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Honouring the changing times

2 June 2020 5am channelling

Honouring the changing times

Greetings awakening hearts
The time has come for me to honour what I have felt for a long time now, to let this work flow through me to you.
I have been channelling for years but I guess it takes a while to trust what it is and who it is for.
I know these messages need to be shared and are no longer for my eyes and ears only.

It is time to wake up and take notice of what you are feeling. As a collective we are being pushed now more than ever to honour change. Things are not going to “go back to normal” – whatever normal is anyway.
As painful as this can be you are being urged to feel, to feel everything. That is why we have senses, so use them.
We are not just our bodies; we are body-minds and these amazing bodies have messages for us, which for many don’t get heard and for many more get heard but not acknowledged. You may be feeling more in your bodies at this time because the messages are urging you to feel, to process and to evolve beyond your experiences.
As painful as some are and as joyful as others are now is the time to let what comes into your awareness be felt. Stop and notice when you get an ache or pain and be curious. Like you are encouraged to be curious in your yoga practice, well this is yoga in action, feeling what your body is bringing up so that you can integrate it and raise your frequency.
It is all about higher vibrations because to hold a higher vibration means holding more light and holding more light means helping Mother Earth, along with her people, evolve.
Opportunity is here right now to look at your life and let it fully express through you. There has never been a time when opportunity abounds, for you to act from your heart, like the cocoon emerging into the butterfly, this does not happen without struggle, without pushing and resting, allowing the process to take the time it needs with patience, loving kindness and gratitude. We are birthing a New Earth and that does not happen without struggle.
There is such a bigger picture going on right now and we are being asked to do what we can, you cannot save the world without looking inward and saving within you what is calling your attention.
Feel the aches and pains in your body, listen to the stories surfacing in your mind, feel and process because this is ascension in progress. Our Earth is ascending and we have the opportunity to ascend with her.

How?
Take time to feel what is going on in these layers of your being:

Physical body – any aches, pains, sensations calling your attention? Stop and feel them, notice where they are and ask the question: what does this mean? What do I need to do right now to move this? It might be enough to notice, or you might need to move, stretch, walk, dance, sing, express express express in the way you feel guided. On a physical level there is a lot of relief to be had in connecting with Earth, barefoot on the earth and letting yourself release into her. There is also a lot to be had in resting more, so rest more.
Pranic body – notice your energy levels and honour them. If you need to rest more then rest more, if you need to speak then speak, if you have unspoken words restricting your throat area then get them out. Notice your breath and start breathing into everything! Your breath is like an alchemist, it changes things pretty quickly, use it. Breathe into everything, sigh, sing, play a musical instrument, feel and act on what is wanting to be expressed through you.
Emotional body – feeling is so important, no longer can we hold down emotions, they need to be felt, there are no good or bad emotions it is all energy in motion and it needs to move and be expressed, moved and be transmuted. Again, be curious as you feel it coming up, talk to your feelings, feel your feelings, express and release, grow and evolve.
Mental body – intuition, we all have it. The question is do you listen to it? Now is the time to start tuning in because it is calling you! First thoughts are often the most authentic so jot them down on paper or record them into your phone recorder or something. They might not make sense right away but if you come back to them a day or week later and revisit they most likely will.
Bliss body – the ever-expansive ocean of consciousness that you can get lost in and time disappears. May I be as bold to say that this is why yoga exists? To prepare us and take us into states of inner stillness and peace, into expansive states of blissful nothingness but everythingness! I know this is not a word but hey, our language doesn’t have the words to explain most of this!
Be kind, loving and gentle with yourselves as these are challenging times on every level. Feel it all, precious beings of light. The time is now for you to be the fullest expression of yourself, let your light expand and be seen, let’s light up the world so nothing can be hidden anymore.

Namaste
Sarah

The Power of Goal ‘Letting’

Happy new year! Kel Fox here, honoured to be heralding 2020 on Sarah’s blog! I have some thoughts on vision boards that I wish to share.

