A Whole New World….

 A Whole New World….

….and not just because it's a New Year! I’ve heard many times mention of the Leader of the Free World. It hits me like a ton of bricks what an oxymoron that title is. If it were truly a Free World, it would not need a leader. Even in the bible in the book of Kings there is a reference to power being taken away from Solomon and returned to the people. 

While the above is a radical idea for many, even more profound is the knowing that true freedom actually lies within each and every one of us. Someone can be more “free” in a prison cell than another strolling around in a “free country”. It is the remembrance of our inner world, and who we truly are, that frees us from the shackles of the programmed beliefs of humanity over the centuries. While for some, this can be an instantaneous satori experience, for others, it can take lifetimes. I am grateful to be scratching the surface of this awareness and ready to take it to the next level. This NOW is the time if you have resonated with this idea even the tiniest bit. Gaia has elevated her frequency as well as a great percentage of humanity making our way clearer. 

There have been so many artists, like Styx with their Grand Illusion, that “got it”. Way back then they were so wise, and their expression of that awakening poured forth in their music. Part of the Grand Illusion is time the way most humans understand it. As I have alluded to in Storytime and other places, everything is happening at once. Generally, humans need to think linearly as their minds just can’t compute everything happening in this one present moment. Due to my intention to BE in the present, I am able to more often (haha, I can’t even write a line with human words without alluding to the currently understood concept of time!) I have deeply resonated with Whitney Houston’s, “One Moment in Time”   since I first heard it in 1988 – especially the line, “in that one moment of time I will feel eternity”. The other verse reminds, “in that one moment of time I will be free”. In reference to Freedom earlier, I believe it is only in BEing in the present moment that we can truly BE free. Only in the Now we can feel/be anything everywhere all at once.

Am I....

...in a prison?

Or am I....

FREE?!

Another line in Whitney’s song is, “I’m only one, but not alone…”. Revealing a bit more about my past – or rather, “other life” experiences, I remember BEing Mary Magdalene. I am equally aware of many others out there who also felt they were Mary Magdalene. How can that be? Are we all having the same illusion? In a sense, yes. Since we are all One, you are me and I am you. Hence, we can have the memory of an experience of being anyone that our energy lines up with in some fashion or another. And now you know where my information of Yeshua, also known as Jesus, comes from!

I almost forgot something from my visit to Kauai a couple months back. In Lemuria and Lessons, I shared about an amazingly gifted, intuitive young man I received a transformative sound session. Just prior to that I picked a card from a Dragon Path deck offered. The card was FREEDOM!

Note: We are almost wrapping up the year of the Wood Dragon!

The message was appropriate too

Why all this talk about freedom and being an inside job as we start the new year? Part is about me being authentic about my own journey. I feel that I have created a prison for myself every time I am in an environment that is not pleasing to me. I’ve struggled against it so much instead of finding freedom and peace within. Yes, often I have succeeded in being the eye of the storm. However, there are enough times that I resisted. I seem to keep recreating variations of the scenario until I figure out how to be totally fine and accepting of it. Perhaps then, I can manifest that tropical jungle beach that I so desire – that place that has been calling me for over 15 years! Another tricky part, for me, is not being attached to the outcome – BEing at peace right where I am in this NOW…no matter what. 

I feel we are all on this Hero’s Journey. Collectively, we answered the call to experience this adventure called Life as a Human. We’ve encountered and surmounted one challenge after another. Eventually, we are transformed and return Home to Source. Let us be kind to each other on the voyage. Understand that each has an individual adventure but it is ultimately all our adventure too as we are all ONE. Perhaps what we don’t like so much in another is a reflection of something inside us that we’d rather not admit and try to hide. When we come to that acknowledgement, we can have more compassion both for them and for ourselves. Perhaps we would like to see more of something in our surroundings – more love, more peace, more understanding, more joy. Maybe the solution is as simple as BEing more of that ourselves. As we exude more love, peace, understanding, and joy, it flows through all creation as we are all connected. We are all ONE. 

Serendipitous Reminder in Aloha Land

As ONE, we can create A Whole New Beautiful World! Won’t you join me in this new year of 2025 in BEing the change we wish to see on this planet? Help me BE love, peace, understanding, and joy. BEing One, we are all in this together. As Ram Dass so eloquently put it, “We’re all just walking each other Home.” 

