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Ok, I am doing it again. I am still expecting some major change in my life. I don’t have a clue as to what it is but I keep seeing number sequences that point toward a major change. I have been using Doreen Virtue’s book “Healing with the Angels”, where there is a chapter at the back titled “Number Sequences from the Angels”. These numbers have been helpful in the past so I do tend to look at them.
Last night I woke up and looked at the clock which read 3:55. This morning I looked up the numbers and just like the number sequences I have been seeing over the last six months it indicated a life change. It said “The ascended masters want to prepare you for a big life change that is imminent. They want you to know that they are holding your hand through this change and that everything will be all right. Embrace the change, and look for the blessings within it.” What is going on?!?!
I know that life and the future is in constant flux. I think another name for life is change. We tend to prefer for things to remain constant around us because that is familiar. Even if we are in pain and mental anguish we are often afraid to take the first tentative steps out of the situation because it is a change. I work with people with pain issues using EFT and they get great results (while I am working with them) and I tell them they will have to do the homework daily for two or three weeks before the pain will totally disappear and will they do it? No! Next week they are back to where they were the week before because they won’t take action for themselves to enact change.
But when change is forced upon us? How do you handle change? I must be honest. I don’t usually handle it very good. I often get anxious which is a normal reaction because it is new territory. With all this notice I have been getting of a change and now in the last couple of weeks that change is imminent you would think I would be a nervous wreck but I am not. I am actually very calm and curious as to what will happen. As soon as it happens I will let you know what the change is. Maybe that is the change, being able to stay calm in the midst of uncertainty (I haven’t even had to do EFT to stay calm!). That is new for me.
I have been reading a lot of things lately that are playing with the accepted definition of reality. We have an expected reality. We expect that table to really be there. We expect that chair to support our weight. We expect ourselves to have weight!
When someone steps beyond our reality we tend to get nervous and want to call the men with the white coats. Who is this person to tell me that table doesn’t really exist? Who do they think they are? Can’t they see it and feel it? They must be crazy. Those men in the white coats better have strait-jackets with them.
Let’s play with the idea that nothing really does exist. Everything is a construct. Just like Shakespeare said “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players:” Everything is ‘fake’. If it is ‘fake’ then what is the purpose for this construct? Maybe like the stage in Shakespeare’s quote, we are here to play, to entertain, to be entertained, to be someone we are not. That may be it! To be… someone we are not.
On the other side, in the spirit realm, things may be too perfect so to experience challenges and stress and to play at being someone we are not; we audition for parts and get to go on stage. What we call ourselves also implies this, think about the term human being. We are being human for a while. This elaborate setup provides opportunities for us to experience, learn and grow.
If this is a construct, who constructed it? I would venture to say that not only has a higher power had something to do with it but we all have made a contribution. We are all in on it. We have agreed to certain ‘rules’ to live by. We feel the table. We see each other. We have to eat to survive. What would happen if all of a sudden we decided that this was not true and it all vanished? There have been some people through time that have altered their reality. Some have been declared Saints, some have been killed for their abilities (but then if this is all fake, do we really die?). There are people alive today who do not play by the rules or who have created different rules to live by.
Wouldn’t it be fun to create your own rules and life by them? Tomorrow I will write about that.
Ok, this is getting weird. Some people would say I am weird as it is, but this is even weird by my standards.
Saturday morning I woke and looked at the clock, it read 7:55. On a whim I looked up the numbers in Doreen Virtue’s bookHealing With The Angels
Over the last 6 months every once in a while I would wake at 5:55. This happened enough to grab my curiosity and I looked the numbers up in Doreen’s book in the chapter on “Number Sequences from the Angels”. The sequence 555 says “Buckle your seatbelts, because a major life change is upon you. This change should not be viewed as being “positive” or “negative,” since all change is but a natural part of life’s flow. Perhaps this change is an answer to your prayers, so continue seeing and feeling yourself being at peace”.
