June 2, 2013

Samuel: Greetings, dears.

Hello, Samuel.

S: Right in front of me there’s a little hand going [waves]. How are you doing? Tell me about some of your opportunities to spread love around your city. Mary Claire

I remember what you were talking about at the retreat as far as looking for opportunities to do that. I was at Bed, Bath and Beyond, and I was getting my things. And I always have plenty of coupons with me. I had the number they’d let me use, that was like fifty dollars off, or whatever, and I had a bunch left over. A woman behind me said, “That’s sweet! It’s nice to have a big discount off your stuff.” And I looked at her and asked her, “Would you like some?” So I gave her enough to take twenty dollars off her order. She looked at me and said, “I wasn’t asking you for it!” And I said, “I know. I just want to give it to you.” And she looked at it, kind of incredulously. I smiled at her and I said, “It’s good,” and I left. But it was nice to do that, it felt good. And I looked down and I thought, That’s a miracle because this woman, earlier in the store, was in a big hurry, and I was trying to get my cart out of the way, and she was being very impatient, and really looking for what she wanted. And I remember thinking, “She’s real stressed.” And then the Universe just kind of put her right behind me in the line. And I thought that was cool because it gave her a chance to receive something really positive in her day.

S: I love it, I just love it when that happens and that you took advantage of it. That’s good. That’s good.

Cindy wanted to hook Noki back up, but you know, service dogs, particularly guide dogs for the blind, are on duty so much that I love it when she can be released here. But, do pick up your water, because she is opportunistic that way. So is Winnie, who is up here, but I see that Winnie is tied on. Winnie likes to toddle to the back where it’s quieter. Then we have my puppy [Quinn]. Mary Claire and Cam think he’s your puppy. And he wants to play with Noki, who is jumping around, so I will say that this whole dog-dom is my gift to you, because dogs are here to give you love. Take advantage of it. They’re lovers. All right.

One of the things I’ve been doing with a couple of friends of mine is starting up something called the Lexington Vegan Society. And it’s a way to unite many vegans that are in the community that don’t know each other. And there’s a little bit of a selfish purpose involved because if you have more people united, there’s more power to actually bring about a more vegan-friendly city. So, there have been several things involved with this sort of initiative. One of them is like a happy hour potluck that we’ve been having, and there’s another one coming up next Saturday.

S: Talk to Kathy for more information about that.

And there are T-shirts that are lovely, and a Facebook presence. And it’s really bringing together, and it’s really fulfilling for me. I think it’s fulfilling for those involved because they’re connecting with other people in a way they haven’t before. So I am really, really enjoying the experience.

S: Love, lovely, good.

I’ve been doing a Post-It note thing at work. We have about a thousand people in the building, and I just sneak it into the restrooms and stick little signs up, “Share a Smile” or “The person you’re looking at in the mirror right now is fantastic.” I have a lot of fun writing them. And since I’m there longer than anyone else, I can easily walk around and put them in places. But I don’t ever see the result of that. Some of the signs stay up for a while and some of them come off. I don’t know if they’re taking them with them or if they’re throwing them in the trash. I don’t know their reaction. Today I was at PetSmart, and I’d parked pretty far out in the parking lot, and I had to use a basket to get all my cat stuff to my car. I took it all the way back, and I noticed a woman putting little people back into the car. And I noticed she had two baskets. So I said, “Can I take those back for you?” She said, “You don’t have to do that.” And I said, “I know I don’t, but I saw you putting little people in the car, so I’d be happy to take them back.” And she looked at me and said, “Thank you so much!” I took it back, I got a little extra walk, and it felt really good to see someone’s reaction to doing something nice.

S: Nice. Very nice. The rest of you aren’t doing it?

I’ve been doing the sticker thing, too. It is fun just to leave a little note somewhere. I left a note on the snack machine, I left one on the basket part of a buggy, and other places. So that’s fun. One day I was running in to get some coffee at McDonald’s, and there was a homeless guy there, and he had enough money to pay for his meal that he wanted, but not enough for coffee. I said, “I’ll buy your coffee. And he just looked at me. So I bought his coffee and left.