Enjoying the holidays with family and friends has been a blessing for me. There is just nothing that compares to a 10 month-old baby’s wondrous new experience of the magic of the holidays. My Christmas miracle happened in a totally unanticipated manner. A reconnection hike with a friend (of two and a half decades) resulted in her inviting me to stay at her house. I am so grateful for the kindness of Kathy and her husband in hosting me while I research my next tropical adventure! 

Although I am considering a range of possibilities, I am particularly exploring

from a new angle. I am looking to be a caretaker of a private island – obviously with a jungle beach! If you have any ideas or connections that might lead to this opportunity, I would be most grateful to hear from you! Infinite gratitude to all you wonderful people who have, and continue to, assist me on my journey. I could not have made it this far all alone.

Swirling Love, Light, and Peace ~ Michelle

Reeeeally??

Is it a sunrise or a sunset?

Many humans will fight to the death for their beliefs. Friendships are lost and families divided when realities collide. Looking around you, it is obvious people believe things are absolute truth based on the “facts” of their programming. What programming? Culture, religion, family, education, and political systems. Some conditioning may have begun well intentioned enough but, regardless, it is still programming. People will report what they observe and what the “news” tells them is true and call that “Reality.” Yes, it is a reality – in fact their reality in that moment. It is just not absolute reality. 

Some cultures were programmed to believe being photographed would steal their soul away. If someone took their picture, they acted as if one took their soul. Others believed a certain act of a chief, or displeasing a deity, would result in losing their life. That conviction was so intense they had a heart attack, or such, and “spontaneously” died. That was their reality. Certain individuals can predict the future, can see things others do not, can communicate with spirits, can see happenings in parts of the world they are not. Once upon a time, these people were put in mental institutions or burned at the stake for being in league with the devil. In this perceived “now” of your time, these people are often revered and sometimes paid megabucks for their abilities. One reality was “then”. It is a different reality in your “now”. Some people in the “now” have war as their daily reality. Yet, in this same “now”, others live peaceful lives far from the awareness of anything else. Both “realities” are equally valid – equally real for those experiencing such. 

Women in different parts of the world even live through menopause differently. Indigenous cultures that weren’t “aware” of what others experienced didn’t go through menopause – at least not in the manner much of the “developed” world did/does. Yes, they experienced a cessation of their menses but didn’t have hot flashes or other hormonal changes they didn’t know they were “supposed” to suffer in that process. It was an exalted time honoring women’s transition to a status of higher wisdom. 

Then there is, what is now known as, the Mandela Effect. Whole groups of people absolutely remember things a certain way. But current history shows those clear group memories entirely differently. For more about that, there is plenty (currently) on the internet for your exploration. Many that believe one way will adamantly say the others are obviously “wrong” or have a “false” memory. Yet it’s just another example that one person’s reality isn’t necessarily the same as another’s. 

Fascinating how many people continue living realities they don’t prefer. They cling to the “facts” of what they see around them to define their reality. They act as if they have no power about what happens around or to them – living in more victim mode than they care to admit to others or even themselves. I remember when that kind of situation was my reality - when I thought this is just the way life is. That’s just what happened to me. And so believing – so it was.

You have no power over me...

Thankfully, I have claimed the power I forgot I had all along. Sure, I still have many areas of my reality I am playing with shifting. At the
same time, I celebrate the huge ways I have shifted and lived in an entirely different reality than others – in some cases, a massively different reality than the majority of the population of the planet as you know it. While I still have a long way to go…. Wait, that’s just a belief! I can change my perception in a day if I can just wrap my mind around it. Witness the games we play!

Then again, that’s just my reality! I share these musings as an invitation to you. Look around your life, your world. How can you reduce the things you imagine as distasteful and increase that which you desire? Since much has been programmed into you as reality for a long time, sometimes lifetimes, there may be many layers of belief which need to be shifted to allow for a more preferable reality. What beliefs keep you stuck feeling or experiencing things the way you do now? What would you need to believe to allow for the experiences you desire? 

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When I travel from one place to another, I really

feel like I am in another reality. Although there are still a few constants, there is an energetic shift to my core that feels like I am in a different world or an alternate life. My present reality still has me on a quest to find the Paradise of My Dreams. Recently, I thought perhaps it was time to let go of that pursuit. I’d seemingly been searching for so long with no apparent results. Within an hour of that serious consideration, the cup holder on my decadent hot chocolate told me something else. So, for now, I listen to my hot chocolate 😊 Maybe more on that next month. 

