What I hear often from Indigo kids and teens is how difficult it is just to get time to play, and time outside in the natural world.  Parents, listen up:  your children CRAVE this!  And they aren’t getting it — at least, nowhere near enough of it.  They need a minimum of one hour a day, EVERY day.

Sure, you as parents have tight schedules and demands.  But that doesn’t mean your kids have to suffer deprivation as a result. I know that it’s a challenge — and I know that parents of Indigo and Star Seed kids are up to it, because I know plenty of parents who make sure their children get enough:

• Unstructured play time.  This is important to help your kids nurture their immense creative aspects.  (P.S.  Unstructured doesn’t mean “unsupervised”. . . )
• At least one hour every day out in the natural world.  You know. Trees. Water.  Fresh air.  Animals. Flowers and plants.  Your children need contact with and understanding of Nature.  Make sure they get their daily “vitamin” of it.  Gardens are good — for all family members — even if it’s just a potted plant on the balcony or patio
• Healthy food.   Even snacks can be healthy, with a little advance planning.
• Rest.  (By the way, TV and computer games are NOT restful and do NOT qualify as rest.)

If you’d like a little inspiration for getting kids out into some fresh air and green spaces, here’s a book (The Green Hour by Todd Christopher) and initiative that supports it:

The Green Hour

Your children deserve to have a life that connects them directly with Nature.  Other parents are finding ways to do this — and you can too.  Your children depend on you to help provide the environment where they will thrive.  Make sure they get it.

If you are an Indigo kid, teen, or Star Seed adult, the missing element in your life just might be Nature.  Plan to get back in touch with it, because it will heal and nurture you in ways nothing else can.

Oh, and if you want to learn how to communicate effectively with Nature, and teach your children, you might like to get this free report from How To Partner With Nature Intelligence.  (I think you will like it.)

Will you join me?

See what this is all about here.

I know this series is going to answer a LOT of questions that you have been asking, and bring you great healing.  It’s time.  Let us begin.

So here they are (in no particular order):

Karen Bishop has some new books out, and quite a lot to say about how the shifts are affecting you — and some helpful suggestions for what to do about it.  I like reading her insights even when they don’t precisely match what I’m experiencing — because sooner or later someone will ask me about the same thing Visit her site here.  Be sure to check the latest report, in case there’s a new one posted.

Patricia Cota-Robles talks about an event happening August 15-20th, 2009 in Tucson, Arizona:  a World Congress on Illumination.  Through the Law of Resonance, all humans of like heart and mind can participate in stabilizing the extraordinary amount of Light that is awakening throughout the Universe, whether the timing of the event is “now” or “past”.  It’s worth a look at her site to learn more:  Era of Peace. (Enjoy the nice music, too!)

And last but certainly not least, Tom Kenyon channels an entity known as the Hathors, who have some important things to say about the predicted Swine Flu pandemic, how to stay well, and how to stay centered through the current and coming changes.  I personally liked these a lot!  They are very hopeful and empowering. Here are the latest links I suggest you read:

Lies, Half-Truths and Manipulations

Ecstasy and The Heart on how to focus (this should help those of you who wonder if you have ADD. . . )

The Holon of Balance on thriving through the earth changes

The Holon of Ascension on how to adjust during the solar storms and flares, and how they will affect you

The common thread I find in all these messages is this:

• Stay centered and connected to Source no matter WHAT happens!
• Turn from both fear and anger in yourself and when you encounter it in others; refuse to participate
• Keep breathing and seek the joy
• Remember the 11:11 (as above, so below) — and follow the 11:11 Laws to your best ability)

These steps will serve you well always, not just under challenging circumstances.  Make it your business to master them — and then teach it to others if they ask

Let me know if you have any questions about these topics; I’d be happy to respond.

You have to see this:  The Inspiration Course:  Opening to Love and Deeper Relationships

Have a great ~ and inspiring ~ weekend!

Solar Corona

But what do they mean?

This week I got emails from all over about these eclipses.  Some people were alarmed and thought they could portend great calamities, either for governments or for natural disasters.  Some people worried about the energy fields that produce wars (as if we don’t have enough wars already.)  And others felt it to be a call for prayer and meditation, as an opportunity to reattune with Source.  I saw newspaper accounts of people around the globe who believe that the energy from the solar eclipses in particular can harm or deform babies in utero; in these places pregnant women were hiding in darkened rooms,,to avoid any contact with the “rays”.

Honestly, some of these fears are probably almost genetic.  Before humans had an explanation for what happens during an eclipse, it was probably very scary.  And for want of knowledge about the event, their imaginations created an answer that fit their belief systems at the time.  Isn’t that human nature?  If you’re a pessimist, you look for confirmation about what you believe — and seem to easily find it.  Likewise with an optimist.  Based on the exact same events!

So what do these eclipses mean?  First I’d say to connect with Source and see what you intuit.  You can also visit some of the many esoteric astrology sites to see what trained astrologers are saying about these events.    Next, I’ll offer my own views on what they mean.

Because the solar eclipse was in the last degree of Cancer, and proceeding into Leo ~ and because of the positions and aspects of the other planets during this time ~ there are strong indications that the eclipse draws out the last remnants of whatever family dramas or patterns that need to be released, to give us all a chance to let go of them before moving ahead with what we intend to create and become as a human family.  We can see the major issues that are crying to be healed in our time:

• poverty and economic instability
• governing systems that do not serve all the people
• power-with vs. power-over
• medicine and health care for everyone
• protecting and sustaining a healthy planet, with clean air and water available for all living things

Whatever has been keeping us from perfectly manifesting a world where these issues are no longer plaguing us, it’s time to dismantle and release them now.  And the idea that it’s not only OK to do that — but necessary and desirable — is what this eclipse is all about.

