a little Bob Marley on this Christmas morning … Won’t you help to sing these songs of freedom?

The best gift you can open on this Christmas Day is YOUR EYES.

Be free from the past and all that has been holding you in mental slavery.

It’s Christmas – the birth of Christ IN YOU into this world. Our hands are made strong by the Hand of the Almighty.

Click to listen The Redemption Song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zyAVfH6VPg

Lyrics:

Old pirates, yes, they rob I;
Sold I to the merchant ships,
Minutes after they took I
From the bottomless pit.
But my hand was made strong
By the hand of the Almighty.
We forward in this generation
Triumphantly.
Won’t you help to sing
These songs of freedom?
‘Cause all I ever have:
Redemption songs,
Redemption songs.

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery;
None but ourselves can free our minds.
Have no fear for atomic energy,
‘Cause none of them can stop the time.
How long shall they kill our prophets,
While we stand aside and look? Ooh!
Some say it’s just a part of it:
We’ve got to fulfill the Book.

Won’t you help to sing
These songs of freedom?
‘Cause all I ever have:
Redemption songs,
Redemption songs,
Redemption songs.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

Merry Christmas. I love you.

“This Christmas, give the Holy Spirit EVERYTHING that would hurt you.
LET yourself be healed completely, that you may JOIN with Him in healing.
And let us celebrate our release together, by releasing everyone WITH us.
Leave nothing behind, for release is TOTAL.
And when you have accepted it WITH me, you will GIVE it with me.
All pain and sacrifice and littleness will disappear in OUR relationship, which is as innocent as our relationship with our Father, and as powerful.
Pain will be brought to us, and disappear in our presence.
And, WITHOUT pain, there can BE no sacrifice.
And WITHOUT SACRIFICE, there love MUST be.”
-A Course in Miracles

This is the week-end in which a new year will be born from the time of Christ.
I have perfect faith in you, to do all that you would accomplish.
Nothing will be lacking, and you will MAKE COMPLETE, and NOT destroy.

Say and UNDERSTAND this:

I give you to the Holy Spirit, as part of myself.

I know that you will be released,

UNLESS I WANT TO USE YOU TO IMPRISON MYSELF.

In the name of MY freedom, I WILL your release,

Because I recognize that we will be released TOGETHER.

So will the year begin in joy and freedom.
There is much to do, and we have been long delayed.
Accept the holy instant as this year is born, and take your place, so long left unfulfilled, in the Great Awakening.
Make this year different, by making it ALL THE SAME.
And let ALL your relationships be made holy FOR you.
This is OUR will.

Amen.

a video of me! Raw Food The Naked Challenge: Day 1

Okay, I can’t hardly believe I am posting this, but here it is!

A video with me in it!

I’ve been slowly switching over to a whole food diet since this spring 2011 when I traveled to Europe. Thank you to my darling friend Trish Alvarez! Then for the past couple of weeks I have been transitioning over to raw foods, cleaning out my cupboards, getting rid of anything processed, cleaning out the fridge, out with the white flour, out with the refined sugar. I’ve been making vegetable juice every day (kale, beets, carrots), and a fruit smoothie every day (pineapple, raspberries, blueberries, mangoes, strawberries) and I’ve just generally been feeling really great.

But I know this can’t be a diet for me – because diets don’t work. I need something I can live with and also I know I NEED SWEETS and desserts and real food to eat not just salads – so I’ve been looking for recipes.

So last night I was on Amazon searching for Raw cookbooks and I happened to come upon a book called Get Naked Fast by Diana Stobo. Well!! The cover is just so fun, and the title is so intriguing that of course I had to go find her! I went to her website first http://www.dianastobo.com where I signed up for her mailing list and received the first 3 chapters of her book for free in pdf form, then I found her on facebook, then I watched the most inspiring video of her on youtube, and instantly I knew I was going to do this 10-Day Challenge.

So today was officially Day 1, and I wanted to document it on video. Just for me, and my eyes only.

As most of you who know me, I DON’T DO VIDEO.

I’ve been blogging and doing audios since November 2004, but I don’t do videos.

But today, I decided that I really wanted to document Day 1, and since it was just going to be for me, for my eyes only, no one would ever see it, so what the heck?

So I made a very short video – 1 minute and 27 seconds. Then I watched it, and I really liked it. That was a huge surprise. It’s like getting naked already on Day 1, exposing myself which felt really liberating. So I sent it off to Diana – thinking she’d get a kick out of it – and she loved it, wrote me back straight away and asked if I would be willing to send her videos every day for the next 10 days.

HAHA. So, there you go. I’ve never told anyone my weight and now I am telling the world. Talk about getting naked fast!

Plus you finally get to see what I LOOK like: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rl_5PXzG6Bs

Enjoy!

A very simple exercise to change your life by Louise Hay

This is a good one – designed to get to the core of what you think are your problems.

On a piece of paper on the top of the page write down I SHOULD

Make a list of five to six ways to finish that sentence.

I should ___________________

I should ____________________

I should ____________________

I should ___________________

I should ____________________

Once you’ve got your list written down of I should, now after each one, ask WHY?

