The ear of the universe and the winds of change
The winds of change are a common metaphor for doing things differently. My favourite metaphor movie is Chocolat (2000. Juliette Binoche and the divine Johnny Depp). The north wind tells the main character, French/Mayan born, single mother, Vianne, when and where to move her alluring chocolate making skills to. Darn but that wind blew her to a small French, very traditional Catholic village during lent! Through the making of her magic chocolate, Vianne breaks traditions and innocently heals the souls of hurting people. A wonderful feminist movie of acceptance, inclusion and doing things differently, the movie clearly deals a blow to the control of that which makes us unhappy and instead encourages us to follow the winds of change by listening to our inner desires and songs.
I am a student of change: a student of self development. Even though I have a degree in social communications and self growth, I spend at least half an hour a day working on myself and becoming a product of healthy change. This morning as I sat and reflected on the signs of change, the breeze caught my hair and tickled my face. I was conscious of it. I was conscious of the breeze massaging my arms and blowing confirmation and happiness deep into my soul.
I went to tell the wind that I heard it and that I was indeed already happy. Instead of saying, “I hear you,” I said, “I ear you.”
It hit me like a rocket. The “ear” of the universe is the wind on me. The Universe was listening to me and was responding to my song of deep happiness and gratitude. It heard my oneness with the world and it responded in a way I would hear. It gave me its ear and spoke to me in the wind.
Every time I now feel the breeze on my skin or I see the signs of the wind in the trees, I will remember that the Universe is listening to me. It is giving me its ear and it is waiting to blow the winds of change into my life by giving me all that I ask for.
Ask, Belive, Receive. I “ear” the universe and I send it my thoughts because thoughts become things when the universe listens to your song. I’m singing baby, I’m singing.
Do you hear the Universe? You know that it hears you don’t you. What is your experience of knowing that you are being listened to?
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Last minute Christmas ideas for the self development focused
- Buy her a spot in Ms Jenny’s Rejuvenation and discovery workshop for women (workshop offered in Cairns). Facilitated by Running on Empathy, this workshop is for the woman who wants to meet the Goddess that she already is. Excellent value at only $95.00. Total pampering in a full day workshop (massages have to come to an end though…damn!). Heavenly food.
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- Three day self development conference in Acapulco, March 2009 ($7,995.00 American, approx. $11,500 Australian). I’m going because I believe in being the best I can be. Who’s coming with me? This is a gift that would send me into raptures. Allow your loved one to fall in love with you all over again – buy them this piece of heaven.
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Make a lot of money New Year’s resolution
Darn but I’ve had some hard times throughout life. Sexually transmitted debt from one husband (ex!), sickness and being off work from another husband. While my work ethic has ensured that I’ve always had full employment and provided for my family, there have been times where I wondered where the money for the unexpected bills were coming from! My work ethic and financial need also kept me away from my kids for far too long – this is the one area of my past life I would change if I could. Thank goodness I have changed it for the remainder of my youngest son’s years at home (pictured – he LOVES fishing and now I have the time to go fishing with him).
A single mother of six children (four of my own and two foster children) for part of my adult life, I have walked the path of the working poor for a long time. Cash deficit, but poor….no. Part of the definition of poverty is the inability to make choices: something I have always been able to do.
For as long as I can remember I have been determined and motivated. These were early choices for me. I chose not to have a life like my career army officer father. I chose not to grow old and poor. Oops…better hurry up on changing that one old girl!!!!
Talking control of my recent familial circumstances has necessitated me making double what I was making before. My husband has been very unwell and is off work. My new business in self development came at a perfect time for me and I am very grateful that it is delivering us into an old age that I desire 
.
My New Year’s Resolution is to make a lot of money….a real lot. I am aiming for a seven figure in 2009. Without copious amounts of money I cannot help survivors of sexual assault nor donate my time to ensuring child protection stays high in community consciousness. Without copious amounts of money I cannot allow my husband to recover, stress free, or for my son to play his beloved Laser Tag whenever he can.
Concentrating on the bad stuff and having a “poor” mentality only increases the very things you don’t want in your life. Depression breeds depression and negativity breeds more bad stuff showing up in your life. I publicly refuse to buckle to negativity and I instead publicly state my intent to make seven figures to compensate for my husband’s loss of income and to ensure I can continue to do my voluntary work.