I have been questioning my guides about my direction in life and if I needed to make some changes so you might say I have been listening attentively. I have also been questioning this ‘change’ in my life as I have not seen any major change yet.
When I saw the clock on Saturday morning, I decided to look the numbers up. Doreen’s book only deals with sequences such as the same number in the row or a series of two different numbers such as the 755. The book states that 7’s and 5’s such as 775 or 755 means “This is a validation that you are ‘on target’ with an impending change that will enrich you either physically, emotionally, or intellectually – or a combination of all three. Stay on course and you will soon see the evidence of how the changes add to your own life, and to that of those around you.” So I thought this was interesting considering what I have been questioning in my life lately.
Then this morning while meditating, I felt I should look at the clock and it said 8:58. I thought it was odd that I looked at the clock right then, especially since I try not to look at the clock until I am through with my meditations. So I brought the book back out. This time the book states that for sequences which includes 8s and 5s “This number sequence signifies that you are at the 11th hour, right before the change. Do not fear this change, as you will be supported and loved throughout this change, which is now imminent.”
No, all the number sequences in this book do not talk about change. Some are just reassurance that you are not alone, or that the ascended masters are being attentive, or that if you don’t like what you are getting change your attitude before you get more of it. So it has been interesting that all my sequences are pointing toward a major life change. I wonder what it is. I will let you know when I figure it out.
The Power of Now
This is a book my husband said I had to read. I like reading books after he has because he has already underlined and made notes and I get to see what he thought was important. We tend to underline different things. I also love the deep conversations we have when discussing such a book and this book lends itself to deep conversations.
Tolle delves into the life force, energies, moving beyond your self, the observer, manifesting, the ego and many more esoteric areas. It is presented in a question and answer format where an “average” person is asking questions, some of which I could relate to, others I had already moved past but I was still interested in Tolle’s answers. The author brings depth and understanding with examples and also practical meditations and other practices to use to raise your vibration and energy awareness.
After reading this book, my husband discovered another book by Eckhart Tolle and immediately bought it and is reading it. This is another one he says I must read.
Comment from Ann’s husband, Paul:
I was introduced to Eckhart Tolle through a video that was included on one of the DVD’s we received through a subscription to The Spiritual Cinema Circle. The video was “Living Luminaries (On the Serious Business of Happiness)”. I had heard of Eckhart Tolle’s book “The Power of Now”, but didn’t know much about him or his book. I was totally amazed and impressed with Eckhart Tolle in the video, and immediately bought and read “The Power of Now”. I consider the book to be a pivotal work, a “Required Reading”. The “Living Luminaries” video is available on its own, see the link at right. Recently his new book “A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose (Oprah’s Book Club, Selection 61)
Which is Better – A Rubber Band or EFT?
Posted by: Ann
May 1st, 2010 >> Change, EFT, Life, Meridian Tapping
Yesterday I talked about the placebo affect and how the placebo often gets better results than the actual medication. This just shows how powerful our minds really are.
You have seen people with the same disease or same circumstances. One will wilt and get worse and worse while the other will be upbeat with a positive attitude. The more upbeat person will be the one with the best chance of overcoming the problem. I think we all know this at some level. But if we know it, how come we don’t practice it. We know we will be better off and may even improve our lot in life but we stay in the depressed, down, woe-is-me syndrome.
What is required is a shift in attitude, but that is often easier said than done.
Years ago I had panic attacks. I did not like them. It limited what I could do. Even going grocery shopping was very difficult for me. But how do you shift your mind?
I read that wearing a rubber band on your wrist and snapping it when ever you started to feel the anxiety would bring you back to the present. The premise is that the panic occurs because you are trying to live in the future. Well the rubber band helped … for about 3 seconds then the panic would be back. I flicked that rubber band so much I did not feel it any more.
I went to a workshop a couple years ago where they had us all put rubber bands on our wrist and then pull them back and snap them on our wrist. I don’t remember what the reason was for doing this at the workshop, but here we all were with rubber bands. The group I was standing with fidgeted and no one could get up enough nerve to snap their band. So right in front of them I pulled mine back a foot and let go. It made a big snap and every one was impressed. But the years of doing this for my anxiety had toughened me to that rubber band snap.
So how do you make changes to your attitude? How do you get past the fear and the anger? What did I finally do to get over my panic attacks? I used EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques). If you want help with your issue go to www.naturallyresilient.com.
Placebo Effect
Posted by: Ann
April 30th, 2010 >> Change, Energy, Life, Manifesting, Physical/Material, Spirituality
Wow! It looks like the changes in the world are occurring!
What changes you may ask? The changes the holistic community and light workers are expecting soon. These involve the ability to manifest easier, a realization that there is much more out here than the physical world and the ability to heal ourselves.
Dr. Mercola recently had a report from Wired Magazine (August 24, 2009) that stated: “From 2001 to 2006, the percentage of new products cut from development after Phase II clinical trials, when drugs are first tested against placebo, rose by 20 percent. The failure rate in more extensive Phase III trials increased by 11 percent, mainly due to surprisingly poor showings against placebo. Despite historic levels of industry investment in R&D, the US Food and Drug Administration approved only 19 first-of-their-kind remedies in 2007—the fewest since 1983—and just 24 in 2008. Half of all drugs that fail in late-stage trials drop out of the pipeline due to their inability to beat sugar pills.”
To me this is saying that we are making headway with changes in our spiritual beings.
The article continues with: “Some products that have been on the market for decades, like Prozac, are faltering in more recent follow-up tests. In many cases, these are the compounds that, in the late ’90s, made Big Pharma more profitable than Big Oil. But if these same drugs were vetted now, the FDA might not approve some of them.
Isn’t this wild! Even the older drugs when retested are not beating the sugar pills!
It’s not that the old meds are getting weaker, drug developers say. It’s as if the placebo effect is somehow getting stronger.
Maybe we are finally realizing we do have more control than we thought.
The fact that an increasing number of medications are unable to beat sugar pills has thrown the industry into crisis.”
I guess the drug companies would get pretty nervous about this report and will probably try and debunk it. I think it is great and gives me more hope for the future of mankind.
This is getting toward the end of the month and I am staring at next month’s bills wondering how to shuffle money to pay for them.
I woke up a little after 4:00 am this morning in my bill paying panic mode. I was laying there experiencing my monthly fears, doing a little mental EFT so I would not wake my husband. I started thinking how I have had fears all my life; they have just shifted in what I was afraid of through my life. Then I started thinking about the past lives I knew about and how they had a lot of fear in them. That was when I decided I had had enough fear and it was time to release it.
I then felt a calm come over me. It started in my legs and then crept all over me. I felt at peace and could not feel the fear. I was laying there amazed, then for some reason I was curious about the time. I looked at the clock and there was 5:55 on it. I have this recurring theme lately about waking and seeing 5:55 on the clock. This has been going on off and on for about 5 months. I have a book by Doreen Virtue called Healing with the Angels that list number sequences that are messages from the angels. Since this number sequence occurred with a shift in emotions I decided to reread it and pay closer attention to what it said.
The book says for the sequence 555 “Buckle your seatbelts, because a major life change is upon you. This change should not be viewed as being ‘positive’ or ‘negative,’ since all change is but a natural part of life’s flow. Perhaps this change is an answer to your prayers, so continue seeing and feeling yourself being at peace.” This time the last sentence had a lot of meaning to me, so I will continue to be hopeful and will enjoy the sense of peace I woke to this morning.
Playing With Life
Posted by: Ann
April 27th, 2010 >> Change, EFT, Energy, Life, Manifesting, Meridian Tapping, Vibration
There has been an idea coming to me over the last two years. I have always heard that if something comes to you three times you better take notice. Well this has been coming at me multiple times! The last one was Sunday when we were reviewing Ecclesiastes. This is a book in the Bible that is rather cynical as one of my classmates put it. We all agreed that it sounded like a teenager blogging their deep thoughts and questions, trying to make sense out of life. There was a kernel that jumped out at me. Ecclesiastes 3:22 states “So I saw that there is nothing better for people than to be happy in their work. That is why they are here!…” This was just another version of what I have been confronted with over the last 2 years.
“Have fun”, “Play with it”, “Enjoy life” this is what I have been hearing over and over again. Am I that dull of a person that I have to keep being told to enjoy being here? My life has had some hard and rough patches or stretches over the last 18 years so maybe some one is trying to wake me up and tell me that it is ok to have fun again. It is hard to stop stressing about life when you have done it for so long. I am working with the various energy techniques I know such as EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques), Meridian flushing and tracing, other meridian tapping techniques and of course “Law of Attraction” work.
I see playing with life, playing with energy flow, as being positive qualities that according to the “Law of Attraction” will bring more good and positive things into my life. I want to play with life and have fun!
Last year I did an experiment where I noted how I was doing emotionally and what happened in my life soon after my emotions changed. I noted that when I was feeling up and positive good things happened and life went smoothly. When I was feeling down, depressed and scared soon my life started attracting reasons to feel that way. The feelings always came first!
This year I am trying to stay positive, trying to play with life. I never thought of myself as a negative person but it has been a struggle. Writing positive words on me has helped; also shifting to anticipating good in the future is helping me stay positive. I can often feel the energy flowing and I will often stop and play with it, raising its vibration. I will keep you informed about how the “law of attraction” goes with the positive thinking.
I have been hearing the term ‘team work’ for a long time, but I don’t think that I have actually understood the concept. In the USA, we live in a society that tends to admire self-sufficiency. Our roots are tied to the pioneers who struck out and survived by their own wits and efforts. However we tend to forget that those individual efforts usually had others involved in support roles. The pioneers had to have wheel-wrights, water-wrights, cart-wrights and others who helped them get to where they were going.
These pioneers also quickly realized that survival often depended on others and the strength of numbers. It was dangerous and suicidal to break off from the wagon train and head of across country alone.
There were mountain men who hunted and trapped in the mountains, staying out on their own for months at a time but they still relied on the trading post to be there when they came down from the mountain. They had to convert their pelts into corn meal and tobacco. They needed people.
We still need each other even though we don’t want to admit it. An individual can have a grand idea but that person still needs others to work with them to see it come true. Our founding fathers started with one person with a grand plan but it took many to make it come true and many of those lost their lives for the effort. In business, team is very important. An individual can try to be the marketer, accountant, attorney, but in trying to do them all they will do none of them very well. It is best to stick with what you do well and have others do the rest.
When people come together for a common effort, amazing things can happen. A whole country maybe born. Who do you work with?
Intense Emotions = Manifesting
Posted by: Ann
April 24th, 2010 >> Change, Energy, God, Guides, Life, Manifesting
I am big on symbolism. Many of the inconveniences and problems in life are symbols of other things that are going on in our emotional life. Our emotions have a tendency of coming out in physical form. This is what the ‘law of attraction’ is all about. In fact the more intense the emotion the faster something will manifest.
I have heard that the prayers of mothers are answered the quickest and I believe that is due to the intense nature of a mother’s prayer for her child.
However, to our dismay we often materialize the negative things in life quicker than the positive. This is because we can quickly bring up the negative emotions with more intensity that we can bring up the positive emotions. Try it right now, think of something bad and see how fast and how intense you can bring up the fear, the worry or the anger. Now think of something happy or good and see how long it takes to bring the intensity of that emotion to the same level as the negative emotion.
Some people are good with the positive emotions. I am not – yet. I am working on it. As they say, the first step is recognition of the problem.
There are techniques that can help. Vision boards give you something to focus on. Meditation can help calm a person. Prayer or talking with your spirit guides can help you realize you are not alone and it gives you someone to hand your hard problems to. But all of these are difficult when you are in the middle of the trauma that is bringing on the emotions. Sometimes you just have to go with the flow and let it wash over you and when you come out on the other side you will finally see the sun shining.