Because my parents said I had to
Because I have bills to pay
Well everybody has to do that
Because I’m afraid not to
Because if I don’t everything will fall apart
Because people are counting on me
Etc.

Now take the word SHOULD out of your vocabulary. It is one of the most harmful words in our language, equated with a feeling of being wrong.

Now ….

replace should with COULD.

Could gives you a choice.

Now take your list from above, one item at a time, except this time begin each of those sentences with
IF I REALLY WANTED TO, I COULD ___________________.

This puts a whole new light on the subject.

Now ask yourself WHY HAVEN’T YOU? WHY AREN’T YOU?

Now we hear entirely different answers:

I don’t want to
I’m afraid
I don’t know how
Because I am not good enough
Etc.

“I often find that people have been berating themselves for years for something they never wanted to do in the first place.” -Louise Hay

HA. There is the end of guilt. I laughed out loud in joy when I did this exercise when I said I COULD IF I WANTED TO __________________ and I discovered that I didn’t want to do any of the things I thought I “should”.

“Or they have been criticizing themselves for not doing something when it was never their idea to begin with. Often it was just something that someone else said they “should” do. When they can see that, they can just drop it from the “should do” list. What a relief that is.” -Louise Hay

Give this a try and see if some of the burdens you have been carrying around unnecessarily are released. You’ll be amazed.

from Louise Hay’s book You Can Heal Your Life

2 Days to Reading without Glasses Audio

Here is the recorded audio of a one-hour talk I gave yesterday at ACIM Gather Radio.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4621838/Lisa121511.mp3

I talk about how my eyesight for the past 6 weeks had been getting worse and worse and worse until finally it was so blurry I couldn’t read anything without taking out my contact lenses (kind of a problem, since I am blind without contact lenses). Then I was in the library earlier this week and lo and behold there was a book called 28 Days to Reading without Glasses. I couldn’t believe it, I wasn’t even looking or thinking about trying to correct my eyesight – but there it was and I thought WHAT I HAVE GOT TO LOSE??

So I immediately started doing the exercises – some yoga stretches, deep abdominal breathing, change to a whole food diet, and going deep into the subconscious by resting and relaxing to plant new ideas there – and immediately on the very first day there was an dramatic improvement, and by the second day, my eyesight is 100 percent back to normal and I can read perfectly without taking out my contacts.

So even though it says 28 Days for me it worked in 2 days.

I didn’t use the affirmations mentioned in the book, but used this one from Florence Scovel Shinn’s book: I GIVE THANKS FOR MY PERFECT SIGHT. I SEE GOD IN EVERY FACE. I SEE GOOD IN EVERY SITUATION.

Here is the audio: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4621838/Lisa121511.mp3

And my honey Bill Free joins me on this audio, reporting from Portugal where he is with Mooji.

ENJOY!!

How can man become centered in his being? How can the dormant energy in the navel awaken? Osho talks about diet and food.

How the life of man can become centered in his being, how he can experience himself and how he can attain his own self?

The first point is about how a man should start living his life from the center of the navel, centered in the self, centered in his being. Before I go into this I would like to discuss three other significant ways through which the energy that is dormant in the navel can become awake. Once it is awake it becomes a door through which man can experience a consciousness which is different from his body.

I will tell you the three points, and then I will discuss them. The first point is right exercise. The second point is right diet. And the third point is right sleep. The person who does not get right exercise, right food and right sleep, can never become centered at the navel. Man has lost touch with all these three things.

Man is the only species whose diet is not predictable. The diet of all other animals is certain. Their basic physical needs and their nature decides what they should eat and what they should not; how much they should eat, how much they should not; when they should eat and when they should stop. But man is absolutely unpredictable, he is absolutely uncertain. Neither his nature tells him what he should eat, nor his awareness tells him how much he should eat, nor his understanding decides when he should stop eating. As none of these qualities of man are predictable the life of man has gone in some very uncertain directions. But if there is even a little understanding — if man starts living with even a little intelligence, with even a little thoughtfulness, opening his eyes even a little, then it is not at all difficult to change to a right diet. It is very easy; there can be nothing more easy. To understand right diet we can divide it into two parts.

The first thing: what should a man eat and what should he not eat? Man’s body is made of chemical elements. The whole process of the body is very much chemical. If alcohol is put into a man, then his body will be affected by the chemical — it will become intoxicated, unconscious. Howsoever healthy, howsoever peaceful the man may be, the chemistry of the intoxication will affect his body. Howsoever saintly a man may be, if he is given poison then he will die.

If the navel center is mistreated, if a wrong diet, wrong food is used, then slowly, slowly the navel center becomes dormant and its energy becomes weaker. Slowly, slowly that center starts falling asleep. Finally it almost goes to sleep. Then we don’t even notice it as any center.

Then we notice only two centers: one is the brain where thoughts are constantly moving, and the other is a little bit of the heart where emotions are moving. Deeper than this we have no contact with anything. So, the lighter the food is, the less it creates heaviness on the body, the more valuable and significant it will be for the beginning of your inner journey.

