Bridging the Gap with Living Love

January 14, 2012 – 11:20 am

When I was getting my Master’s degree in Spiritual Psychology 20 years ago I was in the middle of a very scary time. My marriage was dissolving, I was looking for work after being home and raising children for 8 years, my self-esteem had been rattled and nothing in my world looked like what had been there before – I was facing a tremendous ‘gap’ in my known reality. What I had ‘known’, counted on and felt secure and safe with was dissolving and what I sensed coming forward, but could not find a foothold was not clear.  My inner experience of fear, anxiety, excitement and shear terror was with me daily.

This was the first time I heard the encouraging words - just let go, Rebecca and fly.

Well, I did let go in many ways…and also held on tight in others. It was a time of great highs standing on terrifying precipices and feeling very uncomfortable. My work with others took form during those years as I learned how to take leaps, cross a gap without a perceived safety net and  fly by letting go.

We are in those times again.

For those who read this and have faced a similar challenge, you know the reserves of inner strength, courage, commitment and taking one trembling step at a time that show up…and how much inner trust and ‘I can do this’ knowing comes forward. It comes forward because you DID IT! You participated, probably inspite of,  all the voices inside that screamed or pleaded to you to retreat, stay safe or uphold the status quo.

I know those voice inside very well…and what I also know very well is how to build a bridge across a perceived gap with sureness, gradualness, compassion, self loving and connected to the BIG ness of who I am – Living Love. Living Love is what gives our wings the up liftment when we are ready to fly.

I have designed an audio class Bridge to Your Big Life: Connecting Your Human Nature to Living Love  that will teach you what I have learned. and more important, you will experience the inner trust, self-esteem, peace  and loving that comes from connecting the part of you that lives in fear (human nature) with the part of you that lives in freedom, expansion and Lightness (Divine Nature) and experience the BIG ness of you.

I invite you to check the class out and also watch five videos where I share keys to building the inner bridge.  

 

 

 

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Call Me by My True Names

November 22, 2011 – 10:31 am

  

Do not say that I’ll depart tomorrow
because even today I still arrive.

Look deeply: I arrive in every second
to be a bud on a spring branch,
to be a tiny bird, with wings still fragile,
learning to sing in my new nest,
to be a caterpillar in the heart of a flower,
to be a jewel hiding itself in a stone.

I still arrive, in order to laugh and to cry,
in order to fear and to hope.
The rhythm of my heart is the birth and
death of all that are alive.

I am the mayfly metamorphosing on the surface of the river,
and I am the bird which, when spring comes, arrives in time
to eat the mayfly.

I am the frog swimming happily in the clear pond,
and I am also the grass-snake who, approaching in silence,
feeds itself on the frog.

I am the child in Uganda, all skin and bones,
my legs as thin as bamboo sticks,
and I am the arms merchant, selling deadly weapons to
Uganda.

I am the twelve-year-old girl, refugee on a small boat,
who throws herself into the ocean after being raped by a sea
pirate,
and I am the pirate, my heart not yet capable of seeing and
loving.

I am a member of the politburo, with plenty of power in my
hands,
and I am the man who has to pay his “debt of blood” to, my
people,
dying slowly in a forced labor camp.

My joy is like spring, so warm it makes flowers bloom in all
walks of life.
My pain if like a river of tears, so full it fills the four oceans.

Please call me by my true names,
so I can hear all my cries and laughs at once,
so I can see that my joy and pain are one.

Please call me by my true names,
so I can wake up,
and so the door of my heart can be left open,
the door of compassion.

Thich Nhat Hanh

 

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Juxtapositions

October 11, 2011 – 2:39 pm

I have received two blogs recently about dying. Yes, not sugar coating it – dying. So I’m paying attention. I just turned 60 – woohoo! – my first born daughter got married last weekend – woohoo!! – I am launching a brand new online presence with all the high energy excitement and knee knocking fear that goes with taking a leap – woohoo!!! – and this week I am aware of dying.

Life, currently,  is full of profound juxtapositions. There is a poignant scent in the fall air as the world scene continues to amaze me with surprising heroic people demonstrations every where. Good news, bad news, disappointing news, encouraging news…The world is responding to this important time in a big way.

