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YOU CAN'T SHUT OUT THE LIGHT WHEN THE CURTAINS ARE OPEN

by Eleyne-Mari, Lightworker






The alarm goes off.  You press the snooze button and you lie there, listening to the seconds tick-tick-ticking in your head, knowing that they won't go away.

The bright sunshine streams through your windows and across your face, nudging you to rise to the occasion.  But you're struggling.  You don't really want to awaken, you tell yourself.  You enjoyed the comfort of the darkness, where you didn't have to come to action, or reaction.

But the curtains are open, Lightworker, and it was you who opened them.  It was you who felt the inner stirrings to help, to serve.  It was you who finally found your purpose.  So you can't shut out all the light, now that you're beaming with good intentions.

Are you beginning to doubt yourself?  Are you wondering how you got into all this Lightworker mess?  After all, who are you to proclaim yourself a Lightworker?  Who are you to say you are a healer?  What makes you so special? 

Well, you can choose to pull the covers right over your head but eventually you will have to come out and greet the sunshine.  And you will have to face a few more important facts about your Lightworker status, like how you're going to have to do a lot of forgiving.

But let's not go there yet.

I'm a Lightworker, too, and it took me over a half century to even say that out loud because I was afraid it would sound egotistical, almost as bad as proclaiming I was Mother Teresa.  My own Lightworker story has been one long journey plagued with anger, fear, tears and doubt.  Miraculously, all my traumatic experiences finally led me to becoming a color therapist, spiritual aromatherapist and teacher.  I spent many years questioning my Catholicism, wondering why I never felt peace and joy when I came out of mass and believing there had to be something more.  When I was a teenager in the early '70s, musicals like "Godspell" and "Jesus Christ Superstar" were popular and I found that they stirred something very strong within me--hope…and shame, mostly. 

At the time, my family life was very difficult and so I escaped the madness by hanging out at a coffee house for teenagers called "The Back Door", which was basically a large room connected to our Catholic church.  This is where I played my guitar and sang "Day By Day" and it was dark and lit only with black-light posters and I felt safe there, like I was in a womb.  This was also the time I began reading the Seth books and The Magic of Believing by Claude Bristol.  That book made a great impact on me and was my introduction to creative visualization, although I now realize I had practiced it all my life. 

My "Jesus Loves You" period was short-lived after some family members ridiculed me, saying I was only pretending to be pious and so I spent the rest of my teens being angry at God and my agnosticism lasted throughout my twenties. Occasionally, there would be a friend who would try to get me involved in a bible study group--or even the Mormons or the Hari Krishnas--but I didn't want any part of it.  I felt God had abandoned me--if He even existed at all--and I was so angry that I wouldn't listen to religious Christmas carols during the holidays or even allow a nativity scene or an angel ornament on my Christmas tree.

I would love to tell you that a beautiful angel appeared to me and there was harp music as she told me I was loved and had to change my evil ways and that's when I began my great spiritual journey.  But my awakening was nothing that dramatic, although I do work with angels now.  Actually, the most significant thing I can remember is the day I purchased You Can Heal Your Life by Louise Hay.  I was about 30 then. Louise talked a lot about self-love and forgiveness, two things I desperately wanted--and sorely needed.   Her book represented a turning point in my life, as did books by Sonia Choquette, Denise Linn and Doreen Virtue, which helped me improve my self-esteem and accept my healing and intuitive abilities.

For the past 25 years, I have been working on the self-love and forgiveness.  And how not to be a victim.  Not the easiest things to learn, I can tell you.  But I've read a lot, listened a lot and now I'm in my late 50's and I feel happy because I know I am clearly on the right path.  It's not the same path as yours, it's my path.  And it feels right.  It feels true.  And I know that I am forgiven of all my sins (yes, all of them) and I am very loved.

So now we get to the forgiveness part, and if this thought makes you cringe, I completely understand.  Forgiving someone for doing you wrong is difficult.  (After all, people write songs about it.)  We get angry.  We kick, we scream, we cry.  We withdraw.  And sometimes we just want to punch someone.  Well, these are all natural emotions so you need to forgive yourself for thinking this way.  But I guarantee that once you learn to forgive and fully accept your inner Lightworker, everything will soon fall into place.

