An Attitude of Gratitude An Attitude of Gratitude

            THE ATTITUDE OF GRATTITUDE

                           AND APPRECIATION

                               REVISED 11/23/2025

                                                © 2009 Chessie Roberts all rights reserved

                                Used on chessiesEOS blogspot by permission Evolution of Self

   Why should I be grateful you ask? Do you have a home; enough to eat, a way to read this blog, friends, family and everything you need to live as comfortably as possible? Then I ask why do you not feel overwhelmingly grateful? So many have little or nothing and feel that they can do nothing about it, (in some cases they are correct).
     One of the things that I find appalling is the sense of entitlement that seems to permeate the youth of this era. It is seen in the young adults all the way down to children old enough to have learned better, should someone have taken the time to teach them. Where did this mind set start? As best I can figure it started with the ‘60s concept of “if it feels good do it”.  Some of us grew up and learned that if one did not earn it, one did not deserve to have it, and some did not.

     I hear children telling their parents what they will and will not accept on their plates, for gifts; what the parents will give them now just because everyone else has one. On the other side of that I hear what the child will not do to earn the item or privilege, and the parents feel they have to accept the child’s’ ultimatum. 

     How did that happen (I have no answer here folks) I had a child tell me once after they broke one of my collectibles, “That’s OK, I didn’t want to play with that anymore, ‘sides it doesn’t matter, Mommy will just buy me another.” Never mind that it was not hers to begin with.
      The solution is to change the way we think by going from the ‘what can you give me’ mind set to the ‘what can I do for someone else and what can I be thankful for today’ way of thinking. This works because when you change what you think about, what you think about changes. (You may want to read that again)
     By attempting to show kindness for others a change occurs down deep inside, you have seen it demonstrated in “How the Grinch Stole Christmas”. Your capacity for love of others grows to astounding levels. You find yourself being grateful for absolutely everything in your life and on the planet. You begin to smile more, help more, trust more and share more. It doesn’t stop there it radiates out from you to encompass everyone you come across and spreads out from them. It could turn into a movement of global betterment!
      What if we all did this, can you see an end to hate, war, hunger, homelessness, fear, disease, corruption; and the list goes on and on, all the way to global peace? How nice will that be?
A friend of mine just introduced me to the Gratitude Project;
“Gratitude Project 2009
The Gratitude Project was begun several years ago (on LiveJournal) by estaratshirai. The rules are simple. Every day between Midsummer and Thanksgiving one must find something to be grateful for in life. No repeats - one can be grateful to people more than once, but it has be for different reasons.”

THE GRATITUDE/APPRECIATION PROJECT

REVISITED

“Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.” ~ Voltaire "Gratitude is the emotion that drives appreciation which is the vehicle of sharing and growth." ~Chessie Roberts

A friend of mine, Honi Borden pointed out that there is a huge vibrational difference between being in the state of gratefulness and being in the state of appreciation.
When you are in an attitude of appreciation, you are tuned with the natural vibration of the true love essence, you can think of it as pure bliss consciousness.

When you feel grateful, you have reached the point of having overcome and now you have come to this place of thankfulness which is wonderful, however, the energy is coming from overcoming rather than just being. By shifting the resonance from "I am grateful" to the more powerful I am appreciative, you change your inner vibration, and it raises you to be more in line with the universe.  This causes the universe to align with that state of consciousness without having you to overcome more obstacles.

The Gratitude Project was begun by Julie McCord, and I love it and the changes it makes in your life SO, because of the new information I have explained above, I have renamed it the GRATITUDE/APPRECIATION PROJECT.

The rules are simple - every day between Lammas (August 1st) and Mabon (the Autumnal Equinox) one must find something to be grateful for in life. No repeats -you may be grateful to people more than once, but it must be for different reasons. Gratitude/Appreciation is one of the best ways to turn your thinking around to a more positive and uplifting perspective. When you are grateful/appreciative those feelings cascade out into all facets of life and you begin to see and act upon what is truly important.

I challenge all you readers to try this and see what a wonderful difference it makes in your lives and those around you. I’d be willing to bet that it catches on and becomes a daily thing all year ‘round.
Bright Blessings, Chessie

PART TWO, FEAR; IT IS NOTHING TO BE AFRAID OF

PART TWO, FEAR; IT IS NOTHING TO BE AFRAID OF

© Chessie Roberts 2010 all rights reserved

“Your mind is the most marvelous bio-computer ever created. It does not deal with vague ideas; it is activated by specifics.” Denis Waitley

I asked you last time where your power is, who/what is controlling it. Listen to the words you use when you think or talk about what you are holding fear about. Do you say things like “I can’t…”, “I hope…”, “What if…”, “That is horrible…”, “It’s not my fault…” or “That is a problem…”? I tell you now that you are using vocabulary that feeds your fear and destroys your power/strength to attempt to grow. Yes, for you who have taken levels 1 and 2, this goes back to proper self talk. By changing your verbiage, you begin to change your attitude, your focus and your emotions about what you feel you want to do.

Try these words instead; “I won’t…” Won’t implies that you have chosen to use your power not to do something, rather than meekly give in to circumstances beyond your control. Your subconscious hears it as “I’m weak” so you will be. Or as an alternative, try using, “I choose to…” and see/feel the difference.

Try changing ‘hope’ to; know. Hope tells your subconscious that there is a good chance that whatever you want will not manifest; i.e., “I hope I can go home for the holidays”. Now changing the one word, “I know I can go home…” puts your power back into your hands,

“What if’ gives the Universe your permission to walk all over you. It tells your subconscious that you are completely out of control. Because it is a vague and wishy-washy statement, it is also a waste of your energy. Don’t use it at all.

“That is horrible” can be replaced with the thought that whatever it is can be a challenge, and opportunity to help someone or to grow.