I am very grateful that I earn more working part time than I did working full time. But watch this space because I am determined that 2009 is the year I crack my million dollar income. Want to join me for the journey? I do success and I’m happy to mentor other hard workers along the way. My fundamental belief is in working together and for the good of other people. Ethical and people centered, my money will be used to make the world a better place.
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Stumble It!How much do you love your children?
I was walking around in a Target store, when I saw a Cashier hand this little boy some money back. The boy couldn’t have been more than 5 or 6 years old.
The Cashier said, ‘I’m sorry, but you don’t have enough money to buy this doll.’
Then the little boy turned to the old woman next to him: ”Granny, are you sure I don’t have enough money?”
The old lady replied: ”You know that you don’t have enough money to buy this doll, my dear.”
Then she asked him to stay there for just 5 minutes while she went to look a round. She left quickly. The little boy was still holding the doll in his hand. Finally, I walked toward him and I asked him who he wished to give this doll to.
‘It’s the doll that my sister loved most and wanted so much for Christmas. She was sure that Santa Claus would bring it to her.’
I replied to him that maybe Santa Claus would bring it to her after all, and not to worry.
But he replied to me sadly. ‘No, Santa Claus can’t bring it to her where she is now. I have to give the doll to my Mommy so that she can give it to my sister when she goes there.’
His eyes were so sad while saying this. ‘My Sister has gone to be with God. Daddy says that Mommy is going to see God very soon too, so I thought that she could take the doll with her to give it to my sister.”
My heart nearly stopped.
The little boy looked up at me and said: ‘I told daddy to tell Mommy not to go yet. I need her to wait until I come back from the mall.’
Then he showed me a very nice photo of him where he was laughing. He then told me ‘I want Mommy to take my picture with her so she won’t forget me.’
‘I love my mommy and I wish she doesn’t have to leave me, but daddy says that she has to go to be with my little sister.’
Then he looked again at the doll with sad eyes, very quietly.
I quickly reached for my wallet and said to the boy. ‘Suppose we check again, just in case you do have enough money for the doll?”
‘OK’ he said, ‘I hope I do have enough.’ I added some of my money to his with out him seeing and we started to count it. There was enough for the doll and even some spare money.
The little boy said: ‘Thank you God for giving me enough money!’
Then he looked at me and added, ‘I asked last night before I went to sleep for God to make sure I had enough money to buy this doll, so that Mommy could give It to my sister. He heard me!”
‘I also wanted to have enough money to buy a white rose for my Mommy, but I didn’t dare to ask God for too much. But He gave me enough to buy the doll and a white rose.”
‘My mommy loves white roses.’
A few minutes later, the old lady returned and I left with my basket. I finished my shopping in a totally different state from when I started. I couldn’t get the little boy out of my mind.
Then I remembered a local news paper article two days ago, which mentioned a drunk man in a truck, who hit a car occupied by a young woman and a little girl.
The little girl died right away, and the mother was left in a critical state. The family had to decide whether to pull the plug on the life-sustaining machine, because the young woman would not be able to recover from the coma.
Was this the family of the little boy?
Two days after this encounter with the little boy, I read in the news paper that the young woman had passed away.
I couldn’t stop myself as I bought a bunch of white roses and I went to the funeral home where the body of the young woman was exposed for people to see and make last wishes before her burial.
She was there, in her coffin, holding a beautiful white rose in her hand with the photo of the little boy and the doll placed over her chest.
I left the place, teary-eyed, feeling that my life had been changed for ever.. The love that the little boy had for his mother and his sister is still, to this day, hard to imagine.
And in a fraction of a second, a drunk driver had taken all this away from him.
Will you think again before you drink drive??????
(Story came to me on email and touched me deeply enough to post about drink driving. I dedicate this post to my good friend, A, from Three Times Kewl and who lost her husband to a drink driver.)
If a terrorist killed our loved ones we may be motivated to end terrorism and ensure peace. But, when a drink driver kills a loved one, nothing much changes. Drink driving continues and more people become tragically affected by the effects of a legal drug.
We fail to recognize public drinking as a potential risk to our families and stop the person from getting into a car. Often comments passed make note of hoping the idiot gets booked by the police and loses their license. But, in my mind, drink driving is an act of domestic terrorism, just as child abuse is.
Please, this Christmas don’t be a bloody idiot. If you drink and drive then you are a domestic terrorist and are never to be trusted. Drink drivers rate in my mind as child abusers do: family busters. How much do you love your children? I love mine, and yours, enough to ensure that nobody self drives away from my home after drinking excessive alcohol. Child protection is keeping drink drivers off the road.
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