For a right diet the first thing to remember is that it should not create excitement, it should not be intoxicating, and it should not be heavy. After eating rightly you should not feel heaviness and drowsiness. But perhaps all of us feel heaviness and drowsiness after our meals — then we should know that we are eating wrongly.

A very great doctor, Kenneth Walker, has said in his autobiography that according to his life-long experiences he can say that of whatever people eat, half of it fills their stomach and half of it fills the stomachs of the doctors. If they would eat only half of what they usually eat then they would not get sick at all, and there would be no need of doctors.

Our wrong attitudes towards food are becoming dangerous for us. They are proving to be very costly. They have taken us to a point where we are somehow just alive. Our food does not seem to create health in us, it seems to create sickness. It is a surprising situation when food starts making us sick. It is as if the sun rising in the morning creates darkness. This would be an equally surprising and strange thing to happen. But all the physicians in the world are of the opinion that most of the diseases of man are because of his wrong diet.

So the first thing is that every person should be very aware and conscious about his eating. And I am saying this especially for the Meditator. It is necessary for a Meditator to remain aware of what he eats, how much he eats, and what its effects are on his body. If a man experiments for a few months with awareness, he will certainly find out which is the right food for him, which food gives him tranquility, peace and health. There are no real difficulties but because we do not pay any attention to food, we are never able to discover the right food.

The second thing about food is that the state of our mind when we eat is much more important than what we eat. Food will affect you differently if you eat joyously, happily, or if you eat when you are filled with sadness and worry. If you are eating in a worried state, then even the best food will have a poisonous effect. And if you are eating with joy then it is possible that sometimes even poison may not be able to have its total effect on you. It is very possible. So what state of mind you eat in is important.

The more happily and joyously and the more relaxed and without worry a person can take his meal, the more his food starts becoming the right food.

A violent diet does not only mean that a man eats non-vegetarian food. It is also a violent diet when a man eats with anger. Both of these things are violent. While eating in anger, in suffering, in worry, man is also eating violently. He does not realize at all that just as he is violent when eating the flesh of something else, so when his own flesh burns up inside due to anger and worry, violence is present there too. Then the food which he is eating cannot be non-violent.

The other part of right food is that you should eat in a very peaceful, a very joyful state. If you are not in such a state, then it is better to wait until you are and not to eat for a while. When the mind is absolutely ready, only then should one take his meals. For how long will the mind not be ready? If you are aware enough to wait then at the most it can remain hungry for only one day — but we have never bothered to listen to it. We have made eating food a completely mechanical process. One has to put food into the body and then leave the dining table. It is no longer a psychological process — that is dangerous.

On the body level, the right food should be healthy, non-stimulating and non-violent; on the psychological level the mind should be in a blissful state, graceful and joyous; and on the level of the soul there should be a feeling of gratefulness, of thankfulness. These three things make food the right food.

A feeling of gratitude should be there in all aspects of life, and very particularly with diet. Only then can diet become the right diet.