The “it’s not my fault” is a cop-out. If it is yours, own it. This is extremely empowering. It makes you the powerful person you want to be, not the victim. If you take responsibility for your life and what goes on in it you have the power to change things for the better.

The change of the word ‘problem’ to the word ‘opportunity’ opens your mindset to one that stretches to embrace the growth that will enable you to become the person you want to become.

As you change to a more powerful vocabulary, your thought processes will follow. This will change how you see yourself, thus changing how others see you, making your self-confidence grow and fear diminish. This will create the ability for you to handle more things that are outside your normal comfort zone and that leads to awesome opportunities for you to enjoy.

Until next week; Bright Blessings. Chessie

THE TWO MOST POWERFUL WORDS

THE TWO MOST POWERFUL WORDS IN THE LANGUAGE
©Chessie Roberts 2010 all rights reserved

Do you find yourself becoming argumentative and defensive over the slightest thing? Does it seem to you that others are not getting with your program? Could it be that you are attempting to exercise control over something you can’t or should not be controlling?

If these issues are in your life, you need to learn about the two most powerful words in any language, “Let go.” I f you will ask yourself a few questions you will see very quickly how and where to use these wonderful words.

When you are pressing a point ask if the point is truly important. Will it be important in ten minutes? How about one month? A Year? If the subject is so trivial as to be lost in the next ten minutes, why waste time, energy, and frustration on it in the first place? Let it go. If in a months time the point is not something worth remembering, then why pursue it? See how that works?

Secondly ask yourself why it is important to you to be the ‘winner’ of this particular argument/difference of opinion? Is the subject of the argument important enough to agree to disagree? If not, it is not important enough to argue about in the first place. Remember that everyone has an opinion and rarely are two just alike and that is ok but to have to be correct all of the time about everything (no matter how trivial) sais that there deeper issues of control that need to occupying you time.

As you learn how to let go of the small things and be OK with that, the larger things will be easier to let go of as well. Letting go will de-clutter your life and make the more important things (those truly important) clearer so that you can take care of them in a positive and balanced way.
Bright Blessings, Chessie

THE 2012 SHIFT; WHAT’S GOING ON? MY TWO CENTS WORTH

THE 2012 SHIFT; WHAT’S GOING ON? MY TWO CENTS WORTH

“Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change; the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw be.” (Samuel Johnson, English poet, critic and writer)

“Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.” (Aristotle, ancient Greek philosopher)

I get asked about this 2012 shift all of the time. I have done extensive reading about and listening to different ideas about this most interesting subject and have seen every thing from aliens coming to help/take over to the total end of everything BUT… I have the feeling that it is something else.

Maybe this is just the next stage of life. Maybe it is our wake up call to become more in tune with the planet on which we depend for ABSOUTLEY EVERYTHING and with each other. If we are not in vibrational harmony with either ourselves as the human animal and the other life forms that share our home, and we systematically destroy where we are living, something will change (probably not for the better). The planet, our home, is a living, breathing, changing being. It is older that we are and has existed in harmony with itself for a long time. Then we come along and start ‘improving’ things to our supposed benefit. Think about the building in which you live; if you don’t maintain it, vibrate with it, love it what happens? OK now taking that one step further, if you were actively tearing down the walls to build something else, using its resources to the detriment of the structure and foundation, how long would you have a place to live? Well, what have we done to our sustaining earth?

If we are not in vibrational harmony with the energies around us we will continue to rape and deconstruct our very habitat, as we’ve already done that to species after species, and are now doing to ourselves, causing us be blindsided by any change that happens. Everything is energy and so is constantly moving, changing, ebbing and flowing. If you try to not be in this energy flow, to stop it, hold it in stasis, to be out of harmony with it you live in chaos, pain and confusion and quite possibly destruction within both your world and your personal energy field(s).

OK, fine, what can we do to ‘go with the flow’? Have you ever heard of the “7Ps”? It is a business term I learned many years ago that seems appropriate here. “Proper Prior Preparation Prevents Piss-Poor Performance.” So, 1) tune into the energies around and within you. Do everything you can to live ‘green’ It may be too little too late but if we don’t start, nothing will be accomplished. Recycle, reduce, support appropriate legislature etc. 2) Get ready. Develop your conscious awareness and have a real, solid belief system. Plant, nourish both yourself and your planet. 3) Cleanse your self, energetically and spiritually. Connect with your light body. Live cleanly with a lowered impact on the earth. How long can you stand to be abused? Then why ask it of your home? 4) Integrate your body, mind and spirit and awareness, and 5) Rid yourself of fear, all of it. Don’t anticipate bad things; step out in love and trust.

In actuality the shift has already started and there are those among us who have been charged by their Guidance to become the light workers, guides, gatekeepers, and spiritual leaders (notice I did not say religious) to step into the role of beacons to show the way. The ones who have been saying, “Wake up and see how we are abusing our resources!” were some of the first and for the most part, we didn’t listen, maybe now is a good time?

Now this is a fact that I find most wonderful; Conscious Awareness of the shift is spontaneously happening and growing. As more and more of us wake up and reconnect to Source energy (the energy of the divine, soul to soul, life to planet) we are creating a harmonic resonance that spreads across the planet and universe. People are trying harder to work with rather than against Nature. Because like attracts like, this new resonance pulls the shifting energy closer to the enlightened who are raising their vibrations higher and faster in order to meet and join with the new energy. Blending our personal vibrations with what is changing, vibrating over, under, around and through our existence and our planet, we find that, much like floating down a river, we become one with the change. If on the other hand we choose to fight against the energetic flow, we will find the disastrous results that we were afraid of in the first place. (Because of lower, fear-filled vibrations that do not fit within the shift)

When we change our thoughts, perceptions, attitudes and open ourselves to new patterns, information and ways of thinking about what we encounter daily, we begin to change, become aware of damage that we create both to ourselves and our earth. Things around us begin to change. We become more and more aware of the things that raise us, enlighten us, feed us and lift us to what some call unconditional love; the love of the forth chakra; the love that unites all things with all things; the love which is Source Energy. This is the energy that is shifting and so, by vibrating with it, we shift too, easily, effortlessly, spontaneously; all without fear, resistance or catastrophe.