S: Yes, yes, it does doesn’t it?

Don and I had been meeting people we’d not ordinarily meet by doing new experiences. Friday, there was a Board of Adjustment meeting about a situation that had divided the neighborhood. We didn’t have a side in that fight, but what we were doing was sending love to both sides and trying to bring balance and calm to the situation.

S: Nice. And no fights broke out?

No.

S: I’d say you did a good job.

One of the really good things about having longer daylight is that it has a tendency to affect the way you feel. You’re able to be around more light, and after a long and dark winter, and kind of odd spring, don’t you think?—It’s spring! No it’s winter! No it’s spring! In fact, now it’s summer! No, it’s winter!”—you’re now able to enjoy your T-shirts and short pants and bare feet. I like the bare feet. And when you are receiving that sunlight, just through your eyes, just light, looking at it through a window, you are gaining a greater vitality as a result of that. It feels good. While you are in this time of longer days, use it as an opportunity to make more connections. Walk around your neighborhood with a smile on your face, not like “I’m exercising and have to be serious now because everyone knows exercise is no fun. Right?” You put on a happy face and you say hello to people; I’m not saying stop and have conversations, just say hello and keep going. As you go, as your experiment, send love to every house you pass, or every person you pass. You might set it up in your head by telling yourself, “Self, every time I point my finger it’s sending out a jolt of love.” And every time you go by a house, you just point at it a little. Send out that energy of love. Something simple that you can do without having to worry the neighbors. Something easy, sending love or giving smiles that you can do without having to stop. Take advantage of these longer days as more opportunity to share the light, the love, the joy that you are. Make a difference where you are. Change your world.

June is a lovely, lovely month. There is school that is out, from the university to the kindergarten, so children are everywhere. There are blockbusters. Why are they called “blockbusters”?

They’re newly released films, a lot of new things this time of year. They’re generally the kind of films people have been waiting for, so they have a lot of attendance, people have a lot of time to go to the movies. And so they tend to bring in a lot of revenue.

S: And yours was?

Because people line up outside the theater and go around the block.

S: Put the two of those together, that makes good sense. All right. Block Buster.

It’s gardening time. How many of you are gardening? How many of you are harvesting? How many of you are harvesting something you can eat? Are you enjoying it? You’re allowing self to put into your body the love that you have put into the ground. And that’s a very, very powerful cycle completion there.

June is the solstice, which is a very wonderful earth holiday because it involves the longest day of sunlight in this hemisphere, and a point of change. This month also has a lot of interesting sky things going on, with planets showing up that aren’t usually in your view, and a large moon, when it is going to be full for you. It’s a very full month. And while I am asking you, reminding you to be putting out love, I also want to remind you, because it’s such a busy month, remember to take time for yourself. Every day take a few minutes and just take stock—how am I feeling? If you have a job that requires you to sit for long periods of time, get up, stretch, walk around a bit. Put out reminders to yourself, the same way that you do to the mirrors where you work, that reminds you that you are a beautiful soul, that you are a remarkable being, that you are a gift to his world.

Give yourself some quiet time. Give yourself some laughing time. Give yourself time with others whom you love. Give yourself an opportunity to learn something new. Yes, you’re right, you might not be able to do all of these things in one day—that’s all right. The opportunity to learn something new, look for the opportunity to teach something new. Remember that you teach with your life. And that might mean teaching a woman with many little people—that’s another word for children, right? But it’s also . . . height-challenged. Oh wait, that’s Heidi. [Laughter] That sometimes there’s someone right there to help you out when you need it. Maybe you’re the person that changes their whole attitude, because you’re the one that’s finally convinced them there’s always someone there to help when they need it. Be the angel in someone’s life, because that is a very powerful way to bring more joy to your life.

