February 2, 2014

Samuel: Hello, dears.

Hello, Samuel.

S: So you are the brave souls, are you? Not afraid of the winter weather forecast, eh?

[. . .]

S:So take that.

This is a really big time right now, in your life and in this world. And I want to, hopefully, assure you that all is well, but remind you of the kind of energies that you’re working with right now.

This is your month of February, and February is usually what you think of as a very, very special month. It has many, many holidays and it has a lot of birthdays. Who all has birthdays this month? Look at this. That’s a lot. Aye. And when is yours?

The eighteenth.

S: And yours?

Twenty-first.

S: And  . . .

Fourteenth.

Thirteenth.

Twelfth.

S:Everyone should line up in birthday order, don’t you think? More. Did we get them all? That’s a lot.

So what’s the deal with the beginning of the month? Hardly anybody goes to the end, eh?

Don’t want to interfere with the work of the groundhog.

S: The groundhog, that’s right,. It is the great big football game, but it is not football, it is handball. And is the day of the great rodent.

[To the dog, Quinn Look how big you’ve become. Look at that. You’ve grown so much, haven’t you?.] So were you thinking, when he was just a wee [. . .] sitting on your lap, were you thinking this guy’s going to get to be a great big boy. Yes. Say hello to the people on the front row.

Thank you for that. All right, I’m happy now. I got my fix.

You have presidential celebrations, you have Martin Luther King celebrations, you have the Month of History, you have the Valentine’s Day. You also have an ancient Celtic day, which just happens to be right about now. What is that?

Imbolc.

S: What is Imbolc about?

The first signs of spring.

S:The first stirrings, I would say. It’s midwinter. You’re about from the winter solstice to the equinox of spring. Midwinter. Of course, for you it feels like it’s just the beginning, doesn’t it? What is celebrated on this day? If you were an ancient one, what would you have been celebrating on this day?

The old part of it was the lactating of ewes.

S: And why?

Because they were lactating at this time.

They’re lactating because they’ve either just given birth or they’regoing to give birth. So it’s the start of rebirth, coming back alive.

S: All right. And then there’s also a very practical reason for that, because that means you’re going to be able to make cheese again, and add to your what tends to be a very meager diet during the winter. Now you would not eat that, but those who did, that’s what the lactation was so exciting about. It’s also a time not so much of giving birth as it is preparing for birth and breeding. And that leads to Valentine’s Day, right?

It’s an earth-goddess holiday. And anybody want to . . .

Brig.

S: Brig, yes, very good. That was of course absconded and became St. Brigid. Like Rigid Brigid, as opposed to the Bright One, Brig. All right.*

It is a holiday, if you will, of coming together with friends, renewing the winter fire, sharing food. But more than that, on a spiritual level, it’s a time of preparing for renewal, of recognizing the difference between a need to rest to prepare and the need to move and be active to prepare. And that about this holiday seems to be what most have missed about this holiday. Rest: prepare the ground, let it rest before you sow the seeds. Or time to be very, very active if you have herds of animals that you take care of and you are needing to prepare them for their next stage. Rest or activity, both leading toward action. So I’ve got to ask: When you are getting ready to be involved, to work, to create new things, to make things happen, do you rest first or do you rest after? Most people rest after—do the work, take care of it all, and then collapse, right? But think for a moment about resting first. What would be the purpose for that?

Well, I’m thinking about this in terms of creative work. What I tend to do is—one way of resting is my studio is clear—I make sure it’s in good shape—then I may take time because I’m thinking about what I want to create.So I take time to sort of clear my mind, make sure that I feel like I’m in balance, and then the ideas just flow.

S: Good. I’m going to take a lot because that is what I was going for. The rest before activity is the opportunity to plan, to be creative before you create. To give yourself some quiet time. I’d like to point out that I have noticed few of you give yourself quiet time. That’s not to say you do not have time in which you are quiet, but that tends to be more of a, “Oh, I’ve been quiet,” instead of a specific slow down, go within, prepare before you go.

