to nature and being one with God are my passions in life. But the subsequent removal from society creates a hermit complex, a separatist attitude and usually has as much to do with childhood wounds as your own empowerment. That being said there are of course some people who will live out their purpose in a quieter way.
Denial forms when we don’t feel strong enough to handle the truth. The truth is we have allowed ourselves to be victim to our leaders, our systems, relying on them to save us or empower us. Even the most conscious people have this going on. This over-delegation of power to our leaders has allowed financial mismanagement on the largest scale. And we have let them. Stepping out of denial means taking responsibility as human beings, as divine beings, as natural beings and a members of the community. It’s painful, but like it or not, finances are a part of community living, they are a part of society. If we, the supposed ethical, moral and spiritually empowered ones do not infuse our knowledge into our financial reality, we are allowing ourselves to be overtaken by those who seek to control us. And they are out there, completely consumed by their goal. We must financially educate and empower ourselves so we can be a part of the solution, not the problem.
PIONEERING THE NEW EARTH
I recently had dinner with a lovely Russian couple. Boy did that give me some perspective. They relish the opportunities and the feeling of freedom here in the United States, have a clear understanding of the dangers of Communism and do not want to go back. From their experience, while there is corruption, we have it very, very good here. It could be a lot more corrupt. My own experience living in a third world country showed me that as well. Despite the world’s problems, and the United States’ role in it, we, as the people still have the ability to create what we dream of. There are other countries who also are founded on this template. But there are many more where the oppression is so strong they truly are held captive. We are the lucky ones and if our freedoms are in danger like they say, we have to work on all levels to make sure that doesn’t happen.
As pioneers, we are learning as we go. We spend a lot of time working on ourselves, developing consciousness, mindfulness and community… things that our new earth desperately needs, but the shadow side prevents us from truly making the impact we desire. We are not victims to anyone as long as we are free and able to do for ourselves. Coming out of denial, rebellion, martyrdom and over-empathy means learning a new skill that is hard at first. Combining the blissful energies of spirit and nature with the slower, more left brained skills of financial responsibility is no easy task for most. It is a new language and most of the time not an overnight success story. But more freedom waits on the other side. As we become fluent in the language it is effortless, the creative possibilities then limitless.
(c)CC Treadway 2010
www.treadwayesoteric.com
Friday, January 1, 2010
WHY CHANNEL FOR PERSONAL GROWTH?
The reason channeling is an excellent tool for personal growth is because is about tapping into your innate ability to communicate with all of life. Channeling is not about abandoning yourself so that a more evolved invisible being can jump inside you and show you the way. Channeling is about tapping into your highest wisdom, the wisdom that already exists inside of you, the wisdom you perhaps ignore, choosing instead to go with the tried and true methods of self-deception humans are so good at. Channeling involves making ourselves vulnerable to living a life of integrity and truth. While not foolproof, it is also not about diving further into spiritual fantasy.
When we join in the cosmic web of oneness, and accept that we all affect each other, we know that whatever wisdom brought through our physical form is already known to us in some way. If you are channeling art, music or ideas, you know that the potential for those ideas already existed within you, and are simply being activated by your willingness to open and do it. With wisdom and words it is no different. The more you do it, the more information can come through.
I am weary of prediction channeling, as the information coming through is only as clear as the person who is channeling, and as events are not fixed. I hold the intention for personal growth in individual sessions and groups because it does not rely on a specific outcome, but relies instead on the intelligence of the journey. On occasion predictions will come through, but I think of that information as offered in the spirit of growth, not in the spirit of outcome. As you tap into the realms of energy through channeling, that energy is brought through you, and this is what is so powerful for so many. This energy is touching them, activating the wisdom already inside, activating some known place that may have been temporarily lost.
I stress that channeling is not a gift given to enlightened beings, it is a birthright given to all of us. We are not reliant upon others to tell us our next move. We have access to that information ourselves a good deal of the time. As humans, we can also block it to allow a thorough understanding of a learning process. Helpers, elders, therapists & healers are all important, but only when they are holding your empowerment as their first priority.
The channeling certification program I offer is not about becoming an enlightened spiritual being, it is about taking the time to turn on a function that we have forgotten, so that we may live authentic lives with less suffering, so that we may feel connected at all times, so that we may help empower others to find this for themselves. Providing a structured course seems to make it easier for people to wrap their head around it and commit.
For myself, channeling has offered me the truth of my life path. It took throwing away wishful thinking and delusions and stepping into wisdom and maturity. It wasn’t easy, but it had become too painful to do it any other way. While I would not say that life itself has become easier, the way I perceive it has shifted dramatically through the support of the channeled wisdom.
When we join in the cosmic web of oneness, and accept that we all affect each other, we know that whatever wisdom brought through our physical form is already known to us in some way. If you are channeling art, music or ideas, you know that the potential for those ideas already existed within you, and are simply being activated by your willingness to open and do it. With wisdom and words it is no different. The more you do it, the more information can come through.
I am weary of prediction channeling, as the information coming through is only as clear as the person who is channeling, and as events are not fixed. I hold the intention for personal growth in individual sessions and groups because it does not rely on a specific outcome, but relies instead on the intelligence of the journey. On occasion predictions will come through, but I think of that information as offered in the spirit of growth, not in the spirit of outcome. As you tap into the realms of energy through channeling, that energy is brought through you, and this is what is so powerful for so many. This energy is touching them, activating the wisdom already inside, activating some known place that may have been temporarily lost.
I stress that channeling is not a gift given to enlightened beings, it is a birthright given to all of us. We are not reliant upon others to tell us our next move. We have access to that information ourselves a good deal of the time. As humans, we can also block it to allow a thorough understanding of a learning process. Helpers, elders, therapists & healers are all important, but only when they are holding your empowerment as their first priority.
The channeling certification program I offer is not about becoming an enlightened spiritual being, it is about taking the time to turn on a function that we have forgotten, so that we may live authentic lives with less suffering, so that we may feel connected at all times, so that we may help empower others to find this for themselves. Providing a structured course seems to make it easier for people to wrap their head around it and commit.
For myself, channeling has offered me the truth of my life path. It took throwing away wishful thinking and delusions and stepping into wisdom and maturity. It wasn’t easy, but it had become too painful to do it any other way. While I would not say that life itself has become easier, the way I perceive it has shifted dramatically through the support of the channeled wisdom.
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