When it comes to goals, there are two ways of creating the life you want to live: ‘goal setting’ and ‘goal letting’. Both are powerful. One requires your personal effort and commitment and is necessary for the big, tough things that are your life purpose and you should go after them with everything you’ve got. The others are things that perhaps aren’t in your control as much, except that you have to acknowledge what you want and make space for it.

Goal setting is fairly obvious, and you know what you need to do – for example, I wanted graduate with my degree, so I set out a timeline with the units I had to complete and did the work. I want to publish books, so I make time to write and edit. My conscious willpower and drive is going to make it happen. There’s an abundance of information out there on how to make your goal setting achievable.

Goal letting is less obvious, but no less powerful. This is the one where your subconscious directs the process, and where tools like vision boards come in so useful.

I was involved in a vision boarding exercise several years ago. I have to admit: although I believed in the power of subconscious manifestation, I didn’t really expect anything to come from something as simple as a vision board. Perhaps if I had personally drawn all the images, or spent a week finding the exact representations of what I was looking for, it would have power. A couple of hours cutting and pasting and then a short ceremony to set intention? Not enough, I thought.

Skip ahead a few years, and I was cleaning out my office and I found the vision board. I looked at it and was surprised to see my cat on it! Sure, a sceptic might say I wanted a cat, so I found a picture of a cat, and then I went and got a cat, but that is not how it went. At the time of creating the board, I was living in a rental that didn’t allow cats, with no plans to move. By the time I had moved house, for circumstances completely unrelated to prospective pet ownership, I had forgotten about the vision board entirely. When I eventually started looking for a cat, I nearly got a black one. But there was a little grey tabby that stole my heart, waited for me at the gate to her pen while I was preparing her travel cage and she came home with me. A year later, I found the vision board. There was a grey tabby cat. As I looked at the rest of the board, I realised that the cat was the only thing on it that I’d really cared about.

Another year, my partner bought me a diary for Christmas. It had a plain black cover and I happened to have a wolf sticker in my desk drawer so I stuck it on the diary. Eight months later, we got an Alaskan Malamute puppy and I thought nothing of it until I was staring at my diary one day and realised: there he was. It wasn’t planned that way.

Intrigued by that process, I put an image of a quill on the next year’s diary, with the thought that it would facilitate my publishing a book. I did a lot of writing that year, finishing two novel drafts and publishing a piece of poetry. But I didn’t publish my novel. I realise now that the quill was not specific enough. The universe doesn’t work in vague terms. Everything is precise and has a plan, right down to the tiniest details.

Does it work for bigger things than pets? I was reading through some old journals recently and I came across an entry from years before – perhaps six or seven years – where I wrote about what I was looking for in a partner. I was done with dating the wrong people and trying to make it work. I set down what I wished for. Then I forgot about it entirely. It wasn’t until I stumbled upon the entry years later, twelve months into a new and important relationship, that I realised I had found exactly what I’d asked for.

That was powerful.

I have many instances of writing things down, forgetting about it and then finding it later to discover it came to be. I think the power in vision boarding comes from:

Clarifying what you want
Setting that intention, and
Allowing it – whether ‘it’ is what you expected or not – to be.

All three steps are vital. I could not find the partner I wanted until I figured out exactly who that person was meant to be to me. Then I had to set my intention to find that person: I committed my dream to a medium that stored the information (a journal or vision board is such a medium). I had to stop pursuing or even considering anything that was not quite right. Finally, I had to allow it, and that was the part where I had to accept and trust the universe to get it right, even if – paradoxically – that meant my vision never came to pass.

That trust is surrender. It is accepting that I am exactly where I need to be and who I need to be right now, and there is nothing else. Once I got that, I made space for something new that I could never have imagined was truly possible. “Conscious me” wrote that intention thinking I’d probably never attain it. “Subconscious me”, or the universe, or both, have much more creative power, as long as conscious me doesn’t get in the way with my self-imposed limitations.