As you're growing accustomed to your Lightworker wings, you may find yourself turning to an "expert" for solace.  That's fine.  Whether a self-help author or spiritual guru, these people have inspired you and their truth may indeed seem like your truth.  But please do not make the mistake in believing they are infallible.  They are human, too, and they are experiencing their own personal journey.  So yes, learn from them but refrain from worshipping them because here's the plain truth: you already have the answers within.

Yes, you are a Lightworker.  Yes, the time is now.  So arise, you Sleepyhead--and awaken to your calling!

Eleyne-Mari is the producer of Wake UP, Lightworkers! and host of "Light Lunch".  She is a writer, color therapist, spiritual aromatherapist, crystal worker and director of Aura House School of Color Therapy.

SPIRITUAL GROUNDEDNESS IN SPITE OF SHAKY GROUND

by Ade Anifowose, Lightworker

So much is happening at this moment in time: earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, people rebelling against their political leaders – nationally and internationally. Relationships are being challenged; we are all having to rethink what is valuable. People are waking up (spiritually), some are waking up as a response to the inner call and others are waking up due to stimuli from the external world. Nonetheless, they are waking up. Asking questions like, "Why am I here?" "Is the world coming to an end?" The natural disasters are certainly waking all of us up, on some level. The ground we are standing on is shaking. People are looking for something to grab on to.

In spite of the shaky ground, you can still stand on solid ground. How solid your ground is will be determined by your daily spiritual practice. Your spiritual practice helps you "see" differently and strengthens your ground.

There is a saying, "as within, so without." The shaky ground is a reflection of an inner transformation within mother earth and within each one of us. This is not the time to worry or live in anxiety. It is a time of transformation – the stripping out of the old – the old way of living, the fallacy of perfection as we evolve into a place of Authenticity.

If there is a question we all need to ask ourselves right now, it is, "Is the way I am living my life in alignment with my authentic self, with my Soul's purpose? Said a different way, "Am I being true to myself, or am I simply struggling to be perfect?"

If the answer is "No", obviously you know you have work to do. If the answer is, "Well, sometimes." You have work to do. We are all here for God and God only. Your mission is to release your inner splendor – to fully express your authentic self.

Every challenge you are going through, leads back to one idea – Being authentic. In the book, The Sacred Yes! by Rev. Deborah Johnson, there is a quote: "The struggle for freedom is really just the demand to be authentic."

The more courageous you are in expressing your authentic self, the more solid your ground becomes. You develop a sense of holy boldness, with a sense of groundedness that sustains any shaky situations. This is an individual and collective process. Humanity needs to focus more on developing an "interdependent consciousness." No more "me" consciousness. By locking arms energetically and spiritually, humanity has a better chance of weathering the shaky ground. Remember, we are as strong as the weakest link. Let us all "Come together and Unite" in order to create a "CommUnity" of love, harmony, joy, abundance.

We are already standing on holy ground. Do you FEEL it?

Ade Anifowose is a life coach, spiritual teacher, co-host of the Wake UP, Lightworkers! show and host of "Life Conversations" on BlogTalkRadio.  

LOOK TO THE RAINBOW: Color Empowerment for Lightworkers

by Eleyne-Mari, Lightworker

Jenny, a skilled nurse and lightworker, is on the phone. We have been friends for many years and she is one of the most nurturing, most loving people on the planet. Unfortunately, Jenny is sick again. And it's not just the "I-have-a-common-cold" kind of sick, but something major. It's cancer--for the third time.

"What colors should I take?" she asks me. And so I tell her and we talk and she says she feels better now and thank you. But I know it won't be long before Jenny calls again because it's her pattern. And when she does she will have accrued yet another new type of ailment because that's her pattern, too.

Even lightworkers get the blues

Louise Hay, the well-known lightworker and self-help publishing pioneer, says that for every physical ailment, there is an underlying emotional reason for the dis-ease. For example, you may have all the symptoms of a cold but it may be your original thought patterns of being overwhelmed and confused which created your original medical condition.