As I close I leave you with enlightenment, raised vibrations, new awareness, love and bright blessings. Chessie

© Chessie Roberts 2011, all rights reserved

TO KNOW IS TO NOT SEEK

TO KNOW IS TO NOT SEEK

How many books about spiritual practices do you own? How many classes have you taken? How many degrees have been conferred upon you? How many different philosophies have you studied? Now the hard question; What are you doing with all of this information?

Humans seeking enlightenment seem to have a tendency to become collectors of information and, once it has been obtained, we are prone to be proud of its ownership. Our shelves are full of information but what about our lives? Our everyday, mundane, one foot in front of the other lives? When is this wonderful information used? When do we practice all that we feel we know? How do we use what we have read or studied? Do we just regurgitate what others have said/written? Or do we internalize it, take it to heart, try it on to see if it fits and then give it a chance to really work for us?

In order to become the better, spiritual person that so many say they want to become, the information must be incorporated into your daily practices. Here is where most of us get into a dilemma. How to do this. We are so “informed” that we are choking on the huge wad of “what to do-s” and “what not to do-s” that we give up in frustration and do nothing, thus not becoming anything other than what we already were; the person we weren't happy with to start with.

Here is a suggestion, find a program that will give you a foundation on which to start. One that will guide you through your own “stuff” so that you can see/feel step by step what it is you are trying to accomplish; the you that you wish to create. Then incorporate those practices into your daily routine until they become second nature to you so that you can grow further as your understanding reaches new heights.

Practices are called that for a reason, if you do not practice, you will not achieve. When you were a baby learning to walk, you practiced diligently to get the hang of putting one step after the next. You learned to talk so that others could understand you with the same determination. What about learning to drive, how long did you strive for that goal? Everything worth doing has taken practice. Think about this the next time you are ready to announce that you “can't” do something; allow yourself the time to meditate, pray, feel another's distress or joy, or let something go.

Evolution of Self; Journey into Body, Mind, Spirit Balance is such a program. It gives you a good, grounded foundation to build on so you can take your next step. Yes, I know, a little shameless self-promotion here and that is OK every once in a while. If you read the testimonials on the website, you will see what I am talking about. I invite you to find out where to start and begin. You CAN create the you that you truly want to be if you don't ask how and just allow.

Bright Blessings and growth in wisdom, Chessie © Chessie Roberts 2012 all rights reserved

WHAT AM I?

WHAT AM I?

“Because I am the energy of creation; its’ vessel and its conduit; I am

 connected to an unlimited abundance. Who and what I require

 appears at exactly the correct time.” {C. S. Roberts} Evolution of

 Self; Journey into Body, Mind, Spirit Balance

You are NOT what you see in the mirror. You are a soul first and a

 biological vehicle secondly. You, me, all of us are souls that animate

 the bodies in which we travel. Without the animating force of the

 soul we would be nothing. We would not be able to feel, create,

 share, love, manifest, or anything else. As “pieces of The Divine

 Energy” we are powerful and loving. So what is the catch you may

 well ask. The catch is that we have to remember what we truly are.

 As we grow up and learn what we and others feel we need to know

 to get along in this mundane life, we forget our true origins. Don't

 panic here, it is natural and we all do it BUT, we do not have to stay

 ignorant of where we came from and what we truly are.

“What do I need to do to remember?” I was asked by a friend of mine

 recently. Ready? What you need to do is... pay attention to what is

 no longer serving you, what is not making sense to you anymore and

 remember. Sounds tricky right? Not really. As you begin to question

 things that you once took as truth, you know the things I am

 referring to, those things that make you wonder “why it might be

 so”; things that make you wonder “how someone may have thought

 'that' up”! You start looking for better answers to those questions

 and, as you look, you realize that most of the questions just aren't

 important any more (most never were) You may find that a lot of the

 answers will come from an acceptance on a Faith Base rather than

 on a “statics, charts and graphs base.” You learn to “feel” the

 rightness of a thing, situation or experience and by that feeling,

 know that it is correct for you.

As this growth process continues, you realize that what is right for

 you may or may NOT be right for someone else and that it is OK.

 We all learn differently and that's OK. We all have different life

 experiences and understandings and that is OK. What is correct for

 you may resonate with another, and it may not and that too is OK.

The truth that makes you, you is not always the truth that makes

 someone else themselves and that is OK as well. When you reach the

 level that allows you to be you and others to be who and what they

 are, with no judgment, criticism or manipulation on your part, then

 you have remembered fully what and who you truly are. 

You are ready for whatever YOUR next step may be.

Bright Blessings and happy remembering, Chessie

© Chessie Roberts 2012, all rights reserved 

WHERE DO WE FIND NEGATIVE ENERGY? AND WHAT DO WE DO ABOUT IT?

WHERE DO WE FIND NEGATIVE ENERGY? AND WHAT DO WE DO ABOUT IT?

Negativity may be in places that we don't expect. We all know the news is loaded with it but there are other “hidden places” that we think are benign, so we don't pay attention. Music is one of these. Even though we may not understand the lyrics on a conscious level, we do on a subconscious, subliminal level. These unaware levels cause your biology to release the corresponding chemicals on the body to create stress, anxiety and anger. The rhythms and tone play into this also.