The energy we have been wanting, to help us create heaven on earth, is finally here.  Now it’s up to each of us to choose it.

What do YOU think?  Are you feeling this too?  Or is it different for you?  I’d love to hear your thoughts.

“What does Indigo usher in for us as an earth people, and our future?”

“Are Indigos here to stop the New World Order?”

These I want to take some time to answer today.  Interestingly, the answer I’m going to give pertains to both of these questions.  Read on. . .

Indigos (and Star Seeds) are here to usher in the 5th World, as prophesied by the Mayan elders and many other Indigenous peoples.  What does that mean?  The 5th World is being created right now.  It has already begun.  Some say that the dates of 2012 are wrong — it’s really 2009 that the 5th World starts.  And from all the energies going on, that feels right.  We have begun to create a new world — and it’s going to be like nothing that’s ever existed before.

How will it be different?

First of all, humans will all be awake.  We will be fully conscious and aware, with fully developed intuitive skills. When you can instantly know one another’s intentions, it’s impossible for there to be subterfuge, deception, manipulation, and other forms of “power over” that has caused so much suffering.  We will be living in a time when nothing can be hidden — nor would anyone wish to hide.  There would be no reason.

Secondly, we are building a world of peaceful co-operation and co-creativeness.  It is a time of building new structures and systems in accordance with Universal and Spiritual Laws (here I refer you to this series of posts for further details), and to release as gently as possible anything and everything that does not serve The Light and the highest good of all.

It will be a time of wonders, healing, goodness, and joy.  All hearts hunger greatly for such a time.  And it is upon us.  Right now.

All we have to do to manifest this fully is to allow it.  Allow it inside yourself.  Allow others to become their most joyful and beautiful selves.  And allow what wants to become, to manifest in all the forms that want to be established.

The systems that are currently in place around the world still do not yet work for all people — let alone all living things.  This must change.  And it will.  The so-called New World Order has run out of time and out of ideas and out of hope.  Its demise may not be pretty, but it will fail because it was built on principles of greed, secrecy, and power-over.  Those principles are part of the dying era.  Indigos are here to birth the new one.

Much more need not be said.  This pretty much says it all.

And truly, are there any humans — or any living beings — who in their innermost hearts do not wish to love and be loved?  To find and experience beauty and joy?  To connect with others in meaningful ways, without fear of harm?  This and more is what we are ushering in — and more than that, co-creating just by being here, alive in this time, emanating our Light for all to share.

I’d love to hear what you think about this.  Your views are welcome.

Dreaming Yourself Awake

When I was studying with one Native American elder, she would have us do “dream practice”.  Many of the subtle teaching were actually held during the dream time ~ which meant that we had to really pay attention and remember what we dreamed, and to be ready to ask questions and learn from what happened.  It was a very exciting, expansive time for me!

She said that some of the classes were held on other planets.  That was another thing that used to fascinate me:  how did we get there and back?  All I can say is that it’s possible — and that it worked.

There is a close relationship between what happens during your ordinary faytime life, and what happens in the dreamtime.  I can see why the Aboriginal Elders (along with other Indigenous peoples) say that the Dream Time is the only real thing.

What kind of world would we like to dream into being now?  Let’s do it!  We have the support of the entire Universe with us.

What to do?

There are a couple of simple steps you can do to quickly and safely “power down” and get back to center.

• Get out into Nature and allow the natural world to help you release what’s “more than you need” — and to help you take in more of what you DO need instead of the frenetic, scrambled energies that you may have taken on from the outside world.
• Take time to be still.  Remove yourself from the noise (including TV, MP3 players, radio, and all electronic gadgets.)  Unplug yourself and go to a place without noise or commotion.  If the only place you can find that is in the bathroom, so be it!  It will work
• Meditate.  It doesn’t have to be a formal practice with you on a cushion like a Zen monk.  Just find something to focus on for a period of at least 10-15 minutes a day (a candle flame, a bowl of water, a flower. . . things like that.)  Ideally you can work up to half an hour.  But start with SOMETHING!  Just do it.  You need to find a way to calm and discipline your mind.

And finally, my favorite technique of all.  Go hug a tree!  Here’s why.  The tree can accept what you don’t need, and put it into the Earth for recycling.  This helps everyone.

Put your arms around a tree (any tree will do, as long as it’s big enough for you to wrap your arms around.)  Concentrate on the extra energies you are feeling, and ask the tree to receive the “overload” of the energies you would like to release ~ and request that the tree funnel the energy back down into the earth through its roots.

Go hug a tree!

This is easy to do, is not harmful for the tree, and helps to make the energies you release available for whatever the Earth needs.  And yes, the Earth can handle this   Really.

Don’t sit there freaking out about feeling overloaded.  There are simple, practical things you can do.

So go do them!  And tell your friends.

Let me know if you’ve tried any of these things, and how they’ve worked for you :-0

All of the Laws are sacred.  This one is the power of the sacred, within all.  As we perceive, so do we become.

As the Lakota Sioux say, “MAKA WICAHPI WICOHAN”.

Love and healing go together as no other two Laws do.  Their energy is intertwined in a cosmic dance that possibly precedes time and dimension.

Much could be said about these Laws ~ and much has certainly be said about the two words Love and Healing.

But their real relationship is in their connection.

And this is worth pondering deeply.