Now, many of you know that I am talking at these Lifescapes about relationships. And of course there is a lot to be said about relationships. For instance, why are you so lousy at them? That’s one thing. But one of the things that I will be talking about has to do with how you can make your relationships better now. And one of the ways is to have quiet time together. And when I say quiet time, I do not mean you take a nap together, or play around but nobody gets to yell therefore it’s quiet. That’s not what I’m saying. I mean to just sit quietly focusing on your breathing, letting yourself relax, and then focusing on a common intent. Now obviously you’re not going to be able to do this with the relationship you have with the postal clerk, but it is something that you can do with a good friend, part of your spiritual family, with a lover.

And here is how I would like to suggest that you go about doing that: Settle yourself comfortably—if that’s lying down or sitting up, doesn’t matter—and at first simply focus on your breath. Now, I don’t know how easy it’s going to be for any of you to see this. I’ll try. Right now take a good deep breath. Hold it tight. Hold it right there at the top of that breath. Now I want you to pay attention to something. If when you let it out, your shoulders come down, you’re not breathing well. Let it out. It’s here to here [demonstrates breathing]. Now, that’s exaggerated. You’d hurt yourself if you breathed like that all the time. Here is what you’re expanding. Here is why it’s important to do that. When you start allowing yourself to relax, sitting or lying, if you’re lying down to relax you’ve got a few other benefits come about, but say you’re sitting here, just letting your body fully relax. This area [diaphragm], your solar plexus. Can you feel where your ribs go up? Give that a good, strong push. The diaphragm stimulates the solar plexus. Now, the solar plexus tends to be where your messages of stress begin. You are tired, solar plexus turns it to cranky. You are frustrated, solar plexus turns it to angry. And it does that because it is the area where, right under your heart, where you hold the things you don’t want in your heart, meaning the anger, the irritations, the frustrations. So breathing in the lower part of your body not only stimulates your lungs and allows you to start taking deeper breaths, but also the diaphragm puts pressure on the solar plexus. As a result, for most people, you start relaxing and your mind starts taking off. And it starts taking off, and you start thinking about the things that aren’t working in your life. Now all right, not all of you do it, but you have done it enough to be able to relate to what I’m saying here. The solar plexus is where you want to release. And the reason your mind runs away when you quiet yourself is because you have all this stuff to release. And your mind is responding to the signals that are coming from the chemicals produced and the neuronic transfers in this area of the body.

I’ve got a little bit that I’m going with this. I want you this year to be able to create what you need much faster than you’re doing it now. I want you to be able to shift out of your body and literally out of this dimension to do important spiritual service in other places of the world. You do that by visualization, you do that by releasing and letting go, but what anchors you and keeps you from being able to do those things is the negative impact of those issues you’ve not released, those attitudes you’ve not let go of, those beliefs that no longer fit, and they are ruining the most important relationship in your life, which is you, the breathing skin-covered human—almost said bag of chemicals—and your true self. That relationship is the one you should be giving flowers and chocolate to. Of course, your truest self won’t eat it, but you could probably make up for that, eh?

Make sure they are these flowers. [Looks at the flowers] Gayle and Charlotte, when you are creating the flowers for this night, are you thinking of the meaning of the flowers?

Not really. I just have some kind of intuition about the colors, what kinds of flowers to use.

S: They speak to you, perhaps? This one speaks exactly of what I am talking about tonight: higher consciousness, new beginnings, new ways of being and doing. Perfect.

So where was I?

Your relationship, right. But I was talking about that need to let go. And your breathing is your signal. If you find that when you are trying to relax your brain just goes off, I guarantee there are some things you need to release.

So how do you do that?

I’m going to suggest a way, and I want to start by reminding you, every time I give “1, 2, 3, 4, 5, here are the things to do,” it’s important for you to remember 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 doesn’t work for everybody, and it’s not meant to be the only way that you do these things. Because ideally there should come a point when you no longer need to go “1, 2, 3, 4, 5 . . . Have I done it all? Did I do it right? Did I miss a piece?” Because the time will come when you’re capable of releasing simply with an out-breath. So anytime you are doing exercises I have given you, you are doing it for your brain. You are doing it so that your brain will let go of the right chemicals, so that you can think creatively or perhaps in a learning mode, so that you can function or not function as needed. So that you can fulfill the intent of your time.