In Jenny's case, her cancer stems from 1) fear of not making enough money to pay her bills and 2) anger towards her ex-husband. She works and worries herself so much that her body has determined that the only way it can get Jenny to slow down and take care of herself is to give her a life-threatening disease to concentrate on.

Marie is an energy healer who came out of the spiritual closet a few years ago. She writes a column about spirituality in a major online publication and has been interviewed on many radio shows. While Marie is happily following her path (which includes an aggressive business marketing campaign), she has come under attack by other so-called lightworkers, who doubt her pure intentions. Now Marie spends enormous amounts of energy stressing and has developed insomnia and overeating problems, which she combats with over-the-counter drugs instead of relying on her own healing abilities.

Got a headache? Take an aspirin. Can't sleep? Swallow a sleeping pill. Coughing all night? Drink this syrup.

We have evolved (or should I say devolved) into an over-medicated society that believes most issues are cured by visiting the bathroom medicine cabinet. According to the Department of Health and Human Services, annual drug expenditures in the United States are in the trillions of dollars with nearly one half of all Americans taking at least one prescription drug.

Change your colors and you change your world

Color therapy is a powerful tool and a safer, cheaper alternative to those over-the-counter wonder "cures", an ancient energy healing method that has been used for thousands of years. In the 21st century, color healing is as simple as draping a colored scarf over the afflicted area or visualizing and breathing the preferred hue. Indeed, lightworkers have a myriad of color aid at their disposal, from chromotherapy baths and colored tuning forks to colored lightbulbs and dual color therapy systems like Aura-Soma and Colour Mirrors.

In her Color Book: Use the healing powers of color to transform your life, author Lori Reid confirms that color "acts on our bodies, minds, and emotions, triggering deep and subtle responses on a subconscious level."

Think about how colors make you feel. When you see the color red, do you automatically feel warm? Cheery? Angry? Do you feel energized or calm when you wear a blue shirt? Say you're feeling less than chipper--do you don your dullest grays to proclaim to the world, "I'm sick, don't bother me"? Or do you reach for a color tonic in, say, something in a bright, sunny yellow?

Color is empowerment

So many lightworkers are busy chasing rainbows that they completely overlook the fact that they never lost them at all. The next time you are doing your daily chakra clearing, visualize the colors of the rainbow and add these Color Empowerment affirmations to your routine:

Red (root chakra, located at the base of the spine) is used for energy, grounding and passion. "I am always in control of every difficult situation."

Orange (sacral chakra, located two inches below the naval) promotes joy and sexuality. "I am always feeling good about myself and others."

Yellow (solar plexus chakra, located below the breastbone) helps counteract depression and stimulates mental activity. "I am always confident that I can achieve anything I want at any time."

Green (heart chakra, located at the center of the chest) represents compassion, healing and balance. "I am always healthy and forgiving."

Blue (throat chakra, located at the throat) deals with communication and artistic expression. "I am always sincere and respected."

Indigo (brow chakra, located at the Third Eye area, between the brows) activates intuition. "I am always using my imagination to create positive change."

Violet (crown chakra, located at the crown of the head) represents spirituality and inspiration. "I am always positive that things happen for a reason and will turn out fine."

Color me happy

Did you know that you have actually been practicing some form of color therapy your entire life? You choose the colors you wear, the colors you eat, your furnishings and wall colors. And whether you're conscious of it or not, all of these color choices are meant to make you feel better.

So how can color help Jenny and Marie? Instead of working and worrying more, Jenny could benefit by a heaping dose of the color red (for grounding), yellow (for self-esteem) and green (for forgiveness). Marie's fear of rejection originates with a lack of self-confidence, which is related to her solar plexus chakra, her power center. To increase her self-esteem, I might recommend the color yellow, as well as its complementary color, violet, which can help shield her from negative entities.

I look forward to the day when prescription drugs are just a memory. Wouldn't it be wonderful if all future physicians were color-enlightened individuals, whose sage advice included "Take a color and call me in the morning!"

Eleyne-Mari is the producer of Wake UP, Lightworkers! and host of "Light Lunch" and "Full Moon Color Healing Circle".  She is a writer, color therapist, spiritual aromatherapist, crystal worker and director of Aura House School of Color Therapy.