What if you were given a life threatening diagnosis and had 6 months to live? Would your life radically shift? or not? I know that the cycle of life/death/birth/marriage/divorce/birthdays/anniversaries/death/birth is happening every minute of every day…but do I really take the time to spend a few minutes present to my experience, in my body, of these amazing events?

Can’t say I have any more to say other than I am paying attention. And I’m not quite sure why I am paying attention or to what exactly? But whatever it is we are all tuned in – consciously or not. And I believe it will continue to be important to stay tuned in in the weeks and months to come.

Here’s a quote I like from one of the articles on death. The man who is the focus of the article died Sept. 20.

 

“Some cures require a radical intervention of the soul: a change in our mindset and our way of being. These cures require us to stop racing through our busy lives, working, providing, and consuming. Some cures require that we stop and enjoy every sandwich.” – Living Life Fully

 

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Wise Women and Wealth

October 5, 2011 – 11:41 am

What is your definition of wealth? true wealth? When I was younger wealth had a lot to do with material possessions. I wanted that big house, the nice car, the lifestyle that announced my worth, my OKness and my success. But after many years of acquiring and spending and accumulating…I did not feel wealthy. In fact, I felt empty, although my bank account was full and lacking although it seemed I had it all.

It was about that time I started seeking the answers to what felt like a paradox and began to discover the secret to true wealth for me.

Today wealth is inner experience of richness, fullness, wholeness and connection to Source. I mark my wealthiness by my energy level, my joy, my health and how much I love. Does that include cash flow? Absolutely. but I know that cash flow and financial abundance are completely tied to how I carry and embody the wealth of who I am.  And I love giving of my overflow to the world.

If these areas of wealth and worthiness are up for you I invite you to listen to Tuesday’s Mastering the Shift interview with Kiva Leatherman, Founder and President of Wise Workshops and check out her upcoming teleclass with partner Amethyst Wildfire – Worthy, Wealthy and Wise Teleseries.

What is your personal currency? and your definition of ‘enoughness’? Are you spending and investing your personal currency well? and how do you turn that personal currency into an experience of ’enough’ for you?

Good stuff. Check it out!

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Closing the Gap

September 27, 2011 – 12:27 pm

Calling all compassionate paradigm shifters! 

It is my great pleasure to welcome each week to Mastering the Shift guests for you – chosen carefully to bring you the latest groundbreaking work, innovation and thinking  in areas that concern you, your family, and the world. That’s what Mastering the Shift is about …having the information to envision what is possible and what is emerging and then share the tools, practices and ways to begin bringing the new into form.

 But information is not enough. What I have observed over 20+ years of working in this field of transformation that if we just listen and don’t take some kind of action to shift our thinking, perceptions and experience – and of the three experience is the key to it all – then not only will our reality not reflect the new information but the gap between the new, and the possible will widen.

 What do I mean? Let’s focus on you and me for a moment.

If you have not prepared the ground well for the old thoughts/beliefs to be pulled and the new seeds to take root – well, I have observed that’s when hopelessness, despair, resignation and fear take over.

 So let’s talk a few minutes about closing the gap… Where are you experience a gap between where you are and where you want to be?

The gap for you may seem tremendous at this moment. Perhaps you find yourself at a loss when it comes to creating what you know is in your heart, who you are, how you want to live your life and what you want to contribute to your family, to the world…

 Maybe you see this  gap looming there like some great chasm. The fantasy is that at the bottom of this chasm are monsters of fear of failure or success, danger of stepping outside the comfort zone, the old tapes of ‘who do you think you are’ , family of origin beliefs that risk- taking is not OK , that belonging  and going along with the herd mentality is what keeps you warm and safe at night.

 Did I just describe you? What I described was the human nature. And we all have one. However, what we also all have is a divine nature – a nature that is not concerned with staying in a safe self defined box – rather it is seeking the experiences of growth, expansion and revelation. It sees the gap and says Wow, here is a great opportunity to have an experience of leaping beyond my limitations.. So The divine nature says Piece of cake. Here let me show you how to take this leap with trust, support and guidance every step of the way.