Take a deep breath in, a slow breath out, and allow yourself to think about those things in your day that you wouldn’t want to repeat, maybe didn’t work so well, maybe made you unhappy—perhaps caused a reaction instead of response out of you. And as you do it, you’ll find that even things you have forgotten about might pop themselves up for you to remember. And what you want to do is simply explore it. Ask yourself, “What was that about? What was that coming from?” See if you can find the root of that upset. And when you have found it, I have one of two visuals for you. Try them both; see which works better for you.

The first one is: Imagine that just at that solar plexus area you have a magical opening, and out flows that negative energy, letting it go. And as it comes out into the atmosphere it dissipates, ready to be turned into another form of energy altogether, to continue on, but no longer yours.

The second version is to imagine that your heart—you do this a lot—has a flame, a candle flame perhaps, in it. And you’re going to shift that flame from the heart to the solar plexus. And that’s an important shift. And as you think of the root of those irritations, you want to see it burn up in that flame and, then again, release out to become another form of energy altogether.

In both of those cases, you then have a very important job to do. And here is why most of you have difficulty releasing, letting go, because you forget this piece: As soon as it has dissipated out of you and into the world, it’s time for you to create a positive affirmation of that situation. You cursed at the driver that cut you off, and you’re thinking about that, and you know it was because you were tired and you were hungry, and you weren’t thinking well, and you just fell back into an old pattern. And you thought, “I need to get better rest, and I need to not put myself in situations where I’m in a hurry and little things are going to bother me that way.” And so you’ve done all kinds of good investigation as to what it’s about. So you see it burn up, you release it out, out of you, and then you affirm, “I am happy and joyful when I am in my car. It is a time of peace and easy connections with Source,” or whatever you want to say in a very positive way to replace the energy. Replacing that energy is vital because, when you simply let go, your brain says, “I’m missing something, something I’ve been comfortable with, something I’ve liked.” And you need to put into its place a positive reframing—ooh, did you like that? —a positive reframing of that situation. At first it takes a little bit of time to do that. But the more you do it, the quicker it comes, to the point that in a matter of moments you can release a whole day’s worth of attachments.

I had said in the beginning to relax. Now, an easy way to get yourself to relax is to start at your feet and slowly work yourself up the body, telling your body to relax and feeling it relax. But there’s a problem with that. What do you think that is?

Fall asleep.

S: It’s an excellent way to relax to the point that you bore yourself and fall asleep. Because that’s what you’re doing, you’re boring yourself. It’s the whole counting-sheep thing. Try it if you’re having trouble going to sleep. “I feel my toes very relaxed. My toes are relaxed. I feel the ball of my foot relax.” Can you imagine going all the way up your body doing that? Very effective if you want to fall asleep. A better way would be to simply, quickly imagine that your body is melting into the chair you are sitting on; melting into the bed you are lying upon. That visual of melting in goes with that expression “I was just a puddle after that,” meaning so relaxed, so loose, you’re going to more easily be able to just let go. Consciously relax your buttocks, your solar plexus, your neck, and your scalp. That’s all. The back of you, the front of you, the head of you. Claim that relaxation thing. “I am relaxed.” Claim your wholeness. “I am whole.” And tell your body what you’re going to do. “Now I’m going to release those things I don’t need.”

I need to warn you about something. Those of you who I’ve had the opportunity to speak with about this individually may remember that I have said to you that something that you have to be clear about when you are releasing is that it’s not always going to happen all at once. The longer you have held onto this, the more it fights a full release. So that stuff from your childhood that you’ve been carrying around for the last that many years is going to be more difficult in the brain to release than the issue you had just today with the dog that made you angry. So do not give yourself a hard time about this, but simply recognize, “I’m going to work every day this week on this issue, and by the end of the week, I intend to be fully clear of it.” Inform your brain what you’re doing. Inform your brain why you’re doing that.

Why am I suggesting you inform your brain?

Calm resistance. Give it a reason for it.

S: You’ll find yourself thinking about the process instead of what you’re doing.

Uses Intent, Thought, Word, Deed?

S: Yes it does! When you talk to yourself with that kind of purpose, you are expressing your Intent. So the Intent is there. The Thought that forms into Word is there. The words you speak out loud is there. Then you sit and do it. So with the power of the four functions of form, you have automatically called in your Twelve. Anytime you consciously use Intent, Thought, Word, and Deed for your spiritual enhancement, you are calling your Twelve, because the four functions are the means by which those Twelves originated.