Programing other than news carries it's own 'hidden negativity” as well. I had this information sneak up on me a few weeks ago. I don't watch much TV any more but every once in a while there is a movie I want to catch, such was that case on this day. I was working on a blog and had set the TV to the channel the movie was coming on and had muted the show so that I could continue working undisturbed until my self-appointed break; when the movie was to start. As I worked (paying no attention to the TV, I began to feel anxious and angry. Not an angry person at this time in my life I became aware that I was really mad! That made me stop working to assess what was going on. My first thought was that the anger was not mine, but coming from an outside source. I was correct, the TV was playing a news report about the war. I turned it off and quickly the anger went away. I was astounded! I had heard nothing of the report (TV was muted) but the vibrations got through to me on a very subtle level. Lesson learned right? Nope, about two weeks later, same scenario, different station. I again felt the anger building and, remembering what had happened the last time looked up to see what was on the muted TV. It was a prayer/preaching show! See, you never know. Sitcoms that rant and yell give off vibrations that disrupt the fragile psyche and cause stresses that most of us have become numb to on a conscious level but our biology reacts to them never the less. Cartoons that portray fighting, harsh voices, lies etc do the same thing to our children. Numbing them on the conscious level to what is really going on in the subconscious level, just like the grownups. We get disruptive energies from fields coming off of cell phones, microwaves (not just in the kitchen), power lines (both above and below) , lighting and all types of radio signals that are flying around all the time.

Negativity and disruptive vibrations don't just come from electronic devices. The place where you work is loaded with them. The people with whom we have to spend a portion of our day can and do affect us whether we are aware of it or not. The anticipation of these encounters can and does have an impact on us. Crying children, barking dogs, construction noise, loud anything and, silent anger, resentment, ugly thoughts... we are surrounded!

Another huge and unrealized offender is the casual use of the nasty little word, “hate”. The word is bandied about in the best of company, used jokingly and as an unnecessary statement of how much the speaker does not like something. You may think I am being overly picky (I have been told so many times by the unaware) but the truth of the matter is what is actually going on in your biology. Your body is in constant communication with your brain. Your brain is constantly eavesdropping on your body therefore, reactions occur before you are aware of them. Don't believe me? OK, have you ever been startled by something your brain and eyes decided was a bug, spider or the like only to find it was a leaf, sock fuzzy or something completely nonthreatening? That is what I am talking about. Your brain thinks it, your body “hears” it and shoots out chemicals to get you out of danger. Ugly, nasty, mean or hurtful words create the same chemical process to occur in your biology. The “h” word causes chemicals to be released that actually do physical damage to the little things that protect the ends of your chromosomes! Once these protective things are gone, they can NOT be replaced and your chromosomes are open to damage from all sorts of places. If this sounds too clinical, think about it this way; the little protective things like the plastic ends on a shoe lace. They hold the chromosomes together and keep out things that can damage. With them gone, the ends of your chromosomes fray, like the shoelace, leaving openings for all sorts of damage to happen.

How do you fix all of this? By becoming consciously aware. Aware of what is going on around you and leaving when you need to, change the channel, turn it down, turn it off, ask gently for it to stop and...be conscious of what you are saying and thinking. Change what you can and stop being around the rest. Simple? Yep. Easy? As easy as you believe it/want it to be.

A little work on your thoughts and habits will go a long way toward making your energetic surroundings a pleasant, happy and healthy place to be and your life will become something wonderful and joyous.

Bright Blessings and Happy Thoughts, Chessie

© Chessie Roberts 2012, all rights reserved

ON DEATH AND DYING

ON DEATH AND DYING

It seems that a lot of us are experiencing the loss of family, friends and loved ones lately so it feels appropriate to discuss it here today.

I ask you to look at the Universal truth that “All is One”. What this means is that EVERYTHING is made from the creative energy of Source, God, Unity Consciousness; whatever your paradigm chooses to call it. We, they, it are made from the same 'stuff'. We feel it, we eat it, we breath it, we move through it, we absorb it all our lives. We are biology animated by a SOUL, a part of the Divine, a piece of God Energy so that when we pass form this incarnation, we leave the biology behind (we no longer need it) and the living part of us goes back into the Divine Stuff from which all things are created and we become Divine Stuff again. In this way we become more a part of life and its cycles.

While in the process of passing on to our next plane of existence the Soul is learning what it needs to know, learning the last lessons of this life and coming to peace with whatever that person needs to become at peace with. At this point in the journey prayers for the healing of the biology are not always in the best interest of the soul. Prayers for the “best interest of the soul” are more to the point and less manipulative (more about what we want than about what our loved one requires) and disrupting to the person who is on this journey. We are told that there are two journeys that must be taken alone (from the perspective of the living) birth and death. The truth of the matter is that we are well escorted in both directions by our guidance and the love of the Divine. So by allowing a gentle fearless passing we are giving one of our greatest gifts and by accepting that God knows what It is doing we receive one of our greatest gifts.

One of tenants of the Evolution of Self ; Journey into Body, Mind, Spirit Balance program as well as other philosophies tell us "As we are essentially all one, we really never leave. As we pass from our old incarnation toward our new one we are more a part of our loved ones than ever before. As those who loved us remember us, we are forever in their hearts. Then, when it is our turn to walk the same path, we have it paved by those who went before as we pave it for those who come after us. Grief on this plane is in our biology and must be felt and dealt with. Knowing in your heart that no one is ever truly ever lost to us can help our biological self get through the grief better.”{Chessie Roberts}

A wise woman once said to me, “ As your journey through life changes just remember the only thing constant in life is change. Learn from those changes and embrace the life you have been given. Celebrate everyday you have with a smile on your face and a smile in your heart. A Universal Prayer (from the Yoga tradition) to remember throughout the day, "May the Universe be filled with joy, love and light.” Remember the universe starts with you and the finding your own peace, joy, love and light! Namaste”

"The Wise Souls of Tich Nat Han, Ekhardt Tolle, and the Dhali Lama, said; “You can be no closer to God than when you are helping someone transition from this life to the next, it is true grace. Be present to the miracle my friend.