It’s amazing, isn’t it, how good you feel when you do something for someone else. It’s a Guardian thing more than a human thing, because the human response, particularly in this culture, tends to be, “What do they want? This person’s doing something nice for me. What does he want?” Well, what you want is to make yourself feel good, and it does. As you give of yourself, remember that means you needed to give yourself time to recharge, to renew.

June is a hard month to get good rest in, and this month might be even more so because of your solar activity. That tends to have a pretty big effect on you, but also because energy as a whole within you—the world—is much, much activity going on. When I say “activity going on,” I want you to think about your world right now. There are places in your world that are having a very, very hard time right now, aren’t there? Giving yourself the opportunity to direct some specific positive thoughts to those areas, and as you may remember when at the Lifescapes that just came through, but for a very long time before that, I’ve talked to you about visualizing a cord of golden light moving from your heart to the heart of another. Well, why can’t you do that for a country? A cord of golden light moving from your heart to the heart of Syria. Do it to a project, to the heart of those who are in a particular situation: maybe refugees fleeing their home, maybe a tornado has taken it away, maybe governments need some of that light. And so to the idea of the government in Washington, DC—the Democrats, the Republicans, to the president and his staff, you create that cord.

What are other places and ways that can use that? Syria’s not the only country.

Well, project-wise there’s a kerfuffle going on about GMO wheat. Japan saying it’s not going to buy our wheat because it’s been affected with the GMO gene.

S: So a gold cord to . . .

Monsanto.

Energy for Europe, Germany, Switzerland, because they have a lot of rain and flood, nothing is growing in the fields. Everything rots.

S: Yes, yes. Good.

For Sweden, it’s dealing with a lot of issues of immigration.

S: And you know that why?

Because my sister is there and has had rioters in her neighborhood.

S: Safety as well?

Those affected by the tornadoes in Oklahoma and the animals—domestic, wild, companion.

S: More. How about the wildfires? How about the water issues in your world? How many millions of people do not have access to fresh, clean water? Food, not only in other countries—issues of starvation—but in your own country? You can send that cord to an idea. Your visualization of it makes it happen.

Seems like quite a bit lately I have been referring to when I have done this little experiment with you, but I will do it with you now because I want it to be fresher in your mind. I want you to settle yourself up, and put off your adult head, and put on your very creative child head. And I want you to sit up as if watching a film, perhaps. Imagine that you are in your kitchen, and on a counter in your kitchen is a bowl that has many lemons in it. And it’s so pretty, isn’t it? They are a bright yellow color. They have a unique shape. You go over and pick one up and hold it in your hands. What does the lemon feel like? Squeeze it. Is it firm, is it soft? Feel the ends where it was attached to the tree, the blossom end. Hold it up to your nose and imagine yourself smelling that lovely lemon smell. And if it doesn’t have much smell, run your fingernail along the peel there and smell that as it gets stronger and more intense. Now reach for a knife, and set that lemon down, and with your free hand, roll the lemon around with a lot of pressure with the idea of breaking apart the membranes inside, enough pressure to get that lemon juice. Now take a knife and cut the lemon in half. Watch your eye. Now, take one of those halves and cut it in half. And pick up the quarter of a lemon. And bring it up to your mouth and smell, and stick out your tongue, and touch it to that lemon and now just bite in to that juicy lemon fruit.Tell me, now, how is your body reacting? How many of you had your mouth start to water? How many of you had the sour response? You’re very good visualizers to go that far. But what’s going on there—and this is the beauty and the power of it—your brain thinks it bit a lemon. And your body reacts to it. Your brain says, “This is what happens when you bite a lemon.” And the memory reacts for you. What you think affects your physical body. And I am telling you, not only your physical body but your world as well. A good example for that—and you do not have to visualize for this; just remember instead—perhaps walking into a surgical waiting room, and although you might have been feeling all right, you walk in and it is like a curtain has come down—the energy is so different. What are other situations like that? They don’t have to be negative ones. Maybe you notice it when you go to the dentist? Your energy changes big-time. What’s another situation? Yes?

Walking into a kid’s birthday party and feeling the delight, the happiness there.