For “now”, I wish for you, in your today, an exciting adventure of your pleasing – unless, of course, that in not in alignment with your desire. Either way, I honor your experience. 

Until next time ~ Much Love and Appreciation ~ Michelle

Sunrise or Sunset?

Afterthought:

Since first hearing Grand Illusion by Styx, I so resonated with it. If you haven't heard it, or it's been a while, I invite you to listen to it again. I prefer the previous version but here it is with lyrics for those who prefer....

Releasing…..Like Layers of an Onion

Ever since childhood, I have been letting go.  I let go of my childhood dreams completely by age 18 due to the circumstances of those earlier years.  I let go of a certain sense of security when I chose to leave a marriage that wasn’t honoring me.  When my son was only 16, it took all my courage to let him go when his choices weren’t respectful.  It was one of the most difficult gut wrenching decisions….a painful layer of the onion to shed.  When moving to Florida, I parted with a good third of my belongings and the comfort of family, friends and business connections.  Another huge wave of letting go transpired in Florida losing my home along with a number of properties, going through bankruptcy and saying good-bye to yet another marriage.  Then, thinking I would not need to drive on the Panamanian island I believed I was moving to live, I also gave away my car.  Last year I parted with another biggie for me.  It would not have seemed a big deal under my previous circumstances but given my current gypsy situation it’s value to me was great.  I gave away a diamond ring I was attached to for many reasons both emotional and logical.  The logical aspect was, I figured if I ever was in great need I could easily get $3000 which would get me back “on track”.  This year I had to release a relationship that was one of the closest to my heart.  As painful as it was, I had to stand in my truth which meant another good bye…another layer shed.

Early on in my journey, I almost believed that this letting go process would get easier as I gained experience.  I thought understanding the reason for things and seeing truth beyond the human experience would not take as much “vigilance”.  I don’t know about for others, but this hasn’t been the case for me.  I do know that I can make a choice in the midst of the pain to be in peace and, in a strange sort of way, happy.  I experience what I’m going through and make the decision to keep going on….to keep shining no matter what.

Now this isn’t meant to be a depressing piece so why am I sharing it with you?  Because of why I am choosing the whole shedding process in the first place.  Unless we let go of the old, there is no way we can experience the new.  We cannot continue to be and act and have in ways we did before if we wish to transform our lives by choice rather than default.  Default is the reality that change will always happen.  We can fight and hold on to the old, sometimes for a long time, but that doesn’t really help us.  We may also want to make some shifts or improvements in our lives but are worried about what others will think of us or are afraid of the new role we will have to play in the unfamiliar circumstances.  Personally, I know I have gained with every layer I have had the courage to shed.  While I admit I didn’t quite welcome the experiences, I thankfully am able to see some of the value I have gained.  Gained??  Gained through loss?  Yes!  With every layer released, my spirit has grown more and more free.  I am getting closer to embodying the Light that I really am.  I have shed (for the most part) being concerned about what others think of me.  I have learned to live (happily) without most of the material trappings that, at one time, I thought were essential.  I am not stressed about the things most people are because those things are not even in my awareness.  The more I disconnect from the rat race….the Grand Illusion, the more I can connect with my true self and the divinity in everyone around me.  I used to feel bad about not being able to assist people in the manner I desire.  I am now able to help them in ways far greater although most live in a state they cannot perceive such.  Again, I do have my human moments of sadness, pain and frustration.  However, for the most part, I am comforted and motivated by the real reason I came to this planet – a role I have only consciously stepped into by choosing to release anything from my life holding me back from truth and love.  I encourage you to examine your own life and look deeply into your heart.  Is there anything you are clinging to from the old that is keeping you from your truth?  Perhaps there is one little action, one baby step you can take right now to remove one more layer of whatever it is that is blocking you from shining as brightly as you can.  As you contemplate this and play (yes take this “lightly”) with your own process, keep in mind there is no judgment. There is no right or wrong.  All choices are honored.  Love Is All There Is!  And truly All Is Well!

PS.  If onions make you cry, please change my analogy…perhaps to a diamond in the rough.  But you’ll have to do a bit of chiseling to get through those layers ;-)