Bright Blessings, Gentle Passings and Strength to let go and remember in love. Chessie

© Chessie Roberts 2011, all rights reserved.

THE SEASON OF WHAT???

THE SEASON OF WHAT???

“Please accept without obligation, express or implied, these best

 wishes for an environmentally safe, socially responsible, low stress,

 non-addictive, and gender neutral celebration of the winter solstice

 holiday as practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the

 religious persuasion of your choice (but with respect for the religious

 or secular persuasions and/or traditions of others, or for...... their

 choice not to practice religious or secular traditions at all) and

 further for a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling, and medically

 uncomplicated onset of the generally accepted calendar year

 (Including, but not limited to, the Christian calendar, but not without

t due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures). The

 preceding wishes are extended without regard to the race, creed,

 color, age, physical ability, religious faith, choice of computer

 platform, or sexual preference of the wishes.”

I saw this posted on Facebook the other day and had to ask myself

 what in the world is going on in the minds and hearts of people these

 days. Everyone is so hell bent on having their way with this season it

 makes my head spin and my soul ache. The whole mess started as a

 SEASONAL celebration. It had nothing to do who was born when or

 what religion should take credit for it. It was the realization that the

 darkest and coldest half of the year had arrived and was a celebration

 of light to coax the warmth and heat of the sun back into dominance.

This celebration was done with closeness of family, friend and

 community. It was done with feasting, sharing, hope, closeness of

 people for support against the cold and dark comradeship and love.

 It was a communal affair. It brought people TOGETHER!

This time of the year has been called many things by many people

 over the millennia, and they are all correct. Because of the diversity

 of people, there have been a diversity of traditions (each one

 borrowed and built on from those before and around it) and each

 tradition speaks to its celebrants in its own unique way, and this is

 good. One does NOT need to take precedence over the other. The

 Creator did not intend us to act in such a domineering manner about

 this (or any other holiday) that we strip all the joy of celebration

 from it. We are all here on this planet, in this life to learn how to love

 each other not to see how many we can kill or brow-beat into our

 way of thinking. Statements like the one quoted above should not be

 required. We should be Spiritually Mature enough by now to

 understand that though there is but one Truth, there are many paths

 to it. We should be able to allow the other person to find their way

without guilt, condemnation, sermons and snarky barbs to herd them

 into our personal belief mold.

Wake up Dear people and learn to allow each person (including you)

 their own relationship with their own personal path to the truth. If

 you feel that you need to intercede, I must ask you if your faith is so

 small that you don't trust the Creator to handle these things? Are you

 so presumptuous as to believe that if you don't instruct them, they

 will wander, lost in the dark? The author J.R.R. Tolkien said that

 “All who wander are not lost.” and this is true. If you tend to your

 business, your spirituality and your true responsibilities you will find

 that your reason for the season is clearer... to you; is more

 meaningful...To you, is happier, more joy and love filled as well as

 stress free...for you and is much saner and more sacred for

 EVERYONE!

I wish you all the love, kindness and joy or your seasonal path and

 Bright Blessings, Chessie

© Chessie Roberts 2011, all rights reserved

LIVING BY SURRENDER VS LIVING BY COMMITTEE

LIVING BY SURRENDER

 VS 

LIVING BY COMMITTEE

“You have been brought up to believe that your life has to be a certain way, where in truth and reality it does not have to be any way.” {Robert Adams}

Lets start with the way most of us do things, by committee. You have an idea for what you want do this weekend. How many people do you ask for their opinion of what you should do? All the while you know what you want to do but because you are worried about what others in your circles, you ask their advice. Now here is the kicker, you decide that because a majority of your committee says that they “love the wine tour and you should go” that is what you do. You find that while it's nice, it is unfulfilling to you and you wonder why. After a few days of questioning your ability to have fun you realize that you would have much rather gone rafting on the river, in the quiet, alone but, you didn't because your committee would think you’re weird. 

Here is what you have done; sacrificed your true happiness to the opinion of those around you, your committee. These are those people that you have surrounded yourself with that tell you what to do so that you don't have to take responsibility for your choices. You can blame them for not having a good time, after all you only did what they suggested, right? You have put yourself into a master slave type of relationship and, if you look around you will find that you are in several different ones.

This committee thing is done anytime we want our friends to be excited, angry, vindictive, or even happy with us. It is a way of garnering support for our drama. With backing we don't have to take any responsibility for any unpleasant outcome that may happen. Your committee will shield your connection to your surrender point and as long as you continue to rely on them the longer you keep your drama high and your growth from manifesting. When you submit to authority of any group; the church, parents and bosses, friends, doctors, teachers, any committee; you are putting yourself into the master-slave relationship rather than in spiritual partnership with the part of you that has your best outcome in mind.

As you begin to grow into your higher power and understanding of all that entails and you start to get back in touch with your self; you begin to learn how to listen to your guidance; the little voice/feeling inside that tells you what is really in your best interests, and, by surrendering to your guidance, your Higher Self, what you actually surrender is your ego (that is the part that keeps you limited and small) This process is much like a drop of water surrendering/merging with the ocean or a seed surrendering to the earth. When the drop surrenders to the ocean, the drop becomes the ocean. When the seed surrenders to the earth, it becomes the plant. Seeds that do not surrender do not grow, they die and go to dust, they waste their potential. If people don't surrender they don't grow, they wither and die.