Now, you relax, you breathe deeply in, slowly out for however many breaths seems appropriate to you, remembering that you are breathing abdominally, you might want to think,  rather than at the top. You let yourself become aware of what it is you are wanting to do: “I want to release those things that I’m attached to and no longer need to be a part of me.” And it’s important to stick this spiritual caveat in about here. And what is the spiritual caveat?

> This or something better.

S:“This or something better for the highest good of myself and all others involved.” “This or something better for the highest good of all.” You’ve got the idea. And then let yourself think—there will come a point where you will think, “I really don’t have anything to let go of anymore” and your connection with your deeper self remind you. So if you just draw a blank, ask, “So what do I need to be releasing right now?”

Most Guardians have difficulty in relationships because you bring too much baggage with you, and baggage is the stuff you want to release. If you want a new beginning, if you want a new creation, if you want to start up something, it will not flow well if your attachments keep you from it.

Suzie, can I get very, very personal with your medical history?

Yes!

S: Thank you. As some of you know, Suzie has had breast cancer—yay, no more—but not too long ago had a bit of a scare. because there was a very definite lump, kind of oddly shaped, good size. And so she went to the ultrasound doctor, who pushed and pulled, and said, “You know what that is? That’s scar tissue from your past surgeries.” Now, the scar tissue—you’ve got scars all over you, don’t you, wild child that you were?—for the most part, it doesn’t do too much to you, doesn’t bother you. But when they have been inside your body and cut things around, sometimes the scar tissue on the inside doesn’t behave the way it should. It adheres to parts of the body it’s not meant to adhere to. It creates different kinds of difficulties. If you’ve got scar tissue on an organ adhering it in a way it should not be, or on a breast, those adhesions, a very natural bodily response gone wrong creating a painful, rigid difficult problem.

You have adhesions in your life and they are the result of scarring from your past. And I don’t mean past like when you were a Nazi or whatever. I mean a year ago or ten or twenty or forty or fifty. Past life, this life. Adhesions from the scarring causing an inflexibility, pain, rigidity.

Releasing those adhesions can be very painful. What are ways that they are released when they are part of your body?

Cross-friction massage, breaking up the tissue so the fibers lay with rather than chaotically.

S: And that’s the easiest way short of digging it out and starting over. It’s not pleasant. Anybody here ever had that done? How was it for you?

I’m very sore, and I’ve cancelled tomorrow because I’m too sore to go back.

S: Right. But you have mental adhesions that you don’t even think about. And you have heart adhesions you don’t realize are there. And they need to be worked out.

Talking about releasing these, will you always know the reason why? I had a session with you around injustice around friends, and you said it was related to my dad, which I never put together. So will you always know? Or can you just say, “I need to release this.” Or do you need to know exactly what it is you are releasing?

S: You’re doing a good job coming to that answer yourself, you know, right there while you are talking. There are some things that you do know. You know where it came from. You remember it exactly. There are those. More often than not, though, who really need to give it some time. That’s part of that relaxation process that lets you work it through, to seek out that answer, ask for help. Intent, Thought, Word, Deed. You’ve got the help right there with you. What did this come from? What is the beginning of this? What have I done to keep it going instead of letting it go? What can I change right now? And if you know that you’re dealing with something that’s very deeply rooted, consider using—as I said, take a week—but using your time, “I want to start on this, to go further with this. I want to know more about this. I want to complete this.” Don’t start right off with “I’m going to complete it right now,” because the more you are able to bring forward, the more you’ll be able to let go.

Now, what does this have to do with lactating ewes, new beginnings, and a lover’s holiday? It’s the preparation, absolutely, yes,

It’s love.

S: Yes, yes. Because your world needs you whole. Your world needs you capable of consciously loving without running into those old hard spots. Because letting go is a way of loving yourself in a way that no spa day can touch, that no fancy meal out can get near.