S: Into a place into where children are laughing and playing and having a great time. It’ll raise you right up, won’t it? Well, for a lot of you it will. Maybe puppies playing, or kittens, lots of kittens—for those who can’t relate to a children’s birthday party. What’s another example?

Walking in a greenhouse with a lot of beautiful flowers, and smell of the fragrance of the flowers.

S: Nice, very nice. Fragrance takes you back. It activates memory. Fragrance feels good because it’s related to a plant, and the plant kingdom is all about serving the other kingdoms. Yes.

I mentioned this before, but at a certain time of year in June, a tree that blooms in the evening, and you smell it, and it takes me back to when I was dating Vernon and remembering those evenings.

S: Does Vernon get the advantage of that?

Yes.

S: Good.

Being at the ocean, the smell, the sound. The sand between your toes.

S: Very evocative.

To me there’s an energy when going to a performance of some sort and the audience—you can feel the eagerness and anticipation. Being entertained.

S: Nice.

You can affect energy. Do any of you have an example of a time in which perhaps things were kind of quiet and you got them more excited? Or perhaps you walked into a place where things were tense and you helped dissipate that? Tell me. Yes

I get to do that a fair amount when I’m clowning. One birthday party I went to, two adults, brothers, they were mad at each other. It put a damper on the spirit of the party. With my clowning, I engaged one of the brothers, got him cracking up and being silly. When I left, they were all laughing and smiling.

S: Lovely. Mary Claire?

When my sister-in-law was ill with cancer, I’d come to visit her in the hospital room, and the people sitting in there were very depressed and sad. And I’d come in and I’d start talking to her and getting her kind of cheered up. And she started being more like herself. The energy pulling her down, too. Then everybody else sitting around feeling sad. And then everybody else started, “Well, she’s back again. She’s acting like her old self.” It cheered everybody up. I remember leaving the room after a visit and thinking, […] energy was very different […].

S: That’s a lovely example. Yes. Catherine, Lakshmi, and Gail.

Several years ago I was in Minnesota in the summertime, and it was hot. I was with my son and his family and a bunch of their neighbors, living in a community. It was a cooperative type. And they were at each others’ necks.

S: It wasn’t a very cooperative kind of community!

It was just not good. And I made the carrot ginger soup from our cookbook, and served it and pshh . . . it all just went away.

S: What did you put in that soup? [Laughter]

Yes.

Many years ago, when I first met you and learned Toning, Heart Tone, I had gone with Srikant somewhere—a garden and a lake—and when we walked by it I sang to the water and sang to the places, and I was filled by the energy there. And by the time I opened my eyes, so many people started walking there. And by the time we left, we really had to navigate our way through. That stayed with me so strongly. So since then, whenever I walk, I say, “I pour my love into this world, or into this place,” or I see these streaks of light that go to whoever is there. It’s so automatic.

S: And it does draw people, and animals, to you. How many trips, group trips, have you been on doing a group love circle, toning, heart tone, and the cows, the dogs, the cats, they come around. At a celebration in Phoenix’s backyard at the solstice, a beautiful cat showed up when you started putting out your love in sound, and wandered about, and then disappeared again. Very nice. Gail.

When I lived in New York, I used to spend a lot of time meditating in the morning before work. And this one day, it was a lovely meditation and I felt very serene and not stressed out, which is very unusual in the New York subway system. It’s a very stressful situation, or it can be at rush hour. I got to the train, it came on time, and I entered the car, and normally people are anxious to get to work and there’s a level of stress that’s almost overwhelming. But this morning, I entered the train and people sort of parted as I got on. And that’s never happened.

S: You weren’t carrying a big staff, were you?

No . . . and then a lady stood up and gave me her seat. And meanwhile, I’m still in bliss mode from my meditation. And I sit down, and suddenly I had the sense the energy level was dampened, had become evened, was not as frenetic as it was when I first walked on the train. And I was just sitting there smiling, not totally aware of the effect I was having until the train pulled out the station and everybody was captive around me. Then I realized, “Hey, this is all calmed down.” It was very nice.