OSHO QUOTES ON VEGETARIANISM

1. The idea of vegetarianism is of immense value; it is based on great reverence for life.
2. It is the other way round: food cannot make you spiritual, but if you are spiritual your food habits will change. Eating anything will not make much difference. You can be a vegetarian and cruel to the extreme, and violent; you can be a non-vegetarian and kind and loving. Food will not make much difference. In India there are communities who have lived totally with vegetarian food; many Brahmins have lived totally with vegetarian food. They are non-violent but they are not spiritual.
3. I don’t teach vegetarianism; it is a by-product of meditation. Wherever meditation has happened, people have become vegetarian, always, for thousands of years.
4. Vegetarianism has nothing to do with religion: it is something basically scientific. It has nothing to do with morality, but it has much to do with aesthetics. It is unbelievable that a man of sensitivity, awareness, understanding, love, can eat meat. And if he can eat meat then something is missing he is still unconscious somewhere of what he is doing, unconscious of the implications of his acts.
5. If you meditate long enough, deep enough, it is impossible for you to hurt anybody for food; it is impossible. It is not a question of argument, it is not a question of scriptures, it is not who says what, it is not a question of calculating that if you take vegetarian food you will become spiritual; it is automatic. It is not a question of cunningness, you simply become spiritual. The whole thing seems so absurd. Just for food, killing animals, birds, seems so absurd, it falls down.
6. With me, meditation is the only essential religion. And everything that follows it is virtue, because it comes of its own accord. You don’t have to drag it, you don’t have to discipline yourself for it. I have nothing to do with vegetarianism, but I know that if you meditate you are going to grow new perceptivity, new sensitivity, and you cannot kill animals.
7. Vegetarianism should not be anything moral or religious. It is a question of aesthetics: one’s sensitivity, one’s respect, one’s reverence for life.
8. No vegetarian has been able to achieve a single Nobel prize. It is a clear-cut condemnation of vegetarianism. Why do all the Nobel prizes go to non-vegetarians? — because vegetarian food does not contain those proteins which create intelligence. And unless we provide those proteins, intelligence cannot grow. The body is a very delicate phenomenon and it needs a very well balanced diet.
9. In my commune, I have added non-fertilized eggs to the vegetarian food. I am a vegetarian and I would like the whole world to become vegetarian — but not at the cost of risking your intelligence. Non-fertilized eggs fulfill the need completely; in fact, better than non-vegetarian food. We should make it a point that non-vegetarian food is not allowed in the universities because to kill, to do violence just for food, is so ugly and so inhuman that you cannot expect these people to behave lovingly, sensitively, humanly. Non-vegetarian food is one of the basic causes of the whole society being almost in a continuous fight. It makes you insensitive, it makes you hard, it makes you a stone. And it creates things in you — anger, violence — which can be easily avoided.
10. Life in its infinite forms exists as one organic unity. We are part of it: the part should feel reverence for the whole. That is the idea of vegetarianism. It simply means: don’t destroy life. It simply means: life is God — avoid destroying it, otherwise you will be destroying the very ecology.
11. Vegetarianism functioned as a purification. When you eat animals you are more under the law of necessity. You are heavy, you gravitate more towards the earth. When you are a vegetarian you are light and you are more under the law of grace, under the law of power, and you start gravitating towards the sky.
12. Vegetarianism is a conscious effort, a deliberate effort, to get out of the heaviness that keeps you tethered to the earth so that you can fly — so that the flight from the alone to the alone becomes possible.
13. Vegetarianism is of immense help. It changes your chemistry. When you eat and live on animals…. The first thing: whenever an animal is killed the animal is angry, afraid — naturally. When you kill an animal… just think of yourself being killed. What will be the state of your consciousness? What will be your psychology? All kinds of poisons will be released in your body, because when you are angry a certain kind of poison is released into your blood. When you are afraid, again a certain other kind of poison is released into your blood. And when you are being killed, that is the utmost in fear, anger. All the glands in your body release all their poison. And man goes on living on that poisoned meat. If it keeps you angry, violent, aggressive, it is not strange; it is natural. Whenever you live on killing, you don’t have any respect for life; you are inimical to life. And the person who is inimical to life cannot move into prayer — because prayer means reverence for life.
14. Pythagoras was the first to introduce vegetarianism to the West. It is of profound depth for man to learn how to live in friendship with nature, in friendship with creatures. That becomes the foundation. And only on that foundation can you base your prayer, your meditativeness. You can watch it in yourself: when you eat meat, meditation will be found to be more and more difficult.
15. Try vegetarianism and you will be surprised: meditation becomes far easier. Love becomes more subtle, loses its grossness — becomes more sensitive but less sensuous, becomes more prayerful and less sexual. And your body also starts taking on a different vibe. You become more graceful, softer, more feminine, less aggressive, more receptive. Vegetarianism is an alchemical change in you. It creates the space in which the baser metal can be transformed into gold.

the song of God in you

Forgiveness always rests upon the one who offers it, until he sees HIMSELF as needing it no more. And thus is he returned to his REAL function of creating, which his forgiveness offers him again.

Forgiveness turns the world of sin into a world of glory, wonderful to see. Each flower shines in light, and every bird sings of the joy of Heaven. There is no sadness and there is no parting here, for everything is TOTALLY forgiven. And what has been forgiven MUST join, for nothing stands BETWEEN, to keep them separate and apart. The sinless MUST perceive that they are one, for nothing stands between, to push the other off, and in the space which sin left vacant do they JOIN as one, in gladness recognizing what is part of them has NOT been kept apart and separate. The holy place on which you stand is but the space that sin has left. And here you see the Face of Christ arising in its place.

Who could behold the Face of Christ, and NOT recall His Father as He really is? Who could fear love, and stand upon the ground where sin has left a place for Heaven’s altar to rise and tower far above the world, and reach beyond the universe to touch the heart of ALL creation? What IS Heaven, but a song of gratitude and love and praise, by everything created, to the Source of its creation? The holiest of altars is set where once was sin believed to be. For here does every light of heaven come, to be rekindled and increased in joy. For here is what was lost to them restored, and all their radiance made whole again.

Forgiveness brings no little miracles to lay before the gate of Heaven. Here the Son of God Himself comes to receive each gift that brings him nearer to his home. Not one is lost, and none is cherished more than any other. Each reminds him of His Father’s Love as surely as the rest. And each one teaches him that what he fears he loves the most. What BUT a miracle could change his mind, so that he understands that love cannot BE feared? What other miracle is there BUT this? And what else NEED there be to make the space between you disappear? Where sin once was perceived will rise a world which will become an altar to the truth. And YOU will join the lights of Heaven there, and sing their song of gratitude and praise.

For as they come to YOU to be complete, so will you go with them. For no-one hears the song of Heaven, and remains without a voice that adds its power to the song, and makes it sweeter still. And each one joins the singing at the altar which was raised within the tiny spot that sin proclaimed to be its own. And what WAS tiny then has soared into a magnitude of song, in which the universe has joined with but a single voice. This tiny spot of sin that stands between you still is holding back the happy opening of Heaven’s gate. How LITTLE is the hindrance which withholds the wealth of Heaven from you. And how GREAT will be the joy in Heaven when you join the mighty chorus to the Love of God. -A Course in Miracles

What is your King Pin? What is the thing in you that is blocking/jamming up everything else in your life from flowing?

