Think with your heart. Take some time for quiet “thinking.” Let the mind be calm, the heart active. Let the body be still and let the energy of compassion and love flow through you. Be thoughtful in a new way today. Suspend judgment. Breathe love. Think with your heart!
-From the Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne
Forgive yourself. This is the only forgiveness that matters, for how can you go on to fulfillment if you are not free? If you can’t forgive yourself, how will you ever be able to get beyond blame and resentment? No one else can grant you forgiveness. No one else can free you. Forgive yourself. Free yourself. This is the deeper work of the heart. It’s really about loving yourself. That’s what really matters—love.
-From the Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne
Both Jeanne and Robert Monroe report that journeys in energetic infinity are completely transparent. Thoughts and feelings are immediately known to self and other—no place to hide. This in no way implies moral superiority or perfection, simply the absence of shadow—all is revealed.
In our solid dimension, shadow, the ability to hide from self and other, is, and has been, the nemesis of our evolution. At this moment in time, we witness a dramatic acting out of disowned shadow as it is projected and killed throughout the world.
As horrific as such outbreaks of violence are, they reflect our own evolutionary movement toward transparency. Videos abound, blatantly revealing violence and murder perpetrated by individuals projecting evil onto others. The truth is being revealed, and though reactions to those truths wreak havoc, in the end, the truth is being revealed in greater transparency.
Mother Earth has mandated evolutionary advance and humans are the agents of her intent. The rise of Donald Trump is another reflection of this urgency for change and transparency. Ironically, his flippant, ignorant, off-the-cuff reactive style appeals to a certain populace fed up with lies. He is actually supported by a wave of sentiment that seeks easy truth and simplicity vs the diplomatic complexity of seeking real solutions.
I remember, when I first started in the field of counseling, how some seasoned therapists would meet with a patient, analyze their problem, and provide them with a very clear prescription to solve that problem—very clear, rational, and black and white. The trouble was, most of those patients were ultimately labelled as defensive because they didn’t act on their prescriptions.
The one dictum I held onto from graduate school was to start where the client is at. This requires complex diplomacy—suspending judgment–and gradually helping a client to reckon with, own, and make their shadow transparent.
Trump mimics a quick prescriber that attracts the hunger for greater transparency and fairness, yet, ironically, Trump himself has led a business career of manipulation and dishonesty. What’s striking is the willingness to overlook these facts, so great is the desire for change.
As much as I am concerned about the current generation’s obsession with social media, which I see as a widening dissociation from our human animal selves, I can’t help but validate the same drive toward greater transparency that the internet and social media offer. It’s getting harder to hide and lie in this modern world!
We are in a cauldron of monumental change where phenomena like the rise of Donald Trump are likely to occur as an aberrant permutation of transparency. These are significant but transient events. The deeper, more fundamental event here is the realization of Mother Earth’s intent to evolve us to the next level of energetic transparency. And with that transparency the human will will have little choice but to acquiesce to the truth and the necessary actions to insure survival and the flourishing of our evolving dream and, ultimately, our transformation.
Transparently speaking,
Chuck
Return to nature when things get too hectic. Walk barefooted upon the earth. Breathe the air. Sit upon the ground in stillness. Let the sun warm you in the day and the moon cool your brow at night. Let the winds carry away your fears and worries and let the rains take your tears. Seek your own place in nature. Take a calm walk. Sit in your power spot. Find a place to root, if only for a moment, an hour, a day. Do not ever forget that you are a part of nature, the most powerful energy there is. Let it course through you and renew you. One day at a time, accept its bounty. It belongs to you. It’s wherever you are, and it’s totally free!
-From the Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne
Wind, moon, ocean, stars, times of discontent. Sunny days, times of happiness and peace. Whatever is happening outside, is it not also reflected inside, even a little? No one stays constant, always the same. Everyone changes, like the weather day to day, like nature, a river in constant motion. Yet strive always, in spite of life’s challenges, to maintain your core strength and balance. Stay connected to your knowing self, to your inner you, for if you stray too far from that inner self you are no more than a raging river, unable to maintain its boundaries. A river carries within its depths enough power to forge ahead no matter what challenges it. Learn the lessons of the river, of nature, yet return always to your human core, to your calmness and balance.
-From the Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne