From the creators of The Shift Movie comes news worth paying attention to:
| At the recent, sold-out Peace Summit in Vancouver, His Holiness the Dalai Lama made a proclamation that stunned the crowd: “The world will be saved by the western woman.”
Last year, Maria Shriver’s Women’s Conference sold an astounding 14,000 tickets in the first 20 minutes after registration opened. The theme: “Women, the Architects of Change”.
Something big is stirring among us women. |
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More of us than ever before are feeling called to awaken to the fullness of our authentic power and become active, engaged agents of change.
We’re hungry to express our creativity and find our voice. We sense intuitively that we have a critical role to play in shaping the future of our world.
But what is the pathway to awakening the fullness of our authentic power as women? Where should we give our energy and attention in order to make our greatest contribution? And how might we work together and support each other in this process?
THE SHIFT has partnered with Claire Zammit and Katherine Woodward Thomas, to bring you a FREE teleseries called Women on the Edge of Evolution: Awakening to the Power to Co-create our Lives and Shape our Collective Future.
You can participate live or listen to the recordings later, at any time, from anywhere in the world.
Register today.
This is for all those who have learned to fear love, for any reason at all. Read it, take it in, and feel the joy of knowing that it is always safe to love others!
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All of the songs and poems moaning about the pains of love–and I bought it. Why, everyone knows that love hurts. We teach this to each other all our lives and the older we get, the more shy we are of caring again. We can’t take the pain…the hurt to our heart will be too much to bear, we say.
We are wrong.
Loving does not hurt.
Repeat: Love does NOT hurt.
It won’t hurt your heart – ever – to love.
What hurts is having to stop loving.
What hurts is when you can’t love anymore.
What hurts is when one you love is gone, or doesn’t love you anymore.
Stopping love hurts. Letting go of love hurts.
It is NOT the loving itself that hurts.
I have hurt from being left, from being the one leaving, from having someone die, from family moving away, and more. I have been hurt in love many, many times. But it is NOT the love that hurt me. It was always trying to let go of the love that hurt.
I don’t know how to tell you how this thought – that love does not hurt – spun my head around. I am stunned by how backwards we have gotten it. Love does not hurt.
“Love hurts” is a myth that we all bought into because the idea makes for great songs, stories and poems. “Love hurts” art forms may deliver healing to our wounds, but let’s stop getting lost in the mist and remember the truth about love: It never hurts a soul.
I have always been a change agent, at least in this lifetime. From a fairly early age, I began rebelling against the life philosophy I was to be conditioned into within my early family: get them before they get you; there’s a sucker born every minute; if someone is stupid enough to be duped, then they deserve what they get; life is a bowl of shit at its very best; education is for people who have no snap, and are too stupid to figure it out on their own, etc etc. At first, my rebellion against this way of seeing was silent, internal, and produced only high levels of shame and anger. Eventually, I faced the fact that I would have to teach myself a better set of values than what I had been offered if I wanted to thrive, rather than just survive. Talk about feeling overwhelmed! It took a long time and the help of some loving mentors in my life, but I finally began to model many of the values I had long aspired to.
After reaching this goal, I began teaching myself how to take a stand for these values out in the world. This was much harder, and I kept running into an invisible roadblock that I couldn’t define clearly. Great inner frustration ensued once again (and where there’s frustration, there’s anger) but my intent to discover the nature of this inner roadblock never wavered, even though it took years to get to the source.
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Today, I would like to introduce you to a free Email Series called The Soul Journey, offered by Andrew Schneider. This post contains an entire message from that series–a message focused on change. If you are interested in subscribing, I will include a link to his site at the bottom of the post, as well as in my Favorite Links section on the right. Enjoy!
“What is Consciousness?”
How long does it take to shift in consciousness?
This is a personality-based question that really has no answer in terms of length of time. It takes as long as one lives. Change is a fundamental reality of life in time and space. Change is occurring constantly, but often we don’t recognize it as it may be quite subtle.
The personality is also always trying to keep things the same. Often changes are occurring but we are unconsciously living as if they were not. When this happens, we tend to be out of step with what is happening in our life and in our psyche. As a result something does not work, things go awry and we are not content.
Sometimes the changes that are going on within us and around us are not the changes we want or like. This is because we do not understand them. And this is why they exist.
There are basically two causes for the changes we experience.
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We have become so conditioned in our world to define our success and happiness on how much money we have, what kind of cars are in the driveway, what kind of home we live in and in which area of town we reside. This has been our American Dream. Our American dream, though, feels more like a nightmare for so many right now.
Our current economic reality is calling on us to view the “dream” from a different perspective, that’s all. We’re being challenged to turn our attitudes around and get back to basics. We’re going deeper and asking, “What’s really important in life? We’re being called to rethink our values.
The good news is that we have complete control over how we think and what we believe; when we shift our attitudes everything outside of us will shift.
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