S: Very nice for everyone, I would say. Jan?

I have an opportunity almost every day to defuse something that’s going on. I work in an organization that’s very fear-based, and I use humor to do it. I’ll be serious about the situation, but once we’ve gotten that outlined, I will always throw in something light and positive about the people involved, an appropriate joke. Once you get the laughter—it’s amazing that once you have the laughter the office goes from dark to hot pink.

S: How about when it’s more than just yourself putting out the energy, perhaps when you are with a couple of other people, or a large group? How does that change the energy if you are together choosing to fill a space with love, or together choosing to put forth a healing energy, or whatever it happens to be? Is it different then? Yes. It does tend to be. It’s different because you see it manifest more quickly. Sometimes it’s different because within yourself you feel that was easier, better, or more intense, perhaps.

And you may be wondering, “Samuel, why is it you’re talking to us about these things? We know a lot of these things already.” Because you need to remember that you have a profound effect on this world. And this month particularly—through the end of the year, but particularly this month—you are going to be witness to much change going on. Remember you can affect things. If you find that people are being negative, argumentative, and you don’t have the guts to say, “Let’s get more positive instead, all right folks?” but you decide that what you’re going to do, is like remembering a lemon, you are going to remember to put out loving thoughts, just nobody even knows what you’re doing—you’re just talking and laughing, and emanating all that loving energy—things will change.

When you see what it appears is going to be coming up in the eastern Mediterranean, you can send that energy and make a very big difference. And you can choose to come together and put out a common thought and send that energy. And there are many ways to do that. One very simple way is just to [hand holding] and now think about peace flowing into Syria, and Lebanon, and Turkey. Just that simple [touches hand to his forehead]. Or you can put a tone to it. A Heart Tone. Now, what note is a Heart Tone? Trick question. It’s just the sound that seems to resonate with your heart at that moment. And that means that Cindy’s is different than Lillibeth’s, etc., but, interesting enough, they tend to come together beautifully. And as an example—I know you’ve done them before—I’d like for you to take a moment and think about the eastern Mediterranean, and just imagine that you are putting forth loving thoughts. And Jim, love, would you start it? Just add your sound. It will start and it will stop and start naturally.

[The group joins in a Heart Tone.]

S: Do you notice how nice it feels? Just a sound. You can use that sound, and somebody can help direct the group to think about perhaps the mineral kingdom, the plant kingdom, and the animal kingdom, and the humans . . . who are really a little bit of all of them. You can put out an email or a . . . help me here, Mary Claire. Tell me all the different versions. Facebook . . .

Tweet, position blog, unlimited ways.

S: And in putting out you can say, “Noon eastern time. Stop and send love and healing to . . .” whatever is touching your heart. There are so many ways you can use your mind to direct thoughts to bring about change. Be warned: the change you seek in the world comes to you first. You change this world by changing yourself. But the only changes that last are those made out of love. But that means that when you are sending out the energy of peace, you need to be at peace. And if you have things going on in your life that are keeping you from experiencing that peace, take a little time. Get yourself settled. Remember that you are not alone, that you are a part of Source itself. Your power is in this present moment. Use that present moment. Don’t think about what has you upset. Don’t think about “what if . . .”

“Right here, right now, I am in a place of love.” Put that out there.

I am going to be calling on you to do such things as, “Four p.m., send energy,” or, “At noon, get together with whomever you can and put out this thought.”

Your world is balancing itself and that tends to create chaos. I like chaos; you tend not to. Use June as a month to practice the power of your thought and the power that comes from sharing the same thought, of igniting your visualizations regularly so that you are confident in the changes that you are making by the thoughts you are producing, because your world has great need of those who are capable of affecting energy with their mind.

It’s a very important month, particularly as you get closer to the solstice: twenty-third, very big. Pay attention. Don’t fall asleep in the middle of something that is part of your destiny.

All right. Seems like basics; I promise you it’s not. Make use of this. I am reminding you of what you can do. Now, your job is to do it.

Glochanumora.