 And those trusting steps begin inside. It’s the inside limits that keep you stuck – not the outside circumstances. So the work begins inside our self using great care and compassion to track  how your thoughts, feelings, perceptions and beliefs can be shifted and cleared. ..making way for new revelations.

I often hear from time to time People don’t change. Or someone will come into my office and say to me Do people really change? 

 What they are really asking is can I really change? Whatever I have been doing up until now – and I’ve tried all kinds of programs, routines, read all kinds of books, listened to Oprah or another new thought personality – and nothing changes…

OK, I say, that’s been your experience up until now. My questions to you are: Are you open to having a new experience? And are you willing to do new approaches to have those new experiences?

 Our Divine Nature is ready to support the new. And before long we have crafted a bridge across the chasm and realized that the gap was self-made – there was no gap really – in other words, the old reality of lack, suffering, doubt, worry and fear was an illusion.

 If you are interested in giving yourself a new experience using new approaches to the old delimma – check out my ecourse – CoCreating a Grace-Based Reality. The “co creating” part means you will ask for the support of your Divine Nature and take each step with guidance and support…and you will be shifting a very common area of self-limitation – shame and blame.

 My definition of Grace is “the active expression and experience of the unconditional Loving of Spirit”.  Find the registration for this ecourse at www.makeitheaven.com/coursesclasses or just visit my home page and click the link to the ecourse. Give yourself and new experience using a new approach to begin closing the gap in your life.

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Are you Worthy of Wealth?

September 20, 2011 – 9:58 am

When you focus on the energy of money and your relationship with money and neglect the rules of money – you can’t succeed. And vice versa. Join Kiva Leatherman and Amethyst Wyldfyre for an amazing collaboration: 7 Secret Steps to Overcome Your Fears and Embrace your Worth, Wealth and Wisdom .

Too many women know that they’re worthy of wealth but can’t seem to get there. Where’s the disconnect??

Maybe it’s the ‘monsters’ or limiting beliefs that lie in your chakras. Here are 7 distinct fears or imprints created by wound/traumas that will absolutely eat up your self worth and the energy centers where these “monsters” live:

Fear of Not Having Enough – Lives in your ROOT or Base Chakra – Survival Issues and Lack

Fear of Not Being Good Enough – Lives in your SACRAL or creative Chakra – Self Sabotage/Overdoing

Fear of Power/Success – Lives in your Solar Plexus or Power Chakra – Boundary/Control Issues

Fear of Being Abandoned – Lives in Heart Chakra – Excessive Grief/Depression Feeling Empty

Fear of Speaking Your Truth – Lives in Throat 0r Creative Expression Chakra – Unable to Express Needs

Fear of Betrayal – Lives in Third Eye or Brow Chakra – Broken Dreams, Disbelief, Doubt, Distrusting

Fear of Loneliness/The Unknown – Lives in Crown Chakra – Fear of Being the Leader/Responsibility

Do any of these sound familiar to you? Well, I would like to invite you to check out what my friends,  Amethyst Wyldfyre and Kiva Leatherman are offering. A brand-new call where they’ll reveal the 7 secrets about women and wealth and how to clear those limiting beliefs forever.  Join them for the call, 7 Secret Steps to Overcome Your Fears and Embrace your Worth, Wealth and Wisdom https://zbv87750.infusionsoft.com/go/WOW001/rskeele/

 

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August Recap

September 2, 2011 – 12:43 pm

Every year at this time the fiesta singers visit the Acequia Madre Elementary School  one block from my house and lead the  children in songs and cheers Viva Fiesta! It is a sound I love to hear and heralds the beginning of our long lingering late summer/Fall days and evenings.

It’s my favorite time  in Santa Fe but bitter sweet for I know my garden, which is in its full glory, will be losing that ripe glow of vibrancy as the night temperatures drop. Time to savor the last days of another wonderful summer season in northern New Mexico.

 My August guests on Mastering the Shift were especially poignant in their insights and intimate as they shared about their passion and expertise. I am sending you quick links to the archived shows in case you have an hour FOR YOU to relax, listen and contemplate these profound times of chaotic change and new possibilities. Remember you can download all the shows to ITunes for easy listening whenever you have a moment.