First you must realize that you have a committee that you go to, who they are and which of your dramas they each support (you may find you have more than one committee.) Second you must decide whether you want to die or grow. Then act on your decision and choose to change your thoughts and actions. To alter your internal climate to calmer climes and thought patterns. Ask your self what is really going on inside your mind. Why are you calling this person or that one, what is your payoff. Then choose to realize the you have all your answers already, you do not need backup. Friendship is one thing but drama support is quite another, one that you can do better without.

First, you learn to truly love yourself, that will spread to the ability to truly love others and then to the connection that allows total surrender to (don't get bogged down in semantics here) Love, God Consciousness, Source, Creation; whatever you wish to call it. You will begin act in the best interest of both you and those around you.  This will happen spontaneously and effortlessly. The higher you vibrate, the easier this is. You will start to experience a Divine detachment from drama of all kinds and the need for the opinions of your committees. 

The Love of which I am speaking is an all-inclusive and beautiful thing. It sees the Divine play of consciousness in all things; Love for what love truly is rather than what you have thought it was in the past. This will create in you the desire to be the best person you can be and to create the best outcomes in all that you do whether it is washing dishes or writing a masterpiece; it will be an effort worthy of you. All of this will start an upward spiral of higher vibrations, love, more worthy actions, higher vibrations, love, more worthy actions etc. Soon the committees and concern over what others think will be a thing of the past and not worth your recall. This conscious choice to lift yourself out of the mundane and into the Love of the Universe is a huge step into your goal of wholeness.

Bright Blessings, Light, Love and Laughter, Chessie

© Chessie Roberts 2011, all rights reserved.

10 LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS By Guest Blogger, Marriah Star

Today we have a Guest Blogger, Marriah Star. He is a Lecturer

 at Northeastern UniversiyStudied Political science at CUNY

 Graduate Center,

 Lives in Brookline, Massachusetts is From Tucson, Arizona and

 has graciously allowed

 me to feature one of his writings here today. 

10 LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS

by Marriah Star on Friday, September 23, 2011 at 12:31am

There are 10 levels of consciousness between identifying with

 (internalizing) your environment or choosing to transform from

 within by heart

 

At the first level of consciousness, you identify completely with your

 environment whether rich or poor, peaceful or warlike, cruel or

 loving

 

At the 1st level of consciousness, you accept your social and physical

 environments as they are: You internalize their values and become

 them

 

At 1st level of consciousness if you are wealthy, you define yourself

 in terms of your salary, your net worth, your property and rich

 friends

 

At 1st level of consciousness, if you are poor, you accept that you'll

 always be poor. You believe all efforts to become successful will fail

 

At the 1st level of consciousness, if you live in a peaceful

 environment you believe that everyone you know lives among peace

 and prosperity

 

At the first level of consciousness, if you live in a war zone, you

 believe you must constantly fight other people for survival or else

 die!

 

At the 1st level of consciousness, if you grow up with parents who

 physically, sexually, and emotionally abuse you, you in turn abuse

 others

 

At 1st level of consciousness if you grow up with parents/friends

 who give you love, support, and affection, you give lots of love to

 others

 

At 1st level of consciousness, you have no original thoughts or

 creativity inside you because you are a complete reflection of your

 community

 

At first level of consciousness, you cannot adapt to changing

 environments that operate under different principles. Thus, you

 become limited!

 

At first level of consciousness, you think dreamers and idealists,

 advocates and change-makers, are fools who have lost their grip on

 reality

 

You make your transition from the 1st level of consciousness to the

 second level of consciousness when you become disillusioned with

 reality

 

You begin to enter the second level of consciousness when you

 realize that the physical and social reality you have internalized is

 not real

 

 

When you enter 2nd level of consciousness you're surprised by your

 attraction to being alone so you can think instead of being around

 people

 

 

 

At the 2nd level of consciousness, you identify with your physical

 environment 90% and become aware that you have an internal

 environment too

 

At 2nd level of consciousness you define yourself by your family,

 your friends, your job, and your property, but you glimpse your

 creativity

 

At 2nd level of consciousness, you are surprised by the fact that

 money and shopping no longer make you happy but that giving now

 thrills you

 

At 2nd level of consciousness you find yourself attracted to books

 about people instead of books about things: You want to learn about

 Self!

 

At the second level of consciousness you are shocked to realize that

 if you lose your job today and the money that goes with it, that is

 OK!

 

At the second level of consciousness you find yourself wanting to

 listen to a greater variety of people than just always talk about your

 job

 

At the second level of consciousness you begin to realize that a big

 house is just an empty home, lots of awards are just meaningless

 titles

 

At the second level of consciousness you realize that sex is not love,

 money and power are not influence; your job is not who you

 REALLY are

 

At the second level of consciousness you face a choice: Abandon

 your temporary physical and social illusions, or transform them from

 within!

 

When people reach the 2nd level of consciousness some of them quit

 their jobs, sell their houses, divorce their spouses, go search for

 Truth

 

When people reach the 2nd level of consciousness, some of them

 embrace their current physical reality and place it on spiritual

 foundations!

 

You make the transition from the 2nd level of consciousness to the

 3rd level when you decide to take time to develop your mind and

 heart now

 

 

 

At 3rd level of consciousness, you identify with your physical

 environment 80% and start to feel and think for yourself, creating

 your heart!

 

At third level of consciousness, you become very sensitive to the

 energies in your body, your heart and your mind. You start

 cultivating them

 

At 3rd level of consciousness, you allow yourself to cry, feel joy,

 experience pain, entertain strange thoughts, and see all of life's

 beauty

 

At the third level of consciousness you start developing your artistic

 sensibilities, your empathy, and your need for spiritual connections!