And here’s where I’m going to hit you, all right? You have been coming through a very wild time, cosmically speaking, and amazing changes are showing up in your life and in your world. And when I say amazing, it doesn’t always mean good. Amazing changes in your life and in your world. Over the last two years, you have been dealing with, more than ever before, figuring out your hot buttons. “These are the things that make me crazy. Stop pushing my buttons, yanking my chain.” You have been seeing more of yourself in ways that are painful, and powerful, really good and even better. You thought I was going to say “and really bad,” right? But usually what you think of as really bad, I don’t see it that way. And that’s because everything in your life is an opportunity and choice. An opportunity to change, a choice to do so or not. Everything that shows up in your life.

Beloved ones, it is so important that you remember you are so loved and protected and cared for—bright and shining lights in this world— and the only thing that stops you from being obnoxiously perfect is this stuff you’re so attached to. For instance, you make a point of putting on your smiley face when you go out in the world because you learned very early that you have to put on this persona to be accepted. So there you are, Miss Congeniality, everybody’s friend, nobody’s partner, because you never learned how to move beyond the mask, and in fact you’re afraid to. That fear can be released.

The form always dresses me pretty because she thinks I’ll be a little more acceptable if I look nice, I guess. I think it’s hopeless. And so how she dresses is for acceptance. What’s the very first thing she’s going to do when she gets home?

Change her clothes.

S: Right. How many of you do that same thing? And how is it that they’re not comfortable all the time? Because social acceptance means more to you than personal comfort, right? And there’s something in that you need to take a look at—all of you who run home and throw your pajamas on.

You have done such important work in your life. There are opportunities coming up now—now—because of the energy that’s been flowing into this world and the chaos some of it has created, because of the energy that has been working in you, positively and powerfully, helping you make changes, practical, positive changes. But it won’t stick and you won’t be able to move to the next step if you’re hauling too much baggage. You won’t be able to move to the next step because that baggage doesn’t get to come. It weights you down; it holds you back.

And it’s because this is a month that is all about new beginnings and relationships, something you need every day, and something you serve by way of all of your life that it’s important for me to talk to you about getting rid of what’s stopping you. And if you’re thinking, “I can’t come up with anything, I think I’ve pretty well got it,” I’m here to tell you you’re fooling yourself.

How do you know when it’s gone? I just last week had an experience where my father wound up on my sofa. He’s been dead twelve years. He said, “You have to forgive me.” And I said, “I thought I had.” But I cried and cried and cried. So I worked on releasing it. And I don’t know. Is it gone? Is it not gone? Will it come back?

S: Has he come back?

No.

S: You do the best you can where you are with what you have at the time. Because the nature of your life is multi-faceted, you pretty much have to release all of those different facets. That’s why doing it all at once can bring about a great emotional release and probably made you really tired, too, didn’t it? It’s spiritually working on something that big, ripping the Band-Aid off, can make you have a huge emotional release and make you exhausted. You’ve got to literally rebuild your energy again.

The way that you know the completion has happened is that you have a totally different attitude: lighter, happier, a noticeable difference. And if that noticeable difference isn’t there, do it again tomorrow, and tomorrow and tomorrow. If you are a naturally depressed individual, particularly in the winter months and you’re not going to feel lighter and happier, I promise that the Universe is going to do one of two things when you have released, because releasing is such a huge gift you are giving to yourself that the Universe wants to pat you on the back. And so one of the ways it does that is, something very good happens in your life surrounding your father. Maybe a really lovely memory, maybe out of the blue somebody sends you something that belonged to him, or any number of things. But it’s a directly relatable experience. But if it’s not complete, the Universe, being so kind, is going to show you that it’s not complete by sticking a button right under your face that’s going to relate back to that father. This isn’t something that you’re going to work in the dark for months never knowing. You will know.

What holds you back from the best relationships of your life? Your baggage. You have to pay for that stuff now, you know? And there’s a weight limitation. So it should be with your baggage. You have to pay yourself every time you go off on it. You’re only allowed to carry so much at a time. Those appendages, no, adhesions—big difference, yes?—that are stuck in you creating pain and rigidity. Beliefs, memories, good or bad, that are no longer a part of who you are now, just need release. Letting go does not mean not having. It means it doesn’t rule you. It doesn’t rule you.

So I would ask you to take this month and give yourself the opportunity to be free, to start fresh without the slings and arrows, without the pain, and the suffering, and the irritations and the angers and frustrations, without trying to be somebody you’re not. Come to love you as you are, who you are, free, clear, and ready.

Glochanumora.