The thing to be mindful of when manifesting like this is that you may not like the manner in which it comes about. A friend of mine has always wanted a swimming pool. Perhaps they thought they’d buy a house with a pool, or pay a company to come in and build one over a few days. They got the pool, in the form of their partner undertaking a year-long construction project in the backyard. The universe works in its own way, and like I said, the details matter. If the how or the when is important to you, your goal may be better served as an active goal setting exercise. But it’s worth remembering that life is a bit like watercolour painting: it doesn’t always go where you planned, but it is always beautiful in its own way.

I was prompted to write this post and share my experiences with visioning and manifestation because of Sarah’s upcoming workshop, so if visioning is something that interests you, you may wish to check it out. Either way, envision yourself a joyful and prosperous 2020 and may we all share and learn and grow together.

Peace, Kel

Homemade Hummus

1 tin organic chick peas – drained

1 clove garlic or more if you like

2 Tbsp organic tahini

Juice of large lemon

1 tsp sea salt

2 Tbsp cold pressed olive oil

3 Tbsp chopped coriander

Place all ingredients into a Thermomix or similar and mix to desired consistency. If you need to add liquid to make thinner you could save a little from the chick peas or add a bit more lemon depending on the taste you desire.

Serve with vege sticks or crackers of your choice. Make a double batch and keep in fridge for lunches: it’s great spread on sandwiches, wraps or toast.

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The opportunities for self-care

By Kel Fox

Sarah’s offline this week, taking some time off teaching and writing to look after herself during a bout of illness. Since that in itself is an act of self-care, it seems like a good time to revisit last year’s theme, and perhaps see if there is a link to this year’s theme of ‘connection’.

What is self-care? It has become synonymous with luxurious relaxation, afternoons at the day spa, or weekends away from daily life, and since then been challenged: is self-care selfish? Is it necessary? Is it just about cutting out stress? Is it even something we should be worried about (especially since that does seem to defeat the purpose)?

Self-care is important. If we expand the definition beyond massages and holidays at the beach, it is, effectively, what keeps us alive. Self-care is – or should be – a daily engagement with yourself and your body, and it isn’t always easy relaxation. Actually, most of it isn’t easy. I suspect the real reason we have neglected ourselves and relegated self-care to the realms of day spas and float tanks and saying no to helping your aunt move house, then labelled this box ‘selfish and unnecessary’, is so we can avoid the work that is true self-care. It is far easier to take care of everyone else first, and then when our own bodies or minds start to fray, say it wasn’t our fault. But if you’re here, you know that isn’t true.

Self-care is your motivation to do well and be well. If your motivation for going to yoga is to keep up with the latest Instagram trends, that’s not self-care. But if your motivation is to engage with yourself on a physical, emotional and spiritual level, then it is. The latter is harder, of course. Real spiritual engagement is joyful, but it is also confronting at times. Real emotional engagement can be frightening when we uncover some unpleasant truths about ourselves or our relationships. Real physical exercise is difficult when we are pushing our bodies to do something new, or gain strength and flexibility. But with this unpleasantness and difficulty comes the wonder of opening our hearts to experience, and the fun of discovering what our bodies are capable of.

Self-care is eating (well). Self-care is exercising (safely). Self-care is your daily grooming (with healthy products), what you think when you look in the mirror, the way you respond to difficult emotions, standing up for yourself if you feel your soul is compromised. Self-care is about being connected enough to your soul to listen when it is talking to you. And it is talking to you all the time. If you haven’t heard it, it is because you haven’t been listening.

Say ‘yes’ or ‘no’ to things with the discretion your soul offers. The message this sends to yourself about how you value your time is self-care. If you choose to help someone, do it not to be selfless or to cross off your ‘good deed’ for the day, but because you understand that what you do for others, you do for yourself. This sends a message to your soul that you care for yourself. Then when you need help, ask for it. It will be there. Accept it. This sends the message that you value yourself: that you love your soul, unselfishly, knowing that the universe is reciprocal, and your soul is the universe.