Hi there !

I gave a 1 hour and 20 minute talk yesterday, here is the recording.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4621838/LisaNatoli121211.mp3

ENJOY!

the first 40 minutes are about finding out what resentments are blocking you – WHAT IS YOUR KING-PIN? – and then removing it so that everything starts flowing again.

and the last 40 minutes are about healing food addiction with A Course in Miracles.

If something is blocking you, you gotta unjam it if you expect things to start flowing again. You can’t just stand at the river’s edge and hope and pray for a miracle – you must go deep in there – deep into your subconscious – find the thing that is blocking you and then unblock the block, it’s that simple. Then everything starts flowing again.

From Florence Scovel Shinn:

Find the thought which is your great oppressor; find the “king-pin”.

In the logging camps in the Spring, the logs are sent down the rivers in great numbers.

Sometimes the logs become crossed and cause a jam. The men look for the log causing the jam (they call it the king-pin), straighten it, and the logs rush down the river agian.

Maybe your King-Pin is resentment. Resentment holds back your good.

The more you resent, the more you will have to resent; you grow a resentment track in your brain, and your expression will be one of habitual resentment.

You will be avoided and miss the golden opportunities which await you each day.

I remember a few years ago, the streets were filled with men selling apples.

They got up early to get the good corners.

I passed one several times on Park Avenue. He had the most disagreeable expression I have ever seen.

As people passed he said, “Apples! Apples!” but no one stpped to buy.

I invested in an apple and said, “You’ll never sell apples unless you change your expression.”

He replied, “Well that guy over there took my corner.”

I said, “Never mind about the corner, you can sell apples right here if you’ll look pleasant.”

He said, “O.K. lady,” and I went on. The next day I saw him, his whole expression had changed. He was doing a big business selling apples with a smile.

So find your king-pin (you may have more than one); and your logs of success, happiness and abundance will go rushing down your river.

Go therefore now and work, for there shall no straw be given you, yet ye shall make bricks without straw.”

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4621838/LisaNatoli121211.mp3

I just signed a love declaration – woohoooooo!

The Love Declaration is a personal transformation covenant whose purpose is to be a bridge to our awakened conscious unity. It is a spiritually-initiative portal through which all beings are invited to pass via the authentic setting aside of the illusion of a separate self. It is a powerful and unambiguous thought form, and is intended to be freely shared, moving as a gift from heart to heart as timed and guided by the Good That Is. It’s mission is to inspire unifying miracles by rigorously voicing—without exceptions, back-doors, loopholes, or exits of any kind—a fundamentally true knowing living deep within every created being.

Regardless of any failures to actually BE it moment to moment, The Love Declaration stands for the possibility of knowing ourselves as our Word in exactly the same way that life’s Creator knows itself as it’s Word. This Declaration, by including and going beyond the present tense simple into the future-promissory (I am and I will be) languages for the benefit of our personal awareness the actively compassionate voice of our universal relatedness. It is a tool providing the limitless non-comparative reality of Absolute Love a trustable anchoring presence for our hearts and minds. Beyond suggesting daily remembrance, and that its usage be public, shared, and communion-generating, The Love Declaration, being universal, comes “without instructions”, because guidance regarding its use is available within every being directly for the sincere asking, whatever our individual cultural backgrounds, faith persuasions, or other life-contextualizing paradigms. Thank you for recognizing that your life, and the creative, intentional, and contributive way you live it, is a blessing absolutely essential to the wholeness of Life. There is only One of us here.

Wanna sign The Love Declaration?

“I AM AND I WILL BE”

THANK YOU GOD.

THE LOVE COVENANT

I am your partner
in awakening
from fear.
From this moment on,
at all times,
under all conditions,
I Declare I am
and I will be,
for All Beings,
A Conscious Source
of Absolute Love;
and I promise
I will serve
only this Love,
in you,
in me,
and in All,
no matter what,
for the rest of my life.

AMEN.

Today at 3pm EST live! Healing food addiction with A Course in Miracles http://www.acimgatherradio.org

Hi there -

My friend Marielle is now on her way back to Wisconsin – I just dropped her off at the airport. We had a great amazing weekend. Relaxing, a movie, breakfast, lunch and dinner, zumba and a yoga class, a trip to the ocean, a trip to Barnes and Nobles, Starbucks and lots of laughing. So she’s on a plane right now on her way home. I miss her already!

Just a reminder we are doing a weekly radio show every Monday at 3pm EST: Healing food addiction with A Course in Miracles.
So that’s today.

Since Marielle is traveling today, it will be just me today.

You can listen in at http://www.acimgatherradio.org

and if you would like to interact, or ask question or talk – you can come to http://www.paltalk.com and the room is ACIM GATHER

Hope to see you there.
If you have a topic or question you’d like to see covered on the show, please let me know.

Love, Lisa

Got mood poisioning? must have been something you hate.

