Oh, deliver me from galpals who can’t speak up! A gf just drove herself crazy for 2 weeks trying to figure out how to tell me I should really wear deodorant if I’m going to sweat like a pig and go anywhere with her. (Imagine that!) I would have in the first moment I noticed it given her a heads up! She thought it more humane to let me offend everyone else for 2 weeks while she fretted over how to tell me. I keep it natural when I’m at home so I forget the social niceties.  What I find offensive is someone who won’t speak their mind when they have something to say. Someone who thinks a topic like this would “hurt my feelings” yet letting me be offensive to everyone else is “okay.” Why would someone think topics like this are off limits? Everyone working on their throat chakra, please, learn to speak up and let your feelings be known.

It doesn’t matter if you’re talking about the flu, the ebola virus, or the economy.

There are 6 billion people on this planet.  If you pull out of their influence, what you think is what you live.  When you really know your connection to Source, the influence of others is miniscule.  Once you have withdrawn your attention from it, you don’t cross paths with it anymore.  Decide who you really are!  Am I source energy, or one who allows others to deprive them of source energy?  Imagine a village of people limping around.  You are bright and shiny and new and strong.  You wonder why they are limping, and you start limping.  When you are excited about your life, you are not noticing they are limping, and you stay strong, and another stops limping. Most people let their vibration be about what they are observing.  But ultimately, how you feel and how you want to feel dictates what you see.  I can’t notice what’s going on here, or in time, I will start limping, too.   Abraham-Hicks

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The other prerequisite to successful forgiveness is acknowledging that the observer is equally insane in the flying-mammal-fecal department, too.
Thanks Bruce Rawles

Either way, let yourself dissolve into it.

The only people who get mad at you for speaking the truth are people who are living a lie.

Never let yourself be the one to bring someone in agony up the emotional scale to joy. Why? It causes resentment when you lower your vibration for them, and they may cut you out of their life. You’ve seen it happen. Ask the Universe to bring them someone to help them get up the emotional scale. Whenever you hold someone in appreciation, you are adding to their experience although, when they are in agony, they can’t get it.  Sometimes they surface enough to see your light, but they can’t stand in that light for long. They don’t feel worthy of it, they compare and feel shamed. They must cut you out of their life by any means in order to maintain their own hallucination.  Habitual liars are scared and self-interested. It’s a deep sickness, a kind of autism.  So when someone asks you for help and you give it, be prepared to be resented and cut out of their life, no matter how long you’ve known them or been friends with them.  Instead, ask the Universe to bring them someone to help them, and to get them up the emotional scale. When they awaken and regain consciousness, you’ll connect again. That’s how that works.

I am excerpting from a friend’s book for the August Horizons Magazine. The file was sent in a way that caused the formatting to change, leaving extra spaces in between the characters of words.  Upon closer inspection,  I notice that the extra space that appears in the middle of the words is always after a lower case i.   That tells me that anytime I am in my smaller self, my lower case i, I need to take an extra moment, for extra space, before I speak.   I love finding life lessons in every thing I do.

Habitual liars get caught in their own web and come to believe what they say. It’s part of the disease. “Help others be accountable. When people who tend to deceive themselves spend too much time with others who tolerate it, their destructive habits won’t be challenged or corrected. Where lying is causing someone serious damage, it helps to be a particularly truth-conscious friend and lend support as well as a gentle, watchful eye.” The Truth About Lying This article tells why particular lies are told, what it sounds like and how to avoid it. Example: blame shifting can signal difficulty with accepting responsibility for your actions. Maybe you were criticized for making mistakes as a child and so now you’re afraid to own up because of what other people may think of you. Once you realize this is a behavior that can be changed, however, you can start to regain the power you may feel you don’t have.

I’m sure she’s just mistaken and isn’t lying on purpose
The lies are simply hitting the snooze button, not ready for awakening
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As a painter, my challenge has always been to replicate the fiery colors I see in my mind’s eye using the pigments made of ground earth.