Now we uncover the link between self-care and connection: self-care is nurturing your connection to your soul (thus also your heart, mind, body – every layer in between). The opportunity is this: everything you do in your life can be an act of self-care. Do everything with kindness, connected to the voice of your soul, and that is the best self-care you can find.

Adapted from original post on Kel’s blog.

WEDNESDAY WHOOPSIE!

I pushed ‘Publish’ by accident…

Well, for those of you who subscribe, you just got a sneak preview at the next blog post, which is still very much in draft form and isn’t due out until the weekend! Read if you like, but please know it isn’t finished and the full version is still to come, so if you don’t like spoilers, perhaps delete without reading…and since the original post has been taken down, I also ask that you please don’t share it as it will lead to a non-existent page for any visitors.

Happy Wednesday, and hopefully yours is more free of silly mistakes!

Kel

How to register for a High Aspirations yoga class (by Kel)

This is for anyone who has ever tried to sign up online and rage-quit in frustration. Or anyone who wants a giggle. I’ve tried to make it entertaining. It’s a pdf, so the images and layout are preserved and it doesn’t turn into a jumble of nonsense. Of course, much of it is still nonsense.

How to register for a High Aspirations yoga class

Enjoy your Saturday afternoon.
Kel

P.S. Ever spread out your mat, all ready to start an EBR, and then a cat comes and joins in? Winifred the Ratbag waits until I’m in Tadasana, then messes up my yoga mat.

Australian Organic Awareness Month

Did you know that September is Australian Organic Awareness Month?

The campaign aims to spread the important values of certified organic across all industries including food, beverages, skincare, cosmetics, textiles, cleaning products, garden products and even pet food.

The values include:
• Non GMO
• Free to range
• Biodiversity friendly
• Sustainably fished
• Socially responsible
• Pasture fed
and of course grown free from harsh synthetic pesticides, herbicides, antibiotics and added hormones.

Five Benefits of Choosing Certified Organic:

1. Good for the soil – Organic systems rely on a modern and scientific understanding of ecology and soil science, while also depending on traditional methods of crop rotations to ensure fertility and weed and pest control.

2. Good for the environment – Organic systems aim to reduce dependence on non-renewable resources. Organic production aims at all times towards sustainability whilst having best management of the environment and wildlife as a priority.

3. Good for people – Organic based ingredients have been shown in a number of studies to contain more vitamins, nutrients and cancer-fighting antioxidants than non-organic ingredients.

4. No synthetic chemicals – Organic systems prohibit the use of artificial chemicals, pesticides and fertilisers.

5. No GMOs – Certified Organic products are produced without GMOs, which are prohibited in the standards for organic food and farming.

Information obtained from austorganic.com and miessence.com.au

I encourage you to get on board and if you’re not already using organic products then please explore and use this month as an incentive to clean up your diet, skincare program, household cleaning products or gardening products and see if you can make some changes that will become new habits for the rest of your life.

Ignite your dreams

Welcome to my new look blog. I hope you will enjoy reading more about the things that I love and the effect of sharing these with others.

This year I chose a quality that I wanted to expand into as the year progressed . The quality I chose was Balance and that has been my word for 2014 which so far I feel I haven’t really achieved and we are fast running out of 2014! How does that happen? Does this happen to you?

Well with a few weeks left to bring this quality of balance more to the forefront of my life I have made some changes. One of them being that I am flying off to Adelaide tomorrow for a weekend of inspiration from the amazing Dru teachers from around the world who are in Australia at this time to help people “Ignite their Dreams and supercharge their lives”.

I will be taking part in a number of workshops and plenaries that I know will reignite my vision and send me back to WA recharged and inspired to not only find balance but also to share that with others so they too can move forward and reach the end of the year feeling satisfied and grateful for what the year has offered.

If you would like to share this journey with me please sign up for a weekly update that will come into your email inbox pretty regularly and keep you up to date with what I am doing, workshops, retreats and special events.

Looking forward to sharing more next week when I get back 🙂

Namaste

Sarah