Feel more and then you will think less. Rather than fighting with the thoughts, move your energy into feeling. Sing rather than think, love rather than philosophize, dance, look at nature and whatever you do, do it through the heart.

Osho – Man can function from three centers: one is the head, another is the heart and the third one is the navel. If you function from the head you will go on spinning thoughts and thoughts and thoughts. They are very insubstantial, dream-stuff – they promise much, they deliver nothing.

The mind is a great cheat but it has tremendous capacities to delude, because it can project. It can give you great utopias, great desires, and it always goes on saying ’Tomorrow it is going to happen’… and it never happens.

Nothing ever happens in the head – the head is not the place for anything to happen. … The second center is the heart. It is the center for feeling, one feels through the heart. You are closer home – not home yet, but closer. When you feel, you are more substantial, you have more solidity; when you feel, there is a possibility that something may happen. There is no possibility with the head, there is a small possibility with the heart.

But the real thing is not even the heart. The real thing is deeper than the heart – that is the navel. It is the center of being.

Thinking, feeling, being – these are the three centers. But certainly feeling is closer to being than thinking, and feeling functions as a method. If you want to come down from the head you will have to pass through the heart – that is the crossroads from where the roads separate. You cannot go to being directly, there is no way; you will have to pass through the heart. So the heart has to be used as a method.

Feel more and then you will think less. Don’t fight with thinking, because fighting with thinking is again creating other thoughts of fighting. Then the mind is never defeated. If you win, it is the mind which has won; if you are defeated, you are defeated. Either way you are defeated – so never fight with thoughts, it is futile.

Rather than fighting with the thoughts, move your energy into feeling. Sing rather than think, love rather than philosophize, read poetry rather than prose. Dance, look at nature, and whatsoever you do, do it through the heart.

For example, if you touch somebody, touch through the heart, touch feelingly, let your being vibrate. When you look at somebody don’t just look with stone-dead eyes. Pour out your energy through the eyes and immediately you will see that something is happening in the heart. It is only a question of trying….

The heart is the neglected center: once you start paying attention to it, it starts functioning. When it starts functioning, the energy that was moving in the mind automatically starts moving through the heart. And the heart is closer to the energy center – the energy center is in the navel – so to pump it to the head is hard work in fact.

That’s why all the education systems exist: they teach you how to pump the energy from the center to the head and how to by-pass the heart. So no school, no college, no university, teaches how to feel. They destroy feeling, because they know that if you feel you cannot think.

If you feel too much then the energy will be stopped at the heart center, it will never go to the head. It can only go to the head when the heart center is completely denied. It has to go somewhere, it has to find an outlet. If the heart is not the outlet, it will go to the head.

In fact, the whole educational system which has developed all over the world is just to teach you how to avoid the heart, how to become more and more heady and how to pump the energy directly to the head.

So love is denied, feeling is denied, condemned – it is almost a sin to feel. One has to be logical and rational, not emotional. If you are emotional, people will say you are childish – in a way they are literally true, because only a child feels. A grown-up person, educated, cultivated, conditioned, stops feeling. He becomes almost dry, dead wood – no juice flows any more. Hence there is so much misery: misery is because of the head.

The head cannot celebrate, there is no celebration possible through the head. It can think about celebration – it can think about and about and about, but it cannot celebrate. Celebration happens through the heart.

So the first thing for you is to start feeling more and more…. Become an abode of love, a shrine of love, a house of love; this is the first step. Once you have taken this step the second will be very very easy.

First, you love – half the journey is complete. And as it is easy to move from the head to the heart, it is even more easy to move from the heart to the navel. In the navel you are simply a being, a pure being – no feeling, no thinking; you are not moving at all. That is the center of the cyclone.

Everything else is moving: the head is moving, the heart is moving, the body is moving. Everything is moving, everything is in a constant flux. Only the center of your existence, the navel center, is unmoving; it is the hub of the wheel.

Today at 12EST ACIM Gather Radio: Technique for Centering

Good Morning!

I’ll be on at 12EST today on ACIM Gather talking about a technique described by Osho for centering.

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The center is your root, your connection to the whole. Man is born with a center but remains completely oblivious of it.

I’ll be talking about the reason why TRYING TO FEEL BETTER, TO LIVE MORE FROM YOUR HEART, TO LOVE MORE, OR TO THINK YOUR WAY OUT OF YOUR PROBLEMS usually doesn’t work and feels like efforting and hard work, because your heart and mind is NOT your true center. Feeling and thinking is learned behavior. Your true center is in BEING, which is your navel. Your root, your center is in the Divine.

Your center is your navel – your Beingness – this is the center you are born with, grounded with roots to everything.

But almost immediately  the world teaches you TO FEEL, and thus people think the heart is center, but this is a “learned” center, not your true center.

People are taught to FEEL – but this is a learned habit.

YOUR TRUE CENTER IS IN BEING.

There is nothing to do. No need to improve your mood.

Spirit – WHO YOU ARE – doesn’t feel. Spirit just IS, in Being.

