Jane's Blog

Endings & Beginnings & Endings

2008-08-27T15:12:00.003-04:00

There is no ending without a beginning. That endings and beginnings end and begin right up next to each other, proves that nothing ever ends without something else beginning, or vice verse...Allowing something to naturally run its course, and end without forcing a beginning, is against our breeding, somehow, in our culture. But empty spaces and forms can be so exciting. It goes against our training to let go, but the excitement of allowing an item to end and/or begin all by itself, without forcing it to do one or the other, has all the glow of the anticipation and excitement of a wrapped Christmas present. The new and the old will still rub shoulders, in the end, or is that the beginning...?!

A Matter of Waiting

2008-08-26T03:12:00.003-04:00

It could be that wisdom is simply a matter of waiting...acquisition, processing, and waiting. Surely, if one can trust in a larger concept, that wisdom given us, however given us, ultimately is called upon when most needed. Trust!

Life Force

2008-08-25T09:42:00.003-04:00

Many things around us strengthen the life force in us. For each of us there are conditions, to which we respond, that are as unique as an individual fingerprint.
Many of us might study our own life force in the same way that a Gardner might study his rose bushes. A Gardner creates conditions that favor the outcome of creating roses on his bushes, but every Gardner knows that the life force flows through each rose bush in a slightly different way.

Judgment

2008-08-24T03:08:00.003-04:00

Our judgment or the judgment of other people can stifle our own life force, its spontaneity and its natural expression. Judgment is, alas, commonplace. It is as rare to find someone who loves us as we are as it is to find someone who loves themselves whole.

Love vs. Approval

2008-08-23T05:40:00.005-04:00

Few perfectionists can tell the difference between love and approval. Perfectionism is so widespread in our global cultures that we have found it necessary to create another word for love. "Unconditional love" is our expression. And yet, all love is unconditional. Anything else is really just approval.

Allow Enough Time

2008-08-22T08:07:00.006-04:00

Just as it is important for anyone endeavoring a creative change to allow enough time for the learning process-, as it is natural for things to become less proficient before becoming more proficient-, it is necessarily advised to keep ones goal focus also a priority. That is, the lessons being learned-through practice, or shadow boxing, or concentration, or experience, and later endeavor-are offering paths and bridges to the changes wanted,-requiring energy, discipline, patience, time, and focus...Start this whole process well enough in advance (months, sometimes years, in advance) of your completion deadline. It's all worth it and part of it, and will open telling intellectual and particularly intuitive doors, if commenced early enough. Keep going with self-enforced courage and a "tiger's" eye on your goal, and hold the faith. You are changing you and your universe!

Core of Grace

2008-08-21T05:39:00.004-04:00

Each individual comes into this world with a core, which is totally unencumbered, free of regret, expectation, worry, fear...
This is a source, or an umbilical cord if you will, where each of us was first touched by an Infinite Power. It is often called the Soul and often the Center of Love. To be aware and know this core is to understand who we are, not by dress code and social status, but by feeling a certain association with the Infinite and by inhabiting this core.
To know this core through our lives is a constant endeavor. We all live in a certain unrest, and life's journey covers us over only to erode us back to the unflinchingly incorruptible core of grace. The catharsis is worth the journey.

Changing Your World

2008-08-20T15:19:00.004-04:00

If you desire a change in your surrounding world of decorum, dress code, office politics, career aspirations-or whatever-, try setting an example in your own life. Change your own decorum, dress code, office politics, career aspirations. This has a lovely way of "kicking in" as trend setting and empowering to the world around you. As I change myself, so do I change my world.

A Karma Theory

2008-08-16T11:51:00.003-04:00

The theory of karma suggests that life itself is in an essential nature, both educational and healing, that the innate and basic wholeness underlying the personality of each of us is evoked, clarified, and strengthened through the challenges and experiences of our lifetime. The life paths may be a kind of movement toward the soul. It could be, then, that the act of dying and death may be the final and most integrating of our life experiences.

Wave Lengths

2008-08-15T08:07:00.005-04:00

It is possible to feel or know what another is thinking, though one cannot clearly sense energy through intense emotions.
Feeling the thoughts of another requires getting calm and letting your mind be as silent as possible. Imagining one is in the other's shoes is a good way to start the connection, though not exclusive. But, however the communication is spontaneously created, it is almost always certain that the underlying feeling one has, in thinking of the other party, is the same feeling the other party has when thinking of you. If one can trust this, an important and deep communing can be immediate.

Joy's Musical Note

2008-08-14T15:30:00.005-04:00

Even in the midst of an extremely dark day's beginning, joy's musical note sounded as one moved through the day.
Joy has a wonderful way of easing itself into the picture, and this can be triggered by a seemingly insignificant circumstance: The cheery faces of friends with whom one, by chance, chats on a street corner at dawn. It's those little warm and fussy things that often make the most difference and open the positive floodgates, when most desired and needed.

Release the Anchor

2008-08-13T10:25:00.002-04:00

In many ways one's past is an anchor, until one releases it and lets go of any negative beliefs or memories of it.
Keeping this in mind, if one wishes to be aware of the higher good happening in one's own life, one need be willing to let go of a limited perspective of it and enlarge one's vista. If you have no limits, surely the sky hasn't any!

Commitment

2008-08-12T08:31:00.002-04:00

Loving a person or people is a commitment to holding a high vision of them, even in times of change and growth, and/or discord...It's worth it, so are you, so are they, and so is the community of ultimate harmonic beauty!

