Welcome to the August Edition of Raising Vibrations!

Wow! What a day it was on July the 17th  at 4:11am for those who joined us at Maffeo-Sutton Park in Nanaimo or wherever You Fired YOUR GRID!

Click Here for Fire the Grid updates and links to some interesting video clips of how people around the world took part in this global event. 

I just returned from hosting a Seattle Conference for The Great Mystery people with Bruce Lipton (Biology of Belief) and Rupert Sheldrake http://www.greatmystery.org/events/seattle07.html It was a pretty amazing event and copies of DVD's and CD's that you can download to your computer will be available here www.aven.com in the next few days. I am quite familiar with much of Bruce Lipton's work,  and was really quite impressed with some of the experiments of Rupert Sheldrake. If you are interested to know more, drop me a line or give me a call and I would be happy to talk to you about it. His DVD would definitely be worth having as well as Bruce's talk which is only available on CD. 

This month's theme is "Surrender"

The following words are prophecy of the Hopi people, a Native tribe from the American Southwest. 

There is a river flowing very fast.
It is so swift, there are those who will be afraid.
They will try to hold onto the shore.
They will feel they are being torn apart
And will suffer greatly.
Know that the river has a destination.
The elders say we must let go of the shore,
Push off into the middle of the river.
And I say, see who is in there with you and celebrate!
At this time in history we are to take nothing personally,
Least of all ourselves.
For the moment we do, our spiritual growth comes to a halt.
The time of the lone wolf is over.
Gather yourselves together, as we are tonight.
Banish the word "struggle" from your attitude and vocabulary.
All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner
And in celebration.
We are the ones we are waiting for.
Ahoy!

How many of you  are clinging to the shore of the fast moving river? How many of you are feeling a little beaten up these days by the current of the flow of your life? How many of you are feeling that consciousness is changing or speeding up? There is a powerful SHIFT sweeping through our existence and people are opening up to the possibilities of changes in bigger more pronounced and faster ways than ever before. This is a time where Modern Science,  Ancient Wisdom and Mysticism are coming together.

Dictionary.com defines  "Surrender" this way: "To give (oneself) up to some influence, course, emotion, etc. ie: He surrendered himself to a life of hardship."

I would like to offer you another way to look at Surrender.

Eckhart Tolle puts it this way: "Surrender is the simple but profound wisdom of yielding to, rather than opposing the flow of life. The only place where you can experience the flow of life is the NOW, so to surrender is to accept the present moment unconditionally and without reservation. It is to relinquish inner resistance to what is."

This river that is the current of life always flows one way-downstream. It is the natural flow of life, and there is only a stream of Well Being. It is Who You Really Are. You created your stream in this reality and the flow is about the preferences that you have chosen and are choosing each day. There is no other stream. There is not a stream of sickness and a stream of wellness. There is not a stream of abundance and a stream of lack. There is only ONE STREAM and you are either going with the flow of it or against it.

  And trust me…EVERYTHING YOU WANT IS DOWNSTREAM!!

There doesn’t need to be struggle. We create struggle when we are in resistance to what is. When we are in resistance we are actually paddling up stream in this river of life against the current. 

Many of us live our lives hanging on to the shore for dear life or clinging  to a rock in the middle and then we just get beat up. When we stop the struggle or “just drop our oars” and SURRENDER in the moment,  the boat that we are in will slowly turn and start to go with the flow again.  

Surrender is not about giving up. It’s not about resigning yourself to a certain way of life or way of being and saying “Oh well, that’s just my lot in life, that’s just what I am meant to be or do or have I guess!” Don’t confuse surrender with an “I just can’t be bothered or I  don’t care anymore” attitude either because that isn’t  surrender, just resistance with a different face. It’s also not about deceiving yourself and saying positive affirmations like  “I  love my present circumstances"  It’s about getting clear that I do want  change, but in the meantime I am able to BE in THIS PRESENT MOMENT (which is all I really have) and just ALLOW IT TO FULLY BE. 

Do you feel how there is no resistance, no emotional negativity there?

From this place, we can choose to reach for the best feeling thought that we now have access to and from that place, when we take action,  it's inspired action. Positive Action. When we take the time to surrender and get back into a better FEELING place, now the action we take will come not from anger, despair or frustration, but from a calm inner knowing or our Intuition which is the connection to our  INNER BEING that sees the big picture of our life and already knows what’s downstream for us! That non-physical part of us that is Spirit, knows who we really are. It's WE  (the physical) that  sometimes forget!!

When we don’t surrender the shell of our ego gets hardened and creates a strong sense of separateness. The world around us and the people in it become threatening. Not only our psychological but also our physical body becomes hard and rigid through resistance. The free flow of "chi" or life force energy that is flowing through our body becomes blocked and unable to do it’s job. We can run to get bodywork done or different forms of physical therapy, but until the cause (the resistance pattern)  has been dissolved, these are only a temporary fix.

Everything that is occurring in our lives,  whether it is sickness,  a car accident, poverty,  crime or a headache is about us and our relationship with this stream and the amount of resistance that we are offering in relationship to it. The more we resist, the more symptoms we get. When we ignore or medicate those symptoms pretty soon we end up manifesting some disease which is the body just  letting us know  that it is at DIS-EASE with itself!

So how do we stay in a place where we connect with not only who WE Really Are,  but who we ALL Really Are as a mass consciousness?  

Let's face it, we are All in this river together, because in reality......

WE ARE ALL ONE

The microcosm that is my life is just a reflection of the macrocosm which is Global Consciousness.

According to the Maya, we are coming to the end of a 26,000 year cycle in 2012. This is not the end of the world folks, but it IS the end of the world as we know it! We have been in this Shift since 1992. 

How will we choose as a mass consciousness to enter this next cycle? That depends on how we choose to live our lives over the next 5 years. We have the potential right now to be in this stream that  the Hopi speak of which is now  moving faster than it ever has before and to have the time of our lives. We also have the potential more than ever to get bashed against the rocks. When we see things on our TV's or in the paper or even in our own city that we have strong resistance or judgment to, we get our river flowing faster, because we want  things to  be better.  When we see hunger, we want people to be fed, when we see sickness, we want  people to be healthy. That is why  the river is flowing so quickly now.  As a mass consciousness when we see those things we don’t want the stream of what we do want (which is all downstream) flows faster and faster.

The question is "How long and with how much negative emotion and resistance are we looking at what we don't want and paddling up stream against it?"

Let us move into the center of the river, and celebrate in Love not only who we are right now, but  also who we are Becoming.

  Let us Surrender to the NOW!      

                          There IS no one else…

                                           We are the ones we've been waiting for!

Till next month

Warmly, Ev