 As the light recedes and slowly calls us all into our deeper selves for rest and renewal may you compassionately allow the old ways to complete and make room for an outpouring of new beauty and grace in your life.

 Heart Blueprints: The Shift of True Fulfillment with guest Sheva Carr

http://www.voiceamerica.com/episode/55340/heart-blueprints-the-shift-of-true-fulfillment

 Summer of Love Series – Mars in Relationships and Sexuality with guest Jason Holley

http://www.voiceamerica.com/episode/55253/summer-of-love-series-mars-in-relationships-and-sexuality

 

Reimagining Civilization: Breakdown to Breakthrough with guest Kenny Ausubel

http://www.voiceamerica.com/episode/55704/reimagining-civilization-breakdown-to-breakthrough

 

Summer of Love Series – Your Venus/Mars Evolutionary Portals with guest Jason Holley

http://www.voiceamerica.com/episode/55254/the-summer-of-love-series-your-marsvenus-phase

 

The Messages of Inter dimensional Love – the Hathors with guest Tom Kenyon

http://www.voiceamerica.com/episode/55836/the-messages-of-interdimensional-love-the-hathors-with-tom-kenyon

 

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Listening with Big Ears

July 18, 2011 – 12:12 pm

What I enjoy so much about Jason Holley’s astrological insights is how ‘big’ the picture gets when he shares about a sign, transit or something the planets are doing. Last week’s Summer of Love kick off - walking us through the signs with Venus – the planet of love and sexuality – I found myself listening with ‘big’ ears, which I’m going to call my Soul’s view, and hearing the journey…not just from this lifetime but from eons of lifetimes that I have chosen to play out relationships and sexuality on this life stage – each lifetime learning (or not) the same lessons over and over. The ultimate relationship is with the Self and that Self is within. All attractions, attachments, needs, desires, push/pulls, fantasies, roles and dramas are all about me with me.  And where does all of this finally culminate in fulfillment?  in Divine union within.

Now, that doesn’t mean I haven’t had lots of fun (and not fun) along the way.

Venus is the planet of love and in today’s world it is sooo easy to reflect the parody that movies, TV and the media highlights when it comes to L.O.V.E.  In our world, love can be seen as a flight of fantasy, a fool’s game, the bain of existence or even the game we play with others to meet our self centered needs and desires. ALL of us have been on either end of that level of love. But the deeper journey of love, through our Soul’s eyes, asks us to evolve, mature up, see with clarity, surrender to and be slayed by what love truly is.

No matter where you are in the cycle of your soul’s love lessons you can gain much insight and compassion by listening to how Jason  presents this major journey. Have you  thrown in the towel and will never love again or are you still waiting for someone to come along and save you? – it is all perfect and full of rich learnings for your soul.

BTW – Jason will be back August 9 and August 30 with shows two and three in our Summer of Love Series. August 9 will focus on Mars – how the soul takes action on its desires; August 30 with be the dance of Venus/Mars through the Evolutionary Gates.

Here’s the link to find your Venus/Mars chart position http://jasonholley.net/articlesradio/venusmars_mastering_the_shift

 

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Summer of Love 2011

July 11, 2011 – 11:17 am

Where were you during the first Summer of Love? I have had fun reminiscing this week about all the shifts in consciousness that have occurred since the early 50s and 60s. If you were around then you know what I am talking about. What the world looked like in the 50s – post WW II – and what it looks like today are radically different…in some ways…and in others the old paradigms are still holding on…and in several areas more pronounced.

Which is really what I have been contemplating…the extreme ideological old belief systems  vs the new emerging compassionate paradigms of our day. What makes the contrast so startling? Is it the technology that gives us the ‘big’ picture in our face images everywhere that do not allow a moment of rest? It can feel that way sometimes…a constant bombardment of scarcity, bummers or impending bummers and fear.  The news coverage is 24/7.

But so is the plethora of YouTube, blogs, teleclasses, organizations, emails, websites, radio shows and videos that have a different message – one of hope, inspiration, vision, upliftment and reminders about the new, fresh and creative ideas, approaches, gatherings and messages of ordinary people doing extraordinary things. The evolution is happening.