Communication Brings Clarity

2008-08-09T10:30:00.003-04:00

Careful communication brings clarity. Get clear on your purpose, intent and motivation.

Create the Future

2008-08-08T09:34:00.003-04:00

Power comes from living in the present moment, where you can take action and create the future. Is is also wise, along the way, to remember that quantum leaps require apropos emotional changes.

One Great Gift

2008-08-07T16:26:00.001-04:00

One of the greatest gifts you can give others is to be open to their love for you.

Open to the New

2008-08-06T09:19:00.001-04:00

If you want something new, be willing to have it come from anywhere, any place, any person.

Thought, Action, Clarity

2008-08-05T10:53:00.003-04:00

It is more valuable to think issues out than to act them out!
Finding the right action is easy, if one is willing to spend time thinking issues through, first. We are often drawn to unbridled action, making adjustments underway, in order to arrive at a solution earlier, when, in fact, thought before action is the time saver. Clarity then comes from a state of mental concentration and focus.

Exist in a feeling of Love

2008-08-04T14:11:00.004-04:00

If one can exist in a feeling of love...if one can find in everything one does a depth of love-touch, word, eyes, thoughts, emotions-one can nourish and nurture oneself as well as the whole planet.

Eye on Your Whole Goal

2008-07-31T05:34:00.003-04:00

There’s something about spending time doing the menial and mundane that give some people a sense of prideful accomplishment and others a sense of wild frustration. Simply, there are some people who feel enormous pride and accomplishment in detail and putting one step dutifully in front of the other; there are no surprises here, just earthbound progress and “steady as she goes.” For “creative personalities,” this is everything non creative. For “creative personalities,” unforeseen and abrupt changes are those things that call for impromptu and creative energy charges, one-on-one focus, and improvised adjustment. For these people, this is the spice of life. "Steady as she goes" is a bore!
Surely ego plays a role in this wild frustration, too. A creative, as well as a leader-type, personality, does not like being talked down to, at all. He or she feels above menial and mundane, as it were. However, if he or she would look at the discipline-stretch being offered (the universal picture), he or she might find some long-term value in the learning opportunity at hand. It is quite necessarily real that a creative leader, when leading, know a whole operation-small bolts to the engine-, so he's on top of his game all of the time. He is being offered a valuable and usable learning opportunity in this menial small stuff, if he would take the time to see things past his ego and frustration. It’s all a school for understanding a whole project-for the bigger and better to come. So, he would be wise to keep his eye on his whole goal, while learning the steps of all the categories surrounding that of the leading post. The essence of all things has menial and global parts. There's always another, more positive, and productive way to perceive, and experience, everything. Otherwise, life would continually make our teeth itch and each day would be like mountain climbing over molehills. In fact, it's all a wonderful adventure, but one needs to take the responsibility of viewing things positively.

Taking Risk

2008-07-29T10:39:00.003-04:00

When you do things that make you reach, the rewards are greater than when you avoid challenge. You feel invigorated, energized and self confident. Take the level of risk that is comfortable for you and increase it by one level. Unnecessary discomfort does not create joy, but the point is to choose and take actions that help you get to where you want to go. Increase your willingness to risk as a way of attracting more to you. Overcoming fear and/or shame is, as example, a challenge worth every effort. The eventual freedom experienced is invaluable in new gathered personal outlook and gathered courage, and the rewards experienced, in all life areas, sweep one into a new release and savoring beyond imagination.

Envy Zaps & Fear is a Paralysis of Misconception

2008-07-28T11:07:00.002-04:00

If an envious being would disregard his fears of not possessing that certain "something" he feels so imperative to his life-heroicness, and realize that another may have crossed his path to be the very mirror he needs into himself, he might abandon his fears and his misuse of valuable energy and kneel into the knowledge that he is as individually special, in his fashion, as another in his or hers.
Every child is born with the same equipment proportioned differently. We all have something of everything. Envy zaps unnecessary spiritual energy and fear is a paralysis of misconception!
That paralysis hindering one into lethargy is a high sign and stepping stone to accomplishment. If one wants athletics in his or her life, for example, but is frozen with underlying fear, then the desire needs to be greater than the fear. This hurdle is school to bigger and better. Flying, swimming, horses, among a few precious examples, need overcoming fear. The reward of taking the risk to overcoming this fear can open doors to unlimited release and reward in other areas. It's worth it. You're worth it!

Picturing the Essence

2008-07-27T12:37:00.003-04:00

The essence of what one desires is all-important, but, once this is clear, one might either picture the specific object one wants and the functions and requirements one wishes it to fill, or picture the requirements you want it to fill and let it appear to you in the essence of the best form. Just keep all eyes and ears open, in order to recognize it.

Swimming

2008-07-26T14:09:00.003-04:00

Swimming is not only a means of survival, but:
“A gliding body through water, expresses its tone and tones its expression” JM

Breath is the River

2008-07-24T07:30:00.004-04:00

The importance of breath in so many aspects of life is not to be underestimated. The purity of the effect of breath, in simply humming, centers one and brings him directly to his spiritual center. We see the effects of breath in Yoga too, but we also can see this in the degree of emotional content and release in one's singing, whether professional or in the untrained voice. The more relaxed flow and guiding of breath, the greater nuance and degree of emotional expression is notable. When a performance combines the relaxed flow of breath as well as beauty of tone, the impact can be memorable, for performer and listener. Is is the breath that is the 'river, which runs through it.'