 

At the third level of consciousness, you begin to put your time and

 energy into exploring the different sensations of life: You eat and

 think

 

At the third level of consciousness, you start to explore your physical

 appetites, your sexual energies, your creativity, and your intuitions

 

At the 3rd level of consciousness you can sense when people are

 happy and sad: You can console them and relate to them through

 communication

 

At the 3rd level of consciousness you shift from being merely a

 colleague at work and a neighbor to being a true friend when people

 need you

 

At 3rd level of consciousness you shift from being a well-trained

 employee, living in your mind, to being a human being living in the

 heart!

 

At the 3rd level of consciousness, you stop reacting to people and

 events around you. Instead, you start acting based on your values and

 ideas

 

You make the transition from the 3rd level of consciousness to the

 4th level of consciousness when you begin to see that you influence

 life!

 

You make the transition to the 4th level of consciousness when you

 realize that training crushes your personality. You develop unique

 gifts!

 

 

 

At the 4th level of consciousness, you identify with your environment

70% and start focusing more on your unique Spirit, changing who

 you are

 

At the fourth level of consciousness, you decide what kind of person

 you want to be regardless of the kind of person you have been or are

 now

 

At fourth level of consciousness, you decide what your lifestyle will

 be, what kind of friends you will have, and what resources you will

 use

 

At fourth level of consciousness you change your thoughts and

 emotions to match who you want to be: You practice being mindful

 and attentive

 

At the fourth level of consciousness you realize that each second of

 consciousness counts because every thought you have defines who

 you are

 

At the 4th level of consciousness, you systematically examine your

 own thoughts, emphasizing those that are healthy and eliminating

 the rest!

 

At the 4th level of consciousness you examine your emotions, feeling

 in full those that give you joy and eliminating those that make you

 sad

 

At the 4th level of consciousness you feel your body, choosing to eat

 only foods that make you healthy, eliminating the rest from your

 diet!

 

At the 4th level of consciousness, you look at your daily routines: You

 keep the routines that make you happy and change routines that

 don't!

 

At 4th level of consciousness, you study your habits: Keep habits that

 are good and remove bad habits from your life to avoid self-

judgments!

 

You make the transition from the 4th level of consciousness to the

 5th level of consciousness by discovering your spiritual self within

 you!

 

You enter the 5th level of consciousness when you successfully

 maintain your health + balance. You now have abundant love, energy and ideas!

 

 

 

At the 5th level of consciousness you identify with your physical

 environment 60% and start spending more time with your true

 spiritual self

 

At 5th level of consciousness, you've entered the 5th dimension: You

 have expanded from point, to line, to object, to being in time, to

 being

 

At the 5th level of consciousness, you stop living for other people and

 you start living for yourself: You offer service based on your spirit

 

At 5th level of consciousness we spend most of our leisure time

 meditating, praying, singing, composing, loving, caring, rejoicing,

 thanking

 

At 5th level of consciousness, you choose to live instead of forcing

 yourself to live. If you have a job, you have a renewed sense of

 purpose!

 

At the 5th level of consciousness, you make compromises with

 people

 so that you can be your true, Higher Self more and your other selves

 less

 

At the 5th level of consciousness, you stop taking every job that will

 make you money and start taking only jobs that match your

 spirituality

 

At the 5th level of consciousness, you apply your abundant love and

 energy to making a concrete difference in other people's lives every

 day!

 

At the 5th level of consciousness, you generate ideas for turning your

 spiritual being into physical changes and your love into relationships

At the 5th level of consciousness, you get your greatest joys from

 being around people who enhance your loving energy and natural

 creativity!

 

At the 5th level of consciousness you dig into yourself deeply in a

 never-ending quest to know your true, Higher Self, then manifest

 reality

 

You make transition from 5th level of consciousness to 6th level

 when all physical reality starts running parallel to your spiritual

 reality

 

You enter the 6th level of consciousness when you put all of your

 energies into spiritual development and physical realities derive

 from you

 

 

 

At the 6th level of consciousness you identify with your physical

 environment 50% and start living a double life, in the world but not

 of it

 

At 6th level of consciousness you are in the world, not of it: You

 show people the physical realities they know, not the true spirit

 inside!

 

At 6th level of consciousness, you are bridging between spirituality

 and physical realities: You are a dual ambassador, a great double-

agent!

 

At 6th level of consciousness, you are constantly translating between

 spirituality and various social and physical realities, creating fusion

 

At the 6th level of consciousness, you spend half the time physically

 manifesting inspiration, and half the time interpreting spiritual signs

 

At 6th level of consciousness, you are a person of many masks, many

 social roles and identities, but only one true, Higher Self: YOU ARE

 LOVE

 

At the 6th level of consciousness you play many games, you learn the

 rules of systems, and you adapt to each one so that spirit lives in you

 

At the 6th level of consciousness you identify the right time, the right

 place, and the right person to receive a spiritual message from you

 

At the 6th level of consciousness, you meditate while working so that

 you can mediate people's conflicts and help humanity move toward

 Heaven

 

At the 6th level of consciousness, you have parallel thoughts in your

 mind, parallel emotions in your heart, because you are a spirit

 bridge!

 

You make transition from 6th level of consciousness to 7th level

 when you are no longer a spiritual bridge because everyone is now

 spiritual

 

 

 

You enter the 7th level of consciousness when you create Heaven on

 Earth with each thought, feeling and action every single day of your

 life

 

 

 

At 7th level of consciousness you identify with your physical

 environment 40% and start living from your heart, mind, spirit and

 soul daily!

 

At 7th level of consciousness you live from your heart, mind, spirit,

 body and soul, all simultaneously, as a complete, balanced human

 being

 

At 7th level of consciousness, you live from your heart by connecting

 with people, animals and plants emotionally, communicating with

 energy!