That’s why all the information and self-help books about TRYING TO FEEL BETTER, TO LIVE MORE FROM YOUR HEART, TO LOVE MORE ETC. usually doesn’t work and feels like efforting and hard work, because it’s not your true center.

Your heart is NOT your true center. It’s close, but it’s not it.

feeling is learned. So a lot of what goes around right now in spiritual groups about FEELING as the most important thing is not true. Living from your heart is close, it can be helpful, but living from your center – YOUR NAVEL, YOUR BEING – will ground you back in God, back to yourself, and then you’ll know happiness.

So it’s not a doing, just an awareness of becoming centered again – to go within and recognize Who you are.

Then the world teaches you to think, so people think the intellect and mind is the center, but again, this is not your true center – the mind is the 3rd learned “center”

Your true center is your navel – that is your root. You have roots in the Divine.

If you do not know your center, you go on drifting, aimless, always searching outside yourself because you are not aware of your root. Without an awareness of your root, there is always a searching or reaching or seeking.

So 12pm EST today. Come join me: http://www.acimgatherradio.org

Audio Recording: as the ego’s foundation crumbles and it will no longer bother to be your friend and becomes vicious, things start breaking THIS IS GOOD!

Here is the recording from this morning. Click this link to listen:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4621838/LisaEgoVsGod.mp3

When you say YES! to God, the ego will no longer pretend to be your friend and this is usually about the time everything starts breaking

Good Morning.

A new 30-minute audio recording from this morning:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4621838/LisaEgoVsGod.mp3

ENJOY!

The topic is :EGO VS GOD: A BATTLE THAT IS BEING WAGED – YOU NEED NOT RESPOND.

When you say yes! to God, the ego’s defensive system is threatened and it will no longer bother to pretend to be your friend.

Loudly the ego tells you not to look inward, for if you do, your eyes will light on sin, and God will strike you blind. This you believe, and so you do not look. Yet this is not the ego’s hidden fear, nor yours who serve it. Loudly indeed the ego claims it is. TOO loudly and TOO often. For underneath this constant shout and frantic proclamation, the ego is not certain it is so. Beneath your fear to look within because of sin, is yet another fear, and one which makes the ego tremble. What if you looked within, and saw NO sin? This “fearful” question is one the ego NEVER asks. And you who ask it now are “threatening” the ego’s whole defensive system too seriously for it to bother to pretend it is your friend.  -A Course in Miracles, Chapter 21, Section 5

While you were asleep in oblivion acting out your habits and routines on auto-pilot, the ego only caused minor aches and pains – but they were constant – sort of low-rumbling annoyance that never went away, but that also was not too disturbing. You managed to learn to live with constant fear, because it was manageable, right?

We all did this.

When you say YES! to God and decide to take this journey, the ego becomes vicious. IT STARTS SHOUTING AND SHRIEKING REALLY LOUD. It no longer pretends to be your friend. This is usually the time when relationships are disrupted, jobs are lost, all chaos breaks lose, the body starts doing weird things and unexpected disturbances start coming from out of nowhere. It’s all ego trying to get you to go back to sleep. Like I said: A BATTLE IS BEING WAGED. You do have to go through a wilderness to get to the Promised Land. All this stuff breaking is only temporary if you don’t give it any attention.

However, most people, because the screaming of the ego is now SO LOUD that that’s where their attention goes. They attempt to understand and fix and change all these problems. That’s just giving attention to ego, which is what it wants. WALK AWAY. Do not pay attention.

Alongside this shrieking nothingness is a small quiet child standing there just waiting for you to acknowledge HIM and take HIS hand, and walk with him in a state of grace.

And believe me, I KNOW, it will take a miracle because once you make a decision to take this journey, THE EGO WILL NO LONGER PRETEND TO BE YOUR FRIEND.

The ego will become vicious, things probably will appear to be breaking and shifting and in the transition it can be wildly confusing and disorienting. But if you just STAND STRONG IN CHRIST, the ego will disappear. It doesn’t stand a chance in the light of God.

9:30am EST: http://www.acimgatherradio.org

Recording from this morning Sunday Bible: Leaving the land of slavery and Crossing your red sea

Here you go – this morning’s audio, ENJOY http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4621838/LisaMoses120411.mp3
I’m talking about Moses and CROSSING YOUR RED SEA – getting out of the slavery of “Egypt” which is your habits, old thinking, comfort zones, and how whenever you want to make it to the Promised Land, you’ve got to cross through the Wilderness that’s why TRUST is so important. Most people prefer to remain slaves than make the journey. But if you’re ready to leave your self-imposed prison, the door is open, let’s go. Listen in here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4621838/LisaMoses120411.mp3

On at 9:30am this morning: Bible Sunday Live!

Bible Sunday at ACIM Gather Radio this morning at 9:30am EST.

LIVE!

I’ll be talking about Moses and CROSSING YOUR RED SEA – getting out of the slavery of “Egypt” which is your habits, old thinking, comfort zones, and how whenever you want to make it to the Promised Land, you’ve got to cross through the Wilderness that’s why TRUST is so important. Most people prefer to remain slaves than make the journey. But if you’re ready to leave your self-imposed prison, the door is open, let’s go. Listen in here: http://www.acimgatherradio.org/

You have the key – the door is open.