I am grateful for the ability to turn on my computer and read a story about compassion and kindness in Bhutan, or watch a YouTube of joy and spontaneity of another flash mob, or listen to a visionary thought leader share new insights or attend a teleclass focused on living from authentic empowerment. Or read about a local or global event supporting a shift in consciousness  that I can attend in person – or virtually.

It’s pretty extraordinary when I stop to think about it!

Mastering the Shift Living Your Noetic Reality radio shows each week intend to be one of those voices for upliftment, support and inspiration. The radio show’s growth in audience  - peaking at over 42,000 so far – is a testament to how hungry we are for another point of view that is sustaining, nourishing and rings of truth.  All of the shows are archived on the On The Radio page on this website for easy reference. If you click on the show that catches your interest the link will take you directly to that show. From there you can listen on your computer or download the show for listening later. There are also iphone, droid and ipod capabilities for downloading.

If you commute you don’t ever have to listen to regular radio again – just plug in your portable device in your car and listen to Mastering the Shift instead. Or take your head set to the gym, or on the walk with your dog…or taking a break from the ‘world’ responsiblities. I welcome you to send me your comments, feedback or suggestions. What would you like to hear a show about? What compassionate new paradigm is emerging for you? rebecca@makeitheaven.com

The Summer of Love Series with Evolutionary Astrologer, Jason Holley, begins 7.12.11 with his first show on Venus through the signs. Why did your Soul choose its particular Venus location? What are you and those you love here to learn in the area of relationship and sexuality? To follow Jason’s information about your Venus sign visit http://jasonholley.net/articlesradio/venusmars_mastering_the_shift and look it up. It’s easy. Just click his link, look for the year you were born and then the month. If you are wanting to know more about a partner you can look up their information as well.

The next Summer of Love show will air August 9 – focusing on Mars through the signs, and then August 30 – the Dance of Venus/Mars. You won’t want to miss any of them.

Or, for that matter, all of the shows for Mastering the Shift’s summer line up will be home runs. Don’t be left out – join my Free Newsletter or join my Facebook page under Mastering the Shift. I post each show weekly.

 

 

 

 

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A Quantum Leap One Compassionate Step at a Time

June 27, 2011 – 2:18 pm

In today’s email Inbox two emails announced the closing of a long time service project that no longer can stay afloat because of lack of funding. I immediately thought of all the lives that service project served and the hole that would be left. I also received an email from the authors of an inspirational daily newsletter sharing their thoughts about stepping back to re evaluate their investment of time, energy and new direction. Again, my thoughts were about the lives that this inspirational ezine touched – and the consequences of that absense. Change is everywhere.

This weekend I led a workshop about a compassionate approach to taking a personal quantum leap and how to work with all the internal ‘stuff’ that comes up in the face of change, shifts, letting go of the familiar or taking a giant step forward.  Each participant looked at the times in the past where they stepped out to take a risk, take the spotlight or speak their truth and were shamed, ridiculed, laughed at or silenced – the stuff that usually stays buried in our unconscious. What was so liberating and freeing about doing the workshop, reported one participant, was the opportunity to look, feel, and release the hurt, fear, pain and shame in an environment that was safe and unconditionally accepting.

The results of allowing these buried fears and stuck/frozen places to surface and clear  are a greater overall experience of more safety and security day to day. I don’t need to tell you that all the structures in our lives are either collasping or re configuring. This much change brings up a gnawing feeling of insecurity, anxiety and fear. When we spend time consciously releasing fear from our bodies and the subtle bodies in a workshop setting, in a private session or in a course designed to support this level of work,  our overall reaction to change is not panic – but calm and a sense that despite appearances, all is well.

You can walk through the turning tides of your life with grace, balance, clarity and trust. These abilities and qualities are already inside of you – just not as evident, perhaps,  as the howling voices of fear. Well, those voices can disappear when you have the courage to face and release the old reference points that no longer serve you.

If you would like to get started today I recommend my ecourse - CoCreating a Grace-Based Reality.  My definition of  Grace – the active expression and experience of the unconditional Loving of Spirit.  The 5 week ecourse is designed to take that quantum leap, step forward or change in your life with compassion every step of the way. 

When we know that we walk in Grace life feels safe  no matter how it rumbles.

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