 

At the 7th level of consciousness, you sense what is inside people's

 hearts, what hurts them the most, what gives them joy, and you heal

 them

 

At the 7th level of consciousness, you live from your mind by

 connecting with people psychically, reading their minds, knowing

 their thoughts

 

At 7th level of consciousness, you see the thoughts that motivate

 every action and you help people change those thoughts, so they have

 clarity

 

At 7th level of consciousness, you live from your spirit, connecting

 with people, animals, plants and energies over vast distances and

 times!

 

At 7th level of consciousness you see people's spiritual paths, their

 deepest yearnings, and you help them to stay connected to

 spirituality

 

At 7th level of consciousness, you live from your body, hugging

 people with warm, overwhelming embraces and touching their

 emotional centers!

 

At the 7th level of consciousness you live from your soul, knowing

 intuitively how the human race is evolving and taking actions to help

 it!

 

You make transition from 7th to 8th level of consciousness when you

 expand your spirit to connect with all energies around you every

 second!

 

You enter 8th level of consciousness when you become symbiotically

 connected to every person you meet, animal you touch, and every

 vibration

 

 

At the 8th level of consciousness, you identify with your environment

 30% but connect within yourself, with other people, and other

 energies!

 

At the 8th level of consciousness, we realize that all feeling, thought

 and action is based on greater and lesser degrees of vibrating energy

 

At the 8th level of consciousness, you learn how to change your

 vibrations to match the vibration of each form of energy you

 communicate with

 

At 8th level of consciousness, you are able to sense intense vibrations

 from very far away: You know when people are in pain or feeling

 loved

 

At the 8th level of consciousness, you communicate with people and

 other forms of energy through your dreams and spiritual exercises each day

 

At 8th level of consciousness, you know immediately when you must

 stop everything you are doing to send spiritual messages to someone

 in need

 

At 8th level of consciousness, you can influence other people's

 actions with your vibrations, somewhat like the Jedi mind trick in

 Star Wars!

 

At the 8th level of consciousness, you are a servant of Spirit: You use

 material resources as needed to serve the purpose of awakening

 others

 

At the 8th level of consciousness, you sense the spiritual needs of

 each energy in your environment: Their energies enter you, you

 enter them

 

You make transition from 8th to 9th level of consciousness when

 your thoughts and feelings become so strong that they transform

 every person

 

You enter the 9th level of consciousness when you walk into rooms

 and everyone instantly feels pure love, changing their feelings and

 being!

 

At 9th level of consciousness, you identify with your physical

 environment 20%. You are becoming pure energy within and you

 transform others!

 

At 9th level of consciousness, you transform people you meet and

 communicate with, improving their lives by raising their spiritual

 awareness

 

At the 9th level of consciousness, you develop a powerful presence

 that penetrates the being of people you know: You overwhelm them

 with LOVE

 

At the 9th level of consciousness your mind, heart, body, spirit, and

 soul are fused together in a constant state of meditation and praying!

 

At 9th level of consciousness, you no longer see yourself as mind,

 heart, body, spirit and soul because you are connected with universal

 love

 

At 9th level of consciousness, you lead social movements, start

 religions, transform communities, and raise people's energy levels

 constantly

 

At 9th level of consciousness, you are a healer, a mystic, a

clairvoyant, a psychic, a seer, a prophet, a magician, a fortune teller.

 Spirit!

 

At the 9th level of consciousness, you generate so much love that

 people and animals make existence effortless. Work is replaced by

 pleasure!

 

At 9th level of consciousness, you have millions of "children" from

 thousands of spiritual partners, people you have inspired with pure

 love!

 

At the 9th level of consciousness, you spread love, joy, and peace

 everywhere, creating peaceful communities wherever you go and

 ending war!

 

You make transition from 9th to 10th level of consciousness when

 you no longer have to be in a place for your loving existence to be

 enjoyed

 

You enter the 10th level of consciousness when you dream and

 people's lives change; you talk and people act; you write and the

 world changes

 

At 10th level of consciousness, you identify with your physical

 environment 10%. Your spirit absorbs so much that you feel/act

 through others

 

At 10th level of consciousness, you can perform seemingly amazing

 feats of physical and mental activities because love makes you

 super-human!

 

At 10th level of consciousness, you live in your own spiritual

 universe: You move and everyone moves with you. You accelerate

 your evolution!

 

At the 10th level of consciousness your total being integrates with

 other people to form a collective spirit: When you act, you act

 together

 

At the 10th level of consciousness you communicate with all beings,

 all energies, on all levels of consciousness simultaneously in pure

 form

 

At the 10th level of consciousness your total being absorbs the

 universe, focusing infinite divine power on all things around you to

create!

 

At the 10th level of consciousness you become God's magnifying

 glass: Wherever your attention focuses you spread the fire of inner

 lightning

 

At the 10th level of consciousness you are not only a constant

 enhanced version of yourself, you enhance other people with your

 loving mind!

 

At the 10th level of consciousness, you project so much energy that

 the foolish become wise, the poor feel rich, the hungry feel full

 inside!

 

At the 10th level of consciousness you can share your love with all

 sentient beings on Earth, from those in poverty to the rich and

 powerful

 

At 10th level of consciousness you become aware of your spiritual

 mission on Earth: You focus on completing your mission, then

 transcending!

 

Once you reach the 10th level of consciousness you can stay

 connected with the 10% of your physical environment, or you can

 leave and travel

 

At the 10th level of consciousness you complete your soul's purpose

 for being in physical form. You confront a choice: Leave Earth, or

 stay?

 

At 10th level of consciousness, if you decide to leave Earth you enter

 the 1st level of cosmic being, if you decide to stay with your

 guiding Spirit