Tonight! 8:30pm EST: Healing food addiction with A Course in Miracles

My friend and co-author Marielle School and I offer a program to help people with food addiction. It’s not a diet. There’s no food rules – we trust you to figure out what you need to do as far as the specifics of what you want to eat. What we DO offer is support for all the ideas of self-hatred and loathing that lead to food addiction, along with simple practical steps towards nurturing, happiness and living life without guilt and shame.

TONIGHT! Saturday December 3rd we will be giving a 90-minute talk at ACIM Gather Radio at 8:30pm EST: http://www.acimgatherradio.org

ON A SIDE NOTE: TODAY IS MY ZUMBA CERTIFICATION TRAINING. WISH ME LUCK!! Woohooo. I think it’s gonna be a blast.

Here is the first video I ever saw on Zumba that got me interested and excited in it in the first place. That’s Tanya Beardsley in the front there, the instructor. She’s awesome. This is still my very favorite Zumba video. If you want a fun 10 minute workout RIGHT NOW, this is it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vf0q6qtThF4

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So I’ll be off doing this all day  – and then tonight at 8:30pm EST we will be on PALTALK.COM – HEALING FOOD ADDICTION WITH A COURSE IN MIRACLES – and the room is ACIM GATHER (which can be found by typing it in the SEARCH BOX – if that doesn’t work go under the folder EDUCATION, then the folder OTHER)

Then every Monday starting this coming Monday December 5th we have a 1-hour show from 3-4pm EST at ACIM GATHER.

You can order a copy of our book on Amazon either in paperback or Kindle:

If you need individual support, we have a 40-day program along with weekly Friday night Live! Skype meetings at 6:30pm EST which are private-for-members-only – which means that you can be free to share whatever is going on with you and receive the support you need: http://www.itmatterstotally.com/40dayhealing/

There is no need to struggle or suffer. There is a solution – and thank God it has nothing to do with food!

Friday December 2nd 10:30AM EST – saving energy that can be used to get into the higher vibrations

I am on tomorrow morning live! Friday December 2, 10:30am EST on ACIM Gather Radio for 30 minutes: Don’t try to be happy or nicer or more generous – this is an UNDOING, not a doing. Don’t try to be in the frequency of joy and love, just be only concerned with forgiveness and releasing the past. The only work needed is to be willing to STAND STILL QUIETLY not engaging in conflict anymore. In that clean space where you are no longer battling with yourself or other people, God will raise you up Himself and then you’ll know happiness and peace.

Carlos Castaneda talks about “needing a certain amount of energy” to go to higher vibrations, and that the only way you can get that extra energy needed is to stop wasting it on things like complaining, self-importance, worry and fear.

It’s takes a tremendous amount of energy to leave time and space, to leave your story behind, to leave addictions.

You have all the energy you need -THE POWER OF GOD IS YOURS -  but how are you using it??

When I watch Mooji, I realize he is speaking from the very top – he IS a Master, speaking simply and beautifully  – giving an absolutely pure message but the people who are asking questions do not have enough energy to hear him, and that’s why they ask a second question and a third question and on and on – because they do not have enough energy to hear him.  They have not done the forgiveness work necessary that gives them the energy to reach that vibration he is in. It’s not good or bad, it’s just very clear to see – the questioner is using their energy on their stories, trying to fix problems, attempting “to understand”  – leaving them no energy to reach those vibrations where these is a Mooji, or a Jesus or a Buddha.

Once you are in that vibration, there are no more questions, except maybe “What is for lunch?” There is only then a quiet happy listening for guidance on where to go and what to do and what to say to fulfill His Plan, but there’s no confusion or suffering in it. Just an alertness and joyful expectancy that He who is working through us will do so if we let him.

Many have stored enough energy to come close to a Master, but most do not have to energy to hear them, or to consistently vibrate in that space with them without falling back down into routine and littleness.

and thus the absolute necessity to make a conscious decision to stop wasting your energy on hate, misery, sadness, complaining, etc. Because while you continuing to do that – that’s energy you are dissipating horizontally on meaningless things – it’s just wasteful and that’s why you get tired because you took the power of God and spent it to linger in time and space trying to figure out your confusions and problems. WHEN THAT VERY SAME ENERGY COULD BE SAVED, REDIRECTED AND FOCUSED TO REACH THE HIGHER VIBRATIONS.

Same with Jesus. That’s why no one could hear him. They were using their energy on resentments and grievances, leaving them zero energy to travel to reach those higher vibratory notes of joy and love.

The biggest waster of energy is on self-importance, trying to maintain your identity. Second biggest waster of energy and time is attempting to sequence time with past and future. Trying to remember what and why people said and did things. Waste of time! Waste of energy! It’s all just effects and appearance and smoke and mirrors. If you stopped looking at the world and yourself, and started looking only at God, you’d have a tremendous amount of energy to use for creation.

It’s up to you what you do with your time and energy.

This is at 12EST noon.

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Life Lesson #7